Category: Spiritual Warfare

• Fasting is when we stay away from our desires for a period of time in order to seek God.
2 Chr 7:13-14, Ps 80:14, 35:13, Is 58:4-8
• Proper fasting must include humility, turning to the Lord and turning away from those things which offend God.
• In times of prayer and fasting, it is important for people to spend time in the presence of God to pray and search scriptures to seek out God’s opinion concerning any matter.
• It is called prayer with fasting because what should be more is prayer.
• Spend 5/8 of your time praying and 3/8 studying the word.
Mat 17:1-6, 21, Is 40:31
• Certain things will never be removed from our path of destiny until we engage in prayers coupled with fasting.
• Any kind of fasting , whether in God’s kingdom or the kingdom of darkness opens up a person to higher spiritual possibilities.
• A lifestyle of prayer with fasting leads to a change of mentality due to the breaking forth of light. The mind of Christ becomes the natural way of thinking for people who regularly engage in this.
• Music is a transportation medium for spirits.
• To walk by faith is hard work: there is what you must walk away from and what you must walk towards.
• You have the right to tell the taxi driver who has picked you to change the music playing in the car.
• Only very few people will be offended by gospel music.
• Let’s not sanctify ourselves only, we must sanctify our dwelling places.
Deut 23:12-14, 2 Kings 3:15
• There will be peace in your home when you invite God to dwell there.
• You are the one who pays bills , don’t allow your children to control you.
• Atmosphere matters a lot. What atmosphere are you creating?
• One of the things prayer with fasting does is that it creates an atmosphere for God?
• We use music to invite spirits. Which spirits are you inviting?
• The biggest thing that happens in a fast is that heavens open, you get God’s attention (1 Kings 21:29, Acts 10:4, Is 58:4, Mat 6:18)
• If God is not your priority, you are not His priority.

• Teachability is the willingness to learn, unlearn and relearn.
• As far as God is concerned, calling you to walk with Him is not an issue.
• The only thing he asks is are you available? Available for what? Reprogramming.
• If someone is teachable, even if they are backward in one area, they can be advanced.
• Run away from anyone who is not teachable.
• When a person has an unteachable spirit, it means they will remain with the programming they for from their environment.
Gen 12:1-3, 2 Cor 6:17
• Anyone can change as long as they are willing to receive new information.
• When looking for a lifetime, don’t just look at the outward beauty, seek to know how that person thinks because a person will behave according to how they think.
Gen 6:5
• If God wants to see tomorrow, He will go into the thought life of a person.
• Don’t marry a title, a title is not the character of a person.
• When you hear that a person is a pastor, don’t believe everything about them until you have studied them because a title is not character.

CHARACTERISTICS OF A TEACHABLE PERSON
1. Humility
• When a person seems to know everything, he/she is a danger. Such people don’t achieve much but are only good are talking.
• A teachable person acknowledges their limitations and seeks wisdom from others. They know that pride can hinder their growth.

2. Openness to correction
• When people have differences and sit down to resolve their differences, there must be courses of action to be taken to correct what caused the problem.
• We must be willing to learn.
• Divine direction isn’t only God telling us where to go, many times we miss the way and need God to correct us.
• Someone with an unteachable spirit develops resentment towards someone that corrects them.

3. Active listening
• A person who actively listens understands more.

4. Curiosity

5. Willingness to change
6. Seeking wise counsel
• They ask for advice genuinely because they want to know (they are hungry for wisdom).
• They are willing to learn from anybody.

Put systems in place to handle the blessings of God

Job 1:1, 29:1-12
• With all your expectations of how God should visit you, do you have systems in place for how you are going to use the resources He puts in your hand?
• Companies don’t pay taxes out of their capital.
• Companies don’t pay Corporate social Responsibility (CSR) out of their capital, they do it from their profits.
• When a company is not making profits it will lag behind in CSR.
• Job must have had systems in place where a portion of his wealth was meant for helping the needy.
• If God gave you an idea but you have no funds in reserve, even if it something you could have implemented, you will not do it.
• Putting systems in place for handling finances will show God that you are ready for the increase / breakthrough.
• A breakthrough will be wasted if there are no systems in place.
Gen 41:48-49
• When you put systems in place, you will see the hand of God more than you have seen in your life.

