Transcript: Kingdom Foundations- A Blueprint For The Believer's Dominion
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This message is from believers equipped, a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network where the word of God is taught with practicality and believers are raised to reign in life. Join apostle Emmanuel as he walks us through the word of God. Kingdom foundations, a blueprint for the believer's dominion. Kingdom. Kingdom foundations. A blueprint for the believer's dominion. Foundations, plural. You see, every moment at the Disciples Christian Network is a training ground, an intentional process that is designed to mold you into a person of grace, a person of understanding, and a man or woman of stature and power. Whether the service comes through fire, whether it comes through instruction, whether it comes through impartations, whether it comes through rebuke. If it bears the imprint of the disciples Christian network, I want you to see it as a school.
Every service, regardless of its format, is a strategic opportunity for your spiritual development. Every service. Every service. Now let me say this. If you're following a man, you must know what he's making you into. Because we follow Christ in men. Paul said, follow me as I follow Christ. So the pattern that is seen in scripture is that we follow Christ, but we follow him in men. Do you understand this simple truth? So if you're following a man, it is important to know exactly what you are being made into.
Jesus said, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. It means there is a kind of believer that you must become as you keep on following a man. It's not abstract. It's not vague. There is someone you are becoming. There is something you are becoming. And it is important that you know this so that you can trace the developmental process to see how far you have come. Every DCM service is designed to raise a kind of believer, one whose life carries substance in the spirit. That after some time, there should be some things we should begin to observe in your life by reason of your coming to church. Number one, that you are maturing in the spirit, that you are growing spiritually, that you are conforming to the image of Christ.
Romans chapter eight and verse 29, the bible says, for whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son. So there is a divine ordination for every believer of conformity to the image of his son. But it doesn't just happen because you are a believer. Ephesians chapter four and verse 11 down to verse 13, the bible says, and he himself gave some to the apostles, and then he lists all the five fold ministry. In verse 12, he lists the purpose of the five fold ministry for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of God. So it is important to know that that is what you are becoming as you come. That's what you are becoming. Galatians chapter four verse 19, the bible says, my little children for whom I labor in birth again until Christ be formed in you. You see, that's the labor. That's the reason why we are laboring.
And so it should be seen in your life that Christ is being formed in you, and you are conforming to the image of the Christ that is being formed. Are you with me? Yes, sir. So you are being trained to grow in conformity to the image of Christ, in character and in charisma, in power. You are becoming a person of revelation, a person of conviction, a person of capacity. A man who can move things in the spirit causes changes in the spirit. A woman who can shift atmospheres over territories. One who knows what to do and how to do it. That is what you are becoming. And number two, that you are growing in knowledge and understanding.
Knowledge and understanding of the ways of God, the principles of the kingdom. It must be seen that after some time, you have not only conformed to the image of Christ, you have also grown in knowledge and understanding of the ways of God, of the principles of the kingdom. You are not an ignorant believer who cannot defend what he knows in scripture. A time comes when you move from apostle said to the bible said. I'll stretch more on this later. And number three, that as you come here, after some time, you begin to notice that you are becoming a kingdom man, a kingdom woman. If this equation is not complete, your coming is a waste. I'm sorry to say, but you must know this. Jesus says, follow me and I will make you fishers of men. It means I can check at the end of my followership.
Am I fishing for men, or am I fishing for money? And if I find that I'm still fishing for money, then my followership has not yielded fruit. Not necessarily because of the dexterity of the person you are following, because Judas too was following. And the promise was to all of them. But one was fishing for money. Others were being trained how to fish for men. It means at the end of this journey, even as you progress in this journey, you must understand. You must begin to look at your life and check. Am I becoming like Christ in character? Am I becoming like Christ in charisma, in power?
If I cast out devils, then shall the kingdom of God be established amongst you. In other words, a believer must be able to cast out devils. These signs shall follow them that believe. It means as you come, you must come to a point where you no longer depend on a pastor, where you can take charge of situations, where you can look at circumstances in the face and take charge of situations. They're not afraid. They're not scared. They're not moved by what moves men. Thank you, Lord Jesus. And number two, in character as well, that you grow in love in the fruit of the spirit in patience. You're not as hungry as you should be...
You used to be, as wicked as you used to be. Something should be changing your character. It should be obvious. You're not a man of integrity. You don't scam people anymore. You don't dupe people anymore. You came here a four one nine. No problem. As you come, something should be happening to you. Your heart should be changing.
You don't dupe anymore. That's the proof that the method is doing something to your heart in character, in charisma. And number two, in understanding of the ways and the principles of the kingdom, the ways of God. And number three, that after this journey, you become a kingdom minded believer. Kingdom minded in all its essence. So you see, you're becoming, therefore, all these three things, you're becoming is not accidental. Just like a seasoned chef does not mix ingredients randomly, you are being carefully built towards a predetermined end. Many believers don't know this, but knowing God's will for your life is only the beginning. It's like receiving admission letter into a university. It informs you of possibility, but it does not make you become.
