Programme: School of the Spirit (SOS)
Date: Thursday, 15th February, 2024
Text: Psalm 110
“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, [42] Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. [43] He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, [44] The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? [45] If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?” (Matt. 22:41-45). Jesus was asking the Pharisees how the Lord would be David's son when David called Him the Lord. David was not referring to himself, he was seeing a conversation going on in the heavens. Among many messianic Psalms, this is major and was referenced in different scriptures (Psa. 110:1; Heb. 1:13; Acts 2:34-35). This Psalm is a prophetic record the Lord kept for a generation.
There is something about prophecy we need to understand. Psalms are prophetic secrets that are rendered in such a poetic manner. It is the manner of the Spirit to hide and keep things.
In Israel right now, where it was perceived that Solomon’s temple was, is sitting a mosque called ‘Dome of the Rock’ which is the third most sacred place in the Islamic world. The Jews have been seeking to take back that place and raise the temple, but it has been a tussle. One of the major things going on in Israel is the rebuilding of the physical temple, but the Church is not yet ready for that. The Church is not yet ready to see the wonder of the temple.
The reason some are determined to go on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem is because they believe that is the only way they would see the scriptures come alive. However, the Bible has always been alive. The Bible is not a book of stories, rather, what is written therein are spirit and life. Thus, believers do not need to go to Jerusalem before seeing or comprehending the Bible. In fact, going to Jerusalem might constitute a veil that might be impossible to take away.
If the temple is rebuilt, what happened in the days of the book of Judges might happen again. When Gideon fought and won the battle, the Lord gave Israel victory: he took gold and made a giant Ephod and the whole Israel came to see it. Thereafter, Israel went into a whoring, which is idolatry (Judg. 8:26-27). Idolatry in the spirit is whoredom. In the same way, the Church is not yet ready for the temple to be built because many would depart from the faith and turn to Jerusalem.
The Church would be swayed easily because the allure of the temple is strong. The temple might eventually be built but not now. The Psalms are written in such a way that one can pray with it but not understand its meaning. This is because Psalms are not just prayers, but are secrets that are hidden. God hid secrets in the book of Psalms that are meant to be unveiled at a particular time and season.
God is transacting with our community at a high degree; these messages we are hearing are not ordinary. Our meetings are not conferences or organised programs, rather, they are prophecies that are leading us on a journey. We are a people journeying according to prophecy. We do not fully understand what God is doing in our midst, but we are just following and praying that we keep pace with Him.
In the realm we are in, where we are not in line with God, we would miss it: but the Lord has helped us and we should be thankful to Him. We should discern what is going on amidst us properly. God's word coming to us are not just mere messages, but God's interactions and transactions with the earth according to what is written, which must be fulfilled. The Lord Jesus was not just another Rabbi, rather, He came and fulfilled all that was written of Him. When He was on earth, He aligned with prophecy: there was nothing He did that was out of order.
In our midst, God is transacting with a people He has found willing to go with Him according to that which is written. A people must rise to fulfil that which is written and this calls for soberness, caution and taking heed (Heb. 2:1).
There has been an emphasis on the 1988 prophecy of change by Reverend Kenneth E. Hagin. This prophecy does not talk of a change in the church world because they would go right on with those programs, plans and purposes and they would pursue it. This is exactly what is going on in the Church.
Many people treat the Church like a shopping mall where they pick what they want and leave. Some go to church to be motivated to go about their personal business, but it should not be like that with us. If we do not discern what is happening in our midst, we would not make profit spiritually. We cannot pick what we want when we come to church because it is a journey that we must partake in. We must follow the cloud, as anyone who stays outside the cloud and does not participate in the transactions God is bringing upon the company He has found, would be greatly exposed.
In the natural, things would get tougher economically but the hearts of those who have followed God would be kept. The early church went through a time of economic hardship and thereafter, there was great advancement. The Lord allowed the economic hardship and in the midst of it, most of the epistles were written. For example, the Macedonian church gave out of their poverty (2 Cor. 8:1). They could give because they were kept and had contentment.
“But godliness with contentment is great gain…” (1 Tim. 6:6). This describes power. Godliness with contentment is a spiritual economic power; it is a power that can keep a people in the midst of whatever the enemy would assault them with. Such a people would know that the essence of what Satan is doing is to get them agitated, afraid and thereafter, complain and murmur. However, instead of complaining and murmuring, such a people would be calm.
