Refiner's Fire Camp Meeting Day 5 Evening Session, September 2026 by Apostle Joshua Selman: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Recap: what the church is

God sent me to this conference to answer four questions. Redefine the concept of church. Help us understand the assignment of the church. An X-ray of the current state of the church.

And the principles that make a church impactful and truly apostolic

3 definitions of the church:

1. A spiritual strategy. God's strategy for extending his salvation program to the nations, for building and refining men, for preserving truth and moral excellence, for demonstrating the love of Jesus to a dying world
2. A collection of believers bound in one faith and a common destiny in Christ, joined to Christ by one Spirit. An individual cannot be called a church.

   An individual can be a member of the church, an effective one at that. A unified collection of believers is called the body of Christ

3. An institution 1 Timothy 3:15

   It preserves the program of God and allows kingdom activities to happen within that assembly

The assignment of the church

To understand the assignment of the church, consider the concept of kingdoms. Two principal kingdoms: the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of God's dear Son

Both are spiritual kingdoms but they depend on physical infrastructures to exert dominion on the earth. These are threefold: men, ideologies or belief systems, and institutions.

That is the only way God's program is extended, and the only way Satan's program is extended

God's program: all men saved and come to the knowledge of the truth 1 Timothy 2:4.

The lordship of Christ is first instituted in the heart of men, we call that salvation.

Then his value system and governing influence find expression across every strata of human activity

Satan has a counterfeit program, fourfold:

1. Stop men from having a real encounter with Jesus and accessing the life that comes through the gospel
2. Incite rebellion against the lordship and value system of Christ, replacing it with perverted systems
3. Institutionalize global hostility against everything God and everything kingdom. The widespread global hatred for the church is not human engineering, it is an intentional program
4. Stop men from accessing the light that brings liberty, by weakening their passion for the word and creating distance between them and those who bear the light

Satan as head of a demonic kingdom has a very organized program, the same way God has his

The mandate of the church is sixfold:

1. Priesthood and prophetic intercession

   We enforce the will of God in prayer and restrain the program of darkness in the place of prayer

2. Soul winning and world evangelization

   See that everybody is saved and this gospel is taken to the ends of the earth

3. Maturity and transformation of the saints

   Through the sound communication of doctrine and kingdom principles.

   Doctrine means a body of knowledge, the fundamental truths of the kingdom, that build an individual from an infant to a person of stature

4. Revelation and representation of the invisible God

   We are living epistles 2 Corinthians 3:2-3, authorized to be the face of Jesus on the earth.

   Men do not see the invisible God, they understand him by looking at the church.

   As we manifest the character, the life and the wisdom of the Spirit, men can learn God as they look at our lives.

   We are not just called to be doers, we are called to be revealers. A witness validates by doing and also by being

5. Revealers and dispensers of his supernatural power

   The kingdom we are part of is a kingdom of power. The church has been vested with supernatural power to provide solutions to problems that have plagued mankind. Solutions that defy science and human reasoning

6. Agents of change bringing territorial transformation and preservation

   Influencing every strata of human activity with the values of the kingdom. We are salt and light Matthew 5:13-16.

   Salt adds taste and preserves. Light exposes darkness and brings illumination

Supernatural power also finds expression through science, art and technology. Science is one of the bodies the supernatural wears to reveal itself on the earth. So are art and technology.

So power is not limited to signs and wonders alone, the church has a mandate to display the manifold wisdom of God

We need believers who demonstrate the power and wisdom of God through witty inventions and technological advancement that affect the social economy of a territory

The church in a place has an assignment to that place.

The transformative work of the church in society is threefold:

• Moral transformation. We should raise the moral standard of a territory. Crime and vices should reduce to the barest minimum. That attests to the presence of the church.

  Crowding ourselves every day is wonderful, but the real proof is reduced moral decadence

• Belief systems of the people, bringing values like responsibility. If the church is planted in a territory, the young men should be serious and not idle

The church has a responsibility to set up community building and transformative programs that attend to people regardless of faith, not just preaching and crusades.

Crusades bring in souls, but the church must help make the people of a territory valuable

Recap: X-ray of the current state of the church

3 errors that can proceed from the pulpit:

1. Falsehood or apostasy

   A deviation from the known patterns of God 1 Timothy 4:1

2. Misappropriation of kingdom principles

   Correct principles applied wrongly, like giving, honor, prayer, fasting. They must be applied in a way that does not become destructive or manipulative.

