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Take the limits off from God Revelation is higher than knowledge and wisdom. It is God breathing into your spirit, revealing truths and mysteries that you need to know. If you are not walking in faith you are in sin (Romans 14:23). A lot of us live by information; every knowledge we acquire through the senses. What we can see, hear, touch, feel or read; which may not necessarily be the truth. The devil bombards people with lies and half-truths; and they begin to doubt what is true.  The devil wants you to sin by making you depend on what you see and hear. You become constantly worried, fearful, and anxious about things that will not happen. When the devil succeeds in making you afraid then he gets access to attack and destroy you. More than half of the things you are fearfull of will never happen. When you overcome fear 90% of the battle is won. The opposite of faith is not doubting but fear. Fear comes out of information. People have ways of defining us. It is dangerous for us to live under the limitation of people's definitions of us. Faith is received through hearing(Romans 10:17). The expression of your faith is what you speak. The demonstration of faith is obedience. Until there is obedience, the bible says your faith is dead. It is not about the length of time spent in prayer but the instruction you obey after praying. The essence of prayer is that we may hear God speak. What God speaks creates faith and causes things to happen. God already gave you the solution, until you obey the instruction God has given you, you will stay at the same level. As human beings, we are prone to forgetting. We forget how God brought us through, how He healed us of those sicknesses, how He opened those doors, how He lifted us, and how He has been providing for us. We forget easily not just the bad things but also the good ones(Psalms 78:17). A lot of the limits we have resulted from what we have heard; we have been told it is incurable, it is impossible, there is no medicine for it, even the doctors have failed. We have so much information. Part of the biggest problem we have is what we know.  We have limited God to be our savior and to certain areas of our lives but there is a segment of your life you have not given Him access to. The Bible says whoever comes to God must believe that He is. He is the I AM THAT I AM. Whatever you want Him to be He will be that; He is El- Shaddai the many-breasted God. It is not my inability to meet your need that will stop you from seeing a miracle, it is the limitation you put on me that will stop you from seeing the miracle. Every time you limit God you are provoking Him. If you believe He can do it He will do it for you. Don't just take the limit off; throw it.

God wants to have a relationship with you; for you to establish it you have to have a post; a discipline of prayer. It is where you invite God into your affairs, where a portal opens for you for God's interaction with your issues. The spiritual world and the physical world respect each other. God never does anything on earth unless man invites Him to. He can do anything, however; He has restricted Himself from interfering with man's affairs until somebody requests Him. Until you see what God has spoken to you, you should not leave that place of prayer. You need to move from the level of hearing God's voice to the point of seeing; that is called faith. As long as you can see it, it is yours. Sometimes it takes a while for you to begin to see. Most of the time it is because of the flesh; the carnal nature. Carnal Christians are not necessarily sinners but are people led by the flesh; they are constantly fearful, worried, anxious, and troubled because they live by what they see. Their motivation for prayer is fear and not faith.  The faith life is living by what you hear from God; by what He says. Not by what you see, hear, or feel. You have to pray until you can see. That seeing is conceiving what you believe for. The angel told Mary, "the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the most high will overshadow you." Just as Mary conceived of the Holy Spirit; all that God is going to do in your life, you must conceive by the Holy Spirit. Just like Mary; it begins with us wondering "how shall it be" because we do not have what we need or what it takes; to the place of saying "let it be unto me according to your word. The moment Mary declared that the Holy Spirit took over and she conceived of the Holy Spirit.

New series on | The Faith Life | Habakkuk 2:4 “Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked. But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.

The power of one request in prayer  You need to have a prayer list; we are not trying to downplay the importance of a prayer list. But every one of us has got one thing we need urgently and are after. This kind of prayer points out to God those who are serious and passionate from those who are not. When you stay at it continually, staying in God's face and crying out to Him; without pulling back or turning around no matter how bad it looks or how long you have to keep at it, praising and thanking God you are going to get your request. As your prayers penetrate the spiritual realm, they arrest God's attention and your request gets granted because He heard you. Nobody can stop your answer from coming; God will move heaven and earth if He has to to get it to you. God wants you to get to the point where you say, "now I know how to get it." May you get to the point where you can get what belongs to you. It is your season, God is answering your prayers, and He is already networking for your breakthrough.  When you walk upright before the Lord you will see things happen in your life that other people only dream of.

