Author: Pastor David A. Kamanga

Mark 4:13-20

THE KIND OF GROUND THE WORD OF GOD IS SOWN IN:

1.The wayside

⭕️These are those who lose the word immediately after they have heard it.

⭕️Satan comes to church, though he might not necessarily be in church. He comes to hear what is going to be said and he’s banking on the fact that the children of God don’t value the word.

⭕️The word works.

2.The stony ground (Mark 4:16)

⭕️When they hear the word they immediately receive it with gladness.

⭕️Satan knows he can’t steal the word from this type immediately.

⭕️They will be excited once they have received the word but after some time has passed they will have forgotten about it.

⭕️Persecution and affliction will come as a result of the word you have received.

⭕️Persecution and affliction come in different forms.

⭕️Affliction and persecution don’t come from God, they come from satan – it is his own reaction to what you received.

2 Samuel 5:17

 

3.The thorny ground (Mark 4:19)

⭕️These receive the word but the word is mixed with other things.

⭕️Cares of this world include what to eat, wear, school fees and many more.

⭕️You shouldn’t be deceived into thinking you don’t need God because you are making a lot of money.

 

4.The good ground (Mark 4:20, Luke 8:11, 15)

⭕️This kind hear the word, receive it and bring forth fruit.

⭕️When you receive something, it means it is no longer with the person that gave it out.

⭕️We don’t produce from same amount of fruit from the word.

⭕️Those who have hyper understanding produce more fruit from the word.

⭕️What makes the difference is the level of understanding.

⭕️What’s guaranteed is that this kind will have a testimony, even though it might not be as drastic as another person’s testimony.

⭕️A good ground keeps the word (takes care of it).

⭕️The word of God is a seed that is planted.

⭕️Every farmer knows that when he plants a seed today, he is not going to get a harvest the next day.

Romans 10:8-9

⭕️We must never sleep in life and destiny.

⭕️To confess is to say.

⭕️Confessing is not necessarily saying the same thing somebody has said, like a  parrot.

⭕️You can say something different but it is still in agreement.

⭕️If you say, “I can never be sick,” or “I can never be sick,” it is because you have realized that you are healed by the stripes of Jesus.

Hebrews 13:5-6, Ephesians 5:1

⭕️Become an imitator of God.

⭕️When you confess that Jesus is Lord you are confessing that he took away your sins and brought forgiveness, and you are confessing everything else that he died for.

⭕️God is so powerful that he can take our lives but as powerful as He is, He has no authority to take our lives.

⭕️Satan has no authority to take our lives.

⭕️What God and satan both look for is authorization.

⭕️How will satan get authorization? He will bring something to cause fear in you so that through your talk you can give him permission.

⭕️When God brings his word to you and you believe and agree with it, you have given Him permission to do what He wants to do with your life.

⭕️God has power to make you prosper but He has no authority to make you prosper until you permit Him by you believing what He has told you.

⭕️God would want everybody to prosper but He will do His best to convict you in order to make you agree with His word.

Ezekiel 22:30

⭕️God is looking for someone in a family to partner with in order to destroy the curse.

Ezekiel 37:1-10

⭕️As powerful as God is, there is nothing He can do on earth until He finds a man who can authorize Him.

⭕️When you hear the word, be excited about it and believe it so that you give God permission to do things through you.

⭕️If you knew that your talk can allow God or satan, you would be careful with what you say.

⭕️For many things we are waiting on God for, God is also waiting on us.

⭕️You have a part to do, do it.

⭕️God is powerful but a man that doesn’t believe that God can heal will never be healed.

⭕️If you can say what God has said in the word concerning you, you will see changes in your life.

⭕️We keep the word by believing it, saying it and giving thanks to God for it.

Habakkuk 2:2

⭕️Places that people refer to as hard places are places where God has not found anyone to work through.

⭕️All God needs is a man who is going to agree with Him.