Those in the world may complain about the happenings on earth, but we would discover that our heart is still and we have peace. This is the peace of God that passes all understanding, keeping the heart and mind in Christ Jesus (Philipp. 4:7).
Tongues and Interpretation (1)
“Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, what does the future hold? What does tomorrow hold? What will tomorrow look like? Yea, what does the future hold, even for the world? What does the future hold for the people of God? What does the future hold for the earth? For, saith the Lord, yea both natural men and men who are walking in the Spirit are walking in prophecy. For both carnal men and spiritual men are walking in prophecy. For men who are dead in their spirits, even unbelievers who are the children of the devil are walking in prophecies. For the things you see happening presently upon the face of the earth is prophecy being fulfilled. For the economic crunch is prophecy being fulfilled; for the difficulty, the wars, nations rising against nations are prophecies being fulfilled. For those who are seeking God and are coming into zones of mercy, even zones of admittance into knowing God, knowing Christ, are fulfilling prophecy. For you are fulfilling prophecy. For the natural man in the world is also fulfilling prophecy. Yea, sin is a written prophecy, death is a written prophecy and men are walking in that prophecy. Men are going in the direction of that prophecy and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it. Your prayer cannot stop it. Yea, your fasting cannot stop it.
The only thing that can exempt you is to walk also in prophecy. For Christ is a prophecy; everlasting life is a prophecy. You are living in a high prophetic season upon the face of the earth. For the earth is a wheel for the fulfilling of the good prophecies of God and the bad prophecies of the devil. Therefore, I say you should walk in prophecy. Do not complain of the hardship, just walk in prophecy. Walk out of the prophecy of the devil, walk into the prophecy of light. Do life, do light; die to the flesh. Deny ungodliness and your economy would be after the manner of the prophecy that is in Jesus. Enter into His prophecy, enter His prophecy for safety, enter His prophecy for security. For what does the future hold? The future holds light and the future holds darkness. What does the future hold? The future holds glory and the future holds damnation. Fulfil even the prophecy that you walk in. Therefore, I say choose the prophecy of Jesus, even the prophecy of the gospel and you would be kept. Yea, your home would be kept. Yea, your family would be kept. Yea, everything about you would be kept and they would be gospel predictable, even by the prophecy that is Jesus, the prophecy that is in Jesus, saith the Lord Jesus.”
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The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. The spirit that is in God is what was given by God to Jesus which is the spirit of prophecy. This is what the Church is meant to come into; this is what we are journeying into. There are prophecies that would lead us into that major prophecy.
Every time the world to come is to be preached, the adversary fights. The reason he is fighting is because he does not want the Church to key into prophecy. What would make us survive this season is our hope. One with an earthly/worldly hope is miserable (1 Cor. 15:19). The reason we can keep going is because we have the hope of Eternal Life which was promised to us before the world began (Tit. 1:2).
Eternal Life is the economy of the world to come, it is the life of the world to come. The hope of Eternal Life should be our motivation. If the hope of Eternal Life is what is motivating us then we would not be perturbed about what is happening on the earth because we would have a hope. Our hope is a lively hope; it is what will keep us alive. It will keep us going and we will not go down.
“And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. [6] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.” (Rev. 6:5-6). This scripture is talking about hurting the economy. That balance being held is a measure/weight. There is going to be an economic imbalance, these things are prophecies and winds are blowing to fulfil it. The four winds of the earth are there to fulfil it. We must discern rightly and not view things from the carnal perspective or else, our hearts would be troubled and we would complain.
We should discern by the Spirit, so we would be more accurate. When we are reading in the spirit, we would see that our redemption is nearer. When these things are happening (prophecies being fulfilled), we should rejoice.
“And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.” (Luke 21:28). We should rejoice because we have the hope of redemption. Our redemption is our salvation. The purpose of these things is for the salvation of the people of God.
“Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it , and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord , and that thought upon his name.” (Mal. 3:16). These are people following prophecy. We should key into prophecy. We should pray for understanding like Daniel. We must have his kind of spirit that sought to understand what God was doing. This must be our prayer and we must seek how we can align in our hearts so we can know. This quest is not for only pastors, it is for the whole community of saints.
