Book Contents

Title

Copyright

Original Foreword

Foreword for New Edition

Section 01 – Spiritual Transmutation

Chapter 01 – Currency Control

Chapter 02 - Depositing in Your Heavenly Bank Account

Chapter 03 - Rules of Your Bank Account

Chapter 04 - Converting Spiritual Matter

Section 02 – Ministry of Angels

Chapter 05 - How Angels Manifest

Chapter 06 - The Angels of Heaven

Chapter 07 - Personal Guardian Angels

Section 03 – Dealing With Demons

Chapter 08 – Spiritual Forces of Darkness

Chapter 09 - Spiritual Wickedness

Chapter 10 - Prophetic Intercessors

Section 04 – Receiving Healing

Chapter 11 – Medicine is Big Business

Chapter 12 - Blockages to Healing

Chapter 13 - The Power of Speech and Health

Chapter 14 - Healing Others

Section 05 – Walking in Prosperity

Chapter 15 – God Wants You to Prosper

Chapter 16 - The Law of Use

Chapter 17 - Choosing Good Investments

Chapter 18 - Getting Returns on Your Investment

Section 06 – Spiritual Birthing

Chapter 19 – Childbirth is Part of Life

Chapter 20 - Having a Healthy Pregnancy

Chapter 21 - Preparing for the Birth

Section 07 - The Force of Love

Chapter 22 - The Necessity for Love

Chapter 23 - The Performance of Love

Chapter 24 - The Power of Love

Chapter 25 - Imparted by the Spirit

There is More For You

The New Way of Blessing

Using Your Blessing

By Les D. Crause

The New Way of Blessing

Part 2 - Using Your Blessing

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Original teaching by Les D. Crause

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Original Foreword

I was born into a home that was not blessed with many of the things that most people take for granted. My parents were not wealthy and we lived in the poorer part of town. As a child I became prone to most childhood diseases and struggled through my early years of life, fighting the odds that were against me.

I grew up in a home that loved the Lord and where Jesus had His rightful place. I was blessed abundantly from a spiritual viewpoint, but it seemed that I was destined to go through life battling against poverty and ill health.

Perhaps that is partly why I made such an effort to find solutions to these problems in life. The church that I grew up in taught me that God wanted me to be healed but I could not seem to lay hold of it.

When it came to financial prosperity I was taught that the things of the world were to have no place in the life of one committed to the Lord. So I did what most people do as they grow up. I turned to the world to find solutions to my problems.

Having an active mind I consumed every book that I could find on the subject of success. Self-help writings such as those of Dale Carnegie, Napoleon Hill and Og Mandino were a great inspiration but they lacked a spiritual emphasis and Scriptural basis.

But more important than that, they did not work for me. As I came to experience more of God in the Spirit and began to fill myself with His Word I started to consume books written by Christian authors.

Since this subject seemed to be largely the domain of the Word of Faith movement, I read books written by some of the leading teachers in that movement to find answers to my questions.

I learned much, but once again I found that, even armed with the knowledge that was presented, I could not break out of the mold of my failure and difficulties in life. There had to be some more answers in the Word that I had not yet discovered.

So I put aside all the books and ideas of man, and I began to look into the Scriptures alone, waiting on the Lord and seeking His face in the Spirit for answers. As I began to move into a closer relationship with the Lord Jesus He began to show me things that I had never seen or heard before.

It took some time for me to change my ways of thinking and to apply these principles and make them work. I soon found out there was no such thing as “Ten Easy Steps to Success.”

What you hold in your hands now is a distillation of the truths that God taught me by His Spirit and in His Word over a long period of time. They have been proved in the crucible of experience, and I live by them even today.

My entire ministry is based on them. Without them I could not have accomplished what has been done so far, and without them I cannot succeed in the future. Without them you would not be holding this book in your hand now.

Now at His instruction I am releasing them to the Body of Christ, so that others who are walking the same path of difficulty that I had, will be able to find hope for the future. I pray that as your read these chapters prayerfully and apply them to your life, that you will over a period of time see them begin to work for you.

Do not expect this to happen overnight. There is nothing magical about what I share in this book. But if you absorb and apply all that is taught consistently, I guarantee that your life will never be the same again.

Les D. Crause

Apostolic Entrepreneur and Founder of

Global Business Resources International:

http://www.global-business-resources.com

Foreword for New Edition

The Way of Blessing is a classic that played a foundation role in the establishment of Apostolic Movement International. It was the flagship of the fleet, produced at a time when circumstances were anything but blessing.

Many things have changed since the original series was preached, including the quality of videos, books and other materials, but the message remains the same. The principles have stood the test of time and have proved themselves over and over again.

In this new edition we have edited the text to make it easier to read in places, and added some extra material that compliments the teachings. And because of the vastness of the final text, we have split the complete series into two separate books.

In the first book, Discovering Your Blessing, you will find the foundational principles of the Way of Blessing, and all that you need to know to begin living a life of blessing.

This second book goes into more detail with a practical emphasis, and is called Using Your Blessing. However the two Way of Blessing books are not the final words on Living a Life of Blessing.

An additional book entitled Keys to Creativity continues in the vein of applying the principles practically, and shows how to use the power of spirit, soul and body to create new things. It begins a transition into using the Way of Blessing Principles for the purpose of business.

Following on from these three books, there will be more, including The Way of Wealth, The Way of Health and the Way of Relationships.

We pray that each of these books will become a stepping stone that will enable you to truly rise up and start Living the Life of Blessing, the Abundant Life that God intends for all of us.

Les D. Crause

Apostolic Entrepreneur and Founder of

Global Business Ministries International:

http://www.gbm-i.com

Section 01 – Spiritual Transmutation

Chapter 01 – Currency Control

Ephesians 2:6:

And has raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus.

One of the biggest nuisances that we have these days is a thing called exchange control or foreign currency. You might have money in one country, but when you go to another country your money cannot be used there.

If somebody sends you a check that is in another currency, you have to put it in the bank and wait for foreign currency control to convert it and cause the money to come into your bank account. This causes a delay and you have to wait for your money.

If you have cash, then you need to find a place that will allow you to change it into another currency and switch it between the two different countries. You cannot use another country’s money in a foreign land. It has to be converted to the local equivalent before you can use it.

When you convert it there is nearly always an inconvenience; a delay and a waiting period for that to take place.

Transferring Between Two Realms

We have been speaking about God’s blessings. The Scripture says:

God shall provide our needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

I mentioned in the first book that the heavenly realm is another realm that is different. It is the realm that God lives in and is like another dimension or like another country.

God lives in that country and we live in this country. If God is going to provide our needs from His country to ours, there is exchange control and a change of currency that needs to take place.

So in this section I want to look at the heavenly realm and how we can go about obtaining what is in the heavenly realm, which is God’s realm and where all the blessings are.

Then we will see how to cause those blessings to come down into our realm, which is the physical realm that we live in, and how we can go about doing a currency transfer.

It is like the process of changing currency, because you need to bring it down from the heavenly realm into this realm that we live in.

The Word tells us that:

God has blessed us with every spiritual that is in the heavenly places.

The heavenly places refer to the heavenly realm. That is where the blessings are. They are where God is, since He is the one who has all these blessings. But He has given us access to all of those blessings.

The only problem is that God gives in spiritual currency. He gives to us in heavenly currency. When He does this, we cannot take it and use it immediately in the country we are living in, in this physical realm.

A Personal Revelation

I remember when the Lord began to quicken this to me, it was at the time I was waiting on Him totally and completely and He taught me many of these things in the Spirit.

I remember the one day coming to the Lord and saying,

“Father we are in desperate need of finance. We need money for food and basic necessities of life. We have a need, and Lord Your Word says you will provide our needs.”

I had come to know the Lord Jesus intimately and I could speak with Him as friend to friend. I remember I looked at Him and He reached into His pocket and pulled out a checkbook.

He said, “Sure, how much do you want?”

Then I saw him make out a check.

I thought, “Well that’s great and easy as an illustration. But hold it Lord, what are you trying to tell me here?”

I saw Him then take that check and sign it and give it to me.

He said, “There it is. I have given you what you have requested of me.”

I looked at it and thought,

“That’s all very well. I have this picture in my mind, but where is the money?”

Then the Lord began to explain to me. He said,

“Supposing you were to receive something from somebody else, say a rich person whom you had asked for some money from. What if he were to say to you, ‘Sure, I’ll write you out a check.’

“And suppose he made out that check to you, signed it and placed it in your hands. He has given you what you asked for has he not? Have you not received it? You have it in your hands.”

You could say, “There it is, I have it in my hands. I’ll put it in my Bible for safekeeping.”

Then you could walk around with it for months.

Doing Your Part

But do you have your money? No you don’t. What you have in your hands is a piece of paper that gives you the authority to transfer money from that person’s bank account into your hands or into your bank account. That is all you have. You have an authority to transfer.

You could take that check and walk around with it for months and never see your money. You could come to that person again and say,

“I sure wish you would give me the money I asked for.”

He would say, “But I gave you the check the day you first asked me for it.”

“Yes, but I don’t have the money.”

“Well, what more do you want me to do? I gave you the check.”

You see once he has done his part, you have a part to play. Your part is quite simply to take that check, go down to the local bank, identify yourself with whatever form you are using, and say,

“This check is made out to me. Here is my identification. Can I have my money please?”

If you don’t do that, all you have in your hands is an authority to transfer, but you will never see the money that was given to you. It has not come into your hands yet, because you were responsible to make sure it gets there.

Most believers mess it up right at this point. They ask the Lord to provide their needs. They pray and say,

“Father this is what we need.”

The Lord says, “Sure, you’ve got it.”

Then they wait and they wait for the answer to come. They go to the Lord again and say,

“Lord, please will you give us this.”

The Lord says, “I gave it to you last time.”

“But Lord, I haven’t got it yet.”

“Of course you have it. I gave it to you.”

“But I don’t see it.”

“That’s your responsibility, not mine.”

Can you see the picture? We have a responsibility. There is something that we have to do in order to cause that cash transfer to take place.

Another way to send money is with a bank transfer, where you directly transfer money from one bank account to the other. Once again it must be converted to the local equivalent before you can draw it in the new bank. But it has to be sent through the correct channels.

I am not sure what the procedures are, but when you wire money usually there is a slight delay. Sometimes it has to go through several banks before it arrives at the destination bank.

When it arrives there it is placed into your bank account, waiting and ready to be withdrawn. Then you have access to it, but because of the procedures involved there is often a delay before the transfer is completed. The principles are very similar.

Your Heavenly Bank Account

You need to realize that you have a bank account in Heaven, in the realm where God lives. It was opened for you the moment you were born again.

There is a special bank account in your name, waiting and ready for you to draw on. The Lord has opened it for you, and when He opened it He deposited into that bank account all the needs that you will ever have.

You say, “Well I sure wish I had access to that bank account.”

You are like many people who are waiting until they get to Heaven one day to gain access to their bank account. They are waiting until they travel into the new country.

But I want to let you into a secret. It is possible to transfer currency from the one country to the other.

It is possible for you, right now, to gain access to your heavenly bank account; to draw from it and to have finance transferred down here to you into this country where you live. It is possible for you to tap into the treasures that the Lord has given to you, instead of waiting for them to arrive.

Now I do not know about you, but I have yet to see a bank manager arrive at somebody’s door with a bag of money and say,

“I figured you guys needed some money so I thought I’d just pop round and drop some off for you.”

Have you ever seen that happen? I don’t know if that happens to millionaires, whether they are so important to banks that they obtain that kind of VIP service, but I have never heard of that happening yet.

You could have had that money in your bank account for years and nobody would try to do a thing. In fact, they want to make sure you leave it there as long as possible. They do not want you to draw it out.

You have a heavenly bank account and you need to learn how to use it. What do we normally do with bank accounts? We deposit money into them and draw money out of them.

Your heavenly bank account is no different. It is possible for you to make deposits into your heavenly bank account, as well as make withdrawals.

The Tithing Issue

I know what you are thinking right now. You are thinking,

“Here it comes - the old tithing story. I know what he’s going to tell us. You have to pay your tithes before you can withdraw. Before God will provide your need you have to sow a seed.”

Well we will cover giving, but no I am not going to speaking about tithes. I will show you how to deposit in your heavenly bank account in ways that perhaps you have never ever learned about. I will also show you how to make withdrawals from your bank account.

People have been taught through the years how to deposit in only one way - by giving to and investing finance in the work of the Lord. It sure has been preached, and there is not a person out there who does not know how to invest in their bank account in this way.

But very few people have been taught how to withdraw from their bank accounts. Do you know why? It is because they have been given the lie that says,

“The tithe is your obligation to the Lord. You shouldn’t expect anything back from it. You are responsible. It belongs to God. If you withhold it you have stolen from Him. But even when you give, you shouldn’t expect anything back.”

Spiritual Investments

This is a big subject that I am not going to deal with here so I will not say any more. But I want you to know that anything you invest in your heavenly bank account is going to draw interest. We will look at it shortly as I show you how to invest and deposit into your bank account and how to make withdrawals from it.

In Matthew 6:19 to 21 Jesus said:

Do not store up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust are corrupting, and where thieves break through and steal:

But store up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where neither moth nor rust are corrupting, and where thieves do not break through nor steal

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Jesus said, “Store up your treasures in Heaven where they are not going to be corroded by moth and rust.”

What are moth and rust? They are inflation and everything that goes wrong in this world.

You can invest money in a bank account and leave it there for a few years, and it will be worth half what it used to be. It loses in value and gets corroded. You lay your hands on some money and taxes will take half of it. Then sickness and the problems of life will take the rest of it.

When you are paid for your hard-earned work each pay period, it is barely in your hands and it is starting to corrode.

It is like living by the sea. Everything just rusts and corrodes in no time. You do not need to tell it to rust. You do not even need to make any special effort to make anything rust there.

You simply leave it outside for a while, and before you know it you have a layer of rust forming on it, and it starts to corrode and get eaten away. Your car starts to get holes in it without you even trying.

That is the way things are in this world. Whatever treasures you have, they will corrode and get eaten away and you will lose them. But the Lord says,

“Why don’t you rather put it in a place where none of those things exist; where it will be protected?”

You say, “Well that’s all good and well, but I need the stuff now. I mean it is fine me saving it up there, but I can’t get it until I get to Heaven one day.

“What is the good of me investing in Heaven so that one day when I’m in the presence of the Lord I can finally go and receive all those things that I stored away? I don’t need them then, I need them now.”

That is because you have never learned, or perhaps never been taught that you can withdraw from your heavenly bank account; that you do not have to leave it there. You can draw it out now. That is what we will look at here.

Chapter 02 - Depositing in Your Heavenly Bank Account

What currency does Heaven use? If I am to invest in the heavenly realm then I need to use the right currency. I need to find out what kind of currency they use there, and then convert what I invest into the currency that Heaven works in.

You say, “I didn’t know it was that complicated. I just thought, ‘Well I pay my tithes and I give offerings. I give to the work of the Lord. That’s giving to God isn’t it?’ ”

No, we are talking about investment here. We are talking about investing in your heavenly bank account. We are not talking about throwing your money on the ground without knowing what you are doing with it.

Perhaps the reason most of the money that you have given out has never reached your heavenly bank account, is because you gave the wrong currency. If you give the wrong currency it is of no use.

In Mark 10:21 the rich young ruler came to Jesus with all of his wealth and possessions. It says:

Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said to him, One thing you are lacking: go your way, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in Heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me.

Using Heavenly Currency

What is the currency of Heaven? Heaven is a spiritual realm. It is the realm of the Spirit because God is a Spirit.

We looked at the forces and the nature of spirit. They are faith, hope and love. Do you want to know what the currency of Heaven is? It is faith, hope and love.

You cannot invest dollars in Heaven. Sorry, they do not accept that currency there. They only accept faith, hope and love.

So if you want to invest money in the Kingdom of God; if you wish to invest in your heavenly bank account, you will have to convert your money into faith, hope or love before it can be deposited into your bank account.

Jesus said to this young man,

“I want you to take the things that you depend on; all of your wealth and your riches that are your livelihood. They are the things that you have your faith and your trust in, and I want you to give them up, sacrificially.”

That was an act of faith. If that young man had done what Jesus had said; if he had by faith in the Lord, trusting the Word of the Lord, taken those things and given them up, he would have converted them into faith. Then the Lord would have taken that faith for him and invested it in his bank account.

Jesus said, “Take it and give it to the poor.”

You cannot give to the poor without having the love of God in your heart.

Jesus said, “Give out of loving care and compassion for somebody who is in need.”

If he had done that, as he gave it forth he would have poured forth in love, and he would have converted all of his material possession into the heavenly currency of love.

The Lord said, “Set your eyes on me now and follow me as I go.”

If he had done that, he would have put his eyes of hope on the Lord and not on things, and he would have released the force of hope.

He would have converted all of his material possessions into faith, hope and love. They would have been invested into his heavenly bank account, in the heavenly realm for him. It was treasure in Heaven.

You say, “But if I give it all out, then I will have nothing left. I will have lost it.”

No you haven’t lost it. When you go to your bank and you deposit the money in there, do you come home and wring your hands and say?

“Oh well it’s gone now. We’ll never see our money again.”

Well I do not know what kind of banks you have in your country, but normally when I invest in a bank I have the confidence that says,

“If I need that money, next time I go there it will be available for me to withdraw.”

I know banks have been known to go bust, but this usually does not happen. The money will be there and available for me to withdraw.

You say, “Well that was fine. He was the rich young ruler. He had lots of money and lots of possessions.

“What about me? I’m just a poor little guy trying to earn enough money to feed my family and I’m battling to do that. We can barely make ends meet and you want me to give? I don’t have enough money to put food on the table for my kids, and you are saying I should give?”

Making Heavenly Deposits

How do we make deposits, and what is it that we deposit?

Things and money are a good place to start. If you have things and you have money, then that is a good investment to begin with.

If you have come to the place where your supply has dwindled down, where it seems that there is nothing coming in and you have reached a point of desperation that you do not know where to turn, why not make an investment in your heavenly bank account?

Start looking around at whatever you have and say,

“Hold it. I’m sure I have something here that I can give away. I am sure there is something here that I can invest into my heavenly bank account.”

Why would you want to do that? Because when you invest in your heavenly bank account and you go to make a withdrawal, you do not get out what you put in. You receive a lot more.

That is why preachers have used the other Scriptural principle of the sowing of a seed. When you plant a seed it begins to grow and bear forth a plant that gives more seed. There is a whole lot more seed that comes from the plant than the seed you put in. But you say,

“I don’t have things. I don’t have money. I really would like to give, but what do I give?”

Investing Time

There are other things you have to give. How about your time? Have you ever heard the expression?

“Time is money.”

You take the hours that you are given to you every day and you convert them into the physical equivalent do you not? You use many hours of the time that you have every day to be employed somewhere.

As a result someone will give you cash because of the work that you have put in. They will pay you for the time that you invested working in that business. You have time to invest.

You say, “Well I work long hours. I get home and barely have enough time to sit down and relax with the family and eat, and then I have to go and sleep.”

So sleep less or eat less. Find some time. If you do not have anything financial, physical or temporal to give, then find some time to give.

You see whether it be material or whether it be time, it does not matter what you have, because you will still have to convert it to the spiritual equivalent before you can invest it in your heavenly bank account.

The Greatest Investment

Remember that you are not investing money or things or time. You have to invest faith, hope and love, and you can obtain faith, hope and love from many different things.

Now I want to give you what is the richest and most powerful and valuable investment that you can make. It is one that costs you absolutely nothing except a little bit of time and effort.

The Lord told me once,

“If my people would take the time to praise me, to lift up their hearts in praise and worship to me; if they would invest in my Kingdom in praise and in worship, I will withhold nothing from them.”

God has promised us a return on what we invest. But when it comes to praise and worship, there are no bounds to the interest rate that you will get.

God delights in the praises of His people. If you have nothing to give or to invest in the Kingdom of God and your heavenly bank account, start to praise Him.

How much effort does it take to walk around saying?

“Hallelujah, glory, thank you Jesus. Praise you Lord, I love you Jesus. Thank you Father, you are worthy of glory and worthy of praise.”

Lift your heart in song and praise and worship to Him. It stirs His heart. He becomes like a bank manager looking at a millionaire bringing his millions in. He loves our praise and our worship.

If you have nothing else to give or invest, start to praise Him. Instead of sitting wallowing, and moaning and groaning about your situation, start to praise Him and worship Him.

We need to praise God for all things. The Scripture says:

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

So take whatever it is that you want to invest, whether it is money, things, or time. Hold it up to the Lord and say,

“Lord I give it to you.”

The Right Attitude and Motive

Jesus is the only man in Heaven who has the authority to deposit into your bank account, since He is both God and man. But you have to convert it to the right currency.

How do you go about converting it to the right currency? You will have to give with the right motives and attitude. You are not going to be able to bribe the Lord. You cannot come to Him and praise Him thinking,

“If I praise the Lord long enough maybe I’ll impress Him, and He will start doing things for me.”

Do not think like the Pharisees did who said,

“I give tithes and I give a big amount of offering into the offering plate every week at church. I give money to the poor and I give to charities and other institutions.”

No, you have to give in faith. And giving in faith is going to cost you because it is has to be sacrificial.

Giving in faith means you have to give at times when it is going to hurt you. It means that you have to give something that you need. It means you have to give beyond what you can afford.

Sometimes you will have to give of time that you do not have. And it means you will have to praise Him when you do not feel like it.

It should be sacrificial giving in faith, with the right motive of love and care and not,

“Let me just give this guy some money and get him off my back.”

No, you need a heart of love that pours forth. It should not be,

“I suppose if I pay my tithes, this pastor will stop nagging me.”

No, it should be,

“I want to bless this ministry and see it going forward for God. I’m going to make my time available. I’m going to work for free for somebody that is in need, for the Kingdom of God.”

Then you are giving out in faith, in hope and in love.

Giving it to Jesus

The way to give is to see you giving directly to the Lord. You hold it up to Him and see Him taking it from your hands.

Say, “Here it is Lord. I yield it up to you.”

It is at this point that you have made your deposit. Before you ever put a cent in the offering plate; before you write out your check and give it to somebody else; before you take those bank notes and hand them out, you had better make sure you have converted them to heavenly currency.

Then make sure you have given them to Jesus and asked Him to invest it. By doing this you have transmuted your investment into heavenly currency and sent it straight into your heavenly bank account.

Chapter 03 - Rules of Your Bank Account

If you have invested correctly as we discussed earlier, then you are now in a position to start making withdrawals.

The first thing you need to realize concerning making withdrawals from your heavenly bank account, is that God has already deposited into your account everything that you need.

In other words, if you need healing for your body, you do not have to make investments for it. If you need food and clothing and the basic necessities of life, you do not have to make investments for those. It has been put in there for you already.

But if you want to reach beyond, you want to get rich. I am not only talking about money here. I am talking about being rich in heavenly resources.

If you wish to be rich in spiritual resources and the currency of Heaven; if you want to increase your faith, hope and love, then you must invest first.

Effort is Involved

At one time the disciples said to Jesus,

“Lord, increase our faith.”

The Lord told them about a servant who is working for His master. They come in that night and the master comes to sit down at the table and eat, and he does not say to the servant,

“You have been working hard all day, so you can go and take a break.”

It is the servant’s obligation to still go and cook the food and wait on the master and serve him first. And even when he has finished doing that he does not say,

“Well that was really nice of me to do that.”

No, it was his responsibility and his obligation.

Jesus was indicating that you need to make an effort and that you need to sow first. If you wish to receive faith, then you will have to invest something to receive it.

How to Withdraw

If you want your faith or your love or your hope to increase, then invest some spiritual currency and you will be able to make a withdrawal.

You do not have to withdraw money only from your heavenly bank account. You can withdraw wisdom. You can withdraw popularity or favor with people.

You can draw whatever you need in order to function efficiently in this world and in the Kingdom of God. You can withdraw the power and anointing of His Spirit. You can withdraw every single blessing that is available to you in the heavenly realm.

It does not mean if you deposited money that you should get money back. It does not mean that if you deposited time you will get time back. You only have 24 hours and you cannot ask for more unfortunately.

I tried that one and it does not work, trust me. But it is possible for the Lord to make you so efficient that you accomplish far more in the time that is available to you.

Hundredfold Return

Since you have invested heavenly currency you can also withdraw heavenly currency.

Now here is an exciting truth. The Lord promised a hundredfold return on every investment you make in your heavenly bank account.

Following the incident with the rich young man, Jesus told His disciples how difficult it was for rich people to enter into Heaven.

Peter said, “Wow Lord, how can anybody get saved then.”

I get the impression that Peter was not poor. He turned to the Lord and said,

“Lord, we’ve given everything up for you. We gave up our businesses and riches and everything that we had.”

In Mark 10:28 and 30 it says:

Then Peter began to say unto him, Look, we have left all, and have followed you.

And Jesus answered and said, Truly I say to you, there is no man that has left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake, and the gospel’s,

But he shall receive one hundred times now in this life - houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions - and in the age to come eternal life.

There is a hundredfold return on every investment that you make into your heavenly bank. But you have to make sure you invest in the right currency, with the right motive, and as long as it is not something you were coerced into.

As long as you do not give with a big fanfare before you and say,

“Do you know how much money I gave to the work of the Lord this month? You know what? I saw a beggar on the street and I gave him $20. Aren’t I wonderful? I am such a humble servant of the Lord.”

Wrong. You just wasted your money. It was the wrong motive, the wrong spirit and wrong currency. It will not go into your heavenly bank account.

Now you have made those deposits, and God guarantees you a hundredfold return. That is not a bad return is it? For every $100 you invest, you are getting $10 000 back.

You would think people would be investing a lot more, wouldn’t you? You would think that people would be pouring it out. But they are not doing it because they do not know how to withdraw.

So preachers always major on tithing, and we have to scare people into giving. People are placed under a bondage and obligation. They are told,

“It is your obligation to tithe, and if you do not tithe you are cursed with a curse. You have robbed God. You have sinned and God is not going to bless you.”

So people give out of fear. Fear is the opposite of love. The Scripture says:

Perfect love casts out all fear.

Fear is not the currency of Heaven. If you are paying your tithes out of fear or obligation, you are investing the wrong currency.

I am not saying you must not tithe. I am not saying you must not give. But you must not give with wrong motives.

In the early church, the people took everything that they had and they came and laid it at the apostles’ feet and said,

“We have enough to go around. Here is excess that we have. If anybody in the church has a need, let them come and help themselves.”

They pooled all their resources and gave freely and shared with one another. They gave out of love and care and they gave out of faith. And the power of God came down on that crowd of people in power.

The Bible says:

The Lord was adding to the church daily, those who were being saved.

If you were an unbeliever in those days I think you would have wanted to join the church, you know why? It was because the church was not saying,

“Well, come to the Lord and receive Him, and give away a tenth of your income from now on.”

No, they were saying,

“Come and let us show you by our love how Jesus is. Let us show you the gospel by our love.”

They invested in heavenly currency and gave forth in love and faith and hope. As they invested they could withdraw, not only temporally, but spiritually. The power of God was available.

Knowing What You Want

So as you come to withdraw from your heavenly bank account, firstly you need to know what it is that you need from the hand of the Lord.

You do not walk into a bank and say,

“I’d like some money.”

You walk in and fill in a deposit slip. You make out a check, and if you make out the check wrong they will just throw it back at you. It has to be done right. So you must know very clearly in your mind what it is that you want to receive from your heavenly bank account.

If you have made investments and deposits into your account, you know that you have the right to come and say,

“I’m making a withdrawal now.”

If you want to withdraw those things that the Lord has already provided for us in His atonement like healing, then you know it is already there. You do not need to make an investment.

