Gaining Access

0:01 Hello everybody, welcome once again to Deep Things Audio. And yes, this is episode 4 of Deep Things of Power. Yes. And today we'll be looking at something very important, gaining access. So one of the ways to gain access to anything is to be at the entrance of it. Be at the door, at the window, at the gates. Don't enter into your house. Stand at the gate, don't enter your room, stand at the door. So today is episode 4 deep things of power. So see you inside. I'm drinking. According to Matthew, Chapter 7, verse 7, scripture says Acts, I need to be given to you.

0:54 Seek and you will find knock and the door will be open to you. Jeremiah chapter 33 verse three, call to me and I will answer you and take you great and unsearchable things you do not know. So from our initial anchor scripture, the book of Acts chapter one verse 8 that says, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my weaknesses in Jerusalem and in Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. Also in John chapter 16 verse 13 it says, but when he the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth.

1:38 He will not speak on his own. He will speak only what he hears and he will tell you what is yet to come. So the Holy Spirit gives power to as many as are ready to receive. He also guides you into the truth into power for the entire concept of power cannot be isolated from the Holy Spirit. So the scripture speaks on the Holy Ghost bringing tsunamis for us. The word received there is the word lambano to lihood. So that brings us to our first access points. One receive him receiving God according to John chapter one verse 12.

2:23 Scripture says yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, He gave the right to become children of God. So you cannot assess the power of him you have not received and do not know. The primary way to assess power is through receiving the Lord Jesus Christ. Note, you can gain access to his power when you receive him, but not necessarily the experience that comes with receiving the power. I come again, you gain access to his power where you receive him, not necessarily the experience that comes with receiving the power.

3:05 So it is not today's episode, so just stay tuned. Very, very truly. We are going to speak about this intently in that episode, but this series, OK, so this is the least level. Assessing his power. That's the receiving him is the least level, but it's a very important part. I mean, you can't access the power of the one you don't know. According to Psalm 62, verse 11, one thing God has spoken, two things I have heard power belongs to you, God. Another version says God has spoken once, twice. Have I heard that power belongeth to God, So you must connect to the source of all power and know him too.

3:59 Any kind of spiritual power belongs to God. Satan just manipulates the power that is present and misuses it for his benefit. He doesn't create any new power. So God is not threatened by the power of the enemy. He owns it all. So whenever people are like, oh, that God is fighting Devil, I don't know how that sounds because what power does devil have is God that still owns that power, right? So even the one that happened in heaven, it was Devil and his angels and the angels only. I don't God was not really fighting that.

4:36 But God can't be fighting. It's not in the same class with him. He can't do with a Snuffle's finger make any power he has to go not church Kelly snap of his finger, but something aligned with that. So God owns all the power. So from my eyes, what about native doctors and every other person that has power? God is just manipulated power, the power that is presently manipulated for their own good, not necessarily that they are generating any new power. No, God owns all the power that from the good and from the evil, God owns it all.

5:14 OK, Then the second access point is understanding the various kinds and expressions of spiritual power alongside a working knowledge on how they operate. So this is an area that is mostly missing everyone's pursuit of power. So nobody really pays attention to the knowledge of the power or the kinds of expression of the powers that they are. Many people just, oh, power, they just want power. No, it doesn't work like that. According to Job chapter 38 verse 33, it says do you know the laws of the heavens?

5:58 Can you set up 'cause dominion over the earth? So this level of access is hidden in laws and principles, both spiritual laws and physical laws. So laws like if you farm on a fertile and it will yield or saving a certain percentage or investing will invite riches to you in due time. So understanding of these various kinds and expression of power has already been covered in episode 2. But we will go in deadly into every aspect of this access point throughout this series. This is just a highlight of I quote an outline.

6:36 We are not going to in depth into it commonly, but throughout this episode, by the time we are done with this series, you'll be able to understand every single thing that I said now. OK so make sure you miss no episode. So the third access point is covenant alignment with resources or men that have gained access to the power. Proverbs chapter 13 verse 20. Work with the wise and become wise for a companion of fools suffer harm. Genesis chapter 12, verse 4A. So Abraham went as the Lord had told him, and Lord went with him.

7:18 So I believe this is the widely or the most widely used story when speaking on association, the story of Abraham and Lot. So an illustration was painted of power to a such that a man went for a powerful program and generated prayer doing it. He returned home late at night and slept off. His roommate noticed that he must have contacted Power and he also wanted a part of it being a Christian. OK. So he hurriedly went, prepared hot water for his bed and cooked food for the man. So by the time the man I rose from his sleep the next day, he was greeted with the water that was ready and food.

