Living In The God Realm by Apostle Michael Orokpo: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

We Were Created to Govern This Realm

Although we are on earth, the Bible calls us pilgrims. While walking on the earth, God expects us to bring the realities and dimensions of his realm into our space. We are not earthlings — we are beings of eternity, expected to live in the order of eternity without compromising that nativity.

But many believers are not functioning in that order. We have been trapped in time, locked into this realm, governed by the forces of the physical world. That is not God's plan.

In Genesis 1:26, God said: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion." God placed man on earth — but he did not expect the forces of earth to dominate man. Man was placed here to bring the reality of heaven's civilisation to dominate this realm. If you leave this realm dominated, you are not functioning according to the plan of God.

Why Man Fell from the God Realm

The creation of man was not yet complete when the fall occurred. God designed man to have three orders of life:

• The life of the blood — powering the physical body
• The life of the soul — powering intelligence and consciousness
• The life of the spirit — giving legal jurisdiction to function in the God realm

At the time man ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the third life — the life of God, the Zoe — had not yet entered him. In Genesis 2:9, the tree of life was there in the garden. Instead of eating from it to complete the cycle of his development, man chose the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

So when God said in Genesis 3:22, "Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil" — he was not saying man had now fully become like God. Man was created to be like God, but the process of formation was incomplete. Man had now touched corruption before receiving the seal of God's own life.

If man had now eaten of the tree of life in that corrupted state, he would have been eternally condemned — irredeemable, like Lucifer. So what appeared as judgment — God sending man out of the garden — was actually mercy. God halted production to remove corruption before continuing the sequence.

This is why God sent his Son. The journey that began in Eden was completed in Christ. Corruption was removed. The life man had not yet received was now given freely through faith.

What the God Realm Contains

Now that man has received the life of God, he is no longer to live like a creature of time. These are the attributes of the realm from which we came:

1. An Eternal Realm — No beginning, no end. Reality is not fragmented into past, present, and future. God inhabits eternity. That is why he can go back to yesterday or forward into tomorrow while you are still in today. No situation is hopeless for someone who operates from an eternal realm — restoration is always possible.
2. A Realm of Light — Governed by purity and revelation. Impossibility does not exist here. Everything you cannot yet do is simply something you do not yet know. The moment light comes — you can produce the result. Authority and power are tied to illumination, not physical stature.
3. A Realm of Love — No wickedness, no selfishness, no competition. Everyone can rise without limiting anyone else. There is no envy here. The rise of one is a sign that rising is possible for all. 1 John 4:16 says God is love — it is a realm, not merely a characteristic.
4. A Realm of Truth — No gimmick, no manipulation. If he says the blind see, they see. If he says the weak are strong, they are. This truth does not just define — it purifies. John 17:17: "Sanctify them through your word — your word is truth."
5. A Realm of Glory — The essence, majesty, splendor, and praise of God. Of these four dimensions of glory, three are shared with us — only the exclusive praise due to God as source is reserved for him alone. This is why you are seated with Christ in heavenly places. This is why he said you are the head and not the tail — something radiates from you that makes it impossible to be permanently hidden.
6. A Realm of Dominion — Psalm 145:13: "Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and your dominion endures throughout all generations." There are laws, structures, and ordinances. This is why believers do not live carelessly — we are governed by the ordinances of a higher kingdom.
7. A Realm of Creation — Nothing is impossible here because the force of creation dwells in this realm. Everything visible came from the invisible. What you need and do not yet have can be brought into existence. This realm is not limited by what is present.

The Laws That Govern Functionality in the God Realm

There are laws that must be understood and obeyed if you are going to live from the God realm. Without them, you may have the life of God and still not manifest its realities.

Law 1: The Law of Ordinances — Spiritual Paradox

To live in the God realm, you must adopt the ways of God. These ways operate contrary to natural thinking — they are counterintuitive. Isaiah 55:8: "My ways are not your ways. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways."