If you have made an investment in the Kingdom of God, and you have done it by giving to the poor, the Scripture says:

He that gives to the poor lends to God.

If you have made that investment by giving to a fellow member of the Body of Christ or by giving to the work of the Lord, then you can expect a return.

Provided you gave in faith, hope and love you have a right to expect a hundredfold return on that investment in terms of the Word of God. You know that you have an investment in Heaven, a hundred times as much, which you can begin to withdraw now from the hand of the Lord.

See Him Giving it to You

So what you must do is give your withdrawal slip to the Lord. You gave Him your deposit slip didn’t you, and you asked Him to go and deposit it for you?

Now you make out a cash withdrawal and say,

“Lord, we need this amount. We need a new vehicle. We need a new computer, Lord. We need new equipment to do this ministry.

“Lord this is our withdrawal slip. We’re giving it to you, and we’re asking you to withdraw from our heavenly bank account.”

That is the first step you have to make. Then you should see the Lord taking the thing that you have asked for, and giving it to you. You should know that what you have asked of Him, He has given to you.

In other words you should see Him giving you the check first before you can do anything. If you do not have a check then you cannot take it to the bank to cash it can you?

So you must know. You must, by faith, have reached out and received at His hand the thing that you want.

How do we get it? Remember that Jesus is at the right hand of the Father. Jesus obtains these things on our behalf, and all we need to do is come in His name. In John 14:13 and 14 Jesus said:

And whatever you shall ask in my name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If you shall ask any thing in my name, I will do [it].

You see whatever the Lord gives you, He gives you from the heavenly realm. If you have asked the Lord for a new car, He says,

“Yes sure.”

Do you know where your new car is? It is up there in that other country. It has been given to you. He has given you the keys, but you cannot drive it yet because it is there. It has to be imported. You have to get it down here.

You say, “I wish the Lord would send it down here.”

No, you are the one who has to bring it down, and you will have to do that by means of transmutation. You must transmute or convert it, from its spiritual equivalent up there into its physical equivalent down here.

Chapter 04 - Converting Spiritual Matter

I remember when the movie Star Trek first appeared, one of the most exciting things on it was the idea of taking a person and beaming them onto another planet.

It is a simple scientific theory that should work theoretically if man had the correct technology. You take matter and convert it into its equivalent in energy.

You then transmit that energy like a radio wave, receive it on the other side and re-form it back into the matter. That was the basic concept.

In fact this is what is going to take place at the resurrection. The bodies of those who have died, that have decomposed or been burned by cremation, will be recreated when Jesus comes.

It is a good picture of what you have to do in transmutation. You have to take what is in the heavenly realm in spiritual form, and cause it to be transmitted down to this physical realm.

To do this, it must be converted to a form that can exist in both realms. Once it has been brought into this realm you have to cause it to re-materialize in this physical world.

Transmute it With Words

How are you going to do that? What is it that exists in the heavenly realm and in this realm at the same time? You are going to do it with words.

Consider the book containing God’s words, the Bible. Where did it come from? It came from Heaven, but it now continues to exist in the earth in the form of written words.

If you are to ‘beam down’ the thing that you have received from God, you will need to do it with words, because words are carriers of spiritual essence. You have a link between the two realms, because your spirit is linked with the heavenly realm, and your body is linked with the physical realm.

As you bring the two together you can cause a transfer to take place from the spiritual realm to the physical realm. You have the ‘equipment’ that can beam down what is waiting for you in the heavenly or spiritual realm.

The Balance Must Swing

The Lord gave me a picture of how this happens once, and He showed me a set of balances.

He showed me that my need and what He had for me was on the one side of the balance. This represented my provision in the heavenly realm. The other side of the balance represented the physical realm, which initially was empty.

All I need to do is to keep placing weights on the empty side of the balance until it swings. When it reaches the point when the balance swings, the transfer is complete and the answer will come.

You see there is a certain amount of energy that has to be beamed down. You must keep beaming the energy, and keep beaming the energy until all of it has arrived here. When you have done that it forms and manifests in this world. There is a point of completion.

How do you do that? You do it with words, and it often takes a while before the process is complete. It seldom occurs instantly.

We have seen how a creation can take place in the physical realm, by a spirit moving upon the creation. How does it take place?

“And God said, Let there be.”

It works like this. When you hold up your need to the Lord, and by faith reach out and take what you need, you are withdrawing from your heavenly bank account. If you have seen the Lord Jesus giving it to you, then you now have the right to begin to transmute it down.

You Already Have it

God told Joshua before he went into the Canaan land in Joshua 1:3:

Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that I have given to you.

It was said in the past tense.

Mark 11:24 says:

Whatever things you desire, when you pray believe that you have received them, and you will have them.

You must have received it at the hand of the Lord first before you can convert it. You must have the check in your hands before you can cash it.

This is where people often miss it badly. Some of the teaching concerning this has been called the ‘Name It and Claim It’ teaching, where people have said,

“I can claim whatever I want by just naming it. I’m going to get my new Cadillac. I’m going to claim it by faith, and it’s mine.”

No, you will have to receive it from the hand of the Lord first. Once He has given it to you, you know that He has given it to you and you have seen Him giving it to you, only then do you have the right to claim it.

That is when you begin, with your mouth, to cause that thing to be transmuted down into the physical realm. It then becomes an action completed in the past tense.

It is not a case of,

“I will receive my new car. I will own a new computer.”

Rather it is a case of,

“I have received it. In the name of Jesus I have it already.”

Every time you do that, you are doing like Joshua and you are saying,

“This land was given to me. It’s mine.”

You put your foot on it because it was given to you. When did you receive it? You received it when you prayed.

When you prayed, it was deposited in your heavenly bank account. When you prayed, it was manifested in the heavenly realm.

That is when you received it. You already have it. It has just not manifested yet in the physical realm. All you need to do is transmute it down from the heavenly realm into the physical realm; bring it into your possession and it becomes yours.

Confess It As Done

You always need to do this with words. Over and over again you speak words with your mouth saying,

“In the name of Jesus I have this. I thank you Father that it is mine. I thank you Father that it is mine.”

The more you do this, the more ‘energy’ you transmit from the heavenly realm to the earth.

I remember when I first looked to the Lord to give me enough finance to pay all my debts. God had told me to pack up my job and go into fulltime work for Him. I told the Lord what I needed and I saw Him giving it to me. After that I began to walk up and down saying,

“In the name of Jesus I have this amount of money. I have it.”

I began to tell people,

“I have this amount of money. God has given me this amount of money. He has promised it to me and it is mine. I have it now. Thank you Lord that I have this money. It is mine.”

The words of my mouth continually spoke as a past tense, because faith is a past tense.

As you do this you link your spirit to the heavenly realm, and you link your body with your tongue and your words to the physical realm. And you cause the spirit to join with the body through the words that you speak.

Every time you speak, you link your spirit to your body, and you link the heavenly realm to the physical realm. You join the spiritual with the physical, and you cause that thing to be transmuted down, until eventually the day comes when the balance swings.

A Waiting Period

There is always a waiting period. When you deposit your check into the bank in foreign currency there is a waiting period. Even when money is wired from another country there is a waiting period. There are procedures that must to be followed through.

There are also things along the way that can go wrong. There are blockages. There could be some bank clerk along the way that could mess it up and the money never arrives.

The same thing can happen when you believe God for something. He has already given you what you asked for and you know He has given it you. You know that you know that God has answered your prayer.

He said, “You can have it.”

But you are sitting waiting and saying,

“Where is it?”

You should rather be saying,

“I have it. In the name of Jesus I have it. It is mine. Thank you Father. It is mine.

“Hey, do you know what? God has given this to me. I have it. It is mine. The Lord has given it to me. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Father. In the name of Jesus it is mine.”

But it might become blocked along the way by the god of this world, and you will have to do battle with him and come in conflict with him. You will need to lay it on him to make sure that he does not intercept your provision and stop it from coming to you.

We will look at this in the sections on angels and demons, and how they are involved in this whole procedure of entering into the blessing of the Lord.

Using Your Account

In conclusion, I want to reiterate that you probably do not realize it, but you are like a rich guy’s kid. You did not know that you had a bank account in another country did you? You did not know that a bank account was opened for you the day you were born.

But now you know it, and it is time you start learning to use it. It is time you learned to make deposits, and it is time you learned how to withdraw. If you can do that, then you can begin to experience all the blessings right now.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us (has deposited in us) every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.

It is yours and it is available to you. You simply need to transmute it out of the heavenly realm and cause it to become manifested here in this physical realm.

Section 02 – Ministry of Angels

Chapter 05 - How Angels Manifest

Matthew 18:18 to 20 says:

Truly I say to you, Whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven: and whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven.

Again I say to you, That if two of you shall agree on earth concerning anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them by my Father who is in Heaven.

For where two or three have been gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.

We have been looking at the way of blessing and how God’s power is released into the earth through human vessels.

We saw that the power and the forces of the spirit are released through words that are spoken into the earth. But once that word has gone forth and a creation is taking place, there are other forces that come into play.

If God’s power is to manifest in the earth, there has to be a physical manifestation of that power.

When God first spoke a Word of creation into the earth, the Scripture says He did it by His Word. God’s Word was a whole lot more than just a voice going out into the earth. God’s Word was a tangible manifestation of the presence of God in the earth and the presence of God in the Word.

In John 1:1 to 3 we read:

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

In the beginning was the Word, the logos. If you read through the rest of this chapter in John, you see that the Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us. This is speaking about the Lord Jesus Christ.

When God manifested Himself originally in creation, He created through the Lord Jesus Christ. He created through the Word, the logos. Logos was a manifestation of God in the earth.

The Angel of the Lord

As we look back at the Old Testament we see that God, when He revealed and manifested Himself to man, did so by a manifestation or presence. When God appeared to Moses on Mount Sinai there was thunder and lightning, and Moses and Joshua and the elders of Israel walked up into the mountain.

The Bible says:

And they saw the God of Israel.

But the Bible also says:

No man has seen God at any time.

There seems to be a contradiction here. How could they have seen the God of Israel if God cannot be seen?

As we read the New Testament, we see that God gave the law through the mediation of angels. There is also a term that occurs throughout the Old Testament. It is, ‘The Angel of the Lord.’

God manifested His presence in the earth through what is known as a ‘theophany,’ which means ‘a manifestation of God; an appearance of God’ in some form. The Angel of the Lord was that form.

The Angel of the Lord appeared to all the patriarchs of old. And whenever God appeared to man in the Old Testament, it was in the form of the Angel of the Lord.

The Scriptures tell us that Jacob wrestled with a man. When he asked Him His name He said:

Do not ask me, because it is Wonderful.

It was a secret. The prophecy concerning Jesus says:

And His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God.

Who do you suppose Jacob wrestled with?

Later as Jacob laid his hands on Joseph’s sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, he said:

The Angel that redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads.

What was he referring to? He was speaking about the Angel of the Lord. Whatever God does in the earth, He does by means of His special messengers or His angels.

However when He acts directly upon the creation, He does it by that special manifestation known as the Angel of the Lord.

Seen in Both Old and New Testaments

You can see in both the Old Testament and the New Testament that there was a manifestation of the Angel of the Lord when God came to do something tangible in the earth. In Acts 12:7 we read...

And behold, the angel of the Lord came upon [him], and a light shone in the prison: and he struck Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Get up quickly. And his chains fell off from [his] hands.

Peter was in prison and he was scheduled to be killed the very next day. The Scripture says that the Angel of the Lord appeared in that prison and loosed his chains, took him out of prison and brought him right out into the open.

It was a miraculous physical intervention in the earth by the power of God, and it was carried out by the angel of the Lord.

In Revelation 1:1 when John writes concerning the revelation that was given to him he says:

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, to show to his servants things that must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified [it] by his angel to his servant John:

He sent it by His angel.

What did John see? Revelation 1:16 to 18 says:

And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his face [was] as the sun shines in its strength.

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand on me, saying to me, Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last:

I [am] he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of Hades and of death.

It was Jesus speaking, but John says it was the Angel of the Lord. Jesus was manifesting His presence to John in a theophany, or a physical manifestation of the presence of God.

The Angel of the Lord is a very special angel. When God acts in our situation, He acts upon the creation to supersede the natural laws and actually cause a physical change to take place. If it is a creative act or something miraculous in the sense of superseding the law of nature, God will intervene directly by that manifestation of the Angel of the Lord.

Chapter 06 - The Angels of Heaven

God also works through the angels of Heaven, and I want to look at that in this chapter.

In recent years there has been a lot of preaching and teaching on angels. There is a resurgence of interest in them, and in some quarters people are being caught up in the worship of angels. They are often more preoccupied with what angels are doing than what God is doing.

We need to be very careful. We need to understand how angels work, what they are supposed to do, and how they operate and function. That is some of what I want to cover here. I want to show you how the angelic system is set up.

We will consider how the angels work, what they look like and what groups they fall into; the kind of work they do, how we are to respond to them, and how they will respond to us. We will see how they function with us in the earth to cause the blessings that we speak forth to actually manifest in the earth.

The Scripture speaks of several different groups of angels, and there is so much in the Bible on angels that it is very difficult at times to put it all together and come to a full understanding on the subject. It is as though a curtain has been placed over the subject.

The only look we get at angels is with the odd angelic appearance in the course of the Bible. In the Old and New Testaments we read about angels appearing, and we can learn a little about them from how they appeared and the kinds of things they said.

To understand the angelic realm we have to look at what the Scriptures teach. And then we also need to look at what we have experienced with regard to angels.

I will therefore be sharing some of my own personal experiences with angels and what God has shown me in the Spirit. Some of these I cannot necessarily give you chapter and verse for, but there is plenty of evidence in the Scriptures to support what I will share.

Messenger Angels

The Scriptures show us that there are several different types of angels, and I believe that there are three main groups.

The first of these main groups is what I would call the messenger angels. The leader of this group of angels is the Archangel Gabriel.

We have all heard of Gabriel, because the Scripture speaks about him many times. He appeared in the Old Testament to some of the prophets and various other people.

Gabriel is also recorded as having appeared in the New Testament. He is the same Angel Gabriel mentioned in the Old Testament, the leader of the messenger angels. I have personally also seen him in the Spirit.

He is often sent by God to announce new plans and purposes of God that involve the Body of Christ and God’s purposes in these end times.

What do messenger angels look like? They look pretty ordinary, and when Gabriel appeared he was sometimes referred to as, ‘the man Gabriel’.

He looks like a normal person. When he appeared in the past it was not immediately obvious that he was an angel, except perhaps by the way he was dressed.

The Scriptures do not describe the Angel Gabriel, but from both the descriptions of the events of Scripture and my own experience of him, it seems that he appears very plain and unassuming.

When he appeared to Zachariah, the father of John the Baptist, Zachariah even argued with him. So it appears that he did not carry a sense of awe, but looked like an ordinary person. But he wields great authority as a messenger of God.

I know from my own personal experiences and having seen these angels, they are generally pretty ordinary looking. Mostly they are average height, average build, average sort of people, and I have always seen them dressed in clothing slightly different to what we wear today.

There are however some of them that are huge, and these are usually the ones that have been assigned to men as guardian angels. Guardian angels are a special type of messenger, and we will consider them shortly.

The Scripture speaks about angels having appeared to people. When the angels appeared to Abraham, those three angels looked like normal men, because he immediately said,

“Let’s get a meal ready and entertain these people. They are strangers and they must be entertained.”

When the angels arrived at the house of Lot, he did the same thing. He said,

“Come into our home and we will entertain you. We will care for you and feed you.”

They looked like normal visitors and normal people.

Messages from God

What do messenger angels do? They bring messages from God. The angel appears and brings a message from God.

The Angel Gabriel was always sent to bring a message from the Lord. He appeared to Daniel. He appeared to young Mary to tell her that the Holy Spirit was going to come upon her, that she was going to conceive, and that she was going to become the mother of the Savior of the world. They were very normal looking angels.

We read also about an angel appearing to Cornelius as he was praying. We are not told that it was the Angel Gabriel, so it was likely another messenger angel, or perhaps it was Gabriel and Cornelius did not know it.

There was also the angel that appeared to Joshua as he was about to conquer Jericho, and he identified himself as the Captain of the Lord’s Host.

Perhaps he was the Angel of the Lord or perhaps he was simply an angel that was in charge of the armies of God. Joshua thought he was a soldier, because he was ready to attack and kill him if he was one of the enemy.

Messenger angels bring messages, decrees and guidance. When we see them in the Spirit, they will often appear with a scroll in their hands. It is a message from Almighty God, or a decree that needs to be issued in the earth.

Those who by the gift of discerning of spirits are able to look into the spiritual realm are able to see angels and to identify them.

Most people do not see angels and are not even aware that an angel is there, but yet the messenger angels still operate. They come at times to impart thoughts into the mind, or to bring a spiritual influence without you even being aware of it.

When God wants to send forth a decree or a message into the earth, He often does it by the mediation of angels, just as He did on Mount Sinai and just as He has done throughout history. Whenever God has wanted to send something into the earth, He has brought it to man.

You might ask, “Why must the messenger angel bring it to man?”

It is because man must issue the decree. Man must open his mouth. He must speak forth and send forth the Word of God into the earth. It is man that has the authority in the earth to speak forth God’s Word and His message.

I used to wait for God to send forth His decree. I used to wait for the angels. I can remember the very first time I saw an angel appear to me with a scroll in his hand, he held it up and there was something written on it.

I thought, “The angel is going to speak it to me.”

But the angel did not speak and I wondered,

“Now how am I supposed to know what the angel has said?”

Then the Spirit of God moved upon me, and I found myself bringing an utterance. In that utterance came a prophetic word that issued forth the words of the decree that was brought to me.

You say, “But why does God need an angel to do that? Why doesn’t He just inspire you by the Holy Spirit to do that? Why couldn’t God just reveal it to the prophets and to Daniel when he was praying? Why did He have to send an angel?

“When Zacharias was praying at the time of the offering, why didn’t God speak to his heart? But God sent an angel and the angel appeared to him.”

To tell you the truth, I do not have all the answers to this. But I know from experience and from the Word that it is true.

I know there have been people who have seen an angel come and they have been afraid. They say,

“It must be a spirit of deception. This must be Satan posing as an angel of light, coming to bring me a message from the Lord. Why couldn’t the Lord just tell me Himself?”

That is why the gift of discerning of spirits is so important.

The Need for Angels

Here is one explanation that I have come up with concerning this.

God moves in the earth by the agency of angels and by His Holy Spirit working in and through our spirits. However you sometimes need a stronger influence than the inner revelation of the Spirit.

This is because a lot of people do not listen to what comes out of their spirits, or they are unable to listen prophetically. If God were to speak in their spirits they would not hear.

God is speaking 24 hours a day in your spirit. How many people hear His voice? Not many do, so God sends an angel from without to imprint his message upon your mind and your heart by bringing an external influence to bear on you.

That may not be the only reason that God would work in this way. But I know that He always has done this in the past, and He still continues to do it today. Sometimes man needs the manifestation of an angel before he will hear the message and the Word from the Lord.

Warrior Angels

There is a second group of angels, which I call the warrior angels. They are obviously involved in warfare.

They carry out spiritual warfare in the heavenly realm and are involved in coming into conflict with the spirits of darkness, the battle that takes place in the heavenlies.

The Scriptures tell us that these angels also have a leader, an Archangel that is above them, and he is the Archangel Michael. You have heard about him. He is mentioned many times in Scripture. He is the leader of the warrior angels.

What do the warrior angels look like? The Scriptures do not tell us much. I have not really found a clear description in the Bible of what a warrior angel looks like.

I would have thought that a warrior angel would be this great big hulking giant; an awesome looking person that would terrify you. However the warrior angels that I have seen are usually smaller than a messenger angel.

They are short, stocky guys, holding a sword in their hands and with a fiery look in their face. Do not underestimate their power. This is the kind of angel that wiped out half of the camp of Israel when they had sinned, and David had to offer a sacrifice to stay the angel.

The warriors are a very powerful force of God and are involved in the warfare in the heavenlies. These angels are sent to fight on our behalf.

We will be discussing this further as we look at some of the demonic realm and how Satan launches his attacks against us. You will understand then why we need angels to fight on our behalf, to do warfare for us in the heavenly realm.

Warrior angels can sometimes be sent forth and commissioned. An angel will sometimes appear and wait for a man to send the word of authority for him to go forth and to do what he is supposed to do in warfare. We will see shortly why that is necessary.

Worship Angels

There is also a third group of angels and I call them the worship angels. The closest description I have seen in Scripture is the one that you will find in Isaiah 6, where Isaiah had the vision of the Lord being high and lifted up and His train filling the temple.

Isaiah saw angels called the cherubim flying with wings. Notice in Isaiah’s vision that the angels began to worship and cry out:

Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of Hosts; the whole earth is filled with His glory.

Worship angels are the only angels that I have seen with wings.

A Scriptural occurrence of both messenger and worship angels was where the angel appeared to the shepherds on the night of Jesus’ birth, to come and give the good news that a Savior had been born.

It says that the angel was joined by the heavenly host. It was a messenger angel that came to them at first. And then suddenly that messenger angel was surrounded by a crowd of other angels who were all singing out in glory.

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

They began to sing and to worship. That is what the worship angels are for. They come into our presence as we enter into worship. They surround us in great numbers, bringing a spirit of worship and causing our spirits to rise up in praise and worship.

They cause a motivation and a stir within us that we get caught up into the presence of Almighty God. And if you are able to listen in the Spirit you will sometimes hear them sing. They sing with the most beautiful harmony and melody that you have ever heard, like a heavenly choir.

Leader of the Worship Angels

Who is the leader of the worship angels? We know that there are messenger angels, and the Scripture tells us that the Archangel Gabriel is the leader of the messenger angels.

We know that there are warrior angels and we know that the Archangel Michael is the leader of those angels. However when you look at the worship angels, you find that the Scripture does not tell us who the leader of the worship angels is.

Who leads the angels in worship in Heaven? Who leads them and takes charge of them when they worship God? The Scripture does tell us that there was one who led them in times past.

He was known as the Star of the Morning. He was also known as the Light Bringer or Lucifer. He was the anointed cherub that covers, the Scripture tells us.

I am not going to go into a lot here on Satan and his origin, but the Scripture makes it quite clear as we look and read some of these passages concerning Satan, that he was the archangel in charge of the worship angels.

He was the archangel who led them in worship and praise to Almighty God; the archangel in charge of music in Heaven. He was in charge of praise and worship.

He knows all about the power that there is in praise and worship. He knows about the power there is in music and in song, in bringing the presence and power of God.

But he wanted that power himself. He wanted to be worshipped and to take God’s place as the object of all worship, so he was cast out of Heaven and all his angels with him.

The Scripture says that when Satan fell, he took one third of the angels of Heaven with him. There are three groups of angels: messengers, warriors and worship angels.

When Satan fell he took with him the worship angels of Heaven. One third of the angels followed him, because they were under his control.

When Satan was cast out of Heaven, he took with him those angels that were under his control. They became the demon forces that are in operation in the heavenlies and in the earth today.

The Bible does not tell us whether God created new angels to take their place. But I know that I have seen worship angels and the Bible tells us that there are worship angels. So once again, we must make an assumption based on evidence rather than the clear teaching of Scripture.

It would seem that God created angels to take the place of the angels that fell from Heaven with Lucifer. But the Bible does not tell us if God also appointed a new archangel to lead them in worship.

Chapter 07 - Personal Guardian Angels

I mentioned earlier that there is a group of angels that are very similar to the messenger angels, but they have a specialized function that is confined only to the earth. These are the guardian angels.

In Matthew 18:10 Jesus, speaking about little children said:

Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I say to you, that in Heaven their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in Heaven.

This is a specialized group of angels, and I believe they are of the messenger category. But they are a bit different and they look different.

Those who have seen them in the Spirit see them as extremely large and much bigger than life; giants standing very tall and looking very much like a normal human being, except very large.

What are these angels for? They are personal angels allocated to each and every person who comes into this world.

These angels are there to protect. They are also there for the purpose of provision, to take care of our needs. They can be commissioned by us.

In Hebrews 1:13-14 it says:

But to which of the angels did he say at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool? Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for those who shall be heirs of salvation?

Who are the heirs of salvation? Is it not we, the Body of Christ, those who have been born again?

They are ministering spirits. And if you check the Greek, the word ministering refers to a public servant sent forth to minister, to attend to and wait on. That is what they are there to do; to wait on the heirs of salvation, to attend to them and their needs.

Do you know that you have a guardian angel; a personal angel that has been allocated to you as a child of God, to attend to your needs and to wait on you?

I like that picture. I like it when I am sitting at a table in a restaurant and a waiter comes up and says,

“Can I get you anything?”

If we have a need, most of us do not sit there and say,

“No it’s all right thanks, I’m fine.”

You would say,

“Could you get me a glass of water please? Yes I would like another cool drink. Could we have some dessert?”

He is there to wait on you. He is there to take care of your personal needs. He has been given to be a servant to you, to take care of you, to look after you and to make sure that your every need is provided.

That is what the guardian angel is for. You have a personal one that is allocated just to you. If you look over your shoulder in the Spirit, you might see him. Do not try it unless God reveals it to you, but you can be sure he is there.

He is there with you wherever you go. He is there taking care of you all the time.

Moving at Your Decree

I have on many occasions seen my guardian appear to me. He stands there waiting for me to give him instructions. He normally stands tall with a sword in his hand, ready and waiting for me to say,

“Go forth now and do what needs to be done. Go forth and accomplish that which concerns me, and accomplish that which is involved in my life.

“Go and make sure that the provision that I need comes to me. Make sure that all obstacles are removed. Go and take care of it. Arrange things, go and speak to people and go and organize them. Do what needs to be done, in order that what I have requested of God will come to pass in the earth.”

As you send forth your decree into the earth; as you speak those words into the earth by the power of the Spirit, to cause a creation to take place in the earth, angelic activity begins to happen. The angels start to scurry about, because things need to be arranged.

Sometimes people need to be moved. Sometimes they need to be persuaded or convinced. Sometimes circumstances need to be changed, and people and obstacles need to be removed.

It could take a lot of arrangement to bring about a fulfillment of what you have spoken forth under the anointing.

Angels to Churches and Countries

There is also at least one angel that is allocated per church, or per ministry. God does not only allocate angels to individuals, but He also allocates them to groups, to situations, to organizations, to cities and countries.

How do I know that? If you turn to the book of Revelation you will see that Jesus spoke these words to the apostle John:

To the angel of the church at Ephesus, write...

To the angel of the church at Pergamos, ...of Smyrna, write...

Who was the angel of the church? I know that many would like to say,

“Well he wrote to the pastor. The pastor is what the Bible is referring to there as the angel of the church.”

But in those days there was no such thing as the pastor of the church. There was no ‘one pastor’ in charge of the church. The Scriptural pattern was a plurality of elders.

When Paul and Barnabus started new churches, they laid hands and ordained elders in every church. The churches of those days were not confined to a church in a building. It was the church in a community; the church in a city.

Ephesus was a very large city. When God looked down upon the church in Ephesus, He did not say,

“There is a church in this suburb, there is a church in that suburb, and there is another church that meets in that building over there.”

He looked down on Ephesus and said,

“To the church in Ephesus…”

They did not have one man in charge of them that John could have written to. No single man could say,

“Well I am the pastor in charge of this church, and therefore I have this message from the apostle John.”

John wrote and he declared and spoke forth into the earth to the angel who was in charge of that church. It was the angel’s responsibility to communicate that message to the church in that area. He was a messenger angel put in charge of that church.

I know this might sound different to anything you have ever heard before, but I want you to look at it. The word angel is the one that is used in the book of Revelation. I can come to no other conclusion but that there was an angel allocated to each church.

