End-time Dominion Systems by Apostle Joshua Selman: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

The end of this journey called Jesus — this passionate pursuit to know him, to be like him, to obey him, to live and walk by faith — the end of that journey is the glory of God manifest in the life of the believer.

Romans 8:18

The glory of God is a holistic capture of everything that makes God who he is — his wisdom, his power, his grace. Any believer who begins a journey with God may not see what they are becoming through the prayers, through the regular fellowship, through the sacrificial giving, through the confession of the word. But the scripture says that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us.

There is a measure of God's glory as an assignment that every believer should capture and reveal within their lifetime. The knowledge of the end is what gives you the power to stay and the power to continue.

Sowing to the Spirit

Every activity that we do is likened to sowing. There are two kinds of soils — the spirit as a soil and the flesh as a soil. You can sow to the flesh and reap, because the flesh is fertile too, but what you reap is corruption in all its ramifications. But when you sow to the spirit, you reap life everlasting.

Every time you are praying, you are sowing. Fasting — you are sowing. Giving — you are sowing. Being diligent in the house of God — you are sowing.

Faithfulness is that quality that helps you to continue even when you have not seen the result. There are seasons that fully come, and they differ from person to person. One service, that mantle, that grace, that anointing for your destiny — it arrives and was waiting. Suddenly it finds you, and from that meeting, all that is seen through your life is a measure of glory that you yourself cannot explain.

That is why it is dangerous when men miss their days of visitation. Because it is not given to you to know the exact day, you are mandated to be faithful.

Three Areas Satan Will Target in the End Time

God has been burdening my heart with a prophetic blueprint for the body of Christ. There are three areas the Spirit of God has been drumming into my spirit that the saints need to rise to a higher understanding of:

1. Dominion Over Unclean Spirits

   Believers confess this as a fact in Christ, but most are yet to walk in that reality experientially. Our inability to understand how to establish victory over spirits of all kinds will keep many families bound in spite of prophetic words, confessions, fastings, and prayer — and Satan seems to be gaining dominance even over the lives of believers.

2. Dominion Over Sickness and Disease

   The rate of people who are healed — whether medically or supernaturally — relative to those being oppressed by Satan is very small. The Spirit of God wants to close that margin. There should not be a hundred people suffering from sickness while you have just one testimony. The character of victory is that it always dominates.

   The greatest way that God is mocked in the life of a believer is when a mysterious sickness is eating a person's body with no medical explanation — especially if that believer loves Jesus. And sometimes, as men of God, we feel embarrassed to admit our limitations, so we create theological explanations: "I'm sure you don't have faith." That is not always accurate. There is something we have not yet fully understood that has kept us from walking in higher levels of power.

3. Dominion Over Resources

   These three areas — unclean spirits, sickness, and resources — God revealed to me will be Satan's greatest tool before Jesus returns. The attack that is coming on the body of Christ will be along these three lines.

The First Problem: A Bankrupt Understanding of Redemption

If asked what the major problem of the average believer is today, the answer is this: the believer does not have a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of redemption — holistically presented.

The first problem is not zeal. Not passion. There is a very severe bankruptcy of a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of redemption.

It is a dangerous thing to start helping a believer in their faith journey by introducing them only to responsibility.

The foundation of the believer's work is not an awareness of their responsibility. The foundation is what Christ has done. Until a believer understands Christ that way, they will keep seeing God as a selfish God who is only out to save so he can use — and that narrative produces all kinds of weakness.

People who have exalted power and dominion in the body of Christ — past and present — are people whose foundation was properly laid. That foundation was a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of redemption: Jesus's coming, his earth walk, the significance of his death, his resurrection, his ascension and enthronement, and what that means to the believer today.

There are many people whose first approach to the things of the spirit is warfare. But the concept of warfare, with all due respect, already leads into a journey of repeatable, recyclable defeats — because the basis upon which that warfare should be administered was never understood in the first place. It becomes an endless cycle of boxing Satan back and forth. That narrative produces weak believers praying from the lens of weakness.

On the other hand, you have people who have the fundamentals but remain only at that level — they can recite what Jesus did, but an understanding of how to advance that reality into lived experience eludes them. It is more frustrating to know what should be and not have the power to make it manifest.

The Believer's Authority: Understanding Jurisdiction

Most believers are blindly mentored with statements like: "we have authority in Christ," "we are like Christ," "we are gods" — and they stop there. But it is a random thought that is just emotionally received. Most people do not even understand what those statements mean.

• What does it mean to have authority in Christ?
• What is the jurisdiction of that authority?
• What is Satan allowed to do, and what is he not allowed to do?
• What can the believer do, and what can the believer not do?

When the Bible calls us partakers of his divine nature, that is a fact — but it is not every part of God that he gave man. There are certain dimensions of God he did not share with man:

• Omniscience — the ability to know all things: God did not give this to man
• Omnipresence — the ability to be everywhere at the same time: God did not give this to man
• Omnipotence — man is not all-powerful. Our authority in the kingdom is not absolute; it is derived. It is a product of a relationship, and it can be lost.

