Richard Prince ON: STRENGTH TO PUSH

(PLANTED BUT NOT BURIED)

Chapter1

The dichotomy

We all know God is love but it'll be a little bit better if sometimes God loves us just as we want to be
loved. Sometimes God's love can literally be the most cruel thing that ever happened to you. I mean the
one thing you keep on keeping on about happens to be the sole thing God keeps taking from you. You
see I got to understand more about certain quotes about God when I removed myself from the
equation.

You have got to remove yourself from the equation altogether to understand certain things. Years ago
He gave me a word which I titled "I like white God loves black". That message totally revolutionized my
mindset about certain things, things like AM FROM EARTH GOD'S FROM HEAVEN. God is a person with
what he likes, and am a person with things I like, I don't have to get him to like the things I like, and he
doesn't have to force me to like everything he likes.

God is from a different background, and world even, from me, just as I am from a different planet and
culture from him. As a matter of fact, Jehovah doesn't necessarily need to see things my way in order to
come to my rescue, neither do I necessarily need to see things his way to predict that rescue, all I
needed to know was that there is a rescuing afoot. God and I don't even need to agree on certain things,
and it's okay if we have friction once in a while, why? Because am an individual, and he's an individual
too. And as individuals in any kinda relationship, we definitely will have disagreement on certain issues.

All across the world different people have different definitions about certain concepts which they
fashion they're lives by, so also do we need to understand what God understands by the concepts of
love, and goodness, most especially when Jesus was a victim of the first, and a refuter of the second.

Remove what you understand by good, and you'll hit the mark, because even when God is good, he
mostly isn't necessarily nice.

I've had quite a few instances where God was downright unfriendly and mean, yet through it all -- not
from the eyes of faith or anything, I could see the goodness of God in it. I mean I've been in relationships
I desperately wanted to work, friendships I've hoped against hope on, jobs I've fasted, prayed and
sowed seeds on, still had them blown to my face. Despite the heartache, despite the betrayals, in spite
of the penury and starvation, there was a certain poeticity afterwards that just gave the gratification
there and then that God was good --not that I saw pleasantness, nor any form of compensation.

failed marksmamship
 Some good mount of knowledge, and expertise is needed to become a successful hunter. One of the
required skills is good marksmanship, which is accurately and consistently hitting the target. When
hunting, accuracy is critical for a clean kill. Good marksmanship requires: Good sight adjustment, and
great shooting technique. When choosing a firearm for hunting, make sure your firearm is powerful
enough to kill the game quickly and effectively.The ammunition you select for hunting depends on the
type of game you plan to hunt. Each hunt requires a specific kind of ammunition. You can't get down a
long range bear with a close range gun.

So "if at first you don't succeed, try and try again" has more to do with range, ammunition type, skill,
and targeting, rather than mere efforts alone. After all, only a mad man tries the same thing over and
over again and expects a different result.

Now the reason why certain people keep encountering the same things is because of the way they
choose to experience those things they encounter. Keep defending the causes, and you'll keep
encountering the same effects. Take a deep breath and think back, maybe the reason you keep getting
stepped on was because you always made yourself a doormat.

Am not talking here about low self-esteem, am talking about your outlook on the consequences of your
actions. Should you keep going about it like people keep hurting you, you blind yourself to the
possibilities of you actually offending others, and them picking offense. Certain people go about
interpreting their consequences as victimization. I know of individuals who could have had the best in
life if they had only looked inwards and just advice themselves. Rather, they would create a reaction
which will in turn ricochet with greater propensity, and they would leave off saying that they foresaw it
along, hence proving themselves right, not seeing the self fulfilling prophecy destroying them gradually.

I thank God I wasn't born without that forbidden fruit, knowing right and wrong culminating into a
conscience. Many ladies and men even, go about with the non debatable ideologies that relationships
are scams, so they never made efforts to create a sustainable one due to their philandering ways, and
should the other partner call it quits out of frustration and anger, they scream aha again! --another gold
star to their ideologies, forgetting that they're the ones who caused it in the first place.

