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Philip Cephas

We are called as prophetic people, to be apostolic in function! Discovering your Prophetic placement in God, To position yourself for Apostolic Invasion.

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DEDICATION I dedicate this book solely to The Lord Jesus Christ, who by The Holy Spirit granted unto me access into certain spiritual truths and mysteries in the prophetic which I know were beyond my normal range of sight to be able to understand, comprehend and document for the benefit and edification of all. I also want to dedicate this book to everyone that so desire to function in the prophetic, and to those that care so much to have an understanding of how the prophetic functions and influence the earth from the heavens. The prophetic and vision have never been exclusive, preserved for a few elites, it is a realm that is open to all by God. The prophetic and vision is a manifestation that all are called into in God. May you not be excluded from the manifestation and functioning of the prophetic in our day and time! Blessings to you all! Philip Cephas

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THE PROPHETIC AND VISION 1st Edition, © Copyright 2016 by PHILIP CEPHAS 2nd Edition, © Copyright 2019 by PHILIP CEPHAS All rights reserved. This book is protected under the copyright laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible. Public Domain. Please note that Ready Writers' publishing style capitalizes certain pronouns and definite articles in Scripture that refer to The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit to portrait the personality of The Godhead, and may differ from some publishers' styles. Take note that the name satan and related names are not capitalized. We choose not to acknowledge him, even to the point of violating grammatical rules.

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REMARKS This book did not only make me vividly imagine heaven and all its wonders, but also quickened my spirit to indeed seek for more of the unveiling of God's glory and beauty in my life. Heaven can also be activated on earth if you diligently and purposefully pursue and seek God. God wants to encounter you but are you ready to encounter God? Lucy Okonkwo Editor 08062221835 In a time and age where there are many misconceptions and misrepresentation of the prophetic, The Prophetic and Vision is a book you need to read if you want to set yourself ready for what God is about to do next in the Church. In this book you will learn and be expose to different dimensions of the prophetic, its working and how to apply yourself to it through The Holy Spirit. Solomon Apagu Fidelis Ready Writer

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TABLE OF CONTENT COVER PAGE.............................................................................. i TITLE PAGE .............................................................................. ii DEDICATION ............................................................................iv COPYRIGHT PAGE ...................................................................v REMARKS.................................................................................vi TABLE OF CONTENTS............................................................vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT..........................................................ix INTRODUCTION .......................................................................1 CHAPTER ONE Prophetic Office..................................................................10 CHAPTER TWO Prophetic Throne ...............................................................18 CHAPTER THREE Prophetic Unction ..............................................................43 CHAPTER FOUR Prophetic Gifts ...................................................................62 CHAPTER FIVE Prophetic Language............................................................84 Pictures and Shapes....................................................94 Symbols and Numbers................................................97 CHAPTER SIX Vision ..............................................................................104 Vision of the Night ...................................................109 Vision of the Day ......................................................118 vii

CHAPTER SEVEN Trance And Daydreaming ................................................128 Daydreaming............................................................128 Trance ......................................................................134 CHAPTER EIGHT Spirit Transport.................................................................147 CHAPTER NINE Dreams And Revelation ...................................................165 Dreams Rule the World.............................................179 Dream Symbols And Their Interpretations .......................184 CHAPTER TEN Angelic Encounter And Visitation ....................................207 CLOSING REMARK ..............................................................227 ABOUT THE AUTHOR..........................................................235 CORRESPONDENCE ............................................................236 OTHER BOOKS BY AUTHOR...............................................237 FEEDBACK............................................................................238 BACK PAGE............................................................................239

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I thank The LORD for all those sacrificial servants who have upheld my arms as we continue with endurance to run the race that is set before us. I also want to thank the pioneers who have gone before us in exploring the dimensions of the prophetic and vision. Where would we be without them? Books and sermons have always been my mentors—so thanks to all those who laid the foundation that we get to build upon. Lastly, I want to thank my dear family and friends. I am truly grateful to The Lord for such family and friends who love The LORD and desire to see His kingdom come on the earth.

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e are living in a prophetic time in the history of mankind. Knowingly or unknowingly, we are called a prophetic people who are to function in the apostolic mandate. It has always been my desire to write a book on the prophetic. I do not claim to be a final and absolute authority in the area of the prophetic and vision, but I write as a man that has received grace and mercy from God to be trustworthy. In times past, holy men were inspired by God and moved by The Holy Spirit to document the dealings of God in their lives and that of others as a pathway and a pattern on how God relates with mankind. The documentation gave their descendants the guideline to follow after God. We have testaments and epistles of Jesus Christ written in the scriptures because holy men were inspired by God and moved by The Holy Spirit to document events throughout history in relating with God dealing with mortal men. This testaments and epistles of the dealings of God overtime became a template and a manuscript for the discipline of people, tribes and nations. When God saw it fit for me to write on the above topic, I wanted to title it, “prophecy and vision”, but it was latter reframed to, “The prophetic and vision.”

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Many people consider the prophetic to be very complicated, but there is nothing really complicated about it as many were meant to believe. Nothing is complicated about God and His discipline, except if it has not been revealed to you. God Himself is a mystery, and you cannot comprehend Him if He does not reveal Himself to you. When God sees the desire of your heart and how determined you are to see Him, He positions Himself for you to encounter Him and see Him in His glory. As you journey into God seek that His mysteries be opened and revealed to you so that you can grasp His manifold wisdom in time to function on earth. It will amaze you to know that an average believer doesn't even know how to hear God when He speaks while others that can hear Him are still perplexed about how to recognize His voice continually. Therefore, they both linger between which voice is true and which is profane. If you cannot hear God speak to you personally, how can you hear Him for another person's situation? Hearing God speak in a situation is a dilemma to many believers in the body of Christ today. You must realize that you are the first prophet in your life and God will always want to speak and talk to you directly without the aid of a medium except if you cannot perceive Him and in His desperation to speak to you, He uses another person to speak by prophecy to you. 'Nobody hears God from a troubled heart and mind.' It does not matter what your situation is or how terrible and terrifying your circumstances are, you will not hear God and understand His perspective if you are confused in heart and mind. When you are in 2

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such a state, you will allow the situation to overcome and consume you, therefore, if God is speaking to you; you will not hear Him. That is why every true minister of the gospel is not afraid and consumed by the situation presented to him. Don't allow the present circumstances make you lose faith in the ability of God to deliver you. Don't set your eyes on the challenge, but set your eyes on Christ Jesus who can deliver. Always be at peace with God in your heart so that He can permit His goodwill to follow you. Let the peace of The LORD flood your heart even in times of trouble. That peace is what God will use to speak to you as He releases His strength and grace to you. God is always speaking to us, but we just don't pay close attention to His speaking. God's Spirit is a speaking and a talking spirit. You must develop the capacity and energy to be able to hear and perceive the speaking of God within His frequency in the spiritual realm. Since there is a realm of mortals and of angels, there is also the realm of God. The speaking of God is seen and heard in the spiritual realm via His own frequency. The spirit realm transmits different frequencies of communication of which you access them according to your spiritual range of sight. We must be sensitive to The Holy Spirit because He is the one that can guide us in our dealings with God. Anytime you hear God speak to you, you have become a medium for His use. You can hear God speak to you about yourself or another person's situation, giving you the wisdom to proffer solution to the person's challenge. 3

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Prophets are people that have received an ordination from God to relate His heart and desires to people. All through the Old Testament, God ordained prophets to speak His mind and desires to His people, but the rebellion still continued in the heart of His people. God had to design a better plan and pattern to communicate to His people of which Jesus Christ came and became the summation of the law and the prophets. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. [Hebrews 1:1-2]

Prophets are saddled with the responsibility from God to communicate His heart to the people and to relate the need of the people back to Him. They serve as mediums in which people reach God and Him to them. In the Old Testament, God ordained prophets and set them over many people as seen in the likes of Isaiah, David, Samuel, Jeremiah and even Moses. Moses cried wishing that his spirit be shared among many so that the burden upon him can be reduced. God answered his request and 70 men were selected to receive a share of his spirit to function in the prophetic. The same applied to Elijah and Elisha, Moses and Joshua, and other cases through the scriptures where people shared in the spirit of a prophet. In times past, God's Spirit was concentrated on a man or a selected few to become prophets over the people of God. These selected few spoke the counsel of God to all and the prophecy 4

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spoken by these prophets always came to pass. That was possible in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament, it was written that “I will put my laws in their heart and no one will have to teach the other to know The LORD.” This was earlier prophesied by the prophet Joel. We have seen in this day and age that God has poured out His Spirit upon us all so that we all can become prophetic in nature, to understand and perceive His speaking and movement upon the earth. With the fulfilment of this prophecy, everyone can now become prophetic and prophesy, but not necessarily function in the prophetic office. Have you ever dreamt before? Or seen a vision before? Or even heard God speak to you knowingly or unknowingly before? A lot of people never realize that they are prophetic in nature by God's design. If you have ever perceived God in any form before –dreams, revelation, vision, trances e t c, then, it is that prophetic nature of God in you that is seeking expression. Prophets also have the same spiritual prophetic experiences which they must go through to ensure their development overtime so that they can be useful vessels. What is your idea of a prophet? Many people have prophesied before whether knowingly or unknowingly. A prophet does nothing other than to hear God speak to him about personal, national and international issues. I consider them friends of God and a people that understand the language and speaking of God. They always take every prophetic experience they have serious 5

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and have developed a pattern of hearing God overtime. The very day you decide to utilize the few encounters and experiences God gives you, you will begin to see an improvement in the prophetic in your life. God desires that we all should hear and represent Him as a prophetic people. God has always been speaking to you and telling you the things to do that will bring Him glory. Many people are waiting for a day that a lightning bolt and thunder will strike them with a loud voice from heaven saying, 'I am your Lord and God, now rise up and function in my power and might' No! No!! No!!! it doesn't happen that way always. The little experiences and encounters you have, are similar to the encounters and experiences that the people you called prophets in the body of Christ do have just that they always utilize and respond to God whenever He speaks to them. No prophet is born in a day, it takes seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years of training to achieve and attain unto that pedestal. We must learn to value little encounters and dealing process so that we can move higher in God. As an individual, I always value my dreams, visions, revelations and every prophetic experiences that I have in God. When I have an experience, I always try to find a meaning to the experience in relating to God's dealings with me. I believe God is not playing and kidding with me, He must have been trying to speak and communicate something to me in the prophetic experiences and if I can decipher it, it will place me upon a new paradigm. 6

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The prophetic is the mechanism in which God communicates with us and the people that master the act of the prophetic are called prophets. The process of speaking and reiterating the speaking of God is called prophesy. The words that is spoken is called prophecy. Prophetic people always value the means and the mechanism God uses to speak to them. There is nothing really special the prophets have that you do not have, except that they value the speaking of God more often than you do. The day you begin to value the speaking of God and the prophetic experiences He gives you, then you will become like the prophets that represent God relating His heart to others. Prophets and prophetic people are always jealous about the things of God and His kingdom, they do all in their power to see His kingdom enthroned in a place. Vision is the process of visualizing or seeing a thing, event or a caption. It is a mental picture or an imaging of a desired future. It may or may not make sense, but there is picture, a painting created and an image formed. God speaks, but His speakings are mostly in pictures, signs and symbols. The audible voice of God is heard once upon a time, but His speakings are perceive within the heart as He gives visions in pictures, signs, numbers and symbols to us daily. God loves to show us what He intends to do in a vision, although our mind suffers to interpret and relate what it sees, nevertheless, a mind that is recreated can be able to perceive the thoughts of God even in a picture. God speaks to me through dreams and recurrent 7

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visions a lot, seeing a scene an, an event can be very confusing especially to someone that is not skilled in the knowledge and revelation of the way God speaks. When you are renewed in the mind, you will always receive the revelation of the scenes and pictures shown to you because the same spirit that brings the dream and vision will still unveil it to you. Dreams and vision are of no effect and important to you if not accurately interpreted. It is very frustrating to have a prophetic experience without receiving the revelation and understanding of what God is saying to you. Nevertheless, I will be taking you on a journey to reveal and help you understand and utilize the dreams, vision and prophetic experiences that God gives you as an invitation into a higher paradigm in Him for world influence. As we journey, you will comprehend the mechanism and operation of the prophetic in your life. Many people have a lopsided view of what the prophetic is and they limit it to some fantasy of secret telling, ranging from bank accounts numbers, phone numbers, passport numbers and many more. These manifestations are basic in the prophetic that even familiar spirits nowadays manoeuvre to deceive many who are beloved. There are higher and deeper manifestations of the prophetic that is not limited to secret telling of numbers. This has to do with governmental sphere of influence, territorial dominion and spiritual rulership manifesting through: kingship, priesthood and Sonship. 8

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If we must preserve the true texture of the prophetic in this age and time, then we must give more consideration to the depth of the prophetic and not just hovering and wallowing around the basics of the prophetic. We all have a proper destined positioning even in the prophetic, but not all are called to manifest and express the gifts of the prophetic. Some are called to sit and possess the throne of the prophetic, others the office of the prophetic while others to function by the unction of the prophetic for a while. But all are given the privilege to manifest the gifts of The Spirit, yea, even that of the prophetic. I urge and encourage you to read with an open heart as we go deeper into more realities of the prophetic and see how it will function in your life in an increased measure. May God grant you your heart desire according to His will and cause you to have an encounter with Him that will change your life forever. Amen. Shalom!!! Blessings to all! Philip Cephas.

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he word 'prophet' is normal in our today society. It has been abused by many although it was not designed to be so. Prophets are God's oracles called and separated for a function till death calls them to rest. Most prophets were called even before they were born on earth just like Jeremiah, God called and ordained him before his birth and separated him, then trained him to be His representative on earth. The office of the prophetic is a prestigious one, no wonder there are many fake and profane prophets in our society today. There are people that are called into the office of the prophet. They carry the designation of prophets as known by men on earth. The prophetic office is mostly occupied by people that are called to be prophets under the fivefold ministry of Jesus Christ. People called as prophets are called to function from the office of the prophetic And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. [Ephesians 4:11-12]

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have a desire to express and reveal Christ Jesus to people at all cost. Prophets are always in constant relationship with God and they understand the current perspective of God in due season. Prophets are supposed to bring the words from God as prophesied even when it is not convenient to the people. A man called into the office of a prophet must be able to give direction to people and guide them aright on what to do and how to do it according to God's pattern. People are always confused in need of direction and guardianship in life. God always sends His prophets to people who are lacking in understanding of His current revelation position concerning their lives. To give words of encouragement or consolation to people is not always the function of the prophets because God might be speaking words of rebuke to the people at the moment and that may not be convenient to the people who might be rebellious in heart. A prophet is supposed to take a stand with God and declare what God has in His heart for the people, whether it sounds good or bad to the people. The words spoken by a prophet may even sound repugnant to the people if they are rebellious and never wanting to change their evil ways unto God. In times past, God ordained prophets to speak to His people warning them about their daily sins and iniquities. Sometimes, prophets give them instructions on things to do for success and wellbeing. We saw prophets like Isaiah, called by God in desperate and terrible times in which Israel were backsliding. God chose him to be His oracle declaring His word of rebuke and correction to the 11

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people. The people considered his speaking repugnant and sought to kill him on daily basis. In the Old Testament, when God wants to speak to a people, He raises a man to be a prophet and puts him close to the king so that He can influence the king in righteousness. The king is left with the decision to either follow what the prophet speaks to him as God's word or chooses to be rebel. Many that were rebellious to God by serving idols died without fulfilling the purpose of which God designed them for. The few that yielded to God by listening to the word of God spoken by the prophet lasted longer and impacted their society. The prophet Isaiah suffered many shame and reproach even among his own people. He prophesied words of warning and correction to God's people, but they never believed him, rather considered him to be a nuisance. God reveals future events to His prophets and they are to prophesy those revelations into being on earth. We are to believe the words spoken by prophets because it has the ability to prosper us. And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper. [2 chronicles 20:20]

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they limit the manifestation of God because they will not collaborate with God when the appointed time comes for the fulfilment of prophecy. Prophet Isaiah prophesied the birth of Christ Jesus The Messiah, His death, burial and resurrection. His people never believed his prophecy, but saw him as a liar and a traitor. 'People that cannot see the future can't believe it either.' God reveals His secrets to His prophets when they fellowship with Him in prayer. He protects and watches over them as His own. He gives them authority over lands to decree as He commands them. Prophets are bound to obey God at all time. Jeremiah was a prophet called by God and sent to a people that have gone far into darkness. God decided to let the Israelites be captured by the Assyrians and be taken as captives for a while, the prophet Jeremiah was the one called and saddled with the responsibility to foretell to the people what will befall them in the times to come. The prophet prophesied about their coming captivity, but no one ever cared to believe him. In fact, he was persecuted and put in a dungeon to suffer. He was a unique kind of a prophet and was called from his mother's womb as the scripture said. Although the people refused to accept his prophecy, it latter came to pass in their lives that they were taken as slaves by the Assyrians for a season. Prophets are not always loved by many, even in their own hometown. Few may love them but many will reject them, especially those that are walking in sin and deep into iniquity. It is normal for people to criticize and speak evil of prophets because 13

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they are called to challenge and confront darkness at all levels. Those that speak for the devil and walk in falsehood see them as a threat, but the ones that walk in the light of God see them as messengers from God sent to help them fulfil purpose in life. Prophets functioning in the office of the prophet are endowed with gifts by God to help them function accurately in the prophetic. They are given the power to bind and lose and to war against spiritual wickedness in high places. You don't just choose to operate in the office of the prophet and become a prophet, it is an ordination from Christ Jesus Himself. People that are called as prophets by God are trained and given the necessary utilities for their function on earth. The office of the prophet is power. It is kept and preserved by prayer and a close relationship with God. True prophets fear no man as they are intimate with God, and when you are intimate with God you cannot be intimidated by men. Prophets consider God as their source and backbone. If you are called to function in the office of the prophet, all you need to do is to study the patterns and dealings of God through His word on how He related with other prophets in time past. When you see the pathway from the scriptures, then you are to follow suit in obedience. As you follow after the dealings and discipline of God like the prophets of old and apply the same principles to your life, it will not be long before you begin to function in the same gift and power. There are gifts that function in the office of the prophet. Gifts such 14

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as the word of wisdom, the walking of miracles and the word of knowledge. Prophets do have lots of encounters and visitation from God and angels. These experiences are normal to them because they function in the supernatural most times. Most prophets are known to function in the supernatural. A lot of them are watchers and intercessors. They pray and fast for the people they are called to direct and guide. A Prophet is not necessarily sent to all but to a particular set of people within a location. Prophets have a sphere of influence. God gives territories to them according to His ordination. Not everyone is called into the fivefold ministry of Jesus Christ, you may not be called as a prophet, but surely God called you to be a true lover of Jesus Christ, and a witness for the sake of the cross. Even if you are called to be a prophet, you are still saddled with the responsibility to build yourself in the place of prayer and the word so that you will have an accurate understanding of the speaking and voice of God as He speaks to you. If you don't build yourself, you will be limited in your functioning in God. A prophet must have an understanding of the sacrifices that have the potency to open the heavens per season. Sacrifice surely opens the heavens because the realm of the spirit answer highly to sacrifices made with a pure heart and mind. Through scriptures, prophets are demanded to offer sacrifices and obey certain instructions that open the gates and doors of heavens over the people. 15

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Prophets are supposed to be quick to listen and to obey the voice of God. Obedience increase your influence and trust in God. The more you obey God, the more He permits His resources and power to function in your life. Vision, dreams, trance and revelation are a common means God uses to communicate to prophets. The office of the prophet is given the permission and access into the depth of dreams and vision that reveal things that will come to pass. God speaks to His prophets in their hearts. They can perceive Him by an inner witness and an inner knowing. He also uses dreams, vision, revelation and trance to reveal the intent of His heart to them at all times. People that function in the office of the prophet are given the ability to create by decreeing the creating word of God. God has created and is still creating in our days, but His current method of creation now is with the agency of prophetic men. Through a collaboration with the creative prophetic ability, He puts within man to create as He decrees from eternity into time. Prophets can create by decreeing and declaring the things that be not as though they are. When a prophet declares prophetically, the authority on him given by God causes creation to occur. A prophet has the ability to bless or curse a people. It is the desire of God that He blesses His people, but He can curse evil and wicked people on earth by judging them under His righteousness. When a prophet does as he wishes and not as God pleases, he will be heading towards danger that may cost him his life. It doesn't matter what you are called to function in, even if you have not yet 16

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realized your designation as called by God to function in life, you are still supposed to be faithful serving The LORD and growing in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. For He who gives the office to faithful individuals, knows their heart and only He knows what He has predestined them to fulfil. Keep yourself always connected to Him and by many encounters and visitations, a structure will be formed within you to contain the prophetic offices of Christ Jesus overtime. I pray The LORD my God and your God, reveals to you the secrets of His glory as He rewards your labour of love. Amen. Shalom!!!

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he word 'prophetic-throne' may look complicated to many or may sound like a new word, but it is not. We will explain it in its simplest form in this book for a better understanding. It is a combination of two words, which should be seen as one for better comprehension. The word throne makes it look strange. Prophetic expressions always sound strange to people who do not deal with the prophetic on a daily basis. Thrones speak of rulership and dominion over a sphere. Thrones can be mobile and might be limited to a region. A king in a particular city can rule and dominate in his region, but immediately he enters another city, although he still remain a king, but his dominion will be limited because he cannot rule and dominate a people that are not of his own kingdom. Every kingdom has a king that rules it and the king always has a throne which is the centre of his power and dominion to rule. From thence, he decrees his counsel. The throne of the prophetic is a spiritual throne that is given by God to His elects to rule and govern a sphere with power and authority. This throne can be inherited by another elect of God. The throne is not visible and physical, but it is a spiritual seat of power and influence. Most people that are given the legal right by God to ascend that 18

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prophetic throne of power become prophetic because they are called to execute a prophetic agenda. The prophetic throne of God has its own influence and realm of operation that is mobile and territorial. Every throne has its power coming from the backing and backbone of a clusters of spirit beings. Just like the throne of God in heaven is surrounded by elders and spirit beings with eyes and faces all around, these beings [elders, cherubim, seraphim, arch angels and angels] form a clusters and a nexus that has an epicentre in which God sits. When all the beings and spirits are in harmony with each other and then subject to the one that sits on the throne, then he becomes the king and rules by decree. In the physical realm, kings have elders or a council and priest or an oracle that speaks for the gods. The elders or council represent a people because they are subjects of the throne. All the people that are subjects are subjected to the throne not to the man, but since he wields the influence and power of the throne then, they are subject to him also. The power and influence of a throne is of no effect until someone sits on it to execute and administrate it. Every throne has power, although the power differs in ranking and authority. Just as a president differs from a senator, and a senator differs from a governor and a governor differs from a local government administrator, so also there are differences in the ranking of thrones in the spirit realm. The ranking of thrones is depended upon the influence and the territorial power wielded. The power and influence is either local or global. 19

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Whosoever you are, even if regarded as common by others, the day you sit upon the throne of the presidency, you cease to become a common man but a man of influence and power with the ability to legislate on behalf of a people. A throne is the centre of power and influence. The throne influences the person that sits on it giving him a new designation to function as a man of well renown. Prophetic throne is the governing seat of power and authority that gives the person that wields it supreme ruleship in that specific region. Through the scriptures, we see how many prophets wielded certain uncommon influence and dominion over cities, kings and climate. This was possible through their lives by a governing authority higher than that of the earth. When you sit upon the throne of the prophetic, you become a one-man army, greater than even a country. You will have heavenly beings and angels at your disposal to help you in functioning. This throne of the prophetic is only given by God to His choice ones that have passed through certain training and discipline to be able to guard jealously the affairs of His kingdom on the earth. This throne of the prophetic is not a physical throne, but a spiritual prophetic throne, although its influence is felt physically as a result of the impact the individual that wields it under God has on the earth. Most people that function on the throne of the prophetic are prophets, but not necessarily called into the office of the prophet. They possess the throne of the prophetic and do nothing less than a prophet, sometime they even do more. 20

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The throne of the prophetic is concerned with territorial influence and governmental rulership of earthly kingdoms for God. Not all prophets sit upon the throne of the prophetic. It is possible for you to be a prophet by calling and not possess the influence of the throne. Every region and city has a throne of the prophetic that is to be possessed by a prophetic individual chosen by God, this is mostly a selection by grace. No one decides to sit upon the throne of the prophetic, you are enthroned upon that authority by God Himself when you are fit for it. A region and a city can only have one prophetic individual that sits on the prophetic throne of that region. Such a region may have many other prophets called by God, but God only selects one among them to sit on the throne of the prophetic that influences all the others. The person that sits upon the prophetic throne in a region might not be that popular according to earthly dictate, but the throne has a governmental penetrating ability that grants him the capacity to decree a thing and it comes to pass in that region. Such a person will have so much spiritual responsibilities in keeping the region under God. Such a people are prophetic watchers and gatekeepers! They may not prophesy at all times, but whenever they speak, climate and spheres change. Their words are few but they are words of power. These people are good intercessors and 'prayer warriors.' God will do nothing within that region without telling them. They are God's own men on the earth. Let's take a look at few people God chose in times past to sit upon the throne of the prophetic to administer His counsel on earth. 21

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Moses was a man that was tremendously helped by God. God raised him up to become a prophet over the whole nation of Israel and gave him influence even in other kingdoms. His birth was mysterious so also his preservation. He was born in a time when an Israelite male child was forbidden in Egypt, as they were being killed by the Egyptians. God called and separated him, then trained him as a prophet and caused him to sit upon the prophetic throne of Israel as a nation to deliver them from slavery and preserving them through the wilderness. And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved. [Hosea 12:13]

As it is written that by a prophet The LORD delivered His people and by a prophet He preserved them, Moses possessed an uncommon power and authority from the day he was ordained by God at the burning bush encounter. God gave him the seal and power to use His name. Moses become the possessor of the throne of the prophetic and he became a voice in the whole land of Israel and was feared by his enemies. Moses became like a god to pharaoh and his people, although his desire was to see the will of God done through the lives of the children of Israel. When a man that sits upon the throne of the prophetic is challenged, there is always a clash of thrones. When Moses went to the palace of pharaoh, there was a clash of thrones. When two thrones clash, there is always a contention for territory 22

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and loyalty. Moses was loyal to God so also his people, but pharaoh and his people were loyal to a different god and those sitting on those thrones had to defend it. Whenever the throne of God comes to the earth and finds footing, the kingdom of God must prevail and be revealed. There has never been a time in history where the throne of God clashed with another throne on earth and was defeated, no matter how weak the person that sits upon the throne is. It is not about the person, but about the throne and its authority that rules above all. That is why God does not just enthrone anyone to sit and wield that authority of the throne, He selects such prophetic people by grace and endow them with His power and might to represent Him accurately. No man contends with God and prospers! The centre of the kingdom of God is the administrative function of God and the centre of the administrative function of God is the throne of God. That centre and throne has an extension on the earth which is found in many regions, cities, states, countries, nations and continent as a prophetic throne. That throne is global and has unlimited influence in the heaven and on the earth. We saw how through many signs and wonders the kingdom of heaven was revealed by the agency of the throne and its dominion on the earth. Moses was surprised when certain miracles happened through him, he was as amazed as the people of Israel. The throne of God is the highest authority, power and strength. There were many other prophets in Israel at that time, but Moses surpasses them all. He sat upon the throne of the prophetic that ruled and influenced the 23

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nation of Israel. As it is written that: And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face. [Deuteronomy 34:10]

Such a man, God reckoned with and spoke to face to face must have been given a place among the gods and sits upon the throne of the prophetic that is governmental and influences all. Miriam and Aaron were prophets in Israel, but they were still under Moses. God spoke to them also, but God can choose to talk to Moses alone without giving them a clue of what He communicated with Moses. God cannot talk certain governmental and territorial things with a man that is not sitting upon the throne of the prophetic. A man that sits upon that throne has access into all that God so desires to do in that nation. Now consider this story about another prophet that sat on the prophetic throne: And Ahab king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Wilt thou go with me to Ramoth gilead? And he answered him, I am as thou art, and my people as thy people; and we will be with thee in the war. And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day. Therefore the king of Israel gathered together of prophets, four hundred men, and said unto them, Shall we go to Ramoth gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And they said, Go up; for God will deliver it into the king's hand. But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might enquire of him? And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of

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Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so. And the king of Israel called for one of his officers, and said, fetch quickly Micaiah the son of Imla. And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah sat either of them on his throne, clothed in their robes, and they sat in a void place at the entering in of the gate of Samaria; and all the prophets prophesied before them. And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the LORD, with these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed. And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth gilead, and prosper: for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king. And the messenger that went to call Micaiah spake to him, saying, Behold, the words of the prophets declare good to the king with one assent; let thy word therefore, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak thou good. And Micaiah said, As the LORD liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak. And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth gilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand. And the king said to him, how many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name of the LORD? Then he said, I did see all Israel scattered upon the mountains, as sheep that have no shepherd: and the LORD said, these have no master; let them return therefore every man to his house in peace. And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil? Again he said, Therefore hear the word of the LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. And the LORD said, who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth gilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner. Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, wherewith? And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the

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LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so. Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee. Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee? And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself. Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king's son; and say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace. And Micaiah said, if thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken by me. And he said, Hearken, all ye people. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth gilead. [2 Chronicles 18:3- 28]

This is a long passage, but I love it so much. There was a time in Israel when King Jehoshaphat and Ahab wanted to go for war and many prophets spoke the same things that suited the king, but Micaiah came and spoke as a man that sat upon a throne. He said that he was in the closet in the spirit when there was a court session and a decision was taken on who is to go deceive King Ahab to go to war so that he can die. Finally, a spirit volunteered to go and cause all the prophets to lie to the king so that he can go and die. When he spoke the counsel of God, he was rebuked by an elder prophet who thought that God is a respecter of persons and that the prophetic is measured by age and time. Micaiah was the one selected by God to sit upon the prophetic throne of God in that region. When an issue has to do with the government, territory, 26

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nation or international, God's verdict must come from the throne of the prophetic because that is the centre of the administrative function of God that is accurate and trustworthy. The throne of the prophetic is supreme and Micaiah sat on it at that time and only his counsel was taken as divine. The other prophets might not even know that they were influenced by a spirit to lie because the transaction was beyond their own prophetic sight. The throne of the prophetic is mobile and can be inherited by another chosen by God even after the death of him that sits upon it. We see that even after the death of Moses, the prophetic throne of God still moved and demanded that someone sat on it. Joshua the son of Nun was found worthy to wield and sit upon the spiritual prophetic throne that Moses once occupied. God told Joshua and Moses to be ready for the transition and assured Joshua to be strong in Him for as He was with Moses so will He will be with him till the end. It came to pass that Moses transferred the mantle of the prophetic throne to Joshua, but with the permission of God. Moses rested and was taken away. Joshua became a voice after Moses, and led the children of Israel through hard times and many wars until they crossed the river Jordan. Joshua was a man that had cosmic influence. He was able to influence even the constellations to work on his behalf. He commanded the sun to stand still for a day, what a governmental cosmic influence from the throne! That simple act of faith took away a day out of February and till today February as a month has 28 or 29 days instead of 30 or 31 days. After many years of leading 27