⭕️Give people an opportunity to laugh at you for believing God’s word.

Luke 21:15

⭕️ There is a lot of negativity out there but stick to the word you hear.

⭕️Don’t treat the word of God like entertainment.

Isaiah 43:16-18

⭕️The anointing is a confirmation of your change of position.

⭕️The way to step into newness is to forget the former things (the past).

⭕️You should also forget your little successes because they can hinder you from stepping into new things.

Philippians 3:13

⭕️If you’re going to get hold of something new there must be a forgetting.

⭕️The devil uses past failures to capture people’s minds.

⭕️How many times you have failed can be a problem for stepping into something new.

⭕️How many times you have tried can be a problem for stepping into something new.

⭕️To have new things you have to think new things.

⭕️One of the first gifts we must get from this anointing (Anointing for New Dimensions) is the gift of the mindset of the anointed one.

⭕️Don’t think about the past.

⭕️You cannot think about the past and the future at the same time.

⭕️You want a new thing in your business but what is that new thing?

⭕️You want promotion but what level do you want to be promoted to?

⭕️You must have a specific new goal.

⭕️When your new goal you have set for yourself scares you, God can come in.

⭕️There is no need for God to come in when we have ability to do something ourselves.

⭕️God will never ask you for something that you have ability to do.

⭕️When Peter stopped focusing on Jesus who has ahead of him, and started to look at the past, he started to sink.

⭕️The past can make your comfortable.

⭕️Your mind plays an important role in going to your next level.

⭕️Some people are not millionaires in their minds and they try to become millionaires in the physical.

⭕️Until you are enthroned in your mind, you will never be enthroned in the physical.

⭕️What we say usually comes from what we think.

⭕️A mindset is with you everywhere you go – it is what defines what is possible or impossible for you.

⭕️Change of location does not imply change for you.

⭕️Real change happens when your mindset changes.

Money is not your mindset; money is just a reflection of what you’ve been thinking.

⭕️Money helps you to fulfill your dreams.

⭕️If truly it is in your heart, then God will put it in your hand.

⭕️Money brings expression to what is already in you.

1 Samuel 10:6

⭕️Everyone is born naked.

⭕️There is no one who has born with an advantage over the other.

⭕️Our parents bring us into the world but we are responsible for where we are going.

⭕️The anointing is the presence and power of God that brings enablement to a man.

⭕️A blessing is an empowerment to succeed.

Isaiah 65:8

⭕️The anointing conveys the blessing.

⭕️To seek anointing is to seek the manifestation of the blessing.

⭕️The outward display of God’s power, presence and goodness is what we call glory.

⭕️To be anointed is to see good.

Exodus 33:18-19, Acts 10:38, Psalm 23:6

⭕️To be anointed is to be positioned for good.

⭕️The anointing breaks yokes in order to create good in their place. (Isaiah 10:27)

⭕️The anointing is a weapon that removes burdens.

⭕️The anointing makes a man to function supernaturally.

⭕️The anointing makes the doors that were before a man to be opened.

⭕️Our greatest challenge now is the deception of the devil.

⭕️By the anointing, we will avoid deception.

 

WHAT DOES THE ANOINTING DO?

1.It brings supernatural help (Psalm 89:19)

2.It brings divine lifting and enthronement (Psalm 89:19, 27)

⭕️The anointing comes to make you the top.

⭕️You can’t stay at the bottom when you are anointed.

3.It establishes you in your assignment (Psalm 89:20-21)

4.The anointing brings supernatural strength (Psalm 89:21, 18:34)

5.The anointing makes you to beat enemy deception (Psalm 89:22)

6.The anointing delivers from affliction (Psalm 89:22)

7.It leads to destruction of your enemies and brings you into victory (Psalm 89:23)

8.It makes you to enjoy God’s mercies and favour (Psalm 89:24, Isaiah 60:10)

⭕️Nothing brings a man into favour like the anointing.

