WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT IS TO WORK ON YOUR MIND.
YOU ARE TRULY A BLESSING WHEN YOU ARE EMPOWERED.
ANOTHER PERSON’S SUCCESS IS NOT WHY YOU ARE FAILING. THE SKY IS AVAILABLE FOR EVERY CHAMPION.
DON’T BE INTIMIDATED, JUST DO THINGS RIGHT
YOUR RESULTS MATTER IN THIS KINGDOM BECAUSE IT IS IN YOUR EXCELLING THAT THE NAME OF THE LORD IS GLORIFIED AND GOD WANTS EVERYONE OF US TO EXCEL.
WHEN GOD WANTS TO LIFT YOU, HE ENERGIZES YOU TO WORK ON YOUR VALUE AND CONTRIBUTION
YOUR RELEVANCE IN LIFE WILL ALWAYS BE A REFLECTION OF YOUR VALUE AND YOUR CONTRIBUTION. NOBODY WILL APPLAUD YOU FOR DOING NOTHING.
- Apostle Joshua Selman at Koinonia on ‘STRIVING FOR MASTERY’ (PART 2)
(PART B).
There’s no need living a fake life; don’t fake what can be real. Don’t have a low-level thinking and then, you cover it with good clothes, shoes or borrowed car. Leave all those things, your first assignment after your encounter with the Holy Spirit is to work on your mind. Church Gist. Your legs may not go there but your eyes can go. There are many of you who do not have the mental strength to survive the seasons of small beginning. Your minds are too fragile, your obsession for endorsement and reaffirmation will not allow you to move through the tides of negative thinking till you become a champion. Nobody claps for you when you are starting; they’ll only clap for champions.
Champions are focused and determined. The smoke that rises from the celebration of your result is an answer to the naysayers; you just keep moving. You can start as a carpenter’s son, but there was a time they stopped calling Jesus, carpenter’s son; Jesus never said, don’t call me carpenter’s son again. Church Gist. He did something else and they said, You are Christos now, the Anointed. I’m not teaching you to fuel lust or carnality or a rat race of materialism; I’m teaching you a healthy confidence that is derived from who you are in Christ. Everybody on earth is a summation of assets and liabilities, but everything you acknowledge magnifies, including the negative aspects of your life (Philemon 1:6).
Another person’s success is not why you are failing, the sky is available for every champion. Don’t be intimidated, just do things right. Be inspired, be challenged, be provoked but don’t let anybody intimidate you. You will make mistakes, you will learn on the job; submit yourself to learning. But as far as downplaying the grace of God upon your life is concerned, don’t let anybody do that. The difference between you and anybody you admire is:
a). The quality of the information, primarily spiritual information that the person is having access to
b). The relationship that the person has to honour that heightened level of enlightenment, because be fruitful also means, be relational.
c). The kind and the level of grace that is at work in that person’s life.
Stop looking down on yourself. Allow the naysayers talk, but I want you to believe; this is not the first time He’s lifting and prospering people. He’s a Master at it; it is what He can do.
- In the name of Jesus, in this season, by the quality of your mental transformation, you are breaking to the left and to the right!
There’s nothing God has told me that I cannot believe Him for, I learnt this from God’s servant, Bishop David Oyedepo. He said he can believe God for anything. For those of you who think you have seen what this ministry has done, we are only one step out of the cave; you keep watching, you will see the wonder working power of the God of Heaven. Church Gist. Don’t expect delivery when there’s no pregnancy; the miracle happens in the mind. The Word of God is that seed, but let it find a resting place in your mind and then, give it time; as you cry you continue and one day, your profiting will appear unto all and they who once laughed at you will come to celebrate you and tell you the baby in the manger is now having a triumphant entry into Jerusalem.
One of the blessings of mastery is that, the more you become a master at anything, fear goes. Fear is proof that you have not gained hold of certain laws spiritually and physically.
3). The law of value and contribution.
Your relevance in life will always be a reflection of your value and your contribution. Church Gist. Nobody will applaud you for doing nothing; until your life can match a problem and solve it, there’s no reason why people will consider you necessary in their lives. Don’t downplay the law of value and contribution.
If nobody is following you and placing a demand upon your life, it is a report card to you, that your value and contribution is low or not there. When all men seek for you, it is because there’s something you are carrying that has now been revealed. There’s an explanation to your loneliness, but for as long as you believe that people will be indefinitely committed to you without providing any notable value and contribution, you are dreaming. Think again!
