Author: Pastor David A. Kamanga

Ps 75:1, Deut 4:5-8
• Thanksgiving is a spiritual mystery.
• God is worthy of our thanks.
• The things God does for us require understanding if we are ever going to give Him satisfactory thanksgiving.
• Most of the things God does for us are not seen.
• Because of the 3-dimensional world we live in, we react quicker to things we can see.
• You will be more thankful when your car narrowly escapes being hit by another car because you can see it.
• There have been many attacks on your life that God cancels by His intervention without you ever knowing.
• God can’t show us everything He does for us.
• God in His wisdom has so many secrets.
• Just like how there are certain images parents would not want their children to see because of the effect that can have on their minds, God won’t show you every failed attack of the enemy over your life so that you don’t end up living in fear.
• When God tells you to do something, He doesn’t have to explain himself.
• Walking by faith is not by analysing.
• Walking by faith is purely by trusting God.
• Walking in faith appears as foolishness to human reasoning.
• We need the help of the Holy Spirit to give God thanks.
• Mercy gives us an advantage, a platform where God relates with us.
• Our relationship with God helps us overcome the forces of darkness.
• Anything you do for God such as prayer, fasting is not by your own ability, it is by God’s help.
• God’s help can’t be quantified.
• For the rest of our lives, we have a perpetual debt of thanksgiving to God.
• In the school of divine direction, no human being has ever gotten 100% all the time. There are times when we can miss the way.
• During those times when we miss direction, God’s mercy is there to save us from disaster.
• Mercy is a second level of intervention.
Gen 32:9-10, Deut 8:18, Phili 2:27
• Thanksgiving is also a proof of your faith.
Jer 30:19

Ezek 36:10-15, 35
• Land, a house, a field can have a problem on it that is causing people to be sick and die.
• When you are under a curse, everything else is fighting you.
• Enemies are able to get at you when you are under a curse.
• The blessing shields you.
Num 22:6
• As long as you are covered by the blessing, the enemy has nothing on you.
• The words God speaks over a person and over a land become defense and the key to the fruitfulness being enjoyed.
• The words of the Lord empower.
• When God has promised something, our job is to pray it into manifestation.
• Satan also hears words of prophecies and opposes them.
Exo 1:7, 1 Cor 16:9
• When you hear a prophetic word and do nothing about it, you will be frustrated.
• What God has said will be done in your life if you do your part.
• Prophecy requires enforcement. It needs to be enforced into fulfillment.
• It is in the interest of the enemy to make sure God’s word over your life isn’t fulfilled.
1 Kings 18:1
• There is a responsibility on the person on whose head there are prophecies.
• One of these responsibilities is to pray those prophecies into manifestation.
Heb 10:7
• There is a lot of spiritual relaxation amongst children of God.
• Things don’t just happen by themselves, you must enforce changes.
1 Sam 1:27
• When you have received a burden from the Lord, are you able to separate yourself? This can tell you if you are able to cause changes.
• Men change when they are alone with God (Gen 32:24).
Rom 15:4, Est 4:16
• Nobody is coming to change that situation of yours for you.
• No matter how much a man of God prays for you in order for your situation to change, you still have to play your part in order for things to change.
• Take a stand, fight for what you believe.
• Fight for your prophecy.
Job 14:14, 42:10
• Don’t water down your dreams because of circumstances.
Gen 26:21-22
• No prayer is wasted.
Luke 18:1

• Our thought life is actually our life.
• We gravitate towards our most dominant thoughts.
• How we tend to do things is based on how we think.
• No one does things without thinking.
• What you hear affects how you think.
• Overflow will mean nothing if you don’t change your thinking to line up with it.
• If you want to have a new life, have new thoughts.
• New thoughts will lead to a new life.
• If you want to have new thoughts, listen to new things.
• If you don’t change your mind, you can’t have a new life.
• Having christians in positions of power won’t change anything.
• It is not christians that will change things while in positions of power but people that are kingdom-minded.
• Jesus came to introduce the kingdom life.
• Being a christian doesn’t mean you are living the kingdom life.
• After becoming a christian, you must enter the kingdom life.
• A person who is controlled by God in speech, behaviour and every other area of life is someone that will cause changes around.
• The worldly system is controlled by demonic spirits.
• When you first get into a system, the system will try to initiate you into its way of doing things.
• When Daniel and his colleagues arrived in Babylon, the Babylonians tried to initiate them into their system by making them eat their food. Daniel and his colleagues refused to be a part of that system.
Dan 1:20

STEPPING INTO THE SUPERNATURAL OVERFLOW
• God’s method of doing things is that He announces what He is about to do before He does it and wherever what He has spoken is believed, there is manifestation.
• Supernatural – anything that is outside the natural realm, not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws.
• Overflow – a large flow (flood, outpouring), an occurrence of surplus exceeding limit or capacity.