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the people of Israel, time came for Joshua to rest, but the throne of the prophetic had to continue. The prophetic throne of God is eternal, but people are variables that come in season as selected by God. God had to raise another prophetic individual worthy to sit on the prophetic throne for kingdom administration and influence. The prophetic throne of God administers and fulfils the prophetic agenda of God on the earth. This throne can remain vacant if God cannot find a worthy man to occupy it. God cannot just choose any prophet or a prophetic individual to sit on the throne –You don't give unlimited power and authority to a fool, he will misuse and abuse it, but a man of wisdom with the fear of The Lord can handle the power of God and His unlimited ability to rule and influence a terrain well. When Joshua rested in The Lord, the throne became vacant for a while, as God could not find a worthy man He can trust with such an influence. The people of Israel needed someone more than a prophet in the land that will speak the accurate current revelation position of God. Although there might be some prophets in the land of Israel even after the death of Joshua, the priest and Levites were still functional, but the throne of God that is governmental and global needed to be occupied by someone God can trust. Until the prophetic throne of God is occupied, the people of God can be limited in their dealing with God. Someone needed to ascend that throne to take the prophetic people of God to a new level in their journey into God. It came to pass that a woman was found worthy by God and selected to seat upon the throne of the 28

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prophetic. As it was written that “Deborah rose up as a mother in Israel, she became a judge and a prophetess in the land. She was a warrior with the wisdom of God.” She sat under her palm tree to judge and guide the children of Israel aright. She tapped into the unending realities and influences of the heavens to reveal the will of the kingdom of God on the earth. Kings, priest and princes came to her to seek wisdom as she counselled them aright and by divine inspiration she was able to proffer solutions for them. The throne of the prophetic made her so powerful and influential. Deborah was the wife of Lapidoth. She was known as the wife of a man, but when the throne came upon her, she became a mother of all and a judge in the land. The inheritance of the throne of the prophetic and the wisdom of God ruled and influenced her life beyond the normal. She led the Israelites to war against Sisera. She saw and prophesied the outcome of the battle before they went. She was a prophetess with a difference because the throne superimposed her. It was written that the stars in the skies fought in their cause for her. After the reign of Deborah, the throne continued to move and since someone must wield its influence and allow God's purpose to be fulfilled on the earth, God decided that the throne be divided among the tribes, but the influence should still remain with Judah as the sceptre that will hold the throne till Christ comes as the seed of David. Twelve elders were selected among the twelve tribes to become the head of each tribe representing them before the council 29

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in times when God called for a summoning. Although the influence of the throne was divided among the tribes, the epicentre stilled remain with Judah as God has selected them to bear the sceptre through which The Messiah will be born. God raised judges to judge the enemies of Israel, men like Othniel the son of Kenaz, Samson, Gideon and many more. All these people were given the prophetic mandate to wield the influence of the prophetic throne of God for a season in the form of an unction of the prophetic. The throne was not given to them to seat upon as an inheritance, but He gave them the grace and divine enablement as an unction that came upon them to function for Him. With that enablement, they were able to function within the season effectively under God. Daniel was a man that ruled in the empire of Babylon. He sat upon the prophetic throne of God in Babylon. He ruled against the customs and traditions of the empire which contradicted the values of God. He was able to subdue the kingdom of Babylon under God. The throne of the prophetic which has a governmental and global territorial influence was able to influence even the king of the whole Babylonian Empire. He became an oracle in the land and ruled with the king until the death of the king. The prophetic throne which is mobile still sustained its influence upon Daniel even in the next generation of kingship in Babylon. Daniel became the prophetic voice for the king and one of the law makers of the land. The throne of the prophetic gave him a prophetic placement in the palace to influence the kingdom for 30

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God. Such a man was more than a prophet. He sat on the throne that ruled the land he occupied. He was considered a god in Babylon by the kings that he worked with. They saw a dimension of god in him that made them give him such placement and designation of a god. Daniel was given the name of the gods of Babylon and placed above all the magicians and astrologers in the land. God required a man that will sit upon the throne of nations and rule them from the court of heaven. Anytime Daniel was challenged by another throne, his God fought for him from the power of the throne of the prophetic that he sat upon. When he was put in the den of lions, the influence of the throne of the prophetic that governed nature was activated to influence the lions who are part of the creation of God. It is worthy to note that when the prophetic throne of God is at work, no man is permitted to boast, even the prophet that sits upon it. He can only boast in God not about his ability. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon; And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse; And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias; And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa; And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias; And Ozias begat Joatham; and Joatham begat Achaz; and

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Achaz begat Ezekias; And Ezekias begat Manasses; and Manasses begat Amon; and Amon begat Josias; And Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, about the time they were carried away to Babylon; And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel; And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor; And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud; And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob; And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ. [Matthew 1:1-16]

The prophetic throne of God that was to birth The Messiah as a sceptre upon the tribe of Judah rested upon David, the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Booz. David sat upon the prophetic throne of his forefathers that God gave them as a heritage by a promise and a decree from the patriarch Jacob. God chose David to be the one that will birth forth the Christ the throne of David is a prophetic throne that can also be inherited and its rulership is also governmental. David was graced by God with power and the jealousy of God was seen in his life. He fought many wars and lost none. A throne was his backing and backbone. That throne gave him insight into the truth about the coming of The Messiah and how his life and suffering will be like on earth. David was made to be a prototype that Christ Jesus will come into. He possessed some of the inheritance of Christ Jesus which is the throne of the prophetic that has its influence and power from the court of heaven. 32

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The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. [Psalm 110:4]

Melchizedek is a priest after the order of Christ Jesus. He sat upon that mobile throne of the prophetic in the priesthood dimension in times past. David inherited the priesthood throne from Melchizedek and sat upon the prophetic throne that Christ Jesus will come to inherit. No wonder David functioned as a king, priest and a prophet in the land. Jesus Christ when He sat upon the throne of David, He functioned in the priesthood of Melchizedek and prophetic throne of David. Till today, Jesus Christ is still referred to as The Son of David in the flesh, although His father was Joseph in the flesh. He is referred to as The Son of God in the spirit by adoption as He was begotten by The Father and born by the agency of The Holy Spirit infilling the womb of the virgin Mary. The throne of the priesthood of Melchizedek that David sat upon and the prophetic throne are eternal and function forever. Jesus Christ has now inherited and possess those thrones, coming into its functioning forever after the order of David and Melchizedek a priest forever. I want you to note that the prophetic throne of God might not be inherited by a relative or a son as seen in our society today. It has been a norm in our society that when an overseer dies, his relative succeeds him, but that might not be the ordinance of God. The prophetic throne of God can move to another depending on the 33

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selection of grace by God. As Joshua was not a relative to Moses, so also Deborah was not of Joshua. God is no respecter of person; Samuel was a child of omen that God prepared by covenant to sit on the throne after Eli. Eli's children were not considered worthy of the throne their father occupied and God had to raise a Samuel even when he was not from the linage of the prophetic to succeed and sit on the throne as a priest and a prophet in Israel. He was more than a prophet he had governmental authority and ruled the kingdom under God. Before he died, God had him transfer the throne to David as a king, priest and a prophet neglecting Saul. In terrible times when darkness seems to cover Israel, Jezebel and Ahab controlled the affairs of the land and propagated darkness. God raised a governmental prophet to sit upon the prophetic throne to judge the idolatry that had ruled for long. Elijah, a man from the tribe of Tishbite, sat upon the prophetic throne of Israel in his time. He came with a decree that proved the sovereign nature of God in the land and revealed that God still rules. He was anointed with so much power, his limitation in God was minimal. He challenged a whole kingdom in a contest to prove the superiority of God. Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. [1 kings 17:1]

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He was able to shut down the heavens that it did not rain for three and a half years. Before then, there were many other prophets in the land, but this one was a man with a throne that spoke. He did many signs and wonders in the land and was fed by a raven in time of famine. His life was supernatural and full of encounters. He was always ready and willing to put his life at stake to stand with God. The king sent an army of 50 to capture him three times and he called down fire from heaven to consume them. 'A man that knows God fears few things in life.’ Elijah was a prophet that detested anything that did not exalt The LORD. He was truly a prophet that sought to enthrone God in the land. He was a mouthpiece and a voice that spoke for God in the land. When the time came for heaven to be opened for the transition of Elijah unto glory and rest, the throne that he occupied needed to be succeeded by another faithful witness for the propagating of the kingdom of God. Elisha, who was a protégé of Elijah was selected by God to become the next successor of the throne of the prophetic. The throne became vacant but as Elijah was being taken by the chariot of fire, Elisha was chosen with the mantle and mandate to continue in the spirit and authority of Elijah. Elisha was not the only prophet or the only son of the prophet, but he was selected by God and he became a man of influence the day the throne superimposed him. Elisha did many signs and wonders even more than what Elijah did. He was able to slain Jezebel who terrorized the life of Elijah the prophet in his days by the wisdom of God and with the help of 35

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Jehu. When it was time for Elisha to transit to heaven, the throne of the prophetic needed to be occupied by another, but Gehazi who was the protégé of Elisha had incurred upon himself a curse as a result of his greediness and disobedience. Gehazi was supposed to succeed Elisha as the new prophetic individual to wield the influences of the throne, but as he compromised in his dealings, he failed. The throne remained vacant in the spiritual realm until God found someone fit to seat on it. As it was prophesied that Elijah will come again, that throne was occupied by John the Baptist when he walked the earth in the spirit and in the power of Elijah. John the Baptist was a prophet who was termed a voice crying out in the wilderness. He was jealous to see the kingdom of God rule in the land. He sat upon the throne of the prophetic to introduce Jesus Christ to the world. John was a man like Elijah. Truly, the spirit of Elijah and that prophetic throne was given to John the Baptist to occupy before Jesus will come to take it as the prophesied root of David who will sit on the throne. Jesus Christ said that Elijah has come but was not recognized by many. He was referring to John the Baptist as the Elijah that was to come. And he will still come again since the throne of the prophetic keeps functioning on the earth. Elijah will come in our day and time before the coming of Yeshua. The vacant prophetic thrones that God has put in place for many generations long ago are now being occupied by many faithful witnesses in the body of Christ. Prophetic throne still functions in many cities, lands, states, nations and countries. There are men 36

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who subdued nations, kings and kingdoms who died and left their thrones unoccupied. God still ordains people in our day to seat upon the throne of the prophetic to rule and influence governmentally a city or a nation. When you see a prophet, he is usually separated by God from among his fellows and given a higher voice in the whole nation and land and he may likely be sitting on the prophetic throne of that nation. He will always have a first-hand spiritual counsel pertaining the land from God. In time past, there was a man named Saint Patrick of the Celtic tribe of Ireland. He was able to rule and subdue the land and its kingdom under God. He had no fear for a mortal being. He challenged wizards and judged many of them in his days. He sat upon the prophetic throne of the land, and administered it under God. Many signs and wonders were done through him, thereby proving the supremacy of God in the whole kingdom. There was another man named William Mario Branham. He sat upon the prophetic throne of a nation in his day. He was not the only prophet in the land, but his voice and authority was eminent. He has stature with God, God graced him heavily to represent Him accurately. Many people misuse the throne of God given to them. Just like Saul misused the influence of the throne that was given to him by God, it was taken and that caused him his life at last. As a faithful servant and a bond slave to Christ Jesus, be effective in obedient at all time. God might select you by grace to inherit a throne of the prophetic that is vacant in your own sphere of 37

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influence. God can decide to cause you to front head a move of The Spirit which may require Him granting you the ability to sit upon a throne that will influence the nation. You must sustain a holy jealousy to see the kingdom of God come in your society. When God sees it fit for you to ascend that throne, He will place you upon a pedestal that no man has achieve in the city. There are many cities with vacant prophetic throne, and no man has pleased the heart of God that He will place upon it to rule on His behalf. You can be that worthy soul He will elevate. David was nobody in his family, but when God chose him to seat upon the throne, he became another man with much more influence. Your background is never an excuse when it comes to your dealings with God. God can choose to elevate whosoever He wishes as long as the individual has fulfilled His demands to bring His kingdom to the land revealing His love to all. I took an inventory and found out that in many cities, there are many people and voices that represent God, but those lands lack a person that sits upon the throne of the prophetic in the land to speak the counsel of God with accuracy and precision. In a land there has to be a man with the penetrating power and ability to make a demand from heaven and sit upon the governmental and territorial prophetic throne that has its epicentre in the heaven. There has to be an Elijah that can demand the attention of the king and an Elisha that can decree that “by this time tomorrow” for things to change. We don't have to be average and mediocre in our dealings with God. God has a better plan for us and 38

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demand that His kingdom is first, and His prophets have a voice that cover spheres of influence. How many prophetic people do you know in your country that when they speak and give a word of prophecy, it is not just for the men and women in the pew, but for the whole country? We need prophetic word that can change our systems and sphere, we need words that will cause an impact even to the cosmos at large as prophet of The LORD. The throne of the prophetic is not a powerless throne, we must pay the price and win the heart of God through obedience to become that people and generation that God is looking and longing for that will subdue kingdoms for Him. The darkness in our generation looks insurmountable. The increase in darkness was possible because men made an exchange with the devil and the devil is after control and dominion. So, he is willing to offer you an apple so he can take the garden of apples, but that has to change because a new breed of prophetic people is emerging with a heart circumcised with the jealousy of the kingdom. They desire to see the will of God rule and reign on the earth. I believe that thrones are not supposed to be vacant because they are not designed to be so. The vacant prophetic thrones of past generations will be occupied by a new breed of prophetic people in various lands. God will install men and women upon the various thrones in lands, cities and nations for the sake of His kingdom. God will begin to govern the world through the government of prophetic individuals upon various prophetic thrones scattered 39

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everywhere in the world. The kingdom of God will not come if all the systems of the world is influenced by darkness. True sons are rising to take their place according to divine placement and many will be given the right to ascend thrones of the prophetic so that they can keep decreeing the current counsel of God in our nations so that our presence may be felt and the government be subdued under God. It has always been my cry that we don't just die praying and expecting a revival without seeing it come to pass. Learn to position yourself aright at all times so that when God wants to cause a movement in the land, He will find you a worthy vessel and tool for His use. Follow after the old pattern for the pursuit of God which is an unquenchable desire to fast, pray and study, these will take you to a higher level in God. Also, have a great desire to love God, this will keep you saved in His grace and power. Most people that are given the permission to inherit the throne of the prophetic of a land are people that have no personal agenda. I have decided to burn my life as a living sacrifice as an incense to The Lord for His glory. We must always focus on The Lord and seek to see His kingdom exalted and manifest in our lands. A lot of times I weep bitterly in despair wondering if there is no more for our generation. We do little and are so comfortable and content when there is so much more to attain in God. No wonder our lives and living confuse us daily! If we all can decide to give 40

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ourselves no rest until we see Christ glorified in our lives and in the lives of others around us, it will not take long before God begins to visit us with His power and might. I do ask myself, if it is highly dependent upon me for the fulfilment of the plan of God in my land, what will I do? Most believers don't live with this sense of urgency and responsibility to fulfil the plan of God in their lives. We all are entangle with a lot of burden in the flesh, but a heart and mind that is determined see no limitation. When you are determined to love God no matter how the devil tries to stop you, your desperation for God will consume you and never permit you to yield to him. It doesn't matter if you are weak in the spirit and in the flesh, always learn to at least cry unto God even if that is what you will be doing day in and day out. Let it be that your voice is reaching out to God asking for help with a genuine heart. Many people are ashamed of God. God created you and knows all about you. You don't have a secret when it comes to God, there is nothing to hide from Him, He just want us to be open hearted and genuine towards Him. He will always supply strength and grace to the weary and to them that are poor in heart and spirit. You may have felt disappointed by God, and your hope is deferred. It is true that “hope deferred makes the heart weary and sick, but desire is always a tree of life (Proverbs 13:12),” why not desire again so that life can flow through you again. Disappointment can lead to discouragement and depression, but the appointment of The Lord will make the heart glad and merry. 41

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Don't allow your place of disappointment become a bus stop for your life, but continue in faith and encourage yourself in The Lord for there is a better part of life that you have not seen that is hidden in God. He will cause His goodwill to come to pass in your life in due season. We all can make a decision to continue in God being faithful in obedience until we inherit or pioneer a throne of the prophetic in our time. The Spirit of The LORD will always show us love in our pursuit. The Holy Spirit, our comforter and partner will cause us to see a glimpse of what the future holds and release the grace to push until we attain the maximum limit in our potentials as God has entailed and predestined for us. Many people are predestined to sit upon the prophetic thrones of nations and lands, but they have not yet pleased the heart of The Father to come into that inheritance yet. Some gave up before their coronation and convocation into that ordination to the throne of the prophetic. We must endure the discipline of God as it will result to a better inheritance in God overtime. I pray that The Lord God rewards your labour of love according to His riches in glory. Amen. Shalom!!!

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his is another manifestation of the prophetic common in the Old Testament. It is another manifestation of The Spirit of God upon individuals. It happens when The Spirit of God falls upon people spontaneously and they begin to prophesy and speak words of divine wisdom. When The Spirit of God had not yet dwelt within men, this manifestation was prominent. The Spirit of God only began to tabernacle within men from the day of Pentecost to fulfil prophesy spoken of in Joel 2:28-32. God is in desperate need to communicate His counsel to His people, He does that sometimes by the release of an unction of the prophetic, suddenly coming upon an individual to speak His word for the moment. The unction of The Spirit of God is the ability of The Spirit of God to release and grant divine utterance to an individual in time the individual never prepared for. You don't have to be a prophet to experience the unction of the prophetic. Prophetic unction is manifest even among people that are not prophetic in nature. Some of the people that experience it never believed that they can prophesy. Just as it is possible for the countenance of another person to sharpen that of another because he that associates with a wise becomes wise naturally. Have you ever found yourself in a situation where because you are in the 43

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midst of a certain spiritual people with certain spiritual realities you find yourself functioning in the same spiritual reality you were never functioning in before? It became possible because of the atmosphere they created and sustained. Such an atmosphere can create that possibility for you to enjoy and function in a greater grace by the unction of The Holy Spirit. Many years ago in my quest and desire for more of God, I found myself associating and keeping company with prophetic and apostolic fathers. It was not long before I began to exhibit some unction of the prophetic and function of the apostolic. I realized that I began to function in realms that I knew I was not qualified for, although it did not last, it surely served its purpose for that time. Whenever am with the fathers, I begin to experience a different level of wisdom and mental capacity. I have insight and revelations into many mysteries. It was like their company opened me to a portal beyond my normal range of sight and influence in the spirit world. I find myself speaking at another level and speaking things I never recited or knew before. I have a different level of comprehension and understanding that is faster than normal. I never really knew what to call the experience at first, but I realized it was an unction of the prophetic that I received from The Holy Spirit when I am with them. That was possible because of their stature in the spirit realm. When prophetic people gather together in one accord, the portals and gates of heaven are opened for apostolic transmission between the realms. 44

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The unction of The Spirit is like an ointment that is poured out to function and it requires a conducive atmosphere of the spirit for that transaction to happen. When the unction of the prophetic is released upon you, you find yourself excessively wise knowing so much things to declare and speak. That unction may not last long, but it always serves its purpose for the moment. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. [1 John 2:20] The release of the unction of The Lord is like an oil that is bought to be used for the moment to serve a temporary purpose. That oil is of The Lord which is administered to you by The Holy Spirit of Truth Himself. Prophetic unction always comes with depth of revelation and insight into secrets and deeper truths of God. We must learn to make a demand upon the unction of The Lord. If you can create that conducive atmosphere within you for The Spirit of God to release His unction on you for the moment to prophesy and solve uncommon problems, it will be a great achievement in God. There are times while I counsel, I find myself lacking the accurate wisdom to administer the counsel of God. But as I make a demand of wisdom from God, an unction is released upon me to speak. I suddenly asked The Lord within my heart for His prophetic unction that grants me revelation and insight into deeper truths and realities. All of a sudden, I felt a release upon me to speak words of wisdom that solves problems. That unction mostly leaves me immediately it serves its purpose. 45

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When the unction of the prophetic comes upon you, it comes like the showering of the rain from the crown of your head. Your level of wisdom is elevated as you find yourself talking and speaking things you know nothing about. This may not always happen like this, but whenever it happens to you, you are catapulted to a different realm of reality that grants you uncommon access to spiritual truths that administer life. This is a vital prophetic dimension and manifestation that was also common in the Old Testament before the baptism of The Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. God used to speak to His people primarily by a medium of mostly prophetic people, and other times, He chooses a man to consecrate himself and be prepared to be His mouthpiece to the people. When He cannot find a worthy man to do that, He releases His unction prophetically upon anyone to declare His counsel to the people. There was a time when the donkey of Balaam spoke to him. That had to be by an unction because a donkey cannot speak especially to the understanding of a man. The Spirit of God rested on many people as an unction consistently to enable them speak His counsel for the edification of His people. Now that The Holy Spirit is dwelling within us, the unction of the prophetic can be released upon us for our edification and counsel in wisdom during our times of trouble. Most of my revelatory insights that come instantly is always traceable to an unction of the prophetic. When I began to function in the prophetic, I found myself walking up to people and speaking words that I 46

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never prepared to speak to them. These words carry truth and secrets I never would have known without an inspiration from The Holy Spirit. This is called an unction. Sometimes, I find it a strange manifestation because it makes me look like am lost for a moment and back to myself after a while. This manifestation can be momentarily and the only consolation I had then was that it was not repugnant to them and carried certain truths that the people ministered to can attest to. Most times when you speak from the unction of the prophetic to people, they break out in tears of joy confirming that it had to be a divine orchestration by God Himself for such a truth to be revealed to a stranger. Consolation came to me when I realized that I was not the only one confused and wondering what strange manifestation has befallen me overtime. I met a lady that was very timid, I considered her to be the shy type of people that hardly speaks to strangers. Somehow we became friends and I began seeing her in my prophetic dreams but those dreams left me dumbfounded. We never spoke a word in the dream, we just observed spiritual operations in that realm. This happened for a while until I realized what God wanted me to do for her. I realized that she is a prophetic watcher and a seer. This kind of prophetic people can be very quiet by mere looks, but are always active in the spirit. They always watch over spheres and terrains in silence, praying and groaning all day. We undertook some prophetic instructions as God demanded for the purification and dominion of certain spiritual geographical sphere as apportioned to us. 47

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One day we were discussing many prophetic encounters, visitations and experiences, giving more insight and understanding to them –This I do most times with prophetic individuals and friends. This helped to open again that realm of operation to cause its reality to manifest in our lives again. Something always switches on within you when you share and talk about your prophetic encounters, visitations and experiences in God. This lady shared an encounter that she had with her dad. Her dad was a very authoritative man that loved to give command to people and he hardly accepted correction from others especially when that person is of no rank and match of him. One day, God wanted to humble him because he has been wrong in many things, but no one was able to rebuke him. As she sat on the couch in the parlour and he was coming into the parlour, suddenly the unction of the prophetic came upon her to speak to him in boldness and power. She described it as something entering her and setting her on her feet. She began to speak words to him that she never meditated on. He was dumbfounded and lost in thought and surprised, but was quiet listening to her as she spoke for a few minutes. When the unction of the prophetic lifted upon her, she relaxed and rested. The father was sober and broken at the words she spoke to him. From that day, the father began to respect her and always listened to her when she contributed to the family. He knew that she was not just an ordinarily daughter. She had no understanding to what had happened to her, but she knew it has to be God. Only the father 48

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knew what he heard her spoke, but it changed him forever. What she experienced was the unction of the prophetic. The unction of the prophetic gives uncommon boldness to even the most timid among us. It is like a minute of supernatural possibilities for the individual. Prophetic unction can give you the ability to prophesy at any time. It is not really a vision, dream or hearing The Holy Spirit talk to you in your heart, it is like a total borrowing and control of your mental faculties to speak the counsel of God for the moment. The unction of the prophetic looks like a prophetic action you have no control over for the moment –thank God it doesn't last for long. Nevertheless, it is a good experience! Most people that have such experiences love and enjoy it. There is nothing as good as being used genuinely by God for His kingdom and glory. I know someone that when the unction of the prophetic comes upon him, he begins to prophesy and speak the counsel of God. The person only gets to rest when the spirit that brought the unction has lifted. Most people that function in that unction don't even realize they did that and prophesy within those moments, it takes them unaware. I know a guy that was once taken by surprise by the unction of the prophetic. It came upon him on a faithful day and he began to prophesy uncontrollable. The next day when I saw him and reminded him of the experience he had yesterday, he pleaded that I forget about it. It dawned on me that sometimes these people are not prepared for the unction of the prophetic and when it comes upon them, it looks like it embarrassed them, but God is no 49

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respecter of person. If He chooses to speak through you, you should even consider it a great privilege. The unction of the prophetic is supernatural and it can happen to anyone in our time. This manifestation can be contained in us if we can grow and increase our capacity in the spirit to be able to contain more of God. Many people have not enlarged their spiritual capacity so that when a little anointing and unction come upon them, they find themselves in a situation that they can't control themselves anymore. Falling down under the anointing should not be a custom and a tradition for you, maturity should minimize your falling down on every impartation of The Spirit. “Having done all to stand you should always stand.” I have seen people that have been praying and slaying themselves in the spirit for years, and I wonder when will they come into maturity and rest in God. The anointing does not come on you because you fall, but because your heart and spirit is open to receive. Am not against falling under the anointing, but when you fall, let it be under a heavy unction beyond your spiritual capacity not just going down on every touch of the hand. I have fallen under the power of God and am still falling, but if I can control myself, there is no need to fall. When I sense the anointing and unction in a meeting coming in a great measure on me, I get down before it falls me down, but if I can't control myself, then I fall. Nevertheless, we should not just be after falling under the power, but we should be after receiving the impartation of God of the anointing poured out at that moment. 50

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Have you ever prayed before until you reached a realm where you find yourself speaking words that you don't know and have no control of? Sometimes you find yourself singing songs, hymns and psalms you can't put to human language. This is not really groaning as usual, but words and spiritual songs that are edifying to the spirit. This happens by an unction of the prophetic Spirit of God, they are easily forgotten if not recorded. And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord. [Ephesians 5:18-19] The unction of the prophetic can also be experienced when you are filled and drunk in the love of The Holy Spirit. Once, I belonged to a prophetic network that desired people to experience the love of Christ and be filled with The Spirit of God. We took out quality time to pray in The Holy Spirit and sing songs that grant us access into the court of heaven so that we can experience the unconditional love of God. Most times, God pours out His Spirit and love upon us that we can't even contain it. We all break out in laughter, tears and joy in The Holy Ghost. Others even dance in the spirit as many prophesy as The Spirit gives them utterance. These people that experienced these manifestations are not prophets, but normal people that love God. The prophetic manifestation of The Spirit and His gifts are for all. Anyone that so desires to function in them will see them at work in his life. 51

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The people that prophesy when The Spirit of God is released in a meeting do that by the unction of the prophetic. Most of them have no idea whatsoever of what happened to them when the meeting is over. Babes in the prophetic can roll on the floor and do lots of gibberish and drama before they prophesy, but as you mature, you can contain God and stand to declare and decree His counsel to people. A man called as a prophet in office or to sit in the throne of the prophetic need not to roll on the floor to prophesy, he stands and decrees the counsel of God. He must go through many disciplines and schooling that brings him to a level of maturity in God to contain the prophetic speaking of God. He has a lot of spiritual capacity to contain the voice of God when He speaks. There has been a lot of misconceptions about the manifestation of the unction of the prophetic in the life of people. Many consider it a demonic manifestation. It is obvious that when a person is under the unction of the prophetic, it looks like an individual that is possessed with demonic spirit. The unction of the prophetic upon most spiritual babes that have not developed enough capacity to function maturely is seen in an uncontrollable demonstration. Nevertheless, that is not the basis to judge The Spirit of God at work in a man's life because the prophetic cannot be discerned by the flesh or by some physical analysis, but only by the spirit. When you discern the prophetic manifestation of The Holy Spirit in the flesh, you will be misguided into many errors. You need the help of The Holy Spirit Himself to help you discern and guide you aright 52

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on how to distinguish between that which is holy and that which is profane. Prophetic people never see themselves after the order of the flesh, but the spirit. They believe that God relates with them in uncommon ways and manners that may not be understood for a normal believer that is not knowledgeable and skilled in the prophetic. I have a lot of such prophetic friends and they do a lot of prophetic things that even me as a prophetic individual find them strange, but I can't deny that it is of God. God's dealings with prophetic people are different and cannot be comprehended by someone who is not of their fold. Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola of Christ Apostolic Church was a renowned minister of the gospel in his days. He was known as an apostle and he sat upon the throne of the prophetic in his land. He was a revivalist and a pioneer of the move of God in many cities and states. He challenged the wizards and warlords of different lands and territories. His authority and power came from his rugged relationship and walk with God. He was known as a man of prayer. He was praying on a mountain top which was his regular routine, when he was encountered by Arch Angel Michael who gave him a physical bell as a mantle of signs and wonders. He told him to carry the bell to wherever he goes to minister and ring it, for many signs and wonder will happen through him and many will come to Christ Jesus. I heard that there was a day he returned from the mountain and demanded for water to drink from his daughter. The daughter was 53

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delaying and behaving sluggishly and he jokily said, “Why are you behaving as if you are mad?” instantly his daughter became mad. It was a shock and a surprise to him because he never asked God to make his daughter mad. He realized that his words are powerful! Words spoken by generals and people that sit upon the prophetic throne of power don't fall to the ground. They have angels and celestial beings backing them to speak so that they can act to fulfil it. Of course, he prayed for her and she recovered. David also had a time when he wished to drink water from the well of the enemies, it was just a wish without a command. Unknown to him some of his faithful valiant men in battle took it upon themselves to fulfil his wish even if it will lead to their death. They broke through the camp of the enemies and fought killing many just to secure the water for the king. As they returned to David with the water, he was surprise and refuse to drink the water. He decided to offer it as a sacrifice unto God. He said that he is not worthy to drink the water that came as a result of the blood of many spilled, let God take it as a sacrifice if it please Him. I learnt of another prophet that seat upon the prophetic throne of God in his location named, William Mario Branham. This man was praying for the sick in his meeting as it was time to minister to people with infirmity. A man came to the meeting to test him and see if he is truly a man of God. The man was not sick but stood on the prayer line with a caption of an ailment. He gave himself a designated deadly sickness. When the prophet came to him, he told him that he is not sick, but claims to have an infirmity just to test 54