⭕️Mercy will lead you into favour.

9.The anointing establishes your authority and dominion (Psalm 89:24-25)

10.The anointing brings expansion and influence (Psalm 89:25)

11.The anointing gives you a deeper and powerful relationship with God and brings you to the realm of answers to prayer (Psalm 89:26-28)

12.The anointing establishes your legacy (Psalm 89:29)

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UNDERSTANDING THE HELP MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Acts 1:8, Luke 24:49

-A witness is:

1. a) someone who sees an event and reports what happens.
2. b) a close observer
3. c) someone who looks at something when it was happening.

-There are stages that a Christian has to go through in order to become a witness.

-You are not a witness because you are born again or the Holy Spirit has come upon you.

-When the spirit comes upon you and guides you, there are certain experiences you have as you relate with Him that will cause you to become a witness.

-There are realms, the Holy Spirit will take you to, and what you see there will make you become a witness.

-Not every believer is a witness and not every believer reaches the level of a witness.

-Christians have abused the word witness. They say things like, “we have gone to witness.”

-It is not possible to be a witness without encounters.

-Encounters are by the enablement of the Holy Spirit.

-The spirit draws men closer to God.

-We may not know how weak we are until we get closer to God.

-When we get closer to God, we discover how weak we are and how important it is for us to depend on Him.

-In the secret place, the heart of man is broken and softened.

-In the absence of this, man is a self-centered being.

-The Spirit is the one who sheds light on what you are suppose to eat in terms of spiritual food.

-What you will survive tomorrow is a function of the energy you have gathered from the spiritual food you’re eating today.

-When we get born-again, the Holy Spirit puts the hunger for God and the things of God in us, and He uses that as fuel to drive us.

-The Spirit can’t drive a man without a desire.

-When desire for change, coupled with the right actions in the direction of the change are greater than the force resisting change, change will happen.

-As you desire to change, there will be a resistance.

-Persistence is a series of actions towards your goal.

-To desire change is not enough.

-To have knowledge about what is required to change is not enough.

-To take steps in order to change is not enough.

-It is when all 3 are done and produce a force that is greater than the resisting force that change will occur.

-If what you’re doing to change your life, is equal to the resisting force, you will remain at the same spot and that is what is called stagnation.

-You can have an advocate and a counselor who you have never consulted.

-Most times, we don’t consult the counselor on what to do and that is why all our decisions end up as a disaster.

-The Holy Spirit will teach you what a man can’t teach you.

-The Holy Spirit will remind you about a right thing that you should remember at the right time.

-Something is not good or bad based on how it feels, look at its ability to draw you closer or away from God.

-Anything you do that doesn’t bring you closer to God is a red flag.

-When God convicts you of sin, it is not to take you away from Him but to bring you closer to Him whereas Satan would do that to take you away from God.

-The Holy spirit is a spiritual downloader who downloads heavenly files to manifest on the earth through those people that have fully engaged Him.

-The Holy Spirit is a universal downloader; He downloads any heavenly file that can benefit you.

-The Holy Spirit does not download by Himself, you have to engage Him to download.

WHAT HELPS DOES THE HOLY SPIRIT BRING IN A MAN’S LIFE?

1) HE COUNSELS (John 16:7, Isaiah 11:2)

-The Holy Spirit is a universal counselor; He will give you counsel in any area.

-Before you do something, ask The Holy Spirit for counsel.

-In case you didn’t ask for counsel before getting started, you can still ask.

2) HE IMPARTS WISDOM (Isaiah 11:2, Daniel 2:21)

-There is no wisdom a man can have (diabolical or otherwise) without contact with the spirit either good or bad

-A witch doctor is wise (called a wise one) because of his interactions with demon spirits.

-A man of God is wise because of his interaction with the Spirit of God.

Daniel 5:11-12, James 3:17

-You cannot interact with God and not have wisdom.

-Wisdom is full of mercy & good fruits.

