THE UNLIMITED POWER OF FAITH

Copyright © 2011 by:

David O. Oyedepo
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 Introduction

Faith is that spiritual force which opens humanity to a world

of unlimited possibilities. Faith is a world of no limits; if you
can believe, all things are possible. Faith is living in a
spiritual world of no limits.
All that we see in our Ministry, today, has cost us
nothing; but they have cost God everything. However, it
takes faith to get God on the line. I’d like to say, therefore,
that the capital cost for all our experiences to date as a
Ministry, that keeps committing God to perform, is faith. It is
that kind of faith that I want to impart to you, through this
book. Everything answers to faith, and faith answers to God.
Faith is the most potent force in the whole universe; it’s
the key to everything in the kingdom. So, if there is
anything to know and understand, it is the subject of faith.
Faith is an all-important subject; it holds the key that
opens impossible doors. What is that scientific evidence?
The potent force of faith will re-write it!
Lazarus had been dead for four days, but Jesus came on
the scene and said to his sister, Martha, “… Said I not
unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou
shouldest see the glory of God?” (John 11:40).
The enemy that the world has not yet found a solution to
is called, “death”; but faith has a solution to it, and we saw
it in Lazarus’ story (John 11). That is what qualifies faith to
be called the most potent force in the whole universe. That
is why this fundamental subject is an all-important subject
to everyone in the Kingdom of God. It is the very substance
of Christianity.
 And the word of God increased; and the number of
the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a
great company of the priests were obedient to the
faith.
Acts 6:7
The entire Christian experience is summarized as “the
faith”.
In this book, we shall be looking at what faith is and what
it takes to operate in the Spirit of faith. I am not preaching
or teaching faith because, “that is what they teach” (as the
Ministry is often referred to); I am teaching faith because
that is what I am sent to teach. God said to me, The hour
has come, to liberate the world from all oppressions
of the devil through the preaching of the Word of
Faith; and I am sending you to undertake this task.
That is why I am continually unfolding and unravelling
such depths that are not found in books, by the enabling of
the Holy Spirit. I believe you’re going to grab the things I will
be sharing with you in this book and war with them,
because they work!
Faith And Your Vision
Any assignment you have that is void of faith, is heading
for a crash. This is because it takes the hand of God for you
to deliver your mandate to its fullest. Matthew 9:29 says:
Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to
your faith be it unto you.
Everyone’s result in the pursuit of their heavenly vision,
is a function of the faith at work in them. So, faith is it! If
you don’t have faith, Ministry, for instance, will be a
struggle.
Let’s look at Habakkuk 2:1-4:
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the
tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto
me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the
vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may
run that readeth it.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at
the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry,
wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not
tarry.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in
him: but the just shall live by his faith.
That is, the vision is great, and it’s clear, but it takes faith
to drive it to actualization. By the time you’re through
reading this book, you will be able to locate what you need
to do next, to connect with what it takes to fulfill God’s
mandate for your life.
Vision defines your mission, your destination, and God’s
purpose for your life, while dedication sets the pace for how
far you can ever go. But it is faith that powers you for
accomplishment from one phase of your assignment to the
other. Hebrews 11:2 says: For by it (faith) the elders
obtained a good report.
In John 6:28, they asked Jesus: What shall we do that
we might work the works of God? Let’s see what Jesus
answered them in verse 29:
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the
work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath
sent.
That is the master key that gets the job done. Every
calling remains a burden, until faith comes alive in the
called. Ministry remains barren without faith. Faith is vital in
your vision, because without it you can’t get God to
perform; so your vision remains barren, unfruitful and
unproductive!
The Word of God is delivered by faith. It’s faith that gets
the job done, not strength, effort or sweat. Minus faith, you
are a failure about to happen! Faith is the vital link between
the called and the Caller (God). When faith is out of place,
there is no connection.
 Faith is the currency that God placed in my hand to fulfill
the mandate He gave me. It is the capital and account our
Ministry is drawing from. It is where we are drawing strength
from, and where our impact comes from.
I will take my time in this book to move you into the new
paradigms of faith. I will be showing you the things you
need, to get you connected to this vital force that gets the
job done. Your life will be changed permanently, as I take
you through the school of faith.
The sensitivity of the subject of faith, and the opposition
it suffers from the devil, is why God has sent special envoys
to impart it. I am one of such envoys!
Faith is a very precious virtue delivered through God’s
special envoys, and it moves from generation to generation
by their hands. For instance, what was it that brought the
whole world out of the dark ages? It was Martin Luther’s
message of “The just shall live by faith.”
Everything works by faith. It is to every man according to
his faith. The just shall live by his faith (Habakkuk 2:4).
The quality of life the just lives, is a function of the
efficiency and efficacy of his faith.
I was in Cote d’Ivoire for a meeting, and there was this
woman who had been plagued with HIV/AIDS for 10 years.
She had also just lost her daughter to that deadly plague.
In her testimony, she said when she heard that we were
coming to Cote d’Ivoire for the Empowerment Summit, she
prayed, “Lord, I don’t even need to see him, but if he can
step on this ground, I will be free.” When we arrived the
country on Monday, her faith caught fire! By Tuesday, she
went for a test and tested HIV negative! The plague was
gone! Her blood level that had also dropped so badly had
also normalized! Meanwhile, nobody had laid hands on her –
The just shall live by his faith !
It’s not the quantity of your faith that matters, but its
quality and efficacy. Jesus said in Matthew 17:20:
 ... Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto
you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye
shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to
yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall
be impossible unto you.
Everything works by faith, and no case is too late for
faith. When your faith is at work, your victory in every battle
is guaranteed. Jesus said to Peter:
…Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to
have you, that he may sift you as wheat…
Luke 22:31
When your faith is at work, you are bound to be back on
your feet. When you’re back on your feet, you become an
instrument for strengthening the brethren. So, I don’t care
how many people think you are down! As your faith comes
alive by your encounter with this book, you’re getting back
on your feet!
Outside of faith, life remains a mere struggle. But when
faith is rooted in the truth, and not a game of tricks, when
faith comes alive by the fire of the Word of God, when
spiritual understanding becomes the bedrock upon which
your faith is standing, then results will keep flowing. Faith is
what gives value to every destiny.
Faith Generates Proofs
When faith is at work, your life begins to command
proofs. Above all, everything that had been stagnated in
your life begins to enjoy motion.
The essence of faith is the generation of proofs – at
home, at work, in your journeys, in your children, your
family, etc, — proofs of God’s faithfulness and His power!
Beginning from now, your faith will begin to give you an
unending experience of the proofs of God’s power in your
life! From now on, everyone will know and see that your
faith is working.
Every event in the life of a Christian is a direct product of
faith. Every good report makes the world agree that your
faith is working. Faith is the master key to a world of good
reports. I’m talking about Bible-based, Word–provoked,
Word-fired faith! That is why I’m here to unfold the subject
of faith to you.
Faith Is All It Takes
Faith is all it takes for you to become a living proof. Every
living proof is faith-generated. We see this authenticated in
Hebrews chapter 11. All the living proofs recorded in
Hebrews 11:32-35, for instance, were faith-generated.
And what shall I more say? for the time would fail
me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson,
and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of
the prophets:
Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought
righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the
mouths of lions,
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of
the sword, out of weakness were made strong,
waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of
the aliens.
Women received their dead raised to life again:
and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance;
that they might obtain a better resurrection:
Hebrews 11:32-35
This goes to buttress the fact that every living proof is
faith-generated; faith is all it takes. That is why we are going
to be exploring the mystery of faith, because it’s a principal
requirement for you to be a living proof.
Commanding Masteries!
Every kingdom principle is a mystery. This is because
there may never be any scientific proof, but the results
cannot be doubted. For instances, there is no scientific
explanation for Lazarus’ coming back to life (after being
dead, buried and was stinking for four days!). How about
the turning of water to wine (John 2:1-11)?
 All kingdom treasures are packaged in mysteries. All the
blessings, virtues, and treasures of the kingdom are
packaged in mysteries. Amongst all such mysteries, faith is
a principal mystery, because it is the very substance of the
kingdom. …Unto you it is given to know the mysteries
of the kingdom (Mark 4:11).
If you are born again, you are a member of God’s family
and thus, you can access the mysteries of the Kingdom of
heaven. The mysteries of the kingdom are simply the
spiritual principles of the kingdom. It is by these mysteries
that we command masteries, over the affairs of life here on
earth. That’s what Daniel 11:32 tells us:
…But the people that do know their God shall be
strong, and do exploits.
We will be looking at this all-important subject of faith,
from a mystery perspective and a lot more. I am going to be
proving to you how superior Bible-based faith is to what
philosophers call “faith,” and psychologists call
“confidence.”
Without access to the mysteries of the kingdom, as
children of God here on earth, we cannot gain masteries
over the challenges of life.
We see from Ephesians 3:8-12, that it is by the mystery
of faith that we are able to teach principalities and powers a
lesson. The scripture says:
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints,
is this grace given, that I should preach among the
Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
And to make all men see what is the fellowship of
the mystery, which from the beginning of the world
hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus
Christ:
To the intent that now unto the principalities and
powers in heavenly places might be known by the
church the manifold wisdom of God,
 According to the eternal purpose which he
purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
In whom we have boldness and access with
confidence by the faith of him.
By the mystery of faith, we gain supernatural mastery
over the principalities and powers. The war against your
faith is so intense that Jesus said in Luke 18:8:
...Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall
he find faith on the earth?
Faith will be under the heaviest attack of the enemy
(Satan) in the last days. Even right now, there are many
seated in church, who are religiously wounded and
defeated. Their faith has been so conquered that all they
can say is, “Well, whatever God will do, He will do.”
Faith, therefore, is a very significant issue. In fact, it is
the substance of Christianity, like I already mentioned. We
read again in Acts 6:7:
And the word of God increased; and the number of
the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a
great company of the priests were obedient to the
faith.
Faith is the substance of redemption; it is what gives
value to redemption. It is what births redemption, and gives
value to it. That’s why when your faith is gone, your
redemption loses colour.
Mastery, friend, is a function of mystery. It is your access
to mysteries that confers mastery on you — mastery over
sicknesses, diseases and satanic harassment. The mystery
of faith is what gives you mastery over all satanic
harassment and manipulations. Ephesians 6:16 says:
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye
shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked.
Nothing is a substitute for faith. Nothing! That’s why your
faith is the target of the devil. Until he can crash your faith,
you are still in command. As long as your faith is in place,
your change of story is inevitable. Faith remains the ever-
winning force in the race of life. First John 5:4 says:
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the
world: and this is the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith.
Now, what is God doing? He is after a programme of
exemption that will guarantee you and me a covenant
exemption, from the evil wind of destruction that is blowing
across the length and breadth of the earth. With your eyes
you will be seeing these things, but they will never come
near you! You, your wife, children and children’s children will
never be victims!
Reach Out For An Encounter!
I had my first encounter with this baptism of faith in
1979, while reading Smith Wigglesworth’s book. It conferred
on me a superiority complex over demonic forces. Now,
when I see the devil, I rejoice, because I know I have the
final say.
Again, 20 years ago, I walked the grounds of Oral Roberts
University, so amazed at the magnificence of the structures
there and all. Then I said to myself, “This is God! It can
happen anywhere else.”
That was my encounter with the baptism of faith for
doing the impossible. These two separate encounters
cannot be separated from the happenings in our Ministry
today. This is why Acts 6:7 aptly describes the Christian
experience as “the faith.” Faith is the act of Christianity.
That is why it is very important for everyone of us to
recognize that faith is not just a doctrine; faith is a spiritual
asset that is essential for every Christian who desires to
fulfill his/her destiny.
It’s my pleasure to let you know that God has
prophetically designed a decoration for His Church in the
end-time. No devil can stop it (Isaiah 2:1-4). The Church is in
her best state ever! As the Body of Christ, we are in our
season right now; this is the hour of the saints of God!
 Wherever you are, get set for your supernatural
distinction. It is your turn to flourish like a palm tree, it is
your turn to grow up like the cedar in Lebanon! It is your
turn to become fat and flourishing, in the favour of God!
Faith is it!
Come with me now, as I take you through the school of
faith and let you into the secret of my life.
 Chapter 1

The Foolishness Of Faith

I want to share with you on the intellectual “foolishness”
of faith. You will be able to see, in very logical terms, how
“foolish” faith is.
But, very interestingly too, the foolishness of faith is the
winning ticket in the race of life. That’s why Paul said in
Romans 1:16, that he is not ashamed of the Gospel. This is
because some of its demands are things you could be
ashamed of, as they make you appear like you’re not
rational (to the natural man). But Paul said he’s not
ashamed of it, for inside that “foolishness” lies the power of
God that is able to deliver results.
An understanding of the foolishness of faith will help you
to embrace faith, with a sense of confidence in every
injunction of scriptures. This is because faith doesn’t have to
be rational, when placed on one’s own scale of judgment.
Think of the scriptural injunction in Proverbs 11:24, for
instance:
There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and
there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it
tendeth to poverty.
That’s not sound, is it? That there is someone that is
increasing when he’s “losing” and then, there’s another one
that is keeping what he has, and he’s the one losing. That,
certainly, is not sound arithmetic!
Look at it: I have five things, and I give away three, it
shouldn’t remain plus five, it should remain minus what I
have given away. But the foolishness of faith recommends
that you believe that when you’re scattering, you’re
increasing; but when you’re withholding, you’re decreasing.
Apostle Paul captures this truth in a most graphic manner
in 1 Corinthians 1:20-25:
Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is
the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish
the wisdom of this world?
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by
wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek
after wisdom:
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a
stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
But unto them which are called, both Jews and
Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of
God.
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men;
and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
Most of the demands of scriptures can scarcely be
classified as “rational”; but inside these seemingly irrational
demands lie the power of God that delivers results to the
believer. Inside these seemingly irrational instructions lie
the power of God that decorates destinies.
Five Loaves Feed 5,000!
Five thousand people sat down, and Jesus said to His
disciples (without any pre-plan or preparation), Give them
to eat . They asked Him, “Where do we get anything that
can feed this crowd of people in this desert place?” John 6:6
says:
And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew
what he would do.
Jesus knew that if one could only believe, all things are
possible. Then He asked them, “What do you have there?”
They said, “Nothing! But there is a lad here who has five
loaves and two fishes.” He said, “Let Me have that.” He
instructed that they make the people sit down in fifties,
adding, “They are going to eat right now.” He then lifted up
the five loaves and two fishes to heaven, and gave thanks
with faith reflections from Psalms 67:5-7:
Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the
people praise thee.
Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God,
even our own God, shall bless us.
God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth
shall fear him.
As He gave thanks, the heavens opened, and they were
all fed to their fill, with 12 baskets of food gathered as
leftovers! It was more than enough, through the operation
of the foolishness of faith.
When things are not working, the natural tendency is to
react negatively, “It’s not working! It’s not going well!” But
the scriptural demand is:
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither
shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall
fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall
be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in
the stalls:
Yet I will rejoice in the L ORD , I will joy in the God
of my salvation.
Habakkuk 3:17-18
“Crazy,” wouldn’t you say? “That’s fanatical! Somebody
stole your money, and you’re giving thanks?” But then in no
time, the same people pitying your foolishness will soon line
up at your door, waiting for help. The foolishness of faith!
Lazarus Raised From The Dead!
Now imagine Jesus – they came and told Him that His
friend Lazarus was dead. He got there and said, “Father I
thank you .” Father I thank you? Yes! God won’t hear you
until you thank Him. People would see this as foolishness,
because naturally you don’t say, “Thank you,” until
somebody has done something for you or given you
something. But the instruction of scriptures is clear:
Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer
and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests
be made known unto God.
Philippians 4:6
That is foolishness! Yes! In the kingdom, you have to
thank the Father before He hears you. If anything negative
happens, and you don’t thank Him, it will be negative raised
to the second power. You dare murmur against Him, you are
finished! But it’s not so in the world; where when you
murmur, you secure people’s sympathy.
Water Turned To Wine!
In John chapter 2, Jesus was at a wedding in Cana, and
they ran out of wine. Then Mary (the mother of Jesus) said
to them: Whatever He (Jesus) tells you to do, do it
(John 2:5). Jesus said to them, “Fill the water pots with
water.”
Water? Is it not wine they asked for? Yes! But they
heeded Mary’s counsel, and so they began to pour water
into the water pots. When they were done, He told them to
draw it out, and go and give it to the chairman of the
occasion. They foolishly went ahead to do just that, without
minding what the chairman would say.
The chairman took a sip and said, “Wow! Where did you
get this much better wine from? Why did you have to keep it
till now?” They were not ashamed to fetch the water, so God
was not ashamed to fulfill His Word.
You know, people are ashamed of God; they think He is
irrational, that He has no understanding of current events.
They think the instructions of scriptures are outdated, and
that the Church needs to upgrade them. But I’m glad to let
you know that the foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in
the race of life. Whatever God tells you to do, no matter how
crazy it may appear, believe it and show that you believe it
by doing it. When you do it, you have committed Him to
perform. Then your mockers will turn around to envy you.
Blind Eyes Opened
In John chapter 9, we read about a man who was born
blind. He came to Jesus, and Jesus pasted another blindness
on him sort of, and said to him, “ Go to the pool that is
called Siloam and wash .” John 9:6-7 (NIV) says:
Having said this, he spit on the ground, made
some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s
eyes.
“Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam”
(this word means Sent). So the man went and
washed, and came home seeing.
Do you know why the man went as he was told? He
believed! With the clay plastered over his eyes, he went
asking, “Please show me the way to Siloam.”
They probably were laughing him to scorn, “What kind of
nonsense is this? Remove that thing!” “No,” he said, “I’m
going to Siloam. I shouldn’t remove it until I get there.”
“Crazy man”! They said, “Remove this thing, it’s smelling.”
“No! I’m going to Siloam,” he insisted, fighting them in his
blindness.
He went and washed, as he was instructed. Not long
after, he came back seeing! Everybody began to look for he
that was just a little while ago called, “Crazy! Foolish!”
People might have called you crazy; but they will soon start
looking for you!
The foolishness of faith is the winning ticket in the race of
life - “Whatever He tells you to do, do it.” When we
began preaching and teaching the subject of prosperity, the
Ministry suffered untold persecutions. It was fierce, tense
and bad! They called us terrible names, but see where the
foolishness of faith has brought us! All our mockers have
eventually gone into hiding!
Multitude Of Fishes
 Again see the foolishness of faith on display. After His
resurrection, Jesus appeared to His disciples where they
were fishing and asked, “Children have you any food?” (John
21:5). They said, “No!” Then He said, “Okay cast your net on
the right side of the ship, and you will find some.”
One would want to ask, “What is the difference between
the right side and the left side of the ship?” But they
believed Him, and did exactly as He told them to. As they
did, the Bible records, “They were not able to draw it in,
because of the multitude of fish” (John 21:3-6). They had
more than they bargained for, when they did as He
commanded.
No matter how close you are to what He is saying, make
sure you don’t celebrate your closeness, just get to the
point He’s instructing you to get into.
The Mystery Of Feet-Washing
To a “modern” believer, feet-washing has nothing in it.
Why? He’s too intelligent to descend that low. His reasoning
is, “Okay, when they now wash your feet, how does that
affect your body? I can’t understand it!”
But Paul told us that God has chosen the foolish things.
So, if you are chosen, you are counted among the foolish –
that is the only way you could have been chosen.
First John 1:7 says:
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we
have fellowship one with another, and the blood of
Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
How could someone have died more than 2,000 years
ago, and His Blood “cleanses” (not cleansed) you, from all
unrighteousness! You must be really wonderful!
So, if you’re stupid enough to get saved, go full length
then in your stupidity to believe every instruction of
scriptures. By doing so, you will definitely end up with a
celebrated future.
There is no idle instruction in the Bible, because even the
Bible tells us that for every idle word that a man speaks, he
will be made to give account of it. Jesus who said that could
not have been speaking idle words. So, when the instruction
for feet-washing was instituted (John chapter 13), its
purpose was also made clear. It’s much like, “Go to the pool
of Siloam and wash,” and the man did that and came back
seeing.
The mystery of feet-washing was designed to deliver to
every believer the goods Christ paid for at redemption. So, a
believer, by the mystery of feet-washing, can begin to
experience and enjoy whatever Jesus died for in his life.
Every scriptural injunction has virtues inherent in it, to
which every believer can connect by faith. If you believe
that God instituted the mystery of feet-washing for the
transmission of divine virtues, and for the release of the
goods which Jesus died for into your life, when your feet are
washed, they are released to you.
Naaman’s Leprosy Cleansed
In 2 Kings chapter 5, we read about a captain in the
Syrian army called, Naaman. He was a leper. He came to
Elisha the prophet, seeking healing, and the prophet gave
him a clear instruction, “Go and wash in the Jordan river
seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and
you shall be clean.”
Naaman was furious, “Ah! Does this man think I’ve not
had a bath today? Besides, if I needed a swim, I have a
swimming pool in my house!” Then the young Israelite
maid, who had recommended Elisha the prophet said to
him, “My Lord, if the prophet had asked you to do
something grand and more demanding, you would have
gladly done it. What he has asked you to do is very simple,
and you are arguing. Why don’t you just go and dip
yourself?”
He said, “No way! Did I tell you I’m as stupid as they
are?” But when he eventually did as he was instructed, and
dipped himself in Jordan seven times, the Bible said, “ And
his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child,
and he was clean .” That is the foolishness of faith! If all
you want is to be called wise, yet you still end up a failure,
then go ahead.
In the kingdom, you have to be called a fool for you to be
full. Until men have called you a fool, you cannot be full. If
you want to be called wise, you can be wise and still die dry.
But in the kingdom, the foolishness of God is wiser than
men.
In Isaiah 55:8, God makes us understand that His ways
are not our ways. God’s ways are higher! To men in low
estate, in their natural realm, God’s ways look like stupid;
but the wisdom of God is far beyond human comprehension.
A Virgin Gets Pregnant!
Can you imagine a young lady waking up one morning
and telling everyone that an angel had appeared to her
saying, “Hey, Mary, you are highly favoured.” Everybody’s
response would be, “She’s a stupid girl. She must have been
daydreaming.” But an angel did appear to her, saying in
Luke 1:31:
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and
bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
She asked, “ How can this be, since I do not know a
man?,” and the angel assured her in Luke 1:35:
…The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the
power of the Highest shall overshadow thee:
therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of
thee shall be called the Son of God.
She believed! Did it happen or not? It did, against all
nature and biological studies and medical verdicts. “How
can somebody be pregnant without knowing a man?” Today,
Mary has almost as much followers as Jesus, just for tapping
into the virtues of the foolishness of faith. Luke 1:45 says:
And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be
a performance of those things which were told her
from the Lord.
 Blessed be God, the foolishness of faith remains the
winning ticket in the race of life! Whatever God tells you to
do, just do it; don’t rationalize it. Do it believing, and by so
doing, you have committed Him. By committing Him, you
are bound to see what He has said come to pass.
Welcome to the unlimited benefits of the foolishness of
faith!
 Chapter 2