When John wrote that Word and the message was communicated to that angel, he was responsible to make sure that the Word was carried out in the church.

Angelic Authority in the Earth

Be that as it may, angels do not have authority in the earth. Only one person has authority in the earth - a spirit living in a body made from the elements of the earth. It is man.

Man alone has been given authority in the earth. Therefore man must grant authorization to the angels before they can do anything in the earth.

There is a little book of Jude, right near the end of the Bible. Not many people read Jude. It is a weird book. It just has one chapter and there is a strange verse in there. Jude 1:9 says:

Yet Michael the archangel, when arguing with the devil he was disputing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him (the devil) a slanderous accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke you.

Michael did not have authority to rebuke Lucifer. He had to say,

“The Lord rebuke you.”

This verse just gives you a little bit of insight and some of the background into what took place when Moses died. The Scripture says that God buried Moses. Nobody knows what happened to his body, but this verse seems to indicate that Satan came to take that body.

God had sent the Archangel Michael to make sure that Satan did not take it, because that body is going to be raised up to appear when Moses and Elijah come back in the end times. But that is another subject altogether.

Angels Respond to the Word

Man alone has authority in the earth. The angels do not. The angels listen only to the Word of God that is uttered in the earth. How do I know that? Psalm 103:20 says:

Bless the LORD [Yahweh], you his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, listening to the utterance of his word.

This is the AMI translation so it might sound a bit different in your Bible, but the meaning is the same. The angels listen to the voice of His Word going forth into the earth.

How does the Word of God go forth into the earth for the angels to hear it? It goes through human lips. When man speaks forth the Word of God into the earth, the angels pay heed.

So when you speak forth those spiritual forces of faith, hope and love, by the rhema Word of God, speaking it forth into the earth, the angels pick up their ears. They say,

“That’s God speaking there. That’s the Word of God that is going forth into the earth. And it shall not return void, but shall accomplish that for which it is sent.”

The angels immediately begin to respond to that Word and they act on it.

When our words are rhema words, inspired by God, they become a, ‘thus says the Lord,’ as the prophet gives forth his decree into the earth. The angels immediately respond to that decree and they begin to work to accomplish and cause it to take place in the earth.

Authority in Jesus’ Name

We have authority in the name of Jesus, as humanity in Christ, bearing in mind that we lost that authority in Adam. In Christ that authority was restored, because Jesus took back the authority that Adam had.

Jesus gained even higher authority, because He was given the name which was above every other name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in Heaven (the angels), of things in earth (humans and earthly powers), and things under the earth (the demon forces).

Man has the authority to command the angels, in the name of Jesus. We can only do it in Jesus’ name, only in Christ, and only as we speak in Him, through Him and by Him, and send forth His Word into the earth.

They must obey and they must be servants who come running and say,

“Yes master, what do I do next?”

They must obey His voice, His Word uttered into the earth. So we, as God’s representatives in the earth in Christ, create the authorization. We give the authority for the angels to work.

The angels do not have that authority on their own until we give it to them. And if we do not give them that authority they cannot work. Their hands are bound, they are tied and restricted.

A lot of the time the words that we speak into the earth are negative words of destruction that authorize the powers of darkness instead of the angels of God. We have to speak forth God’s words into the earth. When we speak God’s words into the earth, the angels will take heed and obey the words that we have spoken.

When we stop speaking those words, we take away their authority and they become powerless to do anything for us. They cannot protect us, they cannot watch over us, and they cannot cause our provision to come to us until we speak forth the words of God into the earth.

Section 03 – Dealing With Demons

Chapter 08 – Spiritual Forces of Darkness

Philippians 2:9 and 10:

Therefore God also has highly exalted him, and given him the name that is above every name:

So that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, those who are in Heaven, those who are on the earth, those who are in the world below [the realm of the dead];

I want to look now at demons and spiritual forces of darkness, which are opposed to all that is of God. The Scriptures indicate that there are three different groups of demon forces that occur in the earth.

Paul describes it in Ephesians 6:12 when he says:

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against authorities, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].

Four groups of demonic powers are described there. The first three refer to powers of darkness that are functioning and operating in the earth. The fourth operates in the spirit realm that Satan functions and lives in. It is his counterfeit to the realm of God.

Principality and Power Demons

Principalities are small insignificant, irritating little demons. They are the kind of demons that put thoughts of temptation in the minds of man and cause irritations.

They do not have much power and there are millions of them. They are the peasants of Satan’s kingdom if you please. They are the privates in his army and the ones that do all his grunt work.

In the Spirit I normally see them pictured as little monkeys.

Power demons are somewhat stronger. These are demons that latch themselves on and attack, causing sickness and disease and such things as drug addiction, bad habits, and bondage in the lives of people.

I usually see those in the Spirit as baboons or chimpanzees, slightly larger and more powerful.

Rulers of Darkness

The next level is the rulers of the darkness of this world, indicating that they are the highest level of demonic power in this world.

Ruler demons are those that control the principality and power demons. The ruler demon is the kind of demon that enters into a person and takes possession of them.

Jesus spoke to the demon in the man that was possessed by the legion. He spoke to the man and the demon answered through the man’s voice. He said to the demon,

“What is your name?”

The demon answered,

“My name is legion, for we are many.”

This was one demon that was speaking to Jesus, taking control of the man’s lips and speaking through his vocal cords. It was one demon power possessing that man. He was a ruler demon, and he had under him millions of power demons and principality demons - a whole legion full.

Jesus began to come against that ruler demon with all his little demons, and all the demons began to speak to Jesus.

They did not speak to Him through the lips of the man, because only the ruler demon speaks through the lips of a man, when a person is possessed by a demon and that demon takes manifestation.

But Jesus, in the Spirit, saw and spoke to those demon powers. It says,

“They all began to beg Him and say, ‘Please can we go into the swine.’ “

As Jesus cast out that demon, the ruler came out with all his principality and power demons, and they all went into the pigs. The pigs then went mad and ran over the hill and fell into the sea and drowned.

These are the demon forces that are at work in the world. If you come into confrontation with evil powers, they are the evil powers that you will be dealing with.

Deliverance Ministry

Many have become majored on deliverance ministry, casting out demons of lies and lust and every other form of sin. They will sometimes spend hours, days and weeks casting out demons one after the other. They identify each little demon, casting them out one at a time.

After each session the person is exhausted, tired and sore, and the person who has been casting out the demons is exhausted. They are probably hoarse from shouting at the demons, and all they succeeded in doing was getting rid of a few principality and power demons. The ruler demon is still sitting pretty.

I am not going to go into a lot of detail on deliverance here, because that is another subject that we have taught elsewhere. I just want to point out that you have to deal with the ruler demon before you can get rid of the principality and power demons.

You need to go to the top. You need to deal with the ‘guy in charge’ and then you can deal with the other demon powers.

Watch Your Words

These forces are at work in the earth and will oppose everything that you try to do for God. They will try to counteract the Word that you have spoken forth by inspiration of the Holy Spirit; the decree that you have sent forth into the earth. They will try to stop it and try and block it.

Do you know how they will try to do this? They will do it firstly by attacking you and getting you to shut your mouth and change your words. And then they will try to get you to start licensing them instead of the angels of God.

They will try to get you confessing negative things like,

“This is not going to come right. I don’t know what we are going to do. We are in trouble. I just can’t see us getting out of this.”

Change your words. Your angel was working feverishly there getting things done. Suddenly the words stopped, and he has to start coming home again. Now the demon power is going to start to work.

What do you suppose he is going to work on? He is going to work on destroying what the angel was setting up.

Be very careful to keep your words in line with the Word of God. Keep your words in line with the decree that has been sent forth. Keep them in line so that the angels of God continue to work on your behalf, and arrange and create in the earth what you have decreed and spoken.

The moment you stop they stop. The moment you authorize Satan, he breaks down what has been built up so far.

You need to come against the forces of darkness on a daily basis. You need to daily commission the angels of God to go forth and to do what has been decreed in the earth.

Daily Stand To

When I did my National Service a long time ago I found out something that was very interesting concerning warfare. They had found out that there were two times of day when it was most likely that the enemy would attack.

These were first thing in the morning just as the sun was coming up, and last thing in the evening just as the sun was going down. They explained that if the enemy was going to attack the camp, then those were the times when he would do it.

There was a procedure that we used to follow when we were out in the bush camps. It was carried out every day, first thing in the morning at dawn, and last thing at night at dusk.

The procedure was called ‘Stand To’, and every soldier in the camp had a place where he would go, forming a circle around the camp. Each one would have a little place that was dug out where he could go and lie looking outwards, so that the whole camp was covered all around.

When you heard the call and the whistle blowing saying, “Stand To,” you ran immediately to your allocated spot. You climbed in there with your rifle and you loaded and cocked your weapon so that it was ready to be fired.

From your hiding place you then looked ahead carefully, as the sun came up and the light began to show. You kept your eyes peeled for any movement whatsoever that would indicate that the enemy was about to attack.

You stayed that way until the sun came up, and until the whistle blew again and said,

“Okay, stand down. The enemy is not attacking today.”

The same procedure was repeated in the evening just before the sun went down. Everybody would be there, rifle loaded, ready and watching in case the enemy attacked.

Stand Against the Enemy

The Lord spoke to me a while back and said,

“My children need to learn to have a spiritual stand to. They need to stand against the enemy on a daily basis. They need to stand ready, with their ‘rifle’ cocked, with the Word in their hearts, with their mouths poised to speak forth my Word. They must be ready for any movement from the spirit of darkness; ready for any attack from Satan.”

First thing in the morning before your day begins, and last thing in the evening before your day ends, stand ready. He will attack during your sleep if you are not careful. Stand ready and hit him before he hits you.

Paul said we must,

Put on the whole armor of God... and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore...

We must stand against the wiles of the enemy.

Jesus said:

The devil goes around as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, whom resist steadfast in the faith.

James 4:7 says:

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

This is a spiritual stand to and you should do it on a daily basis. If you do not do it, the enemy starts to get into the camp without you knowing he is there.

You begin to wonder why your spiritual life is dying. You wonder why your provision is not coming. You wonder why your health is growing worse instead of better. You did not stand against him.

You say, “Well I prayed. Somebody laid hands on me and spoke forth healing. God promised me. I saw the manifestation of my provision and my prayer was answered.”

Then you sit back and say,

“Okay it’s done. I can take it easy now. We can party tonight. I don’t need to pray.”

Be very careful. Don’t ever let down your guard where the enemy is concerned.

Chapter 09 - Spiritual Wickedness

There is also a group of forces that operate largely in the heavenly realm. Paul referred to it as spiritual wickedness in high places.

In Daniel 10:12 and 13 we read that Daniel had been praying and fasting and waiting on God, and he had waited 21 days. After that an angel appeared to him and said,

Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to chasten yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come because of your words.

But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty one days: but, look, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.

The prince of the kingdom of Persia was a demonic prince that was in charge of the whole kingdom that Daniel was in. Before that angel could come and get through to him, he was opposed by this high-level demonic power in the heavenlies; a demonic prince of darkness.

Satan has set up his system over this world, and he has princes of darkness over every single area. There are princes of darkness in charge of your country. There are princes of darkness in charge of your city and your community.

They have all been allocated responsibility to oversee the principalities, powers and rulers of darkness that are in that area.

The Council of Wickedness

It goes up like a pyramid until it gets right to the top. When it reaches the top we have Satan, but not just Satan alone. Satan tries to counterfeit the trinity.

He always wanted to be like God. He wanted to take God’s place. He tried to rise up and take the throne of Heaven until he was cast out. So he has set up a system that copies the system that God has set up. He has tried to counterfeit the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

The Scripture speaks of God as being Father, Son and Holy Spirit - three in one. Satan has put together three as a governing council to control the realm of darkness, his kingdom.

This is something that is not immediately obvious in Scripture unless you look for it. The evidence is there, but what I will share with you now is something that God first showed me in the Spirit. And as I saw it in the Spirit, I had to get back into the Word to see if I could find evidence.

If I am to see something in the Spirit, I have to have proof in the Word that it is true, otherwise it is difficult for me to receive it.

Much of what I have shared here are things that God has showed me in the Spirit. And I cannot always give you a clear chapter and verse that says distinctly what I have told you.

But I want you to pray about it and look into the Word, and you will find that the Word does not contradict what I have shared. It is there, but sometimes you have to read between the lines to understand exactly what is taking place.

Personal Confrontation With the Council

The first time I ever had confrontation with the three members of what I like to call the ‘Council of Wickedness’ was at a time when I had been going through intense intercession in the Spirit.

I had been waiting on God on a daily basis to pray and to intercede in the Spirit. I would spend hours on end praying in tongues, doing warfare in the Spirit, coming into confrontation in the Spirit with the powers of darkness.

I remember the day that I had been praying earnestly, praying in the Spirit and fighting and doing warfare, when I suddenly saw myself appearing in a room that seemed to be an official council room of some kind.

It was like a round table where people were sitting in council in discussion; like a room where plans were made and issued. As I rose up and stood in that room in my vision I saw three people sitting at the table.

I said, “Lord, what am I seeing now?”

Then my flesh went cold, because I realized that I had come into the very council room, the very throne room of the Prince of Darkness. I was standing in the midst of his council and I had appeared in the middle of their discussions.

They looked at me in anger. They were mad. How dare I come up and appear in their secret council that nobody else was supposed to know about?

But the Spirit of God took me into their council, and He showed me that there are three demons, three princes of darkness in the Council of Wickedness.

The leader of the Council is of course Lucifer. The second one reminded me of a character I once saw on TV in a horror movie. He was big, strong, bald and ugly. I looked at him and said,

“Lord, who is this?”

He said, “It’s Pharaoh.”

“Pharaoh? But Pharaoh was the king of Egypt.”

The Lord said,

“Yes, but there is also a spiritual Pharaoh.”

He is the one who poses as the god of this world, because Egypt in the Scriptures is a picture of the world. Pharaoh is usually typified as Satan, the leader and the god of this world.

But the Lord showed me in the Spirit, that Satan has set up one who poses as the god of this world and is in charge of the World System.

He has put him in charge of the economies and monetary systems of the world. All administrative and political functions of the world are controlled by this prince of darkness, who is a spiritual Pharaoh.

Confrontation With Lucifer

I had seen Lucifer before so I knew what he looked like. He appeared to me shortly after God had led me through my Prophetic Training and had begun to take me into the spiritual realm.

God had led us to move to a coastal city to wait on Him. We were staying in a trailer park just near the sea, waiting on God and looking to Him concerning direction for our ministry.

One day as I was praying and interceding in the Spirit, a man appeared before me. He was a typical picture of what you would call tall, dark and handsome; a charming good-looking guy.

I had seen angels in the Spirit before, but I looked at him and thought,

“Well he doesn’t look like an angel. Angels are normally dressed in white.”

This guy was dressed more in a kind of khaki looking clothing and he had dark hair.

I said, “Lord, who is this?”

Then suddenly I realized who it was. It was the Prince of Darkness himself - Lucifer.

He smiled at me. He was charming. He was handsome and friendly. He smiled as he said to me,

“What is all this nonsense about ministry and all these big ideas that you have? Don’t you see that you don’t have the capability of doing these?

“But listen, what is it that you want? Do you want money? Do you want women? Do you want fame and popularity? What is it that you want? I’ll give it to you by all means. Just drop this silly idea of yours. Stop all this praying. Just let it go and forget it. You’re wasting your time.”

I tell you it was not a pleasant experience. My flesh went cold and I began to cringe. I had dealt with demon forces before. I had cast demons out of people before and been in confrontation in intercession with evil powers.

But now I stood before the Prince of Darkness himself, and who was I to stand against the one that has the greatest power in the Kingdom of Darkness.

I was filled with fear. I did not know what to do. I thought,

“Lord, I don’t know how to handle this. I had better not upset this guy. He has power. He could destroy me. What must I do?”

Then the Word of God rose up within me.

At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow.

Every knee shall bow. That was the key. I turned to him and said,

“Satan, at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow; of things in Heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth. That includes you, Satan, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

“Satan, that includes you. You will bow. You will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. You will do it now. In the name of Jesus I stand against you.”

The power of God rose up in me. The Spirit of God came on me and I felt His authority rising up in me. His face began to change as his smile turned to a scowl and he became angry. He was seething mad.

I did not know what he was going to do, but I just laid it on him, and kept laying it on him. I kept giving it to him.

“Bow. Bow in the name of Jesus.”

He stood there squirming like a snake and then he went down and began to bow. Then he turned around and vanished and he left me.

I know what Lucifer looks like and I have seen him in the Spirit many times. I have also seen a person in this world that looks a lot like him. But I want to tell you that the name of Jesus is greater than the name of Satan. Satan was conquered and defeated on the cross of Calvary.

If you are a child of God, and you have the Spirit of God living in you, you have authority and power in the name of Jesus.

In Satan’s Camp

You may say, “Well, what made you so special that Lucifer would appear to you? Why were you such a big threat?”

I have pondered that question many times myself. I said,

“Lord why me? Why would he appear to me?”

Then I read one day in a Christian magazine that the particular city that I was in at that time was actually the Satanic headquarters of the country. I was in the Devil’s domain.

I dare say the chances are that the trailer park where we were staying was probably right near where the main Satanists were operating. I was in his camp, right there in the middle of his grounds.

I can imagine the demons getting together and the Satanists gathering together to do their devilish things, and they heard this big noise. They probably heard my big mouth coming forth in the Spirit in prayer.

I can imagine they were just doing their thing and they heard somebody say,

“In the name of Jesus...”

They probably said,

“What’s that? Where is that coming from? Who is that? Somebody go and sort it out. We can’t stand the noise.”

Lucifer must have gotten really upset, and the demons figured that if anybody could sort it out he certainly could.

But he couldn’t do it, because God had taught me my authority and my position in Christ. I knew the power and authority that there was in the name of Jesus.

Satan’s Chief of Staff

That day as I stood in the middle of the Council of Wickedness, I saw another character that did not look so human. He was a scaly looking creature.

I said, “Lord, who is this?”

He said, “Go look in Revelation and you will find him described. His name is Apollyon and he is the leader of Satan’s armies. He is the Devil’s Chief of Staff. He is the General in charge of all the demon forces that attack in the earth.”

The Lord had shown me in vision that there are these three creatures in control of this world.

There is Pharaoh in charge of the World System, of the economies of the world, and the administrative and political functions.

There is Lucifer, who is in charge of the religious systems of this world and the master of deception.

And there is Apollyon who is in charge of the demon forces that attack the people that live in this world.

He attacks them with fear and doubts and evil thoughts and makes them commit suicide. He attacks them with sickness and disease and makes their lives a misery.

This council is Satan’s counterfeit of the trinity.

If you start trusting God for healing, you will be challenged by the forces that are under Apollyon, because those demon forces will attack your body.

They will cause pain and suffering and symptoms in your body. They will question every stand that you have taken to trust God for divine health, and for entering into the promise that says,

By His stripes we were healed.

We will look at that shortly in the next section when we deal the subject of healing.

Attack From Pharaoh

If you start trusting God for financial provision, you will be challenged by Pharaoh, and the World System is going to squeeze you. The economic system is going to squeeze you, and he is going to try to steal everything you have.

He is going to put financial pressure on you. He is going to cause temporal things to go wrong. He will cause everything in the natural world to go against you, to block and to stop any possibility of God providing for you financially. He will try to prevent God from meeting your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

When you start to transmute from the heavenly realm as we saw previously, it has to be authorized by Pharaoh because he is in control of the finances of the world.

Remember that Satan was given authority in this earth by Adam. That authority was regained in Christ and we now have greater authority as believers. But as far as the world and unbelievers are concerned, they are still under the control of Satan and his demon forces.

The Council of Wickedness is in control of this World System.

If you are looking to the Lord for financial provision, it is going to come through the World System. The finance that you receive will not come flying out of Heaven. The Lord is not going to counterfeit the bank notes and make them rain down. They will come to you from this world.

If you examine the finances of this world, where will you find them? Where is most of the money in this world?

It is locked up in the underworld. It is locked up in the big crime syndicates; by evil men who own and control, and use their money to manipulate this world.

Let anybody dare to go against their system, rise up and get rich and become a challenge and a threat to them, and you will see them begin to apply pressure.

Let any politician dare to stand up and go against the conspiracy. Let him dare stand up and go against the system. Let him dare to disobey the financial leaders at the top that are pulling the strings and he is in trouble.

They will crunch him. They will squash him and remove him. They will put their foot on him and squeeze him into the ground until he disappears.

You cannot fight the system unless you are a believer. But if you are child of God you have greater authority.

Dealing With Pharaoh

God sent Moses of old to go to the Pharaoh of Egypt with the word,

“Let my people go that they may go and serve me. Let them go into the wilderness to sacrifice. Let them take their wives, their children and their animals and herds, and everything that they own, and all their riches and possessions. Let them go and worship me.”

But Pharaoh said,

“No, not under any circumstances.”

Again and again Moses had to come against him with plague after plague, attack after attack by the power of God, to crumble and break down that resistance from Pharaoh.

Eventually God had to take drastic action before that power was broken and Pharaoh finally gave in. But even after he had given in, he changed his mind and came back, and God had to work again to destroy and remove his power.

Do not think for one moment that if you attempt to exercise the authority and power of God to bring financial provision into the earth, that you will obtain it easily.

You will not be fighting only simple little principalities and powers or even rulers of the darkness of this world. You will be coming against the god of this world himself, the Pharaoh of this world, who will resist you.

He does not want you to get your hands on money that you could use to extend the Kingdom of God in the earth. He will not let you get a cent if he can help it.

Lay it on Pharaoh

You will have to lay it on him. You will have to release the angels of God to do warfare with him on your behalf.

You will have to come against him in the Spirit and by the name that is above every other name. You will have to use the authority and power that is given to you as a child of God.

There are a lot of things that you can do in this world that Satan will become upset about and he will not hit you too hard. But you dare to exercise faith for financial prosperity, and you have declared war on the Council of Wickedness.

Let anyone dare to preach that believers can be wealthy. Let anyone dare to believe that Christians can be prospered financially and have the audacity to exercise their faith for financial provision, and they will be found fighting much higher forces than the average believer fights.

You have likely heard preachers proclaiming the word of faith. They teach and encourage people to take the Word of God and the power of God, and by faith to reach out and receive from the Lord the financial provision that they need.

Why should we be doing this? It is so that we can extend the Kingdom of God in the earth. So that God’s people can rise up in power and authority and have their needs met, and so that they can go forth and spread the gospel.

But usually what happens is very different. If someone has a genuine ministry they often have to beg and plead. They have to coerce the money out of people. They have to work hard to scrape together a few dollars to be able to do the work that God has called them to do.

They desire to rescue people from darkness and bring their souls into the light, but there is no money available. Most ministries have to continually make financial appeals. This is because it is easier to do this than it is to exercise faith and authority.

Doing battle with the Princes of Darkness is hard work, but without it no success is possible. Until the spiritual Pharaoh is forced to give in as it happened with the Pharaoh of old, God’s people will continue in slavery to the World System.

Chapter 10 - Prophetic Intercessors

God is raising up those who are prepared to take the load of intercession. The prophets of God are rising up. They are not to be seen in the visible church making a name for themselves.

Mostly they are in the background, very often unseen, and they rise up and speak the Word of God into the earth. They send forth the decree of God into the earth.

They do battle in the heavenly realm with the demons of darkness. They commission the angels of God to go forth and to release the finances that are needed.

They release what is needed for the Kingdom of God to be extended. And they release ministries to go forth and do what God has called them to do.

It is time that the prophets of God rise up and use the key of authority that God has given them. They are able to unlock the door of God’s blessing and also lock the doors that Satan is using to come in.

It is time that the prophets of God rise up and do what God called them to do, instead of preaching hellfire and damnation to believers.

They often try to be Old Testament prophets speaking judgment on God’s people. Instead they should be speaking the Word of God and the authority of God into the earth, which is what He has called them to do.

Oh that God would raise up intercessors and watchmen on the walls, that would see the enemy coming and remain on stand-to 24 hours a day, so that Satan cannot attack at any time.

It is time that God raises up ministries that would set up intercession 24 hours a day around the clock; to seek the face of God, to speak forth His Word into the earth, and to break the bonds of wickedness.

It burns in me. There is such a crying need for God’s people to rise up.

Unless the warfare and the battle are carried out continuously, we will go under. We will fall and end up resorting to the worldly way of obtaining money.

We will end up with the pittance that the world is going to dish up. Yet the Lord speaks about the unjust that will lay up treasures, that the just may inherit them. It is time that the ‘just’ starts to inherit what the unjust have laid up.

It is the time that the Body of Christ gets their hands on the wealth that has been stashed up by the Princes of Darkness of this world.

Go to the Top

This will only take place as we do battle in the heavenlies. We must speak forth the Word of God into the earth. We must come against, not the little demon powers down on this earth, but the princes of wickedness in the high places.

You should be coming against the prince of darkness that is over your city and over your country. You should be going right to the top and doing warfare with the Council of Wickedness.

You should be coming against the councils on high and frustrating those councils, by the power of the Spirit, by the authority of the Word of God, and by the power and authority that there is in the name of Jesus.

It is time God’s people rise up and go to the top. I do warfare with them all the time, and when I have a problem with finance I do not battle with the prince of my city.

I have occasionally done battle with the prince of the country, but he is too small. I go to his superiors. I go to the top. I come against Pharaoh and I say,

“Pharaoh, in the name of Jesus you will authorize what is mine. Sign the document. Release it now, in Jesus’ name.

“Apollyon, sign the document. Lucifer sign the document. God has given this to me. It is mine. I put my foot on it, now get off my land and let it go.

“You take your hands off my provision. It is mine. You cannot stop it. You have no right to stop it. You have no authority, because Jesus has taken your power away, and I stand in Him and in His name.

“I come against you in the name of Jesus and you must bow, because the authority I have in Him is greater than the authority that you have in the world. He has given me the name to use that is above every other name. You will bow to that name.”

It is a heavy warfare. It is a heavy battle. And if you wish to enter into this kind of ministry, let me tell you, you are not going to be able to play church anymore. You are not going to be able to play being a Christian anymore. You will not be able to say,

“Well I go to the meetings. I go to the Bible Study and to church on Sunday, and we serve the Lord there. I’ll be a Christian during the week and witness to a couple of people. But Friday night is our night to go out and have fun.”

The Lord does not have place in that.

You say, “Once a year we have to go on vacation somewhere, and while we are on holiday enjoying ourselves, the Lord can take a break.”

No, you are in a war. When you became a child of God you declared war. You went across to the other side. Do you think that your original master is going to take it lightly?

Do you think that he is going to allow you to become a threat to him? No, he is going to throw against you everything that he has.

The State of Satan’s Kingdom

I want to tell you one more thing about the Kingdom of Darkness that will encourage you.

If you go into the World System you just need to go into a business that has a lot of employees to see it. You need only to go into an open office where many people work together in close communication, and listen to how they talk about each other.

Listen to how they speak about somebody that is rising up in authority and is probably next in command to become boss if the current boss should leave. Let that person take one day’s leave and you will find out what everybody thinks about him.

“He thinks he’s something special. Yeah, all he does is visit the boss all the time, and say the right things and do the right things. He’s the boss’s pet. No wonder he’s next in line to be promoted over us.”

Have you seen it? Have you seen the bickering and fighting that goes on; the selfishness, strife and vainglory that goes on in the world? Where do you think it comes from? It comes from Satan’s kingdom.

Satan may sound like he has an organized kingdom. It looks like it is pretty well organized there with the privates and sergeants and the officers going on up the ranks like an army. But every single one hates the other.

They detest each other. There is no harmony there. It is an enforced harmony. They dominate with fear and terror and control one another. That is how they work.