3) THE HOLY SPIRIT CONVINCES & CONVICTS

2 Thessalonians 2:6-7, John 16:7-11

-The Holy Spirit is the one restraining Satan from doing his agenda in our time.

-The Holy Spirit acts like the traffic lights in our lives.

4) THE HOLY SPIRIT PRODUCES HIS FRUIT IN US.

Galatians 5:22-23

-There is no law that can override a man that is manifesting the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 6:16, 2 Corinthians 14:14

-The partnership with Holy Spirit results into fruit

-The Holy Spirit helps us to have self-control.

-The Holy Spirit brings balance to charisma.

⭕️There is a very thin line between the spirit realm and the physical realm where we are.

⭕️In the physical we seem to have it all together, according to the way we are feeling now , the way we are thinking and what we have, and yet there is something in the spirit realm that is for us or against us.

⭕️Life is by appointments.

Ezekiel 21:21

⭕️To have money in this realm, you must be sponsored by a spirit, either a good spirit or a bad spirit.

⭕️There are some people who are presidential material and yet because of lack of money they will never become one.

⭕️Some of the rich people do charity to deceive people into thinking that they don’t worship any God.

⭕️To be ignorant of satan’s devices is to be destroyed cheaply.

⭕️When Jesus says, “apart from Him we are nothing,” He means it.

⭕️To try to defeat satan in the physical is an exercise that is bound to fail.

⭕️This is why we need to pray.

⭕️In prayer we must understand that we have limitations and that is why we must ride on the wings of the Spirit so that we do it correctly and deal with things we might not know.

⭕️A prayer night is an opportunity to advance you.

⭕️If you have met God, your needs have been met.

⭕️Prophecy is not only of interest to you but to satan also.

⭕️Satan is aware that when God speaks, He means it.

⭕️Satan will go to great lengths to make sure God’s agenda doesn’t manifest.

⭕️What kind of a king are you that doesn’t have connection to the spirit world?

⭕️Witch doctors are called wise ones because they are closest to spirits, and spirits impart wisdom.

⭕️Divine wisdom is the solution to all problems that can happen to a man.

⭕️In prayer we access wisdom.

⭕️Interacting with the wise one ends up making you wise.

⭕️What you look at longest will become the strongest.

⭕️For you to have kingdom life there must be a priestly life first.

⭕️Priesthood is what leads to effective kingship.

⭕️The dominion a king needs is collected through priesthood.

⭕️Any king in the bible that had respect for priesthood is a king that ruled according to what God desired.

⭕️You will never reign in life until your priesthood is effective.

⭕️Prayer, studying the word of God and having fellowship with God is priesthood.

⭕️Priesthood is what you do with (for) God behind the scenes, kingship is what you do among men.

Genesis 1:26

⭕️What you have not conquered spiritually you cannot conquer physically.

⭕️If you don’t have authority spiritually you can’t have authority physically.

⭕️Where you submit is where your power comes from.

⭕️Simply put, your submission to God is your priesthood.

⭕️Grace is divine help.

⭕️The gift of righteousness is a one-of thing which you received when you got born again and it enables you to stand in the presence of God without fear, sense of guilt and inferiority complex.

⭕️The gift of righteousness helps your alignment with God.

⭕️The more engraced a man is, the more he will reign in life.

2 Chronicles 14:11

⭕️There is a place where we collect grace.

⭕️We are not helpless because we have a place where we collect help.

⭕️Don’t trust anybody who doesn’t pray because that person is saying they don’t need God’s help and they are fine by themselves.

⭕️There are many accidents that God has saved us from, that never manifested in the physical.

⭕️There are many diseases that God has saved us from that were projected against us but never manifested in the physical.

⭕️Prayer becomes an intervention mechanism that changes everything and re-establishes God’s will in your life.

⭕️Every time satan wants to destroy you he will first cause you not to believe your prophet (disconnect you).

⭕️The cry for mercy is not just for sins only.

