Latest / Apostle Joshua Selman / THE POWER OF IMPARTATION
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Correct, Please make welcome the only apostle Selman. Allelujah. Let's
- 0:20Speaker 1: bed the name of the Lord. Revends, I'm happy birthday
- 0:24Speaker 1: to you. Amen, just here this morning to speak over
- 0:37Speaker 1: our lives as we wrap up this session. But we
- 0:42Speaker 1: salute you and we celebrate you at fifty, Reverend sum
- 0:48Speaker 1: and fifty is a very serious milestone, allelujah.
- 0:56Speaker 2: Fifty years old.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Anything is old enough, old enough to be wise, old
- 1:02Speaker 1: enough to have lessons, old enough to lead, old enough
- 1:07Speaker 1: to mentor. And we greatly salute your birthdays at times
- 1:12Speaker 1: when on usual requests are granted. It was on a
- 1:16Speaker 1: birdday that a prophets had went away, and so when
- 1:23Speaker 1: you get to birddays, you maximize them powerfully, Allelujah. What
- 1:29Speaker 1: an army could not do. A little girl on a
- 1:32Speaker 1: bird day demanded for the head of a prophet that
- 1:37Speaker 1: the Bible says was the greatest, and as hard as
- 1:41Speaker 1: that request was, it was granted.
- 1:44Speaker 2: Allelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
- 1:48Speaker 1: And so allow me for a moment to just lead
- 1:52Speaker 1: us into one prayer to maximize in the spirit of
- 1:57Speaker 1: this prophetic atmosphere, the one thing you have seen in
- 2:01Speaker 1: the life of your pastor that you truly desire to
- 2:05Speaker 1: be replicated in your life. May I request in one
- 2:08Speaker 1: minute before the God of our flesh, can.
- 2:11Speaker 2: You cry, and can you pray that prayer?
- 2:15Speaker 1: The one thing for some is wisdom, for some is leadership.
- 2:21Speaker 1: For some, like he said, it's loyalty to relationships. Some
- 2:25Speaker 1: is diplomacy and intelligence. For some is influence. For some
- 2:31Speaker 1: is understanding. For everyone that asked, receiveth Someone is praying
- 2:42Speaker 1: the one thing that you have seen in his life
- 2:46Speaker 1: as your pastor, your father, a mentor to many, a leader.
- 2:54Speaker 1: Some of you have seen access. You can receive it
- 2:56Speaker 1: by faith. Some of you have seen favor. You can
- 3:00Speaker 1: receive it by faith. Some of you have seen wisdom.
- 3:04Speaker 1: You can receive it by faith. Some of you have
- 3:08Speaker 1: seen consistency. You can receive it by faith. Some of
- 3:13Speaker 1: you have seen leadership. This is why you came this morning.
- 3:17Speaker 1: You can receive it by faith. Some of you have
- 3:21Speaker 1: seen the grace to thrive through favorable and unfavorable situations.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Some of you have seen faith and audacity. You can
- 3:30Speaker 1: receive it by faith. One more minute. Someone is praying, desperately,
- 3:35Speaker 1: praying passionately in Jesus' mighty name, We pray in Jesus'
- 3:54Speaker 1: mighty name. We pray please be seated on this final
- 3:59Speaker 1: chat this morning. I want to for very few minutes
- 4:09Speaker 1: charge us and then speak of our lives on the
- 4:11Speaker 1: power of importation. Importation is a very deep spiritual mystery
- 4:19Speaker 1: that allows for graces and allows for possibilities to be
- 4:24Speaker 1: transferred from carriers to those who desperately, genuinely desire it.
- 4:34Speaker 1: It's one mystery that I've studied myself. I'm a rich
- 4:39Speaker 1: beneficiary of this mystery. I have seen graces leave careers
- 4:46Speaker 1: to those who desired them and change their lives radically.
- 4:51Speaker 1: I have seen the benefits of importation. I have seen
- 4:55Speaker 1: the consequences of ignoring importation. The God designed the system
- 5:01Speaker 1: in this kingdom is that no matter how yielded you are,
- 5:06Speaker 1: no matter how yielded you are, there are dimensions of
- 5:11Speaker 1: graces that will not come.
- 5:13Speaker 2: By digging the well yourself.
- 5:16Speaker 1: It is a river that has been flowing before your arrival,
- 5:20Speaker 1: and your job is to be able to find the
- 5:24Speaker 1: direction of that river and to plunge into it with understanding.
- 5:29Speaker 1: And those who have sustained the wisdom to understand the
- 5:32Speaker 1: mystery of importation have received and accessed graces, very ancient graces,
- 5:40Speaker 1: ancient mantles, and with them they have done much for
- 5:44Speaker 1: the Kingdom inasmuch as God has helped us to know
- 5:48Speaker 1: Him in a measure, the possibilities that God has brought
- 5:52Speaker 1: by grace today in our lives is largely are largely
- 5:57Speaker 1: a product of importation. So impartation is simply defined as
- 6:03Speaker 1: a spiritual system by which graces and possibilities are transferred.
- 6:11Speaker 1: A spiritual system by which graces and possibilities are transferred.
- 6:21Speaker 1: The way the economy of the Kingdom works is that
- 6:25Speaker 1: when God calls a man, God calls.
- 6:29Speaker 2: Men to himself. This is how it works.
- 6:32Speaker 1: When God calls you, he calls you to himself to
- 6:36Speaker 1: know Him, to be with him in the process of
- 6:41Speaker 1: that knowledge and that encounter. A mandate is derived from
- 6:45Speaker 1: your encounter. Please listen carefully. God does not call you
- 6:49Speaker 1: for the primary purpose of giving you a mandate. That
- 6:52Speaker 1: is already wrong. It is not consistent with how He works.
