The Laws Of Exploits Prayers And Impartation Gilgal January 2024 by Apostle Joshua Selman: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Recap: two dimensions of knowledge for exploits

The laws of exploits. It is important for the believer in Christ to command results. God is glorified when there is proof through our lives that serving God pays

God desires and is glorified in our being fruitful

There are two dimensions of knowledge as far as exploits is concerned. Number one is the knowledge of God Daniel 11:32, 2 Peter 1:2-3

The first dimension of knowledge is not the knowledge of things or principles. It is the knowledge of the person

When God calls you he calls you to himself. He doesn't call you to an assignment, a mission or a ministry. That is the latter part of his dealings. He says come follow me.

He called the disciples to be with him and then to represent him

3 dimensions to the knowledge of God

1. We know God by learning his nature and his character

   What we call the fruit of the spirit is an expression of God's nature that he seeks to be made manifest in the believer Galatians 5:22

   The fruit of the spirit as it emanates from God is only one: love. Joy, peace and the rest are manifestations, different dimensions of love.

   Just like the Spirit in Isaiah 11:2, same Spirit but a sevenfold manifestation

   The Bible never says God has love. God loves, but God is love. That is the zenith of his nature

   When you see these manifestations in God, it helps you distinguish between God and any other deity, any other spirit

   One of the ways we set ourselves free from error and confusion is to learn the nature of God

   Satan cannot mimic the nature of God. He can only mimic the power

   The nature of God is higher than his power. It is from his nature that his power flows, because even faith works by love Galatians 5:6

2. We know God by studying his power

   Psalm 63:2

   Among the many things Paul prayed that the church in Ephesus would come into is the understanding of the exceeding greatness of his power to us who believe.

   That means we understand the vastness, the extent of his might and power Ephesians 1:19

   Power and authority are not the same

   God does not have authority. God cannot have authority. Authority is the legitimacy to use power

   Every time you bring authority, two things must happen:

   1. You must give authority jurisdiction. There is no authority without jurisdiction. What gives value to authority is that you define its jurisdiction
   2. Authority cannot function except a higher power supervises its use

   So when you say God has authority, it means there is another being, a deity higher than him, that defines his use of that power and supervises his compliance to the terms of use

   Jesus spoke of authority when he became a man Matthew 28:18. It is men that have authority and power

   If you have power alone you are dangerous, like an armed robber. The robber has power in a gun but no authority, that is why he is arrested when he uses it.

   A military man has power and authority

   What God gave believers is not just power. Don't seek power alone, it is dangerous. He gives power and authority. Those who have power alone are rebels

   The centurion understood this. He never described himself as a powerful man. His power was derived from the authority he submitted to Matthew 8:9

   He knew Jesus did not just come with power as God incarnate. He also has authority. There were times Jesus took people out of certain cities into certain cities to heal them

   When he resurrected he used the word exousia, the legitimacy to exercise power. And I give you that same authority

   God the Father does not have authority. He has absolute power. His power is not derived, he was not given it, it is not a product of conquest. He did not fight for it.

   He is the owner

   If you don't understand this, one day demons will question who you are and question your walking in power and in authority Acts 19:15

   When God limits himself as far as exercising power, it is not weakness. It is for the sake of the saints

   Many times we teach, and sincerely so, that if we don't give God permission he cannot move. That is a very sincere theology but it is not accurate. He is the owner of the power.

   If God overrides your will he is not in error. It is still his power

   Psalm 24:1

   Four things are named, and they all belong to him

   If God decides to override your will, by what parameter do you say he is wrong?

   Numbers 23:19

   Lying is based on a reference and that reference does not apply to him.

   If God decides he is going to lift you tomorrow, there is no authority that questions him because there is no reference that supervises him

   He submitted himself to his word, not because of weakness. It was a pattern.

   He looked for one higher to swear by, and not finding any, he swore by himself, to convince you that by this oath and by this promise he is dependable Hebrews 6:13-18

   You know God by knowing his power Psalm 62:11, Jeremiah 32:17

   El Shaddai

   El Shaddai means literally the multi-breasted one. It is an attempt to show his extent of sufficiency

   A woman with two, three or four children breastfeeding them: two will have to be patient no matter how loving she is, because she is limited.

   She cannot serve all of them at the same time

   When the Bible calls him the multi-breasted one, one does not have to suffer because he is attending to another. His power can administer love to everyone without another person being affected

   As God is touching someone in America and someone in Europe, his attention is not so busy that he cannot attend to you. You are talking to El Shaddai right now.

   Somewhere across the globe someone is praying at a retreat and the same God is hearing them

   When you know that, you can believe the prayer you have written will be answered. 1 John 5:14-15

It is important that we know God. The difference will be clear this end time between those who know God and those who do not

Knowing God is not a gift. There is a labor, a pressing in to study his nature

The end product of the knowledge of God is confidence

Your confidence is directly connected to your knowledge of God Hebrews 10:35. There are rewards connected to being confident

It was on the strength of the knowledge of God that David could stand before Goliath.

