Category: Faith

• Moses’ mother didn’t wait for him to grow up before knowing he would be great, she was able to discern when he was just a baby (Heb 11:23).
• Discernment is very important.
• You need to be able to discern people, seasons and even opportunities.
• Sometimes opportunities disguise themselves in things that people hate.
1 Sam 18:5
• A certain promotion can make certain believers not to come to church.
• It was in the nature of David to obey.
• We learn to obey God by obeying people first.
• We learn to respect God by respecting people first.
• We learn to love God by loving people.
1 Kg 15:5
• If you don’t develop consistency, you will be missing opportunities.
• You don’t control when opportunities will manifest, your duty will manifest.
• If you behave well certain times and behave poorly at other times, opportunities will come when you are at your worst behaviour.
Pr 22:29, Heb 3:1-3, Mat 24:46, Lk 21:36
• Faithfulness matters more to God than any special talents that someone might have.
• To be faithful is to be steadfast in allegiance.
• It is consistency that generates and keeps power.
• Marriage is a picture of the relationship between Jesus and the church.
• Things people believe in evolve according to the information they come across with.
• Songs formulate thinkings of people.
• There will come a time when the teachings of the Bible won’t mean much to people.
• God is looking for people who will stick to the old ways of the Bible.
Jer 29:11, Is 43:16-19
• There is no way you can experience new things without changing what you are looking at.
• Satan is a master of creating systems around people’s thinking.
• We can choose to dwell in the past, present or future by your thinking.
• If you don’t go where God wants you to go in your mind, you will never go there.
• God deliberately painted a picture of the promised land which the Israelites were going to possess.
• The greatest hindrance of tomorrow is yesterday and today.
• A human being creates a comfort zone around them and in many cases, is afraid to leave it even when he is suffering.
• God is doing a new thing in this land.
• To see the new, the old must be left behind.
Jer 1:6-10
• Thinking and speaking matter to God.
• Before you become rich, talk rich.
• Before you become successful, talk successful.
• Don’t talk what you are seeing, don’t talk about where you are but talk what God commands.
• In the midst of all that is going on, what can you see about your future and the New Supernatural Dimensions?
• Every time God is doing a new thing there is directionm

PRAYER POINT:

FATHER BY YOUR MERCY, DELIVER ME FROM THE DISTRACTIONS THAT ARE AROUND ME TO MAKE ME LOSE FOCUS AND GRANT ME GRACE TO BE HIGHLY FOCUSED.

Jer 8:9
• Every human being has some level of wisdom in them.
• Right from when a child is born, there is a wisdom that begins to be reflected in that child as they grow.
• When we go to school, we acquire a certain level of wisdom.
• When we encounter spirits from the dark world, we also encounter wisdom.
• When we encounter God, we encounter another kind of wisdom.
• The question is, what kind of wisdom is at work in you right now?
• What is wisdom? The rightful application of knowledge.
• If wisdom is the rightful application of knowledge, then the differences in the types of wisdom comes from the sources of knowledge.
• If you apply the knowledge of the word of God, you will manifest the wisdom of God.
• If you apply diabolical knowledge, you will manifest diabolical wisdom.
• If you apply natural knowledge, you will manifest natural wisdom.
• The wisdom of God is the highest form of wisdom and has solutions for every problem that man will ever face.
• As far as God is concerned, a man that doesn’t have His wisdom has no wisdom at all and He cannot entrust such a man.
1 Kgs 10:1
• The wisdom of Solomon is the wisdom of God that He revealed through Solomon.
• It is the pride of men when they don’t acknowledge that God has something.
Jn 3:2, Ac 2:22
• You will not find the wisdom of God hanging on a tree, it is expressed through a person.
• God wants to express His wisdom through you.
• When you get it, people will know you have it.

How do you know what kind of wisdom is in a man?
1. Check the decisions he makes
• Decisions will be made based on his thinking which is as a result of the wisdom he has acquired.