Admission into medical school does not make you a doctor. You can go through six head of medical school and still not become one. You can be suspended at year three due to your own indiscipline and negligence. Is that much so? Yeah. Admission into law school does not make you an attorney. In the same way, prophecy does not automatically produce destiny. Knowing God's will for your life does not automatically make you live it out. You must submit to the training that is required to become in experience what God has already declared in eternity. And many believers just stop at knowing God's will.
They stop at prophecy. They stop at prophecy, and they run around telling everybody, this is who I am. This is what God has said over me. Oh, I'm the head of another tail. Glory to God. I'm this and that. God has shown me a glorious destiny and all these beautiful things that they see. Do you know that a believer who does that It's like someone that receives admission letter and begins to show everybody, I've been admitted to university. I've been admitted to university. Oh, I'm now gonna be a doctor.
I'm in a of university. I'm gonna be a doctor, but never shows up for class. Never write any exam. You are qualified to be, but you will never become. There's a training process between what you have seen, what you have received, and you're becoming that thing. Are you with me? What becomes the result of showing everybody what you have received and never showing up for class? Frustration, delay, stagnation, powerlessness, irrelevance, mediocrity. That's how useless believers are raised. When you see believers like this, you know at some point, they did not submit themselves to be trained for something to happen to their heart, for there to be a molding and a crafting, for there to be a transformation in your heart that becomes a reflection of what you are becoming in Christ.
Knowing what God said is never the same thing as becoming it. And the journey from prophecy to manifestation is paved with patterns, with disciplines, with spiritual intelligence. And until you submit yourself to the process, your life will remain a contradiction of divine intention. First Corinthians chapter three and verse one to verse two. There's a cloud of witnesses gathered all around. You're waiting to see what you're gonna do with this overflow. With this overflow, with this overflow, the fountain of life. First Corinthians chapter three verse one. And verse two. The bible says, and I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people.
Look at this. I could not speak to you. I could not. Note that I didn't say I will not. Do you remember the last time this was used? That Jesus could not. So it's not a statement of willingness as it is statement of ability. It's not as though I don't... I'm not willing to. I'm willing to just that I cannot.
In other words, I'm trying to, but something about you is repelling me from speaking to you as spiritual people. So I could only speak to you as to canal, as to babes in Christ. Watch this verse two. Verse... I fed you with milk and not with solid food. For until now, you were not able to receive it. And you would think that because he says until now, that would mean that they are now able to receive it. But he says, and even now, they're still not able. My goodness. That Paul came to them as a chef carrying both milk and meat, but their level of growth determined their portion.
It was not what Paul was carrying that determined what he shared. A man of God can be deeper than he sounds. He can be deeper than what you hear, but your level of understanding opens you up to what you receive. So Jesus said, there is still more I want to tell you, but I cannot tell you of them now. There is still more. He looks at the disciple and say, you cannot bear them now. This is the same thing that Paul was facing. He said, you cannot bear them now. The problem with their disciples was that they did not have the holy ghost. Now these ones have the holy ghost, but they remain children.
Stuck to milk and have not matured to a point of receiving it. He wanted to serve revelation, but he found immaturity. So he withheld the weightier matters. This immediately shows you that spiritual depth is not a function of time spent in church. It's a function of transformation through the word of God because these people have been coming to church. And he's saying that I think that by the length of time you have spent, you would have matured. But every time I come, I find that you are still babes. It means your maturity is not a function of the length of time you have spent. That you have spent five years, ten years in church does not make you mature. It is how much transformation has happened since you have been coming.
How much transformation? How much transformation by the word? He came ready to serve milk and meat, but he found that their spiritual state required him to stick with milk. This tells you that a man of God can come equipped both to serve milk and meat. But the transition to strong meat depends on your level of receptivity and how diligently you engage with the foundational truth you have already received. And if the man of God comes to a place and finds that you have not engaged past a particular level, in their life is that delivering this level of knowledge is like casting pearls to swine. Do you know it's not an insult? It was Judah who said it. Do not cast your pearls before swine. Matthew seven.
It's not an insult. It's a spiritual state of a people. You need to think deep about that scripture. What is the similarity? Don't be offended at this. This might not be the right example to use, but just permit me. What is the similarity between swine and babies? They care not where they touch, what they touch, where they lie, what they eat, what they step on, what they trample on. You give a baby a phone. What does he do?
