ENLARGING YOUR CAPACITY FOR DOMINANCE – APOSTLE MICHAEL OROKPO, RCCG INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CONVENTION (IYC) 2023
RCCG INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CONVENTION (IYC) 2023
THEME: ENLARGE
MINISTERING (DAY 4 MORNING –
PLENARY SESSION 7): APOSTLE MICHAEL OROKPO (PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER ENCOUNTER OF JESUS MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL, ABUJA, NIGERIA)
TOPIC: ENLARGING YOUR CAPACITY FOR DOMINANCE
DATE: 5TH OCTOBER 2023
BIBLE TEXT: GENESIS 1:26-28
Go ahead, lift your hands and honour the Lord.
Give the Lord Praise this morning: Bless the Name of the Lord.
Can you Pray in the Spirit? Go ahead and Enlarge your Spiritual Capacity.
Thank You Father!
OPENING PRAYER
Again, this morning we have come to receive of Your Word.
We ask that You will equip us; We ask that You Enlarge and establish us
Take all the Praise, take all the Glory.
In Jesus’ Precious Name – Amen.
You may be seated, God bless you!
Again, it is my honour to be here to bring us the Word of the Lord.
I want to sincerely celebrate our father – God’s servant, the Patriarch: Daddy GO – Pastor E.A Adeboye. And our dear Mama, Pastor (Mrs) Foluke Adeboye – for raising this top Platform where Jesus is revealed and Jesus is Glorified.
I also want to honour our Father here this morning for his Presence. It’s an honour to have you.
Can we Please celebrate Pastor Obunge: Thank you so much Sir for having us here. It is an honour Sir – I don’t take it for granted.
And of course, every Ministers of God that is here: The Youth Pastor, I was with him yesterday. Pastor Sola Owoeye, thank you so much for having me here to share with God’s People.
In the next one hour we will go into the Word of God and trust the Lord to bring us illumination and Empowerment.
Hallelujah!
I want to share with us on a Topic this morning is: Enlarging Your Capacity for Dominion.
I believe this is a very sensitive Topic, and I am trusting the Lord for the inspiration to bring us God’s Counsel, that will not only inspire and educate, but empower for Dominion indeed.
Thank you Holy Spirit, Thank You Precious Lord, we give you all the Glory, in Jesus’ Precious Name – Amen.
Genesis 1:26-28 will be my anchor scripture this morning.
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And so we saw from that Scripture that God’s Plan was for man to have Dominion on the face of the Earth.
And so our existence will count for nothing except we bring God’s Government to the face of the Earth – Be Fruitful, Multiply, Replenish, Subdue, have Dominion.
Now when you study the book of Genesis Chapters 1, 2 and 3, there are two (2) things you will find about Dominion:
- The Capacity required for Dominion.
- And the Protocol of Dominion.
What we have in Genesis 1:28 is the Protocol – The Administrative Protocol for Dominion: Fruitfulness, Replenishing Subduing, Multiplying. Those are Administrative Procedures.
From our Topic this morning, our emphasize is about the Capacity building requirements for Dominion – The organic aspect of Dominion.
If your Capacity is not built, you will not have what it takes to build the Administrative Requirement for Dominion.
And so when you study the book of Genesis, you’re going to find five (5) things that God gave to Man as an Organic Intrinsic requirement.
CAPACITY REQUIREMENTS FOR DOMINION.
And when the devil came to attack man, these were the five (5) things he took from man. Because if these things are in you, Dominion will be a by-product.
And as you study that Scripture, you’ll find out that God deliberately Placed these things. Because He knows that men of necessity must have them if Dominion will be in view.
And so we’ll pick them out quickly, show you how man lost it. And then we’ll show you what Christ did in order to restore man to it and then Dominon will become Natural.
- His Image: Anybody who will exercise Dominion on the face of the Earth must bear the Image of God.
“Let us make man in our Image”.
- In Our Likeness – That is God Righteous Character: Anybody who wants to exercise Dominion, must of necessity exhibit God’s Righteous Character.
- So the third (3rd) thing that man had, that Produced or Provided the basis for Dominion was Intimacy with God.
- The fourth (4th) thing God made available for Dominion was His Life.
If you study man carefully, you are going to discover that man has three (3) kinds of Life.
I. There is a Life that is in the blood. Leviticus 17:11 says,
the Life of the flesh is in the blood.
