Author: Pastor David A. Kamanga

⭕️What we call faith in the bible is actually attached to honour.

⭕️When you have faith in God, you respect God enough to believe that He will do what He says He will do.

⭕️Not everyone can be trusted and not everyone can be taken at their word.

⭕️If a two-year old child says they will kill you, you will not take that threat as seriously as you would if it came from an adult.

⭕️Honour is a law in the spirit that makes things move in your direction (Hebrews 7:7).

THE BENEFITS OF HONOUR

1.AN INHERITANCE IS TRANSFERRED THROUGH HONOUR (Genesis 27:3-4)

⭕️It is a system of transfer of things from one person to another.

⭕️A father can choose not to give an inheritance to one of his children based on their behaviour.

⭕️Dishonour cuts you off from an inheritance while honour puts you in line to receive the inheritance.

2.IT BRINGS ABOUT MULTIPLICATION (Proverbs 3:9-10, Luke 17:16-19)

⭕️Wherever there is honour, multiplication is straightforward.

3.HONOUR BRINGS SECURITY (1 Samuel 2:30)

⭕️The purpose of authority is three-fold: security, promotion and favour.

⭕️The authority you don’t honour cannot promote you.

⭕️The authority you don’t honour cannot cover you.

4.HONOUR BRINGS ABOUT FAVOUR (Esther 4:16, 5:2-4, 1:1-12, 2 Samuel 15:2)

⭕️It is the authority you honour that can favour you.

⭕️God is honoured when He is believed and trusted.

⭕️When you honour God you receive honour back, and when God honours you there is no door that cannot open for you.

⭕️Mark those who do not want to celebrate with and mourn with you.

⭕️Honour will give you access to a place and keep you long in that place.

⭕️Dishonour is exit.

⭕️Remember who helped you.

⭕️Remember those who blessed you.

WHO SHOULD WE HONOUR?

1.GOD (1 Samuel 2:30, Matthew 6:33)

⭕️Prioritise God.

⭕️Spending quality time in prayer and the word is honouring God.

⭕️Obeying and trusting God is honouring Him.

2.HONOUR SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES (1 Samuel 18:5)

⭕️There are gates in heaven for protocol.

⭕️If you  dishonour the system, the system will take  you out.

3.HONOUR YOUR PARENTS (Exodus 20:12, Deuteronomy 5:16, Ephesians 6:2)

⭕️Obey and respect your parents.

⭕️Give them something to show you value them.

⭕️Long life is in honour.

4.HONOUR SPIRITUAL LEADERS (1 Thessalonians 5:12-13)

⭕️You are not honouring them because of their personality or the way they dress but because of their work.

⭕️They are appointed by God to do what they are doing.

5.HONOUR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS (Romans 13:1-2, 1 Peter 2:17)

⭕️Some people’s curses are because of dishonour to government officials.

6.HONOUR YOUR BOSSES AT WORK (1 Peter 2:18, Genesis 16:9)

⭕️Dishonour will make your work difficult and you risk losing your job.

⭕️One of the proofs of honour is adaptation.

⭕️Your ability to adapt shows you have honour.

7.HONOUR YOUR SPOUSE (WIFE OR HUSBAND) (1 Peter 3:7, Ephesians 5:33, Matthew 12:34)

⭕️Dishonour can hinder prayers.

⭕️Words are like water that is poured on the ground.

⭕️Pride, offense and familiarity breed dishonour.

⭕️Are you able to compose yourself when you’ve been offended?

⭕️What you say when you are offended is the truth that is in your heart.

⭕️Think before you speak.

8.RESPECT ELDERS (Leviticus 19:32)

⭕️Those who are older than us deserve to be honoured.

HOW DO YOU HONOUR?

1.THROUGH RESPECT (1 Sam 14:22)

⭕️Speak and act respectfully.

2.OBEDIENCE (John 14:21)

3.Giving (Malachi 1:6-7, Proverbs 3:9-10)

4.THROUGH WORDS OF THANKSGIVING AND ADMIRATION

⭕️To say “thank you” is honour and to be ungrateful is dishonour.

5.THROUGH SERVICE (Philippians 2:21-22, Deuteronomy 28:47, Mark 6:5)

⭕️Honour God by serving Him with your efforts, resources, talents and time.

Luke 18:1-9

⭕️Intellectual prowess is no match to diabolical influence.

⭕️Diabolical influence is no match to supernatural wisdom.

⭕️We may find complications at our intellectual level.

⭕️If the problems you are facing in your life are engineered using diabolical wisdom, you may never find answers for them while you are using intellectual wisdom.

⭕️To solve problems that were engineered with diabolical wisdom, you either have to use diabolical wisdom or supernatural wisdom.