- 6:55Speaker 1: He called the disciples to be with Him and then
- 6:59Speaker 1: that He might send them. So your growth and your
- 7:03Speaker 1: knowing God, your intimacy with God is greater to God
- 7:08Speaker 1: than even your weakness, because it is from the strength
- 7:12Speaker 1: of your knowing Him, that you become an effective witness.
- 7:15Speaker 1: I will together this morning. It's important for us to
- 7:18Speaker 1: understand this. So here's how it works. You get into
- 7:22Speaker 1: a point where God calls you and he calls you
- 7:26Speaker 1: to himself. He calls you to know him, He calls
- 7:31Speaker 1: you to learn of him. And then eventually, when you
- 7:37Speaker 1: recall Otions four hunverse seventeen, it says, say onto occupus
- 7:42Speaker 1: that the ministry that dou has received in the Lord,
- 7:47Speaker 1: not from the Lord. You see that that you fulfill it.
- 7:51Speaker 1: So you receive in the Lord. It is a derivative
- 7:55Speaker 1: of your relationship. Whether you call it an apostolic ministry,
- 7:59Speaker 1: whether you call it a prophetic ministry and evangelical ministry,
- 8:02Speaker 1: whether you call it a market place ministry, it doesn't
- 8:06Speaker 1: matter what form and fashion it comes. The most important
- 8:10Speaker 1: thing is for you to understand that the way God
- 8:13Speaker 1: works is that when he calls, please listen carefully.
- 8:16Speaker 2: You have to understand this.
- 8:18Speaker 1: When He calls men, he calls them to himself.
- 8:22Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 8:23Speaker 1: Because like things was Passageria saiday who spoke about the roots.
- 8:29Speaker 1: It is in his presence that you are able to
- 8:31Speaker 1: dig into that depth in the spirit.
- 8:34Speaker 2: When you know him.
- 8:36Speaker 1: The confidence that comes from knowing Him is what keeps
- 8:39Speaker 1: you in the midst of the storm while you go.
- 8:41Speaker 2: Are we together now?
- 8:43Speaker 1: But then when He gives you the mandate, he never
- 8:48Speaker 1: sends you with.
- 8:48Speaker 2: A message alone. He never sends you with an assignment alone.
- 8:53Speaker 2: Are we together? Yes.
- 8:55Speaker 1: At the point where God is sending men, he enshed
- 9:00Speaker 1: show us that they have access to the requisite power,
- 9:04Speaker 1: the requisite empowerment, the requisite and gracing that will help
- 9:10Speaker 1: them to fulfill that assignment.
- 9:12Speaker 2: Not even Jesus escaped this pattern.
- 9:16Speaker 1: Jesus was not always anointed Ah, he was always the word,
- 9:22Speaker 1: the word incannate, but that anointing and that and gracing
- 9:26Speaker 1: only came at.
- 9:27Speaker 2: The point of his fulfilling his ministry.
- 9:30Speaker 1: So the Bible tells us that he was filled the
- 9:32Speaker 1: Holy Spirit Matthew chapter four, driven by the spirit to
- 9:36Speaker 1: the wilderness to be tempted of the devil, and after
- 9:39Speaker 1: forty days of prayer with fasting, Satan came and tempted
- 9:42Speaker 1: him across various areas. And the Bible now tells us
- 9:46Speaker 1: that when Satan departed, the angels came and ministered to him.
- 9:50Speaker 1: And one of the synoptic accounts who say he returned
- 9:52Speaker 1: in the power of the spirit. He returned in the power,
- 9:58Speaker 1: not just full of the spirit. He returned in the
- 10:01Speaker 1: power of the spirit. And from that time, hence Jesus
- 10:06Speaker 1: began to manifest extraordinary exploits. If it was healing, he
- 10:11Speaker 1: healed the sick, he raised the dead. He spoke with
- 10:15Speaker 1: such intelligence and wisdom. And when you know, all of
- 10:19Speaker 1: the scribes and the Pharisees brought many occasions to just
- 10:23Speaker 1: trap him down. By the wisdom of the spirit, he
- 10:25Speaker 1: was able to navigate his path. Now Jesus called the
- 10:30Speaker 1: disciples using the same model. He called them to himself,
- 10:34Speaker 1: from as fishermen, from as financial people, and he began
- 10:38Speaker 1: to mentor them and to teach them. And then a
- 10:41Speaker 1: time came when he told them, tarry ye in Jerusalem.
- 10:45Speaker 1: You already have the message. But that is not enough,
- 10:49Speaker 1: he says, until he be and dude with power, and
- 10:54Speaker 1: dude with power, and dude with power.
- 10:59Speaker 2: Allelujah.
- 11:00Speaker 1: When he called Mary and told Mary the angel now Gabriel, saying,
- 11:05Speaker 1: this is God's plan for you.
- 11:07Speaker 2: You are highly favored.
- 11:08Speaker 1: You shall have a child, and a man who will
- 11:11Speaker 1: not a mortal man, will not play any fatherly role.
- 11:13Speaker 1: Yet you're going to be pregnant with child. Mary said,
- 11:16Speaker 1: how shall these things be? Seeing that I know not
- 11:18Speaker 1: a man, And he said, the Holy Ghost will come
- 11:22Speaker 1: upon you. The power of the most I will overshadow you.
- 11:25Speaker 1: You see that now that at every point in the
- 11:28Speaker 1: believer's journey, empowerment and gracing will always play an active role.
- 11:35Speaker 2: So the disciples are in the upper room after.
- 11:37Speaker 1: Forty days of a post resurrection lecture by Jesus himself,
- 11:43Speaker 1: ten more days and the Holy Ghost will come upon them.
- 11:47Speaker 1: The Bible now says in that chapter two hun verse one,
- 11:50Speaker 1: he says, now, when the day of Pentecost was fully come,
- 11:53Speaker 1: that they were together gathered in one accord.
- 11:56Speaker 2: Suddenly, it says.
- 11:58Speaker 1: That there came a sound from heaven, and he came
- 12:03Speaker 1: and filled the room where they were sitting, and they
- 12:05Speaker 1: saw cloven tongues like as aphire. It came and rested
- 12:09Speaker 1: upon every one of them. They were filled with the holygos.