2. Check his works
• What is he producing?
• What is his lifestyle like?
• What kind of results is he having?

• We are what we eat, spirit, soul and body.
• Your spirit reflects who you interact with.
Mal 1:6-8, Dt 4:3-8, Dan 2:11, 18-19
• Some people who are late for church never report late for work.
• Many of our prayers are not heard because we have so much disrespect for God.
• When you see people do things in a certain way, it is a reflection of their thinking.
• The wisdom of God takes far.
• The difference between where you are and where you should be is the wisdom of God.
• God is not a small boy, He knows how you behave.
• There is a wisdom of God that can handle any challenge that we are facing.

2 Kings 7:3-9
• Faith is a living force, drawn from the living word to produce living proofs.
• Faith is a risk and it is risky not to take a risk.
• What is in faith? In faith there is the root of all divine interventions.
Heb 4:2
• For the word to profit you , it has to be mixed with faith.
• Our faith in the word of God is fake until works and obedience are added to it.
• In faith there is victory (1 Jn 5:4)
• Faith comes by hearing and understanding the word of God (Rom 1:17).
• At the point of your understanding, faith is automatic.
• Life should not end at hearing only, seek to understand.
• Faith is a livewire.
• Faith defines everyone’s destiny.
• Our faith has brought us here.
• If you want to do more, grow your faith.

Enemies of faith
1. Doubt (Mat 14:28-32)
2. Fear (Mat 14:28-32)

2 Tim 2:15, Ps 103:7
• Immediately you lose focus on the word, your faith begins to die.
• The word of God is pregnant with all that we need in life and destiny.
• What is the nature of faith?The nature of faith is in action.
• Take God’s word as He says it.
• Faith is a spiritual force within that will determine the triumphs, victories and whatever happens around you.
• Faith is not a dormant force, it is a dominant force.
• Faith will make you to sit on the same bench with God because you will be speaking the same language.
• When you don’t take a step of faith, nothing will happen.

Pr 14:12, 10:22
• God may tell you to do something today but it will preserve you for 50 years into the future.
• God’s word carries power but the power in the word will only work with obedience.
• Just like a fisherman pays less attention to the fish he’s already caught and put in his bucket, when you step out of the will of God, you will face less attacks by the devil. Some opportunities will even start to come your way to deceive you.
• It is your duty to safeguard your christian life, walk in obedience.
• Whatever God tells you to do , do it (Jn 2:1-5).
• Your miracle / breakthrough is at the end of you doing the word of God.
• Power works on the platform of obedience.
• God’s word has two sides , a judgment side and a blessing side.
• When you don’t do the word, you’ve chosen to be judged by the word.
2 Kgs 7:1-2
• God wants to raise you to a level where you can hear His voice.
• Hearing God’s voice is the inheritance of every child of God.
Jn 6:63, 4:22-24
• You need to be spiritual for you to learn how to hear the voice of God.
• It is only when you teach your spirit to submit to the will of God that the word of God will renew your mind.
• You cannot relate to God with an intellectual mind.
• What we need from God is at the point of our obedience.
• Revelation of God’s word is fundamental to our manifestation.
• The revealed word of God is our covenant platform for dominion.
• Revelation is the bedrock of our manifestation.
• Your manifestation in life and destiny is not secured without appropriate value for revelation and commitment to the word of God.

HOW DO WE ACCESS REVELATION?
1. Be spiritual (Lk 15:8, Pr 20:27, 1 Cor 2:13-14
2. Be committed to a life of prayer and fasting (Mat 17:15-19)
3. a)By locating and subscribing to the priesthood ministry of God
b) Have honour and submit to the priest God has ordained for you

4. Be a student of the word of God (Ps 119:114, 2 Tim 3:16-17, Col 1:9-10, 2 Pet 3:17, 1:1-9)
• Digest the word of God for
1. Knowledge
2. Growth
3. Transformation

• Allow the word of God to program your mind and life first

Mat 7:24
What is to engage the word?
1. To do the word
2. To act upon the word (Jam 1:22-25)
3. To apply the word
To practice the word
4. To behave the word
5. To actualise the word (1 Sam 2:3
6. To imitate the word
7. To labour in the word

Jam 1:22-25, Gal 6:7-9
• Doing the word is sowing seed.
Whenever you are sowing seed, you are also expecting harvest.
• The word of God is the seed that will bring you harvest.

