Author: Pastor David A. Kamanga

• No matter what you are facing, if you can apply certain mysteries such as thanksgiving, you can come out.
• You can pray for vengeance but you can also praise for vengeance.
• No matter what you are facing, if you decide to be joyful as though you don’t have a problem, you will defeat satan and he will leave you alone.
• Satan will leave you when you are joyful because he doesn’t like that environment.
• Be appreciative of the things God does.
• When we praise God for what He does we mean, what He did, what He is doing and what He will do.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THANKSGIVING BECOMES A LIFESTYLE?
1. YOU HAVE ACCESS INTO GOD’S PRESENCE (Psalm 114:1-7, 100:4, 43:5, 42:5, 22:3)

• The miracles Jesus did were because God was with Him (Acts 10:38)
• The presence of God is the secret to the miraculous.
• It’s not about shouting or saying “in the name of Jesus,” but it is about the backing that follows you when you do so.
• The presence of God is what makes enemies to flee.
• The presence of God removes barriers.
• Thanksgiving is the protocol for entering His presence.
• The presence of God gives you strength which is a function of health and vitality (Psalm 84:7).
• Prayer has a lot of technicalities and you can even pray amiss.
• It is not every prayer that God hears.
• When you praise God, He comes by himself.
• When prayer has failed, try thanksgiving.

2. IT POSITIONS US TO OBTAIN THE PROMISES OF GOD (1 Thess 5:18, Heb 10:36, John 6:11)
• When we appreciate God He will keep on perfecting things for you.
• God is waiting to see how grateful you are for what He has given you before He can take you to where he has destined you to be.
• The thanksgiving that takes you to the top is what will keep you there.
• Thanksgiving is a form of honour and it gives you access.
• Ingratitude is dishonour and causes exits.
• If you can be thankful for what you have, what you have can become better.
• Thanksgivers are not permitted to run dry.

3. IT GRANTS US REVELATION THAT CHANGES OUR LEVELS (Isa 12:3, Gal 2:2, 2 Kings 3:14-15)
• There is a relationship between thanksgiving and joy.
• Revelation causes you to go up.
• Sadness blocks access to revelation.
4. IT FACILIATATES HARVEST (PROFIT) OF OUR LABOUR IN THE KINGDOM (Col 2:7, Prov 12:14, Heb 13:15)
• Many people are labouring in the kingdom but are not seeing results because thanksgiving is missing.
• What we do for God is supposed to bring results.
• Let us not always gather to pray against something, let’s also gather to give thanks.
5. IT GENERATES A FORCE THAT CHANGES SEASONS AND SITUATIONS (Hab 3:17-19, Acts 16:25-26)

HOW IS THANKSGIVING EXPRESSED?

1. PRAYING AND SAYING OF THANKSGIVING (Neh 11:17, Psa26:7, Dan 6:10, Eph 1:16)
•You can know a person is thankful because he says so and prays so.
2. SINGING AND A JOYFUL NOISE (Psa 47:5, 69:30,95:2, 97:12, Ezra 3:11, Isa 51:3)
• People can tell the difference between sounds of sorrow and sounds of joy, what about God?
3. THANKSGIVING OFFERING (Lev 22:29, Psa 107:22, 2 Chr 33:16, 1 Sam 1:24-28, Luke 8:1-3)
• Before you ask God for anything, thank Him for the last thing He did for you.
4. THROUGH DEDICATION AND LOYALTY (Luke 8:3)
• When you say God has done so many things for you but it doesn’t show by your dedication and commitment to Him, what you are saying is a lie.

5. CLAPPING OF HANDS (Psalm 47:5)
6. TESTIMONIES (Psa 92:2)
• To testify is to show appreciation and to not testify is to be ungrateful.
7. DANCING (Exo 15:20, 32:19, Psa 149:3, 150:4, 2 Sam 6:5, 12)
8. SACRIFICE (2 Sam 6:13)
9. SERVICE
10. BOWING BEFORE GOD
11. ROLLING BEFORE GOD

Proverbs 8:35, Mark 11:24
• Finding Jesus is finding favour.
• Everyone that is born again potentially has favour, all that is needed is to activate it.
• You potentially have all that Jesus died for, just like a microphone that is not powered.
• Many children of God are too lazy.
• All the electrical appliances in your home are useless without power.
• A prayerless Christian can be stopped by any devil, no matter the size.

