Transcript: Concerning Spirituals - Unveiling the Spiritual Realm
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Just like a soldier, going to battle, Garrett himself with every armor needed for battle and for winning. So believers must guard themselves with the gospel of peace, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Join apostle Emmanuel as he teaches God's word to equip you for a victorious life on earth. This is believers equipped. Unveiling the spiritual realm. We have established that you cannot know the spirituals without knowing the holy spirit. We have seen the danger of spiritual ignorance and the necessity of the word and the spirit working together. But now we must understand the fundamental question, what is the spiritual realm? How does it operate? How does it relate to the natural realm?
And how do you as a believer function effectively in both realms? Once you understand the spiritual realm and how it operates, everything else like prayer, like faith, like warfare, like authority, like manifestation, everything will make sense. So let's begin with the question, what is the spiritual? What is the spiritual realm? The spiritual realm is the unseen dimension that governs the sin. It is the invincible reality that controls, that influences, that determines what happens in the visible or in the physical world, in the material universe. It is a realm where causes exist, Whereas natural realm is the realm where effects manifest cause and effect. You understand that? So Hebrews chapter 11 and verse three, the Bible says, I think we understand that the walls were framed by the word of god. So that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
I'm reading it again. Everybody together now. This is a foundational truth that most believers never grasp. Everything that you see was made from things you cannot see. The visible came from the invincible. The material came from the spiritual. The natural is the offspring of the spiritual. The spiritual realm is the parent realm. The natural realm is the child realm. When God created the earth and even the heavens, he didn't use physical materials.
He did not gather matter together. He didn't gather materials together to rearrange it and to arrange it. He spoke. He released words into the spiritual realm, and those words materialized into the physical realm. Are you with me? Genesis chapter one verse three, the Bible says, and God said, let there be light and there was light. God said, that's his spiritual essence. God said, and then light appeared. The spiritual produced the natural, and under the influence of the spiritual, everything that you see started finding expression. You read down to verse four, the bible says, God saw that the light was good and God divided the light from darkness.
See verse five then says, God called the light day and the darkness he called night. So the evening and the morning were the first day. And he was speaking things to existence. Verse six, the bible says, then God said again, spiritual, let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. Next verse, thus God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so. So you see this happening. You see this happening. God speaking to existence. And as God spoke it to existence, it manifested in the natural. So Hebrews is telling us that the raw material that created the physical world, the raw material that created natural world is the spiritual realm.
Are you with me? Yes, sir. The spiritual realm. The invincible realm produced the visible realm. That is a pattern of all creation, and this pattern is still in operation today. The spiritual realm is still the governing realm even today. The invincible is still controlling the visible even today. That is always the pattern. What happens in the natural world is the result of what has already been decreed or declared or decided or contested in the spiritual realm. Even till today.
Second Corinthians chapter four and verse 18, the Bible says, why would not look at the things which are seen? But the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. Paul is teaching that you should shift your focus from things that you can see. Paul is saying, don't be governed by circumstances. Don't let the natural realm dictate your reality. It says, look at the things unseen. Look at the things spiritual because the things which are seen are temporary. They are subject to change. But things that are not seen are eternal. They are fixed.
They are established. They are permanent. That's why Colossians chapter one from verse 16 to verse 17 says, for by him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth visible and invincible. Whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, All things were created through him and for him, and he's before all things. And in him, all things consist. Did you see that? Visible and invincible. Thrones, powers, dominions. Visible and invincible. Both realms were created by Christ.
Both realms are sustained by Christ. But the invincible realm, the realm of thrones, the realm of dominions, the realm of powers, the realm of principalities is the realm of government. That is where government happens. That's where authority is dispensed or is manifested. Are you with me? It is the realm where authority is exercised. It is the realm where decrees are issued, where laws are passed, where wars are fought. It's the realm where destinies are determined. Where lives are shaped, where lives are formed, where lives are destroyed. That's the realm.
The natural realm is like a theater. The spiritual realm is the backstage. What you see on the stage, on the theater, is not random. It is the result of what has been scripted. It is the result of what has been directed, what has been orchestrated behind the scenes. So when people come and act, for instance, what you see here is not random. They're not just doing something they want to do based on how they want to do in the moment. You know, in drama, the word is called improv. Improv drama or improv stage play. And it simply means that you come on stage and you improvise.
In other words, there is no script. There is no director. You just come on stage. They call them improv actors. You begin to speak, and you're gonna respond to whatever the person is saying that it makes it look as though the whole thing is scripted, whereas it just improvising. And sometimes it goes terrible. Sometimes it goes nice. That's not how the natural world is. It's not in provision, really. The life that you're living is scripted and directed.
Events that happen in the natural world are scripted and directed. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Your life is like the stage. The natural realm is like the stage where the action is happening. And the painful thing is that most believers live their entire lives just watching the stage, never realizing that the real action is happening behind the stage and never participating in the writing of the script happening on the stage. And so what believers do is that they take a backseat and they watch events unfold. They never participate in the process that unfolds events. And so many believers are victims of circumstances. Whereas you can manipulate circumstances to your favor.
