Transcript: Demonstrating God's Power in The Now

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God's word is alive and powerful. It is sharper than any double edged sword. His word can cut through our spirits and souls and our joints and marrow until it discovers the desires and thoughts of our hearts. Join Apostle Emmanuel as he takes us on a journey into the word of God. It is time to encounter God, be transformed by his word, and empowered by his spirit. Listen to me, brothers and sisters. One of the greatest limitations of human beings is the assumption that what we see is all that there is. That assumption. And from childhood, we are trained to trust our highs. We are trained to depend on what can be measured, what can be calculated, what can be explained by logic.

And that's what the western education teaches us. But when you study the bible, the bible confronts this this illusion of truth. The bible says in the book of second Corinthians chapter four and verse 18, For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. Hebrews chapter 11 and verse three. In the message translation, the bible says by faith. We see the world called into existence by God's word. It then says, what we see created. What we see created by what we don't see. There is an invincible reality that governs the visible realm. And at the center of this unseen realm is the greatest reality of all, God himself.

The highest discovery that any man can ever make is not to discover a principle. It's not an invention. It's not a philosophy. It is a revelation of God himself. You might argue about it. Skeptics might question it. Nations might resist it, but creation keeps declaring it. The sun rises. The stars that hang in their place. The rhythm of the ocean, the breath in your lungs.

All of these things testify to the eternal power of God so that no man can have an excuse. Do you realize that nothing that was invented by man was truly invented? It was simply copied. It was simply discovered. It was simply inspired. Because these things are all reflections of what exist already in creation. I was watching the video of a bird recently. How the bird glides in the air with wings stretched and the legs tilted backwards. And the bird begins to glide. Begins to glide.

I've forgotten what the name of the bird is. And the moment the bird is approaching water, when it wants to feed, when it wants to land, it begins to glide downwards like that. Downwards like that. And when it's approaching where it would mount on the floor or on water or whatever it is, the legs that that is tilted to the to the back begins to unfold slowly. Very slowly, begins to unfold like this, and then it lands leg first into the water. Glides the same way a plane glides before stopping. A bird. And you begin to imagine that scientists invented anything. Everything that you see is copied from creation, inspired by creation. Right now, you begin to see that it is now possible to go to your phone and write words, and AI begins to create for you.

Isn't that how the world was created? Words. Words and things come to be. Words and inventions come to be. Words and applications are made. Words and pictures are made. Everything you see copied. I've inspired by God, the master inventor himself. I'm trying to tell you that there is a superior realm to that which you see. But understand this, you do not come to the knowledge of God by information.

You can study him like a subject. You can talk about him like a theory, but you will never know him until his spirit unveils him to you. The bible says in John chapter four verse 24, God is spirit. And without the spirit, God remains a stranger to you. There are two realms always constantly at work around you at every given time. The first realm is the natural realm. What you can see, what you can feel, what you can hear. It runs on the laws of time, space, and matter. Then there is a supernatural realm. It is eternal.

It is invincible. It rules over what your eyes can see. It rules over what your ears can hear, what your senses can feel. When you read the bible, you find out that scriptures train our eyes to look beyond appearances. In second Corinthians chapter four verse 18, the bible says again, that would not look at things which are seen, but other things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. But you see, because of an over emphasis on intellectual knowledge, many people are very aware of the natural realm. But are remarkably uninformed or even misinformed about the supernatural realm. My charge to you very fast this morning is what I've titled demonstrating God's power in the now. A lot of people are largely misinformed, grossly misinformed about the supernatural realm because of how much we have emphasized logic, how much we have emphasized western education, and I don't have any problem with this.

But in the absence of progressive revelation, people tend to rely only on formal academic education. And much of what academic education attempts to do is to discredit faith. Intellectual knowledge have its rightful place, but it is indeed a very poor substitute for spiritual knowledge. The supernatural realm is the dimension that operates above natural laws and you cannot interpret it by natural laws. To depend on your natural philosophy would be to misunderstand or to not experience this realm. This planetary realm is permanent. It is invincible. It is eternal. It is located outside of time. And it exercises dominion over the natural realm that you see.

But so many people cannot perceive this realm because our eyes are blinded to it. So many people cannot perceive this realm because we have been trained by logic long since we were born. And it's not because God wants to hide himself from people, because only God can reveal God. It takes the holy spirit to reveal God to you. The bible says no one can come to the father except the son reveals him to you. Only God reveals God to you. That unveiling is what the bible calls apocalypses. I'm uncovering. I'm unveiling. And Paul prayed that the spirit of wisdom and revelation be given to you that you might know him, that you might come to the knowledge of him in experience.

That the eyes of your understanding be enlightened that you may know. Revelation is not anti thinking, anti sense. It is higher illumination, higher light. It opens you up to what your five senses cannot reach. Revelation means knowing things that you otherwise would never know. Perceiving things without having a prior awareness of them. And seeing things that have yet to occur. It is the mind of God made known so that human beings can exercise their God given responsibilities on the earth. And the holy spirit is the channel of that unveiling. The bible says in second Timothy three and verse 16, all scriptures is given by the inspiration of God.

Only men spoke as they were moved by the holy spirit. Jesus calls him the spirit of truth. Who guides into all truth, who shows you things to come. Peter knew that Jesus was Christ, not because he reasoned Peter out, but because the father revealed it to him. Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my father who is in heaven. That is how revelation lands, by the spirit. And the bible reveals that man is spirit, soul, and body. Your spirit is the God conscious call. The God conscious part of you. Your soul is mind, will, and emotion.

