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TABLE OF CONTENT

Page Introduction. 1

Chapter 1. The Holy Spirit and the Spirit life 4

Chapter 2. The Spirit of Man 16

Chapter 3. The Spirit Realm Dimensions 19

Chapter 4. Life in the Spirit Realm 22

Chapter 5. The School of the Spirit 27

Chapter 6. The Spirit Life The Life of Jesus 30

Chapter 7. Heaven Consciousness 33

Chapter 8. The Supernatural Realm 37

Chapter 9. Super Natural Beings 40

Chapter 10. Understanding Eternity 42

Chapter 11. Changing Realms in the Spirit 45

Chapter 12. The Lord’s Evolving Church 48

Chapter 13. Operation of Gifts and Callings in the Spirit 51

Chapter 14. Death-Key to Spiritual Life 53

Chapter 15. The End of the Ages 55


INTRODUCTION

Many years ago, the Holy Spirit impressed on my heart that His call on

my life was to explore the Spirit realm and discover the mysteries of Jesus

there. He said that I was to go from realm to realm in the spirit until the

fullness of the Glory of the Lord manifested in me

Ever since, the Lord has led me from one depth to another in the realm of

the Spirit, leading and teaching me as we went along. He began to show

me things in the spirit, as well as in every day life, as they were in God’s

perspectives.

The revelation of Jesus Christ in my heart became ever clearer with each

stage of this extra ordinary walk in the spirit. The anointing of the Holy

Spirit grew ever stronger, and the understanding of the ways and the

Heart of the FATHER was made known to me in the process. My life has

taken successive turns. And never been the same.

God wanted me to know the truth. He wanted me to be able to

differentiate between truth and general opinion. Just because every one in

the world and in the known church believes in and preaches a principle

does not make it the truth.

Truth is a Person and that Person is Jesus Christ. And the truth about any

subject is what Jesus says about it. God is a Spirit; they that must worship

Him do so in Spirit and in truth. The Holy Spirit leads you to Jesus, and

when you worship God from the revelation of Jesus by the Holy Spirit in

your heart, then your worship is acceptable to Him. Only the Holy Spirit

can reveal Jesus -the truth. Therefore to know the truth, and operate

accurately with the father, I had to follow the Holy Spirit to ever

increasing depths in the Spirit realm.

The New Testament is a testament of life not of the letter (that kills) but

of the Spirit that gives life. You can know the scriptures and still be dead.

But real spiritual life comes from contact with the Holy Spirit. To

encounter the reality and life of the scriptures, the Holy Spirit has to take

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you into the spirit realm where what you read about in the Bible exists in

spiritual materiality.

Until you learn to live in the spirit, you will be vulnerable to the

deceptions of the enemy. What God had in mind when He designed the

New Testament was that every one who operates in it would know Him,

right from the smallest to the greatest (Jer 31:31-34, Heb 9:8-11). Not

needing to go through rituals in Temples as in the Old Covenant. But that

every one would walk, talk and become close to Him. However, God is a

spirit and they that worship Him do so in spirit. Therefore to walk and

talk with God, you must be in the spirit. That’s why the New Testament is

of the spirit. (2 Corth. 3:6)

Life in the spirit is walking in a functional, on going relationship with

God. It is living with a God who is a spirit, day in day out.

This is the only way to live in continuous victory over Satan and fulfill

God’s plan and destiny for your life.

When I began to move in the realm of the spirit, God began to adjust my

views about everything. He gave me a new perspective to life. He began

to show me what His plans really were for me, for the church and for

mankind.

When I began to teach about living in the spirit, the power of God would

move. The Glory of God began to manifest, as healings and miracles

would occur spontaneously. The Lord began to work in the hearts of the

people the message came to. He began to teach them Himself and take

them into the spirit realm. The Gifts of the spirit would be activated into

strong operation.

Sometimes, the Glory of God would remain on people or churches for

days after ministry. Stubborn people got saved, and the powers of

darkness were torn down. Many times, I would open my mouth to speak

in a meeting and the power of God would fall. The anointing would grow

so intense that the lord would appear to people, speaking, touching and

healing them. There were Angelic visitations marked by supernatural

changes.

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I believe there are moves of God we have missed in the Body of Christ,

because many have not learnt to walk in the spirit. There is a place in the

plans and purposes of God we have not attained to because we are not

trained in living the spirit life.

As the end of the Ages comes upon us, the only way the Christian is

going to survive the darkness and deception of this hour, and still fulfill

God’s plans is by living in the spirit.

The Oil of the Night. Matthew 15:1

Jesus gave a parable of ten virgins to symbolize the position of the

Church at the second coming of Christ. He said five virgins were wise,

while the other five were foolish. What made five of them wise was that

they had extra oil for their lamps. So that when darkness came, they had

light to find their way to the Bridegroom. The other five were foolish

because they did not have extra oil for their lamps and so couldn’t find

their way to the bridegroom.

There is an oil God has given for this midnight hour that has come upon

the earth. There is an anointing the Holy Spirit has given us to live by in

the midst of the perilous times. This oil is our life in the spirit. This

anointing helps us to penetrate the spirit realm, hear the voice of God and

follow the light of the Holy Spirit in the darkness, and meet the

Bridegroom at his second coming.

The other five were foolish because they did not go the extra mile to store

extra oil. Every Christian has the Holy Spirit within once they are saved.

But few make the extra effort to develop a spiritual walk with God. Few

learn how to live their lives led and directed by the Holy Spirit, therefore

haven’t gone the extra mile to store oil. These are the foolish virgins.

They will not know their lefts from right in this hour: They will hear that

the Lord is coming, but will not know how to prepare their way and go

through the darkness to meet Him. It’s time to develop your walk in the

spirit so that you can be fully equipped to overcome in this hour.

This is what this book is about.

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Chapter One

The Holy Spirit

The Spirit Realm

and

Life in the spirit is walking in a functional, ongoing relationship with

God. It is living with a God who is a spirit, day in day out. This is the only way to live in continuous victory over Satan and fulfill

God's plan and destiny for your life.


CHAPTER 1

THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE SPIRIT REALM

The Holy Spirit carries the atmosphere of heaven with Him whenever He

moves. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. The presence of the Holy

Spirit gives us a sense of what Heaven is like. The Bible says that the

kingdom of God is not in meat and drink but in righteousness, peace and

joy in the Holy Ghost – However, Jesus said that, the kingdom of God

cometh not by observation but is within you. This means that the kingdom

of God, or the kingdom of Heaven will not appear physically in this age

but is in the spirit realm, and that we experience that kingdom by the Holy

spirit’s coming into our hearts. That’s why it states that the kingdom is

righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Spirit causes us

to come into contact with Heaven. The kingdom of Heaven that is in the

spirit is made accessible by the Holy Spirit.

The disciples asked Jesus in acts 1:5-8, if the kingdom would at that time

be restored to Israel, but Jesus replied that the time of the restoration of

Israel’s earthly kingdom belonged to the father. Then He went on to state

that they would, however, receive power after that the Holy Ghost was

come upon them. The connection between this statement, of receiving the

Holy Ghost and the question asked about the restoration of Israel’s

kingdom is not clear to many. But what Jesus was saying is that they

should leave Israel’s physical kingdom into God’s hands because it’s time

had not yet come. But they were to operate in the spiritual kingdom of

Heaven, embracing the Holy Ghost because through Him, the power of

that kingdom would come into them, giving them the ability to spread that

kingdom and its power in the earth.

When the Holy Spirit comes on you, you are in another world.

Sometimes, God allows you to see into the spiritual kingdom of Heaven,

but this is only on occasions. But even if you don’t see it, you are there

nonetheless.

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Heb. 12:22-24 says “But ye are come unto mount Zion and unto the city

of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable

company of angels, to the general assembly and Church of the firstborn,

which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits

of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant,

and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of

Abel.

Notice it didn’t say we are going to come, but that we are come. When we

get saved, we come into mount Zion, into the heavenly Jerusalem, into a

company of innumerable angels, we stand before the throne of God. We

are seated in heavenly place in Christ Jesus (Eph.2:6).

We are ALREADY there, the angels, the Glory, the assembly of heavenly

and earthly saints are all around you right now, because according to the

word, we are in heavenly realms right now, in Christ Jesus.

But this is made real to you when the Holy Ghost is in manifestation. If

you walk in the spirit, you will suddenly begin to become aware of this

heavenly mountain, angels and heavenly people all around you.

Romans 8:5 say: “For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of

the flesh; but they that are after the spirit the things of the spirit”.

If you want to walk in the spirit, you have to mind the things of the spirit.

You have to become conscious of the Holy Spirit. You have to set your

heart and mind on the things of the Holy Spirit and as you grow conscious

and sensitive to the Holy Ghost, the things of the Heavenly kingdom will

become open and accessible to you.

Jesus always walked in the spirit; He was before the father’s throne, on

that mount Zion, in the spirit, even though He walked the earth at that

time. He said whatever I see the Father do is what I do (John 5: 19, 20).

Romans 8:14 says “As many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the

sons of God”. If you want to experience the power and the revelation of

the father like Jesus, what you need is to learn to walk in the Holy Spirit.

The Healings and miracles that Jesus worked are available to any one who

will walk in the spirit. You need to intensify your relationship with the

Holy Spirit. You can have miracles occurring in your life daily.

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Isaiah 10:27 says “And it shall come to pass that his burden shall be lifted

from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall

be destroyed because of the anointing”. The presence of the Holy Spirit is

the anointing. The presence of the Holy Spirit in your life has the ability

to break every yoke in your life. Many Christians are experiencing

burdens and yokes they cannot understand or explain. They have prayed,

fasted and tried every thing they know, but the problem has refused to go

away. However I have come to find out from ministering to many such

people that, they do not have a consistent relationship with the Holy

Spirit. The anointing of the Holy Spirit only flows to destroy persistent

yokes when you develop and maintain consistent obedience to the Holy

Spirit everyday. Many of such people obey the Holy Spirit only in some

areas of their lives but not in all. They only listen to the Holy Spirit

sometimes but not always. They submit to the will of God in some areas

of their lives, but leave out His will in other areas. This is the spiritual

blind side that makes one vulnerable to persistent problems. So if you are

experiencing persistent problems you need to check any or all of these

points.

Some yokes are destroyed instantly, while others are destroyed gradually.

As you gradually learn to be led daily by the Holy Ghost. You will find

that every yoke will be destroyed by the Holy Spirit. The yoke is never

too strong for the anointing, but your lack of communication with and

disobedience to the Holy Spirit can bring bondage.

Romans 8:2 say “For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made

me free from the law of sin and death. The law of the spirit of life in

Christ Jesus, simply put means obeying and following the holy spirit daily

as a child of Jesus Christ. It means living the Spirit life. Only the Holy

Spirit reveals Jesus to your heart and living by this revelation every day,

being changed daily from within by the Holy Spirit, following ever closer

to him, is the law of the Spirit. This process is what breaks the law of sin

and death, which is the cycle of evil that operates in mankind. The law of

sin includes everything evil from sin, diseases, curses, witchcraft,

religion, poverty, and death.