It was on the strength of the knowledge of God that Israel could stand before enemies stronger and greater than themselves

2 Timothy 1:12

John 17:3

At the apex of Paul's apostolic ministry he vocalized his prayer point. Not just that I may receive more from him, but to know him Philippians 3:10

When you know God, certain things lose their grip in your life. There are certain fears that will die when you know God, when you encounter him

Not just by scripture. He has come to me Psalm 65:4

There are certain levels of audacity you cannot have theoretically. It is a product of a genuine encounter. This is not blind bold face that leaves you with pain, shame and embarrassment.

It is an encounter with proof. When Moses met him it was clear. When Abraham met him it was clear

• May someone come into an encounter with the God of the Bible, in the name of Jesus Christ.

The capacity to believe God, what you call faith, is a direct product of the confidence derived from knowing God

There are certain fears that do not exist again when you meet him.

Every time God tells me to do daring things, and the moment human nature wants to step in because of the magnitude, the Spirit of God quickens the encounter I had and doubt and fear die immediately

This is the kind of revelation that sponsors creative miracles

One day you will stand before situations that will challenge you. If you do not have an encounter bigger than that obstacle you will regret being a Christian at that point.

You will wonder why you gave your life to Christ, because you are now mandated to bring this deliverance, this healing, this breakthrough, and the mountains are staring at you

There are times you need to know the one who is called the Lord, Yahweh. The earth is the Lord's. If you know that, you will be secured

The knowledge of God has a therapeutic effect

The average African, the average Nigerian, has been wounded from their background as a result of poverty or deprivation. There is only so much counseling and human therapy can do

When his majesty appears to you and tells you he loves you, it imprints something upon your heart Jeremiah 31:3

You want to be secured? Know God. When you have a revelation of the one you look like, you will naturally resist the pressure to become anything to please people. All those things die permanently

2nd dimension of knowledge: the knowledge of his ways

The second dimension of knowledge we need for our exploits in the kingdom is the knowledge of his ways. What we call the mysteries of the kingdom

This is where many believers get defeated and cheated in life and destiny.

They hope that just because God loves them, just because they are sincere Christians, life will just happen for them in a way that their lives become an expression of the glory of God.

Many eventually get disappointed. This is true for ministers, business people, family people

Ephesians 1:3

The us is every believer. He has blessed us not with some, but with all

1 Corinthians 2:12, 1 Corinthians 2:9

The Spirit of God has the singular assignment of making what is in the heart of the Father revealed to the saints

2 Peter 1:4

When you take hold of these promises and they become manifest in your life, they validate that in experience you have become a partaker of his divine nature

The Zoe life you have received can only be made manifest to the sight of all men when you embrace these mysteries of the kingdom and engage them with understanding

The difference between any two believers is not the love of God. It is not even the will of God.

It is the degree to which they have come into an experiential comprehension of the mysteries of the kingdom

We define our possibilities in this kingdom to the degree to which we understand the ways of God

There are believers who consistently live defeated lives, well-meaning and sincere, and they wonder why their lives are not able to speak his praises. Many times they think it is the will of God.

We are not at a loss. The Spirit of God has the singular assignment of bringing us into an understanding of the will of God

A believer living a defeated life, sincerely so, does not mean his condition reflects God's desire for him. God's desire is revealed in his word John 10:10

He was not talking to a preacher or a businessman. He was talking to any and every believer

More and more in ministry, in business, in your home Proverbs 4:18

In God's mind no believer should have a better yesterday. Your yesterday should never be better than your tomorrow. The last time you see me should be the least level you see me.

The next time I should be a greater manifestation of the glory of God

1 Corinthians 15:41

I decree and declare that my life must become a manifestation of the glory of God.

Someone says, there is nothing in my life now that is an expression of that. 2 Corinthians 4:17

Romans 8:18. There is a dimension of God's glory that should be revealed in us Romans 8:19

You have to believe this. This is how exploit comes.

If you do not believe it is in your destiny to become a reflection of the glory of God, you will live a weak and defeated Christian life, blaming everybody and everything

Reject every lie the devil has told you. I don't care what is happening or not happening in your life, you are in an atmosphere of faith.

The assignment is to shake unbelief from your life

Believe it is in your destiny to become a reflection of God's glory. While believing, don't mind the naysayers. While believing, don't mind the situation.

There is a force in the spirit that can change things to be consistent with the will of God

There are few people who had the honor of being born great by our natural description of greatness. Many people found these principles and began to push their way

There is no space waiting for you in destiny. You create your space with understanding

The illusion that there is a space waiting for you is a joke, an expensive joke. In your destiny there is a responsibility component

My assignment is to get you angry. You keep giving life last year's excuses, so this year will look like last year.

You need to get angry in your spirit, as a preacher, as a business person. It is not a blind anger, it is an anger supported by light.

It says arise from the depression and prostration that circumstances have kept you, rise to a new light Isaiah 60:1

The mysteries of the kingdom are ladders

When you know him, your next assignment is to learn methodically the mysteries of the kingdom

The mysteries of the kingdom are the only ladders by which the saints ascend to the place of destiny

These mysteries are ladders. They are not information. That is what you climb to make prophecy happen

Prophecy does not happen because it was spoken to you.

