Author: Pastor David A. Kamanga

WHAT DOES LIGHT SIGNIFY IN THE SCRIPTURES?
1. Light dispels darkness. Luke 10:18, John 1:5, 12:31.
• No matter what a person is facing, when light comes, darkness is dispelled.
2. Light rules. Gen 1:16-19
• Every time a person has light, that person will rule
3. Light quickens (gives life). John 1:4-5,
4. Light is truth.
• Where there is falsehood, you need light.
5. Light is wisdom. Dan 5:11-12
6. Light is God’s presence. Psa 89:15
• The presence of God is the appearance of light.
7. Light is Jesus. John 8:12, 9:5
8. Light is life. Psa 36:9, john 1:4
• Light provides growth, warmth, clarity and victory.

Rom 8:14
– To be led by the spirit is not easy because you usually have to move out of the way to follow His leading.
– You can follow what another man is doing, what is trending, but that is not equal to following the leading of the Spirit.
– What may look profitable today may not be profitable tomorrow, so you need to follow the guidance of the Spirit.
– We must be able to discern because God will not always speak audibly, sometimes He speaks through inspiration to your Spirit.

Mal 2:7
– We serve our way into leadership, into an anointing and grace.
2 Kings 3:11-12
– If you serve an anointing, you must carry an anointing.
– Not every one close to an anointing ends up getting anointed.
2 Kings 2:1, Isa 66:2, 57:15, Num 12:2-7, Exo 33:11, 20, Rom 8 26
– We must preach out of inspiration.
– You know what to preach about through prayer.
– God is only obliged to confirm what He tells you to preach (Isa 44:26).
1 Cor 2:4, John 14:11, Mark 6:2

– Man was named by God, then He entrusted him to name all the animals (Gen 2:19).
– There is a place in the spirit, where our thoughts become the thoughts of God, our ideas become the ideas of God. That is the ideal way of living as a child of God.
– Name means reputation, authority, respect, memorial, glory, monument and fame.
– A name is supposed to live beyond the life of a thing.
– The name was also meant to show you the destiny of a thing.
– A name has a lot to do with your destiny.
– A name carries prophecies and every time people call you, they help to verbalize the prophecy over it.
– There are only two kingdoms, the kingdom of light and darkness.
Deut 28:10, 4:4-7
– When you practice the word, it will produce results which will show that God is with you.
– God is closer to you when your prayers are being answered.
John 3:2, Acts 10:38
– Your prayers being answered is a testimony that God is with you (Exo 33:16-18, 1 Kings 18:24).
Gen 32:26-28, 17:5, Luke 1:31, 1 Kings 21:25
– Curses are released on a name.
Num 6:23-27
– Before the blessing can sit, He is looking at your name.
1 King 10:7, Prov 18:10, 22:1, Eccl 7:1, Mal 1:11, Mat 9:31, 16:13-17, 1 Sam 25:25, 1 Pet 2:9, John 1:46
– The Kingdom of God has a language (Isa 33:24).
– Royalty is usually associated with spirits.
– We have a spirit which teaches us how to behave royal, the Holy Spirit (Rom 8:14-15).
– Royalty lead the way, others follow.

HOW ARE NAMES SPOILT?
1. SIN (Zech 3:1-4)
– A name carries your reputation and sin tampers with your reputation.
– When a name is called, they spirit you are subjected to will appear.
– If you are subjected to demon spirits, they will be the one that will respond and stop your blessing from coming to you.
– If a filthy garment is on you, you are filthy.
– Change of raiment is change of name.
– The Holy Spirit is a catalyst (John 14:16, 26, 1 Cor 2:12, 2 Cor 3:18).
Eph 3:15
– Even God sanctifies His name so that it may be glorified through you (Ezek 36:23).