You understand what I'm teaching you? It's a dangerous thing for a believer to just to sit down at the back seat of his own life, and something else is driving. And you ask him, where are you going? He doesn't even know because something else is driving. He begins to watch events unfold in his life, and he cannot even explain where these things are happening. May the Lord deliver us. The purpose of this teaching is to bring you to a point of maturity. The purpose of this teaching is to ensure that you know how to manipulate events in your own life to the principles that bring about results so that nothing happens to you without your permission and without the allowance of heaven that you can determine how things unfold in your life. And even if you cannot determine how they unfold, you determine your response to the unfolding so that you can change what has unfolded. Do you know that when a stage play is happening here, what is happening is that what you are doing is that you are watching what is going on.
Is that not so? You're watching what is going on. Like the amazing drama department and the dramas that they do. Now what happens if they are doing that? Let's say the last one they did for instance, and you're sitting down there and you don't like one of the plots. What do you do? You felt as though this thing wasn't properly done. This particular one should have been done like this. What can you do? What can you do?
You cannot do anything about it. What if you were in the drama department? What if you were a part of the script writing process? You know, a proper stage play, there's always a large curtain. That when scenes are caught and the stage to be rearranged to portray another scenery, The curtains close and all the magic happens behind, and then they open the curtains again, and then you begin to watch. And what was... Is it a room setting before now becomes a village, and you're wondering how how did all of that happen so fast? Do you realize that the director or a member of the drama who wrote the script can tell when an individual who is not supposed to be in the script just stumbles on the stage? You will think it's part of the play. Maybe the guy was going to the next office or the next room, and then he just opened the door and found himself in a stage play.
And then you are there wondering, what would this man do? Is this an actor? Is this the angel? Is this a demon? Every other person who participated in the writing are wondering, who is this person? What is going on here? Is that not so? How do we delete this person from this scene immediately? It means that to a large extent to manipulate what is happening on the stage, you have to have an idea what should happen on the stage. You're not getting...
So that you can know when something is introduced that is not supposed to be featured there. Otherwise, you will take it as whatever will be will be. You know how believers speak? If it's meant to be my own, it will come to me. You don't understand the spiritual realm. That's why you say if it's meant to be your own. And when it does not come, you say, oh, yeah. That means it was never mine. You have not been introduced to our. Demonic snatchers.
But Daniel was praying and his prayer was answered, but they were snatchers. And Daniel would have said, maybe God does not want my prayer to be answered. You know, it's either he says yes or he says no. So maybe this one now is just part of the script. I'm not meant to know. I'm not meant to see that answer. What do you know that makes you insist? That at this point in my life, this particular scene should be unfolding? You know, you sit down as a director and you're wondering, ah, have they not overshot this scene? They are spending too much time in the room.
The next scene is meant to be happening already. Why are they still talking? And never one hour, they are saying, oh god, can you go and bust them out of the stage? Because we know what should be happening. So they can tell when there is a delay on play. Will you not live your life just watching the stage? Look at the pattern throughout scripture. Every major event had a spiritual origin. When the children of Israel were in Egypt, they thought that their problem was pharaoh, but their real problem was spiritual bondage. Egypt was a system.
Egypt was a demonic principality that had enslaved them physically because they were first enslaved spiritually before they were enslaved physically. And when Moses came, Moses did not just come to confront Pharaoh. He came to confront the gods of Egypt. That's why when you read your bible, you will see in Exodus chapter 12, and you will just think that it was just a man and it was just a country. But when you study deeper, you'll find out that this was a spiritual thing happening. In Exodus 12 verse 12, the bible says, for I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment. I harm the Lord. It means God wasn't just defeating a king. He was judging gods.
He says, against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment. Against all the gods of Egypt, the demonic powers ruling over Egypt. The plagues you see were not random. Each plague targeted a specific deity that was worshiped in Egypt. The Nile, for instance, that turned into blood. That's judgment on happy, the god happy. That's the god of the Nile. Happy, the god of Nile. Are you with me? The darkness was judgment on Ra, the god of the sun.
The death of the firstborn was judgment on Pharaoh himself because even the Pharaoh was considered a god. That's why Pharaohs are worshiped. Are you with me? We don't understand why God had to tell Moses that I will make you a god to their god. I will make you a god to Pharaoh because this was something spiritual happening. In the realm of the spirit, it was a spiritual displacement that was going on. So you can look at it in the physical realm and think that all that was happening here was physical. It wasn't physical. That's the reason why faith operates in the spiritual realm. Do you still remember when Moses and Joshua went to battle?
And Moses had to be on the mountain raising the rod up, and Joshua was fighting the war on ground. While Muthit was giving her support, Joshua was conducting the on ground warfare. And you would think that the on ground warfare would be won solely because Joshua was skillful in battle. Joshua was skillful in warfare. But the bible reveals a very strange mystery that in the day that the hand of Moses becomes tired and he drops that hand, Joshua, despite his skill, despite his his giftedness, despite his agility in battle, and the strength of the Israelite army started to lose. That they won and continued to win, not because they were so intelligent in warfare. Even though they were. Not because they were so intelligent in battle. Even though they were. That there was a spiritual backing, a spiritual advantage that whatever Moffis was doing on that mountain was regulating things behind the scene.