- 12:12Speaker 1: They began to speak with tongues other tongues, as the
- 12:15Speaker 1: spirit gave them utterance. Are we together now? Please, let's
- 12:21Speaker 1: rise to honor a father. Let's sir, thank you so much.
- 12:51Speaker 1: Please be seated. Are we together so? I said that
- 12:55Speaker 1: when God calls the people, he calls you to himself
- 12:58Speaker 1: to know him. Then he gives you a mandate. But
- 13:02Speaker 1: with that mandate, at the point of executing it, please
- 13:06Speaker 1: don't lose what you were saying. There must be need
- 13:09Speaker 1: for empowerment. No empowered believer, no matter how knowledgeable, can
- 13:16Speaker 1: be able to bath the purposes of God. In addition
- 13:19Speaker 1: to the knowledge of the assignment, you will need empowerment.
- 13:23Speaker 1: And he told the disciples tarry ye in Jerusalem.
- 13:27Speaker 2: Until ye be empowered Act Chapter two.
- 13:30Speaker 1: The power of God came upon them, and the harvest
- 13:33Speaker 1: from that empowerment was three thousand souls in one salmon.
- 13:38Speaker 1: Three thousand souls. I do not find anything spectacular. Peter
- 13:43Speaker 1: said on that day that he had not said before.
- 13:46Speaker 1: But the difference was that he speaking was not just
- 13:50Speaker 1: with the excellency of speech. It was now with the
- 13:53Speaker 1: power of God. Allelujah. Three thousand souls and the exploits
- 13:58Speaker 1: of the saints continue from that point onwards, very very important,
- 14:04Speaker 1: and so it's important for believers to value the place
- 14:08Speaker 1: of genuine, authentic spiritual empowerment.
- 14:12Speaker 2: There is no man.
- 14:14Speaker 1: Who can birth the purposes of the kingdom without genuine,
- 14:20Speaker 1: consistent empowerment. They were filled with the Holy Goos in
- 14:24Speaker 1: Acts chapter two. In Acts chapter four, they prayed and
- 14:28Speaker 1: they were filled again, and the room shook allelujah. So
- 14:33Speaker 1: when we're talking about flourishing and thriving, it is important
- 14:37Speaker 1: for you to know that the role of empowerment cannot
- 14:41Speaker 1: be taken away from your life. And this is not
- 14:44Speaker 1: unique to ministry, as you call it, the fivefold ministry.
- 14:48Speaker 1: It does not matter what end devil, whether it is business,
- 14:53Speaker 1: whether it's it is career. The reason why you need
- 14:57Speaker 1: empowerment is because number one, you cannot bath the purposes
- 15:02Speaker 1: of God to his satisfaction in the strength of the flesh.
- 15:06Speaker 1: Please listen, no matter how intelligent you are, no matter
- 15:10Speaker 1: how smart you are, when God gives men mandate, he
- 15:14Speaker 1: does not leave them to guess how to achieve it.
- 15:16Speaker 1: There is a standard, there is an uncompromising reference away
- 15:21Speaker 1: together now and until you walk His purposes to his
- 15:26Speaker 1: standard and satisfaction, you are not accredited as being faithful.
- 15:30Speaker 2: This is the reason why you need empowerment.
- 15:33Speaker 1: If you were left to just your creativity, you might
- 15:36Speaker 1: do so far. Men are limited, the best and the
- 15:40Speaker 1: greatest without his assistance and help is still limited. It's
- 15:44Speaker 1: why the Holy Spirit is called the helper away together.
- 15:48Speaker 1: The assignment of help is number one, to make things
- 15:52Speaker 1: possible and then to make things easy when you help
- 15:55Speaker 1: a man. This is the goal behind helping, to make
- 15:58Speaker 1: things possible that would not have been possible, and to
- 16:02Speaker 1: make things easy. So the empowerment of the spirit comes
- 16:06Speaker 1: on this wise, are we see together?
- 16:09Speaker 2: Yes?
- 16:11Speaker 1: And then the second reason why we need to be
- 16:13Speaker 1: empowered is that the Bible is not silent as to
- 16:17Speaker 1: the fact that we are not alone upon this earth.
- 16:20Speaker 1: That there are demonical forces that have woven the agenda
- 16:25Speaker 1: of darkness through the hearts of men and through systems
- 16:29Speaker 1: and structures with a singular mandate to thwart the excelling
- 16:34Speaker 1: of the saints and the purposes of the kingdom.
- 16:37Speaker 2: You must have this at the back of your mind.
- 16:39Speaker 1: No matter how advance, how civilized, how technological, we are,
- 16:43Speaker 1: it will be foolish to ignore the fact that there
- 16:46Speaker 1: are demon spirits and organize Cada intelligently articulated by Paul Jesus.
- 16:53Speaker 1: And Paul did not leave us in the dark as
- 16:56Speaker 1: to the fact that we are not alone. That everyone
- 16:59Speaker 1: who vows the vow of representing the purposes of the kingdom.
- 17:03Speaker 1: You have drawn a line in the realm of the
- 17:05Speaker 1: spirit for the rest of your life. He said, But say,
- 17:09Speaker 1: unto God, how terrible are doubt.
- 17:11Speaker 2: In your ways? It says, through the greatness.
- 17:14Speaker 1: Of Thy power, shall thy enemies submit themselves you. It
- 17:19Speaker 1: takes more than a good heart to bet the purposes
- 17:22Speaker 1: of God and survive. While you are doing it, you
- 17:25Speaker 1: are thriving in a system that is determined to be Antichrist.
- 17:30Speaker 2: Are we together now? Yes? Without empowerment, there are severe.
- 17:35Speaker 1: Consequences for being righteous, severe consequences.
- 17:40Speaker 2: You stand in.