A deliberate effort

Pushing isn't about the screams of pain alone, it is about birthing or bringing forth through effort. For
anything to be successfully pushed, there's gotta be effort. For a lady to birth a baby she must summon
that strength to push. She must go through the pain and screams. It is a deliberate effort. Pushing is a
deliberate effort it's not some Big Bang, IT'S A DELIBERATE EFFORT!! Nothing good ever happens just like
that. It must go through a process. And process require patience. As a matter of fact, patience is the oil
to the engines of process. Success doesn't just happen, it's a deliberate effort. Prayers don't just
manifests itself through faith IT'S A DELIBERATE EFFORT! If your faith doesn't get you off on deliberate
efforts, you didn't have enough faith in the first place.
Certain times, it isn't about how well you're good at quotes, but how eager you are at pushing those
quotes. Certain quotes require strength, and you have to have enough depth to match the depth of
those quotes because deep calleth unto deep. (This reminds me of a lady I was talking with on
telephone years ago, and I was saying something along these lines, someone from her end asked what
the person was talking about on the phone, and she said to them, "I don't know, something about iron
and sharpening iron or something", it's quite unfortunate that the lady is long dead now. Certainly, the
thing that keeps us floating is the amount of depth we engage daily. I'll close that chapter.)

Planted or Buried?

You see there isn't much difference between planting and burying.

Both go through the same dirt and darkness. And except a grain of corn dies, it abides alone. When God
plants you, it doesn't seem like he's doing you much good as certain people preach good to be, with the
breathtaking testimonies of instant supernatural occurrence, what you just see are dirt, darkness and
delay. Need I include the heat? I mean don't get me STARTED ON THE INDIGNITY of being covered with
god-knows what contained in the dirt, and the grave reminding darkness, plus the excruciating delay,
and then there's the heat.

I have fellen from Grace so many times, I made the grass a park. From being the center of attraction to
being the object of retraction. From being the high and mighty to being the lowly and humbled, from
being bread giver to being the bread begger. From being a being seen as a natural born leader, as an
elite in the field of excellence, to being the butt of every comic's joke --all these are just me making it
PG. But one thing about God, is that though he may see you down, but he'll never let you out --I'VE FELT
THAT HEAT!! I'VE FELT THAT INDIGNITY!!!

Have you ever had to beg mercy from the ones you dealt mercifully to? Have you ever had to ask favors
from the very things you were charitable with, to the very person you were charitable with it to, only to
be mocked? Am talking about giving away somethings when you had plenty only to borrow that
something and have the person who begged you and you generously gave it to them turn round acting
like you need be lectured properly on the worth of what you gave away?

The Indignity of the dirt may stain your identity in the process. Am talking about manure mixed, spittle
dried, Filth ridden, God-knows what other things included dirt. Dirt that'll make God's motivational
scriptures look abstract. Dirt that'll make your confessions attract more laughter.

Job sat back one sunny day and wailed, "isn't it better God kills me? Isn't it better I was never born?
Cursed be the day I was conceived", those weren't the words of a motivated man --No! They weren't the
words of a happy man. Those were the words of of an ex billionaire who was so poor that he couldn't
even afford a hospital bill --my dear I've gone to outreachs and found prisoners and beggers richer than
my very self. I've been so sick and poor that I couldn't pay for paracetamol, talk more of fixing my
damaged belt buckle. This Reverend who once boasted of personally financing periodic church festivals
by the all sufficiency of God walked about with a rope tied as belt, and a prayer for healing on his lips, all
the while never doubting that all sufficiency. Heck, at the time of one of my greatest distress, I wrote
that book SECOND ADAM.

I could have succumbed to things as they were, but I understood that I was a plant needing sunlight, all I
needed was to break up my fallow ground, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of my faith. Dearly
beloved, except you die, you abide alone. No scripture gives life if you don't hard. That's God's definition
of faith. It is a persistence in the presence of mockery. God mocks you with scriptures, unless you're
violent enough to take it by force.

It's not always about faith and resilience, but about knowing what works and applying that. Any strong
perseverer will let you know like Edison that its not just about the attempts, and consistency, but that
faith is a technicality.So when you're planted, you're actually buried alive. But the difference is that
you're about to be introduced to the rest of who you were born to be --not a corpse but a blossoming
plant. That's why you got to retain that stamina and resilience.

For A purpose

Do you really understand that scripture, wherever the sole of your feet steps on, it is yours for an
inheritance? God can be sweet but he is the meanest boss there is. Wherever you are, you are planted
there, that's why they cheat you, exploit you, over labour you, break you down. Why? Except a grain of
corn dies in the ground, it abides alone. What did you expect? A promotion at your first week because
you're so heavily anointed and function under the new covenant? No! You are planted there for a
purpose. That means for a while you'll have the similarities of a buried corpse even though you're
actually a planted seed. It took Jesus 30yrs to make a mark for 3yrs and leave an impression for all
eternity. Because he was planted, funny how his own received him not --isn't that how you feel now
adays?