Our hearts must be after alignment to prophecy. We must seek understanding and pray to clearly and accurately interpret what God is doing in our midst. The messages should not be handled lightly, for they spell out our prophetic journey and and if we do not understand it, we would not key in as we ought to.
Tongues and Interpretation (2)
“Make a good warfare. Make a good warfare even with prophecy. Contend earnestly for the faith. For you need to contend earnestly for the faith. You need to key into that which has been prophesied ahead of time, that you may align yourself with the agenda of heaven. For your prayers in this season, even your heart attitude, the posture of your heart should be that the will, even the will of the Father be done in earth, as it is already done in heaven. For there is an agenda that is already being run in heaven and the earth has to align with this agenda. So your heart posture, even your heart attitude, even the cry of your heart and the longing of your soul should be that the will of the Lord be done in the earth as it is done in heaven. You need to align with heaven because woe is coming upon the earth; trouble is coming on the earth, great tribulation is coming upon the earth but heavens will rejoice and the dwellers of the heaven will rejoice and they that walk in consonance and in alignment with the heavens are they that would rejoice.
Come, come see what heaven is doing. Come, come walk with prophecy. Come, come align with prophecy. Come, walk according to the prophecy that has been prophesied ahead of time, that you may key into the agenda of your Father. For your Father is eager to show you that which He is doing. Come seek, come search diligently, come enquire of the Lord. Come constantly to enquire of the Lord, be an enquirer to see what We are doing. We want to show you what we are doing; We want to show you that you may walk and align yourself even with that which heaven is doing. Fight, fight to align with prophecy. Fight to walk according to prophecy, fight to be in prophecy. Fight to lay hold, even on the testimony of Jesus which is the spirit of prophecy.”
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“Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.” (Mal. 3:16). There is no way one can be in this group of those that fear and think upon His name if such is not in the company of prophetic people (the brethren) journeying. These are brethren the prophets that fear the Lord and that thought upon His name.
The spirit that is in God is what He gave to Jesus, which is the spirit of prophecy. This is what the Church is meant to come into; it is what we are all journeying into. There are prophecies that will lead us to that major prophecy but things that have been spoken will come to pass. The adversary fights the servant of God (Reverend Kayode Oyegoke) whenever he wants to teach the world to come because he does not want us to key into prophecy.
What will make us survive this season is that we have hope. If anyone has a hope here, he is finished, but for anyone to keep going, he must have the hope of Eternal Life which is the economy of the world to come. When we have this hope, we will not be perturbed by what is going on here; we will not sorrow nor be troubled like them that do not have hope. It is a lively hope and it will keep us going. Prophecy will come to pass.
“And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.” (Mal. 3:17). The Lord has been looking for those who will be His. The Lord was not just making a general statement in this scripture. We cannot be ‘Mine’ if we do not have ‘My’ things or ‘My’ Spirit.
“All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” (John 16:15). God is raising His jewels; He is raising a people. Our escape is to be numbered among these. Our escape is to find our feet in the path of prophecy, thereby, the Lord will spare us as a man spares his own son that serves his purpose. We cannot say we are serving Him if we are not serving His purpose. What will keep us is that we are walking in the path of prophecy. It is obvious that God wants to have ‘Mine’.
“For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, [12] saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, In the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.” (Heb. 2:11-12). The name He is declaring is the name of His Father (Mal. 3:16). There is no way we will declare a name we when have not thought of the name. The name is an unveiling that is going to be amidst the brethren. Declaring the name and singing praise are not the same. The name is declared amidst the brethren. Brethren are prophets who have the prophetic gene and are walking according to prophecy. These prophets are those who have received the spirit of Jesus Christ which is the spirit of God.
To sing praise is a high activity. The book of Revelation is full of songs, there are some songs that will be opened up, which shows that it is a life. This means there are people who will be taught a manner of life for them to enter, but for some it will be declaring a name.
”And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.” (Heb. 2:13). The Lord will only trust a man in whom He has put His spirit. If it is not in a man God cannot trust it. Satan also trusted the beast and gave him everything. He gave him his spirit first so he could live and reign for him. This trust is what constitutes the brethren; the trust is the spirit of Jesus Christ. Another word for “My Spirit” is “my trust”.
