Category: Prayer

Ps 75:1, Deut 4:5-8
• Thanksgiving is a spiritual mystery.
• God is worthy of our thanks.
• The things God does for us require understanding if we are ever going to give Him satisfactory thanksgiving.
• Most of the things God does for us are not seen.
• Because of the 3-dimensional world we live in, we react quicker to things we can see.
• You will be more thankful when your car narrowly escapes being hit by another car because you can see it.
• There have been many attacks on your life that God cancels by His intervention without you ever knowing.
• God can’t show us everything He does for us.
• God in His wisdom has so many secrets.
• Just like how there are certain images parents would not want their children to see because of the effect that can have on their minds, God won’t show you every failed attack of the enemy over your life so that you don’t end up living in fear.
• When God tells you to do something, He doesn’t have to explain himself.
• Walking by faith is not by analysing.
• Walking by faith is purely by trusting God.
• Walking in faith appears as foolishness to human reasoning.
• We need the help of the Holy Spirit to give God thanks.
• Mercy gives us an advantage, a platform where God relates with us.
• Our relationship with God helps us overcome the forces of darkness.
• Anything you do for God such as prayer, fasting is not by your own ability, it is by God’s help.
• God’s help can’t be quantified.
• For the rest of our lives, we have a perpetual debt of thanksgiving to God.
• In the school of divine direction, no human being has ever gotten 100% all the time. There are times when we can miss the way.
• During those times when we miss direction, God’s mercy is there to save us from disaster.
• Mercy is a second level of intervention.
Gen 32:9-10, Deut 8:18, Phili 2:27
• Thanksgiving is also a proof of your faith.
Jer 30:19

Ezek 36:10-15, 35
• Land, a house, a field can have a problem on it that is causing people to be sick and die.
• When you are under a curse, everything else is fighting you.
• Enemies are able to get at you when you are under a curse.
• The blessing shields you.
Num 22:6
• As long as you are covered by the blessing, the enemy has nothing on you.
• The words God speaks over a person and over a land become defense and the key to the fruitfulness being enjoyed.
• The words of the Lord empower.
• When God has promised something, our job is to pray it into manifestation.
• Satan also hears words of prophecies and opposes them.
Exo 1:7, 1 Cor 16:9
• When you hear a prophetic word and do nothing about it, you will be frustrated.
• What God has said will be done in your life if you do your part.
• Prophecy requires enforcement. It needs to be enforced into fulfillment.
• It is in the interest of the enemy to make sure God’s word over your life isn’t fulfilled.
1 Kings 18:1
• There is a responsibility on the person on whose head there are prophecies.
• One of these responsibilities is to pray those prophecies into manifestation.
Heb 10:7
• There is a lot of spiritual relaxation amongst children of God.
• Things don’t just happen by themselves, you must enforce changes.
1 Sam 1:27
• When you have received a burden from the Lord, are you able to separate yourself? This can tell you if you are able to cause changes.
• Men change when they are alone with God (Gen 32:24).
Rom 15:4, Est 4:16
• Nobody is coming to change that situation of yours for you.
• No matter how much a man of God prays for you in order for your situation to change, you still have to play your part in order for things to change.
• Take a stand, fight for what you believe.
• Fight for your prophecy.
Job 14:14, 42:10
• Don’t water down your dreams because of circumstances.
Gen 26:21-22
• No prayer is wasted.
Luke 18:1

• Our thought life is actually our life.
• We gravitate towards our most dominant thoughts.
• How we tend to do things is based on how we think.
• No one does things without thinking.
• What you hear affects how you think.
• Overflow will mean nothing if you don’t change your thinking to line up with it.
• If you want to have a new life, have new thoughts.
• New thoughts will lead to a new life.
• If you want to have new thoughts, listen to new things.
• If you don’t change your mind, you can’t have a new life.
• Having christians in positions of power won’t change anything.
• It is not christians that will change things while in positions of power but people that are kingdom-minded.
• Jesus came to introduce the kingdom life.
• Being a christian doesn’t mean you are living the kingdom life.
• After becoming a christian, you must enter the kingdom life.
• A person who is controlled by God in speech, behaviour and every other area of life is someone that will cause changes around.
• The worldly system is controlled by demonic spirits.
• When you first get into a system, the system will try to initiate you into its way of doing things.
• When Daniel and his colleagues arrived in Babylon, the Babylonians tried to initiate them into their system by making them eat their food. Daniel and his colleagues refused to be a part of that system.
Dan 1:20

STEPPING INTO THE SUPERNATURAL OVERFLOW
• God’s method of doing things is that He announces what He is about to do before He does it and wherever what He has spoken is believed, there is manifestation.
• Supernatural – anything that is outside the natural realm, not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws.
• Overflow – a large flow (flood, outpouring), an occurrence of surplus exceeding limit or capacity.

