Provoking The Supernatural | David Antwi

[0:00] Hallelujah. We thank God you've tuned into this message by David Entry at Caris Church. No hand can help you with the fulfillment of your destiny but the Word of God.

[0:11] May God's hand align you further into your destiny through this word. 2 Chronicles 7, let's start from verse 12 to 14. And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer and have chosen this place for myself for a house of sacrifice.

[0:33] And if I shut up the heaven, that there be no rain. Or if I command the locusts to devour the land. And if I send pestilence among my people.

[0:48] If my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways.

[1:02] Then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sins and I will heal their land. Here ends the reading of God's Word. Father, thank you so much for the privilege to be here to hear your word.

[1:16] We pray that as we hear your word, give us access into yourself. Give us a revelation of yourself. And command the heavens to open upon us. To encounter you in a very special way through your word.

[1:30] Let the supernatural be triggered to your glory in Jesus name. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen. Now, somebody say, I believe in the supernatural.

[1:43] I believe in the supernatural. Say, I believe in the supernatural. I believe in the supernatural. I want to share a few things. I'll go back to Acts but because we are fasting.

[1:55] And what is happening is, things are actually happening. And I think it's better I steer us all in the direction of taking responsibility for the hand of God showing up in our lives.

[2:13] Many people have always thought that if God would do it, he would do it anyway. No. Prayer is asking God for his will to be done on earth.

[2:26] If it to be done anyway, why should you pray that it should be? As it is in heaven. So in heaven, it's settled. But as to whether it will happen on earth, somebody will have to take responsibility.

[2:38] Has to take responsibility to evoke, to provoke it into manifestation. So when you talk about the supernatural, the supernatural is simply the intervention of what is beyond the natural in the natural course of affairs.

[3:01] So in the natural course of affairs, something that is beyond the natural intervenes. So that's why we say supernatural is extraordinary.

[3:12] It's above the natural. Above the norm. Above what naturally can happen. For instance, for a virgin to conceive and give birth. That is purely supernatural.

[3:25] Completely supernatural. There was a storm and Jesus said, peace be still. And the storm ceases. That's supernatural. That's completely supernatural.

[3:37] And the supernatural is not only relegated to Bible times. The supernatural is one of the manifestations of the intervention of God.

[3:48] So when God is at work, sometimes you call the supernatural miracles. When God is at work, something extraordinary, above the norm, above the natural happens.

[4:02] For a man who is 99 years old to have a child with his 90-year-old wife, it's above the natural. I am here to let you know that, you see, the Christianity that does not involve the workings of God in the natural is not complete.

[4:24] It's not complete. When Jesus showed up in John chapter 3, verse 2, Nicodemus comes to Jesus and he says that, You are a teacher, come from God. For no man can do these miracles that you do, except God is with him.

[4:40] See, that means that when there's a God dimension, you begin to see the supernatural. When there's a God dimension, the supernatural validates the God dimension.

[4:52] And I believe that sometimes people say, I don't care, I don't believe until they see the supernatural. They said concerning Jesus in Mark chapter 2, that we have never seen anything like this before.

[5:07] In Luke chapter 5, today our eyes have seen strange things. What is this? This is amazing. Your life is about to send shivers in the spans of the enemy.

[5:22] God is about to give somebody a testimony. Amen. In our Bible reading today, we saw in verse 1, Psalm 48, the verse 1, it says that, Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

[5:43] In Psalm 47, verse 8, it says, God is enthroned. He reigns. He is seated on the throne of his holiness.

[5:53] Holiness means exceptionalism. It's different from everybody. It reigns. So in today's, it says that, great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

[6:07] Verse 2 says that, beautiful for situ. That's a strong statement. Beautiful for situ. The joy of the whole world.

[6:17] Beautiful for situation. Beautiful for situation. It doesn't matter what kind of situation you are in or you are faced with. God, when he shows up, he makes everything beautiful.

[6:29] Beautiful for situation. So he can show up and turn everything upside down or everything round in your favor. That's God.

[6:40] That's God. That's our God. He's beautiful for situation. He's the joy of the whole, whole earth. It says that, on the side of the north end, the city of the great king.

[6:50] God is our great king. Verse 3 says that God is known in a palace for refuge. The first is that, for Lord, the kings were assembled and they passed by together.

[7:03] Those who matter. Those who are the authorities of our times. They passed by together. They observed. And when they see the hand of God, look at verse 5.

[7:14] They see the hand of God. They saw it. And so they marveled. They were troubled and hasted away. It's about time. God settles a certain matter for somebody.

[7:27] Those who are the authorities. Somebody is about to go back to the medical kings. Do you know their name? Consultants. They are kings of medical practice.

[7:38] Somebody is about to go to the medical kings. They will look at your previous scan or test results. And they look at the camera and they say, no, something is not adding up here.

[7:50] Something is not adding up here. God has gotten involved. I'm announcing to somebody that God is about to get involved in a situation. In the mighty name of Jesus.

[8:02] Few things we have to know about the supernatural is that the supernatural is real. It's real. I almost said, I don't believe. No problem. I was with a miracle working man of God.

[8:15] Many years ago, I think in 1996, he said, I had a privilege of being in a room with him and my spiritual father. And he said, some people said, I don't believe in miracles. He said, but when they need one, they will.

[8:28] You will say, don't believe in miracles. So the doctors have given you two weeks to live. And you don't want to die. And you have to live. You better believe in one.