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him, therefore that infirmity he claims shall befall him. Immediately, the man took upon himself the sickness and became a carrier of the sickness he claimed to have initially. What he did might seem right to you, but it is very wrong for you to put God to the test. You can test the spirit of the prophet, but don't put The God of the prophet to test by testing the ordination and authority upon him. Of course, the man was later prayed for and he became healed. This similar situation happened to Gehazi. Elisha was the prophet that sat upon the prophetic throne that Elijah his father left. When Elisha confronted Gehazi of the evil he did in the name of The LORD, he refused to accept his mistake, he rather lied to The Spirit of God. Immediately, he became leprous and was unable to fulfil his destiny and calling in God because of his greed. Prophetic people are powerful people, especially those that are God's own men, who are in complete obedience. It is written that you can judge any disobedience when your obedience is complete in God. I belong to a Prophetic School for Kingdom Agent and a School of the Spirit which is pioneered by one of my mentors. There are times when people have several prophetic experiences that many consider it demonic by an observation of the flesh. Manifestation of The Spirit such as dancing, singing, laughing and shouting in the spirit were mistaken for some occult art and demonic manifestation. These are manifestations of The Spirit that occur when people are filled and drunk in The Spirit. It was written that David danced to The LORD and David usually put the priest in the frontline to sing psalms to The LORD as they marched for 55

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battle. We also saw how God commanded the Israelites to march and shout around the wall of Jericho. The prophetic manifestations of God are always spontaneous. To accurately discern the manifestation of the prophetic in an individual, you test the spirit at work in his life. You test his operation: does it agree with the word of Christ and does his messages glorify Jesus Christ? You also consider his character and the fruit of The Spirit whether they are at work in his life. If he is of The Spirit of Truth, then he will bear its fruit and his character and attitude will reflect the love of Christ Jesus. In the spirit realm, likes attract likes while in the physical likes repel, but unlike attracts. When you come close to a minister and you feel a repelling force that is trying to resist The Holy Spirit in you, then such man must have a foreign spirit he functions with. You may not love a minister, but The Holy Spirit in him is supposed to bear witness with The Holy Spirit in you that Christ Jesus is LORD. The kingdom of God is measured in peace, righteousness and joy in The Holy Spirit. When you don't have this attribute when you are with a minister and a ministry, then you need to reconsider whether the minister is genuine. Because, if it is of the kingdom of God, then there must be righteousness, peace and joy in The Holy Spirit at work in the life of the members under the ministry. Things might not be easy and comfortable but those attributes of God are supposed to be present in the ministry. Perfect love cast out all fears, fear is of the devil. When you realize that there is a fear that befalls you when you come around a 56

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prophetic person, you may have to reconsider if he is genuine in God. A true minister is supposed to be a dispenser of love and grace to others. Our spirits as believers has to agree with each other in love when we come together. When I come around someone and sense a fear, I know that a demonic spirit must have been disturbing the individual. Sometimes, I can even sense the oppression of demons around the person. Demonic bondage can be sensed and felt. When you see such people, cast out the devil by administering deliverance to them. I recall those days back on campus. As we prayed, many people came under the unction of the prophetic to prophesy, but those that are spiritual babes were always prone to be influenced by familiar spirit especially those that lacked sufficient knowledge of the word of God and the prophetic. Since the devil loves to prey on our ignorance, he took advantage of that moment to pervert their utterances in the prophetic. Paul said, when someone is prophesying let others be silent to listen and judge what he speaks and when the person that is prophesying is influenced and you discern it, just rebuke the familiar spirit that caused him to speak falsehood by commanding him to be silent in the name of Jesus Christ. Surely, prophetic manifestation can be influenced by evil demonic spirit, but if the spirit can deceive one, it cannot deceive all of you in the prayer network. And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol. [Judges 13:25] 57

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Samson was a man that operated strongly in the unction of the prophetic. He was anointed by God, but his anointing was stirred up usually by the unction of the prophetic. The unction of the prophetic usually came upon him to give him strength and power momentarily. It was written that when he passed through the region of Zorah and Eshtaol he felt the unction of God. He looks like an ordinary a man, but immediately the unction comes upon him, he changes at that moment to another man to war against his enemies. In his days, God used him mightily to subdue the enemies of Israel and he resisted them till his death. Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit ofthe LORD in the midst of the congregation; And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's. Tomorrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel. Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you. And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD. [2 chronicles 20:14 -18] 58

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This happened at a time when the Israelites were weak in war and afraid to go further, God needed to speak His counsel to them that will give them consolation. The Israelites were always dependent upon the counsel and consolation of God spoken word through His faithful servants, but at that time, all of them were weak in the spirit. God had no any other option but to release an unction of the prophetic upon someone to speak His counsel. A man from among the people that might be considered common by many was the one that was selected to speak forth the counsel of God. He spoke the heart of God by the unction of the prophetic that rested upon him. That counsel edified them to receive more strength and power to defeat their enemies. A simple word spoken by God has the ability to strengthen you and empower you to succeed. And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them. And it came to pass, when all that knew him before time saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, what is this that is come unto the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets? And one of the same place answered and said, but who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets? And when he had made an end of prophesying, he came to the high place. [1 Samuel 10:10-13]

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Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah. And he went thither to Naioth in Ramah: and the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on, and prophesied, until he came to Naioth in Ramah. And he stripped off his clothes also, and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets? [1 Samuel 19:22-24] In the book of Samuel, Saul found himself among a prophetic people and all of a sudden he began to prophesy. Saul was not a prophet in the society, in fact it amazed people to see him with the prophets and even prophesying. People wondered and said, “Is Saul among the prophets?” His ability to prophesy amazed people. He may not be a prophet, but he was able to prophesy by the unction of the prophetic as a result of the atmosphere created by the other prophets and it made it possible for God to release His unction on him to share of the prophetic. After the unction lifted from him, he became Saul as usual. It is true that anytime you find yourself amidst prophet, you will definitely partake and share in their grace because when God opens that realm of operation for them to prophesy and engage in heavenly transaction, you will be influenced by the atmosphere and presence to also prophesy by that unction.

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For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. [Job 32:18 -20] Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite of the kindred of Ram was not regarded as a wise man among the friends of Job, but an apprentice and a protégé of one of the friends of Job that came to visit him in his time of peril. Job's friends came to console him in his dilemma, but ended up speaking words of reproach that broke his heart the more. In that time, Job needed to hear from God. Suddenly, the least among them was given the word of God for his current circumstances. Elihu was the only one that had the counsel of God. He was considered just a lad to them because he was not up to them in rank. The unction of The Spirit came upon him to prophesy and speak the counsel of God in words of consolation. The unction of the prophetic is no respecter of person and God can choose to use whosoever He wishes to speak His counsel. He has done it before and He can do it again. We just need to position ourselves aright and have a genuine love for Him at all times. I pray that when God is looking for a man that He will use, you will be prepared and available for His function. Amen. Shalom!!!

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he gift of The Spirit is given to everyone for the profit of all. When God gives you a gift, that gift is not for your own benefit, but rather for the benefit of others. That which will benefit you will be put upon others. The gift of God which is to benefit you is given to another faithful witness of The Lord Jesus Christ. In the natural, when you buy a gift, you don't use it because it is to be given out for the use and benefit of another. Also, if you must receive a gift, it must not come from you, it has to come from someone else and that which you receive from another as a gift will profit you. The same applies to the prophetic gifts of The Spirit. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. [1 Corinthians 12:7] God gives gifts to His faithful ones so that it will profit others in the body of Christ. The prophetic gifts are for the functioning of another. The gift is one of the most influential dimensions of the prophetic. A man functioning in the gift of The Spirit seems to have more influence than the one functioning in another office in the body of Christ. This is true because the sole aim of the prophetic gift is to profit someone else other than yourself. When God give you a gift, you cannot remain within your enclosure. For the gift to serve its purpose, you must go out dispensing grace in servitude for 62

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the sake of the kingdom of God. The gift of the prophetic seems to have a charisma that puts people on the frontline. The prophetic gift of The Spirit is the common and easiest to function among the dimensions of the prophetic if only you can be consistence enough in your pursuit of God and desiring with a pure heart in humility for the gift, God will cause it to function in your life. Paul the apostle said that we should desire earnestly the gifts of The Spirit, at least to prophesy. The gift of The Spirit can be desired and to prophesy is part of the functioning of the prophetic gift at work in a man's life. You don't have to be a prophet or called into the office of the prophetic to be able to function in the gift of the prophetic. Although, most if not all the people called into the office of the prophetic function in the gift of the prophetic overtime. Whosoever desires and asks God for the gift of the prophetic will be given if his motives are right enough. God is our father and a father always desire to give gifts to his children. God is not that stingy with His gifts. When your motive for desiring His gift is right and He see that it will not hurt you overtime, He will give it to you for the glory of His name and for the propagation of His kingdom. The first step to functioning in the gift of The Spirit is to so desire it with a pure heart and mind and ask God in prayer to release His gift of the prophetic upon you. A genuine and humble desire comes from the heart and God who sees the heart rewards according to the posture and motive of the heart. Let the posture of 63

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your heart be selfless toward blessing others and revealing the love of Christ to a dying world. Since the gift of prophecy which is part of the prophetic gift comes from The Holy Spirit, then a constant communion and fellowship with Him can make those gifts function in your life by default because it is impossible to dwell and dine with The Holy Spirit and not be transformed, renewed and be able to carry a deposit of His nature and character which permits you the access into His gifting and resources. Gifts are normally given to friends and acquaintance. Also, if you must get a gift from The Holy Spirit, it is high time you begin to develop a close relationship with Him before it is too late. How will you feel to break your love relationship with the world and start another love relationship with The Holy Spirit? Many of us are so engrossed with a lot of things which separate us from The Holy Spirit and that love that we once professed is lacking in our lives. It is always easier to give with no pain and regrets when you are in love. Return back to your first love because He so desires to fellowship and commune with you. Spiritual and prophetic gifts are sustained by a genuine love for God and His Spirit. If you can be in love with God and continue to maintain that unending love for The Holy Spirit, then He will give you more than just a gift to function with. The Holy Spirit is the best friend and lover I have ever come to know, most times I feel like I have neglected Him, but He is never worried or gets angry at 64

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me because anytime I come back to Him like the return of a runaway lover, He always welcomes me back in love. There is nothing as sweet as to dwell and fellowship with The Holy Spirit always being in love with Him. When you maintain a constant relationship with The Spirit of God, there is nothing He will not give you. His gift will always rub on you and you will become a carrier of His presence that causes changes in a society. As you continue with The Spirit, you will begin to function in the gifts of the prophetic on daily basis. Nevertheless, you have to be careful to walk in genuine love for God and man so that you will not be perverted by the prince of the power of the air. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. [Romans 11:29] One thing that people overlook is that a gift is a gift and is no measure of the character and attitude of a person. A gift hardly changes the personality and attitude of an individual. A man with a gift may not really be a good person, but he will be a gifted bad individual. The gift itself is perfect because it is a resources of The Holy Spirit, but the person that receives the gift is a mortal that is subject to change and rebellious acts following after the lust of the flesh, lust of the eye and the pride of life. Since the gifts and the calling of God is without repentance and a gift given cannot be taken away, we all have to be very careful with every heavenly gifts and resources given to us, the prophetic gift also not excluded! When you are given a gift, the giver of the gift can't just detect how 65

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you use the gift, but it is wisdom for you to ask the giver of the gift, how He will intend you to use it especially if it is a fragile and sensitive gift that you were never given before. People have abused the prophetic gifts of The Holy Spirit by not using it to the glory of God and His kingdom, but for their selfless gain. Such a people, God will judge them in His own way. They initially came to God with a pure heart and good intentions, but they allowed themselves to overtaken by their own greed and selfishness. No wonder one of the greatest challenge of God is whether He can trust us with His heavenly precious resources. God has no issue giving us His gifts, but can He trust us with it not to abuse it in our own greed. When you continue to misuse the prophetic gifts of God, God may not kill you, but He will withdraw His Spirit from you and reduce your influence on the earth so that you don't corrupt others in your greed and darkness until you end up dead in frustration. Balaam and Balak so desired to curse Israel when God desired to bless them. Balaam surely had a prophetic gift as the prophet of The LORD, but God never told him to curse His people, but in his greed and disobedience, he did otherwise by creating a situation that brought the people under a curse. He was later punished by God which cost him his life. I believe that he must have regretted using his God given gift against God, the giver of the gift. No man can go against God and prosper! Our today's society is full of different trends of soothsayers and gainsayer that parade themselves around as prophets, manifesting 66

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gifts that look like the prophetic gifts. You can easily judge the prophetic and its manifestation through discernment by The Holy Spirit. Every gift of The Holy Spirit must agree with the spirit and with Christ Jesus who gives the office of the prophetic. Also, it must glorify Jesus Christ The Son of the living God. Since everything created has its fruit, so also does the spirit. You can discern the prophetic manifestation of a prophet by testing the spirit he functions with. The spirit has to be in oneness with The Holy Spirit in you, then you can also discern the content of his message, like: does it glorify Christ Jesus or glorify himself? You also have to discern his character, if the prophet has the genuine Spirit of God, then he must bear the fruit of The Spirit in his life. His character must reflect Christ at all time. If this is lacking in the life of a prophetic individual, who functions in the gift, then he must have been deceived by the devil into darkness and sooner or later familiar spirits will influence him and the spirit of divination will become his inspirational backbone. This is because The Holy Spirit will be withdrawn from such a person except if he repents and comes back to Christ Jesus in humility of heart and genuine love for God. Many genuine ministers who were once called by God have become mediocre because of their greed for world influence and expansion, they have manipulated the body of Christ by using the resources and the prophetic gifting of God to profit themselves. They have misplaced priority and as such God will judge them at His time. The prophetic gift of God is for the prosperity of the 67

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kingdom of God, but in the prosperity of the kingdom, you will also prosper. You don't have to make your prosperity the greatest pursuit because God will prosper you naturally when His kingdom prospers. You don't have to manipulate the body of Christ Jesus. The prophetic gift was given to some by God without a desperate desire for it, but others desired it and prayed their way through certain prophetic portals that granted them the access into these gifts and its functionalities overtime. Some people got the gift of The Spirit as an inheritance from their parents who have walked with God and made a covenant with God to continue the mandate with their children after they are long gone, this kind of children got it as an impartation and by a spiritual activation of the prophetic gifts by the laying on of hands. No matter the office you are called to function in by God, if you so desire the gift of the prophetic, you can function in it. I have conversed with a few people that seeing and communicating with angels comes easily to them. These angels sometimes take them to heaven to see the creation and the glory of the celestial city of God. These numerous encounters have opened them up to the spirit world as such their perception and ability to discern in the spirit have increased. Some people just suddenly found themselves hearing the voice of The Holy Spirit talking to them about people's issues and situation, they have dreams and see the secrets of others and some have open visions and trance. All these manifestations happen to some that never even asked for it. Many never really desire it, but it just happens naturally in their lives. Most of those 68

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people have a pure heart towards God and since they love God, He just felt free to share His heart with them on a daily basis, this and what they see amazes them. People with such continued prophetic experiences are called by God to witness on His behalf. He naturally endows them with the potentials so that they can accurately represent Him on the earth. They are required to build and develop it until it is perfected in their lives. The prophetic gift is likely to be transferred to the children as an inheritance. A man that functions in the gift of the prophetic can transfer that same trait to his son when he is about to rest in God so that the son can function in the same grace. Many children got their trait of the prophetic gift from their parent and as they grew up they discovered the prophetic at work in their lives. And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him. And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy. [Acts 21:8-9] It was written that Philip the evangelist had 4 daughters and all of them were prophetic in nature. You might wonder how that is possible, but he too was a prophetic man. This made his seed carry the trait of the prophetic and it manifested in the life of his daughters as they grew in God. I know a man that has five children and all of them are prophetic in nature, prophesying to others by the gift of the prophetic. God always desires to continue the linage of the prophetic in a family by raising someone among the siblings to 69

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carry the trait of the prophetic to continue were the parents stopped. They will function in the same gift and go through separate dealings and discipline of The Holy Spirit which will form the structures and pattern for their operation in that realm. There is another category of people that are not born with the gift of the prophetic neither are they from the family of prophets, but desired and determined to create an avenue for the possibility of the functioning of the gift of the prophetic. They became the first to initiate a covenant with God in their families and that covenant remains as long as there is someone to continue in obedience and many belong to this category. I was not really born with the function and experiences of the gift of the prophetic, but as I desired and prayed with much study and fasting, that realm was opened for me and I saw myself functioning and manifesting it. The prophetic is a precious realm that is not really common to everyone, but can be common to whosoever dares to tread on the path. I can still recall how determined and desperate I was for the prophetic. I took out time to study, pray and fast on a consistent basis. I took upon myself mentors who are prophetic in nature, functioning in the gift of the prophetic. I honoured them and studied their relationship and dealings with The Holy Spirit. Following suit in obedience to God to the ultimate of my ability until that realm was opened for me to function in. As you begin to desire the gift of the prophetic and follow after the leading of The Holy Spirit in obedience, it will take a while for 70

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that to begin manifesting in your life. Many hours of prayers and some consecration to fast may be needed to rightly structure you to be able to contain the impartation of the prophetic and its experiences. Most prophetic people live a fasted live. As a prophetic individual, you need to have a season in your pursuit of God that you fasted and prayed more than you have eaten. This helps to strengthen your spiritual man and sharpen your discernment as well as silence your fears and unbelief. Lots of people that don't fast are often challenged in their flesh. Their flesh speaks and rules them most times. If you can develop the ability to say no to your appetite for daily food by fasting, then you can as well say no to your appetite of the flesh. As I continued in obedience to The Holy Spirit, it was not long that I began to have heavenly encounters and taken to the court of heaven on a regular basis. Certain prophetic manifestations became activated in my life and I found myself in meetings with ancient elders and scribes that took note of minutes of meetings. The meetings I do attend look like a council were litigations are undertaken. Sometimes, decrees are made and decisions are taken concerning different sphere, people and places. Most of the proceedings of these meetings I am unable to communicate because it is hard for someone to express it in words. Nevertheless, they form a structure for the governing and rulership of the earth according to prophetic and apostolic pattern. 71

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A time came when the realm of visions became normal to me. I began to see pictures and scenes of events and happenings I had no understanding of and has never occurred before. Seasons came that I began to have painted imaginations that I know I never thought and initiated in the mind. They looked real and alive within my spirit, heart and mind. Initially, I was ignorant of this manifestation, so I never considered it to be a speaking of The Holy Spirit to me. Eventually, understanding came on how to utilize and respond to The Holy Spirit as He communicates to me through these various agencies. The realm of dream was opened all of a sudden and I began to have supernatural dreams. Someone like me that hardly dreamt or have dreams which were never worthy of note now began to have dreams that are supernatural and prophetic in nature. All of a sudden, I will have many dreams in a day, I can have about ten dreams concurrently. I was dumbfounded and tried to find the meaning and what they meant for my personal life. It was never easy for me, but as I began to study and found answers. Understanding came and the dreams never became an issue to ponder too much on. The Holy Spirit led me to much study on how He spoke and related to other prophetic individuals in times past, all through scriptures, you will find so many people that God related with prophetically, you are not the first. Most of them were confused as you are but as they continued in obedience to The Holy Spirit and were faithful in His dealing, they grasped an understanding of His 72

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prophetic manifestations and experiences in dealing with humans. As I studied intensively and prayed, I began to discern the speaking and voice of God and can now connect the puzzles that I see in my dreams that looks confusing. I began to interpret my dreams and revelations. Most of the dreams came to pass, although some still remain unfulfilled because their timing is not yet ripe. As long as The LORD lives, they will surely come to pass according to the time of life because the dreams of today are always the realities of tomorrow. Have faith in God, but also believe in your God given dreams. Before you begin to function in the gift of interpretation of dreams and revelation like I did, it will not be wrong if you can relate your dream to an elder in the prophetic to be able to interpret it to you. When dreams are interpreted, it is like the impartation and life that is contained in the dream is opened to begin to function. A dream is of no good if not interpreted correctly. It will have no life in it to cause a tangible change. As you continue in your desire for the gifts of The Lord, He will pour out His resources upon you. The Holy Spirit is the only one that can guide you and sharpen your discernment to hear God in your inner man, the word of God is supposed to guide you and put a limit to you in the prophetic. There are limits for you as a prophetic individual in dealing with others. There are realms that God can take you to that people might not be ready for that operation yet. You are to wait for the proper timing of The Holy Spirit to begin to dispense such grace to others, or else they will not comprehend 73

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your speaking. Surely, there are greater depths in the prophetic and virgin planes in the spirit that few or none have trekked before. Therefore, we should be very careful because in our quest to explore new realms and dimensions in God, we might venture into some forbidden territories and planes of demonic operations and influences. Falsehood is common now in the body of Christ as people seek the supernatural like daily bread. Many have ventured into certain arbitrary realms that is governed and influenced by darkness. Since many people are so myopic in our days, anything that look like the original is welcomed as genuine from God. Discernment is lacking that is why it is safe to limit ourselves to the word of God. There are people that are born with the gift of the prophetic and that prophetic realm is open over their lives, but they are lacking in the dealings and training that is supposed to cause the manifestation to function through them effectively. This kind of people can either permit the light and illumination of Christ Jesus to illuminate their gift to function or give themselves up to familiar spirits and the spirit of divination to help them express the gift in them, but the spirit of divination is demonic and can pervert the gift of the prophetic in you. It is normal to have gifts and potentials, but for those things to be utilized, it takes process and discipline to be able to harness it for productive outcome. Many gifted people died with their gifts and potentials not utilized! It is always left for the man with the gift to 74

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submit it under God to be sharpened and disciplined so that it can function for the glory of God. An engineer did not become one in one day same for a doctor. All of them need proper schooling for years with accurate practical, testing and examination to certify that they are qualify to become either an engineer or a doctor. Also, the prophetic needs thorough training and schooling to accurately represent God on earth. God is so much interested in training His own. When God calls you into anything, He will train you for that which He has called you to do. A man that is not trained by God can perform, but He will surely be limited in certain aspects because knowledge and equipping is necessary for excellence and success. I know you are familiar with prophetic and apostolic centres. These centres equip people with the necessary knowledge and impartation to understand the rudiment, modus operandi and the demand of the prophetic and the apostolic as they transit in God. Every true apostolic and prophetic centre creates an atmosphere and the opportunity for people to have uncommon encounters with The Holy Spirit to form the needed structures for the apostolic and prophetic calling in them. I have been to many of such centres for equipping. Many prophetic elders that have gone ahead of us in the things and dealing of God created such centres to disciple many others with those gifts and calling unto maturity. They expose their mistakes and give unveil to the costs and reasons for their successes so as to build and imparted their disciples to do more. When you don't learn from the mistakes of others, you will make the same the mistake. 75

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Learn from the elders because they always have something to teach you. There is every tendency for you to be perplexed when the realm of the prophetic is opened to you overnight and certain experiences begin to function in your life. When a new realm opens up to you in God, you need to be schooled on how to keep that realm opened and in its operations. The devil has always been an arch deceiver and he always rides on the ignorance of people to deceive them. When you are ignorant of a realm that God has opened for you to function in, you will be prone to deception by the devil. When you permit yourself to be schooled in the prophetic and follow after the steps of the elders, lots of mistakes will be avoided and errors will be far from you. 'He that embraces knowledge and correction will always be wise as a sage.' I know a friend that began to function in the gift of the prophetic not long ago. All of a sudden, he began to hear voices directing him. He sees visions and learn many secrets about people, places and things. That was a genuine manifestation of the gift of the prophetic at work in his life because he was a genuine lover of God, but as a stranger to that realm of the prophetic which was opened in full force, he was lacking behind in accurate knowledge and doctrine guiding the prophetic and its manifestation. He never cared to submit himself to a higher authority that will guide him aright, so when the devil came with his deception he had to pay for his ignorance. 76

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No matter how anointed you are, you need a spiritual covering over you, even if it is a mentor that you honour so that his grace can speak also for you. Yes, it is true that you can pray all by yourself and God will grant you access into certain realms in the spirit, but to keep and sustain yourself in that realm will be an issue for you overtime. The spirit realm is like a wilderness and we all need a tour guide in our journey into God. Don't explore that realm alone, you will need to be guided by The Holy Spirit and be informed by an elder that has been there before. As my friend began to neglect The Holy Spirit, he was deceived into witchcraft and divination by the devil. Familiar spirits became his companion as they became familiar with him, giving him daily assignment which were very odd. He was led into an astral realm of operation. He began to have strange encounters and visitations and more realms that were forbidden were opened to him by the devil to confuse and manipulate him the more. He began to function and act wild and weird in many ways. We almost lost him, but grace found him back after a while. The devil actually preyed and played on his ignorance. Since he had no grace higher speaking for him, he was deceived and led into darkness. I have seen people that act like animals and refer to it as a prophetic manifestation. Some so called prophets feed people with grasses and substances which are uncalled for and call it prophetic and I wonder how people came to all these carnalities. The fact that something looks true and produces some result does not mean that it is the truth and genuine. 77

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There is so much manipulation going on in the name of the prophetic in our time, although it was prophesied about the rising of false prophets overtime, I just never thought it will be this terrible. People have lost The Spirit of discernment completely. Even genuine people called to function in the prophetic can be deceived and manipulated by the devil into all kinds of things if they are not properly trained by God and guided by The Holy Spirit. Anyone called to function in the prophetic needs to be schooled and trained overtime by The Holy Spirit and be impacted by the fathers that have gone before us, so that our generation will have a new breed of prophetic people that the devil cannot manipulate. Always try your best to be a part of a prophetic and apostolic centres that school people in the prophetic and apostolic so that you can be fit for the work ahead. There are many of such centres scattered abroad and at home, you just have to find one by the help of The Holy Spirit and be a part of. You can also disciple yourself with books and tapes at all time. Books and tapes have always been my mentors for years. Most of my prophetic and apostolic structuring came from the impartation I got from books and tapes. Accurate schooling is a prerequisite for your proper functioning in the prophetic and its gifting. Many people make the mistake of asking for an impartation from an elder in the prophetic without being willing to be schooled by such an elder. That realm that the elder is functioning in was not attained in a day by him and if he is not going to guide you into a 78

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journey to that paradigm, then his impartation will be of no effect to you. In fact, it may even get you confused overtime, except if The Holy Spirit helps you to contain that realm of operation. When a prophetic individual releases an impartation upon you, he can take you to his realm, but it will still be left for you and your spiritual capacity to sustain yourself in that realm else you fall back to your normal plane. Many people have received several impartations, but what they have not learnt is, how to grow in those impartations. Your growth most times is depended on you and your preparation in the spirit. You can only grow if you are always connected to God and study through that field as The Holy Spirit leads and guides you. It will do you so much good to connect yourself to fathers and mentors that have gone far in walking with God to teach and mentor you aright. No matter how a prophetic individual tries to release an impartation on you to enter into his realm, he cannot sustain you in that realm only The Holy Spirit can. The Holy Spirit cannot bring you to a realm you are not prepared for, you will need to prepare yourself sufficiently to possess the gates of that realm. There are many prophetic elders in the body of Christ, and you can be mentored by as many as you like as long as they are genuine in God. Sometimes, it is good to be mentored by many! “If we see in part and prophesy in part,” then it means that God does not really give the whole puzzle to one person, but has shared it among His faithful witnesses. When you combine the speaking of many, you will find an accurate understanding of what it entails. The prophetic dimension and its gifting cannot be 79

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manifested and expressed completely in one person because God divides it among His beloved as He wishes. Some are good in visions and dreams, while others are good in the word of knowledge and wisdom. If you can get yourself mentored by many others, you will grasp a better understanding of the prophetic and its functioning. Most prophetic elders have schools and conferences they organize and a simply honouring them by being present at their meetings with an open heart can do more for your spirit in repositioning and restructuring it. Since distance can be a barrier in the flesh, you can get their materials and resources to read and study then apply the same principles to your life believing God to cause a change in your life. When people are born with prophetic gifts and they don't want to follow through the normal schooling and discipline for that gift to function under God, they will get themselves acquainted with demonic agents and familiar spirits that help them bring out the potential to function just like the lady in the book of Acts that was functioning and prophesying by the spirit of divination to bring more gain to her master. This will only give glory to darkness not light. We must be more vigilant and keep pace with The Holy Spirit as He alone is the one that can shield us from the spell of the evil ones. Imagine what will have happened if the sorcerer Simeon or the lady that followed the Apostle Paul with the spirit of divination in the book of Acts were not rebuked. We need the spirit of discernment as a gift to be able to watch over the entrance of such 80

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people by testing them to see how genuine they are before we relate and give them the right hand of fellowship. There are many so called “prophets” that function from an anointing that is mixed, a mixture of the genuine and the profane. Such don't give glory to God and don't give glory to the devil either, but to the man. The devil always gets a share in such cases. The gift of the prophetic seems to be very easily manipulated by the devil. False prophets can never be permitted to sit upon the prophetic throne of God, the throne will reject them the very day their heart get corrupt. Prophetic gifts are seen as the ability to discern the secrets of the heart and that of another either through a vision, dream and a revelation. Most people that function in the prophetic gifts can call out phone numbers, account numbers, tell the secrets of the heart and many more. This manifestation is true of the gift of the prophetic. I have seen many genuine men and women of God that minister in different dimensions of the prophetic gift that empower many. This kind brings glory to God. We must have a genuine heart towards blessing others especially with the gifts God has given us. God is willing to give everyone the gifts of the prophetic. The manifestation of the gift of the prophetic is not exclusive, preserved for the prophets alone, but for all that so desires it. We have seen pastors, evangelist, apostles, teacher and many more function in the gifts of the prophetic despite functioning in their respective primary office. You don't need to be born a prophet, 81

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but being a genuine lover of Christ Jesus can give you access to the gift of the prophetic. You may be functioning in the gift of healing, but if you desire the prophetic gift so that you can be able to prophesy, ask God. It is just a simple desire to hear God speak to you and share His heart desire concerning others. When the realm of the prophetic is opened for you, you begin to perceive the secrets of the heart. As you study and pray with a desire for the gift of the prophetic, God will cause that to function in your life overtime. I believe and will continue to believe that God can release the gift of the prophetic upon anyone of whom He wills, even if you are not called into the prophetic office. As long as you desire to see the kingdom of God fulfilled on the earth, He will release His resources to help you in propagating His kingdom. The prophetic is part and parcel of the tool that God uses to reconcile His people to Himself and He permits many to partner with Him in achieving His purpose on earth. The prophetic is also a tool for strategic warfare in this age and time. It is important that we always take advantage of it to decree and to declare. Speaking forth with the prophetic authority of God can cause shifting in the sphere of the heavens. Those that wield the prophetic in our generation, wield kingdom power for rulership and governmental authority. May God who sees your heart grant unto you the strength to keep serving Him in spirit and truth, and may the dreams and revelations that He gives you come to pass in your lifetime. May 82

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the encounters and visitations of God open you up to a new experience of the gifts of the prophetic, Amen. Shalom!!!