THE POWER OF THE PRAYER ALTAR

1. It is an altar of divine empowerment.
• Whatever God authorizes, the devil will attack. Psa 63:1-3, Luk 11:13
• The Holy Ghost will guide you and when he guides you, you will have dominion.
• Acts 1:8
• Once you are empowered by the spirit, He will give you access by your inheritance.
2. It is an altar of vision and revelations. Jere 33:3, 29:11-13
• God has thoughts towards us and when we pray, we come into the thoughts of God.
3. It is an altar of divine encounters. Luk 9:28-35
• When someone has an encounter, all the struggles they used to have are no longer there.
• Jere 29:13
4. It is an altar of deliverance. James 5:13, Psa 34:19.
5. It is an altar of testimonies.
• When you engage the prayer altar, you will surely have testimonies.
• Mark 10:28-29, 1 Sam 1:13-19, Phili 1:19
6. It is an altar of divine interventions. Mat 7:7-8, Jam 4:1-2
• When you pray, God intervenes.
7. It is an altar of restorations. 1 sam 30:8, Joel 2:25, Isa 42:22
8. It is an altar of turnarounds. Gen 32:24-28, 1 Chron 4:9-10.
9. It is an altar of vengeance. Luk 18:1-8, Psa 94:1, 68:1-2, Isa 63:4

10. It is an altar of peace. Phili 4:6-7
11. It is an altar of fulfilment of prophecies. 1 tim 1:18
• Use a prophecy in prayer for it to be fulfilled. 1 cor 16:9
• Whatever God promises us, requires engagement in prayer to see fulfilment.
12. It is an altar of favour. Heb 4:16
• Favour is a grace from God. Neh 1:11, 2:3-8
• Mercy and favour are two sides of the same coin. Gen 39:21, Est 4:16
• The first thing that people that are praying and fasting attract is the favour of God.

• This is a brand new year and God has spoken some things.
• God doesn’t only speak, He has given us things we need to do in order to have the most of what He has promised.
• Every time God promises something to men, the devil also steps in with his intentions towards them
• One of the most effective tools God has given us is the altar of prayer.
• Prayer is the means that God has given us to download every possibility that God has given us.

What is in the prayer altar?
1. It is the altar of divine empowerment (Ps 63:1-3, Mat 17:21)
• The power we all need to fulfill destiny comes from the altar of prayer.
• Power makes a lot of things work.
• Power is an essential thing in the life of the believer.
• A lot of possibilities are awakened by reason of power.
• In the absence of power, destiny is at risk.
• Those who seek God early secure the year ahead of time.
• Just like how absence of power can wreck an economy, so also can the life of the believer be wrecked in the absence of power.
• How can a believer become comfortable to live life without power from God?
• Power is the common denominator for many things that we enjoy in the kingdom. Even though they might come individually, power is responsible for their release.
• The prayer altar is powerful but it is made more powerful when the booster of fasting is added.
• That you are a pastor doesn’t mean that when you pray for the sick, they will be healed.
• A pastor who doesn’t pray is dangerous, he becomes an agent of the enemy.
• A prophet who does not pray is a dangerous man.
• Jesus needed to pray to be empowered, we too need to pray.
• Wickedness is real and is getting worse by the day.
• Business men should fast the way pastors do.
• Prayer is a way of aligning ourselves with God’s agenda.

1 Cor 12:4-7, Gen 1:1-3
• The Holy Spirit is a multi-dimensional spirit whose mission is to make living profitable for believers.

What is to revive?
– To give new life or energy to something.
– To cause to gain consciousness.
– To restore from inactivity or unused state.
– To give life again

What is a revival according to the scriptures?
1. The move of God that releases the sprit of prayer and supplication upon God’s people that results in the massive salvation of souls and church growth (Zec 12:10, 8:20-23, Is 66:7-8).

