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How do you war with the prophetic word? Are you ready?
You enforce the manifestation of every good word in the place of prayer. You enforce the manifestation of every good word, every good prophetic word in the place of prayer, and you cancel the manifestation of every negative prophetic word in the place of prayer. Write that down, please.
The place of prayer is like a boardroom in the spirit. It is where you decide what becomes your lot and what you decide you will disallow. Let me take that again. You enforce the manifestation of every good prophetic word in the place of prayer. And then you cancel or disallow the manifestation of every negative prophetic word in the place of prayer.
What does that mean? "Father, in the name of Jesus, through this dream, or through this man of God speaking to me, or through my study of scripture, or through a witness of the spirit, I sense that there is a season that is not of God. It is inconsistent, in the name of Jesus. Your word says, 'My path is as a shining light.'" Are we together?
And where you are already in that season, you declare that though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, the Bible declares that I fear no evil, for Thou art with me. I may be in a financial situation, marital situation, health situation, but in the name of Jesus, I declare, nay, in all these things, I am more than a conqueror. This happens in the place of prayer. That's how you war with prophecy.
In the place of prayer, you allow and you disallow. In the place of prayer, you give permission for its manifestation, or you cancel it in the name of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah.
Now, let me tell you the truth. One of the things you do in the place of prayer also is to contend with the forces. You prayed that earlier on, to contend with the forces that attempt to fight God's word over your life. Contend, contend, contend with the forces. God has said He will lift you. Satan heard it. God has said He will lift you. There are programmings from hell. You are not the first to hear that word. Your father heard it, but he did not have enough spiritual intelligence to war a good warfare. So the word did not come to pass. Are we together?
Now you have sufficient spiritual intelligence. This is why I encourage you that when you go back home, you listen to these teachings again. Now, this time around, you are not distracted. You are in your room. No packaging, no whatever. There is you and your destiny. Are we together?
When it's time to pray, you pray. "Lord, I'm in the days of His power. Weakness dies in my life. Weakness dies in my life. I'm in the days of His power." Now, I have learned that prophecy, the manifestation of it, is my responsibility. I'm showing you how to engage. Everything God has said concerning you. If He has spoken some things, open your notebook, write them out. If He has not spoken anything, go online, listen to my message, "Exceeding Great and Precious Promises." They can guide you through the prophecy of scripture, the things that God has written, and you begin to pray them.
"Father, I allow His favor. You are allowed to come into my life. Goodness and mercy, you follow me." This is you warring. Others are sleeping, but you are warring. I tell you, you are birthing realities that must surely come to pass in your life. I don't get up in the morning and just stroll around into my day. No. Before coming here, I prayed for Coonia. I prayed for this preaching. I prayed while some of you were sleeping. "Lord, the word of God is going to come with power. As I teach them, it will come to pass." I mention many things in your life that I want to see come to pass as a man of God. So when I come and sit down and I hear the testimonies, I'm encouraged. This is it. My business between me and God is happening, manifesting. Are we together?
If I see you cry, I get sad because I can't remember agreeing with God on that. If I see you go down, I take responsibility because I can't remember agreeing with God on that. If you come and you say, "Good job, children, breakthrough. You are loving the Lord." That's right. I remember praying it. I remember God saying, "This is what I want to do." And I said, "Amen to it."
Without an amen, nothing comes to pass. I don't mean amen like saying it. Amen like the act of agreeing with God. So I want to ask you a question: All the negative things happening in your life, if you are not the one who said amen, who said it? Because the fact that it is happening, amen by men, is a signal to the realm of the spirit that clearance has been given. Could that be that there is somebody helping you to say amen to several things? You must take responsibility this night.
When poverty came, it could not enter your family. But there was a man who said amen, "Let it come." When yokes of delay came, I'm telling you this, there has to be—I've taught you co-laborers with God. It is the Spirit and the bride that says anything should come. That means if I see anything in my life that I cannot remember saying amen to, I have to go to the control room. The control room is the place of prayer and verify. I said amen to favor. I said amen to lifting. I said amen to breakthrough. I said amen to speed. Where am I seeing pain? Where am I seeing disappointment? And then I hear in my spirit, "The enemy has done this." And I said, "That's right. Thank you for that information. Satan, you are called a thief. You are used to illegal things. You never do things legally. But now, by the blood of Jesus, I decree and declare that amen." That permission, whichever human vessel on earth was used, I cancel it. I take responsibility over my life.