Manipulating things behind controlling things behind the scene. And whatever it was doing, it was either increasing the strength of the Israelite army. Whatever it was doing was having a physical effect on the natural. It's easy to look at somebody's life and just say they are lucky. When people speak like that, you don't understand the realm of the spirit. You call consistent breakthrough luck. Consistent victory luck. Why are you not lucky? If that's how easy it is to get lucky. Do you understand what I'm sharing with you?
And that's the reason why faith operates in the spiritual realm. Faith does not look at what is. Faith looks at what God has said. Faith does not respond to the natural realm. Faith responds to the spiritual. And when faith operates in the spiritual, the natural realm must align to what faith is seen. That's the reason why the bible says in Hebrews chapter 11 verse one, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. The Greek word for substance there is the word hypostasis. And it means underlying reality. It means assurance.
It means foundation. But more importantly, it means assurance. It means faith is the assurance of things you have hoped for. The material reality of what you are still hoping for. Are you with me? Yes, sir. It is the substance. Faith does not give substance to what you are hoping for because it would mean that faith is what now makes your hope substance. So you say, I am hoping I will get married. Faith now makes that hope a reality.
That's not what faith is. Faith itself, you are in the natural realm now. Where he is going now without this word is unsafe. Are you with me? Do you understand what I'm saying here? Yes, sir. Faith is the substance. It doesn't just give substance. It doesn't substantiate what you're hoping for. It is that substance itself.
So faith does not say, I hope I'll be married. And then when it happens, wow, faith has substantiated it. Faith is I am married. Even whilst I am open, I am married. Because it is the substance. It doesn't just give the substance, it is the substance of things hoped for. Are you with me? It is the... In other words, it is the substance that gives reality to what you hope for. Faith is the evidence of things you have not seen, not things that don't exist.
Things you have not seen. Things unseen. That means they exist in the spiritual realm. That's why Paul says we look not at things that are seen, we look at the things that are unseen. What faith does is that it gives evidence to these things that are unseen. They do exist, but they have not materialized in the physical. They have not happened yet in the physical. It's... In fact, it's already a completed theme in the spiritual realm. So it exists in the spiritual realm.
But in the physical... Because the physical realm operates in time. That's one of the differences between the physical realm and the spiritual realm. In the spiritual realm, there's no time. There's no space. You don't you don't have to take a flight between Nigeria and USA to appear in The USA in the spiritual realm. Being at The USA in the spiritual realm is as simple as closing your eyes and being there. That's the foolishness of those who think that you're traveling to The USA can save you from your village people. Because you will find out you will find out that the same way they can see you in upper through their calabash is the same way they will see you in The US through that same calabash. The same way they can appear in front of your room in upper is the same way they will appear in The US in Houston.
The only difference is that you now have a Houston demon chasing you. There is no space nor time in the spiritual realm. Everything collapses into a realm called now. Everything. That's what legalizes altars in natural realm. That's also what legalizes covenant. You know why? Because you are the only one who knows that it was your great grandfather that did it, and it happened eighty years ago, one hundred and forty years ago. In the spirit realm, it's happening now. It happened now.
It will happen now. You're not getting what I'm saying. In the spirit realm, there's no difference between as long as you were in his loins. All you have is a continuation of the of the covenant. So as long as demons are monitoring that halter, you are still the same person twenty, thirty years ago, ninety years ago, one hundred and twenty years ago because everything collapses into a realm called now. There's no future. There's no past. There's no present. There's no time. That's the reason why an ignorant believer will always be a victim of legal battles.
An ignorant believer. That's the reason why we'll continue to help them by organizing deliverances whilst we teach them to grow. Bible speaks of lawful captives, people that are in captivity lawfully. When you understand the new man in Christ, you find out that the captivity becomes illegal the day you understand who you are in Christ Jesus. It becomes illegal instantly. It becomes illegal by revelation. But as long as you live in ignorance, as long as you live in ignorance, demons will use what your forefathers have done to insist on why your life must remain one way. Do you understand what I'm saying? Yeah. One of my young ladies was telling me this.
She said that a mother visited prophets, and the prophets told her that, ah, this lady, your daughter did something something something. And she did this, and she spoke out against someone that she'd now spoken out on. And what was she doing? She was insisting that what is theirs will not be taken from them because the individual wanted to manipulate and take forcefully what is theirs. So she said, no. You would not do that. And when the mother went to go and visit the prophet, the prophet told the mother that that's the reason why everything is not going forward because that woman took offense, and she went to go and do some things. So if you want to see changes, you would need to tell your daughter to go and beg her. Go and apologize to her and tell her that she's sorry. She didn't mean it.
And if you can do that and she forgives you, you will now find out that that's no longer a prophet. That... There is no justification you want to give. Even prophets that are low in revelation cannot tell you that. Prophet e, real prophet. They don't have as much revelation as we do. Even them cannot tell you to go and apologize to a witch. What they will tell you is, hey. Even in the absence of revelation, they know. Suffer not a witch to live.
We will roast you. When we were young, we went to a prophet in Ibanoye, myself and my mother. I lack power. We went for a program, and all we knew was that people were there and they struggled to harm the generator. And the baba, what is going on? And he came to come and tell baba that, It means both the generator and the thieves will run mad here together. And low and behold, we started praying. You will sit down there with your revelation and say, no. No. Except for the fact that less than thirty minutes after.
