I believe if believers will get some truth right we will begin to see God's sons walking in the power of the Holy Spirit more than we've ever seen in the history of the church.
“And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing
words of man's wisdom, but
in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.”
1Cor 4:20
Quite a lot of God’s children are of the opinion that the power of God is automatic.
They expect burst of power, a sudden rush or an impulsive manifestation of power. This is one of the reasons why a lot of things are not done in the church and we see devil running rampage unchecked all around us. God told me yesterday evening and said, "Son, this world (your aion - world) is yours.
I didn't give it to the devil. Adam did. But I came back to get it for you. I have been in charge but you're now in control. You're responsible for whatever the devil does or doesn't do in your world. Your world is yours, take charge and have dominion in it". Wow! That just revolutionized my life! This just means that every believer is responsible for his or her world not God. But no one can be responsible without taking initiatives.
We still have believers who have created the habit of waiting for power, the anointing or the Holy Spirit to show up before they do what’s needed to be done and when the supposed Holy Spirit shows up it is always a quickie manifestation. Their “Holy Spirit” is always in hurry and always does a quickie job. Their “anointing” lifts too soon and their “Holy Spirit” is a hasty guy who comes anonymously and leaves unannounced.
I believe without doubt that believers are not walking in the supernatural twenty-four-seven because they expect God or the Holy Spirit to just move, zap, thud, prompt or activate them. They haven’t been taught that Holy Spirit is waiting on them and He wants them to move Him or put
Him to work. Like I said earlier, believers are to move the power or better still work the power not the power moving or working them. The bible says in Judges 15:25 that the Power of God began to move him (Samson) at times. But one thing that is very clear is that at a point in his life the Power stopped moving him at times. He was actually moving the power. He would put the power to work any time there is a situation and fix it. In Judges 16, Samson just got through spending half of the night with a prostitute. He left her at mid-night and what we have next was that Samson had the city gate with its two posts and bars on his shoulder. He literally carried it to the top of the mountain. Please don't tell me that the Holy Spirit was pleased with what He just did with the harlot.
At another occasion, he would intentionally play with the secret of his power with Delilah. He was intentionally and stupidly playing this dangerous game. But each time Delilah bound him he would snap off the rope like a thread. Don't think Samson had big biceps like the weightlifters otherwise the Philistines wouldn't be searching for the secret of his power. He could do these things because at a time he came to understand that the Spirit of Might upon him was mechanical and that he could put it to work when necessary. However, I do not suggest that believers should just be careless with their lives like Samson but the point I'm making here is that power is to be worked out. It's meant to be used.
It's amazing that even Samson who lived under the Old Testament and didn't have the power residing in him permanently knew he could put the power to work anytime any day under any circumstances. He knew he had access to the Power regardless of the situation at hand but believers who have the inherent Power and authority of Christ in them think they need to be moved, zapped and stirred before they can make things happens. They think God has to push them, make them feel something or talk to them from heaven or give them a "special leading' and instruction before the power can flow through them.
The bible says that he that knows to do good and do it not to hi it is sin. Right? Just imagine how many sin you commit in a day by not doing what Jesus said to do because you are expecting a cloud of glory, a presence and feelings? This is not Old Testament brethren, this is the New. I want you to understand that you can put the power in you to work 24/7 under and situation and it will work. You don't wait to be told by a "special spiritual instruction" before you do what He already commanded that you should do.
It is just quite amazing that bible clearly shows us in Gen 1:2 that the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters. The word moved here is rachaph in Hebrew
and it means to brood over, to incubate or to hover. The same word is employed in Deut
32:11 as “flutteeres, “As an
eagle stirs up her nest, flutteres over her young, spreads abroad her
wings, takes them, bears them on her wings”. Then we read further that “And God said…” If the
Spirit was brooding or hovering or incubating it means He was active on its own but producing no result. Then God had to say something. That is the mechanical aspect of it. God made a move. His mouth moved and uttered what He wanted done then the Spirit of God went into action. How more mechanical can that get? I think this is clear enough for anyone to understand how the Power or Holy
Spirit works. He did nothing until God did something. He wouldn’t do a thing until you do something too. You have to get mechanical with it for it to work. You can’t be passive and expect result.
The bible says the disciples “went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and
confirming the word with
signs following.
Amen.” Mark 16:2.
God was confirming the word because they got mechanical with it. They were not passive and expected miracles to just show up like magic but they worked it. How? Let’s see these scriptures
first and later see some miracles and how they were mechanical.