Nobody will follow you and invest into your life and destiny indefinitely, except and unless at the instance of value, every increasing value and contribution. Loneliness has an explanation it doesn’t mean people hate you; it is that, they are determined to solve their problems and they have known by experience that you don’t intend to be part of that solution, so they will respectfully create a group and keep you there. Church Gist. How do you know you are making definite contributions? Because the demands will continue for as long as you remain valuable. When you become valuable, those who need you will find you. Your value must match the level of hunger and thirst that the people have. You are not at liberty to just create any kind of value, refined or not. Your value must be refined.
Excellence is a language, there are those who know how to speak it. Competence is a language, there are people who know how to speak it.
- I deliver you by the Spirit of God from a local champion mentality!
Skill and contribution are the cure to this life of lack. When you become an active contributor to the lives and destinies of people, they will forgive many limitations in your life to pursue the value that you have. Those days when we started, we only have audios, God gave an instruction, we didn’t put any videos except videos that were external ministration and people will sit down and listen and sometimes, the sound quality may not be the best and yet, they will endure it because of the value that they know they will find there. Church Gist. It was Bishop David Oyedepo who said that when they started in Kaduna, people were not coming and after praying, God gave him a few things and among the many things God told him is that, when you bring quality life applicable teachings, people will come and they will stay like a grass. When animals come and they find a pasture, they stay and learn. I’m just using ministry as an example but it applies to every area.
When you are pressing for competence, don’t let your tears deceive you. You may cry but continue. If you want to strive for mastery, please obtain grace from God to be valuable; to be a contributor to the lives and destinies of people. I once had a vision many years ago and in that vision, there was a long queue of people and I was serving them bread and the bread was filled with honey, the honey was even dripping and I was not the one making the bread, I was just receiving it from a machine and the machine never stopped making the bread; the bread will come out with honey and somebody will taste of it and run and go and call his relatives and say, ‘come, they are sharing something here: and some of the people who took it will go back and join the queue. For some reason, they were looking at me, they couldn’t see the machine that was producing the bread and honey. The machine was mixing it already, I was just receiving it and giving them. When I woke up, I said, I’ve found the key.
- In the name of Jesus, where you have been neglected because of your inability to have structured your life to provide value; in the name of Jesus, men, kings and nobles will look for you!
John 14:6
When God wants to lift you, He energizes you to work on your value and contribution and when He sees that you have done your assignment, that finger will lift you in a way that nobody will be able to come within that vicinity. Fight incompetence, do not just be a receiver. You can be valuable by being a blessing, whether through words or actions. Church Gist. In those days when I used to take cab, there was a particular driver, that man was so neat. He used to drive me to the airport. I would save his number and call him. If he told me he was busy, I would tell him, please just release whoever is with you. I’ll pay you double for that amount. He was so neat, very excellent driver, careful, cautious, trustworthy, you could send him to go and pick someone for you. There were many drivers but I just love him and we had meaningful discussions on our way to the airport. When he found out I was a man of God, the next time I came, I noticed he was playing Don Moen songs, he had gone to get a CD or something, at least, his own contribution. Don’t be angry and say, “people don’t love me.” Ask yourself, what am I bringing to the table? The table of greatness has many seats but the rule is, you don’t sit down with an empty hand. You first submit what you are bringing, it is vetted by the intelligence of God; if it will serve and bless people sufficiently, with honour, you are granted a seat there, otherwise you will be driven back to go and work on yourself.
4). The law of authority.
You are as powerful as your relationship with the authority that sends you. Most people do not understand that authority plays a vital role in dominion and commanding mastery (James 4:7. The assignment of authority in the life of a believer is; provision, protection, and promotion.
Matthew 8:5-13
You are as powerful as the authority that backs you (Daniel 11:32b). Life and destiny must ask you this one question; who sent you? It is dangerous to try to explore this realm of greatness alone, the authority that backs you, both physically and spiritually matters. Are you conscious of the authority that you are under?
Many believers are not able to succeed because they do not understand the power of authority. Church Gist. If you just depend on the quality of your spiritual life alone to advance you, your pace may be slow. There are times you need to outsource the covenant advantage that comes with authority and make tremendous progress in your life while you grow. When God calls men, there are covenants that He has with them that become the platform for certain possibilities to happen and you can tap into that covenant.
Every ministry and every genuine servant of God, in fact, it extends to every leader that God calls; there are covenants and these covenants can become a platform. Now, it can be idolized, unfortunately we are suffering that now in Africa, but within the boundary of scripture, if you understand the advantage that authority provides, your life will be a sign and wonder. There are times you skill can fail but the covenant of the authority you are under, can speak to you and speak for you.