Your body hosts you in the physical world. Revelation eats the spirit first and then renews the mind. Without that, the natural mind will choke the things of God because the natural man does not receive the things of the spirit of God. They are spiritually discerned, the bible says. So in prayer, in worship, in word, in obedience, you begin to perceive scriptures. Scriptures begin to come alive to you. And when that begins to happen to you, that is the spirit of God opening to you what your mind could otherwise not have known. But unfortunately, especially in the western culture, intellectual formation has pushed aside our awareness and our reliance on revelation. So we are trained to reject anything that cannot be explained according to human understanding alone. We reject it.

And that misinformation of the supernatural have its root. When God made man in Heaven, God made him to rule the visible realm from the authority that he gets from the invisible realm. The bible said let us make man in our own image. Let them have dominion. But Satan successfully lured Adam and Eve into trusting knowledge apart from God over the word of God. And the bible says man died spiritually and was disconnected from God as a result. It was from that day ends forth that the canal mind became the operating system that powered man. Such that man only does life by what he could see, by what he could touch. Are you with me? Yes, sir.

And the bible says the carnal mind is enmity against God. And those who are in the flesh cannot please God, the bible says. So a man dies spiritually. People return back to their default. They return back to their default to what they can measure, to what they can see, to what they can feel, to what they can thought. It does not fall within this plane of existence. They mock it because they can understand it. But when you come to Christ, that order changes. Because in John chapter three verse six, the bible says unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. And the bible says in verse six, that which is born of spirit is spirit.

That which is born of God is God. And when it's born of flesh is flesh. It means the day you became born again, you were born of the spirit. And that being born of the spirit gives you the access to see what ordinary eyes cannot see. Not necessary to see it with your physical eyes, but to understand it. To perceive it, to discern it. To discern it, to know that there is a realm beyond the natural. To know. There is a realm that orchestrates events that your natural mind cannot understand beyond the scope of what you can see. That events in the natural can be manipulated.

You begin to understand. It is your born again experience that gives you this access. And when that happens, your mind that has now been trained to interpret things solely by your intellect must now be retrained to understand the things of the spirit, to understand the supernatural realm. The bible is being trans... Being transformed by the renewal of your mind. Being transformed by the renewal of your mind. That simply means that your mind up until today has been trained by what it can see, what it can feel, what it can understand, what it can touch. But in the day that we come born again, it must now begin a retraining process. And that retraining process is receiving the education as provided by the spirit. Now believing that there is more to life than what you can see.

There is more to life than what you can touch. There are angels all around. There are demons all around. There is God within you. Faith can make things possible. Miracles are real. Someone who has not received this life cannot understand it. The bible says they are spiritually discerned, spiritually understood. So when you become born again, you must now submit your mind to receive this renewal, to begin to understand the supernatural. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. A renewed mind does not throw away intelligence. It only submits intelligence to revelation. So you will still study. You will still plan. You will still walk with excellence, but you refuse to let human understanding dethrone the supernatural in your life. And you have to also understand that God does not limit revelation to only spiritual truths alone. God can also release knowledge to you that touches the natural realm. Science, engineering, medicine, art, all of these fears can be influenced by the spirit of God. Many of the breakthroughs that we celebrate today in history came through men and women who walked in the fear of the lord, who kept their minds sanctified, and who understood that knowledge was not to glorify self, but to preserve humanity and to glorify god.

Scripture makes it very clear that true wisdom comes from above. It means revelation from God is the starting point of every form of true greatness. So don't get that feeling that God is against the mind. God is not against the mind. He created the mind. But the mind was never meant to be the master. It was designed to be a servant. The right order is spirit first, the mind, the body. It means your spirit governed by the holy spirit should lead you. The mind is to follow, not to dictate to you.

When your spirit is in alignment with God, your mind receives direction. Your mind receives clarity. That is when your reasoning becomes productive. Your reasoning becomes creative. Your reasoning becomes fruitful. But when the mind tries to lead apart from the spirit, it becomes blind to the things of God. It becomes hostile to the spiritual. It begins to doubt. Can can this really happen? When your spirit leads you, your spirit knows that you don't have to have everything in place before you move.

This virtual realm can create things so you can move knowing that things can be created whilst you are moving. Or your spirit is the one that can understand that reality. If you have lived life solely depending on your physical understanding, what your eyes can see, what your mind can understand, what your body can process, you... That thing will not make sense to you. How would you be planning marriage without the house? Okay. You've gotten the house. There's nothing in the house, and you are still planning. It doesn't make sense to the mind, but the spirit is saying go. Move.

Go. You must begin the process of now retraining your mind to acknowledge that there is a realm beyond what you can see, what you can feel, what you can touch, what you can hear. Because if this does not happen, you will be alienated from the supernatural. You will wonder why it happens for others but not to you. Because you are more dependent on your mind, on logic, on sensibility, on common sense. And in an attempt to explain these things, many men of God will now say sometimes or most of the time, the feelings of the spirit does not make sense. It is not entirely correct because it does not not have to make sense to be the spirit of God. There are many times the leading of the spirit makes sense. Many times. Not on...

It is not just making sense to your mind. Because the bible says, it is true faith we understand. It means there is logic to the leading of the spirit. There is logic to it. Your mind might not be able to perfect, but your spirit understands. That's why you might not be able to explain many times to men. Because the understanding is settled in your spirit. It has sipped from your spirit into your mind. But you might not have the diction and the vocabulary to explain to men why you are moving like that. Did you all understand what I'm saying?

