Author: Pastor Henry Chisengi

1 Samuel 16:6-7
• When God looks at you, He looks at two things:
1. The state of your heart before Him.
2. The state of your spirit towards Him.
• The state of your spirit is determined by the state of your heart.
• The state of your heart is determined by the principles that you are loyal to.
• If the principles you are loyal to are wrong, you will be a wrong person altogether.
• Life is spiritual and it is controlled from the spirit realm. It operates / functions on divine principles and ordinances, and it is regulated by the word of God and the actions of men.
• Your actions are a by-product of your belief system and the principles that you have subscribed to.

• What is loyalty?
1. The act of binding yourself intellectually or emotionally to a course of action.
2. The quality of being faithful in your support of something.
3. Your inclination, allegiance, dedication to something.

• Loyalty is the character of your heart.
• When God is looking at you, He looks at how loyal your heart is.

4 THINGS GOD IS LOYAL TO
1. HIS WORD (Psalm 138:2, Mat 24:34-35)
2. HIS COVENANTS (Deut 7:9, Psa 89:3-4, Isa 11:1-5, Gen 15:12-15, Exo 2:23-25)
3. HIS PRINCIPLES (Gen 8:22, Eph 6:6-8, Gal 6:7-9)
4. ANY VESSEL OR MAN WHO
a. Trembles and abides by His word (Isa 66:2)
b. Observes in obedience and godly fear the principles and statutes of God (1 Sam 2:29-30)
• The displeasure of the Lord towards you is your weakness.
• The devil understands this well and causes men to be disloyal to the things God is loyal to.

• Priesthood is not a person.
• A priest is a person but priesthood is an office.
• Don’t view the priest as am ordinary person.
• Saul disregarded God’s principles (1 Sam 13:8-13, 15:1-35).
• God cannot prosper you if you are disloyal to things God is loyal to. This makes some christians to keep going around is circles and it look like God’s word doesn’t work because their lifestyle is against God’s principles.
• God is loyal and honours a man who has a deep and sacred approach to His covenant.
• You need to be loyal to people that God has anointed and assigned in your life.
• There are people that are divinely orchestrated to come into your life (Ruth 1:4-17).
• Be loyal to God’s messenger, he operates in an office which is supposed to usher you into your divine destiny.
• When you are loyal to God, He will show you the man that you should submit to.
Deut 28:1-2, 14-15
• When you are sinning, it doesn’t show right there and then.
• When God wants to entrust something to you, He looks at the state of your heart.

• Hear the voice behind the word.
• God operates with principles.
• If any man can work the principles of God that man will experience the righteousness of God.
• When you shift your eyes from the prophetic word it ceases to work for you.
• You need to set your gaze on the prophetic word.
• In your walk of faith there will also be other voices.
Mark 12:30, Deut 6:5
• In your walk of faith there will also be other voices
Mark 12:30, Deu 6:5, 1 The 5:23
• In the Old Testament men were dead spiritually, but after Jesus died, the spirit was made alive.
• Man is a spirit living with a soul in the body.
• The heart is not that organ that pumps blood, it is formed by man when the spirit, soul and mind agree to form a character.
• If your heart is not right, it doesn’t grow in the things of God.
1 Sam 16:7
• Fruits of the soul, body, the mind, if they are not transformed, they will lead you to death.
Prov 4:23, 21:1, 16:1
• It is your duty to prepare your heart before God.

TYPES OF HEARTS (Mark 4:14-20, Luke 8:11-16)
1. OPEN UNGUARDED HEART
2. STONY HEART
3. THORNY HEART
4. GOOD (PREPARED) HEARTS

• It is possible to do the right thing with a wrong heart.
• That does not attract the blessing of God.
• God looks at the intents of your heart
• There is no prophecy that has no conditions attached to it.
• God will only fulfill his word to a man that fulfilled his will and purposes.

HOW TO PROVOKE THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY
1. BELIEVE HIS WORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART (2 Chr 20:20, Luke 1:45)
• If God gives you a prophetic word, work on your heart and believe what he has said.

