Author: Pastor David A. Kamanga

Exodus 3:18, 5:3
• Sacrifice is the cure for the sword and pestilence of the enemy.
• The power of the sword refers to battles.
• There is a higher power that sacrifice releases.
• Until your devotion with God comes to a level of sacrifice, you have not yet started communing with Him.
• Most villages in Africa have a priest that is appointed to service the shrine by offering sacrifices, etc.
• When they have good harvest, they attribute it to their gods.
John 12:24
• Sacrifice is what brings about a new realm of fruitfulness and multiplication.
• If the seed doesn’t die there is no future.
Mat 20:21-23
• Whether it is in the kingdom of darkness or the kingdom of God, sacrifice brings people into more power than anything else.
• God and satan will both commit more power to those who are sacrificial.
• The problem most christians have is that the devil has made it that we should not cross certain lines because we are not willing to sacrifice a little to cross them.
• If you’re vying for a certain authority and are not willing to sacrifice to get there while your contenders are sacrificing, they will get there because their sacrifice will speak louder.
• A man that is dying today can have a new lease of life because of sacrifice.
2 Kings 3:17-18, 27
• Not everything answers to prayer.
• Nothing is secure until it is secured by God.
• If devilish people do certain things which show commit to their god while you don’t do anything, you will be defeated.
• There are certain things you do unto that God you claim you love that He prompts you to do. When you do that, even devils are afraid of you.
• If you refuse to donate your life, very soon you will be on your own.
• Many christians have left nothing and so there are certain realms that they can’t access (Mark 10:29).
• If Jesus refused to pay the sacrifice, He wouldn’t have become what He is today.
• Power is generated on the altar of sacrifice.
• Sacrifice is a token of your faith in the finished work of Jesus.
Phili 3:10, Mat 17:21, Mark 10:29
• Why should the God you don’t sacrifice to defend you?
• God does not step into our affairs anyhow the way people think.
• There are laws that govern the spirit realm.
• If non-believers have done the right thing while you have done the wrong thing, they will prevail. This is why many christians are unprofitable.
• We can’t draw power because we are attached to things.
• What is it that God can ask you that you can easily give?
• Before God can ask you for anything He is first asking for you.
Est 4:16

Gen 37:15-19
• We live in a dreamer’s world.
• Can any man cause himself to dream? No.
Jer 29:11
• God has a plan for every one of us, it is our duty to discover it.
• The plan God has for you is called your purpose.
• If the plan is with God, it means you need to get it from God through His ordained systems.
• A person who is not born again is far from discovering their purpose.
• What we call purpose is actually God’s vision for you.
• VISION, not ambition.
Hab 2:1-2
• God will assess you based on what He has given to you as vision.
• A vision can be a product of desire, dreams, imagination and divine encounters.
• Only those with dreams dominate their world.
• Those who do not have dreams live carelessly (Prov 29:18)
• Vision sets the pace for your destination.
• Vision is what makes a person to be precise about why he lives.
• When he wakes up in the morning, this is what drives him.

How do I discover my purpose?
1. Giftings / talents (2 Kings 4:1-7, Mat 13:44-46, Luke 19:13-18)
• Check in your heart and go on a search.
• Find the talent and gift inside you and around you.
• God has given each one of us talents.
• Your talent will give you space among the greats.

2. Identify your passion
• What are you passionate about? It could be an indication of your purpose.
• Your passion could be an indication of what you came here for.
• Moses had already been driven by the passion to set the Israelites free, long before God appeared to Him.
• Nehemiah had a passion to see the house of God rebuilt.
• Many are waiting to be spoken to by God when they already have passion inside them.

• Passion could be something that you like doing or something that makes you feel unhappy when you see it e.g pain when you see children living on the streets.

3. Knowing your calling

Why is it important to seek vision?
1. It is the way to escape perishing (Prov 29:18)
2. To secure your destiny (Prov 14:12)
• If you don’t know what you are supposed to do, anything will look right to you.

3. Vision is higher than your own plan (Jer 29:11, Isa 55:8)

4. In order for you to have divine backing (1 Thess 5:24)
• When He is the one who has shown you what you should be doing, He will help you to fulfill it.

5. You enjoy angelic ministration and guidance (Exo23:20)
• When you have located vision, you are entitled to be guided by angels to get there.

6. You enjoy favour (Gen 39:5-6)

Characteristics of a vision from God.
1. Every vision from God drives the visionary
• Every morning, you wake up with energy to pursue the vision.
• Wherever you see carelessness, it is either someone has not discovered their vision or has not developed the ability to pursue it.