⭕️Earthly wisdom and intellectual wisdom both dwell in the natural realm.

⭕️To function and reason only by carnal (natural) means is death.

⭕️The happenings on earth are not dictated here but they are dictated from another realm.

⭕️God first created man’s spirit (Genesis 1:27), then later made his body (Genesis 2:7).

Man is not supposed to function according to the body because the body came afterwards.

Luke 18:1-8, Genesis 32:24-29

⭕️The battle you are facing will not be in your favour until your power is greater than the power of the enemy.

⭕️Don’t bury your head in the sand hoping that one day it will go away.

⭕️When power builds up and becomes too much, it will overcome the power of the enemy.

⭕️If things are taking long to change, increase the pressure.

⭕️If you are too casual you will end up being a casualty.

⭕️The enemy doesn’t mean well, he wants you to repeat the evil patterns that are in your bloodline.

⭕️The enemy wants you to die young.

⭕️The enemy doesn’t want you to manifest the blessing and he is banking on the fact that you can’t stay long with Jesus, that you will backslide.

⭕️The enemy loves surprises, he would love to give you a surprise attack.

⭕️The best way to defend is to be on the offensive.

⭕️God wants to avenge but he wants you to generate enough reason (power).

⭕️Don’t relax.

⭕️If you get the blessing by prayer; you will keep it, increase it and protect it by prayer.

⭕️In this part of the world, we have a tendency to relax when we shouldn’t relax.

⭕️The devil that was stopping you from getting married is now coming to stop you from staying married.

⭕️Life is not a playground; it is a battlefield.

⭕️If satan can’t stop you from coming to church, he will stop you from having effect in church.

⭕️Fight to make sure the blessing stays and multiplies after it has come on you.

⭕️Prophecy requires power to be fulfilled.

⭕️You are not the only one interested in that prophecy over your life, satan is also interested in it not coming to pass.

⭕️We don’t graduate from the school of the spirit, it is a lifelong thing.

⭕️Not many finish the race.

Psalm 66:3

⭕️If your power is not greater than the power of the enemy, he won’t submit.

⭕️Almost all Christians have some power of some kind, it’s just that it’s not enough.

Luke 18:7-8, Ecclesiastes 11:3, 1 Samuel 1:11, 27, Esther 4:16, Galatians 3:1

Genesis 18:1

⭕️Don’t ever mention favour if you do not know honour because you will have none and you will be frustrated.

⭕️Before God can do anything, His word must go forth and be released.

⭕️When a word that speaks to the moment is released, it is called a prophetic word.

⭕️This is a word that moves quickly to put certain things in place for what Has been spoken to happen.

⭕️When a word is spoken, it must be received for it to manifest.

⭕️Receiving the word is accepting it and going ahead to do what the word says.

Matthew 21:28-31, Hebrews 13:2, Exodus 5:1, 2:24, 3:6, 7:6, 9

⭕️God has to look for a man on the earth to agree with Him.

⭕️Faith is now.

⭕️In your confession of faith, be careful with anything that says, “I was.”

⭕️Faith deals with the now.

⭕️Mind your language.

⭕️Don’t speak English, speak faith.

⭕️The language of faith doesn’t go hand in hand with grammar.

⭕️When you’re speaking faith, you’re speaking broken English.

John 11:25

⭕️God loves feasts (occasions where we are celebrating) (Exodus 5:1).

⭕️What matters to Him is if you’re doing it in His honour.

⭕️By the activities happening during a celebration, you can know whether it is God or the devil being celebrated at that feast.

⭕️You cannot have a visitation if you’re not careful with the issue of honour.

What is honour?

1.When you show respect towards somebody or something (honour is respect)

⭕️Respect is an attitude of admiration and esteem.

⭕️To respect is to regard highly, to think much of

⭕️To esteem means to regard highly, respect or value.

⭕️Honour starts with wisdom.

⭕️Wisdom is that ability that makes a man to differentiate things: to know which one is more important / valuable than the other.

⭕️What you do to celebrate the value that you have identified through wisdom, is what is called honour.

⭕️If you lack wisdom, you will treat all seasons the same and you will miss out.

⭕️If you lack wisdom, you will treat all men the same and you will miss out.

⭕️The honour Jesus showed God the Father gave Him access to lifting (Philippians 2:9).

⭕️Honour will always give you access; it is a door to accessing anything.

⭕️Dishonour is also a door, but is a door to bad things.

WHO SHOULD WE HONOUR?

1.GOD (1 Samuel 2:30-31, Joel 2:16)

⭕️Don’t treat God like a human being, be careful.

⭕️Jesus honoured the father and the father honoured Him more.

⭕️Only a man who has a little bit of honour in him can understand what honour is and can honour.