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The law of the Spirit causes you to operate above all these things. It

prepares you for every attack of the enemy before it ever comes. You

always have victory, you become invincible, and nothing can stop you.

Hell becomes afraid of you, because nothing they do ever has an effect on

you. But when you move in the spirit against them the impact is

devastating.

Isaiah 59:19 says “… when the enemy shall come in like a flood, the

Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him”. In this time, the

enemy is covering the earth like a flood of darkness, we are experiencing

the release of the spirit of antichrist- the spirit of lawlessness, wars,

famine, and death every where. Many people experience depressions that

they cannot explain. This is because of the darkness that has settled over

the earth. But if the Holy Spirit is in you, He will rise up and break the

floods of the enemy against you. The holy spirit is going to rise in these

times to put up a barrier against Satan, the holy spirit is going to move

like never before also, to stop the devil and fulfill God’s plans in the

earth.

Sometimes it takes time and strong effort to develop and establish a

relationship with the Holy Spirit. You have to keep on seeking God

everyday, you may need to fast more often, pray in the spirit and in your

understanding longer than you used to. Become more conscious of the

Holy Spirit in your spirit man. Be more attentive to every unction and

anointing that stirs in your spirit. And study your bible more carefully.

You need to become committed and dedicated to God, increase your

hunger for Him, and submit your lives completely into His will what ever

it may be. As you do these things and live by them every day, the Holy

Spirit will begin to move through you. Sometimes He starts with little

stirrings of unction within you, and then He begins to move in ever-

increasing levels.

Ezekiel 47:3-5, describes this vividly, Ezekiel was taken in levels and

stages through the river of life. Until he hit a major flow of the river, that

could not be passed over. As you maintain a constant life in the spirit, you

will begin to hit major realms in the spirit where extra ordinary things

begin to happen in your life.

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WILLIAM BRANHAM William Branham was a man of God that lived and ministered in the

1940s and 50s. He had an extra ordinary ministry, supernatural things

always happened in his meetings. This was because he lived in the realm

of the Spirit, it is said that he was so alert that he could sense when the

angel God sent to back up his ministry arrived in the service. He had

extraordinary miracles and supernatural manifestations in his services.

Many times a pillar of cloud or fire would appear in the services.

Once, while Braham was ministering, a crippled boy was brought on the

stage; he carried the boy in his hand and laid hands on him. The boy

jumped out of his hand and started running around on the stage. A couple

was in the congregation, and when they saw the boy run, they stood up,

but they fell flat under the power of the spirit, just as they stood up to see

their child. And at that same time, a lady had been playing the piano for

that service, she was struck by the power of the Holy Ghost, slid off the

piano stool and started dancing by the Holy spirit; but the piano kept on

playing by itself, the keys kept on moving and so on. Then in that moment

the Holy Ghost moved through the congregation, and people suddenly

started getting out of wheel chairs, stretchers, etc, cancer patients

suddenly healed, and so on.

You see, Branham’s sensitivity brought an invasion of the Holy spiritual

realm into the service. If we live in the spirit realm, our services will be

full of supernatural manifestations.

Prophetic Ministry

Prophetic Ministry operates in the realm of the spirit. Many people in the

church today are called into the prophetic ministry. But they do not know

how to live in a spirit led life. Your prophetic ministry will only find its

full effect and impact as you learn to operate in the Holy Spirit. Until

then, you will be vulnerable to false visions and dreams. Many prophetic

people today have access to dreams and visions because of the gift in

them, but until they cultivate a spirit led life, their unyielded nature will

corrupt the flow of the gift in them.

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But when a prophetic person can operate accurately in the spirit realm the

impact of his prophetic ministry will be extra ordinary, like that of

William Branham. Branham led the healing revival that happened in the

United States in the 1940s and 50s. He ministered as a prophet and an

Evangelist. He operated with many peculiar manifestations of the Holy

Ghost, especially in the prophetic anointing with the words of knowledge.

He would greet people by their first and surnames meeting them for the

first time ever. He would diagnose diseases by the Holy Spirit, call out the

individual, his name, address, his wife or her husband’s name etc all by

the Holy Ghost.

Apart from healings, Braham had signs and wonders like Old Testament

prophets; such as whirlwinds, physical pillars of light and fire and a halo

of light appearing physically.

Apart from restoring the healing anointing to the body of Christ in the

healing revival, the Lord also intended to infuse signs and wonders of the

prophets of old testament times into the Body of Christ through

Branham’s ministry. Today, through the impact of the healing revival of

the 40s, healings are a common experience in the Body of Christ, but

signs like that of Branham, are rare. Yet, God intended the signs to go

along with the healings.

Its time to reach out into the realm of the spirit, because there are many

things the Lord has sent out of heaven that we have failed to receive as

the Body of Christ in the earth.

God is looking for ‘spirit realmers’. People who will pay the price to walk

far into the realm of the Holy Spirit to obtain those things God has

released for the advance of His kingdom in the earth.

SPIRIT REALM TREK

There’s a science fiction series I used to see on TV sometimes. It’s called

‘Star Trek’, and I used to think and say to myself, that the way these

people travel far into Space is the same way we need to travel far into the

spiritual realm, exploring it; because there is much to be seen, much to be

heard, and much to be experienced. There are revelation truths hanging

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out far in the spirit realm that we need to pay the price to receive grace to

access. There are more prophetic words, more spiritual songs, greater

anointing and gifts of the spirit, more accurate plans and strategies, more

blessings of prosperity and financial growth waiting to be received at the

Fathers throne.

There is solution for every problem, deliverance from every danger,

healing for every disease and breakthrough from every oppression and

limiting wall. Nothing is impossible, for with God, that is those who walk

with God, nothing shall be impossible. But we need a spirit realm trek.

We need to walk far into the realms of the Holy Spirit and manifest those

deeper realms of the Glory of God. For a long time the Holy Spirit has

been trying to impart understanding of living in the realm of the spirit into

the body of Christ.

Your spirit life actually starts when you get saved. This is when the Holy

Spirit first comes into your life. But most people are never taught how to

live their lives in the spirit. Many Christians remember how the Holy

Spirit spoke to their hearts and worked within them when they first got

saved. But don’t know why it stopped or was less frequent after they had

become saved for a while. The reason is because they did not know how

to continue operating in the spirit life that had come into them.

Branham could know when his ministry’s angel arrived in a service. Most

of us don’t even know when Jesus walks into our services. Even if He

wanted to open our eyes into the spirit realm we wouldn’t know it. If the

Holy Ghost wanted to do something peculiar and different in our services

we would never know it. This is because we are not trained in spirit led

living.

Many times I would sit in a service and see the Holy Spirit walk in, the

atmosphere of the service would change but the leaders of the service

would never know what the Lord wanted to do, sometimes they wouldn’t

even know if any thing happened at all.

These days praise worship leaders are so concerned about good singing.

But many do not know how to follow the Holy Spirit, and minister

accordingly. Today, if you mention sensitivity to the Holy Ghost, in many

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places people will just laugh at you and say you’re just being ‘hyper

spiritual’.

If we’re are so good at organizing a program, so good at administration,

yet so poor at following the Lord- Ministry is so well organized, doctrine

so correct, everything is just in place; but if we don’t know the Lord

enough to know how and when His Spirit moves, then it’s all dead

religion.

If you cannot change and follow Him when He decides to do something

peculiar in a service, then it is not His service; it is not a service to

worship Him and to do His will. It is your service.

Yet many people just have to have their services as usual because, they

haven’t learnt how to live in the realm of the spirit and thus can’t even

sense what He is doing in the spirit. They can’t hear His messages; they

don’t know what He is saying to their church.

Many are afraid that if they don’t firmly order and restrict their services,

there would be disorder and an outbreak of false spirits. Yet this is not

enough an excuse to withhold the Lord from His plans. You can walk

with God and know what is false and evil and discern what is of the Holy

Spirit. You can be mature and discern between flesh and spirit. The fear

of the false should not keep us from the true. The key to discernment is

developing a flow with the anointing. Then you can know what is

anointed and what is not. You need to be sincere enough to admit it to

yourself when you make a mistake. Correct yourself and go on in the

spirit. You need to ask the Lord to guide you, and He will.

Right beside the tree of life in the Garden of Eden was the tree of the

knowledge of good and evil, Adam and Eve had to live with it until they

fell. If they had to live with an evil tree in the garden of paradise, then we

might as well put up with spiritual dangers in this present corrupt world.

If you will always seek to obey the Lord, then He will keep you from

falling; even fear of falling cannot keep us from falling, only the Lord

Himself can keep you, so commit yourself to Him.

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Because many churches and ministries do not know how to follow the

Lord closely and live in the spirit strongly enough to know how to order

their churches and ministries according to His structure and order, they

have missed many moves of God in their midst.

Many think that the Lord’s plan for their church is just to have large

membership and beautiful buildings. There is little or no emphasis on

building believers into the Image of Christ by the Spirit. Many are caught

up in many church activities but have a shallow or non-existent walk with

God. And God is warning them of many judgments to come.

If you think I’m harsh, just read the book of Revelations.

The book of Revelation opens with a mysterious appearance of Jesus to

John the beloved. Then it progresses with prophetic revelations and

messages from the Lord Jesus to seven churches in Asia Minor. These

revelations presented the spirit realm perspectives of these churches as the

Lord saw them and not how they appeared to be in the physical. The Lord

did not judge them according to their sizes or numbers, or buildings. He

judged them according to their relationship with Him, according to their

walk in the Spirit and according to their obedience to His purposes, and

faithfulness to His word.

Rev. 2:1-7 speaks particularly to the church at Ephesus. This church

appeared to be perfect. They had zeal, they laboured, they stood for true

doctrine, and they couldn’t tolerate false doctrines and false apostles. But

even though they had everything in order outwardly, the Lord judged

them according to the state of their hearts. They worked and did a lot of

activity, but their love relationship with the Holy Spirit was gone. All

their labours became pointless to the Lord, and He threatened to judge

them by literarily removing His spirit from their church. There is no

substitute for a close personal walk with the Lord. If you’re not walking

closely with the Lord to organize your church or ministry, you will end up

in religious activity at the best; which will be pointless to Him.

Zeal and correct doctrine cannot take the place of the Lord Himself in

directing our life and ministry.

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Rev 3:1 “…I know thy works, thou has a name that thou livest and are

dead”.

This was speaking to the church at Sardis. It says they had a name that

they were alive but were dead. Every one saw and perceived that church

to be alive, they were full of activity, they became famous and known to

be alive, but were dead.

We can congratulate ourselves and have everyone testify that we have a

successful, well-organized ministry, but that doesn’t mean we’re alive.

General approval does not mean God’s approval, public applauds doesn’t

guarantee God’s acceptance.

We can go on the air, be a public figure of renown for the Lord and His

Gospel and still be dead and ready to be judge by Him. This doesn’t mean

the Lord doesn’t love you.

