Can you thank Him? This is Koinonia. Give Him all the praise for His goodness, the testimonies, the miracles, salvation, transformation. Lord we thank You. We lay it to heart to give You thanks.
The Bible says some may trust in horses, others chariots but we will trust in the name of God. You’re the lifter, You’re the blesser, You’re the one who brings increase. Wisdom is only found in You and with You. Thou art the fountain of life. It is in your light that we see light.
When you worship Him, He responds with signs and wonders, with liftings and breakthroughs. He responds with favour.
Declare your expectations for tonight. I have come to learn, to receive a miracle, to experience your Fatherhood, to encounter grace. Thank You Jesus.
You are here making men, remoulding destinies, empowering us to live supernatural lives. Thank You Jesus. We choose Your way, Your wisdom. We subscribe to Your ways.
Some of you are receiving victories, focus on what the Holy Spirit is saying. Mighty God we thank You. You’re the Maker and You’re making, the Lifter and You’re lifting, the Rewarder and You’re rewarding. We pray that You find a habitation in this house. Forever let our worship rise as an incense of honour.
Results in this Kingdom are not a coincidence. Results of any sort in this Kingdom is intentional, can be replicated again and again.
Understand that results matter in this Kingdom.
John 15:8
The truth that we communicate in this Kingdom among many other factors are
1- They help us to know God. The primary assignment of revelation is to increase your illumination. In this Kingdom it is as far as your eyes can see not as far as it’s available.
When we expose the believer to the Word of God it does the following.
1- Helps us to Know God.
John 17:3
The experience of eternal life happens at the instance of revelation. The unfolding of revelation begins to administer all of the dimensions of eternal life. It is possible that in Christ you can have that life having surrendered to Jesus.
John 10:10
There is a difference between life and life abundant. Life talks about the impartation of the life of God and the security, the eternal security that comes by the reason of your commitment to Jesus Christ.
In this Kingdom we rise through knowledge. So everytime we expose ourselves to revelation, understand that it helps us to know God.
The pride of the believer is that we know God.
We can learn God through the names of Jesus. Every name of Jesus is a revelation about Himself.
We can learn God by studying Jesus. The Bible calls it the express image of the invincible God.
Hebrews 1:1-3
God speaks by His son whom He has appointed heir of all things by who also He made the world’s.
We can learn God through our experiences. Your experience can capture a rich dimension of God. This is why testimonies are important. They not only show us the results of the testifiers, they show us how else God can work.
If you do not hear the testimonies of the saints, you will be limited of your understanding of how God can go to see that His saints are glorified but in the testimony of the testifiers you will see how God is able to navigate through situations and you see a display of His power, His wisdom, His love and His authority over satan and over situations and circumstances.
The Word of God equips us to walk in victory . An excelling life is a product of knowledge.
Hosea 4:6
There is such a state that a believer can assume because of the lack of knowledge.
There are things if you do not do as pertained longevity, you may cut short your life in an untimely way. There are things if you do not know about the blessing of the Lord upon the saints, you may live a miserable life even though saved, even though Born again.
There are things if you do not know about the Holy Spirit, you may rip yourself of an opportunity for a rich fellowship that translates. There are things if you do not know about men, you may have promises, visions, prophecies and yet your life remains grounded, almost forever.
Why do we come to God to learn? We come as a way of admitting our levels of ignorance, unashamedly, that when we come before Him, we come open and we say “Lord I confess that I do not know so far, help me”.
Blessed are the Meek for they shall inherit the earth.
Why do we come before God to correct our perceptions?
How do you know you’re encountering God when your darkness is exposed to you? When the areas of darkness are exposed you know that God is there so that you now can embrace light.
Isaiah 60:1
Ezekiel 2:1-2
There is an energizing that comes when His Word comes.
The Spirit of God hides in His Word. We do not just stand because we’re tired of sitting. We stand because there’s an energizing that comes at the instance of His Word.
Why am I telling you this? I want to cultivate in you a passion for specific Spiritual knowledge. Can I submit to you?
There are many kinds of Spiritual information across the body of Christ that are completely useless as far as the excelling of the saints is concerned. The Bible says you shall know the truth. It is not knowledge that delivers you, it is the information, the correctness of the information. You can know a lie and it will not set you free. There is something in your mind but the information is inaccurate.
It matters that what you know is the truth. You can know an opinion, an opinion does not set free. You can know a general opinion, it is only the truth that makes free.
How do you know it is the truth? By the liberating power it brings to your life. Any information that keeps you in bondage is not the truth. The truth sustains the ability to liberate you.
Jesus spoke in parables to help believers and it is called the parable of the sower. He spoke about four kinds of soils. Nothing was wrong with the sower, nothing was wrong with the seed which the Bible refers to as the heart of man. The seeds went down on a rocky ground, by the way side, on thorns and then on good ground. The Bible says the seeds that grow on good ground are they that hear the Word and understand it. What makes your ground good is understanding. What makes your ground barren is lack of understanding and when satan finds out that you do not have understanding, he comes immediately and he picks away that seed.