I have been planted and thought buried all my life. But had it not been for that strength to push above
the dirt, darkness, delay and heat, I never would have surfaced off the earth. And overtime, the
deliverance I got groomed on wasn't about some demons being cast out, but knowing that I had no one
else to blame for whatever happened to me but myself, I grew into understanding that The greatest
discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. Many people
would rather die than take responsibility for their actions, forgetting that actions have consequences no
matter how genuine your excuse may be. Not all excuses are illegitimate, but every excuse, no matter
how legit, is a "nearly" and nearly never kills a bird. But by taking responsibility for your actions, you
subconsciously begin to eliminate those impurities to your brand creating new and fresh quality to it.
Admitting what is negative in your life allows you see clearly what you can control and change. Before
you can change anything, you first need to figure out what the problem is --that is, what exactly needs
to be changed, and it usually is what you blame everything and everyone else but yourself. It's not
always about faith and resilience, but about knowing what works and applying that. Any strong
perseverer will let you know like Edison that its not just about the attempts, and consistency, but that
faith is a technicality.

Does this negate that God is good? Not at all, it just means that you need to understand that God's
goodness isn't necessarily your definition of what the word is. Funny how the fruit of the Spirit includes
goodness and kindness but never niceness. Now here's a word to keep you pushing: God is good, all the
time; and all the time? God is good. Most things you prayed for, you may forgot, but God will remind
you through seeming disappointments until you get to your expected end.

Until the time came to fulfill his dreams, the LORD tested Joseph’s character. Ps 105:19 (NLT)

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The gift of Grace

Grace is the help given to us by God because God desires us to have it, not necessarily because of
anything we have done to earn it. Grace differs. There is grace for virtually everything, even as massive
as parenting, that it will be appropriately recognized as a particular gift given to a specific individual
which may differ from the same given to another person. No two people have the same grace. Grace is
as specific to an individual as their fingerprints are to them.

put it to use

Power is grace, glory is grace, mercy is grace, beauty is grace, fluency is grace. In fact anything that
sets you apart from the next person is the grace you have which the other person doesn't. But even
God's Grace in your life has levels to it. You are not yet at its peak. There's more ahead. What I call the
highest pinnacle of grace, is Glory. Grace is a gift. while glory is expertise with proper experience at that
gift —this has nothing to do with human exaltations, that is why It is possible to be soaked in grace, and
yet that grace seen by others still not beneficial to you.

People will see it in your life, congratulate you for it, and even make you a reference point, yet
the effects of the very same grace will remain void in your life. A prophet anointed David and was famed
by it but the one who actually put the crown on his head will forever be unrecognized. Samuel anointed
the man God showed him, but when it got to the crowning, the scripture has it, "...and they anointed
David king over Israel", ladies and gentlemen, no matter how organized, it doesn't take four people to
put a crown on somebody's head but one —that one man had the grace to represent an entire council
but failed to utilize the grace to be distinctly singled out. As sure as there is day light —you will be
recognize at whatever you do in Jesus name!
 It still shows...

Joseph's brothers understood his dream more clearly than the boy did that's why they fought him.
Sometimes your greatest adversaries, especially those coming from those you feel, in all.ramifications,
are too blessed to envy you, is as a result of them understanding what you represent better than you do.
You may look like absolutely crap but it still shows. Samuel and his oil may be four years ago, but it still
shows. That you don't see it doesn't mean others don't. I can't remember the last time I saw my eyes,
but it doesn't change the fact that those who look at me see it.

Something remarkable also happened in the bible, Three boys entered the fire, four men where seen in
the flames. Maybe the boys didn't know about the fourth man. Maybe the boys didn't feel the fourth
man. Maybe the boys weren't even aware of the fourth man. But most certainly, every other person
who isn't in the flame could see the fourth man —Perhaps while you lament over your predicament and
thinking you're so alone and lost, somebody somewhere is seeing a fourth person like that son of man
standing there with you. Yet you still are in the flames! They knew you should have been consumed by
that illness, but you came out strong. They know you should be looking pennyless, but you're looking
like a million dollars. You know you've failed countless times, but you never went broke. You know you
got nothing in your bank account and the last friend you had joined the wagon and ditched you —but
whenever you need money, there's always a miracle. Whenever you're lonely, there's always an
unexpected friend. I dated a girl who once asked me, “how do you do it? You are all alone and poor, yet
it looks like you got friends allover the place”. I couldn't find am answer because I had no idea people
weren't seeing the same misery as I was seeing. They were seeing the fourth man. A boss saw me living
large and thought I was stealing. He moved me away. I was still living large. I got fired. I still was living
large. In my own eyes, a naira here and another there, God was in the flames with me. I built my first
house with lose changes and tips, while he couldn't buy a land with his millions. God was in the flames
with me!