Luke 4:20, Esther 5:2-3
• Fame is as a result of favour (Luke 4:14).
• If Jesus needed to pray to enter into his calling, you need to pray in order to enter the reality of what God has promised you.
• Because of our irresponsibility as christians, we have made demons to seem as though they are so powerful.
• A 5-year old witch can kill a christian who has been born-again for 25 years.
• Favour empowers us to succeed (Deut 30:9).
• Favour is life-giving and it outlasts God’s anger (Psa 30:5).
• God can be angry but when favour shows up His anger is appeased.
• Favour protects (Psa 5:12).
• Favour clears the way for you in life.
• After clearing the way, favour will lift you to a position of influence which you can never get to ordinarily (Est 2:15-17).
• Favour gives you honour, moving you from obscurity to prominence (Luke 1:26-38, John 1:46).
• To be obscure is to be hidden, nobody knows you exist, even though they want what you have.
• Favour removes reproach (Luke 1:5-25).
• Favour makes you creative (Gen 26:1-12).
• Favour brings restoration (2 Sam 15:25-26).
• Favour gives you what labour can hardly give you (Psalm 44:3).
• Favour brings provision for you in hard times (Num 11:10-15).

Jos 6:1-3, Jer 1:5, 9
See means:
• To perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight.
• Imagine, conceive or see in one’s mind, to envision, to figure, to image, project, visualize

• Imagination is what sets the pace for the destination.
• Imagination is about making mental images.
• If the images of what God has said haven’t yet been formed, you are not yet in faith.
• It becomes difficult to have victory without imagination of the victory.
• Imagination is creation.
• It is difficult to bring forth whatever you cannot imagine.
• Deut 2:21-24, 36, Eph 1:3, Isa 43:19
• The bible doesn’t teach us grammar, it teaches us faith.
• Don’t say, “we will build,” say, “we are building.”
• Don’t say, “we will win,” say, “we are winning.”
• Jer 1:11-12
• What do you see?
• When we have correct imagination that lines up with the word of God, we facilitate quick manifestation.
• What you can imagine based on what God’s word says is what you can truly achieve.
Gen 13:14, 24:63, 2, 12-13,
• Dreams are made of pictures.
• You need to catch of dream of how to come out of any situation.
Deut 8:7, 11:8-10, 18-19, 2 Cor 10:4-5
• You are as strong as your thinking.
• You cast down imaginations by the law of displacement, let them be displaced by more dominant thoughts.
• Capture thoughts and bring them under Christ.

• What you shouldn’t think, don’t think.
• It is your responsibility to choose what you should and should not think about.
Mat 16:19, Prov 24:10
• In Joshua 1:7, When God told Joshua to be strong He wasn’t talking about physical muscles but mental strength.
• What causes us to be defeated before giants is not the giants but our thinking of giants.
• How we resist influences of the wicked one has to do with our mentality.
• Giving up or not giving up is an issue of the mind.
• Even long life is linked to your imagination of what God has said.
• Let us labour to put the word to work.
• If they are not part of your imagination, you don’t have them.
• Speaking aloud is one of those ways in which you help the word of God to enter your heart.
• Your talk strengthens the images in your mind.
• You have a photo album of pictures of the past but do you have a photo album of pictures of the future?

• If you can surround your mind with images about how God has put a garment of uncommon favour on you, no devil will be able to convince you that you have a garment of disfavour because that thought will be too strong.
• We live in a dreamer’s world.
• Those who have dreams have a future in this world.
• A dream keeps you alive and keeps you moving forward.
• Don’t say dreams are only for young people.
Heb 11:10, 12:2, 2 Cor 5:17
• Don’t pretend, take in the word of God.
• When a problem comes it will expose you.
• When you have a challenge, all the vibe will go away.
• The real images that are in you are what will matter when it matters.