5). The law of faith (John 11:40, Mark 11:22-24)
Faith is a combination of your conviction about God alongside your obedience to the scriptural demand that commits God over the affairs of your life, not just obedience to anything; obedience to the scriptural demands. Your assignment is to obtain grace in keeping to that demand. There are no guarantees in life; nobody will give you a guarantee anywhere. Your guarantee is your faith; this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
6). The law of relationships.
Relationship matters in your life: relationships are very powerful (Genesis 12 and 13). There are three types of relationships;
1). General relationships, to be friendly, nice, warm and kind to everybody around you, regardless status.
2). Seasonal relationships – the key to receiving from seasonal relationship is discernment, because those relationships are not there forever. Church Gist. You have to discern them and maximize the moment while they are there.
3). Covenant or destiny relationships: these are relationships you must protect at all cost because a part of your success and your result is connected to it.
The moment Lot separated from Abraham, the next thing we find is a gradual decline until he finds himself in the middle of Sodom, it still took Abraham to negotiate for him and still send angels to come and help him and rescue him. How about believers, the basis for our excelling in life is the Spirit of God.
There are laws to relationships, one of it is forgiveness, forbearance. All men are men. The best of any man is still a man. The person you like the most will annoy you one day; learn it. Church Gist. One of the major things you need to maintain relationships is forgiveness and forbearance. Forgiveness means to pardon a default; forbearance means to create an accommodation for that lapse because it will happen again.
You are a relationship away from the next level of your life. When you find people in your life who are sincerely interested in your life and well-being and love you sincerely with no strings attached, don’t be ashamed to invest in those relationships. There are burdens that you have in your life dear leader, are there people who can carry you, while you carry that burden? Woe betides a man who is left alone to carry his vision. My life has changed because of relationships. God has helped me ministry because of relationships; every facet of my life has received an upward turn because of relationships. I remind you again; be fruitful means be relational. There is no fruitfulness in life without relationships. You must obtain grace from God to learn relationships.
7). The law of honour.
Honour is the discerning, the celebrating and even the rewarding of men because of their value and their uniqueness. The law of honour is powerful; honour can open, sometimes more doors for you, even than your skill. Church Gist. There is only one reason why people fail in life; Dishonour. Dishonour to God, men and principles.
Honour is the key for access. Every time a door closes over you, it was dishonour that closed that door, especially if it was once opened. Dishonour is the trivializing, the demeaning and the downplaying of people’s achievement, uniqueness and value. Honour is a powerful spiritual principle that will help you, lift you and bless you. I am a beneficiary of the law of honour. There are cycles that ordinarily, outside of the grace of God upon my life, I should never be in those cycles or enjoy those privileges, not at this level of my life, but honour is an accelerator, it can fast track your destiny. Honour can bring you into the achievement of you ten years later now.
8). The law of favour (1 Samuel 16:20-22)
Favour is the number one reason why people prosper. I honestly submit to you dear people of God, I don’t know how people survive without the favour of God, you will never be able to rise into this world without favour.
What is favour?
When God anoints people to participate in your success, when they provide the leverage of their credibility and resources to help you rise. Believers, your life will be difficult and hard if you do not find favour. There are many people who have thought that favour is unmerited access. Church Gist. That may be right but not entirely right. Favour is very merited; there are dimensions of favour, the saving grace is what is unmerited. But believe me, favour is merited. You can initiate favour; favour is a reaction, there’s something you can do that will equal favour (Proverbs 13:15).
9). The Law of Spiritual empowerment (Luke 4:18). There are certain things that cannot be done by the strength of the flesh. It will take supernatural empowerment. It takes empowerment to rise, to ward off forces of darkness that come to fight the purposes of God in your life.
You are truly a blessing when you are empowered. Your results matter in this Kingdom because it is in your excelling that the name of the Lord is glorified and God wants everyone of us to excel.
PRAYER:
- Lord, I am tired of shadow boxing my Christian experience, I am tired of guessing, trial and error; I obtain grace to put together the spiritual principles that will help me reveal and glorify you.
- Father, let my mastery of this spiritual laws bring efficiency to my spiritual life.
Father, I thank You for the privilege again that You have granted unto us to bring Your Word. Many within this place and so many more following and connecting from their homes, You have spoken to us tonight on this spiritual laws. These are the laws that help me to gain mastery in life and destiny, I pray in the name of Jesus, that for every one person here who is yet to gain and lay hold of this spiritual principle, the grace to do so is released upon you in the name of Jesus!
I pray for the diligence to understand and master these laws and as you engage them, your life will be nothing short of a sign and a wonder!
Where you have been down, may these laws lift you up in the name of Jesus and where you have not been able to bear much fruit that brings glory to the name of the Lord, may these laws accelerate your results in the name of Jesus!
(Altar Call)