He does, that’s the reason for all the warning. So that if we repent and

change, He can turn around and leave a blessing.

In Rev 1:10 John said “I was in the spirit on the Lords day, and heard

behind me a great voice, as of a Trumpet… see, that’s how the revelation

came. If you don’t live in the spirit, you won’t be able to discern the

Lord’s voice and find out His will daily for your life and ministry. We

don’t want to end up sooner or later like the churches afore mentioned

here- looking great, apparently, but unacceptable to God.

What would Jesus say if He came to our church or life today?

The point is; live the Spirit life. That way your life and ministry will flow

with supernatural life and order. And will be pleasing to the Lord. Other

wise you can have a lot of good plans and administration, and miss God’s

plan, end up displeasing Him, and in danger of judgment from Him.

A PROPHETIC MESSAGE

Judgment, says the Spirit of the Lord, for many are blinded by their

wealth and prosperity. They are satisfied with the outward show and with

the approval of man. The clamour for fame and applauds has deafened

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them; they no longer seek after me nor thirst after my will. Therefore I

will send prophets and messengers unto them, who will bear witness of

their backslidings and idolatry. I will remove the light of their

understanding and will take away THE PRESENCE THAT REVEALS. I

will call my children out of the houses that magnify wealth and riches,

fame and fortune but despise truth, righteousness and a walk with me.

This is why I judged the former churches, and they ceased to have the

light and many of those churches died. Repent therefore and return to a

walk in my Spirit. Delusion and blindness shall come upon many. They

will loose the eyes of understanding and have a darkened heart and will

not be able to hear nor to perceive nor to understand. And many will fall

prey to the enemy that devours.

I am beginning to raise new churches; that will not operate on secular

patterns and standards. But will have the flexibility to flow with my spirit

and carry my end time anointing. They will be swift with obedience and

fulfill my plans in the earth. I am organizing a race of people who will not

be caught up in the noise and babble of the secular church. I will be in

their midst and my revelation shall be outstanding in them. So be

prepared for these things that I have spoken to you. For there shall come

a revival of hungering and thirsting after me. And there shall be repenting

and salvation and the purging fire shall burn in the hearts of men and

women. And there shall rise great men and women who will prophesy and

speak in an anointing that belong to the end of the age. (December 2000)

SPIRITUAL NATURE

Walking in the spirit means living out the nature and life of the Holy

Spirit within you. This includes spiritual character and supernatural

manifestations. The nature of the Holy Spirit will manifest as the fruit of

the spirit through you. You will find out that as you constantly live with

the Holy Spirit, He will show you areas of your life that need to be

straightened out. He will help you develop spiritual character and help

you overcome your weaknesses and flaws. The Holy Spirit will not allow

you to continue in a walk far into the spirit realm if you do not change and

alter your life as He directs. Many people want to continue in the plans of

God but are not willing to change with Him. The processes of God

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working within you, is to change you from within so that you can

continue in His purposes.

The reason why so many people do not go far with God is because they

cannot alter their heart conditions, thought patterns or life styles to fit into

the demands of the Holy Ghost. One thing you must understand is this; if

you are willing to go all the way with God into His perfect plan, then you

must be willing to change and to keep on changing until you arrive at His

image fully formed within you (Galatians 4:19)

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Chapter Two

The Spiritual Man

The spirit of man is created in the supernatural order of God. Your spirit

man is designed and structured by God to live, walk and operate in the

dimension of God.


CHAPTER TWO

THE SPIRIT MAN

“The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts

of the belly” Proverbs 20:27.

The spirit of man is created in the supernatural order of God. Your spirit

man is designed and structured by God to live, walk and operate in the

dimension of God.

Man is spirit, soul and body. But the real man is the spirit man. Most

Christians are more conscious of their bodies or their souls i.e. more

aware of their feelings, emotions, intellects and imaginations etc, than

they are of their spirit man. Yet their spirit man is the recreated,

regenerated part of them. When you get born again, it is your spirit man

that is born again, or recreated. Your soul, including your mind, will have

to be renewed and reoriented by the word and spirit of God, while your

body is healed and kept in line with the spirit by the same. But your spirit

man is totally recreated into the order of God’s Spirit.

Jesus said, “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, but that which is born

of the spirit is spirit” John 3:3-5

Your body lives in the physical world. Your soul operates in the mental

realm. But your spirit man lives and operates in the realm of the spirit -

and haven been recreated into the order of the Holy Spirit can live and

operate effectively with the Holy Spirit.

1 Corth 6:17 ‘But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit’

Your spirit man is naturally supernatural. The spirit realm is supernatural,

just as the Physical is natural. The supernatural nature of the Holy Spirit is

birthed into your spirit man when you get born again. The supernatural

life and nature of the Holy Spirit flows through your spirit man to activate

supernatural life in your soul and body; and this results in your living in

the supernatural life of the Holy Spirit daily.

When I got born again, I became conscious of invisible activity taking

place around and within me. I used to see a burning light around me.

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Sometimes it looked like a cloud charged with electricity around me.

When I spoke to people, they also felt that divine charge. The presence of

God became real to me. However, I was conscious that this bright light

came from within me. It was the Spirit of God. When I walked into

classrooms at school, people felt it. Some people told me my face

changed and came aglow with a strange light. I had people jump up and

shout when I walked into places, because they thought a ghost had just

walked in.

I believe all these things happened because of the Holy Spirit flowing

through my inner man. And I believe this will happen to any child of God

who learns to become conscious of the Holy Spirit.

Being conscious of the Holy Spirit in your spirit is an important point. It

is this consciousness that makes you aware of your own inner man. Being

conscious causes you to notice when the Holy Spirit is tugging at your

spirit, to guide, direct or restrict you. When you are conscious, your

sensitivity to the Holy Spirit becomes keen and alert.

When you have developed a keen and accurate sensitivity to the

directions of the Holy Spirit in your spirit, then you become usable in His

hands. The Lord can then use you to accomplish His plans in the earth.

You become a vessel God uses in carrying out His moves in the earth. A

vessel God uses in the advance of the heavenly kingdom on earth. Details

of the strategies of heaven become accessible to your heart. Technicalities

of the anointing are revealed to you, so you can move on and operate in

the stronger anointing of God.

Your spirit man can be so developed that you can discern things before

they happen, know things about people you meet every day without

anyone having to tell you and know the will of God in any situation, and

avoid the outcome of wrong decisions before it ever materializes.

Those who are sensitive to the Holy Spirit in their spirit man flow in the

strongest anointing; experiencing miracles and mighty manifestations of

the Holy Spirit in their ministries and in their daily living.

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Your spirit man cooperating with the Holy Spirit is what makes you

effective in operating in the spirit realm. The extent to which you can

follow the leadings of the Holy Spirit is the extent to which you will get

supernatural manifestations of God in your life. It takes a strong spirit

man to fulfill the call on your life in these end times.

There for it is time for you to develop strength in your spirit man through

consecration to the lord, study and fellowship of his word and regular

prayer and fasting.

Then learn to flow in your inner man by developing the habit of daily

listening for the lord’s leadings in your spirit and obeying those leadings.

As you are faithful with little, more will be added to you.

Living consistently like this over time will make you grow strong in your

spirit man and confident in following the lord’s leadings.

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Chapter Three

The Spirit RealmDimensions

The spirit dimension can be divided into two parts, that is the realm of God, His angels, His truth and power. And secondly, the spirit realm of darkness

where the devil and his deceiving spirits operate; this is where spiritists, mediums, witches and other

demon influenced people find their source of evil power and communication


CHAPTER THREE

THE SPIRIT REALM DIMENSIONS

Defining the dimensions of the spirit realm is not so easy, because for one

thing, it could be different for everyone; the operations of each individual

operating by the holy spirit in the spirit realm differs according to the

gifts, callings, plans, purposes and anointing God places on each

individual. However, there are some general characteristics of the realm

of the spirit that apply to all.

The spirit dimension can be divided into two parts, that is the realm of

God, His angels, His truth and power. And secondly, the spirit realm of

darkness where the devil and his deceiving spirits operate; this is where

spirits, mediums, witches and other demon influenced people find their

source of evil power and communication.

The spirit realm of God is charged with the life of God’s presence and

anointing. It is a dimension where the written scripture is in

manifestation; a place where revelation truth appears with clarity and

deception is broken. It is the dimension where God is contained, where

He speaks, moves, reveals, leads, anoints and imparts. It is actually the

dimension of heaven God allows your spirit man to come in contact with

when you yield to the Holy Spirit. The spirit realm is naturally

supernatural, just as the physical realm is natural. It is the source of God’s

supernatural operations in the natural world. It is a place where the move

of God is continually experienced. It’s a dimension where time and

distance cease to be the parameters of measurement, hence the future is

often revealed as if it were a present situation and revelations concerning

distant future are spoken as if the apply to the immediate present time.

The spirit realm is where Angelic and other Heavenly beings operate,

where they are seen, heard, sensed, felt, touched and experienced. The

quality and flavour of the spirit differs each time you are led into it by the

holy spirit; depending on His plan, purpose and revelation He wants to

impart to you at each particular time, the flavour of the anointing and

God’s presence you experience differs each time according to the

operation He is carrying out in your life at each particular time.

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Scripture Perceptions

As you enter into the spirit realm, your inaccurate perspectives and

interpretations of scriptures are corrected, because the structure of the

realm is defined by the reality of the word of God, not according to any

man’s perspective or interpretation, but according to God’s. However, an

incorrect or religious perspective and application of the scriptures can

expose you to the wrong spirit realm of darkness. Therefore, a true heart,

openness and yielding to the dealings of the word and spirit in your life is

imperative for healthy operation in the realm. However, religious and

self-righteous attitudes and scripture perspectives can short circuit and

divert your operations in the spirit.

The spirit realm is in stages, phases and dimensions of God’s dealings. In

other words, you enter different spheres and dimensions of the spirit

realm according to God’s dealings in your life where each realm comes

with various anointing, revelations, plans, purposes and emphasis. As you

change realms in the spirit, you will discover the lord will make certain

demands and requirements before he gives you access to the next levels of

his dealings with you.

One time the lord had been dealing with me about a new level coming

into my life. He began teaching about the strength of the spirit obtainable

at that level. He allowed me to walk in a certain measure of that anointing

for a while. And then suddenly he stopped. When I inquired of the lord

why those experiences and unction ceased, he spoke to me that to enter

into this next level I had to completely leave the place where I currently

fellowshipped and functioned as a leader. This particular group had a lot

of expectations of me and wanted to be part of whatever I was going to be

doing. But the lord said he would no longer continue in that powerful

dealing until I went and handed over, and completely left the place.

So many people are missing out on what the lord has for their lives

because they have stayed where men have placed them and not where

God has placed them. They assume they are in the right place because of

all the social, emotional and sentimental connections they have there. Yet

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we need to be able to go beyond human connections unto divine

connections in Holy Spirit led circumstances to keep up with God.

By the time this change I speak of was through, I was living in another

part of the country, with a new assignment, living under a different

emphasis for this phase of my life, and operating under the powerful

unction the lord had introduced me to.