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created by God, but since our knowledge is limited, we cannot categorically give an accurate explanation of the origin of language or which is the first language on the earth. Nevertheless, every creation of God has a language of communication. I believe that there was a time when people spoke only one language on earth. As far as we can remember, when God created Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, they had only one language, until the tower of Babel. I do wonder what language God spoke in Genesis chapter 1 that led to the creation! The first time there was a speaking in the book of truth was the speaking of God in Genesis chapter 1 which led to the creation of the Earth. The language used was the language of God and we have little understanding of it, but it has to be supernatural. I believe there are many languages ranging from that of men and humans to angels and spirits to the celestial beings and bodies and that of other creations. It is written that even creation groans and sings praises to God. When Jesus Christ walked the earth, he spoke to creation ranging from the element of nature to the plants and weather patterns. We also saw through scriptures how many prophetic people spoke to celestial bodies and elements of nature to work on their behalf, these creations adhered to them and obeyed. The creation must have heard their voices as they spoke. I believe that there are many languages and one was the creation language while others were given by God to people at the tower of Babel. Overtime, language has evolved and man in his intelligence has created more languages. There is yet another language that is 85

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supreme to all which is the language of light. This 'light' as a language is a personality that causes creation. This language is the summation of all languages. All creation no matter the sphere understands this language when it is being spoken to. I believe it is the same language that prophetic people of old used to speak to the elements of nature and to celestial bodies. God is light and light as a language speaks of illumination and revelation. Light has been the tool of creation from the very beginning. God used Himself to create! Almost every creation of God has a component of God in it. The angels and celestial beings are created from light as well as the starry bodies. Man has an element of light in him. Everything that has ever been created in the heavens and the earth has God in it in the person of Christ Jesus, The Light. Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds. [Hebrews 1:2] There is a realm that you can operate from which gives you the power to speak to any creation of God through light and revelation. Your natural language may not be truncated, but that spiritual supernatural language that God puts in all His creation is activated when we ascend into that realm. No wonder in spiritual encounters, you don't speak with your mouth, but communication is done by spirit via the language of light! When you reveal light, you immediately have knowledge of truths and realities in God because God is light and everything 86

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moves in life for His glory. When you are caught up into the realm of the spirit, you just realize that another dimension of you switches on. It lights up like Jesus Christ on the mount of transfiguration. We have another of our nature that is light that lies within us, it takes the revelation of God to reveal and express that in us. We carry revelation and truth when we radiate light which is why we are called the children of the living God. What makes God living is because He gives life to whatsoever He comes in contact with! The nature that Jesus revealed on the mount of transfiguration is the true spiritual nature of a son that represents and reveals God. No wonder a voice spoke from heaven confirming His Sonship and Lordship over all. We also have come into that nature and sonship through grace in Christ Jesus. The scripture says that God made His angels winds, but His ministers a flame of fire. John the Baptist was referred to as a burning and a shining light in his days. We all carry a similar nature of light as Jesus Christ radiated on the mountain top. We do business in the spirit realm from that reality of light within us. When you are caught up in the spirit realm seeing a tree or any creation that exists within that sphere, if you so desire to know more about it, approach it and the nature of light in you takes in itself the ability to relate and understand that creation. The language of communication in the spirit realm is majorly light and revelation. This is embedded in every creation of God. We can 87

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relate with them when we engage them from that reality and nature of light. Since the language of God is light and revelation, and everything He created came from light as He spoke from the beginning, 'let there be light,' then everything living and non-living sustained some degree of light in itself. It is true that in the spirit realm, all things are living and nothing is non-living because God who is the living God gives life to whatsoever is within His reach. Hebrews 1 gave us and understanding that God upholds all things by the word of His mouth not by the frame and structure on the earth. God put creation in place as He created them and the elements of nature are given their proper position to function. This creation hears the voice of God spoken via the language of light, that is why after many eons, they still obey God and keep His ordinances daily. You will never hear that the sun refuses to shine or the moon or the stars got tired of doing that which they were created for. Do you realize that the trees in the Garden of Eden were not just ordinary trees, but trees that are living and carrying life in them! This is why they had trees like, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and the tree of life. The trees in the garden has a life form and a knowledge of God within them. Everything in the spiritual realm has a life form and a knowledge embedded in it. Have you ever had an encounter before of seeing animals and plants as part of the creation of the spirit realm? These plants and 88

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animals are living and sustain some degree of knowledge in them. You will be amazed to see some of them speaking to you and revealing certain counsels to you. All the creation of God works for His glory, whether living or non-living because all have a spiritual nature that can be revealed by light and revelation. People do have encounters in the spirit realm seeing eagles, lion, ox, goat, birds, snakes and many more animals. Some see trees and different vegetation. These things are seen living in nature with life and realities in them that can impart knowledge. No wonder the trees and river in the Garden of Eden had spiritual nature, truths and realities beyond the normal. When Adam was to name the creation of God, through light and revelation, he was able to name each creation by having the understanding and knowledge of what each creation entailed in the heart and mind of God. The language of light and revelation is supreme and ultimate to all language, but for proper communication and relationship between different spheres and realms, God gave His creation diverse languages according to their realm of operation. He gave animals a language, plants another language, man another language and as many other creations so that they can communicate with each other appropriately. Human beings are the most complicated creation of God and we are created to explore other creations. We sustain a higher ability in God and He gave us the potential to procreate under Him. Humans were created with a single language, but with the 89

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potency to procreate other languages as God permitted. Man was able to permutate and combine many languages to create another resulting to different cultures and traditions. When we trace back to the point of the division of the languages of the human race on the earth from Babel, it seems as if God was so interested in the division when men began to desire to be gods sustaining the wisdom of God, but He preferred man to be unified. Nimrod was an evil ruler and a hunter of the souls of men in his time. His mother was a witch who killed his father and married her son who became king in the place of his father. This propagation of darkness granted him an alliance with the devil who gave him the wisdom and deception to begin the building of the tower of Babel in rebellion to God. The tower was meant to reach the heaven and challenge God's authority over man. How can a mortal man imagine to begin a building that will reach the heaven? What architectural design and civil engineering structure could achieve such a dream? That kind of a dream and thought must have been inspired by the devil, knowing fully well the enormous capacity and potentials that God has put in man and that it will be possible if all mankind can join together combining all their potentials. Nimrod was a world leader, the whole earth was under him and if he can be deceived by the devil, then all of mankind was under his mercy. The devil was able to deceive and influence him. Since he is feared by all, all men obeyed him, yielding to his devilish dream of building the tower that will reach the heavens. 90

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At that time, the whole earth spoke one language and Nimrod mobilized all the men of the earth to focus all their resources to build the tower. By the bond of unity and the power of oneness, they were making good progress. If God had not intervened, they would have succeeded. A people united with one language, goal, aim and vision can achieve anything regardless of the circumstances. God in His wisdom devised an effective and excellent solution to their madness. Since they all had one language, goal and aim, division was the only solution. Even Jesus said, “No house divided against itself shall stand.” Nothing can be achieved by a group of people if they are not united in mind. God decided to scatter their languages which was one of their major source of unity and oneness. After their language has been divided, their desire, aim and vision also became divided. This resulted to a heavy confusion in the camp because they could not communicate effectively with each other. When a man was asked in the camp to bring water, he hears another thing in the other language that God gave him and when another is asked to do a thing, he hears another different thing entirely. None of them were able to comprehend each other in the camp as each had a different language that can't be understood by the other. It became even worse in the camp because all had different desires for the moment which divided their focus and mind. Therefore, not all had the desire to build the tower. All that were summoned by the king to come work returned back to their nations and lands to go fulfil the desire they had in their heart. 91

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The kingdoms and empires of Nimrod became divided and destroyed. Another civilization begun with different tribes, languages and nations. The migration of people resulted in the formation of countries and new nations of people sharing similar values, culture, tradition and languages. No nation was born in a day, it took time. Our today's world is composed of people with different languages, although each nation may have an official language that is widely recognized, but there are so many minority languages with their own cultures and traditions in the country. These languages may not be known globally, but they are worthy of note and spoken by a people. The influence of languages on us is as a result and product of our place of origin and parents. The language we speak is gotten from the environment we grew up in. If you were born in a city that speaks a particular language and practices a specific culture and tradition, then by default that becomes a part of you as you grow up into maturity. If you speak Spanish today, it is either you were born from the lineage of the Spanish people or you grew up among Spanish people or you decided to study and learn the Spanish language. In the same sense, there is a culture and tradition for the prophetic. This is the modus operandi which God uses in dealing with prophetic individuals. The language of the prophetic is one part of the culture and tradition of the prophetic. It is a means of communication that has been in operation between God and His 92

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prophets for centuries. It is true that the language of communication of God is light and revelation, but there is a way that light and revelation comes to prophetic people that is what is called prophetic language. God uses the prophetic language to communicate His speaking and counsel in wisdom to His prophets. This language may not be familiar to someone who is not of the same culture and tradition of the prophetic. Language can be acquired, but the culture and tradition always influences the individual the most. A person that belongs to the same culture of the prophetic will always have an understanding of the prophetic speaking of God. You can learn the language of the prophetic overtime if you remain and grow within the cultural system and tradition of the prophetic. When you don't learn the language of the prophetic, you will find it hard to comprehend the speaking of God in your life. The speaking of God is in mysteries and light, it takes a heart that is open and equipped enough to perceive such speaking on a consistent basis. God has been speaking to many people over time, but as a person that is a stranger to a language, they cannot understand and comprehend His speaking in their lives. If you have not learnt Arabic or Hebrew language before, the day the language is spoken to your hearing, you will definitely not understand what is said. You are not able to understand the language because you were not taught it and it is not part of your culture, tradition and civilization overtime. The same applies to the 93

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prophetic speaking of God. Even if you were able to hear and perceive the prophetic speaking, you will not have an understanding or a good comprehension of what God is saying. What you don't understand will have little or no effect on your life. There are different means by which God uses to communicate and talk to us and all of them require some degree of light and revelation for us to comprehend Him. The Holy Spirit must be your close and permanent companion if you must have an absolute understanding of the speaking of God. The Spirit of God will relate the speaking of God to you in the language you can understand even if it means Him breaking it down to English language for you to understand. I consider The Holy Spirit in this context as the language converter and interpreter and He will guide you and direct you at all time. Learn to lean on Him as God speaks to you, so that He will always break it down to a language you are familiar with. The children of Israel heard God from Moses, but Moses heard directly from God. You can also hear the speaking of God from His Holy Spirit of truth. Pictures and Shapes Every picture has an intention and every shape has something it is communicating and revealing. A painter that paints a picture has an intention in his mind that he wants to communicate, as well as an emotion and feeling he is revealing. As a prophetic individual, your encounters will be filled with picture, symbols, signs, numbers and 94

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shapes. Each of these have prophetic significance in the spiritual realm and God uses them to communicate to prophetic people often. When you keep seeing a picture in an encounter repeatedly, then God must be trying to communicate something to you that requires your careful attention. I do have encounters where I see lots of pictures, shapes and numbers in different patterns in the spirit realm. This confused me for a while until I realized that each has its meaning in relating with God. The meaning to each may not be constant and it may not be literally related to what you saw. God speaking are mainly in signs and pictures. He always loves to give you a sign that reveals and points us to something else. It is now left for us to follow that sign until it reveals to us the realities that lies in the realm it is pointing to. We must have to study the consistent speaking and pattern of God, and master those signs and pictures so that we don't miss the season and timing of God in our lives. The prompting of The Holy Spirit in seasons and times can be in a language of sign and number. God can give you an encounter showing you a date in number combination and a picture of a symbol of a location to go. A sign will always point you to something, so also a symbol represents something other than itself. It is like the shadow of a reality. Every sickness and disease has a sign and a symptom that points to the illness itself. When you understand the sign and symptom, you can discern the sickness and/or disease. 95

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These are some of the signs in the spirit: loss of peace, constrain in the spirit, an intuitive knowing and a perception to do a thing, etc. All these are a sign by The Holy Spirit to guide you aright in your journey into God. Signs, symbols and pictures are a common experience to people that pray always in the spirit. As you pray, your mental faculty is influenced by God and you begin to see pictures and symbols. Lots of people know when there is a release of an anointing on them such as, shaking of the hands, the shaking of a specific finger, a feeling of a hot sensation on the palm, head and back, a feeling of the release of oil on their palm, heaviness of the heart, pain on specific part of the body and burning sensation in the eyes, and lots more. These dealings and prophetic languages are personal to many people and their meaning varies and differs from each individual. These unspoken signs of The Holy Spirit are a prompting for a function or an alert to perform a function. When these promptings and signs are neglected, it leaves a sense of guilt on you. Personally, when praying and I feel a burden in my heart, I know that I have to pray for someone that is in trouble. If the prayer is in a group, then the person is either present or absent. But as I discern the prompting and focus on praying for the unknown individual, a vision or a revelation can be given by God of the person so that I can now pray with much more understanding. The feeling of pain is common with many people. If you are ministering in a network of people and you feel a spontaneous pain 96

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on a part of the body of which you know was not there before that moment, someone in that place may be afflicted in that part needing healing. Spontaneous pain in any part of the body during a ministration needs to be accurately discerned so as to properly disseminate the gift of healing. There are times when I feel a headache as if my head will blow up, I know that there is some kind of demonic activity and spiritual warfare that is going on in the spirit realm. As a spiritual man that governs that sphere, my spirit is conscious and aware of the transaction in the spirit. Demonic spirits are trying to build a resistance against my access to God on a matter. A burning sensation on my back especially the top of my back is mostly an indication of the presence of an angel of The Lord that stands by me. The degree of light and strength I feel helps me discern the category of the being and its operation, whether to strengthen me or to give me revelatory insight and revelation. There are many other signs such as: the electrifying of the hands, uncontrollable cry, joy, sadness, a loss of peace in the heart and many more. When you feel something and it happens repeatedly without you comprehending it, you must seek to know it by asking The Holy Spirit for the meaning so that you don't miss out in what God wants to do due to ignorance. Symbols and Numbers There are symbols and numbers that are prophetic and a part of the prophetic language of God in relating with us which are 97

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common. Just as a sign and a symbol will always point you to something else whenever you see it, these symbols and numbers also pointers and refer you to something different entirely. I do have dreams where I see symbols and numbers of which I wonder their meaning. There is nothing that God will show you for fun! It must be pointing you to something, or revealing a truth about something that God wants you to do. Sometimes, God hides His messages and instructions in symbols and numbers, so that we can decipher them as a prophetic people. The revelation of the numbers and symbols may be personal to you. I have been deciphering many of the symbols and numbers given to me by God in dreams and visions lately. Mostly God gives you the dates of events, and timings of happening or a symbol of something He will want you to get involved in or a symbol that symbolizes and personifies something else in a city. You may have a dream seeing 12082016, this may look like a number in random but by revelation, The Holy Spirit will let you know that it is a date to watch or observe or do something else. 12082016 is the same as 12/08/2016 that is how simple it is. You may also see yourself walking toward a symbol of an eagle, lion, horse, sword or anything, this may look confusing, although it may be a symbol of a company or a logo of an organization that God wants to connect you with. Instead of saying go to so organization, He can just decide to show you their logo and give you a date and a time. Like you can see a lion logo, and 23122015 and 0130. The numbers may be 23/12/2015 and 01:30 pm/am. 98

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This speaking of God is not complicated at all except you refuse to be guided by the revelation of The Holy Spirit which is why you have to maintain a close relationship with The Spirit of God. Many people have encounters and see numbers, symbols and even colours and they lack the understanding of these encounters. This month, a friend of mine came to me with a design of a logo that he did which he said he saw in a dream. God began speaking to him about a business He wants him to establish and an assignment that will carry such a logo. It was so awesome! The same Spirit of Truth that gave you that encounter has the revelation in Him. If you can only ask in prayer, He will reveal it to you. Pictures and colours are also uses by God to speak to His people, you just have to open your heart and be vast in your spirit for God to speak to you in that manner. That speaking can only profit you if you have understanding of the prophetic language of the spirit. I have seen colours and pictures in my encounters and lack understanding to them until The Spirit of God revealed to me their meaning. Every colour has a meaning in the spirit as revealed by The Holy Spirit to you. Pictures like eagle, lion, and ox can signify foresight and vision or boldness and strength. Lamb and crown can mean meekness and humility, royalty and kingship. This complex prophetic manifestations and experiences are common to prophetic people. The aim is not to have the experiences, but also to have an understanding of it. The revelation is what brings the impartation and causes the functioning and 99

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manifestation in your life. You may be praying for a meeting and suddenly you have a pictorial glimpse of the meeting which is to tell you that the meeting will occur and God has it at heart. I know a friend that studied architecture while in school. He does have strange downloads of design patterns that don't make sense to him because it goes against their normal curriculum for the session, but those downloads are not from the soulish realm. They may not make sense, but are prophetic design patterns for a structure that God may want to construct on the earth. Your duty in all this is to obey God and embrace His release, then ask The Holy Spirit for the revelation overtime. Moses had prophetic downloads of the structural design pattern for the temple of God and it came to him in pictures, numbers and symbols. The design he had was also given to another person anointed by God with a prophetic unction to fulfil the purpose of God. I have a friend that see codes and formulas that has never been seen and revealed to anyone before. He gets confused about the meaning of what he always sees. When I took a look at those formulas and codes, I realized that they were all patterns and structures for a design that will form the foundation of a new technology yet to be invented. It doesn't matter what God reveals to you, even if that language of the prophetic is new to you, pray that The Holy Spirit gives you revelation, insight and understanding to them. God never does anything for fun, He does it for a function. You may be perplexed about it now, never lose faith and focus because when it is the time 100

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for the revealing of it to the earth, understanding will be given to you and you will be amazed at what you document under God. Past prophetic individuals had series of encounters where they saw events and pictures of element and things. The common periodic table was first discovered in 1869 by Dmitry I. Mendeleyev. He saw elements and said that those in the same column (group) of the table as usually arranged have similar properties. In the 20th century, when the structure of atoms was understood, the table was seen to precisely reflect in increasing order of atomic number. Members of the same group in the table have the same number of electrons in the outermost shells of their atoms and form bonds of the same type, usually with the same valence. The noble gases with full outer shells, generally do not form bonds. The periodic table has thus greatly deepened the understanding of bonding and chemical behaviour. It also allowed the prediction of new elements many of which were later discovered or synthesized. This man that discovered the periodic table once said that he often to dream at night seeing elements arranging themselves in order, with numbers and properties specific to each. Do you realize that he was not just having a dream, but a dream that changed the whole scope of science? There are people that are called to be frontiers and pioneers of some new discoveries on earth. These people may not be found within our conventional church and ministry, but they are surely prophetic in God. 101

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A prophet was asked by God what he saw in the scripture, and he said that he was seeing men like trees until he was positioned to see aright. What he saw at first was the initial, but there is a deeper light and revelation to what God wanted him to see apart from men as being trees. So also what you see that has no meaning to you now; has a better meaning in God, why not look again from the eye vista of The Holy Spirit you will see clearly. And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. [Daniel 5:25-28] In the kingdom of Babylon what everyone saw as MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN was beyond just a word written in a foreign tongue, it was actually a judgment and a decree by God. Only a prophetic individual that has an understanding of the language of the prophetic was able to decipher it for all to comprehend the speaking and the decree of God. Joseph also had dreams of seeing the sun, moon and the stars bowing down to him and he gave the interpretation to his family. They didn't believe him until it came to past. Whatever you keep seeing in whatever prophetic language that God chooses to speak to you must have a better reality than what you just imagined it to be. Why not pray that The Holy Spirit reveals to you what it entails and if it be of evil because of your love 102

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for God it will not hurt you. If it be for good because of that same love for God, it will come to pass in your life. Your love for God will always repel evil around you, but attract the good of God. Many people believe in a lie from the devil about their dreams and revelation. Don't let the devil deceive you that what you see is evil as long as you love God and desire the prosperity of His kingdom, He will not permit evil to befall you. May God help you to comprehend His prophetic language and speaking as He communicates with you in your prophetic journey into Him. Amen. Shalom!!!

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imagination. It is the revelation of the intents of the heart of God to His beloved. Have you ever prayed before and in the process it is like another layer of your eyes opened like a window revealing a reality and a truth to you? This occurs like a live broadcast of an event in a scenery form, but suddenly and fast. Most people miss the understanding because they were not active and focused enough to perceive such a movement of God. Vision of the past, present and future can be given by God. It always takes a heart that is opened and a spirit that is active to perceive what is shown in the vision. When praying for an individual, be focused and open hearted because God may want you to counsel such an individual. Sometimes, He may not give you an inner witness of things to say, but rather an inspired vision of the person's past, present or future depending on what God wants you to see. That which you see and perceive will always edify the individual if it comes from God. Visions are given to us by God to help us address issues in life and have a glimpse of what and how to pray. With such an insight, we can align and adjust ourselves to the will of God. And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. [Habakkuk 2:23] When you have a glimpse of what the future holds, you can then 105

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align yourself for it fulfilment on earth. One common mistake that most people do is not writing their visions. 'There is no vision too small not to be written!' If it comes from God, then it can never be too small and if it is worth seeing, it is worth writing. Until you start writing your vision, you might not be propelled to attempt to fulfil it on earth. Visions that are written always challenges and edifies. I personally have a notepad and a book dedicated to writing dreams, vision and inspired revelatory words I get from God momentarily. I have bulky and enormous documentation of the speaking of God to me over the years. This documentation of the speaking of God gives me confidence and the assurance of what tomorrow holds for me. The only confidence and assurance you will have of the future lies in your dreams and visions of today given by God. 'The dream and vision of today are the reality of tomorrow.’ A man with no vision lacks the confidence and assurance of the future. In achieving and working towards your purpose, your vision will be like a road map that guides you aright. Your vision will help you to be focused and things that are not captured within the pathway of your vision will not be attended to, it will be considered a distraction. Your vision is very vital in the discovery of your purpose and placement in life. When in your vision you keep seeing yourself in a political office legislating on behalf of a people, and this kind of vision continues for years in diverse manner, then, you may be called to legislate on behalf of a people in the political arena and grace will 106

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be given to you according to the measure you need. There are lots of people that have several and diverse visions of them ministering to the sick and healing all kinds of terrible infirmities. Some of them see themselves as doctors, teachers or bankers. Such a people if they can be faithful to God overtime, that vision will be fulfilled in their lives. God doesn't do anything with men for fun, all that He does has a purpose and a function on the earth. There are people that keep having recurrent vision of themselves in different parastatals and sectors in life, all this can be a glimpse of what their future entails and the spirit is trying to capture it into time. We must realize that all we will ever be has already been written in heaven. We have books and scrolls containing the volumes of our lives on earth. Sometimes, our spirit have glimpses into these scrolls, books and volumes that lies in the heaven and we see it through a vision, dream and/or a revelation. Most visions are quick and simple. They come either in picture, symbols or in a momentary scenery. These scenes can carry some depth of revelation, insights and truths in your heart and spirit. Some visions can be complicated and confusing when given to you, but surely nothing is ever complicated with God except if not revealed to you. Most visions look big and complicated to us because it is a future we have not yet reached in time. An average individual seems to be afraid of his future because he has not yet submitted to God in all. In most visions, the person having the vision does not 107

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participate in it, he just observes and sees the event and scene, then given the revelation as it transits. Nevertheless, there are times when you find yourself doing an action in a vision, like laying on of hands on a sick individual or even seeing yourself flying a plane. Have you been to a place and suddenly realize you have been there before but not in the physical? Or you met someone and realized that you have met the person before somehow because he looks familiar to you? All these are prophetic experiences that are reserved in God which plays out in our lives by the guidance of The Holy Spirit. There are times when you have a vision of a person before you get to meet him, even though you were not that sensitive to realize the vision, but your spirit had a glimpse of it and reserves it within you. Vision is a spiritual reality and its timing of manifestation in the physical always differs from our normal chronological time. You can see a vision today and it manifests after many years, but sometimes, they occur immediately depending on God's timing. Visions can be in diverse manners. There are many categories of visions according to the perspective and revelation given to an individual as inspired by The Holy Spirit to write. All are true as long as they don't contradict the scripture. It also needs to give us a better and simpler explanation of the prophetic experience as given by God. There are many books on vision of which I have read quite a number of them. These books will give you knowledge which forms a structure and a framework within you to be able to 108

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comprehend the dealing of God as you progress in the prophetic. There is such a thing as 'the vision of the night' and 'the vision of the day.' These are all visions given by God, but have little differences worthy of note. Vision of the Night As the name implies, 'vision of the night' is not really a vision that occurs in the night time, but a vision that occur as a result of an issue or a situation taken to bed at night or day to get immediate response and reply from God. Vision of the night can sometimes be mistaken for a dream because they both mostly occur when asleep. Dreams are not initiated by the individual, but vision of the night comes from a request made by a prophetic individual to God. You don't have influence over your dreams given to you by God, it just occurs as God so wishes. But in the vision of the night, you have an intention, situation, challenge and an issue you are presenting to God in optimism and high hope that when you lay to rest by night or day you will get a response and an answer from Him with regards to that situation, challenge, intention and issue you presented. In dreams, God just relates an issue from His heart to you demanding you fulfil it, but in the vision of the night, you take a request to God demanding an answer from Him. This may sound strange to some religious individuals, but it is true that you can bring a petition before God as you lay to rest day or night so that He 109

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can attend to it. I have done this most times and realize that it works effectively even without knowing until I began to see through scriptures that men and women that walked with God make request to God as they lay to rest and God attended to it. If you have prayed and have not heard any voice nor receive any answer from God, then as you go to rest ask God specifically to talk to you concerning that which troubles your heart. You will be surprise that you will have a vision of the night from God revealing to you the answer and solution to your dilemma. This vision of the night, most people see it as a dream, but it is not. That kind of a dream is what is called the vision of the night. Most people have such experiences without realizing it. They go to bed to rest with a burden in their heart. As they keep pondering on the issue, they sleep off, then God puts the understanding of that which troubles them in their heart, they receive it as a vision of the night. This happens to people and they may not realize that God heard them in their pondering and meditation. Most people choose to call it a dream of the night, they never see it as a vision of the night. There are times when God addresses a present situation that needs urgent attention in your night time. Maybe you have been praying for a place to settle and as you ponder on which city God will have you settle in, you became confused and demand an understanding. As you lay to rest, you have it as a burden at heart and suddenly God releases the understanding to you of which city He wants you to dwell in. He may show you the city name, a major 110

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area in the city or a statue in the city that He has chosen for you. This understanding came by the vision of the night, it doesn't matter whether it is through a vision, spoken word or a dream as long as you are asleep when the revelation came to you. A man was about to launch into ministry and was wondering what to call the name of the ministry. It is true that God speaks to people in dreams, visions or speak to their heart about the name of the commission He wants them to execute, but others hear or see nothing until they get to inquire from Him. This minister had to inquire from God, but as he continued to pray, he heard nothing. When he went to rest at night, he saw the name of the ministry in a dream written in bold. When that was settled, he needed to have an understanding of the venue and place to begin because our calling and ministry is also dependent upon a particular geographical location. He decided to pray and ask God again. As he prayed and went to rest at night, God came and revealed to him the place and venue to use for the ministry. This may look like a dream, but it is the vision of the night. You can get divine guidance through vision of the night. Many people never see it fit to ask God for answers and solutions as they go to bed, they only limit their asking to a particular time of prayer. God is your father, ask Him for things even at bedtime, He will come to you with the answer and solution. A dream is described to be when God awakens you with a revelation whether at night or day putting the instruction and commandment into your heart in times you never asked for it. He 111

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shows and reveals it to you in the dream because it is vital for the fulfilment of your destiny in life. There are many ministers that never imagined themselves venturing into certain ministerial function in God, but as they sleep, God give them a dream containing the instruction and commandment to go to a place and start a function. He may tell you in a dream to go to so and so company and say so and so to a particular person, for he will employ you after you are done talking. Such guidance was not as a result of an immediate request by the individual. It might be a prayer point that the individual prayed for long, not knowing what he prayed for because as you pray in the spirit, The Holy Spirit does the prayer and the time for the fulfilment may be hidden from you. There are times when am supposed to go to a place of which I don't know what to say in that place, in my confusion I ask God for wisdom of what to say. As I sleep, God reveals to me what to say and do and how to do it in a dream. Sometimes, I see the event suddenly and fast. Such a vision of the night comforts me and gives me a foreknowledge of the meeting. A lot of times before I go to see people who demand my counsel, I take out time to pray and ask God for what to say and do. That will position me for the vision of the night or a revelation and a dream before the day's schedule for the meeting. Most times, insights and revelations through dream, vision and the vision of the night are given to me so that when I meet the people, it becomes easy for me to proffer solution as I counsel. 112

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There was a time a family called me for counsel, there was a challenge that I was to come proffer a solution to. I had to schedule the meeting for another day so that I will have time to ask God about the issue demanding His wisdom because a man can't solve spiritual problems, it takes God and only Him to solve such problems. Sometimes, He uses a human vessel to deliver the solution. Most times when we are called upon to counsel during a crisis, we are as clueless of the situation as the person needing the counsel. This is why you must pray and ask God for His wisdom. God will counsel you so that you can counsel others, just as God can comfort you so that in the same manner you can comfort others. It is possible to just depend upon The Holy Spirit for revelation and insight to counsel others without taking out time to seek The Father. But it will be good if we take out time to fellowship with The Holy Spirit beforehand, so that He can counsel us with His wisdom before we go to counsel others. I prayed and received no revelation from God, but as I slept at night pondering over the issue, God revealed to me by the vision of the night what to do and how to do it as I go to see the family. I even saw another assignment to execute in the same place which I didn't ask God for. The first came as a dream, but the other came as the vision of the night. These realities are common among ministers and prophetic people, although, many people that have such experience refer to it generally as a dream. It is amazing how even prophetic people can't 113

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differentiate the encounters they do have on a consistent basis, whether it is a vision [close or open], dream, trance, daydreaming, vision of the night, vision of the day, and many more. Nevertheless, this is not an issue as long as the purpose is achieved and fulfilled. For the purpose of reference and knowledge it has to be explained to as many prophetic individuals who are confused after having such encounters. Many people neglect the prophetic dealing and discipline of God simply because they don't have the knowledge and understanding of its operation in relating to their lives. Maybe, if it is explained to them in a simpler form and with the help of The Holy Spirit, they can comprehend and respond to God aright to fulfil their purpose. The dealing and speaking of God can be complicated and confusing to many, but if understanding is given to them, it will become interesting and easy to relate with. There are many manifestations of vision as seen through scripture in regards to how God dealt with His servants and ministers overtime. I will consider and highlight a few for reference purposes to the above subject matter. All Prophets and Apostles in the scripture had various kinds of vision from God inspired by The Holy Spirit. They received revelations and insight from God to predict the future and reveal what is to come. Jeremiah, a prophet called by God in Israel had various visions of the people of Israel being taken to captivity by the Assyrians. He was never believed by anyone in the land until it came to pass as he prophesied. 114

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Isaiah, a prophet of The LORD also saw numerous visions of the future. He saw the birth of Christ Jesus and prophesied it that “unto us a child is born and to us a son is given and the government will be upon His shoulder, He will be called wonderful counsellor, mighty God, everlasting father and prince of peace” (Isaiah 9:67). Most of his visions and prophecies were captured in the book of Isaiah. He was not believed in his days, but it came to pass that Christ Jesus The Messiah was born according to prophecy. David, a king and a prophet in Israel saw in a visions the future of Israel, the birth and death of The Messiah. Most of his visions and prophecies are captured in the book of Psalms. What he saw and spoke came to pass because the word of God must be fulfilled. God has spoken in time passed through visions to His people and He is still speaking to us today through visions also and that which He reveals and speaks to us will surely come to pass as long as The LORD lives. Visions have been a primitive spiritual means of communication and is it is still not obsolete. You are not the first to have a vision and you will not be the last to have one. Many people, if not your close neighbours are also having and seeing some kind of vision or the other. This spiritual reality is personal, and no one gets to know until you tell them. God speaks to all in a language they can understand and comprehend. It may differ among individuals but the same God, Spirit and Lord that is the source of the speaking. 115