2 Kings 3:17, Amos 9:13-14
• Supernatural overflow is not limited to one area.
• God’s pleasure is to be believed.
• There are many selfish people in the community.
• Don’t expect non-believers to do good for God’s kingdom.
• God wants you to prosper because you will advance his kingdom when you do.
• The church is the hope for the community.
• If there were many people with a heart for the community, plenty will have changed in the community.
• God is counting on you to partner with Him and do good.
• The kingdom of God will advance by God’s people and not anybody else.
• If God’s people are not empowered, they will have limited God.
Neh 2:20

EXAMPLES OF OVERFLOW IN THE BIBLE
1. Building of the tabernacle (Exo 36:5-7)
2. Lev 26:8-10, Josh 23:10
3. The prophet’s widow (2 Kings 4:1-6)
4. The widow of Zarephath (1 Kings 17:13-15)
5. Solomon made silver like dust in Jerusalem (1 Kings 10:27)
6. The siege in Samaria (2 Kings 6:25 – 7:10)
7. Jehoshaphat on the battle field (2 Kings 20:25-26)

• Behind any overflow, there is a supernatural increase.
Exo 34:24, Eze 36:11
• In supernatural overflow, God deals with enemies of increase.
• If your family is increasing but your financial resources are not increasing, it is an error.
• If you’re struggling to feed one child, don’t have another one until something changes.
• God’s way of multiplying is to multiply both people and resources.
• If we’re just labouring to make our families eat, are we sure we can expand the kingdom of God?
Psa 89:20-21, Rom 1:11, 1 Kings 1:39, Ps 65:11 (NLT)

1 Cor 3:6, Psa 71:21
• God is responsible for every increase.
• People can’t stay in the increase they come into because they ignore what God said about increase and do not recognise Him.
• First fruit is the first portion of every increase.
• Tithe is 10% of what God has blessed you with e.g salary.
• The first crops or fruits to ripen in your field is your first fruit.
• According to God, the first born of every person or animal belongs to Him.
• If you have six goats, the first goat that is born from those six goats is your first fruit.
• If you have planted tomatoes, the first tomatoes to ripen are your first fruit.
• If you have a plantation of bananas, the first bananas to ripen are your first fruit. You could have 1000 plants but you will notice those that are the first to ripen and those will be your first fruit. You can either sell those first bananas and give the money as first fruit or give the bananas directly.
• If you have built flats and put tenants in those flats, the first rentals you collect are your first fruit.
• When you start your day with God, that is giving Him the first fruit of your time (day).
• If you have been doing wrong in the area of first fruits, the most important step is to ask God for forgiveness and take a new path.
• The concept of first fruit was for people to realise that in all their labours, it is God who gives increase.
• The first fruit belongs to God, not your biological parents.
Exo 23:16, 19, 34:26, Lev 23:10, 17, 20, 2 Kings 4:42
• First fruit is acknowledging the God responsible for the increase in your life.
• Acknowledgement is shown by our actions.
Prov 3:1-10, Eze 44:30
• REST means to settle down and remain.
• When you enjoy a good thing for a short while and it goes away, that is not rest.
• When God causes increase to rest in your life, it means the increase will settle down and remain in your life.

In summary, some of the the first fruits you should give to God:
1. Your first born
2. The first part of your day
3. First salary
4. Salary increase or promotion at work
5. First business increase (profit)
6. First fruits / crops to ripen
7. First animal to be born from your livestock

• There is power in giving your first to God, including the part of your day.
• Before you can go out to do anything else, give the first part of that day to God.
• It is more difficult to sustain good things.
• Be careful with success, be careful with good things if you are not ready to sustain them.
• Going backwards is not good.
• When you move forward, the bridges you crossed should not still be there as a backup in case you want to go back.
• The only bridges that should be there are the ones you are yet to cross.
• There is a tendency in many people to forget.
• If you maintain the “new-comer” mentality in some areas, you will always see miracles.
• God is behind increase.
• satan is against the increase of good things from God.
• When you have an increase, satan will come to resist you so that the increase doesn’t happen again.
• Many times, our actions don’t show that God is the one responsible for the increase in our lives.
• Have you dedicated your first-born to God?
• Your first-born is a first fruit and belongs to God (Exo 13:6).
• Remove all the attachment you have to your first-born, he/she is not yours. Let the will of God be done in their life.
• Remove all plans / attachments to your first fruit, it doesn’t belong to you.
• God is behind every increase that happens in a child of God’s life and He must be recognised with thanksgiving in practical ways.
• If you started a tomato business in which you bought a box of tomato at K100 and sold it at K120, that K20 profit is your first increase / first fruit in that business and therefore it does not belong to you.
• Tithe is one tenth (10 %) of your income all the time while first fruit is the the first portion of your increase, the first time you get it.
• Your salary was K10 last year and this year you’re promoted and begin to earn K11. That K1 is your first fruit and therefore it all belongs to God. In the months that follow, you continue to give your tithe as usual.
• Honour doesn’t only give you access but makes you stay in the access you’ve been given.
• First-fruit is about your honour to God (Prov 3:9-10)
• If you plant oranges, tomatoes, etc. the first harvest doesn’t belong to you.
• When you get a job, the first salary of that job doesn’t belong to you but belongs to God.
• If the first fruit is well received, the rest is blessed (Rom 11:16).
Lev 23:9-10, Eze 44:30
• The first fruit is divine wisdom.
• Devils come to confuse people so that they don’t practice first fruit right from the start.
• What makes a person to stay in a realm is what they do with the first.
• If you’re wondering why you can’t stay (rest / settle) in the realm of good things you have been brought into, it is because of what you do with the first.
• If you’re wondering why your day doesn’t settle, it is because you don’t give God the first part of your day.
• Starting your day by giving it to God is giving Him the first fruit of your time.
• You don’t remember God at 12am,after having done other things first.