• There are certain manifestations that happen in a church that is revived that can never happen in a church that is not revived (inactive).
• Whatsoever kills a man’s prayer life has killed that man’s destiny.
• It takes prayer to make your preaching effective.
• Even the unsaved need to pray first in order to save.
• Any revival that you have ever heard of started with prayer.
• Wherever there is a revival, the standard of life for the believers changes; they begin to handle things they never handled before.
• The reason why Nigerian gospel artistes are more anointed than those from other places is because they come from a land in which there is an ongoing revival.
• You need something to make you shine when you stand before people.
• If you’re not full of the Holy Spirit, you’ll be full of wine.
• The reason why healings are not popular in the church in Zambia is because most churches are not in a revival.
• Money is dangerous in the hands of someone who doesn’t know God.
• A land benefits when there is a revival.
• When a revival happens, people’s hearts gravitate towards God. They cannot sit at home, they want to be in church.
• In the absence of revival, the crowds seen gathering in stadiums for football matches will not be seen gathering in churches.

2. The manifestation of divine visitations ordained to wipe away shame and reproach in the lives of God’s people (Joel 2:12-13, 17, 23-27, Zeph 3:15-17, Luke 19:41-44)

PRAYER POINT:

FATHER, BY YOUR MERCY, URGENTLY STEER THIS CHURCH AND THE HEARTS OF MOUNTAINITES WITH UNDYING PASSION FOR REVIVAL IN THIS CHURCH AND NATION, WHILE EMPWERING US TO PAY THE PRICE FOR THE OUTPOURING AND MOVE OF THE SPIRIT.
[PSALM 80:7, 14]

Exo 28:3, Mat 10:20, 12:18, Rom 8:9, 2 Cor 1:20
• The presence of a spirit is a confirmation of ownership / possession.
• The presence of the Holy Spirit in a person is a guarantee that the rest of the blessings are coming.
Luke 11:10-13, Ezek 47:1, 9-11
• If you have the Holy Spirit, you have everything else that you need for life.
• As children of God, everything that we need for our inheritance comes through the Holy Spirit.
• The 7 manifestations of the Spirit are necessary for fulfillment of destiny.
• The 7 manifestations of the Spirit can be summarised into two categories: wisdom and power.
2 Cor 1:24, Prov 8:15-16, Ecc 8:4
• Kings reign by wisdom.
• The throne is established by wisdom.
• We defeat our enemies by wisdom.
• Wisdom is the trigger for power.
Ps 18:24-28, 44-46

Ps 34:12-13, Dan 11:32, Prov 11:9, Dan 28:12
• Most believers don’t know that not all places have the same problems.
• There are spirits that rule over most places.
• Spirits rule places.
• There are spirits that rule regions.
• There are spirits that rule families.
• You need to do spiritual mapping when you get to a new place.
• You need to know what happens spiritually in the place you are going to.
• Your christianity that was vibrant in Lusaka can meet its death in Chililabombwe.
• Spirits are behind certain practices and behaviours.
• Abiathar had to misbehave in order to die.
Jer 35:1-6
• We need to be spiritually observant.
• Avoid gossip.
• You have to protect your heart.
• What comes out of our tongues affects our lives.
Prov 18:20
• When you are not full of the word of God and you face a challenge, you will be full of fear.
• If fear is your first reaction when you face a challenge, it is a sign that you need to build up your faith.
• Faith comes by hearing the word of God, not hearing gossip.
• Don’t speak anything that comes to your mind.
• You can be in the presence of your boss and feel like insulting him, but that is not the right thing to do.
• The wrong things you see in your family are meant for you to take a stand to correct.
• When someone breaks out of the family patterns, they need to be careful because the family spirits will be displeased that somebody has broken the agreements.
• If you are a “Joseph” you need to be careful that you are not emotional.
• Every time you face a battle , remember where you are going.
• It is not every battle that you need to fight.
• Don’t try to fight battles to clear your name.