We're all aware of Jesus walking in the storm and calling unto peter —that's remarkable, yes! But did
you realize that the presence of Jesus didn't exclude the storm? Peter was in the storm. The apostles
were in the storm. Jesus too was in the storm. Perhaps the faith we need isn't just an instruction to walk
on water to come meet Jesus. Perhaps the faith we also need is to sit on the boat and expect him to
come into it like he promised.

...like an halo

But as long as you remain there, understand that the grace to act and that to wait differs. If you
make zero efforts you will have zero testimonies.

Waiting on the lord is grace on its own, people see this grace. It speaks for you. It fortifies you! But
you can't benefit testimonies out of it except admirations. To get a testimony, you must test a principle.

Grace can hover around your head like a halo, and cause you to be revered, but one the cause you to
glow is called Glory. It is like wearing a nice suit, but having nowhere to go. The suit still makes you look
beautiful but the destination not only brings fulfilment, but also attracts satisfaction along the way. The
purpose of that grace is to give you more room and convenience to completely focus on your
destination.

grace to maximize Grace

There are keys to the destination. When you burn the midnight oil and study diligently, rightly
dividing what works from what doesn't —you're maximizing grace. When you're paying attention to
others experiences and formulating theorems, you're maximizing grace. This is why there are many
people jump from glory to glory while there are those who crawl from complains to struggle, because
one part engages their grace while the other utilize their entitlement complex.

There are many heavily anointed people whom the grace active in their lives has brought about
innumerable opportunities to them but their lack of understanding spiritual principles and psychological
preparations has gotten them competing with square one year in and year out, whereas someone with
more preparations are launched into success with just a few opportunity. Truly when you fail to plan,
you plan to fail. Opportunity doesn't knock once but it is your preparation that determines whether you
will hear the next knock even when it comes.

that understanding “why...”

Nobody is lucky! Everybody goes through the same frustrations. But what keeps one lucky and the
other frustrated, is in their determination to utilize the grace given to them -because the name of Jesus
is not a charm, it works by understanding. No amount of prayers and rebuking can change your
condition if you lack that understanding why the prayers are needed in the first place. Grace is the term
given to anything that is released to us through God from the office of Christ, which enables and endues.
—unmeritted favor is not the only dimension of it. Whatever you want you must study how to operate
through faith. And faith isn't all about hope and wishful thinking, but the generic term given to any
action you take, based on the conviction you've got on who God is, but if there is no conviction your
grace on your life, though still active, yet remains grossly unutilized.

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exousía

Everything you ever want is available and already given but you need an anointing to access it. An
anointing enables you to work with divine grace on a thing you're gifted on.
 A Dimension of Grace

The anointing is an authority over a dimension of Grace bestowed by God upon an individual who craves
it —there must be a craving before the advent of the anointing The difference between a gift and the
anointing is that the latter is through a craving and sacrifices paid, and the former is by predestination,
while the point of intervention is God picking an individual to fill in a gap created by the omission of
another, or the necessity for the fulfilment of a mandate amidst the demise of its harbinger —this is
where the anointing comes not by craving but by an instantaneous impartation. Therefore we can say
for example that one is anointed to be a prophet yet he lacks the gift of oratory skills. Of course you
understand am not referring to the gifts of the spirit or ministry, whereas although they are referred to
as gifts, but their manner of contact falls in line with the requirements of the anointing. The gift can
manifest through the natural birth as well as the new birth,

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to
the good pleasure of his will. Eph. 1.5

Nothing about God operates through chance or accident, you may stumbled unto it as so. but from the
beginning it was already predestined. That was why where Jeremiah was calculating his joy at being
summoned by God that Tuesday evening while he was 35 or 45, Yahweh is rather disclosing to him that
this very encounter was preceded aeons ago in the realm of the spirit. So far Jesus was the only prophet
that understood the origin of his encounter being derived from IT IS WRITTEN.

Here's a beautiful scripture

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. Rom. 11.29

The word for gifts there is the same as "charisma", meaning, "a favour with which one receives without
any merit of his own". The word charisma is derived from the root word, "charizomai" which translates
"to do something pleasant, or agreeable (to one), to do a favour to, gratify. This in turn is from the word,
"charis" which broadly means, "good will under divine grace"". And from the original word itself being
"chairō to be glad and rejoice. The constant word there is grace, so let's read it like this,

For the gifts and calling (oklēsis =invitations ) of God are without repentance.

The word repentance there is so beautiful, here have a look.

The word for repentance here is the word "ametamelētos" which means "unregretted", but this
unregetted is from the word, "al'-fah" which is the first letter of Greek alphabet, and talks about Christ
as the Alpha to indicate that he is the beginning and the end. All this is right under the translation of
without repentance, implying that alpha, just as the beginning and the end being the complete whole,
has no end so does his without repentance has no ills tructure expiration.

