Author: Pastor David A. Kamanga

• Only when a man decides to think in the light of what God has done will he become truly thankful.
• Thanksgiving requires thinking and reflecting.
• If you do not think through to list the things that God has done for you, your thanksgiving will be limited.
• If you truly think about what He has done and what He has said, you will prevent yourself from grumbling and complaining.
• What is coming ahead or what you think you have not achieved will not bother you so much if you think of what He has done before.
• When you see people are offended with God, it is because they have become ungrateful and they begin to find fault with Him.
• A truly grateful person will not find room to complain.
• Your way upward and through that barrier is actually thanksgiving.
• When you are not thankful to God, you are actually telling Him that you need to be removed from where you are.
• When you are not thankful to God, you don’t trust Him to take you to where you want to go.

WHY DO WE GIVE GOD THANKS?
1. WE OWE GOD THANKS (Luke 17:17-19, Psa 150:6)
• We have a debt of thanksgiving to God for every good thing that He has done for us.
• If you don’t thank God for what you have right now, you will never have more.
• Every human being has a debt to God, including those who don’t know Him.
• Having breath is the qualification to praise God.
• Your faith in God is expressed by you giving Him thanks.

2. THANKSGIVING FACILITATES MULTIPLICATION OF EVERYTHING (Jer 33:22, 30:19, 1 Cor 3:6)
• The way to increase things is not to complain that they are little but to give thanks for the little so that it becomes more.
• Only God gives increase.
• Start from where you, with what you have.
• The answer is with what we have but our eyes are looking at what we don’t have so as a result our hearts grow cold towards God.
• When satan wants to distract a man from his vision, he will give him another vision to focus on.
• If you are going to be copying another man, you will never rise to anything.
• Your own thing is what will make you great, not what you are copying.
• Looking at what other people have is a major reason why some people are ungrateful.
• Comparison is dangerous.
• Many will arrive in heaven not having achieved anything that was ordained for them because they were in stiff competition with others.

3. THANKSGIVING OPENS DOORS (Acts 16:25-26)

• To backslide is easy.
• It’s very easy to lose your walk with God while it takes time to build it up.
• Food plays an essential role to your body.
• All the functions our bodies are able to perform are because of the energy food provides to our bodies.
• Imagine how weak many people’s spirits are because they have not been fed.
• Your spirit is the one that fights battles.
• Your body is just being used by the spirit to launch attacks.
• In most cases, when the body is overfed, it even hinders the work of the spirit.
• None of us is as old as satan, the bible calls him an old serpent.
• He has so much experience and we cannot beat him with our human experience.
• On your own and without Jesus, you are nothing against satan.
• Satan knows all the weaknesses of men and has perfected the art of bringing people down.
• If God doesn’t help us, we won’t make it.
• Satan waits for an opportune time.
• Before that, he will watch your steps and your commitment.
• An evil day comes when you are off guard.
• Battles of life have no time table.
• When you think everything is alright, that is when the enemy will strike.

THE SPIRIT OF REVELATION (THE SPIRIT OF UNDERSTANDING)
Eph 1:17-19
• This spirit is the believer’s eyesight.
• This is not knowledge that you read in a newspaper, it is revealed knowledge that only God knows.
• When you see it, understand it and apply it, you rise above whatever you are facing.
• Revelation is the ability to see what God is saying in the word.
• This usually works with the spirit of wisdom because you need to apply what you see.
• Just hearing something is information. It becomes revelation when you see it.
• This spirit of revelation opens our spiritual eyes to see and opens our spiritual understanding of the truth of God’s word (Mat 13:23).
• The only word that will ever produce fruit in your life is the one you have understood.
• This spirit of revelation makes us to be of quick understanding in the knowledge of God and grants us access to the greatness of his power.
• When we are reading the word, this spirit makes us to see what others can’t see, including professors who teach theology.
• Revealed knowledge is superior to anything else.
• The revelation that comes from God is superior the the condition you are in, the circumstances, whatever you are seeing because the word of the Lord supersedes everything else.