That is how Satan works, and you will see it in the World System. Satan cannot keep it together without working at it all the time. That is why he has to set so many levels of authority; to make sure that each level of authority is controlling the other, because they are vying with each other all the time.

Why? They got it from their master didn’t they? He was one of the archangels in Heaven and he said,

“I’m not satisfied with this. I want to be better. I want to be the boss here.”

His spirit and attitude have been communicated to the whole of his kingdom. They bicker and fight amongst each other all the time.

When Satan launches a special attack against you, it costs him dearly. He has to mobilize a special group of demons and organize them together with special instructions to,

“Go get him!”

They only have a limited time. They only have certain resources available to them. And if they do not come right in that time they are in trouble.

His Resources Are Limited

Satan has limited resources. He is not unlimited and does not have the power of the Spirit of God. He has to work through the demon forces, and the demon forces can only work through men that will give them permission and authority to work.

All we need to do is release the angels of God against them to keep scattering them. All we need to do is bind or restrict them. The Scripture says:

Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in Heaven.

If we bind the forces of evil, we interfere with them.

Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven.

As we loose the angels of God to go forth on our behalf, they are liberated to work. Satan can only maintain his attack for a limited time.

You might be able to do nothing more than grit your teeth and hang on, not giving up hope, but biting like the bulldog. If you refuse to be shaken and moved from your commitment, or to change the words of your mouth, it is just a matter of time before he has to give up. He cannot keep it up. He does not have the resources.

We tend to credit the Devil with more power than he really has. I have learned in dealing from the top to the bottom, that Jesus has given us power and authority over all of them.

We have within us the very Spirit of God; the One who created the universe. We have with us the One that has the name above every other name.

Oh if we would just realize what we are in Christ. If we would take our stand against these things, then all we would need to do is to keep speaking forth the blessing.

Loosing the Provision

Very often after you have spoken forth your word into the earth and God begins to move, you see it come forth like Lazarus when he came out of the tomb. Jesus said to Lazarus,

“Lazarus come forth.”

He came out alive, but he was still bound in the grave clothes.

It is so important that you stand firm after you have sent out God’s Word into the earth. You have spoken forth the rhema word of creation, and now as the creation manifests you must command your Lazarus to be loosed until he comes free into your possession.

Do not assume that because you saw the manifestation of what you asked for, that it has arrived. Do not assume that because hands were laid on you, and you felt the power of God go through you and you felt the pain leave your body that it is over.

Even if you could see that you were healed, do not assume that it will never attempt to come back. You must keep standing on it because you will be challenged.

Do not assume that because you have trusted God for finance and somebody writes and says, “I’m sending you a check,” that you can sit back now.

Do not let up until you get that check, you have cashed it and have the money in your hands. Satan will try to block it and steal it.

If they had not loosed Lazarus he would have stood there and suffocated to death. He would have died again.

Don’t ever assume anything. We are in warfare. Do not sit back and say,

“Well I won the battle.”

Maybe you did win the battle, but the war continues. The war continues until the end when Jesus finally conquers and locks him up in the bottomless pit, until the consummation of all things spoken about in Revelation.

The war continues. We continue to wrestle against these forces.

Do not think that because you got him down this time that he is not going to get up again. He is going to get up and come at you again and again. You have to stay on it.

Yes there will be times of intense warfare, but there will be times of peace and times of rest. There will be times of celebration. God does not want us to walk around miserable all the time. God wants us to have fun. He wants us to have holidays and to enjoy ourselves.

But always do it in His presence, always walking with Him. Always maintain your walk, and always keeping your mouth speaking His Words.

God said to Joshua:

This word shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night.

As you continue to do that you are like an army that has conquered a city and all they need to do is to keep it.

They do not need to keep recapturing it. All they need to do is prevent the enemy from stealing it from them and taking it back.

That is why Paul says,

Having put on all the armor, stand.

Stand on the ground that has been won for you. All you need to do is stand. And when the enemy attacks, you ward him off immediately.

Stand-to on a daily basis, continually standing against the evil, and the angels of God will continue to go forth and work on your behalf, causing your provision to come.

Section 04 – Receiving Healing

Chapter 11 – Medicine is Big Business

Proverbs 4:20 to 23:

My son, attend to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.

For they [are] life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it [flow] the sources of life.

Medicines and medical treatment are one of the major industries today. Everywhere you look you see doctors, pharmacies, hospitals, counseling centers and institutions for mental illness. Everywhere you turn it seems there is some sign of the medical industry and the medical system that is in this world.

You cannot go down the main street of a city without seeing doctor’s rooms, pharmacies, hospitals, or something that is somehow related to health and medicine. It is part of our society.

Medical societies and insurance companies abound. There are thousands of them, each providing some kind of protection against ill health.

Medical Insurance is usually one of the most important deductions made from one’s income. You have to make sure that you are covered should you get sick and need medical treatment.

Some countries have even arranged for it to become part of the system that the Government provides. It is absolutely vital for people to have a health system so that they can maintain their health.

God’s Health Care Plan

But as we look to the Word we find out that God has provided for healing and health.

When God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden He provided for them the Tree of Life, which they could partake of to bring healing to their bodies. How do I know that?

If you turn to the book of Revelation you read about the Tree of Life that bears its fruit in its season. And it says the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

God provided for His creation to remain healthy. He never ever intended for man to suffer ill health, sickness and disease, and pain and suffering. As you go through the Old Testament you can see what God provided for man.

As soon as Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden and handed everything over to Satan, they were driven from the Garden and barred from the Tree of Life.

After that sickness and disease gradually took hold of their bodies, until eventually God’s proclamation and the curse that He spoke upon Adam was fulfilled, where He said:

From dust you have come, and to dust you shall return.

Health in the Old Covenant

When God began to enter into Covenants with His people in the Old Testament, He once again offered to them in the Covenant, the blessing of divine health. In Exodus 15:26 it says:

If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD [Yahweh] your God, and will do that which is right in his sight, and will give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I [am] the LORD [Yahweh] that heals you.

And in Psalms 103:2 and 3 David says:

Bless the LORD [Yahweh], O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases;

God provided in the Covenant that He gave to His people in the Old Testament, that if they would walk with Him in obedience to the Covenant, there would be abundant blessings. One of those blessings was divine health. God said that sickness and disease would not overtake them.

Concerning the diseases that had come upon the Egyptians God said,

I will not allow any of those to come upon you, because I am the Lord that heals you.

Health in the New Covenant

God offered His people divine health as part and parcel of their Covenant. As we come into the New Testament and the New Covenant, is there any reason why God should offer less to us than He did to Israel? Surely the New Covenant is far greater than the Old?

When Jesus came to proclaim the good news of the Covenant that God was bringing, what happened? He healed wherever He went.

Wherever He went, the sick people followed Him. Wherever He went, He reached out and touched them and spoke a word of healing to them. He healed their diseases and set them free.

Later on as Jesus called His disciples to Him and trained them, He sent them out also to preach the gospel, with clear instructions to heal the sick. In Matthew 10:7 and 8 He said:

And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons: freely you have received, freely give.

The New Covenant also carries the blessing of healing. It has always been God’s will for His people to walk in divine health.

It has never ever been His will for His creation to suffer sickness and disease. That came as a result of the curse, and God does not desire a curse for us. He desires a blessing for us.

The Scripture says that, ‘every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights, from above.’

Sickness and disease is not a good and perfect gift. It is a curse. But the perfect gift of divine health is available for us. It is God’s blessing to us.

Salvation From Sickness and Disease

When Jesus gave the great commission to His disciples just before ascending, what He said applied not only to them, but to every single believer from then on. It was the commission that said,

“Go into all the world.”

In Mark 16:15 and 16 He says:

Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that does not believe shall be condemned.

He shall be saved - but saved from what? Saved from hell? No, saved from every effect of the curse. Saved, set free, delivered, healed - every single thing is involved in that word ‘salvation’.

Salvation embraces the whole man, spirit, soul and body. It is salvation from the power of sin. It is deliverance from the condemnation of hell. It is deliverance from the bondage of sickness and disease and demons, and every negative thing that came with the curse.

It is our inheritance in the Lord, and if you preach the gospel, the good news of the gospel includes,

“You can be well.”

Not only is it part and parcel of the gospel, but it is a major part of the gospel. It was a major part of Jesus’ ministry. Jesus did more healing than anything else. And when He sent forth His disciples, the first command was to go and heal the sick.

What happened on the Day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came down and the first church was born? The Scripture speaks about signs and wonders being done at the hands of the apostles.

Peter would walk down the street and they would lay the sick in his path so that Peter’s shadow would pass over them and they would be healed.

Healing is part and parcel of the gospel. It is the good news. The good news is you do not have to be sick anymore. You do not have to suffer anymore. That is what the gospel is.

But how often do you hear that gospel preached? Instead you will hear,

“Well if you accept the Lord as your Savior, you won’t have to go to hell anymore. You can go to Heaven one day. But the bad news of course is you’re just going to have to be sick because the Lord wants you to be sick sometimes. You will have to be poor, because riches are worldly and you must have nothing to do with them.”

That is bad news, not good news. The good news is you do not have to be sick anymore, you do not have to sin anymore, and you do not have to be poor anymore. The good news is that your salvation has been purchased by Jesus on Calvary and it is a complete salvation.

As Jesus gave the great commission He also said, Mark 16:17 and 18:

And these signs shall follow those that believe; In my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;

They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

As you go forth and preach the gospel, and as you become a believer and stand firm in faith and believe in the Lord, these signs shall follow those who believe. What is interesting about these signs is that each one of them can be traced back to physical healing.

Misconceptions About Healing

Healing has been offered to us and is part and parcel of the gospel. But why is it that so many believers fail to receive their inheritance?

Why is it that so many people who call themselves believers, battle to receive that divine healing and deliverance from sickness and disease that has been offered to them in Christ?

A lot of the time they have not recognized what has become available to them, and they have been short changed by the lies of the enemy that told them that they had no right to it.

The lie of Satan comes and says,

“It is not God’s will to heal you at this time. There is a reason for you being sick. God wants you to suffer for a while, to teach you something.”

This is a lie from the pit of hell. It has caused many believers to be robbed of their right to healing.

The other mistake that believers make is this. They think that physical healing has to come by a divine gift of healing that spontaneously and instantly heals them of their diseases, as it happened when Jesus and the early disciples healed the sick.

Puzzling Questions

Healing does not always take place instantly, and I will be discussing shortly how healing comes, and how we can cause healing to take place in our bodies.

Many are waiting for a gift of healing and they try to find an evangelist who operates in the gift of healing. They attend healing crusades where some man of God can lay hands on them and pray that perhaps somehow if they are lucky enough, God might use that person.

In their minds they are thinking,

“Perhaps today will be my day, and God will reach forth with a gift of healing and heal me from my sickness and disease.”

Many leave the meetings disappointed. They see others healed and they are not and they walk out discouraged. They come to the conclusion,

“God didn’t want to heal me. I must be a terrible sinner. There must really be something wrong with me that God doesn’t want to heal me, and yet He heals other people.”

There have been many arguments and disputes over this subject amongst believers. Why is it that some people are healed and others are not healed? Why is it that sometimes God appears to want to heal people and at other times He doesn’t?

Then we find situations occurring, where people who did not even know about healing and did not even believe in it are healed.

The faith preachers are teaching that you must have faith to be healed. They say that if you do not have faith you cannot be healed. Yet there are those who come in that are not even Christians, and they are healed without even knowing about it. It is confusing and puzzling.

A Sign Ministry

I want you to realize that there is a sign ministry that is demonstrated by the gift of healing, and those signs are used to draw people to the preaching of the gospel. They are used to convince the unsaved that God is real; that He is here and that His power is real.

This is in order to open their hearts, that they may receive the truth of the Word. It is so that they will open their hearts to the Lord and put their faith in Him, accept Him and be born again of His Spirit. They are sign ministries that are used to attract people to the preaching of the gospel.

But healing for a believer does not necessarily come that way. I am not saying it cannot or should not come that way. But it does not need to happen that way because you are already a believer.

You do not need a sign. You do not need a demonstration of the power of God to prove to you that God is real. You already know He is real. You already believe He is real. You already have Him within you in your spirit, as we have discussed in this entire series.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing...

Is healing a spiritual blessing? Is healing a blessing? Yes. He has blessed you with healing, with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ. He has placed within your spirit the healing that is needed in your body. But most people do not know how to appropriate that healing.

That is why we are presenting this teaching on the Way of Blessing. We have been teaching you how to get in and tap the power that is in your spirit, and release the forces of the spirit, to send them forth into the earth.

You can send them forth also into your body, in order to cause divine health to begin to manifest itself in your body.

Chapter 12 - Blockages to Healing

I would like to look in more detail at the things that Jesus said would happen to those who believe. He said:

In my name they shall cast out demons.

A while back I began to seek the Lord for an answer to the question regarding why some are not healed. I wanted to find out why Christians seem to battle so much with healing. He pointed me to this very Scripture and showed me some of the things I will share with you now.

The Body Heals Itself

Firstly you need to realize that the body heals itself. God has made us in such a way that we heal ourselves. Medical science cannot heal and doctors cannot heal.

I will be looking shortly at the role that medical science should play in the life of a believer. But the bottom line is that God has made us so that our body heals itself.

If you cut your finger and the germs begin to enter, your body immediately goes to work to counteract it. The white corpuscles and other contents of the blood begin to rally together, and all the forces of the body go into action to cause a healing to take place in that wound.

When sickness and disease attack and come against your body, your body begins to heal itself. When you break a limb, the body immediately starts to repair that limb and to heal itself. It is natural, it is built in, and it was made by God. God put it into man, so that the body can maintain its health.

When a person comes down with a sickness and disease that overwhelms them, what has happened is that the body has reached a point where it can no longer cope with the attack that is being made upon it. It cannot heal itself faster than what the disease is threatening the body.

When that takes place then an imbalance occurs and the body becomes ill. It can no longer cope with that sickness or disease and can no longer heal itself.

Demonic Powers at Work

What causes this to happen? Well one of the first things that causes this to take place is the operation of demon powers - principalities, powers and rulers of darkness. They attack the body.

You say, “But I thought it was germs and viruses that caused it.”

No, germs and viruses are there all the time. Your body fights them and overcomes them all the time. But when you come to a situation where your body cannot handle the germs and viruses anymore, then they start to prevail and win the battle.

Those germs and viruses are living organisms. They are creatures, and they can be motivated and controlled by demon forces. What happens is that a demonic power attacks a specific part of your body and inhibits the body’s natural healing process.

Experience With High Blood Pressure

Some time back I began to suffer with high blood pressure and decided to read up on the subject. I wanted to look to the Lord for healing from this thing, and wanted to understand how it worked, so I read the medical books.

They explained it like this: They said that as your heart beats the pressure begins to build up in the blood vessels. But there are sensory organs inside the blood vessels that detect when the pressure becomes a little bit too high.

When they detect that it is too high they send an impulse to the brain that says,

“Blood pressure is too high. Do something about it.”

The brain immediately responds by sending a message to the heart and says,

“Slow down, you’re pumping too hard. Blood pressure’s too high. Slow down, beat softer.”

The heart then begins to regulate itself, and it pumps softer until the blood pressure drops.

When it drops too low, below the level that it should be, the sensory organs again pick it up and say,

“Blood pressure is too low now. We need to do something about this.”

It sends a message to the brain. The brain sends a message to the heart and says,

“Okay, speed up. Beat harder. Blood pressure’s too low. Regulate it.”

Well that is my explanation in non-scientific terms.

They said that when a person suffers from high blood pressure this adjustment mechanism goes wrong. They do not know why it goes wrong. They do not know what causes it. They cannot explain why it stops working, but it just does.

I asked the Lord,

“Father, why is this system in my body not working?”

As I prayed about it the Lord gave me a vision. I saw my brain and my heart, and I saw what looked like a tube going from my brain to my heart.

Right in the middle of the tube there was a little tap, like they put on a transfusion drip, and sitting on the tap was a little monkey, a picture of a principality demon. He was sitting there tightening the tap.

The Lord showed me that my brain was sending messages to my heart to tell it to slow down, but my heart was not getting the message, so it did not slow down. That is why my blood pressure kept going up.

He showed me that all I needed to do was to deal with that spirit of infirmity that was attacking my body. If I could remove that demon power so that the brain could restore its connection with the heart, the heart would get the message and it would begin to regulate accordingly.

So I laid one hand on my head and I laid another hand on my heart, and I spoke to my brain.

I said, “Okay brain, send the message.”

I spoke to my heart and said,

“Heart, you listen now and you receive the message.”

Then I came against that demon force and bound it in Jesus’ name. As I sat there seeing that picture in my mind and speaking it forth, I could feel my heart starting to slow down.

I could feel the tension beginning to ease. I continued like that until I felt it settle right down and calm down, and my blood pressure became regulated.

After that, every time I began to feel that tension, and those symptoms that I knew were a sign of high blood pressure, I would lay my hands on myself and I would say,

“In the name of Jesus I command that this communication will be established.”

At times when it became really severe and the symptoms were so strong that I found it difficult to maintain my faith, I would call my wife. I would say,

“The Scripture says, ‘Where two shall agree concerning anything on the earth, it shall be done.’ Now you come and lay your hands on me and stand together in agreement with me on this.”

As we united our hearts together in faith, the power of God began to flow, and the evil force was overcome. I would feel my blood pressure begin to ease off and go down.

I did this continually over a period of time until eventually we did not have to do it anymore, because my blood pressure was regulated, and it no longer went up. I was healed.

Demons Attack the Body

Demon powers will attack your body.

I remember when one of my daughters was suffering with a kidney disease. She was in severe pain and agony, and it began to show also in her urine, indicating that she was suffering from nephritis. We took her to the doctor and immediately the doctor said,

“This is a severe kidney infection. You must take all these antibiotics and she is going to be off school for the next week at least. It is going to take a while for this thing to clear. She must rest and remain in bed.”

So we went and got the medicine and put her to bed. Shortly after that I was sitting waiting on the Lord and praying and looking to Him. I was asking Him to show me what was going on. He showed me that I needed to go and speak to her body using the authority that there is in the name of Jesus.

As I went to pray with her and as I came to lay my hands on her, the Spirit of God opened my vision, and in the Spirit I saw what looked like a spider sitting on her kidney.

The Lord was showing me that there was a spirit of infirmity attacking her kidney and preventing it from functioning the way that it should.

I came against that thing in the name of Jesus. I took authority over it and bound it, and I commanded it to leave her body. I saw it crawling off her and walking out the door, and it was gone.

Now at that point I believe that if left alone, her body would have continued to heal itself. The cause of the disease had been removed.

But at that time, God gave me in addition a gift of healing. He showed me the kidney, and I could see it as though it had been cut open in an operating theatre. I could see it in color x-ray.

As I prayed, the power of God came into my hands. The healing power flowed forth, and I saw the kidney changing color.

I knew that she was healed and the next day she was fine. Of course she did not go back to school, because she had been booked off and she had an excuse to stay home.

I let her stay home a couple of days before she went back to school, but she was fine. The symptoms were gone. There was no more infection and it was over.

Now I had already tried praying before we went to see the doctor. I had come in to pray and speak healing and ask God to touch her. But healing did not come until I saw in the Spirit that there was a demon force; a spirit of infirmity that was involved in attacking that part of the body.

One of the first things that you need to do when you are suffering with sickness and disease is to identify the demonic powers that are associated with causing that attack on your body. They have brought your body to the place where it cannot heal itself anymore.

Very often that is all you need to do. You often need nothing more than to take authority over the spirit of infirmity. You have the power to do that as a believer.

These signs shall follow those who believe. In my name they shall cast out demons.

You have the authority to speak to that demon force, that spirit of infirmity and say,

“In the name of Jesus I take authority over you. You will leave this body now, and you will go.”

It has to go. When it goes you will find that the person’s body is released.

Healing is Not Always Instant

You say, “Well does the person then suddenly receive instant healing?”

No, they do not necessarily experience instant healing, although sometimes the effect can be felt immediately. The symptoms are likely still there, but the thing that was causing the disease has been removed, and the body is now released to heal itself naturally.

That may take a period of days, weeks or even months, depending on the seriousness of the illness. But you have dealt with what was causing the disease. You dealt with the spirit of infirmity.

This is so important, but few believers understand it. They have been forward for prayer and hands have been laid on them and healing has been spoken over them.

They have exercised faith and confessed the Word. They have believed God for healing. But healing does not come, because they have never dealt with the demon force that was associated with it in the first place.

Chapter 13 - The Power of Speech and Health

The second sign that Jesus said would follow those that believe is that they would speak with new tongues. James 3:6 says:

And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell.

The tongue sets on fire the course of nature. What does that mean? What is it saying? I will tell you what it is saying. It is saying that your tongue controls your natural body.

Neurosurgeons have discovered medically that the speech center of the brain is directly linked to the nervous system, so that whatever words we speak affect our nervous system. Our nervous system then communicates with the rest of our body.

Even from a medical point of view some doctors are saying,

“We are teaching people to speak positive things. We are teaching people to speak health to their bodies.”

You can speak health. The tongue sets on fire the course of nature. Our tongue is a powerful force, and it has been trained to speak death and disease or life.

Solomon knew this when he said in Proverbs 18:21:

Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit of it.

But our tongues have been trained to speak a curse instead of a blessing.

We have been looking at how the power of our spirits is released through words into the earth. In Matthew 12:35 Jesus said:

A good man out of the good things deposited in his heart brings out good things:

The King James Version says:

...out of the good treasure of his heart.

It literally means the good things that were deposited in his heart.

And an evil man out of the evil things deposited brings out evil things.

What comes out of your mouth? What you put into your heart. What did you put into your heart? Is it all the medical programs, the medical books and the medical journals?

What is it that you are putting into your heart? All those pictures of what Satan is doing in the world, of pain and suffering and sickness and disease?

You feed it into your heart. You deposit it all into your heart and you expect it to happen. Then when you get a pain in your chest you think,

“I wonder if it is my heart.”

You get another pain in your body and you wonder if there is cancer there, or if there is some other disease. Fear fills your heart and you begin to speak it out and to say,

“I wonder if I’ve got this. I wonder if I have that sickness. I wonder if there is something wrong.”

Many people go to the doctor only to find out what is wrong, not to receive treatment. I have seen people who will make a big effort to go and see the doctor at the first sign of illness.

He will prescribe medicine for them and they do not take it, because he told them it was nothing serious. That is all they needed to hear.

“Am I okay? Am I going to die?”

Oh the lies that Satan has programmed into our hearts that we think that we are going to pick up diseases. You have been told that if you eat certain things, drink too much coffee and use cellular phones, you will get cancer. You have heard all the statistics that prove what causes cancer.

No, you have a right to divine healing, and it is time you begin to feed into your heart the Word of God that says:

By His stripes you were healed.

Beloved I wish above all things, that you would prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.

Even as your soul prospers - we will be looking at that shortly.

Healing from Your Spirit

The forces of healing come out of your heart. Solomon said:

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it flow the sources of life.

Your healing comes from your spirit. Do you know what happens when your spirit leaves your body? It dies. The moment your spirit leaves your body it dies and starts to decay. It cannot heal itself anymore.

Doesn’t that tell you something? Somewhere along the line there must be a force from your spirit that is keeping your body alive.

There is a force from your spirit that is keeping it going. Your spirit instructs your brain to make sure that your heart beats, that your lungs breathe, that everything is normal. It makes sure that the body fights disease, that the chemicals are released to the various organs and glands in the body.

Yes they are all motivated by the brain, but it is the spirit that controls the brain. The spirit is the real you that is within. It all comes from your spirit.

Keep your heart with all diligence, because from that flow the sources of life.

What have you been depositing in there? Have you been depositing death? Then as the Scripture says,

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

What you speak is going to release a force that is either going to be a blessing or it is going to be a curse. You will often hear people saying something like,

“Winter is arriving. I guess we’ll get flu again this year like we always do. I guess I’m going to catch a cold as soon as the cold weather arrives. It always seems to happen to me.”

We speak it forth and create it.

We need to come to the place where we say,

“No, I will not be sick. I refuse to be sick. God has given me divine health and I will walk in that divine health.”

When a pain comes into your body you usually say,

“Ooh, I wonder what it is.”

But you should rather say,

“How dare you. Oh no you don’t. You leave me right now.”

Redemption from the Curse

We have been redeemed from the curse. Go and read Deuteronomy 28 and see the list of blessings and the list of curses. You will find out that after this long list of curses, including all sorts of sickness and diseases, it ends by saying:

And everything else that is not written here.

Any sickness that you have is not a blessing from God. It is a curse, and when it shows itself in your life you should be saying,

“Hold it. You are a curse. The Bible says that Jesus has redeemed me from the curse.”

You should be saying,

“He has delivered me from the curse. Hold it. You don’t have a right to be in my body. I have been delivered from you, now get out.”

Don’t be found saying,

“All those viruses have got a hold of me. There is nothing I can do about it. The doctors say that it is incurable.”

Who cares what the doctors say. What does God say in His Word? Your mouth must change.

They shall speak with new tongues.

If you do not have the ability to speak it with your native tongue, then lay your hand on your body and start to pray in other tongues. Go on and on praying in tongues, and keep speaking to your body.

Keep speaking in tongues and releasing the power of God into the earth, until that healing power that is in your spirit begins to surge forth and pour through your body; until it purges out that sickness and disease.

Divine Protection

Jesus said:

These signs will follow those who believe... they shall take up serpents.

A serpent is a deadly thing that sinks its fangs into you. If it is one of these poisonous things like an adder or a cobra you are history in minutes. This refers to deadly poisons and attack from the outside.

Jesus was saying,

“You will be protected even when something comes from without and doesn’t come from within your body; some kind of injury, some kind of poison or danger that comes from without. If you believe, you will even be protected from that.”

As believers we are entitled to divine protection.

You say, “I sure hope I don’t have an accident in my car going to work. I hope I don’t come off my bike and hurt myself, and break my neck. I hope somebody doesn’t take a shot at me by accident.”

Listen, you are a child of God. You are protected from these things. The Scripture tells us in Acts how Paul took hold of some branches and a snake came up and latched itself to his hand. The people thought he was going to die for sure, but the Scripture says that he shook it off into the fire.

He was a believer. He knew that he was protected. He knew that Satan had no right to attack him. It was a ploy to destroy him. He refused to allow it to happen.

No matter what attack may come from without, you are protected and you have the right to claim your protection. You have the right to say,

“I will not suffer this.”

But we spend thousands of dollars on insurance, covering ourselves in case something goes wrong. This is your insurance right here.

These signs shall follow them that believe.

It is cheaper to pay insurance than believe, though isn’t it?

I am not knocking insurance. If you do not have the faith then you had better get it. All I am saying is if you can trust God you will not need it.

If you can walk in His faith and in His protection, He will take care of you. He will set His angels guard over you to keep you in all your ways and protect you if you dash your foot against a stone.

Isn’t that what it says in Psalm 91? It is a beautiful Psalm that speaks of God’s protection. It speaks about dwelling under the shadow of the Almighty to be protected by Him.

Victory Over Poisons

Jesus said:

These signs shall follow those who believe... they shall drink any deadly thing and it shall not harm them.

They will be able to drink poison and it shall not harm them. They will be able to eat something that is poisonous and deadly and it shall not harm them.

Again we are looking at something coming from without that can affect the body.

Today particularly in the society that we live in, we know that our foods are no longer natural. They have been denatured and covered in chemicals to protect them from pests. They have been sprayed with all sorts of poisons and been contaminated with flavor enhancers and all sorts of junk.

You can develop allergies. Your body starts to react against the very things that you eat. When you eat a certain food your body reacts and you break out in boils and sores and rashes.