Heb 2:3-4
“God also bearing them witness, both with
signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit,
according to his own will?”
God bore them witness because they got mechanical. You will understand this better later.
Mark 4:14
Acts 5:12
“And by the hands of the apostles
were many signs and wonders wrought among the people…”
Did you see that? By their hands miracles happened. How? “1 Now Peter and John went up together into
the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2 And a
certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at
the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that
entered into the temple; 3 Who seeing Peter and John about to
go into the temple asked an alms.
4 And Peter, fastening
his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. 5 And
he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. 6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold
have I none; but such as I have give I you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
rise up and walk. 7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted
him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
8 And he leaping up stood, and
walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and
praising God.” Acts 3:1-8.
Have you heard of working of miracles before? This is it! They worked miracle mechanically. How? Peter spoke first then lifted him up and he was healed. Do you want to see supernatural happening? Don’t just talk it. Lay hands. Make a motion. That is kinetic.
I wanted to change my kids’ school so I went to speak with the proprietress of a school in the neighbourhood and I had my two boys with me. As I was speaking with this woman, suddenly, I just realized that they had left where I was and there was no other place they would go but the upstairs. Knowing how inquisitive these kids are, I rushed to get them but I was some meters away from the stair case when I saw my younger boy fell headlong. He smashed his temple on the tails, gave waned, stopped breathing and died right on the spot. Now, on that spot, what would you do? Scream, shout,
cry or beg God to bring back the boy? Right? I bet, I was shocked and disoriented for some seconds but I knew that God's power is always on and it's mechanical. It can be put to work anytime under any circumstances. I rushed to him, picked him up to my chest and commanded as loud as I could, "Come back in Jesus name" three times. (The time is not necessary but the seriousness). At the third command, the boy opened his eyes and gave a very faint cry. Halleluyah, he lives! The rest of the testimony is yet for another article.
The point I making here is that if I had expected a feeling or leading at this time the boy would die and I would bury my own son. I realized what I have inside of me and put it to work. If I didn't work the power the boy would be dead now. You get my point?
My point is, I didn't feel a thing and I received no leading other than what He said in the gospels. I just went ahead and put the power to work and it worked. This is the second one of the three dead that God did through me. I have actually prayed for 7 dead people but 3 are still living
now. Praise God!
God is the Word Himself but never a theory, a non-practical or non-demonstrative word. His word is power and it’s always demonstrated. His power is quite mechanical than what the church thinks today.
We have a great number of word talkers in the church today than word demonstrators. God never expect His children to be talkers only but demonstrators also. Not only has He created us to demonstrate His power but He expects that we demonstrate it. But most preaching today are mere
theological theories and philosophy that carry no divine dynamite. God expects that we talk and demonstrate what we say. Paul proves this by saying that he’s not interested in mere talks but in demonstrating the power of the kingdom. So do I. In fact I hate talks that are void of demonstration - proof.
1Cor 2:4 theological theories and philosophy that carry no divine dynamite. God expects that we talk and demonstrate what we say. Paul proves this by saying that he’s not interested in mere talks but in demonstrating the power of the kingdom. So do I. In fact I hate talks that are void of demonstration - proof.
“And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing
words of man's wisdom, but
in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.”
1Cor 4:20
“For the kingdom
of God is not in word, but in power”
1Cor 1:17of God is not in word, but in power”
“For Christ sent me
not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross
of Christ should be made of no effect”
1Thess 1:5not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross
of Christ should be made of no effect”
“For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit, and in
much assurance; as all of you know what manner of men we were among you for
your sake”
much assurance; as all of you know what manner of men we were among you for
your sake”
I strongly believe that the reason why many of God’s children are not walking in the supernatural is not because they lack God’s power or that they need more of it but because a greater percent doesn’t understand that God’s power is technical, mechanical and kinetic but not theoretical. God expects us to be technicians and “mechanicians” but not just theoreticians.
Theoreticians are those who talk without practical. Theories don’t produce power but practical does.
It’s very important that believers know without any doubt that they possess all the supernatural power of God that they ever require but the wall between them and supernatural result lies in not knowing that the power is mechanical, that is, and it must be worked or put to work before any result can be produced.Quite a lot of God’s children are of the opinion that the power of God is automatic.
They expect burst of power, a sudden rush or an impulsive manifestation of power. This is one of the reasons why a lot of things are not done in the church and we see devil running rampage unchecked all around us. God told me yesterday evening and said, "Son, this world (your aion - world) is yours.