WHY DO WE NEED THE SPIRIT OF REVELATION?
1. God has new things in store for us every day (Rom 11:33, 1 Cor 8:2, Lam 3:22-23)
• The little you know is not enough, there is more that God wants you to know on every subject matter.

2. Empowers our capacity to understand God’s word when we read or hear (John 16:12-13)
• Once you understand, faith is automatic.
• If you are still conscious of people laughing at you for carrying out what you hear from God, you’re still operating in the flesh.
• A spiritual man behaves like a mad man.
• Every time the agenda of satan is revealed through the spirit of revelation, that thing is over.

WHY DO WE NEED THE SPIRIT OF POWER?
1. To subdue, dominate, silence and put the enemy under our feet (Psa 110:1-3, Mark 4:35-5:2).
• You rule by the spirit of power, not by speaking English.
• When power is present, there is a willingness.
• The devil that wants to stop people from relating with you is dislodged.
• The devil can stop any one of your destiny helpers on their way to you and you will be left wondering what is happening.
• When you are in charge, people will be willing.
• People don’t buy things because they are nearer to where they are.
• Whatever it takes to get power, get it.
• No matter what they plan, when you are in charge, the power of God will nullify their agenda.

2. To set the captives free (Isa 61:1, 2 Chron 22:7)
3. To break the gates of hell (Zec 4:6, Acts 16:25-26)
4. For signs and wonders (Luke 4:18, 5:8, 26, John 4:48)
• Signs and wonders make people to believe God.
• Signs and wonders are the sickles of harvest.
5. To clear enemies on the way to our destinies (1 Cor 16:9)

HOW DO I ACCESS AND GROW IN POWER?

1. PRAYING (Luke 24:49, Acts 1:8)
2. FASTING (Luke 4:14, Mat 17:19-21, 2 Sam 3:1, Gen 49:19)
• Everyone must fast because we all have destinies to fulfill.
• The more you pray and fast, you will be entrusted with more authority, in addition to power.
• Some battles of life are not instant battles, we have to keep growing while our enemies are getting weaker and weaker.
• Most people are facing long wars.
• You must be determined to keep growing in power.

3. OBEDIENCE (Acts 10:38, John 5:30, 8:29)
4. THE WORD OF GOD (Ezek 2:2)
5. THIRST (Psa 63:1-3)

THE SPIRIT OF MIGHT
Mic 3:8, Judg 14:6, Eph 3:16, Joel 2:1-10, 1 Kings 18:46
• The purpose of the spirit of might is to strengthen us.
• He is the one that gives us strength when we are weak.
• Church growth is work.
• Anything to do with work will require the spirit of might.

• What will make your body last on the prayer altar so that you can last in prayer is the spirit of might.
• You can call the spirit of might an immunity booster.
• What you call long life is a function of strength.
• In the absence of strength, you may not live long.
• The spirit of might will cause you to survive.
• You need the spirit of might to sustain you on the prayer altar.
• You need the spirit of might to sustain you in the harvest field.
• This spirit makes you to move from strength to strength.
• You need this spirit in every area of your life.
• The spirit of might will determine how early or late you die.
• You need your body in tip-top condition to do the work of God.
Mat 26:40-41
• Prayer is hard work but it is hard work that is done through the flesh (your body).
• The strengthener of your flesh to make you last in prayer is the spirit of God.
• Moses lasted forty days and night with God by reason of the spirit of might.
Luke 22:43
• The strengthening of your body affects the mind in a positive way.
• Your body is the one that carries your spirit.
• As long as your body is strong, you will do business for God here on earth.
• Your spirit can’t hang around here without your body.
• Self-control is attached to the spirit of might.

John 3:30-32, Isa 11:1-3
• April is the month of the Holy Spirit My Helper.

Who is a helper? (according to the dictionary)
• A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.
• An assistant.
• A supporter.