2. DISOBEDIENCE AND REBELLION.
3. BY THE ENEMY’S LIES AND CONTROVERSIES.
4. PROJECTIONS

HOW DOES ONE HAVE A NEW NAME?
– Change of names has to do with dimensions and realms.
1. When you get born again, your name is changed.
– After that, you can renounce or change it legally if need be. Eph 3:11

2. Service to God done in humility and obedience.
– A committed service will always end in change of name.

3. Prayer that leads to divine encounters (Isa 62:1-2, Gen 32:24-28, Hos 12:2-4)

Luke 21: 15
• If what is on your mouth is the wisdom of God, then it is irresistible.
• What you understand gives you a lot of benefit.
• The tongue has power but many Christians don’t use it, it is the opposite.
• If we receive the wisdom of God and put it on our lips, speak it, stand by what we speak, the enemy cannot resist that and it shall come to pass.
• The wisdom of God is the most superior wisdom.
• Those who stand by the wisdom of God will be the last man standing.
• If we speak the word of God and wisdom of God as it is revealed to us, those words are the words that matter.
Romans 4:17, Isa 51:16
• The word of God empowers our tongues for victory.,
• A closed mouth will always end up in defeat. Isa 44:26
• Your part is to speak and Gods part is to confirm what you are speaking.
John 18:3-6
• Your victory and defeat is in your mouth. Your mouth is not just for eating.
• If you want to change things, you use your mouth.

Psalm 16:4, 74:20
• It is not about what you are confessing to be, it is about where you stand with the God that is behind you.
• Can God entrust you to spread his influence?
• The only way we can escape wickedness in the world is by having a covenant walk with God.
• Not every child of God is walking right with Him.
• Not every child of God can be entrusted by God to do things for Him.
• God wants an open heaven over your life first so that it can attract others to your light.
• Politicians are not the ruling class of a land, they are just agents.
• A spiritual entity is the real ruler of a land.

THE MYSTERY OF NAMES

• It takes a lot more than just speaking to change a name.
Gen 4:4-5
• Your givings, kingdom service, etc. are activities done on the earth, but they rise to God accompanied by your name in the spirit realm.
• The name of a witchdoctor is given to him by a spirit.
Dan 2:10, 12, Psa 105:22, Gen 2:19, 3:20
• A believer that doesn’t have access to the wisdom of God day by day cannot rule anything.
• A name is not meaningless.
• There is something that is invoked every time your name is called.
• The word “name” in Hebrew is shem. It means:
reputation, character, glory, memorial, authority and honour.
• We don’t receive the same attention before God, the attention we receive is based on our name before Him.
• Names come from the spirit realm through men to men.
• Spirits understand the power of names because they were the first to receive names.
• Even God the creator answers to names.
• What was the inspiration behind the name you are answering to?
How do names come about?
• Names come about through inspiration, including circumstances.
• The devil can create certain circumstances around a person’s birth so that the person can have a name based on those circumstances (1 Sam 4:21).
• Don’t casually give a name to your business, take time to pray so that you can receive correct inspiration.
• You might like your name and might want to give it your child but who is inspiring you to do so?
• Would you want your child to live the life that you have lived?
• There is a spirit that answers to the name you are called in the physical realm, you must pay more attention to that (Rev 21:9-12).
Acts 19:5, 12:15, Gen 12:2
• Who are you? What do they call you?
• If you are bearing wrong names, the blessing might not stick on you because your name could be repelling the blessing.
• Jacob’s name caused the blessing his father put upon him not to stick. When his name was changed, everything about him changed (Gen 27:27-30, 32:26-27).
• Prayer is an avenue through which God can change your name.
• Abram’s name was changed to Abraham so that he could carry the blessing (Gen 17:5).
• Isaac was named by God (Gen 18:12).
• Riches, favour, silver, gold, etc. answer to a name (Prov 22:1).
Josh 7:1, 5, 1 Kings 21:25, 19:2, Exo 7:1
• God put His name on anybody that he ever used.
• The problem many people have is that they don’t appear in the place where God changes names.
• Some people’s struggles with prayer are because a spirit that they were given to cannot allow them to be intimate with another spirit.
• Don’t mechanically change your name, it is the mouth of God that should name.
• Names that musicians give themselves are inspired by spirits.
• When your name changes, the claim over your life from another camp changes because you are no longer theirs.
• In the spirit realm, names are keys that open doors.

