Category: Prayer

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

Isaiah 61:1-3

⭕️Good news is not preached to everyone, only the meek are ready to hear.

⭕️There are so many laws that govern how we live on the earth, and most of these are spiritual laws.

⭕️One of those laws is the law of protocol.

⭕️The law of protocol demands that any environment you get into, you must know what is required there if you are going to make the most of it.

⭕️If you come into the presence of God, you must know what God expects of you and you must do accordingly if you are to benefit from it.

⭕️A person that lacks joy will never be free no matter how free they want to be.

⭕️When you see people failing to express themselves to glorify God, they are in bondage.

⭕️Praise is not what we do while we are waiting to hear the message; it is an important aspect of the service where we are lifting and glorifying the name of the Lord.

⭕️Praise is a requirement and it has benefits.

⭕️Many people are comfortable with where they are.

⭕️Being prayed for is temporary relief, what will make you live in dominion is to be empowered.

⭕️If you don’t discover what you were born for, you will be broke because your money is in your assignment.

⭕️If you don’t know what you were born for, you will live carelessly.

⭕️A man that knows his assignment is a man that will separate himself from many things so that he can focus on his assignment and have mastery over it.

Acts 19:14-16

⭕️The name of Jesus is very powerful but its power is only released in the mouths of those that say it out of faith and revelation.

⭕️The devil knows those with power.

⭕️If you don’t get empowered, they (devils) will keep standing at the door of your inheritance, stopping you from getting your own.

UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF PRAYER AND FASTING

Isaiah 58:3-11

⭕️Prayer and fasting is not an old testament thing that went away with Jesus.

⭕️We don’t fast as a religious practice.

⭕️We fast in order to catch God’s attention on certain matters.

⭕️Fasting causes God to see, if you do it correctly.

⭕️When you add fasting to your prayer, you amplify your voice to be heard on high (by God).

 Isaiah 66:2

⭕️A fast can be acceptable or not acceptable.

1 Kings 21:27-29

⭕️Fasting can reverse curses.

⭕️No bad situation is permanent with God.

⭕️God doesn’t look at what you did yesterday, He will look at your decision to go for Him now.

⭕️Prayer and fasting can shape the destinies of nations.

⭕️Be careful that you’re abstaining from food and not spending time in the word of God and prayer.

⭕️Fasting is just a booster to prayer (fasting is supporting prayer).

⭕️Your voice must be heard in prayer.

⭕️Your abstinence from food should lead you to having more time to pray and study the word of God.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE PRAY AND FAST?

1.LIGHT WILL BREAK FORTH (Isaiah 58:8)

⭕️Prayer and fasting enhances revelation.

⭕️Light is life.

⭕️Light is victory.

⭕️To have light is to be favoured.

⭕️Nobody will admire something in the dark. Beauty comes alive in the light.

2.REVERSAL OF EVIL VERDICTS (1 Kings 21:27-29)

3.PRAYER AND FASTING HELPS PEOPLE TO DISCOVER THEIR GOD-GIVEN PURPOSE (Acts 13:1-2, Jeremiah 1:5, 33:3)

⭕️Everything that God created was created for a purpose.

⭕️We may not discover our purpose if we don’t pray and fast.

⭕️If you don’t discover God’s purpose for your life, you will be living another man’s life.

⭕️Every child of God has an ordination from God (they have already been ordained by God). What is needed is for each one to discover and activate it.

⭕️There is no school you can go to, to discover your purpose.

⭕️Those who hate prayer and fasting hate their next level.

⭕️What God has called you to do is what will keep you alive.

⭕️Until you discover your purpose, you are wasting away your life.

4.ENHANCES (FACILITATES) ANSWERS TO PRAYER (Isaiah 58:9)

5.FACILITATES THE BIRTHING OF NEW THINGS (Isaiah 58:8, 60:1-2)

6.PRAYER AND FASTING RENEWS POWER AND INCREASES POWER LEVELS (Isaiah 40:28-31)

THE POWER OF PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING AS A LIFESTYLE

Psalm 100:1-5, 34:1

⭕️The lifestyle of thanksgiving leads to daily liftings.