What Is Faith?
I’m in active partnership with God in the pursuit of His
assignment. I want to show you how it works, so you can
come to a place where you’re commanding extraordinary
results in the pursuit of your own assignment too, a place
where you become an amazement to your world, by reason
of your active partnership with the Caller.
It’s possible for you to become a man/woman wondered
at, by reason of the strange acts of God being generated in
your assignment. Faith, is what gets you there. You,
therefore, need a deep understanding of the subject of faith.
What you know is what defines where you are now or where
you will end up in life. When you know more, you will go
higher. It’s time to stop celebrating what you know, and
begin to find out about what you don’t know.
We engage faith to tap into divine virtue, which in turn
enhances your value. Your vision can never deliver beyond
the level of faith you are operating in. The beauty of every
vision is a function of the quality of faith that is employed.
The colour of every destiny is a function of the quality of
faith that is employed. Without faith, your vision has no
substance. It’s faith that defines the substance of your
vision. Every act of God in our lives is only realizable via
faith. As long as your faith is on fire, you remain on a flight.
As long as your faith is alive, you remain in command.
It is to you according to your faith, not according to your
vision. If your faith is down, your life and destiny will be
down. So, what is faith?
 FAITH IS: Engaging The Word
Faith is engaging the Word of God, in order to enforce the
delivery of your destiny. You engage the Word of God in faith
to enforce the delivery of your desires. Sometimes, it may
not be convenient, but if it is commanded, that’s the only
way to where you are going – engaging what is commanded,
to determine the happenings in your life and around you.
This is what makes faith the vital force that gets the job
done. As long as your faith is in place, you remain in
command.
A Spiritual Force
Faith is not a psychological force, nor is it a philosophical
force. It is a spiritual force. Faith is not an intellectual issue
either; it is a spiritual virtue that operates within the spirit of
man – not in his head. Romans 10:10 says:
For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation.
Faith is not an issue of the head, but an issue of the
spirit. Faith is not a psychological reconditioning of the
mind, it’s a spiritual force that has what it takes to silence
the opposition and deliver your possession to you.
Whatever is working contrary to your inheritance in
Christ, faith can stop it instantly. It was so for the woman
with the issue of blood; the flow of blood stopped
“immediately!,” and her health was restored on the spot
(Mark 5:25-34).
The Spiritual Chemistry
Faith is the spiritual chemistry by which you quench
oppositions, clear obstacles and access your possessions.
Mark 11:23 says:
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say
unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou
cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe that those things which he saith
shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he
saith.
Let me quickly explain this spiritual chemistry of faith.
Every time faith is at work, a spiritual connection is
established, and that connection provokes the flow of virtue
from God. That virtue flows to enhance your value.
In the story of the woman with the issue of blood (Luke
8:43-48), who came from behind and touched the helm of
Jesus’ garment and was healed instantly, Jesus asked,
“Who touched me?” Peter said to Him, “Master, the
multitude throng and press you, and you say, ‘Who
touched you?”
But Jesus said: Somebody touched me, for I
perceived power (virtue) going out of me (Luke 4:46
NKJV). That is, “Somebody has tapped into what I carry;
somebody has connected with My virtue and has drawn out
of Me for a change of position. Something has gone out of
Me.” Every time faith comes alive in any area of your life,
you connect with divinity, from where virtue flows to destroy
the enemy and release what belongs to you.
When the woman knew she could no longer hide, she
came forward and told Jesus why she touched the helm of
His garment, and how she was healed immediately. He said
to her, “…Your faith has made you well…”
Faith was the connection that provoked the flow of the
virtue that stopped the enemy from tormenting that destiny
any further, and restored to her all what the enemy had
stolen. That’s what I call, “the spiritual chemistry.”
What I have just shown you is what faith does – it taps
into God’s omnipotency, and restores what belongs to you.
That’s what happens anytime faith comes alive in your spirit
– virtue flows from the Most High. Every time virtue flows
from the Most High, your enemies give way and your
inheritance is released.
A Living Force
 Faith is a living force, drawn from the living Word, to
produce living proofs. That woman drew from Jesus, the
Living Word, and a living proof was produced.
Faith is not just believing that God can do something; it is
being moved to do something to prove that you believe.
When you are moved to act on what God commands, He is
committed to perform. So, faith is an act.
A living force came out of the living Word and delivered
to her a living proof – her flow of blood stopped! Every flow
of shame is stopping in your life today! Whatever represents
shame in your life is coming to an end today! You are
entering your point of rest this hour, in Jesus’ name! You
have struggled enough; it’s time to begin to shine.
Faith is the only way to move God in your favour, and
faith is the only way to stop the devil from stopping you. So,
it’s the two sides of the coin. Hebrews 11:6 says:
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for
he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and
that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him.
The Book of Hebrews is rich with testimonies of people
who moved God - they moved God from His throne and
brought Him into the fiery furnace; they moved God from
His throne and brought Him into the lion’s den. Faith is the
only way to move God in your direction; it’s the only way to
stop the devil. Without faith, therefore, you are finished!
I know you can make some things happen, but there is
no psychological system of stopping the devil or his fiery
darts. Ephesians 6:16 says:
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye
shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked.
Faith moves God, as well as stops the devil. Everything
harassing you must stop today!
Hard Work
Faith is no cheap talk, faith is hard work.
 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath
ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest
any man fall after the same example of unbelief
Hebrews 4:10-11
Faith requires a form of labour, as you don’t wish for
faith, but work at faith. Faith does not answer to wishes, it
answers to workings – working in the Word of God.
Whether it is conventional faith or supernatural faith, all
forms of faith draw from your Word bank – your Word
reservoir. The things on your inside are what faith draws
from. It has to be there before faith can draw.
When you are challenged in any area, you work the
Word, in a quest for the faith required to deliver your desire.
It is your labour investment in the Word that qualifies you to
access the virtue of faith. Romans 10:17 says:
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.
We are enjoined in 2 Peter 1:5:
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your
faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
You can’t add to your faith without diligence. Faith does
not increase in the life of the idle, it increases in the life of
the diligent.
Without spiritual diligence, you remain spiritually
indigent. I laboured in the Word for three days, to enter into
the faith for prosperity. I also laboured for three days on the
mountain, to enter into the faith for the prophetic. I went
into seven days of labour, to enter into the virtues of the
Acts of the Apostles.
Faith, I say again, is no cheap talk, faith is hard work!
First Timothy 5:17 tells us:
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of
double honour, especially they who labour in the
word and doctrine.
 We must labour in the Word, in order to command divine
honour. It takes labouring in the powerful Word of God to
add to your faith. Receive that grace, in Jesus’ name!
A Great Profession
Faith is no mere confession; faith is a great profession.
Hebrews 10:23 says:
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without
wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;
Faith is a great profession, therefore, it requires skills.
Profession connotes definite skills; it requires skills to
maximize its benefits. The Bible says in Hebrews 5:12-14:
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye
have need that one teach you again which be the
first principles of the oracles of God; and are become
such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the
word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full
age, even those who by reason of use have their
senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
There is need for skill. That’s why faith is no mere
confession, but a great profession. You need to grow in that
profession by showing diligence in the school of faith.
It is not what you confess that you possess (as many
have thought and believed). What you profess is what you
possess. It is in the doing of what He says that you possess
what He has promised. The practice of faith plus the
confession of faith is what results in your possession. For
instance, you can confess prosperity from now till Jesus
comes. But until you profess the covenant of prosperity, you
can’t be a beneficiary of that prosperity plan of God.
Confessing is all about speaking, while professing is all
about manifesting, demonstrating or practising whatever
skill you have acquired.
When the faith message first came, people just settled
for whatever was convenient for them, but ignored
whatever required their taking responsibility. They went
about declaring, “What I confess, I possess.” But they kept
confessing and were not possessing. Yet they did not bother
to find out what was wrong. They kept confessing until they
were confused! If a man is too big to repent, for instance, no
matter how much he confesses salvation, he will not be
saved. Faith is not mere confession, it is a great profession.
Faith is not cheap talk, but spiritual hard work.
That you are working in a bank, for instance, does not
entitle you to go and draw money from any account from
across the counter, does it? You need to first have an
account that you are servicing continually, an active
account, before you can withdraw — even if you are the
managing director of that bank. Likewise, every believer
needs to understand that faith is a profession and accept
the spiritual responsibility required to make it work.
Faith is a profession; therefore, you need to develop your
depth in the operation of it. That will determine your rating
in the profession of faith. You must labour in the Word of
God to enhance your growth in the school of faith, and also,
your skills in the operation of faith.
If a pregnant woman is too busy to go into the labour
room to bring forth, she’s running a risk with that
pregnancy. Even so, you must enter into the Word of God to
bring forth the faith you require, for the task that has been
given to you.
When God moved us from where we were in town to far
away Canaan Land in Ota, I sat down to study the
wilderness ministry of Christ. I saw that people were
constantly pressing after Him; they followed Him
everywhere He went in their multitudes.
By the time I was through with that survey, my
confidence came alive. Forever, He is the One the people
will be coming to meet at Canaan Land; so I knew there was
no way they won’t come seeking Him. They really came!
Now we hold four fully-packed services in our 50,000-seat
Faith Tabernacle every Sunday.
Service at Canaan Land starts at 6:30 a.m., but by 5:30
a.m. the people are already arriving from everywhere.
Between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., all the Canaan Land buses leave
to go and bring the people in, from their various points,
where they have already queued up, waiting, ready to go!
You need to find out why the modern faith you’ve been
using is not producing. There is a change in syllabus; the
curriculum has changed. Find out what works now in the
school of faith.
Faith is no cheap talk, faith is hard work! It’s all a matter
of responding to the change in curriculum, so that you are
not grounded. Faith works any day, anytime, anywhere! But
it’s hard work. That is why the Bible says:
… Be not slothful, but followers of them who
through faith and patience inherit the promises
Hebrews 6:12
Faith is no cheap talk; only hard workers can walk their
into that realm – those who will read books and the Bible,
those who will settle down with tapes and CDs, and those
who are ready to learn, not just reading for fun. They are
those who will tap into dimensions of God through
revelation upon revelation, and move forward in life. There
is no great result without a great demand. You can’t eat
your cake and have it. There’s no free lunch in life!
We have come thus far by faith. You should know that
wherever you are now in life, faith got you to and only faith
can take you to the next phase/level. Faith never fails
people, because it draws from the omnipotency of God.
Faith has only one source –the Word of God. Settling
down with the Word of God and anointed materials helps
your deep absorption of the truth and testimonies that will
provoke your faith, so that you can get up from the level
where you are to the next level.
 The work of God is impossible to accomplish in the
energy of the flesh. Your human connections are inadequate
for maximizing the delivery of your heavenly connectivity. I
am glad to announce to you that I have relied absolutely on
my heavenly connectivity with the Caller, because I was
privileged to know how.
The Evidence of Faith
The one and eternal evidence of faith is called, “Rest”.
Rest is the Biblical evidence of faith. Since you don’t know
exactly when what you’re expecting will come, you may
keep looking for it forever. Second Corinthians 13:5 says:
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith;
prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves,
how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be
reprobates?
You can by yourself prove faith. That means, there are
ways of knowing whether you have arrived (at faith) or not,
and that is when REST is there.
The three Hebrew boys (in Daniel chapter 3) respectfully
entered the fiery furnace, and fearlessly came out of it.
Daniel restfully entered into the den of lions and came out
gallantly from it (Daniel chapter 6).
Even when there was no evidence of it, in the room
where I encountered faith for prosperity, I knew I was going
to be super-prosperous. When the faith of it came, rest
came, and that rest has not left since. Your rest has come!
There is no situation under heaven that can resist the
authority of faith.
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all
things are possible to him that believeth.
Mark 9:23
After we got married, I came home one day and my wife
told me she had had a miscarriage. I simply said, “It cannot
happen! Can I have my food, please?” There was no further
mention of it, not even in prayer. Why? I had already
entered into rest in that area. I had heard from God in His
Word: You shall be blessed above all people; there
shall not be male nor female barren among you, or
among your cattle (Deuteronomy 7:14).
I wasn’t married, yet when I heard it; but I heard it from
God for the time to come. Proverbs 24:10 says:
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is
small.
The Bible also said in Proverbs 24:5:
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge
increaseth strength.
You are expected to build up strength against the day of
battle (adversity); you don’t prepare for war in the war
front! You labour till the point of rest, where you become
immoveable, always abounding in your position in God, no
matter what is happening around you.
Rest, is the capital evidence of faith. Your restlessness is
a proof of your unbelief. When you enter into the realm of
faith, you enter into your realm of rest.
Someone once asked me, “What do you do between the
time you give and when you receive?” I replied, “I’ve never
thought about it.” I have since entered into the realm of
supernatural supplies and divine blessings. I don’t think
about what happens between the time I give and when I
receive. May you also enter into your rest!
Engaging The Word
Faith is engaging the Word to enforce the delivery of your
desire (John 2:5-11). Whatever He tells you to do, do it. No
matter how crazy it may sound, do it, and your desire will be
delivered. John 2:5 says:
His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he
saith unto you, do it.
Jesus said to them in John 2:7:
… Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled
them up to the brim.
It made no sense, but they did it any way and the result
came. Your own result is coming!
 Sharing Responsibility
Faith is sharing responsibility with God in the light of
scriptures, in order to take delivery of your desired future.
Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any
meat? They answered him, No.
And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right
side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast
therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for
the multitude of fishes.
John 21:5-6
In other words, “This is what to do to commit My
faithfulness…” and they did it. The slogan, “God will do it” is
not a complete truth. Knowing and doing your part is what
commits God to doing anything for you. Until your part is
done, God is not committed. Faith is accepting spiritual
responsibility, in order to commit God’s integrity.
Faith is not, “God will do it.” Faith is doing what God says,
to commit Him to do it. Doing what God says to commit Him
is the complete truth about faith.
Faith, therefore, is not just believing God; it is obeying
God, to prove that you believe Him. James 2:26 says:
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith
without works is dead also.
Abraham was justified by works. Show me your faith
without your works, and I will show you my faith by
my works . Faith is obeying God to prove that you believe
Him, so as to commit Him to perform His Words.
In Romans 4:17-21 we read:
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many
nations,) before him whom he believed, even God,
who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things
which be not as though they were.
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might
become the father of many nations; according to that
which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his
own body now dead, when he was about an hundred
years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
He staggered not at the promise of God through
unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
And being fully persuaded that, what he had
promised, he was able also to perform.
You can know when faith is at work and when it is not.
Faith is not just believing what God has said, it is essentially
doing what He has said, to prove that you believe it.
Again, let’s see faith at work in John chapter two. Jesus
told the servants to fill the water pots with water; like
dummies, they were publicly filling the pots with water.
Then He gave them another instruction in John 2:8:
…Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the
feast. And they bare it.
They never asked any questions! They filled the cup and
served the chairman. He took it, and the wine was of a
better quality than the one they had bought with money.
Note that in all this, there was no screaming, no crying,
no gyrating and no jumping! It was simply faith in action
through practical obedience – “Whatever he tells you to
do, do it.”
So, faith is not just believing the Word; the devil also
believes and trembles (James 2:19). Just being in agreement
with God is not faith. Putting God’s Word to work, with an
assurance in your heart that God is faithful, is faith.
Hebrews 11:11 says:
Through faith also Sara herself received strength
to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when
she was past age, because she judged him faithful
who had promised.
Note also that faith is not just saying things, faith is doing
things. Faith is doing what is commanded, not just saying
what is commanded. Saying it is good, but doing it is the
real thing!
 The Abrahamic Order of Faith
Let me show you the Abrahamic order of faith. The Bible
says in Genesis 12:1-3:
Now the L ORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out
of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy
father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will
bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt
be a blessing:
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse
him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of
the earth be blessed.
Then Genesis 12:4 says:
So Abram departed, as the L ORD had spoken unto
him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy
and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
The Bible did not say, “and Abraham announced…” He
didn’t go about his village announcing, “I am going to a
place where God will make me a great nation.” No! The
Bible says, “So Abram departed.” He never uttered a
word, but simply departed.
May I say this again: faith is not just saying things (as
many charismatics have been deceived into doing). Faith is
essentially doing things; then saying it becomes a channel
for provoking God to performing it.
In Genesis chapter 17, God again said to Abraham:
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin;
and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me
and you.
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised
among you, every man child in your generations, he
that is born in the house, or bought with money of
any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought
with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my
covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting
covenant.
Genesis 17:11-13
What did Abraham do after this?
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that
were born in his house, and all that were bought with
his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s
house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in
the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when
he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Genesis 17:23-24
It had never been done before, yet Abraham gave no
thought to whether it could lead to death. Same day! That’s
faith in action, bringing about unusual manifestations. Faith
is not cheap talk; faith is essentially a delightsome
compliance with the demands of scriptures, in order to have
your desires fulfilled.
Genesis chapter 22 further reveals the Abrahamic kind of
faith. God said to Abraham:
…Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom
thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and
offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the
mountains which I will tell thee of.
Genesis 22:2
What was Abraham’s response?
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and
saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with
him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the
burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place
of which God had told him.
Genesis 22:3
Instant obedience to God’s command!
Obedience Is It!
Abraham’s kind of faith is not a “talk-talk” faith; it was
“act-act” faith. There’s so much talk going on in the Church,
instead of action. No level of sacrifice is a substitute for the
obedience of faith. Action–based faith is what commands
manifestations.
There is no accidental success in the kingdom, not even
in the world. There is what you must do for what you desire
to be delivered into your hands. This should let you know
that faith is far beyond the psychology of mental assent; it
is practical obedience to the commands of God, so as to
commit God to perform His Word.
Obedience, therefore, is the stronghold of faith. It is your
anchor in the times of storm. Believing without obedience is
mere religious deception! Until you begin to do what you
claim to believe, your faith is fake. It is your positive
response to God’s Word that authenticates your faith. Doing
is the emphasis of faith.
For instance, a man cannot love his wife as Christ loves
the Church and lose his marriage. God’s Word says:
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also
loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:25
The love-failure of husbands is the reason for every
broken marriage. For instance, we have done enough for
God to cast us away, but love won’t let Him do that. Nothing
holds a home together like the love of the head of the
family.
On the other hand also, no wife that fully submits to her
husband, as the scripture has commanded, will leave her
home. This simultaneous equation (husband love your
wife… wives submit to your husbands…) will make you not
to need any prayer to have a very harmonious family. By
doing what the scriptures command, you bring God to bear
on every issue in your family, and God’s presence will
terminate all kinds of pressure.
For a husband who will not love his wife, 40 days of
fasting is religious fatigue, because to obey is better than
sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams (1 Samuel
15:22). For a woman who will not submit to her husband, 70
days of fasting will not keep her home.
Obedience will always provoke the hand of God upon
your life. It is all it takes to enjoy all-round victory, success
and breakthroughs. Amos 3:3 says:
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
When you obey His command, you are provoking His
presence, and in His presence is fullness of joy, and at His
right hand, pleasures forever more (Psalms 16:11). In
Psalms 114:3, we are told:
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.
If God be for us, who can be against us? Trouble will
begin to flee in your family as you obey His command,
because by so doing, you have provoked divine presence
(Psalms 114:1-9).
When all you do agrees with God, you are oppressing
satan’s belief system (Matthew 4:4-11). When your
obedience is fulfilled, you will avenge all disobedience.
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war
after the flesh:
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong
holds;)
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing
that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
Our strongest weapon in the world of the spirit is
obedience. Your obedience to the Word of God is your
stronghold in the race of life. You are unbeatable by all the
forces of hell, when you walk in obedience. The only way to
prove that you believe it is to do it.
Faith is not “talk-talk”; faith is “act-act.” Abraham was
not a talk-talk believer; he operated action-based faith, no
wonder he commanded unusual results. Whatever you
desire to accomplish in life, as you obey God, it will be
accomplished by faith. Receive grace to walk in obedience
to the commands of scriptures, in the name of Jesus!
Faith is not making God responsible for the happenings;
faith is sharing responsibility with God in the light of
scriptures, to create your desired future. You have a part to
play; it is only after you have played that part that you
commit Him to play His part.
Any faith that seeks to make God absolutely responsible
for the events of your life, is an irresponsible faith. God’s
integrity commits Him to play His part, only after your part
has been played.
There is nothing you desire that is not available, but
there are conditions to meet for the actualization of every
promise. When your part is done, then God’s part is
guaranteed.
Being Fully Persuaded
Faith is being fully persuaded about the truth, (the
prevailing circumstances notwithstanding) until the truth
triumphs. Look at Abraham’s example, for instance. Romans
4:20-21 says:
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto
my sayings.
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in
the midst of thine heart.
When we operate the truth in faith, our triumph is
guaranteed. Second Corinthians 2:14 says:
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us
to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour
of his knowledge by us in every place.
We triumph by the operation of the truth, by being fully
persuaded of the truth.
A Display Of Confidence
Faith is also a display of confidence in God and His Word,
until the desired result is obtained. Hebrews 10:35-36 says:
 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which
hath great recompence of reward.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have
done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Partnering With The Invisible

Faith is partnering with the invisible in the light of
scriptures, usually for the accomplishment of the
impossible. Speaking concerning Moses, hear what the Word
of God says in Hebrews 11:24:
By faith Moses, when he was come to years,
refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;
Moses was in active partnership with the invisible; so he
was empowered to accomplish the impossible in Egypt. As
one man, he held a whole nation to ransom, and no man
was able to touch him! That active partnership with God
changed his status, and God said to him: See I have made
you a god unto Pharaoh (Exodus 7:1). His active
partnership with God empowered him to do the impossible.
Faith is not moving God to act, faith is working with God
in getting things done. Just like Moses, Daniel was also in
the company of the invisible and, therefore accomplished
the impossible. It was so with the three Hebrew boys,
Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego (Daniel chapter 3 and 6).
The three Hebrews boys said:
Our God, whom we serve, is able to deliver us, and
he will deliver us from your hand o king…
Daniel 3:17
Active faith qualified them for active partnership with the
invisible. When they were cast into the fire, the Bible says,
“There was a fourth man in the fire, like the son of
God” - The invisible appeared by the active faith of man.
The Bible said concerning them:
And he commanded the most mighty men that
were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abed-nego, and to cast them into the burning fiery
furnace
Daniel 3:20
The men who threw them in were burnt up by the fire;
but of these three boys we read in Daniel 3:27:
And the princes, governors, and captains, and the
king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw
these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power,
nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were
their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed
on them.
Let’s see the king’s reaction in Daniel 3:28:
Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be
the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who
hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that
trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word,
and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve
nor worship any god, except their own God.
Their trust in Him provoked their active partnership with
the invisible, which enabled them to accomplish the
impossible. The invisible had no choice but to appear on
their behalf. Where God has brought our Ministry to, today,
is a proof of the reality of active partnership with the
invisible, for the purpose of getting the impossible done.
Your active partnership will commit God’s active
involvement in the affairs of your life, and in the pursuit of
your vision any day.
Daniel said: My God has sent his angel and has
stopped the mouth of the lion and they have not hurt
me (Daniel 6:22). It was the invisible that appeared in the
den of lions on the platform of faith. I see the invisible going
with you and empowering you for the impossible, from
henceforth! No force from hell shall be able to devour the
mandate that God has placed on your life!
It takes your active faith to qualify for active partnership
with the invisible.
 A Form Of Spiritual Engraftment
Faith is a form of spiritual engraftment into divinity,
which enables one to walk in practical dominion here on
earth.
Grafting is an agricultural term. It is the taking of the
stem of a tree and grafting it into another tree. When that
happens, the nature of the engrafted stem changes. It now
draws directly from the new stock, and begins to bear fruits
after the order of the new stock it is grafted into.
That is what faith does - it grafts the natural into the
immortal. That is, mortality is now grafted into immortality,
so that mortality now enjoys the nature of immortality.
Paul the apostle, by the revelation of the Spirit, brought
forth an amazing light regarding this mystery in Romans
11:19:
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off,
that I might be graffed in.
What faith does is to graft you into God, so that you’re
now drawing directly from God. The nature of God then
begins to find expression in you by faith. Let’s read more
about this.
For if God spared not the natural branches, take
heed lest he also spare not thee.
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of
God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee,
goodness, if thou continue in his goodness:
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in
again.
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is
wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature
into a good olive tree: how much more shall these,
which be the natural branches, be graffed into their
own olive tree?
Romans 11:21-24
 Faith is what qualifies you for that engraftment. When
faith comes alive in you, you begin to draw from God’s
nature and express it in practical dominion here on earth.
You command results after the order of God, because you
have been grafted into God. That is, your humanity has
been grafted into divinity – and divinity connotes dominion.
Much more, because you are now drawing directly from
God, whatever cannot be found in God can no longer be
found in you. So, typhoid fever cannot be found in you!
Failure cannot be found in you! The strength of God (which
is strange to humanity) becomes your portion. You now put
on the energy of divinity in the pursuit of your assignment.
That is faith! It alters weakness and converts it to strength.
It changes sickness to health.
Whatever is in God (e.g., the wisdom of God) begins to
flow into your mortal system, and everybody begins to
wonder, “From where did this man get this wisdom and this
mighty works?” (Mark 6:2). He is simply drawing it from His
engraftment.
Faith is not, “I believe, I confess!” No! That is
kindergarten stuff. This grafted stuff doesn’t need to confess
anything; it’s just grafted. You are grafted and you’re just
drawing naturally, and are naturally manifesting divinity – in
your system, your brain, your physical structure, your
stamina, your perspective, everything! You are simply
manifesting your divinity within your humanity. That is faith!
This is why I also call Bible-based faith the key to a world of
exploits.
Asset Of Inestimable Value
Faith is an asset of inestimable value. What do I mean by
this?
1. Faith is the only way to move God in your favour.
Hebrews 11:6 says:
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for
he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and
that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him.
Without faith, it’s impossible to move God. The rest of
Hebrews chapter 11 gives us a catalogue of God movers–
men and women who moved God to come on the scene. It is
impossible to move God in your favour without faith.
2. Faith is the only way to stop the devil from molesting
your destiny. Ephesians 6:16 says:
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye
shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked.
Faith is the capital force that will confront the opposition
and conquer it. By it Moses delivered Israel out of Egypt,
and Martin Luther delivered the world from the dark ages.
May the spirit of faith, which has distinguished our Ministry,
bellow upon you this hour in an irrevocable manner, in the
name of Jesus Christ! The knowledge of the truth is of no
value without faith. It is faith that gives value to knowledge,
because it’s only what you believe (not what you know) that
you become. What you know sets the pace for what you
believe, and what you believe is ultimately determined by
your faith.
It is to you according to your faith, not according to your
knowledge. That’s why faith is an asset of inestimable
value. That’s why your faith must be jealously guarded and
strategically protected, so that you can remain in command
in the affairs of your life. Your dominion will remain a
daydream without faith for through faith, they subdued
kingdoms, quenched the fiery furnace, stopped the
mouth of lions (Hebrews 11:33).
3. Without faith no man can be saved. We read in
Ephesians 2:8-9:
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works,
lest any man should boast.
 You are born again by faith.
4. God’s Word also indicates that we stand by faith.
Second Corinthians 1:24 says:
Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but
are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.
You are born again by faith, and you are standing till date
by faith.
5. By faith we walk. Second Corinthians 5:7 says:
(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)
6. We also understand that we are healed by faith.
And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good
comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in
peace.
Luke 8:48
The woman with the issue of blood was made whole by
her faith.
7. By faith we overcome. The world is full of obstacles on
your way to the possession of your promised land. You will,
therefore, have to conquer the giants there. First John 5:4
says:
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the
world: and this is the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith.
Your destiny is at the mercy of your faith.
8. It is by faith that good reports are obtained. The Bible
says:
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders
obtained a good report
Hebrews 11:1-2
Testimonies are at the command of faith. Every
testimony is a product of faith, and testimonies are the
opposite of trials. Until you have testimonies, trials continue
to prevail. It takes faith to enjoy the finger of God in our
lives - that is, good reports.
9. By faith we live. Habakkuk 2:4 says:
 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in
him: but the just shall live by his faith.
To show how important faith is to living, this is repeated
several times in scriptures:
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed
from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live
by faith. Romans 1:17
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight
of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.
Galatians. 3:11
Now the just shall live by faith: Hebrews 10:38
That means without faith you’re dead! This clearly
indicates that faith is the live wire of the redeemed; it is the
heart of Christianity, just as the heart is to the physical
body. Faith failure means spiritual death to the believer, just
as a heart failure means death to the body. That’s why faith
is an asset of inestimable value. It is one virtue that adds
value to every other spiritual demand.
You must serve God by faith, otherwise you’re serving
Him in vain. You must give by faith or your giving is a waste.
You pray by faith, otherwise your prayer is a mere religious
exercise. That’s why in Romans 14:22-23 we are told that
whatever is not of faith is sin.
Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God.
Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that
thing which he alloweth.
And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because
he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith
is sin.
If faith is absent in any step you are taking, that is a dead
step – a step that has no future! That’s why every man’s
destiny is a function of his faith.
Same Value Everywhere!
Faith is a universal currency. It carries the same
purchasing power in every nation of the earth, because it
draws on God’s omnipotency and integrity. Faith answers at
the same level to all mankind; so your level of faith is what
determines the level of command you exercise in the affairs
of your life.
A friend of mine who visited us at Canaan Land, asked
me, “Brother David, how do you pay for all the happenings
here?” I said, “Faith!” Then he asked, “Faith?” I said, “Yes,
faith.” He asked again, “How do you mean?” I went ahead to
define faith as a universal currency that delivers the same
order of results anywhere a believer may find his or herself.
Romans 10:12 says:
For there is no difference between the Jew and the
Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that
call upon him.
Faith is an asset of inestimable value and is worth the
same everywhere, from generation to generation. It is the
most enduring currency in the world of financial investment.
Just like people in the natural believe in real estate, because
it is ever appreciating, faith is the most valuable investment
in the kingdom; it never loses its worth.
A Spiritual Energizer
Faith is a spiritual energizer. The Bible says of Sarah:
Through faith also Sara herself received strength
to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when
she was past age, because she judged him faithful
who had promised
Hebrews 11:11
Through faith, you lay hold on strength that is beyond
your physical state. Faith energizes you to accomplish what
you believe. Sarah was 90 years old; but through faith, her
body was energized to conceive – something that was
impossible by all natural standards for a woman of her age.
Through faith, divine strength entered into her to
accomplish a divine agenda.
Faith energizes you to get whatever has been committed
into your hands done. It’s a spiritual energizer for doing
exploits (Daniel 11:32). Exploits demand strength, and faith
is an energy source to the believer.
That’s why faith is worth all your attention – it’s the heart
of your spirit-man. Just like if your biological heart fails your
body dies, if your spiritual heart fails, your spirit-man dies.
It is, therefore, important that you jealously guard,
protect, build, nurture and nourish your faith, so it can stay
alive and active to bring to pass all that God has stored up
for you.
Committing God
Faith is essentially a spiritual avenue through which God
is committed to your person and the issues of your life.
Many understand faith to mean a way of committing things
to God. But faith is actually committing God to things in our
lives.
Faith is committing God to yourself and to the issues of
your life – physical, social, family, finance, career, business
and what have you. No wonder, the scriptures repeatedly
tells us that the just shall live by faith (Habakkuk 2:4,
Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11 and Hebrews 10:38).
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man
draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Hebrews 10:38
God is saying here that you can’t secure His pleasure
without faith in action. It is your faith actively at work that
secures His pleasure over the affairs of your life. No wonder,
Hebrews 11:6 tells us:
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for
he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and
that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him.
Faith is a must, in order to secure God’s pleasure in your
life. Faith must be in place for God to take an interest in
your affairs, and for Him to commit Himself to you. The
three Hebrew boys engaged their faith to commit God.
 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to
deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will
deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
Daniel 3:17
That’s faith in action – “He’s able to, and He will.” They
were not committing the issue to God, they were
committing God to the situation.
The spirit of faith operates through the words of faith that
proceed out of your mouth. God honoured the words of the
three Hebrew boys.
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and
rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his
counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into
the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto
the king, True, O king .
He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose,
walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no
hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of
God.
Daniel 3:24-25
The Son of God was committed by the operation of the
mystery of faith. As soon as the boys spoke those words, the
Son of God arrived in the fiery furnace to deliver them! The
same way, I see God descending into that fiery furnace,
where you’ve been choking, to set you free, in Jesus’ name!
They committed God by the mystery of faith, and the
king’s word was changed. Every word the devil has spoken
against you (known or unknown), shall be changed in your
favour, in Jesus’ mighty name!
A woman said to one of our precious women in the
church, “Have you ever seen a baby on the back of a snail?
Let me see how you will carry a child.” That was a word
spoken by a principality! But the mystery of faith came and
turned the tables against the adversary. Her baby came,
and was brought to the altar as an evidence of the triumph
of faith. She committed God through her faith.
 It was Daniel’s faith that brought God into the lion’s den
to deliver him. When God steps into that issue, your
mastery is established. When God is committed, you are
supernaturally in command. There was no report that Daniel
attempted to push away the stone they rolled against the
mouth of the lion’s den; he was just supernaturally in
command.
Who through faith subdued kingdom … (Hebrews
11:33). It’s God’s original intention that we subdue
kingdoms by engaging the mystery of faith.
Abraham’s faith committed God on the mountain of
sacrifice and God showed up (Genesis 22). Every time God
shows up, it’s a showdown for the devil. God will show up
for you today!
Faith is not just about getting things from God, it’s about
committing God’s presence, which puts you in command of
things. What was it that put Moses in command in Egypt?
God’s presence! Exodus 33:14 -15 says:
And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I
will give thee rest.
And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with
me, carry us not up hence.
God’s presence so enveloped Moses that he was an
impossible case for Pharaoh – no one could touch him! The
whole nation of Egypt was under the siege of Mosaic faith.
The world had not seen a man of faith in action; that’s
why they make so much noise. Moses stood as one man
(not a prayer group) and routed the whole of Egypt! He
lured them into the Red Sea and finished all of them there
(Read Exodus 14)!
Behind Moses’ confidence was the ability to see the
invisible God by his side. Hebrews 11:27 says:
By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of
the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is
invisible.
 Obstacles and challenges will always tremble at His
presence. God’s presence is all you need, to bring down the
walls of Jericho resisting your advancement. Moses banked
absolutely on God’s presence to fulfill his mission. “I know
God will do it. I’ve committed it to Him” is nursery level
faith! Rather, commit God through your faith.
I’ve always told people, “I’m not afraid of tomorrow,
because we didn’t get to where we are today by chance; we
got here by God. When my time here on earth is up, the
Ministry will be stronger than when I was alive, because
whatever the Lord doeth shall be forever . Proverbs
4:18 also says:
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that
shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
There’s no room for fear and anxiety, when God is the
One at work. Commit God, and then you will experience His
rest in your life.
Don’t Assume Faith
Faith is a tangible force. You can’t have faith and not
know it; you can’t come to a point of faith in an issue and
not know it. When you come to that point of faith, you are
now operating in the class of God.
Never assume faith, as assumption is the mother of
frustration! Instead, acquire faith. I came to the point of
faith concerning church growth in 1984, and I knew when I
came to that point. I saw the thousands gathering. Also in
1982, I came to the point of faith for prosperity, and I knew I
can never beg or borrow, and vowed never to do so! Most
people in church are victims of assumptions – “I know God
will do it.”
Let us consider these two scenarios:
And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and
saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,
He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not
dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
 But when the people were put forth, he went in,
and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.
And the fame hereof went abroad into all that
land.
Matthew 9:23-26
Then Mark 10:27 says:
And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is
impossible, but not with God: for with God all things
are possible.
Putting these two scriptures together, we can clearly see
that at the point of faith, humanity begins to operate at the
frequency of divinity. That’s not something you assume!
This is what makes faith different from all postulations of
science, philosophy and psychology. It is all about bringing
heaven down to the earth, in practical terms.
The woman with the issue of blood was practically healed
– it wasn’t an assumption. The flow of blood stopped on the
spot – that’s bringing heaven down to the earth.
When faith converts you to divinity, you start seeing
things the way God sees them; you start thinking the way
He thinks; you start talking the way He talks; you start
acting the way He acts; and you start daring whatever He
would dare!
Let’s strive to get to the point of faith in any issue of
concern in our lives, and then watch what will happen.
Alexander Dowie had a challenge in his days, where he was
burying members of his church almost every other day,
because of an epidemic outbreak. He went before the Lord,
seeking an answer, and suddenly, there was a spiritual
earthquake and something burst forth for him from Acts
10:38:
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy
Ghost and with power: who went about doing good,
and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for
God was with him.
 That’s where his healing ministry erupted from, and the
world has still not recovered from its effect. Matthew 7:8
says:
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that
seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be
opened.
Faith is the master key to a world of victory over every
molestation of the devil. It’s either there or not there! Stop
assuming faith; go and connect with it! No investment into
developing your faith is a waste. So, wake up and take
responsibility!
 Chapter 3

