Understanding Your Heavenly Calling As A Priest by Apostle Arome Osayi: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

The vision: a kingdom of priests

Exodus 19:6

India is a nation of philosophy. Germany of engineering. The United Kingdom of education. Ghana of gold. Ethiopia of ancient traditions. Egypt of ancient secrets

God was selling Israel a vision unlike any other nation pursued. If they kept, maintained and implemented it, they would be called a peculiar treasure in the earth

A priest has an intimate relationship with God, and because of that he knows how to appease God. If God is angry, you need to know the way of a spirit to appease a spirit

A priest should know how to worship God so that God is in a mood to speak

The entire configuration of the spirit realm and the natural realm is compelled to change consistent with the speakings of God

Satan knows that even though man fell, God still has the right to speak again. That is why the Bible calls him immutable. You cannot mute him

As long as he can speak he can change the terrain, the landscape, possibility

Satan does not celebrate victories quickly, because he knows the one he is contending with is immutable

The first use of words in the Bible was not communication, it was creation. His word is like a messenger, a cantonment of military people going to perform an instruction

Prayer is earthly permission for heavenly interference

One of the factors in the heart of God for which he made man was priesthood

When we exercise our free will in prayer insisting that the will of God be established, we agree with heaven

When earth agrees with heaven, legitimacy is created for God to intervene within the frame of reference he gave to man

Two sides of God

1. God is sovereign

Genesis 1

Creation is a sovereign act. Judgment is an act of God. A thief or murderer may not be judged yet, and you wonder why. That is in God's prerogative, in his own way and time

You cannot pray for God to judge someone. If a wicked person is around you, be good to the person

By so doing you heap coals of fire, accumulating the reasons why God should execute his sovereignty

Romans 12:20

The sovereignty of God also fixes the dates of future prophetic events, like the day of the rapture. You cannot pray all night and compel God to rapture us

Acts 1:6 to Acts 1:7

It is not within your pay grade. It is above your scope. The word power in that scripture is, from the Greek, authority. Your faith and prayer cannot influence it

In sovereignty your prayer is not needed

2. God can be influenced by faith and prayer

God is not altogether sovereign. He is also a God open to be influenced by the faith and prayer of men

Luke 8:41 to Luke 8:48

Jairus's daughter, 12 years old, was dead, and Jesus was going to minister to her. On the way a woman with an issue of blood touched only the hem of his garment

The anointing was available at the tip of the garment and it flowed

Jesus in his humanity did not even know who switched on the current of virtue. He was not going to minister to her. Someone's faith influenced a release

In that body he did not have all knowledge. The knowledge he had was what the Holy Spirit made available, and the Holy Ghost was not willing to reveal who it was

You can take virtue by faith. You can influence the program by prayer

Jesus used wisdom to track her because there was a word to download to her to assure her that her faith was efficacious

It reached the power bank of God and made a withdrawal, an automatic transaction. He confirmed it as a legitimate spiritual process for every generation

That side of God will not move until there is faith and prayer. It will not go to work except we invite it. That is why God wants us to operate in priesthood

The calling passed on

Israel was set up as a nation of priests so that God's sovereign acts would be legitimized and they would become a peculiar treasure

Their excellency would not be in numbers or schools but in something beyond education that nations could not explain

Because Israel refused to consecrate herself, God withdrew the calling and gave it to a tribe, Levi. National calling stepped down to a tribe by calling

Levi lost the calling too. Then God raised the church and gave us the same calling of priesthood. We are to provide global priesthood so God can step into any terrain with legitimacy

Even though we have a heavenly calling, we are not likely to fulfil it if we are not consecrated

A calling demands consecration

Acts 6: prayer first, then the word

Acts 6:1 to Acts 6:4

Verse 1 is an emergency: widows neglected. Verse 2 is the response. It is not reason that we leave the word of God and serve tables. Even an emergency would be counterproductive

There is a higher emergency, our deliberate preoccupation: prayer and the ministry of the word

The sequence is prayer, then the word. If you have not prayed you cannot minister the word. You can minister from your head, but God will not take advantage of your vocal cord

If it comes from your head it goes to the head of the people

Matthew 16:17

There is a level of revelation flesh and blood can give, through research and mental power. Nothing wrong with it, but it is not supernatural. Spirituality is not intelligence

Spirituality is plugging into the resource of the spirit, tapping from the spirit realm, surviving by spirit energy, functioning by spirit capacity. Every believer is called to it

We can climb out of the carnal realm into the resources of the spirit and sustain every aspect of our lives from there

From ministration to administration

Finances break out, billions hit the bank account, sanctuaries rise, and the emphasis can shift from ministration to administration. Every minister needs to fight not to migrate

It is easy to detect. People talk about tables much more than souls, buildings much more than people being raised for the next generation. It is an ancient temptation

Many carriers of fire I can no longer recommend because of this shift

As a minister grows older he should be more equipped with wisdom. His voice should be a treasure

People should travel to sit at his feet, like senior ministers visiting an old minister's house as a pilgrim center. Money cannot buy that. It takes time with God