You begin to wheeze and suffer from asthma. If you breathe contaminated air your lungs get choked up.

All of these things affect you. They are things that are taken into the body.

Jesus said:

These signs shall follow them that believe... they shall drink any deadly thing and it shall not harm them.

You have the right to take that food and say,

“This food will not harm me.”

Personal Healing

I remember a time when I could not eat asparagus. I loved asparagus, and I still love it. But every time I ate just one or two spears of it, I would get the most violent headache.

I remember one day we were speaking about this and discussing principles of healing and something rose up in my wife.

She said, “You don’t have to accept that. The Scripture says you shall eat any deadly thing and it will not harm you.”

She laid her hands on me and took authority over that thing.

She said, “I bind that now in Jesus’ name. You will not be affected.”

I want you to know I have been eating asparagus ever since. It has not affected me again.

I used to also be affected by chocolate. Then one day I got fed up and I said,

“This is enough already. I want to eat some chocolate.”

This time I took authority over it myself. I laid my hands on my body and I said,

“Body, you’re going to take this chocolate and you’re going to enjoy it. You will not be affected by it, you will not get a headache, and you will not break out in anything. You will receive it with joy.”

Now I can eat as much chocolate as I like and it does not affect me anymore.

These signs shall follow them that believe. But we just accept it. We say,

“Oh well that’s the way I was born. It’s genetic you know. It runs in my family. We’re all allergic to these things. We can’t eat prawns, shrimps or other seafood because they affect us. My dad was like that and his dad was like that.”

No, it is a curse. You do not have to accept it. You are redeemed from the curse.

Sickness and disease is a curse. Christ has redeemed you from the curse. You do not have to be subject to it. You do not have to accept it. You can be free from it.

Chapter 14 - Healing Others

Finally, right at the end Jesus said:

These signs shall follow them that believe... they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.

The Lord was saying that you can take the same power that is within your spirit, that you have caused to reach out and produce healing in your own body, and you can impart the same healing to somebody else.

You have learned to release the forces in your spirit of faith, hope and love. When you speak forth in authority and power, the anointing power of God within you can go out from you as you lay your hands on a sick person. If you do this the Word of God says that they shall recover.

You say, “But I don’t have the gift of healing.”

You do not need the gift of healing. The Scripture does not say they will be instantly and miraculously healed. It says,

“They shall recover.”

It means that as you impart to that person the anointing power that is in your spirit, you give their body some extra energy. There is a power coming from you that is shining like a light in the darkness. It enters that person’s body and causes their body to take control again and to heal itself.

All that you are doing is joining forces with their body against the sickness and disease. Their body is already fighting it as hard as it can. All you do is to add some of the power you have to it, and increase that power.

You accelerate the healing power so that the natural healing power is amplified and increased. There is no reason why you cannot lay your hands on such a person often - again and again.

If you have somebody in your family that is sick, there is no reason why you cannot pray over them and lay your hands on them saying,

“In the name of Jesus I believe you are healed. In the name of Jesus I speak forth the healing power of God.”

Maintain the Pressure

Do it several times a day; do it every day. Continue to do it until the sickness and disease flee. There is an anointing power and a healing virtue that is flowing out of you. Perhaps it is not very strong, but if you keep doing it something is going to happen.

I often use this illustration to try and describe this. I use lots of scientific explanations, so please forgive me if you are unscientific.

Imagine that you have hung a large, heavy steel bar by a string so that it is dangling in the air. Now imagine that you have also hung next to it a little cork on a string. If you were to pull the cork back and let it fly towards the metal, it would hit the steel bar and bounce off. It is just a light little cork and will have no effect on that big steel bar at all.

But here is something interesting. They have proved that every time you pull that cork back and you let it hit the steel bar, it imparts a bit of energy into that bar.

If you will keep doing it again and again, 24 hours a day, seven days a week continuously, something amazing begins to happen. After a while the steel bar starts to move, until eventually it is swinging in unison with that little cork.

You might say, “Well I don’t have a great big faith for healing. I don’t have a terrific power in my spirit. How can I pray for someone if the person is dying of cancer? How can my feeble little faith and my feeble little prayer have any effect against that illness?”

Well it does not have to stay feeble. We have been teaching you in this book how to amplify it. Nevertheless you can take your feeble little faith and start hitting the cancer steel bar again and again, over and over.

Speak to it, lay hands on the sick and send forth the healing power of God from your spirit. If you do this I tell you what is going to happen. The person is going to start recovering.

But we don’t do that do we? We want instant results. We live in an instant society where somebody must come and lay hands on us. They must speak forth the Word of authority,

“In the name of Jesus be healed.”

And suddenly it is gone. I walk out miraculously healed. If I do not walk out miraculously healed I get all discouraged and depressed and say,

“I don’t know why God didn’t want to heal me.”

That is why so many believers do not receive it, because they think it has to be instant and miraculous. There is a power, there is a healing light and there is virtue.

There is energy that pours forth from a child of God who believes. If we would only speak that power continuously in our own bodies and into the bodies of other people, we would see divine health and healing manifesting.

Speak Health Daily

When is the best time to speak it? After you are sick? When you are lying in your bed suffering with sickness and in pain? Then you suddenly want to wake up and say,

“Oh, by His stripes I am healed. In Jesus’ name I speak forth healing.”

It is not too late, but it is going to take you longer to sort out. You should be speaking healing to your body every day.

When you get up in the morning you should be speaking healing to your body. At night before you go to sleep you should be doing the same and speaking healing to your body.

When the Lord first really began to quicken this to me, it became so real to me that I began to lie in bed at night and touch my body from my head to my toes. I began to speak to each part of my body. I would said,

“Okay, now scalp you don’t have to be bald. There are hair follicles there that can grow. You will grow. I speak to you now in the name of Jesus.”

Eyes? My eyes are a bit slow. I have to keep speaking to them. I want to get rid of my spectacles. I do not want them anymore. I want my vision to be improved.

You say, “But with old age you can’t help it. Muscles in the eyes tighten.”

I don’t care. I will keep speaking to my eyes until they start improving; until I have to get new glasses because my current ones are too strong, or until I do not need glasses anymore.

I will keep speaking to my nose and my nasal passages, to my ears and to my throat; to my chest and my lungs, my heart and my kidneys; to my stomach and intestines and every part of my body. I will speak to my nervous system, to my circulatory system and to my digestive system.

I keep speaking to them and I say,

“In the name of Jesus you are blessed. In the name of Jesus you function perfectly. In the name of Jesus I speak divine health upon you. I call you blessed. I call you healthy. I call you functioning the way God intended you to function.”

Do you know what is going to happen? It is going to be easy to walk in divine health. But I will tell you where the problem occurs. The problem occurs when sickness and disease reach the point where the symptoms are so strong that all you can see are the symptoms.

Your body has then reached the point where it can no longer cope with the sickness and disease. Then what do you do? You have to exercise your faith, and it is very difficult to do it.

Role of Medical Science

When you are in this position you need external help to get you back to the place where your body is in control. That is where medical science comes in.

Perhaps you think that I have been teaching that you do not need to see a doctor anymore; that you do not need to take medication anymore. No, that is not what I am teaching at all. I am saying that we can come to the place where we do not need to see these people.

If your body is sick you had better get some help. Just understand one thing though. Medical science cannot heal. Only your spirit within can bring a change on the physical. Your healing has to come from within. But I will tell you what medical science can do. It will give your body something to help it in its fight against disease.

The medication that is prescribed for you will assist your body. It will motivate and increase the body’s natural healing process so that it is better able to cope with the disease and remove it.

Surgery may sometimes be necessary to take out a diseased portion that cannot be recovered; to cut it out and take it out of the way so that the body now is strengthened and able to heal itself and fight that disease.

Perhaps you need to take painkilling medication to remove the symptoms of your disease. When you are in pain you can see only pain. You can see only sickness and disease.

You cannot see healing. You cannot build a spiritual template for your healing, because in your mind you are feeling pain.

In your mind you are thinking negative. In your emotions you are feeling depressed and discouraged, because your body cannot function the way it should be.

And with your mouth you are not saying,

“By His stripes I am healed.”

Instead you are usually saying,

“Ooh I’m really suffering. I’m so sore today.”

You are giving your spirit the wrong template. So deal with these things. Get some external help and get rid of the symptoms.

Then get back and put in that spiritual template, and start speaking forth,

“I am redeemed from the curse. By His stripes I am healed. Healing is mine. It is the bread of the children.”

Receiving Healing

So in conclusion, how do you receive divine healing?

Firstly, recognize the sources of life; the forces that are in your spirit. Secondly, develop a template for healing. John said in 3 John 1:2:

Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.

Your soul must prosper before the divine health is going to come. And for your soul to prosper, your mind must be filled with pictures of health and strength.

In your mind you must see yourself running around doing healthy things. Your emotions and your desires must be stirred towards that. And your words and your will must be exercised towards that.

Amplify the forces of your spirit. Take the Word of God and speak it over and over again.

Say, “By His stripes I am healed. By His stripes I have been healed. In the name of Jesus I am healed. These signs shall follow them that believe.”

Then bind the forces of darkness. Come against those demons of infirmity that are attacking your body. Take authority over them in the name of Jesus and cast them out. Then continue to speak forth the healing power.

Lay your hands on the part of your body that is sore. Then close your eyes and see that part as being healed. Speak to it and say,

“You are healed. I call you healed. I call all pain gone. I speak to you now in the name of Jesus. I send forth the authority and the anointing power of the Spirit of God. Be healed now in Jesus’ name.”

Divine health is the bread of the children. We should all be walking in it. Learn to walk in it now while you are healthy, and maintain that divine health. Then when sickness and disease come, your first response is,

“Oh no you don’t. Don’t you dare.”

Do not let the spirit of infirmity take hold of you. But if you have already reached that point, start to exercise your faith and get another believer to come and lay hands on you over and over again. Get them to stand together in agreement with you and speak against that thing.

Go and get some medication, get some medical treatment, use every resource that is available to you, until you break free into what God has for you.

Walking in divine health is what He intended for us in the first place.

Section 05 – Walking in Prosperity

Chapter 15 – God Wants You to Prosper

Deuteronomy 8:18:

But you will remember the LORD [Yahweh] your God: for [it is] he that gives you ability to gain wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as [it is] this day.

How often have you woken up in the morning and wished you did not have to go to work? Do you wish you had your own business or that you were your own boss and did not have to go and work for somebody else?

Do you ever look at wealthy people and envy them? Have you ever complained to the Lord because you are battling financially and everybody else seems to be prospering? I think we have all been there.

These are things we face on a daily basis and every day we need to make choices. So the key question you need to ask yourself before you even start is,

“Does God want me to prosper financially?”

Your answer to that question is going to decide how you look at life, how you look at the Word and how you handle every problem that you face in the area of finances and prosperity.

We have looked at how God wants to bless us and how He has already blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ. We have looked at healing and we have looked at releasing power into the earth.

Now I want to look in detail at the subject of finances. Where does the Bible stand on this? Does God want the Christian to be rich, or are we supposed to be poor? Is poverty a blessing?

Prosperity from Creation

As we go back to the book of Genesis we read that God made the earth, and He created a beautiful, luscious garden. It must have been the most beautiful place on the earth where the very best that God had created could be found.

When God made man He did not put him in the desert and say,

“Do you see that beautiful garden over there? You are not allowed to touch that because it is evil.”

The Bible says that God took His man Adam and He put him in the best place, amongst the best creation, amongst all those things that God had looked down on and pronounced as good. God did not put him into it and say,

“Now you’re allowed to look at it, but you can’t touch it.”

No, He didn’t say,

“Well Adam, you can have a couple of fruits there, and you can take a few of these things here, but you mustn’t overdo it. You are only allowed so many hundred calories per day.

“You’re on a restricted diet here. This is your fixed salary and you’re getting no more.”

Everything is Yours

When God put Adam into the garden He said,

“You’re in charge. It is yours. Have whatever you want. Do whatever you want. Take freely from everything that is here and is available to you with no restrictions.”

God made the earth and all of its treasures for His highest creation, man.

I can remember a time in my life when we were battling financially and we were waiting for direction from the Lord concerning work and ministry. There were no finances, I did not have a job and I was looking to the Lord for where to begin in ministry.

I was walking up and down the beach complaining to the Lord saying,

“Lord, you brought us here. Father, you have to provide because we are battling.”

The Lord stopped me in my tracks and said,

“Stop right now and look all around you.”

I stood there and looked all around me. I could see the ocean and the beach. I could see a car park and some buildings all around. I could see the road with a mountain nearby. There was the city in the distance and a hotel on the beach.”

As I looked at the whole surrounding area I said,

“Okay, Lord I see it. What of it?”

He said, “Everything that you see belongs to you.”

“What do you mean, Lord?”

He said, “Who do you think I created this earth for? I created this world for my highest creation that was made in my image - man.”

He said, “This world was made for you. Everywhere you look, everything you see I made it for you. It belongs to you and Satan has stolen it.

“Wherever you look and whatever you can touch, everything was made for you. I want you to have the best because I made the best for you. I don’t want you to settle for second best because I don’t give bad gifts. I give good things.”

I started to rethink the whole subject of prosperity. I came to realize that Christians often think that the things of this world are not be touched by the child of God. You will hear people say something like,

“Well they are just worldly things, brother. You’re not supposed to hanker after the things of the world. We are supposed to set our eyes on heavenly places.

“Our treasure is in Heaven one day. What do you want treasure down on this earth for?

“These are just worldly things. We must leave this behind. We leave them behind for the world, the unbelievers, the unsaved - for the Devil and all those who follow him.

“They are the ones who lust after these things. We as believers should not. We shouldn’t want these things. They’re evil.”

The Lord said, “They are not evil. I made them, and I made them for you. But the church is gladly giving it up and giving it away.”

Who is the church giving it away to? It is giving it to the one who stole it from us.

What would you do if someone walked into your house, picked up your stereo and started walking away with it? Would you stand there and say?

“Oh well a stereo is just a worldly thing. I shouldn’t really covet it and desire after it.”

Then you watch him walk out the door with it. Is that what you would do?

But that is what many believers are doing. They are letting the Devil steal from them everything that God has given them, and they are just being so humble and spiritual about it.

As a result of not having their needs met they are not able to be effective for the work of God. They want to help the work of the Lord, but the ministry suffers because they are unable to give.

Some say, “Well I can’t afford to give. I can’t afford to support the ministry. I can’t afford to help that person who is starving down the road there. I can’t afford to help brother so-and-so who has just lost his job, because I have enough problems of my own.”

We are happy to settle for the little bit that the devil dishes out to us, instead of realizing that God made the good things in this world for us and He wants us to enjoy them.

There are no conditions or price, because when the Lord gives to us He always gives freely.

Natural Financial Laws

We saw that there are laws that govern the natural world. We also saw that there are laws that govern the spiritual world and we looked at some of these spiritual laws.

I would like to look at some more spiritual laws now. They are actually both natural and spiritual laws because they overlap. They work in the natural and in the spiritual and they work where finances are concerned.

The Scripture says that there comes first the natural and then the spiritual, so I will start with the natural and move over into the spiritual. I will start with the way God set this world up to function in the natural.

We will look firstly at how prosperity is generated in the natural. Then we will see how we can move it into the spiritual and obtain all that the Lord has for us.

We live in a natural world, so if you are to prosper financially you will do so in a natural world. Therefore we will have to use the principles that God has set in this world, in order to receive the natural blessings and not what Satan has set in this world.

The Law of Sowing and Reaping

Although God gave Adam and Eve freely everything that was in the Garden of Eden, they still were not free of that arduous thing that we call work.

You say, “Oh I wish I didn’t have to go to work.”

Then you might as well die, because the Scripture says:

If any man will not work, neither let him eat.

Do not think that you will enter into a state of spirituality where your financial prosperity will come upon you so that you will never have to work again. This would violate a principle that God has set in the earth.

God placed Adam in the Garden, to keep it and to dress it and to look after it. Adam had a job to do. Work did not start after the fall; it just changed bosses and grew more difficult, that is all. Work was there from the beginning. It always had to be.

So the first natural law is the law of sowing and reaping.

A Lesson From Chemistry

One of the subjects at school that I really did not like terribly much was chemistry. This was largely because there were so many things to learn. I must admit it, I hate learning lots of things. It takes too much effort and too much work. But I learned something back there that I remember.

They said, “You set up a chemical equation just like you do any equation in algebra. What is on the one side of the equal sign has to equal what is on the other side of the equal sign. You have to maintain equilibrium.”

So if you put two chemicals together and a chemical reaction takes place, what comes at the other end might be a different substance. But it will have the same energy quotient, the same quantity as what went into the chemical reaction.

If you mix two chemicals together and they react and produce a lot of heat, what comes out at the other side is a new compound plus heat. If you mix the energy value of the compound with the energy value of the heat, it is equal to the same amount that you put in.

In other words, what you put into the thing is what you will get out of it. There are no losses or increases along the way. In computer terms they call it, ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’.

What you put in, you will get out. They might come out in a different form, but ultimately the same quantity that you put in is what you will get out.

If you consider the law of sowing and reaping, it can be said in different ways. You may have heard this expression:

You get nothing for nothing.

Well that might be a worldly statement, but it is true. You cannot obtain anything for free. If you are to get something out, you will have to put something in. It is the universal law of sowing and reaping. You will get out what you put in.

I can see you beginning to question me already and say,

“Yes, but if you plant a seed you get out a plant that yields a lot of seed. You get back a lot more than what you put in, right? Isn’t that the law of sowing and reaping? If you sow a seed, the seed is multiplied and increased and gives back more.”

Different Yields

Jesus told the parable of the sower that sowed the seed. Some fell by the wayside and yielded nothing, because the seed was taken away immediately.

Others yielded just a little bit and some were choked. But even the seed that fell into the good ground yielded some 30, some 60, and some 100.

The yields were not the same all the way through. What made the difference? It was the soil the seed was put into. When you put in the seed, the soil has to add its part and then multiplication takes place.

What comes out of the plant is actually what was in the soil, not what was in the seed. This is not some magical thing where the seed somehow multiplies itself all alone.

It has to pull resources out of the soil to build up the plant and produce further seed. Something else has to be added.

Whatever happens in the earth, the same rule applies. If you take matter and destroy it, it is just converted into another form. All you are doing is transmuting from one form into another, but the material is still there.

We spoke about this when we discussed creation. We spoke about taking materials of the creation and causing spirit to come upon those materials, in order to create something with them.

All that happens is that the materials are changed into something different. Ultimately what you put in is what you get out. This is the universal law of sowing and reaping.

Chapter 16 - The Law of Use

There is another law that is known as the law of use. It says that if you use something it will become stronger and grow. If you do not use it, it fades away.

This applies very much to the muscles of the body. When someone exercises their muscles a lot, they grow larger and stronger. But if they do not use their muscles, they atrophy and grow weaker.

If you do not keep your body in a state of physical fitness then you lose it. You become physically weak and unfit and incapable of doing very much. But as you exercise you grow stronger and stronger.

The problem with this law is that you have to repeat it over and over again. But eventually even repetition is not enough, because you reach a plateau in your physical fitness. You have to increase the load. You have to put more power and more energy in.

Again it is a matter of putting in and getting out. It is very much like the law of sowing and reaping. In the end, as you keep putting in, you are left with a high potential power. Now you have a muscle that is strong and ready, so that when you need it the power is there.

How can we apply some of these natural laws to the area of finances and prosperity? These are some of the things I want to look at here. And although I am speaking in general terms, I will give a Scripture every now and then to support what I am saying.

You will find a lot of this in Solomon’s Proverbs and natural wisdom. A lot of these things are common sense. But I want you to think them through, according to the way God has set things up in the earth.

We try to make prosperity either totally natural or we make it too spiritual.

You say, “Well I’m going to trust the Lord for finances. Somebody is going to walk up to my door and say, ‘God told me to give you a million dollars.’ ”

Unfortunately there is a little more involved here. There has to be an application of the laws, and what you get out of this thing is what you have put into it. We will look at this as we go on.

The Principle of Investment

Let’s look at the principle of investment. This is one of the first ways of increasing finance. It is the same as taking a seed and planting it and obtaining a return on the seed. You can take something that you have in the temporal, invest it and gain a return on the investment.

If you are to reap finances then you will have to invest something in order to obtain a financial return. If you do not invest then you cannot get anything out, because you get out what you put in.

The Scripture says:

Whatever a man sows, that shall he reap.

It is a universal law. You need to answer some questions before you can invest.

Firstly, what do you have to invest, and then how can you invest it? How do you go about investing and what kind of return do you get on it? What can you expect back again as a result of your investment?

You say, “I wish I was a rich person and I had a lot of money to invest. If I did then I could invest a large amount of money and obtain a large investment return. That would begin to grow and it would come in very quickly.

“If I had a million dollars to put in the bank now, I could not only live off the interest that would be generated, but there would probably be enough left over to cause that investment to carry on growing.

“My investment return would come so fast that it would come in faster than I could spend it. I would get richer automatically.”

Unfortunately if you invest only 10 dollars you do not have quite the same thing happening. So you pray,

“Oh Lord, if you could just give me the million to start with, then we could get this show on the road.”

But what about the person who has a million now? Did he start with the million? You will find that he started with less and somehow built up to that.

There are natural laws that natural people are using and they are succeeding using those laws. But the believer has something far greater, because God gives us the ability to take the natural laws and expand them.

We saw in discussing healing how the body has been given the ability to heal itself naturally. God gives the supernatural power to increase the body’s natural healing capability so that the body can heal itself quicker.

The same thing applies to finances. God can give us the power in our spirits to take the natural laws and to make them work more efficiently for us.

Investing Time

The first thing that we have to invest is time. Time is the one thing that you get free every day from the moment you wake up. If you wake up late, you have already lost some of it. Somebody once said,

“Time is like someone telling you, ‘I’m going to give you so many dollars every day, but if you don’t spend them today you will lose them.’ ”

They worked out the number of minutes that there are in a day and they said,

“Suppose I were to tell you that you were getting so many thousand dollars a day, but if you don’t spend them you lose them.”

We are given a certain number of minutes every day, and if we do not use those minutes and invest them then we lose them. There is the saying that goes,

“If you snooze you lose.”

We all have the same number of hours in a day. There are only 24 hours in a day. You are not going to get any more. So you need to learn to take what is given to you freely every day, and to invest it wisely.

Ephesians 5:15 and 16 says:

See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Buying up the [kairos] time, because the days are evil.

Buying up the time means recouping time. You need to stop wasting time and make good use of it, but how do you do that?

In Work

You can invest firstly in work. Investing your time in work produces an income, especially if you get paid by time. Your financial income will be generated according to the number of hours that you put into your work.

There is only one problem with investing your time in work though, and that is that you only have a specific amount of time available every day. There is therefore a limit to what you are able to generate in income based on work.

You can say, “Well I want to work harder. I’ll put in an extra hour or two. I’ll go without sleep and I’ll work longer.”

That will only generate a little extra income and nothing more. There are many people that work hard and with long hours, but they are still battling financially.

Financial prosperity does not come from hard work, contrary to what most workaholics believe. Hard work is not enough to produce financial prosperity.

In Study and Training

You can invest your time in study and training, and so increase your capabilities. When you do that it produces in you a greater quality of work. In other words your time becomes worth more. It increases your value.

I remember the days when I used to sell life assurance. The statistics showed that you could obtain a certain number of sales per week, if you worked at it consistently, saw a certain number of people a day, etc.

They had it worked out on an average and it did not fluctuate much from person to person. The more successful sales people did not necessarily obtain more sales.

I remember seeing a movie at that time on the man who was known as the world’s top life assurance salesman. This guy would pull millions from every deal that he finalized. But one piece of information about him really blew me away.

They said, “Do you know how many policies he sells a week? The same number as the average sales rep.”

I thought, “So how come he’s a millionaire from selling a couple of policies a week, and I’m battling to make ends meet also selling a couple of policies a week?”

There was one subtle difference. Mine were worth 100 dollars but his were worth a million. I was selling small ones and he was selling big ones.

The number of policies was the same, but his had a bigger value. He did not knock on the door of the family man to try and sell him a little policy. He went to the millionaire corporations and sold a huge one to them.

He had increased his capability and his value. He invested time into his profession and rose up higher. And so it is with every single person in this world.

You hear people complaining because they have a bad lot in life. They are complaining because the guys at the top get all the big salaries and they are the workers down at the bottom getting paid nothing. But if they would increase their quality then they would find that they would get paid more.

Work Smart

How do you increase your quality? You will have to invest time into studying. You will have to invest time into working not just hard, but smart.

There are millions of people who are prepared to work hard. There are lots of people who are prepared to work as laborers and do the difficult jobs for a pittance. But you have to search to find somebody who is capable of doing the job well.

Everyone clamors for that kind of person. They will offer him the earth, just to get him to come and work for them. Solomon expressed it well in the book of Proverbs. He said in Proverbs 18:16:

A man’s gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men.

You say, “Well I don’t have time to study. I’m getting on in years now. I have to work hard all day. I have to earn my income. I have to support my family and put bread on the table. Where do I have time to study?”

Well if you do not have time to improve your quality, then you will remain poor. It is as simple as that. You will have to make an investment that goes beyond just the production of income. You will have to invest time in yourself, in increasing your capabilities.

Actually it costs you nothing, because time has been given to you freely every day. Yes it is going to cost you a little bit of effort, but what you put into it in studying is going to be like exercising that muscle.

You say, “But I hate exercise. What am I doing these stupid exercises for?”

But doesn’t it feel good when you reach the point where you roll up your sleeves and you flex your muscle, and everybody says,

“Wow, how did you get a big muscle like that?”

Or you grab something heavy with just one arm. You pick it up and everybody says, “Whew, you’re strong hey?”

You have potential power and capability, and all you need to do is maintain that. You have built it and people can see it and will use it. This applies spiritually too. It is exactly the same.

You say, “Oh I wish the Lord would bless my ministry. Nobody ever wants to listen to me preach.”

Have you ever heard yourself preach? Would you listen to you for an hour or two at a time? Try listening to yourself. Look at yourself and ask,

“Can I do this better? Father, if I had a greater anointing of your Spirit; Lord, if I had a greater knowledge of your Word so that when I come to sharing and ministering with your people I know what I’m talking about, maybe somebody would come to me for counsel.”

But they don’t come to me because I don’t know what I’m talking about. I don’t know the Word. I don’t have the answer to their problems. I have never spent time in prayer waiting on the Lord to hear His voice on behalf of others.

You will have to invest if you are to prosper, and prosperity is not always financial. Although we are looking at that here, whatever you are to prosper in, you will need to invest something into it to increase that capability.

You will have to build up that resource and make it more powerful, before you will be able to reap anything back from it.

Chapter 17 - Choosing Good Investments

We have considered an investment of time. Now how about an investment of wealth itself?

When you invest finance, you always obtain an investment return. The worst return you can possibly obtain is to get back what you put in, but you will always obtain an investment return.

Now there are different ways of investing. There are various different kinds of soil that you can plant in. You may plant the same seed but it will grow differently according to the soil that you plant it in.

Let’s look at a few different ways that you can invest your money.

In Physical Needs and Desires

You can invest it in your physical needs and desires. The most common form of this investment is providing food for your stomach.

Have you ever tried to work out your budget to see what percentage of your salary you spend on your stomach? If you haven’t, then try it some time. You will be amazed.

What kind of return do you get on this investment?

You get an immediate return. You get an immediate sense of comfort and satisfaction and maybe a bit of strength and energy. It usually lasts about a third of a day because we eat three times a day.

You say, “We went out last night and we had a wonderful meal. We had a great time.”

Then you wake up in the morning and you say,

“What’s for breakfast?”

“But didn’t you eat last night?”

“Yes, we ate quite a lot too.”