Conventional Versus Supernatural Faith

I would like to differentiate between conventional faith,
and supernatural faith. That is, between regular faith and
violent faith. This is important because there are certain
things that will not come to you, except by the violence of
faith. Matthew 11:12 says:
And from the days of John the Baptist until now
the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the
violent take it by force.
The Violence of Faith
Conventional faith is a product of the Word of faith.
Romans 10:17 says:
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.
On the other hand, supernatural faith is a speaking faith.
It speaks from your inside, answering for you when you
need it. It’s when God speaks to you, and you make bold
declarations based on what He has said. While conventional
faith confesses, supernatural faith professes. The
characteristic of the Spirit of faith is what is evidenced in
supernatural faith.
When John the Baptist came forth, he started producing
results after the order of Elijah. He subdued the nation
under him, the same way Elijah did. Our Ministry aptly
advertises the supernatural faith. We moved to a place that
is well known as the dungeon of witchcraft, and completely
disarmed the devil there. Now, the land of fear has become
the land of favour to all that dwell in it.
 The traditional ruler of the place, in a congratulatory
letter to the Ministry on its 25th anniversary, said, “Since the
year 1999 that Canaan Land came into existence in Ota, life
in this city has been fed with divine blessings…” We stepped
in, and the witches stepped out!
Regular faith will produce regular results, but
supernatural faith will generate supernatural results, just as
the Spirit of wisdom is different from the wisdom you get
from learning. The spirit of wisdom is given to you.
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding
exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the
sand that is on the sea shore.
1 Kings 4:29
God gave Solomon wisdom, and all the kings of the earth
came to Jerusalem to hear the wisdom of Solomon. The gift
of God always supernaturally repositions the gifted. The
force of faith will always make room for you and put you in
charge. Ephesians 6:16 says:
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye
shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked.
Can you imagine you having practical command in your
home against sickness, disease, failure of your children, and
against the attacks of the enemy? Mark 11:23 says:
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say
unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou
cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe that those things which he saith
shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he
saith.
This aptly defines supernatural faith – it simply puts you
in command, so that you always have whatsoever you say.
This kind of faith is the security of every vision; when it’s not
there, the vision will die. Habakkuk 2:2-4 says:
 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the
vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may
run that readeth it.
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at
the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry,
wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not
tarry.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in
him: but the just shall live by his faith.
You have not arrived at where you are going; you are just
on your way there. This dimension of faith is required for
you to get there, and to arrive at God’s ultimate purpose for
your life. Receive it now in the name of Jesus! When you’re
operating supernatural faith, you don’t practise how to
speak, God speaks through you.
Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he
will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of
himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he
speak: and he will shew you things to come.
John 16:13
Jesus told His disciples:
And when they bring you unto the synagogues,
and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no
thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what
ye shall say:
For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same
hour what ye ought to say.
Luke 12:11-12
But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up,
take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak,
neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be
given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye
that speak, but the Holy Ghost.
Mark 13:11
Look at Peter’s operation of supernatural faith in the
story of the healing of the lame man at the gate Beautiful.
 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John,
said, Look on us.
And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive
something of them.
Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but
such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth rise up and walk.
And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him
up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones
received strength.
Acts 3:4-7
Peter knew what he had, and it came through, because
the lame man was expecting to receive something. I see
you also receiving the fullness of your expectations this
hour, in the name of Jesus!
Supernatural faith marks you out as someone people
must respect! This is because when you take the shield of
faith, you quench all the fiery darts of the devil. You can’t be
harassed when you’re holding the shield in your hand!
In July 1979, I asked a witch (who claimed that when
they’re thirsty for blood, they go on the highway and cause
vehicles to somersault), “How about when people like me
are on the highway?” She said, “When we sense a higher
power coming, we clear off the highway.” May everything
harassing you begin now to clear off the way for you!
Operating supernatural faith (the God kind of faith)
requires the supernatural help of the Holy Spirit.
Supernatural faith is the creative faith. It puts you in total
control in the midst of conflicts, by the enabling of the Holy
Spirit. The Holy spirit puts you in creative control. Though
the thing is not here, but you can bring it down by
supernatural faith.
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man,
the things which God hath prepared for them that
love him.
 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit:
for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep
things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10
You are supernaturally reinforced on the inside, as the
Holy Spirit grants you access into unusual depths in the
things of God. He enables you to get unusual insights that
will deliver unusual results to you. For instance, one
wonderful day, the Holy Spirit came to my help and
unravelled a particular mystery of creation to me. After God
moulded the clay, the Bible says in Genesis 2:7:
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the
ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a living soul.
I saw that that one breath gave birth to all the organs of
the body, because we were not told that He moulded the
kidneys, heart, etc. seperately, He just moulded a block of
clay and everything else was in place, the flesh, bones,
marrows, blood, water and all the organs in the body; just
by one breath! I never read that from any book all my life!
Jesus said in John 5:26:
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he
given to the Son to have life in himself;
Verse 21 says:
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and
quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom
he will.
The Holy Spirit by Himself supernaturally opened that
chapter of supernatural manifestation to me. Then the Son
said to me, “As the Father hath sent Me, so have I sent you.
So boy, you have life in yourself and you too can quicken
whoever you will.”
The following day, they brought a little boy who had polio
to me. The doctor’s report said he would never walk again. I
took the report, squeezed it and threw it aside, saying,
“That’s not relevant, I have the answer.” I held the boy’s
legs in my hands and breathed on them and said, “It is
over!” The same evening, the boy’s mother was with the
little boy on the altar, to testify that he had regained the use
of his legs. She put him down on his feet for all to see!
This realm of supernatural faith is called “great faith,”
and you can study your way into it. Ever since then, when I
see any victim of HIV/AIDS I rejoice. I say to the victim,
“Come here,” and I breathe into his/her mouth. As the
breath goes in, it flushes out the stranger in their bodies,
and away back to hell it goes!
We have seen HIV dissolved many times, by just one
breath! That one breath came by supernatural insight into
the Word of God. Little insight equals little faith, great
insight equals great faith, and supernatural insight equals
supernatural faith – they all deliver according to their
various degrees.
A man who was in prison (for the murder he committed)
got hold of my book, Born To Win , read it, and got saved. He
got filled with the Holy Spirit and had enough understanding
that he could determine whether he dies or not. So, he
began to declare, “I shall not die, but live.”
Guess what? They forgot to hang him for two years! The
third year, the Chief Judge of the state where he was
imprisoned was on an inspection of the prison and spotted
him behind the bars. He looked at him and said, “You are
discharged and acquitted!” Today, he pastors a church
called, “Resurrection Chapel.” He literally rose from the
dead, no wonder the name!
 The Unstoppable Force Of Faith

Faith is an unstoppable force. Whatever cannot stop God

cannot stop faith from accomplishing its purpose. “Why is
faith unstoppable?,” you may ask.
Faith Draws From The Omnipotency Of God
When faith comes alive, it taps into the Almighty power
of God in battle. That was how the woman with the issue of
blood tapped into the power of God that Jesus carried, to
establish the healing she wanted (Mark 5:25 -34). Faith is
designed for you and me to access divine virtues, which will
always deliver its mission. You can’t stop it. It will take what
can stop God to stop God’s power from having its way.
Just as no man can stand in the way of a trailer, no devil
can stop God’s power from having its way. Faith is the
access into God’s power. When faith comes alive, God’s
power is provoked, and whenever God’s power is released, it
must always have its way.
As soon as virtue entered the body of the woman with
the issue of blood, the flow of blood stopped. When you
access God’s power through the operation of your faith,
every force that had been humiliating your Christian destiny
and testimony must bow out of your life.
Faith is that invisible force that has been delivered to us,
for winning all the invisible battles we are confronted with.
The word “invincible” means too strong to be defeated, and
invisible wars mean war/battles that you cannot see with
your physical eyes. God has packaged an invincible force
called faith, for winning all the invisible wars of your life.
Whatever cannot stop God from having His way, cannot stop
your faith in God from delivering your desires to you.
 That’s why the Bible says, “It is to you according to your
faith.” This is why the devil aims at nothing else but your
faith. He knows that until your faith is down, your victory is
not contestable.
Faith is an unstoppable force. If you are tired of being
stopped, then reach out for the weapon of faith through the
pages of scriptures and a diligent search. Hunt for the voice
of God from the pages of His Word.
There’s the testimony of a brother, who was moving from
a rented house to his own house in Abuja. Before leaving, he
went to the landlord to thank him and to say, “Sir, the house
is completed; we are now moving over there.” His landlord
gave him eggs as a parting gift. He cooked the eggs, but
somehow, by the Spirit of God, instead of eating them
himself, he gave them to his dog. The dog ate the eggs and
began to vomit blood until it died. Invisible wars! Inside the
eggs was the poison of death!
I command every invisible war that is arrayed against
you to be crushed now, in the name of Jesus! Every arrow
that flies by the day against you returns to the sender now!
Every invisible battle of your life is crashing at your instance
from now on! Every battle in your sleep is over today! God is
not behind those nightmares that torment you night and
day, day–in– day–out. So, every nightmare is over in your
life today!
It Quenches All The Fiery Darts Of The Wicked
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye
shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked.
Ephesians 6:16
How many darts? All! The fiery darts of witches and
wizards, the occult forces of principalities, powers, rulers of
this wicked world and wicked spirits in high places. Faith
quenches them all! No fiery dart can dare your faith in God –
it will quench and silence them all forever. That’s why faith
is an unstoppable force. It brings God’s omnipotency to bear
on the situations and circumstances of life to which it is
applied. Since no force can stop God from having His way,
no devil can stop your faith from producing results
Faith does not only have its way, it quenches! To quench
means to level out, to extinct. That’s what the unstoppable
force of faith does to every fiery dart of the devil – it
quenches them all.
It Commits The Integrity Of God.
God can never say “No” to what He has said.
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he
cannot deny himself.
2 Timothy 2:13
Faith commits the integrity of divinity. Whatever force
that will attempt to stop faith from delivering its mission,
must first succeed in making God deny Himself. Whatever
can’t make God lie can’t make faith fail!
You want to know how powerful faith is? It is the force
that converts a son of man to a son of God (John 1:12-13). It
changes your citizenship supernaturally, from being a
citizen of the earth to a citizen of heaven. It translates you
from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of His own
dear Son (Colossians 1:13). It raises you up from the earthly
places to be seated in the heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6).
There is no force under the earth that compares with the
force of faith, and its ultimate is to make heaven real on the
earth for you. Therefore, whatever is not obtainable in
heaven is not permitted in your life. There’s no sickness, no
sorrow or oppression in heaven, therefore, they’re not
permitted in your life. That’s the ultimate mission of faith.
Romans 10:6-10 says:
But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh
on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend
into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from
above:)
Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to
bring up Christ again from the dead.)
 But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in
thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of
faith, which we preach;
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord
Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation.
From now on, whatever is contrary to the heavenly
lifestyle will not be found in your life anymore!
Faith is an unstoppable force: it taps into the
omnipotency of God, (i.e. it brings the Almightiness of God
to bear on any situation), it quenches all the fiery darts of
the devil, is the answer to all satanic assaults, and commits
the integrity of divinity.
 Chapter 4

The Degrees Of Faith

Why is it that some people’s faith produces and others
don’t? The reason is because Bible faith is in degrees! Faith
is not just faith, faith is in degrees.
In Matthew 14, Jesus was walking on the sea towards His
disciples, who had earlier left in a boat. Peter saw him and
said, “Lord if it be Thou, bid me come unto thee on
the water.” Jesus said, “Come ,” and Peter began walking
towards Jesus on water. But when he saw the wind
boisterous, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried
saying, “Lord, save me.” Jesus stretched out his hand and
caught him, and said, “O thou of little faith, wherefore, didst
thou doubt?” (Matthew 14:27-31).
The dimension of faith required to keep walking on water
was not in Peter, so he began to sink. Faith is in degrees:
there is little faith, great faith, exceeding great faith and a
Spirit of faith. Your level of insight determines the degree of
faith you will operate in.
Little Faith
Little faith cannot confront challenges. That’s why you
have to accept the responsibility of building your faith. Little
faith is susceptible to doubt, when confronted by great
challenges. No one survives on water doubting: you are sure
to drown, except you cry out for help.
The Bible says that in the last days perilous times shall
come. That is, the world will be confronted by the worst of
challenges. That also goes to explain why Jesus said: When
the Son of man shall come, shall he find faith in the
earth? (Luke 18:8). The challenges will be so enormous that
only those who have paid attention to developing this vital
aspect of life will be found standing. We are told in Proverbs
24:10:
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is
small.
Sometime ago, a young man plagued with HIV/AIDS
came to me, and was almost fighting me – you could
literally see the violence of faith at work in him. He said,
“Bishop, I have HIV. It’s not possible! It cannot be!” He was
literally shouting at me! I could see his faith, just as Jesus
could see the faith of the four friends of the paralytic man in
Mark 2:5 and Paul in Acts 14:9-10.
I said to the young man, “Jesus Christ makes you whole,”
and laid hands on him, prayed over him, and breathed into
him. He went straight from there to the hospital for a
checkup. He didn’t go straight to his house or to work, but
went to the hospital to confirm his healing, because he was
so sure he had been healed. Of course, the result was HIV
negative!
You must build your faith to the point of a violent reaction
against every contrary situation in your life. That young man
is out there, today, celebrating his total health. Satan came
knocking at his door to see whether he was available to be
killed, but he said, “Not me!”
It’s not to you according to your weeping and tears; it’s
to you according to your faith. Many times Jesus met people
weeping, and He would first say to them, “Weep not.”
That’s because weeping has no part to play in the operation
of faith. In the world, you can use tears to get things from
men; but in the kingdom, tears don’t count; faith is the
requirement for receiving anything from God.
The truth in that young man was reacting to the lies of
the devil. It was his day of adversity, but he triumphed by
the violence of faith. He overcame because of what was in
him. So, if you fail in the day of adversity, it simply means
you didn’t build up enough strength to match the challenge.
When you do little about your measure of faith, it will
remain little, and little faith will deliver only little victories
and signs.
It’s possible to operate absolutely by faith, for the
maximum delivery of your mandate. Some trust in the size
of their churches, and nothing gets done. Some trust in their
own capabilities and connections, and their ability to go
about preaching from place to place, yet nothing gets done.
But the Word of God makes us to understand that there is
no shame to them that trust in the Lord.
Little insight is the reason for little faith, because faith
comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.
Great Faith
Jesus gives us an introduction to great faith in Matthew
chapter 15. Responding to the Canaanite woman’s
insistence on getting even the crumbs in her request for
deliverance for her demon-possessed daughter, Jesus said:
...O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even
as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from
that very hour
Matthew 15:28
Great faith will always have it the way it wants it, the
way it wills it. We read of great faith again in Matthew
chapter 8, where a centurion came to Jesus, seeking healing
for his servant.
And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.
The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not
worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but
speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers
under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth;
and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my
servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
Matthew 8:7-9
Verse 10 says:
 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to
them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not
found so great faith, no, not in Israel.
In verse 13, Jesus said to the centurion: Go your way,
and as you have believed, so let it be done for you
(NKJV). The servant was healed that same hour!
Great faith will always have it as it wants it. It will always
deliver great victories, command great signs and put you in
command. Great faith is a degree of faith you operate in,
when you become addicted to discoveries in the Word. You
become unshakeable in any challenge of life. Great faith is
taking deep root in the Word of God.
 The Spirit of Faith

The measure of faith will give you a measure of results, little

faith will give you a little measure of results, and great faith
will bring home great results. Much more, you have to build
up your faith to a level where you begin to operate by the
Spirit of faith – the God-kind of faith. Second Corinthians
4:13 says:
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it
is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken;
we also believe, and therefore speak;
A time comes where confession has to be upgraded to
profession. At such a time, you’re naturally in control of the
affairs of life around you. We read in Hebrews 10:23:
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without
wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
When you operate by the Spirit of faith, you begin to
command the faithfulness of God at will. At this level, you
begin to speak things naturally; you are not confessing
them, but simply proclaiming them – “I cannot be sick!”
Meanwhile, you’re vibrating inside as you’re saying it. Bible
faith becomes your lifestyle; you respond to all issues with
faith ethics – “We have believed, therefore we speak.”
Joshua and Caleb operated by this spirit. When the other
ten spies began to give the people evil report, they shut
them up. “Let us go up at once, ” they said, “We are
well able to take the land!” The Bible said they had
“another spirit” (Numbers 14:24). It’s the Spirit of faith!
The Spirit of faith is always reacting; it’s a reactionary
force that can’t stand anything contrary to it. Joshua and
Caleb could not be kept down; they responded to everything
with faith ethics. While others were seeing the giants,
Joshua and Caleb couldn’t see them. Something on their
inside was moving them. As far as they were concerned,
nothing could stop what God had declared.
The Spirit of faith realm is the realm where you operate
in the violence dimension of faith – where you look at the
challenges and deal with them as if they do not exist. When
my wife was pregnant with our second son, the doctor’s
report said the baby was lying in a breech position, and that
she would require a caesarean section to bring forth.
They called me, and when I got there, I simply placed my
hand on her tummy and said, “Child, I command you to turn
now!” and went back home. The child came forth shortly
after. The violence of faith! There was no need for any
prayer meeting on that.
At another time, a doctor told me, “Brother David, your
child has jaundice.” I vehemently responded, “My son does
not have jaundice.” He said, “Take a look at his eyes …” I
said, “It’s not necessary. My son cannot have jaundice.”
There’s a level you get to in your faith walk, where you
say it and go home and rest. Not that you’re quoting
scriptures, saying, “It is written…” No! It’s already built up in
you, and you’re simply reacting by what is inside you.
A time comes when you naturally respond to any
challenge that comes your way by faith. That is the realm of
the Spirit of faith; it’s the realm where you get into and the
enemy can no longer take you for a ride.
A doctor once checked my blood pressure and said, “Oh!
Your blood pressure is high,” and I reacted immediately,
“Not mine! I can’t have high blood pressure.” He showed me
the reading, saying, “Look at it.” I told him, “I’m not saying,
‘I don’t have high blood pressure.’ I said, ‘I cannot have high
blood pressure!’
It’s much like telling a man he is pregnant, that he should
go for a pregnancy test or a scan. That man won’t even
bother, because he knows better than the crazy doctor
telling him to go for a pregnancy test. Have you ever seen
any man in the labour room, who is there to be delivered of
a child?
There comes a time in the school of faith where you are
filled to a point that you naturally operate by the Spirit of
faith, where no one can make you keep quiet on the things
you have a grip of; you just move on.
No Faith?
We all have a measure of faith, delivered to us at
redemption. In many places in scriptures, Jesus asked the
people, “Why is it that you have no faith.” Everybody is
given a measure of faith at salvation (Romans 12:3). So,
what happened to theirs? It finished! Burnt up!
And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how
is it that ye have no faith?
Mark 4:40
Faith is a living force, and every living thing dies at one
time or the other. Faith can fail and become zero. Jesus told
Peter: I have prayed for you, that thy faith fail not
(Luke 22:31-32).
Faith is the heart of your spiritual life. Of course, you
know what heart failure means to the human body. If your
faith fails, then you are dead!
The “No faith” level makes you an all–time victim; you
are defenceless and totally helpless. This is because only
the shield of faith can handle the wicked arrows of the
enemy (Ephesians 6:16).
Faith Grows
Faith is a growing force. We understand this from 2
Thessalonians 1:3:
We are bound to thank God always for you,
brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith
groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of
you all toward each other aboundeth;
You can’t stay with your little measure of faith, you have
a responsibility to keep growing it, until you join the
Thessalonian Church, whose faith growth exceedingly.
Then, you come to the point of great faith that puts you in
command, and the Spirit of faith which establishes your
dominion.
To Grow Your Faith…
What does it take to grow your faith? Faith, in the
kingdom, has only one source, and that only source is the
Word of God. Romans 10:17 says:
So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.
The same source that gives birth to faith, is the same
source that strengthens it. Faith has both its source and
strength in the Word of God. Your labour in the Word of God
is your access to growing in faith.
How do you know when faith comes? Hebrews 4:1,3 says:
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us
of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to
come short of it.
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as
he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall
enter into my rest: although the works were finished
from the foundation of the world.
When faith comes, an end comes to all your struggles to
get at these things that faith offer you— you enter into an
eternal rest.
But, let’s see where the task lies:
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest
any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to
the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart
Hebrews 4:11-12
We must labour in the Word; in order to enter into our
rest. When you enter into your rest, God takes over to fight
your battle and you begin to enjoy divine interventions at
will. Exodus 14:11 says:
The L ORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your
peace.
When you get to that realm of rest, the battle has
changed hands; God has now taken over, and when God
takes over, it’s over!
We are not labouring in the Word to acquire volumes of
scriptures, but we are labouring in the Word to gain greater
depths of insight. God said to Abraham: For as far as your
eyes can see, it shall be given unto you (Genesis
13:14-15). It’s not the volume of scriptures that determines
the strength of your faith; it is the depth of your insight that
determines the degree and strength of faith you can operate
in.
You can’t see a thing and still doubt its existence; the
clearer you see it, the stronger your conviction will be. One
day, I saw from the scriptures that marriage is designed to
be a plus not a minus, an asset not a liability. I saw that it is
for better only and not for better for worse, as they say in
marriage vows. I saw that it’s for greater victory – One
shall chase a thousand and two shall put to flight ten
thousand (Deuteronomy 32:30).
I saw also that it is a blessed union – and God blessed
them (Genesis 1:28). I saw all that concerning marriage
(from the scriptures), and I professed before the God of
heaven that I am set for a hitch-free marriage. I’ve been
married for about thirty years now, and it’s still hitch-free!
You can’t see it and doubt it. I’ve never once prayed for
marital peace. The clearer you see it, the stronger you
believe it.
The enemy (Satan) has gone to prepare, because he
knows he has but a short time. Also, the Bible warns that
the wicked will do more wickedly. That’s why you need to
build up more violent faith, so as to react naturally against
everything that is contrary to your rights in Christ.
 Revelation: The Greatest Asset
Faith does not come by praying, faith comes by hearing
and seeing what God is saying. You hear and see what God
is saying.
One of the greatest virtues of resurrection is man’s open
access to the deep things of God.
Then opened he their understanding, that they
might understand the scriptures
Luke 24:45
You move out of the realms of information into the realms
of revelations, and things will begin to turn in your life.
Only what you see ever becomes yours. Why? It is
because whatever you see, you automatically believe. For
everyone in his right mind, the end of all doubts is vision –
being able to see it. What you see you don’t struggle to
believe; what you see, you naturally and automatically
believe, and whatever you believe, you become.
But as many as received him, to them gave he
power to become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on his name
John 1:12
That’s why revelation is the greatest asset in the school
of faith: it naturally compels you to believe. You can’t see it
and doubt it. Even Thomas saw and believed (John 20:24-
28). In the school of faith, revelation is a major. When you
pass the revelation course, you naturally enter into the
realm of revolution, because everything you see naturally
becomes yours.
The enemy is after the eyes of your spirit for this reason,
to see what ways he can keep it blinded. All he wants is for
you to remain his captive. No wonder, the Psalmist prayed:
Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous
things out of thy law
Psalm 119:18
Why is it that what you see is what God delivers? It’s
because what you see is what you believe, and what you
say is what you will have.
For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation
Romans 10:10
We also read in Mark 11:23:
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say
unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be
thoucast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his
heart, but shall believe that those things which he
saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he
saith.
The things you can’t say boldly, continuously and
tirelessly are the things you have not yet seen. When you
have seen them, you become unstoppable; you can’t be
silenced. The apostles in Acts 4:20 said:
For we cannot but speak the things which we have
seen and heard.
You can be harassed into ceasing to speak what you have
heard; but no threat can stop you from saying what you
have seen. “He shall have whatsoever he saith.” That
is why revelation is a principal course in the school of faith.
No devil can stop you from having what you have seen and
are saying. That’s why it’s very important for you to believe
God for a unique access into the realms of unique
revelations, so you can upgrade your faith to the degree
that it begins to deliver supernatural results to you, putting
you in command over all issues of life.
When you have seen it, you will naturally believe it and
talk it – you won’t be practising how to say it. If you have
seen it, you will say it naturally and effortlessly, and then it
becomes your portion. Then every step of your life will begin
to witness good reports.
When Your Mind Is Blinded…
But their minds were blinded: for until this day
remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading
of the old testament; which vail is done away in
Christ.
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the
vail is upon their heart.
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the
vail shall be taken away.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass
the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the
Lord.
2 Corinthians 3:14-18
Their minds, not their eyes, were blinded. It takes an
open face to see, and everything you see compels change.
That’s why I say revelation commands revolution.
You will require revelation to see good reports come your
way. You hear it once, and then the second hearing is when
you see it – Once has God spoken twice I heard, that
power belongeth unto God (Psalms 62:11).
For any kind of change to take place in your life, all you
need is to imbibe or cultivate the level of faith required to
deliver it to you.
In whom the god of this world hath blinded the
minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the
glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God,
should shine unto them.
2 Corinthians 4:4
When your mind is blinded, you can’t believe. They say,
“He himself took your infirmities,” you say, “I can’t see it.”
“He bore your sicknesses,” you say, “I’ve heard that long
enough.” That’s because you can’t see it. That’s the
ministry of “the god of this world.” He blinds the minds
of men, so that they can’t believe. When you are blinded
internally, you can’t believe. Satan blinds people’s minds, so
as to keep them in perpetual captivity.
No man whose mind is blinded can believe anything.
Since it’s to you according to your faith, what you can’t
believe, you can’t become (John 1:12). Satan knows you
can’t have a change in your life without faith, and that you
can’t have faith with blinded mind. So, he goes on to blind
peoples’ minds.
When you want to pay your tithe, he comes to you,
saying, “Are you going to pay your tithe? It will affect your
budget and tamper with your business.” Why? He wants to
keep you a captive of poverty. But he cannot do that until he
has succeeded in blinding your mind. When your mind is
blinded, faith is completely out of the way.
Abraham, the father of faith, began his journey into
blessings by seeing them.
And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was
separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look
from the place where thou art northward, and
southward, and eastward, and westward:
For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give
it, and to thy seed for ever.
Genesis 13:14-15
You can’t believe it without seeing it, and you can’t
become what you don’t believe. That’s why revelation is the
most crucial course in the school of faith. Pray now that the
Lord should make this your eye-opening season, where you
will begin to see the things written concerning you in The
Book. Jesus opened The Book and read the things written
concerning Him (Luke 4:17-19). You, too, must see!
Say to God, “Open my eyes to see the things written
concerning me, the things pertaining to me and the things
written about me. Open my eyes to behold the wondrous
things concerning me out of the Book of the law.” You can’t
see it and miss it! You will begin to see it from now, in Jesus’
precious name! A change awaits you, beginning in your
spiritual eye!
That blindness which is not allowing you to see the things
that concern you and pertain to you in the Word of God, is
dropping off now, in Jesus’ name. I see your understanding
in the scriptures supernaturally opened, in the name of
Jesus! Beginning from now, you will be a surprise to yourself
in the school of revelation, in the name of Jesus!
You can’t see it and doubt it, you can’t see it and not say
it, and you can’t say it and not have it. Revelation is the
baseline for faith that works! Decree an eye–opening
miracle for yourself right now!
 Chapter 5

You Need The Spirit Of Faith

There is a Spirit of faith. It is the Spirit that moves you to
speak the unspeakable, act the unactable, dare the
undareable, and yet deliver the result.
You can’t go into the lion’s den with the principles of
faith. When you see the lion, you’re likely to fear, and when
you give in to fear, you are bound to fall. It takes the Spirit
of faith to look a lion in the face, and refuse to be jittery on
your inside.
The Spirit of faith says, “God is all I need.” It fires up your
confidence. The Spirit of faith is stronger than death; it
never bows to any devil. When you operate in the Spirit of
faith, evil will no longer be able to survive around you.
Wherever you step in, every devil must step out, bowing to
your authority.
Connecting with the Spirit of faith is connecting with
what will help you fulfill your mission on the earth. You know
what the Spirit of faith does? It puts you in charge.
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say
unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou
cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe that those things which he saith
shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he
saith.
Mark 11:23
The Spirit of faith is what subdues kingdoms in your
career, profession, ministry, family, marriage, etc. So, you
need a baptism and impartation with the Spirit of faith. Your
faith is what secures your destiny. When you are baptised
with the Spirit of faith, you are on a flight from glory to glory.
You are not sent to this earth as a mediocre; you are sent
here as a great personality. An impartation with the Spirit of
faith is what will take you there.
The Spirit of faith never sees problems, it only sees the
promises; it never sees the trials, but celebrates
testimonies.
 What Is The Spirit Of Faith?