Each realm has a lesson and emphasis which you must understand and

apply in your life in order to move on in God’s plan for your life, and

move on into the next realm of the spirit. Each lesson in each realm is

interconnected, and must be kept in proper order, perspective and priority

in your heart. The Holy Spirit will help you do this if you’re willing and

obedient.

Changing realms in the spirit usually goes along with changes in attitudes,

spiritual positions, thought and perspective and ministry patterns. It will

also require upgrading of spiritual truths and insights, adjustments of

mentalities as well as the activations of new spiritual relationships and

company, and the discarding of the old. There maybe adjustments in your

gifts and callings or the introduction of whole new gifts and callings into

your life by the Holy Spirit and a repositioning of your placement and

role in the church of God.

Keeping in step constantly with the dynamism of the spirit realm requires

strong discipline, which stems from strong desire to walk with God. It is

the lack of this very virtue that has robbed many, of a priceless walk with

God in the spirit.

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Chapter Four

Life in TheSpirit Realm

If you walk with God, you will break the time barrier. Noah walked in the

spirit, listened to God lived his life in preparation for a future unforeseen

event and circumstances.


CHAPTER FOUR

LIFE IN THE SPIRIT REALM

When you live in the spirit realm, what quality of life will you

experience? There are certain features that characterize the lives of people

who live in the spirit. Prominent among these features is that you become

acutely aware of the unseen realm. You are more conscious of spiritual

things; you gradually begin to order your life from the invisible spiritual

things of God, rather than from the physical condition of things around

you. Your lifestyle is dictated by spiritual realities instead of physical

realities. Your order of priorities and system of values is taken from the

order and priorities of heaven rather than from an earthly perspective.

You become acutely aware of the purpose of God for your life and as a

result you develop a heavenly focus. It becomes natural for you to live in

the mind of God concerning you. Your choices and decisions are based on

the instructions and leadings of God rather than on economic, material

gains. Faith becomes a natural lifestyle for you because your life is based

on the unseen things of God not on visible things of the human

perspective.

You naturally attempt things that may seem impossible. Your source of

confidence is not what you have or don’t have, but is on the unseen

resources of God. You have an attitude of victory in what ever conditions

you pass through, because you have a spiritual understanding of what is

going on and know that the eventual victory is certain. Your timing for

entry into certain phases and stages of your life time are dictated, not from

physical conditions of things around you, nor from people’s opinion but

from the dictates of heaven. So that when every one else thinks it is time

to do some thing, you do things differently because you are following

heaven’s dictates. But when you decide to follow heaven’s timing into

certain things the results make it obvious that God is with you. But not

everyone will agree with you. Therefore, to operate in the spirit, you have

to make sure of God’s timings and resolutely lock onto it, determined to

follow it through. Other wise people and circumstances around you can

pull you out of God’s timing and God’s plan.

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The consideration of supernatural manifestations and interventions in

daily activities is not considered to be a reasonable, logical or practical

thought by the average man. But the spirit led man fully expects and lives

in the consciousness and anticipation of supernatural interventions in his

life. This consciousness gives him a sense of high expectancy and

excitement in his daily life; he carries an air of adventure and dramatic

destiny. Spirit led, faith filled people have been known to be starry eyed,

adventurous people, who dared to do the impossible because they

believed in the supernatural interventions of God in their daily lives.

Another feature you will experience in the spirit life is a sense of motion,

progression, processes and transition. You’ll constantly experience

changes in your life. You’ll find yourself moving, transitioning from one

dimension to another, by a series of processes. Progression-constantly

journeying from one stage to another is a strong feature of the spirit life.

You keep on moving from one realm to another experiencing the eternal

depths of Jesus Christ.

Another important characteristic of spirit realm living is the element

future of timing. People who walk with God in the spirit find that He is

always moving them towards a future purpose and destiny. Spirit realm

people are usually very futuristic; they see the end from afar and live in it,

walk in it, embrace it and respond to it. A lot of their decisions, attitudes

and even whole life styles reflect a future purpose and destiny of God,

which is yet imperceptible to most people. Their values, priorities and

preferences are regulated by what they perceive will be a future priority,

which most of the time, may seem to be of little value in the immediate

present. If you walk in the spirit, you will live outside of physical time

sequence, because the spirit realm itself is outside of the time dimension.

If you walk with God, you will break the time barrier. Noah walked in the

spirit, listened to God lived his life in preparation for a future unforeseen

event and circumstances. Noah constructed a vehicle for a future event

that had never occurred before. His values, priorities, investments in time,

energy and finance were all for a future time dimension that had no

precedence. Yet, by living like that, he was able to preserve his family

during the flood and provide for the continuity of God’s animals and

creation. People who live in the spirit serve as continuity for the purposes

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of God in the earth. They can sense the major changes on the earth while

it is yet afar off. They are often sent as prophets to declare those things;

and are usually sent as apostles and forerunners to prepare and help

people receive them. This occurs both in the dimensions of the church and

the world systems. They often look stupid when their messages and life

styles reflect a future spiritual, political, economic or physical condition

that has not yet occurred. Yet, just as it was with Noah, their vindication

often comes suddenly and unexpectedly.

The gifts and anointing that operate in their lives usually has full value

and application in a season that is yet to come; but in the mean time, their

messages, ministries and life styles become a prophetic symbol of that

which is to come. Isaiah said, “I and my children are for signs and

wonders in Israel from the lord of hosts who dwells on mount Zion”

(Isaiah 8:18). Isaiah and his children were prophetic symbols of future

political events that would occur in Israel and other nations of the world.

We are living in a time of change, major changes are occurring all over

the world in all spheres, including the political, economic, technological,

information, transportation and even religious etc. every sphere is

currently undergoing major changes that are redefining these various

spheres. More than ever, this is the time that Christians need to live and

walk in the spirit so that they can survive these changes and still be

relevant in their generations.

LIVING IN THE PROPHETIC SPIRIT

A Prophecy can be defined to be an inspired utterance, which may include

the foretelling of future events and/or circumstances. For example, Many

of Isaiah’s prophecies foretold what the life and the deeds of the Messiah

would be. However, the Prophetic Spirit does not just foretell what shall

be in times to come. It also reveals what the future will be through the

lives of certain individuals who live in the present. This is a pattern of

God throughout scripture. The Prophetic Spirit causes you to live outside

of time dimension, and takes you into the operations of the eternal

purposes of God.

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The Prophetic Spirit causes you to live in a time dimension that has not

yet arrived. You do not only foretell the future but you also live in the

future. David while under the Prophetic Spirit in singing Psalms

expressed many things that Christ said and experienced.

Isaiah also experienced the life of Jesus when He said “The Spirit of the

lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the

poor…” Isaiah 61:1-5. Isaiah was never anointed to preach the Gospel,

Heal the sick and cast out demons. But he was already living in the future

life of Christ even in his own days in Jerusalem.

The Prophetic Spirit takes you beyond your own generation and causes

you to live for the time to come, expressing; in words, actions and life

style; what the future shall be. Enoch is another powerful example. Enoch

was the seventh from Adam, the Bible says he walked with God and was

taken to Heaven. His life was symbolic and Prophetic of a people who

will walk the earth in the completion fullness of the days of Man (Seventh

from Adam), these people will walk with God and be translated – this is

the Church of Jesus in the New Testament. Yet Enoch lived even before

the Old Testament times; he prophesied that the Lord will come with Ten

thousand of His Saints (Jude1:14).

The life and kingly ministry of David was generally known by the Jews to

be a symbol of the life and Authority of the Messiah. This Phenomenon is

a reality of the Prophetic Spirit; it causes you to become a symbol of what

is to come. Isaiah 8:18 says: “I and my children are for signs and

wonders…” Isaiah had given birth to Prophetic children that the Lord was

using as prophetic symbols and omens in Israel. The lives of those

children became living signs and symbols of what was going to occur in

Israel, Jerusalem and other Nations of those times.

The Prophetic Spirit is still the same today. He is causing lives to become

symbols of the future. They are living in a time dimension that has not yet

come. Like Isaiah, they are operating in an anointing that belongs to the

future, and they are bringing light and direction to the body of Christ,

Guiding her into the future purposes of God.

The Prophetic Spirit causes you to live differently. Because you are

responding to the lifestyle and events of another time. You are walking

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with a God who knows the end from the beginning and who knows the

beginning from the end. Your life will not necessarily follow the sequence

and order of the present world you are seeing around you.

You will do things differently and achieve super natural success in all

your endeavors. You will not do everything at the time everyone is doing

it. But you will achieve results because you do things in the timing of the

Holy Spirit. You will be many years ahead of your world. You will know

things before they happen; you will understand the future as clearly as

day. You will know the signs of the times and what you ought to do. You

will become a vessel in the hands of God to carry the power of the age to

come. You will become recognized in the Spiritual realm. Few people

live in the Prophetic Spirit in the Body of Christ today, but they are vital

for the survival of the Church tomorrow.

Prophetic Gifts and Ministries are arising in the Body of Christ today who

will speak and not cease. They will describe the patterns that exist in the

spirit realm; they will not speak to the Church according to the present

day patterns but they will speak from the spirit realm and reflect an

eternal dimension in their ministry to the Church. We are about to hear

supernatural words and messages that will shake the foundations of the

earth and bring forth the judgments of God to the nations. The fulfillment

of the plans and purposes of God in the world depends strongly on people

who live in the Prophetic Spirit.

There are thrones set and men of signs and wonders are sitting on them, a

sudden outburst of the spirit of the Lord producing new order and patterns

for the people of God.

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Chapter Five

The School ofThe Spirit

Sometimes when we start our walk in the Spirit, we soon reach a point where the Holy

Spirit starts dealing with us about a particular issue. It isn't always an outright

sin. It is often something very personal just between you and Him.


CHAPTER 5

THE SCHOOL OF THE SPIRIT

The spirit realm is in stages and phases or in realms, as is applicable to

our present day schooling systems. You are required to go from one level

or stage to another in an ever increasing progression. However, your

advance from one realm to the next depends on the establishment of the

truths, revelations and anointing of the present realm in your life. Once

you’ve learnt the lessons well, and it is clear to the Holy Ghost that

you’ve made the necessary commitments to the truths and purposes of

God in that level then you’ll be cleared to go on to the next realm of the

glory of God. Once you’ve conformed to the image of the Glory of the

Lord Jesus at that level, them you’ll be allowed to continue the

progressional change into His image on the next level (2 Corinth. 3:18).

Sometimes when we start our walk in the Spirit, we soon reach a point

where the Holy Spirit starts dealing with us about a particular issue. It

isn’t always an outright sin. It is often something very personal just

between you and Him. He requires you to completely yield to Him on that

particular issue as if nothing else matters. He made that issue a point of

reference in His dealings with you. He assesses you based on your

performance on that issue. He stresses it very strongly in your life. It is a

point of covenant between you and Him. It is usually different for every

one. But whatever it is He happens to point out to you, He expects you to

pay maximum attention to that issue, and this is because it has everything

to do with your purpose in Him. He uses that issue to define your walk

with Him, your place in the Body of Christ, your call and ministry, His

assessment of your personal life, as well as the determinant of release of

His blessings on your life.