⭕️It is impossible to find those who praise God at the same spot you found them yesterday; new things are always happening in their lives.

⭕️Praise and thanksgiving can indicate how spiritual someone is.

⭕️Most of the kingdom giants are thankful people.

⭕️When a person loves complaining, it is a sign that thanksgiving is not present.

What is thanksgiving?

1. Acknowledging God’s act on your life, the lives of others or the things He has created (Malachi 2:1)

2. Appreciation in advance (expectation) (2 Samuel 7:18, Romans 4:20)

⭕️Thanking God for what He has done is easier than thanking Him in advance.

⭕️It takes faith to thank God in advance, for what He has said.

⭕️Many prophecies (promises) come to people but they do not come to pass because they have not learnt to thank God in advance.

What is praise?

1.Celebration of God’s faithfulness and His character.

2.Celebration of the integrity of God’s word (Psalm 56:4, 10, Hebrews 11:11, Romans 4:20)

⭕️Thanksgiving focuses on the acts of God while praise focuses on the personality of God.

⭕️Have expectations in mind for why you are praising God.

⭕️Praise releases God’s power into any situation.

What are the channels of expressing thanksgiving and praise?

1.Clapping our hands (Psalm 47:1)

2.Shouting (Psalm 47:5)

3.Testimonies (Luke 17:15-17, 1 Samuel 1:27, Psalm 92:2)

4.Singing

5.Dancing (Acts 2:47, 42, 46)

⭕️People who remember what God said can’t stray, they will have answers.

⭕️Any area of your life where the will of God is not at work, you are not at rest.

Exodus 33:12-16

⭕️Glory is what will separate us.

⭕️Refuse people to tag you as common because you are not common.

⭕️If you’re going to walk in the spirit, there are many things you need to change.

⭕️Christianity is hard work, you have to train yourself how to think and talk if you’re going to matter tomorrow.

⭕️Matured people are measured on how they talk.

⭕️We talk the language of the world and that is why we manifest the world’s results.

⭕️In the kingdom we don’t speak our mind, our feelings or how we see things; we speak the mind of God.

⭕️We have our own language.

⭕️Nothing can stop a man who thinks and talks right.

⭕️Our mouth helps to program our mind.

⭕️As you talk differently, you will begin to think according to how you’re talking.

⭕️Your identity is your point of reaction.

⭕️Daniel 5:11, Isaiah 58:8

⭕️Wisdom is light.

Romans 8:29-30

⭕️We were saved to experience glory.

POSITIONING FOR NEW THINGS (PART 2)

HOW TO PREPARE AND STEP INTO NEW THINGS

1.Perceive the heart of God (Jeremiah 23:18, Job 33:14-15, Hosea 12:10, Acts 16:9, Job 9:11, 1 Kings 18:41, 44, Isaiah 42:9-13)

⭕️The five spiritual senses are also the five spiritual senses.

⭕️From your dreams you can perceive battles, the ends and beginnings of seasons.

⭕️Angels also appear in our dreams.

⭕️When you wake up in the morning, your reaction to your dream shows whether you have received it or not.

⭕️He wants us to know and perceive, whatever the method that He uses.

2.CHANGE YOUR FOCUS

⭕️If you only have pictures of your past and not your future, at the slightest provocation you will go back.

⭕️Have pictures of the future where God is taking you.

⭕️You cannot step into the future you don’t have in your mind.

⭕️The picture you see in your mind and your talk must line up (you must talk right).

⭕️Lack and want is a mentality.

⭕️Demons love to colonize families. They do that by ensuring that parents pass on the information they know through their talk.

⭕️What you say either releases your future or makes it tight.

