Author: Pastor David A. Kamanga

Deut 10:12, Phili 2:4-11
• Sacrifices is one of those things God uses to check the state of men’s hearts, to check where their allegiance lies.
• Sacrifice always has a goal.
Heb 12:1-, Gal 6:17
• Sacrifice is the power of an altar , it is what unleashes power from an altar.
• Sacrifice pushes you to a seat.
• Sacrifice is what counts for ranking in the spirit realm.
• Every level of sacrifice you do gives you a ranking in the spirit to deal with certain things.
• Sacrifices are in categories.
• We must have a correct view of sacrifice.
• The aim of sacrifice is to change your spiritual status.
Est 4:16, 5:2, Heb 11:25-27

– Those who practice the word are superior to those who preach the word.
– When God is teaching you something the ultimate goal is sacrifice.
– Sacrifice signifies death to self.
– It is at the point of sacrifice where there is an exchange of life, which is the ultimate of our worship to God.
– Sacrifice opens a door for a new realm.
– It starts with sacrifice of self before sacrifice of things.
– Divine health is more superior to divine healing.
– Those who know the ways of God are more superior to those who know the acts of God.
– As you cut corners, just know you are cutting off your life.
– In your walk with God, you must be consistent.
– Life is powered from altars.
– Power from altars is sacrificial.
-An altar that is superior will influence the decisions that are made.
-Jacob’s rescue whilst in the house of Laban came via a visitation of God in a dream.
Gen 31:32, 35:1-2, Ps 24:3-7, John 14:30
-All the works of darkness are under the supervision of the devil.
-Don’t confront the disobedient one when you are also committing acts of disobedience.
-If you are carrying what belongs to satan, he has every right to follow you.
-It is important to check whether you have the devil’s belongings with you.
-If your heart is not beating after God, you’re dangerous.
-God is interested in our hearts.

• Offerings are a way of maintaining the existence of the altar while sacrifices are a way of powering the altar.
2 Sam 24:20-25, Gen 22:2
• Sacrifice is surrendering or giving up something valuable in order to gain or honour something even greater.
• There is always an end goal to sacrifice.
• Don’t confuse needs for sacrifices.
• Sacrifice doesn’t benefit God but the one sacrificing.
• Sacrifice demonstrates your faith, honour and devotion to God.
• In sacrifice, you aim to gain the honour or acceptance of the one you are sacrificing to.
• It is possible for a sacrifice to be rejected.
• If your sacrifice doesn’t move you, how do you expect it to move God?
• Sacrifice is the central theme in all scripture that reveals a person’s faith, devotion and honour to God.

Things to know about sacrifice

1. Sacrifice establishes a covenant with God.
a. It connects to divine blessings (Ps 50:5)
b. God honours those who sacrifice to Him (Gen 4:4, Mal 3:10)
c. Sacrifices demonstrates our faith and trust in God’s ability to reward us (Heb 11:6)
d. True sacrifice costs us something (Gen 22, Numbers 25:8, 10-13)

2.Sacrifice opens doors to divine encounters
a. Sacrifice attracts divine attention (1 Kings
3:3-5)
b. God speaks and gives direction after sacrifice (Gen 22:15-18)
c. True worship involves sacrifice (Rom 12:1)
d)brings supernatural interventions (2 Sam 6:20-32, 2 Sam 24:24-25)

d) Sacrifice breaks strongholds, breaks limitations and opens new levels (1 Sam 7:10-12)
e) Promotion
f) Divine provision (Phili 4:15-19)

WHEN SHOULD I SACRIFICE?
1. When God instructs you to do so
2. Whenever things look tight for you (2 Kings 3:26-27)

TYPES OF SACRIFICES GOD ASKED US TO GIVE
1. Sacrifice of worship
2. Obedience
3. Giving
4. Death to self (1 Cor 9:27)

John 13:17, Deut 4:4-7, Gen 3:8, 39:2, 39:21
• The Holy Ghost inside you needs to be stirred in order to cause an effect outwards.
• Prosperity doesn’t depend on the job you do but the presence of God with you.

