Provoking The Miraculous Through Divine Principles by Apostle Michael Orokpo: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

God desires relationship with man

God desires relationship with man, and that relationship provokes blessings and supernatural advantages for man

Every interaction with God leaves a residue in your life. That residue is blessing, increase and all the glorious things you can imagine

This relationship has protocols you must engage in order to maximize it

Revelation 3:20

He stands at the door and knocks. He desires a relationship with you. If you will open, He will come in

1 Corinthians 1:9

He is faithful, and on the strength of His faithfulness He invited us into fellowship, into intimacy with Jesus Christ

John 17:3

Life in its essence is defined by the depth and quality of relationship you have with God. When a man enjoys deep intimacy with God, the quality of his existence improves

God gives you revelations into deep things that constitute an advantage. You move on the strength of grace, and those who operate at the frequency of the flesh cannot match you

Intimacy and prayer are not for religion. The goal is to bring you to a place where you gain advantage

The relationship must impact your life positively and existentially

Ordinances of the relationship

You don't stumble into relationship with God casually. His realm is governed by principles and ordinances

John 14:6

The shortest route to relationship with God is through Jesus. Without Jesus you may draw intervention here and there, but a deep lasting relationship is not possible. Experiential interaction with Jesus is a must

Psalm 24:3-4

Not everybody ascends. Clean hands means a life governed by integrity. A pure heart means a life of love and humility

You can't be high-minded, jealous or envious and expect a lasting relationship with God

Some lose their sleep when God starts doing something for their neighbour. Bitterness, jealousy, envy. Yet these are the people kneeling and shouting the name of the Lord

Pride will cause God Himself to eject you. God resists the proud but gives more grace to the humble. Your words must be with truth. You can't talk deceitfully and have relationship with God

Relationship with God is not a feeling. It is a knowing, and a knowing that provokes intervention

Three platforms of God's dealing with man

In God's dealing with man there are three levels, three realms. Anyone God is doing something with has kept the requirement of one, two or three of these

1. Intimacy

   Personal interaction with God. You build a pathway of personal engagement

   Mark 1:35

   Jesus, daily, very early in the morning, leaves every other person, even His disciples, and goes to a solitary place and prays

   Wherever there is a supernatural thing happening around a person (intervention, preservation, restoration, increase, promotion), that person has secured an intimate walk with God. We call it the secret place

   If you don't have a secret place where you engage God, you can never see the finger of God in your life. The supernatural is not casual.

   It is sponsored, and it is sponsored by intimacy

   Will you pay the price to secure a pathway where you and God converge, and build consistency around it? That is what guarantees the supernatural

   The problem with us is that we reduce everything about God's benevolence to our connection through a pastor, a prophet, an apostle.

   A million Christians waiting for one prophet to give them words, one apostle to lay hands on them

   I know the place of men and men are a blessing. But God's dealing with you through a man is a subset of a bigger universal set.

   You cannot reduce your interaction with God to what I can get from God for you. Your life will be limited

   When you hear 10 testimonies, there were 2,000 people who didn't testify. Thank God for what He is doing via the man of God, but there is a path you must route for yourself.

   Your Maker wants a personal relationship with you

   Genesis 3:8

   God wanted a deep personal relationship with Adam. Adam named every animal at 100% with no experience. That level of excellence came from his communion with God.

   He had the competence to exercise government, and he got there through intimacy

   There are miracles that happen when I speak over you or lay hands on you.

   There are other miracles that, even if we pour a drum of oil on you, won't happen until you kneel by yourself and call on your Heavenly Father

   There are things that will never happen in your life until you build a personal intimate platform with God. Promotion, intervention, restoration, enlargement: there are measures of it that happen only on the premise of your personal interaction with God

2. Covenant

   Covenant is a bandwidth through which transmissions happen from heaven to earth. Covenant is a bandwidth through which divine intervention can be secured by men.