[8:41] Because what do you have to lose if you don't? If you believe. And it doesn't work. It doesn't exist. But you have everything to lose. If you don't believe and the thing can work. I see God working for somebody.

[8:53] The supernatural is real. So number one, the supernatural is the intervention of what is beyond the natural. In the natural course of affairs. Number two, the supernatural is real. Number three, one of the things I want you to know about the supernatural is that it's part of the creation order.

[9:09] I will explain it. The supernatural is part of the creation order. The creation order is when you throw something up, what happens? If it's not a balloon or something.

[9:19] If I, this microphone, if I throw it, what happens? Why? That's gravity. It's natural order. Natural order. There are laws that govern nature.

[9:32] If you don't sleep and you don't sleep, you choose not to sleep. You are so strong now, you choose not to sleep again. You are working against nature. You know, there are things that every one of us need to be doing.

[9:44] That's why fasting cannot be every day the rest of your life. It's against the natural order. Okay. So there are some things that are part of the natural order.

[9:56] If a woman is pregnant, if a woman is pregnant for four years, it's unnatural. When a woman takes seed, the hospital, the doctors, they will tell you the due date.

[10:13] They can calculate. Because the natural order in nine months' time or in 40 weeks' time for the baby to come just around that time. So it does. They can calculate based on the natural order.

[10:24] And I'm also telling you that the supernatural is part of the natural order. Even though you don't see it regularly, it's part of the natural order. Amen. And then, Nama, the next point I want us to appreciate about the supernatural is that it runs parallel to the natural order.

[10:43] All the time. I'll explain it. What does it mean for it to run parallel? It's available to act. It's available. The supernatural is always available.

[10:55] So why don't we see it? Somebody say, if there's God, why are people suffering? I'm going to explain it. Why you can be suffering and God can't do anything.

[11:05] Two people can go through similar situations, similar predicaments, and one will come out victorious and the other one will drown. How? The sea the Israelites went through, it drowned the Egyptian army.

[11:19] It's the same sea. The deserts that also came from Egypt. The Israelites. Two million of them. They died apart from Joshua and Caleb. Including Moses.

[11:30] They all died in the wilderness. Does that mean no one arrived in Egypt? A lot of them arrived in Egypt. So who are they? They were the desert babies. They were born in the desert.

[11:40] Where others were dying, that's where they... You didn't hear what I said. Where others died, that's where they began living. It's not everybody who will sink the way others sink.

[11:53] That same condition that has come to others and they have been cut off. It will come to you and rather it will... It will... Oh, come on. It will be like the wind in your sail.

[12:05] I feel the power of God here. I don't know who I came to prophesy to. But I'm telling you, what killed others is going to bring life into you.

[12:18] What drowned others is going to make you float. In the name of Jesus. Somebody shout, I believe in the supernatural. I believe in the supernatural.

[12:29] And then final point I want to add is that the supernatural can be engaged. If it's running parallel to the natural, then it can be engaged or provoked or triggered.

[12:48] So it can lie dormant until triggered. You can trigger the supernatural. You can provoke the... I'm talking today about provoking the supernatural.

[12:59] There are things you can do to cause God to be engaged. Now, there are different philosophies when it comes to God.

[13:11] There's what most of us know about which is atheism. Atheism means that the atheists believe there's no God.

[13:22] Atheists believe there's no God. And the agnostics believe there's no certainty whether he's there or there's no... We don't know. So just live your life.

[13:33] Okay, Sarah, Sarah. So we have the atheists. We have the agnostics. And so atheism believes that there's no God. Agnostism believes that you are not quite sure.

[13:46] And then we have the pantheism. Pantheism believes that God is identical to the universe. So many, many different gods. The cow can be a God.

[13:57] The speaker can turn into... It's a God, you know. Everything created. So there's some God. And all kinds of... Anything created can...

[14:08] Is identical to God. So there's no God anywhere. It's just... It's just Emmanuel. And then... So part of pantheism is the animism. Where they worship certain animals and believe that certain things created have power.

[14:21] So we have all that. But the two most important ones I want to draw to your attention is theism. Everybody say theism. What's theism?

[14:33] The belief that God created the world. God is part of running of the world. God is involved. God works miracles. He sends prophets. He uses people.

[14:44] That's theism. And then we have daism. Daism is not the same as theism. Daism is like a clock master who designs the clock, sets it in a...

[15:00] When you buy a clock, it doesn't have to come to your house to be checked if it's way. It's done it and it's... Leave it to run on its own. So daism believes that God... Actually, there's a God who created everything.

[15:10] But when he finished, he left and is going to mind his own business. So God is not involved in the running of affairs in life. They don't believe in the supernatural. God doesn't send angels.

[15:22] God doesn't send prophets. God doesn't do anything. He can't even do anything because he's no more involved. We have taken over. So now, why am I talking about all these? So daism is possible to think you are a daist.

[15:36] Meanwhile, you are a daist. A daist doesn't believe God can do anything. God works anything. When you don't pray, you are almost behaving like a daist. Amen. Amen. Amen. When we say, let's go and pray, say, oh, prayer.

[15:50] Oh, prayer. Do you believe in God? Yeah, yeah, I believe in some way. But you don't believe he works. If you believe he works, then you believe he can work in your life.

[16:02] Then you can believe in the supernatural. And so the supernatural runs parallel to the natural. It takes somebody to do something to trigger the supernatural.