And then in Genesis 2:7, we saw that when God formed the man from the dust, he blew air into his nostrils the breadth of Life and the man became a Living Soul.
Ii. There is another Life in the Soul of the man.
iii. But there was a Life God wanted a man to have, which will be in his Spirit and that Life is the Life God Planted in the midst of the Garden because man is a body, a Soul and a Spirit.
When you cut down a man’s hand, the hand will still be shaking because there is Life in the blood.
The Natural Life is sustained by the blood. This is why you need to eat food everyday in order to live in this realm.
If you don’t eat for twenty-one (21) days, the Life of the blood can depart. The flesh will die because there is a Life that sustains the blood.
But the realm of interaction that God wanted to have with man is Superior to just body and Soul. God wants to interact with man at Spirit level, so he created another Life call Zoe, for the Spirit of the man.
He hid that Life in the midst of the Garden for the man to take, so that he will have Dominion. But unfortunately man didn’t take it.
It is when man is in Possession of God’s Nature, God’s Righteous Character, God’s Presence and God’s Life that man can now have Dominion.
Because, “let them have Dominion” is a Commandment; it is a Declaration. So there is a Declaration that God gave to the human race that makes man an entity of Dominion.
This is why every man wants Power; every man wants Authority. Because God spoke it into the DNA of man.
When God created man He said, “let them have Dominon”.
5.The Law of the Lord that is in the Soul of the man.
If you lack these five (5) things, no matter what you do, you cannot exercise Dominion.
The devil knew it, so when the devil came for man, he didn’t go for the activities.
God had told the man; be Fruitful, Multiply, Replenish, Subdue, have Dominion. The devil knows that Administrative Protocol will not count if he damaged the intrinsic reality.
So what the devil did was to go for the inner aspect of the man, not the activity of the man; and he came to defile the man – He knew what to do to defile the man.
So when the serpent came into the Garden, he began to argue and Present a Preposition to the man – “did God said?” Why didn’t he asked him, if God told them to have Dominion or not.
It was dealing with what had to do with the inner man: “Did God say you should not eat of every tree in the Garden?”
And the woman innocently in her naivety said: “of all the trees in the Garden we can eat, but of the tree that is in the midst of the Garden we should not eat or touch.”
God didn’t even say they should not touch. But the woman was speaking what she felt Adam had communicated to her.
Meanwhile, the question he should have asked is: If you know there is a tree in the midst of the Garden that you should not eat, why didn’t you eat from the tree of Life that is also in the midst of the Garden?
Because they didn’t understand what the meaning was about. They were rather going into the Garden with lots of activities, doing everything. But the thing that should have completed the Cycle of Dominion they never went for it.
And the devil told them that it is not true; “for God knows the day you eat of that tree you will become like Him”.
The argument was not about activities; It was about essence, Capacity and Organic reality. “If I defile you, anything you do will not work”.
So, instead of going for what you do, let me go for your Nature, let me go for your essence, because that is were Dominion is trapped.
And foolishly the man and the woman took of that tree and ate it and Death entered them. Because Nature of God was affected. And eventually God drove them out of the Garden.
When the Bible began to teach us in the New Testament, the first thing God told us in Romans 3:23 is that, “For all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God”. Because we were operating at the Level of the Glory of God when we carried God’s Nature .
Jesus said in John 8:44, Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. That means you now have the Nature of the devil, not the Nature of God anymore.
And because you have the Nature of the devil, it says, it is the lust of your father you shall do.
So you no longer Possess the Likeness of God. You no longer sustain the Righteous Character of God. You have adopted the Character of the devil.
And we also saw from Genesis 3 that when God came to the Garden and sought them, and they hid themselves. God asked them, “have you eaten of the fruit that I told you not to eat?”
They said “it is the devil”. They were trying to shift blame. But that was not God’s Problem – You no longer have my Nature, you no longer have my Character; so you can no longer be in my Presence.
Hence man was driven from the Garden. He has also lost the Presence of God. And unfortunately, he didn’t eat of the tree of Life.
So there was no way the Commandment of Dominion could work in his Life.
Immediately the man was deranked, he became a servant of the devil and the devil immediately became the god of this world.
So Dominion largely has to do with your essence and your Capacity.
The reason we will study about this, this morning is so that, you know what to focus on in order to work in Dominion.
The moment you loss His Nature, His Righteous Character, His Presence and you don’t have the Life of God, there is no way you can exercise Dominion.
