IT TAKES POWER TO GAIN VISIBILITY. YOU CAN BE SINCERE AND HAVE A MESSAGE BUT IT TAKES POWER FOR YOUR GENERATION TO HEAR YOUR VOICE.
MANY PEOPLE ARE GIVING GOD OFFICE AND PULPIT; GOD DOES NOT WANT YOUR PULPIT.
WHAT GOD WANTS IS YOUR HEART.
PRAYER AND FASTING IS IMPORTANT BUT BEFORE YOUR PRAYER AND FASTING WILL MAKE SENSE AND HAVE VALUE IN THE SPIRIT; YOUR HEART CONDITION MUST BE RIGHT.
- Apostle Joshua Selman at Koinonia on ‘ENGAGING THE ANOINTING’ (PART 2).
2). To empower us to tap into the dimensions of supernatural possibilities and results that are beyond the scope of humans in ministry, business and politics.
I made up my mind as a person and as a man of God that I will never be ordinary, that my life and everything about it will be extraordinary all wise. Not just because I want a name for myself – not at all. Because I have found out that when you follow the natural course of things, time will cheat you, men will cheat you, system will cheat you; you need to have an advantage that is beyond the natural course.
It is good to follow the laws of prosperity but following only the natural laws of prosperity, safe journey. More than compliance with the laws, there has to be an engracing that can pick you up on the wings of the Spirit. Church Gist. Remember that the unit of destiny is time, that is why God brought possibilities like speed, restoration; these are forces that insist and ensure that you live a victorious life.
Acts 7:22
Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians. Even though he was not an Egyptian, he did not have the history; there was a supernatural engracing upon him. He learned the wisdom of the Egyptians; he was mighty both in words and in deeds. They were preparing Moses already, the level of excellence from his life, he was inevitably going to be the next Pharaoh. That was why when he returned; as at the time Moses returned back to Egypt, the Pharaoh he left had died, it was his son Ramesses who was his friend, that was when Moses looked at him and said Pharaoh, I’m sure Ramesses will look at him and say, “dear brother, good to see you after over forty years. Church Gist. The only difference is that you have returned back stupid, you were wiser when you left. You’ve forgotten that this is Egypt. You come and stand, looking like a fugitive with a staff and tell me, some deity you met in the forest said I should come and release these people who have been in captivity for 430 years. Moses, you have the wisdom of the Egyptians!”
And he said, “alright, I’m not here for a long story, let the rods (I told you that they are also preachers), I’ve finished my preaching, let the rod starts its own sermon and when he threw the rod, it became a serpent.
I can imagine Pharaoh laughing and saying, “you still remember?” and he called Jannes and Jambres, the wizards of Egypt and they came and make caricature of the rod of Moses; they threw Pharaoh’s rod, it also became a serpent and God used that – Most of you have not discerned the sermon of the rods, those rods preached a message that you need to understand. You have heard the sermon of men, but understand the sermon of the rods.
The rod that became a serpent ate that of the man and did not increase in size and he picked it up. That is a sermon; dominion over time and matter is real dominion. God was saying something there and then one plague after another. You can see that Pharaoh was not a normal human being; you can see the luciferin manifestation. This is why some of you need to pray for your children; you flog them, they come back and still misbehave. It is not normal; that determination is not a human determination; it is an anti-Christ spirit empowering people like that.
Creation is awaiting the manifestation of the sons of God; the sons of God are not here to repeat science. Science is an advantage but believe me, God didn’t take us this far to just come and be scientific. What we are manifesting is higher than science. Church Gist. There will be a spectacular display before Jesus Christ comes; the manifestation of a Godlike dimension of power and grace, in and through the saints. It has been written so that it will not be changed.
I like to study about the world and all that, I like to study about UFOs and aliens, for some reasons, I find those things interesting since I don’t watch movies and all of that and I read some of the ancient science and in my mind, I said, “no wonder human beings behave the way they’re behaving.” Church Gist. There is a minimal level of wickedness that a normal human being should have; when your wickedness stretches beyond that border, it is not you again, it is you and another spirit. The same way, human beings cannot love and be kind beyond a certain threshold, when you move past that threshold, you are not alone too. There has to be a spirit empowering you.