   If you don't know the way of covenant, you may not prosper much

   Some write everything off: God is not doing anything with anybody. Imagine what would happen if God added His own measure to your intelligence and strength.

   You have not given God room because you have blanketed your mind

   Even if you don't believe people, the testimony of scripture should carry sufficient veracity. Scripture affirms that God deals with men, and one platform is covenant

   Romans 15:4

   What I tell you is established and backed by scripture. If you will secure anything from God, you must have a covenant relationship with God

   With Adam there was no covenant, only personal interaction. Then God introduced covenant as the modus operandi for relationship and for His dealings

   After the fall it became impossible to route certain things from God's realm without covenant. Forgiveness, eternal life, righteousness. God's realm is a realm of retribution, every sin must be paid for.

   Intimacy can't buy righteousness, eternal life or forgiveness

   Luke 22:20

   There are things we can secure in God only by covenant, and things we can secure only by intimacy. Violating one is not made up for by applying the other

3. Principles

   Principles are universal methods of God's interaction. Even unbelievers can be blessed by God within the confines of principles. They may not know it is God

   You don't need personal relationship to secure intervention if you obey principles. God is the father of all spirits and the God of all flesh

   When people ask why this non-Christian is prospering: he can't prosper without God. He is routing it not through relationship but through principles

   In this kingdom there are ordinances. You can't violate them

You need all three. There are things you get from God by intimacy, things by covenant, and things by principles

Illustration: the ideal country

If I were president and established an ideal country where you don't need to know anybody to be somebody, that wouldn't stop me from giving my son gifts and leaving him inheritance because he is my son.

Even in an ideal system there is still the channel of intimate relationship

The problem with believers is that we want to receive from God only through intimacy and we violate principles.

God can intervene, but it will be limited, because the same God who routed principle has a way of blessing you through it

Others forget relationship and take only principles. You will be blessed until you hit a roadblock where spirits interfere. You did the investment but a demon manipulated somebody to fight it.

The principle is sacrosanct but there is an enemy you need power to deal with

If you are on any extreme you will be limited. Don't pray alone and don't apply principles alone. Merge all

I want to show you principles that can provoke supernatural intervention so that even if you are not in church, even if you don't meet me, you can receive intervention.

These principles are as potent as intimacy. They deal with different things

Moses operated on all three platforms

Intimacy

Exodus 33:11

God says other prophets He speaks to through dreams and visions, but Moses He speaks to face to face as a man speaks to his friend. Aaron and Miriam wanted to undermine Moses's office.

There are layers

All of us are equal in salvation, but in intimacy we are separated. All of us can call the name of Jesus, but the power is different.

Through revelation I have pressed into God to know something about that name that you may not know

There is a place you can stand in God where, without talking, angelic intervention surrounds you. If anything affects you, the jealousy of God is mobilized.

The realm recognizes your voice as an ambassador because that realm has become your habitation

Moses fasted 40 days and 40 nights on Sinai and his face shone. On that encounter he entered a rank in the prophetic that no other prophet could enter. He became a type of Christ.

Jesus fulfilled it on the mount of transfiguration when His face shone

Covenant

John 1:17

The law came by Moses. Israel had yearly forgiveness of sin because of that covenant: the high priest, the scapegoat, the sacrificial goat

God was not forgiving Israel because Moses was intimate with Him. He forgave because of the principle of atonement captured in the covenant.

No matter how Moses prayed, God would not forgive unless blood was shed

Principles

Psalm 103:7

Moses knew the ways of God. Numbers 12:3 Moses is the meekest of all men. He knew that if you will have power with God you must be humble.