If you like study in Harvard, or Oxford – Dominion is not a Product of the External; it is a Product of the Internal makeup: Who are you? What do you carry? What is your capacity in God?
That is what will empower you to exercise Dominion. And till this day, that is what the devil is fighting in the Life of the Believers.
- The devil will allow you to go to the best University in the world, but he will not allow you keep your Purity.
- The devil will allow you have the best Position in the world, but he will not allow you to keep your Purity.
Because he knows that if your Internal essence is defiled, you can’t bring God’s Government.
You can have a Position but you cannot bring God’s Government. You can have money but you cannot bring God’s Government.
So every External Capacity is irrelevant, except if the Internal Capacity is corrected.
Listen Brothers and Sisters, I am not talking about the External things which we can have – Like certificates, like money and all of that.
I have studied myself, I hold a PhD in Physical Chemistry. So I’m not talking about Education and, I’m not talking about money.
But I’m telling you that, if you first of all don’t become like God, you cannot exercise Dominion, regardless of what you Possess.
Are you following this morning?
Now that the man is fallen, How can he come back to the Dominion?
Because the unfortunate thing is that, the fallen man cannot help himself. Jesus came and began to give us an Understanding of the real estimation of a man outside God.
And in John 6:63, He said it is the Spirit that quickens. He said the flesh Profited Nothing.
You know, there is a Studio where God enters when he wants to deal with the issue of creation. That was the Studio he entered in Genesis 1:26, when he said “let us make man”.
No Angels goes there, only God sits there! That’s where God studied creations, that’s where God passes Law from. Nobody approaches Him there!
It was in that same Studio of all Knowledge and all Power that God sat; and when He estimated man, He said “the flesh Profited Nothing”.
So any man who does not have God (regardless of what he has): he has already been judged from the realm of God that the flesh Profited Nothing.
I. So the first calamity of the fallen man is that as far as Divine Agenda is concerned, he is useless:
His intelligent is useless, his money is useless, his Position is useless. Because it is the Spirit that quickens, the flesh Profited Nothing.
II. The second calamity of the fallen man is that when he fell, another Person took the Position.
When the devil was tempting Jesus on the Mountain of Temptation in Matthew 4 he said, “bow down to me, I will give you the Earth and all the Glory”. He said, for it has been delivered unto me.
… Jesus didn’t argue!
Paul came back in 2 Corinthians 4:8, he said the devil is the god of this world.
When man fall the Position was not vacant, another Prince ascended that Position to rule over the Earth.
So the second calamity of man is that a “Tyrannical Prince” is now exercising Governance on the face of the Earth.
Galatian 1:4, calls this age an evil age. Because the Nature of the Prince ruling the System will dominate the System. He said this age is an evil age.
In Psalms 74:28, he said you have respect unto the Covenant, He said the dark Places of the Earth is full with the Habitation of cruelty. And in Isaiah 60:2, He says the whole Earth shall be covered with Darkness.
Why is it so? Because when man fell, the Position was not vacant; another Prince came and brought another Government and Dominion.
Why do you think the lion is a carnivorous animal? It is because the foundation of the Earth has shifted. The lion was not designed to eat flesh, it was designed to eat grass.
When the Dominion of God is restored, the lion will go back to its grouping.
Do you think the mosquito was created to transmit malaria? No! That’s not its duty.
Do you think grasses were designed to just grow anyhow?
Even the Earth is in bondage. The Bible says, the Earth is in the bondage; it is suffering under the bondage of corruption.
So what man did, did not only affect man. It affects Nature, it affects everything: because another Prince has begun to rule over the Earth.
But there is Hope!
Because the Bible says, the earnest expectation of the creations waited for the manifestation of the sons of God.
So the Dominion of the devil will end:
- When sons appear – When sons begin to manifest, they begin to push back the tide of Darkness.
- When sons begin to manifest, they begin to push back the Government of the devil.
The Purpose of the emergence of sons is to stop the Dominion of Satan.
And if you look at the Life of Jesus, everywhere He went to, what He did was to stop the Dominion of Satan.
Somebody is dead, He says, rise up and walk; to the lame, rise up and walk, to the blind, He said let your eyes open (see)! Somebody is deaf, He said, let your ears open.
Because deafness, blindness, death, Poverty are all expression of the Dominion of Satan.