A renewed mind does not fight revelation. A renewed mind does not fight the miraculous. It doesn't fight the supernatural. It submits to the supernatural. When the mind is baptized in experience with God, it is lifted. It does not become dull. Many people of the opinion that when you become awakened to the spiritual realm, your mind becomes dull. You suspend your brain. You can't think again because you are all about God said God said God said. And they think believers who are like that are dull in the head.

But no. When your mind experiences God, it becomes sharper. It becomes more brilliant, more accurate because it is no longer trying to invent truth. It is now following truth itself. It's now submitted to truth. Who told you that God cannot teach you science? Who invented science? Who created science? You know it's so foolish that we believe that God is one that made man. And you are studying anatomy, and you don't want to involve God who made man.

Look at the foolishness. Who do you think is the best person who can teach you? The one who studied it and wrote a book about it or the one who made it? Because the mind will not understand why should I say a word of prayer because I want to read. Why should I say holy spirit help me now even as I go? Why should I expect understanding beyond logic? The mind cannot understand. So we have treated ourselves of working in the supernatural experientially. Experientially. That's why some of the greatest innovations, solutions, and insights are reserved for those who live under the influence of this revelation.

That the spirit still gives strategies to inventors. The spirit still gives ideas to entrepreneurs. The spirit still gives designs to artists. The spirit still gives cures and medications to doctors. The Bible says for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Every type of wisdom begins with the fear of the Lord. If you want to see a rise of an intellectual giant, begin with revelation. Let the spirit of God light your mind. Let knowledge flow from your spirit into your mind. Realize that there is there is a realm called the supernatural.

Realize. Demonstrating God's power in the now. Because you see, if you don't have this basic understanding, it would be difficult for you to move in power. It will be difficult for you to believe for miracles, to believe in the impossible. Because true to what they say, it doesn't make sense in time. How do you explain that manna just comes from nowhere? What comes from heaven is rain. What come from the heavens is rain. And then instead of rain, the sky begins to manufacture manna. And it begins to drop bread like substance with honey on the inside, and people can eat it edibly.

How do you explain? I hope you know that this was not spiritual food. This was something they could eat and touch. Yet, it did not originate from the realm of men. His origin was the realm of the spirit, but it found expression in time. That means it is wisdom to know that the supernatural realm can influence the natural realm such that things can be created. Things can be manipulated. Things that have no business happening according to the course of life can be changed. Because someone understands the A man of God shared the story of his mother who was known to be a very powerful prayer warrior. And on one faithful day, a woman comes to the mother, a family friend of theirs, and comes to come and report her son to this man of God's mother.

And just look at what my son got. What an embarrassment. Look at what he got in jam. Look at what he got in this. Look at what he got in that. Now you cannot even get admission. You have to be planning for next year. It's even below the aggregate, below the cutoff. And after that, the woman heard everything. He said, okay.

No problem. Let us pray. And the woman who came for the port was shocked. What do you mean let us pray? I'm expecting you to to to console me, to make me feel better, to sympathize with me. What will prayer do? My son got below the aggregate. He asked to go and write this thing again. And the woman asked in Yoruba, is it aggregate you want or do you want admission? In Yoruba.

If they say admission. What the... What this woman understood was if we just pray. Let... Now it doesn't make sense to the physical mind. But there was an old woman whose current reality, whose current existence has already told her that I can influence the supernatural on the natural realm. That that things that are not supposed to happen, doctors report that have been sanctioned. They've told this person that you have three months to live. They've told this business, according to the forecast, we are going bankrupt. You can't survive in this nation.

Can you come from this place and end here? But the believer who would walk in the supernatural, who would demonstrate power in the now, must understand and must see beyond the lanes of logic. You can't imagine how many people fight me everyday on social media for things like this. I shared the testimony of a woman some time ago. A a mother to a man of God whom I know. And the man of God was sharing how that the mother was diagnosed of cancer. And she just thought it was a pain somewhere. They would just give her and she would walk out. But she was told she had three months to live. She just eased and said, ah.

She eased, left, walked out of the hotel and said, I just thought you will give me pastor more. I think, what you are telling me, I have to give more to leave. Left the place and never return back there. She's still alive today. This was two years ago. Now carrying her grandchildren. Grandchildren. I shared the testimony all kinds of insult on my social media. You see, this is why people are dying in hospitals because of men of God like this. It's a plague, a challenge.

And if you give your yes to what men say, and many men who have been trained to interpret life solely by what they see and by what they hear. What will begin to happen to you is that you no longer have value for spiritual things. Your your value for what cannot be seen, your value for spiritual things begins to die. Your value and your honor for God, for worship, for prayer, for speaking in tongues, for results, for prophecy begins to die. And you'll find that you are more awake to physical things, to mundane things. That's what moves you. That's what moves you. When they said, let's go to church, you're not moved by that. Because you don't attach result to church. Different than manners.

In Matthew chapter six and verse 13, Jesus taught his disciples to pray. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Notice the three dimensions in that prayer. Number one, the kingdom, the power, and the glory. These are the essence of heaven's dominion. The kingdom is the rule of heaven. The power is the ability of heaven. The glory is the atmosphere of heaven, and all the three belong to God. And he's calling us not to just recite them in prayer, but to walk in them.

Because we are meant to exercise his kingdom rule on earth. We are meant to exercise and demonstrate his power on earth. We are meant to manifest his glory on earth right now. So when he says your office is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, he's saying that is a call to believers to know that your father owns the kingdom, his power, the glory. But the bible says the kingdom of God is not in observation. Neither would you say low here or low there. For the kingdom of God is within you. It means that power is within you. That glory is within you. So it's not just a call to recite this in prayer and say only you be...