“So what do you want breakfast for? What do you want lunch for? Didn’t you eat yesterday?”

You see it gives a wonderful return, but it is emptiness. It gives a quick return and it is very necessary. It is necessary that you invest money in your body. Your body has to be kept alive. But how much do you invest in the pleasures of the body?

There is nothing wrong with that either. The Lord wants us to enjoy His creation.

But you see if you look at the wealth you are investing and the percentage of wealth that you are investing, you need to be investing into something that is going to give you a bigger investment return. This is certainly not one of them. It is the bottom rung of the ladder.

In Recreation and Entertainment

How about recreation and entertainment? What about fun, play and pleasure? It gives you such a lovely feeling and an emotional lift. You have a good laugh.

You say, “We had such a good time. We enjoyed ourselves. We must do it again next week.”

Well that one might last a week, but it is still temporary and transitory. You got your return on your investment. It came right back at you, but it did not last.

In Practical Objects

We can go up a rung now and invest in practical objects and implements. These are things that you can use into the future - appliances, tools and things that you can use over and over again.

Every time you use that object you obtain a return on your investment. You continue to obtain returns on your investment for as long as the life span or the usefulness of that object continues.

Now you are starting to invest into something a little more worthwhile. This is in an investment where you do not have to go and buy another one next week. It is going to last a while before it breaks down or wears out.

It is not going to last forever, but it is going to last a lot longer. Not only that, but you can now take this object and use it to make your activities and your work more efficient.

It can help you to increase your quality and worth, because you can now be a better craftsman with a better tool.

In Savings

You could take your money and you could save it by putting it into a Savings Account. If you put it there it is going to accumulate a certain rate of interest according to your country and the economy of the time. Your money will gradually build in value, but the little that it builds in value will at times seem negligible.

The Scripture speaks about, ‘storing treasures on earth where moth and rust corrupt.’

What is the moth and rust? Inflation will eat away at it and taxes will take some of your growth. In the end it will devalue instead of increasing in value.

But you do have a potential power there and it is a good investment, because the cash is available for you to use when you need it.

Of course if you can increase its size then you can start doing more with it. You can buy bigger things that can be of more use with larger amounts of money, instead of spending out all the smaller amounts. By accumulating your financial resources you are coming to a better means of investing your money.

Then you can have long-term investments like life assurance policies and various other investment programs. This is where you have to lock the money in for a certain period of time to obtain higher growth rates.

But there are also disadvantages to this because you have to wait for the money before you can use it. Also, it is under the World System and is being corroded all the time.

In Competitions and Lotteries

You could try to invest your money in competitions, raffles, lotteries and gambling. Really all you are doing then is throwing it by the sidewalk. It is like the seed sown on hard ground. It would be like saying,

“Well we’ll just throw this seed on the ground and hope some of it grows. I’m sure out of a thousand seeds we sow, one of them will hit the right spot. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. It’s one of the chances we have to take.”

When you do this you become subject to that wonderful thing they call luck. This is not a good investment at all. It is playing right into Satan’s hands, so that he can steal from you everything that you have.

In Appreciating Assets

So what do you invest in? What is the wisest thing to invest in, in the natural?

You need to invest in an appreciating asset. In other words you need to invest in something that will increase in value. Now there is an investment that is worthwhile, because it is getting bigger and bigger and increasing in value all the time.

So you could invest on the stock market, and you could buy shares in businesses that are growing and prospering. And so over a period of time your stocks go up and they increase in value.

As a result, what you invested now becomes greater because you can sell those stocks at a far higher price than what you paid for them.

That seems to be the way that a lot of people think is the best way to invest, and many Christians are getting involved in investing on the stock market. I do not want to knock it, but I just want to say one thing. Be very careful.

When you invest in stocks and shares in a company, you make yourself a partner in a company that may be run by ungodly people. You have actually made yourself a partner to that business. You have made yourself a shareholder, to partake of their profits according to the way they run their company.

This can be a very dangerous situation. The Scripture speaks about, ‘not being in partnership with the world.’

You can invest your money in property, which you can lease out and rent to generate a continual income. Property tends to also increase in value over a period of time so it is a very good investment. It appreciates in value while producing income at the same time.

You can also invest in expensive quality equipment that can be hired out. And not only will it pay for itself, but it will generate a continual income for an extended period of time.

In Reproducing Assets

There is one final form of investment that is the greatest of all. You can invest in a reproducing asset. What kind of reproducing asset? Well in Bible days, livestock was the big thing.

If you go back to the nation of Israel, their herds and flocks and their wives and children were all considered assets. Your herds and flocks, wives and children were reproducing all the time. The key principle in those days was,

“If you want to get rich, have lots of kids.”

In those days having a lot of kids made you rich. These days it makes you a pauper. The idea was you obtain some livestock. Then all you do is feed them a bit of grass which is lying everywhere, and they start making babies.

They start reproducing. They start multiplying, duplicating and quadruplicating. Before you know it you have a great big herd of livestock and all it cost you was a little bit of food that you gave them.

That was easy, because the ground yielded its food naturally. All you needed to do was set them out to graze and they would reproduce.

You would simply buy a cow and put her in the herd and she would reproduce. You did not need to do anything more. It would increase all by itself.

Investing in People

How do you buy a reproducing asset today? Well you could still invest in livestock I suppose. I know there are cattle farmers who invest in these sorts of things.

But what is your best investment in a reproducing asset? It is when people invest in other people. But we do not like to do that do we? We prefer to be selfish and keep everything to ourselves.

The World System says,

“Destroy the opposition. Build everything up for yourselves. Become rich and wealthy.”

But if you invest and reproduce yourself in others they will continue reproducing. What better way to reproduce than to take all that you have and pour it into somebody else? Teach them and train them in everything that you have.

The better way is to take all the knowledge that you have and to produce a reproducing asset.

You could produce a son or daughter and pour into him or her all that you have. Now you have a helper with you in your work, and there are two of you doing the same job with the same capability.

This produces twice the return. As the multiplication goes on it gets bigger and bigger, until you have a whole crowd all working at peak efficiency and producing together at the same time. How do we learn to do that?

In Acts 2 we read about when the Spirit of God came down on the Day of Pentecost and the church was born. The people came together and they took everything that they had - the wealthy and the poor together - and pooled their resources.

Everybody had their needs met. They worked together and grew and multiplied, and there was not a poor person among them.

But how is the World System set up? It is set up in a way that everybody grabs for themselves. There is enough in this world for everybody, contrary to all the big hype about population explosion. There is enough in this world for every single soul to be wealthy.

But instead there are those that have grabbed the wealth and held it for themselves. The rest suffer because people will not invest in others. They invest only in themselves and keep it all. The wealth of the world is being held by the selfishness in the heart of man.

God wants us to break out of that and get back to His system of giving out. The key to wealth and prosperity in God’s economy is giving out to others.

Reversing the Curse

Throughout the Old Testament we see all the effects of the fall - the Adamic curse, the thorns, the thistles, the pests, the domination of the World System and Satan. All of these things interfered with God’s prosperity.

God offered the Old Covenant to Abraham and gave him promises to overcome all of these things. He said,

“You are going to rise up. You are going to be the head and not the tail.”

It is all there in Deuteronomy 28 about how God lifted them up. He promised He would take them to a land filled with milk and honey and He would prosper them. He said He would bless the work of their hands and reverse the effects of the curse.

Let’s get back to the illustration of a chemical reaction. When you mix all your chemicals together and end up with just a tiny little bit of your compound, it is because half of it was lost in energy.

The same thing applies where the curse is concerned, because it reduces productivity and efficiency. You need to reverse the effects of the curse.

Believers should be able to do the same amount of work as an unbeliever and receive a higher return. God will increase our quality so that we become more valuable.

A prospective employer should desire to employ you above others because you have the spirit of wisdom dwelling within you.

A Day of Victory for Me

The Lord first showed this to me when I began my career in computer programming. I remember facing a problem that I could not figure out. My boss who was a Christian said to me,

“Les, we need to have this program out by tomorrow. Our business depends on it.”

But I could not find the bug and I cried out,

“Lord, you have to help me.”

The Lord said to me,

“The spirit of wisdom that created the worlds is living in you.”

So I stopped right there and prayed, “Lord Your wisdom is within me. Let it rise up in me now by the power of the Holy Spirit.”

Suddenly I saw what looked like a blueprint in my mind. I saw the whole picture and it fell into place like a jigsaw puzzle. I wrote it down and tried it out. Then I phoned my boss and said,

“I have it. We can go ahead. I can do it. I’ve solved the problem.”

It has happened to me many times since then, but that was the first time I saw how powerful it is. God has given us the ability as His children to rise up and to overcome.

We can overcome the thorns and the thistles and the pests, and everything that interferes with our natural ability to accumulate wealth. We can use all of those natural resources that God has put into man.

We receive deliverance from the curses, and our prosperity is based no longer on works but on faith. The Old Covenant was based on obedience. Now under the New Covenant it is based on faith in the Lord and in Him alone.

We have been promised that whatever we invest in the heavenly realm will generate a hundredfold return. There is no interest rate like that anywhere in this world.

And now we do not have to be confined to investing in this world alone. We can invest in the heavenly realm as we saw in Section 01 on spiritual transmutation.

We are able to transmute and invest into the heavenly realm also and receive a hundredfold return.

Chapter 18 - Getting Returns on Your Investment

It is important to understand where your provision is going to come from. Once you have made your investments, and especially where you have invested spiritually in the heavenly realm, where do you look for your provision?

Firstly it is going to come out of this world, because everything you need is already here. God does not generally create anything more than what has already been created in the earth, although nothing is impossible to Him.

He takes what is already here and forms it into what we want. And since it is going to come from this world, the chances are that it is going to come from people. So although you are looking to the Lord for your financial provision, the answer is likely to come through man.

God’s Order of Blessing

God usually has an order that He follows through. When one believer invests in another believer there is the offer of a hundredfold return.

When we invest in love by giving to a fellow believer, we transmute it into the heavenly realm, and we are promised a hundred times what we invested as a return. God wants every one of us to have that opportunity to receive the best possible return.

Through Family and Relatives

When you trust God for finances, He would prefer your financial provision to come from another believer first. If another believer invests in you, then God can also pour abundant blessing upon him or her. In this way you are both blessed.

So when you start to trust God for finances you cry out,

“Oh Lord we are in desperate need. Father please provide for us.”

Who do you suppose God speaks to first? He speaks to Christians first and He starts with believers who know you. Why? It is because He wants to bless the people you love first.

I remember when I first began to function in this. I had packed up my job and was waiting on the Lord alone for our financial provision.

Most of our provision at the beginning came from some of our closer family and friends who knew our need. They would turn up at our door sometimes with a box of groceries or meat or some other basic essential.

I complained to the Lord one day and said,

“Lord, this is not exactly a miracle of provision. I am trusting you to provide my need, but some of my family and friends are bringing the stuff.

“That is not you providing, Lord. It’s just them feeling sorry for me. Lord why are you letting them provide instead of doing it from elsewhere?”

He said, “Because I want them to be blessed. Don’t you want them to be blessed?”

I said, “Yes, Lord.”

He said, “Well I gave them the first opportunity to be your providers so that I could bless them also. Don’t deny them that privilege. Take it.”

He said, “They are being blessed in giving to you. Let them be blessed and give me a chance to bless them even more.”

Through Friends and Acquaintances

I found however that there were times when even those who were closest to me did not or could not respond, and it seemed there would be no financial provision. That was when the Lord showed me how He works in this.

God always starts with those that are closest to you; preferably fellow believers. If they fail to respond for whatever reason He then moves the circle wider. He moves further afield upon people that are slightly more distant to you.

He will begin to work in people that are perhaps just friends or acquaintances; those who do not know you so well but are still preferably fellow believers.

When you begin to trust God for finances you will be amazed at who will call you on the phone or send you an email. It could be someone that you have not heard from in a long time. They will call you and say something like,

“How are you doing? We had you on our mind and thought we would give you a call.”

What made them think of you? If you could look into the spiritual realm, you would find that it was some of those angels doing their job. They were starting to move further afield in your circle of influence and dropped a few thoughts in the minds of people that know you.

They were probably just minding their own business and suddenly the thought came,

“When is the last time you heard from Les and them? Why don’t you give them a call?”

They likely responded,

“Oh yes I haven’t thought of them in a long time. I wonder how they are doing. Let’s give them a call.”

God is starting to get their attention. If you watch it you will see it. Folks that you do not hear from very often suddenly start to think about you and contact you.

Through the World

The circle continues to widen while your need remains unmet. God begins to move further afield to people you have perhaps just met once.

They could be people that you do not even know too well but have heard of you. They will still likely be Christians though, because God wants to bless the believer first. He gives a believer the first opportunity to provide financially for another believer.

Finally as a last resort, if your need has not been met from the Body of Christ, God begins to move beyond that, and that is when He moves to the world. Now He will work with relatives, friends and acquaintances, business contacts and others that are not believers.

Perhaps you have been trusting God for finances and there has been a slight stirring taking place. Maybe some of the folks close to you have been impressed to help, and that is wonderful.

Perhaps you have found out that some of the folks close to you are not such good friends after all, and that is not so wonderful. But after a while you might notice that even with those that have responded, your needs have not been met.

At that point many will give up their faith and stop trusting God for financial provision, but don’t do it. The angels are still at work.

God is still working. He is now moving further afield, and sometimes you have to wait because of the disobedience of the people that He speaks to.

You say, “Well why couldn’t God just create it?”

He is creating it, but He is doing it through people. Financial prosperity always involves people and people are lazy, disobedient and take their time.

People do not realize the urgency of the situation. They are deaf. They are like dumb sheep sometimes, so do not become impatient with the Lord. Just hang in there. God is working.

It may not look like He has been doing anything, but He has been working behind the scenes and your guardian angel has been hard at work. The angels of God have been moving and setting things up. They have been moving on and speaking to people, and creating circumstances and situations.

The circle continues to grows wider and wider until God has to reach out into the world. It could take some time for things to be set up, because He is dealing with people.

In fact it is even worse in the world, because He is dealing with unbelieving people. But as you hang in there and continue to exercise your faith and trust the Lord; as you continue to exercise those principles of releasing into the earth, God begins to work.

Then suddenly the whole plan begins to come together and you find finances coming from places you would never ever have dreamed of.

You say, “Well why did it take so long?”

Perhaps somebody disobeyed. The important thing is that God will not let you down. He will continue to work.

If you have made this a regular thing in your life; if you have continued to trust God and to invest and apply the principles, God will continually work on your behalf. He will continually approach people on your behalf and move upon them.

The Wealth of the Egyptians

The Scripture says that when the Children of Israel left Egypt, God told them to borrow from the Egyptians. Egypt in the Scriptures is a picture of the world.

When they left, they left with the wealth of Egypt. That is what they used to build the Tabernacle with. God plundered the Egyptians.

Although God will use the Body of Christ initially to give to you, there is a host of wealth out there being held by the World System.

The wealth of the Egyptians of this world needs to be made available by the Body of Christ. That is why the Scripture speaks about, ‘the wealth of the unjust being handed over to the just.’

Psalm 45:12 says:

And the daughter of Tyre [will be there] with a gift; the rich among the people will entreat your favor.

Who is the daughter of Tyre? Tyre and Sidon were merchant cities. They were the center of commerce and industry.

What is the Lord saying? He is saying He will give you favor in business. People will be clamoring for your trade and for your business. Even as you enter into the business realm, God is going to bless the work of your hands.

You will have to invest in business before you can do it. But as you invest, He will prosper your investment and increase it, and cause you to prosper.

The World System will try to squeeze you and to rob you, but 1 John 5:4 says:

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, [even] our faith.

The God of this world does not want you to prosper as a believer, because he knows that you will use it for the Body of Christ. He knows you will use it for the extension of the Kingdom of God. But Jesus conquered him on Calvary and took away his power. He said in John 16:33:

These things I have spoken to you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

As unbelievers we were dominated by the World System. We were dominated by Satan, the Prince of the Power of the Air, by sin. We were in bondage.

As children of the King we have been released. We have been brought up and exalted to be seated in heavenly places with the Lord; to triumph and have victory over the world.

Taking God’s Blessing With You

When you as a believer go into the world to work, you should therefore be getting more. You should be getting a higher salary.

You should not be groveling to a worldly employer and seeing him as your source of financial provision. He should realize that he has been given the privilege of providing your needs, and you should lay it on him in the Spirit.

Imagine telling your employer,

“Hey, do you know how blessed you are to have me working for you?”

I remember the last job I was in before I left to go into my own business. I had come out of a time of ministry training and God had told me to go back into secular employment.

He led me to take up employment with a very small company. And the month I joined that company, the Lord said to me,

“Because of you I’m going to bless this business this very month. From the moment you join this business, it is going to be blessed like it has never been blessed before.”

It turned out exactly as He had said. I was not really sure that it was a blessing though, because there was so much work to do the month that I started there, that I could not cope with it. My boss said to me,

“This is the busiest January we have ever had. I don’t understand what has happened.”

Well I knew what happened. The business kept pouring in from everywhere. He had more sales that month than he had ever had in the entire time he had been running the business, and he could not understand why. But I knew why.

You are an asset to any business. You bring the blessing of God, and your employer should be seeing that. He should be seeing that since you have been there his business has been blessed.

You should be blessing him too, not coming in every morning and saying,

“That miserable so and so, I wish he’d go bust.”

You should be carrying the blessing of God. Whatever your hand touches should prosper. If you work for a worldly boss, then his business should take off because of you. Whatever you touch must prosper.

Wherever you work that business must improve. It must become a partaker of your blessing. That is the way God intended it to be. Whatever we do must be blessed.

Increasing Your Investment

When you invest money the return should increase. If you pour finance into an investment, then that investment should increase. If you buy a motor car it should last longer.

Perhaps you are thinking,

“Now you’re getting paranoid. You are getting foolish.”

Am I? The Children of Israel walked through the desert for 40 years, and their shoes and clothing did not wear out. That was part of the Old Covenant.

The Scripture says we are under the New Covenant which is a greater Covenant. The blessing of God should be upon His people.

You should be walking in blessing. You should be overcoming the world, instead of getting squeezed into a corner, into poverty and despair and depression.

But instead we often have the experience of not having enough food to put on the table. We are not able to clothe our families, and we are seeing the wealthy unbelievers out there prospering. We complain,

“Lord it’s not fair. Everybody else is being blessed. Lord I’ve served you faithfully and I have not been blessed.”

Perhaps you have been sold a lie and believed it. Perhaps you have believed that as a Christian you have to suffer.

You are not supposed to think about things. You are not supposed to fight for your rights or expect a high salary. You are not supposed to go to your boss and say,

“I’m worth more to you than what you’re paying me.”

It is foolish to take what the Devil dishes out to you, instead of standing up as a child of the living God and saying,

“Hold it. This world was made for me, not for you guys. You are usurping my ground. Now get off it. That is my land there, not yours. God gave it to me, and I’m just giving you the privilege of using it.”

Isn’t that the way we should be as believers? It is time we rise up in authority instead of groveling to this World System. Jesus said:

This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.

The Pharaoh of this world has to be conquered. We have to lay it on him, and he is going to fight just like he fought in the days of the Children of Israel.

He is going to fight you tooth and nail. He is going to make you promises and pretend to let you go, and then he is going to crunch you again. You will be tempted like the Children of Israel to say,

“Oh well maybe we should just not rock the boat. Let’s just stay in our captivity and slavery.”

You should instead be rising up against him and refusing to take no for an answer.

You must be firm and declare,

“I will not accept this. This is not what the Lord has for me. God has greater things for me. There is a Promised Land of blessing out there for me, and I will settle for nothing less. I plan to go and take it.”

Which one are you going to be? Are you going to be one of those people who say?

“Well I work really hard. I can’t understand why God’s not blessing me.”

There are a lot of people who work hard. It is time you start believing hard. It is time you stand up for what you are as a child of the Lord.

It is time you realize that although your employer is your boss and you respect him as your boss, he is not your source of supply.

Your source of supply is the Lord Himself, and He alone is your source. He alone is the one who provides your every need; who grants your every desire.

Whoever He chooses to use to get it to you is irrelevant. But if you keep looking in the wrong place then you will keep getting discouraged. You should keep looking to the Lord.

Taking the Land

You should be saying,

“Father my provision is coming. I believe it. In the name of Jesus I thank you, Father. My God has provided my needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. It is mine.

“As Joshua went and he put his foot on the ground he said, ‘Every place you put your foot, I have given it to you.’ This land is my land. I’m putting my foot on it now.”

Just keep putting your foot on it.

You say, “But there’s somebody standing on the ground.”

Then kick him off. How do you think the Children of Israel took the Canaan land? Did they do it by standing there across the River Jordan and shouting?

“Hello, we’re here.”

It was a fight. It wasn’t handed to them on a platter. They had to go and kill them, rout them, chase them, burn them and drive them out. They put their foot on the land and put the flag up and said,

“This is mine. This is what God has given to me. Now I’m taking it.”

You will have to take the land otherwise it is not going to become yours. Let’s rise up, Body of Christ. Let’s take what God has given us. Let’s go and conquer this land and this world for the Lord.

Let’s conquer the wealth and the riches of this world for the Kingdom of God. Then instead of all that money being used to promote the Devil and his kingdom, we can start using it to promote the Kingdom of God in the earth.

Let’s get souls saved. Let’s get people healed, delivered and set free, and trained for the work of God. It is time the Body of Christ rose up and claimed their inheritance and stopped wallowing in poverty.

Let’s start standing firm in the prosperity that the Lord has earned for us.

The Scripture says concerning Jesus, that although he was rich, He became poor for our sakes in order that we could become rich. He gave up His throne to become an ordinary peasant, so that we peasants could become kings.

Now let’s start reigning. That is what He wants us to do.

Section 06 – Spiritual Birthing

Chapter 19 – Childbirth is Part of Life

Mark 4:20 says:

And these are those which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive [it], and bring forth fruit, some thirty times, some sixty, and some a hundred.

In this section I want to look at the subject of spiritual birthing.

Childbirth is part of our everyday life. It happens all the time even though we are not always aware of it. Every time you breathe in and out, the chances are that another child came into the world, or maybe several did.

Childbirth is taking place all the time. Of course sometimes what is born is not what we had hoped for, but the birth takes place nevertheless. We cannot help it. It comes naturally.

I was there for the birth of two of my children, and I learned a little bit about the birth process from having seen some of the things that take place. I want to therefore use the birth process as an illustration of the spiritual principle of birthing.

It involves giving birth to something that starts within your spirit and allowing it to grow until it manifests in the earth.

We have been speaking about creating using the forces of the recreated spirit, by releasing them forth into the earth. Childbirth is such a creation. It is the creation of a new life and there are several processes involved.

It is often quite a long process (9 months for humans) until the full birth takes place. I want to show you here how closely it actually matches the exact principles that we have been looking at.

I will be describing some of the things that happen in birth and use them as spiritual illustrations. Granted, as a man I may not have experienced some of these things personally. However I believe that my observation and knowledge of these things have helped me to understand them better.

So I will be using actual experiences and processes to explain what takes place when we start to reach out to God to receive the blessings that He has for us.

A Decision is Needed

There are various stages involved in childbirth. Before it can even begin there needs to be firstly a decision that leads to the starting of the process. A lot of the time - hopefully most of the time - the mother and father decide that they want a child.

You need to make a decision. Before the process is started there comes a decision that says,

“I plan to bring another child into this world.”

We are the ones who choose to cause a birth to take place. Often a conception and birth takes place that was unplanned and sometimes unwanted. In the world we live in this often happens with the wrong person, and what is born is not what you wanted to be born.

I am not going to be talking about sex and illegitimate childbirth here, but I am sure that you get the picture.

Childbirth can take place either by a choice or by an accident. It still takes place nevertheless, because the same process is involved. So whether you do it right or wrong it still happens.

When you compare this with the realm of the spirit, it becomes obvious that we are birthing all the time. Conception and childbirth take place naturally in the world that we are in.

In the animal kingdom healthy sheep give birth to new lambs. You do not have to teach them how. It happens automatically. In all of God’s creation, conception and birth are taking place all of the time.

So it is in the spiritual life as well. The things that we conceive and give birth to, very often are not blessings. Often you failed to give birth to a blessing because you did not make a conscious decision to give birth to a blessing.

You went through the same process though, and as a result you ended up giving birth to something that you did not want. You need to understand the mechanics and the process of it. Then you will know how to cause the birth to take place that you really do want.

Conception in Love

So we start right at the beginning. Before birth can take place there has to be conception. A sperm and an egg have to come together. For that to take place there will have to be some kind of intercourse between a man and a woman.

There will have to be a very intimate relationship; a very close union in the physical before conception can take place. Usually if we do it the right way, it starts with love.

Love is what originates the giving of birth. Love is what originates conception. When two people come together in love then conception often takes place.

It is exactly the same in the spiritual realm. Whatever we give birth to in the Spirit needs to be motivated firstly by love.

We looked briefly at the force of love in the first book, and I want to wrap it now into this picture, so that you can see the role that it plays. We will look at it in more detail in the next and final section.

Everything begins with love. Love causes the close union that results in conception taking place, as two important media are joined together. The sperm comes from one and the egg comes from another, and they unite together to cause a life to form.

In the spiritual realm there are also two media that need to come together before a spiritual conception can take place. These are the Spirit and the Word. The two must come together before something can be born.

When this takes place then conception occurs. How does it happen? It happens when the Word of God enters your heart.

The Word enters your heart when there is an intercourse in the Spirit. A close union occurs and the Word and the Spirit combine together. Fertilization takes place, and life begins as faith is conceived in the heart of man. It always begins with love.

As in love we come into His presence and place His Word into our hearts, a fertilization and conception take place. Deep within our heart the Spirit and the Word combine together and faith is conceived.

The Scripture says:

Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

When the conception takes place then the third force of hope also comes into play. This force holds things in place as we follow through the rest of the stages that are needed before the birth can take place.

Starting It With the Word

How does it start? It should start with a conscious decision to receive the blessing that you will enter into. Remember we have seen that God has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ.

The blessing is yours. But in order for you to give birth to that blessing you need to put the Word of God into your spirit.

If you desire to give birth to the blessing of physical healing, then you need to get into the Word and find Scriptures on physical healing.

If you want to have the blessing of prosperity and financial provision, then you had better get into the Word and find some Scriptures on prosperity.

Whatever blessing you desire, whether it is wisdom and understanding, deliverance or anything else, you will have to find it in the Word.

Once you have done this, then you will need to move into a place of intimacy with the Lord in His Word. You need to place that Word into your spirit as close as they can possibly get together, in order for true spiritual intercourse to take place.

You can do this by the process of meditation. Meditation involves thinking it, speaking it, eating it, touching it, tasting it, smelling it and hearing it as you apply all your senses to it.

You fill your heart and your mind with the Word until you are saturated with it. The Word must penetrate and permeate your inner being.

This is how conception takes place, and it is your starting point if you are to receive anything from the Lord. If you are to enter into any one of the blessings that God has for you, then you will need to take the Word and cause it to come to life.

Until that Word comes to life and the Spirit of God that is in your spirit combines with that Word, there will be no conception and life will not begin. Not until faith comes forth can there be a birth. Not until the rhema word comes forth can there be a birth.

You can take Scriptures and quote them to your heart’s content. You can claim the promises and demand that they are yours, but nothing will happen. God must take the logos Word and speak it afresh in His lips to you alone as a rhema word by the Holy Spirit.

Until that happens no faith is born and no conception takes place. Until conception takes place no growth begins, and there is no hope of a birth ever occurring. You have to begin at the correct starting point.

You can stand there and hope that you have a baby as much as you like. You can read books about having babies. You can daydream about having them. But until conception takes place you are not going to be pregnant. You have to start it the right way.