James 5:17-18  The things you want to happen in your life can happen but you have to understand that you have to do something extra to make them happen. Prayer is a part of worship Worship - It is part of the makeup of prayer. Prayer is part of worship Supplication - stay on it until you get the breakthrough Petition - pleading your case before God Your persistence in prayer gets you what you want. Steps to getting a breakthrough in prayer:     1.   Target prayers (Intent and intentional prayers) Systematic prayer repeated regularly Backed up by the word of God which validates your prayer Give thanks always for what you prayed for and God will take note of your consistency and persistence    2.  Determination We need to be wise enough to realize that there are certain things that we need to deal with. Devote and dedicate your purpose, time, and intention to one thing. Be passionate, and stay on course with the same request.    3.  Quality of depth and firmness in prayer Great power is generated when you have a one-line prayer request. When you stay at it, you break through from the flesh into the spirit realm and can pull those answers into your life. Your faith is so powerful it can turn anything around in your life. We perish for lack of knowledge. The devil deals with our ignorance. You have to deal with yourself and with your elements, don't let the enemy trick you. God wants to grant you your request, it is your season, and you are long overdue. When are you going to get up? It is time for your breakthrough! You should have been out of there a long time ago. God is ready to enlarge your territory, to enlarge your courts. He is ready to give you the power and the anointing to do what He has called you to do. When are you going to get personal? Christ was personal; He was going to get nailed to the cross. Elijah got personal; evil was going to take over and they were all going to suffer. You have to get personal; stay at it and be firm about it. Set aside a time that God is going to hear from you every day. Other than that the enemy will break in and slaughter you, destroy you and cause you to have nothing. You have to have a serious prayer life that is after the answer and not just going before God and throwing prayers around. You can not play the religious mode of prayer, you have to know what you are after and stay at it until you get it. IT IS YOUR SEASON, GET YOUR BREAKTHROUGH.

1 Kings 17 We are in a battle, a spiritual war. The devil is fighting for the souls of men and not buildings or possessions. He uses demons and men who worship him or have given themselves to worship other gods.  We Christians are not supposed to live on the offensive. Unless there is darkness there can be no light. The light shines brightest in darkness. If we are the light why should we be afraid of the dark? God will send us where there is darkness so that His light will shine because greater is He who is in us than the devil in the world. When we walk in a place we take over and do not plead with the devil, because we serve a superior altar. Understand your spiritual authority. Everywhere you go know that the power that backs you is greater than the devil or any other force you will ever face. The contention and the fight have not ended; God is looking for Elijahs who can stand and go to mount Carmel and begin to contend.  God is raising a remnant church which is tired of the mixture and going with the wave; and demonstrate to the world that God can still do miracles, heal sicknesses and deliver people from demonic bondage. These people will not only demonstrate in church but will invade mount Carmel.

1 Kings 17 When you come from the presence of God, you gain the boldness to confront what other people run away from. When you pursue the presence of God you will not fear the presence of men. Learn to pour out your heart before God. God has already given you authority; everything you bind will be stopped.    We forfeit peace and carry needless pain simply because we do not carry everything to God in prayer. We sit and say we are waiting on God however; there are certain things that God is also waiting on us to do, i.e. obey the last word He spoke to us. You are the body of Christ stop asking Jesus to go save that brother; He has given us His power that we may go forth. You are His hands and feet; Christ is seated at the right hand of the father. He already did all that He needed to do for us to walk in His power and authority.    He left the Holy Spirit with us; He lives on the inside of us. When we stay in the presence of God, we become the carriers of the glory of God, so that we may be able to bring healing to the sick and deliverance to the oppressed.     We need to stay in communion with the Holy Spirit to exercise the power He has made available to us and walk in His grace. We cannot express the love of the father unless we have communion with the Holy Spirit. Until you abide in the presence of God, you will not be able to challenge the Ahabs in your life.

Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.” JOHN 4:23

Seeking God is about the condition of our hearts. (Jeremiah 29:13) When we seek Him our lives can never be the same again. (Psalms 27:8) God has never desired that men seek Him for what He can give. His desire is that we have a relationship and communion with Him. When you begin to seek God the things of this world lose their allure, He becomes your only passion. The children of Israel only understood the acts of God however Moses got to know the ways of God because he was a passionate pursuer of God's presence. (Psalms 103:7) The presence of God is the most valuable thing you can have in life; the enemy will do anything to get you out of the presence of God. He will cause you to sin because sin separates us from God. Eden is not a physical location but it means the presence of God. Any place can become Eden as long as it has the presence of God. The absence of the presence of God is what causes fear, self-consciousness, and the feeling of inadequacy then we become aware of our limitations. The presence of God is a covering. We were all created with a place in us that longs for God's presence and nothing in this world can take that place. We cannot be sustained outside of the presence of God; we must learn how to pursue His presence. He wants to lift us from the level of living for the vanity of this world to the place where His pursuit becomes our number one ambition. 