2 Kings 3:17, Amos 9:13-14
• Supernatural overflow is not limited to one area.
• God’s pleasure is to be believed.
• There are many selfish people in the community.
• Don’t expect non-believers to do good for God’s kingdom.
• God wants you to prosper because you will advance his kingdom when you do.
• The church is the hope for the community.
• If there were many people with a heart for the community, plenty will have changed in the community.
• God is counting on you to partner with Him and do good.
• The kingdom of God will advance by God’s people and not anybody else.
• If God’s people are not empowered, they will have limited God.
Neh 2:20

EXAMPLES OF OVERFLOW IN THE BIBLE
1. Building of the tabernacle (Exo 36:5-7)
2. Lev 26:8-10, Josh 23:10
3. The prophet’s widow (2 Kings 4:1-6)
4. The widow of Zarephath (1 Kings 17:13-15)
5. Solomon made silver like dust in Jerusalem (1 Kings 10:27)
6. The siege in Samaria (2 Kings 6:25 – 7:10)
7. Jehoshaphat on the battle field (2 Kings 20:25-26)

• Behind any overflow, there is a supernatural increase.
Exo 34:24, Eze 36:11
• In supernatural overflow, God deals with enemies of increase.
• If your family is increasing but your financial resources are not increasing, it is an error.
• If you’re struggling to feed one child, don’t have another one until something changes.
• God’s way of multiplying is to multiply both people and resources.
• If we’re just labouring to make our families eat, are we sure we can expand the kingdom of God?
Psa 89:20-21, Rom 1:11, 1 Kings 1:39, Ps 65:11 (NLT)

Gen 1:1-3, Psa 104:24, Prov 8:10-12, 22-30, 4:1-7
• Divine wisdom created us and the things we see.
1 Kings 4:29-34,
• The wisdom of Egypt included keeping people in bondage and limitation – keeping them in a box.
• The wisdom of Egypt hinders you from serving God.
• The wisdom of Egypt wants you to serve God only with your mouth but not your resources.
Exo 7:9-12
• The wisdom of God is an excelling wisdom.
• When you talk about wisdom,you are talking about light (Isa 60:3).

WHAT IS DIVINE WISDOM?
1. That raw gift of God to his children (Prov 13:22, Dan 1:17, 20, 2 Peter 3:15)
• How can God be wise and never give that wisdom as an inheritance to his children?

2. The wisdom that the Holy Ghost teaches (1 Cor 2:13)
• When the Holy Ghost is teaching you, He is teaching you wisdom.

3. The manifestation of the wisdom of God in the life of a man (Acts 6:3, 10)

4. The applied knowledge of truth from our study of the word and from focused meditation (Mat 7:24-25, Psa 119:97-100, 1 Tim 4:13)

Psa 18:11, Exo 20:21
• Satan can’t study God but we can study satan and his tactics.
• You can’t gather sufficient information about God to be able to defeat Him.

5. A product of operating with the mind of Christ (1 Cor 2:16, Dan 5:11-12)
• The presence of the Spirit of God connotes wisdom.
• When we access the wisdom of God, we are truly accessing the light of God.
• The power of light is also seen in the power of wisdom because wisdom is light.

Mat 3:16-4:2, Luke 4:14, Mat 4:12-16, Isa 9:1-2
• The purpose of the great light is to rule (Gen 1:16).

WHAT IS THE POWER OF LIGHT?
1. Light swallows the power of darkness (John 1:5)
2. Light empowers rising and distinction in life and destiny (Isa 60:1)
• It is only possible to arise when your light has come.
3. Light destroys the power of death (Isa 9:1-2, Mat 4:13-17, 2 Kings 2:19-21)

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