Even if God does not speak, such a minister can analyze you and tell you what is wrong, from his experience, his intimacy and his work with God

A man who yields will be talking about things money can buy. We have preached prosperity in Nigeria and have not produced Nigeria's richest man

They do not preach prosperity in the mosque, yet it produced Africa's richest man. This is comparative analysis

Matthew 6:33

Prosperity is not a message. It is the result of alignment. Prosperity has principles and we should teach them, but what brings resources to you is your calling, not focusing on money

If you focus on money you will not get it, and mammon will possess your soul

We spend millions on gospel campaigns, but you will never see me emphasizing money. The money keeps coming if we do what God has called us to do for God's sake

I am already 49 and I have not done half of what God wants me to do. I need the help of the Holy Ghost to know where to hit

We will give ourselves continually

Anything you give yourself to will shape you

A shrine picks a boy to serve it, and in 15 or 20 years he becomes a warlock people travel the world to see, shaped by what he gave himself to

A man who talks too much does not know prayer. He knows how to talk to men but has not mastered talking to God. Talking to God needs spiritual strength

As you talk to God you become weak in talking too much to men. If that change is not in you, you have not given yourself

Greatness is a function of giving yourself. You will be capable of holy living if you give yourself to prayer and the word

Utterances that can shake a continent come when God's voice is placed upon your voice

Prayer alone is dangerous

What you consecrate yourself to will shape you. I am seeing young men growing in prayer without the word. You can grow powerful yet proud

Your character does not change but the whole world gathers because of your power

More power than character is a recipe for destruction. Many will be destroyed. Mix the two in your heart. Allow the word to challenge your character so you do not grow with weaknesses into maturity

To minister the word, the word must have authority to challenge you. Accept the "thus says the Lord" first and foremost for yourself

A man grown in the word finds it easy to say sorry and to repent, because he knows the ultimate authority is God's word and voice

Authorities that constrain us

What keeps a marriage is that both submit to authorities. First the written word of God. If we find scripture for a matter, none of us exalts himself above it

Number two, the Holy Ghost. When he speaks clearly we accept his authority and bend to it. Then you allow yourself to be influenced by people under whose spiritual authority you operate

A son who defies your authority was not exposed to the ministry of the word, so he does not recognize authority in the counsel of God

Not recognizing the authority in the house of God and the people God raised is a symptom

In this day of a prayer revival, check whether the word of God is growing inside. If not, powerful people will rise whose characters will be an abomination to the body of Christ

The house of God: a holy priesthood

Right now in Nigeria God has not rested because his house is paralyzed. When he transmits an instruction he does not have a house to carry it out

He wants an accurate house his spirit can possess

1 Peter 2:5

We are living stones. Simon was a weed by the seashore, lacking a stem, going in the direction of the wave. God must make us men and women of conviction

Proverbs 4:23

If your soul were not vulnerable, God would not ask you to keep it. If your life could not be influenced he would not give warnings

If I accept a new friend I check values. If they are not the same as mine I walk away, without insult and without blocking. I am not Simon. I have a stem

My commandments are more than 10, things I built along the way that I know will destroy me if I go the other way

These stones are precious stones, 17 types, each with a unique characteristic. God does not build with blocks or burnt bricks

The name of the spiritual house is a holy priesthood. This is the New Testament vision, the transfer of what Israel could not fulfil

We cannot say we are priests and live in sin and move the hand of God. That is an aberration

If a holy priesthood is built in a territory, no matter how Satan has colonized the place, keep the priesthood running

Those in it become attack points at first, but the priesthood is your insulation against the darkness rooted in that territory

Strategy: push a prayer hub into the territory

Even if the place is the harbinger of witchcraft, ancient altars and ritual killing, smuggle a prayer hub into it and be serious about prayer

Corporate prayer, and every personal effort should emanate from a corporate company

If your terrain is more demon infested than mine I may see more results initially, but what you will have at the end is rank

The tougher the terrain, the more rank, if you are consistent. That rank covers your down time

Do not run from your territory

People laboring in their cities ran to Lagos to buy a microphone with good packaging. A soldier and laborer should not understand the language of convenience. We get rank through the wars of God

Elders told me to leave my city. I asked Jesus and he said I was not leaving

I labored 17 years in the trenches, did not run to Abuja or Lagos, though I had ground there

Anyone who can go to America and survive two years had a place where he labored. If you have no record of labor, go and sit down

If we are truly apostolic God will send us to terrible places. You must have a record of a terrible place you conquered. You cannot create that with social media

Lagos is saturated. Stay where you are and shine from there

We are that house, a royal priesthood 1 Peter 2:9

If God does not have a man in a place, how will the gates open?

