Realms Of Power by Apostle Michael Orokpo: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

What Teaching Requires

Effective spiritual teaching requires three things:

• A right heart posture — If your heart is wrong, you cannot teach. There are people who stand on the platform and instead of communicating the counsel of God, they use the altar to address their enemies, to vent personal frustrations, to pursue private agendas. Your heart must be purified before you can carry the word faithfully.
• Inspiration — You need to tap into the realm of light to draw dimensions from God. If you lose inspiration, you have no access. At best you will be a lecturer — you may educate people, but you cannot transform them. You cannot deal with the afflictions of their lives. Inspiration is the divine access that turns information into revelation.
• Utterance — It is a difficult thing to articulate mysteries from the spirit realm and bring them into the cognitive realm. A spirit must give you utterance. Without utterance, you have access and inspiration but cannot bridge the gap between what you received in the spirit and what the people need to hear in their language and understanding.

This is why sustained prayer before and during teaching is not optional for those who carry the ministry of the Word. Without right posture, inspiration, and utterance, what happens on a platform is merely human performance — however skilled.

Understanding Power Dynamics

Acts 1:8: "You shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." The Greek word here is dunamis — explosive, miracle-working power. It is not the same as authority (exousia). Both are real. Both are necessary. But they operate by different laws.

• Authority (exousia) — The legal right and position to act. Every believer has this through new birth and the name of Jesus. Luke 10:19: "I give you authority over all the power of the enemy."
• Power (dunamis) — The raw supernatural energy that produces signs and wonders. This is released by the infilling of the Holy Spirit and activated by faith and the Word.

Many believers have authority but are not walking in power — because they do not understand that power requires a specific kind of cultivation.

The Realms of Power

The power of God does not operate uniformly in all contexts. Scripture reveals distinct realms, each with its own characteristics:

1. The Realm of the Anointing

   This is the power that flows through consecrated vessels upon whom the Holy Spirit has been poured. Acts 10:38: Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power, and went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil. The anointing is not a sensation — it is an empowerment for function. It requires a life of consecration and a continuous yielding to the Spirit.

2. The Realm of the Name

   Philippians 2:9–10: God has given Jesus a name above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow — in heaven, in earth, and under the earth. The name of Jesus is not just a title; it is a realm of authority that operates wherever it is invoked by authorized ambassadors in faith.

3. The Realm of the Word

   Hebrews 4:12: the Word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. When the Word is released in faith, it carries the creative power of the God who first spoke it. This is why declarations and decrees based on scripture produce supernatural results.

4. The Realm of the Blood

   Revelation 12:11: they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony. The blood of Jesus is the ultimate legal instrument of the kingdom. It defeats the accuser, breaks the power of sin, and establishes the right of believers to walk in divine protection and authority.

Consistency in Power

Power is not meant to be an occasional visitation. It is meant to be a consistent reality in the life of every believer who understands how it operates and maintains the conditions for its flow.

The person who walks consistently in power is the person who walks consistently in the Spirit — who lives in the Word, maintains righteousness, operates in faith, and does not give ground to the flesh.

This is the life to which every child of God is called — not occasionally touching the supernatural but living in it as a normal environment.