2. It gives you confidence (Acts 26:19)
3. Every true vision guarantees results once pursued (1 Kings 8:15)
4. Divine presence (Psa 23:1-6)

Luke 18:1, Rev 4:1
• There is an enemy called the devil whose job in heaven was to be a covering cherub.
• In most cases, many people are covered.
• Vision is not a once and for all thing.
• From time to time you will need corrections.
• You can never have these corrections if you are not a seeker of God.
• As a child of God, if you are prayerless, confusion will be your portion.
• You need to be prayerful and full of the word so that you keep hearing when He speaks.
• Don’t have an excuse that you are young, keep doing the right things.
Acts 9:5
• Prayer fuels visions and revelations (Jer 33:3), it gets you closer to your vision.
• You might not know right now, but as you pray, even the hidden talents you had will be uncovered.
• Don’t say “everyone is doing it,” you are not everybody.
• When you don’t have a vision, anybody can lead you in whichever direction.
• What is called vision is also called your assignment.
• When you locate your assignment you have also located all the money that you need.

Isa 54:1, 49:8, 13-14, Ezek 36:8-15
• The present is a reflection of the decisions made yesterday while tomorrow will be a reflection of the decisions made today.
• If you don’t see the picture of what God is doing so that you can line up, you will remain in the same state.
• There is a positioning we need to get to in order for certain things to flow.
• Your present circumstances are not an issue to God, He is looking at your tomorrow.
God’s dealings with you are based on your future.
• Your future is already past tense to God.
• When your position changes, those that used to see you somewhere will miss you for a while until they see you in your glorified place.
• Every enthronement has a grooming season.
• Nobody rises to become a king without grooming.
Luke 1:80, 1 Sam 2:8, Psa 75:6-7

HOW DO I POSITION MYSELF FOR ENTHRONEMENT?
1. PRACTICAL RIGHTEOUSNESS
(Psa 45:6-7, Prov 14:34, Isa 58:2, 8, 62:1, 2 Chron 7:13-16, Zec 3:1-4, Rom 1:4, Isa 11:3)
• To live right is a choice.
• You cannot be a candidate for lifting while living anyhow.
• Purity makes something to be of more value.
• Sin corrupts.
• Sin erodes value.
• When man was in the garden, he was a creature of high value until sin debased him.
• The first thing that shows when God wants to lift a man is righteousness because it shows the stand that man has with God.
• When your righteousness rises, you rising is unstoppable.
• Repenting of those things that displease the Lord should be part of your prayer & fasting.

2. FAITH IN GOD (Job 14:14)
• Have faith that God is the lifter of men, changer of stories and that He is about to lift you and change your story.

3. THE KEY OF HUMILITY AND SUBMISSION (1 Pet 5:6, Jam 4:10, Isa 57:15, Mat 23:12, Prov 11:2, Phili 2:5-11)

4. THE KEY OF OBEDIENCE (Deut 28:1-3, 13, Gen 12:1-4)
• Obedience is a lifter.
• When you obey, you are on your way to the top.
• Obedience may not be convenient but it is very profitable.

5. FAITHFULNESS AND LOYALTY (Luke 16:10-12, Mat 25:21, Ruth 2:11-12, Dan 10:12, Mal 3:16-17)
• Faithfulness is being at something at all times.
• Your faithfulness in small things will lead to liftings.
• If you cannot give God his 10% from K100, will you do it from K1000?
• We practice faithfulness in small things in order to be entrusted with big things.
• Check their character.
• Don’t be moved by tongues.
• Everybody can pray in tongues, it is a gift of the Spirit.
• Character is not a gift.
• When God tells you to do something, keep doing it until He tells you to stop.

6. KINGDOM SERVICE (Mal 3:16-17)
7. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF DIVINE OPPORTUNITIES (Gen 40:8, 41:14, 1 Sam 17:17)

8. DIVINE TIMING (Eccl 3:1, John 2:1-4)
9. PRAYER (Isa 40:31, 1 Chron 4:9-10)
10. SACRIFICE

1 Sam 21:1-3
• The person that you have an offence with holds your blessing.
Mat 5:23-24, Mat 18:22
• Forgiveness comes from the supreme law of love.
• Love is the master key to all manner of breakthroughs you are looking for.
• The things that hinder people are small things.
• Your own house help at home whose salary you have withheld for several months could be the stumbling block to your breakthrough.
SOS 2:15

THE IMPORTANCE OF PROMPT RESPONSE TO DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS
• After God has given you an instruction, it is useless if you can’t act fast.
Deut 28:1-3
• It is prompt response to the stirrings of the Spirit that brings about change of story (John 5:1-4).
• Many people act late and they miss their time of change.
• Every prophetic word requires a quick response.
• Faith is now.
• Every instruction requires prompt response if it is going to deliver fully and with maximum results.
Gen 22:1-3, 16-17, 17:22-23
• Sometimes our breakthroughs are wasted because of the way we respond.
John 2:4-9
• When you take long to act, you may forget the instruction and even lose the zeal you had to carry it out.
• Divine instructions are not always logical, they go against the way we do things and appear to be an inconvenience so they require the help of God to do them.
Neh 1:1-11
• Many christians act after God has left.
• There are spirits that resist obedience to divine instructions and that’s why you need the help of God to override their resistance.