He just stamped on his phone, and you would see him with an expensive phone, and he's playing with it by banging it on the floor. Is he wicked? It's only a state of existence. That's why Jesus said don't cast your pearls before swine. It's not an insult. He's telling you that that's just where you are. What is the nature of swine? He says, they will trample them on their feet. Isn't that what a baby does with... I don't understand what I'm saying.
He said, if you have studied deep for a revelation, don't bring it to those who are not ready for it. They will disvalue it. That's what it means to try and put it on their feet. It means they will have no value for what you brought. They would have no value for what you brought. They would look at... They're they're not mature enough to receive from whence you are coming, so you must come down to their level. And as long as they are there, stay there. You have no idea how I came on Sunday. You have you have no idea.
You have no idea. It is possible to limit what I brought. By the time I find out that... I went to a meeting some time ago. And when I got there, came to teach kingdom. And by the time I saw the people, I say, hey. These ones, we can't even call them children. They are a step before. They they are newborn babies. So I told them, open to John three sixteen.
They thought I was joking. They thought I was joking. We ended that service teaching John three sixteen. The man of God was heavily disappointed because he had been speaking to me about his expectation, how that he wants me to bring this kingdom message that he has so heard me preach. And upon coming, have found out that the people he has been laboring on cannot bear this truth. I would have come there for one hour thirty minutes and wasted my time because they would trample upon it. These things are pills. They are things of value. They are treasury goods. Treasury.
Do you know what it means to have revelation? The bible is saying it's not enough just to come. You have to submit yourself to that process of transformation. That is where the power is. Now you can see how that through the word of God you are listening to, your life is changing. That's where the power is. Because there is milk and there is meat. And did not come the same way, I hope you know. Milk flows easily. Milk is convenient.
Milk is on demanding. Milk is readily available. Milk. But do you know what it means to get meat? Meat is a proof that something died. Because you will not take a live chicken and eat it. If you would eat meat, it means something died. There is a level of sacrifice, a level of death, a level of consecration involved in this process. There's a relationship between death and glory, death and light. In the day that king Uzziah died, Isaiah saw.
Isaiah saw, and then you bring what has cost you that in the spirit to a people that will trample it as though it were nothing. Some people don't under... What we go through many a times to see truth in scripture that changes the life of men. That changes first your life even before the life of men. Do you know what Paul said? Paul says in dying's often, in sufferings often. He began to mention his CV, and he was full of sufferings. Imagine Paul coming to a people with all of these things, and he said when I came, I brought everything I've gone through to get this thing. That was what I brought. But lo and behold, I met you as dapes.
What have you done with what I taught you the last time? Even though I brought you milk, you were still lactose intolerant. Even your body could not digest the milk. Because if you have been taking milk all the while, the end result of milk is to build some sort of nutrient in your body enough to prepare you to now begin to take solid food. Because you don't yet have teeth. So you begin to take milk because you don't need teeth to take milk. However, you need teeth to digest meat, to chew meat. Is that not so? But the milk that you begin to take is what supplies nutrients for teeth to come. So it's an anomaly that a believer continues to take milk and nothing is growing, preparing to receive meat.
It's an anomaly. It's a sickness. Yes, sir. This state is a sickness. Because by default, no believer should remain here for long. By default, something should be changing. By default, you should be building capacity. By default, do you understand what I'm saying? The bible says, it was still Paul that was speaking. It says we speak wisdom amongst them that are mature.
The hidden wisdom of God that was hidden from the foundation of time onto our glory. It means there is wisdom hidden for your glory. And Paul says, we only speak this wisdom amongst them that are mature. That when we when we want to unlock glory, that is what we want to unlock, glory. But we come to check first, are you mature? Because there is something now we're going to teach you because you are mature. Yes, sir. And when you begin... Do you understand what I'm saying? Yes, sir.
It's like you have a child of 20, a child of 13, and a child of three. Do you agree with me that who would you rather handle your business to? Why? So you would call him and teach him and say, okay. So every morning you open the shop by nine. Is that not so? This is how you sort the sales. This is how you price the goods. When customers come, we have three three types of pricing. There is a stock price, the selling price, and the profit price.
If you can sell it for this profit price, amazingly. That means you have made over 40% more profit than the actual price we bought it. And the reason for that is because clients will price. And so the reason why we'll put a hike to price is because we know they would price. So by the time they price, they will still fall back to a point where you can still make profit. Do you start teaching a five year old this? But that entire education you are bringing to your 20 year old son is going to unlock wealth in him. And the only reason why you can begin to teach him this is because he has matured. Do you understand what I'm saying? So you see there are conversations I cannot have with you.
Not because I don't want to, but I check and I find that my goodness. The same way milk excites you is not how meat excites you. You bring a child. You were you were like that. You bring a child Amala, he begins to cry. Bring him goody goody and he's excited. What you are excited by is a proof of where you are. And there's a tendency for believers to measure maturity by charisma, by how many scriptures somebody can quote, Different indices. But that is not how spiritual maturity is measured. It is measured by your degree of conformity to the image of Christ and by your alignment to certain pillars of spiritual growth.