No. No. No. It's a call to work in kingdom authority, to manifest kingdom power, and to carry the essence of kingdom's glory right now on earth. Our model for this is Jesus himself. Acts chapter one verse one gives us a pattern of this. The bible says in Acts one one of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach. That is two things. He did and he thought. Jesus demonstrated the kingdom by works, and he explained the kingdom by teaching.

The problem today is imbalance. We have too many who teach, but very few who do. We have too many who teach, but very few who do. And then we have very few who do, but don't even know how to teach. So there's a problem. So you go to a church where the power is there, the miracles are there, but nobody grows. And you go to another that believe that they are just the word of faith, and all they do is teach and teach and teach and teach. And the average believer and the church command command power, but knows doctrine. I will show you the error of this person. You know, I was listening to a man of God and in trying to teach believers that believers shouldn't depends on miracle.

He started saying that if you expect miracles from heaven, you will miss God. And I had to try to understand where this logic is coming from. How do you tell believers that if they expect miracles from heaven, they will miss God? That's not biblically true. It's not biblically accurate both in the old testament, new testament, epistles. It is not true in any essence because the bible is full of miracles. The bible is a book of miracles. You literally read any book in scripture and you find miracles. Jesus did it. Disciples did it.

Apostles did it. Prophets did it. Kings did it. Now with our believers, we don't live by miracles. We live by principles. That much so? That does not mean that in this same realm, we don't expect miracles. Because I will get there very soon I'm going ahead of myself. Miracles simply means when God interferes in the natural order of things to pause natural principles or fast track natural principles or influence natural principles so that his will can be done. It's a miracle.

And when you understand this definition, you will realize that even if you are living by principles, you will need miracles every day. If you understand this definition. Let me give an example. It is possible for a man to know principles so much and you are good at it. For example, Joshua. Joshua was not a weakling in battle. He wasn't a two year old boy who did not know how to fight and was depending on God. No. Joshua was a trained soldier. The people of Israel at that point were trained soldiers.

Are you with me? Because they had fought many battles that had trained them in the heart of welfare. They understood battle strategies. Are you with me? And they were valiant in battle. They were good in warfare. They could drop battle plan. They were wise in planning warfare. And when Dushar was fighting... When Dushar was fighting, by all these principles and logic, the people of Gibeon came to him and was fighting a battle for them.

And people of Israel fighting together four kings who came against them. And when they were fighting, valiant in battle, powerful in strength, they started dominating the battle, fighting with such valiance, fighting with such skill. That was principle. Principle to have lent preparation. It wasn't when they got there that they started telling God, God, please help us. There was a point in their life when it was Moses that was raising his hand up. But now Moffitt was no more. There is no longer anybody to raise his hand up for you. It means now you have to learn both what he did and what you have to do in battle. And he was fighting that battle.

Fighting that battle. And through skill, they were winning. They were winning. But all of a sudden, influences that could change the outcome of event that were not up to them. That's why you need a miracle. Because even as you are working principles, there are influences that can alter the outcome of event that is not entirely up to you. It's not up to the principles you are working. It's not up to the laws you are practicing. For example, as they are fighting and they are winning, night will come. That is an influence that is not up to them.

Do you understand what I'm saying? It has nothing to do with whether you know how to fight or not. Night will come. And Joshua saw that if night comes like this, these people will suddenly have an advantage over us. We would not strike the final blow. We would not have completed and won the victory in this battle. Something needs to happen. Even though they were already winning, they understood that if we just sit down like this and this thing to happen, allow things to change, allow night to just come. It won't matter again whether we are good. It won't matter again whether we are skilled.

It won't matter again whether... Do you understand what I'm saying? The enemy would use the advantage of darkness to run away, to strategize, plan again. Now they understand what we do. And the man looked. The man looked and said no. Something has to happen. And while he was fighting, he faced the sun. He says, let the sun stand still. Let the sun stand still and the moon in the Valley Of Hyjalon.

And the bible says all of a sudden, the sun stood still and the moon stood still, not because they could not fight, not because they were unclean. Stop what I'm saying. The the problem is not as though you did not read. It's not as though you did not have a good result or certificate is not clear or it not prepare well for interview. It's not as though you you can have all the principles, but there can be outcomes that don't have respect for your principle. Do you understand what I'm saying? In such days, you would understand understand the value of the supernatural. That you have prepared very well, but the person to score you was just in a bad mood. That is not dependent on your principle. That day was when his wife fought him.

He was coming with so much hunger looking for whom to transfer aggression on. And he comes and says, whilst you are defending your subjects with so much intelligence, he doesn't ask you a question that he brings from his PhD study. And then you say, sir, this was not covered in our... Should not know it. Isn't it a project? Should not study far and wide? Get out of the office. Doesn't depend on your results. Doesn't depend on your preparation. Doesn't depend.

It's an external outcome. And somebody says believers don't need miracles. Because whatever happens in that time, that the bible says God is the father of spirits. The bible says he can turn the heart of the king wherever he wills. That is God coming into the natural, influencing natural principles so that his purpose can be accomplished. So when God comes, it is in that period that a man would have a reason to go and ease himself. Before he comes back, you are finished and gone. Every other person that comes in, he fails them. That is a miracle. Do you understand what I'm saying?

It is an intervention. It's an intervention. It has nothing to do with whether you prepared or you didn't prepare. I'm about to prepare so much, but don't know anybody. Every other person who came there knows the MD of the MD, knows the CEO of this. Every... They didn't just come with their certificates. They came with recommendation letters. Sign recommendation letters from princes, from chiefs, from kings. But you just come there and you have studied, you have asked the GPT for 150 question they can ask in an interview.