⭕️Your 40 days of prayer and fasting means nothing if you lack honour for God.

⭕️Honour God by showing Him reverence.

⭕️Premature death is common in a generation where there is dishonour.

2.SPIRITUAL AUTHORITIES (1 Timothy 5:17, Hebrews 13:7, John 6:1-4)

3.PARENTS (Ephesians 6:2-3)

4.AUTHORITIES IN OUR COMMUNITES (such as leaders of government)

5.YOURSELF

⭕️To honour yourself is to present yourself in a manner that makes you to be seen as a decent and respectable person.

Psalm 149:1, 3, 9

⭕️Praising God in a dance is not common but it is one of those things that we need to do.

⭕️Satan knows about this so he makes many christians to be blind to this, while making people of the world to dance to him.

⭕️You will rarely find a bar without loud music.

⭕️You need to be drunk in the Holy Ghost to dance to God.

⭕️When you come under the influence of the Holy Ghost, you will give a dance that is fitting before God. 

⭕️Prayer and praise go together.

2 Samuel 6:14

⭕️The fallen man is a complaining creature.

⭕️Man is always looking at what he doesn’t have to generate complaints and not looking at what has been done for him.

⭕️We need the Holy Ghost to help us in generating praise.

⭕️Our praise is what generates God’s manifest presence and causes it to be felt around us.

WHAT DOES PRAISING GOD IN A DANCE DO?

1.Praise gives you uncommon victory in battle (2 Chronicles 20:1-3, 21, 23)

2.It breaks down known and unknown barriers (Joshua 6:1-20)

⭕️If a barrier has broken down, it means you have broken through.

⭕️The strength of your enemies is their unity.

⭕️Praise will cause confusion in the camps of your enemies.

3.Praise gives you access to unlimited abundance (2 Chronicles 20:25, Mark 6:41-44)

4.Praise guarantees quick turnarounds (Jeremiah 31:13, Habakkuk 3:17-19)

⭕️Those who go by circumstances can’t praise God.

⭕️Those who are waiting to have things in order to praise God wait for a long time.

1 Chronicles 13, 15:1-3, 12-16, 24-26, 2 Samuel 6:14-23, Genesis 8:5, Esther 2:16-18

Matthew 7:24-27, Ecclesiastes 1:9

⭕️Circumstances come to everybody

⭕️Every day we are making decisions on how to build our lives for the future.

⭕️Building your life based on the word of God seems like it’s not the right way because not everyone is doing it.

⭕️What determines whether you will stand or not on the stormy day is how you have been building towards that day.

1 Corinthians 3:6

⭕️Anything plus God is a great success.

⭕️When God is involved, we can do so many things.

⭕️Planting + watering – God = decrease

⭕️Planting + watering + God = increase

⭕️Nobody is sure of the future, we just believe and step out in faith.

⭕️God is the one who gives increase.

⭕️If God is involved, that thing is going to succeed, no matter what can come.

Exodus 8:21, 24, 7:20, 7:10-12

⭕️Every one has an evil day.

Ephesians 6:10-18

⭕️You need the armour of God to fight.

⭕️Many are caught unaware because when they were supposed to be building up for the evil day, they were deceived into thinking it won’t come.

⭕️You can’t bind the evil day, just prepare for it.

⭕️Have the wisdom to prepare for the evil day.

Isaiah 38:3

⭕️The challenges of life don’t have a timetable, they  can come at any time.

⭕️The word glory first appeared in the bible in Genesis 31:1.

⭕️The Hebrew translation glory is kabod. Kabod means:

1.Weight

2.Splendour

3.Abundance

4.Honour

5.Wealth

6.Power or majesty

7.Influence or great honour

8.It expresses fame, reputation, recognition, beauty, magnificence, strength, respect and excellence.

Exodus 33:19

⭕️The essence of who God is, is called glory.

⭕️Glory of God is the total sum of his attributes, character and intrinsic virtues, the brilliance of His presence and the splendour of His majesty.

1 Corinthians 2:7, Romans 8:29-31, John 17:21, 24, 1:14

⭕️Glory doesn’t just mean a shining light, it means all the attributes of God.

Isaiah 12:4, Luke 9:29-31, Exodus 33:19, John 12:23-24

⭕️It is the glory of God that brings about distinction.

⭕️If we are going to be like everybody else, there is no need for people to be attracted to our God.

⭕️If we preach the gospel without the demonstration of God’s glory, people won’t believe it.

⭕️The glory of God can only come from God and God has systems that we can use to contact His glory.

⭕️Chief amongst those systems is the altar of prayer.

⭕️Self abandonment (death to self) is the pathway to God’s glory.

⭕️You cannot carry God’s glory when you have a wrong garment on you.

