Category: Christian Living

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.

• Being a child of God is not a call to laziness.
• Many are born-again and have sat down, not doing anything but coming to church and going back home.
• You should walk with God and work with God in your christian journey.

What is dedication:
• The act of binding yourself to a course of action.
• A complete and whole-hearted fidelity.

• In dedication , there is sacrifice.
• Sacrifice is doing things when the conditions may not be convenient.
• In dedication, there is faithfulness.
• In dedication, there is commitment.
Prov 4:14-16
• God wants us to be dedicated to Him, satan also wants his followers to be dedicated to him.
• If you are dedicated to doing what God tells you to do, the enemy hates that.

WHAT IS IN DEDICATION?
1. PROMOTION (1 Chr 11:6, 17-24)

2. ENTHRONEMENT (Est 10:3, 6:1-11, 1 Sam 18:25, 27)
• Dedication will lead to your quick enthronement.
• Mordecai was enthroned because he was faithful.

3. ANNOUNCEMENT
4. YOU WIN ACCESS TO YOUR MASTER’S HEART (Acts 13:22, James 2:23)
5. ACCEPTANCE AND FAVOUR (Ruth 1:16)
6. DEDICATION PREVENTS SHAME (2 Tim 2:15)
7. ACQUISITION OF AN ANOINTING (2 Kings 2:9)

IN WHAT AREAS SHOULD WE SHOW DEDICATION?
1. PRAYER (1 Thess 5:17)
2. KINGDOM SERVICE (Luke 2:37)
3. GIVING (Eccl 11:1-3, Prov 11:24)
4. SOUL-WINNING ACTIVITIES (Acts 15:26)
5. STUDYING THE WORD OF GOD (2 Tim 2:15)

Mat 24:46

• The bible has been divided into two divisions: obedience to God and service to God.
• For you to be a stable christian,make sure you understand issues of obedience and matters of service to God.
• Serving God is doing things that advance the cause of God’s kingdom.
• Serving God is not something we are born with, it is something you need to work on.
• God will not force you to serve Him, you must make the choice to serve Him.
• Believers who don’t engage in serving God don’t see the full manifestation of the scriptures in their lives.

SOME PLATFORMS ON WHICH TO SERVE GOD
1. SOUL-WINNING AND RETENTION (2 Tim 4:1-2, John 15:7-8, 15-16)

• This is God’s heartbeat.
• Serving on this platform is equal to owning a gold mine.
• When you understand this platform, poverty, lack and want will not be part of your life.
• When you engage in this, you will be one of those that give God pleasure.
• You can’t give God pleasure and also be poor.

2. KINGDOM-ADVANCING PRAYERS (Luke 24:28-32)

• You must be diligent in your service to God (Prov 22:29, Dan 6:16-20, Luke: 2:36-37)
• In most cases, rewards are not at the beginning or middle of the journey but at the end.
• When it comes to serving God, be in it for the long haul.
• Make sure your service is based on revelation.
• God also expects you to serve him delightfully and joyfully (Deut 28:47-48).
• Joy and gladness is a spiritual uniform, it gives you identity before God.

BENEFITS OF KINGDOM SERVICE (Exo 23:25-28)
1. SICKNESS AND DISEASES BECOME A THING OF THE PAST
2. YOU STOP LABOURING IN VAIN
3. SIEGES AND EMBARGOES BECOME BROKEN

PRAYER POINT:
FATHER, BY YOUR MERCY, GIVE ME AN IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF THE BLESSEDNESS OF KINGDOM SERVICE. HELP ME UP MY GAME IN THIS AREA A THOUSAND TIMES MORE THIS YEAR AND BEYOND.
(JOHN 13:3-5, 15-17)

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).