And I'm gonna give you some of those pillars. As I give it to you, I want you to set yourself. This is like a checklist of foundational truth that every believer must know and be trained in. And you will use this to access your own work and to identify areas of submission to training, to check exactly where have I lacked in knowledge and in experience of the same. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Yes. Number one, first, every believer must understand prayer. The act of prayer. I'm not talking about just shouting, just weeping.
I'm talking about prayer as a faculty with many departments inside. Prayer as a system. A system of legislation, a system of intimacy, a system of alignment with God, a system of transformation, a system of petition. There are... It is it is multidimensional, multidipartmental, and a believer must understand prayer as a faculty, the art of prayer. That when I'm praying, I'm praying to get into alignment with what God is doing. I'm praying to build capacity in the spirit. I'm praying for legislation. I'm praying for transformation. That as I'm praying, something is changing on my inside.
But I believe I must know that there are times when God is more concerned about what the prayer is doing to you than what the prayer is giving to you. The heart of prayer. The disciples came to Jesus and told Jesus, teach us to pray. You must be trained in that spirit technology called prayer. If you don't know how to pray, you are powerless no matter how sincere you are. I promise you, you are powerless. Prayer is not what you do when problems come. It's how you survive. It's it's like oxygen we breathe. The Bible says pray ceaselessly without ceasing.
The Bible calls it. Men ought always to pray and not to faint. It means that the opposite of being prayerful is not being prayerless. It is fainting. It means when a man is not playing, he's fainting. So when you find people who are quick to give up, who are quick to lose heart, who are quick to turn cowardly, who are quick to turn back, It's always an evidence that at some point you stopped praying. The bible says, but you beloved, building up yourself on your most holy faith, praying in the holy ghost. It wasn't just a prayer. It is praying in the holy ghost. Pray in the holy ghost.
That you spend time praying in the holy ghost. You spend time praying in tongues. You can pray in your understanding and pray in the holy ghost. But it is not every time you pray your understanding that you pray in the holy ghost. However, it is every time you pray in tongues that you pray in the holy ghost. That's why Paul says, I will pray in the spirit. I will pray in tongues, and I will pray in my understanding also. Understanding was an also thing. It means I will I will use them part it. What you'll find me doing is extending myself, praying in tongues.
That's in Paul was the one that says, behold, pray in tongues more than ye hall. More than ye hall. How can a man talk like that? I pray in tongues more than ye all. And look at the exploit that came out of his life. Look at the depth of revelation that came out of his life. Before you begin to argue that that's not what brought him revelation. That's not what brought him exploit. Go and pray like him first. And he got those things because he's righteous.
I know. Are you not righteous as well? You know, people bring all kinds of stupidity from scriptures thinking that because it sounds smart, it is scriptural. Why do we need to pray loud? Is God deaf? Are you more of a son than Jesus was? So are you trying to be logical and politically correct, or are you trying to be a believer who follows scripture? Because the bible says that Jesus, who the bible says, that he is the author and the finisher of our faith, that Jesus in relating to God prayed with a loud voice. And the bible says he so prayed that his sweat became blood. The Bible says he spent many hours praying.
Why do we pray for long hours? Jesus prayed for long hours. Literally, did. Dusk to dawn, praying. Praying. So the question would be, are you more of a son than... At least the bible calls him the firstborn of all sons. It means he's our. He's the example. And if he's example, then this is not an argument at all.
He prayed. He separated himself and prayed, withdrew himself and prayed severally. But there is someone who should not pray. It is Jesus. Someone should not pray. Jesus. But he prayed, and he prayed with a loud voice speaking to God in prayers. And you would see the multidimensional workings of prayer as he prayed. At some point, he was praying. The bible did as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was halted.
The fashion of his remnants became glistening, and he was launched into a transfiguration experience. That teaches me that as I begin to pray, transfigurations happen. That means the fashion of my countenance too can be altered. It means I can become a new person as I pray. That the type of person that entered into that prayer adventure is not the same type that comes out of it. Sir. That I can drop weaknesses because I prayed. I can drop limitations because I prayed. I can drop even the flesh because I prayed. Yes, sir.
Sir. Struggles and weaknesses because I prayed. Be around on Saturday by church beer. Church beer. The heart of prayer. You must be taught this. Every believer must know this. And you know we have so many miracles on prayers. It means as a believer, you have a responsibility to yourself and to your destiny to go and get those messages and feast on it because prayer is in school. To no one harm of it is not enough.