   Giving can be taught in a way that becomes manipulation. Honor can be taught in a way that becomes human worship

3. Imbalance or incomplete communication of truth

   If you have 8 of the 10 digits of my number, it will not call my phone. The digits are not wrong, they are incomplete.

   It is dangerous to give people incomplete truth. It can become a weapon of destruction. Truth must be balanced and wholesome to provide the power contained in it

If I make garri soup, add all the leaves and then put one mud of salt, I have exaggerated the relevance of salt.

Truth must be served with the intelligence of a chef because every man of God is a spiritual chef Jeremiah 3:15, John 21

Pastors are feeders. A man can be malnourished and remain stunted in the spirit even under a sincere pastor

Commendation and correction

The goal is not to condemn and tear down the church. The church has done many commendable things: crusades, soul winning campaigns, empowerment programs

God builds people with the dual principle of commendation and correction. Over commend people and you lead them into pacifism, the press to continue is gone. Overcorrect and they become discouraged

Paul used this model. So did Jesus with the seven churches Revelation 2, Revelation 3. He commends, then says "however, I have this against you", then tells them what to do and the consequences

Don't overflog issues when the willingness to change is already there. The prodigal son had already repented, so the father never discussed his fall again Luke 15.

Overflogging goes beyond correction and becomes a communication of self-righteousness 1 Corinthians 10:12

6 areas where the church needs adjustment:

1. Consecration, character and the sincerity of our love for God

   Many things that bring reproach to the name of the Lord have their root in not having a deep enough love and fear of God

2. Doctrine and knowledge

   What should a believer learn and not learn? What do we believe and stand upon?

3. Principles and practices, our strategies and methods

   How we obtain results matters, not just that we obtain results. Prophetic action, mediums, sacraments need examination so we do not adopt Babylonian, antichrist or occultic methods

   If we do not examine our strategies, we will be celebrating results whose strategies came from hell.

   If Moses throws his rod and it becomes a serpent, Jannes and Jambres can also throw theirs and it becomes a serpent Exodus 7:10-12. The question is what power sponsored it

   Any practice that violates human dignity or the ethics of consecration is questionable. When Nebuchadnezzar became an animal it was a curse on him Daniel 4.

   So if you make human beings animals to achieve spiritual goals, something is wrong

   Anything that gratifies flesh is not a spiritual strategy. Anything that does not reveal the glory of God and reveals self is not a strategy

   Use this as a litmus test. If I ask a lady to pull up her clothes in front of everybody as a prophetic act, the Holy Spirit is not that stupid.

   His first revelation is as the God of intelligence

   If I ask someone to transfer all his money to my account, ignoring his will, the Holy Ghost will never do that.

   Even at the expense of your eternal destiny he leaves you to choose. Anything with manipulation is questionable

   The Holy Ghost is dynamic, but judge spirits and operations with the lens of the word and the character of God

4. Our role and level of involvement in matters of state

   On one hand there is a clamor not to associate with unbelievers, on the other a mandate to go to them.

   The unbelievers are the reason we are here. But reach them with intelligence so you preserve your consecration

   Lot made that mistake Genesis 13:12, Genesis 19. He first settled near Sodom, by the time the angel came he was in the middle of Sodom. When you go to preach, don't tabernacle there.

   Win souls, then return to the place of safety

   Sodom is very alluring. You will start moving in and not even know when you have moved in

   You who started as an evangelist can become the chief practitioner of what you were sent to deliver men from. The idea is not to run away from unbelievers, who then saves them?

   Engage them with wisdom, knowing Babylon is also looking for us. Sow the seed, step back and make sure your consecration is still intact

   It starts from the altar, not the mission field

5. Leadership and governance

   Spiritual fatherhood, mentorship, church governance, succession. Many concepts of fatherhood in the body of Christ are, on closer examination, occultism and witchcraft, even by sincere people

   Many cannot grow in grace because they have to honor their fathers even when they see the practices are wrong. Young people fight battles they know nothing about. It's unintelligent.

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   Fatherhood must be approached with respect, sacredness and balance

   Among Pentecostal charismatic circles the work is built around one person. Nothing is intrinsically wrong, but the model has been proven not to sustain without longevity unless you add a few things

   Jesus started a program, trained 120 Acts 1:15, handed it over, left the Holy Ghost and left. He has never been insecure about it.

