Category: Prayer

– 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

1. There is a refreshing (Acts 3:19)
2. You enter into a state of rest (Ex 33:14, 2 Cor 2:14)
3. Glory and honour (Rev 19:10-11, Acts 28:5-6, 1 Chr 16:27, Mark 6:4, Mat 10:41, 1 Tim 5:17)
• The more conscious you are of the presence of God, the more you will walk in it.

4. Divine protection (Is 64:1-2, Ps 68:2)
5. Joy (Ps 16:11, 1 Sam 1:18, Is 12:3, Prov 17:22)
. When satan brings afflictions around, men, he is after their joy.
• Don’t let anybody else make you lose your joy.
• Losing your joy is losing God’s presence.

Mat 18:16-20, Ps 133:1-3, Acts 1:14, 2:1, Gen 1:26
• The blessing will flow like a river in the lives of those who are united.
Ex 23:20, 23, Mark 3:23-26, Deut 19:15
• The devil sows seeds of division amongst believers because he knows they can achieve much when they are united.
1 Tim 5:19, 2 Cor 13:1, Mark 6:7, Luke 10:1, 17-19, John 17:11, 20-23
• The devil is a master in creating division.
• When there is division, curses are present.
• Where there is unity, the blessing is present.

WHAT IS IN A PRAYER OF AGREEMENT?
1. It multiplies the effect of the output power (Lev 26:7-8, Deut 32:30-31, Ecc 4:9-12, Acts 12:1-12, 16:25-26, 4:23-24, 32-33, Dan 2:16, 49)
• This is the reason the devil sponsors confusion in relationships.
• If you continue facing some of the battles you’re facing alone, you may die.
• Jesus emphasised that His disciples should be united because He knew that their victory was in their oneness.

2. There is a guaranteed response from God (Mat 18:19)
3. It invites God’s presence (Mat 18:20)
4. It helps us to lighten each other’s burdens (Gal 6:2 (NLT))
5. It helps to build one another up (1 Thes 5:11(NLT)
6. It multiplies thanks to God (2 Cor 1:11, 4:15, Ps 50:15 (NLT))
• According to God, you are blessed to be a blessing.
• When testimonies are multiplied, thanksgiving is multiplied.

• Disagreements hinder prayer amongst couples, brothers, sisters, family and the church at large (1 Pet 3:7).
• We must be quick to forgive and move forward for the sake of what we can achieve with unity.

PRAYER POINT:
FATHER, BAPTISE US AFRESH WITH LOVE FOR GOD AND FOR ONE ANOTHER.

Is 51:11, Ps 46:10, 1
• You don’t prosper because of the kind of job you’re doing, you prosper because of who you are with.
• Who you are with determines what you know.
• There are battles in life.
• Merely mentioning that you want something can start battles that can even lead to your termination.
• God never meant for life to be done alone.
• Think of God’s glory as an outfit / clothing.
• Sin creates an atmosphere that facilitates the devil doing whatever he likes.
• If demons have been cast out of a person and that person goes back to the same environment they used to be in, that is as good as doing nothing.
• To be truly delivered, you have to change the environment that caused you to be possessed by demons.
• Without God’s presence, even though you might be wearing clothes, you are naked.
• The power of God moves in the direction of your consciousness.
• Nobody flows in the power of God without being conscious of it.
• Many of the prayers we pray are powerful but they are just like spraying “doom” to kill mosquitoes, they do not eliminate the atmosphere that creates the problems.
• If what attracts the mosquitoes is not eliminated, you will keep spraying in order to kill them.
• The chief conveyor of the presence of God is the Holy Spirit and those who know how to relate with Him will enjoy God’s presence.
• The chief cultivator of the presence of God is priesthood.
Gen 39:2, 21

Things to note about the presence of God
1. The presence of God is the commander of the supernatural (Acts 10:38, 2:22, John 3:1-2)
• The supernatural is ever at the command of God’s presence.
• Wherever the presence of God is, the supernatural will be natural.

2. It makes believers peculiar (Ex 33:16)
3. It enhances our confidence and destroys fears (Dan 6:10, 20-22, John 11:11,8:29, Acts 14:3, Prov 28:1, Ps 23:4)
• Consciousness that God is with you will bring you a certain kind of confidence which will cause you to dare things.
• Boldness is key to seeing signs and wonders.
• Those who walk in signs and wonders don’t talk like normal human beings.