⭕️The cry for mercy is one of the tools for accessing help.

⭕️Mercy overrides judgment.

⭕️When God shows mercy, the next thing is favour.

⭕️People who don’t pray have said they don’t need God’s help.

Psalm 102:19-20

⭕️Many times, the reason why we are not helped is because we are proud.

⭕️If he who knows all things does not look down to help, men are helpless.

⭕️We need help to fulfill destiny.

⭕️Long life is a function of God’s help.

⭕️There is a prophetic dimension to prosperity.

⭕️Your weakest moment is a breaking of two things: you can break down or you can step into new levels.

1 Samuel 1:14-15

⭕️ If you cannot specifically hear God telling you about your next season, watch the activities of satan, they will inform you of what is happening around your life.

⭕️Follow the procedure of God: wash your hands, feet and face. Do not be quick to present your needs, it is disrespectful.

⭕️Satan wants to magnify your needs so that you minimize your thanksgiving.

⭕️For a moment, ignore your greatest need. Look at God, admire Him and thank Him for what He is.

⭕️We have so many things to remember to thank God for.

⭕️Satan’s ministry is to make you forget the good things God has done for you.

 

Genesis 2:7, 1:26

⭕️Man was never supposed to be independent of God, he is supposed to be dependent on God like a fish depends on water.

⭕️Every time a man is independent of God, he will have nothing of God around his life.

⭕️Man’s environment for living the right way is in God.

⭕️Christianity is surrendering yourself to God, and you living to please Him through the ability He gives you by His Spirit.

⭕️Everything that brings us closeness to God and consciousness of God is something beautiful. These things include going to church, studying the word of God for yourself, and prayer.

Genesis 17:1

⭕️If a man does not get to his secret place, he will not know what he needs to deal with.

Isaiah 6:5

⭕️The presence of God has a way that it makes you conscious of your imperfections.

⭕️Without the presence of God you will be living anyhow.

⭕️If you live anyhow, you have no power.

⭕️If you are walking before someone it means that person is observing you and you are conscious that you are being observed.

⭕️God wants a relationship with you.

⭕️Out of the relationship with God comes all those good things.

⭕️If you haven’t read your bible and prayed in the morning, don’t eat breakfast because you haven’t yet woken up.

⭕️The sign that you have woken up is that you have talked to your maker.

⭕️Christianity is a dependent life.

Deuteronomy 8:1

⭕️How you behave and react is an overflow of your relationship with God.

⭕️Don’t trust anybody who doesn’t pray, no matter how good their intentions because satan can use them at any time.

⭕️You are a tripartite (3 in 1) being.

⭕️When you say you want to pray, the first enemy you will face is your flesh and you have to defeat it.

⭕️When your spirit is not empowered, you can’t have rule over your flesh.

⭕️You live and multiply by the word of God.

Zechariah 1:3-6

⭕️What will you achieve if you are repeating the mistakes of your fathers?

⭕️How you are living is your legacy.

⭕️People will remember you for two things: the problems you solved and the problems you created.

⭕️If you don’t have the life of God, what life do you have?

⭕️If you can’t walk with your maker, when you die who will you meet?

⭕️Who you are pursuing now is an indication of who you are going to spend eternity with.

⭕️Let us follow our maker.

⭕️All these other things we are chasing will break our hearts.

⭕️We don’t pray because we have needs we want God to address, prayer is more than that.

⭕️What air is to a human being is what prayer is to a believer.

⭕️There are so many men that are only existing but not yet living.

⭕️There are proceedings from God that make a man to live.

⭕️The word is what makes you know what you are born for.

⭕️If you don’t know your purpose, you will be a slave.

⭕️Where there is no vision, people live carelessly.

⭕️It is possible to get lost even with direction.

⭕️In guidance there is having a close relationship (with the one guiding you).

⭕️If your spirit is not fed through the word and prayer, you are weak.