You are studying medicine, but you will not become a medical doctor just studying medicine. You will know about chemistry. You will know anatomy. You will know physiology. You will know pathology. You would know all of these things that come together to become one. So before you say, oh, I can pray. I'm a man of prayer. You must have gone through all the departments. And you know how to prosecute prayer and the kind of prayer and the skill to prayer.
I taught the mystery of answered prayers. Part one and part two, a believer must know even before he begins to pray that my prayer is answered. Do you have this understanding? Or are you somewhere in your heart praying, you don't even know if God is hearing you? It means you are missing something. Your theology is incomplete. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Number two, the believer must know how to draw revelation, illumination, light from scripture. I'm not talking about just reading the bible out of duty, but knowing how to extract light, relevant situation changing destiny shaping light from the word of God. Having a bible is not the same as knowing how to wield it.
You can have a field that is full of coconuts and still lack oil if you don't know how to extract it. Likewise, you can be surrounded by scriptures and still walk in darkness if you haven't been trained to mine revelation. How to read scriptures? At the beginning of the year, the workforce, many of them, and a lot of my grandchildren began the study of the bible, the reading of the bible actually. From Genesis down to Revelation, and last week, we completed the entire scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. It is it is an heart you must learn. Now after you have learned that, you then proceed to how to draw light from scriptures. Start that neck of the second phase. How to draw light and revelation from scriptures that applies specifically to your circumstance. How the believer can stand on the word of God knowing that because of the integrity of the word of God, because of the infallibility of the word of God, this thing will not fail.
How to deploy faith because of the word you have seen. And number three, you must be trained to tame the flesh. Because if you don't subdue this canal nature, you will remain a slave. You can be holding prophecies upon your life, but you will remain a slave. The flesh is a saboteur. It corrupts perception. It corrupts destinies. It pollutes desire. It aborts divine processes. Living above the flesh is not optional.
It is required for dominion. Methodist like free indeed. Great grace part one, and three. Pillar of dominion. You put these things on repeat. Living above sicknesses and diseases. If any man being Christ is a new creation. Number four, you must understand the structure of God's kingdom. You need to know how this kingdom was built and how it operates, how that Christ is the chief cornerstone, how that apostles and prophets are the foundations, and every other believer is a living stone in this architecture. And you must not distort this structure because once you distort this structure by turning a prophet into your cornerstone or dishonoring the apostolic foundations, your spiritual building will collapse.
And most believers suffer not because of Satan, but because they violate this blueprint. Number five, you must be trained in the protocol of accessing help, both spiritual help and help from men. You must be trained in it. How does God favor men? How does God help men? How do you access the supernatural help of God? Because the favor of God must be understood as a system. You must learn how to provoke favor, how to steward favor, how to convert favor into open doors. Listen to me. Without help, life becomes bitter for you.
Destiny becomes stagnant without help. It's not always because of demonic opposition. It is ignorant ignorant in activating covenant help. A lot of believers are gifted, but they are stagnated. They are anointed, they are irrelevant. They are called, but they are buried. Because they were never taught how to engage the forces of help that God has made available to men. There's a posture that attracts help, and there's a posture that repels help. Help is not automatic. It responds to this discernment.
It responds to alignment. There's a way to carry yourself, to approach life, to build relationships, and to position yourself in the spirit that help is compelled to locate you. Is that the same way there is an approach to life that guarantees isolation? And if you violate the principles that govern access to help, both from God and from men, you will live a needless struggle. Help is governed by understanding. The bible says good understanding bringeth favor. Good understanding. What do you know about men? What do you know about God? What do you know about accessing favor with God?
What do you know about accessing favor with men? Have you studied scripture? Have you looked at the life of those who were favored by God? What were the indices that was play? Was it just a mystical thing that happened by divine prominence? A man had no hand in it. Or is it possible for favor to be provoked? Number six, every believer must be trained in the heart of warfare. Spiritual warfare is not a denominational emphasis. It is a strategy for survival in this end time.
And any believer that remains ignorant, whether by deception, whether by pride, by laziness, about the dynamics of spiritual warfare will be a casualty in this world that we live in as opposed to being a witness. The bible is very clear. The old world lies in wickedness. You don't walk casually through a world that lies in wickedness. You don't walk casually through a wall that is under siege and expect to fulfill destiny. No. No. You must be harmed. You must be trained. The Bible just put on the whole armor of God.
A believer must be trained in warfare. What happens when you have a dream and you see forces in your dream? What happens when you go to work and you see people ganging against you? What happens when somebody who used to love you starts playing against you? What happen when you begin to hear that this person you eat with, dine with, is the one that is throwing knife at your back? Spiritual warfare. What happens when you marry and you are told that your wife is the one that is a witch? What happens when it's three years and there's no childbirth? Four years, no childbirth. What happens?