It's not prayer, this one is principle. Humility and meekness are a force in the spirit realm

Aaron and the other princes walked in pride. Moses was broken, and they didn't know why he was more powerful

Moses was set apart from all the sacrifices of atonement. I later discovered that in his brokenness he gave the burnt offering, the peace offering, every offering. Psalm 51:17

On the strength of that, Moses is perfect in all the house of God. Was it not Moses who was angry and struck the rock when he should speak to it? Meekness covered for it

The Red Sea couldn't defy him, Egypt couldn't defy him, the wilderness couldn't defy him. He wasn't walking on one leg. He wasn't using one weapon

When principle is violated, or priesthood is missing

Some of us pray a lot but violate principles. He prays and goes to sleep waiting for bags of money to appear in his room. There are things only diligence can sponsor

Another walks and doesn't pray. He has gathered all the money and paid for the investment. The ship coming from China disappears on the high sea. All the navigators become faulty. A demon blew air

Illustration: the real estate man

A young man was very diligent, God helped him, he broke into the realm of billions. Three persons asked him to do a project. Because of relationship and trust he went ahead and built.

They didn't pay. He had borrowed, and the money he borrowed kept compounding. The case went to court and was stuck for two years. He was reduced to a beggar

He was smart, but a puzzle was created from the demonic realm that he could not foresee with the naked eye. He needed priesthood and intercession.

If he had been up, when those people brought the proposal he would have heard no. Isaiah 30:21

That one they don't read in economics. That is the oracles of God muttered into your spirit

Illustration: the man who fell from the palm tree

A woman came to me crying. Her husband mentored most of the young men in export and import. He came home at the wrong time, didn't read the radar.

He wanted to climb a palm tree, and fell on his back. He lay there for two years

Business contracts ended. His brothers accused the wife of being a witch and kicked her out. Business destroyed, family destroyed. Hardworking, focused, but no priesthood and no intimacy

The realm is ruled by powers. There are spirits hovering over territories to bring their ordinances and governments, and men are the puppets they use.

This is why you must have weapons on the left and on the right. You fight with intimacy, you fight with principle

Illustration: the woman with seven tumors

A woman saw somebody throw a stone that hit her on the breast. They said cancer. Six months later they did a mastectomy.

Two weeks ago she slumped, and they found seven tumors in her head. The neurosurgeon said don't waste money, there is nothing we can do

I wept last week like a child. My friend lost a sister. When I entered the hospital my faith collapsed. I wanted to pray and couldn't summon faith because I know the gear.

I called a senior to pray. Even at that, the lady died

If you will have God's tangible presence, power and intervention, master the three templates. A little situation can escalate. Every day a new diagnosis. You start having premonitions.

Your faith will be choked because you took spiritual things for granted

If we master these things we will snuff the devil out of our space and secure intervention any day, any time

Your walk with God must become existential. If you cannot apply it to your business and your relationships, something is wrong

Abraham operated on all three platforms

Intimacy

Isaiah 41:8

God refers to a man as His friend. There is a place in God where He gives you a status that makes you live like an immortal among men

Abraham knew there is a platform of securing intervention through intimacy. That is why he had altars. Everywhere he went he littered with altars

Genesis 12:6, Genesis 12:7, Genesis 13:8

Years later when Jacob passed that way the altars were still alive. Abraham had gone to heaven but the altars still had vocabulary.

They had voices and spirits that could galvanize Jacob's destiny back to God

You are in a kingdom Satan is jealous of. Before you learn trade, you must have a priesthood. Intervention is not difficult, but what are the platforms of your transaction?

Do you have intimacy, covenant, principles? If you don't have all three you will be limited

Covenant

Genesis 17:7

Principles

Genesis 18:17-19

Principle is a guarantee you will be great. If you find a man applying principles, go and sleep, he must be great. It is universal and has the backing of heaven.

Not just because God promised him

There are blessings God can't even give you except as you obey principles.

God may tell you I will make you a voice to the nation, but you have no time to read, no patience, no humility, no discernment for strategic investment in people and things, you are not truthful.

God says, although I said it, it won't happen

Most of us have encounters and mantles. Our hands are full of mantles but there is no manifestation because we have violated the place of principle

You tell the guy to sweep the floor, he sweeps three times and there is still dust. You give him an assignment, he does it late and wants to justify.