   Imagine if Jesus had to come back in the flesh every week to supervise what we are doing

   Many of our visions don't survive 10 years because we are too insecure to trust others yet God trusted us

   Nobody can ever be prepared enough for the work of the kingdom. The preparation happens as we grow. People can be children but they cannot remain children forever

   If God can take a risk with you, you must take a risk with others. Overprotectiveness and being emotional over the work has damaged the program of God.

   Let the young people take the prayer, organize the crusade. They will make mistakes

   It is better for your sons to make mistakes in your presence, you are alive to correct it, than to watch from heaven as they scatter what you built.

   What if the prodigal son's father was dead? Who would restore the boy? The father being alive was the hope that the boy could be received back

6. Emotional maturity and managing differences among pastors and denominations

   Ministry is a composite: spirituality, leadership and organization, excellence and productivity, emotional maturity. There are many anointed but emotionally immature leaders, platforms and denominations

   Jesus taught us how to coexist. Differences are a human thing, they did not start with us. The Bible provides a template for peaceful coexistence among brethren

   The campaign of hate will never birth the program of God. Respecting differences has nothing to do with believing them. Even God respects the sinner's view.

   If he makes up his mind not to accept Jesus, Jesus will not say you are stupid, I died for you. John 1:12 means not everybody will receive him

   If God respects men, men must respect men

   That I don't agree with a bishop does not mean I have to hate him or his denomination.

   Sometimes we spiritualize our insecurities and fears and turn them into sermons as if the Holy Ghost inspired us. He is the Spirit of truth and the character of love

   The zenith of spiritual transformation is not knowledge, it is love. Any enlightenment that diminishes your love for God and people is fake. The proof you love God is how you love those around you

   I have interacted with Muslims and other non-Christians, and I continue to advocate for their salvation. I practice responsible Christianity, preserving my values but respecting people.

   I am passionate about God but I hate fanaticism. Fanaticism is hatred based on differences, and extremism. It has been the bane of the tearing down of many civilizations.

   Sometimes we sell this in church in the name of passion for God. It has never built any society or moved Africa anywhere

   Those who spearheaded the campaigns we talk about today were wrapped in love. Love has dimensions: tolerance, forgiveness, mercy, grace. You cannot say you love God and not allow these things in your life.

   Any love for God that demands you hate the brethren did not come from God

   The more you grow in Christ, the more you understand the value of one human being. You will not hate men cheaply, go to bed and wake up with hatred burning in your heart.

   That is not the spirit of Christ

   We hate evil, not men. Separate the practice from the person. I know some people merchandise the gospel for gain. Mentor those under you not to sell hatred as a strategy, that's a devilish thing

   Don't look at a church holding a crusade and say, "look at these crazy people clapping and dancing".

   Don't raise young people who can only please us by hating what we hate, under duress to keep doing what they know isn't right. We will destroy the program of God that way

   John 3:16

   God cannot trust you with the grace to change a territory and people you hate. I have personal convictions and reservations, but that is not enough reason to hate people. My response is intercession.

   Where God gives a platform, I show them in love, not from superiority

   You cannot help people by making yourself look better than them. Jesus did not save us that way, he came to our level Philippians 2:5.

   Reduce yourself to their level, not by compromise but by humility

   If you come to a region saying "you people are not serious, shame on all the pastors", you will not win them.

   There is always room to rise, but come with meekness, knowing we are all instruments of God's mercy

When the Spirit of God is revealed in a place

4 things characterize his presence. If you don't find these, it was not the Holy Ghost:

1. Life, flowing like a river
2. Liberty, setting you free from the shackles of ignorance and opening your eyes to see the way of the kingdom more perfectly
3. Healing
4. Hope

Healing for wounded pastors who have been doing their best but disregarded by those ahead of them, as if they were wasting their time and not doing ministry. Find comfort, step by step

If God has granted some of us to be ahead, it's not because we are better Luke 22:32. We have come to strengthen our brethren. The days of celebrity Christianity are over.

We hold the hand of a brother to say God has shown me a way of power and a more excellent way of ministry, let me lead you.

Not "go to hell, you will go"

To the one who is not doing ministry well, there is always room to change. Don't be ashamed to change principles and practices. Go back and study the word of God. Edit your sermons.