The Spirit of faith is the prompting of the Holy Spirit in

stirring up the faith in you, when a challenge comes. The
Spirit of faith comes on its own. It is the supernatural
prompting of faith in you to confront challenges as they
come.
That was the Spirit Elisha connected with, at Elijah’s
departure. On his way back from that adventure of faith, he
came face-to-face with the River Jordan. He needed to cross
over; what was he to do?
He took up also the mantle of Elijah that fell from
him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him,
and smote the waters, and said, Where is the L ORD
God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the
waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha
went over.
And when the sons of the prophets which were to
view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah
doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and
bowed themselves to the ground before him.
2 Kings 2:13-15
In Chapter 3, God announced him. There was a problem
in the land and they lamented that Elijah was dead. But
someone said, “No, he’s not dead. There is Elisha, the son of
Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah” (2
Kings 3:11).
The Word of God was with him as it was with Elijah: the
Spirit of faith had positioned him in the shoes of Elijah. The
sons of the prophets bowed to him saying, “The spirit of
Elijah doth rest on Elisha.”
Three Levels
There are three levels of faith:
1. The Word of faith teaches you the principles.
2. The gift of faith helps you to understand the Word of
faith.
3. The Spirit of faith drives the principles into
productivity.
We having the same spirit of faith, according as it
is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken;
we also believe, and therefore speak;
2 Corinthians 4:13
Just as there are levels in the school of the Spirit, there
are also levels in the school of the Word of faith. When the
Spirit of faith comes on you, you get the same results, and
you begin to duplicate the same grace (2 Kings 2:14).
We were in a meeting one day and the generator was
about to go off, because the fuel in it was running out. They
came and alerted me, and I said, “Don’t put it off, it will not
go off until we’re out of here.” The generator that was about
going off stayed on, till we closed and everybody was
settled before it stopped working.
That was not just the principles of faith at work. When
you operate by the Spirit of faith, you not only quote
scriptures, but duplicate the grace that has been imparted.
Everybody has the principles, but how many have the Spirit?
If 10,000 Nigerians possess this Spirit of faith, our country
will be turned around for good.
The Spirit of faith is not taught, but imparted.
For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you
some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established
Romans 1:11
The Spirit of faith establishes the Word of God in a man’s
life. When you are imparted with the Spirit of faith, the Word
of God is established in your life. There will be no more
struggles doing the Word of God. This is what it takes to
maximize your life here on earth.
My continual eagerness and desire is to see people have
appropriate value for the things of the Spirit. I have
personally heard plenty of the Word of faith from Kenneth
Hagin’s Ministry, since 1976. Between 1976 and 1981, I had
read everything he ever wrote! In 1981, the gift of faith,
which is reflected in explosive spiritual understanding of the
Word of faith, came alive in me.
I loved the serenity, dignity and everything about the
operations of the Spirit of faith in the life of Kenneth E.
Hagin. So, I said to God, “I want exactly what this man has.”
Then came 1986, when the thunder struck, and the Spirit of
faith came like a thunderbolt into my spirit.
I am living a life of no struggles; I’m not pushing
anything! If you don’t have fuel in your car, you have to
push it to move. But when it is fuelled, it drives effortlessly.
The Word of God in Psalms 45:4 says: Ride on (not push
on) prosperously and in majesty. There are very few
riders, but too many pushers in the Body of Christ. Why?
The Spirit that makes it possible for one to ride is not there!
You have the principles, yes. But principles can’t drive a
man to wait 25 years for a promise. The Spirit of faith was
what was at work in Abraham. There are too many pushers
in the Body of Christ, because they have only the principles,
they don’t have the oil to drive it.
The Spirit of faith is what drives the Word of faith for
maximum delivery, and that comes by impartation. We read
in Ezekiel 2:2:
And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto
me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that
spake unto me.
That was my experience in July 1986 at Kenneth E.
Hagin’s meeting. I had read a lot of things, and I was
craving for the force behind the workings of those things. As
Hagin was speaking that day, the Spirit entered into me! I
heard him clearly, and then an eruption of grace began.
While many have been hanging around the Word of faith
level and a few others have been hanging around the gift of
faith level, very few are craving for and have actually
entered the Spirit of faith level. The good news is that
access to that level is open to all, including you.
Note, however, that you can only be imparted with the
Spirit of faith by those that have it.
Why You Need The Spirit Of Faith
Every time the Word of God comes alive in your spirit and
you believe it, in most cases, it doesn’t deliver immediately;
it normally delivers in phases. You, therefore, need the Spirit
of faith to keep at it, until the fullness of what the Word has
promised comes to light. Jesus explains this in Mark 4:26-29:
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man
should cast seed into the ground;
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the
seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not
how.
For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first
the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the
ear.
But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately
he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
God’s Word delivers in a process; it takes the Spirit of
faith not to lose hope in the waiting process.
The Word of faith came alive in me concerning prosperity
in 1982, and I knew immediately that I was a prosperous
man. Yet, there was no proof of any kind of prosperity in my
life then. But because I got the Word, a seed was sown.
If the seed is properly nurtured, it will grow and bring
forth like the grass. As you continue to nurture it, it grows
and begins to flourish. Through pollination, it begins to bear
fruits, and when the fruit matures, you put in the sickle and
begin to rake in the harvest!
 It takes the Spirit of faith to believe that what you have
received is fruit, even when it is still inside the earth and
has not germinated. That’s why the Spirit of faith and the
gift of faith are wide apart.
Many people receive their miracle babies, but because
they are not aware that there is a process, the child is
aborted in the process, and they lose it. A woman is
pregnant, but when she sees blood she is terrified, “It’s
happening again,” and then of course, it happens –
miscarriage!
The income of our ministry was three thousand naira a
month, yet I believed we were a prosperous Ministry,
because I saw prosperity from the Word of God. I believed it
in my heart, and I knew it was on its way coming in stages.
That’s the faith that works! Everything that will work in our
lives must be of faith, that it might be by grace (Romans
4:16-21). Paul said in 2 Timothy 1:12:
For the which cause I also suffer these things:
nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I
have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to
keep that which I have committed unto him against
that day.
The faith that works is a kind of Abraham’s faith. After
Abraham had patiently endured, he obtained the promise
(Hebrews 6:15). Every time you’re faced with a challenge,
understand that faith is a must.
He that cometh to God (for a change) must believe
that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him.
Hebrews 11:6
If God has spoken, then hold on tight to what He has
said, as will do whatever He says He will do.
And the L ORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the
L ORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken
Genesis 21:1
 Abraham was not weak in faith, and so he considered not
his own body which was as good as dead at the age of 100,
neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb. The Bible says:
He was strong in faith, giving glory to God (Romans
4:18-21). It’s at a time like that that you need the Spirit of
faith, so you can be stable in the midst of conflicts and
contradictions, and be yourself in the midst of the storm.
The Abrahamic kind of faith is a clear demonstration of
the effect and the operation of the Spirit of faith at work in a
man. Imagine this: you have never heard anyone else’s
story before, and God tells you that He’s going to give you a
son – and you’re 75 years old! Then you turn 80 and you still
haven’t seen anything, and you did not stagger! That
stability must have come by an inner force – by the
operation of the Spirit of faith. It can’t be the principles at
work, as principles would have long crashed.
Take our case for instance: you are going to build a
50,000-seat auditorium, and you couldn’t wait for the bill of
quantities to get started. That’s not a normal operation, but
a supernatural operation of faith! Nobody was taxed, levied
or begged; no letters were written to anyone, asking for
donations or financial support of any kind; yet the structure
was built and finished within one year! That’s a supernatural
operation of the Spirit of faith!
The Spirit of faith takes you out of this world. That’s why
the faith I’m talking about, here, is the faith that makes you
live a life of heaven on earth here (Romans 10:6).
I’m blessed and sent to my generation on a mission of
the Word of faith, and I’m empowered with the Spirit of faith
to prove it.
When you receive the Spirit of faith from those who are
endowed with it, you naturally duplicate the grace they
carry without struggling.
The same way Kenneth E. Hagin choked cancer out in his
faith Ministry, we are choking HIV/AIDS out without any
effort. It’s the same Spirit.
 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it
is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken;
we also believe, and therefore speak
2 Corinthians 4:13
You can only mimic a man’s message; you can’t mimic
his proofs. The Spirit of faith is the force behind the faith
that works, and contending for the faith that works is by
craving for the impartation of the Spirit of faith from those
who carry it.
You crave for the Spirit of faith, by connecting to the
Word of faith being preached by the carriers of the Spirit of
faith (Ezekiel 2:2). The Spirit of faith enters into your heart
through the Word of faith that they speak..
The Spirit of faith does not pre-meditate an action. As the
opposition arises, the manifestation is triggered off. It’s an
ever-ready force against all uprisings.
Academic giants rose in Babylon by the operation of the
Spirit of faith. By faith Daniel and his colleagues were 10
times better than their colleagues (Daniel 1:17-20).
Everyone in Bible history triumphed by faith. By faith they
stopped the mouths of lions, passed through the Red Sea
walking on dry ground (Exodus 14). By faith they had water
to drink in the desert for 40 years and a continuous supply
of food in the wilderness, without planting any crop–all by
faith.
I would like you, therefore, to believe God for a baptism
of the Spirit of faith. It makes you to see God from the pages
of scriptures, and makes you understand what is going on
as you read anointed books and materials. It will keep your
position and deliver your possession.
What is it that you need? The Spirit of faith will deliver it
speedily. Receive the baptism of the Spirit of faith right now,
in the name of Jesus Christ.
 Chapter 6

The Nature Of Faith

Every kingdom principle is a mystery. This is because you
may never have a scientific proof for its claims, but the
proofs cannot be doubted. If Kingdom principles are all in
mysteries, then faith must be the mystery of all mysteries. It
is important, therefore, that you understand the nature of
faith.
Faith Sees The Invisible
Creation was not in view, when God saw it. The Bible
says:
Through faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God, so that things which are
seen were not made of things which do appear
Hebrews 11:3
Faith sees the invisible and brings it to pass. We are also
told about Moses, how he endured, because he saw He who
is invisible (Hebrews 11:27). So, faith sees the invisible or
the impossible, if you like.
Thinks The Unthinkable
Faith also thinks the unthinkable. We are told about
Abraham’s faith in Romans 4:19-20:
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his
own body now dead, when he was about an hundred
years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara’s womb:
He staggered not at the promise of God through
unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
The word “consider” here talks about mental
consideration. Faith thinks the unthinkable. Natural
conditions make no meaning to the mental faculty of a man
who is operating under the Spirit of faith.
Expects The Unexpectable
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not
seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the
saving of his house; by the which he condemned the
world, and became heir of the righteousness which is
by faith
Hebrews 11:7
Faith expects the unexpectable. Though it had never
rained before, yet Noah spent 120 years in building an ark
that would float on water when the rains came. Then the
first rain that fell was a flood! Faith expects the
unexpectable.
We read also about Elisha’s faith for the unexpectable in
2 Kings 7:18-19:
And it came to pass as the man of God had spoken
to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a
shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall
be to morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria:
And that lord answered the man of God, and said,
Now, behold, if the L ORD should make windows in
heaven, might such a thing be? And he said, Behold,
thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat
thereof.
Speaks The Unspeakable
Daniel 3:17 tells us about the faith of the three Hebrew
boys – Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego:
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to
deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will
deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
Faith speaks the unspeakable! It spoke against fire as
though it was speaking against the air. Then the Bible says
in Daniel 3:27-28:
 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the
king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw
these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power,
nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were
their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed
on them.
Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be
the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who
hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that
trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word,
and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve
nor worship any god, except their own God.
The boys spoke the language of faith – speaking the
unspeakable! Two months to the deadline for the completion
of the Faith Tabernacle for dedication, it was like it wasn’t
going to be a reality. But I stood and declared, “Two months
too much! God created the world in six days; He won’t need
two months to finish a small building like ours. Two months
too much!” And it was so!
Faith speaks the unspeakable!
Dares The Undareable
Daniel by faith dared the den of lions and the lions did
him no harm. Faith dares the undareable by energizing your
spirit, strengthening your soul and revitalizing your body.
Through faith also Sara herself received strength
to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when
she was past age, because she judged him faithful
who had promised
Hebrews 11:11
Faith is a divine energizer. It energizes your spirit, soul
and body, so that you can dare the undareable and confront
the unconfrontable.
Conquers The Unconquerable
By faith, Moses confronted a whole nation at the age of
85. By faith the Red Sea gave way to him.
 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea;
and the L ORD caused the sea to go back by a strong
east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land,
and the waters were divided.
And the children of Israel went into the midst of
the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a
wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left
Exodus 14:21-22
By faith, he observed the Passover, and that turned
Israel’s captivity overnight. By faith, he empowered a whole
nation economically. Faith conquers the unconquerable!
By faith, we moved from the city of Lagos to a forest in
Ota, where a Ministry should naturally have died. We didn’t
have a single bus when we moved, yet we conquered the
forest of witches, and the church has not stopped growing
ever since. Faith conquers the unconquerable!
Achieves The Unachievable
From 32,000, Gideon’s army was reduced to 300, and
with these 300 men, he overran the army of the Midianites.
Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought
righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the
mouths of lions
Hebrews 11:33
Faith achieves the unachievable! Faith is the master key
to a world of strange achievements.
How Does Faith Get All These Done?
How does Bible faith function in these realms that I’ve
just described?
It Connects Humanity To Divinity
Let’s read Romans 11:16-20:
For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy:
and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
And if some of the branches be broken off, and
thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among
them, and with them partakest of the root and
fatness of the olive tree;
 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast,
thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off,
that I might be graffed in.
Well; because of unbelief they were broken off,
and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but
fear:
What is this scripture saying? It is saying that faith is a
mystery through which you and I are grafted into divinity,
thereby partaking of the fatness of the roots. As you are
grafted into God, you begin to draw directly from Him to live
your life here on earth and accomplish the impossible.
Verses 21-23 goes on further to say:
For if God spared not the natural branches, take
heed lest he also spare not thee.
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of
God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee,
goodness, if thou continue in his goodness:
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in
again.
Faith empowers us to be grafted into God, and then we
begin to draw strength and virtue from Him. We connect our
humanity to His divinity, causing divinity to manifest itself
through our humanity, thus empowering the ordinary man
to begin to accomplish what only God can accomplish. Faith
brings us into God and God into us, making us living
wonders amongst men. Faith is the only way to be thus
grafted, and unbelief is the natural way to be disconnected.
Let’s look again at the story of the woman with the issue
of blood in Luke 8:40-48. The woman went from behind and
touched the hem of Jesus’ garment. Then Jesus said,
“Virtue is gone out of me.” They said, “No, Master,
everyone is touching you.” He said, “No, somebody drew
something out of me.” The woman came forward, trembling,
knowing what she had done and how her 12-year long flow
of blood had stopped at the instance of her touch.
But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her,
he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath
made thee whole. And the woman was made whole
from that hour.
Matthew 9:22
That’s why men and women of faith have no respect for
the word, “Impossible.” This is because they are drawing
from a failure-proof source. When you are grafted in,
sickness is converted to health, weakness to strength, fear
to courage, failure to success, and lack to abundance!
When you are grafted into the olive tree, whatever is in it
flows naturally into you (Romans 11:17), bringing about a
complete change of status. This means that faith
establishes a supernatural change of status for you. This is
because when you come to the point of faith on any issue,
you are spiritually grafted into God on that particular issue.
Then His fatness begins to manifest in your life.
All we ever need to do is to strive to come to a point of
faith on any issue of concern, and then our triumph is surer
than the day.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the
world: and this is the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith
1 John 5:4
No matter the problem, faith is the victory, the master
key that puts you over the challenges of life. The way it
does it is to connect you to virtue, which in turn puts you in
command.
The story of the woman with the issue of blood clearly
defines this mystery of engraftment. It was not the touch, it
was the faith; because everybody was touching Jesus, but
only one connected to Him. Jesus said, “Your faith connected
you to My virtue, you drew from it, and it has made you
whole.” I see you also drawing something that will make you
whole from that challenge in your life this very hour!
Faith, therefore, is not just believing God; faith is
connecting to God. It is essentially connecting to God, so
that you begin to see things the way God sees them. You
then start to talk, think and act the way God does, and you
start to dare what God will dare. Faith connects humanity to
divinity, thereby empowering man for dominion.
So, every time you come to a point of faith on any issue
in your life, you are in command. This is because at that
time, you are operating in the very class of God.
Strong Partnership With God
Faith enables you to have partnership with divinity. Let’s
read about this legend of faith called Enoch.
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not
see death; and was not found, because God had
translated him: for before his translation he had this
testimony, that he pleased God.
Hebrews 11:5
Genesis 5:24 tells us what “pleased God” mean:.
And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for
God took him.
When we put the two scriptures together, it reads this
way, “And Enoch walked with God and God translated him
that he should not see death; and he had this testimony
that he pleased God.” Hebrews 11:6 says:
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for
he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and
that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him.
A walk with God is impossible without faith. What faith
does is to bring a man into partnership with God; and if God
be for us, who can be against us? You can’t be in
partnership with God and be stranded, neither can you be in
partnership with God and be resisted by anyone or
anything. You can’t be in partnership with God and any gate
be shut against you. Psalms 24:7 says:
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up,
ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall
come in.
You are supernaturally in command of the affairs of life,
when you’re in partnership with God. Enoch walked with
God and was not allowed to see what other men see,
because he was in partnership with God.
Moses said to God, “If Your presence will not go with us,
leave us where we are; as it’s Your presence that will make
the difference as we go” (Exodus 33:15). This tells us that it
was the partnership Moses had with God that gave him his
place in history. Likewise, we also need to build a strong
partnership with God, so we will be perpetually in command.
Think about the three Hebrew boys, who were thrown
into the fiery furnace, and Nebuchadnezzar marvelled:
… Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of
the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the
fourth is like the Son of God
Daniel 3:25
What happened here? Their partnership with God
through their faith caused God to follow them into the fiery
furnace. No wonder, fire had no power over them. Daniel’s
faith also brought about a partnership with divinity in the
lions’ den. Daniel testified thus:
My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the
lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch
as before him innocency was found in me; and also
before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
Daniel 6:22
Partnership with God makes you an unstoppable
overcomer; it makes you an irresistible conqueror, and a
man who is in charge everywhere you find yourself.
Note that it is not us that get the job done, but the One
who is with us that gets it done. Jesus said in John 8:29:
 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath
not left me alone; for I do always those things that
please him.
Partnership with God is the seal of destiny; you can’t
have God with you and be floored by any man. God is on
your inside, and He’s also by your side. These two realities
make you an impossible case for the devil.
I strongly believe that this understanding of faith will help
you to invest more in building your faith, and there is no
investment in developing your faith that can be considered
a waste. My prayer is that you will begin now to invest
towards the development of your faith.
God said in Jeremiah 32:27:
Behold, I am the L ORD , the God of all flesh: is
there any thing too hard for me?
From today, nothing shall be difficult anymore in your
life! Psalms 66:3 says:
Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works!
through the greatness of thy power shall thine
enemies submit themselves unto thee.
What you connect to is His power, and that means, no
enemy shall be able to stand in your way anymore. This is
because His enemies must bow to Him, through the
greatness of His power.
 Chapter 7

The 3–Dimensional Faith

Three-dimensional faith is simply talking about faith in
God, faith in His Word and faith in His prophets. The three-
dimensional faith will guarantee you mastery over any
situation in life.
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us
to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour
of his knowledge by us in every place.
2 Corinthians 2:14
That is, we triumph in all our ways and in every place we
find ourselves. That is God’s agenda for us; it’s God’s will.
God has a plan for you to triumph always and in every
place. First John 5:4 tells us:
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the
world: and this is the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith.
Whatever is born of God is born to overcome the
challenges of life, and “this is the victory that
overcomes the world, even our faith.” Then we read in
2 Chronicles 20:20:
And they rose early in the morning, and went forth
into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth,
Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and
ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your
God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets,
so shall ye prosper.
Faith in God establishes His agenda in your life; faith in
His Word commits His integrity, and faith in His prophets
provokes His confirmation. Isaiah 44:26 says:
 That confirmeth the word of his servant, and
performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith
to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the
cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up
the decayed places thereof:
He said, “Believe also His prophets, so shall ye
prosper.” The word “prosper” means to make satisfactory
progress. Prosperity is all about advancing, moving forward,
forging ahead.
King Jehoshaphat said: For we have no might against
this great company that cometh against us, neither
know we what to do; but our eyes are upon thee (2
Chronicles 20:12). Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon the
prophet and he told them what to do.
It means when you believe God, His Word and the
messenger He has sent to you, your victory is guaranteed:
you simply go over. God took over their battle, and of
course, when God takes over, it’s over! Second Chronicles
20:22 tells us what happened after they believed God and
His prophets:
And when they began to sing and to praise, the
LORD set ambushments against the children of
Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come
against Judah; and they were smitten.
Unfortunately, however, the Charismatics have often
settled for only one of these three dimensions of faith. They
believe only the Word of God and stop there – “It is written
... It is written…” and yet nothing is happening. They know
what is written, but what is written is not happening in their
lives.
This illustration might help you understand what I’m
saying better. If you go to a place and you tell them, “My
Bishop sent me,” you have used your bishop’s name. If they
have respect for your bishop, they may attend to you. But
imagine a situation where your bishop sends you with a
written note; that becomes a stronger evidence, isn’t it?
 Anybody can go anywhere and use your name; but a
written note is a stronger evidence. This is why God said He
has exalted His Word above His name. His name is subject
to abuse; but when you go with His Word, it further validates
the source you’re coming from.
How do you compare a note from the president of the
country to that of a company official? When you say the
President sent you, they are likely to first find out whether
he truly sent you. But when they see a note from him, it
automatically gives a stronger legality to your access.
Can you then imagine what would happen if the
President went in person? That is what faith in God does – it
brings God on the spot, right there on the scene! We saw
how God showed up for His people in 2 Chronicles 20:22, as
they began to sing and to praise Him: not one of their
enemies escaped!
Remember, Hebrews 11:6 tells us that without faith it is
impossible to please God; for he that comes to God and
wants to see Him move must first believe.
Faith in God is what moves God to come on stage; it
brings Him on the scene, compelling Him to take over the
battle. Paul said in 2 Timothy 1:12:
For the which cause I also suffer these things:
nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I
have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to
keep that which I have committed unto him against
that day.
Faith in God enforces the establishment of His will; it
enforces His agenda for your life. Thank God for what is
written; but it is not superior to the One who wrote it. The
Writer of what is written is superior to what He has written.
God is superior to His Word.
Many are loaded with the Word, but the Word does not
generate the effect commensurate with the revelations
received, because the Author of the Word is ignored. No
wonder, the Rod is ineffective in their hands. It is, therefore,
very important to have the correct foundation in our faith
walk. God is our foundation in the faith walk.
... Believe the Lord your God, so shall ye
established, believe also His prophets, so shall ye
prosper.
Jesus speaking in John 14:1 said:
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God,
believe also in me.
That is, God first. Believe in Him. From Romans 4:16-17,
we read an interesting account of Abraham.
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace;
to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed;
not to that only which is of the law, but to that also
which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of
us all,
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many
nations,) before him whom he believed, even God,
who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things
which be not as though they were.
We see from this account that Abraham’s triumph came
through his faith in God. Those who truly know God will put
their trust in Him. You can’t know this God and still doubt
Him; you can’t know God and not fear Him, neither can you
know God and not revere Him. You can’t know God and spite
Him. Just like the knowledge of the Word provokes faith in
the Word, the knowledge of God provokes faith in God.
Daniel 11:32 says:
And such as do wickedly against the covenant
shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do
know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Don’t just be satisfied with only God’s Word; reach out for
His person as well. Paul the apostle said: That I may know
Him… (Philippians 3:10). That’s the foundation for the faith
that works. You remember what the three Hebrews boys
said?
 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to
deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will
deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
Daniel 3:17
That is, “We know Him enough. We would rather die
trusting in Him than bow to you.” Did God show up for them
or not? He did! Every time your faith in God comes alive, He
shows up. I see God showing up in your affairs this time!
Daniel 3:24-25 says:
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied, and
rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his
counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into
the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto
the king, True, O king.
He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose,
walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no
hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of
God.
When God arrived in that furnace, He consumed the heat
of the furnace and made a most refreshing passage for
these who trusted in Him.
It was so also when Daniel was thrown into the den of
lions. The king came to the mouth of the den and called on
Daniel:
And when he came to the den, he cried with a
lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and
said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is
thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to
deliver thee from the lions?
Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for
ever.
My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the
lions’ mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch
as before him innocency was found in me; and also
before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.
Daniel 6:20-22
 We hear Daniel and the king talk of Daniel’s God several
times. People quote the scriptures and it’s not adding any
value to their future, because they have ignored the Author
of the scriptures, and are trying to grab whatever they can
grab from Him. Not everyone that quotes scriptures has a
future. God is too smart to allow gatecrashers.
There is no fear of God in the lives of many, because
they don’t know Him. They lie like the devil! There’s no sign
of Christianity around them, yet they go to church more
than anybody else. They are simply religious contractors,
looking for what will be delivered that day that will add
something to them. As for the Source, they don’t care about
Him. That’s why the struggles have continued for too many
people in the Church.
For you reading this, I know there’s a change for you
from now on. Those who crave the knowledge of God never
go down, because you can’t know Him and doubt Him, and
you can’t believe Him and not be fulfilled. Hear what Moses
said in Exodus 33:13:
Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in
thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know
thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider
that this nation is thy people.
Moses was still yearning to know God, because the more
of Him you know, the stronger your faith in Him and the
greater the exploits you will do (Daniel 11:32). “That I may
know Him,” Paul cried. The more of Him you know, the
greater the testimonies you will command. The revelation
knowledge of God is the sure foundation for the faith that
works.
Faith in God is the sure foundation for the faith that
works, and the revelation knowledge of God is what makes
that happen. Faith in God is the mystery behind
supernatural exploits. This is because what the Almighty
does is to step in and take over from you what has been
dubbed impossible – things that you are not likely to believe
yourself, if you were told of them.
Thank God for what is written – it’s powerful and it
commits God’s integrity. However, it cannot compare in
value, worth and potency to God, the Author of what is
written. When God steps in, even the opposition clears out
of the way. The Psalmist said:
The Lord reigneth, let the earth tremble...
Psalms 93:1
Faith in God, faith in His Word and faith in His prophets –
these three-dimensional faith will guarantee you all-round
triumph in every conflict of life.
Prophets are divine. They are helpers sent to help men
fulfill their destinies in God. Faith in them will cause you to
progress in life, as you have divine backing through them.
They are heaven’s messengers, who open you up to what
you did not know existed, and you just walk into it.
You can’t know God and not trust Him. At this point is
where you begin to see God move in your favour. When my
wife’s health was under attack, I said to God, “To heal her is
not what makes You God: You are God forever, whether You
heal her or not. You are eternally on the throne – always
there, ever dependable and ever reliable!
“It is not what You do that makes You God, neither is it
what You don’t do that will now disqualify You from being
God. No one voted You in, no one can vote You out. Amen!”
Whatever anyone sees in our Ministry that is marvellous,
till my days here on earth are over, I will always tell them,
“You better see God behind it.” There is nothing marvellous
in our Ministry that the hand of any man did; they are all
done by the hand of God. You, too ,can experience the exact
dimension of marvels in your family, business and career!
Psalms 125:1-3 tells us that:
They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount
Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so
the LORD is round about his people from henceforth
even for ever.
For the rod of the wicked shall not rest upon the
lot of the righteous; lest the righteous put forth their
hands unto iniquity.
That is what the scriptures mean when it says, “Believe
in the Lord thy God and ye shall be established.”
When you trust in the Lord, He surrounds you. Would you
like to be surrounded by God? Lift up your hands to God and
say this prayer: “Lord, I believe in You. You are who You say
You are – You change not. You are the same yesterday, today
and forever!
“You are all that You say You are. You can do all that You
say You can do. You are ever present and no one can
challenge Your throne. You are eternally the God of all the
earth. Lord, help my unbelief! It is my turn to be
established, in Jesus’ name!”
 Chapter 8