2 Chron 36:9-17
• The backsliding of parents will cost the future of the children.
• Your lack of spirituality will affect the generations coming after you.
• This is the agenda of satan.
• Your covenant walk with God will cover your children.
• Blessings that are in the spirit realm are expressed through men and the things that happen around us.
• God needs men, satan needs men.
• Spiritual people understand that if the things happening around them are good, good sent those things to them regardless of how it came about.
• You should be able to discern that behind every evil, there is an enemy even though you might see human beings carrying them out.
• You should be able to discern that behind every evil, there is an enemy even though you might see human beings carrying them out.
• If all you see is what you see with your physical eyes, your life can end at anytime.
• The real enemy is the one you don’t see with your physical eyes.
• no matter what God has promised you and I, only that which you have had a revelation of becomes yours.
• Revelation leads to you getting what is yours.
• There is a price to pay to have revelation of what the word of God says.
Matthew 16:17-18
• Revelation makes a person to be solid.
• When you have revelation, you have victory and the gates of hell can’t resist you.
• Revelation will make you have water in a desert.
Genesis 21:17-18
• Revelation makes what is in the spirit realm to become a possibility in the physical.
2 Kings 25:27-29
• Favour brings about the breaking of limitations (prisons).
Ruth 1:16, 2:3-15
• Unusual kindness happens when there is favour.
• When favour is not on you, every good step you are trying to take will be taken in a wrong way.
• Favour covers your weaknesses.
• Kindness is a reflection of favour.
Joel 2:20, Isaiah 49:7-8, 13-23
• Favour is about good things coming to you by divine orchestration.
• It is not about going around begging people.
• It is about people being moved by God to come and help you.

FATHER, LET EVERY PROPHETIC WORD AND DECREE MADE OVER MY LIFE AND THIS COMMISSION FOR THIS YEAR COME TO PASS SPEEDILY THEREBY MANIFESTING GREATER GLORY EXPLOITS EARLY IN THE YEAR.
(ISAIAH 48:3, EZEKIEL 12:24-25)

– Serve God with whatever you have.
– What we bring to God is not called expenditure, it is called kingdom investment because it has returns.
– Whatever you give to God, is a seed you have sown.
– If you show favour, expect favour every day. And if you withhold, you will not receive anything.
– A generation that is humble will always escape the wrath of God and it will come on those who are proud.
– From time to time, it is important to sit and look back on what God has done for us.
– The fact that you are alive and well is proof that God has done something for you.
– Even someone who is sick in hospital still has to be grateful for the gift of life.
– You have been deceived to look at what has not yet happened and not seeing what has happened.
– According to scripture, praise is the strongest evidence of faith (Romans 4:20).
– You cannot claim to have faith and praise is absent.
– Whatever God says will come to pass, even when it doesn’t look like it.
– Our duty is to be grateful to God even for what He has promised us.
– Praise determines our harvest and the returns on our seeds sown (material, spiritual and financial seeds).
– Praise determines the returns on our kingdom investment.
Proverbs 18:20, Hebrews 13:15
– Praise is a sacrifice when it is costly to do it, such as when you are praising God when you have not yet seen what you are praising God for
– (Judges 13:15)
– The sacrifice of praise is the fruit of our lips, by giving thanks to God continually.
– Thanksgiving will satisfy your life.
– It is thanksgiving that will lead to increase.
– Praise triggers favour.
Acts 2:47
– Wherever there is favour, there will be increase.
– Wherever there is favour, there is multiplication
– Wherever there is favour, there is inheriting of possessions.
– Favour delivers to a man what he doesn’t deserve.
– Favour changes the climate of a man’s environment.
– Praise generates a God-atmosphere around you which is called the presence of God.
– The presence of God attracts good things.
– You will know a man is experiencing favour when you see goodness around.
Exodus 33:18-19
– To enjoy favour is to enjoy God’s goodness, beyond what you deserve and qualify for.
Psalm 23:6
– Those who carry His presence naturally carry favour.
– Favour is the light of God’s countenance / face shining on a people (God has chosen to look at them)
Esther 5:2
– How God makes the reality of what He has said to come to pass is when He shows mercy and favour (Isaiah 60:10).
– You don’t need to be in an office somewhere, you need the favour of God that can make someone to pick a letter that was previously rejected.
– There are places that only God can get to.
– You don’t have a connection in America, Canada or Malaysia but God is your connection.
– When God’s influence comes upon people, it will cause a Chinese man you have never met to write you a cheque.
– Favour made the children of Israel who had been poor for 430 years to plunder Egypt and come out with resources.
– When God has an intention to favour you, He will first show you mercy.
– Mercy overrides judgment.
– Behind every difficulty is a promotion in disguise.
Exodus 3:21, Isaiah 60:5, Psalm 71:7, 20-21
– Favour is the master key to a lifestyle of distinction.