Many things God and prophets said to people in the Bible did not come to pass because what they should do as far as engaging the prophecy was not done

Psalm 119:89

Settled not everywhere, in heaven. Not in your life. There is something you must do to make it come down

The question God asked Job

Job 38:33

Job was having a discussion with God. He was frustrated, he could not make sense of the things happening around his life back to back to back. He kept hearing bad news

In one day you come with a report: you lose your estate, you lose your children, and there is always one witness left at the end of it.

He bowed down and worshipped Job 1:20. But he did not stop there. One day Job got angry and said God, we need to talk

Then God asked Job one question. This question holds the key to your exploits

Heaven is not just heaven because God is there. There are mysteries that make heaven a place of dexterity

Have you mastered the art of transporting those realities? It is by those realities you will exalt dominion upon the earth

What makes heaven so dexterous? There is no record of God roaming around heaven supervising loyalty, yet disloyalty is judged immediately. What law did he put in place? What makes heaven a place of abundance?

What makes heaven a place of love?

Those principles you can take and transport to your life. The first earth is not the ground, it is you, the earthen vessel. Let his will be done in your life Matthew 6:10

When Jesus taught us to pray, notice that his kingdom comes first.

When his kingdom comes and his will is being done, the remaining part of the prayer you will not need to pray again: daily bread, forgiveness of sins Matthew 6:9-13

Those other parts of the prayer only become necessary because his kingdom has not come and his will has not been done

The believer's life is at the mercy of your understanding

Engaging the mysteries of the kingdom

The word of God is a compendium of all the possibilities contained in God. Every time you open the Bible you are interacting with the mysteries of the kingdom.

These are the forces that control dominion

Dominion is not an impartation. It is the resultant effect of your understanding and engaging the mysteries of the kingdom

You define your possibilities upon the strength of understanding what is available for us in Christ: favor, speed, lifting. You find them captured in the worship of Revelation 4 and Revelation 5.

Seven are listed but there are many more

Everything that makes for the revelation of the glory of God in your life is connected to a mystery:

• Financial prosperity is connected to a mystery
• Divine health and healing is connected to a mystery
• Speed is connected to a mystery
• Honor is connected to a mystery
• Favor is connected to a mystery
• Longevity is connected to a mystery
• Influence is connected to a mystery
• The anointing, in ever increasing dimensions, is connected to a mystery

Don't just desire the outcomes. You must learn the mysteries connected to the results you desire

The average believer can tell you what he desires instinctively: health, passion, consecration, prosperity, speed, honor. A wholesome believer with a rich capture of the glory of God.

But the average believer cannot explain intelligently the mysteries connected to those desires

You are not just hearing a man. There is an anointing quickening your spirit. These are spirit communications. Something is happening within your spirit man that will stop you from being ordinary Ezekiel 2:2

When you find certain believers living exceptional lives through diligence, through submission to instructions, taking advantage of the grace of God, they have found one, or more, or many keys

The keys for your dominion are finite, not infinite. Like a curriculum a student passes through, you can exhaust it. The Bible calls it marvelous light 1 Peter 2:9.

It is this curriculum that controls our dominion. You can exhaust it and know you have held the keys of the kingdom

Men experience this transition in the spirit on account of light. You see Godlike results in their lives that humans cannot afford. You don't get it in the bank or in the marketplace.

They have mastered the art of importing divine realities from the realm of the spirit to be made manifest here and now

This is what it means to be a living epistle. Your life becomes a continuation of someone's Bible study 2 Corinthians 3:2. God refers you to men who want to learn him.

Your life is an unending wonder, not a theoretical or assumed wonder

Almost every prayer request here has a mystery connected to that outcome. For most people the major problem centers around finances, health, a job, a destiny helper

Nothing just happens

Nothing just happens. This is where both science and religion agree.

Sir Isaac Newton, in his study of mechanics, postulated that a body in uniform motion or at rest remains that way except compelled by an external force to act otherwise

That means every condition remains like that until a force greater than what keeps it is exerted

This year will be like last year and every other year until you engage something you did not engage last year

What do you know that controls speed? What do you know that controls favor? You believe people will just like you like that, whereas God already told you about this world 1 John 5:19.

In this biased, bedeviled world, who will forget their problems and suddenly focus on you?

There is an energy that light brings. It compels creation to respond to you in a certain way

Ministry this year will be like last year until you show me the light that bails you out

Isaiah 60:1-3

Nobody leaves what works. They come to your light, not to you, to your light

The level and the extent of light that will rest upon you, you will command dominion. You will tame life like an animal upon the strength of understanding.

Guessing and hoping

Most believers just guess and hope. This is the punchline: guessing, hoping and wishing for time on its own to deliver what you desire will leave you disappointed

The man at the pool John 5

A man lay by a pool for 38 years. 38 years starts with one year, then 2, then 3.

He would have said no by the fourth year, but he remained, and every year the possibility of his deliverance kept happening

The oldest situation the Bible names. The Bible gives timing to tragedies, and his was the highest we know aside from the nation of Israel.