Isaiah 60:1-3, 11, 14, 58:8 (NLT)

⭕️People go to kings; kings don’t go to people.

⭕️When a king leaves to go to another king, he has observed that that king could be a king higher than him.

1 Kings 4:29-31, 10:1

⭕️The best way to pray for favour is to pray that your glory manifest.

⭕️Money follows a certain status in people.

⭕️People don’t give much to a poor person but they give much more to a rich person.

⭕️You can package yourself as a poor person thinking that people will help you but they will not.

⭕️How many poor people have been given cars? How many rich people who already have cars have been given more cars?

⭕️Glory is a weapon.

Esther 5:1-3

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF GLORY?

1.Great illumination (Isaiah 60:3)

2.Supernatural defense (Isaiah 58:8, 4:5)

3.Distinction (Isaiah 60:1-3)

4.Supernatural provision (Isaiah 60:1-5, 1 Kings 10:1-2, Philippians 4:19)

⭕️The difference between one pastor and another is glory, and what they can attract is dependent on the glory that is on them.

⭕️As you change in glory, you are also changing your supplies.

⭕️In glory you don’t chase things, they come to you.

Acts 10:44, Judges 16:20, John 1:12

⭕️Your access to the word of God opens you up to the workings of the Holy Spirit.

⭕️In the kingdom of God, there can be no miracles without the involvement of the holy Spirit.

⭕️Nobody can live an extraordinary, pleasing or victorious life without the Holy Spirit.

⭕️Anything you do without the involvement of the Holy Spirit is carnal and has no ability to help you.

⭕️When the Spirit of God leaves a church, that church will be in mere religiousness.

⭕️The departure of the Holy Spirit is the departure of the presence of God.

⭕️The coming of the Holy Spirit is the coming of the presence of God.

⭕️The Holy Spirit announces His coming but does not announce His departure.

⭕️The Holy Spirit is responsible for making the word known, putting light on it.

⭕️The word of God that the Holy Spirit has put light on is the word that will benefit you.

⭕️You only become if you have received the word that God is bringing to you.

⭕️Pay attention to the word of God and develop an attitude to listen to it and apply it to your life.

⭕️Your inheritance is the word of God.

Acts 20:32, Romans 8:17

⭕️Your inheritance is the word of God.

⭕️We have Jesus as our example so whatever you see Jesus have, you can also have.

⭕️Whatever Jesus could not tolerate; you should not tolerate.

⭕️Whatever could not happen to Jesus cannot happen to you.

⭕️You should be aware of what you are supposed to inherit.

⭕️An inheritance is enshrined in a will (covenant, testament).

⭕️The aim of the lawyer is to enlighten you on what is yours in the will and guide you through all the legal channels you must go through in order to get it.

⭕️The word of God is building you up so that you can qualify for the inheritance.

⭕️An inheritance is tied to growth.

Galatians 4:1, Romans 1:1

⭕️A baby is a member of the family and is entitled to an inheritance but as long as he or she is still a baby, someone else will be managing the inheritance on their behalf.

⭕️You need to grow so that you can legally exercise your rights.

⭕️Before Jesus died, it was going to be difficult for the Holy Spirit to come to men because He needed to come in as the administrator of the estate.

John 16:7

The Holy Spirit came as a comforter, that is exactly like Jesus.

The Holy Spirit is Jesus unlimited.

Jesus could not be in multiple places at once, but the Holy Spirt can be everywhere at the same time.

⭕️The Holy Spirit is the one that is behind grace, therefore, He is the Spirit of helps.

When you access your inheritance, you will not be like a slave.

What will distinguish us from anybody else is an inheritance.

⭕️Being a child of God is not what makes you to enjoy things, you need to access the knowledge of your inheritance.

Ephesians 1:15-17, Isaiah 11:2

⭕️God does not only give us the spirit to know what is hidden but also the empowerment to do what is revealed.

⭕️The spirit of understanding is the spirit of revelation.

⭕️Understanding is beginning to see what you were not seeing.

⭕️The bible is like a mirror but it will not benefit you in the absence of light.

2 Corinthians 3:18, Colossians 1:27

⭕️If there is no breakout of great light, there will be no breakout of great glory.

⭕️Prayer for money to pay school fees is the cheapest prayer that anyone can pray but tomorrow you will have the same problem.

John 4:29, Zechariah 8:23

If certain things happened in our individual lives and corporately as a church, we will win more souls than the methods we are currently using.

Matthew 28:20, 5:13-14

⭕️Testimony is the highest form of witnessing.

⭕️We are supposed to be sharing our testimonies. When you invite people to come to church, tell them the testimony of what they are coming there to see.

Exodus 33:16, Matthew 5:16, Acts 1:8, John 14:11, Luke 5:8, 5, Revelation 5:12