⭕️We are not supposed to talk anyhow.

⭕️We should talk based  on our dreams, what God is doing in our lives.

⭕️You can be bound by your own words.

⭕️Your own words can tie your future.

⭕️Say the new things that God is doing in your life.

Hebrews 12:2

⭕️Be surrounded by pictures of the new things God is doing.

⭕️What you look at affects how you feel.

⭕️When you look at pictures of a bright future, it will generate good feelings.

⭕️Sit down and develop images from the word of God you heard.

⭕️There is nothing new for you if you can’t think new.

⭕️ Every seed has to be planted.

FACTS ABOUT SEEDS

1.A seed is alive and contains life.

2.A seed is creative

3.A seed contains the very nature of the plant

⭕️God’s seed, which is the word of God, carries God’s spirit.

4.A seed is smaller than the plant it produces

5.A seed does nothing until it is planted

6.A seed begins its growth in secret (underground)

7.A seed takes time to grow

8.A seed is not affected by others

9.A seed will stop growing without nourishment

10.A seed is persistent

11.More seeds planted will result in more harvests

12.Every seed produces after its own kind

13.In most cases, a seed does not look colourful compared to its fruit

BUILDING YOUR FAITH

Numbers 13:24-33

⭕️Every promised land has giants.

⭕️If you are not willing to invest into something you will be a nobody.

⭕️Someone has chosen to invest time to discover something while another has chosen to spend time enjoying what is already available.

⭕️Bad news and good news will always come.

⭕️There will always be noise and bad news but it is your duty to tune to the frequency of heaven.

⭕️You must make a conscious decision to build your faith.

⭕️If you do not have faith, your destiny is at risk.

⭕️Faith is how we live, and by not having it we die.

⭕️Faith doesn’t beg.

Hebrews 3:12-4:2

⭕️A heart that doesn’t believe is an evil heart.

⭕️You need a daily building of your faith because satan comes to you daily.

⭕️Faith is what you need to take a stand.

⭕️You must labour to build your faith.

⭕️Faith is not for lazy people.

⭕️When you are praying and fasting, you are actually building your faith.

⭕️Reading the word of God without revelation will give you nothing.

⭕️Prayer and the word will enhance your spiritual perception.

⭕️You can’t perceive seasons and times when you are not spiritual.

⭕️The only word you believe is the one you practice.

⭕️Build your faith to secure your future.

⭕️You can’t enter whatever God has promised without faith.

⭕️When you are building your faith, it appears as if you’re wasting time.

⭕️Faith is.

⭕️A person who speaks “I am,” is in faith.

⭕️Don’t push it forward, faith is now.

⭕️Speak well, control your tongue.

Matthew 17 :20

⭕️A man of faith must measure his words, be slow to speak and quick to listen.

⭕️There is no present you can prepare for God that will be acceptable except the present He inspired you to give.

⭕️There is no worship you can prepare for God that will be acceptable except the worship He has helped you to give.

⭕️This is because the standards of God are higher, God is not human.

⭕️Only when God has introduced mercy is He going to meet man.

⭕️Mercy qualifies the unqualified.

⭕️Mercy overrides judgment that may be on a man.

Isaiah 66:1-2, James 2:19, Hebrews 11:7

⭕️Trembling at God’s word is acting in the direction of what God has said, having reverence and assurance that He will do it.

Isaiah 43:16-19

⭕️When God says, “I will bless you,” He has already done it.

POSITIONING FOR NEW THINGS

⭕️What is new?

a) Something original, and of a kind not yet seen before.

b) Having no previous example, precedent or parallel.

⭕️What is new to me might not be new to you – it is subjective.

⭕️If your account receives 1 million Kwacha, it may be new to you but there are many people who have already received that amount.

⭕️Have the mentality that new things are happening to you as an individual.

⭕️Former things are things that have happened before (past events).

⭕️In the absence of a new mind, it is impossible to have a new thing.