- 17:41Speaker 1: The midst of a be devil world and you want
- 17:44Speaker 1: to represent the purposes of God. If you are not,
- 17:46Speaker 1: empowerment comes as a defense to keep you and to maintain.
- 17:51Speaker 1: So you are in an office and you vow that
- 17:53Speaker 1: you will not bribe, and you will not give or
- 17:56Speaker 1: take bribe. If you are not empowered to prosper, there
- 17:59Speaker 1: will be the consequences for that position. The consequence will
- 18:03Speaker 1: so min you. You will be a bad representation of God,
- 18:08Speaker 1: even though you are righteous.
- 18:09Speaker 2: Are we together?
- 18:12Speaker 1: Lot was a righteous man, but he did not have
- 18:14Speaker 1: the power to save his family. He was about to
- 18:18Speaker 1: lose the dignity and the integrity of his daughters. Even
- 18:21Speaker 1: though he was a righteous man, it took Abraham by
- 18:24Speaker 1: intercession and by the ministry of angels.
- 18:27Speaker 2: To come and rescue him.
- 18:29Speaker 1: History would have had a bad record that Abraham Lot
- 18:32Speaker 1: was a bad father. The problem was not his righteousness.
- 18:35Speaker 1: The problem was that he did not have the requisite.
- 18:38Speaker 2: Level of empowerment. Are we together? You need empowerment to
- 18:45Speaker 2: do business.
- 18:46Speaker 1: There is the king of tire that sits upon the
- 18:49Speaker 1: economic system of the earth, and that's meticulously who has
- 18:53Speaker 1: access to the wealth resources. And if it is by
- 18:56Speaker 1: dignity and righteousness, I tell you, the system will fight
- 18:59Speaker 1: you if it has not fort you.
- 19:01Speaker 2: Yes, it is coming. It's for Jesus.
- 19:03Speaker 1: It's a Satan commet to me. Jesus is fasting and praying.
- 19:08Speaker 1: And you would think that first thing and prayer would
- 19:10Speaker 1: drive satan, but it attracted Satan to him, and he
- 19:13Speaker 1: was waiting patiently till he was done. The first person
- 19:16Speaker 1: his song after firsting was Satan. There are things that
- 19:22Speaker 1: draw spirits to you. Listen, let me tell you this.
- 19:25Speaker 1: I'm doing a brief, you know, and then I have
- 19:28Speaker 1: to step back for a father to come up. You see,
- 19:30Speaker 1: there are spirits that are assigned to men by reason
- 19:34Speaker 1: or being on the heath, whether you are saved or not.
- 19:37Speaker 1: There are spirits assigned to believers by reason of being
- 19:41Speaker 1: grafted into Christ. There are spirits assigned to ministries and offices.
- 19:47Speaker 1: They are not assigned to you as an individual. They
- 19:50Speaker 1: don't know you as an individual. They were mandated to
- 19:53Speaker 1: stop the program that flows through offices. There are spirits
- 19:58Speaker 1: assigned to mantles. That is the reason why before you
- 20:01Speaker 1: carry certain mantles, you must have the stature to defend
- 20:05Speaker 1: the attacks.
- 20:05Speaker 2: That come with that mantle. Are we together now?
- 20:09Speaker 1: There are many prayers that don't seem to be answered.
- 20:12Speaker 1: Is a sign of God's messy because you are being
- 20:15Speaker 1: weighed and if should that blessing rest upon you. No
- 20:20Speaker 1: the stamina to receive certain things many believers do not have.
- 20:24Speaker 2: That is the reason why most times when you pray,
- 20:27Speaker 2: you see.
- 20:29Speaker 1: God will have to build capacity within you before you
- 20:33Speaker 1: are trusted with certain things. Oh, I want to pass
- 20:37Speaker 1: to a five ten thousand member church. All I need
- 20:40Speaker 1: to do is just to understand the natural rediments of
- 20:43Speaker 1: church growth. Every man who is coming. God does not
- 20:47Speaker 1: send made men to men. He sends men who need
- 20:51Speaker 1: to be made. What's the kinds of people who came
- 20:54Speaker 1: to David in the cave of Adulam, Men who are
- 20:56Speaker 1: in debt, men who were distressed. That is the kind
- 20:59Speaker 1: of members God send to selous people. And by the
- 21:02Speaker 1: time these people are coming with courses, and coming with spirits,
- 21:06Speaker 1: and coming with yolks, coming with habits, some of them
- 21:11Speaker 1: those same spirits have turned their own destinies. And you
- 21:15Speaker 1: stand without stature, and all you want to see is
- 21:18Speaker 1: increase in size. No, the messy of God will withhold you.
- 21:21Speaker 2: From entering that blessing? Are we blessed?
- 21:30Speaker 1: It is true I have seen demons in the spirit,
- 21:34Speaker 1: but greater than that.
- 21:35Speaker 2: The scripture tells.
- 21:36Speaker 1: Us that the whole world lies in wickedness, not Nigeria alone.
- 21:40Speaker 1: Run anywhere you can, you will find them there. There
- 21:43Speaker 1: is an organized system. Demon spirits have mobility. They have
- 21:47Speaker 1: the advantage of mobility. Did you hear what I said?
- 21:50Speaker 2: No visus needed, no border checks needed.
- 21:53Speaker 1: They can move from swine to men, from men to trees,
- 21:58Speaker 1: from trees to desert regions, anywhere at all can their
- 22:03Speaker 1: habitation for them? Now, you want to be prepared for
- 22:06Speaker 1: such a world away together, I told us yesterday. Beyond
- 22:12Speaker 1: the rediments of productivity. The Bible says it shall be
- 22:16Speaker 1: like a tree. When that tree is planted and has
- 22:19Speaker 1: its root spread, under normal circumstances, it should produce. How
- 22:23Speaker 1: about the tree in Mark eleven. It was planted to
- 22:27Speaker 1: the root, everything was fine, It even had leaves. And
- 22:31Speaker 1: although the Bible says it was not time of fix,
- 22:34Speaker 1: Jesus expected figs.
