Category: Prayer

Deut 32:9-15, 1 Cor 10:13
• It doesn’t matter where you are and what you are facing, if you can have direction you can get out of that situation.
• No matter what you are facing, there is always a way out.
• Don’t try to magnify your problem.
• Don’t try to say, “I have a special challenge.”
• Only one who has all knowledge can know the way out of any challenge and that is God.
• If you are facing problems and you are drifting away from God, you will have those problems for a long time.
• Wherever there is leading there is instruction.
• Because you can be led and instructed, you will be preserved.
• God is involved in wherever He is leading you.
• Nothing will crush you where God is leading you because that thing will have to crush God first.
• In our journey of destiny there are enemies and giants on the way.
• If we are not led, we will be crushed.
• A marriage that is from God can still crash along the way if God is not involved.
• Even what is of God needs security along the way.
• Divine guidance secures destiny.
• If things don’t seem to be working, it could be that there is an instruction that needs to come, so ask God. If the instruction has come but things still aren’t working, then you are not carrying it out.

• God didn’t wire us to be looking after ourselves, we were supposed to be dependent on Him.
• God doesn’t expect you to plan your life, your duty is to discover what his plan for your life is.
• Every man has divine ordination.
• When you are walking in divine ordination, things fall into place.
• You will have to fend for and defend yourself outside God’s plan.
• Make sure that what you are calling “my plan” is actually God’s plan.
• Don’t go anywhere God is not leading you to, that could be your burial place.
• The subject of divine guidance is least talked about in churches and that is why there is plenty of frustration.
• You that is meant to live long can die young outside God’s plan.

THINGS TO NOTE ABOUT DIVINE GUIDANCE
1. It secures and guarantees destiny (Rom 8:14, 29)
• There is no glory you will ever have if you don’t find out what was ordained for you.
• It’s not too late to know God’s direction for your life.
2. All God’s leading is forward, He doesn’t lead backward (Exo 15:13)

3. Following divine guidance is a choice (Deut 30:19)

4. Every step we take in life either takes us closer or farther from our destiny (Prov 3:5-8)
• We must ensure that we are making accurate decisions every day.
• Your feet are not supposed to be everywhere.
• There is a path you need to walk in, in order to fulfill your destiny.
• Everything goes wrong when you are outside God’s plan, including your health.
• With all that God promises, outside His plan those promises don’t work.
• No matter how fast you drive in a wrong direction, you won’t arrive.
• How many are on a wrong path?
• Waiting for your aircraft at any boarding gate is the best way to be left.
• Every decision we make is either making us or breaking us.
• Every step we take is either for our downfall or lifting.
• When God gives you a strategy about how to do things, it might not work for another person who tries to copy. These things are specific.

Deut 28:1, 13

HOW TO SECURE DIVINE GUIDANCE
1. Through the Spirit of God (John 16:13)
2. Through the word of God (Isaiah 48:17)
3. By prayer and fasting (Jer 33:3, Luke 6:12)
4. By visions (Acts 10:10-20)
5. Through the voice of God (John 10:4-5, 27)
6. Through dreams (Joel 2:28, 1 Sam 28:6, Mat 2:13-20)
7. By being on the watch (Hab 2:1-3, Pro 24:30-34)
8. Through teachers and prophets (Acts 21:10, Hos 12:10, 1 Sam 28:6)

• It is the anointing you serve that works for you.
• It is the anointing you serve that keeps on increasing in your life.
2 Kings 4:8-13
• If you have not prepared a place for God first in your heart and in your home, God will not be there.
• God needs an atmosphere and a place.
• Differentiate what you do for God and what you do for man, don’t treat them the same.
• Money is in the center of God’s will.
• Don’t move businesses anyhow. A business that may be thriving in one town may die in another town, seek God first.
Psa 20:1-3
• Being a partner makes you a partaker of the grace you are partnering with.
• If you have attended the Healing School and received a miracle there is no reason why you shouldn’t be a partner of the Healing School.
2 Cor 8:1-7

WHO SHOULD PRAY THE PRAYER OF INQUIRY?
1. Those who are saying, “Lord what is happening to me?”
2. Those who are saying, “what is the mystery behind my predicament?”
3. Those who are saying, “why am i like this?”
4. Those who are saying, “why this repeated affliction?”
5. Those who are victims of prolonged attacks.
6. Those who have prayed all manner of prayers and yet nothing is happening.
7. Those who keep moving from one trouble to another.
8. Those who have been stagnated embarrassingly for so long.
9. Those whose dream land has become a battle ground.
10. Those who have never enjoyed any good in life and destiny and age is catching up with them.