I didn't give it to the devil. Adam did. But I came back to get it for you. I have been in charge but you're now in control. You're responsible for whatever the devil does or doesn't do in your world. Your world is yours, take charge and have dominion in it". Wow! That just revolutionized my life! This just means that every believer is responsible for his or her world not God. But no one can be responsible without taking initiatives.
We still have believers who have created the habit of waiting for power, the anointing or the Holy Spirit to show up before they do what’s needed to be done and when the supposed Holy Spirit shows up it is always a quickie manifestation. Their “Holy Spirit” is always in hurry and always does a quickie job. Their “anointing” lifts too soon and their “Holy Spirit” is a hasty guy who comes anonymously and leaves unannounced.
It still baffles me how some believers think that the power lifts when the Power actually resides inherently in every believer. Have you heard, “Oh, the anointing has lifted”, “Touch me before the anointing goes”, “God, let not your anointing pass me by”, “I can’t feel the anointing
yet so I can’t help you for now, come back later”, “We can’t do anything until the anointing is around”, "If your presence doesn't go with us don't take us from here"? Have you? That’s what I’m talking about. The “power of God” in them is so temporal and so in haste that He would touch few people and just leave through the back door anonymously leaving hundreds of people who still need the touch. Or He won't show up until a certain time and will on only be available for a period of time.
yet so I can’t help you for now, come back later”, “We can’t do anything until the anointing is around”, "If your presence doesn't go with us don't take us from here"? Have you? That’s what I’m talking about. The “power of God” in them is so temporal and so in haste that He would touch few people and just leave through the back door anonymously leaving hundreds of people who still need the touch. Or He won't show up until a certain time and will on only be available for a period of time.
Jesus said that He is with us forever, Matt 28:20. So, is He really in us? Yes! He’s with us in the person of Holy Spirit. He also said that Holy Spirit is with us and in us, John 14:17. He went further and said we shall receive power after the Holy Spirit is come upon us, Acts 1:8. The word power in the verse is dunamis in Greek meaning inherent (abiding) miraculous ability to cause changes. This is what we’ve got, not something that goes off and on. It’s ever abiding and never
fluctuating. How can one say the anointing lifts when He never goes anywhere and He’s always ready to help? They should just say they are tired and need rest instead of saying that the anointing lifts.
fluctuating. How can one say the anointing lifts when He never goes anywhere and He’s always ready to help? They should just say they are tired and need rest instead of saying that the anointing lifts.
Let us go back to the fact that the power of God is mechanical. Acts 2:38 also says that the gift is the Holy Spirit. If the power is a gift and it has been given to us inherently then it must be worked. If the power is a gift then we must use it before it can work. In the Old Testament, the power wasn’t a gift. The power operated more in a flash and burst. It was never permanent with them. But in the New Testament it’s a gift freely given without any credit of our own. It’s permanent. Though not passive on His own but it can remain so passively in a believer that he won’t know he carries anything at all. Why? It’s because power is mechanical. It must be worked.
I believe without doubt that believers are not walking in the supernatural twenty-four-seven because they expect God or the Holy Spirit to just move, zap, thud, prompt or activate them. They haven’t been taught that Holy Spirit is waiting on them and He wants them to move Him or put
Him to work. Like I said earlier, believers are to move the power or better still work the power not the power moving or working them. The bible says in Judges 15:25 that the Power of God began to move him (Samson) at times. But one thing that is very clear is that at a point in his life the Power stopped moving him at times. He was actually moving the power. He would put the power to work any time there is a situation and fix it. In Judges 16, Samson just got through spending half of the night with a prostitute. He left her at mid-night and what we have next was that Samson had the city gate with its two posts and bars on his shoulder. He literally carried it to the top of the mountain. Please don't tell me that the Holy Spirit was pleased with what He just did with the harlot.
At another occasion, he would intentionally play with the secret of his power with Delilah. He was intentionally and stupidly playing this dangerous game. But each time Delilah bound him he would snap off the rope like a thread. Don't think Samson had big biceps like the weightlifters otherwise the Philistines wouldn't be searching for the secret of his power. He could do these things because at a time he came to understand that the Spirit of Might upon him was mechanical and that he could put it to work when necessary. However, I do not suggest that believers should just be careless with their lives like Samson but the point I'm making here is that power is to be worked out. It's meant to be used.