This truth is so strong and yet so many people miss it. They do everything

else except this very thing. They perform so very well in every other area

of their lives and yet never take time to listen to the Lord and find out

exactly what He wants them to do. The result is that things go wrong all

around them and they never know why. This is why. It’s like majoring on

the minors in school.

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All of us were in university studying various courses. If someone in the

English department took chemistry electives just because ‘we’re all in the

same school after all’. And then he focuses all his attention on the

chemistry. At the end of the day he has ‘A’s in his chemistry courses, but

fails and has to repeat his year at the English department because English

is his major course and he did not pay the required attention to it.

No matter how well he does at chemistry, he will never go on to the next

class or level in his English department. This is how it is in our walk in

the Spirit.

I remember on the campus I schooled in, how that at the beginning of

each semester, the spirit-realm would just open up powerfully over me.

And daily, dealings and dimensions from the Holy Spirit would pour out

upon me. It was a very rigorous learning process. I had to keep on my

toes, being alert all the time. Messages, lessons and instruction came to

me at any and every time.

The university semester system seemed to powerfully illustrate to me that

God had a learning process, which could span many months at a time. At

times, these periods became powerful learning curves that always ushered

me in to another dimension of living. New levels of the spirit realm

always came to me.

I remember one morning, early in my sophomore year; I just began

drifting from deep sleep into consciousness with the presence of God

strongly on me, and a song I had never heard before coming out of the

spirit realm. As I woke up the Holy Spirit urged me to sing:

‘The spirit-life, is flowing from within

The spirit-life, is what You want us to live

The spirit-life, is love working within

The spirit-life, Lord is You living through me’.

And as I sang the song, I saw a book floating towards me and on it was

written ‘THE SPIRIT LIFE’.

That day I knew I was to write that book I saw, and as the pages began to

open, I began taking the lessons down.

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This book is the result of that early morning wind of the spirit. Over the

years since then, the message of those pages have been burned into my

life by God through revelation and life experiences- both sweet and sour.

And such is the manner of the school of the Holy Ghost.

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Chapter Six

The Spirit Life -The Life of Jesus

The spirit life is the supernatural life Jesus was living while on earth,

continued through the Holy Spirit in our own bodies and lives. Christ is our

life.


CHAPTER SIX

THE SPIRIT LIFE-THE LIFE OF JESUS

‘If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where

Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above

not on things on the earth. For ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ

in God. When Christ, who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also

appear with Him in Glory (Colossians 3:1-4).

One afternoon, several years back, during a fast, the Lord gave me this

scripture. I remember I was so hungry I wanted to just run to the kitchen

and get some food. But the Holy Spirit kept restraining; urging me

strongly to receive the revelation He was trying to impart to me. ‘Christ is

our life’ started a new order of life in me. This verse opened up an

understanding in me of what the source of the Spirit life is. The Spirit Life

is the Life of Christ continued in the believer. Romans 6:4 states that as

Christ died and resurrected, so also we should live a newness of Life.

As Jesus gave His life for us, we also should live not for ourselves, but

according to the life of the one who died so we could live.

The spirit life is the supernatural life Jesus was living while on earth,

continued through the Holy Spirit in our own bodies and lives. Christ is

our life. He is living and expressing Himself, speaking His words, doing

His will, touching other lives, going where He wants to go and doing

what He wants to do through our lives.

Imagine Jesus living in you and operating through your body to do His

desire, and then you can understand what ‘Christ who is our life’ means.

Each time you yield to the Holy Spirit to do His will, you are letting Jesus

continue His life on earth through you. He is not here bodily, but in spirit;

however, when His spirit takes over your life, your body becomes His

body and in a real sense He begins to physically walk the earth again.

The Bible says your bodies are the Temples of the Holy Spirit; it says we

should present our bodies a living sacrifice. It says the body is not for sin

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but for the lord and if any man be joined t the lord he is one in spirit (1

Cor 6:13).

That day I realized that the life I live in the spirit is not mine, but Jesus’. I

realized Jesus was not just living in me but living through me. And if

Jesus is the one living then I can’t fail because He doesn’t fail. It is

possible for man to fail, but it is impossible for God to fail. Man can live a

natural life, but God is the supernatural life Himself. Man may be

controlled by circumstances, but God controls all circumstances. Jesus

said, ‘beholds all power in Heaven and on earth is given unto me…’ This

is the Jesus that is living His life through me.

The lord wanted me to live my life in the spirit, so that the qualities of the

life and mind of Jesus could operate in me. It would be like Jesus living

on earth again inside another human body. I believe this is the purpose of

the concept of ‘The body of Christ’.

Paul said ‘For me to live is Christ…’ Phil 1:21. He must have known

about this, and that’s why he became such a model of Christ. He said to

the Galatians received him ‘…as Christ Himself’, because for ‘him to live

was Christ’. When you live like that you express Christ’s words or mind

concerning any issue.

You don’t just live like him, you live His very life. You don’t just talk

like Him, you speak His very words, and you don’t just think like Him,

you think His very thoughts.

And You don’t just act like Him, you manifest His very actions through

your body just as if He was living and walking in Nigeria, Africa, Asia or

wherever you are; responding to every circumstance through you as

though He were there physically. This is what it means to live the life of

Christ.

Col 1:27 ‘Christ in you the hope of Glory’. The ability you have to

operate in the Glory of God is Christ in you; living, speaking, walking

and acting. When you live in the Holy Spirit, Christ begins to live His life

through you and then the Glory of God is manifested in you. Christ in you

is the hope, the potential or seed of God’s Glory in you; but as you yield

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to Christ by obeying and living the spirit life, that hope or potentials

begins to grow; that seed of glory begins to manifest. The more you live

in the spirit the more the glory manifests, it shines in your life, it shines in

your home, it operates at your office and it explodes in your ministry. It

covers you with light. You walk in great insight, revelation and anointing.

You live in the spirit and experience the gory of God. Christ in you is the

Glory.

Just as Jesus’ life has become a pattern for us, your own life becomes a

pattern for others; you become a sign, a road map. You also become a

representation of spiritual things. God’s activities in the spirit become

manifested physically through your life, you become an icon of the Spirit

so that if someone ‘clicks’ on you, he immediately contacts God’s

movements in the spirit realm.

Lessons from the Dark side?

So many books focus on the spirit realm of the powers of darkness. They

hope that by knowing how they operate, what ex-witches or mediums did,

how demons operate, what Satan and demons told them, etc that we can

know how to combat and stop them.

Though it’s true, we shouldn’t be ignorant of Satan’s devices, yet we

can’t stop him by listening to him. You can’t argue with darkness; you

need to just switch on the light.

We need more books that focus on the spirit realm of Jesus. We need to

hear Him more and know how to operate with Him. The only way to

destroy the powers of darkness is to operate in the Holy Spirit and

experience the Glory of God.

Many Christians feel they know so much about the spirit realm of

darkness; yet they know so little of the spirit realm of God. It is high time

to ascend in the Holy Spirit and experience the plans and patterns of God.

To receive the messages He is giving, and apply them to our walk on

earth. This is how Jesus beat the devil. And it’s how we’ll beat him too.

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Chapter Seven

Heaven Consciousness

Thus you can see why prophecy can't be fulfilled on the basis of our own thinking and

perspectives. It can only fit into God's context and perspective, which is eternal

and not always consistent with our perspective of time.


CHAPTER SEVEN

HEAVEN CONSCIOUSNESS

A Believer who walks in the spirit is often conscious of two worlds. He is

very aware that though he is physically present in this world, yet he is at

the same time seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. The longer a

believer walks in the spirit, the more he becomes aware of heavenly

activity.

David in Psalm 110: 1: ‘the lord said to my Lord, seat at my right hand

until I make your enemies your footstool…’

David suddenly became aware of Heavenly activity. In the timeless,

eternal realms of Heaven, he over heard the father conversing with the

son, offering Him the seat at His right hand, after the Lord’s victory at the

cross, a victory that was yet to be carried out in the physical.

Sometimes being aware of Heavenly activity can bring you into contact

with very complicated issues. The father was congratulating Jesus for

circumstance that won’t even come into existence until two thousand

years later. And David saw his own great grand son, who would inherit

his throne and called Him ‘my lord’.

David had fellowship with a dimension of God in the New Testament of

Jesus Christ, and called Him ‘Lord’ two thousand years before Jesus was

born- as David own descendant.

Any one who heard David would never have understood what David was

up to at that time. This is due partially to the timeless dimension that

heaven is. When you contact this realm you need to stop seeing every

thing according to the sequence of time. Rather you need to develop an

eternal perspective to the plans of God. A spiritually accurate perspective

that is obviously out of sequence with time will help you interpret

prophecy and the activities of Heaven better.

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And this is also true about the plans of God for your life. Because it

comes out of a Heavenly dimension, it may never fit into your own time

expectations and interpretations. It may defy your own concept of time

and order. If you live in contact with Heaven, you may find yourself

speaking and living in issues that bear no relevance to the present time.

You will begin to see and fellowship with spiritual realities that are non

existent in the present but are an approaching dimension of God in Jesus

Christ.

When you live like this, your concept of reality, that is, what is real and

what is just temporary and seemingly apparent will change.

The Bible says Jesus is the lamb that was slain from ‘the foundation of the

world’ (Rev 13:8). If Jesus was slain before the world was created, then

what happened two thousand years ago when Jesus came to die on the

cross of Calvary…?

All the religious and political circumstances that led to the death of Jesus

Christ were simply mechanisms that God (unknown to the people)

allowed and used to manifest a preexistent eternal reality into the realm of

time. It was a delicate balance of Justice Judgment and Mercy at the

precise prophetic junction where the law and prophets would converge in

fulfillment at the appearance of the Son of God to reveal the true state of

man’s heart producing the plan of atonement and laying the foundation

for the end of all human kingdoms represented by the Roman empire and

the appearance of the kingdom of God the Father.

So also some of the circumstances we face are simply mechanisms and

birth processes for preexistent realities or prophecies whose time has

come, prophecies which can only stand upon God’s righteous

foundations. That is why fulfillment of prophecy is often surrounded by

crises. Because the true meaning of things, the source and foundations of

all things, as well as the true states of peoples’ hearts have to be revealed

before God, so that He will be sanctified as he establishes His Promise on

the earth. That is why we often see people go through crisis before they

come into fulfillment of prophetic destiny in their lives, as all other false

and unrighteous foundations are shaken and removed so that the prophecy

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can be fulfilled upon the unshakable eternal foundations of God’s

Holiness alone.

Thus you can see why prophecy can’t be fulfilled on the basis of our own

thinking and perspectives. It can only fit into God’s context and

perspective, which is eternal and not always consistent with our

perspective of time.