A very, very bloody vehicle drove in with speed. Hit a pole. The driver ran out of the vehicle. Then they said, why are you running? He kept on pointing whilst attempting to cover his ears because it was as though his ears was dangling. Blood splattered all over. Then they opened the door and found four people biting themselves and and tearing their clothes. This is not a story that they told me. They called the papa. Papa.
It's a tie them to the wall. There's no mercy for the thief. Even prophets would not tell you to go and beg a witch. That's the point I'm trying to make even. Because there's nothing they hate more than those things. They hate it. So when you find someone who tells you, go and beg that witch, it already shows you whom you are speaking for. It means, number one, it shows that your author is false. You are a charlatan. You are false.
You are fake. And the reason why the only solution you could profile is to apologize to the witches because when you checked, you found out that the demon that that one is is higher than your own. So you realize that you can do nothing. You can't cast your spells in the name of Jesus to favor that woman. So the best thing we can do is to apologize. Go and meet her to apologize. Guess what? If a woman is ignorant, if that lady is ignorant, that is the only time that whatever that witch has done can speak over our life, and it will speak. And it's unfortunate that believers have found themselves in this thing. A woman went to...
Many years ago, went to one of these people and was just talking. Was just talking. And the matter reached my family. And she referenced how that this woman has seven children, and she was mentioning the name of the children. And it got to my name, and she became... She had stroke instantly. And she's been nursing stroke since then. When they called me to visit the woman, the woman started shouting that I should not enter. I should not enter. I should not enter.
I said, why? He he's the one that caused it. I didn't do anything. I was just talking and reporting what happened. And I just meant says it is the cause. It's the cause. Was I praying when somebody mentioned my name? I didn't even know what I... I didn't even know at what point my name was mentioned. Talk less of entering into warfare to dismantle it.
But that there is a revelation that already dismantles whatever anybody will plan against your life. It is a position. It's not something you labor to enter. It is first a position. It is first an identity. Glory to God. When you have faith for healing, I don't deny that sick... That that sicknesses exist or that there is a sickness in your body. You are acknowledging that healing exists in the spiritual realm, and you're calling it into manifestation. When you have faith for provision, you're not pretending that lack is not real.
You are declaring that abundance in the spiritual realm is real, is real live on, And you're bringing that abundance into reality in your life. That is how the spiritual realm operates. It is the realm of causes, whereas natural realm is the realm of effects. And because a lot of believers live largely in the natural realm, they only respond to what they can see. They only respond to what they can hear. They only respond to what they can touch, what they can taste, what they can smell. And because they are governed by their senses, they are defeated even before the battle begins. Second Corinthians chapter five verse seven says, we walk by faith and not by sight. That means in the natural realm, how you walk is by sight. In the spiritual realm, how do we walk?
You realize that Corinthians is a deep spoke about spirituals. To walk by sight is to be controlled by the natural. To walk by faith is to be controlled by the spiritual. And the man who walks by sight will never see miracles because miracles happen when the spiritual invades natural. It means you must be able to see the invincible. I think it was Bill Johnson that wrote the book, an amazing book by the way. Is it the one? Seeing the invincible doing the impossible. And the book just aims to show believers that it is a man who has seen the invincible that can do the impossible. And it goes on and on to explain this.
Proverbs chapter 29 verse 18, the bible says where there is no vision, the people perish. But happy is he who keeps the law. The KJV, the people perish when there is no vision. The people per... You see, people... There's a lot of revolution you can get from this scripture. Are you with me? But the word vision is what? Chazon, and it means... Out of the many things it means, it also means a prophetic revelation or spiritual sight.
In other words, the ability to see what God is doing. It means where there is no spiritual vision, where people only see the natural, they perish. They cast off restraint. They are defeated. They die unfulfilled. But those who have vision, those who are able to see in the spirit, they thrive. They walk in victory. They experience supernatural breakthroughs and miracles. They live in the supernatural. Are you with me?
You need to understand your makeup as a man. And we say often the man is spiritual and body. But you have to understand that you are not a body with a spirit. You are a spirit with a body. Do you understand the difference? It means you are not a natural being who occasionally has spiritual experiences. You are a spiritual being who who temporarily lives in a natural body because you would leave that natural body sooner or later. Do you understand what I've just said? When every man dies, he continues to live just that the body dies. The body ceases to exist.
Is that not so? But the man himself continues to live. So if the man continues to live, what is the man really? Is it spirit or is it body? It means you have to understand that you are spirit. You are soul and your body. But in that makeup, the real you is spirit. And there's nothing wrong in saying that man is a spirit that lives in a body who has a soul, the only danger is when you push it to the extreme to mean that because you are a spirit, your body is no longer of consequence. Do you understand what I'm saying? Doesn't matter what you do with your body as long as you are a spirit.