What kind of a word do you need to engage?
1. The word you have understood.
• Understanding paves the way for the word to work.
• The word of God works at the point of your understanding. (Ps 119:130)
• At the point of your understanding, faith becomes automatic and with faith all things are possible.
• Understanding helps you to apply what God is speaking to you in order to have your desired results.

2. A revealed word (Jn 6:63, Mat 4:10-11, Jb 32:8)
• A revealed word is a word that proceeds from the mouth of God, inspired by the spirit.
• You should discern the revealed word.
• You should be conscious of the revealed word.

3. The word in season (Zec 10:1, Lk 5:4-6)
• You have to engage the word of the season.

4. The commanded word (1 Cor 10:1-4)
• Engage the word which has become law.
• Take scriptural references and use scriptures to challenge God.
• Bring out scriptural reasons.
There is always a word of the house / a word of your covering.

5. The demanded word (Est 4:14-16, Dan 2:15-19
• Every urgent situation requires urgent approach.
• Every emergency requires a quick response.
• When the situation gets worse, don’t waste time, answer or respond speedily.
• To have an answer to any emergency situation, you have to take a risk.
• The comfort zone brings destruction.

6. The word that proceeds from the lips of your prophet (Hos 12:13, 1 Sam 12:6, Am 3:7, Ps 105:26, 103:7, Is 44:26)
• God reveals the secrets to the prophets for your preservation.
• The sent ones are sent to bring God’s people out of Egypt.

• Real authority lies in your obedience to the word of God (Mat 8:9)
• Lack of engagement to the word of God is the absence of testimonies.
• Changes come when you apply the force of the word.
• Whenever situations become tough, engage the word.
• Any soldier that has a weapon but does not use the weapon will not have victory of the enemies.
• When the situation you’re in demands a fight, just fight.
• We use the word of God to fight the battles of life.
• God gives us victory using the word.
Mat 4:3-10
• Every word doer is a carrier of testimonies.
• Every word doer is a carrier of God’s presence because God’s attracted to His word.

1 Sam 4:1-4, 5:1-9, 7:3
• The presence of God is maintained when you keep the ways of God.
• The power of God is hidden in the ways of God.
• If you don’t keep the ways of God, you’re a candidate for defeat.
• Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship with God.
• When you face defeat, you have gone far away from God.
• As christians it is our duty to keep checking whether we are still walking with God.
• God’s word never lies, if we’re facing anything different, the problem is not God but us.
• If you’re not experiencing the power of God, it is not God’s fault but your fault.
• The word of God should be given a platform to manifest.
• When you decide to go in your own way, you have alienated yourself from the way of God.
Pro 14:12, Jn 14:6
• God participates when you walk in the way of life not in the way of death.

What triggers the power of the word of God?
1. Faith in the word (Heb 11:1, 6)
2. Obedience to the word of God (Jm 1:19-24, Deut 4:3-4)

3. Alignment with the demands of your new identity (Rom 12:1-2)
• Live with the consciousness that God has rescued you from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light.
• Your new identity has demands.
• You need to give up your old ways and identify yourself as a new man.
• Many christians pray and fast but their ways reject the power of God.
• As a new creation, you need to be transformed and renewed.
• When you conform to the world, you are rejecting your new identity.

4. Walking in the ways and observing the instructions of the word as commanded (Jos 1:8, Lk 5:1-6, Mat 4:4)
• The victory of a believer is tied to the integrity of the word of God.
• Obedience to God’s word is the capital price for the manifestation of the blessing.
• God’s blessings are not free but are products of the obedience of faith.
• The revealed word of God is our covenant platform for dominion.
• Revelation is the bedrock of our glorious manifestation as children of God.
• Revelation is being able to see and do what God is saying currently.
• Revelation can be termed as a rhema word.
• Don’t compare yourself with what others are doing, you don’t know their terms and conditions
• It is possible to go through a season and not benefit from it because you have not believed in the word.
• When the word is preached to you, don’t argue with the word.
• When you believe, God is mandated to perform what He has said.
• The word of God has power but it needs to be believed.
• If you want to see the manifestation of the power of God, follow the leadings of the Holy Spirit
• The greatest way God will lead you is through the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Ps 103:7
• Pay attention to the promptings of the spirit, they will save you from calamity.
• Endeavour at all costs to follow the promptings of the Spirit if you are to see His power in your life.
Mk 4:35-41