• Out of a test comes a testimony. if you do not give up, you will have a testimony.
• Lack of persistence is the reason why we don’t have testimonies.
Mark 10:47, Luke 18:1-7
• In this part of the world, one of our challenges is that we don’t persist.
• Even in football circles, there are hardly any stories of the Zambian National Football Team coming back to draw or win a match after going down heavily in the first half.
• Don’t get your example of how you should act from the community, get it from the bible.
• You need to develop a thick skin in order to overcome.
• As long as you know that God is the only one who can give you what you want, stick with him no matter what.
• The devil uses people around you to discourage you.
• The devil can send people to mock your situation while you’re believing God.
• Satan will use the people that are nearest to you.
• If you are in church, the people the devil could use someone right in church to discourage you.
• If you are at home, the devil will use someone in that house (Job 2:9).
1 Sam 1:5-7, Ps 119:71
• The person God will use to encourage you is closer to you.
• Both God and satan use people and the best people are those that are nearest to you.
• The people that are nearest to you are the best agents of God or satan.

BATTLE FOR NEW DIMENSIONS:
UNDERSTANDING THE PERSON OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

1 Sam 2:35, 1 Pet 2:5, Heb 3:1, 2:9-14
• Priesthood is a family matter.
• As modern day priests, we are all related to the High Priest Jesus.
• In order to be a priest in the kingdom, you need to be born again so that you belong to the same family.
• When you are born again, Jesus is your brother and that is why you can be a priest.
• God’s agenda is to make you a ruler while you are here on earth.
Rom 5:17, 2 Cor 13:14
• Every spirit’s aim is for the people who worship it to manifest its characteristics.
• This is similar to how a male lion that takes over a pride kills all the offspring of the previous ruler of the pride.
• Each of our desires are powered by a spirit.
• If you are in church but desiring beer, it’s showing you which spirit is prominent in your life.
• The spirit that has prominence in your life will manifest its desires through you.
• You change your desires by repairing your priesthood.
• The corruption in the world is powered by a spirit.
• Divine nature is God-characteristics, God-nature.
• You can know what spirit operates in a man by the fruits he exhibits.
• How come the things of the world excite you as a child of God?
• God-nature will make you undefeated.
2 Cor 3:18
• When a priesthood of God has been established, the most dominant person you will see at work in you, through you and for you will be the Holy Spirit.
• When the Spirit of God is dominant in you, He will give you ability to manifest God’s ability over the powers of darkness.
• The Holy Spirit brings the virtues of God in a man.
1 Cor 2:6-, Exo 36:1

PRAYER POINTS:
FATHER BY YOUR MERCY, UNVEIL THE DEEPER DIMENSIONS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THIS COMMISSION AND MOUNTAINITES AS HE CARRIES US ALONG SCALING NEW HEIGHTS.
[ISA 40:29-31, EZE 37:1-10, 1 COR 2:9]

FATHER BY YOUR MERCY, OPEN MY EYES TO KNOW WHAT TO DO IN ORDER TO REPAIR MY DAMAGED PRIESTHOOD ALTAR.
[ZEC 6:13, 1 KINGS 18:30]

Col 3:16
• Satan is using AI to move men away from God.
• When we interact with God, certain things about us change
• The word of God you are full of will affect your thinking.
• Thoughts affect feelings.
• Words affect thoughts.
• When you are full of the word of God, it will affect your thinking, speech and actions.
Jos 1:5-8
• Success is not a destination.
• Places don’t make people, it is people who create places according to the way that they are thinking.
Num 13:30, 33
• The word of God that Caleb and Joshua were exposed to gave them a different way of thinking compared to the people around them.
• Success does not depend on God, it depends on how we use the word of God.
Mat 12:34
• Nothing changes until we change our thoughts which fuel our actions.
• We can’t change our thoughts until we change the source of our information through the things we see and hear.
• Speaking helps to program the mind and cancel wrong thoughts that we may be thinking.
• You don’t get rid of bad thoughts by thinking good thoughts.