And you think that worship is spirit and not body, and that means the only part of you that worships is your spirit and not your body. So where do you put scriptures like first Corinthians chapter three that says and first Corinthians chapter six also that says that know you not that your body, not your spirit. Your body. How do you put scriptures that says, Romans chapter 12 verse one, present therefore... Does this your spirit? Your what? Living sacrifice. So it becomes pushed to the extreme when you think that because your spirit doesn't matter what you do with your body, doesn't matter what you do with your soul. Hence why it must be taught that man is spirit, soul, body. It is the fullness of this makeup that makes you man.
Do you understand what I'm saying? However, it must also be understood in that makeup that your body is temporal. In fact, Paul says the outside man perishes, but the spirit is renewed daily. So it is not wrong to say that the real you is spirit. You are trepidite. You are made in the image of God. And God himself is father, son, and spirit. And just as God is one being in three persons, you are also one being in three parts, spirit, soul, and body. And your spirit is the real you. It is the eternal part of you.
It is a part that was dead in sin and made alive in Christ. It is the part that is born again. It is the part that is still with Christ in heavenly places, far above principalities and powers. Your spirit is where the holy spirit dwells. Your spirit is the access point to the spiritual realm. It is because you are of your spirit that you can perceive things spiritual. And if man is spirit, it shows you that man can perceive things spiritual. Man has the inherent ability to live in the spirit, to perceive in the spirit. Are you with me? The holy spirit comes to a live...
Even... And live in your dead spirit. And when the holy spirit begins to live in your dead spirit, and your dead spirit comes alive, is regenerated. That means you not only have the ability to perceive things spiritual, you now have the ability to perceive spiritual things of God. Because the holy spirit searches the mind of God to now begin to reveal these things to you. But you don't have to be a believer to dream of what will happen next week. But you have to be a believer to see what God wants to happen and how God wants it to happen. That's different. To sit, to control, and to use the power of God legitimately to manipulate events to your favor. Your soul is your mind, your will, and your emotions.
It is your personality. It is your thoughts. It is your feelings. It is your choices. Your soul is the bridge between your spirit and your body, And it is being renewed by the word of God. Romans 12 and verse two, it is being conformed to the image of Christ. Romans eight and verse nine, your soul is your decision making center. Whereas your body is a physical flesh. It is your contact point with the natural world. It is where you see, where you feel, where you sense.
It is what you see in the mirror. It is what you feed. It is what you clothe. It's a tool. It's a vessel. It's the access point to the material realm. Now understand this. The fact that you have a body and you have a spirit means that you live in two realms simultaneously. Please understand this. Man lives in two realms simultaneously.
You are a spiritual being living in a natural body. You are a citizen of heaven operating on earth. Isn't that what the Bible says? Philippians three and verse 20. The Bible says, for our citizenship is where? Does it say we'll be in heaven? It means we are already citizens of heaven. It means man operates and functions and lives in two realms simultaneously. You are in the world, but not of the world. And your effectiveness in life depends on which realm is governing you.
You must understand this as a man that there are two realms that you are functioning in simultaneously. That as you are alive right now, as you're breathing in oxygen right now, as you're listening to me seated here, all that you're seeing and hearing is not all that there is. If you believe and think like that, you are already limited. You are already a victim. You must know by revelation that as a man, you are functioning. You are living in two realms simultaneously. Are you with me? Romans chapter eight from verse five to verse six, the bible says, for those who live according to the flesh... Can you see this? It means you decide where you live because you are living in two realms.
And the bible says, those who live according to the flesh set their what? Minds on the things of the flesh. But those who live according to the spirit, the things of the spirit. Next verse. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. If you set your mind on the flesh, what does it mean to set your mind on the flesh? You set your mind on what you see. You set your mind on what you feel. You set your mind on what circumstances see. The bible says it is death.
So you look at problems and problems is all you see. You interpret situations only by what is happening. You interpret circumstances only by what is happening. Events are just that events. There's no difference to you. Do you understand what I'm saying? You interpret situations only by what is happening. Money is coming to my pocket. Oh, how? Wow.
I'm rich. Money is leaving my pocket. I'm poor. Oh, I just signed the deal. I'm happy. Does a believer interpret situations solely by what he can see, solely by what he can feel, solely by what he can hear, solely by what he can perceive in his natural senses? That is what it means to be carnally minded. And the bible says, it is death. Defeat, frustration, anxiety, powerlessness. All of that is because you set your mind things of the flesh.
It means when a man becomes anxious, what is he looking at? Things of the flesh. It is death. When a man becomes afraid, what is he looking at? Things of the flesh. The Bible says, things of the flesh. Anxiety is birthed from looking at things that can be seen and allowing your mind to be controlled by things that can be seen and not things spiritual. Otherwise, how do you explain that a man can sleep in the storm? If what the man is looking at is the flesh. How do you explain that?
How do you explain that you can give thanks in all things? Some of these instructions in scripture will not make sense to you if you live by the flesh. How do you read a portion of scripture ten years after you have not given birth and then you see single bearing? For many of the children of the barren, I begin to wonder, what is there to sing about? What is there to rejoice about? Rejoice in the Lord again, I say rejoice. What is there to be happy about? Especially if all that you see is governed by the flesh. And the bible says that thing, that existence, that state of being is death. You are alive, but you are dead.