⭕️For many, their spirit is weaker than their bodies and yet their spirit is supposed to lead.

⭕️Are you not afraid to walk out of your house and go somewhere without prayer?

Acts 23:12

⭕️It takes power to download something.

⭕️Your prayer life is an indication of how spiritual or unspiritual you are.

⭕️The 5 minutes prayer you are praying to God everyday will save your life.

⭕️That you are a christian doesn’t mean you have security; your security is in engaging what God has said.

⭕️Very rarely do witches do witchcraft by themselves.

⭕️Corporate prayers in church are very powerful.

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1 Samuel 7:7-13

Battles are won spiritually first.

When you pray, you involve God in your battles.

All your enemies will be subdued.

Don’t insult your Prophet.

Some devils that are afraid of you, it is  because of your Prophet not yourself.

Your Prophet has a running covenant with God of tearing apart.

Nobody will hold what is yours anymore.

God is fighting our battles.

God has given us victory over our enemies.

Drastic Restorations in all areas

The Holy Spirit is our stone of help.

THE MINISTRY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

John 15:26,16:7

The Holy Spirit is our helper.

The destiny of a man on Earth was never meant to be fulfilled by a man.

From creation, God was in the midst of man

Genesis 1:26-28

Man was created with all the abilities of God in him.

With God’s abilities, man was able to dominate

In short, man was wired with the software of God.

Genesis 2:19

Behind every name, there is an inspiration of the spirit.

Man had the ability to see exactly like God.

If you have God’s word in your heart, you will begin to manifest His nature in you

1 Corinthians 2:16

If we have the mind of Christ, we will begin to think like Him.

The potential for the mind of Christ is right in us.

1 Corinthians 3:1

Your spirituality is directly proportional to what you feed on.

The reason why God gave us the Holy Spirit is to help us along the way.

With the Holy Spirit on our side, we are suppose to be demonstrating power everywhere.

Refuse to be a mere man

The Holy Spirit came to help destiny.

If God does not help you, no man will help you

Whatever was lost in the Garden of Eden, can be restored by the help of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

All you need to do is to activate the power of the Holy Spirit in you.

The Holy Spirit is our advantage in all matters.

Desire to know the Holy Spirit.

Romans 5:5, 1 Kings 19:17

The Holy Spirit shades the love of God abroad in our hearts so that we can desire Him.

Hebrews 4:16

Cooking food & cleaning the house is not helping your husband.

Discover your purpose on Earth.

Don’t allow your mindset to be corrupted by Satan.

If need be, hire maids in your homes.

The help of the Holy Spirit needs to be engaged deliberately.

Make sure that your helpers are pushing you towards God.

⭕️The Zambian spirit is a negative spirit which is manifested not only in Christianity but in many other areas, including football.

⭕️The Zambian spirit has no ability to sustain good things.

⭕️When other nations picked the winds of revival and were able to sustain them to this day, Zambians aborted their own revival.

⭕️According to God, it is His will that you receive your healing and miracle in any church you walk into. However, the reality is not so in many churches.

⭕️The will of God does not impose itself on people. When people discover the will of God, they must do what it takes to have it manifested in their lives.

⭕️Anything of value has a cost.

⭕️Spiritual power has a cost too, and not all pastors (and believers) are willing to pay the price.

⭕️Not many are willing to pay the full price for it.

⭕️ Some only want to pay a part of the price, but want to get the full results.

Genesis 15:1-12

⭕️If you don’t know the power of you having a personal relationship or encounter with God, a lot of things in your life will not change.

⭕️There are some things nobody can tell you; you need to hear them for yourself from God and be empowered to do them.

⭕️When it is you who heard God for yourself, you won’t be discouraged.

⭕️If we are Abraham’s children, we need to know what he was doing.

⭕️Abraham was a man of altars, he used to rear altars to call on the Lord.

When God has spoken to you and you are praying, there will be vultures (demonic forces) that will begin to disturb you.