We need to be supernatural people, this faith work that we are part of, it came by a supernatural means, it is sustained by a supernatural means. Every time I’m in the air, I think about a lot of things if I am not sleeping and of the things I think about is the miracle of a material body that was created from metals, runs and then lifts and now we are above the clouds and we are under the mercy of the Creator, literally for fifty minutes or five hours or whatever hours, you are under the mercy of the Creator. Flying helps me to know where science ends. I travel a lot and if I can place my destiny in the hands of an airline, literally, when we are flying in the night; I don’t know where we are, we believe everything they tell us and yet these are human beings that can mistakes and yet, when the Creator of the earth, when he now beckons that we trust Him, we bring all kinds of flimsy reasons and say, “God, before I take this step, prove to me…” Yet we jump into the plane and sit down quietly.
What of the driver that drives you? You’ve been hearing that they are kidnapping, yet you are still going to travel tomorrow and come back. We need to tap into supernatural dimensions of the power of God. Everything natural also has a supernatural expression (Hebrews 11:1-3). There is a natural course of prosperity but there is a supernatural prosperity; the choice is yours. They both have their consequences. If you choose to live a natural life, there are many things that you will be limited; you will not be able to do many things but you can choose to command the supernatural, even in your life.
So the supernatural grants you empowerment to subdue the forces fighting against your destiny and against Kingdom advancement and then it empowers you to rise to a dimension where you command supernatural possibilities.
Luke 1:30-36
The natural course was to wait for the angel to stir the water and whoever jumps in first, but when Jesus came, Jesus would have said, I empower you with wisdom and the prophetic to know when an angel is going to come so that you will jump before the rest. Jesus said, I don’t negate the rule but I can change it because I am God. If you prosper in one year naturally, there are chances that you may be a thief because you should be able to build with dignity and honour. But God can come to you and say because of the cry of your mother and the burden of ten of your siblings; allowing you to go through the natural course of life; investing slowly, gradually receiving ten per cent every year. When that happen; your parents would have gone and you may not have the opportunity for that prophetic word that I gave them. So there’s something I’m going to do in your life that in one year…”
When it happens, you will not go around telling people; don’t follow the natural course of growth. That will be erroneous but you will know that your life was an exemption.
Do you know why I am telling you this? Keep learning the laws of the Kingdom and the laws of life, but don’t be surprised when an invisible hand picks you and moves you beyond the natural sequence of things. Hear me believers, let us maintain the natural course of things based on the laws of life. Church Gist. I am not teaching you to ignore the laws of life but woe betides anybody who laughs at the possibility of a dimension higher than science, sociology. This is my problem with intelligent people and secular humanist; they negate the fact that there is a God in Heaven and there is a possibility to tap into that infinite power.
I heard of somebody (true story) who bought a property, it was worth some millions of naira. This guy bought a property, it was not up to two weeks, there was a company that wanted that property, they were going through a protocol to meet the owner and quickly, some money came for that guy and he bought that property from the former owner and they suddenly called him that there is a company that wants to buy it. Church Gist. It was almost ten times the amount. This boy stood in shock. They were desperate for that land. The owner that sold it to him wanted to make trouble and said return it. He said, no! We’ve finished our transaction. This is between me and these people. That was how this guy’s life changed overnight. Many people suspected it to be a fraud, he said I am not a fraudster, it was just the favour of God.
The balance in church is that because of teachings like this, many believers become irresponsible; they negate the natural course of things and they say, since there is favour and speed, why should I be diligent? I’m not teaching you to ignore these laws but I am teaching you that in addition, let it be at the back of your mind.
Zechariah 4:6,
There are certain results that happens by the Spirit and by the power of the Holy Spirit (Micah 3:8, Luke 4:13-14). It takes power to gain visibility. You can be sincere and have a message but it takes power for your generation to hear your voice. In this Kingdom, we do not only hear; we both hear and see (Acts 8:5-6).
There are four keys (demands) that are responsible for spiritual empowerment:
1). Consecration and Intimacy with God (1 John 2:15). God is not against us prospering or having influence. What He’s against is exalting those things and having an obsession that it dethrones Christ in your life. Church Gist. Any kind of lifting or money that Jesus must be dethroned for you to have it is useless.
Anything God gives, satan will try to give it to you too but the condition is “bow down and worship me.” That was what he brought to Jesus and the three Hebrew boys. Satan is obsessed with worship and transgenerational allegiance.