1 Sam 17:34
• The same way we write prayer points is the same way we should be writing thanksgiving points.
• It is important to remember the things God has done for us so that we cause him to do more.
• Many times, when we face challenges, we come to a point of breaking down because we forget the things God has done for us in the past.
• Thanksgiving is a stabilising force.
• It can make you to be stable in the things you are facing because you know He has come through for you in the past.
James 1:12
• The ability to withstand temptation is only possible if a man is thankful.
• Thanksgiving procures the peace of God for our lives.
• There is a reason why you are thanking and there is somebody you are thanking.
• Thanksgiving gives us assurance in the ability of God.
• Thanksgiving will keep our hearts and minds protected from the assaults of the devil in the things we are facing.
• Thanksgiving must be deliberate, you must choose to do so.
• God expects us to be thankful, not only for the things He has done for us but also for the things He has created (Rom 1:21).
• Thanksgiving must be something of the mind, it must be in your imagination to give thanks to God (Rom 1:21)
• If you have experienced any good at all in your life, then you are a candidate for thanksgiving because that good came from God.

WHAT DOES THANKSGIVING DO?
1. PROTECTS YOUR MIND AND MAKES YOU STAND SECURE IN YOUR FAITH
(Col 2:7, 3:15-17, 4:2, Eph 5:4)
• It is the stabiliser of destiny.
• It is the stabiliser of your stand in good things.
• Thanksgiving isolates your heart and mind from the assaults of the devil as you are standing.
• There is no way the peace of God will rule in your heart until you are thankful.
• A person who is grateful is watching.
• A person that is not thankful doesn’t have a prayer life.
• Thanksgiving makes people to stay long on the prayer altar because it garrisons their minds.
• The strength of future victories depends on our gratitude.

2. CREATES AND MAINTAINS HEAVEN’S ATMOSPHERE IN A HOME, CHURCH, A NATION AND AN INDIVIDUAL’S LIFE
(2 Chron 5:10-13, 1 Chron 25:3)
• Every time thanksgiving is genuinely demonstrated to God, it conditions that environment with heaven’s atmosphere.
• Praise creates an atmosphere of heaven, which is ripe for the prophetic.

3. UNLOCKS MIRACLES OF MULTIPLICATION (Mark 8:6-9, Jer 30:19)
• Whenever there is thanksgiving, there will be multiplication. This is a formula in the spirit.
• Things are reducing in our homes because we like complaining, we have joined the bandwagon of people that are complaining.
• No matter how much you complain about the prices of commodities, the prices don’t reduce.
• Maybe complaining makes you feel better but it doesn’t make your destiny better.
• Why not deploy your energy into thanking God?
• When you complain you drain yourself of any hope.
• You are a child of God, the government is not your provider.
• Give thanks to God for where you are and what you have.
• You will have no future if you complain.
• Your duty is to thank God for what He does for you

Gen 2:18
• The concept of help didn’t arise with man. It is God who knew that no man will ever fulfill destiny without other men that are supposed to do certain things for them.
• Satan is an agent of bad things.
• You cannot fulfill destiny all alone.
• God has given you a vision, a dream but that vision requires the gift of men.
• If you don’t meet those who are destined to be destiny helpers for your destiny, you will not fulfill it.
• There are many ways of stopping a man.
• If you can’t stop the man himself, stop the ones who are supposed to help the man.
• If God doesn’t send you help through men, it will be as if God never spoke.
• Every stage of your life and destiny requires suitable men.
• Destiny helpers don’t need to be as educated as you are, they don’t need to speak the language you speak and they don’t even necessarily need to be Christians.
• People who patronise your business to come and buy what you are selling are destiny helpers.
• People can pretend to be speaking good about you in your presence.
• What you need are people that speak very well of you even in your absence.
2 Kings 8:5
• In our quest for destiny helpers, let us cry out that God becomes our helper number one.
• If God helps you, the hearts of men will be stirred towards you.
• It is the help of God that will put you above others.
2 Kings 6:27
• If God doesn’t help you, you will backslide.
• You cannot experience rest if the issue of divine helpers is not sorted.
• God is able to send help from places that you least expected.
• There are forces that make people misbehave in the presence of their destiny helpers.
• Destiny helpers differ according to the stage of your life.
• David had different helpers at every stage of his destiny.
• You need to keep growing so that you can handle all manner of different helpers.