8:03 So he really understand what happened, but that his friend has contacted power drove by aligning, honoring and helping the conduit of the power. That's that man. I mean, he was so pleased when he saw that food. Wouldn't you be pleased after a long and stressful day? You just see food and water, nothing attached. You'll be happy even feel so grateful even that gratitude. It's how that power can also be contacted by that person that did that for you. So this is a way to actually that you can contact power from someone without even trending for so many lay down rules to make it happen.

8:43 Just no. Also second Samuel Chapter 9 verse one David asked is there anyone still lives in the House of Seoul to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan's sake. Jonathan's lineage may enjoy some privileges or faithful not because they laboured for it, but just because someone is deciding to show them favour. OK, so you record the story of when David and Jonathan are very good friends. So maybe someone from the lineage of Jonathan may be looking like a person have received all the power of favour or money or influence.

9:24 It's not necessarily because they worked hard for it. No, it's because someone decided to show them fever or show them help. So that's why most times it's not really a good idea to use the presence of gifts or signs and wonder in a person's life to measure their degree of maturity in the Kingdom. Instead, they use their transformation because most times these gifts they receive or this ability to perform science and wonder miracles under God, genuine, right? It might have been received by this method of aligning yourself through honor, through helping someone or just deciding to fall in alignment with the person that had a conduit and you receive it.

10:14 That should not be a true form of assessing spiritual growth, right? OK #4 intimacy with God. So you know, I want to say that one was the lowest or not the lowest least. It's like a pyramid step wise process where that one is the least step. Receiving him is the least. Now the highest level of assessing power is intimacy with God. So this access points are not really averaged in order of importance, but anyone that is so important or not so important or just anywhere, any special classification, I will list it out.

10:59 But asides that, there's no one that is more important than the other. So apart from the ones that were listed. So intimacy with God, this is the highest level of assessing God's power. When you work with God, He demands a relationship with you, and the power you get is derived from that relationship, according to Philippians chapter 3, verse 10. And it says that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His suffers being made conformable unto His death, that He first told him, then His power.

11:40 So this level of access is God centered. You do it because of love for God, not what you hope to gain from it. A continuation of that aspect is what I love to call an outbased subtype is desire. So for you to assess this type of power, there must be an increased degree of desire for it. Still part of intimacy with God is the passion for the presence of God according to Acts chapter 10 verse 38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him and Jesus went about doing good him.

12:29 All these are the attributes of someone who have stayed long in his presence and wants to manifest cause presence in his world. There's something that happens when you dwell in God's presence. Some people say the secret of divine power is waiting and I agree with that. That's why not everyone has power because his presence is not like Indomi. 5 to 25 minutes and you're good. No, you don't pray with time if you want power. No you don't. You stay until your spirit is charged. This thing is an intentional act.

13:05 It's not a coincidence of finding like a patient that presents to the clinic due to generalized body weakness and weight loss. Once discovered that her random blood sugar is over 300 mini moles per liter. Well, that's an aside. So from our initial introduction to dimensions of power, you cannot assess any of them without desire for codes presence. I'm generalizing it now. All of them requires God's present, but this requires steep in God's presence. According to Jeremiah chapter 29, verse 13, it says you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

13:49 And I feel this covers the entire concept of intimacy with God as an access point to power. OK, then the last but not the least #5 the 5th access point, gaining access through the scriptures. OK, I mean, there's no way to speak about access points and not add the scriptures. We just finished the tense of His Word. Of course we'll add the scriptures. You can access a degree of power through the illumination of light that comes through God's Word as of the apostles chapter 20, verse 32. And it says, now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

14:40 Now when you embrace the Word of God, you will receive the power for the inheritance according to Psalm 119, verse 130. And it says the unfolding of your words give light. It gives understanding to this temple according to Second Peter chapter 3 verse 18. And he says both grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen. Growth in grace comes through knowledge advancement in assessing the scriptures and power both come from the amount of light to possess.

15:23 So the more light to possess, the more there'll be advancement in assessing the Scripture and thereby more power. So take note, you need to obtain grace to acquire higher spiritual illumination, so that when you do acquire more light, more power will be able to be accessed by you. Proverbs chapter 3, verse 35. The wise inherit honour, but fools only get shame. The wise will only inherit honour, and in this case power. The wisdom from the Word, the integrity of God's Word is your access point to power.

16:10 So that's it for today. So now I bet we can all attend. The equations are marshaled out in our last episode, which is how can one assess power? So if you have any questions, send your questions. Send your answers to us through our website at deepteensaudio.portview.com or you can make use of our e-mail address [email protected]. So to you next time, God bless you. Bye.