Some of the operational modalities in this order:

• You give to receive. The one who withholds more than is needful tends toward poverty. The liberal soul is made fat. Proverbs 11:24–25. Anything you want to multiply — give it, and it will multiply. This includes time, skill, resources, and love.
• You die to live. John 12:24: "Except a corn of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it abides alone. But if it dies, it brings forth much fruit." Any level of death you do not embrace, you cannot see life. Self-denial is not weakness — it is the mechanism of increase. Those who cling to their life in this order lose it. Those who release it for Christ's sake find it.
• You serve to lead. Matthew 23:11: "He that will be greatest among you shall first be your servant." Those who run from service never become true leaders in this kingdom. Go and check every person God elevated to lasting influence — they first went down as servants.
• You go down to go up. 1 Peter 5:6: "Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, and in due season he will exalt you." God resists the proud. Some people have not risen not because Satan fought them — it was God who resisted them because they violated this ordinance.
• The first is last; the last is first. Matthew 20:16. Every time the natural sequence operates, the supernatural sequence withdraws. Every time the supernatural sequence is engaged, the natural is modified. Anyone who secures their position through their own strength risks losing it.
• You lose to win. Matthew 16:25: "Whoever saves his life shall lose it. Whoever loses his life for my sake shall find it." In this kingdom, anything you fight for you will not gain. Only what you release will multiply back to you.

Law 2: The Law of Divine Language

To live in the God realm, you must master the language of God. That realm responds to what you say. Even salvation itself obeys this protocol: "With the heart man believes unto righteousness — but with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation."

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Five ways God speaks:

• God declares the end from the beginning. Isaiah 46:10: "Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things not yet done." He does not speak about progress while progress is happening — he speaks the finished outcome from before it begins. This is how he secures the entire manifestation. Begin talking the end from the beginning.
• God speaks to see. God does not say what he sees — he says what he wants to see. In Genesis 1, six times: "And God said... and God saw that it was good." He would not pronounce what he did not want to create. Say what you want to see — not what you currently see.
• God calls those things that be not as though they were. Romans 4:17. He did not say to Abraham: "I will make you a father of many nations." He said: "I have made you a father of many nations" — past tense, before it happened. Call what you want as though it already exists.
• God names things to animate them. Anything you name, you animate. God renamed Abram to Abraham — Father of Many Nations — before the child was born. Moses renamed Oshia to Joshua before the conquest. Jesus renamed Simon to Peter before he led the church. Name your business, name your children, name your seasons — bring the weight of language to bear.
• God celebrates before the manifestation. He does not wait for the result to begin thanking. Mark 11:24: "Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them — and you shall have them." Celebrate what you have declared before it arrives. That is how the realm responds.

Law 3: The Law of Nature

Every realm responds to a nature. To operate in the God realm, you must have the divine DNA — and you must live according to its dictates.

No matter how much you love an animal, you cannot graduate it from the animal realm to the human realm. The nature of the creature determines which realm opens to it. When you received Christ, you were given a new nature — the nature of God.

That nature has a law. It insists on holy living. It insists on righteousness. It insists on faith. If you violate those dictates, the realm withdraws from you. No declaration will override a defiled nature.

This is why the devil advances perversion — because when people are perverted, they are disqualified from functioning in the God realm. And a believer who knows the truth but continues to live like a creature of the flesh will find that the God realm resists him — not because of Satan, but because of the law of nature.

Law 4: The Law of Recognition

You cannot fully function in a realm you have not recognised. You must recognise the realm you came from — and recognise what that realm has given you.

Jesus began his model prayer with "Our Father which art in heaven" — recognising his source and the realm of his source. In John 3:13, he said the Son of Man "which is in heaven" — while walking in Nazareth. He was in Nazareth physically but maintained the consciousness of the realm from which he operated.

What has that realm given you that you have not yet recognised?

• Eternal life — an indestructible life
• The righteousness of God — the nature of God himself
• The anointing of the Holy Spirit — the ability of God working through a man
• The name of Jesus — authority over every name in every realm
• Grace, favor, mercy — realities that open doors and command the allegiance of men
• Angels — ministering spirits sent to serve the heirs of salvation

The reason many believers are where they are is not because God has not given them enough. It is because they have not recognised what they already have.

When you begin to walk in the conscious recognition of what you carry, you will not chase after every man of God for a fresh impartation. You will walk in what was already deposited.