But when sons appear, their duty is to stop the Dominion of Satan.
Until we arise as sons, that will not be Possible! But you see, you don’t wake up and become sons.There is a Protocol for Sonship.
Before you ever dreamt of becoming a son, you must first of all be a Child of God: You become a Child of God before you become a son of God. But you also don’t just wake up and become a Child of God.
Because God knows that the only way the Dominion of Satan can stop, and His (God’s) Dominion or Government can find expression of the Earth, is for sons to emerge.
The only cure God discovered was that his own son has to come to the Earth, so that He can make men become the sons of God (Hebrew 1:1).
And so when Jesus came, in order to bring us back to Sonship, there were Three (3) Pathways Jesus had to follow.
- He had to be a Saviour,
- He had to be a Son, and
- He had to be Lord.
Until you meet Jesus the Saviour, Jesus the Son, and Jesus the Lord, you can never have Dominion.
Because it’s only on this basis that you and I too can come into Sonship. Because the Journey of Dominion is actually a Journey of Encounter.
Encounter with Jesus the Saviour; Encounter with Jesus the Son and Encounter with Jesus the Lord.
By the time you encounter thess Three (3) Dimensions of Jesus: you will discovered that your Nature has been restored, your Likeness has been restored, the Presence of God has been restored and that the Life of God has been restored.
And you will also discovered that the Law that God spoke about in Genesis would have been reiterated in your Life.
So very quickly in the next ten (10) Minutes; let’s look at the Journey of Jesus the Saviour, Jesus the Son and Jesus the Lord.
- JESUS THE SAVIOUR
In John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Outside of Jesus you cannot have Dominion – it’s impossible! And for you to access Dominion in Christ, you must know Him as the Saviour.
Because the first thing He wants to do, is to deliver you from every bondage that you are under. Hence He was introduced as Saviour. Isaiah 7:14, it says; the Lord shall give you a Sign, a Virgin shall give birth and he said, you shall call him Emmanuel.
And when the Angel of the Lord came to deliver this same Message in the time that was designated for Jesus to manifest in Matthew 1:21-23, they said, “… for He shall save His People from their sins”.
So anybody who wants an Enlarged Capacity for Dominion must encounter Jesus the Saviour.
If you have not met Jesus the Saviour, you will remain in bondage, under the yoke of the devil. Because Jesus the Saviour, came to introduce you to the corridor of Dominion.
And when you encounter Jesus the Saviour, there are Five (5) Things He will deliver you from.
I. Deliverance from Sin: Because sin is one of the weapons the devil uses to keep us in bondage. Making it impossible to exercise Dominion.
That is why Paul speaking in Romans 6:14 said, “for sin shall no longer have Dominion over you”. Why is that so? I John 3:8 says – for this cause was the son of man made manifest that He might destroy the works of the devil.
So the first work Jesus destroyed was sin. When He destroyed sin, He took away one of the yokes that kept us in bondage.
II. Deliverance from the Power of Satan: In Colossians 1:12 ; He said, ” deliver us from the Power of Darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His Son”.
But how did He do it? He did it on the Cross of Calvary (Colossians 2:14-15).
Jesus had to destroy the devil for you to have Liberty from the yoke of the devil.
Jesus defeated the devil that you too would have Victory from the Power of the devil. A Christian who has understanding should not be under the yoke of the devil anymore because the Saviour made sure that the devil was defeated.
III. Deliverance from the world: Because He knows that the force of this world, the element of this world are also tools that the devil uses to enslave Believers.
So He overcome the world, He gave His Life into us, so that we too might become Overcomers (John 26:33 and 1 John 5:4). Anyone who believes in Jesus begins to enjoy Victory over the element of this world.
IV. Deliverance from the Flesh Galatian 5:24, Jesus crucified the flesh when Jesus was nailed.
Romans 13:14 says, put on the Lord Jesus, no longer given an occasion for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof.
V. And finally Deliverance from Death (John 11:25. As Believers, we already know our end when our Assignment is over. We don’t die, we translate to Glory because we have overcome Death.
We are not going to end in the Lake of Fire; we are going to end in intimacy with God forever, because He has overcome Death.
When we receive the Saviour, we receive these Five (5) Dimensions of Victory. For He incorporated them in a Capsule called Eternal Life.
Anybody who receives Jesus, Eternal Life is injected into him or her (John 3:16).