That's the power of the gospel

10 pillars of an impactful and apostolic church

Micah 4:1-2

These are the last days. Receive it as a prophetic word

Matthew 5:13-16

Jesus contrasts the way men look at things with the way things are done in the kingdom. There are always people in the room waiting for light.

"Let" means permit, do not restrain

The church is ordained to be an impactful entity Matthew 16:18. It is a winning church, an advancing entity, valuable to civilization.

It is God's strategy Jeremiah 51:20. It didn't say you have it, you are it yourself

There are 10 pillars. If any church violates any of these, the structure suffers. Samson found the pillars of the temple, pushed just two, and the building collapsed.

He killed more at his death than in his lifetime Judges 16:29-30

Your local assembly must be built across these 10 pillars. For a church to fully satisfy the heart of God and fulfil its mandate, it must keep all 10

1. The prayer pillar

   Luke 18:1, Mark 11:24

   Any church that must become vibrant, apostolic, reaching and have longevity of impact must be a praying church. The prayer pillar must be guarded and defended by all godly means.

   An attack on the prayer system of a church is an attack on the future and relevance of that church

   Jesus himself, when he walked the earth, prayed Mark 1:35-37

   Believers must be trained and mentored that prayer is part of growth. Prayer is not for prayer warriors, preachers or ordained ministers. Prayer is for all men

   Pastors, we must teach our people to pray. The church must be founded on a systemic prayer program

   In the place of prayer we enforce the will of God. We restrain the program of darkness. We obtain our positions. We build intimacy with God

   When the devil wants to fight the program of God across a territory he brings the spirit of slumber. Prayer is one of the major elements of the apostolic model Acts 2:42.

   Not prayer or the ministry of the word, but both together Acts 6:4

   Train people to pray accurately. There is such a thing as praying amiss. You can dissipate energy and not create an effect in the spirit

   Fervent means heartfelt. Effectual means consistent with the will of God James 5:16. If your prayer is outside the scope of his will it cannot be answered 1 John 5:14. There are rules to prayer

2. The evangelism pillar

   Mark 16:15

   Every church must be a going church, a reaching church, and raise fishers of men Matthew 4:19. God is a maker, he makes men fishers of men

   Romans 10:14-15

   Evangelism must not die in our time

   Evangelism must go beyond crusades. It takes millions to organize one crusade, and how many can you organize in a year? But everybody can be a soul winner.

   Everybody cannot do the work of an apostle, prophet, pastor or teacher, but everybody can do the work of an evangelist

   If we don't save people, the devil keeps human bodies he can use to wreck havoc and fight God's program. Be genuinely passionate about souls.

   Soul winning does not have to be transactional, like "I'm saving souls so God will give me this". It's a privilege and an honor

3. The discipleship pillar

   Every winning church must place priority on discipleship. It is the reformative and transformative process that builds the culture of the kingdom in men. It goes beyond learning the tenets of a denomination.

   It is a lifelong process of culturing men to become like Christ, producing responsible kingdom citizens

   The maturity of the saints depends on discipleship.

   The curriculum includes: how to walk in love, how to live by faith, victory over the flesh and mammon, how to die and live for Jesus, how to prioritize the kingdom, prayer

   A believer who is saved but not transformed through discipleship is still a danger to himself and the program of God

   Your real value to the kingdom is not your salvation. Your salvation benefits you. Your real value is your growth and maturity. When you mature, God can trust you with his program

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   There are many babes in church 1 Peter 2:2.

   Be intentional about the teaching ministry. Miracles attract men, but you cannot raise men with miracles

   Until you teach people to respect the word of God, they will run away from the teaching ministry. It takes grace to endure sound doctrine, and they must be mentored into it

   Many things we are praying for have their answer in our growth.

   One of the greatest ways God answers prayer is to leave the answer and cause the person praying to grow, because the request is a symptom of lack of growth.

   There are things you don't pray for if you grow

   A young child asks you to pray he will have a beard on his face. You say, just grow.

   One day he becomes an adult and the thing he was rushing to enter, he becomes tired of. A 13 year old wants to drive. Five more years is too far.

   At 25 you say, are you ready to drive? I'm busy

   God gives speed but don't hurry seasons. If you rush into the season you want now, you will miss the one you just left. Seasons come with burdens and responsibility.

   Be patient, keep bearing root downward. The capacity you build yesterday is what helps you survive today

4. The faith pillar

   Romans 1:17, Hebrews 10:38, Ephesians 6:16

   Understand the irreplaceable value of faith in the believer's adventure. The entire work of the believer is called the faith.