Chapter 20 - Having a Healthy Pregnancy

Once conception has taken place, the fetus is formed as cells begin to multiply in the sperm and the egg. The fetus then attaches itself to the place that it is going to spend the rest of the gestation period.

It is going to attach itself to the womb. The womb is a place of safety and protection. The fetus has to stay in the womb for the entire duration of the gestation period. If it leaves there then life cannot continue and birth will never take place.

What is the womb? It is the heart of man. The womb is the soul. It is the inner man. And so as the Word has gone into your heart; as the Spirit and the Word have combined together and life has formed, there comes a time of incubation.

The Condition of the Womb

John 1:2 says:

Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.

Both health and prosperity are thus dependent upon how well your soul is prospering. If your soul is not in the right condition then those things will not come forth. If the womb is not healthy then the fetus will not develop into a child and be born.

The womb has to be in the right condition. It has to be healthy. Your soul will have to create a healthy environment for what has been conceived in your spirit to come forth.

We saw this when we looked at building spiritual templates in the first book. You must cause your mind and emotions and will to become filled with the right pictures. The right feelings and actions are necessary to create an environment for the power of God to go forth.

The fetus must be nourished continually while it is in the womb. Peter tells us in 1 Peter 2:2:

As newborn babies, desire the sincere milk of the word, that you may grow by it:

It starts with the Word and it continues with the Word. Because faith has been conceived and in your heart you know that God has given you what you have desired of Him, this does not mean that the process now stops. You must continue to feed what was conceived in you.

A Waiting Period

You have come to the Lord in prayer and said,

“Father, this is my need and my desire. This is what I ask of you.”

As you took the Word and fed it into your heart and meditated on it, the Spirit of God quickened that Word and said to you,

“I have given you what you have asked of me. It is yours now.”

Conception has taken place but you are expecting it to come tomorrow. Unfortunately it usually takes a little longer than that. There is a process that needs to be followed through before that thing is going to manifest in the earth.

This is where so many people miss it. They have prayed and asked God for something and it did not come right away. They therefore assume that God must have said,

“No.”

Can you imagine trying to plan a baby that way? You get up the next morning and the baby has not been born yet and you think,

“What happened? Did we do it wrong?”

None of us are that foolish are we? But yet we expect things to happen that way in the spiritual. We expect creation to always take place instantly, but there is a process that has to be followed through. You must continue to exercise that power of faith and hope and love.

In order to release the force of the Spirit and the power of God into the earth to bring about a creation, there has to be a waiting period. There is going to be a time period during which what has been conceived in you will have to be fed and allowed to grow.

As you look at it from the outside it might not look like anything is happening. There is no sign of it. You might be tempted to pray,

“Lord you promised me that you would give me the desire of my heart. Father I asked you to touch my body and to heal me, but the lump is still there. It still hurts. I still have all the symptoms. Lord where is your healing?

“Lord you promised me that new thing that I asked for. Where is it? When is it coming? Lord did I hear you right?”

There is a waiting period. You cannot see it, but by faith you know that it is there, because you know that a conception took place. So you continue feeding it with the Word. You continue walking up and down saying,

“By His stripes I have been healed. Father, I thank you for my healing.”

“In the name of Jesus I have what I have asked of God. In Jesus’ name I am what I asked of God. It is mine. Hallelujah. I know I can’t see it, but it is here in me. It is growing, hallelujah.”

Stand on the Word. Continue to stand on the promise of the Word that you stood on in the first place. God quickened that Word to you and caused the faith to arise in your heart, now hold onto it and do not let it go.

Signs of Growth

After a while something starts to happen. In that natural the signs start to show that a woman is pregnant. The clothes start to become too tight and there comes a bulging in places.

There are signs that something is going on in there. It is getting bigger and bigger. It is becoming more obvious.

When you walk down the street people can see it. It is starting to show. You must continue to hold on until God starts to give you confirmation. He will give you plenty of signs to indicate that this thing in you is beginning to grow.

In pregnancy the signs can be quite prominent and you see movement taking place in the womb. The baby begins to kick and move about in the womb and limbs sometimes protrude as the baby changes position.

You cannot see the baby yet. You do not know yet what color the eyes or hair will be. You do not know yet whether it is going to be male or female.

You cannot see it with the naked eye, but the signs are there that there is life inside. It is growing and active and one day soon you know that it will be here.

That is how it must be with your faith. As you continue to hold on and feed it and stand on the Word, things will start to happen.

Signs will start to show. Circumstances will start to change. Your hope will grow stronger and stronger and your vision will grow clearer and clearer.

Perhaps your healing will take place slowly. Perhaps the signs that God is at work will be gradual.

It may be that your provision becomes a greater possibility as you see circumstances beginning to change in your life. Whereas before you did not know how God was going to provide this thing, now you begin to see how things have started to happen that could lead to it coming into your hands.

Exercising Caution

As the mother carries a child she is feeding it continuously, but she needs to be careful. She is not free to do what she used to do before or free to go where she used to go before. She cannot eat and drink what she used to before.

She has to avoid certain things because they could be dangerous to the baby. She has to avoid certain medications because they could harm the baby.

She has to stay away from certain foods and substances that she takes into her body and be aware of the environment that she is exposed to, because it could affect the baby.

As you are reaching out to the Lord and waiting on Him to cause this thing to take place in your life, it is also important that you pay very special attention to your life and to the way you walk.

Bitterness and Fear Bring Death

You cannot afford bitterness to come into your heart. It is poison and will destroy the baby. Do not allow it to enter your heart or to remain there because it will destroy the life that God has placed within you.

Fear is also a destructive poison. It is one of the most deadly substances where your faith, hope and love are concerned. It is so easy to let these things come in even in small doses, and it does not take a large amount of them to affect your spiritual life.

It only takes a little bit of fear to begin to neutralize your faith. It only takes a little bit of bitterness to neutralize your love, and discouragement soon steals your hope.

When your faith, hope and love come under attack then the child in the womb becomes paralyzed. It is affected immediately and death begins to set in. It no longer has a healthy environment in which to grow. It is being fed the wrong things.

When the woman is carrying she needs to take extra vitamins. She needs to take a lot of extra substances that she does not normally have to, for the sake of the baby, in order that it may grow healthy and quickly.

Your Life Changes

If you are trusting God for blessing in your life then you cannot afford to walk as an ordinary believer. You cannot afford to dabble in the world and remain just mediocre.

You will have to pay attention to your spiritual life. You will have to concentrate on what is important to you now, which is the thing that has been conceived in your heart.

What you have conceived is going to determine where you go, what you do, and what you say. It is going to determine everything in your life. It is going to change you.

Ask any woman who has been through a pregnancy. Those nine months are like no other period of your life. You are restricted. You are in a different lifestyle, and you have to continuously say,

“Hold it. That would be bad for the baby. I’d better be careful.”

You have to watch every step and take care. And so it must be in your spiritual life as well.

The mother must also avoid strenuous physical activity. She needs to rest. By the same token she needs to build up her strength by exercising. All of these things that are normally an effort become necessary because you want a healthy birth to take place.

You will have to spend a lot more time in the Word. You will have to feed a lot more vitamins in there. You will have to spend a lot of time in the presence of the Lord soaking in His presence, filling up with His power and letting it pour in.

You must feed what has been conceived in your heart, so that it may grow healthy and strong.

Premature Birth

This goes on for the whole gestation period, and a specific amount of time is needed for each thing to take place. If you try to give birth before the time all could be lost.

The child could miscarry. The life that has gone only a certain distance could be snatched away. It will be gone and cannot be recovered.

No woman is foolish enough to say,

“I’ve had enough of this pregnancy. Three months is long enough. Can I go and give birth now, doctor?”

You cannot do it. You will lose it. But Christians often seem to think that because they have looked to the Lord in faith and trusted Him for something, they do not need to wait. It must come tomorrow. It must come next week.

You might be thinking,

“Hey next month is about as long as I can hold out.”

Under no circumstances should you try to speak forth and create in the earth before the time is ready. Remember we spoke about building up your spiritual laser and how Joshua said to the Israelites,

“Do not open your mouth until I say shout.”

We saw that if you release the laser beam too quickly it does not have time to charge up. There has to be a waiting period. There has to be a time for it to build up. When the time is right, then and only then can a birth take place.

Consistency Is Needed

Do not try to exercise faith when you do not have any. You will abort that fetus before it has barely even attached itself to the womb.

Do not be impatient if the answer is taking a while to arrive. It depends on you how long it is going to take. Dogs only take about ten weeks. Humans take about nine months. Elephants take even longer - something like two years.

It depends on what you have conceived and what you wish to give birth to. If you trust the Lord for a new pen you are probably going to receive it fairly quickly.

If you want a new car it is going to take a bit longer. If you want a new house then you could have quite a long gestation period.

It all depends on how long it takes you to build your faith, hope and love up to that point. It depends on how long it takes you to transmute out of the heavenly realm what God has given you.

There is always a time period that is involved. You must continue consistently throughout that incubation period without giving up, maintaining the pressure and feeding.

Miscarriage

Unless you continue through to the end a birth will never take place, but a miscarriage will occur.

For some people it becomes a case of abortion where they give up and say,

“I just don’t feel like going on with this anymore.”

You try to tell them,

“You must trust the Lord and exercise faith.”

But they say,

“I tried that, but it didn’t work.”

Can you imagine coming to a woman and saying,

“Why don’t you have a baby?”

She says, “Well I tried that and it didn’t work, so I gave it up after a month. I decided to abort it. It took too long.”

It is foolish in the natural, but we do it in the spiritual. We are not prepared to wait. We want everything to happen now.

We are not prepared to make the effort and put into it what needs to be put into it; to feed that Word of God into our hearts till it rises to the level where it is mature enough and old enough to come forth and give birth.

Giving Birth Prematurely

Premature births can sometimes survive. There is a possibility for survival, but no premature child is born in the same healthy condition as a full term child.

If a child is born prematurely it has to be put under special treatment. It has to be given oxygen and may need a life support system to keep it alive, until it has reached a stage of physical maturity that will enable it to survive on its own.

Sometimes you can get away with it. Sometimes you can exercise your faith before time and still obtain a birth. But you will only get a small little baby.

You say, “But I asked the Lord for 1 000 dollars and all He gave me was 300.”

Well if you want to give birth at six months what do you expect? You did not follow through. You must determine in your heart and say,

“This is what I have asked God for. This is what the Lord said He gave me, and I will not settle for anything less. I’m going to follow through until I get what I asked for, and what He promised me and gave to me.

“This is the stand I am taking. And no matter what it costs me, I am following it through to the end.”

Chapter 21 - Preparing for the Birth

What do you do when the baby is on the way; when all the signs are there? You begin to prepare for the birth. You start asking questions like,

“Which hospital are we going to go to for the birth? Are we going to have a home birth? Who is the gynecologist going to be? Where are we going to have the nursery?

“How are we going to decorate it? What color are we going to paint it?”

You start buying things and preparing the room. You start preparing the family. You begin to prepare the environment that the baby is going to be in when it’s born. If you have asked the Lord for a new car, have you organized the garage to lock it up in when it arrives?

If you believe and know that this thing has been conceived in you, then you begin to prepare in every possible way for the day that it will manifest in the earth. You start to choose a name for the baby long before it is born.

You start including the baby in your plans and you say things like,

“When we go on vacation next year, we will have to put John in the back in his carry cot.”

You start including the child in your plans, because you know that the child is going to be a part of everything that takes place in your life.

Or does your conversation go instead like this?

“Well if the baby gets born then we’ll think about it. I have great doubts, but if it does get born, then we’ll have to start doing this and that. If it gets born then maybe we should think about a name.”

If you think this way then you have not built your hope correctly. You do not have that clear-cut vision from the Lord. You are not ready to give birth.

When you create an environment for when the child comes forth, it will fit naturally into that environment. Begin to prepare your heart to receive and expect what God has promised you. Expect His Word to be fulfilled.

You say, “But what happens if it miscarries along the way?”

That will depend on you. If you keep the womb healthy there is no reason for it to ever miscarry.

You say, “Well it happens to some people.”

It doesn’t have to happen to you. It is up to you to keep your soul healthy; to feed your heart and your soul on the Word of God. It is up to you to water it and spend time in the presence of God and build yourself up spiritually.

Recognizing New Responsibilities

As you begin to include the baby in your plans, you will come to realize that the new baby is also going to bring responsibilities. You will have a responsibility when this child comes.

There will be changes taking place in your life. You will have to start getting ready an hour earlier before you leave. I remember that only too well with the birth of my children.

You will hear folks saying,

“I can’t understand why since the baby was born, we’re always an hour late for everything. We always used to be on time before.”

Have you been there? When the blessing of God comes into your life it is going to change you. It is going to change your life and your lifestyle. Things are going to be different.

Begin to prepare your heart for it now. Begin to see it, visualize it, live in it and talk about it. Begin to plan for it because change is coming. Expect it because it is going to happen.

This continues throughout the period of incubation as the baby is forming in the womb. As these things take place, wonderful pictures form. You are filled with joy as you think,

“It’s going to be so wonderful to hold the baby in my arms. It’s going to be wonderful to have a little child.”

But unfortunately there is one more stage to childbirth which is the most important one.

The Travail of Birth

This is a stage that every woman wishes she could avoid, but it is the essential part of birth. It is the labor, the pain, the suffering part. The conception was probably fun. It was enjoyable.

Carrying the baby can be fun. The woman goes through a time of blossoming in pregnancy where she feels good and looks good.

You are all excited about the baby but the closer you get to the end the worse it becomes. You grow more and more weary and the baby grows very heavy. You cannot wait for this thing to come out now.

You sit and you wait and wait. You know that any day now it is going to start and the contractions will begin. But that last stage seems to take longer than the whole of the incubation period. It seems like it will never arrive.

It is just like that spiritually. As you have exercised your faith you have trusted God. You have known that He is going to bring it.

But sometimes you begin to become discouraged and wonder if it is even going to arrive. You wonder if this thing is ever going to manifest, or whether you imagined the whole thing. You cry out,

“Oh Father, when are you going to answer our prayers? Lord, when are we going to see the thing that we’ve trusted you for? When are we going to see the manifestation in the earth of what you gave us in the spiritual realm?”

The Contractions Begin

Labor begins on time. It may look like it will never arrive, but it comes right on time, usually when you least expect it. It happens when you finally reach the point when you say,

“Oh well, I just give up. I don’t think this is ever going to come.”

Then suddenly you say,

“Uh oh, what was that? Something happened there. Was that my imagination? Nope, there it goes again.”

Contractions have begun. Fun time has arrived. Now begins the pain. Now begins the suffering and the most difficult part of the birth.

Do not think that your blessing is suddenly going to arrive out of the blue. You will not open your front door and see the package lying there on the ground. It is not going to happen. There is going to be pain and suffering first.

It Comes With Pressure

If you have been trusting God for physical healing, you will likely grow worse. The pain is going to increase. You will be tested on every single count.

If you have been trusting God for financial prosperity then everything will likely go wrong. You will end up in debt. There will be commitments you did not expect. There will not be enough money to go around.

Things are likely to grow infinitely worse. Each contraction, as it comes, will be worse than the one before. And then they start coming stronger and faster.

What is happening? Dilation is beginning to take place, because the baby cannot come out until the birth canal is ready. A woman goes through a very difficult stage now and it is the part of childbirth in which she works the hardest. In the end she is likely to be totally exhausted.

Get ready for it. You have waited so long for the manifestation of what you have trusted God for.

You have trusted Him and built up your faith. You have stood firm and waited on the Lord and meditated on the Word. You have spoken about it, planned for it and done everything necessary.

Now comes the crunch. Now comes the time when it is all going to happen. But it is going to happen with pressure.

If you are trusting for financial prosperity then it has to come through the god of this world, and he is going to put pressure on you to try and stop it. You will have to start working very hard and fighting very hard.

You will have to start pushing very hard and confessing the Word harder than you ever have before. You will be praying more and standing on the Word more than you have ever done before.

You will be in a fight; a battle to prepare the ground for that thing to be manifested and to come into the earth. Get ready for it because it is going to happen. You will have to fight that fight.

It is going to pull every resource you have until you reach a point of exhaustion, where you do not know whether you can go on. But then suddenly you will reach the point of transition.

The Transition Stage

I have never been there, so I can only tell you what I have been told, but I understand that transition is the end of labor. It is the end of dilation. It is a point at which everything suddenly stops.

It is a moment when everything stands poised and ready to go but there is no movement or anything. Nothing is happening, and at that point a woman is told not to push. She is told,

“Wait. Now is not the time yet.”

The inclination is to think,

“Let’s go for it. Let’s push and give birth.”

Because you have been fighting so hard, trusting God and standing on His Word, confessing and speaking it forth into the earth, you think that now is the time to fight. No it is not. Now is the time to wait.

Now is the only time in the entire birth process where you must wait. You must let go and do absolutely nothing. It is that period in which you are waiting for the final manifestation to come forth.

The Birth Experience

Finally after the transition, comes what I understand is the most pleasant part of the birth, when the baby is pushed out. It is finally over. It is ready.

You have been through the whole process. You have been through the suffering of labor. You have been through the dilation and transition. And now suddenly here it comes.

Now is the time to push and to shove and to just bring that baby into the earth. Now is the time to birth into the earth what you have believed for and have been expecting and waiting for, for so long.

The actual process is quick, and unless there are complications in the birth it simply slides through and out comes the head. You cannot stop it now. There is nothing in the world that can stop it now.

It is ready to go. You do not even need to make any effort. Just wait and it will happen. It will just pour forth and a beautiful baby will come into the world.

The head will usually appear first, and once the head has appeared it is simply a matter of pulling the rest of the baby out. You will finally have in the earth the thing you have been waiting for.

Cutting the Cord

But of course it is not quite over yet is it? You still need to cut the umbilical cord. The child has arrived and is separated from the mother and the womb is not needed anymore. You have to cut the cord and then wait for the afterbirth to come out. Only then is the birth process complete.

The cutting of the cord and removal of the afterbirth are very significant parts of the process where a spiritual birthing is concerned. They can be likened very much to what I said before concerning the raising of Lazarus.

As Lazarus came to life and stood at the mouth of the tomb, he was still all bound up in grave clothes.

Jesus said, “Now go and loose him.”

If they had not loosed him he would have died again. There must be an additional process of loosing into the earth what you have birthed once it manifests.

This can be the most critical period of the baby’s life. At that point the baby can die if you do not take care of it properly.

At that very point the life that you have anticipated for the entire nine months can be snuffed away. If you cut that cord wrong it will bleed to death. It has to be done right.

I have seen people exercising their faith and trusting God. You may have trusted God for financial provision and somebody phones you up and says,

“I have been led of the Lord to give you such and such an amount.”

You say, “Praise God, that’s what I have been believing for. Hallelujah. Thank You Lord, I have my money.”

You get so excited that you start making your plans. But you wait and the money does not come. You wait and begin to wonder if the person has not changed their mind.

Maybe they hit a snag. Maybe there was a problem in the bank. Maybe they made a mistake and they had less money than they thought.

Be careful, because right at that very point you could lose it. Satan is not going to let you go. He is not going to give it up lightly. He is going to fight you every step of the way.

Don’t ever let go of your faith and your commitment. Don’t ever let go once you see the manifestation. Follow it through and release into the earth what God has provided.

You need to make sure that it is fully in your hands, has been fully birthed and is available to you, because the enemy will challenge you.

When your healing manifests Satan will question it. He will bring symptoms back again to make you think that you were never healed. You have to release it. You have to make sure that it is not taken away from you.

And so finally the child is born. The process is over. You can start to rest and you can enjoy what you have waited for. It has been such a long wait and you have made such an effort for it. Now you can enjoy the results of your faith, hope and love.

Summary of Spiritual Birthing

That is how God wants us to walk in blessing. He wants us to give birth to the things that He has given us - every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.

You will have to go through that whole process. You will have to make a decision of what it is that you want from God.

You will have to get into the Word and cause faith to be born in your heart, for you to know that you know that God has given you what you have asked for.

Once you know that He has given it to you in the heavenly realm it simply needs to be transmuted down.

You know that you need to oppose the evil one; that you must build a spiritual template for the power to come forth. All of these things are involved in this process of incubation and preparing for birth.

You must expect the warfare that will take place at the end as you come into conflict with the powers of darkness.

They will question you and fight you all the way until that birth manifests in the earth; until finally you receive in your hands the thing that you have believed the Lord for.

Starting Small

As I said earlier, it is going to take a different incubation period according to what you ask for. If you are not prepared to make the effort to go through a five year incubation period then do not ask for an elephant.

Start with something small. Start to exercise your faith and trust God for things that you are able to believe for. Start by asking ‘faith sized’ requests.

As you do this you will become more encouraged and you will begin to say,

“Hey that has never happened to me before. I used to pray and sit and hope and wait. I would have an answer to prayer only occasionally, probably purely by coincidence. But now at last I am finding that I can purposefully use my faith, hope and love.

“After I use them I see results. I can actually see God providing the very thing that I set my heart to receive. Hey it works.”

If you have been able to go through a one week incubation period then you should be able to build up to going through a longer one - and a longer one - until you are able to persevere and believe for bigger things.

The Example of George Mueller

I remember reading about George Mueller, a great man of faith from way back that built orphanages and supported thousands of orphans purely by faith. He prayed in every cent that went through his hands.

At first he started out praying for God to give him enough finance to help just one or two little orphans. Eventually this grew into a larger number of orphans. It grew into having a house for orphans and then several houses, and finally an entire complex.

Eventually millions went through his hands. He reached a stage where his faith was so strong that he could believe God daily for finance to support all the orphanages that he had set up.

George Mueller did not start out that way. He did not have that kind of faith and trust in God when he first started it.

He only had enough faith for one or two little orphans. Yet as he trusted for those one or two little orphans, his faith was increased to trust for 10, then 20, then 100 and 1 000.

Do not go asking God for a million dollars if you cannot believe for ten. Start where you are at. Start giving birth to what you are capable of.

As you begin to build and grow in exercising your faith, you will find that you will receive the ability and resources in knowledge of the Word and spiritual power to create greater things in the Lord. You can begin to trust God for greater things to take place in your life.

Do not forget that each birth experience is going to involve a time of travail. This will get worse the longer your incubation period is. The labor is going to be more intense for the bigger things that you trust God for.

But as you grow from strength to strength; as you grow in Him and in faith, hope and love, you will be able to trust God for bigger things.

You will rise up and start to move into all that the Lord has for you in a way that you never have before.

Spiritual birthing is as simple a process as natural birthing, but yet it is also as complicated as natural birthing. If you cannot remember all the principles that we have been sharing, then try thinking about all the procedures that are involved in a natural birth. Write them down and tick them off. Ask yourself,

“Have I done that one, that one and that one? Have I been doing this thing the right way?

“What’s happening to me here? Why do I have this pain and why is everything going wrong? I thought God was going to provide.

“Uh oh, could these be the contractions? Could these be the labor pains? Wow, then I’m going to get excited. The baby is on its way.

“Glory, labor has started. I don’t care if I have to suffer because the baby is on its way. The time of waiting is over.”

Then instead of giving up in despair you will begin to attack. You will follow through and see it all come into place for you. Then you will see the blessings of God begin to manifest themselves in your life.

Section 07 - The Force of Love

Chapter 22 - The Necessity for Love

Matthew 22:35 to 40 says:

“Then one of them, [who was] a lawyer, asked [him a question], testing him, and saying, Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law?

Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment.

And the second [is] similar to it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”

John 13:34 to 35 says:

“A new commandment I give to you, That you love one another; as I have loved you, so you also love one another.

By this shall all [men] know that you are my disciples, if you have [agape] love one for another.”

In this section I want to speak about the force of love.

Love is the most essential ingredient in the world. Songs have been written about it. People talk about it. Everybody desires it and we all need it.

It is the most essential ingredient, yet it is the one thing that is probably lacking the most in the world. We sing a song that says:

It’s love that makes the world go round.

The trouble is the love is not there to make the world go round. That is why people are always singing about love and aspiring to love, and weeping when there hasn’t been any. They have been hurting because love is missing from their life.

But what is love? Do we really understand what it is? We know how desperately we need it and we know when it is there. But when we come down to the final analysis, different people have different ideas about what love is.

Perhaps that is why there is so much confusion and why there is so little true love in the world. So in this section I want to have a look at this subject in quite a lot of detail under various different headings.

Existed From the Beginning

I am going to start with the necessity for love. Love is absolutely essential and necessary for all existence. I want to go back to the beginning of creation and see where love first surfaced. We will see where it first appeared, what God first created and how He put love into motion.

If you look at the original creation you will discover something very interesting about love. You will find that love needs to be reciprocated. In other words it needs to be shown and given back again.

Love is not always a one-way thing. It is meant to be a two-way thing. There is meant to be a giving out and a receiving back. Love is a communication or an interaction.

Different Kinds of Love

As we look at the way God made the creation we see that He made various levels of creation. He started with plant life, then the animal kingdom and finally up to His final creation of man.

We see that as God created physical beings, He created a love that relates to the physical. God created in some of His creatures another life force called the soul, and we see that He created a form of love that relates to the soul.

Then God came to His final and highest creation – man. Man was made in His own image, having a spirit which the animals don’t have, and God also created a kind of love that relates to the spirit.

I want to look very quickly at those three types of love. I want to look at how they relate, how they function and how necessary they are, and the result of the expression of those loves.

Physical Love

As we look at physical love we see that this love requires something to respond to. Physical love requires a mate or a partner.

It is expressed to somebody else and received back again in return. There has to be a physical communication between two people for it to be expressed.

This type of love can even be expressed by the animals because they have bodies. They express that physical love. And as that physical love is expressed there comes a communication of a deeper level. There comes an actual generation or an offspring.

Something results from the expression of that love. And so when physical love is expressed between two bodies there comes a transmission; a generation and a reproduction and a mixture of genes. It doesn’t take long after a child is born to look at it and say,

“Oh yes, he looks just like his father. He has his big nose and his mother’s big mouth.”

You begin to see the genes. Something was transmitted in that expression of love. Something was communicated and it resulted in an offspring being created.

So there is a lot more involved in expressing that love than just the passions. And those people who indulge in the love of the passions soon begin to find out that there is a price to pay for it.

Sometimes it is a price that you want to pay. Other times it is a price that you don’t want to pay. Sometimes you want to enjoy the physical love and not take the consequences. You don’t want to produce something.

Contraception and prevention of pregnancy is a big thing in the world isn’t it? But you see God made it that when physical love is expressed that is what takes place.

Emotions and Soulical Love

Then God created soulical love, and soulical love also requires a partner. It requires companionship.

It needs somebody else having a soul, where you can unite with that person in the soul - in the mind, emotions and will. There is a communication of the personality, and any creature that has a soul is able to do that.

You see how even the animals can play with each other and make friends with each other. They can also fight with each other.

But of course we are talking about human beings, and we too have a soul. We can communicate with one another and stir one another emotionally. We can communicate emotional love to one another and also receive that love from one another.

As you express that love there comes a deeper communication. There comes a generation and a reproduction. Did you know that?

Did you know that when you express emotional love to somebody you actually reproduce? The Scripture says in 1 Corinthians 15:33:

“Do not be deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.”

You hang around with a certain kind of person, and after a while they will start to rub off on you. After a while you start to behave just like them. You will start to speak like them, think like them and begin to have the same desires as them.

If you are a parent you can see right away when your kids start to get involved with the wrong crowd. You begin to see the change in them. You get them into the right crowd though and you begin to see a positive change as well.

It is peer pressure and communication, but there is something more that takes place. When two people begin to express emotional, soulical love to one another a communication takes place.