He had proximity to the source of deliverance, but one year became 2, 3, 4, 5 years

Then Jesus came to him and asked why he was in that condition. He said I have no man. He knew the power of relationships, but that was the only mystery he knew.

He didn't know there are other mysteries

The danger of knowing only

Many people know some things but not sufficient to give them the victory they desire.

A great man of God in Acts 18:24-25 was born at Alexandria, eloquent in scripture, fervent in spirit, but he knew only the baptism of John

Beware of the knowing only syndrome

Illustration: the keys of a house

Every house has several keys. Just because you have the key that brings you inside the house does not mean you have the keys to the rooms. The kitchen can be locked.

You are in the house but do not have the key to the kitchen. You will know the value of that key when you are hungry

When people walk in dominion, they have held keys within them. When they stand before the things that plague men, they check within their spiritual archives and there is a key

"We don't like you, you're not getting this job again." Rather than crying they smile, because there is another key. They know what to engage to wake a destiny helper up

All through the night, someone came and knocked on the door of his friend, and the friend said no, it's too late. There was something he did.

He wanted only three loaves but the friend gave him as many as he wanted Luke 11:5-8. Do you know what that key is?

The stories and parables in the Bible are beyond a story line. Within them are mysteries

Revelation is hidden in knowledge Ephesians 1:17. Just because you have knowledge does not mean it has been revealed to you. Revelation is a mystery hidden in knowledge.

You can read a story and find the light from within it

I want to experience favor this year. Can I know what you have engaged or are engaging for the favor? I just know God will do it. I entered this year believing God

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are already programming disappointment, because it doesn't happen that way

• Lord, open my eyes that I may see.

I'm waiting for my uncle to get an appointment. He promised me that when he gets it he will give me a job. Whereas your uncle is also waiting for help.

So you become pained and frustrated Psalm 34:5

Finances: how God helps men economically

On finances, there are two groups: those who pretend they don't need it and those who are obsessed with it. Both are in trouble

Does God help men economically? Yes. How does he do it? There are many economic principles. Which one do you know and which one do you not know?

Essentially God helps men by:

• Empowering them with wisdom
• Empowering them with productivity
• Giving them direction

This has been his eternal strategy for empowering men

The power to prosper works threefold. The first place it works is on your mind, not your bank account. It alters your understanding. It brings you to a state of illumination

Then the blessing of the Lord rests upon the work of your hands. Then it grants you direction Psalm 23:1

Another way God prospers men in the kingdom is by connecting them to those he has already helped and causing them to have favor towards you

If you are not Abraham, the moment you find out you are Lot, start respecting Abraham. If not you are going to suffer

The easiest way God helps men financially, especially when time has gone beyond productivity, is relationships

When God wants to show a man mercy fast so that he will catch up, he will look for Abraham and teach you how to be a wise Lot before him

When God spoke to Abraham, Lot was not there. If you do not know how to be wise as Lot, you will not maximize the blessing that was on Abraham

If you do not know how to be Ruth with wisdom, you will not glean from the vineyard of Boaz. Ruth did not need to farm and wait for harvest.

She only needed to secure favor from Boaz, and she had the advantage of gleaning from the farm Ruth 2

The classic character of favor: it does not happen only once, it happens again and again and again

Divine health

Satan is determined to destroy the bodies of men, because there is a law that your spirit can only remain if your body sustains a certain health level

Every human being is given one body per lifetime. The condition for your spirit to remain is that your body must have a certain health condition.

If it deteriorates beyond a certain threshold your spirit will leave, whether it is your time or not

One of the ways Satan aborts the purposes of God is to create deterioration in your body and bring a separation between your spirit and your body. Hebrews 10:5

You have a responsibility to remain healthy. It does not just happen by hoping. There are keys

1. Know that longevity is your portion in Christ

   You have to believe that, not out of fear Psalm 118:17

   The degree to which you plunge yourself in God's program can secure your longevity

2. Honor your father and your mother in the Lord

   Ephesians 6:2-3

3. Choose life

   Deuteronomy 30:19

   You choose life by verbalizing it and taking pro-life decisions: your health, eating well, exercise. All of those are your commitment towards living healthy

You can't just claim longevity and ignore the mysteries connected to it

Relational principles

Psalm 115:16

If one man is not standing on your side you will suffer as if Jesus did not die. This is the world of men. Don't ignore men.

Learn the relational principles that give you an edge in life. You are gifted, but without relationship you will be alone

The strength of productivity is in connection. Be fruitful means be connected Genesis 1:28. Biology teaches that fruitfulness is a product of relationships.

It is on the strength of the connection of a husband and a wife that a baby comes

Many do not understand the principle of honor and other relational principles, and yet continue to pray: Lord, bring my destiny helper. You have said it, I even saw it in my dream.

Heaven wants you to experience that dimension of God's glory, but you are not interested in learning the mystery connected to it

So good people and good things continue to pass you, because you have not attracted good people through your character, your carefulness, your sense of relationship

Whenever it is taught in church the devil will make you believe it is too elementary. You ignore it to your peril, recycling pain again and again

Who hates you does not matter, but who likes you in this world? Oh yes, it matters. Ask Hadassah. Vashti is hated and she loses her throne immediately.