When God’s word comes, it is coming from eternity. It will not align to

our value in time. Rather it will align all things in time to his position in

eternity and this will lead to things being shaken and shattered, scattered

and re-ordered; so if you’ve built your life on the wrong or false

foundations, the appearance of the fulfillment of God’s word would have

to shatter it, reveal it for what it really is as a wrong foundation and then

re-arrange your life into a new order, based upon the righteous

foundations of God before He can establish his word in your life.

Every mountain would be humbled and made low and ever valley would

be made high, every crooked place straightened and every rough path

smoothened before the glory of God appears and all flesh will see it

together.(Isaiah 40:4)

Jesus died and resurrected and ascended to heaven two thousand years

ago. But David already saw Him ascended, glorified and seated at the

right hand even two thousand years before then in an eternal reality. But

that vision or prophecy came to pass only through the shaking of the

foundations established in time, revealing them for their failures and

limits (i.e. the Law of Moses), and replacing them with a foundation

which had not been seen in time but had pre-existed from eternity. i.e. the

covenant of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Such is the nature of the fulfillment of prophecy.

Thus I want you to realize that there is another reality than the physical,

daily occurrence in time as we know it.

If you live outside of Heaven consciousness, you live outside of true

reality. Bible states that Christians are called out to live the lifestyle or

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conversation from Heaven, where Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand

of the father. (Phil. 3:20)

Living in the spirit does not mean you cease to be a logical, practical

Human being as it were. It rather means that spiritual realities take over

your life and lifts you to a higher dimension of life. You don’t runaway

from life’s challenges; you just overcome them by supernatural life. All

sorts of problems in life become easy prey for you. The supernatural

victory of Jesus over life’s problems was apparent to all and so it should

be with you.

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Chapter Eight

The Supernatural Realm

Operating in the supernatural takes time, preparation and consistence.

You must have a hunger that has led you aside, to study, seek and find

God's truth.


CHAPTER EIGHT

THE SUPERNATURAL REALM

‘I was in the spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice

as of a trumpet, saying, I am Alpha and Omega, …’(Rev 1:10-11).

If I told you that there are all kinds of activities going on around you right

now, would you believe it? John suddenly found himself in the realm of

the spirit and began to see and experience all kinds of supernatural

activities. The Holy Spirit controls the natural, though He is not natural.

The Holy Spirit is supernatural, so when you are in the spirit, you are in

the supernatural realm. The Holy Spirit is the supernatural power that

controls the natural world. So when you live in the Holy Spirit, your

world is supernaturally controlled and regulated into Gods plan and

purpose. When you’re involved, things are not just normal, the Lord

always influences the circumstances around you, not just for your comfort

but most importantly, to fulfill His will.

Hearing and seeing are defining characteristic of people who operate in

the spirit. Apostle John began to hear great voice behind him and as he

turned, he began to see. This is how the spiritual dimensions of God open

up, when you begin to follow the voice of the spirit; the spiritual realms

begin to appear to you, with all the supernatural works going on there.

Operating in the supernatural takes time, preparation and consistence.

You must have a hunger that has led you aside, to study, seek and find

God’s truth. Though God is willing to give supernatural experience, yet

you must not be the type who is looking for an experience just for the

thrill of it. There are many false visions and voices people experience

today because of insincerity of heart and wrong/imprecise spiritual

understanding or foundations.

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You must be really sincere and hungry for God. You need to also have a

base of scriptural truths inside of you. Your mind needs to have been

renewed by the word of God. Each supernatural experience must be

carefully weighed against the word of God in a very balanced way.

Some people have had supernatural experiences from God, but because

they were unlearned in the word of God and did not have their minds

renewed to good level, they couldn’t handle the visitation God gave them.

Their inaccurate understanding of scripture caused them to misinterpret

and distort the revelations God gave them. This is one reason why God

doesn’t entrust strong visitations and revelations to many people, they just

can’t handle it. Some people’s understanding of the word is just too

peripherical for God to entrust supernatural things into their hands. All

they know about are the blessings and increase of God. Blessings are

important, but there are other important, fundamental truths of the New

Testament. They need to know other spiritual principles, which reveal the

nature of God’s covenant with us, things that reveals God’s desire and

priority. And so even if God begins to reveal spiritual things to them, they

will only interpret it into the sphere of blessings, increase and prosperity.

No matter what the Lord tries to impart to them, they always see it from a

perspective of promotion and material upliftment.

Supernatural things go far beyond all these, and if you don’t understand

this, you’ll have no value for the eternal things God is trying to impart to

you. You’ll have no scriptural basis for the accurate interpretation of the

things God says to you. Preparation, continuous study and seeking to

know God’s spiritual truths are an important base for the reception of

God’s revelations and power. We need prepared people. When such

people operate in the spirit, their lives are supernatural, their word are

supernatural. When they operate in their ministries, they don’t just give

sermons and have normal services, they speak the very words of God and

bring supernatural visitations on their audience. People don’t just see and

applaud their personalities, rather they encounter the nature and character

of Jesus through them, they are brought face to face with the presence of

Yahweh, they are transported into the spirit realm, and then supernatural

things begin to occur in their lives.

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Hearing and seeing takes you into the supernatural, because you

transform into whatever you’re focused on in sight and thought.

So also, when people hear and see you, they are also taken into the

supernatural. Simon Peter said to the lame man ‘look on us’ and the lame

man was healed.

Ministering Healing

Spiritual sight and healing (- whether physical, emotional or spiritual

healing) go together. Revelation brings sight and perception which

produces a divine understanding of the reality of an ailment. Exposing the

causes behind any ailment weakens it and makes the force behind it

vulnerable, making it easier for victory to be achieved.

Thus revelatory sight opens the mind and emotions with understanding to

receive emotional healing; and opens the heart with a living faith to

receive physical healing. Stubborn sicknesses have been known to give

way as the afflicted were ministered to with deeper revelatory sight.

Yet walking in the depth of revelatory sight and understanding which

make you a functional force in the holy spirit require the right

preparation. Those things are not even the result of one encounter.

They’re more like the fruit of a journey with God.

So prepare and come up into the supernatural!

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Chapter Nine

Supernatural Being

A lot has been said about demonic principalities, while little is being said about angelic principalities.

Yet there are more angelic princes, who are greater in

strength than the demonic princes. I believe that spiritual warfare over cities and nations would be

much more successful if we worked with the angelic princes of light.


CHAPTER NINE

SUPERNATURAL BEINGS

The heavenly realms are very populated. There are twice as many angelic

beings as there are demonic beings. Satan brought down one-third of the

angels with him in his fall; but the remaining two-thirds are still loyal to

Heaven.

When you begin to penetrate the heavenly realms, you begin to

experience the presence of these angelic beings whether you realize it or

not, each time you enter into the presence of God, you also have angels

around you; this is so because throughout the scriptures, each time the

throne or presence of God is revealed, it is always surrounded by angels.

Angelic beings have their roles to play in God’s plans and in our lives-

they’re not just there for decoration. Apart from being in God’s presence

when He moves among us, angels are also often sent to us with specific

messages, and anointing from the Lord. Usually the Lord sends his angels

to us with very peculiar anointing.

Sometimes angels are sent to teach us spiritual things, they may not

appear physically or even appear in a spirit vision to us. But their

presence is felt in very peculiar anointing of the spirit that comes upon us.

Usually angels minister along with us when we stand to minister the word

of the Lord.

Angels can be sent to bring us instructions or revelations; they are always

around to protect the true believer. Angels respond to our confessions of

faith. The Bible says they ‘excel in strength and obey the voice of His

commands’. Therefore when we make faith declarations in the Holy

Spirit, the angels hear the commands of God and go into action.

A lot has been said about demonic principalities, while little is being said

about angelic principalities. Yet there are more angelic princes, who are

greater in strength than the demonic princes. I believe that spiritual

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warfare over cities and nations would be much more successful if we

worked with the angelic princes of light.

The book of Daniel records how angelic princes like Gabriel and Michael

responded to the prophet’s intercession. Angel Michael is recorded as

being the angelic prince of the nation of Israel (Daniel 10-11). And

Gabriel brings revelation about the plans of God for Israel to Daniel. This

is how angelic princes assist us in our warfare. By bringing on the light of

the presence and plans of God. The light they come with shields us from

depression, deception and darkness, allowing us the liberty in the spirit to

enter into the truth God has released to us. This light and truth of the lord

in us overcomes the enemy.

They help us fight off the demonic principalities, breaking their defenses

and resistances. And as they clear the spiritual atmosphere, they bring

revelations of the plans of God to us. And then we can begin to build

those plans into the earth with the power of God.

We often talk of demonic strongholds but know little about the angelic

strongholds of God. Yet our victories in the spirit are so much cheaper,

and occur much more powerfully when we operate from the strongholds

of God. When angelic princes bring revelations of God’s plans to us and

we declare them boldly and prophetically into the spirit realm, it releases

tremendous power. It tears down major strongholds of darkness, opens

doors for the word of God to be preached, and generally activates the

whole spirit world into action, in the direction of fulfilling the

declarations of heaven.

As you ascend in the spirit, you will continually encounter both angelic

and demonic beings. But you must always remember that it is the Holy

Spirit that brings you into these encounters, so you don’t go seeking

experiences with a wrong motives, and the fleshly desires to just ‘see an

angel’ for the thrill of it. Just stay with the Holy Spirit; seek Him, love

Him, obey Him, submit to him; then He will bring you into these

experiences by Himself.

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Chapter Ten

UnderstandingEternity

Most of us imagine we will receive eternal life after we've passed away from this world; however, the Bible doesn't say so. It says

whosoever believes already has eternal (1John 4:11-12), and while he is still living in this world

the zoe eternal life is already at work in him.


CHAPTER TEN

UNDERSTANDING ETERNITY

Jesus said He came to give us eternal life. This means any one who

believes in Him will have a kind of life that sustains the quality of

knowing and experiencing God (John 17:3, 3:3,1 John 2:20) . It also

means, however, that anyone who receives Him will have the quality of

Life-Zoe life; the very life of God working within that individual. This

very life of God, called zoe is what will give that individual the power

and ability to function forever, throughout eternity.

Most of us imagine we will receive eternal life after we’ve passed away

from this world; however, the Bible doesn’t say so. It says whosoever

believes already has eternal (1John 4:11-12), and while he is still living in

this world the zoe eternal life is already at work in him. That eternal life

continues to work even when his physical earthly, biological life is

exhausted.

The source of eternal life, zoe, is God; and the Bible records that God

inhabits eternity (Isaiah 57:15). Therefore, the source, origin and

environment in which zoe-eternal life functions perfectly is eternity,

consequently, when we begin to live according to the eternal life we

received when we believed, then the environment of eternity also begins

to encroach upon us.

First of all, our values begin to change. We as Christians tend to respond

to everything in this life with eternity in view. We cherish and keep our

faith until the end.