2. WORK ON YOUR HEART AS YOU ALIGN IT TO HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, WILL AND COMMAND (Mat 6:33)

3. FEAR GOD GENUINELY AS YOU ALSO ALLOW HIS FEAR TO REGULATE YOUR DECISIONS AND ACTIONS
4. TRUST AND LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART.
4. TRUST AND LOVE GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART (Psalm 91:14-16)
5. BY PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING. (Phil 4:6-7)

What is loyalty?

⭕️The act of binding yourself intellectually or emotionally to a cause of action.

⭕️The feeling of allegiance.

What does it mean to be loyal?

⭕️Unwavering in devotion to a friend, vow or cause.

⭕️Your loyalty is a character that you need to protect and guard jealously because where your loyalty lies can mean life or death.

⭕️Your loyalty in life determines your rewards.

⭕️Some people have aborted destinies simply because of their misplaced loyalty.

⭕️We serve a loyal God and if you are to understand what true loyalty should be, you need to understand how God looks at loyalty and what He is loyal to.

There are four things God is loyal to:

1.His word [Psalm 138:2, Matthew 24:35]

2.His covenants [Deuteronomy 7:9-10, Psalm 89:3-4, Isaiah 11:1, 10, Genesis 15:12-15, Exodus 2:23-25]

⭕️He keeps His covenant regardless of the state of a man.

3.His principles [Genesis 8:22, Ephesians 6:8]

4.Any person who honours the above three (3) [1 Samuel 2:29-30, Acts 10:34-35]

What is disloyalty according to God?

⭕️When you choose to dishonour or be disloyal to what God honours or is loyal to.

CASE STUDIES OF DISLOYALTY

1.ELI [1 Samuel 2:12-36]

⭕️The sin Eli committed was ignoring the principles of God and choosing to honour his sons.

⭕️Ensure in your life as a child of God, that you honour the principles of God.

⭕️If you are to be successful , be loyal to things that God is loyal to and disloyal to the things God is disloyal to. That is how you will receive favour.

⭕️Our duty is to check ourselves and align our lives according to the word of God and the principles of God.

2.SAUL [1 Samuel 13:8-14, 15:1-3, 7-9, 18-20, 23]

⭕️Saul was not loyal to the voice of the Lord and that cost him his kingship.

⭕️Your loyalty will be tested.

3.JEROBOAM AND THE YOUNG PROPHET WHO DELIVERED THE WORD OF THE LORD TO HIM [1 Kings 13:1-24]

CASE STUDY OF LOYALTY

1.RUTH [Ruth 1:1-6, 15, 2:1 – 4:22]

⭕️Which man is following God, that you are also following?

⭕️There should be people on earth that you should be loyal to. One of those is the servant of God.

⭕️Saul disregarded the office of Samuel.

⭕️Ruth was loyal to the God of Naomi and loyal to Naomi.