[16:16] So then, this is what it means. Satan can be killing you and God won't do anything about it. Yeah. Where is his power? No, no, no. His power is available for those who trigger it.

[16:30] Many of us here, I believe, I'm not wrong, are a product of somebody's prayer. You remember how grandma used to pray for you? You remember mom, some of you, you remember mom would be mentioning your name and praying for you.

[16:44] And today, look at how fine you are in church. You are a product of somebody's prayer. Even though you never believed it, you couldn't be bothered, some people pray you into it.

[16:55] You are a fruit of somebody's seed of prayer. In the same way, your testimony is going to be the fruit of your seed of prayer, of triggering the supernatural.

[17:06] So, it's important to understand that if you want to see God, you have to seek God.

[17:20] It is those who seek his face that see his face. I want to know if there's God, why has his face shown up? His face won't show up.

[17:32] Because he has committed himself to prayer and certain things. Somebody must take responsibility on earth to engage God. Somebody.

[17:43] If there's going to be divine intervention anywhere, in any way, any way. So, let's say, some people are suffering. Wait.

[17:54] So, why? If there's God, why are people suffering there? If you can pray, you will see the signs of the hand of God. Do you understand what I'm saying? So, the supernatural is always available on hand.

[18:05] But it takes those who call on him to trigger. So, you can trigger the supernatural and I believe that from today, some people are going to trigger the manifestation goes in in their life.

[18:18] So, quickly, six points. Number one, how do you trigger the supernatural? Number one, prayer. You saw in our text, it said, 1 Chronicles 7, verse 12, it says that, and the Lord appeared to Solomon by night and said unto him, I've heard that prayer.

[18:36] Let's all say, God has heard my prayer. So, if you don't pray, how can he hear your prayer? First thing, God said, I've heard your prayer. God has always worked with the prayer of his people.

[18:50] On earth, God has always worked with the prayer. The Bible says that, from the days of Enoch, men began to call on the name of the Lord. Way, way from beginning, from the beginning, from the day of Enoch, people from the town, then people began to call on the name of the Lord.

[19:07] God has always worked with prayer and he's going to work with your prayer. Amen. Praise the Lord. So, then it goes on to say in the next verse, 2 Chronicles 7, verse 13, it said, if the heavens are shut, if I shut up the heavens and there be no rain and I command the locals to devour the land and if I send pestilence among them, these are all things that you are seeing happening but it's a supernatural source.

[19:40] In the same way, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me, let me say this, in the same way, when we talk about the supernatural, it's not only restricted to power of God, also the evil powers. Some of us have been consulting palm readers, horoscope, listen, horoscope will just make your life horrific.

[20:01] You can tell, the thing is horoscope, it's just, the scope of tarot card, tarot card, what are some of the things, people? The crystal ball.

[20:13] There might be someone here with a crystal ball at home. Yeah. You are very intellectual but you believe in a crystal ball.

[20:23] So, when you give yourself to meddle in those kind of things, you are opening yourself to demonic invasions. Yeah, opening, so that lady in Acts chapter 16, young girl, verse 16, who was prophesying and speaking about Paul and Silas, that they are the men of God showing us the way of salvation.

[20:44] It was true but she was using, it's a sorcerer, she was using sorcery. If you expose yourself to sorcery, necromancy, soothsaying, all those things that we just said, you are exposing, opening up yourself, not only yourself but anyone connected to you, especially your children, they are your direct connection.

[21:03] You are opening your family up to demonic invasion. Then later you say, God, where are you? Where are you? Where are you? He was where he was when you invited the evil spirits inside. So, that is a negative supernatural but God also, if we call on him, he will answer.

[21:20] He said, if my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves, that's fasting there, and pray. So, prayer, God has committed himself to the prayers of his people.

[21:34] When we pray, God answers. When we pray, God answers. And I know God is going to answer you. God is going to answer somebody in the mighty name of Jesus.

[21:46] So, number one, to trigger the supernatural is prayer. You got to pray. Listen, it doesn't matter wherever you are.

[21:58] Paul and Silas were put in prison. Their hands and feet were in stocks but they could pray. Even if they put that clip on your mouth, you can still call on the name of the Lord.

[22:11] Because prayer is born from the heart and God hears prayers. And I see God answering somebody's prayer. Yes. Yes. Number two, quickly, how do you trigger the supernatural?

[22:24] Faith. Faith is absolute confidence in God. That's what the problem is. Why are you praying to a God you don't believe in? Or you are not even sure about? The uncertainty in our prayer is what undermines the efficacy of our prayer.

[22:42] The uncertainty in our praying or in our prayer is what undermines the efficacy, the potency, of our prayer.

[22:54] So in James chapter 2, it says that verse 6, 7, it says that, no, chapter 1, I think so, it says that if anyone lacks, let him ask.

[23:06] Chapter 1, it said ask, and then verse 6 says that, it says that, but don't ask in unbelieving. Alright. Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.

[23:17] for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and toes. He said, the scariest, I always say scary, the next verse, it's a very scary scripture.

[23:29] Let not that man think he shall receive anything of that. See, don't think, if mom says, don't think I'll give you anything if you don't do your assignments. It's a major threat.

[23:41] Mom promised you on your birthday he's going to do this ABC and you have not been doing your assignments. He said, don't think I'll take you on the holidays if you fail your exam. So you have to sit upright. God too said, don't think you'll pray and receive anything if you pray with an oscillating mind.