• As believers we face issues but it is as though we don’t have a helper because we don’t relate with Him.
• When you know that you have help, everything else changes.
1 Cor 1:22-24

ENCOUNTER WITH THE SPIRIT OF POWER

2 Tim 1:6-7
• A sound mind is a mindset that has been formulated by a certain wisdom.
• A sound mind is the mind of Christ.
• Love is of the mind.
• Satan uses fear to destroy people while God uses faith to bring people into His will and purpose for their lives.
• The victory you need in life to get to where you are going will require you to have the right mindset, the love of God,
• The spirit of love is what drives you into God’s presence.
• The spirit of love is what makes you to put God first above anything else.
Acts 1:8, 17:6, Luke 24:49
• You know what God wants you to do in life but if you don’t get power, you won’t get there.
• In the absence of power, satan can stop the agenda of God at a national level.
• Satan stopped the construction of God’s church in the days of Zechariah and it took power for construction to resume.
• Strength and long life are a function of the spirit of might.
Zec 3:9, 4:6-9, Luke 10:17-19
• When the wisdom of God is on your lips and you speak, you are actually provoking power to go in your direction.
Deut 8:18

WHY DO WE NEED THE SPIRIT OF POWER?
1. To subdue, dominate, silence and put the enemy under our feet (Psa 110:1-3, Mark 4:35-5:2).
• You rule by the spirit of power, not by speaking English.
• When power is present, there is a willingness.
• The devil that wants to stop people from relating with you is dislodged.
• The devil can stop any one of your destiny helpers on their way to you and you will be left wondering what is happening.
• When you are in charge, people will be willing.
• People don’t buy things because they are nearer to where they are.
• Whatever it takes to get power, get it.
• No matter what they plan, when you are in charge, the power of God will nullify their agenda.

2. To set the captives free (Isa 61:1, 2 Chron 22:7)
3. To break the gates of hell (Zec 4:6, Acts 16:25-26)
4. For signs and wonders (Luke 4:18, 5:8, 26, John 4:48)
• Signs and wonders make people to believe God.
• Signs and wonders are the sickles of harvest.
5. To clear enemies on the way to our destinies (1 Cor 16:9)

Job 1:5-10, Zec 3:2
• In the spirit realm, ranks are respected.
• When you are born-again, you are far much higher in rank than any angel and any host of heaven.
• You can rebuke satan in the name of Jesus.
• Satan takes advantage of ignorance in the body of Christ.
• It is not easy to destroy a child of God, satan has to make him to be fearful and use his own mouth to destroy his defense.
• Your wrong confession can give satan license to put you in bondage again.
• It’s not easy to kill a child of God.
• The reason why Job was attacked is that satan was aware of the hedge of protection that was around him but Job wasn’t.
• The consciousness of what God has done for us is more important than what God has done for us.
• Even satan knows what God has done for you but are you are conscious of what God has done for you?
• Satan does not have power to do whatever he likes on anybody, he’ll have to do something to make you doubt what you have.
• Our problem is not satan but the lack of awareness of what God has done for us.

WHO IS THE HOLY SPIRIT?
1. The spirit of faith (2 Cor 4:13)
• No one can be said to have genuine faith in God without the Holy Spirit.
• The Holy Spirit can impart faith in a person.
2. The spirit of revelation (2 Cor 4:4, Eph 1:17-18)
3. The spirit of wisdom (Eph 1:17, Deut 34:9)
• If you are lacking wisdom, your fellowship with the Holy spirit will make you wise.
• It is not right for a child of God to be called dull.
4. The spirit of servanthood (Isaiah 42:1-2)
• The spirit of God is the one who will make a person to become a servant of God and do it correctly.
• You will never find a humble person in the kingdom of God who is not under the control of the Spirit of God while satan and his cohorts make someone to be proud.

5. The spirit of counsel (John 16:12-13)
• Counsel is expert advice.
• The Holy Spirit can counsel you and represent you.
6. The spirit of sanctification (holiness) (Rom 1:4)
• To sanctify is to set apart for noble use.
• The Holy Spirit sets you apart so that you are fit to be used by God.
• You need an empowerment by the spirit in order to be holy.
7. The spirit of boldness (Acts 2:14, 14:3)
8. The spirit of dedication (Phili 1:21)
• Where you see someone dedicated to a kingdom cause, there is backing of the Holy Spirit.
9. The spirit of love (1 Cor 2:9-10, 2 Tim 1:6-7)
• You cannot love God without him helping you.
• Without the love of God, you cannot prioritise God.
10. The spirit of obedience (Deut 28:1)
11. The spirit of understanding (Isa 11:1-2)
12. The spirit of might (Isaiah 11:2)
• Might is the strengthening of the inner you by the Spirit to enable you to do what you cannot do naturally.