Is it meet you unprepared, or do you know what weapons that are in your hands now that you can bring God at the face of battle and say, devil, you came late. You came very late. While I was in the cave, I was arming up. I was suiting up. Don't you think I don't know what to do? When doors close, you know what weapons to bring out. What happens when you get into the front of real life circumstances and situation? That you are vying for promotion, and you are suddenly told there are five people, one have a connection, another one have a this, another one has a that. He knows the president. He knows the chief priest.
He knows that one. And you know nobody except God. What happens? Do you know how to provoke help? How to demand that forces in a territory shift because you're alive? Do you know? Do you understand that there are principalities and powers that govern atmospheres, that govern territories? What happen when you get into a place and you find out that there's a corporate ill manneredness? Either everybody is a humanizer, everybody is drunk, everybody is a thief, Everybody... When you see everybody doing the same thing, a spirit is involved.
They are under a cloud. It's not normal. And if you are not taught, you will enter into the same cloud and become like them. Despite you are a believer. Despite you're a believer. Are you harmed for warfare? Are you harmed for life? Do you know that thy kingdom come is a statement of warfare? Are you aware? Yes, sir.
Because in the parable of the wheat and the tares, the bible says that while men slept, an enemy came and saw tares amongst the wheat. What is the wheat? The bible calls the wheat children of the kingdom. What is the tares? The bible calls the tares sons of the wicked one. That means... One, three, go. It means if God was the one that planted you, the devil will come and plant his own. That is the summary of the parable of the wheat and the test. It's not about.
It's about songs of God, songs of darkness. That the moment you are planted in aviation and you are rising there, while men slept, the enemy to come and put somebody there. His responsibility is to challenge you to die. Lose the office, lose the position. Do you understand warfare? Do you know what to do at that point when a man stands before you and say you will see? I will see. Do you know... Have you been taught or or you start crying? Will you start cowering?
What happens when the ministry is not growing? What happens when you have five years and five members? One member per year. What happens? Do you know how to run the gates open? How to tear the heavens open? God came to Job and said, do you know the hardness of heaven? Can you command the dominion thereof? Can you command dominion thereof? Do you know do you know how to step into an office space?
And as you are walking in, you are saying systems bow to me. Wherever the sole of my feet steps upon, in this land I am favored. If there is anybody here who represents Sambalat and Togaya, either you lose your office or you favor me. My case is different. And you you you take an atmosphere. You take your vibes, and you start spreading everywhere you go. Do you know how? To deploy angelic resources, angelic assistance. That when you are stuck, when you are stuck, when you hit a roadblock, there is a way to deploy angels from heaven. Daniel did it.
The prince of Persia stopping an answer. An answer that would lead to the deliverance of the Jews from captivity. And the prince of Persia stood. When there are forces, limiting forces, resisting forces holding you back, holding your progress. Do you know how to stay in prayers and insist that heavenly merchandise are deployed? Men valiant in battles. Men valiant in battle. Have your fingers been trained for war? Have your hands been trained for warfare? To build battle.
It was David that said power cut my hands per wall and my fingers per battle. It does not matter whether you are in media, whether you are in politician, whether you are in business, whether you are in economy. What do you do when the goods are not selling? When you open a shop and nobody is coming there. You are not making sales as you heard. What do you do when clients come once in two months, once in three months, and then the doors close again? What do you do? I don't think likely the threat. I follow peace with all men, but I am dangerous. And I'm not ashamed to say I'm dangerous.
There are several mysteries around my life that provokes protection. I can't die anyhow. What do you know that guarantees conviction, that guarantees certainty? Number seven. Shoe to his kingdom. Seven, you must understand kingdom service. You must understand what now? Kingdom service. This is nonnegotiable. The bible says you were bought with a price.
First Corinthians chapter six and verse 20, you were bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit which are God's. The proof that you are yielded to Christ is that your life becomes useful to him. You serve his agenda. You advance his purposes. If you are a son of this house, as much as possible, you should be a worker. You should be. You should be. You should be. You should desire to offer service to God.
You should never be comfortable just doing nothing in the house of God. Some of us were not even brought up that way. If I find myself in a place and try to think how exactly can I be useful? How exactly can I deploy myself to kingdom service? Number eight, I believe there's another layer that every believer must learn, and it is how to be both spiritually and physically relevant in today's world. You must learn it. Relevance is not canality. It's not compromise. It is dominion. You are in this world, but not of this world.
The bible says, you must understand how to navigate the systems of this world. Governments, business, technology, media, education without losing your consecration. You are not here to escape the world. You are here to influence the world. Any spirituality that isolates you from relevance is ignorance that is prey. And too many believers lack the training that produces social influence. We know how to act in church, but we collapse in boardrooms. We can quote scriptures. We can pray in tongues, but we cannot solve real life problems. That's why at DCN, we insist on a gospel that makes you both heavenly minded and territorially useful.