The Operational Base Of Faith

Faith, like I’ve already mentioned, is not a philosophical
issue. It’s a spiritual force that operates in the spirit realm. It
operates in the inner man, or the spirit-man of the new
creation. Let’s look at some scriptures that will help us to
see this. Romans 10:10 says:
For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation.
It is in your heart that you believe. Faith, therefore, is of
the heart. Mark 11:23 says:
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say
unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou
cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe that those things which he saith
shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he
saith.
These two scriptures establish the fact that faith is a
spiritual force, and it operates within the spirit of a man.
Man is a spirit, he has a soul, and lives in a body. First
Thessalonians 5:23 says:
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly;
and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body
be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
It’s important for you to also recognize that faith is a
spiritual weapon, and is listed among the whole armour of
God.
 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye
shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked.
Ephesians 6:16
In Ephesians 6:6, we read:
Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the
servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the
heart;
This scripture establishes the fact that it is the state of
the inner man that determines the dimension of faith a man
can take. The Bible says this about Goliath in I Samuel 17:7:
And the staff of his spear was like a weaver’s
beam; and his spear’s head weighed six hundred
shekels of iron: and one bearing a shield went before
him.
Faith is of the spirit, therefore, your spirit-man bears the
shield of faith. That means, the strength of your spirit-man
is what determines the kind of shield it can carry. Goliath’s
armour was bulky and heavy, to match his stature. The
weight of his sword and spear were enough to ward off any
enemy from him. That was why the whole army of Israel was
too afraid to approach him.
Man’s spirit is the operational base of faith. The strength
and stamina of your inner man is what determines the level
of faith you can operate in. That is, the spiritual capacity of
your spirit-man is what determines the size of weapon it can
bear.
Building Your Spiritual Muscles
The way people build their physical muscles, is the same
way you should work hard at building your spiritual muscles.
The physical muscles are built by nutrition and quality
exercise.
My wife and I once saw a wrestler in New York. His arms
were so thick that they shot out by his sides. The weather
was very so cold, yet he wore only a vest and was still
sweating! I said to my wife, “This man wasn’t born like this;
he built his muscles to match his goal.”
Your spiritual build-up is the foundation for the operation
of your faith. Your heart must be established in the truth of
God’s Word, so you can operate effectively in the realm of
faith. For this, you need quality nutrition and exercise.
All the events of our lives are determined from within.
That’s why we are charged to keep our hearts alive and
strong with all sense of responsibility – “for out of it are
the issues of life.” (Proverbs 4:23). The events of our lives
are determined in our hearts.
How Do You Keep Your Heart?
How do you keep your heart alive and strong?
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto
my sayings.
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in
the midst of thine heart.
For they are life unto those that find them, and
health to all their flesh.
Proverbs 4:20-22
Your spirit-man capacity is enhanced by the quality of
nutrition it receives. The Word of God is the nourishment of
the spirit. Deuteronomy 8:3 says:
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger,
and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not,
neither did thy fathers know; that he might make
thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but
by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of
the LORD doth man live.
For therein is the righteousness of God revealed
from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live
by faith.
Romans 1:17
That means, the just shall live by every Word that
proceeds out of the mouth of God. The just must feed on the
Word, in order to feed his faith. The efficacy of your faith,
therefore, is a function of the stamina, strength and vitality
of your spirit-man.
You see, it’s not so much about the weapon you’re
carrying, but much more about the efficiency of the man
carrying the weapon.
Some robbers can collect a man’s gun from him and kill
him with it. The army of Israel, for instance, was armed to
the teeth; yet they couldn’t move near Goliath. But a boy
came along, with a sling in his hand and said to Goliath,
“This day will I bring your head down…” (I Samuel 17). He
was a young man with a well-built and robust spirit.
Faith does not just answer to, “I believe” or “I confess”;
faith answers to those who profess it. That is, your spirit-
man is on its feet, agile, full of spiritual expertise, and well-
equipped to take command at anytime.
When your spirit-man is alive, it is able to carry your
body along with dignity and majesty. It’s the weakness of
your spirit-man that weakens your body.
A car can move without a body, but no car can move
without an engine. A car can move with even the chair from
your dining room as its seats. It can even move without a
windscreen, but not without an engine. In like manner, your
life can’t move without the engine of your destiny in shape –
that engine is your spirit-man.
This is the failure point of many Christians – their spirit-
man has not been adequately fed; it’s starved. As long as
you keep starving the spirit-man, you are denying your
destiny without knowing, because your spirit-man is the
security of your destiny. Proverbs 18:14 collaborates this:
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a
wounded spirit who can bear?
Your sustenance is determined from within you. When
your spirit-man is kept alive and strong, it puts you in
command over the affairs of your life. Proverbs 17:22 says:
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a
broken spirit drieth the bones.
 What is it that makes the heart merry? Jeremiah 15:16
tells us:
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy
word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine
heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of
hosts.
Your overall health and worth is a function of the wellness
of your spirit-man, which receives its nutrients from God’s
Word. The health of your spirit-man is what determines your
overall health physically, socially and economically.
A wise man said that the best place to begin is at the
beginning. The health of your spirit-man is the beginning of
an efficacious faith. Faith that produces results demands a
strong and healthy spirit that can hold the weapon.
We read in 2 Corinthians 10:3-5:
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war
after the flesh:
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong
holds;)
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing
that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ;
The weapons of our warfare are spiritual; they are
operated by the spirit-man. They are spiritual weapons
operated by our inner man. That’s why we are told in
Ephesians 6:10-12:
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in
the power of his might.
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be
able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places.
 Your conquest and victory begin with the strength of the
Lord in your inner man. You are strengthened with might by
His spirit in your inner man, then you are able to stand in
the evil days.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God,
that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand.
Ephesians 6:13
It takes strength to be able to withstand in the evil day,
and then to stand, having done all. Paul prayed thus in
Ephesians 3:16:
That he would grant you, according to the riches
of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his
Spirit in the inner man.
You need strength in your inner man! The lion is not the
king of the forest because of its size or age. The lion is the
king of the wild because of its strength. Proverbs 30:30 says
of the lion:
A lion which is strongest among beasts, and
turneth not away for any.
Your inner strength is what makes it impossible for the
devil to threaten you. It is lack of this inner strength that
makes believers jittery in the face of challenges.
We were at an outreach in 1979, where a mad man was
delivered from madness. The evil spirit came back on him,
and four hefty men tried in vain to hold him down. They
then called on me.
When I got there, the first thing I said was, “Leave him!” I
looked at the mad man and said, “The angels that left their
first estate are kept in chains in the outer darkness awaiting
the day of Judgment (Jude 6). What are you doing here?” I
spoke to the demon inside him, that had no choice but to
leave.
That’s strength in the inner man! Four men couldn’t hold
him down. But little me came along and said, “Leave him!”
Strength in the inner man is the key to your victory in the
face of any harassment of the devil. The reason the devil is
still harassing you is because of your weak status – you
need a change of status.
The Bible tells us this about Jesus in Luke 2:40:
And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit,
filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon
him.
You need to wax stronger and stronger in the spirit. If a
stranger knocks on the door, and you say, “Who is that?”
The stranger can tell whether you’re a man or a woman
from your voice. Somebody said, “There’s no small snake; a
snake is a snake.” Even so, there’s no spirit woman; it’s
spirit-man.
You have no excuse for not developing your spirit- man
and faith. Stop saying, “You see, I’m a woman.” There’s one
spirit, one faith and one God. It is your build-up that
determines your capacity. From today, your sound will be
like that of a lion! You need to build some energy into your
spirit-man, and that energy source is the Word of God. Your
energy source is in the diverse dimensions of the Word of
God:
Water
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the
washing of water by the word.
Ephesians 5:26
It is also milk for your refreshing and nourishment:
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the
word, that ye may grow thereby.
I Peter 2:2
Meat
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye
know not of.
John 4:32
Strong meat
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye
have need that one teach you again which be the
first principles of the oracles of God; and are become
such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Hebrews 5:12
The Word of God is Wine , to intoxicate you a little, whirl
you around, that you begin to say the “unsayable”, because
you are under the intoxicating power of the wine of life!
The three Hebrew boys daring the king’s wrath, and the
seven times heated fiery furnace said:
… We are not careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to
deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will
deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we
will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image
which thou hast set up.
Daniel 3:16-18
That’s the effect of the intoxicating wine of the Word of
life! It’s a multi-dimensional nutritional stuff – everything is
inside it: strong meat and milk for your breakfast, water to
wash down the strong meat, and then wine, so you can do
what you wouldn’t have done otherwise, because of the
strength that is built into your spirit-man.
You see, the way you look is not as important as what is
inside you. Your suit and tie don’t move the devil; it’s the
strength on your inside that matters. How else do we build
up our spirit-man?
Fasting And Prayer
A man brought his son to Jesus’ disciples for them to cure
him. “But they could not cure him,” he reported to
Jesus. Jesus asked that they bring the boy to Him, and He
cast out that devil tormenting the boy.
Later, His disciples came to Him, and asked, “Why
couldn’t we cast him out?” The reply:
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your
unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as
a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this
mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall
remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and
fasting.
Matthew 17:20-21
What does that mean? There is a particular capacity
required to deal with this kind. Just as cars come in different
capacities, this kind requires a particular capacity of your
spirit-man to surrender.
What is Prayer and Fasting?
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles;
they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk,
and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31
When you wait upon the Lord, according to Isaiah 58:6-8,
you break every yoke. That tells us that the strength built
into you by fasting and prayer gives you power over every
harassment of the devil.
You exercise your spirit-man in fasting and prayers.
Remember Proverbs 24:10 says:
If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is
small.
You build up strength in your spirit-man against the day
of battle, through fasting and prayers. You don’t wait for the
day of battle to come, before you build-up your strength.
Opening your Bible just once a week, is the reason you are
so weak. It’s time to wake up.
The spirit-man, your heart, is the operational base of
faith. That’s what determines the efficacy of your faith. It is
the man holding the shield. So, the strength of that man,
the agility and skill of that man are what determine your
victory in the day of battle.
We are told about John the Baptist in Luke 1:80:
And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and
was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto
Israel.
You can’t be building your spirit-man and not come to a
day of your showing forth to your world. Every time you log
into prayer and fasting is credited to your spiritual account.
It is just like in flying, where the number of hours you’ve put
into flying is what determines your rating, not the day you
graduated from the flying school.
So, it is in the spirit realm – highflyers, the captains of
life, emerge out of the hours they have logged in investing
into their spirit-man. The prayers you pray are stored up in
vials, before the Lord in heaven.
Praying in Tongues
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your
most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.
Jude 1:20
When you pray in the Holy Ghost, you’re building up
yourself on your most holy faith; you’re building up in the
Holy Ghost.
Since 1981, I can’t remember any week that passed
without my fasting. In 1985 I virtually and unconsciously
waited on the Lord everyday. This lifestyle helped me to
gather the energy of a lion, over the period. Peter said in
Acts 6:4:
But we will give ourselves continually to prayer,
and to the ministry of the word.
That is, we will stay on prayer to build our strength, so
that we will be able to withstand in the evil days. Our
spiritual weapons will only deliver to the level of the
strength of the spirit-man. So, build up! It’s your
responsibility.
It’s time we earnestly contended for the original faith
delivered to us by the Creator Himself – the faith of our
fathers, the fiery, ever-winning, ever-conquering faith that is
built on giving yourself continually to prayers and the
ministry of (or the feeding on) the Word. The apostles gave
themselves to praying and feeding on the Word, so their
spirit-man was strong and alive, so that their faith could
deliver maximally.
Faith draws from all the strength of your spirit-man –
from the Word that has been loaded into it, and the vitality
that has been built into it, through various spiritual
exercises.
You must continually give yourself to prayer and fasting.
Building a strong and healthy spirit will no doubt deliver the
results you desire. In Luke 2:52, the Bible says:
And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in
favour with God and man.
Your spiritual stature is what defines the beauty and glory
of your future; so, build it up! Romans 8:6 says:
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be
spiritually minded is life and peace.
All aspects of your life can be driven by the spirit – your
business, family, career, finance, etc. Every aspect of our
lives answers to the command of the spirit. Proverbs 4:22
says:
For they are life unto those that find them, and
health to all their flesh.
They are life to your social, physical, mental and financial
health. Therefore, keep your spirit-man with all sense of
responsibility. Keep it alive and strong, for out of it are the
issues of life. Your spirit-man is the custodian of your
destiny. You must, therefore, guard it jealously.
My prayer for you is that you will see the value of a
strong and agile spirit-man, and begin to invest
appropriately in it. You need it for your life, family, business
and everything else. The authority to make these things
work can be built into your inside.
John chapter five tells us about the man at the pool of
Bethesda, who had been there for 38 years! Why was he
there for that long? He told us in John 5:7:
… Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled,
to put me into the pool: but while I am coming,
another steppeth down before me.
Life is a privileged existence with attendant
responsibilities. Until you take up spiritual responsibility, you
remain a religious and spiritual liability. No one can eat for
you what will make your spirit-man strong; you have to take
responsibility for it. Just like no one can eat the physical
food that builds up your body for you.
That man waited for 38 years to get healed, because he
had no man. The Bible says:
Every man shall bear his own burden
Galatians 6:5
Now, here is the conclusion of all that I’ve been saying: if
you don’t want to die frustrated, take responsibility!
When Adam’s spirit-man was still in place, he was in
absolute command. The lion answered to him, the rhino,
and all the other animals: he named them one after the
other. He even went into the ocean to name the creatures
there.
Paul the apostle was lost in the deep for a night, and he
still came out to tell the story. He was beaten to death and
dragged out of town to be buried. As his tormentors left, he
rose to his feet and went off to preach somewhere else!
Your spirit-man is the custodian of your destiny; so build
it up! Authority emanates from the strength and vitality of
your spirit-man. It’s time to take responsibility.
No Fear!
All my spiritual mentors are men that invested tirelessly
in their spirit-man. One of them was waiting on the Lord the
first 30 days of every year for many years. The other one
spent 40 days at least once in a year, waiting on the Lord.
Kenneth E. Hagin lived a fasted life, and he never knew
what headache felt like.
It is your spirit-man that determines your level of control
in life. Three hundred and sixty-five times in the Bible, we
are told, “Fear not !” “Be not afraid nor dismayed .”
Fear is a spirit. We see that from 2 Timothy 1:7:
 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of
power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
If fear is a spirit, then it takes the strength of your spirit-
man to deal with it. The cure for fear, therefore, is strength
in your inner man. Until you conquer fear, you cannot
access your victory. Philippians 1:28 says:
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which
is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you
of salvation, and that of God.
When you lose your fears, you gain your victory, and it’s
all an issue of the heart.
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge
increaseth strength.
Proverbs 24:5
What does the lion use to overcome fear? Strength!
Proverbs 30:30 says:
A lion which is strongest among beasts, and
turneth not away for any.
The stronger you become spiritually, the more fearless
you become in dealing with the issues of life. We are not
talking about “bold face” here; but about “bold spirit.” The
stronger your spirit-man, the bolder you are, and the bolder
you are, the greater the command you enjoy.
The apostles went everywhere speaking boldly, and God
was granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands
(Acts 5:12). So, the stronger you are, the bolder you
become, and the greater the command you gain. Then signs
and wonders answer to you at will.
May you begin now to see the need to invest quality time
in the Word, in prayers and in fasting. Don’t lose control,
gain it! Don’t watch the devil harass your life; rather,
programme yourself to harass him, and life will begin to
answer to you with ease.
Please, get this right: faith is an issue of the heart, not
the head. Faith is not philosophical or psychological; faith is
a spiritual force that operates within the spirit of man. What
that means is that you have to jealously guard your heart to
operate in the realm of faith. Your spirit-man is the engine of
your destiny. Therfore, it must be jealously serviced, kept
alive and running.
All the different forms of faith draw from your Word bank
or Word reservoir (Proverbs 4:20-22). The thing on your
inside is what your faith draws on. It has to be there first,
before faith can draw from it. When you are challenged in
any area, you work the Word, in your quest for the faith
required to deliver your desire.
It is your labour investment in the Word that qualifies you
to access the virtues of faith. Second Peter 1:5 says:
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your
faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
I laboured three days in the Word to enter into the faith
for prosperity. I laboured three days on the mountain to
enter into the faith for the prophetic. Also, I laboured seven
days to enter into the virtues of the Acts of the Apostles.
Faith is no cheap talk friend, faith is hard work!
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of
double honour, especially they who labour in the
word and doctrine.
1Timothy 5:17
Faith does not increase in the hands of the idle; it
increases in the lives of the diligent. You can’t add to your
faith without diligence. Without spiritual diligence, you
remain spiritually indigent. It takes labouring in the powerful
Word of God to add to your faith. Receive the grace now!
Note, however, that fasting is not a substitute for faith,
and will never be. You can’t operate the mystery of faith
without a studious life. All my strange encounters in the
school of faith came out of times of investment in the Word
of God – investing in books and tapes.
The greatest treasure in my life is my library. I’ve lived
my life inside it; I get the utmost joy when I settle inside it.
That’s why I dare what others may never imagine. My
capacity to believe God has been greatly enhanced by the
enlargement of my spiritual understanding through the
ministry of apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers and
evangelists that God has sent my way through personal
contacts and books.
 Chapter 9

Faith Products
Faith that works is built on hope that is rooted in the
heart, declared by the mouth, and is demonstrated with
corresponding action.
At this point, I want to show you the fundamental
products of faith. These are the things you should expect in
the operation of your faith – the things you’re reaching out
for. When faith is put to work, it delivers three fundamental
products: all-round victory, all manner of healings and all-
conceivable signs and wonders.
We have seen that faith operates in degrees, classified
into little faith, great faith and supernatural faith, and all of
them are drawn from the living Word of God.
We also saw that your level of insight is what determines
the level of faith you can operate in – little insight, little
faith, great insight, great faith, and supernatural insight,
supernatural faith. Now, let’s look at the fundamental
products of faith.
Victory
One of the fundamental products of faith is victory. It is
faith that delivers victory. In the conflicts of life, every
obstacle is subject to the authority of faith. First John 5:4
says:
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the
world: and this is the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith.
Faith delivers all-round victory. It is the answer to all the
fiery darts of the devil.
 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye
shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked.
Ephesians 6:16
Faith is able to quench all the fiery darts of the devil
against your home, career, destiny, business, etc. Most
people in church have been victims of curses and
enchantments, the wrath of men, and the wrath of the devil.
But God’s Word says in Galatians 3:13:
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is
every one that hangeth on a tree:
The price for your liberty from every curse is already fully
paid. You are now seated far above where the curses can
affect you (Ephesians 2:6). You are now far above the
magnetic field of evil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against the
rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God,
that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand.
Ephesians 6:12-13
You must, therefore, no longer live in fear of them, as
they can’t come over to where you are. Living in the fear of
them makes you their victim. The Bible says, “In nothing
terrified by the adversary ....” When you refuse to be
terrified, it will be a token of their own destruction. You are
superior to all evil forces, because you’re seated together
with Christ in heavenly places, far above them all.
Faith delivers victory. In every conflict you face, you can
be sure that faith will deliver victory to you. There’s no devil
anywhere that will challenge the authority of Bible–based
faith. Once faith is at work, every devil goes on break!
 What do you do then? When you’re confronted, go to the
storehouse and take the shield of faith required to deal with
that situation. Go to God’s treasure house (the Word) and
take the appropriate instrument of faith required to deal
with the issue.
It is not according to your luck, as life does not answer to
luck. It is to you according to your faith. Mark 5:34 says:
And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath
made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy
plague.
If it is to you according to your faith, then it is to you
according to the level of your insight in the Word.
By faith, Abraham came out of obscurity and became a
symbol of generational blessings. By faith, Sarah stood
above barrenness and became a mother of nations. By faith,
Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego went from captivity into
royalty. By faith, Daniel came out of the den of lions to rule
in a land, where he was a captive. Faith always changes
men’s stories. It’s your turn for a change of story!
Healings
Faith also delivers healings. In Acts 14:7-13, we read
about a man who had been lame for years. When Paul
perceived that he had faith to be healed, he prayed for him
in the name of Jesus Christ. Immediately, his ankle bones
received strength, and he walked for the first time in his life!
Two blind men came to Jesus and said to Him, “Master,
we want to receive our sight.” Jesus answered them, “Do
you believe that I can do this?” They said, “Yea Lord!”
So, Jesus said to them, “Be it unto you according to
your faith.” He touched their eyes, and immediately, they
received their sights (Matthew 9:27-30). I dare say to you
now, that no matter the plague in your body, today is your
day of deliverance, in the name of Jesus Christ!
Faith delivers healing. When your faith is released in any
scripture, the virtue in that scripture flows into your body to
enforce the performance of what it promises.
 Take the scripture in Matthew 8:17 for example. When
you begin to release your faith for healing based on that
scripture, you declare, “He Himself took my infirmity and He
bore my diseases.” He took it 2,000 years ago. If He took it,
then it’s not there anymore. “I have been bought with a
price. My body and my spirit must glorify God. Sickness, to
hell with you! Pains, to hell with you!”
Many years ago, I had a very big boil, and my faith was
released to the consciousness that somebody took my pains
2,000 years ago. The pains were immediately converted to
pleasure. The pain in the boil was destroyed, signifying that
some kind of virtue must have entered into my body, as I
sat down in faith on that scripture.
Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the
arm of the LORD revealed?
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,
and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form
nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is
no beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it
were our faces from him; he was despised, and we
esteemed him nots.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our
sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of
God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he
was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of
our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are
healed.
Isaiah 53:1-5
I said to myself, “If He has carried my pains, then it can’t
be with me anymore; my body becomes absolutely pain–
free.” With that understanding operating in me, the pains
found their way out. May every pain in your body find their
way out of you right now, in the name of Jesus! Every curse,
every enchantment, every pain is destroyed right now!
Your doctor can’t guarantee your health. They, too, agree
that they can only care, they can’t cure. God is the source of
true health. Psalms 127:1 says:
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in
vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the
watchman waketh but in vain.
Proverbs 10:22 tells us:
The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he
addeth no sorrow with it.
God is more than enough! If He can’t do it, it will be
foolishness for you to go looking for who else will try it. But
I’m glad to let you know that He is the God of all flesh,
there’s nothing too hard for Him (Jeremiah 32:27).
Drop All Alternatives
With God, your case is not a case at all. He can bring
men your way, and He does that.
For when a man’s ways pleases the Lord, He
makes his enemies to be at peace with him
Proverbs 16:7
God can bring men your way, but He can’t stand you
making them your defence or source. Jeremiah 17:5-6 says:
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that
trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and
whose heart departeth from the LORD.
For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and
shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the
parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and
not inhabited.
He is the One that will bring men your way, when your
way pleases Him. He then begins to mobilize everything in
your favour. But He will never enslave you to any man as
your source. Jeremiah 17:7-8 says:
 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and
whose hope the LORD is.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters,
and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and
shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be
green; and shall not be careful in the year of
drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
When you enslave yourself to any man, God removes His
hand. He then says to you, “Let’s see how far you can go.”
The greatest enemy of faith is what I call human
alternatives. Human alternatives are the worst enemies of
faith, because God will never share His glory with any man
(Isaiah 42:8). If you want God to step in, then make Him
your only source of hope and expectation.
My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my
expectation is from him.
Psalm 62:5
Your expectation must be on God. Every other source
you’re looking up to nullifies the effect of His source. The
Lord spoke to me strongly on this about 30 years ago. He
said to me, speaking from Psalms 34:5:
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and
their faces were not ashamed.
The Lord said to me, “You have two eyes; can you make
one look up and the other one to look down at the same
time? I tried it and then answered, “No.” He then told me,
“Every time you look elsewhere, you’re no longer looking
unto Me.” If you can withdraw from every alternative to this
only source, the heavens will open for you.
They looked unto Him and were lightened, and they
became impossible cases for the devil. They looked unto
Him, and they had their breakthroughs.
We live in a culture that believes so much in human
connections, as the only guarantee for success and
distinction. Every businessman in our society seems to have
that mentality. As a result, God has withdrawn His hands
from many, because they have made “graven images” for
themselves.
God is a jealous God – you either give Him all the glory or
He takes none of it; you either make Him your only Source
or He refuses to participate in your affairs. The Bible says in
Matthew 6:22:
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine
eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.
You don’t need an elder brother to get a job; you only
need God. This is because there’s no place He can’t get to
on this earth. No man or place on this planet earth can say,
“No!” to God.
God accepted absolute and full responsibility for the
assignment He gave me, because we look nowhere else but
to Him for everything. That’s why as a Ministry, we have no
known sponsor anywhere since inception. Friend, your
connection with the Most High God is more than enough, to
get you to any place in life.
Has your doctor said your case is closed? God is saying,
“It is no case with Me.” I see God stepping into your affairs
supernaturally! If your eye is single and focused on Him
alone, then your case is settled! Here is this powerful song:
“ It’s so sweet to trust in Jesus
Just to take Him at His Word
Just to rest upon His promise
Just to know, ‘Thus says the Lord.’
Jesus, Jesus how I trust Him…”
Jesus is the answer, no matter the enormity of the issue!
You are receiving your answer right now in Jesus’ Name!
You Need a Husband?
You are beautiful, created by God, redeemed and
baptized in the Holy Ghost, yet no one has come to say to
you, “Will you marry me?” That curse is destroyed today!
God is going to establish a covenant home for you right
away, by divine speed in the name of Jesus!
Freedom From Shame?
 The price has been fully paid for you to have a glorious
life. From this moment, everything that smells shame is no
longer your portion! You have been called into glory and
virtue! You have been brought out of darkness into His
marvellous light, so shame is not your portion. Reproach is
not your portion, neither is pity your portion!
Begin to come against them now with words of faith, and
every desire of your heart will be fully met today!
Fear Of Death?
There are people who are already waiting for the day of
their death. The doctor’s verdict is absolutely contrary, and
all you are doing is just marking time, waiting for death to
come. Hear this: that appointment with death is
disappointed this moment!
Doctor’s verdict notwithstanding, faith always has the
final say. Faith is what determines the end at any point and
any time. Your doctor is not the one that gave you life , so,
he cannot determine when that life will go.
The key is not in the hands of the devil either; it’s in the
hands of Jesus, and He’s holding it in your favour. So, you
shall not die! Jesus said in Revelation 1:18:
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I
am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of
hell and of death.
You shall live to declare the works of God!
In Luke chapter seven, Jesus touched the coffin and the
dead son of the widow sat up and began to speak. See that
same touch coming upon you right now, and as virtue flows
into your body, that death in your system is swallowed up in
victory!
I laid hands on a young girl who had sickle cell anaemia,
and she was not only healed of the sickle cell, one of her
legs that was shorter than the other also grew out to match
the other one! Hands were laid on the–head, and the blood
was affected! Everything that is contrary to your total health
is being destroyed right now, in the name of Jesus! All it
takes is faith in your heart, and God will be committed to
confirm it.
Fruit Of The Womb?
God is never late; so, it is never late to have your
miracle. If you have been looking up to God for the fruit of
the womb these many years, in nine months time you will
carry your baby in your hands! The Lord will make you
laugh!
Forget about the past. Today, God will show up in your
life! The essence of faith is to terminate the frustrations of
man.
Signs And Wonders
The third product of faith is signs and wonders. Faith is
your vital link to the supernatural, which is the source of
signs and wonders. Jesus said in Mark 16:17:
And these signs shall follow them that believe In
my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak
with new tongues;
To take up serpents means to toy with the devil, and yet
be unhurt. If you take any deadly thing, it won’t hurt you,
and when you lay your hands on the sick, they shall recover.
Faith delivers signs and wonders. Jesus makes us
understand that signs and wonders are the works of God,
and are direct products of faith.
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for
that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which
the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God
the Father sealed.
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that
we might work the works of God?
Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the
work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath
sent.
John 6:27-29
In John 14:12, Jesus assures us:
 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on
me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater
works than these shall he do; because I go unto my
Father.
Faith is your guarantee for God’s kind of works – signs,
wonders and diverse miracles. Signs and wonders are at the
command of faith; they are your heritage in redemption.
John 3:8 says:
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou
hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence
it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that
is born of the Spirit.
I have no other way of describing the hand of God in my
life and Ministry, except with the words “signs and
wonders!” It answers in my life on a natural frequency.
Faith at work will always put you in command of signs
and wonders. When you’re in command of signs and
wonders, you stop wandering about in the world; instead,
you are in perfect control of life’s situations.
Signs and wonders in your business, for instance, will
constantly cause it to blossom where others don’t. Signs
and wonders in your career will give you strange promotions
that will make others wonder how you got it. Signs and
wonders in your trade will give you supernatural sales, while
others are crying, “No sales!”
All of these are at the command of faith. Faith delivers
victories, healings and signs and wonders. I know that all
you need is within these three things – victory over all
satanic harassment, healing from every form of body
breakdown and organic malfunctions, and you are
commanding signs and wonders on a natural frequency.
 Chapter 10