This church in Hebrews 2 are children. The Father wants to give Jesus Christ children,l so that He would raise them to become brethren. These children are not babies in the Lord but men who have received the spirit of prophecy.
“As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.” (John 17:2). God has to give Eternal Life to Jesus before Jesus can give it to men. God will give Jesus children, then Jesus would raise them to receive Eternal Life. These children are high men who have walked in prophecy.
In the book of Revelation chapter 12, there are two companies, apart from the woman. There is the company of the manchild, and there is a remnant of her seed who kept the testimony but did not finish their course. However, there were those who finished their course and declared the name; tt was the name that caught them up. These children are children of prophecy.
If there is so great salvation, then there is great salvation. Great salvation is eternal salvation. One who seeks for great salvation would have his life taken from him. We will be taught how to lose our lives; this is what helped the manchild (Rev. 12:11). We will be taught how to love not our lives, but starve it until we lose it completely. This is the path we will be led in (Psa. 23:3). The season of His name sake is another season where we will walk through the valley of the shadow of death (Psa 23:4).
Secrets are hidden in the book of Psalms. The book of Psalms is not just for praying, but it is a program that is being run. A journey can be seen in the book of Psalms 23. There was a season of green pasture, of having something to eat. Still water is for one to drink for a soul to be restored; but there is also a season of another kind of meal and it would be required for one to eat it in the presence of one's enemies. This is a training for reign.
King Nebuchadnezzar prepared a table for the Jewish children that were taken captive to Babylon to eat (Dan. 1). The table prepared in Psalm 23 is a function of the right hand. We will be taught how to ignore the devil and concentrate on feeding. It is a lesson one must learn otherwise one will not be able to reign because there are many distractions. We do not judge by what we see or hear but according to what the throne is supplying/saying.
The Jewish children held captive in Babylon had to eat because Nebuchadnezzar wanted to raise them to reign as an extension of his reign. His wine, meat and portion were spirits and by eating of them, the Babylonic spirit would enter into one. Thus, making one think like a Babylonian. Tables are not ordinary, they are dangerous; tables are kingdoms (Luke 22:29).
“Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.” (Psa. 23:5). This is a training to teach one the order of reign. The food served on the table is a food of the Lord’s presence. Thus, the men who have come to this table are men of joy (Psa. 16:11); men who have come to fullness of joy because they have eaten things of the presence. To such men, the presence of the enemy is nothing. The training at the table is a training of the throne; it is a training of the high wisdom of God to deal with Satan.
God is going to give people wisdom to deal with Satan. God is going to raise brethren called the rod of His strength that will rule in the midst of the enemies because they have eaten in the presence of the enemy. It is a high wisdom of God to deal with Satan and this is what the men, the man child (Rev. 12:5) would be given to eat. These men are referred to as stars in the book of Daniel that will turn men to righteousness (Dan. 12:3).
To turn men to righteousness is to deliver them. The days of thy power are the days of the rod of His strength. The day of the rod of His strength is the day of the expression of His power wherein the people shall be willing (Psa. 110:3). The rod of His strength are those who will rule in the midst of His enemies; it is those who have been raised by Him that will put the devil down.
From Reverend Kenneth E. Hagin's prophecy in 1988 which said “there will arise a new army…”, it can be deduced that there is a process of raising the new army, for they do not just appear. This process is their eating and leading.
(Reverend Kenneth Hagin's 1988 Prophecy)
“The beginning of the last days. Men, women equipped with the power of the Holy Ghost that will in the Spirit. They will learn to walk in the Spirit!”
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Being equipped with the power of the Holy Ghost in the prophecy is not the manifestation of the name of the Holy Ghost but rather, the manifestation of the full strength of the Holy Ghost in sons. The power of the Holy Ghost is given to sons and it is not a gift of the Spirit but a rod.
(Reverend Kenneth Hagin's 1988 Prophecy)
“They will learn to join forces with the forces of Heaven! And the angels will come and minister unto them; the angels will come and minister with them!”
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Moses while in the house of Jethro for forty years learnt ways of an angel. This can be seen later on as he told God he wants to know His ways (Exo. 33:13). The present heavens are ways and one who does not know these ways cannot ascend.