The gospel of Jesus is not escapism. It is governance. It is dominion. It is it is dominion. And a believer must know and be taught how to enforce dominion in the marketplace. Go into the world, the bible says, be fruitful, multiply, subdue. Be fruitful means produce something. It means be productive, that something must come out of you and influence your world. This is what you are being taught. And lastly, every believer must possess what I call holistic spirituality.
What did I call it? Holistic spirituality. Not fragmented, not lopsided, balanced spirituality. This holistic spirituality indulges general knowledge of scripture and a lot more than that. It is alarming that you would find a lot of believers who have attended church for two, three, four, five years and still cannot articulate scripture or even the structure of scripture. This does not have anything to do with being a theologian, But you should be able to know that the bible has structures, fragmentations. The bible says rightly dividing. It means the bible can be divided, and you must know how to rightly divide it. You must understand the basic structure of the bible. Every believer should know that at least the bible has the pentapult.
Right? From Genesis to Deuteronomy, the five books of Moses, the historical books, the poetic books, the prophetic books, the gospels, the act of apostles, the epistles, and then revelation. That is basic literacy for every kingdom citizen. Basic bible literacy. You should be familiar with the parables of scripture. You should be familiar with the stories in scripture. The dispensations across scripture. Where we are right now in the move of God. The era of the law and the era of grace. You should not be hearing of the parable of the sower, the 10 virgins, the parable of the wheat and the tares for the first time in five days of community church.
Something is wrong with you. That is spiritual laziness. Something is wrong with you. It means that everything might be happening in your life, but you're not growing. You're not growing. There are terminology that should not be alien to you. Imagine a medical student, for example, in fourth year, and you ask him where is the femur, and it tells you, is that a book? That's failure waiting to happen. The same applies to the believer. The same applies to the believer.
You can't tell me you have spent four years in church. You have no idea where Matthew is. You have no idea where Luke is, where John is. You are told to open a hard copy bible. You are finding a revelation in Genesis. Don't You even know what the Old Testament is, what the New Testament is. You see, these disciplines we had growing up actually helped and taught us. Many of them need to go back to it. But beyond just the bible structure, the bible stories, parables, you must also press into the knowledge of God. Not just his acts, but his person.
The bible says, let him that glory are the glory are in this, that he understandeth and knoweth God. Jeremiah nine twenty four. The knowledge of God is three-dimensional. His character, his ways, and his power. That means you must know how God is, how God thinks, how he moves, and what he's capable of. Without this, your faith will be blind. You will... Your work will be unstable, and your expectations will be small. You must also understand the plan of salvation. That is nonnegotiable.
If you cannot clearly articulate the method of salvation from man's fall to Christ's sacrifice on the cross to the call of repentance to the indwelling presence of the holy spirit and the hope of eternal glory, then you are not grounded in scriptures. You are carrying titles but no foundation. Every believer must know this. Every believer must understand this. Every believer must be able to articulate this. And if you are the disciples and you have been taught, and you don't know this, you have not done anything. You are still feeding on milk. You must be able to meet somebody else and teach them the gospel. What is salvation? Why is it necessary?
What is the fall of man? How did man fall? You must understand your identity in Christ Jesus. Who are you in Christ Jesus? What does it mean that you are in Christ? What is this righteousness you have received? The forgiveness of sins. What is the scope of the forgiveness of sins? Doesn't mean that we are righteous. There are many believers who know about financial breakthrough.
They know about miracles, but they cannot explain the gospel that saved them. That's a crisis. That's a crisis. I'm not talking about some theological jargon. No. That's not it. But every believer should be able to communicate the gospel clearly to a sinner. But if you go and evangelize, what is the gospel? What do you tell a sinner? If someone ask you, why did Jesus die?
What does it mean to be saved? What happens when someone receives Jesus Christ? You should not be confused. How come Jesus is the son of God and is still God? You should not be confused. The revelation of Jesus teaches that. Part one and two, you should not be confused. These are questions you should be able to answer as a believer. It's a tragedy that believers can define prosperity, but we cannot define redemption. It's a tragedy.
Why are you not coming to church? Who is the believer? If any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. All things are passed away. If you don't understand your position in Christ, your inheritance in Christ, your authority in Christ, and your responsibility as a believer, you will live like a beggar in a palace. And you know in time past, there were spiritual movements where certain truths were nonnegotiable. If you belong to a faith based camp and you could not explain what faith is, it was that shameful. If you belong to a prayer driven ministry and you could not intelligently discuss prayer, it was a disgrace. What has then happened to our generation? How come people can go to church for years and when acts righteousness, when acts grace?