   Believers must be trained to trust God and to engage the word so it profits them

   Everything in this kingdom runs on the economy of faith. This conference structure, put up in less than a month, that's faith Hebrews 11:32-33. There are no guarantees in life.

   Your guarantee is faith 1 John 5:4

   Faith demands absolute trust in God and engaging the word, believing he is able. Take your eyes off your uncle who you hope will sponsor you, and look to him. Bible faith delivers

   Matthew 4:4

   They heard the word just like we did Hebrews 4:2.

   The real profit of the word comes when you mix it with faith. The real profit of the word of healing, the word of advancement, comes when you mix it with faith

   John 13:17

5. The power pillar

   Acts 1:8, Acts 4:33, Acts 10:38. God anointed Jesus not just with faith but with power

   You need power to drive the program of God to fruition, to get revival, to keep the forces of darkness at bay. Sincerity is not enough.

   "We are sincere" and "we are genuine" are not languages hell understands. Hell only understands the language of power

   Jeremiah 32:17, Psalm 66:3

   The mountain will not move until you know how to lift it

   Power defined: the force that compels compliance. The capacity to influence outcomes

   There is a devil on rampage wanting to tear down your church, reputation, children, business. It takes power not just to preach, it takes power to live.

   It takes power to not die before your time, to shut the grave and say not now 1 Corinthians 15:55. It takes power to define your portion Matthew 11:12

   I was once on a journey and a great man of God called me and said, please don't travel, I see a ghastly accident, nobody survived.

   I said, what then is the value of dominion? It is written is more powerful than I saw.

   While we don't despise prophecy, the real value of dominion is seeing it and bringing it to the obedience of Christ.

   I said I'm on my way, I have business to do for the kingdom

   Many times our names have been taken everywhere. Some of us have eaten death in the pot and it nourished our bodies Mark 16:18

   Verify that you are in touch with God so you don't stand before Pharaoh and die. Power is not something to play around with Daniel 11:32

   After this conference you will stand at the gate of your home, open your mouth and speak, and shift the climate. You will speak and shift things in the name of Jesus.

   People receive a minister across regions not just because of favor. People have needs. Whoever solves their problems, they will make king, even if for that moment.

   When Jesus fed the 5,000 they wanted to make him king John 6:15

   Power lets you live as if Satan does not exist. He becomes inconsequential. On Monday you hear a dead person was raised. On Tuesday another.

   A woman who could not feed her children receives $100,000 from a stranger because a prophetic word came. This is how our fathers invited men, beyond printing posters.

   Let people see that God is alive Matthew 24:28

   The reason we talk too much is because the power to validate the little is not there. No intellectual presentation replaces the absence of genuine power.

   After you speak to Pharaoh, let the rod continue the talking

   I made up my mind that I would not just be a man of God sound in doctrine.

   In Zaria, for more than a decade despite the security situation, people came from across the globe. The week of the miracle service you hardly found a hotel available.

   Hotels about to close were resuscitated. Power drives the economy of a territory

   Don't watch the sick go back and say God heals while the sick person is listening. It doesn't have to be a special healing service. You are an embodiment of power.

   You don't have to say I'm praying for the sick, you speak and fire from heaven falls on the altar

   I have seen the shock on the faces of very intelligent, calculated people as cripples rise.

   A man who came to church on a stretcher or in chains, a so called madman, in one moment the chain is loose and he's running around.

   Some things you cannot argue when you see the power of God made visible

   • Lord, greater power. Power for signs and wonders.
   • Power to host and drive the move of the Spirit.
   • Power among the youth, among pastors, for businessmen, for mothers, for students.

   Receive fire, that your words will be like the word of God.
   Young people, receive genuine power for signs and wonders to shake your campus.
   Mantles of power, mantles of grace, mantles of wisdom, mantles of favor, I see them resting in this place.

   Joel 2:28

6. The value and productivity pillar

   Power is important, but there needs to be a display of value and usefulness.

   Value is your capacity to use the giftings, skill and ability God has given you to provide solutions, answer questions and meet needs

   A church that is not valuable to society will remain a beggarly church and cannot advance. Men will come because of the solutions we carry Isaiah 60:3.

   Raise men and women who are not just anointed but valuable

   The economic emancipation of the church depends on productivity, not just godliness. Add productivity to godliness.