When you ask him, he says he's fasting. You are a joker

The tripartite order for all humanity

Everyone God deals with must obey this tripartite order

Genesis 3:8

Adam, representative of humanity: no covenant yet, no principle taught yet. He began with intimacy

After the fall, covenant. Luke 22:20

Then principles. Matthew 25:21

The five talents multiplied to ten, the two to four. The one buried his and was condemned. The one who has and desires to have, more will be given.

The well done is for those who obey the principles of the kingdom

Believers are going through untold hardship and it looks as if we don't have a God or our God is dead. We have a God. Our God is not dead.

The problem is that we don't know the platforms of His dealing with men

If you don't maintain these three platforms, God may speak and it won't come to pass.

God Himself said the reason He will bring His word over Abraham to pass is because Abraham will teach his household to walk in His ways.

When He sees the principle of justice and judgment, then He activates the promise

Where is your intimacy? Where is your stand in covenant? Where are the principles that define your life? If somebody lived with you, could they isolate the principles that govern your existence?

This man is generous, humble, disciplined, focused, strategic. Can they write your life by living with you?

Some of us talk big and lofty things but our lives are too haphazard for God to trace anything into our destiny. This is the undoing of the believer

Nothing is hard. We make it hard

The scriptures make clear how to download and install spiritual things in our lives. Anything you obey works like a miracle. It is installed as though waiting for you to start it

Build consistency in prayer for one month. Not congregational prayer where you are distracted. Erect your altar and engage God every day, even for 30 minutes.

In two weeks noise will leave your soul, the noise that doesn't let you be creative or inspired

God will speak to you clearly. You will gather energy to fulfill destiny

Go and write five things, for example truth, humility, focus, that will govern your life from today. See what happens in three months. The speed and frequency your life will hit will amaze you

Study the covenant of Jesus, the New Testament. What has He provided for me? Understand it, believe it, run with it. Pick any at random

Carry eternal life as one of the package. Study it, meditate on it, and you will break into the realm of immortality

Carry righteousness as what was procured for you by the covenant of Jesus. Romans 5:17 Righteousness imparts the power to reign in life. You will see the majesty and excellence that hits your life

Study the Holy Spirit and his ways. Commit yourself to the Holy Spirit and see the precision and advantage that enter your life in months.

You will wonder what you have been doing for 35 years

The devil is not as powerful. We are the ones making Satan powerful. If we take advantage of what God has built, we will make the existence of the devil useless

Intimacy, covenant, principles: the three platforms will make you a champion, a wonder, an overcomer. When men are angry at your rising, it will push you further.

When demons gang up against you, it will push you further. Everything starts working together for your good. The realm mobilizes people and things to work in your advantage

Generosity

When God taught me the way of generosity and I practised it, I was shocked at the blessings entering my life. People wake you at 2:00 a.m., they can't sleep, they want to bless you.

Proverbs 11:25

Humility

When God taught me humility, He said don't try to carry yourself up. Just bend your head and see how we lift you up

I had friends who knew all the mind games and psychology, the way they shake you, the way they talk. If you deal with the people of the world, master it.

But when you come into the kingdom, understand the nature of Christ

Some of our guys wanted to do this in the kingdom. They use psychology to oppress and intimidate. God told me, don't do it. Don't look for the honour that comes from men.

Bend your head

It was hard because my flesh resisted. When you bend your head, men will use you. But God said, be calm, just watch

Suddenly I started having encounters. I saw an eagle moving from nation to nation. I saw a horse galloping from state to state. In 10 or 17 days I had invitations in over 14 nations.

My horn started being exalted. That was when I knew the principle of the fresh oil

Influence is first of all a spiritual thing before it is a strategic thing. You can't build influence through strategy if in the spirit your horn has not been exalted.