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For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction. [Job 33:14 -16] God is always speaking and finding a better means to talk to us, but we don't always give Him the chance to communicate effectively with us. So, He waits until we all asleep and our conscience is at rest, then He opens our heart and puts His instruction and commandment. We wake up with them in our heart as a revelation or see them as a dream and a vision. If you are serious about God speaking to you through the vision of the night, then you must begin to keep a journal by your bed side and always request and ask God for answers concerning things that trouble your heart. It will amaze you how God will speak to you and put His instructions in your heart. Many people make the mistake of going to bed at night with anger, bitterness, obsession, lust and unforgiveness in their heart. This alone can limit God from speaking to you and even if He does, the devil you permitted into your heart will steal it away from you. Always calm yourself and be at peace with yourself before you rest at day or at night because with such a clean and open heart and mind, God will speak to you giving you a vision of the night as long as you ask and request from Him in humility of heart. Even if you are hurt and broken hearted by a friend, husband or sibling, ask The Holy Spirit to come heal your heart as you sleep. When you write 116

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your visions it seems to flow the more, the more you pick the interest to write your vision the more you get more visions and understanding you get of the visions. Daniel was a prophetic intercessor that utilized the speaking of God in his days in Babylon. There was a time when the king had a dream and forgot it. He demanded for its interpretation and no one was able to tell the dream and interpret it. He was willing to kill his oracles, magicians and all the mouthpiece of their gods if he does not get an answer. It was concluded that such task can only be executed by the gods and they don't live among mortal men. They never realized that a god dwelt among them in the person of Daniel! When Daniel came as summoned by the king, he demanded for just a night to go inquire and ask from God the dream and its interpretation. As he prayed at night and rested, God revealed to him the dream and its revelation in a vision of the night. Notice that Daniel didn't just have a dream, but he took a petition to God because his life was also at stake in the hands of the king of Babylon. When he related the situation at hand to God, God revealed to him the dream of the king and its interpretation in the vision of the night. This was able to save all the wise men, oracles and magicians who were supposed to be killed at the king's demand. Daniel came and related the dream and its interpretation to the king, and this was a surprise to all and that led to the decree of The LORD as the sovereign ruler over all in the land of Babylon. 117

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Vision of the Day This is one of the common manifestations of vision as seen both in the Old and New Testament. Prophetic people perceive events and predict its occurrence as inspired by God. Have you been praying in a group before and suddenly someone said that he saw something and demanded that he be given time to relate what he saw to all for edification. He may be seeing things that none of you are seeing. Some may even wonder if what he saw is true. Vision of the day as the name implies is the visualization of a glimpse of the past, present or future event. This is common in worship and prayer meetings as well as during meditation. This normally comes to many as an imagination of a scenery shown on something that looks like a screen in the physical reality. Some always believe this to be their imagination, but what they saw is real and will come to pass. Vision is a word common among the fivefold offices. If you have been to a church or ministry, you will be familiar with the statement, 'I saw in a vision.' This is used by ministers mostly to relate to the congregation what they saw in the vision of The Lord. A critic may wonder if it is true what they claim to see. God does speak through visions and those short clips seen are real. They may be addressing things in the present, past or future depending on the leadership of The Holy Spirit. The vision of the day can be open or close vision. Open visions are very real. They look like a live broadcast of an event presented 118

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for you to watch and observe by God. It is like a scenery of a scenario happening in the moment. It is very easy to comprehend and interpret to another. This type of vision seems to last longer than the close vision. This vision is more visible that even a novice in the prophetic can understand and relate it to others when shown to him by God. A close vision is more of a parable than a vision. It is not necessarily seen in a scenario occurring at the moment, it is like an imagination, intuition or a perception that is real and living in your heart. The heart is believed to have an eye in the spirit. That eye and gate of the heart can be looked through to see the hidden truths revealed to the heart by God through perception and imagination. A close vision comes from the imagination of the mind. It is like a mental painted picture which looks too true to be false. Nonetheless, whether open or close vision, they all have the same ability to manifest as all come from the same Spirit of Truth. These two types of vision differ from each other, but most people miss out when God speaks to them through a close vision. This is because it requires some degree of focus and spiritual sensitivity. To comprehend a close vision, your mind needs to be renewed to become like the mind of Christ while an open vision, even the worse among the unbelievers can comprehend and understand an open vision because, it is vivid. Saul who became Paul was a persecutor of believers. He was on his way to Damascus when Jesus Christ encountered him in an open vision. He was able to 119

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comprehend and understand that it was Jesus Christ talking to him. This kind of experience of open vision is still prominent today. I heard of people in the Middle East who have been having open vision encounters with Jesus Christ, although they are not believers. Kenneth E. Hagin of blessed memory, in his book, “I Believe in Vision”, shared several open vision encounters he had and most of them were with Jesus Christ. The depth of truth and revelations he communicated from those visions cannot be denied. Whether with your eyes close or open you can still have an open vision, vision is a realm of reality that the flesh cannot attain unto. I have watched tapes of William Mario Branham as he prophesied over people. With his eyes closed or opened, he was able to see and perceive the vision of The Lord concerning their lives. He told them many of the secrets in their hearts and of course this is a manifestation of the gift of the prophetic. I believe God has no favourites, but he has men that are given special privileges. These men have won a place in His heart. They are permanently going to remain there as long as they keep on with His requirements and demands. God always honour them that honour Him! Anyone who dares to pay the price of obedience will attend and access that height in God's heart overtime. William Mario Branham said that, he always felt as though Jesus Christ is standing by him. He also spoke of an angels sent to work with him helping him in ministering to the sick. Kenneth E. Hagin also said that he believes that Jesus Christ is standing by his 120

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side and talking to him in his heart. Oral Robert said that, he believes that Jesus Christ is with him and when he lays his hands on the sick, He also lays His hands to heal the people. These are but a few confessions of these men of faith. You may not believe them, but you cannot deny the fact that they produce the result of their confession. People can question the process, but they cannot question the answer because the answer solves the question. Until your life begins to produce the result of your confession, people will always question you. The realm of open vision is so real that some find it hard to believe. Nevertheless, like Saul who became Paul the Apostle, the day you have an open vision encounter and a visitation from God you will never forever doubt or deny the reality. I have had several open vision encounters that I can't put all into writing. I do have open vision encounters of events, angels, celestial realm and heavenly glory in general. The most important is having an open vision encounter of Jesus Christ for such an encounter is life changing because it takes you to another realm of glory in God. Let me share a recent encounter that occurred years ago. It was close to Yom Kippur exactly before Rosh Hashanah (October 2) in preparation for the Jewish New Year. In this open vision encounter, Jesus Christ came to me, He walked towards me as He entered through the door of my room with angels and other beings, He spoke words to me and laid His hands on me to pray for me. He spoke words that may be consider strange by many and unbelievable by others. 121

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Prior to the aforementioned encounter, I had one on the 23rd of September. I was waiting on God in fasting, praying and studying when a friend called me. While as I was on phone with this friend from another city, the atmosphere in my room changed suddenly; it was like heaven on earth. I was fully aware of where I am and what was going on but I was overwhelmed by the presence and glory of God in my room. I saw two mighty angels in the glory of light and three living creatures with the faces of a calf, eagle and a lion. Immediately, wisdom and my spirit tried to educate me that there are supposed to be four faces on the living creatures as recorded in the scripture before I discredited the encounter, I saw a man come out from between the three faces of the living creatures; it was like the living creatures opened themselves to reveal a man that was within them. When He came out, He walked toward me. Immediately I saw Him, I fell down on the floor like a dead man crying uncontrollable. When He approached me, He stretched forth His right hand towards me, life and strength came to me to be able to kneel down as He spoke to me. He said, “Today is the Day of Atonement, for I have come to atone men of their sins, but these angels you see here will also be numbering a few people that will hold the influences of the earth for a time, but before I go, I will pray for you and increase your authority and power.” After speaking this, He prayed for me and left me drunk in the glory atmosphere and presence of His power.

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From that day, I realized some manifestations of The Spirit in my life increased to another level, new angelic princes began to walk with me each with its function. Some of these angelic princes are the Sky Blue Angel which is the angel of the constellation; he influences the power of the heavenly. The Red Angel, this angel is in charge of impartation and deliverance, then the White Angel, this angel is in charge of the presence. He carries some degree of the holiness of the presence of God. Before then, I had only two Light Angels that carry some degree of light and revelation, they helped strengthen me in prayer and releases strength to me like rays of light. I got these two angels from an open vision encounter that lasted close to a month many years ago. All these were visions, but the reality of it still remains with me after many years. Sometimes, I wake up with the euphoria of the encounters of many years ago. The angels and resources given by God still remains and works with me as long as there is a demand for their function. Vision is as powerful as a dream or any revelation you can have from God. When you read the book “I believe in vision” by Kenneth E. Hagin you will have more understanding on vision and how true and real they are. There are many people that have visions of terrible events and disaster occurring without being serious with it until it occurs and when it happens they cry with the guilt of not being serious about the vision they saw. People can see a vision that reveals the death of a loved one and eventually, those people get to die because the vision was not acted upon when it was revealed by God. 123

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When God gives you a vision, it may be an instruction or a warning about a disaster yet to occur, you are to pray against the ones that are evil and pray for the fulfilment of the good ones. Don't trivialize your vision! The spiritual realm is superior to the physical realm and visions and other prophetic manifestation come from the spiritual realm and it must be taken seriously. In Acts of the Apostles, Agapus had a vision of how Paul will be bound in Jerusalem, but even though he told Paul, Paul said that God has already shown him the vision and he is willing to go to Jerusalem even if it will cause him his life. What was spoken by Agapus of which he saw in a vision came to pass. Stephen was a deacon in the early church, he was a man filled with The Holy Spirit. It was recorded that when he was being stoned by the enemies of the gospel, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and saw in an open vision Jesus Christ standing as the heaven opened. He was a deacon, but at his death as a man of faith, Jesus gave him a standing ovation. I have related with certain spiritual people that are considered common in their society by many, but it will amaze you to know the various means God uses to speak to them and some of them never took it serious at all. There are many people that are hearing God communicating to them through visions, but they don't care to give it attention while some people will tell you their visions don't make sense; who says it has to make sense? You are the one that is 124

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supposed to find the sense in it. Everything has a foundation and a building pattern. When you look at the foundation or skeletal structure of the building, it never makes sense to everybody. There are other people that do have visions, but because they never cared to write them down and take the speaking of God seriously and God decided not to give them visions again. God does not do things for fun. If He continues to give you visions and you do nothing about them, time will come when He stops giving them to you except otherwise. If vision is a means God uses to communicate to us, then if He tries severally to speak to us by that means and we don't respond, He will try another means. Just pray you discern the new means He will use to communicate to you in time before you miss out of His blessings. When you see ministers who have gone ahead in the prophetic, functioning in graces and gifting of the prophetic, the way they do it with ease might intimidate people who are new in the prophetic. Know that as successful as they are, they didn't start like that, what you see is the result not the process. They also had a first time and a season when they were learning. They didn't get it all good and right at once, surely they made some mistakes and errors, but all the summation of the processes led to the result of competence and accuracy been displayed. God must have to train you to understand the basis and foundation before you become an authority in that realm of operation. Every great leader you see and admire today had a time when no one ever admired them. 125

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Those times, he was undergoing his process in God and no one likes process, everyone loves the result of great men without the pains and failures they have been through. I believe that every great leader must have made some mistakes in life as well as done some foolish things once upon a time, but by many experiences they mastered their profession, and now people love and admire them. It doesn't matter what stage you are now spiritually in God, just be faithful and continue to master the process, you will soon produce results that will amaze people and the world at large, but most importantly, it will give glory to God. It is my desire that as you begin to take serious your vision and pray about them, it will give you a road map and a glimpse of what your future entails. Take out time to study the scriptures to get an understanding of how God related with people via vision and know how to respond to Him as He encounters you. Learn to study other literatures also on the subject matter to get more knowledge, understanding and revelation. I believe that knowledge is power and wisdom in the hand of a wise man. An investment in knowledge can cost you, but it is worth it. It will deliver you from the bondage of ignorance and elevate you above the average, putting you upon a pedestal above your fellows. Every true leader is a reader and all leaders are moved and motivated by their visions. If you must achieve something in this life, you need a vision and it is already in our DNA to fulfil a dream and vision. Vision is a tool of the prophetic that God uses to foretell and reveals to us the plans of heaven concerning the earth and our lives. 126

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The essence is to bring us to collaborate with Him so that He can mirror heaven on earth using His true sons. If heaven must invade earth, then it has to be through the agency of man and God gave man that invitation by giving him a vision of things to do for the kingdom. I pray that God will find you worthy to receive a vision from Him so that you can reveal a pattern of heaven on earth and may He cause you to have a life changing encounter that will set you upon the cause of your destiny fulfilling purpose. Amen. Shalom!!!

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not just a dream in the daytime, but being absentminded in time at a particular moment without being asleep. Most people that experience daydreaming called it, lost in thought and memory. Sometimes there is a prophetic transaction going on that you are called to share and partake in time because you were absentminded, you became aware of another reality in another realm. There are times when as you discuss with people and suddenly, you lose your sense of concentration and become aware of another reality and thought pattern that your mind was not focusing on initially. People do fantasize, but when you are in the midst of a conversation and suddenly you are taken in the mind to focus on another thing that looks real and living, this is beyond fantasy. The person will not be focusing on you at the moment, but he is sure focusing on another thing that got hold of him for that moment which dwells in another realm of reality far from you both. There is no in-between in being absent or present, it is either you are present here and absent there or you are absent there and present here. When people lose the sense of consciousness of this realm of existence, they sure are in another realm of existences. Not all go to heaven when they are away from the earth, there are other realms of realities in the heavens that people get to experience when they are not present and conscious of the earth. God can also use daydreaming as a prophetic tool to reveal things to us as prophetic people. Many a time, we have been to 129

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places and seen people for the first time, but have the feeling and impression that we have seen them before and been to the location before. You may not have fantasized about the place or the person, but the reality was revealed to you beforehand somehow by God. When you hear a person speak about heavenly encounters and you have never had one before even in a vision, then you may find yourself fantasizing and daydreaming about the heavenly. This is possible with many other things in life too and God that dwells in the realms of the heaven and sees no impossibilities can cause you to have that encounter fulfilling the desire you daydreamed and fantasized about. In most trance experience, people lose consciousness of time and their senses and most times your eyes may be closed, but in daydreaming your eyes are open. Nonetheless in both cases, you are away from the realm that surrounds you and in another gate or window of another realm not visible to you with the physical eyes. Visions are like living in two realties at the same time because your senses are in place in this realm, but another sense that dwells within you switches on giving you the ability to visualize and have a mental awareness of something in another realm. Daydreaming is a normal prophetic experience like vision, dream and trance. God uses it to show us things in the language we can understand. I do daydream of a lot of things and surely many came to pass. You may call it a desire, but the passion consumed me which took over my thinking and imagination. If I tell you I 130

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will be buying you a spaceship so you can go to space tomorrow, I believe you will be consumed with the thought of that possibility. Your imagination will be actively and passionately conjuring up images of travelling on your own spaceship to space. This imagination will look so real. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us. [Ephesians 3:20] Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. [Isaiah 1:18] God has called us to His realm of reasoning, musing, pondering and imagination. The word imagination is “yetzer” in Hebrew and it means to have a mental picture of something in your mind which is imprinted and real. God has asked us to dare to imagine and think, ponder on anything. When you have done that, He then says that we should come with that imagination to reason with Him. When you imagine and think things as you fantasize them wanting to achieve them, don't just stop there, but come to The Lord so that you can reason with Him on those things. It is when you reason with God that He edits and restructures what is imprinted in your mind by yetzer, so that it does not turn out to be of any harm to you. Everything ever achieved in life by great people began with a thought and a yetzer in their mind. Until you imagine the 131

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possibility of a thing, then you can achieve it because you cannot grow and rise above the capacity of your mind. What are you thinking of? And what do you want to achieve in life? If you can think it and have a mental picture of it, then you have passed the first stage. Then, you take it for further evaluation by God through reasoning together with Him so that He can edit and restructure the plan and vision to align with heaven's government and purpose for your life. As you reason with God via The Holy Spirit, the idea is screened to see if it will do more harm than good to the world before is approved by God. If what you think of will harm the world, God will not give you His support and approval. He will demand you to do another thinking, but if it will heal the world, He will release His grace and resources toward you to fulfil it. The power of imagination lies in the possibility to motivate and empower you to achieve what you daydream about. There are many people that have achieved certain things on earth just because they daydreamt and fantasized them with God. Don't just fantasize about things, always involve God into it by bringing it for proper reasoning with Him. Some people may not even see a vision or dream about anything at night, but they have a natural likeness for something and its passion also consumes them. This will lunch them into the realm of fantasy and daydreaming. When you continue to imagine a thing for long, there is a great tendency that you will daydream about it at all times. There are people who always fantasize and daydream 132

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about being in a particular city they love. They can be absentminded while talking to you, but present minded in the city, this makes them happy and glad. Your prosperity and calling also depends on certain geographical location in the physical. When you fantasize and daydream about a particular location, it might be a divine orchestration by God shifting and calling you to walk upon the path of destiny. People that achieve great things have a high sense of imagination. They daydream and imagine the possibility of conquering one more city or town so as to spread their influence into another country. When you are consumed by the passion of a thing, you are bound to daydream and have visionary imagination about it. God loves people that have a passion for things. It doesn't matter what you want to achieve in life, as long as it does not contradict the principles of God, do that with the whole of your heart. I dare you to let the zeal and passion drive you and permit God to guide you by submitting your passion, desire and want for proper editing. For God will always support a structure and vision He is a part of from the beginning. You need the approval of God before you begin anything, else it will not stand and last long. God is not against His children's daydreams and fantasies about His kingdom and purpose, but it has to be under His government and authority so that the world can be properly improved and healed. Not many people daydream in life, but as many that are 133

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called to fulfil a great destiny on the earth under God, they usually find themselves daydreaming about their assignment on earth. You can daydream and fantasize about anything that the mind can grasp as long as it is true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of good report, virtuous and praiseworthy (Philippians 4:8). You can daydream about yourself preaching the gospel, healing the sick, on a mission field, as a doctor, as a lawyer, as a politician and as many other things. Daydreaming is like a wakeup call to push you further to fulfilling your destiny. You don't have to stop at daydreaming, but rise up with passion and zeal to fulfil that which has taken a hold of your imagination and bring it to reality on earth. Lots of the people that achieve impossible things always say that, 'I once imagined it, I dreamt about it, and I know it will be possible' and now it is possible after a while in their lives. In the same manner, your daydreaming will become a reality if you take a step further from just fantasy. Trance Trance is yet another healthy prophetic experience that is common among prophetic people, but the lack of awareness and understanding makes it look like a strange manifestation. It is common in the body of Christ that most people do have spiritual experiences, but they can't accurately differentiate between those encounters whether it is a vision, dream, trance, daydream or spirit transport, these are but a few and with the many manifestations of 134

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the prophetic. The younger generation who are new to this manifestation must be informed and school aright of what to expect in the prophetic, although The Holy Spirit will still be their main educator and counsellor. A lot of errors and mistakes can be avoided if our elders can communicate the knowledge of their dealings and discipline with God overtime. This will educate us aright on what to expect as we journey in God. Nevertheless, the younger generation must take it upon themselves to give heed to knowledge and to studying the word. It is true that in spiritual and prophetic dealing, you must be schooled by God and His Holy Spirit because the schooling of men is not sufficient for you. The schooling of men can form the basic foundation for the journey, but in other to attain an optimum plane in God, you must be schooled again by God Himself. Most Spiritual and prophetic experiences happen and occur spontaneously, and most times God is not under any obligation to explain to you the type of experience He is giving you as long as the message is delivered. God expects you to follow through His dealings with you because He has done the same with those who have gone ahead of you. God puts in place leaders and mentors to show unto us the patterns and footprints of how they walked with Him so that we can follow suit. God is always looking for a faithful man who He can teach so that he can always teach others. Nonetheless, God will always still teach you later, but not from the basic. 135

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Prophetic experiences are common among people and if people are informed on what to expect, they will be able to relate with God in an easy way. It is unfortunate that the younger generation never give much regard to reading and studying. God has scrolls in the spiritual realm and scrolls translated by men in the physical realm. The scribes in heaven write spiritual scrolls and the scribes on earth are given the revelation to translate and write scrolls in the physical realm for our consumption. These scrolls educate and release impartation upon the reader. No true leader fails in life because the power of the knowledge he possesses attracts success to him naturally. In the society, people that are considered great are those that solve problems that trouble the nations. The solutions to world problems are written in ancient scrolls in the heavens. We are to see the solutions to issues as written in heaven's scrolls and reveal as it relates to the present physical condition. Every problem on the earth has its solution written in the scrolls of heavens. The problem lingers for long because there is no one found worthy to access those truth and realities written in the scrolls. People that read, study and fellowship with The Holy Spirit are given the access to see the writing of the scrolls and reveal it to men on earth. Many don't care to read, so even when they try to read in the flesh they don't see. When a solution cannot be found on the physical scrolls and literatures on the earth, then it is time to visit the spiritual library in the heavens that contain scrolls. No matter how big, difficult and complicated your problem is, that is 136

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no concern to heaven because the scrolls that contain the answer to your problems was written even before the problem befell you on earth. You can't solve spiritual issues and problems using earthly and physical means, you must take a walk into the realm of the spirit to see and read from the scrolls that contain truths and realities. Prophetic people have found this a common reality to partake of the minute of heaven's meeting so as to share in the distribution of wisdom and sharing of scrolls. New scrolls are still being written as new discoveries and issues arise in the heaven and the earth. The shaping of the world is done by the activities and collaboration of heavenly and earthly princes that God put in places for His kingdom sake. The laws that govern the earth are being reshape, and rewritten as men transit into God discerning new discoveries and technology that will ease the suffering of mankind in time. Don't you wonder at the level of depth and wisdom exhibited by some people? These people do partake of scrolls and have insights of God's new creation in the heavens. God is still creating things for the betterment of mankind and He use humans to achieve that knowingly or unknowingly. There may be no physical solution to a challenge on earth, but there is always a spiritual solution and answer that lies in the heavens. The heavens of God never lack the ability to proffer solution to man's need on earth. Nevertheless, heaven is a place and realm of order and protocols, you don't just ascend unto the 137

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heavenly at will to attend meetings. You must be summoned or given permission by God to come into the gathering of princes and sons to partake of the procession that God initiates. There are times when God gives scrolls to people to eat as an impartation of new wisdom and fresh utterances. John the beloved in the book of Revelation was given a scroll to eat which gave him the ability to prophesy again the counsel of God to kings, prince, cities and nations. Most prophetic people do have encounters in which they are given scrolls or books to eat, read or look upon, this is an impartation of new wisdom and knowledge, and fresh revelation and utterances for the new season. Such encounter marks the end of a season and the beginning of a new one in the person's life. One of the common prophetic experiences God uses to summon people into the court of heaven to attend meetings is via trance. Trance is a prophetic experience that is orchestrated by God. During such an encounter, your natural senses becomes fragile and another sense switches on and you do not have control of what you see or hear. It is like you are in an automatic mode driven by someone. Most trance experiences are accurate and revelatory in nature. During the encounter, your spirit can communicate with God, but your senses are fragile. Most people that have trance encounters blackout in the initial and find themselves in another reality of existence. 138

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They see and hear things in that realm, uncommon revelatory insights are given to them. It is always accompanied by a release of tremendous presence of The Holy Spirit and even angelic presence at times. Trance experiences are not a usual spiritual encounter because it gets to blow your own theology about God and His creation. Just like spirit transport, this prophetic experience is energy demanding, that is why the presence of The Holy Spirit and the angelic are commonly seen during this encounter. On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance, And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. But Peter said, not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean. And the voice spake unto him again the second time, what God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven. [Acts 10:9-16] Cornelius was a centurion who feared God. He was praying on a faithful day as he normally does when God sent His angel to encounter him and demand he sends for peter who is at Joppa at the moment. Peter was at Joppa praying when he fell into a trance. As he fasted and prayed in Joppa, he became hungry and was caught 139

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up in a trance where he saw something that looked like a long sheet of paper laydown from heaven to the earth. This sheet contains all kind of animals in it including those animals that were considered unclean in the Jewish culture and tradition. As Peter watched in amazement, a voice spoke to him saying, “Arise Peter, kill and eat.” Suddenly, peter replied No! For I have never eaten anything unclean since I was born. God spoke to him again rebuking him not to call what He has created unclean. This encounter was not really about Peter, but for the good of Cornelius the Gentile that God wanted to honour his service and prayer. The encounter was not for Peter, but was for Cornelius. God was trying to prepare Peter's heart for the task of going to preach and witness among the Gentiles which was forbidden for them. When it was time for the Gentiles to come into the commonwealth of Israel and become partakers of the inheritance of the saints, Peter who is the rock had to be the first to open that realm of operation for Paul to find footing and continue as an apostle called, graced and separated for the Gentiles. Peter was the apostle to the Jewish people while Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles. When Peter went to Cornelius' house as commanded by God, he witnessed about Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit came upon the Gentiles and they all began to speak in other tongues as The Spirit gave them utterance. This happened without the laying on of hands of the apostles, God made it that supernatural so that no one, not even a Jewish apostle will glory in the salvation of the 140

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Gentiles. It was the desire of God to bring together the Jews and the Gentiles and that could only be done if the barrier of separation between them was removed. For God to achieve that, He had to give the Gentiles that same precious gift of The Father which is The Holy Spirit. When Peter was rebuked and questioned by his fellows as to why he went to the house of a Gentile, he made them understand that God did what He did by His sovereignty. Although they didn't fully comprehend that God opened that door so as to unite the Jews and the Gentiles in Jesus Christ. Paul had an understanding because God revealed that to him when He called him when he had the encounter on his way to Damascus. In Acts of the Apostles, Ananias while praying for Saul who became Paul, God told him not to see him as a persecutor and an evil man again for He has called him and shown him what he will suffer as he witnesses to the Gentile world. Trance still remains a vital way through which God reveals His secrets and mysteries to us even in our society today. Many people have life changing trance encounters on a daily basis. This experiences can be spontaneous and momentary in our lives. There was a day we went for a prophetic meeting with some friends. In the midst of the procession of worship and prayer, I was caught up in a trance into another realm, I saw substances like rain dropping upon people and pearls given to us. As I tasted the substance, it had no taste, but oily in nature. 141

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Heaven's resource may not make sense to us, but they carry spiritual reality and texture that can form the structure for our sustenance in God for a season. I had a trance encounter some years ago while waiting on God through studying and praying when suddenly a wind blew around me and I changed realm immediately. I saw an angel stand by me. He stretched forth his hand towards me and my eyes were closed, then he took me to heaven. As we toured the heaven, he handed me over to another angel that angel took me a distance and handed me over to two angels. These ones clothed me with something that looked like a living white garment. Those two angels handed me over to one angel who took me to the presence of God. Immediately, I fell down like a dead man before the glory of God, but He stretched forth His hand and life entered my spirit and raised my body to stand. He spoke to me in my spirit for a while and released impartation on me. After much speaking, I was taken back to the earth realm. The same angel took me and handed me over to the two angels who handed me over to another until the last one that brought me to my body in the physical realm. I wondered and pondered why the switch in angels until I realized that it was not really about the angels, but there is a chain of command and protocol observed in heaven. The realms and sphere of the heaven are seen as territories with boundaries of jurisdiction. Not all angels function in the same realm, sphere and dimension. They communicate to each other by a chain of command from the 142

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highest to the lowest. Certain realms and spheres are not within the boundary and jurisdiction of certain angels. They can only pass through them if permitted by God. When God summons you, the message passes through a chain of command before it gets to you. The trance experience was revelatory to me. I woke up praying in the spirit and sweating with a strange and heavy presence of The Holy Spirit. Uncommon wisdom and revelation and certain abilities in me switched on as they were activated by God. A genuine love for God is a vital precursor for such an encounter. When you love God beyond everything, He will try to speak and communicate to you because His speaking gives strength and life. The more God speaks and communicates with me, the more life and strength I receive. A deep confidence was built in me to trust God the more and dare to go further in my pursuit of more of Him. I must say that most prophetic encounters are a product of your fellowshipping with The Holy Spirit. People that fellowship with The Holy Spirit always have uncommon prophetic supernatural encounters that releases wisdom, revelation and power to them. If you don't know more of The Holy Spirit and never cared to know of Him, you will be lacking in the experiences of the prophetic. Angelic encounters are also possible for you when you develop a constant communion and fellowship with The Holy Spirit since The Holy Spirit is a Spirit that dwell in both realms and has no limitation in both sphere. When you bond with Him during fellowshipping and communion, He will take you to places in God that you have never been before. 143

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But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. [1 Corinthians 2:10] As I fellowshipped and communed with The Holy Spirit in my inner closet, I suddenly blacked-out and a new reality was opened unto me. I am now able to see and hear God talk to me. Spirit transport and trance are common to people that commune and fellowship with The Holy Spirit by meditation. Meditating is another realm of operation in which you ponder and muse permitting God to pray through you the burden of His heart and your heart. It is like giving God a ground in your heart to sample the burden in His heart as He sees the burden in your heart, then consoles and eases the burden by answering the prayers releasing peace and strength to you. It is common for believers to pray to God, but they never permit God to put His burden in their heart. When you meditate, you are not just musing and marinating, but you are permitting God via His Spirit to pray His burden through you. This results to much strength and power released upon you. Meditation is not a demonic activity as many are meant to believe, but meditation is another way of praying spiritually. You learn how God speaks to your spirit and how you speak to His Spirit as you meditate. It is like a holy romance and sharing of the intent and content of heart. It takes some level of spiritual discipline to come into this realm of operation in God, but it is very possible. It is a quiet discussion with God in your heart because He 144

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has taken a place and sits within your heart. You don't have to shout, but just muse and ponder in silence about His love and how grateful you are for Him watching over you daily. You can also talk to Him about your weakness and challenges. You must be very honest with God when it comes to meditation because you have no reason to be shy or hide any secret from Him. He is already seated in your heart listening to you speak to Him. What a love affair! Meditation is talking to The Holy Spirit that dwells inside of you. Most times, we talk to The Holy Spirit as if He is a Spirit that comes and stands face to face with us conversing, No! The Holy Spirit is within us and we communicate from the heart to Him as He witnesses to our spirit in our heart. There is The Spirit upon us; which came during our baptism in The Holy Ghost, but that Spirit went into our heart and dwells in our spirit. It becomes The Spirit within us that energies us in our walking with God. The Holy Spirit within us edifies and builds a spiritual fortress within us, it is a deep well spring of living waters. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) [John 7:38-39] That water is The Spirit within us that edifies us from the inside out. In meditation, you talk to The Spirit that dwells inside of your heart. God's Spirit is not only dwelling upon us but also within. The 145

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Spirit upon is used to bless and minister to others touching their lives, but The Spirit within us edifies and consoles us as it counsels us daily. We need to put more emphasis on The Spirit of God within us as we focus on The Spirit upon us to bless others. When you fellowship and commune, praying with The Holy Spirit, although you are edified within, the presence of the anointing and power is built and concentrated upon to bless others. When you meditate with The Holy Spirit who dwells in your heart, you are tapping into the living spring of living waters inside of your spirit to edify and build your spirit to be able to contain God and His dealings in your life. God is the one that puts that spring within us and we must take advantage of it. Lots of people never realize that they can talk to the God that dwell within them as The Spirit of Truth. When you speak and ponder the word of God to Him during meditation, He cannot but answer His word which cannot be broken and settled in heaven even before the foundations of the earth were set. I urge you to begin the practice of meditation and fellowship, communing with The Holy Spirit that dwells within and upon you so that you can be built and edified within your heart and spirit carrying the supernatural presence of the anointing to bless others under God. Amen. Shalom!!!