This is me praying now. This is me praying. I reject untimely death. I reject sadness. It is inconsistent with the will of God. I reject it. And once you reject it, what do you think happens in heaven? The Judge of all the earth, the righteous Judge, is called. He says, "All right, there is a petition that is rising from the earth." And that petition is that injustice is happening here. Someone is not agreeing with a verdict that is about to be executed. Angels go and find out what is going on there. They will come with speed. Are they not ministering spirits, sent to minister for them that be the heirs of salvation? I'm showing you how it works.
So when there is a gathering concerning you, "they that rise up to eat my flesh." One of the scriptures you prayed. Do you know there are people like that? They gang up together to eat your flesh, to drink your blood, not physically. Flesh and blood means life, vitality. There are people who only rejoice when you cry. "When my enemies came to eat up my flesh, the Bible said they stumbled and they fell." They did not just stumble and fall because—no, no, no, no. There was a stone. He's called the Rock. That stone, He was the one who caused them to stumble and fall. The Bible says He stands beside me like a mighty, terrible one. Hallelujah.
"I and the children that the Lord has given me, He said we are for signs." Are you confessing it with me? "We are for signs and we are for wonders in Israel." Signs and wonders. Signs and wonders. Signs and wonders. Hallelujah.
Listen. You cannot bear prophecy if you do not understand prayer. Prayer is a negotiation room. When you get into the place of prayer, you have entered a law court. You have entered a boardroom, the boardroom of your destiny, where you watch what has been decided. And do you know sometimes when you enter that boardroom, you are going to see many scrolls on that table with many signatures that are not your own? But your name was written there because somebody signed it before he died that whatever happens, let my child and children's children—they didn't know what they were doing. They were beguiled by Satan, and they signed with your name on it. Do you know what happens? By the time you are there, you will look left and right and see blood dripping from the cross and bring it to that statement. The only thing that can blot out handwritings, that blood. When it falls on what has been written, it doesn't become red, it becomes white as snow, a clean slate for you. And now God can say, "Since your father signed this, your mother signed this, ill people signed this, and the blood has wiped it, now put your own signature," and you stamp it. Yes to victory, yes to dominion, yes to increase. When you stamp it, I see that Judge carrying that hammer, the Judge of all. He will stamp it and say, "It is done. Let it be executed upon the earth." And by the next day, somebody who did not have a business remembering you, because a verdict from the courts of heaven, I'm telling you, this is how it works. I'm not acting a drama for you on stage. I'm telling you this is how the realm of the spirit works. Hallelujah. A divine verdict.
Now, here's what happens when that verdict is termed. It is ready for manifestation. Do you know what happens? The spirit of wisdom starts going around the earth looking for the human actors that must bring that word to pass. So you start having mysterious coincidences. You call them coincidences, but they are orchestrations. "The steps of a good man is ordered by the Lord." Suddenly you see an old classmate. Suddenly—listen, listen. How do you make a proclamation over people and they say amen, they receive? Then a job they ignored your job for two years. You submitted an application. You think they just remembered it? Do you know how many graduates have come from those two years? Do you know how many applications? What was the probability of finding you? It's no coincidence. When you understand dominion, you can take off that yoke from your neck. Hallelujah.
Who signed that you will never build your own house? Who signed that you will have to eat by being a beggar? Who signed that ministry will never go up? That you will struggle for the rest of your life? As we prepare to engage, you are going to agree with God. Those handwritings have been blotted out, and they must be blotted out in experience. No, sir. I didn't ask any spirit to decide on my case. I didn't ask any human entity to decide on my case. I am sane enough, knowledgeable enough, intelligent enough to walk with the word of God and the spirit of grace to decide my reality.
Prophetic words are highly conditional. Whether prophecy of scripture, the promises of God as captured in scripture, or any prophetic word that is given to you, it is highly conditional. Hebrews 4:2: "They heard the word just like we did. But the word did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." Every prophetic word has a condition. The condition connected to that prophetic word also comes as the strategy for its manifestation.
When God tells you to do a thing, or when God tells you He wants you to experience a certain level of spiritual reality, there is a condition connected to it. Coonia, this is your destiny in Christ. Yes, sir. But here are the conditions: You must exalt the word of God above feelings, above opinions, above culture. Yes, sir. You must let men see me, and by submitting to allow me increase, I will keep glorifying you. Yes, sir. You must give honor to the ministry of the Holy Spirit. Yes, sir. You must walk by the law of love. Yes, sir. Provided you are walking in keeping with those principles, no devil of darkness can bring you down. Now, most people just say, "I won't go down. A prophetic word will come to pass." But they don't satisfy the conditions.