Joel 1:10, Neh 8:10 , 1 Pet 2:9, Is 43:21, Ps 102:18, Heb 13:15
• Where joy dries up, things are hard.
• We were called to praise.
• Adam was created to glorify God, not to live for himself.
• There is no such thing as living for yourself, if you’re not living fog God, you’re living for the devil.
1 Chr 23:30-31, Ps 103:1-4
• Forgetfulness is a major hindrance of thanksgiving.

Why praise God?
1. We were created to praise God (Is 43:21)
2. Praise pleases God (Ps 69:30-31)
3. Praising God is acknowledging Him (Mal 2:1-2, Ps 44:3)
4. For your lifting (Ps 113:1, 7-8, Hab 3:17-19)

1. God alone has power to open and close doors (Is 22:22)
• When God opens the door, no man can shut.
• Even satan can’t close the door God has opened for you, he can only create obstructions to prevent you from entering the door.

2. God is the one that opens doors of opportunities (Gen 41:39-41)
• Despite Pharaoh having a problem, if God had not created an opportunity for Joseph, Pharaoh would have never entertained a solution from a prisoner.

3. God opens doors of breakthrough (Acts 16:26)
4. God opens doors for kingdom advancement (1 Cor 16:9)

BARRIERS TO OPEN DOORS
1. Sin and disobedience (Is 59:1-2)
• Obedience is key to access while disobedience blocks access.
2. Unbelief and fear (Num 13:31-33)
• Many people can’t make decisions that will make them progress because they are fearful.
• Indecisiveness is a reflection of fear.
• To succeed, we must make tough decisions.
3. Satanic opposition (1 Cor 16:9)
4. Lack of spiritual sensitivity (Luke 19:41-44)
• Many people fail to discern when God is opening a door for them.

Exo 23:20, 22-23, Is 45:1-2, 60:4-5, 8, 11, Acts 12:7-10

• If everything is under you, then you are at rest
• The token of man’s relationship with Godin the garden was the presence of God with him.
• Simply put, Adam was the god of the earth.
Rom 3:21-23
• Glory also mean praises.
• Praise is the aspect of glory that God never placed in a man including Adam.
• Only God deserves the praises and the worship.
• Praise is something that God cannot share with any man.
• To rule in life is to be above the circumstances in life.
• You cannot exercise kingly power if your priesthood is not in place.
• The first reigning of Adam in the garden depended on the voice of God.

THINGS TO NOTE ABOUT PRIESTHOOD
1. Priesthood is tied to altars (Rom 12:1)
• Sacrifices or surrendering are things to be given on altars.
• A priest is a mediator for men before God.
• There must be an altar on earth for an interaction between man and a spirit in order for that spirit’s influence to be on this earth.
• The Garden of Eden was the first altar.

2. Keep the fire at the altar burning. Lev 6:12-13, Rev 5:8, 8:3.
• If the fire on earth stops there will be no connection to the altar in heaven.

Rev 4:1-2, 4-7, 10
• The power to reign comes from an effective priesthood.]
• Adam was the first high priest and his role was to spread the influence of God on the earth.
• You are not on God’s side because you’re a christian, you’re on God’s side because you’re doing what he wants.
• Altars are not always visible.
• Most of the priesthood activities are done in the background.
• Divine direction is how you destroy altars.
2 Chron 15:3

3. Understand the existence of both evil and godly priesthood.
• While you’re neglecting your priesthood, there is an evil priest doing their job.
• Many christians think there is nothing fighting against them.
• Not all churches are altars.

4. Purity is the foundation of Godly priesthood
(Zec 3:1, Job 1:6)

5. Understand the priesthood must be after God’s own love
• You should love God so much that you can do anything he wants.

6. Understand the place of repentance (Luke 15:4)
7. Christ is our righteousness 2 Cor 5:21
8. Intercession (Rom 8:34, Heb 7:25)

9. Consecration
• Every priesthood has consecrations.
• Consecration is the backbone of spiritual power in priesthood.