You will live like a dead man. You will live like an unbeliever. Your reality is already programmed because of what you have set your eyes on. Are you with me brothers and sisters? But if you set your mind in the spirit, if you set your mind on the spirit, what does it mean to set your mind on the spirit? On what God has said? On what is true in the spiritual realm? On the promises and the realities of heaven. You will experience life and peace even if the physical realm is the opposite of that. You will experience life and peace not because your circumstances have changed, but because you are operating from the realm that governs the natural realm.
Let me explain something to you. Do you know one of the advantages of living, of setting your mind? Go back to that scripture. Let me finish on that. Read the first line for me. See that? Set their minds on things of the flesh. It is dangerous to live like that because I already told you that the spiritual realm does not have time. The natural realm has what? Time.
There are seasons. There are times and seasons in the natural realm. The danger of setting your eyes on physical things and allowing them to affect the state of your soul and how you live is because you are setting your mind on something that is temporal, something that is subject to time. That's the reason why many believers many a times when things have not happened, they experience sorrow. But when you tap into the spirit realm and you set your affection on on the spirit realm, you set your mind on things unveiling in the spiritual realm, what happens is that you find that most things that you are still waiting for to manifest in the physical has already manifested in the spiritual. None... In fact, they are already complete. They are done. Because in the spiritual, there is no future. There's no past.
There's no present. Everything is finished. Everything is done. So when God speaks to you from that realm, there is an urgency by which that thing will come to your heart. You will think God is telling you it must manifest today because God is speaking from the realm where it has happened. But in the realm where it will happen, that realm is governed by time. It means that realm is subjected to process. That realm is subjected to process. So when God is speaking to you about the business, he won't be speaking to you as though you're just starting with only one client. He will be speaking to you from the end, from the realm where it is done, from the realm where it is now.
When God is speaking to you about marriage, about your career, about your ministry, all that you will be seeing is it is finished. All you will be seeing is the end of things. You'll be seeing glory. You'll be seeing power. You'll be seeing influence. You'll be seeing all these beautiful things. This is where the confusion now happens. Because the moment you come to reality and you find out that all your life is still a complete opposite to what you are seeing, you will not be discouraged in your soul because you don't understand the realm of the spirit. And even though you have seen these things, in the realm of time, it will go through a process and build up to what you have seen and build up to what is complete. That's why the bible says, from the foundation of the world, the lamb was slain, but the lamb came as his baby.
And that baby had to grow. The Bible says, and the child grew. The lamb was not slain from the foundation of the world, and then when the lamb now manifested, the lamb died immediately. The moment the lamp enter time, even though the reality is coming to live had already been done, he had to grow into that reality. Do you understand what I'm saying? That's the danger of looking at things that are seen because what you are seeing might not yet look like what you have seen. And if you set your mind on the flesh, the bible says you are dead. That's the reason why we don't look at the flesh. Not because it's not there, but because we are aware that we live from two realms simultaneously. We function from two realms simultaneously.
And what has been said, we will definitely see. There are times when it takes time, time to catch up. Let me say it in a way that you understand. There are times when in the physical realm, it takes time to catch up to what is complete in the spiritual realm. There are times when your spirit has seen it, but your body has to run to catch up to it. Your body has to run to catch up to it. There are times when it is done already, but your body has to run to catch up to it. Guess what gives your body speed? Yes. Because I already told you that your body has to run to catch up.
Is that not so? So what now gives you speed? Because you can catch up in one year, in two years, in three years, in five years, in ten years. You can catch up in six months. You can catch up in one month. So what makes you catch up? Jeremiah chapter one verse five. The bible says, before I formed you, I knew you. Before you were born, I sanctified you. I ordained you to be a prophet to the nations.
Are you seeing past tense, past tense, past tense? It's picking from the realm that it is finished. Speaking from a realm that is complete, from the end of things. That's how it is in the spiritual realm. The God that is speaking is speaking to a child oh, and he's speaking to the child as though he has matured into a huge prophet. That's what... When God is speaking to you sometimes, you won't know that you have to grow. You need to... You now become and meet a teacher that will now tell you and teach you that calm down. We understand what is happening to you.
Let your zeal be contained. The child must grow. Must grow in wisdom. Must grow in stature. Must grow in favor. Because you would think you just want to run mad when the zeal hits you. Hey, apostle, higher, harder, better. You want to throw off restraint and just start moving because you have seen this thing. But the child must grow. Because if you set out like that, the first thing you will discover you are lacking is wisdom, and the child grew in wisdom.
The second thing you will discover you are lacking is stature, and the child grew in stature. The next thing you will discover you are lacking is favor. And the child grew in favor with God and with men. That even favor, you grow in favor. That there are dimensions to favor. That as you begin to grow, there are realms of favor that will open up to you by default as you grow, as you mature. There are people that will not favor you now. But God will say focus on your craft. Keep on building. Keep on building.
A day will come where your name will go before your presence. When they meet you, they will throw all doors open because you grow in favor with men. There are people that when you meet them before time, before God introduces you, it look as though they are coming to beg. But when you grow and build and meet them when God introduces you, They will consider it a privilege to sit beside you. You will now tell them, ah, sir. I agree with your books. It was your teachings that mentored me. If you have skipped process and come five years before or ten years before, you'll be at the office gate with nobody allowing you to enter. And you wonder, why is my life like this? Why is my life like this?