You have crammed every single thing, but you know nobody. Would you not pray in tongues in that moment? Nobody expect that something else speaks for you beyond just what you carry. That is possible for a man to come to the hand of himself. Take over, Jehovah. I have come to the hand of myself. Take over, take over. Start over. I have come to the hand of myself. Listen, by the time comes when you have truly and sincerely gotten to the end of yourself.

Have you not negotiated for contracts before? When you get to a place you are truly qualified, but they are checking you by your appearance, you look so young, and we really trust a young man. I mean, are you even married? Oh, no. I'm not married, but I can do this. I've got this and that and that. True. You have the certificate. True. You have records that show you can do it.

But how does that replace the fact that this man has a bias for men who are not married? Because he assumes you are not married, you will will carry his money and go. What happens then? I've not heard of favor. I've not heard of... It's something that can come upon a man that can change the the of surroundings. Do you understand this thing I'm saying? That you are negotiating deals and if an influence flowing out of your spirit, it has sucked into your mind. It is now overhadowing your body. That everybody that comes around you comes under the influence of that possibility, comes under the influence of that result.

Listen. Listen. The idea is spirit, soul, and body. It means it must travel from your spirit, permeate your soul, enters your body. When it enters your body, it surrounds you like a cloak. That everybody who comes around you like a perfume comes under the influence of what has left your spirit, what has permitted your mind, what is now enveloping your body. So it is possible to carry favor, but your mind is not renewed to possess it. It is possible to carry power. It is possible to carry realities, but your mind is too logic centered. That when faith is moving, your mind cannot picture how faith is moving.

You are seeing too many obstacles. You can't see the spirit. You can't see what the spirit is seeing. That when the spirit is seeing, the spirit is not seeing any obstacle. The whole land is straight. But your mind is seeing mountains. Your mind is seeing walls. Your mind is seeing everything that would not make it possible. But the spirit is saying, young man, move. Move.

But all this while, you have been trained by education. You have been trained by life. You have been trained by circumstances to only turn realities by what your eyes can see. Yeah. It's not possible. It's not possible. It's not possible. And you write down your plans, write down your goals, your visions. The only reason why you have not done it is because your mind is holding you back. Listen, the spirit is moving.

The spirit has moved. Hear me. There are many of you. Your spirit has gone ten years ahead of you, and it's waiting for your mind to catch up. Catch up. Catch up. Calling your mind to catch up. But your mind still sees limitations. Still sees impossibilities. So it is difficult to demonstrate power now.

To experience realities in the supernatural now. There is too much talk, too much talk. We have doctrine now without demonstration. Theology without power. The result is that a generation's heart hears truth, but sees no proof. Yet Jesus said if I cast out demons by the spirit of God, surely, the kingdom of God has come upon you. The kingdom is not established by words alone. It is revealed by works of power. Why is it that there is such a gap right now? It is because a lot of believers are just comfortable declaring what the bible says, but shrink back from manifesting what the bible promises.

They believe in theory, but not in demonstration. So we have people who say knowledge is power, but that is only half truth. Knowledge unapplied is powerless. Until knowledge is translated into obedience and faith filled action, it is powerless. And would you look at the generation we live in right now? We have young people who are craving an encounter for something beyond themselves. And for many of them, they have tried and exhausted the wealth of education, of entertainment, of music, of sports, of business, of fame, of sex, of technology. It is becoming obvious to them that there is more. And they are searching for transcendence, something real, something greater than them, and that hunger is valid. But when they don't find God, when nobody shows them God, they turn to drugs.

They turn to occultic practices. They turn to witchcraft. They turn to destructive habits, and the enemy begins to exploit that hunger to destroy them. The question becomes, can church offer them real encounter? That encounter that their heart is yearning for, can the church offer it to them? Yes. We can. But not through empty religion. Not through another church program every day that lacks power. Not through arguments.

It is through kingdom. It is through power. It is through glory. That means we must move beyond add knowledge into experience. Knowing God in revelation. Paul said again, my speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in the demonstration of the spirit and power. That is what this generation is waiting for. The proof that God is alive, power. The proof that God is present, power. And listen to me.

When you have continued encounters with God, you will carry that reality into every sphere. Campuses, offices, streets, homes, everywhere you enter. When you understand this that I'm teaching you, you will carry power there, here and now. That is how the bible breaks out. When the kingdom of God is taught and demonstrated together. And when power confirms the word, when the glory of God fills the atmosphere, men cannot deny that God is here. Listen to me. Whilst it is important to teach the method of the kingdom, it is even more powerful when that message is demonstrated. If all we do is talk and we never act, then we are deceiving ourselves, and we are shortchanging those who hear us. Jesus never separated the two.

He taught and demonstrated kingdom with power. And by his spirit, he has given every believer under the sound of my voice that very same ability to teach and to do. To teach and to do. Teach and to do. Teach to do. Are you with me brother of theatres? You know, in the April mentality, true knowledge is not just information, it's experience. You don't really know a thing until you have encountered it. That is why many truths of God will remain locked to you until you step into them personally. Reading about deliverance is not the same thing as casting out demons.

You can read about deliverance all you want. You still don't know deliverance if you have not stepped out to cast out a demon. You want no deliverance? Cast out demons. You discern your spirit. This is a demonic attack. Approach and cast it out. It is upon the advent of that result that you know what deliverance is. Are you with brothers and sisters? Studying healing is not the same thing as laying hands on the sick and watching them recover.