   There are many consecrated people in church who are beggarly, who cannot take care of their children, a burden to society

   God builds people holistically. The church is not a place of dummies or losers who console themselves with the guise of spirituality. Excellence, wisdom and a culture of value should come from the church.

   The best and finest minds in business and governance should come from the church

   When we teach people to disrespect knowledge, skill and competence because of favor, we deceive them. Favor is not all unmerited, there is a dimension that is merited Proverbs 13:15

   Young people say "God will take care of my children". That sounds spiritual, but it is marketing irresponsibility. The church turns lazy people into responsible people.

   I will never raise a congregation that is just godly alone

   The more we inculcate the culture of productivity, the more people stop giving us headache. You can't pay everybody's rent for them, no matter how kind you are, but they can be empowered

   I detest irresponsibility. Those around me must justify the investment of wisdom, trust and knowledge by being productive

   Being valuable is the official pathway to economic emancipation. Away with the superstition around money. There is a grace that brings wealth, but there is a science to wealth. It's a learnable skill

   The talents Matthew 25. Five, two, one. The one who kept his talent foolishly was rebuked as wicked and unprofitable. When God gives you skills and talents he expects profit.

   He who is the epitome of consecration and godliness expects profit

   The prayer that says "God, raise somebody and stop him from sleeping until he finds me to bless me" has a positive dimension, provoking destiny helpers.

   But when it meets an irresponsible heart it becomes witchcraft. Somebody labored and built his business and you pray he does not sleep until he blesses you

   Too proud to learn work under someone, to build capacity, to attend trainings. Godliness is not a license for irresponsibility. God is a miracle worker, not a magician.

   Magic is based on superstition and sorcery. Miracles are based on diligence and the working of the word

   Men, don't sit with legs crossed. In addition to prayer, go and be valuable. Work is dissipation of energy. Productivity is systemic dissipation of energy that brings profit. Beggars walk too, but productivity brings profit

   I made up my mind to be valuable to my world beyond the pulpit. I speak to kings and advise leaders at governmental level. Don't just be the one who opens and ends prayers.

   Let businessmen and captains of industry need you Mark 1:37

   Growth is not a gift, it is engineered capacity. Build leadership capacity, financial intelligence, organization. Pay the price to attend capacity building sessions. Don't be too proud

   9 year olds are building apps and companies, teenagers running millions of dollars in revenue, while some pray that they should not sleep and should send money to us.

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   I will never depend on any church member for my needs. I'm not prospering because I'm a man of God, I'm prospering because I'm valuable to my world

   People are hired by companies and paid six figures to help with branding and image management.

   4 aspects of leadership:

   • Self or image management
   • People management
   • Vision or project management
   • Resource management

   People work remotely and earn tens of thousands of dollars on their capacity. Don't say "I studied this and nobody is employing me". Re-engineer yourself

   The value of praying in the secret place is that you download intelligence you can use in the marketplace. Priest and king. Melchizedek Genesis 14:18, king of the tech space.

   A prayer warrior but a giant in business and an authority in academia. That's the model of apostolic Christianity

   If you are a priest alone you will be a slave when there is famine.

   Jacob was a priest, but when there was hunger they went to Egypt to eat and became slaves Genesis 42:1-2. Gain dominion within a territory

   Pastors, after organizing revival programs, organize capacity building programs. Bring the young men for 3 days. Get professionals to camp with them.

   Gather the finest minds, show them how to profit, build businesses that last and scale their value. Then impart the grace and send them. You have produced a productive congregation

   • Father, I receive the grace to be productive, solution driven, value driven.
   • Father, lift me higher for the sake of your kingdom. Give me visibility and access within the strata of human activity.

7. The influence pillar

   Rise to positions of influence and leadership so you become part of the stakeholders and power brokers in a territory.

   For far too long the church has not been taught the relevance of influence and we have become slaves in our own territory

   Whoever makes the rules controls the territory. Believers must have representation across strategic, socio-economic and governmental quarters. The kingdom does not advance by evangelism alone, it advances by influence

   It took a man of influence, Joseph of Arimathea, to negotiate with the government and bring down the body of Jesus from the cross Matthew 27:57-58. Influence played a role in your salvation.

   Don't ignore it. Don't let small minded people who don't understand the kingdom throw away the power of influence

   Psalm 33:12

   Pray there will not be a generation of wealthy, vibrant people who hate God, because the youth will follow them.