⭕️To stay ahead will require your head.

HOW TO PREPARE AND STEP INTO NEW THINGS

Revelation 21:5

⭕️It is God that is doing new things and He is doing them for us.

⭕️The new things are not what we think for ourselves but what God is thinking for us.

⭕️If you are going to think about new things, think under inspiration from God.

1.Perceive the heart of God (Isaiah 43:19,43:6, 48:6, Matthew 21:2-3, 6-7, Matthew 17:27, John 2:8, Matthew 14:17-20)

⭕️God wants you to know what He is doing.

⭕️It will not be so plain; you have to perceive it.

⭕️To be aware of something does not necessarily mean that you have seen the thing.

⭕️You are aware of your brain even though you have not seen it.

⭕️There are certain things that will create awareness of what God is doing.

Examples of perception from the bible:

⭕️The presence of angels created an awareness of God’s presence in the area for Jacob. (Genesis 32:1)

⭕️Jacob also perceived God’s presence through a dream he had. (Genesis 28:16-17)

⭕️The woman of Shunem perceived that Elisha was a man of God (2 Kings 4:9-10).

⭕️David perceived that God had lifted him when a king from afar off was willing to cooperate with him (2 Samuel 5:12).

⭕️The woman with the issue of blood perceived that she could receive her healing by reason of the things she heard about Jesus (Mark 5:27).

⭕️Elijah perceived that rain had come when a little cloud started to rise from the sea (1 Kings 18:44).

⭕️The Israelites observed that they were winning when Moses’ hands were raised (Exodus 17:12).

⭕️When certain things happen in your life, God expects you to perceive.

⭕️God doesn’t always speak.

⭕️When battles become more intense than before, you can perceive that God is doing something.

⭕️When you are about to step into financial glory you will be reduced to financial deprivation.

⭕️Information and revelation are not the same.

⭕️Catch a revelation.

⭕️God’s words are creative; they create the reality of what they talk about.

⭕️Your account has nothing but God can come through it.

2.Change your focus

1. i) Stop looking at the former things (Jeremiah 29:11-14, James 1:8, Genesis 6:5-7, Matthew 4:17, Philippians 3:13, Joshua 1:5, 7, Joshua 5:13, Numbers 14:24, Joshua 14:12)

⭕️Former things are not necessarily bad.

⭕️For God to do you good, He has to think good towards you.

⭕️God also thinks about bad things, He wouldn’t punish evil and bring vengeance if He wasn’t thinking bad towards your enemies.

⭕️God cannot think of doing bad and good at the same time.

⭕️Focus all your energy into thinking what you want to see.

⭕️The things we see and hear are smaller than what we think.

⭕️The things we think help us to interpret what we see and hear.

⭕️There is power that is generated when a man chooses to look at one subject and concentrate on it.

⭕️You can be in poverty but when God looks at you, He can see that you are prosperous because you have acquired the mindset of prosperity.

⭕️Tomorrow is as a result of what is in the mind today.

⭕️Imagination is the factory for tomorrow.

⭕️You will not master anything until there is focus.

⭕️Whether it is success or failure, don’t look at the former things.

⭕️Yesterday’s success will make you complacent to chase for new things if you look at it.

⭕️Yesterday’s failures will affect you in your pursuit of new things, if you look at them.

⭕️You can use past successes to give you energy to focus on new things.

⭕️You are free when there is nothing hindering your dreaming of the future.

⭕️You can’t look at success and failure at the same time.

⭕️You can’t enter your promised land with a mindset of fear.

⭕️Let go of the past, how many times you tried doesn’t matter. God is doing new things.

⭕️You will struggle in your relationships if you do not have the ability to forget (the past).

⭕️If all you hear are negatives when you are among a certain group, God is telling you to move away.

⭕️When God calls people for great things, they seem to go through seasons of isolation.

⭕️It is for a reason; it is for reprogramming of the mind.