• In business, the first profit from your business doesn’t belong to you. After you have given your entire first profit as first fruit, continue to calculate your tithe from your profits.
• In farming, the first harvest from your crops or livestock doesn’t belong to you.
• When your business is not yet making profit, the issue of tithe and first fruit does not come into play.
• YOU DON’T TITHE OUT OF YOUR BUSINESS CAPITAL.
• So it is better to start your business with wisdom, pay a tithe from the money you are starting business with.
• If your business is stuck and not making profit over a period of time, you need to inquire from God about what you can do to break that siege. He may even tell you to sacrifice.
• God’s desire is for your business to make time.
• If you have an employee who is stealing from you and maybe even modifying financial records, as a business owner you must fire them. Your financial records should be in order so that you know what you are giving to God.
• If you’re running a business with a partner where you have agreed to be splitting profits, your first fruit should come from your own portion of the profits because it is you wants to honour God. Don’t scam your business partner.
• If a non-believer practices the principles of the word of God, he will succeed.
• Your first fruit should be labelled as such because there are blessings that will be spoken over it.
• In this part of the world, one of the challenges we have is that people haven’t been taught honour.
• To delay your tithe is a trap, give it whenever there is an opportunity.
• The devil will try to cause impossible situations to make you not to obey God in your givings.
• If your relative is sick and you have just calculated your tithe,give your tithe first. It is the same God who can touch that sick person (Mat 6:33).
• Let’s stop aborting new levels.
• Demons take advantage when certain things are not in place.
• Ask God for help to practice this because the enemy will try to resist you.
• When the grace for giving comes upon you, it will seem as if you were born a giver and you will receive as freely as you give out.
• Life is about giving and receiving.
• If you ate food but don’t want to go to the toilet, you don’t have room to receive more food.

Gen 1:1-3, Psa 104:24, Prov 8:10-12, 22-30, 4:1-7
• Divine wisdom created us and the things we see.
1 Kings 4:29-34,
• The wisdom of Egypt included keeping people in bondage and limitation – keeping them in a box.
• The wisdom of Egypt hinders you from serving God.
• The wisdom of Egypt wants you to serve God only with your mouth but not your resources.
Exo 7:9-12
• The wisdom of God is an excelling wisdom.
• When you talk about wisdom,you are talking about light (Isa 60:3).

WHAT IS DIVINE WISDOM?
1. That raw gift of God to his children (Prov 13:22, Dan 1:17, 20, 2 Peter 3:15)
• How can God be wise and never give that wisdom as an inheritance to his children?

2. The wisdom that the Holy Ghost teaches (1 Cor 2:13)
• When the Holy Ghost is teaching you, He is teaching you wisdom.

3. The manifestation of the wisdom of God in the life of a man (Acts 6:3, 10)

4. The applied knowledge of truth from our study of the word and from focused meditation (Mat 7:24-25, Psa 119:97-100, 1 Tim 4:13)

Psa 18:11, Exo 20:21
• Satan can’t study God but we can study satan and his tactics.
• You can’t gather sufficient information about God to be able to defeat Him.

5. A product of operating with the mind of Christ (1 Cor 2:16, Dan 5:11-12)
• The presence of the Spirit of God connotes wisdom.
• When we access the wisdom of God, we are truly accessing the light of God.
• The power of light is also seen in the power of wisdom because wisdom is light.

Mat 3:16-4:2, Luke 4:14, Mat 4:12-16, Isa 9:1-2
• The purpose of the great light is to rule (Gen 1:16).