BENEFITS OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD
1. Refreshing (Acts 3:19)
2. Divine direction (Ps 23:4, Exo 13:21, 23:20)
3. Divine protection and preservation (Ps 114:1-7, 91:1-2)
• Without divine presence, your life is in danger.
• The only thing satan truly fears around children of God is God being with them.
• Without the presence of God, there’s no difference between you and a non-believer.
4. It brings us into a state of dominion (rest) (Exo 33:14-15)
5. It melts obstacles and barriers (Is 64:1-3, Ps 114:1-7)
6. It brings glory and honour (1 Chr 16:27)
7, It brings joy (Neh 8:10
8. It brings us into the realm of God’s government (Heb 12:22-24)
9. It brings transfiguration / transformation (Luke 9:29, Exo 34:29, Gen 32:24-28)
10. It is the place of corrections, cleansing, alignment and glorification (Is 6:1-6)
11. Makes contrary voices from evil altars to surrender (1 Sam 5:4, Acts 10:38)
12. Divine provision (Acts 4:29-34, Is 45:1-3, 2 Cor 8:1-4, John 10:18)
13. Divine favour (Gen 39:21)

– Thanksgiving is the public acknowledgement of God’s goodness
– Thanksgiving honours God and creates a platform for war.

What is in thanksgiving?
1. It is the highway to multiplication and increase ( John 6:11)
– There are certain things that will not happen until you thank God.
– Why we are in perpetual lack and want is because we are not thankful.

2. Cures shame in that in brings glorification
3. Connects us to God’s goodness and mercy (1 Chron 16:34, Psalm 136:1)
– When mercy is in place, God qualifies the unqualified.

4. Guarantees the sustainability of God’s blessings (Malachi 2:2)
5. Waters your faith for continuous flow of divine intervention (1 Sam 17:34-37, Rom 4:20)
– The strength of faith is thanksgiving.

6. Leads to perfection of the next phase of your miracle (Luke 17: 14, 17)
7. Activates punishments for oppressors (Jer 30:20)
– A man of thanksgiving can stay clear of all wrong foundations.
– Ingratitude can make a highly recognized prophet to be taken away from the face of the earth.

8. Brings people into intimacy with God and places them on the seat of nobility (Jer 30:21, 1 Chron 18:2)
– Honour is seeing value, recognizing and appreciating it.
– Thanksgiving is an act of honour and it gives access.
– If you serve God, according to God you are showing him honour.
– Those who give honour never lack honour.
– In giving thanks to God, remembering is important.
– Your lack of thanksgiving is a sign that you have forgotten.

Hebrews 12:20
– Levels are changed as we change our understanding.
– God has a city but that city is not a physical.
Isaiah 51:1-3
– Righteousness is right-standing with God.
– Every time the issue of righteousness comes in seeking God also comes in.
– Your being right in God makes you chase after things that are right because of the way you are right with God.
– Every time a man has an interaction with a spirit, the first things that changes are your desires.
– You are driven in the direction of your desires.
– Once something enters you from the another spirit, you will not like anything from the opposite spirit.
– If we can’t grow fast, God cannot entrust us with what He wants to do in the last days.
– If the priesthood of God does not rise in Zambia to a certain level, no matter the minerals that are discovered here, they will not benefit us.
– The greatest need of a poor man is not money.
– Most of our problems are because we allowed wrong words to come on us.
– You get an inheritance from your household.
– We meet spirits through men.
– If we don’t admit that we need God, we are far away.
– Zion is a spiritual location.
– The most fertile time when spirits are transferred is when there is excitement about negative or positive.
– If you don’t have ability to hold onto something until the right time, then there is something wrong.
– The issue with the ability to keep things until the right time is the reason why God doesn’t show secrets
– One of the signs of wisdom is the ability to adapt.
– Prioritize your spiritual needs because they are your real needs.

– If you can’t learn, you can’t be entrusted.
– Whenever a glorious destiny is ahead of you, a goliath will be set on your path for your own good.
– Giants are always there in your promised land.
– You cannot improve without self-education.
– In learning, you have to learn to swallow your pride.
– In learning, we must be challenged in order to challenge our present state of knowledge.