Deuteronomy 28 and verse 1: "It shall come to pass if thou shalt diligently hearken unto the voice of the Lord your God, to observe and to do all His commandments which I command you this day." Listen, it starts with the voice of the Lord your God. It says the Lord will set thee on high above the nations of the earth, and all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, fulfilling the conditions. If He speaks to you and says you will see, listen to what else He says. If He says, "Go to the pool of Siloam," don't sit back there saying, "But God, You have the power to make me see." That instruction, that condition, is what is connected to the miracle.
It says, "There is he that scattereth, and yet increaseth. There is he that withholdeth more than is meet, and tendeth to penury." Don't complain about increase when you are not a giver. You are already in disobedience. The spirit of poverty, the waster, has unlimited access to your life. That is the truth. "Give, and it shall be given unto you." It didn't say give money. Give anything. Give wickedness, you will get it. Give kindness, you will get it. Give mercy, you will get it. Hallelujah.
"Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed." If you see shame in your life, you are using laziness to fulfill that prophecy. So what is the way out? Diligence. Diligence. "Having done all to stand, stand." This talks about the stability of patience. Hebrews 6:15: "And after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise." Patiently endured. I think that should be First Peter chapter 5 somewhere. He said, "After you have suffered for a while, that the God of all grace will establish you, will settle you, and so on and so forth, after you have suffered for a while." First Peter 5:10: "The God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, that after ye have suffered a while, he will make you perfect, mature, wholesome, establish you, strengthen you, and settle you."
Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen. Your Thanksgiving is warfare. There are times you thank God for what He has done, but there are times you thank God for what He's doing that is not yet manifest. I taught you this is a prayer model to use thanksgiving as a weapon. You are giving thanks. "I bless you, Lord. You are holy and forever You are God. We bless you, Lord. We bless you, Lord. You are holy and forever You are God." Shout Hallelujah! Hallelujah! "And forever You are God." We shout Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! "And forever You are God."
And someone will come to you and say, "Why are you rejoicing? We see not our signs, and there is no one who can tell us how long." But you can thanks. You can use thanksgiving to shorten the time of the manifestation of prophecy. Are we together now? You give God all kinds of thanks. Very, very powerful. Thanksgiving is a miracle. And let me tell you the truth. You see Thanksgiving like a warrior's armor. You can engage with it even when it does not make sense. Hallelujah. Even when it does not make sense. No finances, no job, no manifestation of that miracle yet. No man to come to your life to say, "I want to marry you." No, um, what do they call it? No promotion, no increase. Looks like your children are going haywire. Maybe your husband is not born again. You have tried complaining. Why don't you partner with God through thanksgiving? Are we together? Yes, sir.
You get up in the morning, you just give thanks. "Father, I thank You. I bless You. I've not seen the word come to pass, but I thank You with my hands lifted up. I thank You. I thank You. I glorify You. I glorify You." Whilst you are thanking God, you know what happens? Doubt and fear. There is nothing that kills offense like thanksgiving. You are offended. You are angry. And you just begin to give God thanks. "Oh, I thank You, Jesus. I thank You." Can somebody lift your hands right where you are in one minute and just find a reason to say thank you? And if there's nothing to say thank you for, go ahead and thank Him for the things that He's about to do. Thank Him for tomorrow. Thank Him because it's your season where it will come to pass. Oh yes, thank you. That though my beginning be small, my latter end shall greatly increase. Someone say thank you. You are saying, "Apostle, God has not done anything that is manifest." You thank Him in advance because there are things happening in the realm of the spirit. Online, are you thanking Him? Lift your hands in your room. Lift your hands in your office. Just wave it to the heavens and tell the King of Kings, "Thank You. Thank You. Thank You." Hallelujah.
Praise the name of the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord. You must learn to give God thanks. You must learn to give God thanks.
I live a life of thanksgiving. I have trained myself to never complain before God. When I get before God, both the things He has done and the things I expect Him to do, they come under that one list: Thanksgiving. And I just thank Him. "Father, thank You. Father, thank You. Oh, I thank You. I thank You." This is me. I'm telling you sincerely. I can spend one hour, two hours, and all that is coming is thanksgiving, praise, praise, praise. And I'm thanking Him. And sometimes tears come out of my eyes as I'm just telling Him thank you. Why the tears come? I know that is the gratitude that is coming from the spirit. I first think about the things He's done in my life, and I thank Him in advance because faithful is He. God does not start with people and dump them. Is it not in your Bible? "But I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded." This is a word of encouragement for someone. You started with God. Be sure you will finish strong. Oh, you will finish strong. You will finish strong. The One who holds your hands will not leave you on the way. It looks like you are alone, but you are not alone. You are being carried. Being carried on the wings of mercy, on the wings of grace. It will look like you will not arrive.