PRAYER POINTS:

FATHER, BY YOUR MERCY, AWAKEN BY THE SPIRIT, THE FULLNESS OF DIVINE HELP IN MY LIFE AND DESTINY, THEREBY MAKING ME A CANDIDATE OF PERPETUAL DIVINE ASSISTANCE IN ALL AREAS.
[ACTS 26:22, GEN 2:18, 2 KINGS 6:27]

FATHER, BY YOUR SPIRIT, STIR THE HEARTS OF MY DESTINY HELPERS OF ALL KINDS AND AT ALL LEVELS TO ARISE AND BE IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED TO ME AND MY DESTINY, THEREBY CAUSING YOUR AGENDA FOR MY LIFE TO BE FULLY PERFORMED.
[1 CHRON 12:17-18, 21-22, PROV 21:1]

GOD, ANYTHING IN ME THAT WOULD CHASE MY DESTINY HELPERS THAT I MAY NOT BE AWARE OF, LET IT DIE. LET EVERY KIND OF WISDOM THAT I NEED TO IDENTIFY AND RELATE WELL WITH DESTINY HELPERS COME UPON ME.
[PROV 23:2, 1 SAM 18:5]

– A prayer of inquiry is a prayer of questions and answers which will deliver breakthroughs and restorations.
1 Chr 10:4-5, 12-14
– It’s very dangerous for a christian to live a carnally-minded life because life is spiritual.
– That you are born again that does not mean the other kingdom is completely out of existence.
– The Spirit of God gives us access, he expects us to ask (1 Cor 2:10-14).
– Not every open door is God’s door.
– If we can ask then we will have an answer because God is not wicked that you can ask something and He doesn’t answer.
– When God is ready to make you move to the next level, many things happen to those sitting on that position.
– Don’t worry about vacancy because God will unseat those occupying that seat (Ezek 27:21, Psalm 75:6).
– Let God lift you, not patronizing people.
– Daniel was not patronizing people, he just remained relevant and people kept following him.
Deut 12:10, 25:19
– Mark 10:47, the cry for mercy gave blind Bartimaeus access to the covenant.
– Anywhere God spoke of rest round-about, there were enemies there and those enemies are spiritual.
Gen 26:22, Jos 21:44
– When enemies are dealt with it means you can now flourish.
– If enemies are in your hands, it means you are that you are the one that decides what happens to them, that is what dominion is.
– All round rest has to do with enemies.
Jos 23:1, 2 Sam 7:1, 1 Chr 22:9, 15:15, 20:30
– It is God who gives rest.
– If God doesn’t get involved, it means the battles will continue.
– God only gets involved if the
– If you don’t have rest, it means you can’t have restoration and increase because you are wasting time to fight.
Psalm 92:12-14
– Flourish: to bud, to sprout, to break forth as a bud, to spread, to fly extending the wings, abroad, abundant, to grow luxuriant or fresh or green, to become prosperous.

2 Cor 2:10-13, Rev 1:10, 2 Chron 29:17-18
• If you are not in the spirit, you won’t see and hear God.
• If you can’t hear God, everything will appear normal and natural to you.
• When God does visits us, He chooses an encounter to last with us so that we capture that moment and remember it for a long time.
• Your remembrance of an encounter you had with God makes it to last for a long time.
• In dealing with men, God sometimes uses physical tokens to make people remember.
• Even the Holy Spirit needs you to have images.
• An encounter with God is memorable and your thinking of that encounter makes God to change its dimension around your life.
• Behind every celebration, there is someone receiving the glory.