For the unmerited favor, divine grace, goodwill, rejoicing and gladness, and invitations from God
are without discrepancies and are irrevocable.Rom.11.29
Therefore God makes no mistakes about you.

Do Not Question Its Authenticity

So when next you stand before that glowing blaze of light in the midst of your dark room, do not
question its authenticity like Moses did, as he shaded off the light in timidity while crouching in the
shade of his palm pleading,

"O Lord, I'm just not a good speaker. I never have been, and I'm not now, even after you have
spoken to me. I'm clumsy with words...please send someone else." ,

rather have the understanding that you're billions of years catching up with your IT IS WRITTEN. Little
wonder why he almost made Elohim murder him that same evening but for the timely intervention of
Zipporah his wife. However do feel free to wander through the desert of indecision and opinionated
options to the myriads of choices arrayed for you to choose from, feel free to have whatever confusion
as to what career paths to take —you may be confused or bewildered by which business, or what
politics or how-entertainment, to pick and make first choice of, or which to major and minor on,
ultimately the very thing you're afore-fitted for is what your education will, like the sheaves in Joseph's
dream, bow to God's purpose for your life.

Proverbs 19.21 says "Many plans are in a man 's mind, but it is the Lord 's purpose for him that
will stand".

Saul was a fantastic Pharisee who used his legal understanding to gain in-depth coverage in canonical
proportions over the message of Grace to which he was assigned.

I see no reason why this should create Egoism, rather understand that the appointed time for your
necessity to quit your carpentry and match to Capernaum has come. Mind you, he gave to some
(denominations) apostles, prophets, teacher, pastors, evangelists, as gifts (leaders) FOR THE
PERFECTING OF THE SAINTS. By these we can see that Humans operating with the anointing can be gift
to the church, and not for the glorification of self from the church —You become irrelevant when from a
gift, you become a shrine. Moreover, how unfortunate is the soul that fails to see a gift from God to him
in the person standing before him, yet begs the logic, why give the children's bread to pigs. The crucial
point between pride and ignorance is insightful balance.

Seek and Ye shall find

It is however possible to be called and gifted over a thing you're not yet anointed on— remember the
anointing comes through seeking and sacrifices. You may be a great preacher, but you could easily
distinguish between an entertaining orator from an anointed preacher. There's a huge difference
between, "I enjoy his sermons", and, "I felt God was speaking directly to me"". Desire more of the
anointing. Its exciting really. Depending on your gifts, you may be funny, amusing, serious, or insightful
—that's how you manifest the word with your gifts, but with the anointing, people feel the heat.

You've got two hands, Don't you?

I would also like to add, that without the gifts, the anointing in itself is unattractive. Jesus was a fantastic
communicator who drew mammoth crowds, as well as a miracle worker who healed little girls and boys.
Jesus didn't use the anointing to communicate with the Samaritan woman nor spawn parables, with the
anointing, to deliver encrypted messages, no he used his charisma and oratory gifts. Do not discard one
in the pursuit of the other.

Physician heal thineself

Jabez was extremely gifted with people skills, he was recorded to be more honorable —not just gentle
or social, but distinguished, respectable and with more integrity than his kinsmen, but that man needed
change from his shame. All the while helping others but never being helped. Countlessly seeking for
opportunities but meeting closed doors. Repeatedly cheering others on but nobody applauding his
struggles, “O! that the lord should enlarge my coasts, in addition to my being more honorable than my
kinsmen." Your gift can become a joke until the anointing comes.

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Gifted; but Un-anointed-ly

Like i said, you can be called and gifted over a thing you're not yet anointed on. That was why even
when God appoints a king, he still anoints them. David was called to be king. Gifted with bravery. But
anointed to put an end to rebellion. That was his anointing's purpose. Not to sit on a throne because he
was a good choir boy, but to end a rebellion. Anything that rebelled against the glory of God. David was
anointed to put an end to it. When Goliath rebelled against Jehovah, God got someone specifically
anointed for this purpose to intervene. When Saul rebelled against God, guess who got called up? Was it
because he was more perfect than him? No but just for a moment imagine that David gifted with
bravery lacked the anointing to put an end to rebellion?

To everything —a purpose under

Every anointing must accompany a purpose. Every gift beautifies that purpose. They're both like
bananas and plantains. Alike but different. It is pointless to be an anointed preacher but a stammerer,
even though we have biblical examples like Moses. So be careful with your modules, Moses was a
prophet not a preacher, that is why many of the outstanding miracles where instructed by him to his
brother to carry out. So his natural gift wasn't talking but in administration and meekness. That's the
correct module. Let's learn to discern what we standardize things with. And of course you know the
purpose why he was anointed ultimately by now.