WHAT IS THE POWER OF LIGHT?
1. Light swallows the power of darkness (John 1:5)
2. Light empowers rising and distinction in life and destiny (Isa 60:1)
• It is only possible to arise when your light has come.
3. Light destroys the power of death (Isa 9:1-2, Mat 4:13-17, 2 Kings 2:19-21)

Luke 10:38-42
• Many times, the reason why people do not succeed in many endeavours they are involved in is broken focus.
• Every single day when you wake up in the morning, there will be a lot of things competing for your attention but we don’t apply ourselves equally to all those things because they don’t rate the same.
• You can find somebody doing a lot of things which don’t contribute their future because they lack wisdom.
• Whenever you see people succeed, it’s because they have discovered where they’re going and have decided not to be masters of many things but that one thing they are passionate about.
• When you discover things that are important, it is wisdom to prioritise them.
Mat 18:1-4, Titus 2:3-5, 1 Tim 4:7, Gen 18:12
• As far as God is concerned, when you stop learning, you have grown old.
• Take lessons quickly.
• Begin to plead for mercy from God so that you may never be irrelevant when He wants to do things.
1 Kings 19:18
• If you are going to participate in the things that are happening in the kingdom, you must have a child-like mentality.
Isa 43:18-19
• Child-like faith is what births new things.
Luke 11:9-11

CHARACTERISTICS OF CHILDREN
1. Children easily forgive and forget
2. Children are innocent
3. Children are imaginative (full of imaginations)
4. Children believe easily and their faith is genuine
• When God promises something in His word, take it as it is.
5. Children are worry-free and carefree
6. Children are eager to learn
7. Children are very creative
8. Children are teachable
9. Children are joyful
10. Children are full of love
11. Children don’t overwhelm their spirits by over-reasoning
12. Children are playful and full of dreams
13. Children have unlimited energy
14. Children are hungry for new things
15. Children are persistent

What is it about children that God expects us to have?
1. Believe God’s word just like it is, without prejudice
• Children don’t judge the words of their parents.
• Believe God’s word, your feelings and previous experiences not withstanding.

2. Have faith in God out of a pure conscience.
• Don’t condemn yourself.
• Faith must come out of a pure conscience, your heart shouldn’t be condemning you.
• When faith isn’t out of a pure conscience, it is contaminated.
• Children’s faith and belief in their parents is pure.

What should faith in God based out of a pure conscience do?
a. Be imaginative and creative about the future painted by the promises of God.
b. Talk about the promises of God easily and without shame.
• Children don’t feel ashamed to talk about what they were promised.
c. Think about it and speak right according to the word of God
d. Be insistent / persistent

3. Have a teachable and ready-to-learn spirit
• Can you be trained and retrained?
• Don’t be incorrigible.
• Are you trainable?

4. Be an imitator of God the way children easily imitate parents (Eph 5:1, 1 Cor 11:1)

• To enthrone is to place on a throne in recognition of authority and / or influence.
Exo 4:12, 22-23, 28
• Destiny becomes complicated to fulfill when satan fills up a position meant to be filled by your Aaron with a wrong person.
• When your helpers are stirred and motivated by God, they will stick with you no matter what they hear about you.
• When God stirs the hearts of your helpers, they will go through danger for your sake.
• You don’t need every man.
• Enthronement can’t be established with divine wisdom.
• Behind the reigning of a king, there must be wisdom.
Exo 7:1, 9-12, Isa 47:12-13
• Many people don’t know that praying in tongues is one of those ways in which to access the wisdom of God.
• Many suffer because they take prophecy casually.
• The kingdom of darkness doesn’t take prophecy casually. It’s a statement about your future and if you can pursue it, you can become.
• The kingdom of darkness will fight you because of prophecy.
• Your enemies have also heard that you have been enthroned.
• The wisdom of God founded the earth (Psa 104:24).
Gen 27:28, Psa 24:1
• The wisdom of God founded the earth (Psa 104:24).
• It is spirits that rule indirectly over the affairs of the earth.

• Divine wisdom will save us from many catastrophes the enemy intends for us.
• The foundation for accessing the wisdom of God is the fear of God.
• If the devil makes sure that you are not standing properly with God, he can be very sure that he can stop anything else.
• If he has planted something in you that makes you sin easily, you become a cheap target.
• The devil is taking advantage of something that you have allowed.
• If the devil can still have a hold over your life, he will make it very hard.
• There are many young people that can invent things that will make them millions but they can’t have inspiration because the devil has clogged their minds.
• They can’t have inspiration because all their idle time is used for nonsense.
• You don’t know what God can do through you if you allow Him to use your mind.
• Daniel and his colleagues chose not to defile themselves (Dan 1:8).
• You are not just a statistic, God wants to do great things through your life.
• Joseph had the fear of God and that is why divine wisdom flowed through him (Gen 42:18).