A village girl is loved and she becomes queen immediately Esther 1, Esther 2

Ask Ruth. Someone who was crying for losing all the men in her life carries this favor and heads straight to the vineyard of Boaz.

Boaz likes her and tells the men nobody should molest or oppress her, leave her to glean. She returns to Naomi and says I found favor.

She is given a chance again to enjoy another side of destiny Ruth 2

There are people not so gifted or skilled, but they have found the keys to relationships and they command all dimensions of success

The price of the anointing

Many know the value of the anointing but do not know the price. Knowing the usefulness of the anointing is wonderful, but do you know the price?

The average believer thinks the only way to be anointed is to find an anointed person, kneel down perhaps with a seed in your hand, and he lays hands on you

There are dimensions of the anointing that are not transferable. There are wells in the spirit you must dig by yourself. It is an illusion to believe every dimension is transferable

With certain prayers, it is not the anointing that transfers to you, it is the hunger of the person who has it.

That hunger drives you to the secret place and you begin to dig your well, taking advantage of the enabling of the Spirit

There is something about God you must know to carry that anointing. It will not just come because hands were laid on you

The greatest price for the anointing is a correct heart

The price is not just prayer, not just fasting, not just Bible study. Your heart condition is greater than your prayer life, greater than your fasting.

All those other spiritual exercises only find their place when your heart is right

Your heart comes first. This is the Psalmist praying Psalm 51:10

2 Chronicles 25:2

How do you do what is right? Prayer is right, fasting is right, giving is right, coming to church is right, serving is right. But that is not enough to draw the attention of God.

Your heart condition is what gives value to every spiritual activity. The only thing wrong was his heart condition

Defend your results with scripture

There are believers who want to command power but do not want to invest in the ministry of prayer or the ministry of the word. The average believer is bankrupt of light.

They are not aware of the exceeding great and precious promises

Sample two believers, mention several areas of their lives and tell them to defend their results with one scripture each. You will be disappointed and pained.

Convince me you have found light in the area of your health

"I just know God will do it" is a very lazy way of contending for growth. Nobody becomes a winner that way

The believer with understanding stands on Psalm 27:1 and Job 22:29

To connect with the supply of heaven Proverbs 11:24. When I give it's not a bribe in the house of the Lord. My giving is supported by superior understanding

When I drop a seed with a man of God I'm not copying a ritual I saw somewhere or easing guilt.

I bring that seed with understanding of what is happening in the realm of the spirit

When I get up in the night to pray, I'm not doing some spiritual jamboree.

I am praying because I have found it is a mystery that controls definite outcomes in the spirit Luke 18:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, James 5:13, Mark 11:24

What scripture supports your confidence in life? What makes you believe your possibilities will be different in spite of the plunging economy across the nations? Have you defined your reality?

This is what exploit is about

You want to thrive? You have to know the exceeding great and precious promises, and then know the conditions connected to the delivery of the results you desire

What mystery controls favor? What mystery controls longevity? What mystery controls lifting?

How do you know you will be promoted in your job? Because the new man in the office is your tribesman?

As a man of God, what makes you believe people will still be interested in hearing you? Just because they had you last year does not mean they want to hear you now.

They have a right to stop hearing you

Every time you speak there are ears. You are writing upon the destinies of men, like an artist Psalm 45:1

Gideon blew a trumpet and 33,000 people gathered.

What gives you confidence as a leader that the loyalty of those who work with you will remain in this bedeviled world where people can vacillate in loyalty? What is the key? Matthew 16:25.

Have you understood that mystery?

The way of the Lord is the way of wisdom. I choose the way of the Lord

Competence

What controls promotion is not just prayer. It is competence

Proverbs 18:16

It didn't say it shows him where the room is. It makes room. It pushes everything until it creates his space

Joseph was anointed but Joseph was competent. It was not interpreting the dream that made him prime minister. It was providing a solution on account of his knowledge of the dream.

He offered an economic solution intelligently communicated, and the king said there is none such, without interview, without discussion Genesis 41

There are many believers you will regret employing, not because something is wrong with their spirituality. The value component is almost zero and they don't mind.

Why would I invite you and my organization goes down? I love you but I love my organization

While you are preparing for favor and rising, understand that competence is a weapon, a ladder. You can ascend heights unknown.

While you are waiting for the job, your value is proof you are ready to experience that dimension of the glory of God

There are many options today and people will not tolerate incompetence again. You don't hold a mic and waste the time of intelligent people while praying that God will fill your church with people.

People are spiritual but they are not dummies

Young man planning to go into ministry: don't pray alone. Buy the truth, with humility. Submit yourself and learn

A man of God is a communicator of ideas. They are spiritual in origin but their value must be felt within the cosmos.

People carry life-applicable principles that come from scripture and watch their lives improve

Nobody leaves what works. A man will not carry his family and children and become members of your church while you are disoriented and confused every week.