[23:56] Maybe God will do it. Maybe God will not do it. He said, let that man think he'll receive anything of the Lord. That's a very serious statement. So faith in our prayer is what even makes our prayer work.

[24:08] So faith is fundamental. Faith is foundational. Faith, in Mark chapter 5, verse 25, that was, a woman who had an issue of blood for 12 years has suffered many things in the hands of many people.

[24:23] The Bible says in verse 27, when she heard that Jesus, when she heard of Jesus, she came in the, in, impressed me. I want to talk about faith. Faith has two aspects.

[24:34] Faith has the aspect of steps or action and the aspect of confession. So those aspects of faith are definitely important.

[24:45] They complement each other. If you do one without the other, it's like trying to fly on a plane with one wing. You know, it doesn't work. You need both wings. So none of the wings is more important.

[24:58] Both wings are important. And so you need both the left wing and the right wing of the plane to have a smooth flight. In the same way, for faith to work, you need the confession and the actions, steps.

[25:12] This woman, Bible says that when she heard about Jesus, she came. That's a step. She took a step. You have to do something. Don't just fold your arm and say that if God wants to do it, it's what?

[25:24] No. You have to take a step. There's a way to treat that God into action in your life. You have to take a step. So this woman took a step and moved.

[25:35] And then Bible says that she said, for she said, she said, you see confession there. She convinced herself in one of the verses, one of the gospels, she said, she kept saying to herself, she kept saying to herself, she kept saying, don't shut up.

[25:50] When you are a woman of faith, you are a man of faith, don't shut up. Sometimes you can look at the medical report and speak back to the medical reports.

[26:01] Who are you? Oh, mountain before Zerubbabel. You shall become a plain. Speak to the mountains. Jesus said in Mark chapter 11, that if you have faith, have faith in God, verse 22.

[26:12] Verse 23, Mark chapter 11, verse 23, for verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain, be thou removed and be cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he said shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he...

[26:35] What do you have? What you say is what you have. When you believe it and you say it, it will be your possession. He said he shall... Watch this.

[26:45] He didn't say he shall have whatsoever the doctors say. He shall have whatever the economy says. He shall have whatever the system says. He said whatever you say...

[26:56] Oh, come on. I feel like preaching. Whatever you say is what you have. Jesus said he shall have whatever he says, not God says.

[27:10] He says. Your confession will be your possession. Stop saying I'm dying, I'm dying. What do you mean by that? What do you mean by I'm dying? What do you mean by I'm dying?

[27:21] Most of the times, sometimes people don't even die. It doesn't matter the diagnosis until they say I'm tired. I'm tired. I want to go. Check. If you know sometimes you hear the stories of people who have been in hospital for a long time.

[27:34] Sometimes they are going until they say you know what? Let me go. I want to go. I want to go. Many people decide and they begin to speak it. They begin to speak it in anticipation.

[27:46] And so, sometimes if you are quiet, Satan will keep talking. Something is always talking. Something is always talking. So you have to speak back. Speak back.

[27:57] Say the word of God. Say what you believe about God's word. It's not like anything you say, but what God has said. Speak it back. Speak it back. Speak it back.

[28:08] Look at that child and tell that child you will speak at the right time. You will not be dumb. You will speak. My child, I speak it to your life. You will speak. My child, the teachers are saying that you will not do well academically.

[28:19] But I speak it to your life. You will do well. Even the unborn child, you can prophesy. You will not have Down Syndrome. You will not have a medical condition. I speak it to your life.

[28:30] Speak your faith. Don't sit down for things to just happen. If you sit down for things to happen, the bad will happen.

[28:40] look at your house. Look at your garden. Look at your kitchen. If you sit down for things just to happen, your meat will go rotten.

[28:54] You have to take it and put it in a refrigerator. You have to get up and clear the weeds in your garden. And the foxes will stay there. It will be a forest.

[29:06] Brothers and sisters don't say God will do it will do it. No, he has put responsibility in our hands and in our mouth. In fact, much of your future is in your mouth.

[29:18] mouth. So what does that mean? If much of your future is in your mouth, if you shut your mouth, you have shut your future.

[29:36] Don't let what you say be what everybody is saying and what the systems are saying. So what the medical conditions are saying. And that's why you keep repeating. The doctor said there's nothing they can do about this.

[29:47] The doctor said there's you keep telling everybody. You keep repeating the same thing. What have you found out in God's word? The doctors, this is what they are saying, but I'm fine.

[29:58] I know I'm blessed. I know these things will change. I believe in a miracle working God. Say it. Don't let them know. I believe in a miracle working God.

[30:09] You are not saying the doctors are lying, but you are saying what God can do. Speak shut up.

[30:19] Say I will shut up. I have a goodly heritage. The lies have fallen for me in pleasant places.

[30:34] I have a goodly heritage. The lies have fallen for me in pleasant places. I have don't be quiet.

[30:47] Don't be quiet. That won't work for you. It's like you don't want the government and you won't vote. What others want is what you win. Don't be quiet.

[31:00] Don't be quiet. There is power in what you are saying, whether you believe God or you don't believe God. That's the creation order that you can be an atheist and speak and whatever you are speaking you have it.

[31:16] But in this matter, there is a difference between positive confession and the confession of faith. The confession of faith is you found something in God's words because he said the other day in Psalm 16 verse 6 that the lines are falling for me in pleasant places.