The ways of angels that Moses learnt qualified him to handle the rod. However, for us, we will not be given a physical rod but will become the rod ourselves. We will become the rod of His strength because of what we will learn. We cannot join forces with angels if we have not learnt the ordinances of heaven. The men who walked with God in the Old Testament met angels. As such, if our testament is a better one, we would also meet angels.
There are things one cannot handle in the present without the help of angels because they own the present. Angels are emissaries, ministers (Heb. 1:14) and they need to be revered just as we stir out grace in our pastors. Angels can minister in words of wisdom, knowledge and the gifts of prophecy and so whenever they are around you, you have a grace to operate in these giftings. There are things angels have that we do not have and so we have to join forces with them just like Moses who joined forces with the angel that led the children of Israel out of Egypt.
God wants to join forces with us. Angels are ministers and they hear from God, but they do not lead us, instead they join forces with us and they understand the enemy more than us. They know the devil and saw their brethren fall; they know what he is capable of doing. Saints have angels. In entertaining a brother, you are also entertaining his angel (Heb. 13:2). Angels also communicate to each other at a frequency. After Moses learnt the ways of the angel, God warned him to be careful with the angel because he was not framed with mercy (Exo. 23:21-22).
(Reverend Kenneth Hagin's 1988 Prophecy)
“...They will learn to join forces with the forces of heaven! And the angels will come and minister unto them; the angel will come and minister with them! And Michael himself on certain occasions when those majestic things, those things of great importance concerning the last days, he himself will come and make himself known unto many and bring them blessings from God…”
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The Church thinks that things are normal but things have changed drastically. The Lord through this prophecy marked the ‘beginning of the last days’. We are in the season where majestic things of great importance will be brought to us.
(Jane Lead’s prophecy…)
“This will be the standing up of the great prince Michael, and will be like the appearance of Moses against Pharaoh, in order that the Chosen Seed may be brought, under which Abraham’s seed groans. But a prophet and the most prophetical generation, will the Most High raise up who shall deliver His elect by the force of spiritual arms: for which there must be raised certain head power to bear the first office, who are to be persons in favour with God, whose dread and fear shall fall on all nations, visible and invisible, because of the mighty acting power of the Holy Spirit which shall rest upon them. For Christ shall appear in some chosen vessels to bring into the promised land.”
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There are nations that are visible and nations that are invisible because of the mighty acting power of the Holy Ghost which shall rest upon them. Christ shall appear in some chosen vessels to bring into the promise land, the new creation state. These are rods of His strength because they will have the acting power of the Holy Spirit and have been raised by the throne.
“The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.” (Psa. 110:4). The order of the Kingdom is the order of priests; they are not just ordinary men. Kings depend on priests to divinate for them but when a priest rules, the counsel of peace will be upon them both (the priest and the king) (Zech. 6:13). A priest knows how to manage powers in order to achieve the will of our fathers.
Our Lord is the priest and He will sit upon His throne to reign as a priest. He is raising us as priests, which is why He is leading us to the right hand. One who is at the right hand is a priest that is reigning. This shows that one cannot come to the right hand without being raised a priest. Our Lord is first of all the priest of the most high God which is what He is also raising us to be, because the angels we are joining forces with are priests.
It is only priests that can understand and walk with priests because they have law. This law is a code they live by. The office of the right hand is meant for priests. Heaven has found a people they can work on because we will be willing and that willingness comes from understanding what the Lord wants to do. We are in the season where we will walk in prophecy. Amen.
Tongues and interpretation (3)
“Thank You Lord Jesus for the utterance spoken, for the utterance given. For the words spoken at this time are the inspiration of God Almighty to show and make you know that you are in a season of the formation and raising of the rod of God's strength. For the angel of the Lord has been sent to give this message to all the elect who are the chosen vessels, who have been ordained that through them, Christ might appear. For these are the things that will come to pass in many days ahead. Lift up your eyes, for the harvest is now. You are mount Zion and the activities of the Lamb are increasing to raise a people and rod of strength, for these words pertains to you. It is your future, your life, your destiny; therefore give attention, for in your days, you shall see men that you know in your flesh occupy this position. Therefore, hasten your pace and agree with Jesus that these things should be done in your life.”
Blessings!