• God’s ultimate interest for mankind is the salvation of souls.
• We are redeemed as co-labourers in Christ in redeeming the overripe harvest of the earth.
• God’s will is to see man saved (2 Pet 3:9, 2 Tim 2:4)
• Every child of God is redeemed to be a fruit-bearing branch (John 15:2-4, 6)
• Our harvest field is the entire world because every soul holds the same value before God (Joel 3:13, Ezek 18:4)
• God is looking for more labourers to engage on His harvest field (Mat 9:38).
• In order for the harvest not to be wasted, we must make sure that we get new converts to church.
• Engagement in soul-winning is a business.
• Soul-winning is an open ended business for every believer.
• See it as a business and engage it as a business.
• Jesus came to do His father’s business (Luke 2:49, 19:10)

• Praise is the easiest and cheapest way to access God (Psa 22:3).
• Praise is the preservative to the blessings of God (Mal 2:1-3).
• How to keep whatever God has blessed you with is by praising Him.
• Many of our problems begin when we forget the one who has blessed us and begin to take things for granted.
• The greatest challenge you are facing today will not require more than praise for it to turn into a miracle (Hab 3:17-19).
• Luke 1:46-47
• Praise is the way to remain triumphant in the face of wickedness (Psa 89:22)
• Praise is not focusing on the happenings but focusing on God’s faithfulness.
• Whatever appears difficult or appears as a barrier in your life / destiny is waiting for your praise in order to go down like the walls of Jericho (Jos 6:6-20).
• Every prison or limitation is waiting for your praise for God to intervene (Acts 16:25-26).
• Whatever appears stronger than you requires only your praise, you celebrating God for your turnaround.
• It is praise that releases the power of the highest (Luke 1:35).
• When praises go to Him, He will do wonders (Exo 15:11).
• Praise brings life to the dead (John 11:41-44).
• Praise makes little to be multiplied (John 6:10-11)

Rom 1:16-21
• It is not what you have that makes the difference , it is revelation on the word that
God has told you that makes the difference (2 Kings 4:2).
• Money is important.
• Money can help you to have quality friends.
• Money can make your advice to be taken.
• Nobody listens to the advice of a poor person.
• Don’t just consider the beauty of a person when you are about to settle down in marriage, are you intellectually compatible?
• A husband and wife must undergo personal development.
• As money comes in, let’s send each other to school.
• We can grow.
• God allowed Moses to go through all the learning of Egypt so that he can lead His people and write the law.
Phili 3:10, Eph 1:17-19
• Resurrection is about change.
• Access into the power of His resurrection is by revelation (Eph 1:17-19).
• Resurrection is the demonstration of His mighty power.
• Don’t talk about resurrection without a demonstration.
Mat 27:50-53
• Resurrection establishes our supernatural change of story.
• The proof of resurrection is supernatural change of position.
Luke 24:5-6
• The power of His resurrection is a translating power.

RESURRECTION TRANSLATES US FROM:
1. Filthiness to holiness (Rom 1:4)
• Our dominion over sin came by the power of His resurrection

2. Captivity to liberty (Mat 27:50-53, Zech 9:11-14)
3. Sickness to health (Rom 8:11)
• It is not God’s will for you to live off drugs.
• Reject sickness as soon as it appears, don’t try to explain it.

4. Defeat to triumph (Col 2:15)
5. Shame to glory (Isa 61:1, 7)
6. Struggles to breakthroughs (Acts 5:14)
7. Death to life

Ezek 37:1-14, Isa 60:9

John 3:16
• Something is said to be lost if it is not in the place it is supposed to be.

To be lost means:
• Not knowing where one is.
• Not being able to find one’s root.
• Having lost your bearings.
• No longer in your possession or control.
• Cannot be recovered or regained.
• Not caught with senses or mind.
Perish in Greek is apollumi. It means:
• To destroy; to put out of the way entirely.
• To render useless.
• To kill
• To devote or give over to eternal misery.
• To be ruined.
• To lose.