Secondly, we do everything with eternal judgments in mind, knowing that

Mankind will have rewards or punishments eternally for the things we do

here on earth. We are thus already responding to the environment of

eternity. But what is eternity like? It is endless, limitless; it is also outside

of the dimension of time. Eternity does not function with ‘past, present

and future’ as we have it in time here on earth; rather it exists in an eternal

and perfect ‘now’. Eternity does not have seasons and changes as we have

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on earth; rather it is a state of permanent perfection, howbeit, veiled for

now, from earthly human perception.

God continually ministers eternal life to us through His spirit. When He

speaks to us, He speaks from the eternal dimension. He speaks of things

that have been settled in eternity before time came into existence. And

when He speaks, He speaks out of a timeless dimension. And so when we

receive what He is giving us, we attempt to interpret them into our earthly

dimension. We assume it should follow a certain order of sequence, or

will not happen until we reach certain ages of our lives. Yes there are

times God gives specific time to certain promises He gives us, but the

complete plans of God for our lives comes from and only fits into an

eternal structure. And even the timed promises are subject to the

characteristics of the eternal realm, especially when the conditions that

were to activate the promises are not in effect.

The eternal plans of God rather than having standard set times of

fulfillment are activated by certain conditions and spiritual states of our

hearts. For example, God promised Abraham that his descendants would

be freed from slavery by the four hundredth year. Yet, even though a

leader, in the person of Moses, had discovered his purpose, and was ready

to do the work, yet the promise could not be fulfilled until the four

hundred and thirtieth year – thirty years later than scheduled. Why?

Because the children of Israel were happy and comfortable in Egypt. God

had to allow strenuous conditions of hardship, which caused their

groaning to come up to Him, remind Him of His covenant and promise,

so that He raised, anointed and sent Moses to them. Rather than the set

time, the conditions of their heart moved God to fulfill His promise.

Notice that even after they were delivered from Egypt, most of that

generation still died in the wilderness because they regretted leaving

Egypt, they missed all the onions and cucumbers, and as a result, did not

have the courage to enter the Promised Land even when God said ‘go in! I

have given you the land!’.

God has to create the right conditions and attitudes within you, before He

can fulfill His promises to you, and bring to pass His eternal plans in your

Life.

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The eternal dimensions of God’s plans are reflected in the promises

concerning the Messiah’s coming, Isaiah in chapter 53, gave prophecies

of the Messiahs sufferings and reign in an earthly kingdom in this same

chapter. It would seem that both parts of this prophecy having come

together would be fulfilled together and, simultaneously. But this is not

the case, as we all know. The Messiah has suffered, died, and resurrected.

But His earthly kingdom, as prophesied, is not yet in effect.

The book of Malachi closes with the promise of Elijah coming to prepare

the way before the Messiah. And there was a 400 years period of total

silence. Then all of a sudden, John the Baptist appears on the scene in the

spirit of Elijah. Why? Did you notice that Israel at that period had a

specific longing for their Messiah? Being tired of Roman oppressive rule,

something in them longed for the Christ. Which is why Phillip came to

Nathaniel and said we have found the Messiah of whom it was written of

…, Just as Andrew had earlier on said to Simon Peter ‘ we have found the

Christ’ (John 1:40-41,45). They said they had ‘found’ because they had

been looking and longing for the messiah - a condition of their hearts!

John the Baptist prophesied that the Messiah would separate the wheat

from the chaff and burns it with unquenchable fire. And that He would

baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire.

John later came into doubt because Jesus was not doing any of these as

yet and did not do so in John’s time. Jesus began pouring out the baptism

of His spirit after His resurrection and ascension – not even in His earthly

life. And till now, we can’t say He has really ‘separated the wheat from

the chaff’ yet, even though we know He surely will. These things

happened so, because God’s plans fit into an eternal structure. They often,

outlive our life span here on earth. Yet they always come into fulfillment.

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Chapter Eleven

Changing Realmsin The Spirit

The ability to understand and move with CHANGE in the realm of the spirit is vital to our survival in the earth and to the fulfillment of God's purposes in

our lives.


CAPTER 11

CHANGING REALMS IN THE SPIRIT

One of the most important characteristics a walk in the Holy Spirit is the

feature of changing phases or realms in the spirit. Changing from one

phase to another in your walk with God, that is, moving from one level of

the spirit to another is one of the most vital processes of God. The ability

to understand and move with CHANGE in the realm of the spirit is vital

to our survival in the earth and to the fulfillment of God’s purposes in our

lives. Many of the prophetic words of destiny God gives for our lives and

ministries are actually dependent on our ability to go through diverse

processes of change in our spiritual lives. There are certain prophecies

and promises of God to us that can only be activated when we operate at

particular dimensions of the spirit. When we lack the ability to move with

God into these spiritual depths, it seems as if those words of promise from

the Lord are not fulfilled. But the truth of the matter is that you just

haven’t gone far out enough into the places in the spirit where these

things are released. The fulfillment of certain words belongs to certain

realms.

Inability to change with God in your personal walk with Him poses real

spiritual dangers: you may loose your spiritual freshness, become

stagnated in your spiritual growth, you also begin to loose spiritual punch

and power, your sensitivity and keenness in the spirit wanes, you find that

you’re continually at the same level and without fresh personal revelation,

thus you loose your sense of spiritual progress, and as a result begin to

lack a sense of direction and purpose. The temptation at this point is to

settle for anything, because you can no longer locate the original purposes

of God. And that’s exactly where the devil wants you to be.

Changing realms in the spirit comes naturally when we live in a consistent

walk with the Holy Spirit, and thus we really don’t need to miss it. As you

live your life daily led of the spirit, you will find that at certain periods,

He begins to give you insight and understanding that is new. You will

find that He is emphasizing certain subjects and issues to you. He may

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bring scriptures into your heart, may bring certain books into your hands,

and you’ll find that anytime you’re under His anointing, there are certain

things He emphasizes to you. If you’re not really hungry for him and

keenly alert to what He is doing and saying, if you don’t go out of your

way to really seek and find out what He is really saying, you may miss it.

However, if you’re really hungry and press into His presence, things will

get clear, and you’ll find that His processes of change are at work within

you. These processes occur over a period of time and requires you to stay

in tune and connected to God. Setting aside time to pray and meditate is

vital. Days of fasting may also be required. Being sensitive to know

where one ought to be at specific times to receive further insight is

important. For example, God told Jeremiah to go to the potter’s House

and there he would receive revelation from Him (Jer. 18:1-4)

You need to specifically pay attention for the required period and stick to

the unfolding process.

At the end of the process, you’ll find that you’ve changed on the inside.

You’re fresh on the inside with new insight, your spiritual life is at

another level and your spiritual strength is renewed, your sensitivity to the

spirit is sharper and your ability to move with God is even greater. Your

love for God is stronger and spiritual depth and maturity is enhanced.

The result of this internal change is that God begins to give you fresh

direction for your life and call. He begins to give you a different

assignment. New doors open to you, old doors may be shut as well. New

relationships are often activated, to enhance your life and ministry. At this

stage you are in a new realm of the spirit and the dimension of this realm

begins to manifest in the new revelation, fellowship, insight, and

anointing that follows your new assignments.

It also results in change in the structure of your ministry and life that will

better hold in fellowship the releases that come from God. A lack of shift

in structure and mind has aborted many workings of God in our midst and

hindered the plan of God for many ministries.

You must also understand this is not a ‘once for all’ thing, it is a process

that keeps going on while on this earth. And this is where most people

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miss it. They don’t understand that they need to continually stay in this

process of change. Change is the only constant thing in the spirit realm.

You have to keep on changing from one realm to another in order to flow

with His changes.

Unfortunately, some people make one spiritual transition of change in

their lives and stay there for the next ten years. Spiritual change brings a

lot of physical changes into our lives. And it usually makes you a

different person, with a different approach to life. However, all of these

changes definitely bring you closer to God’s destiny.

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Chapter Twelve

The Lord’s EvolvingChurch

There is a lot of argument about the right way God is to be worshiped, even in the church world. The Jews claimed the temple and its ceremonies were the right

way, while the Samaritans countered with claiming that since these patriarchs worshiped on the

mountain, then that had to be the proper approach to the father.


CHAPTER 12

THE LORD’S EVOLVING CHURCH.

Jesus said ‘But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshiper

shall worship the father in spirit and in truth: for the father seeketh such

to worship Him’. (Jn 4:23).

Here Jesus was talking about the right way to worship the father, the

approach to God which will be pleasing to Him. The woman at the well of

Samaria, having perceived that Jesus was a prophet, asked, Jesus which

was the right approach of worship that was acceptable and pleasing to the

Father. This was against the background of an ongoing argument between

the Jews and the Samaritans. And in much the same way today, there is a

lot of argument about the right way God is to be worshiped, even in the

church world. The Jews claimed the temple and its ceremonies were the

right way, while the Samaritans countered with claiming that since these

patriarchs worshiped on the mountain, then that had to be the proper

approach to the father.

In the same way, there is a lot of argument between denominations,

ministries, movements and churches in the Christian world about the right

application of spiritual worship expressed to God. And in the same way

the Samaritan woman being tired of all the arguments, perceived that

Jesus, being a prophet would be able to give her a divine answer from

God Himself which would put to rest all the arguments, claims and

counter claims. In this same way, a lot of people, even today, are tired of

the arguments and want to hear God speak for Himself.

Now notice the sequence in Jesus’ answer: He said ‘… the hour

cometh…. He indicated, by this clause, the crucial factor of divine time,

which brought divine seasons of change as to how God is to be

approached and worshiped. The patriarchs had the earlier covenant with

God, and worshiped on the mountain based on that covenant at that time.

God’s people worshiped on mounts until they came out of Egypt, stood

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around Mount Sinai, where God gave commands to build the tabernacle

of congregations so God could be worshiped wherever Israel camped

during their journey from Egypt. Then when they finally settled in

Canaan, God said He had chosen Zion in Jerusalem as His place of

footing. God gave the measurements of the temple to be built. And at that

timing, that was the accurate way to worship God. God, through the ages,

was systematically bringing them into more accurate ways of worshipping

Him. This parallels our experience in the New Testament. After the time

of the apostles, the church experienced a backsliding, which mixed

Roman idolatry with Christian terminology resulting in apostasy. Light

however returned to the church through the protestant Reformation and

the subsequent moves of God that has occurred through the ages. In our

consideration of the right way to worship God, the “The hour cometh…”

factor must always be in our equation. God definitely has divine timing

and seasons when He reveals already pre-existing scriptural truth to us

and teaches us to apply it in our lives, thus bringing us into greater

accuracy in our relationship and worship with Him. Although the

patriarchs worshiped God on the mountains, Jesus affirmed the Jewish

Temple worship as being more accurate, being the approach that would

yield salvation, which the Messiah would come to give.

However, Jesus concluded that the hour had come when people would no

longer worship on the mountain, nor yet in the Jerusalem Temple; but

what the Father wants is a race of people who would worship Him

through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in their hearts, minds; making

them the very Temples of the Holy Spirit; And in the knowledge and

heart attitude of Truth. This is the race of people God seeks to worship

Him. To be His called out church, and to be His nation of Royal

priesthood. This condition of Spirit and Truth will prepare and position

anyone to receive God’s word into their lives and grow in relationship

with Him. It will position them to move with God through seasons of

change and re-application of scriptural truth. This position of being in an

intimate relationship with the father in ever increasing levels of scriptural

accuracy is the description of God for His own chosen people.