Covenant Platform For A Winning Faith

I will be sharing with you in this chapter, the various
perspectives that will help you in the operation of your faith.
When King Jehoshaphat was confronted with a battle that
seemed too great for him and his army, the Lord spoke to
him saying: You shall not need to fight in this battle,
set yourselves, stand ye still, an see the salvations of
the Lord with you… (2 Chronicles 20:17). “Set
yourselves” means, “Position yourselves for the victory
that you desire.” It means, “Take your stand; find a platform
from where you will operate your faith.”
There is, therefore, a need to understand the appropriate
covenant positions to take, for the victory we desire in the
operation of our faith. “Where do I stand, for my faith to
produce?” is the question we always need to ask.
Remember also that Ephesians 6:13 says:
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God,
that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand.
“Where do I stand for my faith to deliver? on what
platform do I operate, for my faith to produce?” This chapter
will help answer these questions.
We already understand that faith is essentially a tool for
victorious living.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the
world: and this is the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith.
1 John 5:4
 This tells us that faith is an overcoming weapon, which is
why it‘s important for you to locate where you need to
stand, for your faith to produce.
Let’s start by establishing this fundamental truth: that
every time you are challenged and confronted, God has a
plan for you to overcome. The following factors will help
establish a great stand from where your faith will produce.
God Is Willing
Recognize that God is willing to give you the victory you
desire. Many people are victims of their ignorance regarding
the will of God. They are tied down because, in most cases,
they’re ignorant of God’s will.
You must recognize that God is willing to make you the
overcomer that you desire to be; God is willing to make you
victorious in that battle, and to give you the victory you’re
looking for. God is willing to heal your body; He is willing to
grant you the breakthroughs you desire in your business.
See what happened in Matthew 8:1-3:
When he was come down from the mountain, great
multitudes followed him.
And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped
him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me
clean.
And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him,
saying, I will ; be thou clean. And immediately his
leprosy was cleansed.
That is, “Are you asking about My will? I will.” Whatever
separates you from the society is leprosy. Whatever makes
you hide your face, when others are approaching is a form
of leprosy. Whatever makes you a by-word and a proverb,
among others, is a form of leprosy. But I believe God that by
the time you’re through reading this book, no form of
leprosy will be traceable to your life anymore!
God is willing! God is able! God is ready! If you will stand
on these Biblical truths, you are bound to constantly have
the victory you desire. He said, “I will, be thou clean.”
 Also in 3 John 2 He said:
Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest
prosper and be in health, even as thy soul
prospereth.
God is saying, “This is My express will, My priority will:
that you prosper and be in health.” The question then is no
longer, “If thou will,” because He said in Jeremiah 29:11:
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,
saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to
give you an expected end.
That is, “I respect your expected end, I respect your
expectation, and will see that your expectation is not
frustrated. I want your desires fulfilled.”
God’s will, therefore, is an established matter. But the
question is: “Are you ready to receive His blessings?”
God Is Able
Ah Lord GOD! Behold, thou hast made the heaven
and the earth by thy great power and stretched out
arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee.
Jeremiah 32:17
In verse 27, God asked
Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is
there anything too hard for me?
God is able! The One who brought Lazarus out of the
grave after four days can’t have any problem dealing with
that cancer. He can’t have any problem flushing that HIV out
of your body or destroying every form of stroke and
paralysis in your life. Surely, He can’t have any problem
delivering your desires to you.
The One who furnished a table in the wilderness, and
caused Israel to eat freely from heaven for 40 years, can’t
have a problem giving you and your family three square
meals a day. Jesus who fed 5,000 people with a little boy’s
lunch, and they had 12 baskets left over, can’t have a
problem meeting the needs of your family. God is able!
 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is
impossible, but not with God: for with God all things
are possible.
Mark 10:27
How many things? All things, including your own thing
that everybody has concluded is not possible. That situation
in your life that everyone has concluded will remain the
same, is included in all things that are possible.
All things are possible!
God Is Ready
God is willing, God is able, and God is ready. God is ever
ready to step into your situation, because He’s the I AM
THAT I AM! God will not be stronger tomorrow than He is
today. He’s not trying to gather more strength with which He
can deal with that your issue.
God will not be more loving tomorrow than He is today.
He’s the I AM that I AM. God will not be more merciful
tomorrow than He is today, because He’s the I AM THAT I
AM. In 2 Corinthians 2:14 Paul said:
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us
to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour
of his knowledge by us in every place.
We serve a “Now” God. He’s not going to be mightier
tomorrow than He already is, neither is He going to be more
powerful, more loving, more merciful tomorrow. He’s not
going to be readier tomorrow either.
I don’t know if you are ready, but He is ready today. God
is ready today to re-write your story. God is willing, God is
able, and God is ready!
Now, Your Faith
You need to establish these covenant stand in the
operation of your faith: “My God is willing! My God is able!
My God is ready! Satan, get ready for fire!” This will give
you all the boosting and confidence you require, to bring
home the victory. When God is committed, the deed is done.
 However, nothing commits God to make good His
promise like faith. Now you know that He is willing, able, and
ready to help you, get Him committed.
And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be
a performance of those things which were told her
from the Lord.
Luke 1:45
Faith will always commit the integrity of God to make
good His promise. Jesus asked those blind men, “Believest
thou that I the son of man, I am able to do this?” and
they said, “Yea Lord.” Then He touched their eyes, and said
to them, “Be it to you according to your faith”
(Matthew 9:27-29). Until you believe Him, He’s not
committed. Your faith is what determines what God commits
Himself to doing in your life.
Faith is a covenant device for getting God committed to
intervene on your behalf. He said to Martha and Mary at the
grave of their brother, Lazarus: If you believe, you will
see the glory of God (John 11:40). Faith is what it takes.
God is willing, able, and ready; He’s simply waiting for those
who know how to get Him committed.
God is willing to heal your body, establish your business,
future and give you that miracle job. But you must commit
Him by the operation of your faith. Target a particular issue
in your life, and commit God to intervening on your behalf,
by putting your faith into it.
Proofs Of Authentic Faith
What are the proofs that you have faith? This question is
necessary because most of what people call faith is not
faith. What makes one know that you are walking or
operating in faith? “How do I know that I have faith?,” you
ask.
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith;
prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves,
how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be
reprobates?
 2 Corinthians 13:5
That means it is possible to know when one is operating
in faith. What then is the acid test for faith? What is it
proves that there is faith at work in you?
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:1
Faith must deliver result or it’s fake! You can tell whether
there is faith in you or not. What then are the proofs of
authentic faith?
Patience
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in
Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a
precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that
believeth shall not make haste.
Isaiah 28:16
One of the proofs of authentic faith is patience. This is
made very clear in Hebrews 11:7 which says:
By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not
seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the
saving of his house; by the which he condemned the
world, and became heir of the righteousness which is
by faith.
Noah moved to build the ark at the age of 500, according
to Genesis 5:32. Then the flood came when he was 600
years (Genesis 7:6). That is, he waited 100 years for the
flood to come.
Patience; and it was by faith. The first demonstration of
faith in the scriptures was by Noah, and the Bible says in
Hebrew 6:12:
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who
through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Faith and patience always walk together. We also have
the example of Abraham. Hebrews 6: 13-15 says:
 For when God made promise to Abraham, because
he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and
multiplying I will multiply thee.
And so, after he had patiently endured, he
obtained the promise.
Patience is always a companion of faith. Faith without
patience is fake! “He that believeth shall not make
haste.” We saw that in Abraham, and the effect remains till
today. Patience is a companion of authentic faith. God spoke
to Abraham, and then patience delivered the result to him
after 25 years of waiting.
Not everybody waits in patience. Most people are victims
of anxiety. They say to themselves, “If it will happen, it
would have happened now.” After sometime they say, “Oh,
Lord Jesus, I know you can do it” That’s not patience!
Patience is stable while waiting. Patience is waiting without
any anxiety, for, “he that believeth shall not make
haste. ”
Dedication
Authentic faith empowers the believer to be rooted and
grounded in God. The Bible says in Job 2:9:
Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain
thine integrity? Curse God, and die.
But Job told his wife that she must be one of those foolish
women for saying that. Then in Chapter 13:15, Job said:
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will
maintain mine own ways before him.
Authentic faith is proved by undying dedication to
God, not to things . The three Hebrew boys were
threatened with the fiery furnace and they said, “Our God is
able to deliver us, and He will deliver us. Even if He doesn’t,
we would rather die than bow!” God delivered them,
because they believed and trusted in Him.
Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be
the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who
hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that
trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word,
and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve
nor worship any god, except their own God.
Daniel 3:28
They trusted in their God. Unreserved dedication is one
of the proofs of authentic faith. That is, what He does or
does not do doesn’t affect you. God is not your business
partner, He’s your Father! He’s not your heavenly banker,
He’s your Heavenly Father!
True dedication is a proof of authentic faith. They said to
Daniel, “You will not pray to any other god except the king,
otherwise you’ll be cast into the lion’s den.” He told them,
“I’m ready.” Later on, we read in Daniel 6:23:
Then was the king exceedingly glad for him, and
commanded that they should take Daniel up out of
the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and
no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he
believed in his God.
The Lord delivered him because he believed in Him.
That’s not like all this “bread and butter” faith that people
are parading all over the place.
Let God be true, and all men be liars (Romans 3:4).
That’s faith! “It doesn’t matter what is happening, God is
true.” That’s faith! When you get to that point in your faith,
you have committed God’s integrity to perform.
God tried Abraham with Isaac and dedication prevailed
(Genesis 22), and God brought generations after Abraham
into His blessings through that act of dedication. Look at
what Hebrew 11:17-19 says:
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up
Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered
up his only begotten son,
Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed
be called:
 Accounting that God was able to raise him up,
even from the dead; from whence also he received
him in a figure.
Faith people are not driven by things; they’re driven by
God. People of authentic faith (people whose faith deliver)
are not driven by things; they are moved only by God. If
you’re the type that is up today and down tomorrow, your
faith needs treatment. That is faith sickness; your faith
needs attention.
Faith people are high up there always, because their root
is in God, Who is the same yesterday, today and forever. So,
until you’re the same in all circumstances, your faith is fake.
Dedication means to be the same in all circumstances.
Dedication will always empower your faith for triumph.
Concerning the righteous, Psalms 46:5 tells us:
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved:
God shall help her, and that right early.
May you receive grace for true dedication today! You can
now see that faith is beyond just believing in your heart and
confessing with your mouth.
Corresponding Action
Whatever you claim to believe is proved by what you do.
You believe in prosperity, good. But are you doing what
makes people prosper? If you’re not, then your faith is fake.
James 2:18 says:
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have
works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I
will shew thee my faith by my works.
In 1 Samuel 2:3, Hannah said:
Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not
arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a
God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Your actions validate your faith or lack of it. Whatever
you claim to believe must reflect in what you do. In Genesis
12:1 we are told:
 … Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee
out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from
thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee:
We are told in verse 4:
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto
him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy
and five years old when he departed out of Haran.
In Genesis 17 again, God spoke to Abraham, instructing
him to circumcise every male in his household, beginning
with himself. In verses 23-24 we are told:
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that
were born in his house, and all that were bought with
his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s
house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in
the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when
he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Abraham’s actions were proofs that he believed God. In
Genesis 22:1-2, God came to him again:
And it came to pass after these things, that God
did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and
he said, Behold, here I am.
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son
Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land
of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering
upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Again, Abraham moved. Verse 3 tells us:
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and
saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with
him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the
burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place
of which God had told him.
Abraham’s faith was validated by his actions. Until your
actions line up with what you claim to believe, your
believing is fake! We read in Hebrews 11:7:
 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not
seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the
saving of his house; by the which he condemned the
world, and became heir of the righteousness which is
by faith.
If you’re not moving, you’re not beleiving. God weighs
your actions to determine the manifestations in your life.
Faith moves! If it’s not moving you, then it’s not faith.
Joy
The fourth proof of authentic faith is Joy. We read in 1
Peter 1:8:
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though
now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy
unspeakable and full of glory:
Faith is validated by joy. Faith infuses you with joy
unspeakable. Faith rejoices in the realities of the unseen,
and there’s no limit to the unseen. That’s why faith
produces joy unspeakable in a man’s heart. Phillip went to
Samaria and preached Christ to them, and Acts 8:8 says:
And there was great joy in that city.
Faith always stimulates joy. If there’s no joy, then there’s
no faith. The Psalmist said:
Why art thou cast down oh my soul, and why art
thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.
Psalm 42:11
That means, “Believe God.” Faith is the antidote for
depression. Depression can’t move near a man that has
faith. Joy unspeakable – that’s one of the characteristics of
faith.
Peace
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace
in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through
the power of the Holy Ghost.
Romans 15:13
Peace is a product of believing. We also read in Hebrews
4:9-11:
 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of
God.
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath
ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest
any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
They did not enter because of unbelief. But for people
that believe, they cease from their own works and enter into
their rest. When you enter into your rest, anxiety ends and
curiosity is terminated. That is peace. It’s one of the proofs
of authentic faith. It is called “peace that passeth all
understanding ” (Philippians 4:7).
I have never suffered a sleepless night over the Ministry
God gave me. No! You need to see me when I’m sleeping – I
sleep comprehensively, so, I wake up totally refreshed. I
work for long hours and don’t have too many hours to sleep,
so I have to sleep well.
There are people who work harder when they sleep than
when they’re awake. They are restless all night long. You
enjoy peace that passeth all understanding through a
consistent lifestyle of faith – authentic faith. You will have it
today!
Positive Confession
Faith is a speaking force. If it cannot be picked – up in
your words, then it’s not there. Faith can be traced in the
words of your mouth, if it is there.
My wife was the first to hear about the vision of the
Ministry, when it was delivered to me. From that day, she
never heard me say one word that made it look like it may
not work.
Faith is a speaking force. Romans 10:10 says:
For with the heart man believeth unto
righteousness; and with the mouth confession is
made unto salvation.
Your confessions either validate or betray what you call
“faith.” If your faith cannot be traced in your words, then it
is fake.
It Celebrates God
Authentic faith also celebrates God. Romans 4:20-
21says:
He staggered not at the promise of God through
unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
And being fully persuaded that, what he had
promised, he was able also to perform.
Authentic faith does not question God, rather, it
celebrates God. If you ever find anyone questioning God,
move away from him; that’s a victim of unbelief. Don’t
travel with him/her for that may be a Jonah in your ship! You
may lose all your goods.
Those who question God can’t claim to believe Him. The
faith that triumphs is the faith that has graduated into trust;
it breeds supernatural triumph. Authentic faith never
questions God, it celebrates Him. That’s the ultimate in your
quest for triumph – always giving God thanks and praise, no
matter what the situation may be.
In Ephesians 6:13, God’s Word says:
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God,
that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and
having done all, to stand.
Thanksgiving
Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the
LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the
LORD.
Psalm 134:1-2
Having done all you’re told to do, stand blessing God.
Stand celebrating God - praising and giving Him thanks. God
said to the people: Stand ye still and see the salvation
of the Lord (2 Chronicles 20:17-21). Jehoshaphat sought
for the interpretation of that instruction, “stand”, and then
appointed singers.
 And when he had consulted with the people, he
appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should
praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out
before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his
mercy endureth for ever.
And when they began to sing and to praise, the
LORD set ambushments against the children of
Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come
against Judah; and they were smitten.
2 Chronicles 20:21-22
Stand blessing God and stand giving Him thanks; then
you will see His salvation. They never shot an arrow! That’s
the triumph of faith.
Don’t just give Him general thanksgiving; thank God for
that thing that has refused to move. That is the ultimate in
faith battle. Jesus proved it in John chapter 6, when He fed
5,000 men with five loaves of bread and two fishes.
And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew
what he would do.
John 6:6
Verse 11 says:
And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given
thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the
disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of
the fishes as much as they would.
He knew that thanksgiving was what to do, having done
all. Using the same key, Jesus brought Lazarus out of the
grave, after he had been dead (and stinking) for four days
(John chapter 11).
Thanksgiving is never late. You can bring that stinking
situation back to life with genuine thanksgiving. You can re-
open that seemingly closed situation with thanksgiving.
Jesus said in John 11:25-26:
…I am the resurrection, and the life: he that
believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he
live:
 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall
never die. Believest thou this?
As He ended that and said, “Father, I thank you,” Lazarus
came forth! Authentic faith celebrates God in the face of
seemingly impossible cases, and then God steps in at the
pulling of the trigger of thanksgiving.
Whatever you are believing God for all this while, and are
yet to see it, I would like you to engage the never-failing
weapon of blessing the Lord. That way, you transfer the
battle to Him and He takes over. When He takes over, it’s
over!
In the world, they give thanks after somebody has done
something for you; but in the Kingdom, you give thanks for
Him to do something. After Jesus gave thanks, the bread
multiplied; after He gave thanks, Lazarus came forth, not
before. Philippians 4:6 says:
Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer
and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests
be made known unto God.
Note also that even your prayers are not answered until
you give thanks. If you’re still praying and have not seen
anything, He says, “You need thanksgiving.” This is because
God will not hear you, until thanksgiving is included in your
prayer.
Thanksgiving, therefore, is a force that accompanies faith
to deliver. Until you know the meaning of thanksgiving and
you start engaging it, you will still have many unanswered
questions in your life. That’s why this very hour, I release
the Spirit of joy and gladness upon you! It will culminate in
thanksgiving, praises and blessing God. I see God fighting
for you today!
Thanksgiving brings God to bear on your circumstances.
Thanksgiving transfers the battle from you to God, and then
the battle is over!
Friend, I’m glad to let you know that this faith works!
 Chapter 11