When you receive Eternal Life, you have the Potential to overcome the world because Victory over the world is there.
But the question is: How many Christian truly are living as Overcomers.
You know why? Because when you receive Eternal Life, you are a Child – For encounter with Jesus the Saviour makes you a Child of God.
… And It is a different thing entirely to become a Son.
So many Christians are at the level of Children – God will still need to intervene to bring Healing, cast out devils, break the force of flesh because they are children!
Galatians 4:1 says – the heir so long as is a Child is not different from a servant even though he is the Lord of all.
So you may have all the Potentials to work in all the Victory but you cannot work in it because you are a Child!
- JESUS THE SON
When you encounter Jesus the Saviour, you also need to encounter Jesus the Son. Because it is in the face of Jesus the Son that you translate the Potential of Dominion into an Experience.
But many never travel that far with Jesus – They only stop at the Altar Call. And so all the Potentials are loaded in them but they are still working like servants.
Ecclesiastes 10:7 says, I have seen servants upon horses, and Princes walking as servants upon the Earth.
A Generation must grow from being Children of God to becoming sons of God. Because Government does not belong to children; it belongs to sons!
Imagine if infants with pampers, go on the street now and they start crying and shouting, “we no go gree ooo! We no go gree!” (We will not agree).
Do you think the House of Assembly will consider what they are saying? They will say, take them from the road quickly, they will die, they are children.
Their number does not count – Children can be one (1) billion, they are children.
That’s why the Glory of the move of God in the Last Day is not number in stature – Who is talking?.
The question is – it’s not how many are talking, it who is talking.
You know the Problem? Children are Consumer Generation.
When they gather, “God give me food, give me Healing, give me Deliverance; without knowing that “He has given us all things that Pertaining to Life and Godliness in Christ Jesus”.
Healing is the children bread. When you find anything wrong with your body you go to your Prayer Closet. Because it is that same Spirit that raised up Jesus from the death that dwells in you, He will quicken your mortal body (Romans 8:11).
A Generation must migrate from the Revelation of Jesus the Saviour into Revelation of Jesus the Son. Our number count for Nothing, if all of us are children.
In fact when the devil comes and he sees that we are children, he uses us as a Lab rat. He sends Cancer to one, send Poverty and frustration to others. You see hundred People gathered and all of them is begging God to help them.
But when sons arise, He says when you see a Mountain, you will not talk to God. No! the Power of Heaven is on you inside. So when you come to God you are not reporting to Him about the Mountain.
When you come to God, you are gaining ascension into the Realm of Light, you are finding out the Secret of God; finding out the Mantle of the Spirit and the Dimensions in God. Because for you, Mountains are no longer Challenges.
A Generation of Son will emerge from here – Amen!
He became a Son so that He can bring all of us to Sonship. And there are five (5) Laws of Sonship:
- The Ability to Image the Father: In Hebrews 1:2- what did He call His Son? The Brightness of His Glory, the express Image of His Person.
It is of the Strength of that Image that Dominion is imparted. So if you cannot image God, you cannot exercise Dominion; you cannot bear Government because the Government shall be upon the shoulder of the sons, not the children.
When Jesus walk the Earth, He walked the Earth revealing the Father. So anybody who wants an Enlarge Capacity For Dominion, his or her goal should be to imaging the Father.
And there is Technology for getting there. In Jeremiah 33:3, He says when you Pray, the Technology of Transfiguration is that, what you see is what you become.
When you start Praying, God answers your Prayer. But He does not stop there. After He answers your Prayer, He says, “I will show you Great and Mighty things that you know not of”.
The Corridor of Prayer is the Gateway to beholding Him. Every time you Pray, the realms open and as the realms open.
You will not only get answer, you’ll start seeing Dimensions of Christ. And any Dimension you see is imparted to you.
The Apostles John was speaking – he said, and I John was in the isle called Patmos on the Day of the Lord, and I heard the sound as of a Trumpet… And Jesus began to reveal His Dimensions to him.
He was revealing to him Dimensions of Christ. But how did he see Him?
I. By Praying: Because he was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day.
The reason we tell a Generation to Pray is not because of bread and wine. That’s the lowest requirement of Prayer. When you begin to Pray, your eyes open, the Heaven opens. And when this Dimension happens: Christ is revealed to you. And when Christ is revealed, you become what you have see.