If knowledge alone were enough, then theologians who have read the bible cover to cover, they will be the ones shaking missions right now. Yet many of them remain stagnant because they reduce God to an idea. They reduce God to a theory that is bound within the walls of human reasoning. And when you turn God into a theological concept, you strip yourself of his power. But God hasn't called us to be cold. God hasn't called us to be just religious believers. No. He has called us to be sons and daughters who manifest his presence and his power. Right here, right now. The gospel that we preach must carry proofs.

In Mark 16 verse 20, the bible says, and they went out and preached everywhere. The Lord working with them confirming the word. With signs and wonders. I tell you brothers and sisters, this generation we live in is not impressed by words. The question on the heart of every man is does what you preach work? Does it work? Do your words translate into healing for the sick? Do your revelations bring deliverance to the oppressed? Do your testimonies provoke repentance in sinners? Does your theology produce transformation in the lives of men?

Does it work? Does it work? Is there power in your words? Your work with God was never meant to stop at information. It must lead into an encounter. Real knowledge of God is not acknowledge. It is intimacy, an experience, an encounter. Every genuine encounter with God deepens your knowledge of God. That's how the spirit works. Each time God gives you revelation, whether through the written word of God or through a realm that is quickened in your spirit, he's not just giving you an idea to admire.

He's inviting you to an experience of his kingdom, into an experience of his power. So whenever a word is staring in your spirit, whenever a word is challenging you or provoking you to hunger, don't just sit down still right there. That word is an open door. Step into it. Move from hearing into experiencing. That is how transformation happens. That's why it happens. The new one of your mind is not just about thinking differently. It is meant to change how you live because knowledge without practice only produces spirit. New covenant, none of the letter but of the spirit.

For For the the letter letter kills, but the spirit gives life. God made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant. It means we are preaching this grace message, but not of the letter, but of the spirit. For the letter kills, but the spirit is life. The letter kills. The letter kills, but the spirit gives lives. It means when all that you have is the letter, words on a page, sermons that you have written in the book, doctrines in your head, but no encounter with the spirit behind those words. You are left with information that never brings life. You end up knowing what should happen, but never seeing it happen. You end up knowing what can happen, but never seen it happen.

You have... You end up knowing God can. God can. God can. But you never see God do. All you preach is God will. God will. But you never see God do. If all you have is knowledge, the bible says a letter kill it. And even though we preach this grace to you, we don't come solely in the letters.

We come in the spirit. For the spirit is what gives life to what we say. When knowledge is breathed upon by the spirit, everything shifts. You can speak from revelation. Your perspective is sharper. Your depth increases. You can explain the word with clarity because you have lived it. I've realized that religion keeps people circling around surfaces. They become norm to transformation. Hearing every time, but never doing.

And you know what James says? In one twenty two of James, it says be doers of the world and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. When you hear the word of God and do not practice it, you fall into self deception. You think you know God because you can explain him, but you cannot manifest him. And if you cannot manifest God, you have not known God. If the only thing you can do is preach a good sermon that doesn't bring people into the experience of God because God cannot be taught. He must be experienced. Otherwise, what people do is know about him, but they never know him. And when there is no manifestation, the power of the kingdom remains absent. Throughout the bible, God's pattern has always been that he sends his spirit before he sends his word.

The word carries life on earth when it is released in an atmosphere of his presence. Outside of that, it becomes letters. True but lifeless. Second Corinthians chapter three verse six, the letter kills, but the spirit is life. That's the reason why a so called prophetic word that does not originate in the presence of God can be dangerous. Because instead of drawing people deeper into God, it can pull them out of the flow of the spirit. Leaving the people spiritually dry. Because what you are saying did not come from his presence. But when the holy spirit is in the equation, it infuses life into what you are saying. It awakens the spirit of those who are hearing you.

And there are several believers who live in deep waters. They can quote scriptures. They can explain mysteries. But those waters are stagnant. There's no motion. There's no flow of the spirit. And depth. There has no movement. It's death. Are you with me?

Yes. Genesis chapter one verse two and three shows us the order of God. The spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, let there be light. God did not speak until his spirit first moved. Creation began when the world was carried on the current of the spirit. The letter gives the spirit gives life. That's the danger of knowledge without revelation. And if we teach and we preach without the spirit moving, then all we are doing is just releasing mental ideas. Just lecturing.

Just lecturing. It may sound deep. There's no motion of the spirit. No life changing power. And we have a stagnant preacher. He will always create stagnant people. Jesus himself, he rebuked the Pharisees the Pharisees and Pharisees of his age for the same thing. In Mark chapter 24, the bible says, are you not therefore mistaken because you do not know the scriptures nor the power of God? The word of God and the spirit of God are never meant to be separated. The spirit moves, the word speaks.

When the word of faith is taught, the spirit of faith must be caught. You can never separate the two. That is how life is created. When the spirit is absent, words can dry up. But when the spirit moves, even one word becomes fire. Even one word becomes light. Even one word becomes a seed of transformation. A seed of transformation. When the spirit moves, As the reason why every time we come for meetings, we are intentional about the atmosphere that we create so that you're not listening to just mere words, but the words that are breathed upon by the spirit that can change something tangible in the life of a man. And understand this for yourself.

If you want to see genuine results, genuine result is not an accumulating head knowledge. It is in the spirit of God breathing life to what you know And then acting upon what you know by the spirit. If you have read about the gift of the spirit, you have not truly known it until you begin to move in it. Until you begin to walk in it. I'll come back to Sephardimus. Are you in brothers and sisters? Yes, sir. And all believers are called to demonstrate the kingdom of God. All believers. All of us.