A purpose for Royalty

For every anointing that leaves heaven's warehouse to the earth, into and through a believer, there
is a purpose for its departure.

God is the King of kings, so by implication, it means that in his kingdom —not just heaven as a literal
realm alone, but an operational interjectory in the realm of the spirit that administratively combines
heaven and earth. So literally in his kingdom even the lowest servant is royalty. Not by hereditary alone
but in delegation. Therefore him being the king of kings implies an overlord to an administrative race of
kings. But even in his administration he had left earth under the jurisdiction of men. That Is why Psalms
115.16 says, The heavens are the Lord 's heavens, but the earth has He given to the children of men. The
heavens he hasn't given to the children of men, that is why no matter the visions and revelations, we
will always be guests on the heavenly realm, with a time duration. Likewise He has made it so the
nothing permanents itself on this very realm without submitting to the authority of flesh. Jesus obeyed,
even God needed an arc of covenant in order to retain his visitation on this realm. Demons need flesh to
stay. The angel which wrestled with Jacob knew there will be consequences if he failed to depart before
his duration, so he hastily awarded his opponent the requested blessing. The earth is the domain of
man. Little wonder how Michael who is the patron angel of Israel as a pillar of fire by day and night, still
needed to be summoned in the heavens to go rescue Gabriel being delayed by the prince of Persia.
Despite the face that the spiritual controls the physical, the spirit isn't permitted continual residence in
the physical. For those yet to get the mystery. Just as there are natural gifts, and gifts of ministry and
gifts of the spirit, so also are spiri beings as well as spiritual operations. The gap between the spirit realm
and the physical may be millions of miles, but spiritual modus operandi are millimeters away. Heaven
and hell are far off, but the realm and operations of the spirit are as close to you as your backyard. Their
operations may influence, but their interventions are limited.

A purpose for Permission

For every anointing that leaves heaven's warehouse to the earth, into and through a believer, there
is a purpose for its departure.

As men we have authority to subject whatever that happens in this realm to whatever higher power we
pay allegiance to. They do not influence us, we surrender our influence to them so they will use that
same influence to influence us. Hence the sciprtuee, God is able to do exceeding, abundantly above all
we can ever ask or think, but ACCORDING TO THE POWER THAT WORKETH IN US. God is able, but still
limited to how much we allow him to exercise that ableness. Haven't you wondered how demonic
possession differs to? One man uses a demon to operate as a witch, while another uses the same
demon to flex as a lunatic.

A purpose for Authority

So for every anointing that leaves heaven's warehouse to the earth, into and through a believer,
there is a purpose for its departure.

Even though we allow and disallow. Why do you think Jesus needed all power to be given him on
heaven and on earth? Because as God, he functioned with the spirit, and as man he functioned with the
physical. But as savior he is that point of contact between both realms. So in the name of Jesus every
knee must bow whether in heaven, on the earth or underneath the earth. As man there are limited
things you can do even on this domain. But in Jesus you can do exploit in both realms and attain its full
length and power. Little wonder why the testimony of Jesus is the spirit (spirit realm) of prophecy
(physical realm).

A purpose for enablement

For every anointing that leaves heaven's warehouse to the earth, into and through a believer,
there is a purpose for its departure.

The word explains that every yoke shall be broken by the anointing, but that is just one aspect of the
anointing's functionality.

Depends on your definition of yoke, but the anointing heals, restores, liberates, beautifies, establishes,
the list is endless. Nelson Mandela had the anointing to fight for the liberation of South Africa from the
apartheid. Einstein was anointed to think. An unbeliever in the bible by the name of Cyrus was anointed
to build a house of God. Nehemiah was anointed to rebuild the walls of The temple. And your mother
was anointed to raise you.

But most especially, Lucifer was anointed to contend with God.

It isn't by happenstance that he was not only an Archangel and a cherub, but to run an entire quasi-
government with angels stronger, wiser, smarter, fiercer than him yet no battle for supremacy above
him, and no bloodshed but unity in his ranks despite the absence of brotherliness, love and comradery
only requires the grace of God to accomplish. Even Hitler had love for his country and his country for
him. In his ranks there were comradery.