HOW TO PROVOKE DIVINE PRESENCE
1. Divine guidance divine leading (Psalm 23:4, John 8:29, 11:3-7)
-When a man is being led by God, he will automatically enjoy divine presence.
-God never leads people to a place without going with them.
– Both God and the devil give opportunities.
– Where God is leading, divine presence is automatic.

2. Hunger for purity (Mat 5:6)
– If God is going to be present, you must have an appetite to live right.
– The foundation of God is righteousness.

3. A lifestyle of praise and worship (Psalm 22:3, Heb 13:15)

4. Serving God and the interests of His kingdom (1 Cor 9:16, Mark 16:15-16, 20)
-When you mind God, things will mind you.

5. Obedience (1 Sam 15:22)
6. Living a life that pleases God (John 8:29)
7. Lifestyle of faith (2 Cor 5:7)
-A lifestyle of faith triggers of divine presence.
8. Sacrifice (Psalm 50:5)

Gen 8:20-22, 9:1, 15:1-18, Exo 20:24
• The dominion God said man should have had a prescription which was that there should be an altar.
• As altar on the earth must be made with materials that are earthly.
• If you lose your body, you cannot be an altar of God.
• It is not your spirit that is the mobile altar of the Holy Spirit, it is your body because it has its origins in the earth.
• An altar is a meeting point where spirits and men meet.

Gen 28:12-13, 35:1, 7, Zec 3:3-4
• As long as a filthy garment from an evil altar is on you, no blessing can sit.

LAWS THAT GOVERN ALTARS
1.  All altars have a supervising (guiding) spirit (Judges 6:25)
• Behind every altar is a spirit.
• This spirit ensures that the happenings on the altar must be the same as the happenings in the lives of those who worship the altar.
• For example, you might come across families in which each generation must have a female who will never have a child because she is married to a spirit.

2.  All altars have human administrators (attendants / priests) (1 Kings 13:1-2)
• Not all altars are public.
• Some altars are secret.
• An entire village can have an altar and someone amongst them as a priest and yet most of the people in that village do not know a thing about that.
• In the new testament, we are all priests with daily duties.

3.  All altars are places of rituals (all altars are places of perpetual and repetitive activity)
(Heb 13:9-10, Acts 1:14, 10:4, Dan 10:2-3, 1 Cor 15:58)

• Your inconsistency is a problem in the spirit realm.
• Spirits don’t want your initiative, they want your obedience and cooperation.
• When you repeatedly do what a spirit instructs you to do, you graduate into a covenant.
• Spirits use covenants to fight for or against a person.
• The aim of every spirit is to bring humans into a covenant.
• Covenant is the highest form of agreement.
• Whatever you do that is not repetitive cannot become a covenant.
• Without perpetual repetitive activity, spirits are not impressed.
• What is it that you are doing that God told you to do?
• When a demon interferes with someone doing something for God, that person will begin to feel bored to do what they used to do, feel as if they have done it enough.
• Don’t stop doing what God impressed upon your heart to do, on account of what someone did to you.
• You will never use what someone did to you as an excuse before God for stopping what He told you to do.
• If God tells you to do something for Him, only He can tell you to stop doing that thing.
• If you are not consistent to go to the end, you are not supposed to be awarded.
• Being a child of God is not a defence, there are things you need to do to.
• Before you ask God so many questions, check your commitment and dedication to God.
• Fix your commitment to God and you will discover that many of your problems will drop off.
• What you are doing for God is not in vain, God is the rewarder and  not man.
• satan does not like consistency.

4.  All altars are places of exchange (Gen 8:20-21, Mat 4:8-9, Ps 16:11)
• The cross is a place of exchange.
• Jesus died on the cross so that we can experience the reality of God’s life.
• He died poor so that we can be rich.
• He died naked so that we can be clothed with God’s glory.
• He died young so that we can live long.
• Evil altars project afflictions on people.