So when a believer exercises authority in the kingdom, it is not something invented outside of God's participation. It is a flow that comes from him to you.

The concept of the authority of the believer has jurisdictions, and it has rules of engagement.

If you do not understand this, your spiritual labor will be futile and you will never walk in power.

For instance, there is nowhere in scripture where you have authority as a believer to gather all the demons on earth in one place and chain them indefinitely. That provision is not given to the believer. There is a level of liberty that Satan has; his final judgment has not yet been meted out. Even the demons acknowledged this when they said to Jesus: "Have you come to destroy us before our time?"

When Jesus walked upon the earth, there were things he did with Satan, and there were things he did not do. Jesus came as a pattern man to help the believer know how to exercise authority in a profitable way.

What Believers Are Permitted to Do

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• Withhold the potency of Satan from performing within your life and within a predefined jurisdiction. An intercessor can ward off the activities of demonic spirits over a city or a nation — through the ministry of prayer, standing upon the authority that is in Christ.
• Make decrees — angelic forces have been mandated to back the word of God. They don't follow you; they follow the word. They bring performance to the word. They are not slaves you command for personal wishes — they respond to what is consistent with the will of God.

• You cannot command God. We partner with God — we do not exercise authority over him. When God limits his operation until our participation, it is not weakness — it is wisdom designed to incorporate us in the dominion process.
• You cannot destroy Satan. That judgment will be meted out by God's divine justice in his appointed time.
• You cannot define a permanent location for cast-out spirits. Jesus, when casting out demons, never told spirits where to go and stay — because spirits have the liberty of mobility. This is why Deliverance does not end by just casting out a spirit influence. The light of God's word must come to give the person a superior spiritual orientation and close that door. Then comes the discipline of conformity — cooperating with the word to walk in light.

The Gap Between Prophecy and Manifestation

Hebrews 2:6-8

The scripture says: "Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet... but now we see not yet all things under him."

Paul — given the Pauline epistles by divine revelation — is saying that in as much as it is true that in Christ victory has been accorded every believer, experientially we do not yet see all things under his feet. It is true that no curse should work in your life. But now we do not yet see the manifestation of that victory.

Your assignment as a believer is:

• Regardless of your condition, to believe that the truths captured in Christ's finished work will not change
• To take responsibility — knowing that between prophecy and manifestation, there is something you need to understand and something you need to engage

This is a missing link for many people in Pentecostal and charismatic circles. We either leave everything to God or believe that the only thing we should do is speak the word. Speaking is not the only thing you are mandated to do.

If the nation of Israel had only kept shouting "Jericho, you must go down" without walking in the specific strategy God gave them, they would have died for nothing. Beyond speaking, a strategy was given — and they walked in obedience, and that is what brought Jericho down.

Spirits Assigned to Individuals, Offices, Marriages, and Regions

Behind the widespread tragedy of families and individuals, do not think any sustained problem is void of the participation of spirits. The longevity factor behind any problem is because of the presence of spirits.

• Spirits assigned to individuals — there are spirits whose assignment is to destroy a person's life so that those who would have been blessed by them are deprived
• Spirits assigned to ministerial offices — not to a person specifically, but to what they represent; the assignment is to destroy that office and scatter the body of Christ
• Spirits assigned to regions — when you enter certain cities, there is a scan in the spirit. What authority level does this person carry? If none is detected, the spirit welcomes the person to join the bandwagon. This is why people with great capacity can enter a city to do business and lose everything without understanding why
• Spirits assigned to marriages — a husband and wife who love each other can find that within two weeks of marriage, a strange bitterness or violence emerges. It is not that the man is evil; there are spirits at work

Time does not drive spirits. Anger does not drive spirits. Discussion does not drive spirits. Sentiments do not drive spirits. It is by the greatness of God's power that his enemies submit.

Dominion Over Sickness: Responsible Christianity

Sickness is a gradual administration of death upon a person. Every person is given the privilege of one body per lifetime — and maintaining that body is important for your longevity.

One of the commonest ways Satan takes people out of this realm before their time is by afflicting the body. The body deteriorates until it reaches a point where it can no longer host the spirit — and at that point, you have to leave, whether your assignment is done or not.

This is what happened to Elisha. As anointed as he was — a man who could heal anything — it was sickness that killed him. And the anointing still in his bones raised a dead body back to life, yet he himself could not benefit from it. Because there are rules of engagement.

If you entertain sickness in your body, it will bring you untimely death.

When you are dealing with sickness, use every scriptural means to deal with it. That is also why I will never teach you to ignore medicine. If your faith has not grown to a level where the power of God is actively keeping you strong, take responsibility and see a doctor — come for prayer, and we keep growing together. That is responsible Christianity.

Many Christians, in an attempt to practice faith without guidance, have deteriorated their health in ways that could have been managed. Satan is an opportunist; the moment he sees a loophole, he exploits it.