But imagine a band of ruthless bloodthirsty ravagers aware of their impending doom yet committed to a
cause despites their hatred for each other and a submission to the fraudster who put them in such fate.
In fact, next to Jesus, Lucifer is the most anointed in all ages.
Remember, an anointing is mostly craved for, and sacrifices paid, but the point of divine intervention is
God picking an individual to fill in a gap created by the omission of another, or the necessity for the
fulfilment of a mandate amidst the demise of its harbinger —this is where the anointing comes not by
craving but by an instantaneous impartation, or in the predestined nature of gifts.

Everything has a purpose, every purpose has a reason

* THE REALITIES OF GOD'S WORD

The realities of God's word is not a natural endowment. It is not something God deposits in you after
salvation prayer. He only gives you the capacity to believe according to a measure. You are the one who
must deliberately posses the reins. You must take hold of it never to forget it.

“Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon
your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes”. (Deu 11:18)

The Holy Spirit's job is never to plant faith in an individual but to expand, and to bring into
remembrance, the Word of God.

There is no such thing as great faith only clear realizing: the moment you realize that something is
actually yours, you demand for it, and others interpret that as great Faith. Unbelief is simply not
realizing that what is your is yours. Prayer is nothing bigger than talking God about your needs and
commanding circumstances to obey your wants.

It's not about what life experience has shown you but about the Word of God. Too many people forget
this, you cannot give precious pearls to swine. For you to experience the promotion that is the raw
manifestation of the Word you have to prove yourself worthy. There are many stages of the Word, first
it is a purifier and then it is the main thing. (Joseph, purify word). The Word will never come to you
unless you take hold of it. What I see many more do today is try to rummage those scriptures that
justifies their life experience. There was a time I led a congregation to pray these two prayers, "the
devil's biblical suggestions are not the scriptural word of God", and "God will not lift a finger to help you
unless you pray Him to", not only was there abundant testimonies afterwards but lives were changed
because of the decisions made after that prayer. The atmosphere of the spirit is a quiet place for every
individual. Even God, until He spoke nothing happened. You have to make noise for you to experience
shouts of victory.

* Nothing at all is easy, not even faith. Prayer is not a time or a sessional thing, it is a communicative
restructuring. That is why the Bible says we should communicatively restructure without ceasing.

* The only thing that quakes heaven and earth is prayer not even your faith becouse faith without works
is dead, you need to show what you believe in by how you pray. Prayer takes a dedication and a
singleness of focus in order that your expectations may be met according to how you required of it.

You have been anointed to experience victory on every battle you encounter. That you see the warfare
intensify does not in anyway reduces the potency of your prayer!

* Every word of God comes with a test. With each new revelation comes a test to weigh that revelation
and to see how much you actually believe on it, never also forgetting the preliminary which is the power
of positive confession. The enemy is never your problem but you're ability to follow up on a revelation
is. No matter how much you pray, the devil is still a useful servant of God. This does not mean you
submit to him, contrary you submit to God and resist the devil and he will flee. He has no option but to
flee. During the late hours of April 7th 2018 between the hour of 10-11pm the enemy came expanding
on an ear pain I had that night. He reminded me of how I had injured myself while swabbing it some
years back. The truth was I didn't try to conjure up faith, I just told him plainly that it can't be possible
because I didn't even think it was the particular ear. He tried to get me to accept what he was suggesting
in order to make permanent residence of his illness but I just told him that it wasn't mine to collect. I am
not through collecting what my God is able to supply according to His riches in Glory by Christ Jesus talk
less of collecting what a murderous thief and castaway has to offer. My no remained no. I was having
one of my usual conversations with God and He mentioned something very interesting. It was on the
15th of March 2018. He told me that no revelation is potent without prayer. He said promises remain
promises but prayer makes them provision. A lot of people go about jumping on a promise until it
becomes a mockery for them. The time of God's promises ended with the Old Testament, immediately
Jesus purchased the salvation package all promises of God became items buyable by faith.

*2Co 1:20/KJVLite* For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God
by us.
*Gal 3:22 KJV* But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ
might be given to them that believe.

Rom 9:23-26

23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore
prepared unto glory,

24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also ofthe Gentiles?

25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved,
which was not beloved. ref-1 [ref-1]

26 And it shall come to pass,that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there
shall they be called the children of the living God.

No one has ever gotten out of their problems by focusing on the problem. Looking unto Jesus, Moses'
brass snake. Peter walking on water. One thing they all have in common is that they were looking unto
something other than their troubles and that other potent something was Jesus. Jesus can only author
and perfect your face when you are continually focused on Him. The moment you stop, the process
seizes. Faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the word of God. Until you read the word to the extent that
it begins to sound audible to you, faith will always be an on and off sequence.