5.  All altars are places of covenants (Gen 22:9, 15-18, Ps 50:5)
6.  All altars speak (Acts 10:2-6)
7.  All altars hear (1 Kings 13:2)

8.  A superior altar wins battles over people, issues and territories (1 Sam 5:4-7)
• A righteous altar of God that is not attended to cannot be superior to an evil altar that is activated.
• He died sick so that we can live in health.
• If the evil priest of our family continues to offer sacrifices while you do nothing, forget about victory.9. All altars are powered by sacrifice (John 12:24, Gen 14:14-16)
• What makes an altar superior is power.
• What increases power on an altar is sacrifice.
• If you are not ready to sacrifice yourself, you will not see power.

PRAYER POINT:
FATHER, BY YOUR MERCY, BAPTISE ME AND FELLOW MOUNTAINITES WITH A FRESH HUNGER FOR YOU AND THE THINGS OF GOD.
[Mat 5:6, 24:12 Ps 42:1-2, 7, 27:4, 63:1-3 1 Pet 2:2]

• If you lose your hunger, you have lost God.
Mat 24:12, 1 Pet 2:2
• The love for God is the first gift God gives to someone who is born again.
• A child of God needs God in order to be sustained.
• Hunger is what makes us to be connected to God so that we can have His life.
• Once the hunger for God dies, everything about God in you dies.
• When satan wants to kill a marriage, he kills the desire for each other in the couple.
• When you lose desire for your spouse, their presence will be irritating you while you find the presence of others enjoyable.
• What we call backsliding is loss of hunger for God.
Ps 27:4, 63:1-3
• You don’t seek what you are not hungry for.
• You can’t seek for food when you are not hungry.
• You can’t seek for water when you are not thirsty.
• When men have lost desire for God, they can’t seek him.
• When men can’t seek God, they can’t have what he has.
• When christians don’t run towards God, it is because the desire for God has died inside them.
• If your heart isn’t like a dry ground looking for moisture, it won’t be water.

BENEFITS OF THE PRESENCE OF GOD (Continued)
6. It is the realm of God’s government (Heb 12:22-24

7. Transfiguration (Luke 9:27-29, 43 2 Cor 3:18)
a. When you are transfigured, you easily attract mantles and graces because you are in their realm (Luke 9:30).

b. It becomes easy to win battles when you are transfigured (Luke 9:43)

– Priesthood is the way spirits interact with men.
– It is like the mediation point where spirits can come into the affairs of men through the priest.
– What makes you have peace is the presence of God.
– Priesthood has nothing to do with ministerial gifts.
– Every believer in the eyes of God is a priest and a King.
– If a prophet has the ministerial calling and his priesthood is not effective he will fail in his assignment.
– 1 Corinthians 2:7-14, Genesis 1:26
– When God created man he actually put glory in man.
– What happens to a man when he is born again it more like he is going back to the garden.
– 1 John 5:12-13
– Whosoever receive Jesus receives the package of life.
– When you receive Jesus as your lord and savior what is in you is the life of God.
– Righteousness is what will make you stand with God without shame.
– What ever thing the holy sprit will be doing in a man the result is glory.
– Even to look at God, it is God who helps you to look him.
– It is God that sheds his love in our heaths, so that we can love him and love others.
– God has put the sprit of God in us so that we can relate with him.
– Priesthood is the platform used to descent things and move forward. Hebrews 2:9-10, 2 Corinthians 5:17-18
– The ministry of reconciliation has two aspects:
1. Bringing people to Christ and confessing Jesus as their lord and saviour.
2. When a person has been saved to bring them to the pint of inheritance
– Every spirit wants the person to inherit what it has.
– Acts 26:17-18, 20:32
– The image of Christ is like a template and we are trying to became just that.
– Unsanctified believers cannot inherit anything.
Ephesians 1:17-18
– The purpose of the sprit is to give you revelation and the wisdom to apply it.
Philippians 2:13
– If you don’t understand God’s purpose for your life is not obligated to answer your prayer.
– The whole idea of priesthood is to keep current.
– What you were born for, inheritance, power that has been deposited in you.
– All you need for an inheritance is alignment with the will which is the sprit of God.
– Prayer fuels visions and revelations