Life in Greek is zoe. It means:
• The state of one who is possessed of vitality.
• Absolute fullness of life which belongs to God and to Christ.
• Life real and genuine; a life active and vigorous; devoted to God. (In other words, blessed life).
• Simply put, zoe is the God-kind of life.

Acts 26:18, Gen 1:26
• Always bear in mind that it is about escaping something to something, there is nothing in between.
• After your sins and my sins are forgiven it is not yet done, we now go for an inheritance. That is when we now say that salvation is complete.
• How to access your inheritance is by the opening of your eyes.
The word dominion used in Gen 1:26 is radah in Hebrew. It means:
• To rule
• To dominate.
• To subjugate
• To prevail against.
• To bear rule.
• To take over.
• To have it the way you want it (you are in absolute control).

• The blessing (empowerment to succeed and prosper) is conveyed by spirit just like a curse is conveyed by spirit.
• Only God can say certain things that men cannot say.
• Whenever God opens His mouth, there is spirit and life inside His words.
• As you speak, your words are made possible to be heard by someone because of breath.
• As Jehovah speaks, His breath (spirit) accompanies what He has said, to go and fulfill it.
• His spirit is the performer.
• If words are spoken and they are absent of spirit, they will just be so natural.
• Even the witch doctor has to wait for the speakings of spirits for him to have something to say ( he depends on his connectivity to spirits).
Gen 2:7, 3:6-7
• Don’t confuse yourself to think your body is you, your body is just your casing.
• The body without the spirit is dead.
• We are not ordinary.
• We are the only ones who are licensed to cast out spirits.
• It takes a spirit to cast out a spirit.
• That is why in the Old Testament there was not casting out of spirits.
• Man had no capacity to carry the Holy Spirit because his spirit was not yet regenerated.
• When we become born-again, our spirits become embedded with the Holy Spirit.
• When we become born-again, our spirit is regenerated and we come alive once again. We rise above human life.
• When Adam and Eve were created, they were operating in the God-realm.
• Because they sinned, God caused them to be downgraded, they came lower and opened their eyes to the realm of flesh.
• Satan was a master in the realm of flesh up until the time that Jesus came.
• Satan used the fear of death to control people.
• When man fell, he began to take care of himself and that is where his struggle began.
• As long as God is not taken back to the center, you will continue to struggle like the first man.
• Man never had to provide anything for himself in the beginning, God provided everything for Him.
• Man lost glory when he fell and could no longer relate with God.
Psalm 8:4
• It is about opening of eyes.
• Opening of eyes is understanding.
• The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus was about bringing man back to the wisdom of God.
• Satan is a master of blinding minds (2 Cor 4:4).

• What man truly lost in the garden was the mind of God.
• The mind is the seat of wisdom and understanding.
• When man lost the mind of God, he could no longer hold the wisdom of God.
• He lost the capacity of God to relate with Him at a God level.
• Wisdom and understanding have to sit on a mind.
Rom 1:17-19, 28, 1 Cor 1:1-2, Acts 2:3

Rom 8:1-2, Gal 3:1, Gen 18:12, 1 Cor 2:16, Isa 60:22, Gal 3:13
• Attraction is in your mind.
• The devil attacks your mind first.
• Don’t neglect your mind.
• One of the greatest things Jesus achieved through His death was to give us His mind.
• We have the mind of the Anointed.
• The Spirit of God was involved to give us back the mind of Christ and that mind is a creative mind.
• We have the mind of Christ which means the wisdom of God has a seat in us now.
• There is a spirit that makes us wiser than men.
• When you hear Christ, think of Spirit, think of anointing.
• Don’t think like a mere man.
• The mind of Christ is not a dull mind.
• Identify yourself with Christ, that you have the mind of Christ.
Num 11:24, 27, 2 Tim 1:6, 7
• Fear is a spirit and its aim is to distort the way a man thinks so that he can be killed.
• Demons have to do a lot to kill a person.
• What witches do is to confuse the minds of people so that they start behaving in a way that will make them easy to kill.
• The mind is the battlefield.