Psalms 91:1; Jeremiah 29:11-13; Acts 17:23-28 God is omnipresent but at the same time, He hides. He has a secret place; and those who seek Him can find Him. God is a God who wants to be sought. He is not far yet He wants us to seek Him. It is not those who go to church that finds Him, not even those who read the Bible; it is not even those who pray that find Him. There is a difference between praying and seeking God. So many people pray but are not seeking God. Many people pray because they want God to help them; they are seeking His hand and not His face. It is one thing to go to pray and another to have a heart that is seeking the presence of God.  The heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart. Many come to God but their hearts are far away from Him. We need to ask ourselves; I have been in church all these years, I have been going to church but how come my life has not changed? How come I have never had an encounter with God? How come I have never had the voice of God? Perhaps I need to learn how to seek Him.

How to be effective in Spiritual Warfare: Understanding your assignment - Inquire from the Lord concerning your assignment Be strong and courageous- The enemy overpowers you even before he starts fighting you when you succumb to fear, discouragement and intimidation.  Spy the land(Spiritual mapping)- Know what is happening and the strategies to use. Report to the mighty man of war for He is fighting on our behalf Seek the Lord's guidance and protection - Fast and pray Identify the spiritual authority in a place Mobilize cooperate support - get people to support you in prayer Get equipped/ trained for the battle Know the times and seasons - be alert and sensitive to the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 6 Spiritual warfare is a lifestyle. Nature of our warfare. -The battle is spiritual, not against flesh and blood. Elements of spiritual warfare: Crucify the flesh. Colossians 3:5 Take control of the mind. Romans 12:1-2; James 4:7 Total submission to God. Ephesians 6:10 Know your position in Christ. Ephesians 1-3 -We have been made to sit in high places. Walk(lifestyle & conduct)in unity. Ephesians 5-6 Your attitude Levels of spiritual warfare: Personal level- dealing with/crucifying the flesh. Colossians 3:5 Ground level- dealing with the enemy. Mark 16:17-18; Acts 8:4-8 Occult level- dealing with/confronting the agents of satan. Strategic level - dealing with territorial spirits. Needs cooperation, you are not supposed to fight alone. Daniel 10; Acts 19 2. Defensive weapons we have in the word of God. -Our weapons are not carnal. The belt of truth Breastplate of righteousness Shoes for the preparation of the gospel of truth Shield of faith Helmet of salvation Sword of the spirit 3. The weapons of attack. The word of God  Words of prophecy of your life Prayer in the spirit. Ephesians 6:18 Praise. Psalm 8:2 Preaching. 2 Timothy 4:1-14; Isaiah 55:11 Testimony. Revelations 12:7-11;Acts 1:8 -Relationship with God, brethren and the Holy Spirit should be intact. -The battle has already been won. We are fighting from a place of victory, and with the assurance of Christ backing us up. 1 John 4:6

1 Peter 1:23 "having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,"   Life comes out of a seed. An incorruptible seed which is the word of God is planted in us by God the moment we give our lives to Him. This seed cannot be defeated and it is what helps us to overcome the world. We are assured of victory because the seed of God is inside us.   Genesis 8:22 "While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.”   If you don't have the right type of seed it does not matter the kind of soil you put it in. Everything you have in life is a seed i.e time, talent, and skills; you can decide whether to plant it or not. When you don't plant it you will not have a tomorrow.   Everything you need is inside you; God already put it there. You need to know how to bring out what you need from what you already have inside of you.   Attributes of a seed:   Right environment- ground/soil represents our hearts and the atmosphere. You blossom in the right environment  it must die- letting go of things  Unless crushed it still has the ability/power to germinate  Condition your life do not let others condition it for you.

Series - Walking in the blessing | Subtopic - The parable of the sower | Luke 8:4-15

Walking in the blessing of God | Part 2

We are already blessed however many of our lives do not show that we are blessed. In this message, we get to understand how to activate this blessing. Galatians 3:13-14 A blessing is a decree/announcement/proclamation upon someone for their success or prosperity. It is something that is spoken to you that empowers you to succeed. God did not create you to be a failure, He created you to succeed. It is God's pleasure for you to succeed.