They just, you know, they don't know what to say. Oh, I just love God. That's not spirituality. It is sentimental ignorance. Luke one verse one says, the things that are most surely believed amongst us. It means there are things that are most surely believed, and you must know it. It must become our conviction. If you are a part of DCM, there are truths. There are doctrines you must know. There are principles that must be engraven within your spirit.
Anyone around you should know that your alignment to this vision has produced transformation. You must be taught about the holy spirit because he's the architect of spiritual growth. The holy spirit is not a mystical force. He is the governor of the kingdom. Without him, your hunger for depth will lead into deception. If you attempt to be spiritual without the spirit, familiar spirits will volunteer to guide you. And they will not come with horns. They won't come with ugly costumes. They will come with encounters, real encounters, real encounters. You will have out of body experiences sponsored by familiar spirit.
You would have visions. You would have prophecies. But if those experiences are not weighed by scripture, you will be misled. The fact that something is spiritual does not mean it is divine. What did I say? If your vision, your encounter, or your revelation contradicts scripture even slightly, it is not of God. First John four verse one says, beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirit whether they are of God. That's the reason why you have to be trained because error that comes as an encounter is more dangerous than error that comes as an information. When you see it, you felt it. You left your body.
You traveled. You saw a vision. In a way, it becomes truth to you because you saw it. Even if it's a lie. Only the word of God in partnership with the spirit of God can rescue you from such deception. And if you're in this house, lastly, you must know and understand the kingdom. What is the gospel of the kingdom? You must know and understand the gospel of the kingdom. So you cannot say that you come to this church and you're a part of this vision and all of this is not in your life. This is how you know you're a rounded believer, an holistic believer, growing in the knowledge of Christ, in character, and in charisma.
Are you with me? Yes, sir. Because as you journey, if you don't surround yourself by this sieve that you are listening to, you will begin to hear multiple voices that would say things that contradict the very essence of the gospel. And you will be led astray innocently. Your hunger will become the reason why you will fail, your hunger. I've not read the bible. The bible says to an hungry man, even what is bitter is sweet. It means the devil can attempt to quench your hunger by feeding you what he thinks you want to hear. And if you don't have a voice of truth, this is why God brought you here and has given you a man of God after his own heart to lead you in the way of truth. That man is what shows you rightly dividing scripture so that whatever knowledge you are outsourcing will be bounded by what has already been provided to you.
So that if it is outside of the confines of what you have been taught, you know to dismiss it. You know to dismiss it. There is nonsense outside you. Believe me, there is nonsense out. People believing and teaching all kinds of nonsense from this pulpit. Bearing nice titles, having flashy ministries. Your insatiable hunger, I call it unholy diratisfaction. To lead you astray, you will pay the price for it. Sit down and grow. Sit down and learn.
Don't be deceived to think you are mature now and can start outsourcing. You are not. It will be obvious when you are. Maturity cannot be disguised. Maturity cannot. No matter how much you try to hide, the bible that you cannot hide a candle under a bushel. Because you have charisma does not mean you are growing. Submit yourself to learn. It means you can be gifted and be immature. Submit yourself to learn.
Submit yourself to do what now? To learn. You can be seeing visions, but we are not taught in God's word. Agaboz was seeing visions. He saw visions for Paul, and Paul had to teach him scriptures. That you saw in the spirit does not mean that you saw the will of God. That's upon your feet. I met a young man some time ago, and I was teaching him. I was teaching him. It was him.
Another man of God that connected me to him. He was a protege to the man of God. He would come and I would teach him. The basics, the foundation of the Christian faith, because I believe that that was what he needed to learn at that time. But he stopped coming for our classes. He stopped school because he believed that he has grown more than what I was teaching. Deception is is high. After some months, I met him. Many... This was many years ago in chapel, and they had just finished a prayer meeting.
And he called me, and they were excited. Him and our four people that were now following him. The bible says not make a novice a leader. When a novice start gathering men, he will wreck their lives, all of them. Everybody following him will be destroyed. Because he will teach them after what... You might be careful to say the right things, but you will eventually reproduce yourself. Bible says, let everyone give birth after their own kind, not after what they are saying. When I met with him, he told me they were excited, him and his guys. And he met me, he said, oh, then they used to call me prophet.
A prophet, prophet, and then they came to go. They ran to meet me in chapel. What what is... We just finished praying right now. And as we're praying, we saw a vision. A cherubim was in chains in heaven. And when we saw that vision, we began to pray, and we broke the chains by prayer. And we released the cherubim. And all of them... I'm not telling you movie.
I'm not telling you movie. Nobody just gets there. The corruption is fickle. It starts it starts very, very little. It begins to grow. It begins to grow. The devil will not come and paint a light to an obvious light to your face. He will first mix truth with lie. The devil is not... Let us share the grace together in fellowship.
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