⭕️Supernatural results can be released by every child of God. What you need to do is understand how they work and engage them.
⭕️Christ has given us the authority but that authority works on the function of knowledge.
Mark 11:12-14, 20-25
⭕️When you have faith in God, you can declare to a thing that is displeasing to you and God will see to it that what you have said comes to pass.
⭕️When you meet a challenge in your life, speak to it.
⭕️Know that God is a shield to those who are righteous and have chosen to stand with Him.
⭕️Anything challenging you is also challenging God.
⭕️When you speak, don’t ever have doubt.
⭕️When you speak, don’t just speak as a mere man, speak as someone who has been empowered by the Spirit.
James 1:5-8
⭕️Your doubts can disqualify your words.
⭕️God has not asked you to perform a miracle, He has only asked you to believe Him.
⭕️God treats us equally, the difference among us is knowledge.
⭕️Things don’t just work, somebody works them.
⭕️When you are unstable in the spirit, even your words will be unstable – they will not move anything.
⭕️When you talk about the heart of person, you’re talking about a character that is formed when the spirit, soul and body agree to do a particular thing.
⭕️Decisions and desires are generated from there (your heart).
⭕️Your desires can stop you from getting what God wants you to get, depending on where they’re coming from.
⭕️As a child of God, you can’t generate a desire from your soul or body and expect God to back you.
⭕️Your desire has to be generated from the Spirit man for it to be aligned with the plans and purposes of God.
Luke 12:18-21
⭕️When you engage in a battle, keep your heart clean and separate yourself from emotions, circumstances and things that people do to you.
⭕️Know how to draw the line between challenges of life and the integrity of your heart.
⭕️When you’re praying a desire of the spirit and your prayer is based on the scriptures, God will avenge and fight for you.
Genesis 4:6-8, James 1:20
⭕️Wrath is a fruit of the soul – it is generated from your soul.
⭕️Forgiveness is key
⭕️Walking in love is key.
⭕️When people offend you, don’t entertain them, step away from them.
⭕️God has commanded us to love everyone but not to befriend everyone.
⭕️When you know how to protect your heart and your relationship with God, you will always command results.
⭕️In this life, you will always have enemies.
⭕️For standing with God, people will see you as an enemy.
Hebrews 12:14-15, Proverbs 4:23
⭕️You can defile yourself, not because you’ve sinned, but because you’ve chosen to entertain wrong desires.
⭕️God will not join your wrath to punish your enemies but He will join your standing on the word to punish your enemies.
⭕️In church, we are not all at the same level of faith.
Psalm 112:6-8, 145:19, Ephesians 4:26-27
⭕️If you are angry and do not deal with your anger; it will graduate into wrath and the enemy will take advantage of your desires.

HOW DO YOU RELEASE THE SUPERNATURAL IN YOUR LIFE?
1.WALKING IN LOVE TOWARDS GOD FIRST AND MEN SECOND [Luke 10:27-28, Mark 12:30]
⭕️Love men.
⭕️You are called to be a soul-winner not a soul-hater.

2.MAINTAINING YOUR COMMUNION WITH GOD THROUGH PRAYER AND CONSTANT FELLOWSHIP WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT [John 16:12-14]
⭕️We are built, rebuilt, corrected and edified on our prayer altars.

3.BY MAINTAINING A PURE HEART WITH THE RIGHT INTENTS DICTATED BY THE WORD OF GOD [Matthew 5:8, Psalm 1:1]

4.BY LIVING A SACRIFICIAL LIFE [1 Kings 3:3-5, Psalm 50:5]
5.BY CONSCIOUSLY WALKING IN THE FEAR OF GOD AND OBEDIENCE TO HIS WORD AND COMMANDMENTS [Psalm 25:10, 12-14, Isaiah 1:19, Job 36:11]

⭕️God is a loyal God.
⭕️True loyalty begins with God, then second with man.
⭕️If you’ve been teaching yourself to be loyal to a man while disregarding God, you’ve been deceiving yourself.
⭕️God is the one who rewards loyalty.

⭕️There are four things that God Himself is loyal to:
1.God is loyal to His word. [Psalm 138:2]
2.God is loyal to His principles.
3.God is loyal to covenants. [Psalm 25:9-10, 14]
4.God is loyal to men who observe the above three with a loyal heart.