It's amazing that even Samson who lived under the Old Testament and didn't have the power residing in him permanently knew he could put the power to work anytime any day under any circumstances. He knew he had access to the Power regardless of the situation at hand but believers who have the inherent Power and authority of Christ in them think they need to be moved, zapped and stirred before they can make things happens. They think God has to push them, make them feel something or talk to them from heaven or give them a "special leading' and instruction before the power can flow through them.
The bible says that he that knows to do good and do it not to hi it is sin. Right? Just imagine how many sin you commit in a day by not doing what Jesus said to do because you are expecting a cloud of glory, a presence and feelings? This is not Old Testament brethren, this is the New. I want you to understand that you can put the power in you to work 24/7 under and situation and it will work. You don't wait to be told by a "special spiritual instruction" before you do what He already commanded that you should do.
It is just quite amazing that bible clearly shows us in Gen 1:2 that the Spirit of God moved
upon the face of the waters. The word moved here is rachaph in Hebrew
and it means to brood over, to incubate or to hover. The same word is employed in Deut
32:11 as “flutteeres, “As an
eagle stirs up her nest, flutteres over her young, spreads abroad her
wings, takes them, bears them on her wings”. Then we read further that “And God said…” If the
Spirit was brooding or hovering or incubating it means He was active on its own but producing no result. Then God had to say something. That is the mechanical aspect of it. God made a move. His mouth moved and uttered what He wanted done then the Spirit of God went into action. How more mechanical can that get? I think this is clear enough for anyone to understand how the Power or Holy
Spirit works. He did nothing until God did something. He wouldn’t do a thing until you do something too. You have to get mechanical with it for it to work. You can’t be passive and expect result.
I believe God is saying shut up to His children today the same way He said to Moses at the Read sea, Ex 14:15. You've got to shut up too and do your job. Put the power to work if you want to see the changes you desire. If you want to see dead raise through you and see amazing miracles, put the power to work.
What You Don't Work Won't Work!
confirming the word with
signs following.
Amen.” Mark 16:2.
God was confirming the word because they got mechanical with it. They were not passive and expected miracles to just show up like magic but they worked it. How? Let’s see these scriptures
first and later see some miracles and how they were mechanical.
Heb 2:3-4
“God also bearing them witness, both with
signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit,
according to his own will?”
God bore them witness because they got mechanical. You will understand this better later.
Mark 4:14
“The sower sows the word”
This just blows the whole thing. Nothing grew until the sowers sew the seed. See, it doesn’t matter first how many seed you sow and whether they are producing harvest or not, the most important thing first is that you’re not going to get anything until you sow the seed. Sowing is the mechanical part of it. When you work the power you are sowing and it’ll produce result.
This just blows the whole thing. Nothing grew until the sowers sew the seed. See, it doesn’t matter first how many seed you sow and whether they are producing harvest or not, the most important thing first is that you’re not going to get anything until you sow the seed. Sowing is the mechanical part of it. When you work the power you are sowing and it’ll produce result.
“And by the hands of the apostles
were many signs and wonders wrought among the people…”
Did you see that? By their hands miracles happened. How? “1 Now Peter and John went up together into
the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2 And a
certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at
the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that
entered into the temple; 3 Who seeing Peter and John about to
go into the temple asked an alms.
4 And Peter, fastening
his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. 5 And
he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. 6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold
have I none; but such as I have give I you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
rise up and walk. 7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted
him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
8 And he leaping up stood, and
walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and
praising God.” Acts 3:1-8.
Have you heard of working of miracles before? This is it! They worked miracle mechanically. How? Peter spoke first then lifted him up and he was healed. Do you want to see supernatural happening? Don’t just talk it. Lay hands. Make a motion. That is kinetic.
Acts 1:2; 1Tim 3:16; Acts 14:3; Heb 2:4; [Acts 2:43]; [1Cor 3:9]; [2Cor 6:1]; [Heb
2:3]; [Acts 19:11];
2:3]; [Acts 19:11];
Lets see some personal proofs.
My Boy Came Back To Life.
cry or beg God to bring back the boy? Right? I bet, I was shocked and disoriented for some seconds but I knew that God's power is always on and it's mechanical. It can be put to work anytime under any circumstances. I rushed to him, picked him up to my chest and commanded as loud as I could, "Come back in Jesus name" three times. (The time is not necessary but the seriousness). At the third command, the boy opened his eyes and gave a very faint cry. Halleluyah, he lives! The rest of the testimony is yet for another article.