The woman at the well of Samaria associated with those who worshiped

on the mountains i.e. Samaritans; but Jesus identified her desire to know

God’s truth, and in response, revealed Himself to her (John 4:10-15). God

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always reveals Himself to anyone who really thirsts for truth. They may

be on the mountain, or in the Temple, or by the roadside. They may be in

church, at home or at the beer Bar. And they may be in any denomination

or even other religions. But if anyone thirsts to know the truth of God, He

always reveals Himself to such and gives them the choice to come into

relationship with Him, or to come into even more accurate relationship

with Him. The worship of God is thus a dynamic process of ever growing

relationship with Him.

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Chapter Thirteen

Operation of Gifts andCallings in the Spirit

The method the Holy Spirit adopts can be different each time. You're not to stay with any method; you're to stay in-tune and flow with the spirit each

time.


CHAPTER 13

OPERATION OF GIFTS AND CALLINGS IN THE SPIRIT

The gifts of the spirit are actually manifestations of the Holy Spirit. They

are operations of the Holy Ghost in the realm of the spirit that find

expression into the physical realm through a believer who is yielded and

in-tune with the Holy Spirit.

There are diverse operations of the Holy Spirit, but God needs individuals

who will be so in tune with Him as to be able to know and flow with these

operations.

The gifts of the spirit are expressions of the spirit realm. The Lord uses

the gifts to express spiritual operations through a believer. There are many

times we’re in the Lord’s presence, praying, worshipping etc when God’s

presence comes among us in a strong way, people feel His presence but

hardly understand why it is so strong and strange. I have come to

understand that each time God comes in; there is usually a purpose for it.

He is executing an operation in the spirit realm. A believer who is in-tune

can discern what the Lord is saying and doing in the spirit; we can yield

to it, flow with it and cooperate with it and be used to bring it into other

lives as we operate in the gifts while the flow is on.

There are a lot of people who operate in spiritual gifts outside of the flow

of God’s spirit. They just give prophecies, tongues and interpretation

without the anointing, and outside of spiritual timing for that word. That’s

why the prophecy comes out, dry and flat; without spiritual power or

impact. Some people who failed to make spiritual transitions at specific

times in their lives keep on giving the same old prophecy, tongues and

interpretation they’ve been giving for the past five years. It doesn’t occur

to them that things have changed in the spirit realm, because they’re not

in-tune with the realm. Some prophesy or minister healing when God is

not carrying out any such operation in the spirit. Some never realize when

God is trying to upgrade their call and give them new gifts in the spirit.

They just stay with the empty shell of the old gift while the substance of

God’s presence moved on to other levels.

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Your gifts and calling should operate in rhythm and synchronism with the

operation of God in the spirit realm 1 Corinth. 12: says: there are

diversities of gifts but the same Spirit, there are differences in

administration but the same Lord, and there are diversities of operations

but the same God…

The gifts of the spirit can operate differently at different times to

accomplish different operations. The method of the Holy Spirit adopts can

be different each time. You’re not to stay with any method; you’re to stay

in-tune and flow with the spirit each time. If you don’t yield to God’s

operations in the spirit realm, you’ll get stuck on methods and end up dry

in religious activity. And that’s where so many people are.

If you’ll learn to operate in the spirit by just going with the flow of God’s

presence, you’ll discover that your gifts and calling will always come

forth accurately. You’ll discover that the way God uses you will be

peculiar and you won’t need to copy some one else’s ministry.

God wants us to develop our gifts and operate strongly in them, so He can

flow through us to accomplish great spiritual operations in the spirit. He

uses your spiritual gift to teach you about the spirit realm and how to flow

with Him there.

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Chapter Fourteen

Death - The Key to Spiritual Life

The Lord takes us through processes and

experiences that result in the death of our

flesh, so that spiritual life can be released in

and through us. The outward experience may

be different for everyone, but the spiritual

patterns of the process are usually similar.


CHAPTER 14:

DEATH – THE KEY TO SPIRITUAL LIFE

‘That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the

fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death...”

(Philippians 3:10).

One imperative feature of the Spirit Life is suffering and death as seed for

the resurrection Life. As you go on in your journey and processes in the

spirit, the Lord will sooner or later bring you through a change ‘from

glory to glory’, (2 Corth. 3:16-18)and as part of conforming to the image

of Christ, you also encounter ‘being made conformable unto His death’,

so that you may attain unto resurrection Phil. 3:11.

The Lord takes us through processes and experiences that result in the

death of our flesh, so that spiritual life can be released in and through us.

The Lord may lead us through situations and conditions that cause

excruciating pain on the outside. It may seem like problems, storms or

something else, but in the spirit, it is actually God, circumcising our flesh,

bringing a little more death to our carnal Nature, so that resurrection Life

can flow in us.

The outward experience may be different for everyone, but the spiritual

patterns of the process are usually similar. When you go through this

process, you experience, pain, Loneliness, rejection, hunger, lack, etc but

the Holy Spirit is there with you right through it all; teaching, guiding,

leading and changing you. You need to understand that it is both a

learning process and an internal death and resurrection process. it is the

only way of achieving God’s authority and approval.

The Bible speaking of Jesus, says ‘Though he were a son, yet learned he

obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he

became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him’ (Heb

5:8-9).

‘But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the Angels for the

suffering of death, crowned with Glory and honour: …Heb 2:9.

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Scripture says though He was a son, yet He learnt obedience by the things

He suffered. There is a dimension of obedience and authority you can’t

attain in God except through this process. If you’re conforming to Jesus

Christ’s obedience, you’ll go through your own suffering and death

process; which maybe different in experience, because it’s your own cross

of death designed for just you. But it will be the same in spiritual pattern

and effect with that of Christ. It is a time when you experience hardship

and rejection for following Christ accurately in the spirit. Your spirit Life

becomes an offence to those who don’t want to follow Him closely.

Demonic activity, especially by religious spirits and people is directed

against you. All your human defense and support is taken away from you.

Loneliness and rejection are key features.

At that point, know that you’re experiencing the fellowship of His

sufferings; you’re sharing the sorrow of Christ. You’re drinking with Him

the cup of His suffering, you’re keeping with Him the Night of His

Passover, you’re carrying His cross with Him, you’re experiencing His

crucifixion and you’re going without the city wall where Christ was

crucified sharing His rejection and bearing His reproach (Heb 13:11-13).

The best way to go through this process is to learn and obey everything

He teaches you. This time will be light and grace for you, through out

your life. I wish I could say it’s easy to go through, but I can’t. But what I

know for sure, is that if you lean on Him, humble yourself, and are quick

in submitting and learning obedience, it will not be prolonged. Some

people fail to understand this, and the process is unduly prolonged. They

stay in hardship for years un-end, not realizing that not learning obedience

is prolonging the suffering.

However, at the end of the process, you’re transformed into a new person,

Heavenly principles and secrets now govern your life. Like Jesus, who

humbled Himself to death on the cross received the highest Name and

authority from the father, so also your obedience to the spirit through this

process releases great authority and divine approval into your life. You

now walk in Newness of life and authority, for the advance of God’s

kingdom on earth. You now operate in resurrection power.

The point in going through death is to experience life. The purpose of this

suffering and death is resurrection.

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Chapter Fifteen

The End of the Ages

As soon as the Ark was completed, God closed the door behind Noah and his family.

His completion and entering into the Ark activated the end of the period of grace and

the beginning of the Day of Judgment.


CHAPTER 15

THE END OF THE AGES

‘But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the son of man

be. Matth:24:37.

Jesus compared His second coming to rule the world, with the days of

Noah. He gave us insight into the spiritual circumstances that will lead to

His appearance. The same spiritual principles, sequences and dynamics

that led to the floods of Judgment in Noah’s day will be obtainable in the

days preceding Jesus’ appearance to bring Judgment and Justice to the

earth.

The Lord had told Noah to build an ark; God gave him the measurements

and dimensions of this Boat. God’s intention was that it would float over

the floods of judgment that was coming on the world.

Now notice the features of this spiritual assignment: Noah was building a

vessel for an unprecedented circumstance: Noah had no precedence to

what he was building! There had never been a flood or even rains in his

day; therefore he could never be sure if what he was building was right or

not. He had no earthly point of reference or comparison for what he was

doing, but yielding, he just built in obedience to the leadings and

instructions from the spirit of God.

This is an important insight into how our lives are going to operate in the

days before Jesus’ coming. Our lives and work on earth has to operate

according to the leadings and measurements from the Holy Spirit. Our

work on earth may not have precedence or any earthly point of reference,

or comparison by which we can asses our work; like Noah, we have to

trust what God says to us, and act accordingly. This calls for wisdom and

maturity, to discern the voice of God and move in it’s direction and pace.

Suppose Noah had not built according to God’s pattern? Maybe he just

discovered he was supposed to build a boat and then just built a less

demanding boat; instead of building something that took a whole

generation to build; all his time, attention, labour and finance went into

building something for an unprecedented circumstance, for which he had

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no earthly point of reference. But if he had built any thing less than God’s

leading, it would never survive the flood! We may not build boats like

Noah, but we must build our lives, ministries, careers and works in the

spirit of God. This is the only structure that will survive the perilous

floods of this endtime. The Holy Spirit is giving fresh instructions and

measurements for the approaching floods. Some of these patterns are not

going to find reference with current spiritual patterns, but they will be

accurately scriptural. It will take prophetic insight and oversight into the

plans of the spirit and spiritual timing of ordained seasons to build into

such spiritual structures.

As soon as the Ark was completed, God closed the door behind Noah and

his family. His completion and entering into the Ark activated the end of

the period of grace and the beginning of the Day of Judgment. The door

opened to the people to repent and be saved was shut as Noah entered the

Ark, and the heavens opened up with the floods of Judgment.

There are certain spiritual patterns of building that are spiritual timers,

with God; to trigger times and seasons on the earth. These spiritual

patterns are accessed by prophetic insight, as with Noah; the building of

these spiritual patterns into our lives and service on earth, are parallels of

the building of Noah’s Ark.

Once we are fully operational in these dimensions of the Holy Spirit, we

are going to cause seasons of Judgment, which will lead to the great

appearing of the Lord. The Bible says: ‘By faith Noah being warned of

God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an Ark… by

which he condemned the world… Heb.11:7.

The completion of these spiritual measurements inside us simply trigger’s

the seasons of Judgment and the end of the ages.

Living in this realm is the only way we will live above the floods, and

fulfill God’s plans for the earth.

Noah’s was not just an ‘escape plan’. He was also a blue print for life in

the ‘ages to come’, in the world after the floods. In parallel, we are not

just operating a spiritual escape plan. We are a spiritual symbol for life

after the crisis and in the millennial reign of the Messiah.

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We are to be the tokens of the powers of the age to come…

Babs Adewunmi

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