- 22:36Speaker 2: Do you know why?
- 22:37Speaker 1: Because everything he talks to should obey him the same
- 22:40Speaker 1: way the fish was not supposed to bring out coin.
- 22:43Speaker 2: But because Jesus gave a mandate, that means.
- 22:45Speaker 1: The presence of Jesus should create an effect that ordinary,
- 22:50Speaker 1: it should alter the natural cause of the way things happen.
- 22:54Speaker 1: So he cost it for disobedience, not just for taking.
- 22:58Speaker 2: From the earth.
- 22:59Speaker 1: I use saying my presence in the midst of this
- 23:02Speaker 1: place has no effect on you. When he spoke to
- 23:05Speaker 1: the fish, have you ever seen a fish with coin
- 23:07Speaker 1: from the day Jesus said it, No, because it's not
- 23:11Speaker 1: a natural cause. But not when the Master speaks, he
- 23:14Speaker 1: can turn anything to anything. And if he speaks to
- 23:17Speaker 1: a tree, even if the tree were not connected to
- 23:20Speaker 1: a root, the fact you See, Jesus does not just
- 23:23Speaker 1: come and work with seasons. He has dominion over seasons.
- 23:30Speaker 1: There is a lot of times and seasons, but when
- 23:33Speaker 1: he comes, he has the ability to manipulate any season
- 23:38Speaker 1: and make it work for you. So empowerment. You're a
- 23:42Speaker 1: businessman here, you need empowerment. We have agreed through the
- 23:46Speaker 1: sessions before now that the value of empowerment, And let
- 23:51Speaker 1: me say this, the value of empowerment is when it
- 23:55Speaker 1: comes upon a transformed mind.
- 23:58Speaker 2: You see that now for me any people.
- 24:00Speaker 1: And the mistake we make many times in the body
- 24:02Speaker 1: of Christ is because we have seen through experience, through
- 24:06Speaker 1: the lives of great people, that when people are empowered,
- 24:11Speaker 1: they immediately begin to.
- 24:13Speaker 2: Work in the realm of exploits.
- 24:14Speaker 1: But what people do not know is that the ratio
- 24:17Speaker 1: of empowerment to transformation, based on Jesus's teaching model, was
- 24:22Speaker 1: three and a half years to one day. Are we
- 24:25Speaker 1: together that it took three and a half years of
- 24:28Speaker 1: structured mentorship to build a certain belief and understanding in them,
- 24:33Speaker 1: then they were empowered one night. Pursuing empowerment without transformation
- 24:39Speaker 1: will make you lose the potency.
- 24:41Speaker 2: Of what that empowerment should bring. The problem with the woman.
- 24:45Speaker 1: Remember we thought yesterday the woman who had the oil.
- 24:50Speaker 2: The problem was not the oil.
- 24:52Speaker 1: The oil could increase to any size as the vessel allowed.
- 24:57Speaker 1: And so the prophet said, borrow not a few. You
- 25:00Speaker 1: don't need to borrow oil, but borrow vessels expand your capacity.
- 25:04Speaker 1: And the Bible says when there was no more vessel
- 25:07Speaker 1: that the oil stayed. So it is important you understand
- 25:12Speaker 1: the principles of leadership, branding, productivity, administration, and so on
- 25:18Speaker 1: and so forth. And then from the strength from that
- 25:21Speaker 1: advantage position in spite of the fact that you have understanding.
- 25:26Speaker 1: Probabs Chapter three, from five to seven, it says, in
- 25:29Speaker 1: all your ways, acknowledge him.
- 25:31Speaker 2: Ah, trusting a lot with all your heart. And it
- 25:33Speaker 2: says to lean not.
- 25:35Speaker 1: It acknowledges the fact that you have understanding, but it says,
- 25:38Speaker 1: do not lean on your understanding. In other words, let
- 25:41Speaker 1: that not be the basis of your confidence.
- 25:43Speaker 2: For us.
- 25:44Speaker 1: Sufficiency, the Bible says, is of Christ. So empowerment comes
- 25:49Speaker 1: as an advantage to the believers. And let me tell
- 25:52Speaker 1: you the truth. I have seen very gifted people, I
- 25:55Speaker 1: have seen very skilled people, I have seen very great people.
- 26:00Speaker 1: One thing missing in their lives is that they have
- 26:02Speaker 1: not accessed genuine empowerment. In my opinion, there are two
- 26:08Speaker 1: principle reasons.
- 26:09Speaker 2: Why people do not receive empowerment.
- 26:11Speaker 1: One is ignorance, Two is pride.
- 26:15Speaker 2: One is ignorance, too is pride.
- 26:21Speaker 1: Allelujah one more point and then will pray. So it
- 26:29Speaker 1: is God's desire that everyone accesses the empowerment and the engracing.
- 26:34Speaker 1: That we're empowered to flourish, but more importantly serve the
- 26:38Speaker 1: purposes of the Kingdom.
- 26:39Speaker 2: With our lives.
- 26:40Speaker 1: There are three platforms for accessing genuine spiritual power very quickly.
- 26:46Speaker 1: Three platforms. Number one direct encounters with.
- 26:49Speaker 2: The Spirit of power.
- 26:53Speaker 1: The saints can have direct encounters with the Spirit of power.
- 26:58Speaker 2: March chapter three and verse eight.
- 27:01Speaker 1: It says, surely I am full of the spirit, Please
- 27:06Speaker 1: give it to us my cal three and verse eight.
- 27:08Speaker 1: Not Malachi Marica chapter three and verse eight.
- 27:15Speaker 2: Truly or surely.
- 27:16Speaker 1: I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord.
- 27:20Speaker 1: I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord.
- 27:24Speaker 1: You can have it direct encounter. The Bible says God
- 27:28Speaker 1: has not given us second Timothy, that should be one seven.