Longevity Is Connected to Kingdom Purpose

"I shall not die but live and declare" — this connects longevity to purpose. If your life is not advancing the kingdom, you are vulnerable. There are people God will not allow to die because his jealousy defends them; they are too useful to his program.

Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and said to God: "Remember — who will fund your project? Who will bring glory to your name?" That appeal to kingdom relevance was what extended his years.

Acts 10:38

Matthew 10:1

Scripture records that he sent them with a message — to heal the sick, cleanse lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils — and immediately after comes the discussion of supplies. It has always been in that order: deal with spirits, deal with the body, deal with resources.

There are also several biblical conditions connected to longevity:

• "I shall not die but live and declare" — a declaration tied to kingdom advancement
• "Honor your father and your mother... that it may be well with you and that you may live long" — this is a covenant condition, not merely a cultural instruction

Dominion Over Resources: The Third Area of End-Time Warfare

2 Corinthians 9:8

One of the major ways Satan attacks the saints is in the area of access to supplies. The most distracting aspect of the believer's life — proven by history — is the area of finances.

Lack and insufficiency is a curse — and it is a curse that affects your mind, not just your account.

The number one sponsor of compromise among believers is the absence of sufficiency. There are many people who pray in tongues in church, but when a bribe comes, they collect it — not because they are bad, but because they have children in school. Only God knows what people do for finances and then come to church and wear the sanctimonious garment.

It is evil to watch people carry their seeds to give and feel no weight of that responsibility. When a man of God himself is incapacitated financially, even if God reveals to him that an offering is blood money, the pressure to collect can be overwhelming. This is what Satan uses.

Compromise makes a lot of sense in the presence of desperation.

Balanced Christianity must have a decent life represented in its proposition — a life of decency and a life of dignity. The gospel does not call anyone to poverty. Believers are supposed to be mentored to understand that part of their kingdom responsibility is making financial resources available for kingdom advance.

Two Keys for Walking in End-Time Dominion

1. Learn to Receive the Wisdom of the Spirit in the Place of Prayer

   The first way to convert what God has said into manifestation is to use the weapon of prayer to tap into the wisdom of the spirit and know what you need to do to make that blessing manifest.

   The Bible speaks generally about how to get answers for everything, but there are unique instances in our lives whose solutions are not directly written in scripture. This is where the wisdom of the spirit comes in.

   One of the scriptural, end-time strategies for believers is to know how to use prayer — not just for intercession, not just for transformation — but prayer as a tool for ascendance. You can use prayer to ascend until you draw the wisdom of the spirit and download a rhema word from God that you will obey, and it causes the word of God to be made manifest.

   Most believers study scripture but do not know that most of what they read was inspired by the Holy Ghost — and that same Spirit lives in them. But you must know how to stir up the operation of the Holy Spirit to reveal the specific solution for your unique situation.

   • There are times God will tell you to call a specific person — and when you call, that person will say, "I was just thinking of someone to bless." That is a rhema word at work.
   • There are times God will direct you to buy a property that does not make sense — and within weeks, someone will come offering ten times what you paid for it.
   • There are times the spirit will say: wake up by midnight, walk around your living room, and sing praises — and while you are singing, the pain lifts, or an email comes that changes everything.

   Those who will be champions in the spirit in this end time are people who can take time to wait in prayer, get direction, and then take action. Taking action in ignorance or disobedience will only recycle pain.

   Many people are using the wrong strategy but with genuine goals. God actually told them what they would do — but they did not stay to get the strategy. They assumed they knew what obedience looked like.

2. Honor the People Upon Whom God Has Placed This Grace

   There are dimensions in the spirit that are administered through the transference of mantles and graces from the carriers of those graces to those who need them.

   There are people today who embody the grace for wealth and abundance — not by making empty noise, but by a grace God gave them. There are people upon whom God has placed unusual understanding into the realm of the spirit and how to administer victory over unclean spirits. You will never tap into that grace by dishonoring those vessels.

   Anointing answers to honor. You will never step into a dimension of grace that you dishonor.

   The moment it becomes a practice of your life to dishonor the body of Christ — to dishonor fathers and carriers of grace — you have closed the door to those realms. This is not human worship; it is a spiritual principle.

   Many people remain incapacitated because it has almost become fashionable to criticize areas you are not yourself walking in. There are people who criticize men who operate in great healing anointings, yet do not have the grace to heal a common headache. You can honor your way into realms where you access graces that put you in charge indeed.

Walk in This Consciousness

Walk in the consciousness that you are anointed. Walk in the consciousness that you are God's battle axe. Walk in the consciousness that many destinies depend on you. Walk in the consciousness that you have received something that you must now put to work. And as you do, you will see the God of wonders surprise you in the name of Jesus Christ.

Father, in the name of Jesus, I open up my heart and I open up my spirit to receive the impartation that positions me to manifest Kingdom authority — even within this end time. I want to be an effective battle axe, not just one who comes to receive in church, but one who becomes an extension of that power. In Jesus's name, amen.