That is the frustration of training: they apply the principle and are frustrated, then they see another person who is not even mindful pass like a whirlwind

Who told you you are a victim? Who told you it's hard for God to lift you or bless you? You are the one violating ordinances

From covenant to intimacy to principle, the grace and fortitude to manifest it rest upon you

Provoking the miraculous

One of the easiest ways to provoke the miraculous is to preach the gospel of Christ. When you talk about the cross, the burial and the resurrection, things begin to happen in uncontrollable magnitude

When you enter the realm of intimacy and drag people into prayer, things break out of their lives

God wants me to show you principles as a precursor for the miraculous. I have five of them here. The miraculous doesn't just happen arbitrarily. It is provoked

Principles that provoke the miraculous

1. The principle of the anointing: stirring

   When the anointing is on your life it has the power to do wonders, but not until, among other things, it is stirred. Anointing is likened to oil.

   If it congeals, it will not produce result

   Every believer carries sufficient oil, internally and externally, to change circumstances

   There is the anointing within, which is a Person, and the anointing upon, which is the overflow of that Person. Acts 10:38, 1 John 2:20, 1 John 2:27

   Acts 1:5, Acts 1:8

   It is the same magnitude Jesus was given. Why does our life not command the same transformation? John 14:12

   We don't provoke the anointing because we are not students of the anointing upon our lives. What stirs my oil may not be what stirs your oil.

   Your job is to understand what stirs the oil on your life

   Romans 8:11

   The capacity is inherent. It is not coming from outside, it is on your inside. Romans 8:13 The guy carries the Spirit but lives after the flesh.

   If you service the flesh instead of the anointing, the body can die

   Focus on the anointing and it will quicken your body, change your story, alter your business. The errand of the anointing is to bind Satan and stop the things Satan does

   There is a spirit in man. The breath of the Almighty gives understanding. Job 32:8 When you stir that anointing you can become more learned than your teachers and wiser than the ancients

   Acts 4:29

   When they were beaten and threatened, boldness and inspiration depleted. They didn't cry like helpless people. They returned to their company and lifted their voices. The place where they were was shaking.

   They were filled again and God gave them boldness. They knew the technology of stirring

   Acts 4:33

   There is a grace for wisdom, for inspiration, for invention, for dominion. But it comes when you stir. Don't keep the anointing congealed

   At His baptism the Holy Ghost came on Jesus and immediately He went to the wilderness, fasted and prayed. He was troubling the oil.

   Luke 4:14, Luke 4:15, Matthew 4:15, Matthew 4:16 He returned in the power of the Spirit and His fame went abroad. Influence brought by the anointing

   Who told you you are just a woman, just a young man, a black man? I carry something celestial and eternal on my inside. All I need to do is stir it

   The anointing is not a religious thing. It is the ability of God in a man. It is like electricity: it can become light, heat, cold. You install the utensils for transformation

   You can turn it to wisdom, to favour, to utterance, to power to destroy Satan and his works

   Crude oil, when it becomes volatile, goes through fractional distillation. Components rise to their boiling points and are separated into bitumen, diesel, gasoline.

   When you stir the anointing you distill it into chambers: chamber of wisdom, chamber of power, chamber of favour

   Don't walk like an empty barrel. The ability of God is in you. If you don't stir the oil, it will not flow

   Stir it with expectation, prayer, worship, fasting, whichever works for you

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   Daniel 2

   Daniel said, give us time. There is a God who reveals secrets. A banker who stirs the oil gets economic wisdom. When I stir my oil it is revival, miracles, wisdom and utterance.

   A sailor, an engineer, you can channel it to anything

   You think it is until the pastor lays hands on you. That is a principle, but a subset of the universal set

   Some of us stir the anointing by being quiet. Lock the door, off the light, worship playing in the background.