Prov 18:1
• Desire will lead a man to separate himself.
• When he’s separated himself, he will go on a journey of seeking.
• The end result of this journey of seeking is that he will interact with wisdom.
Gen 18:32-33, 17-18, 25
• If you don’t have a stake in the spiritual realm you will always suffer shame and reproach in the physical realm.
• The world we are in will always be influenced by spirits.
Ezek 22:30
• If satan has found some agents in the land that are cooperating with his agenda and ideas , that land will go in the direction of his agenda until God finds men in that land to cooperate with His agenda.
• It’s not up to God who should be protected or not.
• It will take a man to stand somewhere and cause the covering of God to be over a territory.
• God is looking for a man through whom He can bring forth His agenda.
• One Christian could be covered while another is experiencing something totally different.
• What one church experiences could be totally different from what another church is experiencing.
• It depends on what we do with what God says.
• God reveals His plan the same way to everyone but how many are willing to cooperate with Him?
• It is not God who decides which marriage will experience bliss or divorce.
• It is not God who decides who prospers and doesn’t.
• There is a separation that is required for an encounter.
• God is looking at the hearts to see which men are hungry for a change.
• Age can be your disadvantage, there is no age satan will tell you is an advantage.
• When you are young he will tell you that you are too young while when you are old he will tell you that time has passed.
• The best age is your age.
• Don’t accept your condition.
• God is looking for someone who is unhappy with his present status, who has a desire to change things and is looking for a way out.

• You must be separated from the usual.
• There is a place where you and God meet but for you to get there you have to be separated from some things that desire your attention.
• Many Christians play with God and they could learn some things from satanists.
• There is no democracy in our walk with the Holy Spirit.
• How can God entrust His agenda to us when our commitment is not to Him?
• Even satan cannot work with someone who is not committed to him.
• Every one of us must be used by God, it is not just pastors.
• You can’t be a representative of someone you have not met.
• Abraham was not a pastor but a businessman yet he was so committed to God.
Psalm 24:3
• You don’t meet God in your circumstances, you have to move from them, you have to separate.
• God knows what your interest is, He knows what is number one to you.
• When you wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is check which messages have come to your phone, He knows what your interest is.
• When you wake up in the middle of the night and the first thing you do is check your phone, He knows what your interest is.
• How do you expect to carry something when you are not separated?

• The prayer of inquiry is greater than the prayer for breakthrough.
• The prayer of inquiry is about asking questions and receiving answers.
• The prayer of inquiry brings out insight and direction. This is what makes it to be more powerful than other prayers people pray.
• Where there is direction , there is divine partnership.
• When the Lord is directing you, you can’t go wrong.
• When we are talking about the prayer of inquiry, we are talking about the what, why and how of our circumstances.
• This prayer doesn’t just give you information about the situation you are facing but gives you direction about what to do to solve it.
• Knowing a way out is far superior to just quoting scriptures.
• Prayer of inquiry gives you intelligence information about what you are dealing with.
• You can fight a war without intelligence information that will make you to fight precisely.
• Wherever there is direction, God is involved.
• To have direction is to have the partnership of God guaranteed.
• To inquire of the Lord is to ask to be guided.
Job 34:32, 2 Kings 7:3, Josh 7:5-26
• We don’t know many things that are hindering us.

• What does inquiry mean?
1. To ask for information
2. To question
3. To investigate
4. To examine
5. To explore
6. To probe
7. To dig deeper

WHY MUST WE INQUIRE IN PRAYERS?
Dan 5:11-12
1. To unlock ancient disturbing mysteries waging war against you
• Our battles are spiritual.
2. To reveal the root cause of what you are going through for so long without understanding why
(2 Sam 21:1)
• Behind every long-standing issue is a matter that we need to know.
• If we don’t know the matter, what we see in the physical can remain.
• There are mysteries behind challenges.

3. To know what is behind complex, repeated and prolonged attacks in your life
4. To dissolve coded mysteries and issues shrouded in darkness and yet they’re frustrating our lives (Dan 5:12)
• To expend energy in the wrong direction is frustrating.
• To fire bullets at no target at all is quite wasteful

5. To see the opening on the wall to access the secrets of God (Ezek 8:7)
• What God reveals to you is superior to what you are facing.
6. To dislodge enemies out of their hiding places (Mic 7:17)

IMPORTANT THINGS TO NOTE:
1. God is the custodian of secrets (Deut 29:29)
• There is no secret thing that God does not know.
2. God is the revealer of secrets (Jer 33:3, Dan 2:19-23).

Gen 25:21-23