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s the name implies, spirit transport is another prophetic experience that exist in the realm of God. This may not look common among prophetic people, but was common in scriptures in time past. Men that walked with God in time past had such encounters where they left their bodies to another location, it was like being in dual-locations where you are seen by people in two locations functional and active. This may sound strange, but this manifestation is found among the prophetic manifestations and experiences of God. Prophetic individuals in time past had this encounters and many travelled in the spirit, with their spirit, soul and body. Spirit transport is the movement from one place to another by the aid and agency of The Holy Spirit and the angels of The Lord. Philip the Apostle was transported after talking with the Ethiopian eunuch. God has no limitation, we men do and this is simply because of our unbelief. Everything is possible in God if we can just believe. Spiritual transportation and transport in the spirit was common in the life of the prophets of old. It is possible for God to transport people supernaturally from one place to another and this is not an exclusively preserved for certain spiritual elites, but for anyone 147

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who dares to believe in God. Jesus Christ after He resurrected came to the apostles passing through the wall as they wondered and surprised at what means of transportation that was. He was known as a man that did terrible signs and wonders, but now they saw even more than a sign and a wonder. When a man is being transported in the spirit, he sees no limitation in the physical realm. He is not held bound by natural laws and principles. Passing through walls and appearing and disappearing are so possible for him. He is possessed and controlled by the spirit and chariots of heaven. When a man is about to be transported, he is transformed to light and spirit, that is why he cannot not be touched. Jesus Christ after revealing Himself to them by spirit transport ascended into heaven by the Jordan river where they saw Him lifted up to His father. This encounter they had was enough to motivate them to dare the possibility of spirit transport in God. Paul the apostle said, “I know a man 14 years ago whether in the flesh or in the spirit, he was caught up and transported into the third heaven, this man had encounters and saw things that are unlawful for him to utter.” It was possible for the apostles to follow suit after Christ Jesus because they saw Him do the same thing and that realm of possibility was opened to them all. It is true that if you can see someone do a thing and follow after the principle and patterns that he followed, you can do the same and even more if you can just 148

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believe. After the death of Christ Jesus, The Messiah many years ago, Philip the evangelist was instructed by God to join himself with the chariot of an Ethiopian eunuch who was on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. He had a scroll that he was reading which contained the prophecies of the prophet Isaiah. This eunuch was finding it hard to comprehend the prophecies written by the prophet of a messiah that will come and die for the sins of mankind. Philip by The Holy Spirit was led to join himself with the eunuch's chariot and ask him, “Understand thou what thou read?” Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, how can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth. [Isaiah 53:7-8]. And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man? Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus 149

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Christ is the Son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea. [Acts 8:29-40] Philip was able to explain to him what he read and after he comprehended it, he demanded to be baptized believing in the name of Jesus Christ who took away the sins of mankind. When Philip was done with the assignment of talking to the Ethiopian eunuch, he was transported by the spirit as he disappeared to reappears in another region of Azotus to preach and minister as a witness of Christ Jesus. Transport in the spirit is not limited to when your body is lifted. There are times when your body remains in the location as your spirit and soul tours another realm. It is possible to be in two different places at the same time performing different functions. There have been several encounters of such. I have heard most ministers speak about such encounters at work in their lives. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet. [Revelations 1:10] John the beloved said, he was in the spirit on The Lord's Day when he had a spirit transport encounter to the very presence of God. He was banished to the Island of Patmos after many attempts to kill him failed. Emperor Nero persecuted the apostles unto death 150

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in his time. Many of them were martyred, but John the beloved survived and was banished to the Island of Patmos to die a natural death. But instead of dying, he brought another revelation of Christ Jesus to the body of Christ. He was taken to the spirit realm and transported in the spirit to see things that were, are and will be. He saw past, present and future events that will unfold overtime in the body of Christ. Spirit transport is aided by the chariots, angels and presence of The Holy Spirit. This is also common in the Old Testament. The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, and caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith 151

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the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. [Ezekiel 37:1-10] Ezekiel was a prophet called in exile and ordained by God as His prophet to speak to the children of Israel His counsel in those hard and terrible times. He was taken in the spirit and shown things that have passed for many years. He had encounters of the past, present and future. He was transported in the spirit and shown the temple of Jerusalem. He was shown the atrocities and the iniquities committed by the children of Israel in times past which resulted in their present suffering. God shows the prophet past actions of the Israelites that led to their present predicament and revealed to him what they ought to do to be free from that captivity. There are times when God will not just speak a thing to you, He will want you to see it as it is in the spirit realm. He will take you by the spirit and transport you to the very place where that reality dwells, then He speaks to you, giving you instructions and commandment of what to do. God did the same thing to John as He did to Ezekiel. For Ezekiel to come into the understanding of Israel as an entity under God, he was taken to see the journey of God with them overtime; how they disobeyed and served other gods until He gave them up to captivity. God revealed to the prophet the promises He made to save them after they repent and turn back to Him. 152

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Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place. I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels over against them, and a noise of a great rushing. So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days. [Ezekiel 3:12-15] With such an understanding, the prophet can now lead the people through a time of repentance praying and asking God for His deliverance and mercy upon them. John the beloved went under the same dealing and discipline. He had to be banish by persecution to the Island of Patmos before he was transported by the spirit of God to the very heavens and presence of God. And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. [1kings 18:46] Elijah the prophet experienced spirit transport after he was done with the contest on Mount Carmel which led to the death of the false prophets and rain upon the land. As he prayed for the heaven to be open so that it can rain again. He told the king to leave and go home for it is about to rain. The king never believed the prophet until he saw the rain coming before he began to saddle his chariots to take him home. The king had the best of chariots in the kingdom, 153

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but it was recorded that Elijah ran faster and went ahead of the king's chariots. This was possible by the spirit, angels and chariots of heaven. Elijah was transported by the spirit of God to move faster than the chariots of the king. This had to be supernatural because no normal man moves faster than a chariot. There is a realm in which such a manifestation exists in God, anyone can walk in that realm if there is a need and God sees him fit for it. And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me. And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so. And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and he cried, my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces. [2kings 2:9-12] When it was time for Elijah to rest in God and he had to exit this realm of reality, it was recorded that he was taken up by a whirlwind by the river Jordan, this was done through spirit transport. His protégé Elisha cried out, “my father, my father the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof.” Elisha saw the whirlwind as they took his spiritual father away from him. When a

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man is being transported by the spirit, he can be seen in the glory of the angels, chariots and presence of the Holy Spirit. And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him [Genesis 5:24] By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. [Hebrews 11:5] Enoch was a man of faith, he walked with God and it was recorded that he was not found again among men for God took him. He was a man that walked and functioned with God. He has a track record of walking with God. God needed him as a friend even in heaven. He had to transport him to heaven permanently; spirit, soul and body. God always achieves spirit transportation by the chariots of The LORD. When a person is to exit the earth realm to the heaven, it is done by the chariots of fire. But when transportation is going to be from one place to another within the earth realm, it is done by the chariot of The LORD. Whenever it involves the chariots of fire, there will be a change of realm. Elisha who was a protege of Elijah who also functioned after the order of his father, had such prophetic experience of spirit transport also. Naaman was an army general that was leprous and he was referred to Elisha for healing and cleansing. Elisha helped him without collecting an offering from him. Gehazi who was supposed to be the protege of Elisha as he served under him as a 155

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son, but in his greed went to the army general to collect the offering he brought to Elisha of which he refused to collect. Gehazi went without the consent of Elisha his spiritual covering and father. But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, “Whence comest thou, Gehazi?” And he said, Thy servant went no whither. And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive yards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants? The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed forever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow. [2kings 5:25 -27] Unknown to Gehazi, Elisha was transported in the spirit to see the selfish and greedy transaction that he did with the army general who was healed of leprosy. When he came back home, he was questioned by Elisha about why he had to follow after the army general to collect the gift that was rejected? Gehazi denied that he didn't collect anything from the army general until Elisha let him realized that he was transported in the spirit to see him when he went after the general to collect the gifts in his name. Because of Gehazi's disobedient and lies, the leprosy that was cleansed from the army general came upon him and so he remained a leprous man. There was another time when the enemy of Israel were planning different strategies that they will use to fight Israel. Whenever they 156

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planned, the secrets were being revealed to the king of Israel by Elisha the prophet. The other king thought he was being betrayed by his own people because these meetings were done in the king's chamber of which no unwanted guests are allow entrance. Information got to the king that there is a prophet in Israel who reveals the secret things discussed by the king and his men to the king in Israel. Elisha was transported in the spirit to attend the meeting in the king's chamber, then he goes and relates what transpired in the meeting to the king of Israel. The king sent an army to capture the prophet in Israel, but by supernatural manifestation, the prophet gave the whole army blindness and led them to the very camp of the army of Israel. God can use spirit transport to reveal to us ancient secrets and code of conduct that were functional in times past which were neglected as people transited in dealing with God. The chariots of God that were saddled with the responsibility of transporting people often in the spirit are the cherubim and Seraphim. Sometimes, a clusters of angelic beings of different ranks work together to achieve this purpose. Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and 157

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their rings were full of eyes round about them four. And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels. [Ezekiel 1:15-21] The prophet who has numerous experiences of transport in the spirit gave us an understanding of specific beings with wheels which are referred to as the owphanims from the root Hebrew word owphan meaning to revolve, a wheel. These beings are also part of the clusters of the spirits that results in the transportation of the spirit. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. [Psalms 18:10] The Seraphim are beings that burn with fire while the Cherubim have wings and the wheels contains the spirit of the creatures. When these Seraphim and Cherubim join together clustering with other beings of light, a chariot of fire is formed and transport in the spirit can be achieved. This chariot of fire can transport you from one place to another in the twinkle of an eye as seen happen to Philip the evangelist, Elijah the prophet, John the beloved, Enoch, Jesus Christ and many more. 158

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God still transports people in our day and time. I was watching a TV broadcast by Sid Roth, “Its supernatural” when he was interviewing a minister of the gospel that was transported by the spirit from one country to another. He spoke and said that he was scheduled to minister in a country and as he went to the airport to board the plane, there was a prompting within him to go to the restroom and worship God for a while before he checked into the flight. As he was worshipping in the restroom suddenly, he was lost in time and after a while he felt the prompting to open the door of the restroom. To his amazement as he went out of the restroom, he realized he was transported spirit, soul and body to the country he was supposed to fly to. This kind of encounter is rare and requires the aid of The Holy Spirit because it is impossible for anyone to cross to another country spirit, soul and body. Such an encounter will always be a wonder to even the minister because he cannot accurately explain the details of the encounter for it is beyond the mind. Most supernatural manifestations of God can't relate with our carnal mind that is why the first criteria to walking in the supernatural is to take your mind off your thinking and do as your spirit prompts and informs you. Most times we have the fear of, 'what if it doesn't work?' why don't we get comfort from what if it works! Most supernatural manifestations will happen in our lives without a plan. You will not have the time to pre-plan and premeditate it because it is not for your glory. God always does the 159

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sign and we do the wondering. I have listened to David Hazog talk of the supernatural and relates it to an encounter he had of which he was transported from one location to another spirit, soul and body. He was supposed to go minister in another state which was supposed to take him a long hour drive, but his car broke down on transit. He had to wait and repair the car and this delayed him. When he finally concluded that he can't make it for the meeting which was scheduled to start immediately he arrived. He called the people to inform them that he can't meet up with the timing of the meeting for the day and demanded that his session be shifted to the next day. After the repair he entered the car to drive and as he was worshipping God, he was lost in time and was transported exactly to the route that connected to the meeting venue. He arrived the meeting just in time supernaturally to the surprise of all. He spoke about transport in the spirit and how God achieved it. He said, “If time is what governs our realm of existence and we require it to take us to places and locations, then if God can just take away the time suppose for us to reach a particular destination, then we will reach it instantly.” A lady was praying in her room while her friends sat in the sitting room. The same lady that was praying in the room was seen passing through the sitting room making her way outside the door to go pray for someone that was sick in the hospital. She was both at home and the hospital at the same time. Later, the people that sat in the sitting room came to her room to tell her that they saw her go 160

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out of the door, they all wondered at what has just happen. This happened when she was praying and interceding for the lady that was sick in the hospital. Most spirit transport will come as a surprise and a wonder to you, because you will always find it hard to account for the details of the transaction. Just as trance, your senses are fragile and lack control of yourself. Spirit transport is of that manner; you don't have control of such an encounter it just happens for the glory of God. I was transported in the spirit a number of times, most of those times I don't have a detail of the encounters, although I sustain much wisdom and revelations. God can transport you in the spirit to reveal things to you, He can also transport you in the spirit to talk and speak to another person giving him counsel and instructions in The Holy Spirit. There are times when God transported me in the spirit to speak to people giving them understanding of certain things they lack knowledge in. The people get to call me and inform me of the things I talked to them about and I wonder when such a thing happened of which I lack full knowledge and understanding of. There are times when as I meditate and pray interceding for others, I feel a switch in realms and time. Most of those times, The Lord takes advantage of it to transport you to minister to others. People get to call and inform you that you came at a particular time to pray with them and speak certain words to them and you get to wonder the truth in their confession. You cannot deny the fact that 161

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the words that they confessed are words that you are capable of speaking under God. Transport reality is an exclusive preserve of The Spirit of God, and God will never want us to glory in it and that is why the understanding of how and when it will happen is conceal from us most times. There are times that as I pray and commune with The Spirit, I realize myself leave my body and travel around other realms of existence, sometimes I see things in the glory of heaven. That makes me wonder and marvel at the creation and supremacy of God and how He puts creation in order far beyond the carnal wisdom of man. There are other common spirit transport experiences we can relate to in our society. Have you ever seen a minster you know in your dream praying or talking to you? Or have you ever seen yourself whether in a dream, vision or trance traveling and moving from one place to another? Or seen yourself flying on the wings of angels or just flying from place to place? These encounters are not always demonic as many were made to believe, some of these encounters are healthy spiritual prophetic experiences in which God transports you to see things and pray for regions subduing them under God. Many people have encounters of themselves flying at night to places and locations to pray or attend meetings praying for the sick. Some see themselves move to people's houses at night to pray and watch over the houses. You may not have a good understanding of 162

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such an encounter because the understanding is not revealed and given to you by God. Spirit transport reality exists in the spirit realm under God. Not all people that fly in the spirit at night or day are witches and wizards, most of those movement in the spirit are orchestrated by The Holy Spirit under God. We must learn to discern the prophetic manifestations of The Holy Spirit, so that we don't limit The Holy Spirit in our mind, but to the word of God. There was this minister of the gospel that went to a place to minister and was told that he came and ministered some time ago in the place. To his surprise, he knew he can't recall himself coming to that place before, but he can't tell the people that they lied because he has an understanding that The Holy Spirit can cause you to be in dual locations at the same time. I recall a dream I had some years ago where I was being persecuted and chased to be killed. I found myself flying and running from one state to another with a speed I know was beyond my natural capacity. The people got tired of chasing me because I was moving with a speed they can't comprehend. I recall another dream I had of myself and two other prophetic friends of mine being chased and we held hands together flying upon the wings of a big cherub that took us away to a safe zone. This experiences may look strange, but they are true in God. Spirit transport is not what you do at will, it is orchestrated by God and it mostly occurs in desperate times. You don't have to be a prophet or a prophetic individual for such an experience to happen 163

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in your life, a simple love for God is enough for it to happen. In desperate times when believers are heavily persecuted to be slaughtered, God can choose to deliver them by supernaturally transporting them to another location that is safer. I don't believe that this is a hard thing for God to do, God can even do more than that for us. These are the times of the supernatural and the supernatural will no longer be a strange place and plane of operation for this century, but a normal realm of reality. People are embracing the supernatural and the experiences of the prophetic. Most people find it easy to believe God in desperate and terrible times when their minds can't think of a solution out of their dilemma because doubt is taken away and unbelief is nowhere to be found. You don't have to seek to be transported in the spirit, all what God wants from you is to believe in the possibility of that reality and when it is needed for you to be transported, He will cause it to function in your life by His sovereignty. I dare you to believe God the more, as He brings you to the realm of daily supernatural and prophetic encounters in Him. Amen. Shalom!!!

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dreams are just as complex. It is considered the easiest because our mind and body is at a state of rest, so it becomes easy for God to speak and we receive it because he relates with us in the state of rest. I spoke of trance and spirit transport as prophetic encounters that exempts the control of our physical senses. Also in dreams, our consciousness is beyond our control and our subconscious mind relates with the heavenly and God speaks to us as deep sleep falls upon us. God puts His instruction upon our hearts and locks them up until the time for their unveiling by revelation. I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. [Psalms 16:7] God gives people dreams because they can easily comprehend it. There are people who have never had a vision or heard God speak to them by any other means as explained in the previous chapters, but surely most people do have dreams from God and can easily realize they have a dream. Dreams can come from various sources for a dream to be prophetic and spiritually communicating the mind and heart of God, it must come from The Spirit of God Himself. For your dreams to carry spiritual and prophetic realities and texture, you must work on your mind, emotion and intellect so that you can be guided and influenced by the word of God. If you permit the influences of the world and its lust upon your soul, your dreams can be influenced by demonic spirit deceiving and leading you to error.

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Your dreams can be influenced and come from your recreated spirit, soul and from your environment. These three ways can influence your dream, but only the dreams that come from your recreated spirit that can keep pace and harmonize with The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit can give you dreams that reveal heaven's realities for you that when you live in an environment with vegetation and much forestry, you may likely have dreams related to forestry and have things to do with that kind and texture of the environment. In the same manner, when you switch to a mountain environment, your dreams are likely to change taking the texture of the new environment. There is also a “soulish” realm. This is the realm of your feeling, desires and emotions. The soul also seeks to input things into your subconscious mind so that you can dream them. When your lust in the soul ranks higher than your priority in God, then your perception will be from the soul and its lust. If you have a love for soccer, baseball, or a damsel, it is possible that as you sleep, your soul begins to explore those realms releasing the information it can gather to your subconscious mind so that you can dream them. All these enticements come from the soulish realm of the flesh and its lust. This soulish realm has kept a lot of people bound in bondage and needing help daily. Certain degree of lust in the flesh can be broken by fasting because anything you starve for long dies naturally. The lust in the soul is bound to the flesh which administers its desires. The soul 167

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can't lust without the flesh and the flesh needs the body to administer the desires it receives from the soulish realm. Your life is somehow dependent upon your soul, flesh and body. You can't just starve them to death physically, but you can mortify them through the help of The Spirit of God. Dreams that come from the spirit are the ones to be reckoned with. Your recreated spirit is owned by God from the day you become born again. The Holy Spirit of God that searches the deep things of God takes from the heart of God, insight and revelations and put them in our hearts as He comes to dwell within us. The deposit we receive find placement in our subconscious mind so that we get it as a dream in the day and the night. The dreams that comes from The Holy Spirit are always dreams revealing purpose, heavenly glory and revealing the love of God to a broken heart such sending His angel to take us on a tour to heaven or permitting His Holy Spirit of promise to guide our heart into deep places in Him were we find love and peace. We all need tranquillity and that can only be found when we are wrapped in the love and arm of God our Father. A child mostly finds security in the arms of his father, so also we can only be safe and secured in the arms and watch of God. When God grants you the access to His glory, you feel the sense of love, peace and life that can't be compared with anything in the physical realm. People that have dreams where they encounter the glory and beauty of God never want to miss such a place for any earthly reward. God shows us a 168

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glimpse of that reality to make us realize the beauty and glory of His promise of eternal rest. We are to walk circumspectly redeeming the time until we make it to that glorious realm where God dwells. This destination is not for a selected few, but a realm promised to all who walk and remain in the path of righteousness. Let me try to explain the occurrence of a dream and how God puts it upon our heart overnight. Job gave us an accurate knowledge and understanding of the mechanism of dream as given by God to us all. For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction. [Job 33:14 -16] Have you cared to ponder on what happens to you when you sleep? We all know that there is no man born of a woman that does not sleep, except it is yet explained medical condition. If this is true, then when you sleep, all voluntary activities surrounding you on the physical comes to a standstill and another reality is switched on within you of which you are not aware of its processes, only your spirit and subconscious mind function at the state you are in for the time being. The realm that is open for you at that state is the spirit realm. Your body enters a comatose state, but your spirit and subconscious mind is permitted to do business in that realm. Man is spirit, soul and body, the body does business on the earth, the 169

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spirit does business in the spirit realm and the heavens while the soul with the help of the subconscious mind does business in the second heaven. Your soul is not supposed to guide you in your tour and journey to the heavens, if your soul is not recreated, renew and regenerated it will lead you to realms of darkness and its lust. But a spirit that is led by The Holy Spirit will grant you direct access to light and God that dwells in the heavens. The spirit realm is a realm where spirits relate with each other. There are demons, angels, thrones, dominion, principalities, powers, spirit of just men, spirit of wicked men, spiritual wickedness in heavenly places and other celestial beings that function and do business in that realm. There is both light and darkness in the spirit realm and you get attracted to what you represent: light or darkness. When you possess light and revelation of the word of God in the natural, then as you sleep, your spirit and subconscious mind and soul takes you to the realm of light to encounter more of God, but when you are full of darkness and evil on earth, as you sleep, you will be guided by your corrupt soul to the realm of darkness and demons. The spirit realm is like a meeting place and everyone knows his department; you will be guided by the life form you carry within you that is, The Holy Spirit or the nature of darkness and evil. When we sleep, we enter into another fellowship with spirits in the heavenly. This is where we receive information and instructions from The Holy Spirit and His angels. The end result of 170

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the meeting comes to us as dreams of the night. When we experience warfare and contention in dream most times, it is as a result of a spiritual contention between darkness and our life form as we ascend exploring the realm of the spirit. We have angels put in charge to watch and guide us even in the spirit realm that is why you can see angels in your dreams fighting and helping you war against the prince of darkness. We need The Holy Spirit in our dealings and businesses in the spirit realm because we are strangers in that realm. Our spirit tries to explore the possibility of the spirit realm until it finds itself in a foreign territory needing help. Some nightmares are the result of venturing into forbidden foreign territories in the spirit realm resulting to attacks from dark princes and cohorts in heavenly realm on us. You must be careful of the knowledge you possess on earth because there are forbidden knowledge that can lunch you into strange realms in the spirit. People that join an occult fraternity are given knowledge and understanding of things and places in the spirit world in which their realm of influence and power exist so that when they travel to the spirit realm, they encounter their princes and cohorts that dwell in the second heaven also. Such a fraternity always come with a price of which your life is demanded at last. After long procession in the spirit realm while you sleep, you return to your body that is in the state of coma, then the 171

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subconscious mind is switched to conscious mind and the information you receive from the encounters will be converted and transferred to your mind as a dream for your understanding on earth. Your brain decodes and interprets the encounters to you as you perceive and remember them to write. Nevertheless, interpretation of spiritual dreams is not done with the mind because the mind can be very carnal, except a mind that is recreated and renewed after the manner of the mind of Christ that can accurately interpret a dream. Lots of prophetic dreams are interpreted by The Holy Spirit Himself. There is such a gift that exists in God called the 'gift of interpretation of dreams,' this was functional in the life of Daniel in Babylon and Joseph in Egypt. The gift gave them uncommon wisdom and insight into the truths and mysteries of God. Do not be quick in interpreting your dreams using the mind, the interpretation lies with The Holy Spirit that gave you the dream. The revelation when interpreted causes the dream to materialize in your life. Dreams not interpreted is of no good to us. A dream will not really profit you if you don't have the revelation and interpretation of it. The interpretation carries the life and power to fulfil the dream. Most of the dreams you have ever had in the past will be of no effect, until the moment they are interpreted and the revelation is received in your spirit. There is a common dilemma in which people do dream and forget it as they wake up, I am not excluded from this dilemma because am a victim of forgetting dreams, nevertheless, there are a 172

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few things involved in this issue of forgetting dreams. Most times when a dream is forgotten by me, it is either one of these three scenarios: I don't need it, it came from my soul or can also be that the devil stole the dream from me to prevent me from accessing its revelation that will change my life. When a dream is of no spiritual effect, maybe a dream that just came from the influences of your environment, you can forget such dreams because your spirit sees no relevance in it. When a dream comes from the soul, it can also be forgotten. This is done by the benevolence of God trying to protect you from the onslaught of the soul and its lust that can hurt you. Dreams from the soulish realm can be very confusing and deceptive if you are not well engrafted in the word to be able to discern accurately. There are other times in which dreams are forgotten because the devil stole it from us. The instructions and commandment of God that is to change your life can be stolen by the devil. This happens as soon as you wake up, you just realize that the dream is gone and taken away from you in a moment unawares. If dreams are also an instruction and a commandment from God for us to fulfil, then the devil can choose to steal that instruction and commandment from us so that we can't fulfil the instructions of God. Dreams that are relevant and important to you even if forgotten can be remembered as you pray and commune with God. This has happened to me several times, I will wake up and realize I have forgotten the dream I had at night, although I can still perceive the dream within me 173

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even as my understanding is unfruitful. As I begin to pray and focus on my spirit and heart, I began to gain a quick and sharp understanding of the dream and its revelation. When you pray and still can't recall the dream, then just forget about it and pray to God committing yourself to Him knowing fully well that His plans for you are good and not evil. Claim the dream if you feel peace, but rebuke it if you feel a sense of fear and unrest. We must always have this strong mentality that God loves us and wants us to succeed in life knowing fully well that He will do His best to see that we are not deceived and hurt by the devil. The devil may wish and desire to deceive and destroy us, but God is always willing to direct and build us. We must realize that God is not a man, and He will always preserve and keep them that are His. One important thing people always fail to do is the documentation and writing of the speaking of God to them. Dreams are not too small and ephemeral to be written. Whatsoever God speaks is worth writing down. People keep journals for everything except for the things of God. I consider it a high level of unseriousness and lack of respect for the things of God. Vision and dreams have similar approach because they go hand in hand. You will never see a man with a dream without a vision, so also you cannot see a man of vision without a dream. What are your dreams and vision? Dreams and vision are inseparable whether God gave you a vision or a dream, you must cultivate the habit of writing and documenting what God communicates to you so that 174

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you can draw strength in weary and terrible hard times of discouragement and disappointment. When you don't write down what God shows you in a dream, you simply don't believe in its possibility to manifest. When you write a dream, that alone is already a faith and believe in the fulfilment of the dream. When you don't keep a journal or a notepad to write your dreams, you will forever forget your dreams. Every dream comes from a realm that has it presences and energy. That presence and energy is still retained for a while after we wake up from sleep before it gets to leave. If you can write the dream immediately you wake up, you will at least have a guideline on what to pin point and pray about. If you are truly determined to be great in life, then, you must begin to write your dreams and vision. When you don't care about writing a dream, that realm of dream can be shut down from you. God loves it when you are passionate about the things He communicates to you. When you are that passionate, He continues to trust you with more of His wisdom and mysteries. I have met some great leaders and I assure you that there is none of them that does not have a journal for documentation of dreams, vision and perceptions of the heart. When you begin to write and continue to write, knowledge, understanding and wisdom comes as you study and write. You will begin to relate words with words by the help of The Spirit of Truth. I have a lot of journals documenting dreams, vision and encounters that I have from God for many years ago. I still refer back to those 175

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speaking of many years and I am amazed at some of the things that God told me. When I began to function in dreams, I was overwhelmed and glad that among the billions of people on the whole earth, God still sees me fit to come talk with me and that was enough to make me that serious with Him. Before I came into that reality in God, there was a time when I was never serious with God. I came from the lineage of ministers and as a church boy, I never believed God can talk to me. I was not thought the possibility of God relating with my type so I decided to be as far as I can in my heart from God. Walking in all kinds of darkness and the devil helped me achieved that for a season. My parents actually tried their best to bring me up in the way of The Lord, but no matter how hard they tried, the devil kept pushing me away from God. The devil had his chance and time in my life, I walked and functioned in darkness for a while, serving the devil and doing his agenda and propagating darkness upon the earth. Thank God for salvation, it is truly a priceless gift. I think everyone needs to ask himself the simple question: Why did Jesus have to die? If you can't answer that question you will never see the need for the salvation of your soul and that of others. I do consider myself the worst sinner not worthy of forgiveness and love of God. Until I realized that there is not a worst sinner in the sight of God because He only sees lost souls that are deceived by the devil into sin and darkness. God reached out His hands of mercy to me and delivered me from my pit and pool of sin and death. He gave me a 176

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new life and a new reason to live a life of purpose. I am not proud of my former way of life, no one should be proud of his evil past either, but always do your best to rewrite your evil with good in The Lord. As it is written, “do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good deed.” I do meet people that have done some horrible and terrible things in the past and now they are in Christ Jesus, but still feel the pain and guilt of the past. This kind of people need to first forgive themselves before they ask God to forgive them because God has already forgiven them the very day they repented of their sin and iniquity. When you don't forgive yourself, you will feel unworthy to stand in the presence of God and God can't do anything to help you because you are the problem not Him. The Devil can use such a mindset to limit your growth in God. You will feel God is too good to you and you will consider yourself dirty and unfit to deserve the love and grace of God. As funny as this may be, there are people that have kept themselves within this cage for years. You must have to let go of your past and forgive yourself, then ask The Holy Spirit to heal your heart and soul of any hurt and pain. God is our father and He will never condemn them that come to Him, He will always love and cherish us. Just give Him the chance to love you and you will never regret such decision. Dreams come in different forms. There are dreams that are instructions which you need to act upon or give to someone, but there are dreams that are warfare and contention. You see yourself 177

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fighting with people and demons in the dream and some do see themselves being pursuit by a wild animal. You can have dreams that reveal your purpose showing you what will become of you in the future. Sometimes, you may see your achievements in the function of time. For a prayerful individual there is a common pattern of which his dreams follow overtime. As you get filled with The Holy Spirit, you are to season of commandment and instructions. God begins to instruct you on things to do, commandments to obey and live by and some may not be personal to you. This is the season where you are giving some assignments to fulfil by God. When you obey and do as instructed, you earn the trust of God. The more you obey God, the more He trusts you with His resources to function under Him. Instruction to go pray for someone, render a help to someone or even to just go speak words of consolation are given. This is a test of your obedience and yielding to the speaking of God and until you learn to trust and obey God, He can't entrust His mandate upon you to fulfil a calling. It is in that little obedience that the anointing upon you increases as you grow more in the knowledge of God. You are equipped as a faithful servant willing and ready to do the bidding of his master. God can direct you to go be a part of a mandate and an assignment which you are to be faithful in until He reveals and unveils your calling in Him to you. 'Until you serve someone faithfully, others will not serve you in the vision and assignment God gives you. 178

