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Reboot Camp North America Day 2 Morning Session, September 2026 by Apostle Emmanuel Iren: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Faith Is A Posture Of Reliance

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Apostle Emmanuel Iren Preaching - Reboot Camp North America Day 2 Morning Session, September 2026
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  • Great grace gives authority to command obedience to the faith
  • Saving faith and charismatic faith are inseparable
  • Israel's unbelief showed in daily needs and practical obedience
  • There is a back end to life: the prophetic posture
  • Supernatural advantage works in the marketplace too

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There's a lady here. I saw the move of the Spirit like a dove rest upon you. You've been battling depression the past couple of months, and it's like a warm embrace from the Holy Ghost.

The Lord is asking me to tell you that that plague is ended forever.

Lady, Jesus loves you. His plan for you is good. His counsel will be fulfilled in your life.

Every tongue that has arisen in judgment against you is condemned right now.

This is the move of the Spirit. The Lord is bringing an end to nightmares, to terrible dreams. Every time you lay in the bed, you see the enemy tormenting you.

Right now, by the hand of the Lord, we set you free.

That stranger that always shows up in your room when it's time for bed, in the name of Jesus, that stranger has left you for good.

Isaiah 54:17

Ample time to teach

When I have the opportunity to come here, I believe even by biblical definition, this is an opportunity for true apostolic ministry

That's why every time I have the opportunity to come here, it doesn't matter what else the Lord does, we must give ample time to teaching

What builds a generation and conforms them to the image of Christ is teaching

It doesn't matter what else a ministry does or a man of God is able to do.

If he does not build the people with the word of God, he has not fulfilled his mission Ephesians 4:11-13

Great grace is the theme for this year's camp meeting. There are different ramifications and interpretations.

You are going to experience great grace in your life and in your ministry

But here is the text that should be on your heart to understand what God is trying to do here

Romans 1:5

Apostolic ministry has not ended

A lot of people are of the opinion that apostolic ministry ended with the Bible. I know what they are trying to say, and that's not true

Revelation 21:14

There are apostles of the Lamb, the 12. No one will ever come to that category

But beyond the 12 there were other people the Bible calls apostles. It simply means sent ones, sent to a new territory to replicate the image of Christ in that territory

Paul, even though some think Paul is part of the 12. Barnabas Acts 14:14. Andronicus and Junia Romans 16:7

What is the duration of the apostolic, prophetic and evangelistic work? Till we all come Ephesians 4:11-13

Don't call it something that has ceased if the function is not yet attained.

As long as there are people in the body of Christ who have not come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, those offices still are important

1 Corinthians 12:28

As long as you have the body of Christ, these are the things you will see

These offices will always be in the church

The apostolic foundation is finished but the apostolic function is not

If a ministry does not have different territories where the grace at the center is replicated, that's not apostolic ministry

It must be marked by strong men who are discipled enough to be sent to new territories and, by the grace of God, replicate what is at the center

The work of an apostolic ministry in every generation is to retain standard, with Bible discipleship and discipleship everywhere in the world

If you know me, I would rather just be called pastor. I'm saying this so you understand what God is trying to do: establish and maintain a particular standard

Great grace

Romans 1:5

Grace and apostleship go hand in hand. This great grace is not just for business success. It is not even just for healing

It is a particular grace that gives you the authority and ability to command obedience to the faith amongst all nations

There is a grace that a ministry gift can carry, so that everywhere he goes the name of Jesus walks in every place, to raise disciples with the same fortitude and the same stamina everywhere

God sent us to recruit an army because of the work he wants to do in this territory

There is a grace to raise a people for God. A grace to establish men in the gospel. A grace to bring them from conversion to conviction to maturity and to obedience

Somebody sent me a clip of a secular podcast where one of them said, "Please help us tell Pastor Iren to leave our bodies alone." It will not be the last time

People engage worldly people, and all of a sudden they come to church, get born again, filled with the Spirit, and they are on fire

Illustration: the black sheep son

A couple came to church out of curiosity because their son, the black sheep of the family, had been terrorizing them. He wouldn't go to school, he wouldn't go to classes.

Then he got born again, filled with the Spirit, and became serious at school

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They wanted to know what we put in the stew. That's how I began to investigate

The first day the guy came to church he had smoked weed before coming and was struggling to keep his eyes open. But the word of God was penetrating his spirit

He said, "I have to come again." He came the next week, the third week, the fourth week. He has not left since. He's a pastor now.

We even sent him to one of the branches. That's great grace

I'm explaining what the Lord is about to do with your life

People who knew you before will say, "Is this not Mary's son? Where does this wisdom, this authority, this grace come from?"