They will sympathize with you, but they love their destiny and they will leave. It is not a demonic attack, it is the byproduct of ignorance

2 Timothy 2:15

I vowed before God I will never stand before a people confused and disoriented and wrap up everything with amen.

These are thoughts and ideas empowered by the Spirit, but an intelligent person can go back and meditate on them. There must be a point of application to your communication

This thing you see is not a product of grace alone. There is a place of diligence

How do you know you are ready? Men will start looking for you. If men do not look for you it is because you are not prepared enough. It is an uncomfortable truth

Competence is a cast product. It is impossible to see it and ignore it. When a truck carrying fuel has an accident, people still try to scoop it despite the risk.

That tells you the value they place on it. The world does not ignore genuine value

There is assumed value, there is value where you flatter yourself comparing yourself with mediocre people, but there is value that can stand any standard

The full potential of grace is demonstrated in the presence of competence

The beauty of grace is when it comes upon a transformed vessel, a prepared vessel, upon competence

Assignment: define your expectations

Go back home and write the various aspects of your life where you are yet to see the glory of God manifest

One of the principles of faith is vision. You have to give definition to your expectations. God cannot meet nothing.

Even psychology teaches that in the presence of definition you are more prone to obtain your results

Most believers have no definition to their expectation. Ask what they want God to do and they say general blessings. How do you know when God has come through?

Go back and write with clarity, with precision: this is what I'm trusting God to do. There is a height in the spirit I'm trusting God to take me.

Write it so that when it happens you can give God definite thanks

As a responsible father or mother, look at the reality of the prevailing economy and write your expectations. Desires have a name. Give definition to them Mark 11:24

You are a man of God trusting God for increase. Don't pray a blind prayer and say God just bring people. That is not an intelligent prayer Matthew 26:41.

Watch is a product of your mind. Your mind has to be involved in your prayer to make it profitable

Increase has a definition. Then God begins to prepare you to be the kind of man of God who can minister to the people you are praying to come

To excel academically, ask: Lord, grant me grace. There is a quickening of the Spirit that can happen to your mind.

There is a spirit in man that the Spirit of God can quicken your understanding Job 32:8. Godlike comprehension

5 benefits we experience when we gather

Psalm 103:1-5

1. Forgiveness of iniquities

   Every time we gather unto the Lord we expect his grace to be available to administer forgiveness

2. Healing of all diseases

   All. Let the issue concerning your health hear you confess: all

3. Redemption from destruction

   That is deliverance. Deliverance is not just casting out spirits. It is separating men from conditions. You can be separated from a condition

4. Crowned with loving kindness and tender mercies

   That is called honor

5. Satisfied with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's

When I come to God I come believing number one that he exists, and number two, on account of these promises, that he is a rewarder, rewarding your sacrifice Hebrews 11:6

Why we pray

God is ever ready to hear us and to answer us

Prayer is the authorized platform to communicate our needs and petitions Mark 11:24

Everything, not some things, goes into prayer Philippians 4:6

Asking is the condition James 4:2, Matthew 7:7

God's ability exceeds our asking Ephesians 3:20

We are talking to a God who hears and answers prayer Psalm 65:2

You will not walk out of this place with any infirmity in your body.

Everything inconsistent with God's desire for you as revealed in scripture, you have a responsibility to partner with the Spirit of God and with the word to get it out of your life

• You, O Lord, are a shield for me, my glory, the lifter up of my head.
• Father, in the name of Jesus, I decree and declare that my life will be a revelation of the glory of God.
• I receive by faith all your promises for me.
• This is the confidence we have in him, that when we ask according to his will he hears us.
• I receive by faith divine healing, speed, favor, liftings, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

Psalm 3:3, 1 John 5:14

Ministering to the sick

Two things to pray for: your body, and to program a climate of favor over you

Many have disrespected the power of the prophetic. Just because there are abuses and imbalances does not mean you throw away the prophetic ministry. It is an advantage God gave us.

We transit realms, we are changed upon the power of prophecy

The revelation behind healing

The revelation behind healing is God's commitment to preserve your body and give you the vitality needed to serve him and to represent him.

When the sick are healed it is beyond an attestation that a man of God is anointed. God's goal is way bigger than that: sustained vitality

Psalm 92:13-14

If you tolerate infirmity and sickness of any kind in your body, it is your participation with darkness to cut short your life. Every manifestation of sickness is death being administered in a measure

Satan's pattern: when he touches an area and you allow him unrestrained, he will move further. This is what he did to the early church.

Herod made a commitment to vex certain Jews, caught James and beheaded him, and the church kept quiet. When he saw it pleased the people he proceeded further Acts 12:1-3

Satan touches your health and you are quiet. He proceeds further to your children, to your finances. But when we get to verse 5, the church became angry.

Prayer was made by the church unto God for him and angels came to the rescue. The same angels that rescued Peter were available to rescue James Acts 12:5

Do not entertain any trace of infirmity or sickness in your body

The presence of the power does not mean it is administered to you Luke 5:17. It has to be received by faith. Healing is governed by the hearing of faith Galatians 3:2

The hearing of faith that God wants to heal you, and then you open your heart to receive. Every time Jesus healed the sick he did not leave them that way.