If it is the anointing you want to receive, it is more than your money. Prayer and fasting is important but before your prayer and fasting will make sense and have value in the spirit, your heart condition must be right. The desire and the desperation to see Jesus revealed and glorified in your life. There is a level playing of charismatism that the anointing brings, there is an aura, it is a fragrance. It can attract everything to you. That is, people have to be dead to self.
Proverbs 23:26
Many people are giving God office, pulpit; God does not want your pulpit, He is not looking for you offering and your tithe; all of those things are secondary. What God wants is your heart. I can tell you by the authority of scripture, by the privilege of learning from the fathers and by my own experience, if you are genuinely anointed of God, there is almost a Godlike worship that people can bring around you because of the all surpassing manifestation of the excellency of God in your life. Church Gist. I know what the anointing can do and if you are not broken before God, especially our generation of ministers, small grace and anointing and that is it; you see people misbehaving all around with the anointing and God just withdraws the more He wants to give you because when God test you with it; you are rude, lawless, indiscipline, rebellious, you don’t have any regards for authority. God says, no! This little we’ve given this guy, let’s leave it there. If we multiply this anointing, you will kill everybody.
Preachers, let me encourage you; co-labourers in the Gospel, let’s be careful how we impact graces on people. Just because people are committed and their hearts are opened does not mean they are prepared. Let God vet them so that you do not anoint people who will be a casualty to you and others. Anointing people unprepared will always lead to casualty.
Do you know what it means to carry the grace that grants you access to the destinies, loyalty, finances of people? It was our father in the Lord, Baba Adeboye who made a statement one time and he said, by the grace of God, if he needs a shirt today, by the privilege of the influence God has given him, he can make one statement and say, “brethren, I need a shirt” and he said, literally without exaggeration, his size can finish in the market. Do you know what it means to have that level of influence?
Can you see why God works on our hearts? God demands death to the flesh if you must carry genuine power. Can you be so anointed that God places you in the midst of greatness and you still have self-control?
I made a covenant and a vow that by the privilege of God’s grace, I’m not saying it by the strength of the flesh, this ministry will never inconvenience anybody because of tea and bread. Church Gist. If God will not provide the wisdom to fund his assignment, I will honourably go back and sit down. It is better to sit down and not do ministry but have your integrity.
2). Honour to the Word of God. If you do not live by the principles of the Kingdom, you will never access the anointing.
(Proverbs 23:22b, John 1:3). Even the power of God is His in His word (Habakkuk 3:3-4). There is a relationship between the Word of God and the power of God.
I submit to you that I have a problem with people who manifest power and I cannot see in their lives, honour for the Word of God and the principles of the Kingdom. If you manifest power and you do not have honour for the Word of God, you deserve to be suspected. The Word of God gives credence to the outworking of His power in your life.
3). Prayer with Fasting. The emphasis is the prayer and the fasting is the accelerator (Luke 4:1-2, 14-15). If you want to walk in genuine spiritual power, the facilitator yif the anointing is prayer with fasting (James 5:13-18)
4). Impartation. This is a system of transference of spiritual possibilities that are Christ through the Holy Spirit to you.
There are two principal platforms for impartation;
a). Impartation directly from God (1 Kings 3:3-13).
b). Impartation from the carriers of the anointing (Matthew 25:9). The foolishness of the five virgins was because they did not know how to access the anointing. Church Gist. When it has to do with the anointing, there are those who sell. The word sell there means exchange; there are custodians of the anointing.
“…if you want the anointing, go to them that sell and buy…” How do you buy it? You buy with honour, meekness; these are currencies.
Every dimension of the anointing you need in your life today, there are vessels that carry a burden right now. Under a certain condition, it can flow freely to you. There are three conditions that you must certify if you must receive the anointing from the carriers:
1). Genuine connection or followership (2 Kings 2:1-15).
2). Honour.
Honour is the key for access. It is the discerning, the celebrating and the rewarding of people for their uniqueness.
3). Service: This is a jackpot gateway into the anointing.
(Numbers 11:16-17, Isaiah 9:8, Numbers 11:24-25). When the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, they became wise; if the spirit rest upon you, something must happen. The spirit there means the grace. The grace cannot come upon you and you remain the same.