Illustration: casting out a demon

On Pastor Bas's first day in this church, I made him cast a demon out of someone in his first service. He said, "My walk with God is struggling." I said, "Just come"

It was a prayer meeting. I said, "Group yourselves, hold hands." The anointing surged in that group and the lady began to manifest. He looked at me. I said, "Finish it"

This is how you conform territories to the fabric of the kingdom

Obedience to the faith

Romans 1:5

The faith is not mental assent. It's a way of life. The Bible called it the wisdom of the just

It is a new worldview. It radically changes your life and your modus operandi

It is not the obedience that makes you saved. But when you trust God with your life, it radically alters your priorities, the way you act, the way you talk

When you trust God enough to direct your life and your priorities, that is when we can truly say, in a biblical sense, that you have believed: obedience to the faith.

There is such a thing, not just agreement

3 meanings of faith in the Bible:

  1. Saving faith: you believe the gospel and you are saved Acts 16:31
  2. Charismatic faith: faith with a different object. Not trusting God for salvation but for a mountain to be removed, for healing Mark 11:22-24
  3. The faith: this refers to Christianity itself Jude 1:3

Faith is faith whether it is for salvation or for healing. It doesn't matter what you direct your trust towards

Faith is counting God trustworthy. It's a posture of reliance on God. It begins fundamentally in salvation, but it does not end at salvation

Romans 8:32

There is a direct connection between saving faith and charismatic faith. Faith is trusting God in every context, whether salvation, healing or blessing

There are two extremes in the church. People who make every service about what God can give them. And people who try to separate saving faith from its practical implications

He is appealing to your normal reasoning. God didn't spare his own Son.

His Son had to die a gruesome death, hoisted on a tree with seven inch nails through his wrists, just so you can be saved

How dare you believe that and it didn't occur to you to believe him for your next rent?

Faith is a posture, not just an event. It is a life of dependence on God. We express it in salvation and in our day to day life

Galatians 3:2

Paul is talking about salvation. Then in verse five he puts side by side salvation and miracles Galatians 3:5

Both happen the same way. Not by works of the law but by the hearing of faith. It is the same faith that produces salvation that produces those things

Faith in the daily things: Israel in the wilderness

In the New Testament, faith is pistis and the verb is pisteuo. The Old Testament word behind it is aman, from which you get emunah

Israel saw the great work the Lord had done upon the Egyptians and believed Exodus 14:31. They believed and sang about it Psalm 106:12

But in the simple, practical aspects of their daily life, they did not believe. When they were thirsty and needed water, they didn't trust God

God reckoned their failure to trust him for food and water as having salvific implications. This is not works. If you truly trust God, it will manifest in the simple aspects of your life

2 Timothy 1:12

I didn't just trust him with my salvation and my eternal destiny. It has implications in the practical aspects of your life

Now Paul is in prison, and he says God is able to keep, because his trust in God in salvation has practical implications

The Bible uses the metaphor of adoption. Adoption doesn't just mean you now bear the same name. That's just the beginning

As a child you eat what the children are eating. You live in the secure location the children live in. You enjoy resources

Salvation, as a foundation and an entrance, launches you into a new dimension of trust in God for simple practical things. They are inseparable

At Marah the water was bitter. They murmured and God gave them water Exodus 15:22-25. The rock is Christ 1 Corinthians 10:4

After that they still didn't learn. Food became the problem and they asked, is God really among us? God said he would rain bread from heaven Exodus 16:4

The way God provided was an indictment on their own unbelief. If it came out of the ground it would be natural. God said, I will rain it from heaven

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You can be genuinely saved but because you have not been taught, you don't understand the spiritual implications of murmuring.

Whether it is your finances, your family, your marital destiny, trusting God for children, learn from this

At the promised land, God said, "I've given you the land." From where God stood, it was already done

The spies came back with evil reports. Any report that is not consistent with what God said is an evil report. We were as grasshoppers, they are giants in the land Numbers 13:32-33

Someone will say, "They were just being real." Moses, telling the story, traced it to unbelief Deuteronomy 1:32

They were not ready to take practical steps to take the land God had given them. God traced that disobedience to unbelief.

It was symptomatic of the fact that they did not believe him to begin with

Those who trust God in salvation, it will show in the way they obey the things he tells them to do

When God says build the school, it is a matter of salvific faith. If you've trusted him for salvation, how can you not do what he asked you to do?

If God says start the ministry, write the songs, hold the concerts, it is inseparable from your trust

Testimony: after I was filled with the Spirit

No one ever explained this to me. I just experienced it.

From the day I decided to follow the Lord, from the day I was filled with the Spirit, my life changed in every aspect

I wanted to read. I wanted to learn more about God, about culture, about history. I wanted to dress better, to speak better.