   When a millionaire is worshiping God, the one looking for a job in his office will also bow. It's easy to change a generation when you can influence them

   The first key to influence is to get the attention of that generation. You cannot influence a people whose attention you don't get.

   There is such an anointing as the "hear ye him" anointing Matthew 17:5, the grace that commands the attention of a generation so they listen and become obedient to the faith

   Believers are too apologetic for being in Christ, because we don't have much, so we are afraid that if we add Jesus they will drive us out.

   In certain middle eastern nations, during their fasting period the restaurants are shut. Even those who travel there for business must fast too. They are the custodians of that value

   By power broker I don't mean it in a lustful way. Become a stakeholder in matters of governance and economy.

   Multi-billionaires for the kingdom, wealthy yet unchanged, who show believers how to manage kingdom resources without being compromised by them

   The next time we prepare for this conference, you will meet the bishop and say, write the entire budget for me and give me the account.
   Some of you will be so empowered that you will buy hectares of land, build a low cost housing estate and tell believers, I reduce the price to 50% because I want to empower believers.

   A business was packing up and was sold to the Chinese. In two months it made a profit of 46 billion.

   They announced to their entire network of business people, we need this company back up, all of you must buy this product. They brought the idea of common wealth.

   But believers say, kill this one, bring him down, and then we stand alone and every arrow hits us. We do not know the power of nationhood.

   The devil has deceived us into thinking someone rising like you is a threat. We sponsor the killing of our businesses and ministries.

   We keep kissing ourselves with the Judas kiss Matthew 26:48, thinking it is brotherhood. It is a sign to the enemy that this is the one to bring down

   Believers must get into politics, but they must be believers indeed. Not people who lie to us, get our votes, then become like the devil. Believers must be involved in business and policy formulation

   Not everybody needs to be on the pulpit to be a witness. You can be so prayerful but your destiny is Daniel the politician.

   Don't think zeal and prayer must end up in the pulpit. Many politicians struggle to preach, speaking as if to a national assembly because the grace they use is for that.

   God is raising witnesses, not just pastors. Pastors are a class of witnesses, not the only one

8. The corporate social responsibility pillar

   Any church that does not reach out to its community to make it better cannot affect it. Galatians 6:10

   Community development programs are very important

   We have programs for prisons and inmates, medical outreaches, partnership with consultants and our medical team. Not just crusades for signs and wonders but programs that communicate the love of Jesus

   In Zaria, families whose husbands would not let them come to church would come to a feeding program in hijab and sit down.

   The way you preach to a hungry man is to put the gospel in between a loaf of bread and give it to him

   Some large churches in a territory have no borehole in the community and don't build one. They say, come, Jesus will change your life.

   The community says Jesus did not change our community and you want him to change our lives. Five widows have not received one bag of rice in 10 years of the church being there

   1 Timothy 6:17-19

   For close to two decades I have been actively involved. We raised people from primary school to postgraduate. In my locality we are building a number of boreholes across chiefdoms.

   Don't have a church in a place with a police station that has never seen anything from you. In Zaria, at Easter or salah the people rejoice because they know rice will come.

   In Zaria prison they had no borehole and the prisoners had to go out. Today that is a thing of the past

   It's not just that you are a man of God, it is that you are making a difference with your life

   When I was invited to speak at Harvard I taught the power of one. Great impact is one person at a time.

   If you remove one from 1 million, it cannot be called 1 million again. So that one matters. You can start as one

   You can't do everything but you can start somewhere. Impact is not about doing too many things, it's about doing something. You don't have to be a billionaire, just passionate about your society

   Gather the young people on Saturday to the house of the chief. Weed the compound. Buy a pack of water and say, we have been taught to be responsible, we came to honor you.

   Gather clothes you will never use and take them to the widows. Cook one pot of rice and soup, gather the children, tell them about Jesus.

   Even 20,000 once a year can send a child to school. That child may be the Daniel, the Esther of your generation

   The real value of being lifted is that you use your lifting to wipe the tears of others. Success becomes useless at a certain level until it is shared to lift another life.

   There is only so much food you can eat

   Start with the clothes in your house. Those who were orphans and God used somebody to train them through school, now earning six figures per month, don't need to set up an official foundation yet.

   You can gather somebody

   Let's not train people to come to church where everything is about me and myself

   If you are trained to be productive you will look at your church and ask, what can I do? What can I change? What can I add?