Because John saw the Light, that was why they couldn’t kill him. Church History told us, they threw him into boiling oil, he couldn’t die. They dragged him on the Street, he couldn’t even sustain injury.
They didn’t know how to kill him.
Why? Because he kept seeing Jesus! And the more he saw Him, the more he become like Him. And one of the Dimensions John entered was the Dimension of Life that superceded the Powers of Death.
He said “I am the One who was dead, but liveth forever more.” The moment John saw it, it became his inheritance in Sonship.
II. The Second way to see Him is by Meditation on the Word of God (2 Corinthian 3:18).
The Bible is not about reading to go and Preach. Every Verse of Scripture is a Gateway into a Dimension in Christ (John 1:1-4).
Every Scripture is a Dimension in God and when you enter that Dimension, Light appears to you. And that Light will cause you to see a Dimension of Christ and when you come out of that Meditation, what you see is what you become.
Christ must be reflect out through you. That is why Romans 13 :14 says – Put on the Lord Jesus, make no occasion for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof. Every Christian must pay the Price of beholding.
You either build by Prayer or you behold by Meditation.
You must be led by the Spirit of God (Romans 8:14). We are not born to be Creative as on matter of Ordination. Before you were formed in your mother’s womb, I keow you, and I Ordained you to be a Prophet (Jeremiah 1:5).
Any act of Creativity that deviates you from Ordination has brought you into Perpetual failure as far as mortals are concerned.
And so in addition to beholding Christ, you must Pattern your Life in such a way that you must hear God. Because When you hear him, you become Invincible and Powerful.
This is why when Satan came to tempt Jesus, “if You are the Son of God turn these stones to bread”.
Jesus said, No! Sonship is not about turning stones to bread: It is about living by every Word that Proceeds from the mouth of God (Matthew 4:4).
Sons are not those who do Miracle to create a Point; Sons are those who are led – They hear God.
And because they hear God, they come into a Precision that is beyond the realms of men.
When we say God is Righteous, what do you think it means? When we say God is Righteous, we are talking about a “Distinctive Feature” in Glory that makes it impossible for God to err.
We are talking about a “Distinctive Feature” in Glory that makes God different from all Creature – That’s what we are talking about.
And when a man begins to hear God, that level of Precision and Distinction is imparted into his Life, and that Distinction is Power. Ask the fathers of Faith, they will tell you, they never move until God speaks.
The reason you see all of these expression of Power all around the Redemption Camp (City) is because there is a man that hears God.
I was told yesterday that the moment he returned from Israel, he went straight to his Prayer Room and he won’t come out till today. I said what! At that age! What Power are you working with? What Capacity?
Meanwhile there are Youths here inclusive those reading now on the Label of DMC, that can’t fast for twenty four (24) hours.
And a man in his Eighties (80’s) has touched the Power that has made him to tame the flesh.
You want to build Capacity? Your goal from today is that every morning I want to look more like Christ.
Listen Capacity is not the Prayer, it is not the Scripture you know – It is the Transformation and Transfiguration. That is where the Capacity is.
There are People who are Praying but they are thieves, and they are like the Pharisees. They argue and boast about hours of Prayer. It is not the Prayer that is the Capacity – Where does the Prayer take you to and what do you see when you Pray?
Now, Praying for long is important, because it is staying there for long that things happen. But the goal is not the time.
The goal is the Transformation and Transfiguration – That when you come out, they will see God through you.
The Bible said Moses ascended Mount Sinai and he was there forty (40) Days and forty (40) nights (Exodus 34: 29 -30). Suddenly Transfiguration began to take Place so much so that, men couldn’t look at him.
It was on the Strength of that “Transfigurative Power” that Governance was executed. Anywhere Moses came to, he had the Power to introduce the Government of God, until a Point came Moses became the lord.
He had mingled with God, mingled with His Words until you couldn’t separate them anymore – That was why when Moses’ time of sojourn was over, God needed to introduce a Technology of killing him, because the guy couldn’t die.
At one hundred and twenty (120) years, the Bible says Moses’ sight was not abating. And when God wanted to kill him, He said, go to the Mountain of Nebo, there I will kill you. Because if you kill Moses in the Presence of man, you have exposed something that is Eternal.
And even the dead body of Moses, demons were coming to fight for it – A man’s dead body was more important than living men.
The devil came to fight for the body of Moses – They needed it to carry it to the Museum of the Demonic realm. There was too much Glory on the man, so he knew that even the dead body was not a waste.