Here and now. All of us. But for that to happen, we cannot stop at the letter of the word. We must move into the spirit that gives life. The Pharisees knew scripture better than anyone. But when the ultimate revelation of God came in human flesh, in the person of Jesus, they missed him completely. They fought him completely. Yet they knew the letters. Listen to me. Words on the page, no matter how true they are, will not demonstrate the kingdom until they are illuminated by the holy spirit.

Biblical words alone cannot produce supernatural manifestations. They must be mixed with revelation from the spirit. Manifestations are simply revelation breaking into the natural. Where our senses can perceive the evidence of what God is doing right now. When his kingdom power and glory begins to manifest. But if all you have is just information that has not translated into revelation, you will realize that your life will still be powerless. That's why you can know. You can know for instance that Jesus laid hands on the sick, but you try to do same thing and then there's no power there. There's no power there because the letters collect. You can know for instance that, oh, there's therefore now no condemnation against those one in Christ Jesus.

But that result is only your life. Because the more you quote it, the more you are dying in condemnation. The letter killeth. You can know for instance, how God anointed Jesus with the holy ghost and with power. Who went about doing good? And you say, oh, I have the anointing of God for my life. And you try to go and move with the anointing and nothing happens. Because the letter killeth. The letters alone has no life in them. Until breathed upon by the spirit.

So as you read, as you listen, you create the holy ghost along in what you are doing. That's why we tell you pray before you come. That's why we take some time to pray before we start. We take some time to worship God. It is to ensure that the holy ghost is involved in what I'm teaching and in what you are hearing. I cannot come just as a lecturer speaking things to you. What will make them have results is that they are living by the holy ghost in your heart. That life shines on what I'm saying, and the moment light can shine on it, it stands out to you as a revelation. It becomes a now word, a now word in your spirit. Word breathed on by the life of God.

And when you see that word, you will rise up with faith within you. You will step out and dare to do impossible things, and you will see results commanding supernatural depths. This is the problem with many believers. This is where we are missing it for many of us. Because we know only by acknowledge. We are not allowed the holy ghost. That's how we pray in tongues. Yes, lord. Yes, lord. You are the king.

There is no other. Yes, lord. Yes, lord. Yes, lord. Yes, lord. You are the king. There is no other. Jesus said, in John chapter three and verse eight, the wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it. But you cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone born of the spirit.

The Bible says, the wind blows where it wishes. You hear the sound of it, but you cannot tell where it comes from. You cannot see the wind. Can any man see the wind? Caleb is the one in here. He says you cannot see the wind, but you can see the effect of the wind. That tree branches begin to sway. Dust on the ground begins to lift. Chairs are carried by hair. Roofs are dismantled.

Buildings begin to shake. Trees are uprooted from the ground. Sometimes houses collapse because the wind is so strong, yet you cannot see it. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. You are the king. There is no The wind blows wherever it wheels, and the Bible says, so is the man born of the spirit. What does it mean? Now the lesson somebody learns from there is that, you see, the Bible says that the wind blows wherever it wills, and you cannot tell where it goes or where it comes from. So it means that the wind is unpredictable.

So that's why I'm unpredictable. My life is erratic. I can be here today and there tomorrow. I'm led by the spirit. You can just be a fool. That's not what the Bible is saying there. What the Bible is saying is that you cannot see the wind, but you can hear the sound. You can literally be hearing, but you cannot see the wind. You can be moving, walking on the road, and the effect is shaking you. I've seen videos in in some countries where the wind is so strong, they can...

They they are struggling to move against the torrents. You cannot see the wind, But you see the effect of the wind on everything the wind touches. He said, such so is the man born of the spirit. That means a man who has been taken over by the spirit, who has been won by the spirit, who has been immersed in the spirit. That in the same way that the wind is invincible, but its influence is undeniable. The same is true of the influence of the holy ghost upon that man. That you may not see the holy ghost in his life with your physical eyes, but when it begins to move. When man steps into a place and he carries the holy ghost, when he begins to move, you might not see, you might not know, you might not hear, but when it begins to move, when it begins to move, it begins to move in a believer. When it begins to move in a church. When it begins to move in a business, the effects are visible.

The effects are tangible. The effects are undeniable. That is exactly what happened on the Pentecost. After the resurrection of Jesus, the spirit came. And the arrival of the spirit was not silent. In acts one verse two to verse four, the bible says suddenly, there came a sound from heaven. They could not see what was coming, but there was a sound. The next thing you know was a rushing mighty wind. The bible says the whole house where they were sitting was occupied by the influence of this wind, yet they could not see what was coming. It is in the nature of the spirit.

He is invincible, but his effect can be felt. And when the holy ghost carries him anywhere, his effect can be felt. The holy ghost announces himself by influencing his environment when he comes. The same way the wind is not quiet, but you cannot see it. A sound from heaven. Appearances of divided tongues as of fire. Like clothing tongues of fire. Divided tongues as of fire. These were manifestations. Visible evidences that the holy spirit had come.

And the tongues they spoke became another manifestation. So striking that when it began to happen in verse six, the bible says, when this sound occurred, the multitude came together and were confused because everyone heard them speaking in their own language. And what was the result of this? Verse 41, over 3,000 people were saved on the same day the holy ghost moving in the life of some believers. They could not see the holy ghost on them, but they could see signs. They could see manifestations. They could see evidences. They could see effects. How come they are speaking our language? Are they drunk?

And when they saw the effects, people thought they were drunk. Their conclusion was that these ones were drunk. But Peter stood up. He said, no. No. No. No. Don't misinterpret what is happening as drunkenness. These ones are filled with the holy ghost. And Peter started speaking under the influence of the spirit.