– Iniquity is also sin except it is sin that you need to define.
– Sacrifice is what brings people into covenant.
– The cry of mercy must have a basis in the covenant.
– It takes love to sacrifice.
– One person’s disobedience cannot nullify another person’s obedience.
– Covenant is stronger than anointing.
– As a child of God, if you don’t have a covenant with God, it is a problem.
– Giving is a covenant.
– Divine exemption is a covenant.

EXPECTED BENEFITS FROM THE ALTAR OF PRAYER AND FASTING.

(Isa 40, 58)
– Expectation equals faith.
What are the things you can expect from an altar of prayer and fasting?

Isa 40:1-5
– any faith you call faith and doesn’t work is a lie.
– To revive is to give life again.
– A mountain represents a problem, challenge/obstacle.
Isa 40:28-31, 58:6-14
– Prayer is the key to accessing many kingdom benefits and possibilities.
– Fasting is a booster to prayer, what gives value to fasting is the fact that you have prayed.
1. Deliverance, protection and victory.

– Its an error that after you have prayed and fasted, an oppression should still hang around your life.
Psa 102:19-20.
– Death is an appointment. 2 Kings 20:1-2
– You receive victory over satan. 2 chron 20:1-20
– You get victory over temptation. Matt 4:1-11
Ezra 8:21-23.

2. The removal of barriers, curses, oppositions and protocols. Isa 58:6, gen 23:24-48, matt 17:20-21
– Faith speaks. Matt 17:20-21
– Faith speaks what it expects. If you have faith you will say.
– Faith must say what it wants to see.
– Prayer and fasting removes barriers.
– Grace is what makes great.
Isa 58:14.
3. Access to divine guidance.
– The journey of life and destiny requires that God guides us.

– The journey of life and destiny requires that God guides you.
– Wherever God is guiding you, you will never be stranded.
– God will guide you continually. Isa 58:11

4. Supernatural breakthrough, turnarounds and next levels of operations and authority.

5. It secures God’s favour. Est 4:14-17, 5:1

6. God’s prophecies come to pass. 1 tim 1:18, 1 king 17:1, 18:1,
7. It is platform for receiving mantles and graces. Luk 9:28
8. It provokes speedy divine interventions.

9. It brings speedy healing and health.

10. It’s a platform for supernatural restorations. Joel 2:12-13, 25.

• Your prosperity does not depend on God because what should make you prosper is the earth.
• It is the speakings in the earth that will make you produce.
• Willingness has to do with desire and obedience has to do with following instructions.
• Even when you want God to do a miracle, following instructions is what will help you get your miracle.
• You need to understand that God works with your desire, whatever you don’t desire God can’t force it on you.
• Obedience has to do with instructions.

Deut 32:9-13

• It is wisdom to pray and ask God, “what would you want me to do for this thing to change?”
• Instructions are very important, don’t play with instructions

1. Divine instructions will not be convenient.
2. Divine instructions may not be logical, so they must not be subjected to analysis.

I AM BREAKING FORTH NOW!!

Gen 38:25

• At the point of realization, you stop doing wrong(sinning)

1 Chron 14:11, Matt 1:1-16

-The anointing to plant is not the same as the anointing to harvest.

-Many plant but they do not harvest.

-In the book of Judges, the Midianites would not stop the Children of Israel from planting but would come to take away their harvest.

-You could be applying effort to do certain things but you are not reaping the rewards of your efforts.

-God knows there is such a thing as labouring in vain.

-Don’t think of labour as just cultivating in the field.

-Labouring in vain even applies to raising children.

-Some parents go early to the grave with sorrow because of their children.

-Some parents have raised children that are doing well but cannot support them.

-A woman is an influencer, she can influence a man to succeed or fail.

-Many times when a family is divided, it is because of a woman.

-Dishonour breeds dishonour.

-Some of the old people that are suffering today were dishonourable when they were younger.

-Many parents today are raising ungrateful children because of how they have not told them stories of how they struggled to get to where they are today.

-Even if jobs are scarce in this world, our children are inventors.

-They will create more money than our entire clans have ever had.

-One invention can bring you so much money.

-Our children will not get rich by getting a well-paying job.

-The spirit of creativity is activated upon our children.