⭕️You cannot serve God if you don’t have a loyal heart towards Him.
⭕️Serving God requires you to have a loyal heart before Him.
⭕️How God is going to be dealing with you is dependent on the state of your heart.
⭕️When God is weighing man, he weighs him based on the state of his heart.
⭕️You need to prepare your heart well if you are to be successful in your spiritual journey.
1 Samuel 16:6-7
⭕️The state of your heart has ability to promote you or demote you before God.
⭕️God chose David because of the state of His heart. David knew how to prepare his heart before God.
Psalm 78:70-72
⭕️Some people don’t go far because they don’t know how to prepare a loyal heart before God.
⭕️Talent is second before God, the first thing is the state of your heart.
1 Chronicles 28:8
⭕️It is possible to do what is right before God, but not with a loyal heart, and that will cause you not to receive the blessing from God.
2 Chronicles 25:1-2, Luke 2:52
⭕️If you are loyal to God, He will even command God to do things for you.
⭕️Your loyalty to God minus your loyalty to God might even cost you your salvation.
Hebrews 4:12
⭕️The word of God doesn’t just scan your actions but it also scans the intents of your heart.
⭕️Even in marriage, the first person you need to be faithful to is God.
⭕️If you are faithful to God, it will be very easy for you to be faithful to your spouse.
⭕️If you are faithful to your boyfriend but disloyal to God, that relationship is bound to crash.
⭕️Successful love is a triangle between a couple and God.
⭕️True love is not how you feel, true love is God.
⭕️Man can change at any time. The love of a man is unstable.
⭕️Maintain a loyal heart before God, don’t rush for anything.
⭕️If you rush for anything, you’re just jeopardising what God has for you.
⭕️The enemy will be kept at bay because you honor God first in your relationship.
⭕️What protected Abraham’s marriage was the loyalty of God (Genesis 12:1-20, 20:2-6).
⭕️When you are doing things out of the integrity of your heart, God will reward you on the basis of such.
Genesis 22:2-19
⭕️Whatever you say on the altar is part of the covenant.
1 Chronicles 21:1, 13, 15, 18, 27
⭕️Regardless of the appearance or disappearance of a man, God is still loyal to His word and covenants.
⭕️God rewards loyal men handsomely.
Exodus 2:24, 2 Samuel 11:2-4, 12:1-24, Psalm 51:11
⭕️God is a judge and a father. He is also lord over all His creation.
⭕️God is also a savior and a redeemer.
⭕️There are consequences to being disloyal to God.
2 Samuel 6:16, 23
⭕️God is a covenant-keeping God.
⭕️In your quest to please men, seek first to please God.
⭕️In your quest to be loyal to men, seek first to be loyal to God.
⭕️Disloyalty starts from the heart. Loyalty also starts from the heart.
⭕️If you want to understand what true loyalty is, learn to prepare your heart to be loyal before God.
⭕️Any man that is not loyal to God, it’s just a matter of time before they fail you.
⭕️Don’t rush to fight for your own relationships; leave God to fight for your man and for your woman.
⭕️The greatest way to short-circuit your assignment is to be disloyal to God’s word, principles and covenants.
1 Samuel 15:20-21, 28, 2 Samuel 2:29-30
⭕️As a child of God, make a choice to stand out and be loyal to God’s word, principles and covenants.
⭕️When you align yourself with God’s word principles and covenants; you make yourself a candidate for promotion. 

⭕️The greatest way to be lightly esteemed in this world is to disregard God’s word, principles and covenants.
⭕️What are you doing now that God will consider as loyalty and reward you for it?
⭕️In what you do, how is the state of your heart before God?
⭕️When God weighs your heart, He determines the kind of blessing that He can entrust to you.
⭕️Certain doors will be opened to you on the basis of your loyalty to God.

Prophetic Decrees:

⭕️FATHER, TEACH THEM HOW TO PREPARE A LOYAL HEART BEFORE YOU AND BEFORE MEN THAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO SUBMIT TO.
⭕️I DECLARE A BLESSING OVER YOUR PEOPLE.
⭕️MAY THE LORD BLESS YOU.
⭕️MAY THE LORD INCREASE YOU.
⭕️MAY THE LORD PROSPER YOU.
⭕️MAY HE REBUKE THE ENEMY FOR YOUR SAKE.
⭕️YOU ARE PRESERVED.
⭕️YOU ARE PROTECTED.
⭕️YOU SHALL CROSS OVER INTO 2023.
⭕️YOU SHALL CROSS OVER WITH YOUR BELOVED ONES INTO 2023
⭕️YOU SHALL NOT DIE YOUNG.
⭕️MAY THE LORD OPEN ALL STUBBORN DOORS IN YOUR LIFE AND IN YOUR FAVOUR.
⭕️MAY THE LORD FAVOUR YOU AND BRING DIVINE HELPERS IN YOUR LIFE.
⭕️MAY THE LORD REWARD YOUR DILIGENCE.
⭕️MAY THE LORD SHOW YOU HIS WAYS.
⭕️MAY GOD PROSPER YOU.
⭕️MAY GOD PROTECT YOU.
⭕️MAY GOD DEFEND YOU.