   That is the mind of an apostolic Christian, not "what will they give me?"

   Don't condemn people in any area where you have not given them an alternative. The church is very good at pointing out what is wrong but doesn't provide superior alternatives.

   A beer parlor woman, visit her and bring a bag of rice, this is our church, you are invited. She may start learning the ways of God and move into something nobler

   The young lady who is prostituting herself may have five siblings and a sick mother. Can you pay her school fees? Can her siblings join your scholarship program?

   The young man doing rituals for money, can you organize a free entrepreneurship training? If you have not shown the superior way, shut your mouth

9. The unity pillar

   We are better together, stronger together, we do more together

   I on my own can go so far. A bishop on his own can go so far. Together we can do far more.

   This obsession to be the face behind certain things is killing us.

   We have come to a time in the church age when we must understand the power of synergy, networking and prophetic collaborations Deuteronomy 32:30

   Unity is good once it is leading to the revelation of Jesus and the betterment of lives.

   Unity does not mean you join yourself with everybody. You can create a system of trusted people who love and fear God, bound in purpose

   I'm building strategic relationships across regions because it makes kingdom impact more efficient. In every region there is a man of God with grace and integrity you can stand with to build the work there.

   Across every region there are prophetic emissaries who stand as lampstands in the territory, so when you light your lamp here they light it there, and soon all the lights are lit together

   One of the greatest keys to unity is mutual respect. There cannot be unity until there is mutual respect

   • Let the spirit of division across the region, the "it must be me alone", be buried forever.

10. The love pillar

    No church can truly be light and salt unless it upholds the love pillar. Love expressed in giving, compassion and care for one another. Don't just use people, be there for them

    A man of God sitting beside me whispered, "I hope you've been able to rest and you are refreshed". I was touched, because most people just want to receive from men of God.

    They don't care whether they are sick or well, whether they have needs or are dying. You just keep serving till you die, and if you die we bury you, who is next?

    The church must be a place of love

    People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care. Pick up your phone and say, how is everything? How is your wife, your children, the work?

    It's almost a taboo to visit a church just for fellowship, no preaching, no seminar

    We need to pray that the love of God grows in us

    Some have attended this conference for years and not one naira of theirs has come out. How is the bishop funding this, bringing men of God from everywhere, paying their tickets, accommodating them?

    Call him and say, how can we participate in this love?

    Love is expressed in compassion and care. When you love, you give, and you become very thoughtful. Don't say I love you, show it.

    Imagine if Jesus kept telling us from heaven "I love you". We would be throwing stones at heaven. He left heaven, came and died John 15:13

    Greater love is laying down your resources, time, energy, even your lap for your friend

Whenever you see a believer or group being marvelously impactful for the kingdom, know that God gave them grace, but that grace is resting upon these 10 pillars

Charge

Go back and check your church and your life and find which pillar is broken or missing. For some the prayer pillar is missing, restore it.

For some it is discipleship, social responsibility, value and productivity, unity or love. Restore it

Prayers and declarations

When you meet the God of the Bible, he does not just build you, he solves the problem that brought you to his presence.

We do not serve an unkind and uncaring God who is concerned only about his program. He is concerned about your life

Faith is vision dependent. Make your request clear to God

When God speaks like this the idea is not to point out that something is wrong, it is to bring redemption. What he says to one, he says to all

Reinhard Bonnke has gone. Billy Graham has gone. T. L. Osborne has gone. R. W. Schambach has gone. Many of the fathers have gone. But mantles don't leave earth for heaven.

It means God is looking for the next person who can wear those shoes

3 things about help

1. Help can come too late. It must come on time to benefit you
2. Help must come in a quantity that becomes significant in your life. If you need 1 million and I give you 1,000, I helped you but not seriously
3. Help has two assignments: to make things possible and to make it easy. If I lift this alone with one hand it is difficult.

   When you come to help me you make it possible and you make it easy

Grace to help comes in time, not after the time of need Hebrews 4:16

Psalm 20:1-3

Call to salvation

Mark 8:36

At the back of this prophetic campaign is first the redemption of souls, then the maturity of the saints.

Habakkuk 2:14

You know you need to make it right with Jesus and go past religiosity into a functional relationship. If you win with Jesus you have won with every other thing

Revelation 20:14-15

But Jesus came to give us life John 10:10