And everything he asked me to do, there was a surge of boldness and confidence

You couldn't tell me otherwise because one with God is a majority. If God tells me to do something and you doubt it, I eat that confrontation for breakfast.

I enjoy it because it's another occasion for God to prove himself again

I began to see myself as a leader. Your life begins when you get filled with the Spirit

Romans 8:11

It is Reboot Camp for a reason. The visions God gave you that you left on the back burner because you were trying to be real, and the economy put you in a box

It is a matter of saving faith to believe God for all the other practical aspects of your life.

Romans 8:32

Paul's question again. God gives us all things, not reluctantly but freely

I am standing before you as somebody sent by God to tell you it can be done.

In the name of Jesus, by the grace of God, every vision that has stayed tormented in your life is about to receive fresh life.

Maybe trials, tribulations, unfavorable circumstances made you beaten down and revisit your expectations to reduce them to be more realistic, to be consistent with your bank account and your budget.

Ephesians 3:20

Psalm 84:7

You are leaving this place with a new surge of strength.

The joy of the Lord gives acceleration Nehemiah 8:10

Every feeble knee has received strength. Every weak hand has received strength Isaiah 35:3. You will carry those divine assignments and burdens and you will not be tired.

Isaiah 40:31

  • We have come to the Father. We have come to renew strength.
  • Creator of the universe, what can't you do? What can't you change? You are great and mighty God.
  • I put my trust in you.

This is the great grace that you came for. You're about to receive strength from Zion.

If the Holy Ghost takes over your soul, I'm welcoming you to a deeper realm of results, of sponsorship

So that anywhere you go the territory will know you came in the name of the Lord.

There is such a grace

A spiritual perspective: there is a back end

It is part of faith to take on a spiritual perspective to issues. There is a back end

Not everything can be explained on a spreadsheet. Not everything can be explained in a test tube. Not everything has a biological or economic explanation

Testimony: the baby girl

A lady and her husband had been trusting the Lord for the fruit of the womb for years. Then she had a dream in which I was walking by their house.

She said, "Sir, you might be tired, can I host you for a bit?" I said okay

I entered the house and they were laying the bed for me. I asked, "What do you want God to do for you?" Before they were done explaining, I said, "Receive your baby girl"

The dream was in February. By March she was pregnant. Nine months after, she gave birth to a baby girl. What are the odds? How do you explain this?

Work hard, do your best, but understand there is a back end to life

There is a realm where words can alter your life, bring positive results, and turn back the hands of the enemy. That's great grace

There is a realm where you cannot be stranded. A realm of divine sponsorship. Believe for it

Salvation is the foundation, but it is inseparable. It's a life of dependence on God

Every pattern of retrogression, of lack, of disappointment in your life, every negative pattern in families regarding their marriages, in your lineage, all those things are cancelled today.

The prophetic posture

Moses is on a high plane and Aaron holds his hand up while Joshua fights the Amalekites Exodus 17:8-13. That same prophetic posture

Joshua is a soldier, but he's more than a soldier. He's a man of God

You can be a doctor but more than a doctor. An architect but more than an architect. An entrepreneur but more than an entrepreneur

I've seen many dangerous testimonies in this ministry. Somebody dreams and sees a product, wakes up, learns to make the product and is selling more than a thousand pieces per day

I have seen the prophetic make people rich. You cannot talk me out of my experience

If you read the Bible without any help, what kind of mentality would you have? You need a teacher to help you not misunderstand it. Some doctrines you can't arrive at on your own.

Thank God for teaching graces

It works both ways. Sometimes false teaching will put in you a wrong expectation, a hindrance in your mind

Joshua at Ai

They went to fight Ai and lost. Joshua gathered the people and said someone has done something, something is wrong, we don't lose like that

How do you read this Bible and not trust God in the practical aspects of your life?

They repented and confessed

After that, God asked Joshua to stretch out the spear toward Ai and he would give it into his hand Joshua 8:18. This is prophetic symbolism

Some people know how to wield weapons but don't know how to take a prophetic posture

We've spent decades trying to correct a generation where all they know how to do is pray. Now we've moved into another extreme of hyper pragmatism.

You don't really know how to labor for things in the realm of the spirit

God promised Abraham real estate with his eyes Genesis 13:14-15

You can't do that in the flesh. Don't go and look at another person's house. All of these things must be understood in context, but it's right there

His grandchildren owned properties because their father dared to look with the eyes of the spirit

All the things that seemed to be coincidences, going to Egypt, coming out, all the journeys of the wilderness, ended up in their father's covenant place with God 1,500 years prior.

Wake up, my friend

In this camp meeting, God can tell you things and you go back to the office and everything has changed

Testimony: the job

One of the people I disciple pastors a young church with few financial pillars. One of them who loves the ministry had been out of work for close to a year.