- 27:31Speaker 2: God has not given us.
- 27:32Speaker 1: The spirit of fear but the spirit of love, the
- 27:36Speaker 1: spirit of power, and the spirit of a sound mind.
- 27:40Speaker 1: There is a dimension of the operation of the Holy
- 27:43Speaker 1: Spirit in the life of the saints, where he is
- 27:46Speaker 1: revealed as the Spirit of power, the spirit of power
- 27:53Speaker 1: capacity to perform any divine.
- 27:56Speaker 2: Task to expectation.
- 27:58Speaker 1: That's power, capacity to perform any divine task to God's expectation.
- 28:06Speaker 1: It would be unfair for God to have such higher
- 28:08Speaker 1: expectation and not empower you. As many as believed on him,
- 28:13Speaker 1: he gave them power. Number two. I wish I had time.
- 28:22Speaker 1: I would have spoken a lot more about the Spirit
- 28:25Speaker 1: of Power, but have to break down so that we
- 28:27Speaker 1: allow our Father come and speak and bless our hearts.
- 28:30Speaker 1: But let me say this. In my lead to work
- 28:34Speaker 1: with God, and we're just starting this journey, I can
- 28:37Speaker 1: tell you the greatest determinant to encounters with God is
- 28:42Speaker 1: not prayer and fasting.
- 28:43Speaker 2: It is the condition of your heart.
- 28:46Speaker 1: The condition of your heart vitos your prayer and fasting.
- 28:49Speaker 1: You can pray and first beginning from a corrupted heart
- 28:53Speaker 1: away together. Now, the Bible spoke about Amasiah that he
- 28:57Speaker 1: did that which was right in.
- 28:59Speaker 2: The sight of the Lord, but not with a perfect heart.
- 29:02Speaker 1: So the problem was not the correctness of the activity,
- 29:06Speaker 1: it was the state the motivation. The greatest determinant for
- 29:12Speaker 1: genuine encounters is the purity of a man's heart. Your
- 29:18Speaker 1: heart condition, pray and fasting, and all the spiritual activities
- 29:22Speaker 1: are enhance us. But the foundation, sincerely, I tell you,
- 29:27Speaker 1: is the state of your heart.
- 29:33Speaker 2: No wonder.
- 29:33Speaker 1: The salmon said, search my heart and try my thoughts,
- 29:37Speaker 1: and if there is any wicked way in me, it says,
- 29:39Speaker 1: to lead me to the way of a lasting away.
- 29:42Speaker 2: Together.
- 29:43Speaker 1: Number two, very quickly, what is the second platform for
- 29:45Speaker 1: accessing power?
- 29:48Speaker 2: The power of God.
- 29:49Speaker 1: Genuine spiritual empowerment is accessed through the understanding of the world.
- 29:55Speaker 1: Light from scripture, not the verses of scripture. Light from scripture,
- 30:01Speaker 1: Light from scripture, A thorough understanding of the word Habak
- 30:07Speaker 1: Cook Chapter three, from verse three and four amplified, very
- 30:10Speaker 1: profound scripture.
- 30:12Speaker 2: The Bible says, God.
- 30:13Speaker 1: Came down from Teman and the Holy One from Mount Haran.
- 30:18Speaker 1: Can you give it to us media very quickly, Haba
- 30:25Speaker 1: Cook chapter three, three and four. If we can see
- 30:28Speaker 1: that in amplified, okay, he says God approaching from Sinai,
- 30:32Speaker 1: he comes from Teman. Or Edom and the Holy One
- 30:35Speaker 1: from Mount Paran. And then let's go to verse four
- 30:38Speaker 1: very quickly. The Bible says, his brightness is like the sunlight,
- 30:43Speaker 1: and he has bright rays.
- 30:45Speaker 2: From his hand.
- 30:46Speaker 1: And there in that sound like splendor is the hiding
- 30:51Speaker 1: place of his power. The power of God hides in
- 30:55Speaker 1: his light. Every time his light comes to you. Behind
- 30:59Speaker 1: that light is the empowerment of the spirit. I've shared
- 31:04Speaker 1: with you a vision I had many years ago where
- 31:06Speaker 1: I saw a very giant door and it was made
- 31:09Speaker 1: up of small like post office boxes, and they were
- 31:12Speaker 1: scriptures inscribed.
- 31:13Speaker 2: On every one of them.
- 31:15Speaker 1: It was opening and closing, and every time it opened,
- 31:18Speaker 1: light came out from it, and I didn't understand what
- 31:21Speaker 1: I was seeing until the Spirit of God minister to
- 31:23Speaker 1: me that behind scripture, the revelation of scripture is not
- 31:28Speaker 1: the verse you are reading, but the light that comes out.
- 31:31Speaker 1: So the Bible says, Paul praying ehiesients one to have
- 31:35Speaker 1: the spirit of revelation in the knowledge. So knowledge is
- 31:39Speaker 1: like a container. There is revelation inside it.
- 31:43Speaker 2: You see that.
- 31:44Speaker 1: Now, if you do not open up, you need knowledge
- 31:47Speaker 1: to have revelation. But if it just stops as revelation
- 31:50Speaker 1: you do not have light. If it is true light,
- 31:53Speaker 1: it lights every man. That was the true lights. There
- 31:56Speaker 1: are false lights. They carry a zemblance of power, but
- 32:00Speaker 1: you bring them in the face of real life situations,
- 32:02Speaker 1: and they're important. But it says that was the true light.
- 32:06Speaker 1: And if it is light, it is for every man
- 32:11Speaker 1: empowerment by the word empowerment by light that comes from
- 32:17Speaker 1: Scripture at twenty thirty two. And now, brethren, I commend
- 32:21Speaker 1: you to God and to the world of his grace,
- 32:23Speaker 1: which is able to build you up, it says, and
- 32:26Speaker 1: to give you an inheritance, even among them that are
- 32:30Speaker 1: scientified efficients for eighteen, having their understanding darkened, being alienated
- 32:36Speaker 1: from the life of God through the ignorance that is
- 32:39Speaker 1: in them, because of the blindness of their hearts. Allelujah, Light, Light.