   Your spirit begins to travel into secret chambers where knowledge is kept, into realms where powers are preserved. When it returns even your body knows something new has entered you

   That is how men become commissioners of spiritual things, and their words are laws

   After you are stirred, the anointing packages itself and waits for the moment of need. When there is danger, when there is need, it rises

   The doctor says three weeks to live. Start stirring. There is a curse on my life. Start stirring. Let the oil become volatile and let's see if that curse can remain

   Nothing happened in the life of Jesus until He was 30 and the anointing came. Mark 1:35 He stirred Himself before He entered the market. Luke 6:19 Virtue went out of Him.

   It was not congealed. Luke 5:17 The words began to stir the oil

   When you leave this meeting find out what stirs your oil. Stay with it for one month. When you are stirred, you become another man

   That oil that has been congealed for ages is being stirred up even right now

2. The principle of worship: acknowledgment

   Worship is not just crying. You can cry because of the melody, and when the song ends your tears dry. We are talking reality beyond emotion.

   Crying is a weapon in the spirit, but that is for another day

   One ingredient of worship you can't do without is acknowledgment

   Matthew 8:1-3

   The leper came and worshipped. He didn't just fall on the ground and cry. He acknowledged first that this is Lord, with authority over all things including my leprosy.

   Second, he acknowledged His power and authority to make him clean. That was his worship

   The purity of worship is that you worship God for who He is. The application is that you can worship God and have something.

   There is a way to worship that affects my family, my health, my business

   2 Chronicles 20

   Three nations ganged up against Jehoshaphat. God said don't go with weapon, gather singers. The first law is to worship Me for Me, but worship is a platform for intervention

   Matthew 9:21

   The woman with the issue of blood threw herself on the ground and worshipped at the end. The worship began within herself.

   She acknowledged that what this man carries, the overflow, is beyond Him, even His clothes carry it. There was a knowing

   That is why you must have expectation to see the miraculous. Some of us arm ourselves with songs, 1 to 10, and nothing happens because we are not acknowledging anything. We are just singing melodies

   Some sing 10 songs in 5 minutes, jumping from one song to another like a gibbon on trees. They can't know where the Spirit sits per time. This is not a school of music.

   We are transacting

   Your worship can become a weapon. Psalm 149:6 Praise is a double-edged sword. Litter your worship with more acknowledgment than melody, both in your mind and in your words

   Revelation 4:8, Revelation 4:11

   The 24 elders sang holy, holy, holy. Then you are the One who was, who is, who is to come. All things were created for Your pleasure.

   The whole worship was littered with layers of acknowledgment

   I love hymns. We are on a 30-day hymn challenge

   Exodus 15:11

   Moses and Miriam, when they saw the Red Sea, knew they needed power and routed it by worship. Glorious in holiness means we call Your holiness and see splendour.

   Fearful in praises means dangerous, God will stand up

   Pharaoh had to panic, Egypt had to collapse, because in their praise they were bringing the fearful arm of God. A man was acknowledging something

   Among the gods: call Him any name, any god from anywhere, there is none like You. In holiness You show Your majesty as bigger than them. In praise You bring Your fearful judgment.

   Tell me the opposition that can stand against what he has acknowledged

   You can sing a song and barrenness will stop. You can sing a song and doors will open, promotion will come, whether the enemy likes it or not.

   You are not singing melody, you are acknowledging something in God, and anyone you acknowledge will show up

   Names were designed to invoke dimensions. When you acknowledge anything in God, you unleash that dimension

   You can't worship Him if you don't know Him. The real substance of worship is to acknowledge Him

   Know the songs to sing per season. They say you will die, you will not succeed. There is a song. They say tomorrow is your last day. There is a song.

   They say you will not amount to anything. There is a song. Acknowledge that dimension using that song and see the way He shows up. The miraculous becomes an everyday thing

   Believers lack spiritual intelligence of principles

3. The principle of faith

   The principle of faith is that you not only believe, but what you believe you must declare and act accordingly

   James 2:19, James 2:20, James 2:26

   The devil also believes, and believes more than you because he trembles. But his belief is impotent because it has no works. Faith without works is dead

   Romans 12:3

   Every one of us has a measure of faith. It is the faith of Jesus that was given to you.