Offer spiritual sacrifices

1 Peter 2:5

The preoccupation of the royal priesthood is to make sacrifices God will accept. Sacrifice is part of the language of the spirit God recognizes

It is not empty labor, it is an investment God responds to in due time. It is more potent when it is great

Our sacrifices rest on the foundation of the sacrifice Jesus made. What makes yours efficacious is his own

Wherever you are, your assignment is to offer sacrifices until God is moved to schedule a visit. You are the infrastructure on ground, the earthly entrance facility God can move through into the terrain

I know how to move the hand of God. It is predicated on my intimacy and relationship with Jesus Christ. I know what to do to make Jesus interested

The people who run after money will be nowhere to be found when you enter this level of intimacy. Your problem is not money

Nigeria is a nation of prophecy. Our ancestors spoke of a revival that will rise from here. Our problems will not be solved except by revival

Corruption will take a revival for God to conquer the men and women in those offices

If God wants to give a revival and there is no priesthood on ground, it is not God that delayed, it is his house that refused to rise

Secret place

I learned to sing to Jesus in my secret place, new songs, for hours on a flight with no music. The music is inside

That is the Song of Songs: when the Holy Ghost pulls his bride out of the dust, he sings

When people are depressed I look to the one I love and sing for him, and the depression is broken in the congregation

1 Samuel 30:6

It was not just positive speaking

Do not run from the hard ground

God wants to make you harder than the ground. Every symptom of hard ground is designed to increase your rank. The nations are preparing you to conquer

Rankless men will soon have no voice in Africa

We seek apostolic people who are not willing to retreat or surrender. Remain there and conquer that place. That is where you get the rank

Stay in that land

Genesis 26:12

If you become a man of rank, God will back you up in Nigeria, Ghana, Ethiopia, America, Colombia, because you have a history of sacrifice and can draw from it and say, Lord, consider this

Many miracles I have seen did not come because God said I want to do this. I drew his attention to it. He backs me up in public because I have been with him

Someone can hate me and it changes nothing

You cannot accept to be depressed. You are a house of prayer, of priesthood, of sacrifice, of fasting

Through your effort you open the door of the land and the door of your family that has been closed for many generations. God will raise your head.

You will be the instrument through which redemption comes. Your voice will remove his hand and his power. He will exalt your horn like the horn of a unicorn.

A man deaf in one ear, at an airport, opened. Children in thick glasses saw in three days after I touched their eyes. I did not feel any anointing. It was not a service

Salvation

Mark 8:38

If you backslid, or you have been coming to church but have not made a commitment to Jesus, come to the altar

2 Corinthians 6:2

Salvation is for you. Do not look at the preacher, the preacher cannot help you. Look to Jesus

• Lord Jesus, I accept that I am a sinner and I cannot help myself. Have mercy on me.
• Wash me in your blood. Write my name in the book of life.
• Every covenant I entered into knowingly or unknowingly, let his power over my soul be broken.
• Give me the grace to live for you all the days of my life.

• Accept them into your kingdom. I break every yoke of sin over their lives.
• Let the power of sin be broken completely.
• Out of them raise intercessors, ministers, men and women who will not deny your name.

Prayer for Nigeria

The church in this land has a prophecy: the apostolic faith of Africa. There are technologies God will incubate in the nursery called Nigeria and export to the nations. It is the home of apostles

Illustration: the night shift

A video circulated of a hospital in the UK on night shift. All the doctors, nurses and pharmacists were Nigerians

There is a capacity in this nation and Satan is fighting it so that we will not leave it out

• Concerning Nigeria, send help. Send deliverance. Send an intervention.
• Bring down the principality called corruption, the power of the old cult.
• We come to cut a fresh covenant with you concerning this territory and this nation. Stretch forth your hand afresh and deliver our people.
• Raise for yourself horns of salvation in our territories.
• Men stronger than the land, stronger than the places they have been sent. Cause the horns of your people to grow, to be exalted like the horns of unicorns.

Healing

Some of you will be significant leaders in the body of Christ in your domain in a short while

Lay your hands where you need a miracle: a tumor, a growth, fibroid, cancer, crutches, a pain carried for years, sight, deafness

I bind every blinding spirit, every death spirit, every spirit of pain. Every growth, every tumor, every fibroid, every cancer, I command you to dry up.

Every demonic power resisting your life, your ministry, your family, your advancement, I break that power in Jesus name. Pain, go. Paralysis, go. Sickness, go. Let the curses go.

I send the healing power of God online to do damage to sickness, to disease, to affliction. Rise and be healed.

If something happens, do not keep quiet. If nothing happens, say nothing

Testimony: pain in the left kidney since age 15, now 37, gone. Another can now see and sing properly. One with back pain healed

Ministers

• Let grace come upon you. Let the power of God rest on your life.
• Whatsoever you lay your hands upon to do, let it prosper.
• Surprise them.
• Enlarge their coast. Enlarge their capacity, make them stronger than their territories.
• Let no one go empty-handed.

Two horns shall arise in this city. One will have authority to gather the city and address it any time.

One will have power over nature and when he requests a sign in nature it will be furnished. The grace to raise the dead that our ancestors had will be restored.

Many will come and camp in this city to receive the impartation. In those days the Lord shall exalt the mountain of his house above the mountain of the government in the land.

There is a group of angels the Lord is releasing into your ministry. Do not run away. He will make you stronger than that land, and cause your face to shine

Let the rain of grace come into the house in the name of Jesus Christ.