The Good Fight Of Faith

Everyone going into his promised land must expect to be
resisted. All you need to do is to stand up to the challenge.
By what force? By the force of faith. I will tell you how that
works.
You have a very loaded inheritance in heavenly places;
but they are needed here on earth. Ephesians 1:3: says:
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
In 2 Peter 1:3 God’s Word also says:
According as his divine power hath given unto us
all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us to
glory and virtue:
God has given us all things that pertain to life and
godliness; but why are most things not here for us to enjoy?
In 1 Timothy 4:8 the Bible says:
For bodily exercise profited little: but godliness is
profitable unto all things, having promise of the life
that now is, and of that which is to come.
Psalms 34:10 says:
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but
they that seek the LORD shall not want any good
thing.
Good things are ordained of God to attend to us in the
journey of life. Paul gave us a clue on how to actualize this
goodly heritage here on earth.
 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal
life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast
professed a good profession before many witnesses.
1 Timothy 6:12
You have been called into a fight, which is the only way
to lay hold on what eternal life holds in store for you. As we
have already seen, faith is the master key to a world of
victory.
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the
world: and this is the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith.
1 John 5:4
It is not, “a victory,” but “the victory that overcomes the
world, even our faith.” The fight of faith is the only way to
lay hold on what eternal life has in stock for you. Romans
8:32 says:
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him
up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things?
That is, salvation guarantees you supernatural access
into every other thing that God can do.
Why Do You Need To Fight?
God’s Word says in Deuteronomy 2:24:
Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the
river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand
Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land:
begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
It sounds like a paradox, but it’s the truth - “I have given
you,” God says, “now begin to possess it and contend with
the oppositions in battle; otherwise you’ll never possess it.”
If there were no oppositions, then your inheritance would
have been automatically released to you. But there’s an
opposition. There is an adversary, the devil. He’s against
anything that has to do with your welfare; he always stands
in the way of your advancement everyday. Remember what
1 Corinthians 16:9 says:
 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me,
and there are many adversaries.
The reason for the contention is because of the stony-
heartedness of the opposition. He has vowed to stop your
access; he has vowed to rob you of what belongs to you,
and that is the reason for the contention. First Timothy 1:18
says:
This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy,
according to the prophecies which went before on
thee, that thou by them mightest war a good
warfare;
Though prophecies are the unfolding of divine agenda,
yet He says you have to war a good warfare to see them
fulfilled. You don’t wait to see prophecies fulfilled, you war a
good warfare to see them fulfilled. That’s the reason for the
contention. I’ve often said that life is a warfare, not funfair!
Second Corinthians 10:3-5 says:
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war
after the flesh:
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,
but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong
holds;)
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing
that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God,
and bringing into captivity every thought to the
obedience of Christ;
The same way we are walking is the same way we ought
to war. Life is a battlefield, not a playground. Until we
become warfare-conscious, we won’t enjoy welfare. We
must become warfare-conscious to enjoy maximum welfare.
You are called into a fight, not into a play.
Life is a battleground, that’s why we are told that “We
wrestle.” It’s in the present continuous tense. The enemy
has vowed to stand in your way, so you too must vow to
break through by force! This is because it’s impossible to
access your promised land without standing up to fight. The
Bible says in Exodus 13:17:
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the
people go, that God led them not through the way of
the land of the Philistines, although that was near;
for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent
when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
That means God already knows about the warfare. He
knows about the battles you must fight and win, before you
can enter your promised land. This is where many Christians
miss it. But it’s time to become a burning and a shining light
– armed to the teeth and are able to tell every devil, “Shut
up!” and they will obey you!
You need to know that there is no other way to your
promised land. You are either ready, to confront the
opposition or you remain in the same position.
God has spoken; His agenda for you has been unfolded–
that it is your turn for a change in level. He has concluded
all plans to give you a positive experience of a lifetime,
coupled with supernatural progress and advancement.
How Do You Fight?
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye
shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
wicked.
Ephesians 6:16
How do you quench the fiery darts of the enemy? By the
force of faith. That is the master weapon for conquest. It is
one weapon that has everything it takes to stop everything
the enemy can muster up.
Faith stops all the manipulations and wickedness of the
devil. I see all the wickedness that has been tormenting
your destiny crushed today, in the name of Jesus!
James 1:5 says:
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that
giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it
shall be given him.
That tells you that every lack in your life has an answer
with God, and the way to connect with the answer is by
asking. But verse 6 says:
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he
that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with
the wind and tossed.
We see, therefore, that it is one thing to stop the
oppositions, and yet another thing to receive, to see what
was stolen restored back to you. You need faith to stop him
and to have what belongs to you released to you.
Without faith, therefore, you don’t have a future. Your
future in the Kingdom is determined by faith. We stop the
opposition by faith, and also gain access to our possession
by faith. Mark 11:24 puts it this way:
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye
desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them,
and ye shall have them.
When you come face-to-face with obstacles on your way,
He said:
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say
unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou
cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe that those things which he saith
shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith
Mark 11:23
You quench oppositions, clear obstacles and access your
possessions by the same weapon – faith! The fight of faith
is, therefore, your only guarantee for possessing your
possession. Every conquest is preceded by a conflict, and
every possession stems out of great contentions.
Now, I would like you to target everything you know
which belongs to you in redemption, that is not yet manifest
in your life, and engage the force of faith to enforce their
release, and it shall be so!
 Fight the good fight of faith. You can’t say, “I’m not
interested,” because the opposition is determined to stop
your access, to rob you of what belongs to you. So, whether
you’re ready for a fight or not, the fight is on, and if you’re
not ready, you’ll become a casualty!
The Power Bedrock
Conquest is essentially a function of power display.
Psalms 66:3 says:
Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works!
Through the greatness of thy power shall thine
enemies submit themselves unto thee.
Conquest is a function of power manifestation. It’s not
about oratory, eloquence or posture; conquest is a product
of power display. That’s why the weapon of faith is
important: it taps into the power that is above all powers.
We read in John 1:12:
But as many as received him, to them gave he
power to become the sons of God, even to them that
believe on his name:
Faith connects you to power, which helps you to become
what God has ordained you to be. Power is the end product
of the operation of faith. That is, faith is a channel through
which we tap into divine power that enforces the releases of
what belongs to us. In Romans 1:16, Paul the apostle said:
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it
is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that
believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Through the instrument of faith, the gospel is translated
into power. Faith converts the Word of God into power, and
this power does two things: it causes the opposition to bow
and also enforces the release of your destiny, so that you
become what God has ordained you to be.
You can now see that faith is not merely about recounting
God’s Words to Him; it’s about connecting with power from
God. Paul talked about the exceeding greatness of God’s
power in Ephesians 1:17–19:
 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of him:
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened;
that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and
what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the
saints,
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power
to usward who believe, according to the working of
his mighty power,
The resurrection of Jesus is the power base of the Church
of our Lord Jesus Christ; it’s the anchor for the ever-winning
faith. If the ultimate of faith is power, and resurrection is the
exceeding greatness of God’s power on display and also the
working of His mighty power, then resurrection is the
platform for the ever-winning faith. Paul said in Philippians
3:10:
That I may know him, and the power of his
resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings,
being made conformable unto his death;
That is, “I want to know His power so I can duplicate His
life. The power of His resurrection is what guarantees my
practical identification with the resurrected Lord.”
The exceeding greatness of God’s power was
demonstrated at resurrection. It is the power bedrock of the
Church; the anchor of faith for unquestionable triumph. The
exceeding greatness of His power is available to us who
believe; but you connect to it by faith.
Resurrection power provides the platform for your
translation from the earthly places to heavenly places. It
provides the platform from where you are able to give
command to principalities and powers, and might, and
dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this
world, but also in that which is to come. Except Christ is not
risen, only then can Satan keep you in that condition.
 So, fight the good fight of faith! Taking delivery of your
possession and inheritance is not a physical and intellectual
struggle; it’s a fight of faith!
When You Are Confronted
Every time you’re confronted, do the following:
Get Hold of The Word
Get hold of the appropriate Word of God that guarantees
your expectation. Until you locate what is written, you
cannot influence the happenings. It is laying hold on what is
written that puts you in command of the happenings. Get
hold of the Word!
The one thing that the enemy cannot stand is the
authority of the Word of God. Do you know why? Hebrew
11:3 says:
Through faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God, so that things which are
seen were not made of things which do appear.
Everything, including the devil was formed by the Word
of God. All of creation has its source in the Word of God. The
Word of God, therefore, has all authority to remain in
command, since everything was created by it. John 1:1-3
says:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was
not anything made that was made.
So, get hold of the Word.
Release Your Faith
Next, release your faith into that Word which you have
laid hold on. Hebrews 4:2 says:
For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as
unto them: but the word preached did not profit
them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard
it.
 There must be a mixing of the Word with faith. That is,
you consciously build your faith into that Word. Don’t
assume it; cultivate it. Until you mix the Word with your
faith, the Word remains impotent: it can’t produce.
Present Your Case
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of
grace that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to
help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16
Then you present your case. That is, you pray to God,
“Father, this is what your Word says, and I believe it. Prove
that this is your Word.”
That way, you tap into divine virtue for a change of story,
and heaven begins to work in your favour. When you ask
anything according to His will, He hears you (1 John 5:14). If
He hears you, then He is committed to granting you your
petitions.
Address The Situation
You then face the situation and address it squarely. That’s
what Jesus meant in Mark 11:23:
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say
unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou
cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe that those things which he saith
shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he
saith.
Most of us are too busy talking to God, rather than talk to
the situations. God won’t speak to the mountains for you;
you’re the one to speak to them yourself. The Psalmist said,
“The strangers will hear my voice and they shall fade
away from their hiding places” (Psalms 18:45).
The reason strangers are still hanging around you is
because they’ve not heard your voice yet. Speak to them!
You pray to God, but speak to the issues. We need to learn
how to speak.
 Face-to-face with Goliath, David didn’t pray to God, he
spoke to Goliath (1 Samuel 17). According to Proverbs
18:21:
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and
they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
David killed Goliath before Goliath died; he slew him with
his words. First Samuel 17:45-46 says:
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to
me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield:
but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts,
the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast
defied.
This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand;
and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee;
and I will give the carcases of the host of the
Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to
the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may
know that there is a God in Israel.
Declare Your Victory
Don’t wait for anybody to announce your victory,
announce it yourself. “It’s over! It’s over! It’s over!”
Don’t Quit The Line
Keep doing all the above five things, until what you
desire is delivered. God said in Hebrew 10:38:
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man
drawback, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
So, don’t quit; and you will see your desired results.
Give Him All the Glory
As you see the result, give Him the glory. These are
seven power – points for an ever-winning life. With these
seven points, you can hold every devil to ransom.
Now, whatever belongs to you in Christ that the enemy is
still withholding, I decree your supernatural breakthrough
and delivery right now, in the name of Jesus!
You Need An Overcomer’s Mentality
 Life is a warfare, and defeat should not be an option for
you. You must never consider defeat; victory should be your
only pathway. Triumph must always be your goal.
Triumph is having a walk-over in a battle. That is, winning
without stress and conquering without scars. This is God’s
ordained realm and plan for you.
Faith is an ever–triumphant force. All you need is an
overcomer’s mentality. It takes an overcomer’s mentality to
live a triumphant life. What you cannot see, you’re not
entitled to get. It is your mental picture that defines your
destiny and actual future. Proverbs 23:7 says:
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he...
A lack of the overcomer’s mentality was the problem of
the 10 spies, so they lost out on their inheritance (Numbers
14). They lost their destiny to a negative mentality. Many in
the Body of Christ are victims of negative mentality.
I pray that everything that negates the truth in you be
flushed out of you permanently, in Jesus’ name!
Enforcing The Triumph Of Faith
Let me show you the various perspective keys you need,
to enforce the triumph of faith concerning any issue of
concern.
It is Common
In your journey to triumph, you must first of all
understand that your challenges are common. For instance,
there are no special diseases; every disease is common to
man. Joshua and Caleb couldn’t see the giants that others
saw. While the other spies saw the giants as oppositions,
Joshua and Caleb saw them as bread. Until you see those
challenges as common, you cannot overcome them.
Take blindness for instance; it is common. Some are born
blind, and have never seen all their lives, like the man in
John 9:1-8. How about lameness? The man at the Beautiful
gate was born crippled from his mother’s womb (Acts 3:2).
We also read about the man in Acts 14:8-10, who was
crippled from his mother’s womb. It’s common! All these
conditions were turned around in a matter of seconds.
I don’t care for how long that plague or problem has been
there. It’s turning today, just like the case of the Canaanite
woman’s daughter, who was vexed with a demon.
Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord,
help me.
But he answered and said, It is not meet to take
the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs.
And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the
crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.
Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman,
great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt.
And her daughter was made whole from that very
hour.
Matthew 15:25-28
Also, there’s the story of a man who was dying of may be
cancer, heart disease, kidney failure or whatever. He was so
helpless that his four friends had to carry him to see Jesus.
We read in Mark 2:3-5:
And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the
palsy, which was borne of four.
And when they could not come nigh unto him for
the press, they uncovered the roof where he was:
and when they had broken it up, they let down the
bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.
When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick
of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.
It is common! How about death? You know, of course,
that the end of every sickness and disease is death? But we
see Jesus raising the dead in several instances (Mark 5:34-
42; Luke 7:11-16; John 11:1-44). I don’t care how deadly
that problem in your system is, there is a reversal today!
It is common! Sarah gave birth to a son at the age of 90;
so your case is not closed. I see you making headline news,
by reason of divine intervention coming your way this very
hour, in Jesus’ name!
John the Baptist (the greatest of all men until Christ)
came out of Elizabeth in her old age! Mary, without knowing
a man, was the channel through which Jesus Christ came.
You have been called barren; something generational is
coming out of you too, in the name of Jesus!
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is
common to man: but God is faithful, who will not
suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but
will with the temptation also make a way to escape,
that ye may be able to bear it.
I Corinthians 10:13
It is common!

God is Faithful!
Know that you can always count on God. He cannot deny
Himself. He is not a man that He should lie, nor the son of
man that He should repent (Numbers 23:19).
Just like a man cannot be pregnant, God cannot lie. He
does not have that capacity. He abides faithful, even when
we don’t believe. God is ever faithful! Deuteronomy 7:9
says:
Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God,
the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy
with them that love him and keep his commandments
to a thousand generations;
It is impossible for God to lie! Second Timothy 2:13 says:
If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he
cannot deny himself.
Numbers 23:19 also confirms it:
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the
son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and
shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not
make it good?
 Also, Hebrews 6:17-18 says:
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew
unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his
counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
That by two immutable things, in which it was
impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong
consolation...
And 2 Corinthians 13:8 says:
For we can do nothing against the truth, but for
the truth.
Every scientific verdict that does not line up with the
truth is falsehood. The Bible says: Let God be true, and
all men liars… (Romans 3:4), including doctors. For 12
years that woman spent all her resources seeking healing
from doctors. The Bible said she suffered many things in the
hands of doctors, but was not better. Then, suddenly, the
truth showed up, her faith caught it, and the flow of blood
ceased instantly (Mark 5:25-34). The verdict of medical
report was reversed!
So, you see, the doctors don’t have the final say
concerning that your condition. Jesus is the Alpha and
Omega – He has the final say on any issue of your life.
Revelation 1:18 says:
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I
am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of
hell and of death.
Jesus holds the key of health and death; it’s not in the
hand of the doctors. First Timothy 6:20 talks about the
falsehood of science, when it’s put side by side the truth.
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy
trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and
oppositions of science falsely so called:
There are facts and there are truths. There are scientific
facts and there are scriptural truths, and scientific facts are
eternally inferior to scriptural truths.
You Are Well Able
 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is
common to man: but God is faithful, who will not
suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but
will with the temptation also make a way to escape,
that ye may be able to bear it.
1 Corinthians 10:13:
You are able! Joshua and Caleb said, “We are well able to
take the land, and to possess it. If God said it, then we are
well able.”
When they ask, “Who are you to think you can live a
sickness–free life?” Tell them, “Greater is He that is in me,
than he that is in the world (I John 4:4).”
If you have Christ in you, then the Grand Commander is
resident on your inside. You have the life of God in you –
eternal life, which connotes immunity from all sicknesses
and diseases. That surely makes you different! John 3:16
says:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Romans 6:23 corroborates this:
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Every saved person possesses divine life, which is not
subject to sickness and disease. Jesus knew no sickness or
disease when He walked this earth, and He said: As the
Father has sent me, so send I you… (John 20:21). This
marks the end of all harassment of sickness and disease in
your life!
They ask, “Who are you to think you’re superior to
sickness?” Again, answer them with I John 5:4:
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the
world: and this is the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith.
Sickness is one of the principal challenges of life in this
world. That’s why when Jesus came, He was healing the sick
everywhere He went. Acts 10:38 says:
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy
Ghost and with power: who went about doing good,
and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for
God was with him.
Health care delivery is the most prevalent challenge
among men in every nation; it costs every government
massive sums of money in their budgets. In every nation,
sickness and disease are the devil’s major trademarks.
“Who are you,” they ask, “to think you are superior to
sickness and disease?” You should answer them with
Ephesians 2:5-6:
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened
us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit
together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
And then Ephesians 1:20-21 tells us our location:
Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him
from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in
the heavenly places,
Far above all principality, and power, and might,
and dominion, and every name that is named, not
only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
You are to live above all the agencies of sickness and
disease. Principalities and power, rulers of darkness of this
wicked world, and wicked spirits in the high places are all
agencies of sickness and disease–and you live above the
realm where they operate. That is what makes total health
your birthright.
There’s A Way Out!
First Corinthians 10:13 also tells us that there is a way
out.
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is
common to man: but God is faithful, who will not
suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but
will with the temptation also make a way to escape,
that ye may be able to bear it.
There’s always a way out of every predicament. Jesus
said in Revelation 3:7:
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia
write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is
true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth,
and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man
openeth;
That should let you know that you can never be hedged–
in by any situation, if Jesus, who holds the key of David, is at
work in your life. There is always a way out.
The Bible tells us that God made His ways known unto
Moses, and His acts to the children of Israel (Psalms 103:7).
That means every time God unveils His ways and you buy
into it, you have provoked His acts. His ways are the
custodians of His acts. Let’s read Isaiah 30:20-21:
And though the Lord give you the bread of
adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not
thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but
thine eyes shall see thy teachers:
And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee,
saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to
the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
Your teachers will show up, and as they do, the ways are
unveiled, and then your escape is established. We see a
picture of a terminal disease painted in Job 33:21-25:
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen;
and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his
life to the destroyers.
If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter,
one among a thousand, to shew unto man his
uprightness:
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver
him from going down to the pit: I have found a
ransom.
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall
return to the days of his youth:
An interpreter is the key to that restoration. An encounter
with a God-ordained messenger, an interpreter of the truth,
who will show you your rights in Christ, is the key to the
restoration of your health. That is, revelation is the key to
every restoration here on earth.
It says, “If there is a messenger with him…” I’m glad to
let you know that I’m privileged to be one of such
messengers. They are not too many in the world. There are
God-ordained bakers, and there are those who distribute the
bread. I am not just a distributor, I am also a baker.
Therefore, I say to you, whatever represents a terminal
disease in your life is hereby terminated, in the name of
Jesus!
Yes, there is always a way out! The Holy Ghost is the
Master Interpreter, but God has interpretation agents,
through whom the Holy Ghost communicates His
interpretations. There are apostles and prophets, who are
put in specialized positions, to address the challenges of
humanity. That’s why the Bible says that the Church is built
upon the foundations of the apostles and the prophets,
Jesus Christ Himself being the Chief Cornerstone (Ephesians
2:20).
These apostles are special envoys, while the prophets are
God’s mouth-piece. They deliver specific mandates to the
Body of Christ. On May 1, 1981, in an 18-hour long vision,
God said to me, “The hour has come to liberate the
world from all oppressions of the devil, through the
preaching of the Word of faith; and I am sending you
to undertake this task.” God was saying to me, “You are
My special envoy to deliver a liberation mandate to
the Church.”
Every divine intervention is provoked by Holy Ghost–
inspired interpretation of the scriptures. When He opens it
up, you have provoked the acts of God.
There is a way out! In Ecclesiastes 8:1 we read:
Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the
interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his
face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be
changed.
Accurate interpretation of scriptures emboldens the
believer to command the supernatural: “It cannot happen!
Can I have my food please?” That was my violent response
to my wife’s, “I have had a miscarriage,” when she was
pregnant with our first son (now doing exploits in Ministry as
a pastor). That response was fired by revelation – a product
of compound interpretation of scriptures.
As I’m interpreting these truths to you, all your
frustrations are being terminated in Jesus’ name! It is
interpretation that infuses illumination, which in turn
shatters all the forces of darkness in a man’s life. An
interpretation is what enhances your spiritual boldness.
When the truth is made naked to you, it fires you up on the
inside. Now, say to that situation in your life, “With the truth
of life at work in me, I can deal with you.”
Your Master Access
I must tell you this: faith is your master access to divine
healing. It is the faith question that you answer, to
experience the healing manifestation that Christ offers.
Matthew 9:27-29 says:
And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men
followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of David,
have mercy on us.
And when he was come into the house, the blind
men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe
ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea,
Lord.
Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to
your faith be it unto you.
 No disease or sickness can resist the authority of Word-
fired faith (not mental assent). Jesus said, concerning a man
who had been dead for four days, in John 11:40:
…Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest
believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
That is, faith can bring him out of that grave. So, if death
can answer to faith, then cancer must answer to it.
Deafness must answer to it! Blindness must answer to it! No
matter the sickness and disease in your body, it must
answer to your command of faith today.
In I Corinthians 15:26, we are told:
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
That tells us that death is the ultimate power of the devil,
and it’s the cause of every sickness and disease. All the
people Jesus healed were victims of the oppression of the
devil (Acts 10:38). His last card is death, and death answers
to faith. So, cancer, kidney failure, liver problem, infertility,
impotence, strange movement in the body, migraine,
nervous disorder – all must answer to faith! First John 5:4
says:
For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the
world: and this is the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith.
Today, you will see the power of faith in action in your
life! All you need to do is to set your faith antenna right.
Remember: it is common and God is faithful. “I am well
able; there is a way out; and I can deal with it.” These are
the overcomer’s mentality process that will guarantee the
triumph of your faith, in the face of any challenge or trial.
Your faith is all it takes to be in command.
 Chapter 12

The Trinity Of Triumph

Faith, hope and love constitute the trinity of triumph.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
but the greatest of these is charity.
1 Corinthians 13:13
Faith, hope and love operate in unison; they operate
together. With the operation of these three forces,
Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego went through fire
triumphantly. In Daniel 3:16-18, we read:
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and
said to the king, O’ Nebuchadnezzar, we are not
careful to answer thee in this matter.
If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to
deliver us (hope!) and He will deliver us (faith) Oh
king.
But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we
will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image
which thou hast set up (love)”
You can’t operate with these three forces and still be
floored. I call them, “The Trinity of Triumph.” God said to
Abraham in Genesis 22:2:
… Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom
thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and
offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the
mountains which I will tell thee of.
Let’s see faith, hope and love in action in Abraham’s life:
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye
here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder
and worship, and come again to you (hope).
 Genesis 22:5
Then in verse 8, when his son asked him about the lamb
for the sacrifice, Abraham said, “…My son, God will
provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering…(faith!).”
Then verses 10-12 say:
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took
the knife to slay his son,
And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of
heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said,
Here am I
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad,
neither do thou anything unto him; for now I know
that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld
thy son, thine only son from me.
Abraham took his only son to go and sacrifice him to the
Lord - that’s love! We see the hope of Abraham, his faith
and love demostrated here, and that was what brought him
into the realm of sworn blessings!
…By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for
because thou hast done this thing, and hast not
withheld thy son, thine only son:
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in
multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the
heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore;
and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.
Genesis 22:16-17
These three forces — faith, hope and love work together.
The trinity of triumph is it!
HOPE
Hope is what prepares the way for faith; it is the breeding
ground for the Spirit of faith. To be hopeless, therefore, is to
be helpless. Our hopelessness is the reason for our
helplessness. Not just hope, but a lively hope. That is, hope
that is lively. First Peter 1:3 says:
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath
begotten us again unto a lively hope by the
resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Man became hopeless after the fall (Genesis chapter 3).
But we were brought back into a lively hope by redemption.
Our hope was dead, but came alive when we got born again.
We now possess a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead.
It is spiritual to be hopeful. Why? Romans 8:32 says:
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him
up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely
give us all things?
If you’re born again, you’re entitled to every other thing
that God can afford. Without hope, faith is impotent,
because faith rides on hope to generate its results. Where
hope stops, therefore, is where faith ends; as faith can’t go
beyond where hope stops. Second Peter 1:3 says:
According as his divine power hath given unto us
all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us to
glory and virtue:
That tells you that when you are born again, you are
entitled to all things that make for life and godliness. That’s
where hope stems from. So, new birth is your spiritual
access into a life of lively hope.
With hope, you never come to your wits’ end; it’s never
late for God to step in. God is never late, no matter how the
situation may appear. We read about the Shunammite
woman in 2 Kings 4:18-37. She had a miracle son and then
one day, Satan struck and by noon the boy was dead! Verse
22 says:
And she called unto her husband, and said, Send
me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of
the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and
come again.
Verse 23 says:
 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day?
it is neither new moon, nor Sabbath. And she said, It
shall be well.
Let’s see what happened in verses 25-26:
So she went and came unto the man of God to
mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of
God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his
servant, Behold, yonder is that Shunammite:
Run now, I pray thee, to meet her, and say unto
her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband?
is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well :
Here, we see hope preparing the way for faith to operate.
Her husband’s hope was already ended, and if the woman
stopped there, that would have been the end of that case.
Your case is never closed until you close it; nobody’s case is
ever closed until he/she closes it.
Hope was moving that woman. She must have said to
herself, “The man of God through whom God gave us this
miracle child is still alive; this child cannot die,” and so went
to Elisha. She was riding on hope to provoke the operation
of the Spirit of faith.
“Is it well with the child?,” the man of God inquired. “It is
well,” she said and then faith gave substance to her hope.
Remember that Hebrews 11:1 says:
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the
evidence of things not seen.
So, where there is no hope, faith has nothing to give
substance to. Hope, therefore, is the “wife” of faith. You
know, of course, that no matter how strong a man is, he
can’t have a child without a woman. Even so, no matter how
strong faith is, it can’t produce without a lively hope.
It takes a lively hope for faith to deliver. Whatever you
can’t hope for will never happen. If you can’t see it, faith
cannot deliver it. A hopeless believer is a helpless believer!
It is your hope that provokes God’s help. Say to yourself:
 “I have been begotten unto a lively hope;
therefore, my case in not closed. God is never late,
He is forever in charge. God is eternally in control.
My case cannot be closed.”
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is
not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet
hope for?
Romans 8:24
It takes hope to stimulate faith. It doesn’t seem real, but
because you have seen it in the Word of God, you believe it.
This is what God said about Abraham in Romans 4:18:
Who against hope believed in hope, that he might
become the father of many nations, according to that
which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
It’s time to believe in the lively hope into which you have
been begotten. God can do anything that our faith allows
Him to do, but it’s our hope that sets the pace for our faith
to work.
Setting The Stage
God’s Word is essentially designed to stir up your hope.
His Word generates hope, and faith brings it home. The
knowledge of the Word is not equal to faith; it only sets the
stage for faith to deliver. Hope tells you it is available, then
faith makes it obtainable. Faith turns what is available to
obtainable.
Hope is the wife faith is “married” to, to bring forth their
miracle “babies.” No great faith can deliver proofs without
hope, and hope is generated or provoked by the knowledge
of the truth. It’s the knowledge of the truth that generates
real hope. The knowledge of the scriptures is what gives
hope, and when faith comes alive and fertilizes hope, it
gives birth to the miracle you desire. Therefore, one is not a
substitute for the other.
You need to be spiritually sound, not religiously
committed. That means, you should be alive to the things
required of you, and then engage your faith to commit God
to perform. When you jealously guard your walk with God
and your relationship with Him, God then becomes jealous
about everything that concerns you.
Be very committed to every prophetic declaration with a
sense of mission. When books are recommended for you to
read, read them, because something is waiting in those
books for you. When you take notes in church, go through
them again, because faith is built by hearing. Faith is
reinforced and energized by hearing and hearing until it
happens.
It’s not enough to know what is there or available, it’s
also important to know what it takes to bring it home. It’s
great to know that it is there; but even greater to know how
to bring it home. One is not a substitute for the other – the
two are equally important.
I must emphasize, however, that you do not wait for
things to happen, because things never happen by waiting;
they happen by acting. Whatever He tells you to do, do it.
You do not wait for wine to come, you wait on Him to hear
what He wants you to do, and then He turns your water into
wine and sends all your mockers into hiding!
All that Mary told them was, “Wait on Him; whatever He
tells you to do, do it” (John 2:5). So they waited on Him.
Then He said, “Go fill the water pots with water .” They did,
and by acting, they committed God to manifest His glory.
I think it’s time for us to move out of the realms of
religious waiting, to active and dynamic waiting on the Lord
for what He would have us do per time. James 2:20 says:
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without
works is dead?
Subsequently, it is your action that determines His
manifestation. Every time He speaks, He commits Himself to
perform, if He can find those who will believe it. To believe it
doesn’t mean to give mere mental assent to it, “Yes God will
do what He says He will do.” To believe Him means to do
what makes it happen, and to do whatever He tells you to
do in making it to happen.
That is the only way to validate your faith. Your faith is
fake, if it is not taking responsibility for what you are
expecting. You have to consciously develop the faith
required to deliver your desire.
You wait on the Lord to hear what He wants you to do,
not waiting with folded hands for things to happen. I pray
that grace to labour intelligently and effectively in the Word
of God, in order to enter into that rest, be granted you this
hour, in the name of Jesus Christ!
Take Away The Stone!
Do you know that most people are just trying God? Yes,
because they have already closed their cases. Their hope is
dead, and you know, no man can impregnate a dead
woman. When a woman is dead, every part of her body is
dead as well. You can’t find a dead woman being wheeled
into the labour room! So, faith without hope is like a man
without a woman believing to have a child: that’s
impossible!
It’s time for your hope to come back to life. If you can’t
see it (hope), faith can’t get it. What you cannot see, you
cannot get (Genesis 13:14). We read in 2 Corinthians 4:17:
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory;
It may look like it’s never going to be over, so He said in
verse 18:
While we look not at the things which are seen,
but at the things which are not seen: for the things
which are seen are temporal; but the things which
are not seen are eternal.
I don’t care what you’re going through, this is the last
time you’re going to go experience it! No affliction is
expected to exceed a moment. That moment is over for you
this hour. You’re not permitted to stay in that affliction one
moment longer. For every shame of your life, God is
restoring double glory back to you!
For your shame ye shall have double; and for
confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore
in their land they shall possess the double:
everlasting joy shall be unto them.
Isaiah 61:7
Your time of singing and dancing has finally come! The
challenges around your life now are temporal, but what God
has spoken concerning you are eternal; connect with them
now in the name of Jesus!
Abraham’s hope was built on that which was spoken
(Romans 4:16-18). It means hope has the same source as
faith. Hope sets the stage for faith, and strong faith
operates on the platform of a lively hope. It took Abraham
25 years to see the manifestation of what was spoken, but
his hope was alive, so faith eventually delivered. You have
waited this long; it is your turn to have your own Isaac!
Just take the stone of hopelessness out of the way, so
that faith can operate. Jesus told them at the grave of
Lazarus, “Take away the stone!” That is, “Remove the
blockage of hopelessness; I cannot operate as long as that
stone is blocking the sepulchre.”
Faith cannot operate, until the stone of hopelessness is
removed. You can’t stay on that drug forever, no! The doctor
should not dictate your life span, no! Remove the stone of
hopelessness, for your Lazarus is about to come forth!
When they placed the stone at the door of the tomb,
hope ended. But Jesus came and said, “Remove it!” Do you
want to see the glory of God? Then, remove that stone of
hopelessness, for the case is not closed yet. Remove that
stone of hopelessness, for your long–awaited husband is
returning; your long-awaited marriage is happening this
year, your long-awaited miracle babies are arriving right
now, in the name of Jesus!
 Until you roll away the stone, the Spirit of faith cannot
function. That stone of hopelessness must be rolled away
from the “mouth” of your challenges. Roll it away, for your
Lazarus is about to come forth! No one can close your case
except you.
It is your faith that brought you into the kingdom; that
same faith will bring you the victory you require any day,
anytime, anywhere! All you need is to let your hope set the
pace for faith to function.
Make this declaration: “My case is not closed. My God is
still on the throne; my case is not closed.”
For whatsoever things were written aforetime
were written for our learning, that we through
patience and comfort of the scriptures might have
hope.
Romans 15:4
The things written are written to ignite your hope, in
setting the pace for your faith to work. Remember, we draw
hope from the scriptures the same way we draw faith from
the scriptures; faith and hope have a common source.
Hope says the case is not closed, “I can see my babies in
my hands; I see my wife by my side.” Hope always sees into
the future. Hope celebrates the reality of tomorrow. With
hope, you’re never down. The Psalmist said in Psalms 42:5:
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art
thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall
yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
It is lack of hope that pushes people into depression. As
long as your hope is alive, you will never be down. This very
hour marks the end of depression in your life! Your victory is
here today!
LOVE
Interestingly, the Bible says that everything works by
faith, but faith also works by love.
For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth
any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which
worketh by love.
Galatians. 5:6
What that tells you is that the quality of your faith is a
function of the quality of your love. I’m talking about the
love of God burning hot in your heart. Love is the spiritual
instrument for activating your faith, for maximum delivery.
Faith works by love. Just like in the science laboratory,
there are some reactions that will lie dormant until you
introduce a catalyst; so is it with faith. Faith is acting on the
Word of God to commit Him to make good His promise. You
have the Word, faith, prayer and fasting all in one beaker, as
it were, and you’re waiting for all to produce your desire.
But these are substances that require an activator, a
catalyst. The introduction of a catalyst is to accelerate the
rate of the reaction, and love is that catalyst that helps to
activate your faith for speedy delivery.
The quality of your faith is a function of the quality of
your love for God. That means also, that the quality of your
life is a function of your faith, and the quality of your faith is
a function of the quality of your love. By a straight line
equation, therefore, the quality of your life is a function of
the quality of your love for God.
Many are seated in Church just craving for things; but
only very few are craving or panting for God. That’s why
their struggles have been without end.
We have always taught the people, that faith is what you
hear, you believe and you become. But they have believed
and are yet to become, yet they have not bothered to find
out why it is so. “Faith which worketh by love.”
The efficacy of your faith is a function of the quality of
your love for God.
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man,
the things which God hath prepared for them that
love him.
 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit:
for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep
things of God.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10
That explains why the quality of a man’s faith is a
function of the quality of his love. Your depth of revelation is
a function of the quality of your love for God, as He will only
reveal Himself to people that He is in a relationship with,
just like you will share your confidential issues with only
your confidants. There has to first be a relationship.
If faith is a function of revelation, and revelation a
function of love, can’t you see then that faith is a function of
love? David never lost any battle, and he fought virtually all
through his reign. He triumphed always and in every place,
and God described him as “a man after Mine own heart.”
That is a man with a heart for God. In 1 Chronicles 29, in his
testimony David said:
Moreover, because I have set my affection to the
house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of
gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my
God, over and above all that I have prepared for the
holy house.
1 Chronicles 29:3
He was a love–slave of God! No wonder, his faith was
operating at a divine frequency, constantly delivering
maximum effect, because the love of God was burning hot
in his soul. The stronger your love for God, the greater the
effect of your faith.
Your love for God is that spiritual catalyst that helps to
accelerate the rate at which your faith delivers. Think of
Daniel: you couldn’t separate him from his God, not even at
the risk of losing his life. That was why before he even
landed in the lion’s den, the angel of God was already there,
waiting to protect him against any form of molestation from
the lions.
 He told the King, “My God has sent His angels and has
stopped the mouth of the lions, and they have done me no
harm.” That’s why we read in Hebrews 11:33, “Who
through faith…stopped the mouths of lions .”
Many waters cannot drown love, for love is as strong as
death (Songs of Solomon 8:6-7). The love of God was
burning so hot in the hearts of Shedrach, Meshach and
Abednego – hotter than the fiery furnace! Since the hotter
must swallow the lesser, the hotter fire inside them
swallowed the lesser fire in the furnace!
There was a furnace of love in their hearts, which put
their faith on automatic gear! It’s time to consider where to
put God on your agenda, where to place Him in your heart.
First Corinthians 13:1-3 says:
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of
angels, and have not charity, I am become as
sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and
understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and
though I have all faith, so that I could remove
mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, and have
not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
You may need to ask yourself sincerely, “Am I in love or
am I just having fun in church? Am I truly in love?” When
you are in love, you are supernaturally in command. Didn’t
you hear?
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the heart of man,
the things which God hath prepared for them that
love him.
1 Corinthians 2:9
That is, the lover will remain in command and become
the envy of His world. When you are out of love, you are at a
loss, because there is nothing you do that will add value to
your life.
These three reasons above, clearly establish the place of
love in our Christian walk. He went on further to say:
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three;
but the greatest of these is charity.
1 Corinthians 13:13
The three fundamental forces of destiny include hope,
faith and love; and the Bible says, “The greatest of these
is love.” Love is greater than faith and vision (hope). Why?
Love is what gives value to faith and guarantees the
actualization of vision.
Nothing else adds value to you outside of love. The
question then is: Do you love Him? The Bible says in John
21:15-17:
So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon
Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than
these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest
that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.
He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son
of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea,
Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto
him, Feed my sheep.
He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of
Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he
said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he
said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou
knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed
my sheep.
Not Without Knowing Him
You can’t love God without first knowing Him. So, I leave
you with this destiny-provoking question: Do you really love
Him?
Until you answer the love question, the struggle
continues. Faith is impotent without love. Why? Love is that
spiritual activator that helps to accelerate the rate of
delivery of other spiritual virtues.
If there is anything that must be your identity as a
believer, it is the Spirit of faith. It must be found at work in
you always, and this is what makes it work: your heart for
God. It is what energizes your faith for maximum delivery.
I want you to receive the love – nature of Christ in your
system. Every time Jesus was moved with compassion, a
supernatural manifestation takes place. Every time He was
moved with compassion, virtue flowed out from Him freely.
So, when love is at work in you, virtue will flow and the
impossible will be done in your life.
Do you really love Him?
Proving Your Love
One of the ways you prove your love for God is in your
giving. John 3:16 says:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Paul speaking in 2 Corinthians 8:7-8:
Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith,
and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence,
and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this
grace also.
I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of
the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity
of your love.
Giving is one of the ways we prove the sincerity of our
love. You can give without loving, but you can’t love without
giving. You can give to actualize any ulterior motive you
may have, but you can’t be truly in love without giving.
Giving is one fundamental way in which we give
expression to the love of God in our hearts. The love of God
is a giving love. We read in 1 John 3:14,17-18
We know that we have passed from death unto
life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not
his brother abideth in death...
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his
brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of
compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God
in him?
My little children, let us not love in word, neither
in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
When you’re not a giver, you’re not a lover. Giving is a
way of expressing the love of God in your heart. God gave
expression to His love for the world, by giving His Son, Jesus
(John 3:16). I pray the giving grace begins to flourish afresh
in your life, in the name of Jesus!
God’s love is not a singing or dancing love; it is
practically expressed in giving. Real love simply gives
expression to what is in the heart. God said in Isaiah 29:13:
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people
draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do
honour me, but have removed their heart far from
me, and their fear toward me is taught by the
precept of men:
Love is not in the shout or noise; it‘s simply in the act of
love that we exhibit day-in-day-out towards God and our
neighbour. This is the love of God, and it gives value to
every other facet of our lives.
Now, receive grace to become an addicted lover of the
Father, with proofs to show for it.
It Takes A Heart For God
In John 14:21, God said, “If you will stay in love, you will
see My hand...”
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth
them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me
shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and
will manifest myself to him. …
I knew very early in life that if I maintained His hot love
in my heart, I will make my mark without sweat. John14:21
showed this to me. If you will stay in love, your faith will
always produce results. If you will stay in love, your
understanding will keep flourishing and blossoming.
I knew all that very early by divine privilege. That’s what
I’m trying to pass down to you. You have over-celebrated
knowledge, understanding and revelations, yet there is no
result to match. It takes a heart for God for every other
spiritual virtue to deliver value to your life.
Receive grace to love Him more, in the name of Jesus!
 Chapter 13