And the child grew in favor. Because as long as it is within the realm of time, it will grow. It will increase. In the realm of the spirit, there's no increase. Everything is perfect, complete. But in the realm of time, in the realm of time, anointing can increase. Favor can increase. Wisdom can increase. So let's go on reading to the Maya one. I want you something there.
Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born and sanctified you, I ordained you a prophet of nations. You And remember that exchange that happened. Is that not so? Jump to verse eight. Don't be afraid of death. I'll be with you to deliver you, says the Lord. Verse nine. Watch this. Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me, you would have put my words in your mouth next verse. See, I've this this set you over the nations and over the kingdoms to rule out, to pull down, to destroy, to throw down, to build, to plant.
Next verse. Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me saying, Jeremiah, what do you and I said, everybody together... I say... You remember what we walk by? What do we walk by? And not by. So when God told Jeremiah that I've ordained you as a prophet to the nations, and Jeremiah said, ah, Lord, I cannot speak for I'm a child. What was he saying? What was he using to see? You understand that?
What was he using to see? You now understand why it is important for God to ask him again. What do you see? Because God has taken time to try to teach him. That's what teaching does. That's what encounters do. That's what revelation does. And when God was done with that process, God now had to ask him again. Because I cannot help you if you don't see right. Because if you live by the flesh, you set your mind on things of the flesh.
You're already dead and I can't help you. The bible without vision, they perish. So question, what do you see? What has happened to your sight in this brief moment we have talked? Have anything changed? As how you are seeing changed? And the man said, behold, I see I see a branch of an almond tree. The rod of an almond tree. This guy truly saw. How do you know that he saw?
What was making him afraid was the fact that he was a child. Is that not so? Yes, sir. And then when God now showed him all these things, he now suddenly realized that I'm not alone. God told him I will put my words in your mouth. He realized that when I move, I'm not moving by my own strength. I'm not speaking my own words. So when he saw the branch of an almond tree, he realized that it was not meant to be divine. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Because I am divine. Yes, sir. You are the branches. Without me, you can do nothing. So he suddenly saw that I'm connected. He suddenly saw The moment his eyes opened and he saw, watch the next statement that follows. One... Next verse. One, two, three. Go.
KJV. One, two, three, go. So what brings speed? What brings speed? What makes you catch up fast? It means if you are still seeing in the flesh, you are delaying yourself. That's what you don't know. You think you are being logical. You say, let's be logical. Let's be factual.
Don't you understand? And God is saying, no. No. No. No. No. No. There are two realms a man can function from. You can either believe in from the spiritual and and believe what I have said and believe what I've shown you. And when you do, there is easiness that comes with the performance.
And this is a problem of a lot of believers. This is where a lot of believers fail. Open my eyes to see your face. I will not label the label of fools. Listen. Your your neighbor, where is your mind? Where is your mind? Why are you so disturbed? Why are you so anxious? We're not saying that things are not happening.
That's not what we are saying. We know. We know that the bills are not yet sorted. We know. We know that your wife has not yet given birth. We know. We know what the doctor's report says, But your biggest challenge will be fixating your eyes on it. We know your age. We know time is going. We know.
But are you living from the realm where time is going? Which realm are you living from? That's the question. That's the question. As far as I'm alive, I will be more aware. I'll be more conscious of things spiritual. I'll be more conscious of things spiritual. It's from there my peace comes from. It's from there my joy comes from. It's why we can rejoice in affliction.
We can rejoice in persecution. We can rejoice in trials because we know. We know what we have seen. We are not dissuaded by what we are seeing in the physical. We understand that it takes time sometimes for the physical realm to catch up, but inevitably it will. It will. It will. For Jesus, it took thirty three years, but it will. I refuse to be more alive to what is happening than what has happened. Romans chapter eight verse nine says, but you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit.
If indeed the spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, it's not his. You are not in the flesh. So why should you see like that? You are in the spirit. That is your position. That is your identity. You are not a natural man trying to live spiritually. You are a spiritual man learning to master the natural. Your spirit is your connection to God.
Your body is your connection to the natural realm. Your soul, your mind, your emotion decides which one will control you, your body or your spirit. If your mind is dominated by your body senses, you will live calmly. If your mind is dominated by what your spirit knows, you will live spiritually. This is why the renewing of your mind is so critical. Romans 12 verse two, do not be conform... Are you saying this again? To this world, this world, cosmos, what you see in this world, don't be conformed to it. Be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good. Do you know what that means?
What is acceptable? What is perfect in the will of God? You know what that means? It means there are times when what is in this world that you are living in, the experience that you are currently having might not be good, might not be perfect, might not be acceptable. So the bible says, don't conform to it. Instead, renew your mind. Let your mind see what is in the spirit. And what happens as your mind sees what is in the spirit is that it begins to prove what is good. It begins to superimpose on the natural. It begins to superimpose on the physical.
So your mind must be taught. Your mind must be trained. It must be brought into alignment with the spiritual realm because your mind is the gateway. What you think about, you empower. What you focus on, you magnify. What you meditate on, you become. That's the reason why your mind must always think about things spiritual, things divine. Your mind must always... The bible says, set your affection on things above. Colossians three verse...