– Psa 74:20
– Under the covenant, God is obligated to do.
– Exo 28:3
– Every time a spirit wants to give someone something to do or every time a spirit wants to deal with a person /people, it will release its wisdom to them when it is pleased with them,.
– The purpose of that wisdom is to do things but not just anything, things that pertain to the interestS of that particular spirit.
– Only the spirit of wisdom from God can make men do things that God requires.
– Pro 2:6
– Wisdom is what creates the intentions of God. Pro 2:6
– Exo 31:3, 6
– If it is in your heart, it will soon be in your hands.
– 2 Chron 6:7-8

Dt 4:4-6,Lk 8:15
• Holding fast to the word of God is holding God.
• You can’t practice and see the results of the word which you have not kept.
• The word won’t produce fruit if it is not kept.
1 Tim 4:13
• You keep the word of God by meditating on it.
• What most of us need is not another new word, all we need is to use what we have already heard and it will turn many things around.
1 Sam 18:5, Dt 11:18-19, Is 8:20
• True meditation involves speaking and muttering.
Is 11:3, Job 22:21

Mk 2:22, Is 54:2-3
• God is interested in us building capacity.
• Building capacity in Bible terms is building our spiritual, mental and physical ability in order to handle larger blessings, opportunities and assignments.
• There is what we can do now but something bigger will demand that we build our capacity.
• God gets shocked when we are asking for something that we have not built capacity to carry.
• You have to develop your spiritual and mental capacity, God won’t do it for you.
1 Kgs 18:46
• Physical development is important but it is not as important as spiritual and mental development for a believer.
• Trouble does not come to a believer when his love for the Lord is hot.
• If you act like a new comer in every service, you will always experience new things.
• If someone gets married without learning how to be a wife or husband, that person will just be like a boy or girl in the marriage.
• People don’t accept that they are not ready.
2 Kgs 4:1-4
• God knows that the very increase a person is wishing for can end up destroying them.
• Many christians are not prepared.
1 Kgs 18:46, Ex 23:29-30, Pr 30:21-23
• We need to keep on increasing capacity because there is a certain level that can make us backslide.
• Don’t despise the small things God is letting you go through, they are helping you to build capacity.

1. Praise guarantees God’s presence (Psa 22:3)
• When we talk about Gods presence we are talking about, He’s manifest presence.
• Whenever people are praising Him, he comes down.

2. Praise destroys barriers (Josh 6:1-20)
3. Praise guarantees God’s blessing.
4. Praise guarantees supernatural lifting (Hab 3:17-19)

5. Praise is the last step to the fulfilment of your prophecies (Rom 4:17-21)
• The promise of God is the prophecy of God.
• Giving glory to God is the last step to prophecy fulfilment.

6. Praise guarantees testimonies (Psa 81:1-5)
7. Praise brings about multiplication and increase (Jere 30:19, Psa 67:6)
8. Praise brings deliverance (1 Sam 16:23)
9. Praise makes God to take over our battles and guarantees supernatural victory.
10. Praise makes God to go ahead of you (Ps 114:4-7)
11. Praise provokes the vengeance of God (Ps 149:6-9)

12. Praise preserves God’s blessings.
• Whatever you thank God for, praise goes forward and protects it. Mal 2:1-2
• Anointing is not a once and for all thing. Ex 28:41
• The anointing separates and it separates for good.
• The anointing sets apart.
• To be anointed is to be set apart which means, certain things that happen to others don’t happen to you.
• When you speak about exemptions, they are a reflection of the anointing.