⭕️The devil knows that if your prayers remain undisturbed, they are capable of changing your entire family.

⭕️While you’re waiting for God to answer your prayer, things will come and if you have the Zambian spirit you will give up.

⭕️If you have persistence, you will break satan.

⭕️It is only persistence that breaks resistance.

⭕️It is “unzambian” to be consistently persistent.

⭕️The issue is not whether you can pray, give or serve God. The issue is whether you can last.

⭕️Until you last, you can’t meet Him and if you don’t meet Him your needs are not met.

⭕️As you are waiting on God, it is your duty to drive away the vultures that want to take time away from you seeking God, to make you go on facebook.

Luke 19:13

⭕️Can you sustain it until you hear from God?

⭕️If you can sustain it till the time you hear from God, your life has changed.

⭕️There is a waiting.

⭕️After you have dealt with outward distractions, you will now have to deal with yourself.

⭕️If you cannot wait, why did you even start the journey?

⭕️If you have started praying, keep at it.

⭕️If you go on holiday, that devil you were beating is going to heal and regroup to defend what you are trying to change.

Isaiah 49:23, Matthew 24:13, Isaiah 40:31, 25:9

⭕️If you can’t go to the end of whatever you are involved in, you have laboured in vain.

⭕️If you like what you are seeing, make up your mind to go for it and never look back.

⭕️Don’t expect that there will be many with you when waiting, it is personal.

⭕️Many of us don’t last long in the place of prayer because there are things calling us. It doesn’t mean that those things are important but they just reveal our priorities.

The job of the priest is to wait.

Psalm 59:9, 62:1, 5, 69:3

⭕️Salvation won’t come until you have developed the stamina to wait.

⭕️Waiting is not easy, you require stamina.

⭕️When God says “pray,” don’t stop praying until He tells you to stop.

Job 14:14

⭕️When you believe God for something don’t give up.

⭕️Your faith requires waiting.

⭕️Abraham didn’t forget what God said for 25 years, he was still waiting for a child.

⭕️Your good works which you have stopped doing will not profit you.

⭕️Your ability to be consistent is where your power to defeat the enemy is.

Isaiah 45:15

⭕️God likes hiding so that those who are serious can seek Him.

⭕️It will appear as though He’s not hearing your requests but He wants to know whether you truly trust Him.

What does wind represent?

POWER AND LIFE

⭕️What we call wind is air in motion. Air contains the oxygen we need for life.

⭕️The coming of the Holy Ghost signalled that life had come.

⭕️When you receive Jesus, it is actually the Holy Ghost who comes into you.

⭕️Wind is an invisible force that has an effect on what is visible.

⭕️Nobody can say they have seen the Holy Spirit but He is effective.

⭕️The Holy Spirit as wind is the only one who can help us move from common ground to fly to the place where we are supposed to operate.

 

FIRE

⭕️Fire gives light and heat.

⭕️Light is life.

 

What does fire signify?

1.The presence of God (Exodus 3:2-5, 19:18)

2.Approval of God (Leviticus 9:24, 6:12-13, 1 Kings 18:24, 2 Kings 1:12)

⭕️If the Lord approves you by fire, your enemies will be afraid of you.

 

3.Protection and guidance (Exodus 13:21)

⭕️Wherever God is leading, protection is guaranteed.

⭕️When you know what to do, you don’t panic in the presence of trouble.

 

4.Purifying (Isaiah 6:1-7, Malachi 3:2-3, 2 Kings 12:6)

⭕️The fire of the Lord will purify us so that our lives are pleasing to God all the time.

⭕️It is the fire of the Spirit that kills the desire for sin.

⭕️We must do all we can to desire fire.

 Ezekiel 2:2

⭕️The word of God is not for entertainment; the word of God has a purpose.