PRAYER POINT:
FATHER, BY YOUR MERCY, EMPOWER ME FOR PROMPT OBEDIENCE TO DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS.
[1 Sam 21:1-3, 9, Gen 22:1-3, 16-17, 17:22-23, John 2:4-9]

• Priests are separated to serve spirits.
Num 6:23-27
• Don’t allow anyone to say anything to you.
• Spirits don’t want you to speak anything, they inspire what you say and when you say it, they confirm.
• Priests where never given land in the old testament, their lands where dotted among the tribes because each tribe needed a priest (Deu 10:9).
• Giving a man of God is giving to God (Num 18:8).
• A spirit of a person can come on a person through a name.
• When a name is given, there is a spirit behind it.
Gen 49:3-4, Deu 33:6

• God’s desire is for every person that becomes born-again to come to the point of a covenant.
• In the demonic world, satan also wants people to come to the point of covenant.
Psa 74:20
• Many business people and even politicians in this part of the world have their personal witch doctor while many Christians are naked in the spirit.
• If your pastor is standing at the same level you’re standing then you’re finished.
• Sacrifice is the pathway to covenant.
• We should offer ourselves to God as living sacrifices daily – that is being dead to you, your own desires and wishes while allowing God in your life.
• The church has not been taught about sacrifice and they are trying to meet people who are heavily sacrificial.
Mark 10:28-30
• You can’t have a new dimension in the absence of sacrifice.
• Indiscipline is the major undoing of most christians, they are very irresponsible.
• Diabolical people are very disciplined.
Luke 16:12
• What have you left for God’s sake?
• You want a new level but what are you leaving to get to that new level?
• Diabolical people are putting things on their altar while many have put nothing on the altar they want to defend them.
• Until we become serious with God we are not ready for a new level.
• When sacrifice is consistent, it becomes a covenant.
Gen 22:16-17
• Every time you are praying, they can see that you are praying and they strengthen themselves on their evil altars but what are you doing?
• Some people only have a record that they USED TO serve God.
• God will never ask you to give to Him when you have no needs because your heart will not be tested (Gen 21:1-2).
• Your sacrifice is your token of faith in His sacrifice.
• Your faith must be anchored in the power of God.

Deut 32:10-14, Psa 32:8, Isa 48:17, 23:1, 2 Sam 5:18-20
• To be led is a choice, you must choose to be led by God.
• The master key to divine breakthroughs is God’s leading.

CHANNELS BY WHICH GOD LEADS US
1. His word (Psa 119:105)
2. Through the voice of the Holy Spirit (Rom 8:14, Acts 13:2)
3. Through visions, dreams and revelations (Acts 22:6-10, Joel 2:28, Dan 2:17-19, Gen 37:9)
4. Through the witness of the Holy Spirit with our spirit (Acts 16:6-7)
• Peace is how you can test that it is God leading you.
5. Through prophetic direction
(Hos 12:10-13, Exo 3:22, 12:35-36, 2 Kings 7:1, 8:1, 1 Kings 17:13)

• As long as you are a sheep, you are entitled to be led by God (Psa 23:1).
• If you are stubborn, you are a goat.
• To be led requires meekness.
• In the school of divine direction, correction is a major course.
• Be ready to be corrected.
• Forget about what the people will think when you are corrected.
• Our common sense must become common nonsense when God is leading us (Luke 5:4-6).
• Not every open door is God’s door.
• Don’t allow your situation to make you follow your own way, don’t help God.

PRAYER POINT:
LORD, I AM THE SHEEP OF YOUR PASTURE. I AM ENTITLED TO DIVINE LEADING. HELP ME TO ACCESS YOUR LEADINGS 24/7 WHILE BAPTISING ME WITH A FRESH BAPTISM OF MEEKNESS.
[PSALM 23:1]