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Service is greatness and service to humanity is divine, especially when done with a selfless heart and desire.’ We are all called to serve humanity one way or the other under God, most dreams encountered during this season are mainly on how to be a good servant in obedience. After dreams of instruction and commandment into obedience, God begins to give you a new dream relating to your purpose. God begins to tell and reveal to you what He will want you to do on earth, people that are called to be your destiny helpers and partners are revealed to you before divine relationship is initiated to help you fulfil the purpose. Dreams of meeting people giving your resources, seeing a city that you will function in or seeing yourself in a particular office, etc. such dreams of purpose are clear for you to understand. Nevertheless, God can still give you instructions on other assignment if He so wishes. Dreams of warfare can still be encountered when you enter into a new spiritual realm or a new physical territory because, you will have to contend with demonic princes of those new realms and region, but the warfare is with a sure end of victory in God. The devil does not give up easily even when you are born again and active in God, he still believes you will soon be weary. Dreams Rule the World Dreams of today always become the realities of tomorrow. Money does not really rule the world as many are made to believe, but dreams, ideas and vision do rule the world. A man that has a 179

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dream and is able to communicate it to others will never die out in history. Even after his death, his dream continues to live among others although, some might die before they can birth the dream and vision. Myles Munroe of blessed memory said, “the graveyard is the richest place on earth because there are people who are supposed to be presidents of nations, company and conglomerate, business moguls and leaders in all sphere of lives that died without achieving it” there were so many people that lie in the grave with uncommon dreams and vision never achieved. Most of the world challenges and dilemma were solved by a mortal from a wisdom that always come from a dream of seeing the possibility of proffering solution. The people that fulfil their dreams on earth are always celebrated by others and considered heroes and superstars. All in God can proffer a solution by becoming a problem solver on the earth, that alone can put you in a pedestal that many never dared to attain because of the involvement and processes involved. Do you have any dream you want to achieve? Or desire to do something new in life which was never done by anyone? Such a thing if achieved will set you above others. You don't have to die with that desire and dream within you, ask The Holy Spirit to guide you aright by praying it comes to pass in your lifetime. The Holy Spirit communicates to us in a language that we can understand. It is obvious that if you don't hear the speaking of God, 180

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you will find it difficult to interpret a prophetic dream. When you are conversant with God speaking to you, it will become normal for you to hear Him reveal secrets to you. When it comes to dream interpretation, you must learn to pray about every dream you have no matter whether it is good or bad. When you pray about a dream you have, you are reporting it to God and getting God involved in it so that He can cause the reality of the dream to be fulfilled on earth. As you pray about your dream, consider the law of first mention: this law gives us the privilege to follow after the pattern in the scripture as touching a thing. Our dealings with God is similar to His dealing with others in times past. If we can see how He relates with them and how they interpreted things as He communicated it to them, then we can follow suit. When you have a dream, you should always go back to the scripture as a reference for your interpretation. If you see a horn in your dream, by the law of first mention, you are to go through scriptures to see what a horn means when first used. The same applies to when you see a crown, water, wind, and so many other things, they must mean something when it was used initially and you are to compare it with when it was first spoken then relate it with the now. There are key words to be noted in dreams when those words are interpreted, then the dream is interpreted and the revelation revealed. In interpreting dreams, the word of God must be your limit; don't be too quick to interpret dreams above the word of God. Your interpretation must reveal Christ and be in accordance to the 181

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word of God. Whatever our dreams are, they are to bring us closer to Christ, growing in His knowledge and power. Always take time to pray about your dreams because interpretation and revelations of dreams come faster during prayers. Daniel told the king to give him a night, although at the very moment he had no understanding of the king's dream, but as he goes and prays, understanding came speedily. When you have a dream, the presence that brings the dream to you always remains for a while with you. The Spirit has the ability to give interpretation and the needed revelation for you to understand and comprehend your dream. When you have an understanding of the peace of God in your heart, you can be able to know what and how to pray concerning a dream. When a dream encounter comes with fear and loss of peace in the heart, it is a sign of danger of which you must call on God to intervene on your behalf. But when a dream comes with much peace and joy in The Holy Spirit, then it is a good dream worthy of praying for its fulfilment in time. God still gives dream to people for the healing and good of the world, all leaders who rule the earth in different spheres have dreams which drive them to success and greatness. If you must rule on earth, then you must have the dream of what you want to achieve in God. Every great man continues to dream as long as he lives! It is time for the believers and ministers of God to begin to dream big on earth, being called by God is not just enough, you must have a vision. 182

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As a minister and a believer, you must ask yourself what you want to do to ameliorate the suffering of humanity. Your ministerial work and commitment is a calling of grace, but you are also saddled with the responsibility to serve humanity in other spheres of life in which the common man in the society can benefit from. Running a church and a ministry is not just enough for an ambassador of the kingdom of God that seeks to influence the whole wide world. You must begin to execute projects and commissions that will reveal the love of God to a dying world. This can be done in various ways like: building a health care centre, orphanage home, starting an NGO that are truly not after profit but after seeing men and women experience the love of Christ Jesus. There are many people that have never felt loved by anyone before. Also, there are people that came from broken homes etc. and such a people need a place they can feel at home. When we create platforms that help others as such, they are compelled to believe in the God we profess daily. It is my utmost prayer that God will find a people that seek to reveal His love by the act of service to humanity. May your dreams in God solve national and global issues! Amen. Shalom!!!

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HERE IS AN EXTRACT FROM A BOOK Authored by: JAMES W. and MICHAL ANN GOLL Title: DREAM LANGUAGE DREAM SYMBOLS AND THEIR INTERPRETATIONS The following material is not intended to be an official dictionary of definitions, but rather a tool to be flexibly used in the hands of believers under the leadership of The Holy Spirit. Thanks goes to numerous pioneers who have blazed a trail in understanding these ways of God. People such as Kevin Connor, Herman Riffel, John Paul Jackson, Ira Milligan, Jane Hamon, Chuck Pierce and others have indeed been forerunners for us all. Over time, you will grow in your interpretive grace and you will add some of your own understandings to the following dream symbols and their interpretations. Acid - Bitter, offense, carrying a grudge, hatred, sarcasm. Alligator - Ancient, evil out of the past (through inherited or personal sin), danger, destruction, evil spirit. Altar - A symbol for sacrifice and for incense. Anchor – A representation of safety and hope. Arm - Represents God's power and strength. Armour - A symbol of warfare. Ashes - Memories, repentance, ruin, destruction. Automobile - Life, person, ministry. Autumn - End, completion, change, repentance. 184

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Axe - Represents warfare and judgment. Baby - New beginning, new idea, dependent, helpless, innocent, sin. Balance(s) - Represents judgment. Barn - Symbol for blessings. Bat - Witchcraft, unstable, flighty, fear. Beard - Represents old age and wisdom. Beaver - Industrious, busy, diligent, clever, ingenious. Bed - Rest, salvation, meditation, intimacy, peace, covenant (marriage, natural or evil), self-made. Bicycle - Works, works of the flesh, legalism, self-righteousness, working out life's difficulties, messenger. Bird - Symbol of spirits, good or evil, see the parable of Jesus on the birds. Black - Symbol of famine and death. Blood - Symbol for sacrifice and for life (life is in the blood). Blue - Symbol of heaven. Bow - Usually represents judgment. Bread - Represents life. Brick - Represents slavery and human effort. Bridle - Symbol of restraint, control. Brother-in-law - Partiality or adversary, fellow minister, problem relationship, partner, oneself, natural brother-in-law. Brown - Dead (as in plant life), repentant, born again, without spirit. 185

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Bull - Persecution, spiritual warfare, opposition, accusation, slander, threat, economic increase. Butterfly - Freedom, flighty, fragile, temporary glory. Camel - Represents servanthood, bearing the burden of others. Candle - Symbol of light (holy spirit or the spirit of man). Candlestick - Represents the church. Cat - Self-willed, untrainable, predator, unclean spirit, bewitching charm, stealthy, sneaky, deception, self-pity, something precious in the context of a personal pet. Caterpillar - Represents judgment and destructive powers. Censer - Symbol of intercession and worship. Chain - Symbol of binding, oppression, punishment. Chicken - Fear, cowardliness; hen can be protection, gossip, motherhood; rooster can be boasting, bragging, proud; chick can be defenceless, innocent. Circle - Symbol of eternity. City - Symbol of security, safety, permanency, (cities of refuge). Cloud and Fiery Pillar - Represents divine presence, covering and guidance. Colt - Represents bearing burden of others or could be a portrayal of stubbornness. Corn (oil and wine) - Represents blessings of god. Crow (raven) - Confusion, outspoken, operating in envy or strife, hateful, direct path, unclean, god's minister of justice or provision. Cup - Symbol of life, health, or could represent death and evil. 186

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Cymbal - Symbol of vibration, praise, worship. Deer - Graceful, swift, sure-footed, agile, timid. Desert - Desolation, temptation, solitude. Dog - Unbelievers, religious hypocrites. Door - An opening, entrance. Dove - Holy Spirit. Dragon - satan. Dreaming - A message within a message, aspiration, vision. Drowning - Overcome, self-pity, depression, grief, sorrow, temptation, excessive debt. Drugs - Influence, spell, sorcery, witchcraft, control, legalism, medicine, healing. Eight - New beginnings. Eight-eight-eight - The first resurrection saints. Elephant - Invincible or thick-skinned, not easily offended, powerful, large. Elevator - Changing position, going into the spirit realm, elevated, demoted. Eleven - Incompleteness, disorder. Eye(s) - Omniscience, knowledge, sight, insight, foresight. Face - Character, countenance. Falling - Unsupported, loss of support (financial, moral, public), trial, succumb, backsliding. Father - Authority, god, author, originator, source, inheritance, tradition, custom, satan, natural father. 187

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Father-in-law - Law, authoritative relationship based on law, legalism, problem authoritative relationship, natural father-in-law. Feathers - Covering, protection. Feet - Heart, walk, way, thoughts (meditation), offense, stubborn (unmovable), rebellion (kicking), sin. Fifty - Symbol of liberty, freedom, Pentecost. Fig - Relates to Israel as a nation. Fig leaves - Self-atonement, self-made covering. Finger - Feeling, sensitivity, discernment, conviction, works, accusation (as in pointing a finger), instruction. Fire - Presence of god, holiness of god, purifying, testing. Five - God's grace to man, responsibility of man. Fish - Souls of men. Flies - Evil spirits, filth of satan's kingdom. Beelzebub – “lord of flies.” Flood - Judgment on sin and violence (the flood from Noah time). Flower - Fading glory of man. Forest - Symbol of nations. Fortress - Protection, a stronghold. Forty - Symbol of testing, trial, closing in victory or defeat (Israel in wilderness and Jesus on the desert). Forty-two - Israel's oppression, the lord's advent to the earth. Forty-five - Preservation. Fountain - Source of life, refreshing. Four - Represents worldwide, universal (as in 4 corners of the earth). 188

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Fourteen - Passover, time of testing. Fox - Cunning, evil men. Friend - Self, the character or circumstance of one's friend reveals something about oneself; sometimes one friend represents another (look for the same name, initials, hair colour); sometimes represents actual friend. Frog - Demons, unclean spirits. Garden - Growth and fertility. Gate - A way of entrance, power, authority. Gold - Kingship, kingdom glory, God or gods. Grandchild - Heir, oneself, inherited blessing or iniquity, one's spiritual legacy, actual grandchild. Grandparent - Past, spiritual inheritance (good or evil), actual grandparent. Grapes - Fruit of the vine, cup of The Lord. Grass - Frailty of the flesh. Grasshopper - Destruction. Green - Prosperity, growth, life. Hammer - Word of God. Hand - Symbol of strength, power, action, possession. Harp - Praise, worship to God. Head - Authority, thoughts, mind. Heart - Emotions, motivations, desires. Helmet - Protection for thoughts, mind. Hen - One who gathers, protects. 189

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Hills - Elevation, high, loftiness. Horn - Power, strength, defence. Horse - Power, strength, conquest. House - Home, dwelling place, the Church. Incense - Prayer, intercessions and worship. Jewels - People of God. Key - Authority, power to bind or loose, lock or unlock. Kiss - Agreement, covenant, enticement, betrayal, covenant breaker, deception, seduction and friend. Knee - Reverence, humility. Ladder - Christ connecting Heaven and earth. Lamb - Humility, the Church, Christ. Lead - Weight, wickedness, sin, burden, judgment, fool, foolishness. Leaf - Life amidst prosperity. Legs - Man's walk, man's strength. Leopard - Swiftness, usually associated with vengeance. Lilies - Beauty, majesty. Lion - Royalty and Kingship bravery, confidence. Lips - Witness. Mechanic - Minister, Christ, prophet, pastor, counsellor. Mice - Devourer, curse, plague, timid. Milk - Foundational truth, nourishment. Mirror - God's Word or one's heart, looking at oneself, looking back, memory, past and vanity. 190

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Miscarriage - Abort, failure, loss, repentance, unjust judgment. Money - Power, provision, wealth, natural talents and skills, spiritual riches, power, authority, trust in human strength, covetousness. Monkey - Foolishness, clinging, mischief, dishonesty, addiction. Moon - Symbol of light in darkness, sign of the Son of Man. Moth - Symbol of destruction. Mother - Source, Church, love, kindness, spiritual or natural mother. Mother-in-law - Legalism, meddler, trouble, natural motherinlaw. Mountain - Kingdoms, dignity, permanence. Mouth - Witness, good or evil. Nail - Security, establish. Neck - Force, loveliness, or inflexibility, meekness, rebellion. Nest - Home, place to dwell. Net - Symbol of a catcher as in the parables, catching men. Nine - Judgment, finality. Nineteen - Barren, ashamed, repentant, selflessness, without selfrighteousness; faith. Nose - Breath, discernment. Nudity - Uncovered or flesh, self-justification, self-righteousness, impure, ashamed, stubborn, temptation, lust, s e x u a l control, exhibitionism, truth, honest, nature. Oil - Holy Spirit, anointing. 191

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One - God as a unity and as a source, new beginnings. One Hundred - Fullness, full measure, full recompense, full reward; God's election of grace, children of promise. One Hundred Nineteen - The resurrection day; Lord's day. One Hundred Twenty - End of all flesh, beginning of life in the Spirit; divine period of probation. One Hundred Forty-four - God's ultimate in creation. One Hundred - Revival, ingathering, final harvest of souls. Orange - Danger, great jeopardy, harm; a common colour combination is orange and black, which usually signifies great evil or danger; bright or fire orange can be power, force, energy. One Thousand - Maturity, full stature, mature service, mature judgment; divine completeness and the glory of God. Oven - Testing, or judgment. Palace - Heaven, royalty. Palm Tree - Victory, worship. Pasture - Places of spiritual nourishment. Pearl - Spiritual truth. Pen/Pencil - Tongue, indelible words, covenant, agreement, contract, vow, publish, record, permanent, unforgettable, gossip. Pig - Ignorance, hypocrisy, religious unbelievers, unclean people, selfish, gluttonous, vicious, vengeful. Pillar - Strength, steadfastness and assistance. Pink - Flesh, sensual, immoral, moral (as in a heart of flesh); chaste, a female infant. 192

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Pit - Prison, oppression. Plumbline - Standards of God, measuring of a life. Plow - Breaking new ground. Pregnancy - In process, sin or righteousness in process, desire, anticipation, expectancy. Pumpkin - Witchcraft, deception, snare, witch, trick. Purple - Royalty, wealth, prosperity. Rabbit - Increase, fast growth, multiplication; Hare can be Satan and his evil spirits. Raccoon - Mischief, night raider, rascal, thief, bandit, deceitful. Rain - Blessing, God's Word and revival. Rainbow - Covenant. Ram - Sacrifice. Raven - Evil, Satan. Red - Suffering, sacrifice or sin. Rings - Eternity, completion. River - Revival, refreshing. Roach - Infestation, unclean spirits, hidden sin. Robe - Covering, royalty. Rock - Christ our rock, stability. Rod - Rule, correction, guidance. Roof - Covering, oversight. Root - Spiritual source, offspring. Rope - Binding, bondage. Rose - Christ and His Church. 193

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Rubies - Value, worth, significance. Salt - Incorruptibility, preserve from corruption, covenant. Sand - Similar to seed, generations. Sapphire - Beauty, value. Scorpion - Evil spirits, evil men; pinch of pain. Sea - Wicked nations. Serpent - Satan and evil spirits. Seven - Completeness, perfection. Seventeen - Spiritual order, incomplete, immature, undeveloped, childish, victory. Seventy - Number of increase, perfected ministry. Sheep - Chant, the people of God, innocent. Shield - Sign of protection. Shoe - Sign of walking, protection for your walk. Shoulder - Bearing the burden of another, authority, rulership. Sister - Spiritual sister, Church, self, natural sister. Six-Six-Six - Sign of the mark of the Beast, Antichrist. Sixteen - Free-spirited, without boundaries, without law, without sin, salvation; love. Sixty - Pride. Sixty-Six - Idol worship. Six Hundred - Warfare. Skins - Covering. Smoke - Blinding power. Snow - Spotlessness, radiance. 194

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Sparrow - Small value but precious. Spring - New beginning, revival, fresh start, renewal, regeneration, salvation, refreshing. Stars - Israel, generations. Steps - Signs of spiritual progress. Stone - Might, permanence. Storms - Misfortune, difficulty, trials. Summer - Harvest, opportunity, trial, heat of affliction. Sun - Glory, brightness, light, Christ. Sword - Scriptures, Christ. Teeth - Consuming power. Ten - Law and order. Tent - A temporary covering, not a permanent home. Tiger - Danger, powerful minister (both good and evil). Tin - Dross, waste, worthless, cheap, purification. Thirteen - Sign of rebellion, backsliding, apostasy. Thirty - Maturity for ministry. Thirty-Two - Covenant. Thirty-Three - Promise. Thirty-Four - Naming of a son. Thirty-Five - Hope. Thirty-Six - Enemy. Thirty-Seven - The Word of God. Thirty-Eight - Slavery. Thirty-Nine - Disease. 195

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Three-Hundred - Faithful remnant (Gideon's army). Tongue - Language, speech. Train - Continuous, unceasing work, connected, fast, Church. Trap - Snare, danger, trick. Trees - Nations, individuals, the Church. Tunnel - Passage, transition, way of escape, troubling experience, trial, hope. Twelve - Divine government, apostolic government. Twenty-One - Exceeding sinfulness, of sin. Twenty-Four - Symbol of Priesthood courses and order. Twenty-Two - Light. Twenty-Three - Death. Twenty-Five - The forgiveness of sins. Twenty-Six - The gospel of Christ. Twenty-Seven - Preaching of the Gospel. Twenty-Eight - Eternal life. Twenty-Nine - Departure. Two - Sign for witness, testimony, or unity. Two Hundred - Insufficiency. Van - Family (natural or Church), family ministry, fellowship. Vine - Symbol for Israel, Christ and His Church. Vulture - Sign of uncleanness and devourer. Wall - Fortification, division, refuge. Watch - Prophetic, intercession, being on guard. Waters - Nations of earth; agitation, under-currents, crosscurrents. 196

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Well - Places of refreshment, source of water of life. Wheel - Transport, a circle, speed, spiritual activity. Winter - Barren, death, dormant, waiting, cold, unfriendly. Whirlwind - Hurricane, sweeping power, unable to resist. Wind - Breath of life, power of God. Window - Blessings of Heaven, openness. Wine - Holy Spirit. Wine-Skin - Spiritual structure. Wings - Protection, spiritual transport. Wolf - Satan and evil, false ministries, and teachers. Woman - Church, virgin or harlot. Wood - Humanity. Wrestling - Striving, deliverance, resistance, persistence, trial, tribulation, spirit attempting to gain control. Yellow - Gift, marriage, family, honour, deceitful gift, timidity, fear, cowardliness. Yoke - Servitude, slavery, or fellowship. DIRECTIONS: East - Beginning: Law (therefore blessed or cursed); birth; first Gen.11:2; Job 38:24. Front - Future or Now: (As in FRONT YARD) In the presence of; prophecy; immediate; current. Gen. 6:11; Rev. 1:19. North - Spiritual: Judgment; heaven; spiritual warfare (as in “taking your inheritance”). Prov. 25:23; Jer. 1:13-14. 197

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Left - Spiritual: Weakness (of man) and therefore God's strength or ability; rejected. (Left Turn = spiritual change). Judg. 3:2021; 2 Cor. 12:9,10. South - Natural: Sin; world; temptation; trial; flesh; corruption; deception. Josh. 10:40; Job 37:9. Right - Natural: Authority; power; the strength of man (flesh) or the power of God revealed through man; accepted. (Right Turn = natural change). Matt. 5:29a, 30a; 1 Pet. 3:22. West - End: Grace; death; last; conformed. Exod.10:19; Luke 12:54. Back - Past: As in BACKYARD or BACKDOOR. Previous event or experience (good or evil); that which is behind (in time—for example, past sins or the sins of forefathers); unaware; unsuspecting; hidden; memory. Gen. 22:13; Josh. 8:4. PEOPLE/RELATIVES/TRADES Baby - New: Beginning; work; idea; the Church; sin; innocent; dependant; helpless; natural baby. 1 Cor. 3:1; Isa. 43:19. Carpenter - Builder: Preacher; evangelist; labourer (good or evil); Christ. 2 Kings 22:6; Isa. 41:7. Doctor - Healer: Christ; preacher; authority; medical doctor, when naturally interpreted. Mark 2:17; 2 Chron. 16:12. Drunk - Influenced: Under a spell (i.e., under the influence of The Holy Spirit or a demon's spirit); controlled; fool; stubborn; rebellious; witchcraft. Eph. 5:18; Prov. 14:16. 198

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Employer - Servants: Pastor, Christ; satan; actual employer, when naturally interpreted. Col. 3:22; 2 Pet. 2:19. Giant - Strongman: Stronghold, challenge; obstacle; trouble. Num 13:32-33. Indian - First: Flesh (as in “the old man”); firstborn; chief; fierce; savvy; native. Col. 3:9; Gen. 49:3. Police - Authority: Natural (civil) or spiritual authority (pastors, etc.), good or evil; protection; angels or demons; an enforcer of a curse of the Law. Rom. 13:1; Luke 12:11. VEHICLES AND PARTS Airplane - Person or work: The Church; ministry; oversight (Soaring = Moved by The Spirit). Hab. 1:8; Judg. 13:25. Jet - Ministry or Minister: Powerful; fast. (Passenger jet = Church; Fighter = Individual person). Gen. 41:43; 2 Kings 10:16. Automobile - Life: Person; ministry (New car = New ministry or New way of life). Gen. 41:43; 2 Kings 10:16. Auto Wreck - Strife: Contention; conflict, calamity; mistake or sin in ministry (as in “failure to maintain right-of-way”). Nah. 2:4. Bicycle - Works: Works of the flesh (not of faith); selfrighteousness; messenger. Gal. 5:4; Gal. 5:19. Boat - Church or personal ministry: (Sailboat = moved by the Spirit; Powerboat = powerful or fast progress) Gen. 6:16; 1 Tim. 1:19. Brakes - Stop: Hindrance; resist; wait. Acts 16:6-7; 2 Pet. 2:14. 199

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Helicopter - Ministry: Personal; individual; the Church; versatile; stationary (when unmoving). II Tim. 4:2; Rom. 8:14. Motorcycle - Individual: Personal ministry; independent; rebellion; selfish; pride; swift progress. 2 Pet. 2:10; 1 Sam. 15:23. Pickup Truck - Work: Personal ministry or natural work. 1 Chron.13:7; Gal. 6:5. Rearview Mirror - Word: (Driving backward using the rearview mirror = operating by the letter of the Word instead of by God's Spirit); legalistic; looking back; 2 Cor. 3:6; Gen. 19:26. Raft - Adrift: Without direction; aimless; powerless. Eph. 4:14. Tractor - Powerful work: Slow but powerful ministry. Acts 1:8; Acts 4:33. Tractor-Trailer - Large burden: Ministry; powerful and/or large work (truck size is often in proportion to the burden or size of the work). MISCELLANEOUS Ankles - Faith: Weak ankles = weak faith; unsupported; undependable. Ezek 47:3. Arm - Strength or weakness: Saviour; deliverer; helper; aid; reaching out. Isa. 52:10; Ps. 136:12. Bank - Secure: Church; dependable; safe; saved; sure (as in “you can bank on it”); reserved in Heaven. Luke 19:23; Matt. 6:20. Binoculars - Insight: Understanding; prophetic vision; future event. John 16:13; 2 Cor. 3:13, 16. 200

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Bleeding - Wounded: Hurt, naturally or emotionally; dying spiritually; offended; gossip; unclean. Ps. 147:3; Prov. 18:8. Blood Transfusion - Change: Regeneration; salvation; deliverance. Titus 3:5; Rom. 12:2. Bridge - Faith: Trial; way; joined. Gen. 32:22; 1 Cor. 10:13. Butter - Works: Doing (or not doing) the Word or will of God; deceptive motives; words; smooth. Ps. 55:21; Prov. 30:33. Calendar - Time: Date: event; appointment. Hos. 6:11. Cards - Facts: Honesty (as in “putting all your cards on the table”); truth; expose or reveal; dishonest; cheat; deceitful. Rom. 12:17. Carnival - Worldly: Exhibitionism; divination; competition. Acts 16:16; Luke 21:34. Chair - Position: Seat of authority; rest. Esther 3:1; Rev. 13:2. Check - Faith: The currency of the Kingdom of God; provision; trust. Heb. 11:1; Mark 4:40. Choking - Hinder: Stumbling over something (as in “that's too much to swallow”); hatred or anger (as in “I could choke him!”) Mark 4:19. Christmas - Gift: Season of rejoicing; spiritual gifts; a surprise; good will. Luke 11:13; 1 Cor. 14:1. Closet - Private: Personal, prayer; secret sin; hidden. Matt. 6:6; Luke 8:17. Coffee - Bitter or Stimulant: Repentance; reaping what one has sown; desire for revenge (bitter envying). Num. 9:11; Job 13:26. 201

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Ditch - Habit: Religious tradition; addition; lust; passion. Matt 15:14; Ps. 7:15. Dominoes - Continuous: Chain reaction. Lev. 26:37. Earthquake - Upheaval: change (by crisis), repentance; trial; God's judgment; disaster; trauma. Acts 16:26; Isa. 29:6. Echo - Repetition: Gossip, accusation; voice of many; mocking. Luke 23:21. Egg - Idea: New thought; plan; promise; potential. Luke 11:12; 1 Tim. 4:15. Fence - Barrier: Boundaries; obstacles; religious traditions; doctrines; inhibitions. Gen. 11:6; Jer. 15:20. Garbage (Dump) - Rejected: Hell; evil; vile; corruption. Mark 9:4748; 1 Cor. 9:27. Gasoline - Fuel: Prayer, inflammatory; gossip; contention; danger. Jude 20; Prov. 26:20-21 Gloves - Covering: Protection; save; careful (as in “handle with kid gloves”). Ps. 24:3-4; 1 Tim. 4:24-25. Mowed Grass - Chastisement: Sickness; financial need or distress; emotional and mental depression or anguish. Amos 7:1-2; 1 Cor. 11:3032. Graveyard - Hidden: Past; curse; evil inheritance; hypocrisy; demon. Matt 23:27; Luke 11:44. Gravel Pit - Source: The Word of God; abundant supply. Deut 8:9; 2 Tim. 2:15. Muddy Road - Flesh: Man's way; lust; passion; temptation; difficulty caused by the weakness of the flesh. Ps. 69:2; Isa. 57:20. 202

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Ironing - Correction: Change; sanctification; exhorting; teaching righteousness; God's discipline; pressure (from trials). Eph. 5:27. Ladder - Ascend or Descend: Escape; enable; way; steps. Gen. 28:1213; John 3:13. Lips - Words: Seduction; speech. Prov. 7:21; Prov. 10:19. Map - Directions: Word of God; correction; advice. Prov.6:2 Microphone - Voice: Authority; ministry; influence. Matt.10:27. Mirror - Word or one's Heart: God's Word; looking back; memory, past; vanity; Moses' Law. 1 Cor. 13:12; Prov. 27:19. Newspaper - Announcement: Important event; public exposure; news; gossip. Luke 8:17. Oven - Heart: Heat of passion; imagination; meditation; judgment. Hos. 7:6; Ps. 21:9 Paint Brush- Covering: (house painter's brush: regeneration: remodel, renovate; love. Artist's Paint Brush: Illustrative; eloquent; humorous; articulate.) 1 Pet. 4:8; Titus 3:5. Parachuting - Leave: Bail out; escape; flee; saved. 2 Cor. 6:17; Jer. 50:28. Perfume - Seduction: Enticement; temptation; persuasion; deception. Prov. 7:7, 10, 13; Eccles. 10:1. Pie - Whole: Business endeavours; part of the action. Luke 12:13. Play - Worship: Idolatry; covetousness; true worship; spiritual warfare; strife; competition. Col. 3:5; 1 Cor. 9:24. Postage Stamp - Seal: Authority; authorization; small or seemingly insignificant, but powerful. Esther 8:8; John 6:27. 203

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Pot/Pan/Bowl - Vessel: Doctrine; traditions; a determination or resolve; form of the truth; a person. Rom. 2:20; Jer. 1:13. Radio - Unchangeable: Unbelief; unrelenting; contentious; unceasing; tradition. Prov. 27:15; Prov. 27:15. Railroad Track - Tradition: Unchanging; habit; stubborn; gospel. Mark 7:9, 13; Col. 2:8. Rape - Violation: Abuse of authority; hate; desire for revenge; murder. 2 Sam. 13:12, 14-15; Deut 22:25-26. Refrigerator - Heart: Motive; attitude; stored in heart; harbour. Matt. 12:35; Mark 7:21-22. Rocking Chair - Old: Past, memories; meditation; retirement; rest. Jer. 6:16. Roller Coaster - Unstable: Emotional instability; unfaithfulness; wavering; manic-depressive; depression; trials; excitement. Isa.40:4; James 1:6-8. Roller Skates - Speed: Fast; swift advancement or progress. Rom. 9:28. Round (shape) - Spiritual: (A round face, ring, building, etc.) Grace; mercy; compassion; forgiveness. Lev. 19:27. Sea Coast - Boundary: Flesh (which contains and limits the spirit of man); limitations; weights. Jer. 5:22; Jer. 47:6-7. Shovel - Tongue: Prayer; confession; slander; dig; search; inquire. 2 Kings 3:16-17; Deut. 23:13. Skiing - Faith: (Water or snow skiing) Supported by God's power through faith; fast progress. John 6:19, 21; Matt 14:29-31. 204

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Sleep - Unconscious: Unaware; hidden or covered; ignorance; danger; death. Isa. 29:10; Rom. 13:11. Smile - Friendly: Kindness; benevolent; without offense; seduction. Prov. 18:24. Square - Legalistic: (Square eyeglasses, buildings, etc.) Religious or religion; no mercy; hard or harsh; of the world. Lev. 19:9. Sweeping - Cleaning: Repentance; change; removing obstacles. 2 Cor. 7:1; 2 Cor. 7:11. Swimming - Spiritual: Serving God; worship; operating the gifts of the Spirit; prophecy. Ezek. 47:5; Eph. 3:8. False Teeth - Replacement: Wisdom or knowledge gained through experience or previous failures; logical reasoning; tradition. Rom. 5:3 -4; Col. 2:8. Toothache - Trial: Unfaithful; no faith; unbelief. (Tooth = Wisdom; Ache = Suffering; Broken = Potential pain, i.e. when pressure is applied.) Prov. 25:19. Television - Vision: Message; prophecy; preaching; news; evil influence; wickedness. Num. 24:16; Dan. 2:19. Thunder - Change or Without Understanding of what the spirit is saying or of the signs of the times). Dispensational change (i.e., a change in the way God deals with His people); warning of impending judgement or trouble. John 12:28-29; Ps. 18:13. Title/Deed - Ownership: Authorization; possession. Gen.23:20. Tree Stump - Unbelief; roots; tenacious; obstacle; immovable; hope. Job 14:7-9. 205

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Urinating - Spirit: Full bladder = Pressure. Compelling urge; temptation (such as sexual lust or strife); Bladder Infection or Cancer = Offence: Enmity. Prov.17:14. Washcloth - Truth: Doctrine; understanding. (Dirty cloth = False doctrine: Insincere apology; error.) Ps. 51:7; Job 14:4. Watermelon - Fruit: The fruit of good or evil works; the pleasures of sin. (Seeds = Words; Water = Spirit; Sweetness = Strength; Green = Life; Red = Passion; Yellow = Gifts) Num. 11:5; Prov. 1:31. Western - Frontier: (“The wild west,” a western movie, etc.) Pioneer, spiritual warfare; boldness; challenge. Deut. 20:10; Josh. 3:4.