- 32:50Speaker 1: You stay with the word, You study the world. You
- 32:54Speaker 1: allow the illuminating power of.
- 32:56Speaker 2: The world to soarch through your spirit, and.
- 32:59Speaker 1: Out of that the recide of the world, genuine power, authority.
- 33:04Speaker 1: Your mind has been altered to think in a certain way,
- 33:07Speaker 1: the way of victory, the way of excellence. The Lord
- 33:11Speaker 1: is my light and my salvation. Away together Now that
- 33:14Speaker 1: when men say there is a casting down in the
- 33:16Speaker 1: name of Jesus. For you, there is a lifting up.
- 33:18Speaker 1: This is not not mayor blind confession. Meditation has opened
- 33:23Speaker 1: the light component of that scripture, and it is resident
- 33:26Speaker 1: in your spirit. I tell you, show me a man
- 33:29Speaker 1: that respects light. I show you a man the devil
- 33:31Speaker 1: cannot do anything about. It is only a matter of
- 33:33Speaker 1: time light John one five, and the light shine it
- 33:39Speaker 1: in the darkness, and the darkness comprehended. It not the
- 33:44Speaker 1: last platform for accessing genuine empowerment.
- 33:50Speaker 2: It's called impartition.
- 33:53Speaker 1: Power that is accessed through alignment with anointed vessels.
- 34:00Speaker 2: Power that is accessed.
- 34:01Speaker 1: Now, please listen as I wrap up power that is
- 34:05Speaker 1: accessed through your alignment with anointed vessels. In Philippians, chapter
- 34:18Speaker 1: one and verse seven, Paul was speaking to the church
- 34:20Speaker 1: in Philippi, and he wraps up that statement by saying,
- 34:24Speaker 1: ye all are partakers of my grace, partakers of my grace.
- 34:30Speaker 1: A man can be a partaker of the grace of
- 34:34Speaker 1: another person.
- 34:36Speaker 2: And the way God does it is this.
- 34:38Speaker 1: When God wants the people to experience a dimension of
- 34:41Speaker 1: his empowerment, he does not start with a crowd. No,
- 34:45Speaker 1: he starts with a man. When he finds that man,
- 34:48Speaker 1: he enters a covenant with that man. That covenant becomes
- 34:52Speaker 1: a platform for transmuting that dimension of power or that possibility,
- 34:57Speaker 1: not everything, but the dimension he seeks to flow to
- 35:00Speaker 1: the nations. And when God accredits that man, no body
- 35:05Speaker 1: will access that dimension of power, ignoring the presence of
- 35:09Speaker 1: that covenant.
- 35:09Speaker 2: This is how God works.
- 35:11Speaker 1: So when he sends a word to Jacob, the intent
- 35:14Speaker 1: is that it is lightened upon all Israel. Jacob only
- 35:18Speaker 1: becomes a startain point of that journey. So he calls Abraham,
- 35:22Speaker 1: but the intention is the entire glow are well together.
- 35:25Speaker 1: You ignore Abraham, you will not even reach Jesus. He
- 35:29Speaker 1: spoke to Abraham and said, in thee shall all the
- 35:32Speaker 1: families of the earth be blessed. And Paul told us
- 35:35Speaker 1: that that blessing was to Abraham and his seed, the
- 35:39Speaker 1: seed not being Isaac. Isaac could not replicate it to
- 35:42Speaker 1: all of us, the seed being Christ. Then Galicians three
- 35:46Speaker 1: twenty nine says, and if ye be Christ's, then I
- 35:49Speaker 1: ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. So
- 35:53Speaker 1: when God finds a man a conduit to transmut his prosperity,
- 36:00Speaker 1: a conduit to transmit his healing. He enters a covenant
- 36:04Speaker 1: with that man. That man becomes his referral point across
- 36:08Speaker 1: that dispensation. No matter how arrogant you are, you ignore
- 36:12Speaker 1: the presence of that man. You pray and fast, and
- 36:15Speaker 1: there are certain dimensions of that.
- 36:16Speaker 2: Grace you will never touch. It is his economy, that
- 36:19Speaker 2: is how it works.
- 36:21Speaker 1: There are men on earth today that embody certain possibilities
- 36:25Speaker 1: of the kingdom. When God wants to show you messy,
- 36:28Speaker 1: he does not just give you direct encounters. He shortens
- 36:31Speaker 1: the distance between you and access to them.
- 36:37Speaker 2: Allelujah. There are men today that embody the spirit of prayer.
- 36:42Speaker 2: There are men.
- 36:43Speaker 1: Today that embody the spirit of wisdom. There are men
- 36:46Speaker 1: today that embody prosperity. There are men today that embodied leadership.
- 36:51Speaker 1: Your assignment is to have the wisdom, the discernment, and
- 36:54Speaker 1: the humility to not just look at them in the flesh,
- 36:58Speaker 1: but to see them for what they rep Elijah had
- 37:01Speaker 1: many sons of the prophets. You would think the next
- 37:03Speaker 1: prophet would come from them, But the next prophet came
- 37:06Speaker 1: from a man called Elijhah. That leads me to the
- 37:09Speaker 1: condition for receiving from anointed vessels, honor and service, genuine
- 37:15Speaker 1: non pretentious honor and service. Genuine, non pretentious honor and service.
- 37:25Speaker 1: There are many dimensions in Jesus. We only see in John.
- 37:29Speaker 1: Not even the apostles carried it non pretentious honor and service.
- 37:37Speaker 1: The man who poured water in the hands of Elijah,
- 37:41Speaker 1: not the man who joined him to PROPHESI No, there
- 37:45Speaker 1: were sons.
- 37:46Speaker 2: Of the prophet.