PRAYER POINT:

FATHER, THANK YOU FOR ANOINTING MY HANDS TO GATHER OUR HARVEST (THE HARVEST OF MY PRAYERS, SACRIFICES, COMMITMENT, KINGDOM SERVICE, etc.). NOW THE FRUIT OF MY LABOUR IS COMING INTO MY CAMP.

(Judges 6:1-3, Isaiah 60:1, 65:21-22, Joel 2:25)

The anointing to gather has destroyed all the forces that resist harvest.

Isaiah 60:1-2, Zechariah 2:5

THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE IMMUNITY (EXEMPTION)

-Understand that there are certain things you cannot pray away.

-You can only pray that the effects of those things do not touch you. This is what we call exemption.

Mark 16:17-18, Exodus 23:25

-God is making a distinction between a certain special people and others.

-To carry a mentality of common is to become a casualty.

What is EXEMPTION?

-Immunity from an obligation or duty.

-IMMUNITY is to grant relief from a rule or requirement (not subject to rules and requirements).

Joshua 2:18-19

-It is not enough to know about exemption, you have to activate it.

-For us (mountainites), immunity is:

1. Resistance from satanic attacks.
2. Security from evil.
3. We are under a divine covering that makes us not subject to the onslaught of evil (there is a seal of divine exemption).

-Laban the witch was restrained from doing harm to Jacob (Genesis 31:29).

Colossians 1:13

-Labels are important because they advise people from the outside about what is inside, even though labels can lie.

-You can have fake products carrying correct labels.

-The issue is not the container but what is inside.

-What differentiates us from other human beings is what is inside us.

-In this world we have to be careful because labels don’t always say the truth.

-Don’t make decisions based on packaging.

-Everybody looks smart until they get an opportunity to talk.

-When you become born-again, you look the same on the outside but you have changed

Revelation 12:12, Ephesians 2:6, John 16:19, 17:16

We need to renew our minds so that we don’t conform to the standards of this world.

2 Corinthians 5:20

-We are citizens of heaven (Philippians 3:20) but we are residents of the earth.

-We have been sent to earth as ambassadors (2 Corinthians 5:20).

An ambassador’s main duties are:

1.To market their country   

2.Issue VISAs to people who wish to visit their countries.

-Immunity is for ambassadors.

-If our immunity is not activated, we will suffer what others on the earth are suffering.

BENEFITS OF DIVINE IMMUNITY

1.YOU ARE MARKED FOR DISTINCTION

(Exodus 8:22-23, Daniel 2:24-27)

2.PRESERVATON OF PROPERTY, POSSESSIONS AND LIVES

(Exodus 9:4-6, Deuteronomy 7:13-14, Job 1:9-10)

3.IT LEADS TO INCREASE

(Job 1:10)

4.IT ATTRACTS BLESSINGS

 (Job 1:10, Isaiah 65:8)

5.IT INVOKES FEAR IN YOUR ENEMIES AND FEARLESSNESS IN YOU

(Deuteronomy 11:25, Exodus 15:16)

6.UNUSUAL FAVOUR

(Exodus 11:3, Acts 28:2)

7.IT MAKES GOD TO FIGHT FOR YOU

 (Genesis 31:29, Deuteronomy 1:30)

HOW DO YOU PROVOKE DIVINE IMMUNITY?

1.YOU MUST BE BORN-AGAIN

(Colossians 1:30, Exodus 8:22-23)

-You must be on God’s side to claim divine exemption.

2.FAITH IN GOD

(Psalm 125:1-2)

-When your faith comes alive, your immunity comes alive.

3.THE FEAR OF THE LORD AND OBEDIENCE

 (Psalm 125:4, 34:7)

4.BE COMMITTED TO SERVING GOD AND HIS KINGDOM

(Exodus 23:25-26, Malachi 3:14-17)

5.DIVINE LEADING AND GUIDANCE

-Those who are led by God, go with God (Exodus 23:20).

6.BE CONSCIOUS OF THE BLESSING AND BECOME A BLESSING

(Isaiah 65:8)

7.RIGHT ASSOCIATION

(Proverbs 13:20, 1 Samuel 22:23, Acts 27:22-24, Mark 4:35-40)

-These are associations with people, and associations with places.

-Your company has a lot to do with the exemption you enjoy.

-If you find yourself in the company of armed robbers, you have short life.

8.PRAYER AND FASTING