• The subject of divine guidance starts with salvation (John 10:27).
• When you are born again, divine guidance starts.
• It starts with you discovering your purpose.
• Every human being was born for a reason, a plan that God has them.
• The duty of a human being is to discover that plan from God and begin to walk in it.
• Even after you have discovered the plan and are walking in it, you need to keep checking with God so that you remain in the plan.
• Divine guidance is a non-negotiable issue.
• God will judge people based on the plan He had for them – whether they walked in it or not.
• None of us should think it’s alright to live any way that we want.
• Do you know God’s plan for your life?
• All the benefits of scripture are dependent on us being in the pathway God has for us.
• Christians that are mature die to self.
• The more mature you are as a christian, the more you will desire to be led than do what you want for yourself.
• God’s plan for your life is not ambition, it is called vision and it is supposed to be revealed to you.
• You cannot demand for a salary from an employer who has not employed you, even if you were doing work.
• Don’t mistake doing work for being in God’s plan.
• Vision is not a once and for all thing.
• You are supposed to be have several revelations of the same, according to the stage of your life you are at.
• The way to realising your vision is what we call divine guidance.
• There is a path that leads to fulfillment of your vision, stage by stage.
• Divine guidance is a lifelong journey and we need it every single day.
• God’s leading is the highway to our high places (Deut 28:1).
• No matter how difficult what God is telling you to do is, it is meant for your lifting.
• Goodness and mercy usually follow every believer led by God. (Psalm 23:1, 6)
• Following His leading puts us in command of the supernatural (Mark 16:15-16, 20).
• Every time you are following His leading, you are in command of signs and wonders (John 2:5, 6-13)

Deut 5:32-33
• Divine leading brings about divine protection (Exo 23:20).
• When you are in His way, you are protected.
• It doesn’t mean that when you are in His way you won’t face things, you will face them but you will be protected.
• Divine protection preserves (Psalm 23:4, Gen 26:2, 12).
• The safest place to be is the place that God has guided you to.
• When God is leading you, He will provide for you (Psalm 23:1).
• It is a blessed thing to be led by God.

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF DIVINE GUIDANCE?
1. DIVINE PRESENCE
(Exo 33:12-14, Psa 114:1-8, Acts 10:38, John 5:30, 3:2, Prov 16:25, Isa 58:11)
• Divine presence means God with you and around you on the way.
• Even if it looks okay, don’t go alone.
• You are not capable of knowing what is right, go with God.
• No devil can handle you when you are with God.
• Jesus treasured to be guided (John 5:30).
• Treasure to be guided so that you carry divine presence.
• Surrender your will and allow His will to prevail.
• When He is leading you, His presence will give you answers wherever you go.
• If fastings are regular for you, guidance will be regular (Isa 58:11).
• When we are praying and fasting, we are mainly praying for light and guidance.
• When God is on your money, you will do a lot more with it.

Deut 8:1-2
• It’s not possible to worship or praise God without capturing some moment of His kindness or goodness (in your mind), without a revelation of what He has done for you before.
• The devil’s fight is to cut us off from such memories so that when we come to God we are so shallow.
• Our problems come when we forget where He took us from, what we have been through and how He has helped us.
• Your next victory in Christ depends on the previous things God has done, if they can jump start your faith.
• What Jesus has done before has strength to generate another testimony if it can be used properly.
• Those who forget that God helped them to handle the bear and the lion cannot kill goliath.
• Your present enemy may appear too big if you can’t remember what God has done for you.
Mat 14:30, 1 Sam 17:36
• The enemy makes sure we don’t remember all the good things God has done for us.
• Some people remember the good times they had in the past in order to cry about where they are today while others use memories of the good times they had in the past to have faith that those times can come back.
• You can choose to minimize pain while maximizing pleasure in your mind.
• Be careful with goliath, he is a distraction.
• If you look at Goliath wrongly, you might think he is there for your downfall.
• There is something greater standing behind that goliath.
• Goliath looks like a problem but It’s your announcement to your next level.
• Nobody knew David before He killed Goliath (1 Kings 17:55-56).
• What will you do about your Goliath?
• Those who kill Goliath remember the bear and the lion.
• The reason why many people only experience one breakthrough and never experience other breakthroughs is that they like forgetting.
• The reason why you’ve heard about a certain problem could be that God has ordained you to solve that problem.

Mal 3:16
• Satan can’t remind you of the testimonies God has done for you.
Num 14:27-30, 13:33
• Choose to maximise things that are going to help your destiny.
• If watching the news brings you fear, watch things that encourage you and build your faith.
• You have personal choices to make.
• Don’t focus on wrong things.
Num 13:27-30, 14:9
• We interpret what we see and hear from what we are thinking.
Job 22:29, 1 John 4:4
• Speak reality.
• Reality is truth.
• What is truth? anything that God says. Anything else is a lie.
• Don’t be intimidated.
• Be emboldened when you remember the things God has done.
• Goliath cursed David by his gods even when he saw that David was just a boy (1 Sam 17:44).
• Many christians move God aside when they face something that looks like they can handle alone.
• Think it, say it.
Isa 49:13, 1 Sam 17:45, Heb 11:1
• What you say matters (Gen 11:6-8).
• You can’t speak the same language if you don’t hear and believe the same things.