He would always ask them to take steps in response to their belief

Definition of faith

Faith is not just believing God. Faith is the name given to your response of obedience as proof that you believe

Believing God is part of the process that leads to faith, but it is not faith until there is a response in obedience. In one word, faith is obedience.

Faith is not action, it is obedience

You can act in disobedience. We do not call that action faith, because it was against the word of God. Your action must be consistent with the word and the instruction that has come

For as long as I live I will see to it that everyone who is sick or oppressed of the devil has a chance to experience the power of God Acts 10:38

He went about on the strength of that empowerment, healing all, not some

Acts 10:34

• Lay your hands on the part of your body, or on your chest by faith if you cannot touch it. You can stand in for a loved one.
• By faith I lay my hands upon everyone who is sick in their bodies. By his stripes we were healed.
• Every spirit behind any infirmity plaguing God's people, I decree and declare you give way now. I minister the life and the power of Jesus to your body. Be healed now.
• Eye conditions, blood conditions, bone conditions, be healed now.
• Severe pain around your ankle, be healed this moment.
• Left eye, the power of God is touching you right now. I bring you life, I bring you healing.
• Irregular cycle with excruciating pain, I cure that devil from your body.
• Growths, fibroids, lumps, I declare they die now.
• Severe pain on the left side of your neck, the power of God is touching you this moment.
• Someone in a hospital, let there be a miracle for you right now.
• A child with autism, let the power of God touch that child now.
• Knee, kneecap, the power of God is touching you right now.
• Pain in the breast, I cure that spirit right now. Lumbar condition, be healed.
• Peptic ulcer, migraine headaches, sugar diabetes, piles, be healed. Recurrent malaria, give way now.
• I command cancer to die.
• Breathing problems, anything wrong with your veins and arteries that the devil is programming death, I cure it now by the God of heaven. Heart palpitations, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, be healed.
• Prostate cancer, wherever you are, we call it by name and cause it to die by the God of heaven.
• Lactating without a child, let that satanic occurrence come to an end now.
• Memory loss, you have the mind of Christ.
• Every spirit that molests you in dreams and takes opportunities away, we sever you from the influence of those spirits.
• Infertility: the power that quickened the body of Abraham, the power that raised Christ from the dead, quicken your mortal body now.
• Every infirmity of the heart, by the power that raised Christ from the dead I bring you life and healing.
• Pain that affects mobility, as the church of the Lord Jesus Christ we cause that pain to go now. Hearing problems, speech problems, be healed now.
• The plague of mental health problems and autism destroying children and teenagers across Europe, Canada and America: we call it by name and cause it to die by the God of heaven.

1 Peter 2:24, Romans 8:11

Favor

There is a grace called favor. Convince yourself there is such a grace and that it can rest upon a man.

It brings systems and structures under pressure and compels men to treat you with benevolence and kindness

3 biblical indices to measure the presence of favor:

1. Unusual kindness

   Men, related and unrelated, are compelled by this grace to show you unusual kindness

2. Unusual acceptance

   Acceptance beyond the prejudices of tribe, race, gender

3. Unusual access

Esther 2:15, Esther 2:17, Exodus 3:21, Psalm 44:3

I stand as a privileged steward of this grace. Let this grace for favor rest upon you now.

Unusual access, let it rest upon you.

From the depth of my spirit I release that grace upon you. Let it work wonders in your life.

Favor in ministry, favor in business, favor in family. Even Pharaoh must favor you.

Every door that has been closed over your life, I stand upon the grace of the man of God and I speak to that door: be open

When Jesus was born, even as a baby with no ability to help himself, that grace spoke. The Magi, adults, carried gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh to a baby Matthew 2:11

May favor rest upon you. Favor that brings establishment. Favor that connects you to strategic men.

Let favor bring helpers for you, helpers of the war.

I forbid you from being alone. I forbid you from crying alone.

The grace that helped Hagar in the desert. Hagar was crying together with her baby, and when God spoke to her she looked and saw an oasis springing forth Genesis 21:17-19

I declare the oasis that must spring from your desert, let it begin now.

Grace for influence and visibility

Penetrating cultures and systems comes with a grace. No matter how gifted you are, our world is bound by tribal and ethnocultural prejudices.

It takes a grace, many times beyond your gift, to give you visibility and access beyond the shores of the territory where you are domiciled

Many run corporations but have not been able to break into certain circles. Zechariah 4:6

I have seen gifted worship ministers, men and women of God with character, integrity, sound in scripture, but without the capacity to break beyond the barrier.

There is a territorial embargo that forces men to look like the spirit of the city. It takes grace to lift people and give you flight beyond your limitation

The grace for visibility Matthew 5:15

Many are gifted but with the wrong audience. The people around you do not have the discernment to appreciate what you carry, nor the capacity to reward it.