[31:37] I have a good lie. Why don't you say it? Believe it and keep saying it. Believe it and keep saying it. On your way from the hospital, believe it and keep saying it.

[31:49] Stop falling everybody. They said, you know what they are saying now? I don't even know what to do. I'm so confused. Can you shut up? Please, can you shut up? You are not confused. You have God's fuse. You have God's fuse.

[32:00] You have God's fuse. The fuse said, speak your faith.

[32:12] Act your faith. The woman said to herself, then Jesus stands to her in verse 34 of Mark chapter 5. He said, daughter, your faith, so you have it, it can work for you.

[32:24] He said, your faith has made thee whole. Go in peace. You have been, go in peace. Daughter, thy faith has made thee whole. What made her who?

[32:36] Her faith. And how do we see her faith? We saw what she was saying and how she was acting. Sometimes our confession is very contrary, opposite to what we are doing.

[32:50] I don't understand how you are praying, God, this year, turn it around for me. Amen, I believe God. And when we close, you are saying something else. Things are hard, you know. I don't even know how I'm going to pass through this.

[33:03] Many people cancel the answer of their prayers by their confession when they finish with. I see the supernatural getting involved. The beauty is you don't take credit for the supernatural.

[33:16] God does. God does. So God is actually, his intention is to use your situation. To throw his weight about. So people can see that the most high God rules in the affairs of Philah preaching.

[33:30] that all the living may know. Daniel chapter 4. That all the living may know that the most high God rules in the affairs of men. Verse 34. Rules in the affairs of men.

[33:42] God rules in the affairs of men. So he wants to use your situation to show that the heavens are mine, the earth is mine, and reign over all.

[33:53] Praise the Lord. Quickly, when you go wherever they act movies, or they are doing recordings, TV, most proper to you, you always hear this word, action.

[34:05] Action. If you want your life to be colorful, the way you want, you must wait for certain actions. Action. Action. Now, most of us keep postponing our actions, but we'll come to that.

[34:18] Number three. Number one is what? Number two? Number three. No, no, no, no. Action is under faith.

[34:31] All right, I got you. Action is there. Number three is fasting. Esther, in Esther chapter 4, verse 16, he said, gather the people and let them fast for me.

[34:43] Me and my maidens will also fast, and then I'll go before the king. And when she went before the king, which was against the law, everything turned in her favor. The narratives can change, you know.

[34:58] The narrative will change. It's just that. Let the supernatural get involved and the narrative will change. The narrative will change. Praise the Lord.

[35:08] So Esther prayed. Now, in 2nd Chronicles chapter 20, verse 3, when the enemies came against Jehoshaphat, the Bible said, and Jehoshaphat feared and set himself to seek the Lord and proclaim a fast throughout Judah.

[35:24] A fast. He proclaimed a fast and the outcome of the fast was in the verse 15, God spoke. God said, the battle is not yours.

[35:36] They fasted. When they fasted, now you see, the whole game plan changed. God said, the battle is not yours, but the battle is God's. He said, tomorrow go before them. And verse 22, the Bible said, and when they began to sing praises, God sent ambushment against their enemies.

[35:51] God sent ambushment against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seah, which were come against Judah, the one who was praying and fasting. And they were smitten.

[36:05] The enemies were smitten. They were scattered. I see God scattering your enemies. You see, even the amen, the way you see it, it's a reflection of your confession. Wait, wait, let's try it again.

[36:20] I see God scattering your enemies. Some enemies are getting very worried. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I see God scattering your enemies.

[36:32] I see God scattering your enemies. I see God scattering your enemies. All those who gang up against you shall be scattered for your sake.

[36:43] All those who gang up against you shall fall for your sake. God will scatter your enemies. God will scatter your enemies.

[36:55] God will scatter your enemies. shall I believe. So God scattered them. And verse 24, 24, Bible says that, I like the last line in verse 24, it said, none of them escaped.

[37:11] None of them. It says that, none escaped. That's a serious one. There were dead bodies falling to them. The people were coming to fight. What did they do? They didn't fight to. Those who were coming to fight against them.

[37:22] They didn't get the chance to fight against them. But they fought among themselves. And when they went to the battlefield, they only encountered dead bodies. And the interesting thing is that none escaped.

[37:35] Do you know how happened? After they fought themselves, they left with only two. And they fought themselves. These ones put their sword in the others. They said, you kill me. I also kill you. You can kill me.

[37:47] And they also died. None. Not one. The Bible said, not one of your enemies will escape. Not one of those who have risen against you will escape. In the name of Jesus, so shall he be.

[38:02] So, you saw when they fasted, the outcome. Esther fasted, we saw the outcome. Cornelius fasted. Acts chapter 10, Bible says that from verse 29, he was fasting at this verse 30, and an angel appeared from God to him.

[38:19] Yes. He came to us, he says that Cordelius, four days ago, I was fasted unto this hour, and at the ninth hour, I prayed in my house, and behold, a man stood, that angel appeared.

[38:36] That's a supernatural intervention. The supernatural broke into his life, because he was fasting. Please permit me to make this very clear. There's never once I've set myself aside to fast and see God and I don't see God.

[38:53] When I say I don't see God, I experience the intervention of God. God some of us are dealing with a matter concerning a child which is asking for fasting.

[39:05] You want God to intervene not on your terms please. Not on your terms. Somebody must say whatever it takes to get God I have to do it.