So everytime you come to Church, don’t carry religious understanding, “oh we’re just coming to sing and let’s see what happens, let’s see people fall down”. No, come with an intention, rejoice while you’re coming. The assignment of the priest is to bring about applicable truths not useless truths.
Be tired of random information around your life without an ability to prove. Truth is only useful when you can connect it with results it produces.
If my assignment is to cook fried rice and you bring beautiful tubers of yam, I will keep them there. They are not relevant as far as what I intend to produce is concerned. There is a knowledge that pops up and has no results attached to it.
You will be surprised at how easy it is to live a victorious life when you understand the systemic character of God. Understanding the systemic character of God is to live an excelling life.
Jesus is the way. The methodology of the Kingdom. Jesus is the way. He shows you the part that moves you from point A to point B and you see while He is teaching you, your life may carry a resemblance of defeat and failure. Don’t worry about your current state. To Myles Munroe he finds fact as the present state of things. The truth is the way it ought to be from the eyes of God.
Facts can be receptive. The fact may be that you may not be empowered financially as at the moment, the fact can be that you’re still experiencing some ill health. But hallelujah the Bible tells us that transitions are possible in this Kingdom. While we look not at the things that are seen, but the things that are unseen are subject to change.
When you create the condition that sponsors change, change will happen. The Bible tells us the condition for change. We behold Him as in a mirror. Whilst you’re seated here, you’re not just listening to a man preach, you’re not just exhausting the time allocated for the Church service, no. In the realm of the Spirit there is something happening to you. Truly there is an intellectual acceptance happening to you. You’re sustaining the ability to command results.
Be patient with yourself and give yourself some time. Submit yourself. That’s what the Word says. Immerse yourself into a body of truth. He leaves you with an assurance that your profit will appear unto all.
Nothing speaks at the beginning. It is always at the end it speaks.
An attack on your prayer life, not just your Word study life, an attack on your ability to listen is a real attack.
In a Church service like this, the devil tries to loiter around deceiving people, distracting people. The devil comes distracting with a phone call, distracting with some business ideas, distracting with all kinds of things and then our Word comes and does not find us.
Jacob said “The Lord was in this place and I knew not”. It is not only when hands are stretched and miracles begin to happen, people are falling under the anointing and the Holy Spirit is moving no, He rides on the Wings of His Word. That sound that enters your ears is not sound that leaves the mike alone. As it leaves there is an increasing.
Many years ago the Lord showed me a vision. In this vision I saw a very big ancient gate and then that door, it had smaller doors, the vision zoomed to me and I saw smaller doors. The doors were opening a new closing and for every door that opened light will emanate from it and I was wondering what this vision meant and then the Lord began to speak to me. I saw Scripture written to me on every small door and I learnt by the speakings of the Spirit that for every revelation there is an energising, there is an anointing that backs every Scripture you see.
When that Scripture opens up, the grace to defend it comes. So the truth you know that you cannot defend has not yet become light to you.
“Ever learning but never coming to the light of the truth”.
This is why as ministers of the gospel we must be asked to teach God’s Word because when people lend us their attention for an hour, two hours, three hours, it is evil, it is sinful, it is wicked to just keep communicating opinions that are not applicable. It is dangerous to keep believing and then find out that what you have believed is a lie.
You see the reason why we pray, you see the reason why we worship, we cry unto Him to show us mercy and grant grace that the light that comes from Him will enter us with the purity with which it left Heaven. Unadultrared by our ignorance, the ignorance of the vessel first.
Something can leave God so pure and powerful and land upon a mind that is not transformed and nonsense will be communicated out of it.
There are secrets in this Kingdom. Many of us have houses and you have many rooms or Chambers in your houses, you don’t bring a stranger into your living room, a stranger may wait at best outside. The more the relationship keeps growing, you can trust them and even take them to that Holy of Holies. The Bible says “The secret things of the Lord are with them that fear Him”.
We excel in this Kingdom on the strength of the secrets that we have and we hold. Let me recap on this today when it has to do with the pursuit of God and the knowledge of God, even in Heaven we will continue to seek Him and know Him. There is no exhaustion. We will keep learning Him and knowing Him from glory to glory but as far as living a victorious life is concerned the reality of the divine life, the truth that you need are finite. They are not infinite. If you have the idea that the body of Spiritual truth allocated for your victory are infinite, you are wrong.
The truth that make wonders out of believers are finite like the course content of a student. You can handle this truth and know that by God’s privilege that when it comes to financial prosperity, I have found the key. When it comes to longevity, I have found the key. This is what is translated into dominion.
Dominion is not an impartation. Dominion is the resultant effect of your piecing together these truths. So the darkness comes you have within you the spiritual arsernals to launch at darkness. When failure comes you have within you the spiritual arsenals. This is what maturity in the Spirit is about.
Maturity in the Spirit is not measured by how frequent you have gone to Church, Not necessarily. You can be in Church for a very long time and yet you’re not transformed by this truth.
May the Lord grant us grace in the name of Jesus Christ.
May the Lord grant us the capacity to maximize every moment we spend in His presence, in prayer, in worship and when the Word comes embrace it, allow the Word to change you and you watch what your life becomes in the name of Jesus Christ.
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