Sometimes you begin to use the other person’s expressions. You begin to imitate them and act like them. Something is produced in you and it was communicated to you from the soul of that person, so there comes a unity and a bond in the soul.

You cannot express love without both communicating and receiving something from the person that you are communicating that love to or from. Whether it is physical love or soulical love, there is an effect that will take place.

Spiritual Love

Now we come to the highest form of love - the love of the Spirit. I am sure you have heard the Greek words that are associated with these.

There is the Greek word eros, from which we get erotic love, which is the love of the passions. We get filio love, which is the love of the emotions. And I’m sure you have heard of the third and highest one which is agape love.

If you look into the original Greek language you will find that the word agape was used very sparingly. It described a kind of love that you did not see very often. I will get to the reason for this shortly.

You see God made man to have a spirit. He breathed into man His very own life and made man in His image - a spiritual being and creature. God made it so that man could also express love in his spirit. In order to express love in the spirit there has to be a communication of spirits.

The Bible says that God made Adam and He placed him in the Garden. He made all the plant life and the animal life and He brought them to Adam. But there was nobody suitable for Adam to express his love to. There was no other creature on the earth that had the spirit.

Sure God came down and communicated with Adam and poured His love into him. Adam poured His love back to God and there was a communication of spirit to spirit. But God only visited once a day. What about the rest of the day? Adam probably thought,

“Who do I pour my love out to?”

You cannot pour spiritual love out to a creature that doesn’t have a spirit. So God made another being that had a spirit. He took a rib out of Adam’s side and made the woman Eve, and brought her to Adam.

Now there was a full expression of love in the physical, the soul and now also in the spirit.

Deep Expression of Love

What happens when there is a communion of spirits? There is an expression of love that is far deeper than uniting two bodies together or uniting two souls together. It is a unity and a communion of two spirits together.

I want to tell you something. When that kind of love is expressed there comes a communication, a generation and an impartation. Something is born of that union.

When you begin to communicate with another fellow human being in the spirit there is an inter-communication between you and that person; a spirit to spirit communication and something gets communicated.

As that expression of love is maintained, something gets created. The Bible calls it spiritual impartation, and that is a whole big subject we will look at all on its own. I am just giving you some basic principles here that are involved in the expression of love.

That is the way God made man to be and the way things were created in the beginning. As Adam and Eve came together and they expressed all three kinds of love, there came an inter-communication between each other, and an imparting to one another of everything that they had.

There came a sharing of all of their thoughts and desires; a sharing of their bodies in openness, without humiliation, and a sharing of everything that came from deep within their spirit. There was a total unity of spirit, soul and body.

Effects of the Fall

Now we know that there was a fall. We know that sin came in, and when that took place the spirit of man became ineffective, and man wrapped up his spirit in his soul and his body.

Man’s body began to dominate and he lost the love of the spirit. The power of divine love that God had built into the spirit was lost.

That is why agape love is foreign to human nature. It doesn’t exist. It is a far deeper love, and we are going to look at that love in detail here as we go on and see the power that there is in it.

We will see that this love has been restored in Christ. It has been restored by the Holy Spirit who has come to dwell in every person that is born again of the Spirit of God.

Chapter 23 - The Performance of Love

We have looked at the necessity for love. Now I want to look at the performance of love.

No Longer Unconditional

Love has become corrupted through sin, because man’s spirit has become corrupted through sin. That pure love that God built into the human spirit which was meant to be God’s unconditional love, became corrupted and warped and twisted.

It became conditional love. It was no longer the kind of love that says,

For God so loved the world that He gave...

It became a love that says,

“I will love if...”

It starts right from childbirth. We learn that we have to perform in order to get love. It doesn’t take long for a child to get a message from the parents that says,

“If you’re naughty I don’t love you.”

But if you are good your mother says,

“Nice Johnny. You’re a good boy. Mommy really loves you.”

When you are naughty, mommy finds it very difficult to love you and she gets angry with you.

We begin to communicate to children that in order to obtain love they must pay for it. There is a price to pay and they start to learn how to pay the price.

It begins to mold our way of life with others. We begin to move out into the world, and begin to get involved in public places and interact with other human beings.

Performing for Love

As this starts to happen we find there comes a peer pressure; a pressure to conform.

It is that soul love. There comes an expression of soulical love where the people we are mixing with begin to communicate to us their soul, their desires and their emotions.

They begin to impose on us that in order to be loved and accepted, you must fit in. You must conform. You have to be part of the peer group otherwise you are out. So the child learns to perform for his peers.

Then as we grow up it becomes a bit more sophisticated. We begin to move into the marriage relationship and we realize that the same thing applies. In order to obtain love from our spouse we have to perform.

Women soon learn that in order to get the love they so desire they must give physical favors. Men put up a big false front to get what they want.

It just becomes a big performance. Each one tries to become what they think they are supposed to become, in order to get the love that they are looking for.

But most of the time they don’t even know what they are looking for. This is because the only part they know is the love of the passions and the love of the emotions. They don’t know that true spiritual love.

Striving for Love

And so as we grow up and get involved in every relationship in life we begin to relate to the Lord. And we see him just like we see every other human being. We begin to think,

“Yes I need His love, but in order to get His love I will have to conform. I am going to have to perform for Him.”

And so people begin to strive. They begin to work hard to try and earn the Lord’s favor. They get into works, into self-effort and legalistic efforts, to somehow gain the Lord’s approval so that He will love them.

It starts right from the beginning. It is born and bred and programmed into us, and we come to this wrong understanding of what true love is.

The Scripture teaches us that the love of God is unconditional; that only God is able to love in that unconditional way. Only God is able to love that way, because we in our spirits have become contaminated by sin. We have become wrapped up in ourselves. Because of that we find that we can’t love unconditionally.

Parent’s Responsibility

And so God places firstly upon the parents, the responsibility to be the image of Christ to their children.

Your kids are going to see the Lord by looking at you. How are they going to see the Lord by looking at you? You will have to show them unconditional love. Only as you show them that unconditional love are they going to see the Lord in you.

It therefore begins in early childhood where the mother plays the major role in the child’s life. The mother molds the character of the child and portrays to the child the love of the Lord. If the mother fails to do this she creates a wrong image in the child of what the Lord is.

Because God is portrayed as a father, the mother begins to portray to the child her attitude to manhood. She portrays her attitude to her husband and to the child’s father, and she communicates a wrong image of what the Lord is.

Because she does not understand love, she begins to communicate a wrong image of what true love is to the child. This love now becomes conditional, and conditional love violates the whole principle that God has built into us.

Husband’s Role

Well let’s not be too hard on the mother. Perhaps the reason she doesn’t understand love is because her husband, who should become her image of the Lord, is not doing his job.

And so we go to the next level and we look in the marriage. Here we find that God holds the man responsible to be the image of Christ to his wife. God says to the man,

Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself for it.

In other words it is saying,

“Husbands, show your wives what Christ looks like.”

Now you wonder why your wife doesn’t understand unconditional love. She has received the wrong image.

She perhaps got it firstly from her father. He may have failed to show the image of Christ in the home, as he took over the responsibility of bringing her out of childhood and adolescence and into adulthood. This is the point where the father’s role is the most important.

So it is a bit tough on us guys. We have to be fathers and we have to be husbands. We have to be the image of the Lord to our wives and our children.

And how are we going to be that image? We will do it by showing unconditional love. That is the image of God and the image of Christ.

Love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it. How did Christ love the church? Did He make demands? No, He died for the church.

Are you prepared to die for your wife? In case you wives are chuckling I will ask you the question too. Are you prepared to live for your husband?

Love in the Church

Unconditional love also needs to be shown in the church as we move up to the next highest level.

How are the believers in the Body of Christ going to see the Lord? They are going to see Him in the spiritual leaders that God raises up; in the shepherds of the flock and the elders in the church. They are to be the image of Christ to the Body.

How will they do that? By standing behind the pulpit and hammering the congregation, beating them into a pulp and telling them?

“If you don’t stop sinning, God is going to judge you.”

No, they will do it by showing unconditional love. You see it is the same pattern all the way through. That is the only way we are going to grow up with a realization and an understanding of what this spiritual agape love is all about.

Neighbors and Enemies

Who are the objects of this love? The Scripture commands us to love. The Pharisees came to Jesus and asked Him,

What is the greatest commandment?

Jesus replied,

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The word love there is a commandment. It is the Greek word agape love. We are commanded to love the love of the Spirit; to love unconditionally.

He said, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

If you are finding it a bit tough to love your neighbor, Jesus took it one step further and said,

“Love your enemies.”

How can you love your enemies? You can because it is unconditional. There is no condition to this love. It doesn’t say,

“I will love you if you stop being my enemy.”

The first and greatest commandment is to love the Lord, and to do this it requires a commitment of your whole being. I want to tell you that this is a condition of the New Covenant. It is the key to your blessing. Jesus said,

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Embraces Everything

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength.

On this verse hangs everything. And when you begin to love the Lord that way you begin to obey His commandments. But people have it all wrong. They think in terms of performance orientation and conditional love.

And so they begin to think that in order for me to love the Lord I have to learn the commandments. Do you know the Ten Commandments? Could you quote them for me?

You say, “What? You’re a preacher and you don’t know the Ten Commandments?”

No, I know the commandment that embraces all of them, and it is the commandment to love. You see when you love you automatically obey the commandments. When you love somebody they don’t have to put demands on you. They don’t have to tell you what to do.

Because you care for them you automatically want to please them.

You are not going to murder somebody if you love them. You are not going to steal from somebody if you love them. You will not be ugly to them if you love them, and you won’t covet your neighbor’s wife if you love him.

That is why Jesus took the whole law and summed it up in two commandments - the commandment of love. You should be preaching love, because love opens the door to everything.

The Nature of God

Love is the very nature of God, and when He said, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” He was saying you must make your neighbor equal to yourself. If he is starving and you have a loaf of bread, you should break it in half and you give him an equal portion.

Jesus changed it and made it a bit worse. He said,

“I’m giving you a new commandment. Don’t think that I’m letting you off the hook here.”

Anybody can love that way. It’s not that difficult. There are charitable organizations all over the world that are giving out to meet the needs of others. But Jesus says,

“You must love as I have loved.”

How did Jesus love? Jesus gave all that He had for those who did not deserve it. It was unconditional. That means if I have a loaf of bread and the other guy is hungry I give him the whole loaf and I starve.

You say, “But that is foolish.”

No, you see if he loves you, he will give it back to you again. Love releases a tremendous power and we will look at it as we go on.

The objects of our love are either vertically to the Lord, pouring out all our love to Him, or horizontally to those round about us. That is who we should be expressing our love to.

A lot of people are happy to pour their love out to animals. There are people who are prepared to die for animal rights. There are people who are prepared to die for a tree. No, the commandment was,

“Love your neighbor as yourself.”

It wasn’t, “Love your palm tree as yourself.”

Sorry but I don’t see the Bible saying,

“Love your cat as yourself.”

Love and Ministry

That is the nature of divine love. I want you to see how important it all is. It is the fount of all love. All the other loves spring from this divine love.

Love is the true motivation for ministry. Everything else is just an accomplishment. In 1 Corinthians 12:31 we read:

But earnestly desire the best gifts: and yet I will show you a much better way.

It is a much better way to what? To exercise the gifts of course. What is this much better way? You will find it summed up after Paul goes to a lot of trouble to explain what this better way is. He takes the whole of 1 Corinthians 13. In verse 1 he says:

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and do not have [agape] love, I have become [like] a noisy brass [instrument], or a clanging cymbal.

He goes through all of them. We will look at some more of those verses shortly. But after he has gone through the whole story concerning love, he finally answers his question and the statement that says,

...I show you a much better way.

At the beginning of 1 Corinthians 14 he says:

Pursue divine love, and earnestly desire spiritual [gifts]...

If you want to move in the gifts you must earnestly desire them. But the key to getting into the power that will release the gifts is to pursue, run after and chase after divine love. Go after it and don’t give up until you have received it.

Why must you pursue this divine love? It is because it runs like mad. It is difficult to catch. Do you know why? It is running out and giving all the time. It is so busy giving out all the time that you have to run to keep up with it, because it gives out faster than what it comes in.

Essential in Prophetic Ministry

Love is absolutely essential for the Prophetic Ministry. This is because the prophet needs to be God’s spokesman; to communicate God’s very Word, His nature and desires to His people.

You cannot speak a word of judgment without knowing the love of God, because God is a God of justice. Yes He is a righteous God and He is a God of judgment. But He is also a God of love and His attributes do not contradict one another or work against each other.

If you want to see how they are all combined together, have a look at Calvary and you will see how God hates sin. Look at Calvary and see how God poured out His judgment on His only Son.

And if you want to see love, look at Calvary and you will see that God gave the greatest that He had for you and me, unconditionally and while we were still in sin.

The Scripture says,

While we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

He died for us when we hated Him. That is unconditional love. If you are going to preach judgment as a prophet, you had better learn how to preach love too, because they go together.

Love is essential also for the operation of faith. We will look at that in more detail shortly, because the Scripture says that faith works through love.

We have looked at the force of faith previously as well, and we have seen the power that there is in faith. And now I want to show you what gives faith its power.

Chapter 24 - The Power of Love

I want to look now at the power of love. How powerful is love? Love is limitless. Galatians 5:22 and 23 says:

But the fruit of the Spirit is [agape] love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

There are laws that operate in nature - the law of gravity, the laws of aerodynamics, Newton’s law of motion. If you are a scientist you have a whole list of them. They are principles that show the way things are set up, and the law of cause and effect.

You have all of these different laws. The Scripture says that love, being the fruit of the Spirit, has no law that can work against it.

That means that if you can walk in love you can defy gravity. Jesus did that. There is power in love.

Love releases the very power and nature of God. And it is especially true of the law of sin and death which we have as a result of the sin of Adam in the Garden of Eden, which has been passed down through the generations. It is that tendency that causes us to move towards sinfulness and the death that comes with it.

Love is greater than the law of sin and death. Love is greater than every curse that the enemy can throw against us. That is why Jesus said,

“If somebody hits you on this cheek, turn the other one.”

You say, “It’s easy for Him to say that. Nobody ever hit Him.”

Didn’t they? Do you know why that was? The Scriptures tell us how Jesus stood up to read from the scroll, and they got so mad at Him they wanted to throw Him over the cliff. But He walked through the midst of them.

They came to try and take Him and He just stood up there and spoke those powerful words of love, and the men said,

“We have never heard anybody speak like this. We couldn’t take Him.”

Demonstration of Love

They could not touch Him. They tried again and again, but they could only take Him when He finally handed Himself over to them. He said,

“The Son of Man has power to lay down His life and to take it up again.”

Jesus was not defeated on the cross. When they came to get Him in the Garden of Gethsemane they said,

“Where is this man? Are you the one they are talking about?”

He replied,

“I am.”

They knew what ‘I am’ meant. It was the words that were used by Jehovah in the Old Testament - ‘The self-existent one, the God who is.’ That was a name you didn’t even mention.

When He said, “I am,” they all went backwards and fell on the ground. He could have wiped them out with one word. He had power. Why? It is because He was walking in love.

Jesus was saying,

“If you make up your mind that you’re going to turn the other cheek and you begin to walk in love, they will not be able to touch you. There is a greater force at work here that will protect you.

“And when Satan wants to come in with his curses of destruction and you are walking in the power of love, that destruction will not touch you.”

We have looked at curses in the Way of Blessing Part 1. We have seen how forces are released by the enemy against us. But if we can walk in this power of love, it will dispel every force of darkness that could come against us.

Produces Maturity

Love is the key to revelation, and this is a very important revelation from 1 Corinthians 13. I have shared it elsewhere and I am going to look at it again, since we are sharing on this subject now. In 1 Corinthians 13:8 to 12 Paul says:

[Agape] love never loses its efficiency: but if [there are] prophecies, they will come to an end; if [there are] tongues, they will cease; if [there is] knowledge, it will vanish away.

For our knowledge is limited, and our prophecy is limited.

But when maturity has come, then the limitations will be removed.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see through a mirror, a puzzling image; but then [we will see] face to face: now I know partially; but then I will know just as I also am known.

What is the now and what is the then? Paul is speaking about love. He says,

“Love is the bond of perfection.”

The word ‘perfect’ in Scripture means ‘mature, full-grown’. To walk in love means to walk in spiritual maturity.

The Scripture says that when we are conformed to the image of Christ and are walking in love, rooted and ground in Him, we will grow up into the stature of the fullness of Christ. We begin to walk in the fullness of His love, and when we do that we reach a state of spiritual maturity.

Paul says that we are limited right now until we reach maturity. We are like a child who doesn’t have the full capabilities of an adult yet and needs to be helped along the way. He says,

But if [there are] prophecies, they will come to an end; if [there are] tongues, they will cease; if [there is] knowledge, it will vanish away.

That sounds to me like some of those gifts are not going to be necessary anymore. Some people teach that the Scripture says,

“When that which is perfect is come...

That which is perfect is the Bible. And therefore now that the Bible has arrived we don’t need the gifts anymore.”

Face to Face Fellowship

That just comes from a misunderstanding of what it says in the Greek, because ‘that which is perfect’ speaks about maturity.

Has maturity come? Yes, the Canon of Scripture is complete. But God continues to speak through His Word and begins to quicken it afresh to us by rhema, by the anointing of the Spirit of God.

But when we come to a place of spiritual maturity, Paul says we will see face to face. We will come into the presence of the Lord, where because we are full of His love, we can come into the presence of He who is love, and commune with Him as friend with friend.

Spending Time in the Spirit

How are we going to get this? We are going to do it through spirit to spirit communication, producing a birthing and a generation of something in our spirits. As we come into His presence and spend time making love in the Spirit, that is how it will come about.

People often get confused about this. I believe there are people who speak about having spiritual intercourse with the Lord. There are women who claim that in the Spirit with the Lord they experienced orgasm.

This is nonsense. I am speaking about something deeper than that. I am speaking about a spirit to spirit communication; a love of the spirit, which is actually far deeper than sexual intercourse.

It is far deeper, because it goes between you and the very Spirit of Almighty God, and it produces a life in you. You begin to come into His presence as Moses did with unveiled face, and you begin to shine.

Jesus walked in the fullness of that maturity to the point where He began to glow on the Mount of Transfiguration and His clothes began to shine.

When Moses had been up in the mountain with the Lord and had spent time in the presence of the Lord in the tent of meeting, his face would shine so much that he would put a veil over his face, because the people thought they were seeing a ghost. It frightened them. The glory of the Lord began to shine out of him.

Now when you come into the presence of the Lord like that you don’t need,

“Thus saith the Lord, Behold I say unto you...”

No, He talks to you. He says,

“Hey Les, let’s have a chat here.”

And when I want to talk to Him about somebody else I don’t have to say,

“Lord, please give me a prophetic word for this person. Thus saith the Lord, my child...”

No I simply say,

“Hey Lord, tell me about this guy.”

He tells me about the person and we have a chat. We are in the spirit and we have face to face communication.

Chapter 25 - Imparted by the Spirit

How is this available to us? It is available when we come to the place of spiritual maturity. And how do we get to this place of being filled with that love?

That love has to be born in us and has to be imparted to us by the Spirit of God. The Scripture says,

The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us.

It is the key to revelation. When you begin to walk in that love in the Spirit you don’t need to get gifts of revelation. You walk in permanent revelation.

You walk in the presence of the Lord and you get to know Him as a friend. You get to spend time sitting down with Him and having Him all to yourself. It is available to you, but it is available in the Spirit if you will take the time to make love to Him in the Spirit; to unite your spirit to His.

Works Through Faith

Love gives faith a channel to work through. Galatians 5:6 says:

For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision is able to do any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which is energized through [agape] love.

I remember in the early days of the Star Trek movie when they had their little laser guns. In a lot of the space movies and things, you see that they have this key word that they use. It is ‘energize’.

You see someone pick up his laser, and he presses a button and says,

“Energizing.”

Once it is energized he can pull the trigger and let out that power because it is energized. Until it is energized though the weapon is useless.

We saw that faith has a power, but faith needs to be energized. It needs to have a force that works behind it, that gives it its energy and its motivation.

If you are going to use your spiritual laser gun, love is what will energize the laser, and faith will release it into the earth. It gives faith the power to work.

Faith works through love. You must have the two together. You cannot use the one without the other.

Victory Over Evil

Love overcomes evil. 1 John 4:18 says:

There is no fear in [agape] love; but mature [agape] love casts out fear: because fear involves punishment. He that fears has not matured in [agape] love.

As we looked at curses we discovered that fear is the motivating force of all curses. The Scripture tells us that love is God’s answer to fear. Perfect agape love, the love of the Spirit, casts out, dispels, demolishes, disintegrates and completely destroys all trace of fear.

When it does that how can a curse work? How can a curse operate where there is no fear?

Love neutralizes negative words. When words are spoken against you, what is your first reaction? It is retaliation or fear. It opens the door to the negative. You can respond and say,

“Okay, give me another one there. Give me another one over here.”

When you can do that then what can the enemy throw at you? What can people throw at you? They can do nothing. Love will neutralize a negative spirit.

As you begin to communicate with somebody else in spirit to spirit communication, there comes that transfer from their spirit to yours. They take the contamination in their spirit and the evil that is in their spirit, and they try to communicate it to you. It can happen.

It happens in physical love. You get sexually transmitted diseases that come along with the expression of love. You get bad attitudes that are communicated with a soul to soul communication of love.

And the exact same thing happens in spirit. There comes a communication of a curse from person to person, when there is a communion of spirits with somebody who has a spirit that is contaminated with evil.

If you are walking in love though, you have spiritual protection. You have protection to prevent that thing from penetrating and getting in.

Releases Blessing

Love is the key to blessing. John 15:7 to 9 says:

If you are abiding in me, and my [rhema] words are abiding in you, you shall ask whatever you wish, and it shall be done for you.

In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you shall be my disciples.

As the Father has [agape] loved me, so I have [agape] loved you: continue in my [agape] love.

The fruit of the spirit is love. Jesus said,

“If you are abiding in me and bearing forth fruit, and my words are abiding in you, you are walking in love. By abiding in me, in my presence and in close communication with me, you are walking in my love.

“And if my rhema words are in you then you have faith, because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the rhema word of God. If you are walking in love and my faith is within you, you can ask whatever you want and you will have it.”

That is faith and love working together as one. There are no conditions, no ifs or buts.

He says, “If you are continually abiding in me and walking in that love it is yours. It is available to you.”

Love opens the door to every single blessing and every single desire that you can ever have.

Love Brings Success

And so we see that love is the fount of all the spiritual forces. Without love we cannot succeed. You need to recognize your need for that love. You need to recognize that you don’t have that love, and you need to know where to get it from.

If you are born again of the Spirit of God and His Spirit lives in you, you do have that love. Now you need to know how to cause it to grow, multiply, increase and abound until it is pouring forth from you.

Do you know what is going to happen then? You will start reproducing. As you begin to go out and touch others and begin to communicate spirit to spirit with other people, you are going to communicate and you are going to birth something in their spirits.

Love begins to get communicated. It begins to go forth. You begin to walk in the love of the Lord and you begin to show the love of the soul as well.

You start being kind to people and you start to say nice things to them. You begin to communicate a loving attitude to people, and before you know it friendships begin to develop. You start to influence people for positive things instead of negative things.

Correct Image in the Home

That is what the Lord requires of us. Have a look at the position you are in right now. If you are a parent then you need to ask yourself this question,

“Am I the image of Christ to my kids? Am I showing them what the Lord is really like? Do I bless them unconditionally? Do I go out and buy a gift for my child when he’s been naughty?”

Or do I say?

“Santa is not bringing you a gift because you were naughty this year.”

We do it all the time don’t we? We make it conditional. Next time your child deserves to be blessed the least and is expressing the most rebellion and the most ugly spirit, how about pouring out your love upon him and giving him something to show your unconditional love?

You say, “You’ve been very good. I’m really proud of you. I’m pleased because you did well in School. We want to reward you for this and so we are going to buy this thing for you that you’ve been wanting.”

It is so easy to do that isn’t it? How about going and giving that to them when they have flunked or when they have failed; when they have rebelled and put you to shame; when they did all the ugly things that you can’t stand? Have you ever tried that?

Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her. What kind of image of Christ are you giving to your wives?

Do you know what they did to Jesus? They plucked His beard out. Would you let your wife pluck your beard out? We get so upset when our wives don’t do what we want; when they don’t behave the way we want or respond to us the way we want.

What if she really abused you? What if she was really nasty to you? Have you ever reached that point? Yet Jesus died for those people and He hung on the cross and said,

“Father, forgive them for they don’t know what they are doing?”

Can you love like that? Of course you can’t, but Jesus can love like that. All you need to do is submit to the Christ in you and let Him love through you. Be an image to your wife and be an image to your children.

Correct Image in the Church

If you are in spiritual leadership and are a shepherd of the flock, what kind of image of the Lord are you to the congregation? What is it that you are preaching from the pulpit and communicating to them?

If you are a prophet of God and you are speaking forth by the anointing and the Spirit of God, speaking forth the Word of the Lord to people, what are you communicating to them?

Do they understand what the love of God is? Do they understand His unconditional love, or are you trying to make everything conditional?

Have a good look at yourself in every area of your life and you will see if there is some area that is lacking. Look at people you work with. How about your boss? How about the church or your family?

In every area of your life, how are you demonstrating and pouring forth to those about you the agape love of the Lord? If you are not doing it, then you don’t have that love pouring forth from you.

Shine

I think we could all put up our hands on that one, because we have not reached maturity or perfection. And so we need to come into His presence and get a bit of birthing taking place.

We need to ‘fall pregnant’ in the Spirit. That is what you need to do. You need to have spiritual intercourse with Him and receive of His Spirit. You need to open yourself wide and say,

“Lord, pour into me the love of God, being shed abroad in my heart by your Spirit who is given to me.”

And then when you are filled up you just go out like a shining light. You go and shine it forth. Spread it around to everybody else, and people are going to get mad at you.

They are going to try and resist you and speak ugly things about you. But you are just going to shine a bit more light on them. And every bit of darkness that Satan brings against you, you simply light a few more candles, and show a bit more light and dispel the darkness.

Eventually the darkness will just give up trying to overcome you. The curses will fall away and you will walk in the blessing of the Lord.

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Table of Contents

Title

Copyright

Original Foreword

Foreword for New Edition

Section 01 – Spiritual Transmutation

Chapter 01 – Currency Control

Chapter 02 - Depositing in Your Heavenly Bank Account

Chapter 03 - Rules of Your Bank Account

Chapter 04 - Converting Spiritual Matter

Section 02 – Ministry of Angels

Chapter 05 - How Angels Manifest

Chapter 06 - The Angels of Heaven

Chapter 07 - Personal Guardian Angels

Section 03 – Dealing With Demons

Chapter 08 – Spiritual Forces of Darkness

Chapter 09 - Spiritual Wickedness

Chapter 10 - Prophetic Intercessors

Section 04 – Receiving Healing

Chapter 11 – Medicine is Big Business

Chapter 12 - Blockages to Healing

Chapter 13 - The Power of Speech and Health

Chapter 14 - Healing Others

Section 05 – Walking in Prosperity

Chapter 15 – God Wants You to Prosper

Chapter 16 - The Law of Use

Chapter 17 - Choosing Good Investments

Chapter 18 - Getting Returns on Your Investment

Section 06 – Spiritual Birthing

Chapter 19 – Childbirth is Part of Life

Chapter 20 - Having a Healthy Pregnancy

Chapter 21 - Preparing for the Birth

Section 07 - The Force of Love

Chapter 22 - The Necessity for Love

Chapter 23 - The Performance of Love

Chapter 24 - The Power of Love

Chapter 25 - Imparted by the Spirit

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