   Galatians 2:20 2 Corinthians 4:13 You have the faith of the Son of God, the same faith that made Jesus walk on water and made Paul's handkerchief cast out devils

   Our faith is impotent because we don't service it with revelation, so the faith can't talk and can't act

   Mark 11:23

   Have the God kind of faith. When you find a mountain, don't panic, talk. Don't cry to God, talk to the mountain. If there is need to act, act.

   This faith, if you don't say, it won't work

   I'm not teaching believe it and claim it. It is rooted in the word of God. If God says I shall live healthy and I find a tumor in my body, I won't keep quiet.

   I command the tumor to die. I'm not saying go to a car stand and say, car, I take you. The word of God didn't cover that

   Anything the word of God has covered: when you see it, believe it, declare it and act accordingly

   We are begging God to do what He has already done. That is why God is handicapped even with our prayers. We have to be naked by midnight for Him to show mercy.

   We have to bathe with salt before our God can heal us. Where did we learn it from?

   Isaiah 53:5

   He hung on the cross and took your shame so you can share in His glory, but you are still begging Him to help you. The heavens are wondering, have you not read?

   None shall want her mate, so why are you still begging God for a husband? None shall be barren, so why are you begging God for a child?

   God taught me: when people come looking for children, say to the man, receive strength to produce seed. Say to the woman, receive strength to carry seed.

   Declare to both of them, in the next time of life, carry your child. That is what He told Sarah. It is not time to say, Father, if you are merciful, look upon these people.

   Is your God that wicked? Barrenness, get back

   Isaiah 54:17

   When people gang up against me I'm not crying. I declare, no weapon fashioned against me shall prosper. In the name of Jesus I bring judgment over this gathering. Scatter.

   That is the faith of the Son of God

   We are talking the wrong things: I will die, nothing works in this country. So you believe you can die? I won't empower Satan with my ignorance.

   When the devil throws an arrow I say, is this all you can do? Throw your best shot

   Numbers 23:23

   I talk what the word says. The word is homologia: agreeing and talking what God says. Believe it, declare it, act accordingly

   I will not die. I live to proclaim the goodness of the Lord

   Acts 3:4-8

   Peter fastened his eyes on the man and said, look on us. He wanted to apply a principle. He didn't want distraction. Focus was critical. When the man looked, expectation rose in him.

   Peter knew how to pull expectation out of the man

   That is why before we pray for the sick we say, nobody is leaving here. We are forcing expectation out of you

   Peter said silver and gold I have none, such as I have I give you, and declared in the name of Jesus, rise up and walk. The man sat.

   Peter held him and pulled him up. As he acted what he said, strength entered his ankle and the man leaped

   The same thing God did with them He is doing with us. They knew and applied what we don't know and apply

   Don't make your miracle difficult for yourself. Some of you are saying, God, lead him to me and let him lay hands on me. It may not happen.

   I'm not a spirit, I may not even pick it up. I have preached in many places in two weeks. Can I come with precision to everyone?

   God does not want it hard for you. That is why He littered principles. Even if the man of God is limited, he won't limit you. My limitation can't stop you.

   That is the love of God

   If the Spirit of God is in me, He will quicken my body. Body, be quickened in the name of Jesus. Stamp it on the ground. You can receive something even before we pray

   Every power fighting your business, in the name of Jesus I command your hold broken

4. The principle of impartation

   There is the place of men. John 5:1-9 God knows that if He waits for you to master the principle you may never be healed.

   The man sick for 38 years couldn't enter the water, so God had to come for him

   There are times God sends men. We are not super people. Within the context of God's mercies He extends tangible help to you. It is a waste of time fighting men of God.

   We are messengers

   I have prayed for people and they were healed. I have prayed for people and they were not healed. Those healed, I thank God. Those not healed, me and you, we settle

   There are people I love, I prayed out my heart, they were not healed. The next day I prayed casually for somebody else and something remarkable happened.