…when the spirit rested.” To rest means you have found a habitation. The anointing can come but it may not rest. The performance happens for those who allow the anointing to rest.
Numbers 27:18-20, Deuteronomy 34:9.
I can tell you at every point and every junction in my life when what grace and what dimension came to my life. I didn’t start ministry with every anointing and every grace
PRAYER:
Lord, this is my season of encounter with auction. Lord, I open up my spirit.
I knew that I had an apostolic call upon my life but I didn’t know that I had the grace; this grace they call the king maker anointing. This is for politics and governance. Go and read about Samuel, there are graces; you can literally enthrone people. In Koinonia, you don’t invite People and say, “rich people, come.” You make them by the anointing. Church Gist. Please do not allow the devil to cheat you; I beseech you by the mercy of God; you are not discerning, you will pay the price for nothing.
I remember there was a year that I had an audience with a particular politician somewhere and I don’t know what they told him about me; we had a nice time and he sat down and I looked at this man and he wanted to contest for something and honestly, it is not pride but in my mind, I said, “oh dear, if this man…” To me, it was like Jesus at the well with the Samaritan woman.
I said, oh dear, the hymn writer said, “oh what needless pain we bear.” At the end of it, he was just speaking English, you know some times these our wonderful politicians can be proud people; they think every man of God is looking for money and all of that. Church Gist. I was looking, he never requested for prayer or for anything; he was just making noise and I looked at him and when he finished talking, I told him and said, “I’m sorry Sir, but I want to speak to you and he was just making a jest and sarcasm and I said, “go and write; you will win your primaries but you will never win the election.” He was laughing because it was impossible based on what he wrote. I said, “I know you have met men of God who prophesied and spoke because of money that you gave them, but you will know that there are certain people who are remnants indeed.”
When this guy won the primaries; he was happy, very sarcastic statement and all of that and when he lost the election, it was a shock. I remember I went to preach somewhere and they said the man heard that I was around, he said he wanted to see me. I said, please don’t bring that person here. I don’t hate him; I don’t fight with anybody. But can I tell you, please don’t generalize people. There are people God has honoured. I am saying this for a reason. There is human worship, it is wrong. There are men of God who made themselves alpha and omega, the Bible says to minister according to the measure of grace. If you have not been anointed to enthrone government and people and you are just making noise, the disappointment will make the people arrest you one day and lock you because the grace is not on you. But can I tell you; God’s system of king, priest and prophet has not failed. There are still men that God has anointed.
There are graces that can enthrone. This is not just for politicians, a man overnight, you can send one word. Was it not Elijah who said, “by this time?” You’ve heard the testimonies; there is nothing in this Ministry that is stage managed. I want you to pray that one prayer;
What dimension do you see God lifting you? Pray that the grace and the auction that will make it happen should come upon you.
PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS:
- I stand by the privilege of the election of grace; I stretch my hands from the north to the south; the unction required for the next season of your life in the name of Jesus, like fire from Heaven, take that grace now!
- Man of God, woman of God, I call forth the apostolic, prophetic, evangelistic; receive that grace in the name of Jesus Christ!
- I pray for those in business; that grace of an entrepreneur, the grace that can subdue systems and structures and give you visibility, may that anointing rest upon you now!
- The anointing that brings speed into the life of a man, acceleration is a possibility in this Kingdom. Therefore; may that mantle rest upon you now, speed in your destiny, speed in your life!
- There is an anointing for influence and visibility, you can do all you can and your generation will not know you are there but there is auction that can come upon you and cause your voice to be heard. I pray for everyone; may the grace and unction for visibility come upon you!
- For everyone here who is part of this family and you are into politics and governance; the grace that enthrones in the name of Jesus the Son of the living God, may that auction rest upon you now!
- I pray for you, everyone who is in Egypt financially, hear the Word of the Lord; I prophesy to you, come out now!
- The eyes that has refused to see you and favour you, I open that eyes to see you!
- May the mantle for honour and favour that came upon Hadassah; may that grace rest upon you now!
- From today, everything represent shame, an embargo of pain and disappointment over your life, I tear it like a veil in the name of Jesus Christ!
- I prophesy to you, between now and Sunday, I decree and declare; everyday of this week will open you up to a new chapter of strange manifestation!
- By this Grace you carry, you will not need to fight. The jealousy of God will arise and fight for you!
(Altar Call)
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