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ncounter should be a normal experience for every believer. As a believer, you should be full of encounters with God's Spirit and with the heavenly. The more you encounter the heavenly, the more heavenly minded you become. One of the most controversial encounters that people debate on daily basis and try to validate is the encounter with angels. This encounter is not an exclusively reserved for a group of elites, but an encounter for all in God. The angelic realm is opened to whosoever God chooses to relate with in that dimension, whether a believer, unbeliever or even an idol worshipper. From the beginning of the scriptures, we see how concurrently God sent angels to communicate and relate with humans on earth and this people of old never considered it strange a manifestation as seen in our day. The subject of the angelic cannot be overemphasized. I cannot write much about the angelic in this chapter, nevertheless I will shed a little light for the purpose of this chapter. If you so desire more light and revelations on the angelic, then I urge you to study the scriptures on the dealings of God with humans via the angelic. The angelic has been misunderstood by many, although many books have been written to address and give more light on the 207

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subject. Ask The Holy Spirit to lead and direct you on some of the books to read, so that you will have a clear picture and the perspective of God regarding the angelic and its manifestation. The visitation of God has the ability to preserve people. We have seen God visit people in times past and His visitation was done by many angelic encounters that resulted in tremendous manifestations on the earth. The visitation and encounters of the angelic is an announcement of a new thing on the earth. When God sends an angel to a man on the earth, He is willing to do something supernatural that will have great impact overtime. In the Old Testament, angels appear frequently to men and were even seen eating with humans face to face. When the angels of The LORD were going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, they came to Abraham and fellowshipped with him. Abraham gave them food and they did eat before they left. As they ate, they spoke to Abraham about the birth of his son Isaac as a plan in God's purpose and Abraham pleaded for the saving of his cousin Lot who resided in the land they were sent to destroy. Lot on the other hand dwelt between Sodom and Gomorrah and as the angels came, he welcomed them and took them to his house to eat and fellowship. It is normal in times past for angels to eat food with men. Angels are products of light, but by the permission of God can take a nature of flesh to relate with humans on the earth. Angels are not disembodied spirits because that nature still resides within them. On the other hand, demons are disembodied spirits 208

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because the potential and ability to take a body of flesh was taken away from them when they backslide into darkness. Angels being products of light sustain the covering weight that can materialize as flesh nature on earth to be seen by humans, but that nature is never revealed at any time except if permitted by God The Father Almighty. Angels don't just invade the earth, they come by the permission of God to execute a function. The earth realm is that of body and flesh and for anyone to relate effectively on earth, the nature of a body and a flesh is needed. If you don't have a body, you are on earth illegally and can't function until permitted in a body. No wonder demons seek earnestly for a body to possess so that they can be legal to function on earth. The angels are not disembodied as demons are, just that they don't take the nature of flesh and body unless permitted by God. Angels can take you to the realm of the spirits when summoned by God since you have a spirit. Angels are saddled with many responsibilities on earth even though they are not visible to most humans. Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? [Hebrews 1:14] You don't have to be a spiritual person to see an angel. God's angel can be sent to anyone to minister to him in a season. I once had a friend that was not very spiritual according to human measure, but he sees angels frequently. Also, there are many people, young and old that since they were born they naturally see angels. This people may not even know how to relate and welcome 209

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the angels, but they still keep seeing the angels and their manifestation. Holy angels are never given the permission to possess humans, but they can surely influence our lives on earth. You can be influenced by an angelic presence and even share in their strength and glory. This may look strange to people, but it is true. When you constantly have angelic encounters, a time will come when you begin to share in the strength and glory of the angels. Supernatural strength and abilities can begin to function in your life and this sharing in strength and power is also permitted by God. The children of Israel were fed with “manna” which was the bread of angels for many years. The power of that manna was seen manifesting in their lives. They moved and travelled by foot without getting weary. Their cloths and sandals grew with them and they never got old. Elijah was given food by an angel and the angel demanded he eat and eat again. After he had eaten, he was able to move in the strength of that angel food for 40 days and 40 nights. That was the influence of the food of angels. Angelic influences can be extraordinary, but God has to permit it to happen. When God does not permit any influence of the angels on humans, it will always result to evil and propagation of darkness on the earth overtime. This occurred in Genesis 6, when the angels of God came and slept with the daughters of men. This unholy alliance with each other resulted in the birthing of Nephilim who were giants that ruled and terrorized the earth at that time. These 210

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Nephilim encouraged men into rebellion that God had to intervene by destroying the whole earth. This may look controversial but it is the truth. Giants like Goliath and some recorded in the scriptures were a products of unholy alliances of humans and spirit beings. People of old were that rebellious to God's commandment and precepts. In the house of Lot when the angels came to dine with him, the people of the land that were perverted into iniquity came and sought to sleep with the angels, but Lot offered to give his daughters to them instead of the angels. They never got to sleep with either the angels or his daughters because the angels intervened. That was how terrible it was in times past. People abused the privilege God gave them of relating with angels. I believe one of the reasons why angels are not that common and visible in our days is because of the abuse of the privileges given in time past and how fallen angels now always seek to corrupt every genuine thing that God seek to initiate on earth. Nevertheless, angels are still friends to humans as God has put them as ministering spirit to minister to us heaven's realities. It is true that God has set His angels to watch over each and every one of us. He sets His angels in charge over all His creations. Many refer to them as “guardian angels.” The word 'guardian' means watcher and one who looks over you. If it is true that God has set His angels to watch over His creation of which we are a part of and since we are mobile as humans, then the angels are mobile as well. There are more 211

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spirits on earth than there are human beings. It was never an issue whether angels will not be sufficient for each creation because God created angels even before humans were given birth to on the earth. Angels are mostly categorized by the nature of the work they do, their degree of light and closeness to the throne of God. The throne of God is the centre of power and light. The closer an angel is to that throne, the more light and power he carries and sustains. Angels always radiate and illuminate light because they are products of light, high ranking angels radiate more degree of light when you see them and some even cause earthquake as they walk the earth. Most times, angels and spirits don't touch the ground when they are not materialized on earth because it is illegal for them. They surely need a body for that to be possible. They are usually seen floating on the air. Angels are ministering spirits sent by God to His creation to minister to them. There are angels that are referred to as messenger angels. These angels are sent to deliver messages by God on consistent basis. Arch angel Gabriel is the chief angel among that category of angels that God sends to deliver messages to mankind. There are others that are in charge of warfare and combat, they are warring angels that fight with darkness and demons when God permits. Arch angel Michael is the chief among that category. There are some angels that are in charge of watching over people, places and things. These are referred to as watchers like the cherubim. These angels guard territories with spiritual resources and guard people of value that God is jealous of. 212

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There are angels that guard people daily. They are referred to as guardian angels. These angels are believed to be attached to everyone on earth whether good or bad. Jesus spoke and said, we should be careful not to hurt the little ones for their angels are standing in the presence of God. That is to give us an understanding that, there are angels that stand by us and report to God our dealings in life. These are our guardians on earth even if men don't care to watch over us. There are also ministering angels that come to take our prayers and petitions to heaven, as it is written in the book of Revelation that, the angels of The LORD take our prayers and petitions to heaven in the form of an incense. There are angels that guard the glory of God. These are the seraphim. Also, there are those that guard the holiness of God, these are the cherubim. This two categories of angels are referred to as the “burning ones,” they are angels that are jealous of the things of God. They have a holy anger to protect the glory and holiness of God. You don't see such angels until you have a holy jealousy and zeal for God and His kingdom. The living creatures are another dimension of the angelic that stands by God. They contain His glory and light. The wheels are another dimension of the living creatures upon which God uses to move and travel as a chariot on earth. There is so much about the angelic that I cannot cover all, but surely all you need to know about the angels are written crystal clear in the scriptures. When you study the dealings of angels with 213

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human overtime, you will have an understanding of the pattern of their dealings. That understanding is necessary so that you can be able to relate with one when God sees it fit to send him to you on earth. Angels are not to be feared, they don't hurt human beings. Most times when you see an angel, it is because they are on an assignment that involves you directly or indirectly. There is also ranking even in the realm of the angelic and angels never break their ranks before God. Not all angels stand in the presence of God, so also not all are sent by God. It was never written that Arch Angel Gabriel fought any battle, but he was in charge of delivering messages of redemption to mankind. Also, it is not captured of Arch Angel Michael being send to deliver a message, but he is always involved in battles and warfare. The ranking of the angelic is different from the categorization of the angelic. Angels can be categorized into many categories as I have shown by their functions and they can be ranked by the degree of light and how close they are to the throne of God which is the centre of power and influence. As I study on the subject matter, I found several categorization and ranking of the angelic that are worthy of note. This ranking is based on the proximity of the angels to the throne of God and the power and degree of light they sustain. The closer an angel is to the throne, the more strength and power they possess above the others because not all angels stand in the presence of God. There is a chain of command from the top to the bottom and God made it so in the very beginning. 214

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The Angelic Ranking § Living Creatures § Wheels (Owphanim) § Seraphim § Cherubim § Arch Angels § Angels § Spirits This is the ranking of the angelic that I found and ascertained as I studied. The living creatures are found to be the closest to the throne of God. Then, the wheels which is another dimension of the living creatures, but they take that dimension when God wants to move from His throne to the earth. The Seraphim and the Cherubim are found together as one relates to God's glory and the other God's holiness. Some scholars believe that the Cherubim should come before the Seraphim and that is also accepted because they are all referred to as the burning ones and they are very jealous for the throne of God protecting His glory and holiness. After the seraphim and the cherubim, it is the arch angels, then other angels and finally spirits. These spirits are part of the celestial beings that God created that responds to Him when needed for an assignment on earth. Lucifer was a special kind of creature. He was the light bearer and the most anointed among the angels of his time. He was purified always as he walked up and down the coals of fire 215

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in the presence of God. He was both the arch angel of worship and a cherub that covered the presence of God. He was referred to as the morning star and admired by the angels of God. Jesus Christ is the bright morning Star and Jesus is the only Star that is ranked above Lucifer the morning star. Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. {sardius: or, ruby} {beryl: or, chrysolite} {emerald: or, chrysoprase} Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore, I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy 216

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sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more. [Ezekiel 28:11 - 19]. How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! {O Lucifer: or, O day star} For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? {opened...: or, did not let his prisoners loose homeward?} All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. [Isaiah 14:12-19]

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These scriptures reveal to us how God in times past crowned Lucifer with so much glory and beauty that he became perfect in beauty, but he was imperfect in the heart until evil finally was revealed and found in him. This made him lose the place of the beloved of God and was cast out from the holy mountain of God, his glory was taken away from him as well. His sin was the desire to put himself above the stars of God and be like The Most High God. The word 'stars' refer to the angelic princes of God created in heaven and on the earth. The living creatures rank far from the devil. He was an arch angel and a cherub but of a special kind. It was recorded that arch angel Michael and his subordinate fought against Lucifer until he was cast out from the mountain of God as profane. Evil became his companion and darkness his dwelling. Lucifer which became the devil that now dwells in darkness with his subordinate which are now called fallen angels and demons. They only seek to deceive and pervert the things of God on earth knowing that they have but a limited time until they are judged to the lake of fire. The devil wishes to deceive and pervert creation so that God cannot help but judge him and also judge His creation including the man He love. But thank God for redemption and Christ Jesus The Anointed One who has anointed men and women to bring many souls from darkness to light. With the help of the angels of God and a partnership with holy men, the kingdom of heaven will invade the earth and the devil will be put to shame. 218

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Seeing angels and having prophetic experiences can never automatically make you more spiritual than others that can't see, nevertheless, it can build some spiritual structures within you to believe and contain more of God's dimension on earth. There are many beggarly believers that see angels' often, but seeing angels have nothing to do with your spiritual maturity. God can choose to permit you that privilege by grace to access that realm even as a spiritual babe. Seeing angels will do no good to you if it doesn't add up to your knowledge and revelation of Christ Jesus. Angels are sent to release impartations and deliver messages to mankind. If you only but see and receive neither an impartation or a message, then your encounter of the angelic is devoid of truth and spiritual realities and as such, it will not add up to your processes in God. Angelic encounters are supposed to be supernatural. They may not be spectacular, but they are not usual. Angels don't just come to do business in this realm if not sent by God, but people can be carried away in the amazement of seeing them that they forget the main reason why they came to them. When you are visited by an angel, seek to gain an understanding of the purpose of the visitation than just being amazed that you have seen an angel. In times past, people encounter angels and their lives take a new cause, but others also saw angels and asked for an unholy alliance like the people of Sodom and Gomorrah. Your heart posture also matters when you see an angel. The scripture says we should be careful not to say in the presence of an angel that we made a 219

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mistake because angels are sensitive to the words we speak and whether it's a joke or not, they take words said seriously. In Genesis 6, people had the privilege of meeting with angels and this resulted in more darkness due to unholy fraternity and partnerships. This act resulted in the perversion of the whole human race in that time. When an angel is not sent and assigned to you by God, they will do you no good and even if you seek to relate with them to partner, you will end up either hurting yourself or mankind. This is also true about prophetic encounters and experiences. God has to initiate it then you respond by faith. I can be designated for an encounter and a visitation on a particular day by God and you may be in my room and the presence of God will come to me alone releasing that encounter without you knowing. You can partake of that encounter if God so wishes, but prophetic encounters and experiences are personal and given by God in seasons of demand; you don't manipulate them to happen. When you try to manipulate prophetic experiences to occur in your life, you begin to practice witchcraft and wizardry. It is true that people do have spirit transport by The Holy Spirit, but it is also true that witches and wizards travel and fly by night and day also; this they do at will by the agency of demonic spirit and princes. Elijah was able to call down fire to consume the prophets of Baal by The Spirit of God, but there are wizard that do that by demonic spirits. The picture I want to paint is that, the very moment you try to force yourself into having a spiritual prophetic experiences, you will end 220

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up attracting demonic spirit that will open you to certain astral realms that is counterfeit to the original divine. You don't have to be that desperate to see angels, if God so desires it for you, you will one. He will send him to you and you will not have to do anything to see him. But if you do see angels, then begin to develop a habit of welcoming them and try to understand the messages they bring and partake of the impartation they give you. There are so many angelic encounters and visitations as seen all through the scriptures, but I will highlight but a few for the benefit of understanding. Mary the mother of Jesus had an encounter with arch angel Gabriel, who told her she would be pregnant with a son by The Holy Spirit and He will become The Messiah that will take away the sins of the whole wide world. This encounter changed her life and gave her a new designation as one beloved among women forever. Jesus Christ lived a supernatural life till death. His death, burial and resurrection, His birth was prophesied by the prophets and spoken by wise men. Wise men saw His star that lead them to the very place where He was born. His preservation was supernatural because angels appeared to His father to give him direction on what to do to prevent the child from being killed by the evil decree of the king. When He was of age and after the baptism of John the Baptist, it was recorded that as He fasted and angels came to Him to strengthen Him. Abraham the father of faith had numerous angelic encounters 221

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which were normal to him. Being able to see angels is not a big deal for people of faith. The realm of faith is that of the angelic. Jacob also wrestled with an angel for His blessings which resulted in the change of his name from Jacob to Israel. Paul the apostle on his way as they sailed on a ship had an encounter with an angel that told him that they will encounter a shipwreck, but no life will be lost and so it came to pass. Gideon was hiding from the enemies threshing wheat not knowing that God planned to give him an encounter through an angel on that day. The angel brought a message that God has made him a deliverer in that time. While he was hiding, an angel appeared to him and called him a mighty man of valour which is the way God sees him. From the speaking of that angel, Gideon's life took a new cause of destiny and purpose to deliver the people of God. And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. [Luke 1:11-13] Zachariah, a high priest was blameless and walking with God as was his wife Elizabeth, but she was barren and could not conceive a son for him. As he ministered to God as it was his time in the temple, Arch angel Gabriel appeared and encountered him. The 222

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angel told him how his wife will give birth to a son who will announce the coming of The Messiah to the earth. The name of the son was given by the angel to be John. Zachariah objected and spoke words of unbelief which resulted in the rescinding of his ability to speak until the birth of John. Joshua was a warrior in Israel and a leader after Moses. When they were set to take over Jericho, he encountered an angel and he was instructed as to what to do to conquer Jericho. As they followed the instructions given by the angel, Jericho was conquered. So also in like manner, people have had tremendous encounters with angels that have changed the cause of their lives. Samson's birth was spoken of by an angel and the instruction for his preservation was given by the same angel. Angels are not to be sought after by us, but when God wants to use them to minister to us, we will have an encounter with them. There are times you don't see them, but the impartation needed is released to you by them at God's command. Angels are encountered mostly in the place of prayer. Prayerful people always have encounter with angels knowing and unknowingly, angels come to bring answers to prayers. Daniel had numerous encounters with angels that came to give him answers to prayers and petitions. Understanding and strength can be given by an angel, revelation to secrets and things can also be given to us by angels. Most ministers and prophetic individuals have this realm open 223

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to them which makes them active in the spirit realm. Many years ago as I began to pray and fast often, I began to have angelic encounters and visitation. These encounters were strange to me until I gained understanding of them overtime. Angels come to take me on a tour of the heavens showing me heavens' realities and truths. Such encounters open me to the spirit world and increases my awareness and perception in the spirit. Angels are beings of light and carry power and as you relate with them, you share in their strength and power overtime. Angels can talk to you via your spirit. They can come to deliver spiritual gifts to you as impartations in co-operate meetings and personal time of fellowship. While praying during my times of angelic encounters, I do perceive a presence around me that carry light and strength. I do have angelic encounters in dreams and visions of the night. There are few times when I see angels without being asleep. There was a season in my life I can recall that God permitted His angels to come teach me spiritual truths and realities for close to a month. It was a season I can't forget because the encounter was so supernatural. Most of the spiritual truth I know and function with are products of such an encounter of many years with those angels. These angels come to my room frequently and remain, communicating with me till morning. They relate with my spirit and release light, strength and illumination upon me. This impartation I know was real and alive in me daily, one day as two 224

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were standing by me, I was on the phone talking to a friend when I said am tired of this angelic companionship, immediately the one by the left stretched out his hand towards me and light hit me and slain me for a long time. It was like a rebuke to me not to speak such folly without knowledge concerning them. Angelic presence can open portals that will grant you access to spirit realities. Those seasons in my room was like heaven with a different atmosphere. This manifestation was visible to others who can attest to it well. Heaven has gates and windows and those portals can be opened by the angels when they come to visit in a place on earth. When the portals [gates and windows] of heavens are opened, spiritual resources are transacted between realms. When Jacob laid to rest and saw heaven open, he saw angels ascending and descending upon a ladder, there was an exchange between the two realms. It was also an invitation for Jacob to come up higher to a realm not known by too many. The opening of the heavenly is as a result of the entrance of angelic princes into the earth. When angels encounter people, they release impartations on them to fulfil the will of God in their lives. When the portals of heaven is opened, the blessing of God permeate the earth realm. When it comes to the angelic and its function, faith and prayer is a vital tool to hold onto. Angels are perceived by faith during prayers as they come to minister to us. We must believe that they exist and are on our side ready to do us good. God still wants to partner with man on earth. Through the 225

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ministry angels, things are made easy when angels are engaged to help mankind. As God send angels to help and assist us on earth, we must learn to welcome them by faith and walk with them to fulfil the will of God. You welcome them by believing in them and the message they came to profess, giving them an open heart to speak that which God sent them to communicate. You are never to worship an angel because they are also part of the creation of God, but they need to be believed by humans. I pray that as God sends angels to come help you in fulfilling His will and purpose on earth, you will be able to welcome them and walk with them. You will not be deceived by the devil into darkness and witchcraft because your love for God is your security and it will prevail against all craftiness of the devil. May God watch His word over your life to fulfil it. Amen. Shalom!!!

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n conclusion, I will say a lot depends upon encounters; your dealings with God is mostly wrapped in an encounter with Him on a daily basis. Whether you like it or not, you cannot achieve anything in God unless you have a life changing encounter with Him. People seem to achieve nothing until they get to encounter God. Common and normal people are changed drastically the day they encounter God. Encountering God is the best thing that can ever happen to anybody. A man that has not yet encountered God has never started living and the life he lives now is just but a façade. God is the only source of life for living! God is the source of the life that illuminates the path of everything living on earth. If you must be relevant on earth, then your path must be illuminated by God. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light. [Psalms 36:9] All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not [John 1:3 -5]

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And God said, Let there be light: and there was light and God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. [Genesis 1:3 -4] These scriptures give us an understanding and reveals to us that Jesus Christ is that same light that lights up the whole wide world under God. That light of which we are and contained in is the zoe life of Christ Jesus. We are all from that same life and we must relate with it daily to reveal to us who we truly are. It is impossible for anyone to go to heaven and have eternal life without the person of Jesus Christ. The life of God that is eternal is put in Jesus Christ and He distributes it to us by faith when He came and died on the earth. When you believe in His death, burial and resurrection, you partake of that life and become one with Him. This is a spiritual truth and your mind cannot understand it, save yourself the agony of calculating it with your mind. The same way you cannot imagine with your mind the possibility of the trinity being three and yet one, so also is the mystery of the incarnation of Jesus Christ who is the word of God who became flesh to live with us here on earth. He died and resurrected to become alive both in heaven and on earth, dwelling within us as The Holy Spirit creates a connection between us and the father. Some spiritual truths and realities cannot be calculated with the mind; they are to be believed by the help of The Holy Spirit. The mind is so finite to comprehend such a truth in God. God is not a 228

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man and He cannot be explained by human wisdom. What has the capacity to explain God is His word and what can only reveal Him is Jesus Christ The Son of God. Jesus Christ is the word of God that exists in the heaven, but now on earth as The Holy Spirit. God wants to be comprehended by man and He gave His word of truth by sending His only Son who has the ability to reveal Him. The Son came and as many that believe in Him, He gave them the ability to see The Father and come out of darkness, but as many that fail to believe will continually dwell in darkness and ignorance. These people are doomed for eternal damnation and indignation. We all have equal rights in God through Christ Jesus, but we need faith to relate with God because without faith, it is impossible to please God since God is Spirit and for you to relate with His Spirit you must first believe that His Spirit exists and is willing to relate and reward your walking with Him overtime. Without that understanding, you cannot see or perceive His Spirit who can only be seen through the eye of faith. You need faith to walk with God on a daily basis not your mind. The spiritual realm is not the realm that is governed by our natural senses, we need to use the eye of faith to see and the hearing of faith to hear as well as the intuition and perception of faith to feel the movement of God. Abraham the first man of faith believed God that he had not seen, but have only spoken to him in his heart and that was counted to him as righteousness. God saw his obedience and taught him His precepts knowing fully well that he will teach his descendants to follow suit. Your obedience and believe in God 229

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may be accounted to you as righteousness and that little obedience in love has its own exclusive reward. Our life is basically governed by faith. I once asked, what is the confidence we have that when we sleep at night we will wake up the next morning? Well, the answer given was that of faith. Every day we live and walk by faith. It is obvious that even he who has no believe in faith still walks and live by faith of what tomorrow holds. The basic foundation of all we do in life must be based on faith in Christ Jesus, and until your faith in Christ Jesus is sure and steadfast, then your eternal life is yet to be determined. We all are like people on pilgrimage on the earth and a day comes when we have to leave this realm of reality to anther that exists in God. Don't you realize that life doesn't really begin when you are born, but it has a root in eternal past before it found expression on the earth? We came from a different realm of existence and are given a time to function on the earth to fulfil a divine purpose and mandate. Children are not just a product of a sperm and an egg from parents, but a life given in disguise through a physical biological process. We are here on an assignment and we must do our best to accomplish it. We came from a divine realm, but are given the right of choice in the natural which affects our whole life. We need to make daily decisions that brings heaven on earth. Our choices also have penalties that accompany them. Jesus is the door and if you must exist in this realm, you will have to do that through Christ 230

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Jesus Himself. We are given by God to our parent as a blessing, but He expects our parent to be a blessing to us by training us in the ways of The Lord. We are to fulfil purpose, then return through Christ Jesus to our eternal place of rest. It is an inevitable thing that destruction await those that refuses to become one with Christ Jesus at the close of the age. If you are born into this realm you must have a day that you will surely die, there is no man born of a woman that will live forever only eternity has no end. We were in God holy before the earth was created and God expects us to remain as such. When Christ Jesus will come, those that are found worthy shall be clothed to share in the glory eternal. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, a c c o rd i n g t o t h e g o o d p l e a s u re o f h i s w i l l . [Ephesians 1:4-5] God has a better understanding of who we are in Him in times past and He also knows what we will be in time to come that is why it is so paramount that we stick to Him so that He can reveal to us every facet of our life on earth. We were holy even before the foundation of the earth and we were with God as spiritual beings and entities until He chose to send us to function on earth. God knows who we are, we are the ones that are yet to have that proper understanding of who we are in the light of Christ Jesus. 231

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Your life will never take the path of purpose if you are not born again in Christ Jesus. If you so desire to walk in purpose, then ask The Lord Jesus to be your personal Lord and Saviour before you begin to dare anything in faith. Your act of faith will have no texture and relevance until you get born again by confessing your sins and believing in your heart that Jesus Christ died for your sin so that you can become a new creature saved and washed in His blood forever. I believe that The Holy Spirit will be with you and guide you into the path of righteousness. As you continue in the path of righteousness, not only will the prophetic and visions be open for you, but you will be among the overcomers that will welcome the bride on the last day. It will be a surprise to many how they will never miss hell because the day they fall in love with heaven they will suddenly realize that they can't miss hell, it will be automatically updated for them. There still remains a sure way which is salvation through Christ Jesus. I urge you all to remain in faith and continually check yourself to see if you are still in faith. God has promised us a place of rest and sent us Christ Jesus to reassure us that there is such a place in heaven for eternal rest. We all need to rest one day and where God dwells is the best place to rest forever. What is prophecy without eternal life? We don't have to deceive ourselves and be a cast away on the last day, let our walk with God be genuine and worthy of eternal rest. Even if you were once strong in God and backslidden, you can return to God because the end determines the result in our walk with God. Always return 232

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to God in repentance asking Him to forgive you and love you again for God's mercy will always speak for us as far as Jesus Christ is concerned. It is very painful that there are many ministers that once converted many into Christ and proclaimed this gospel of peace are living heavily in sin now, maybe they were deceived by the devil and were tempted into darkness. God is no respecter of persons and can't take side with iniquity and evil, if they don't repent, they will receive the same verdict of a sinner. It is written: For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. [Hebrews 6:4-6] Still on this, I still believe that God is good and not wicked to forget our labour of love. His sole purpose was never to condemn them that walk with Him and were once called sons. God will always want us to repent when we are wrong because His grace is always sufficient for us and strength will be supplied to us in times of weakness. We only need to ask for His mercy and grace and He will reach out to us as the prodigal father reached out to His son in love again. If you have given your life to Christ, but still live heavily in sin, then, you can still say the sinner's prayer asking for mercy and 233

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grace from the one true source of eternal life, Christ Jesus. When you ask with an open sincere heart and spirit, God will come to heal you. You can say this prayer from your heart by faith believing in the ability and capacity of Christ Jesus to save you again. Almighty God, Author of life, giver of every good gift, I come to you in faith and ask of your mercy over my life. I ask that the blood of Jesus Christ your holy Son wash me from my sins and make me whole again. Release your grace upon me and grant that I never return back to my sins. I repent of all my wrongdoings and I vow to serve you for the rest of my life. So help me God. Amen. If you have said this simple prayer, I believe God has forgiven you and it is now left for you to ask The Holy Spirit to infill you again. Take time to study and pray often asking for grace, mercy and favour. It is my desire that we all will be present as overcomers on the last day. As you study and pray, may God reveal to you His mysteries and let the prophetic realm of His manifestation become a reality in your life. I pray that the light of God will permeate into your spirit and cause strange supernatural manifestation of The Holy Spirit to occur in your life and you will become an agent of change and transformation in your society in His time. Amen. Shalom!!!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PHILIP CEPHAS

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hilip Cephas is a seasoned apostolic and prophetic teacher of the gospel. He is a man of love, wisdom, revelation and prayer. He is cantered on effective balancing of Kingdom principles, doctrine and revelations to equip the Body of Christ apostolically and prophetically into its full manifestation of Christ. His love for the Body of Christ is endless. This drive has led him to evangelize and conduct outreach programs in different cities and villages so as to reach the lost souls and administer the gospel of Christ within those environments. He is interested in raising and mentoring youths in prayer, leadership, influence, anointing and investment. He is also a prolific writer. He has authored many books such as The prophetic and Vision, The Vision of a Great People, Roadmap for a Weary Sojourner and many others. He has been instrumental in the revival movement within Nigeria. He is resident in Lafia, Nasarrawa State. 235

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OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR PATHWAY TO THE ANOINTING Pathway to the anointing is not just a product of a research done in the flesh, but a personal dealing of walking with The Holy Spirit over time which has resulted to a smearing of the anointing upon my life by God.

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