   I'm looking at God, what is going on here? Only God can answer it

   Maybe the person you love is too familiar with you. He is thinking, this boy won't lay hands on my head, he better be careful. He closes his eyes. Does he want to receive?

   He is sending you a warning

   The one who has no relationship with you says, Lord, this is my hour, and before you speak God cuts through

   Acts 10:44

   Peter didn't plan to enter Cornelius's house, let alone give them the Holy Spirit. God interrupted Peter and filled them with the Spirit. Peter himself was surprised

   You won't leave here the same

   God sent somebody with grace to bring you that which you desire. But this principle insists on three things: expectation, honour and obedience

   Expectation

   Acts 3:5

   The man fastened his eyes on them expecting to receive something. If you don't expect anything, the man can't do anything

   Some come and call names: all the big men of God prayed for me. I say, I will join the list. They came with no expectation. They said, let me come and see

   Honour

   Hebrews 7:7

   Some, before you pray, make you a colleague first: now me and you. No honour

   I was invited to Ghana as a guest minister. The man revered me.

   But when I saw what God was doing with him, he had gone to a remote place, bought acres of land and turned it into a city. I knelt down and said, pray for me.

   Let's forget who is guest minister. I need this thing you carry

   Matthew 3:15

   Jesus is greater than John, but now He needs to be baptized. He can't baptize Himself

   Obedience

   2 Kings 5

   Naaman was told to dip in the Jordan seven times. Don't we have better rivers where I came from? His servant persuaded him. He did it six times and nothing happened, until the seventh

   Most of us are the hindrance to our manifestation. Your life can change, but there are principles

The principle of gratitude

John 11:41

Lazarus. See the audacity with which He shouted thanks before the dead rose. He knew this thing does not fail

Most of us are not grateful. The God who paid your school fees when you had no connection has become too small because you are now a governor.

If you can't show gratitude for the little you won't see the great

Some of you need to be grateful for waking up. That will be the answer for the cancer. Be grateful that you got married, that will be the answer for the breakthrough.

Be grateful you are not sick. Be grateful that God found you faithful to be educated

Is it really God that did it or is it coincidence? Will I just be telling God what He didn't do?

There are times I carry my phone and sow a seed to the ministry's account or any other ministry, and I target it as a seed of gratitude.

I'm thanking Him that I have the money to give, and the sense to say thank you. Not everybody has the sense to say thank you

You are waiting for cancer to die before you have a reason to thank God. Thank Him for little things and you will see big things happen effortlessly

When I was growing in the miraculous, people healed of headache gave testimony and I would call them aside: why is it only pain you are calling? Is there no other thing God did?

You can heal pain and you don't thank Him for pain. You want crutches to drop so you can put it on YouTube

You can't add one cubit to your height. If God does as little as growing your hair, He is worthy of thanks. Because you are alive, you have hair that grows.

To see big things done you must be grateful for the little things that have been done. That is how God releases power

Luke 17:14-17

Ten lepers were healed. Only one came back, and Jesus asked, where are the nine? God is looking out for grateful people. The one who came back qualified to be made whole

I made up my mind: I will always be among the one who came back. The more you keep coming back, the more you see greater things

You thank Him with the words of your mouth, with singing, with dancing, and by presenting offerings unto Him

• Father, we thank You for the success of the convocation 2026
• We thank You for the souls won, the interventions, the transformation, the miracles
• We thank You for the resources, the excellence, the guest ministers
• Father, this worship is Yours

This month of October 2026 shall be your month of double restoration. Everything Satan stole from you, any fold God is restoring, 30, 60 or 100, it shall be doubled for you in the name of Jesus Christ

You will have laughter all through the month

It doesn't matter what is happening around you. They were dying in Egypt, Goshen was kept. God will exonerate you from the calamity of your environment. It is your portion in the name of Jesus Christ