It is unfortunate that in the present day church many people are ignorant of spiritual gifts therefore a lot of us are easily manipulated, confused, and destructed by men and women who claim to operate in spiritual gifts but are not being led by the Holy Spirit. The reason is that a lot of us are not able to discern what is of the Holy Spirit and what is not of the Holy Spirit. Not only are we required not to be ignorant but also to desire to operate in the spiritual gifts. There is a gift in you if you already carry the Holy Spirit. All you need to do is to activate it. We all don't have the same gifts nevertheless we need to desire every gift. These gifts are given by the Holy Spirit. So they don't come to us because we have fasted and prayed but the Holy Spirit gives to the one whom He sees fit to operate in the gift.  Every prophetic word God gives to you, you need to write it down. It is not the responsibility of the one prophesying to cause that word happen. It is the responsibility of God in partnership with you. Many people have judged men of God on the basis that a word was spoken and the word never came to pass. A word is a seed, a conception that once it is released is supposed to birth something in your spirit, and then you are supposed to travail in prayer until it comes to pass. Some words will happen immediately while others will need you to carry the expectation.  Our God is still in the business of doing miracles but sometimes those miracles do not happen because people do not have an expectation.  If you are going to be used by God the first thing He will do is to cause you to love people. It is not just love but another thing that causes us to walk in compassion is being broken. For us to be used by God there is always a breaking before a making. Some of us are still in the process of being broken where He is taking away our pride, ambitions, and desires. The number one reason why most people do not operate in the gifts of the Holy Spirit is fear, fear of what people would say. If you still have a reputation to preserve then God cannot use you. You have to get to the point where you are serving the audience of one, where pleasing God is all that matters.

Prayer is sweet though for many believers, it is a struggle. It takes tarrying to get out of the flesh, the longer you stay the deeper you get. Prayer begins from a place of discipline, to dedication and finally to a place of desire where you delight in it. The Holy Spirit is the one that makes you enjoy prayer. Reasons why we pray in the Holy Spirit: We are speaking mysteries (1 Corinthians 14:2) We are speaking to God, not to men (1 Corinthians 14:2) We do not know how to pray (Romans 8:26) We build our inner man/edify ourselves (Jude 1:20; 1 Corinthians 14:4) It is the highest form of spiritual warfare (Ephesians 6:18) It is a sign that you are a believer The more you pray in the Spirit the more your inner man grows. Speaking in tongues is not a measure of spiritual growth, because someone who has just received salvation can speak in tongues and some who are so carnal still speak in tongues. It is the fruit of the Holy Spirit that shows how the mark of the cross has worked in someone's life. The devil is not scared of people who speak in tongues but those whom the Holy Spirit has done a work in their lives. The bible says, without love; you can speak in tongues and be like a sounding gong however you can pray in tongues, and as you open your mouth fire and arrows come out of you. When you pray in the human tongue your prayer becomes even more effective when you let the Holy Spirit direct you. The Bible says, being filled with the Holy Spirit so the filling is supposed to be continuous. Just as on the day of Pentecost may you have a fresh experience of the Holy Spirit.

Often when we go to God in prayer we believe Him for miracles, but every miracle that ever happens is not done by God alone. It is always done by God working with a man; there has to be a response from a man.  There are many people; whom when Jesus passed during His time, needed miracles but only those who responded to Him received their miracles. There are several whose response of faith activated the miracles. A prophet is one who proclaims, mentions, summons, and calls things. Every child of God can prophesy. You can change your world by your words, not only can you change but you can create another world by your words. You can begin to call forth things that are not and command them to be.  Every word that God has spoken never goes back to Him. But how come many of us have received prophesies but have not seen them fulfilled, many of us have prayed but have not seen things happen? There is a disconnect but the disconnect is not with God, it is with us. It is in how we understand the prophetic ability that God has given to every one of us. Ezekiel looked at the dry bones and God asked Him, "Son of man can these bones live?" This is the same question God is asking you today as you look at your situation. He asks "do you think this is possible." This is the response many of us give God, "God it is only you who knows, I'll keep waiting on you." Every time God does a miracle it happens as you respond.

Activating the prophetic gift in you. Prophesy - Ezekiel 37:4