[39:17] Whatever it takes. Some of us know how to get until we hit rock bottom and we realize that some things doesn't take the arm of flesh. Use that ability.

[39:28] Jacob knew how to get things done. So he used that to pursue God. That ability, that inherent ability he had, he used it to pursue God.

[39:39] In other words, some of the strength you have to get things accomplished, use that to seek God. You must say whatever it takes God I will do it.

[39:52] Esther said if I perish what if I take I will do it. Whatever it takes to get God I will do it. Whatever it takes to get God.

[40:03] Don't be a believer and you see your child deteriorating before your eyes. When you can fast engage your supernatural. It doesn't matter what social influence or online influence they come under.

[40:19] The supernatural influence is stronger. engage the supernatural. Fast mom. Fasting does not kill. Fasting does not kill.

[40:32] Fasting actually makes things faster for you from God. When you fast things from God come fast. Faster. So we saw Esther fast.

[40:42] We saw Cornelius fast. Even Jesus Christ fasted. Listen the reason why fasting sometimes can be also important is because of the role food plays in our lives.

[40:55] The Bible says that some people worship their belly. It's in the Bible of Philippians. Their God is their belly. The first temptation of man was food related.

[41:09] If you can't conquer this belly God I'm telling you your life is not fully secure. It says that some people know their belly is their God.

[41:20] Their God is their belly. Whose God is their belly? Whose God is their belly? When you fast you bring this belly under some tension.

[41:33] The first temptation of man was food related. The first temptation of Christ was food. The first temptation of Jesus. When God came the devil said I will use the food means and he hasn't stopped.

[41:46] That's why the food battle is a battle. Yes. If you can subdue this God you can provoke the heavenly God into action.

[42:02] God is not always waiting for us to fast. That's why I said number one is prayer because there are some people they can't fast. They are too advanced in age.

[42:13] Someone who is maybe 92 or something or someone who is pregnant someone who is on medication might not be able to fast at that moment. Do you understand that?

[42:23] So does that make I engage God? No. The other means. The other means. But why don't you who are agile? Who is able? Why don't you use all the possible means?

[42:34] Any means possible to get God involved, get God engaged, use it and see if your condition remains the same. I see God intervening in somebody's life.

[42:47] Number four is prophetic encounter. Prophetic encounter. When we talk about prophetic encounter, what are we talking about? We are talking about the prophetic two aspects of prophetic encounter.

[43:00] The prophetic environment. Sometimes you go into a certain environment where God is so saturated. People are praying. People are seeking God like what we have been seeing during the week day priorities. Even in church atmosphere like this.

[43:14] When I said I see God fighting your enemies, it's not just preaching, it's prophetic declaration. It's prophesying something that is about to happen in your favor.

[43:26] When you find yourself in prophetic atmospheres, I am so convinced, I am so convinced that by the end of the close of business tomorrow, somebody here will have a testimony.

[43:42] That is the prophetic environment. The guy was in a place in Acts chapter 16. Paul was preaching and Paul saw this guy as Lystra he had faith to be healed.

[43:54] So Paul spoke prophetically. He commanded the guy rise up and walk and immediately because of the prophetic environment he lived and suddenly a man who has never walked from his mother who started walking.

[44:09] Why? Because of the prophetic environment he found. Don't exclude yourself from meetings. And those of you watching online, you are doing something good.

[44:20] Because you might not have the privilege of being in, but you can connect. You can because in the realm of the spirit, there's no distance. There can be somebody in this building and is not as connected as someone watching.

[44:37] But there's certainly a difference between being in the actual, watching football at the stadium is not the same watching it in your bedroom. That's a big difference.

[44:49] The boost is different. When you are in a prophetic environment, there's a major boost to your faith. There's a major boost to what the prophetic can do in your life. And that is why I'm standing here and declaring prophetically that the battle is turning in your favor.

[45:07] The battle is turning in your favor. The battle is turning quickly in your favor. In the name of Jesus. In 2 Kings chapter 3, they were almost in trouble and the king said, is there not a prophet here?

[45:31] Of whom we can inquire of the Lord? Is there not a prophet? And they saw this, Elisha, the son of Shaphat, who used to pour water on Elijah. They said, let's go to him.

[45:42] Why do we die in the wilderness when we can have access to a prophet? It wasn't the same thing in 1 Samuel chapter 9. Saul and his servants.

[45:53] Saul said, we have to go. The servants said, no, there's a man of God around. There's a seer. Let's go and contact him. Because as soon as you can enter that prophetic zone, things change very quickly.

[46:04] There are people listening to me who before, by the end of this preaching, your healing has already come. That's how it works.

[46:15] That's how it works. That's how it works. That's how it works. He said, he has sent me to preach deliverance to the captive, to preach deliverance. We preach healings. We preach miracles.

[46:26] As you are preaching, it's not only words you are preaching, but you are preaching results. You are preaching answers. You are preaching divine intervention. So shall it be in the name of Jesus. So, they went, and when they went to the prophet, the prophet said, you are a bad man.

[46:44] I don't want to do anything for you, but I have respect for Joseph, your associate. You came with a company. Because of your company, sometimes you have access. So the prophet said, bring me a minstrel, a musician.

[46:56] Because he said, I need an environment. I need a prophetic mood set. So as the musician starts playing, I will exalt you.

[47:10] Oh, I will exalt you. You are my God. You are my God.