From verse one. Set your affection on things above. Seek those things which are above. Seek those things which are above. Set your mind on things above. So do realize that this thing is an intentional thing? You choose that you will not set your mind on things below. Not because things are not happening, but because that's not where you live from. So I will instead set my mind. It means if I'm in the hospital, where do I set my mind?
I'm I'm there like this, and they are putting drip in my body. No. But they can't put drip in my body. But they are putting drip in someone's body, or they can put drip in their body. And the guy is just there. He just say, ah, I'm dead, oh. Truly, you are dead. Truly, that's what the bible says. Truly, you are dead. And then you gather people around you because what you want is pity and empathy.
The bible says, set that mind. That mind, set it. It means, what do you do? You say by his stripes, I was healed. And then you feel one pain that holds you in this place. You say by stripes, I was healed. You say, but the pain is by his stripes, I was healed. By his stripes, I was healed. Sometimes there will be tears rolling out of your eyes because pain is much. By his stripes, I was healed.
Set your mind intentionally on things above on things above. You check your email, and you find, unfortunately, we have decided not to move on with this. Instantly, you say I'm not the rejected. I am the accepted. I'm the favored. Set your mind. Set your mind. It's an intentional thing. Set your mind. All things are working together for my good.
You enter into a realm of breakthrough, and then a thought just flags into your mind and tells you, what if it does not come again? And then you are afraid. You can't give. You can't do anything meaningful with your life because you're afraid. What if I don't get this job again? What if I don't do this? What if I don't do that? Set your mind on things above. On things above, it can only go one way. Better and better.
Better and better. Better and better. Better and better. Do you realize that persecutions are a part of the normal Christian life? You know how I'm gonna teach you the normal Christian life. There are things that are part of the normal Christian life. The supernatural, for instance, it should be normal to the believer. It's part of the normal Christian life. Next time, will show you the love correspondence. Love correspondence.
How the earth mirrors the heavens. Eyes up on your head. Have you learned something today? Ask your neighbor, where do you live from? Hi. Hi. Hi. Listen. This thing is not a this thing. It will...
It's something you must learn. You see? Because you can still find yourself tomorrow still anxious. Even though you have been taught today, don't feel bad. Don't condemn yourself. Quickly realign your mind instantly. Instantly. Quickly do so. Whilst you sit down in the office and you say, ah, I'm going to this office again, and how much is even my salary self? How much is this?
That. This. The moment you find yourself focusing on the natural, quickly speak to your mind. Quickly do so. Do it as often as possible. Eventually, there will be only one place your mind is fixed on. Eventually. Peter started walking on water. There are plenty people in that boat who were too afraid to take a step. The man said if it is you, beat me to come.
And Jesus told him, come. And the young man started walking on water, started walking on water, started walking on water. And then all of a sudden, he started to sink. And the bible says he saw the boisterousness. What happened? One, two, three, go. Pause. When he did what? He saw that the wind was boisterous. The bible says he was afraid.
So what is the origin of fear? Look at the process. Look at the process. He saw that the wind was boisterous. He saw in the flesh. He saw in the flesh. What now happened? He was afraid. What followed fear? Beginning to seek.
So he didn't see and then sank. He saw, was afraid, and sank. That's why the Bible says that the moment you set your eyes on the flesh, you are dead. So what was gonna happen to this young man? Now we take a sermon and we say, ah, Peter, you don't have faith. You don't have faith. You don't have faith. All that calm down. It's the first time this guy is walking on water. The bible says, he cried out saying, Jesus, me oh.
Look at the next verse. The bible says, and immediately, Jesus stretched out his hand and cut him. The question would then be, where was Jesus? Was he far from him? How... It's so fun that it means Jesus was already there in front of him when he started sinking. But you can't blame him. It's his first time. You learn this thing. You grow in this thing.
Are you with me? It means at that point when your eyes saw the wind, even though you already working in faith, even though you already began in the spirit, even though you already pushing in faith, and you started well, and immediately just notice that you started seeing the wind and fear starting to come. You you will start sinking. Before that sinking begins, you know what to do. Speak to your mind instantly. Readdress what you are seeing again. The reason why you are afraid is because you are seeing wrong. Re address what you are saying again and see Jesus. See Jesus. And Jesus caught him, and Jesus said, oh, you of little faith.
Why did you doubt? And we will not make a preaching out of it and say, you see, that's why you must not have little faith. But Jesus was not condemning his little faith. Jesus was condemning his doubt. Jesus did not say do you have little faith. Jesus said, oh ye of little faith. It means it was your little faith that made you walk on water. The question is why did you doubt? That's the question. Was it not Jesus that said if you have faith as little as a mustard seed?
It means see what your little faith did. But at what point did you introduce doubt? At what point did you start seeing different things? That's why the bible says, let a double minded man is unstable in his ways. He's unstable in his ways. That thing where you're always jumping from the spirit to the flesh, anxious today, short tomorrow, unstable in his ways. Why did you doubt? If you have sinned in the spirit, I want you to declare what you have sinned. Show your heart to me so I can gladly know him. Fill your face to me so I can gladly know your ways.
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