What kind of Dominion is that? And we saw why the Arch Angel came because that body was still needed on the Mountain of Transfiguration.
When Jesus was Praying, the Bible said Moses and Elijah showed up – Matthew 17:2
Because those were the two (2) men that carried their bodies to Heaven – God knew they will need it again.
Oh! Heaven can merge with Earth – That’s where Dominion comes from.
Dominion is not that you have money – Dominion is that you have Power to reintroduce Eden!
You have Power to download Heaven to Earth, so that when men step into your Ecosystem they begin to interact with Heavenly Reality because that which was, is that which is to come.
Why do you think our father-in-the-Lord talks casually and things move? Because he is talking from Heaven. He has Suspended the Law of the Cosmos (Universe).
A man could look at you and say “by this time tomorrow.” What do you mean Sir? How about the Laws of Economics? How about Governmental Policies?
It’s not like he was Prepared. They ran to Elisha and said the situation is bad, women are eating their children, the King is helpless. And he said, go and tell the King, “by this time tomorrow a cup of barley will be sold for one Shekel”. 2 Kings 7:1
Do you know what it means to Change National Economy? What are you saying? The Prime Minister said: I know God, I also know about the Window of Heaven; but even if the Window of Heaven be opened, it is not Possible.
And he told him, I am not talking about the Opening of the Window of Heaven – I am downloading Heaven to Earth.
It is one thing for the Window of Heaven to open, it another thing for the Heaven to kiss the Earth – “I am downloading Heaven to Earth”.
And he said, because you have argued, I talk to you now as a Prince of Zion, “you will see it, but you will not Partake of it”.
We don’t know what to hunger for; that is why we waste our time on Facebook, and Instagram. When you know what to hunger for, you will tell yourself, “I will not be the same”. And you will lock yourself away there in His Presence.
Psalms 91 says, they that dwell in the Secret Place of the Most High shall abide under the Shadow of the Almighty.
- The Second Law of Sonship is to Hear the Voice of God:
It will take you a long time in God’s Presence because God’s voice is not loud – it is distinct, it is a Still Small Voice of God. And will take acquaintance and many acquaintances to pick Him from the Spectrum of many voices.
There is the voice of Man, the voice of System, the voice of Ideology and Philosophy, the voice of Traditions and Demonic voices – It is in staying with God that you sensor them out and you can pick the voice of the Monarch of Heaven.
And when He talks, the voice of God is full of Majesty, it is upon many waters, it divided the sea, it divided the flames of fire.
When God speaks Nature quacks.
So that when a man catches the voice of God, he becomes an Amplifier – When he talks, it is no longer him talking; God talking through him. That is why He said, when they hear you, they hear me. That’s where Sonship comes from.
A young man may be fighting to fill a Stadium, to show that he is making impact. A father will weep, if he doesn’t hear God in one week: So when they talk, their voices are the Lord’s. That is why we call them Patriarch!
We call them Patriarchs for Two (2) Reasons:
A. They Journeyed with God until they find Dimensions in God and they introduce those Dimensions to men as ways.
I. The Bible says Enoch walked with God and was not.
It was from the Life of Enoch that we know it is Possible for a man to walk with a Spirit. So he showed us that Dimension.
II. He said Noah, when he was warned of God, he moved with fear, and he said on the Strength of that God called him Righteous.
So it was from the Life of Noah that we know that, one of the things that appeases a Spirit is Reverence.
So when we teach Reverence today, it is the way of Noah.
III. Abel gave a more Excellent Sacrifice than Cain. On the Strength of that even while he was dead, He said his blood spake in the cause of Heaven.
So it was in Abel’s Life that we know that when you want to move with a Spirit, you give a Sacrifice.
So when we call them Patriarchs and Fathers of Faith, it is not a Title; it is because they have Pioneered ways in God, and those ways have become Insurance System for us who are children.
B. Another reason we call them Fathers of Faith and Patriarchs is also because anything you catch you can Impart in others.
A father can look at you and say, “I bless you with the Dew of Heaven”. He has no regard for inflation and deflation. When he talks it must happen. “I bless you with corn and wine”, he can impart dimensions.
… It begins with hearing the Voice of God.
- The third thing that makes for a Son is: to endure the Chastening of the Lord.