PRAYER POINT
GOD, GIVE ME HYPER UNDERSTANDING CONCERNING THE MATTER OF NAMES AND HELP ME COME TO A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN CHANGE MY NAME SO THAT I EXPERIENCE NEW THINGS THIS YEAR.

Deut 4:3-5, 8:3 Gal 6:7
• Disobedience may not be punished immediately, just like righteousness might not be rewarded immediately; there is a process.
• Sin and righteousness both have a gestation period.
• You don’t reap on the same day you are sowing, you reap when the harvest is due.
• When you are drifting away from God, you might not even realise it if God doesn’t help you.
• Many Christians don’t read their bibles, the only time they open their bibles is when they come to church.
• When a man doesn’t have the word of God, he has not started living but he is just existing.
• You keep the word of God in your heart by meditating upon it.
• Practicing of the word of God is your wisdom – it is your manifestation of the wisdom of God through you.
• The word of God is the wisdom of God and those who practice it become as wise as God.
• The word of God is the carrier of the life of God (John 6:63).
• All the treasures of life are hidden in the word of God (Mat 13:23-26, Acts 5:20).
• The word of God is not entertainment.
• When you are hearing the word of God, you are hearing life.
• The word of God is creative and powerful (John 1:1-3).
• The word of God has ability to turn a nonentity into somebody that is celebrated.
• The word of God has ability to produce what it talks about.
• The word of God has ability to heal and make healthy (Prov 4:20-22, Psa 107:20).
• Those that always go for the word of God live in divine health.
• A sickly christian that gives himself to prayer and the word of God will no longer be a health concern.
• True deliverance is in the word of God.
Acts 6:4
• The word of God rules both the natural (physical) and spiritual realms.
• Only the word of God can take down demonic installations and structures.
• Don’t confuse yourself by only being a prayer warrior and not being a word warrior.
• No bird can fly with only one wing.
• The word of God and prayer are how we fly as believers.
Acts 20:32
• Don’t neglect the word of God.
• Give yourself a law that if you have not eaten the word of God, you have no right to eat any physical food.
• We have an inheritance in Christ but we can only possess it when we allow ourselves to be built up by the word of God.
• The word of God delivers grace.
• Grace is what makes destiny glorious.
• You can grow in grace by giving yourself to the word of God.
• Increase of grace will result in increase of your power and influence.
• Some things today might look like they are out of your reach because of your current level of growth.
1 Sam 22:2, 1 Chron 4:9-10, 11:1-2
Luke 2:40, 52, 1:68-69, 80
• Don’t worry about what you don’t have.
• Just put yourself on a serious growth diet.
• Don’t allow your growth to be stunted.
• Don’t allow stagnation.
• If you are growing, it doesn’t matter what is surrounding you today, you will overcome it.
• Even favour increases.
• Deliberately choose to grow.
• When you are raised up, you can lift others.
• Anything that kills your hunger for prayer and the word has killed your life.

• God demands and expects thanksgiving from us.
• Not everything is acceptable to God, it must pass the test.
• Understanding is what makes a man to make the most of whatever thing they are involved in.
• Thanksgiving is a very powerful mystery when it comes to dealing with God.
• A mystery is something that is like a secret.
• When we see the things that God has done, when we see his majesty and goodness, its supposed to produce gratitude in us.
• Thanksgiving is the secret of glory. Jere 30:19
• God expects that when He does something, someone should be able to give him thanks for that particular thing.
• Don’t keep hearing and not understanding and applying because what you hear does have understanding until you do it.
• How often do we need mercy? We need mercy every single day.
• There is a great future for a man who is thankful.
• Glory is at the mercy of thanksgiving.
• Greatness is at the mercy of thanksgiving.