The point I making here is that if I had expected a feeling or leading at this time the boy would die and I would bury my own son. I realized what I have inside of me and put it to work. If I didn't work the power the boy would be dead now. You get my point?
A Young Girl Came Back To Live.
I was on my way to negotiate a venue for our healing program when I passed by a shop. What happened? A young girl had died! The mother was crying and begging Jesus to bring back her daughter and quite a number of sympathizers had gathered. The woman created a great deal of scene. I passed by, I just said within me, "This is it! This is what I am born for". I got there, called the woman to bring here girl but she had cried her head out and she didn't hear me. A woman standing next to her told her what I said. I took the girl into the next third shop, with the mother and another
woman. I shut the do. By this time, the girl was already cool and soft. I held her up and commanded, "Come back in Jesus name". I said that a couple of time and spoke in tongue for about ten seconds and commanded again. Her spirit came back as feaces forcefully came out and splashed all over my shoe. I handed her over to her mother and asked that she should be bathed. I cleaned my shoe and before anybody could say thank you, I was gone.
I was on my way to negotiate a venue for our healing program when I passed by a shop. What happened? A young girl had died! The mother was crying and begging Jesus to bring back her daughter and quite a number of sympathizers had gathered. The woman created a great deal of scene. I passed by, I just said within me, "This is it! This is what I am born for". I got there, called the woman to bring here girl but she had cried her head out and she didn't hear me. A woman standing next to her told her what I said. I took the girl into the next third shop, with the mother and another
woman. I shut the do. By this time, the girl was already cool and soft. I held her up and commanded, "Come back in Jesus name". I said that a couple of time and spoke in tongue for about ten seconds and commanded again. Her spirit came back as feaces forcefully came out and splashed all over my shoe. I handed her over to her mother and asked that she should be bathed. I cleaned my shoe and before anybody could say thank you, I was gone.
My point is, I didn't feel a thing and I received no leading other than what He said in the gospels. I just went ahead and put the power to work and it worked. This is the second one of the three dead that God did through me. I have actually prayed for 7 dead people but 3 are still living
now. Praise God!
Short Story On How I Got Started In The Healing Line
I have been in deliverance stuff since 2001. I have had amazing cases of deliverance by the power of God. I have encountered different kinds and degrees of demons and demonic cases with amazing results but I didn't have much of healing.
As I continued to study God's Word, I discovered that the job of healing the sick is even part of the basic and fundamental responsibilities of every believer then I started asking for power and
anointing along this line. I was amazed one day when God shocked me by saying, "There is nothing left for me to give you here. I have given you all but you don't know it and not using it. Get out and find people to heal and I'll be true to my word." Around this time, I came across some amazing mp3s, videos and articles on the internet on how to heal the sick. I learnt what I have never learnt before. What I discovered from these materials were totally different from what you hear from some known healing ministers out there; different from what you hear from the pulpits and almost all healing schools I have even known. They are so practical, simple and balanced. They lined up with Jesus' principle of healing the sick and everything that God has been telling me which I didn't quite understand then.
As I continued to study God's Word, I discovered that the job of healing the sick is even part of the basic and fundamental responsibilities of every believer then I started asking for power and
anointing along this line. I was amazed one day when God shocked me by saying, "There is nothing left for me to give you here. I have given you all but you don't know it and not using it. Get out and find people to heal and I'll be true to my word." Around this time, I came across some amazing mp3s, videos and articles on the internet on how to heal the sick. I learnt what I have never learnt before. What I discovered from these materials were totally different from what you hear from some known healing ministers out there; different from what you hear from the pulpits and almost all healing schools I have even known. They are so practical, simple and balanced. They lined up with Jesus' principle of healing the sick and everything that God has been telling me which I didn't quite understand then.
I read these materials, listened to the mp3s and watched the videos and God told me, "Son that is what you've got. Get out and demonstrate it". From then on, I have been in churches, meeting, homes, streets, hospital and malls healing the sick with amazing results. Now, I have learnt that if I don't lay my hands on anybody based on the instruction He gave that I should go do it then God is never obligated to heal anybody through me. Beloved, this is my point!
Beloved, you have got God's power in you ready to flow through you. Stop being deceived and lazy giving excuses. What you have been told about healing the sick and how to walk in the supernatural are probably not true otherwise you would be doing it now with result.
Therefore, I challenge you today to go mechanical with the power of God. Just go do something and you will be amazed at what will happen through you right before your eyes.
Till I come your way again, get mechanical with His
Power!
Power!
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