⭕️The word of God has power to cleanse. (John 15:3)

⭕️Every time the word of God is coming out, it has ability to heal. It heals the sicknesses of the body, heart and soul. (Acts 10:44, 38)

⭕️The word of God has ability, by the spirit of God, to cause the nature of God to be activated in us.

⭕️The Spirit of God is the catalyst that makes what God has promised to become a reality.

⭕️It is because of the word that even the laying of hands works.

⭕️The anointing is released when words are spoken and when hands are laid.

⭕️You can be imparted with the grace of another man that you have never met, through their words (via their teachings).

⭕️Every time the word of God is received, life is received. (John 6:63)

⭕️Words have ability to bring in a life that is different from the one that we are experiencing right now.

2 Kings 6:28-29, 7:1-2

⭕️There is a difference when you speak out of revelation and when you speak from circumstances.

2 Kings 6:15

⭕️When a person can see beyond circumstances, can see what God has said, that person automatically steps into faith.

⭕️At the point of revelation, faith is automatic.

⭕️When faith is in place, you can step into your possessions.

⭕️Faith will be viewed as problematic to the natural eye.

⭕️When a man of faith is talking it seems like he is detached from reality and yet faith is the highest form of reality because it is born of truth (the word of God).

⭕️What God says about you is what is truly true.

Numbers 14:24

⭕️What you see affects your speech and your speech is what God looks at.

Proverbs 23:7

⭕️Words reveal thoughts and produce thoughts.

⭕️When a person speaks, you can know what they have been thinking.

⭕️What will come out of you in a real situation that presents itself is the real you.

⭕️It is the spirit of faith that speaks the unspeakable and once it is spoken, power is released to do those things.

⭕️To restore is to bring back what was stolen, lost or damaged to the original.

Joel 2:25, Job 20:15, Isaiah 42:22, 2 Kings 8:1-6, Isaiah 40:2

⭕️Restoration takes many forms.

 

⭕️One of the ministries of the Holy Spirit is to inject the spirit of praise.

Isaiah 61:1-3

⭕️The oil of joy will cause a man to praise God and when he praises God, the presence of God will come on the scene and beat down any opposition.

⭕️Whatever is making you sad to keep on complaining is the thing that has cut off God from you.

⭕️God’s judgement will soon be where there is murmuring.

⭕️No matter how genuine your complaints are, He does not expect you to complain. He expects you to look at the little things that are working in your life.

⭕️God expects a “thank you” from you.

⭕️Even if you sleep outside, He still expects you to thank Him for the gift of life.

⭕️Praise is too heavy for an angel to carry; God comes down Himself.

⭕️You can’t claim to have the Holy Spirit in you and joy can’t be shown.

Philippians 4:4, Ephesians 5:20

⭕️Joyless people can never flow with the Spirit.

Acts 16:25, Psalm 103:1, Habakkuk 3:17-18, 2 Chronicles 21:13, Psalm 84:10

 

THE EMBLEMS (SYMBOLS) OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Romans 1:20

⭕️Some of the things God has made carry invisible qualities of God so that from them we can understand certain traits of God.

 

1.THE DOVE (John 1:32)

⭕️The Holy Spirit is not a dove but came on Jesus in the symbolism of a dove.

⭕️We need to understand what a dove represents.

⭕️A dove represents:

a.Approval

⭕️By God coming on Jesus in form of a dove, He was approving Him.

b.Purity (Song of Songs 6:9)

c.Peace (Psalm 55:6)

 

2.OIL (1 Samuel 16:13, Luke 4:18Acts 10:38)

⭕️Oil represents:

a.Light

b.Healing

⭕️What people call deliverance is healing.

⭕️Healing is not limited to diseases.

c.Anointing for service or enthronement

 

 

3.WATER

  (i) The Holy Spirit is also portrayed as a river (John 7:37-39, John 7:38)

  (ii)He is portrayed as rain (Isaiah 44:3)

 

 ⭕️Water signifies:

  a.New life

  b.Cleansing

  c.Refreshing