* On the 4th of April 2018, on my covenant day of fasting and prayer, while reading a book I heard a
voice distinctively ask me. “Are you sure you're an evangelist or an apostle?” And immediately another
voice asked me, what do you feel [by this revelation] ? I said "confusion", then the voice said, God is not
the author of "confusion". And that settled it. I need you to understand that the first voice wasn't
without a validity. I have the apostolic grace upon me. I am a teacher, a seer, a prophet, a shepherd, and
my deepest passions have been on building people up, administration, healing ministry, etc. I have the
whole package. But that doesn't mean that I am an apostle. So my going to attach the name "apostolic-
evangelist", would be balderdash. because that is anti-scripture and isn't my calling, and am very
confident in my calling, according to Paul, I magnify my ministry.
Whatever revelation you get, if there is any confusion in it, then it isn't from God. The truth is universal
and require little explanation to be received. But lies usually go with a lot of explaining. If you find
yourself keep explaining a "truth" that intermittently slips your comprehension (2Pe 2:12, Jude 1:10), or
you see you teaching a "truth" defensively (Job 6:24-26), or that your entire ministration has the central
theme of an argument (1Ti 1:4, 1Ti 6:4, 1Ti 6:20, Tit 3:9), chances are that you're possibly preaching
from a deception without realizing it. Certain people seem to defend an argument whenever they open
their mouth to preach or teach.

•Whatever comes from God comes with a certain level of clarity. You just know it even if you don't fully
grasp the totality of it. Mary heard that she was to be pregnant without knowing a man, at first she was
shocked, "how can I be seeing that I know no man", but the angel showed her the scriptures and she
understood (Isa 7:10-14)

•Whatever comes from God may exalt you at the conclusion of it, but it will never give you the pride of
exalting yourself. God may even want to purposely exalt you (1Pe 5:6), I preached a sermon once and
before preaching I knelt to pray and God told me, I will exalt you before them. I didn't feel any
compulsion to be proud, in fact the feeling I had was the same feeling anyone will have if they told them
that it was time for them to stand there and preach.

But if you find a word revealing how awesome you are, then know that it isn't the Holy Spirit, because
His job is to glorify Jesus and not you (Joh 16:13-14). I went for a crusade some years ago and the young
prophet there was almost carried away by the abundance of visions and revelations that it took a demon
to bring him to order (2 Cor 12:7). The demon told him that it didn't respect him and if left alone, it
would tear him to shreds but that it was the Christ that was in him that compelled it to obey. In other
words, it wasn't kneeling down because the young prophet had a thriving ministry and that everybody
called him “papa ", but because he was doing it with the authority in the name of Jesus and that it was
that Jesus that it feared not his grandeur. Quickly, I saw the shock and realization fill his face. It is
scriptural, no revelation or spiritual utility should take you beyond the parameters of submission.

* Prayer is the only thing that locates what you're looking for. Whatever it is that you want, only prayer
can transport you there

* It takes expertise and experience to be an authority in a thing. Yes, the gifting opens the door, but
there are many who stand at the door without being an authority at the room.
Patience is required when there is nothing else to do other than to prayerfully wait. But actions is
needed when you see a hint of possibility, and waiting will only prolong delay.

* Power is the true identity of the saint.

What do you have? Power or participation. Because many people confuse power for participation or
participation for power.

It takes being sensitive to work in the supernatural. Sensitivity entails focus, seriousness, single
mindedness, and pursuit.

When God has called you to change lives why waste time dancing according to tunes

This power is, however, not limited to a demonstration of healings and other miracles only; it is
demonstrated in every sphere of life.

Power should be evident by performance as well as by name, and not just by identity alone. A president
is president even in his sleep, but his presidency is more recognized in his actions more than in his sleep.

When you lose the thirst, you lose the obtaining. The requirements to obtain anything from spiritual
reserves is a thirst kind of faith.

When you hang around God there is a composure deposited in you. Your character becomes a little bit
different from those that are not.

If you do what others do from revelation will only be motivational speaking from you.
The difference between you and me is the revelation at work in us with which we work with.

*Raised through the ranks-

If prayer is not your priority, exploits is not your focus.

The anointing is alot about results through doing than results through praying. Jesus was anointed to
"heal the sick" not to "pray that the sick" should recover.

* God is big but only according to your knowledge of him. He only works in proportion with your level of
faith, "...according to the power that work in you" thus to increase the power of God is to increase your
faith. Faith comes by hearing the word, and also by prayer.

•Most times anointing can fade off and become just gifts.

“And the special gift of ministry you received when I laid hands on you and prayed--keep that ablaze!” (2
Timothy 1:6aMSB).

•Get this, for the fact that you're a blessing doesn't mean you're going to be everybody's reward