[47:20] The Bible says that as he began to play, the hand of the Lord came. That prophetic atmosphere. So sometimes I enter into a service, I've prayed, I've prepared, but I enter into a service, as soon as I enter, I feel like a clock comes up for me.

[47:35] Because it's a prophetic environment. That is why when a prophetic grace comes on and somebody says, there's somebody here, you've been going through this ABC, I need to pray for you, and you fail to come and think that I know him, he's my neighbor.

[47:49] After church, when I get home, I'll go to him privately. It doesn't work because he's operating within the prophetic environment. So even if you come after church, it might be late because it is not him, it is the cloak, it is the office, it is the presence of the shakhinah glory that is about to help somebody, to change somebody's story.

[48:12] Shaglory! Glory! The presence. So when you talk about the prophetic, we are prophetic encounter, we are talking about being in a prophetic environment.

[48:23] Number two, we are talking about the prophet. prophet. Who is a prophet? I'm talking about an anointed vessel of God. The credible anointing, the supernatural power of God is upon him.

[48:40] So we know a man of God, whatever he says comes to pass, yes, you can see that the hand of God is on. The woman said, I know you told the husband that he's a holy man of God, let us build a special chamber for him because there are credibilities that show forth in a prophet.

[48:59] So when I talk about a prophet, I'm not talking about a prophet, I'm talking about somebody with an authorization, watch this, watch this, with an authorization from heaven to change human conditions.

[49:11] Through their speaking, through their utterances, through their engagement. As you engage them, you have engaged heaven. They are not heaven, but they are agents. They are authorized agents from above.

[49:22] So when you hear me say I speak as a prophet, I'm not saying I'm just a prophet in a prophet. I'm speaking under a certain authority. I'm speaking under a certain authorization.

[49:34] By heaven, that somebody's story is changing. Somebody's condition is changing. Did you hear the guy's testimony? He said, he said, I continued to receive the declarations.

[49:48] When God's event declared, I tap into it. Because when you sit there and think that he's preaching, he's encouraging people, he's doing well. This guy, I like the way he can talk. You are missing something.

[50:00] He's not preaching, just preaching. There's part of the preaching, there's prophetic declarations. God has authorized to change your story. That's why we shout amen.

[50:12] So when you hear it and you look like this is mine, this is supposed to be my destiny, you receive it by shouting amen. But this is said in the book of Luke chapter 4 verse 25, 26, 27, from verse 24, he said a prophet is not without honor except among his own people.

[50:34] And then he says that in the days of Elijah when the heavens were shut up three years and six months and there was a great famine throughout the land.

[50:46] Look at the next verse. It says to none. The next verse says that but to none of them Elijah sent. So Elijah was actually sent by God to the woman. It goes well preserving the woman in the time of fasting.

[51:00] He sends Elijah and when she received Elijah she had actually embraced her sustenance. That's what he said those who receive you have received!

[51:20] ! But when a belief comes to your house with authority from the court if you fight them you are fighting the court you are fighting his majesty's government when the police officer says stop your car and you drive away it's not the police officer you are dealing with you are dealing with whoever sent you are dealing with the crowd in the same way when somebody is sent by God for there is a man sent from God God is transcendent but he's still imminent he's not we are not talking about deism we are talking about theism the God who works amongst us Emmanuel is his name he still sends people he can send you an angel an angel appeared to Cornelius he said Cornelius you need help but you need an from earth so the angel couldn't do it he said send for Peter because when

[52:21] Peter comes God has come Peter was not God but he was the agent carrying the authorization from God if a king sends a messenger to come and see the king you used to be my classmate you have disobeyed the king and you face the full wrath of the king why because you downplayed the authority behind his messenger Bible says Isaiah he said God said he performs the counsel of his messengers God he performed the counsel of his messengers Abraham was in Abimelech's territory Abimelech took advantage of him unknowingly and God said Genesis chapter 20 God said you are a dead man because the man you have touched is a prophet go to him he will pray for you and you shall be restored why because God still use authorized agents and so sometimes your encounter with a prophet is what changes your life story I stand here as a prophet and I declare the things that fought against you 2025 will not be able to fight against you this year

[53:28] I stand here and I declare with the prophetic audacity with the prophetic authority I declare over your life that whatever I've been fighting people from your mother background from your father background from your past it will not be able to overpower you in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus if you believe in shout the thunder amen so what a prophet does is he gives declarations that says the law tomorrow morning by this time listen listen declarations and not only declarations a prophet also comes with instructions instructions he gives you an instruction do this in 2nd chapter 5 Neiman was to go and wash Neiman said I can't obey that instruction so then you can't have your testimony so prophetic declarations and prophetic instructions will always come with usually the encounter of a prophet the instructions you follow recently sometime

[54:35] I was preaching and I said the ones the authority or the prophet whose instructions you can't obey don't say amen to their prayers because it will not work their authority and their mantle their oil works with how they are received when you receive them you respond to them number number five is sacrifice sacrifices there's nothing that provokes serving like sacrifices that's why even your fasting should be a sacrificial element to it you know when you choose to push yourself sacrificially to seek God God cannot turn a blind eye that's why people can say if there's God why is this person pushing God is no answer when you seek God you find sacrifice we live in a generation that does even the church modern day church and modern day church system has downplayed the place the role the place of sacrifice it's all about what

[55:38] God is doing for me and I'm so important God you gotta hear me when I need something you better do it else I'll be very upset with you and I won't come to church again so are you going to go to hell we live in a generation that is about always about self discovery!