In Hebrews 12:6-10, the Bible says concerning sons, not everybody. If you are a son, the Bible gives us an outline, it says, everyone that is a son endures the chastening of the Lord.
He said except we are bastard. If we say we are sons, He says we must endure the chastisement of the Lord. Even Christ the Bible says He learnt Obedience through the things He suffered.
Our Christianity today exonerate hardship, trials and tribulations. In 2Timothy 1: 8 – Paul said, be not ashamed of my bounds nor the afflictions of the Gospel.
See, if you have not known the chastening of the Lord, you can’t do much for God.
If you think Christianity is all about coming to God every day, “Bless me!” And you receive cars, houses, and all your Testimonies begin and end with what God gave you; you don’t know Sonship and you cannot exercise Dominion.
In Acts15:26, Men that have hazarded their lives for the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. A Generation must rise like Esther and say, “if I Perish, I Perish!”
Why do you think we have Compromises everywhere? Because we are not taught the Place of endurance. As good soldiers of Christ, we are to endure Hardship.
Paul said, I beat my body, I bring it under Subjection, so that when I finish running, I will not be a castaway. There is a Place of scourging of the Spirit, a Place of being chastised by the Lord, a Place of trials and tribulations.
And so sons have scars, their badge in the Spirit are the scar they Possess for Jesus.
If you don’t go far with God, you will never know it.
They can tell you – Paul said in 2 Corinthian1:8, concerning the suffering we suffer in Asian, I will not keep it from you.
So there are things that you will only learn when you endure the suffering of God.
Peter was speaking in 1 Peter 4:, he said, he that have suffer in the flesh hath ceased from sinning.
The reason most of us are controlled by our emotions and impulses is because we have not said to God: “I will go any Length with You. I will not stop only when You bless – I will stop when I carry the reproach of God.
That is why He said in Matthew 5:10 Blessed are they which are Persecuted for Righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
He said Great is their Reward in Heaven, it for sons.
- And finally, the Son is one who is Given.
In Isaiah 9:6 we read, Unto us a Child is born, he said but unto us a Son is Given. He said the Government of this world shall be upon His shoulder.
When you are not “Given” you can’t know Government.
I. So a Point comes when God can trust you and He tells you, give me all the money in your Account.
II. There is a Point where God can trust you: He says “rise up, go to Sokoto and represent me”. It might not be convenient, but now you know you are a son, and the Revelation is that your Spirit and your body belongs to Him.
You were brought with a Price, you are no longer your own (1Corinthians 6:20). So whatever Your Master decides, that is what you would do.
It is at that Level of being “Given” that you come into the Revelation of Jesus the Lord.
Because on the Altar of Salvation, you met Jesus the Saviour. But in the field of Mission and Service, you will meet Jesus the Lord, where you no longer have the right to make a Choice.
Because Jesus himself demonstrated it – In the Garden of Gethsemane, He said “Father, if it were Possible, let this cup pass me by. Yet not my Will, but Thine”.
When you know Jesus the Lord, the Sacrifices you make is to Submit your Will.
Shall we rise up on our feet?
Can you lift your hands towards Heaven? If we can, let’s be remain silent.
There is a fire about to be sent here because God wants to activate Ordination.
Some of you came here, you didn’t know you’ll be recruited – Trust me, when you go, you will never be the same again.
This Word you have heard or read now on the Label of DMC, they will travel with you, and the Angels that guide over my utterances will go with you – Amen.
For some of you, it will afflict you with Fasting, for some, with Prayer until you come to that Point like Moses. That is where God will dictate to you the utterances of your Ordination.
And then you will know that, before you were formed in your mother’s womb, He knew you and He Ordained you for a Purpose.
Can you lift your hands up this morning? We have heard too many Altar Calls, so I am not making anyone now.
But all you want to say is Lord, I Surrender!
And when I speak of Ordination this morning, I am not talking about Five Fold Ministry. I am not saying you leave here, you are a Prophet or you are Evangelist or Apostles.
That is not what I am saying: But you will be separated for Service. As that fire descends, I will come down and lays hand on some of you, to separate you for services.
Father, You said you will baptize them with fire and You will set them apart this morning.
You have brought us to that Point of “Absolute Surrender” – So let the flames of Your Spirit descend here.
Holy Spirit, from the left to the right, from the front to the back, to those watching online or reading now on the Label of DMC: Let the fire fall now!
Take it now!
In the Name of Jesus – Amen!!!!
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