It bothered him and he came to tell me

I was about to go and minister somewhere. I just said, "Don't worry, his job is back." Fifteen minutes after, he got two. Just so you will know it's not a fluke

Explain it intellectually. I refuse to live an ordinary life

The supernatural advantage: Elisha and Joash

Another battle won first by the supernatural. Elisha is on his sick bed, about to die, and King Joash comes down to him 2 Kings 13:14-19

The prophetic had national advantage in those days. Other nations would ask, how come these people always know our next move? Someone would say, "They have a prophet."

That's why they sent the captain of the 50

Joash cried, "My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof." Do you know what he's recognizing?

Go back to the story of Elisha, when his servant was afraid 2 Kings 6:16-17. Elisha said, "They are more with us than are with them"

First, it tells you Elisha had a spiritual perspective to battle. He didn't say "they are more with us than them." He said "more with us than are with them."

It is our angels versus their demons. That is the real battle

He had seen the back end. He prayed, "God, open his eyes," and the servant saw chariots of fire around Elisha. One man was responsible for the security of the nation

Samson did it by prophetic might. Elisha did it by prophetic aid

Joash was saying, "Help your boy now. If you go, how am I going to win battles?"

Elisha said, "Let us do something for the future that will still work even when I am gone. Bring an arrow and strike it on the ground"

Notice the pattern. The man struck it three times and stopped. Elisha was angry. Why did you strike it just three times? You are only going to win three battles

Imagine his opponents' training, and here is somebody with a prophet winning battles by striking an arrow on the ground

Some people like to be derogatory. They say, "Church people, foolish people." Some of you become bothered when the Lord gives you a simple prophetic instruction. They mock your generosity. They mock your prayer

There is such a thing as supernatural advantage. The advantage of great grace. This is the testimony of my life

Commit your life. I told you to do it yesterday. Do it again

  • I trust you with my future. I trust you. You are my advantage.

Psalm 20:7

The same things you've cried about, hand them over to him in thanksgiving

It's a season of great grace, a season of acceleration by the hand of the Lord

1 Peter 5:7

Psalm 126:1-3

If you want to see increased divine presence in your life, learn to spend ample time worshiping the Lord

Do you not see a correlation between David never losing a battle and his psalms, his hymns, his praising God? This is how we win

What you feel is called a note of victory. Some heavy duty things have been sorted.

When the testimony of what God has done manifests, this is how you will dance, and you will say, "You are God and I worship you."

  • Speak a word about the next meeting.
  • Prophetic gifts will single you out and you will receive all that the Holy Ghost has prepared for you.
  • See yourself being mightily blessed. See a revival breaking forth in this territory.
  • Glory to your mighty name. In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Timothys and the Joshua generation

To those who have a call to ministry or who pastor churches, understand this: it is for you that I came primarily

For a true apostolic work you must leave the place with stronger men, with Timothys who can continue the work. Grace is about to be multiplied

One of the things God wants to use me to usher into this generation is what I've been calling the Joshua generation.

You will find bivocational people: men of God but soldiers, men of God but politicians, men of God but bivocational

Abraham came to Abimelech's territory as a businessman. But in a dream God told Abimelech he's a prophet Genesis 20:7. He didn't carry the title. He never held a service.

But he's a prophet

Businessmen with prophetic gifts. Medical doctors with prophetic gifts. Supernatural advantage

Testimony: the medical doctor

A medical doctor, before he went to deliver a baby, first prayed in the spirit. He couldn't tell why the Holy Ghost was making him do that

As the lady was under anesthesia, in her subconscious state a demon began to speak: "I told her not to come here. She was supposed to die."

But she was in the hands of an anointed doctor

People who will display real power in the palace, in the streets, in the marketplace. Josephs and Daniels. That mantle is heavy in this place today

You are about to experience great grace in every ramification

It takes a man of God to raise some children. Mary never preached a sermon, yet she is called blessed among women Luke 1:42

You are about to experience extraordinary grace in parenting, in business, in all that concerns you

It was in a business setting that Laban discovered by experience that God was with Jacob Genesis 30:27

We are not talking about the type of anointing that only works in church

Testimony: the radio station

I went for a TV interview and when I was passing the radio station, a lady saw me. She said, "I can't believe I'm seeing you. I used to drag you on Twitter."

She was telling me some of the things she doesn't agree with

We are not in church. I'm in front of her office. And the presence of God lands there and she's crying, trying not to be embarrassed, trying to put herself together

He works everywhere

When you receive a prophetic word, God has just spoken to you, don't just be chatting around. Keep what God has given you. Greet people sparingly.

Go home, pray a little more, freshen up and come back stronger

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