You need to be translocated by the Spirit to an environment that appreciates what you carry. It is insulting and frustrating to be gifted and be around the wrong audience

This is what honor is about. Honor compels men to perceive you correctly as touching your value, and to reward you to match the extent of your sacrifice

These are prophetic moments where destinies change. This is where Satan steals into people's focus and forces them to look around, and they miss their day of opportunity Genesis 28:16

• The Lord burst your confinements, inside and outside. Whatever is the reason for your confinement, it is over.
• Your branches will begin to spread over the walls. From today you are uncontainable, unstoppable, irresistible.
• Advance, break barriers, break limitations, move higher. Thrive locally and internationally. Go to the nations. Your doors are open, your gates are open.

Genesis 49:22

The greatest and most potent way to transfer graces is through words. Ephesians 3:2

Deuteronomy 28:1-2

Not some nations. All the nations of the earth

I forbid you from remaining small, like a candle that has been lit and left under a cover.

May that grace for visibility rest upon you. Access to the nations of the earth, access to the hearts of kings.

Saul and Samuel 1 Samuel 10

When Saul met Samuel three things happened. I pray for you the anointing that makes you a captain Psalm 45:7

1. Restoration

   The donkeys that had been missing would be back home. Everything you have lost, let it be a balance brought forward for you. I speak restoration 1 Samuel 10:2

2. Destiny helpers

   You will meet three men each holding loaves. They will salute you and give to you, and you will receive. Enjoy the ministry of destiny helpers 1 Samuel 10:3-4

3. Transformation

   You will come to the garrison of the Philistines, the Spirit of God will come upon you and you will prophesy.

   I pray for you the unction that turns you into another man, in business, in ministry, in worship, in family life 1 Samuel 10:5-6

The grace that made Abram Abraham, Sarai Sarah, Jacob Israel. The grace to become another man

The works of your hands

God will bless the works of your hands. Your hand is a symbol of your productivity

Job had two kinds of light: one upon his head and another upon his path. The one on his head was for illumination. The one on his path was for direction.

The benefit of the light upon his head was seen in the works of his hands Job 29:3-4

• Nothing dies in your hands. Let blessing meet blessing on your hands.
• May the Lord make your hands strong. May the Lord prosper the works of your hands.
• Father, we lift up every request before you. You who answer prayer, answer every prayer here. Grant your children their heart's desires.
• Let the sick be healed. Let doors be open. Return with testimonies of liftings.
• Your promotion comes early. Your project is finished early. The land enters your hands. Your request is granted. Rise to the next level.
• Be supernaturally married. I decree increase on every side, multiplication, no more delays, no more affliction, no more reproach. It is done.

The grace for encounters

The greatest investment of the Spirit upon my life is the grace for encounters Psalm 65:4

If all we receive are just things, we did not receive much. There is a grace that compels men

Hunger is a gift. Hunger is proof of health

The first thing that happens when an individual is sick is the loss of appetite. It is a layman's way of diagnosing sickness.

So when you lose spiritual hunger, it is a sign that something is wrong

Because of the vicissitudes of life, the wear and tear, many have lost passion for the things of God: prayer, fasting, the word, consecration

• Fire from heaven that reignites your prayer life. Fire that reignites your word study life. Fire that reignites your passion for God.
• Receive hunger for church, hunger for God, hunger for the study of the word, hunger for prayer.
• Regardless of the level you have attained in the spirit, Lord, I plant in you a holy dissatisfaction. Let it drive you to fast, to pray, to study, to give.

Materialism and idols

There are many who do not have because God knows that if he gives them it will have them. God fights everything that takes his place, even if he is the one who gave it

Materialism is not having materials. Materialism is getting to a point where you exalt materials to be the god in your life, replacing the position of Christ. This is the tragedy of many believers

Ministry can become an idol. Preaching can become an idol. Business can become an idol. Nothing in itself destroys until it is connected to a heart condition that exalts it above God

A circumcision will happen to someone. God wants to prosper you and open doors, but the hindrance to your entering the next level is not necessarily demonic.

There is a heart condition God wants to prepare, so that when the billions and the millions come, when the exaltation and increase come, you will remember the Lord your God

• Every mundane connection to things that has made you exalt money, position and titles above Christ, we dethrone it now.
• Every high thing must come down. Every stronghold shall be broken. You wear the victor's crown. You overcome.

2 Corinthians 10:4-5

Return 10 times better, spiritually, financially, career-wise. The 10 times better anointing rest upon you.

Altar call

John 3:16

If you want to make it right with Jesus, or to rededicate your life, make a sincere, unashamed decision to follow Jesus. Leave your seat and come to the front.

If you are ashamed or afraid of those seated around you, leave them. This is the business between you and Jesus

If you are unsure whether you are saved, come and have the assurance of salvation John 6:37

• Lord Jesus, I have heard your word. I declare that I love you with all my heart.
• I believe that you are the Son of God. I believe that you died for my sin and rose again for my justification.
• I receive Jesus into my heart as my Savior, my Lord and my King.
• I declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell and the grave is broken over my life.
• From today I am a child of God. I go forward ever and backward never.

Romans 4:25

• Father, your word declares that as many who come to you, you will in no wise cast away.
• By the authority of your word and upon their confession of faith, we declare their sins forgiven.
• We call you bona fide recipients of the life of God. The empowerment to live a victorious Christian life we release upon you. We call you the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.