• The way men behave is the reason why lifespan has been reducing.
• Solomon didn’t end well.
• In order to preserve certain lives seeing the way they are going, God reaps them out of the earth because they may end up going to hell despite being on the right path.
• As a christian, if you think you are free to do anything then your christianity is questionable.
• In christianity there is no independence but only dependence.
Gal 2:20, 1 John 5:4
• Christianity is a dependent life – you are having life through the life of another.
• You will face challenges in your spiritual life.
• It is spiritual to be challenged but unscriptural to be defeated.
• If you are defeated because for not building up your faith, it is because of your own carelessness.
• There is a way out of any challenge a man can face.
• You can either see that way out or hear it.
• The earthly realm is a theater where the decisions made in the spirit realm are played out.
• If you have no access to the happenings in the spirit realm, your life will be full of ups and downs.
• Which spirit has an upper hand in your life?
• Whichever spirit you make yourself a slave to will have an upper hand in your life.
• The reason why we can get healed is because someone paid the price by sacrifice.
Job 33:14-30
• When you are challenged, the worst thing you can do is cut yourself off from God.
• When you are challenged, you need to hang around God so that you hear something that can save your life.
• In most cases, we don’t respect God’s voice enough.
• If you are deliberately disobedient to God’s instructions, He won’t speak to you.
• A covenant is an alliance.
Psa 50:5
• A heavily convenanted man is a heavily defended man.
• One sacrifice can do many things.
Eccl 11:1-3, Gal 6:9
• Whatever God tells you to do, you are doing it towards filling your own cloud.
• When you give up, you have given up on filling your own cloud.
• When it rains, the water is not equal to the water that was evaporated from the earth to fill the cloud.
• Only you can stop your harvest, no devil is strong enough.
• Are you willing to be consistent enough in the things you are doing?
• God is faithful.
• If you faint, you lose your harvest.
Est 4:14, Gen 22:2, 12

• The supernatural and the natural are separated by a very thin curtain, that’s why those that don’t focus, can’t cross to the other side
• Require concentration, watching, an ear that hears
• Time is not a factor in the supernatural.
• Isa 38:1-8
• It’s not that God doesn’t hear, men are too proud to call on him.
• Every time God steps into a matter to help someone, He has remembered something, mostly it is a covenant that that person had with God.

• The house of God is not a lecture room, you have to pay attention to catch what God is saying through his vessels.
• If prisoners are not groaning, there is nothing that God will respond to. Psalm 102:19
• When you pled for mercy you are saying remember me. Jam 2:13
• 1 Sam 1:11, 2:6, something had to be killed by God for Hannah’s womb to be made alive in order to conceive.

1 John 5:19, Dan 2:19, Mat 13:25
• As long as you are on earth, there will always be a fight between good and evil.
• Today may be as a result of the decisions of yesterday but your tomorrow will be as a result of your decisions today.
• The call for mercy is what makes God to step into your matter in order to use it as an excuse to bless you.
• Men are not trapped today but yesterday when they thought they do not need God.

• When God speaks:
1. He is about to do something.
2. He has seen something
3. He has heard something.

• God does not speak for entertainment.
• Those who value what he says, they see his hand.
• Since God is all knowing, He sees way ahead.

• If God rejects you nobody else can accept you, even when help you its because God is using them.
After the service, don’t just be excited that you have finished a program, be more conscious of what you received.
• Both Saul and David were anointed but Saul did not know what come on him and what it represented.
• 2 Sam 1:21, 25
• The anointing removes burdens and breaks the yokes. Isa 10:27
• Yokes are things the enemy puts on people to limit their speed and advancement.
• The anointing protects.

• Est 4:3, 12-14, 6:1-10, Mat 2:7-8

• By the elevation of Mordecai to a place of influence and authority, all the battles he was facing came to an end.
• Whatever Mordecai was lacking at the place of a gateman, by his lifting, his provisions, supplies and kind of people he interacted with changed.
• The anointing comes to change your status.

• 1 Kings 3:3, 5-9, 15-20, God visited Solomon at night because of the sacrifice he made during the day.
• Don’t confuse where you are and where you are going.

Deut 2:1-9, 2 Chron 20:1-25
• Pray intelligently.
• Only wise people turn to God for help.
• When you face battles in life and all you see is yourself and how you are dealing with those battles, you have lost. You need to go back and see yourself in the midst of covenants, to what God said.
• God doesn’t get involved in some battles because when things are going well, we push Him aside.
• In God’s system, you get rich by entrustment.
• If you are not aligned with Him, you cannot be entrusted.
• The problem with many christians is that when they are praying, they heard and see nothing.
• You need to invoke every aspect of the covenant for God to step in.
• If God is going to take over your battles, there is a position you must take.
• To God, being still is a proof of faith in Him.
• If you are shaking, it means you are in action.
• How can you and God both be in action?
• The proof that you don’t believe God is that you are still afraid, conscious of your enemy and problem.
• The word of the Lord changes seasons.
• It is the speakings of prophets that make people prosper.
• Don’t dilute the word of the Lord by your human expectations.