[56:02] is it a wrong thing it's not a biblical thing biblical thing is self denier in scripture a self denier is not self discovery self you deny if anyone who wants to come after me does not deny himself we have replaced it with new age self discovery in church I know who you are I know who God says I am I'm so important yeah there are that dimensions but when it's all about you you are holding the wrong end of the stick it's never sacrifice when it's all about you in times of fasting somebody must hear God God will actually make a demand and a sacrifice is so costly let me tell you the difference between an offering tithe and sacrifice an offering is what you give freely free will you give out of your resource I'm giving this to God it's up to you it's voluntary tithe really is something you give it's 10% of what you believe!

[57:04] God gave So if you! God gave you that income that material opportunity that blessing that came into your life if you believe it's God you show your commitment and your trust in his supply by giving him a tenth of it that's what tithe means so tithe is non-negotiable you give it to God and see God continue the supplies it's a statement of trust how about sacrifice sacrifice is going beyond yourself doing something something that you can feel that this thing has pushed me it's not something I will do out of your comfort zone those things move the hands of God there was a battle and God said there was a battle and God God you know when they went to the prophet prophesied after the ministry played in 2nd Kings chapter 3 verse 17 the prophet said you shall not see rain but this valley will be filled with water and the prophet said

[58:05] God will give the enemies in your hands that was a prophecy that those who are coming to fight against you God will defeat all of them and give them in your hands so go face them tomorrow as they were fighting they started defeating the enemy they were defeating and when the enemy saw verse 24 he saw that the battle was anyway he took his first son who should inherit the throne and that is the biggest price in his life he took it and slaughtered his son and Bible said when he offered him as a sacrifice suddenly there was great indignation against Israel all the heavens the cosmic systems began to take sacrifice in the spiritual realm provoke and taste in the favor of the sacrifice!

[59:02] you are claiming my son do this where is your sacrifice? don't allow your life to be void of sacrifice you won't be able to provoke the heavens I know you are trying to save save save save save if saving a spiritual person saving without sacrifice can cost you more sacrifice you want to provoke the supernatural learn the language of sacrifice because the heavens understand the heaven currency of exchange is faith and sacrifice faith and sacrifice for God so loved the world that he sacrificed his son God told Abraham in Genesis chapter 22 Abraham because you have done this thing he said I swear by myself God was so moved by the sacrifice a human being has given his only son he has waited for so long his only son for me I!

[59:58] you can't beat me Abraham has reflected what I've always planned to do and Bible said God swore because there was no one greater because there was no one greater God had to swear by himself because there is no one greater he is the greatest of all he is the highest he the most high so he saw he said I swear by myself in blessing me I bless you if you fight the descendants of Abraham you will die you won't do well your generations will perish because God has swore he swore by himself because of Abraham's sacrifice where is your sacrifice mother where is your sacrifice father where is your sacrifice sometimes we may be doing things that are convenient for us and we slap a tag on a sacrifice because your ego is in people will see that you are trying so I can come and be preaching and call it don't tell me I'm not sacrificing preaching is not a sacrifice for me many people will love to do what

[61:03] I'm doing because it makes them look very important but when you can preach so powerfully you can tell something so and then you sit down quietly for a long time that can be a sacrifice anybody at all would like the stage anybody at all would like to be a leader and commanding people every morning come here every evening stay here you do sacrifice it's your influence that is motivating you sacrifice there's nothing innate for you in the moment it looks like you are a self denier self denier self denier we live in a generation where sacrifice the word sacrifice sounds like a swear word somebody say sacrifice Cornelius sacrificed and the heavens was open Solomon sacrificed the bible said that night god said i won't wait for tomorrow that night god came down he said Solomon what do you want tell me sacrifice that's how to promote the supernatural and finally at midnight paul and salas you see the ladies the person's testimony he said i went he said about marakash marakash and be praising god singing singing singing when you praise god you raise god in your condition when you praise god you make him big in your situation so they were in prison at midnight in chapter 16 verse 25 but at midnight saul and silas prayed at midnight paul and silas were praying and singing hymns make sure your heart is praising god don't complain things are bad but praise god you receive the report from your child's school and you feel like this boy is bringing shame to our family this boy is bringing shame oh god so god oh god why are you doing this to me please don't do that don't tell god why are you doing this to me say god i praise you i give you thanks i praise you i thank you you see the medical reports you are not thanking god for the reports you are thanking god that this report will show his power in your life praise him sometimes when you are at rock bottom do praise break just do your own singing and pray without instruments without sometimes you have to just be doing your own thing i praise you lord wake up at night sometimes praise god as long as you are not disturbing others wake up at night in the afternoon go into your house the children are going to school be there be praising god i lift your name i praise you lord thank you thank you thank you see if you will not provoke his hand they went to the battle singing praises and god showed up i see the supernatural stepping in somebody's situation can you rise to your feet please i see the supernatural stepping in somebody's situation somebody is activating the supernatural somebody is provoking the supernatural and the supernatural is responding in your favor the supernatural is changing your story why don't you throw your hands and begin to praise the name of the lord begin to bless his name begin to bless his name begin to bless his name he's a god of miracles thank you for listening to this message by david entry we pray you have been strengthened and enlightened you can connect with david entry on all relevant social media platforms including instagram and linkedin you can also hear more messages from david entry on all relevant streaming platforms and the caris church app don't forget to like and share the message be blessed you as you you