And the bible says as he spoke, you will see another influence happening again as he spoke. As he spoke, their hearts were pricked inside of them. It means it not his words that was doing this. The holy ghost that rested upon Peter. You can't see the wind, but you can see the effect. As he was speaking, he was moving through his words. Moving through his words. Permitting their hearts. Permitting their soul. Permitting their spirit.

Some of them were people who had stoned Jesus. Who had mocked Jesus, who was there when he wasn't being carried to the cross. But when Peter was speaking, suddenly the holy ghost was moving. So first Corinthians two and verse four, Paul now begins to say an amplified version. He says, when I came to you, watch this, my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom. Using clever rhetorics, but they were delivered in demonstration of the holy spirit. That same spirit that you cannot see. That same spirit you cannot see. But when it begins to move, its effect can be felt. And what was the effect?

It was operating through me, and his power was tearing the minds of the listeners and persuading them. It means as I was speaking, the effect that was happening was that this wind began to blow. And it was blowing like fire. And when people heard me, what they were hearing wasn't mere words. The holy ghost was moving in their minds. Give me AMPC. Look at AMPC. Operating on me and steering in the minds of my hearers the most holy emotions and thus persuading them. That people are not persuaded not because I spoke. They are persuaded because the spirit spoke through me.

That as I was speaking, the wind was moving. A believer can be like this. You can enter into your workplace like this. You can be a student like this. That whenever you step into a place, it might even be your hostel. As a business person, it might be your business. It might be where you are selling, where you are selling, where you are working, your office space. The influence of the holy ghost is felt. It begins to move around you influencing your results, influencing your sales, influencing your intellect, influencing everything around you. And people can tell that, no.

No. No. There is something strange about this young man. Yes. You are right. You... They can't see because it's the holy ghost moving through you. You have given expression to an entity beyond yourself. He has taken over your body, has won you. He's now moving.

It's now moving. It's now moving. It's now moving. And what will happen in life of many people, even as they hear me, ghost. Listen. You don't need to say amen to this. It's not a prayer. That's steering of the holy ghost. But as you listen to what I'm saying and coming to the experience of what I'm saying. The holy ghost can now move from within you, influence your mind, influence your body that the physical experience of the wind, men can feel it.

The problem with many of you is that through your refusal to renew your mind, you have caged the holy ghost in your spirit, and he wants to break out of you. He wants to break loose. He wants to rent the heavens. He wants to come out like a mighty man. But the fact that your mind is limiting him, you are thinking impossibility and limitations. You are caging the holy ghost with your mental acumen. The holy ghost is forcing. He's moving. He's talking on the walls of people's hearts. That he's shaking the gates heavily.

Let me lose. Man of God, let me lose. But you are wondering if I prophesy, what if it does not happen? Let me lose. Let me lose. The holy ghost. But if I pray for the sick, what if it does not happen? Let me lose. Holy ghost. But look at your mind placed in a constraint.

What if I tell people right now that this business will be the biggest in this city and does not happen? What if sales don't come? What if nothing happens? What if the program does not come? What if I don't explain the speed I've been prophesying? Let me just keep quiet. And the holy ghost is inside the believer wanting to shake out like a mighty man, wanting to burst forth. Young woman, young man, will you not write these things I'm inspiring in your heart? What what if nobody reads it? What if it does not spread?

What if nobody didn't threaten it? I don't even want to do it. I don't even want to go. I don't even wanna move, and the holy ghost is caged on the inside. He wants to move. But the mind that has been educated by logic is constraining the holy ghost within. Within. He wants to move. And the call of the spirit to a believer right now is let me lose. I want to walk within you.

I want to walk within you. Let me lose. That is the call of the spirit. Young woman, your voice can be heard. That some of you, when you begin to raise your voice like this, the same way winds blow is how winds begin to blow when your voice is raised. Because you have let loose the holy ghost. You have let loose the holy ghost. Some of you, that business idea has been given you. That idea that has been locked in your spirit. Run Charles with this.

Start this. Move like this. Move in this way. The holy ghost is saying, let me lose. Let men feel my impact. Let men feel my effect in your life like the wings. They would not know where it's coming from. They can't know where it is going, where it's coming from. All they will know is the effect around you. That has begin to move, atmospheres change.

Atmospheres change. And there are so many believers under the sound of my voice that your problem your problem is this that I'm speaking about. It's not because there's no power on your inside. There is power locked up within you. Power locked up within you, But there is too much self self doubt, too much self limitation, too too too much fear. Fear. Fear. And the bible says in Psalms one one zero and verse one, the bible says, the Lord said to my Lord, sit down with my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool. In verse two, he says, I will send the rod of the strength out of Zion, proclaiming rule in the midst of your enemies. In verse three, he says your people shall be willing.

Your people shall be willing. The king James version, your people shall be willing in the day of thy power. And the holy ghost is saying, brother, why are you not willing? Why are you not willing? I'm telling you to expand. Expand beyond your borders. Expand beyond your boundaries. But you are still thinking, but I don't have money, but I don't have this. Who told you you plan expansion with money? Let me lose.

It's what the holy ghost Christ. Let me lose. Let me lose. Let me lose. I've placed so much value on your inside. I've been talking upon your heart. Show yourself to the world. Step out. Move out. Step out.

Start this thing. Why are you still within your comfort? Let me lose. Paul says my speech, my speech, my normal conversations, my normal speakings, random conversations, my jokes, my chats, my encouragement for men, my motivations. When I'm speaking to ordinary men, they were with power. Because a man had let the holy ghost loose upon his inside. Can you plan the holy ghost where you are? Can you run the holy ghost? And declare let loose. Let loose.

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