- 37:47Speaker 1: Their prophetic acumen was being trained, and they knew that
- 37:51Speaker 1: he was going, but he did not profit them. But
- 37:54Speaker 1: there was a man who followed. Listen, let me tell
- 37:57Speaker 1: you something, ladies and gentlemen. I'm saying this because I
- 38:00Speaker 1: know that well step back and from all the speakers
- 38:02Speaker 1: that have come culminating with our father here were privileged
- 38:06Speaker 1: to have. It's important. There's something the body of Christ
- 38:09Speaker 1: is missing. You see, your direct access to God does
- 38:14Speaker 1: not negate the system he has built. You ignore it,
- 38:19Speaker 1: you will pay for it. You will pay for it
- 38:23Speaker 1: in ministry, in business, whatever it is. Paul met Jesus,
- 38:29Speaker 1: but he was still referred to the House of Judah
- 38:31Speaker 1: to wait there. It was not Jesus that got Hi
- 38:33Speaker 1: filled with the Holy Spirit, even though Jesus said the
- 38:36Speaker 1: Holy Spirit to come in honor to him.
- 38:38Speaker 2: You see, it was in David's destiny to be king.
- 38:46Speaker 1: God had already given the judgment, but Sawel was negotiating
- 38:51Speaker 1: with God and he was wasting David's time.
- 38:54Speaker 2: A man, not Satan, not a spirit.
- 38:56Speaker 1: To the point you would think God will ignore Somewhere
- 38:59Speaker 1: and say, God, let me go.
- 39:01Speaker 2: Directly, He kept pleading with Somewell and say how long
- 39:06Speaker 2: are we together?
- 39:06Speaker 1: Now?
- 39:07Speaker 2: Yes? How long will you? You have rejected soul?
- 39:11Speaker 1: Asking how long you are delayed another person's destiny one man,
- 39:16Speaker 1: and God did not bypass him to say I am God.
- 39:19Speaker 1: God came to him and said, I know, I know
- 39:21Speaker 1: how emotionally connected you are to Saul.
- 39:23Speaker 2: But the point is have rejected him. But if you
- 39:26Speaker 2: refuse to go, a man's destiny is tied down.
- 39:29Speaker 1: And when Sawell came, do you know why God had
- 39:32Speaker 1: to ask Somewhere to stop, Because if you had anointed earlier,
- 39:35Speaker 1: he would be king.
- 39:38Speaker 2: Do men have such power?
- 39:48Speaker 1: A man can look at you and say, in the
- 39:50Speaker 1: name of Jesus, I bless you.
- 39:52Speaker 2: It may not make sense.
- 39:54Speaker 1: And sometimes, with all you respect this our arrogant generation,
- 39:57Speaker 1: we do not understand the power of prophetic blessings. Man's
- 40:01Speaker 1: life have been made over night because of the kinds
- 40:05Speaker 1: of words. Let me tell you, when you find people
- 40:07Speaker 1: who are anointed, bend over back.
- 40:10Speaker 2: What if you can, without humility.
- 40:12Speaker 1: Allow naysayers and foolish people who do not allow the
- 40:15Speaker 1: understand the economy to say what they're saying.
- 40:17Speaker 2: But God's system will never change.
- 40:20Speaker 1: You can respect yourself, but you cannot honor yourself. Honor
- 40:24Speaker 1: is conferred by one greater than you. This is how
- 40:28Speaker 1: it works. No man can honor himself. You can respect yourself,
- 40:34Speaker 1: but honor is conferred. Thou shalt take some of thy honor,
- 40:39Speaker 1: and thou shalt put upon him so that the nation
- 40:41Speaker 1: of Israel will listen to him. It takes more than eloquence,
- 40:45Speaker 1: takes more than a sincere hat. We're going to pray
- 40:49Speaker 1: since our father is here, I don't qualify to do,
- 40:52Speaker 1: and he speaking over your life again. So mine is
- 40:55Speaker 1: to prepare the way, and then I step back and
- 40:57Speaker 1: allow him speak. Made think I'm just being humble, But
- 41:01Speaker 1: that's how it works in the spirit. If you're a
- 41:08Speaker 1: man of God, here lend it. It doesn't reduce you.
- 41:12Speaker 1: That's how it works. Are we together, Yes, it will
- 41:16Speaker 1: be unwise for me to be making prophetic declarations over
- 41:19Speaker 1: you as an importation with our father here.
- 41:23Speaker 2: I know, our arrogant generation. We've all saying Jesus, but
- 41:26Speaker 2: that's not how it works.
- 41:28Speaker 1: There is a spiritual system. Allelujah. And so Reverend Sam,
- 41:42Speaker 1: we thank you for your life.
- 41:44Speaker 2: I have to say this. We thank you.
- 41:46Speaker 1: Today's your birthday, and thank you for what you represent
- 41:53Speaker 1: the body of Christ and your contribution. Thank you, mam,
- 41:57Speaker 1: thank you for everything and the transforming church. My prayer
- 42:02Speaker 1: for you is that this simon will not be a waste,
- 42:06Speaker 1: that for every declaration that will come upon your life,
- 42:10Speaker 1: that you open up your heart. If you're a servant
- 42:13Speaker 1: of God here, if you're a businessman here, if you
- 42:18Speaker 1: are a carrier person here, or you are in any
- 42:21Speaker 1: peter at all trusting God to come out, or you
- 42:24Speaker 1: are trusting God to scale heights, maybe you are in debt.
- 42:28Speaker 1: You see men and body possibilities, and when they bring
- 42:33Speaker 1: those possibilities, you honor God, and you honor the sacrifice
- 42:38Speaker 1: of alignment that has made them to be conduits.
- 42:41Speaker 2: And hosts of those graces.
- 42:44Speaker 1: Made the Lord bless you, made the Lord honor you,
- 42:47Speaker 1: and may you receive all that he has in store
- 42:49Speaker 1: for you in Jesus' name.