What are the mysteries that are in thanksgiving?
1. Thanksgiving provokes increase (Jer 30:19, 1 Cor 3:6)
• God is the master of increase.
• If a man wants to see increase, he must follow thanksgiving.
• If you remain the realm of facts, your life will always be limited.
• Prayer is not the mystery for increase, it is the mystery that shows you the mystery that engenders increase.
• Prayer is what helps us to access solutions to our challenges.

2. Thanksgiving creates an atmosphere for the miraculous (Acts 16:25, John 11:40)
• Thanksgiving is an invitation.
• When you have given thanks, you can call certain things and they will come to you.

3. Thanksgiving provokes divine visitation and encounters (Psa 100:1-4)
• You enter into the gates of God with thanksgiving to encounter him.
4. Thanksgiving establishes you into realms
• When God promises something to you, thanksgiving will make you get into what He has promised and you will be established there.

5. Thanksgiving brings deliverance (2 Chron 20:22, Psa 3:2, 91:7, Acts 16:25-26)
6. Thanksgiving causes the righteous to flourish in all seasons (Psa 92:1, 9-12)
7. Thanksgiving gives access to fresh anointing (Psa 92:10)
8. Thanksgiving makes a person to scale new heights (Hab 3:19)
9. Thanksgiving is what qualifies our prayers for answers.

How do we express our thanksgiving?
1. By words of appreciation / praises.
2. Serve God with your time, resources.
3. By the demonstration of praises (singing, dancing, clapping, etc).
4. By presenting our offerings, gifts, presents unto God (1 Kings 3:3)

• The challenge most children of God have is that they hear the word of God but don’t apply it.
• The word of God doesn’t help anyone without application.
• The word of God makes you wise when you apply it.
2 Tim 3:15, Deut 2:22-24
• Wherever you are not in charge, you are lacking the wisdom that will put your in charge.
Col 1:16, 2 Cor 12:2, 2 Chron 2:6, Eph 6:12
• Most believers think all they can see is all there is.
• Rank matters in the spirit realm
• The real ruler of a territorial is not the person you can see in the earth realm.
• When the spirit realm has been properly handled, the earth realm will line up.
• In Deuteronomy 2:24, What God was saying to the Israelites was that He had dealt with the spirit that was backing Sihon and so they could easily possess his land.
• When you are born again, you are more than flesh and blood.
• The place of a born again man in the spirit realm is higher than the place of satan.
Gen 1:26, Col 3:1
• The things which are above will put you in dominion.
Luke 22:31-32
• Prayers you pray at night are not the same.
• Things are determined in the spirit realm.
• If you have victory in the spirit realm, you will have victory on earth.
• If your money is released in the spirit realm, it will flow cheaply on earth.
• If favour is released in the spirit realm, you will enjoy it on earth.
• If marital bliss is released in the spirit realm, you will have it on earth.
• Having access to the spirit realm is victory.

Gen 1:1-5, Eccl 8:4

• God used light to change the chaos that was there in the beginning.
• When God speaks, it is the Spirit that turns what He has spoken into material reality.
• The Spirit is the executor of what God says.
• There is also a negative spirit that goes to do what is spoken.
• What you speak matters.
• The mouth was primarily given to us by God for speaking, eating is a secondary function.
• Speaking is shaping destiny.
• We shape destiny with our mouths.
• When we speak the word of God, we empower the Spirit of God and his angels to make it come to pass.
• When we speak negative words under the influence of the enemy, we allow the dark kingdom to use our words to destroy our destinies.
2 Cor 4:18, Num 13:28-33
• Moses never sent the 12 spies to go and look at the people that were dwelling in the promised land.
• There are things we shouldn’t look at as part of the discipline of faith in order to achieve what we want to achieve.
• There are things we shouldn’t say as part of the discipline of faith in order to achieve what we want to achieve.
• Be careful what you look at (consider as important).
• Circumstances have their own report and the word of God has its own report, whose report will you believe?