Connecting With The Spirit Of Faith

Christianity is all about accepting spiritual
responsibilities. When you refuse or ignore responsibility,
you become a liability. When you stop responding, you
become a dead weight!
Responsibility is all about responding positively to the
demands placed on you by your task, pursuit or assignment.
You are expected to respond positively to: the demands of
what you desire, the things that are expected of you to do,
the ability given to you, and the demands placed on you.
You must accept responsibility for faith for unlimited
possibilities. That is, consciously cultivating the faith
required to deliver your desires. This is because whatever
faith that seeks to make God absolutely responsible for the
events of one’s life, is an irresponsible faith. Faith makes
you primarily responsible for the happenings in your life.
God will always wait for you to believe, before He confirms
supernatural possibilities in your circumstances.
Faith does not come by wishing, it comes by hearing, and
hearing by the Word of God. God is only committed to what
you believe, and what you believe is what determines what
He performs.
And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be
a performance of those things which were told her
from the Lord.
Luke 1:45
The end–time Church is ordained for glory, beauty, and to
be the envy of the world.
 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw
concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the
mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in
the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above
the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and
let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the
house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his
ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion
shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from
Jerusalem.
Isaiah 2:1-3
God’s agenda is to make His Church the envy of the
world, and that’s a great responsibility on the shoulders of
the saints. We need, therefore, to understand the price that
goes along with it. That understanding will help us in
fulfilling our portion of this great plan of God.
The Bible says in Psalm 110:1-3:
The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right
hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of
Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power,
in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the
morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
What does this mean? It means that till all His enemies
are brought under His feet, He would not return. The day of
His power must necessarily precede the day of His return.
The Church must, therefore, be empowered to fulfill God’s
agenda for it.
The Church is on a mission to the world. The Church is
designed by God to be the solution centre for nations. But
for us to fulfill our various missions on earth, we must be
empowered by God.
We all have a common destiny in Christ.
 For whom he did foreknow, he also did
predestinate to be conformed to the image of his
Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brethren.
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also
called: and whom he called, them he also justified:
and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
Romans 8:29-30
There is no one to envy in the Body of Christ, as we are
all equally glorified by the same blood that justified us. You
know what Paul said in Romans 1:11?
For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you
some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
Spiritual gifts are God’s means of establishing us: You
become endued with a strange stamina to withstand all
waves and storms that may come your way. One of those
spiritual gifts is the gift of faith or the Spirit of faith. It keeps
you on your feet, until the truth triumphs.
Faith can also be defined as confidence in God and His
Word, until the desired result is delivered.
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which
hath great recompense of reward.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have
done the will of God, ye might receive the promi se.
Hebrews 10:35-36
Enduring confidence requires grace from heaven.
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same
shall be saved.
Matthew 24:13
One of the things that helps you to endure is faith. Jesus
said to Peter: But I have prayed for you, that thy faith
fail not… (Luke 22:31-32).
You cannot endure without enduring faith, and an
enduring faith does not come by the Word of faith, but by
the Spirit of faith.
Impartation Of The Spirit Of Faith
 To keep you flying high in faith, you need an impartation
of the Spirit of faith.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that
giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it
shall be given him.
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he
that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with
the wind and tossed.
For let not that man think that he shall receive any
thing of the Lord.
James 1:5-7
The stamina not to stagger in the face of challenges
comes by the impartation of the Spirit of faith. Faith will
always demand our endurance, and our endurance will only
become real by the operation of the Spirit of faith. It keeps
us from doubting and shifting our ground, in the process of
taking delivery of our desires.
When you’re imparted with spiritual gifts, a room is made
for you in the race of life.
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to
every man to profit withal
I Corinthians 12:7
The gift of faith is one of the gifts given to us to profit
therewith; it creates the room for profiting for you, as you
are endued with that grace to stand fast and be steadfast in
the truth at all times. Proverbs 18:16 tells us that:
A man’s gift maketh room for him, and bringeth
him before great men.
It was by the Spirit of faith that we moved from the city
of Lagos to the forest in Ota, now proudly called Canaan
Land. The Word of faith looks for what scriptures to quote,
but the Spirit of faith just moves at the instance of divine
instructions They are two different things.
Encountering The Force Of The Spirit Of Faith
God has human agents in the Body of Christ, who He has
positioned to enhance the fulfilment of others. The Bible
says:
Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high,
he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men…
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets;
and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and
teachers;
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the
ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of
Christ:
Ephesians 4:8, 11-13
We understand from this scripture that God has given the
gift of certain men to His Church, for the perfecting of the
destinies of the saints. That means that there are human
agents lined up on your path to your destiny in God, who
are positioned there to enhance the fulfilment of your
destiny, by imparting you with spiritual gifts. They are men
and women, who are custodians and carriers of the multi-
faceted grace of God, and they carry those things so that
they can transfer (or transmit) them to others, for their
establishment.
That’s why there are no self-made men in God’s Kingdom
– all men are products of divine connectivity, which when
fully engaged, ensures the fulfilment of destinies. Every
great success story in the kingdom is a product of divine
connectivity. There will never be any great spiritual story
without a spiritual root; just like there are no self-existent
human beings. Everybody on this earth has a (family) root.
Something must flow into you from some other sources,
culminating in your greatness.
Jude verse 3 says:
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto
you of the common salvation, it was needful for me
to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should
earnestly contend for the faith which was once
delivered unto the saints.
That is, you reach out for it with everything on your
inside. Peter, speaking to the lame man at the Beautiful
Gate, said:
Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have
give I unto thee…
Acts 3:6
Remember also that the Bible says in 2 Corinthians 3:6:
Who also hath made us able ministers of the New
Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the
letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
The principles can frustrate you, if there is no spirit to
drive them. After Jesus taught His disciples for three and a
half years, He said to them, “Don’t go anywhere – I can’t
guarantee your triumph. Wait until you are endued with
power from on high, so that the principles I have taught you
can be powered to produce.”
And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon
you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be
endued with power from on high.
Luke 24:49
The principles are helpless by themselves; it is the Spirit
of God that empowers the principles to produce. What the
Spirit does is to drive you in the direction of the Word. He
drives you and propels you to operate besides yourself. Of
Jesus, we are told: And immediately the Spirit driveth
him into the wilderness… (Mark 1:12).
The Spirit drives you to accomplish the will of God, to
stand in the correct place for God to act.
Thank God for the Word of faith; but it is the Spirit of faith
that enhances the productivity of the Word of faith – it
energizes you to play your part, thereby committing God to
make good His promise.
It’s Transferable
 The Spirit of God in certain men is transferable to other
men. Talking about John the Baptist, Luke 1:17 records:
And he shall go before him in the spirit and power
of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the
children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the
just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
That is, John will go forth in the spirit and power of Elijah,
which will position him to operate at the same frequency
Elijah operated in, delivering his own destiny.
When the sons of the prophets saw the same
manifestation of the Spirit that was on Elijah operating in
Elisha, they said:
… The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they
came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the
ground before him.
2 Kings 2:15
The grace of God upon certain men is transferable to
others. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and
teachers carry definite divine virtues. These virtues are
transferable to those who desire them. Unfortunately,
however, we seem to be more satisfied with the principles,
so much so that there are not many people craving for the
Spirit.
There are too many “pushers” in the Church, but few
riders. What the Spirit of God does is to move you from
pushing to riding.
And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of
truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right
hand shall teach thee terrible things...
Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever: the sceptre
of thy kingdom is a right scepter.
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness:
therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the
oil of gladness above thy fellows.
All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and
cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have
made thee glad.
Psalm 45:4, 6-8
It is the Spirit that turns a pusher to a rider. There are too
many people pushing in the Body of Christ, but few riders.
So much energy is being dissipated, because the grace that
makes for a ride has not been contacted.
They were all pushing in the upper room (after Jesus left)
– first day, second day, to the 10th day, 30th day, no sign, no
voice! They were preaching under cover – it was an
underground Church! But when the Spirit of Christ came
upon them, in one day, they turned the entire city upside
down! Jesus was also pushing (as it were) from the age of 12
till He became 30. But when the Spirit of life came upon Him
(Luke 3:21-22), He took the whole world by storm in three
and half years!
Something is coming on you that will give you your place
in destiny. You have pushed long enough; it’s time to begin
to enjoy a majestic ride in Christ!
“And the Spirit driveth him…” The Spirit gives you a
drive, takes you off pushing, and you enter into a ride – a
colourful ride in life! You are long overdue for that kind of
experience.
Concerning the work God has placed in my hands, I’ve
always said that I’m pushing nothing. I’ve never had a
sleepless night over the work, neither have I ever knocked
on any man’s door for help. I have never lacked what to eat
either. Friend, when the Spirit takes over, He puts you on a
ride.
Earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered
unto the saints, because you need that virtue in your life to
fulfil your destiny indeed. There are certain things that have
been packaged by God in the saints that have been before
you, that you need to get you to your place.
I Needed To Connect
 God called me into Ministry in an 18-hour long encounter
on May 1– 2, 1981. It was 18 hours of no dozing or sleeping,
just communing with heaven. I was both hearing clearly
from and talking back to the Lord. When the time to be
commissioned into full-time ministry came in September
1983, He said to me, “I would not have you go like
others have gone. I would have hands laid on you,
that you may be filled with the Spirit of wisdom.”
No matter the gravity of your calling, there is still a place
for connectivity in fulfilling it. I don’t know how many hours
you had with God to take delivery of your assignment, but I
had 18 hours at a stretch! Yet, I still needed to connect with
the Spirit of wisdom.
The Lord said to me, “Send for My servant (He gave
me the name of the person) and he will lay hands on
you, so you will be filled with the Spirit of wisdom.”
He was, as it were, saying to me: “It is part of your
connectivity, in your quest to fulfilling My mandate
for you. I am the One who mandated you, and I have
packaged the treasure you need inside someone – go
and get it.”
Philippians 2:13 rightly says:
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and
to do of his good pleasure.
He puts the gift in them. Even though God has called
you, He also connects you to some human agents, who will
help you realize your calling. If you like, be connected; if you
like disconnect. The choice is yours!
It was God who led me to connect with the treasure He
has for me in Kenneth E. Hagin. He also placed in my heart
to read books that helped me to connect to a man I had
never seen or met face-to-face. I connected to Kingdom
prosperity with proofs in Kenneth Copeland, in response to
my cry, “Jesus, show me the secret You showed this man,”
and on the third day, I caught it! Not the principle, but the
Spirit!
 The principles will need effort to practise, but the Spirit
puts you on course. From that 1982 till date, I have never
had any pressure operating the things that make it work.
The giving Spirit in Copeland came on me and turned my life
around.
There are things you need that will never come to you
directly, but through contact with God’s positioned men on
your path. I’m glad to let you know that the Spirit of faith at
work in me is available and accessible to you right now, if
you desire it.
Know that no matter how close a pipe is to water, it
cannot enjoy any flow of water except it’s connected. In like
manner, being around someone who is carrying the grace is
not enough. Being connected is what guarantees you access
to the flow in his life. It takes a soul-tie to enjoy what they
carry.
Elisha’s journey into transference of Spirit began with
connectivity.
And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee;
for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said
unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I
will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel...
And Elijah said unto him, Elisha, tarry here, I pray
thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Jericho. And he
said, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will
not leave thee. So they came to Jericho...
And Elijah said unto him, Tarry, I pray thee, here;
for the LORD hath sent me to Jordan. And he said, As
the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not
leave thee. And they two went on.
2 Kings 2:2,4 & 6
It takes a soul-tie relationship to enjoy the transference
of Spirit, from one vessel to another. In Proverbs 27:18 we
read:
Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit
thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be
honoured.
It’s a heart-to-heart connectivity, not head-to-heart or
head-to-head. It’s the heart-to-heart connectivity that helps
you reflect what the other person carries. Your heart is
linked-up (tied) to his/her heart, so what he/she carriers can
flow into you.
Jonathan’s armour-bearer said to him: I am with thee
according to thy heart (I Samuel 14:7). That is, wherever
your heart goes, there I go also.
A soul-tie, a heart-to-heart connectivity, is what
enhances the transference of Spirit. It’s one thing to be
around, and another thing to be connected. It’s one thing to
be in a church (or a Ministry), and another thing to be in
touch, with the Spirit at work in the place. The heart of man
will always answer to, and reflect the other.
You Must Be Thirsty
The impartation of the Spirit of faith will require your
thirst. When Jesus first introduced the Ministry of the Holy
Spirit, He made clear what was required for anyone to
partake of Him:
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus
stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him
come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath
said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that
believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was
not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet
glorified.)
John 7:37-39
The fundamental requirement for an encounter with the
Spirit of faith, is a genuine thirst. If there’s no thirst, there’s
no access. There must be a desperation in your soul for an
encounter, before you can have an encounter with the Spirit
of God or the gifts He imparts. The Bible tells us in Isaiah
44:3:
 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and
floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon
thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring.
The outpouring of His gifts is what provokes the release
of His blessings, and it’s poured only upon him that is
thirsty. There must first be a desperation in your soul in
order to be filled.
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is
none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD
will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake
them.
I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in
the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a
pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Isaiah 41:17-18
In 1986, after a conscientious study of the Ministry of
Kenneth E. Hagin, and being fascinated and drawn to the
operation of the Spirit of God in his life, I took off to the
United States of America with a desperation for just one
thing.
Believe me, till date, I can’t tell who sat beside me or
even the name of the hotel I lodged in. My entire being was
fixed on the one thing I went for – I wanted the Spirit at work
in that man. I yearned for it! His depth of insights in God’s
Word fascinated me. I wanted what was working it in him. I
wanted it all, and bless God, I got it!
I can’t even remember what I was wearing that day!
There I was, at the gallery where I sat, with my eyes, body
and entire being set to receive what I came for —
“Whatever makes Hagin Hagin, Jesus, I need it.” That
was the cry of my heart. I didn’t know if I heard everything
he said, but I was glued and fixed on him. Then, suddenly it
came, and I caught it!
What you seek is what you find. You can’t find what you
don’t seek. Only he that seeketh findeth (Matthew 7:8 &
Luke 11:10)
 You are not permitted to receive anything from the Spirit
for which you don’t genuinely crave. When you know you
need it, and you genuinely crave for it, God said He will
open up rivers for you. That is, He will turn on His tap and
fountains in the valleys (Isaiah 41:17). Everyone that
craves, whether high or low, has access to the Holy Spirit.
Prayers
The number two requirement for an encounter with the
Spirit of God or with the gifts of the Spirit of God is prayers.
Luke 11:13 says:
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children: how much more shall your
heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask
him?
In Zechariah 10:1, we also read:
Ask ye of the LORD rain in the time of the latter
rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give
them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
If you are thirsty and prayerful, the Spirit of faith is yours.
In Luke 3:21-22, we are told:
Now when all the people were baptized, it came to
pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the
heaven was opened,
And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape
like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven,
which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am
well pleased.
It was His prayer that provoked the release of the Spirit
upon Him.
No gift makes room for a man like the gift of faith, and it
is transferable through ordained vessels in the Body of
Christ, who are reservoirs of God’s gifts and are ordained to
impart it to others.
Believe In Them
When you locate this gift in such men, believe in them.
 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth
into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth,
Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and
ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your
God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets,
so shall ye prosper.
2 Chronicles 20:20
You cannot partake of a treasure in a prophet you do not
believe in. Just as you can draw nothing out of God without
faith, you can’t draw anything out of an anointed vessel,
without first believing in the hand of God upon that
individual. It was the Spirit of faith in Elijah that fascinated
Elisha, and he said, “I want a double portion of it.”
Only the prophet you believe in can profit you; you
cannot be profited by a prophet you don’t believe in. I saw
the hand of God on Kenneth E. Hagin and I believed in him
(though I had never met him in person). I believed in his
Ministry, in his person, and I yearned to connect with the
kind of grace at work in his life.
What else do you need to connect with the treasures in a
prophet?
Receive Them
He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a
prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that
receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous
man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.
Matthew 10:41
You must believe in their Ministry, and receive their
persons.
Honour Them
A son honoureth his father, and a servant his
master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour?
and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD
of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name.
And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Malachi 1:6
 Honour these prophets and apostles. Prophetic treasures
are honourable treasures. Of Elisha, we are told: Here is
Elisha the son of Shaphat which poured water on the
hands of Elijah (2 Kings 3:11).
God told Moses in Numbers 11:17:
And I will come down and talk with thee there: and
I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will
put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of
the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself
alone .
Hebrews 7:7 says:
And without all contradiction the less is blessed of
the better.
You must accept that these fellows are placed above you,
and honour them accordingly; then whatever they carry
with flow naturally to you.
Not For Sale
There are some very costly statements that people
make, today, that are very unscriptural. The extravagant
statement, “Buy into the anointing,” is not scriptural. In Acts
8:18-20 there’s this report:
And when Simon saw that through laying on of the
apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered
them money,
Saying, Give me also this power, that on
whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy
Ghost.
But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with
thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God
may be purchased with money.
Prophets are custodians of the gifts of God, but you don’t
use gifts to connect with what they carry; you connect by
engaging your heart.
I never gave any seed to the man, Hagin, when I
connected with the fire that is still burning in me about 25
years after. It’s not a trade by batter virtue. You don’t
connect with the gifts of the Spirit with money. It’s as Isaiah
55:1 says:
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the
waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy,
and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without
money and without price.
When God directed me to Pastor Adeboye for the
impartation of the Spirit of wisdom, He didn’t tell me, “Take
an offering when you are going.” He simply said, “Send for
My servant, he will lay hands on you, and you shall
be filled with the Spirit of wisdom.”
I believed in the man, I received him, and till date, I
honour him. He laid hands on me, and bless God, what he
carries dropped on me.
With Your Heart
It is your heart you use to connect with the treasures in
the heart of another man. Proverbs 27:18-19 says:
Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit
thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be
honoured.
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of
man to man.
It is with your heart that you connect with divine
treasures in another vessel. It’s time to engage your heart,
instead of engaging your hand. You can’t buy the gift of God
with money, no matter who is telling you to do so. It’s not
Biblical.
Rather, crave for the impartation of the Spirit of faith that
will help to establish you against staggering and doubting
like a wave of the sea, in the process of arriving at God’s
great plan for your life. You connect with that gift with your
heart, not with money.
Since it is not bought with money, then nobody is
disadvantaged; everyone has equal access. God is giving
you an unusual opportunity to connect with the treasure of
the Spirit of faith. All you need to do is to genuinely desire
the hand of God on your life, and that will keep you on a
faith frequency 24 hours daily.
No more shall a word of doubt find a way through your
lips, and no more shall doubt find a place in your heart!
From now on, the Spirit of faith will begin to generate
testimonies in your life, in Jesus’ precious name!
Two Ways To Provoke The Flow
There are two ways of provoking the flow of the Spirit of
faith. The first way is:
By The Spoken Word
And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto
me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that
spake unto me.
Ezekiel 2:2
We also read is Acts 10:44:
While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost
fell on all them which heard the word.
The Spirit came out of the Words and fell on them. In
Mark 4:24, Jesus said: Take heed what you hear. That’s
because what you hear determines the impact on your life.
Take heed what you hear, because what you hear is a
channel through which the Spirit of faith is released into
your life. The parable continues:
For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that
hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he
hath.
And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man
should cast seed into the ground;
And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the
seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not
how.
For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first
the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the
ear.
But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately
he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come.
 Mark 4:25-29
When you keep hearing the right Words from a right
source, you find the fruit showing in your life – first the
blade, then the ear, and then the full corn in the ear. Isaiah
34:16 says:
Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no
one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for
my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath
gathered them.
That is, whatever comes out of your mouth is as
gathered by your spirit, and those who hear your words are
also imparted by them. If it is a negative thing you spoke,
they are imparted for a negative act. That’s why when you
keep listening to junk, after sometime you start speaking
junk also.
No matter how spiritual you are, for instance, just turn on
some deadly music in your home. After sometime, it will
enter you unawares, and you will start singing it. Then it’s
like, “Hey, what’s happening?” It’s the spirit of the source of
the music that has entered you, through your listening to it.
Therefore, take heed what you hear! You are the fruit of
what you hear. What you hear is what is eventually reflected
in your life. Your life is a reflection of the things you hear.
“And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto
me…”
Spoken words directly or indirectly communicate the
spirit of the source of the voice. As you listen to the speaker
through the media or e-media, you are being gradually
imparted by what is being spoken.
Physical Contact
The second way through which you contact the
transference of Spirit, is through physical contact like
touching or the laying on of hands. This could be done
either directly or by proxy. In Deuteronomy 34:9, we read:
And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of
wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and
the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as
the LORD commanded Moses.
The woman with the issue of blood simply touched the
hem of Jesus’ garment and drew virtue from Him.
And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood
twelve years,
And had suffered many things of many physicians,
and had spent all that she had, and was nothing
bettered, but rather grew worse,
When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press
behind, and touched his garment.
For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall
be whole.
And straightway the fountain of her blood was
dried up; and she felt in her body that she was
healed of that plague...
And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath
made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy
plague.
Mark 5:25-29,34
Psalms 45:7-8 says of Jesus:
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness:
therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the
oil of gladness above thy fellows.
All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and
cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have
made thee glad.
Also, Psalms 133:1-3 talks about how the anointing
flowed from Aaron’s beard down to his skirts:
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for
brethren to dwell together in unity!
It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that
ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that
went down to the skirts of his garments;
As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that
descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the
LORD commanded the blessing, even life for
evermore.
Every part of Aaron’s garment carried the same anointing
he carried. I see the unusual begin to happen in your life, as
you connect to the Spirit of faith that is at work in the lives
of the men and women God has given to the Church and
their Ministries. It works! A thirst plus your faith is all it
takes.
It is a God-ordained opportunity for you to reposition
yourself spiritually, so as to take full advantage of the
moment for a change of level in your life.
Now, I decree that the impartation of the Spirit of faith
(the same at work in me) be deposited upon you, in the
name of Jesus! Receive it now, in the name of Jesus!
Right now, receive values beyond whatever you can
achieve in your life on your own! May you become another
living proof of just men made perfect, in Jesus’ precious
name!