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The Blessing Code in the Living Army
God is the first army; He is the man of war and is not our kind of man. Man is a design for many things, but one of the attributes of this design includes being a warrior.
The entire concept of an 'army' was invented by God, the enemy only hijacked it. God had war in heaven (against Lucifer and other corrupted creatures) before He warred on earth.
Nothing is as formidable as the throne (posture) of God, which is why no man can be against anyone that God is for. Because He is for us, He has given to us all things freely, including His Son. (Rom. 8:32, Heb. 13:6)
God’s free gift is Everlasting Life; His nature and weapon are war. The fruit of the Spirit are terrible weapons in the spirit that can deal with spiritual wickedness in high places if man knows how to use them. (Jn. 3:16, Eph. 5:9, 22)
The fiery dart of iniquity is the highest weapon of the wicked but the shield of faith can stop this dart if man is trained to use it. Anytime a man is not quenching this dart which comes as wars within (rumours of war), faith is not being engaged. (Eph. 6:16)
The wicked and his operation are high manifestations dwelling in the high places but with the shield of faith, their strength of lawlessness can be quenched. The weapon must be operated through God. (2 Cor. 10:4)
A soldier is different from an army; an army is a soldier that is armed. To be a soldier, one must do all it takes to wear ‘the armour’. When the armour is heavier and one’s strength cannot carry the weapon, such a person is not a soldier weaved for the weapon.
The whole of God is a weapon, and this weaponry has been before creation; this is why we are admonished to put them on. This armour is not man’s; it is what God puts on. (Eph. 6:13)
The priestly garment is military armour. The responsibility/ranking of a soldier is hung on the shoulder pad, which is the same as that of the priestly garment. The military has significance in the spirit and in the natural.
In the Holy place, priests are called hosts. Likewise, the Seraphims are priests of the sanctuary in heaven.
The might of the almighty is not in His hands (arms) but in His face. The might of our oracle will determine how mighty we are.
The Seraphims mastered how to praise God by saying, ‘He who has an oracle that never ends’. They boast about their oracle because they are the only ones with eyes as they are oraculous beings.
Solomon’s design of the temple, especially the placement of the Cherubims and the mercy seat in the holiest of all, was apt. The mercy seat is the work of the body of the oracle of God. The priest and those who have their part in the holiest of all are warriors.
In Gen. 6, God was warring against spirits whose goal was to make men enemies of God, which men married by choice. These daughters of men they settled with were women with the stature of Satan that could stop their journey of sonship.
The power of hell is strong, but it cannot stand the power of righteousness. The sons of God disobeyed God because they chose a life lower than God’s standard. Satan polluted the sons of God because He wanted a reign of death; at times, he comes to church to pick things to accelerate his work. (Gen. 6:4)
God desired sons who come to a place where He could reap and harvest many men like Melchizedec- king of righteousness. God cannot judge iniquity if men have not been raised to be righteous. (Gen. 6:3-4)
Noah judged the earth by his righteous stance, God therefore, had reason to destroy the earth with water because all they who perished went to hell, most of them were not lake material. Jesus, therefore, had reason to go to hell to preach to some who were sometimes disobedient. (Heb. 11:7)
Abraham was an army which was why he could go out to war. He was different because he encountered heaven and was he was raised by God. The angels designed Abraham’s house for raising an army, bondservants who became a mighty army that took down five kings who had immeasurable earthly worth. (Gen. 14:1-2, 14)
In the same vein, God leads us in our daily activities through various natural means (that may be beyond our understanding) to train us. In the Old Testament; He was the one who killed the 5 kings through Abraham’s obedience. (Gen. 14:14)
Endurance training is one of the most sophisticated training for an army. Anyone that will endure is not by their natural strength but by the strength of their soul as what makes an army is their soul.
Men go to war for the sake of name or to get a name for themselves. However, our warfare is different, we must be interested in it to get a reward from God. But Satan wants us to give up on the battle, drop our weapons, and begin to live a life that pleases the world.
The wisdom for fabricating an army is in God as portrayed in the three hundred men of David and Gideon among various others, who went all the way to defend what they believed in. God does not need thousands to take down His enemies, He needs men who can be trained according to the pattern of warfare. (1 Chron. 12:1-2, 2 Sam. 23:8-17)
The warfare tactics was physical in the Old Testament, but that changed in the New Testament; it moved into the realm of the spirit. It is a privilege to war with spirits, it is a promotion. Wars are more than just fighting against powers or rulers of the dark places of this earth. (Eph. 6:12)
We must be skilful in our warfare against spiritual beings. We need to ascend to warring against spiritual wickedness.
Being added to the church does not automatically make one a soldier. The core promise of God is not just addition but multiplication. Satan didn’t war against additions in church but against multiplication. (Gen. 22:1-18, Acts 2:38)
The blessing of the beginning is fruitfulness and multiplication. Being blessed is to be endowed to bring forth, which might not engender multiplication. One can be fruitful, yet not be able to subdue (replenish the earth), and no one can subdue without multiplying. (Gen. 1:28)
When the children of iniquity multiply, they can dominate the righteous if they (the righteous) have not been multiplying. The secret of an army is in multiplication which is beyond just additions or numbers, but in empowering just one to be like thousands.
When God made an oath to bless Abraham and multiply his seed, He was not referring to him having many children or generations naturally. Abraham’s seed is Christ and if Christ is not blessed, He won’t come into His destiny. (Gen. 14:17-18)
The real blessing of Abraham is the multiplication of his seed. Jacob’s inheritance was Christ- which is the actual blessing, but he failed to receive all of it. The blessing kept seeking whom to rest on and eventually found Ephraim, for the blessing rests wherever the temple is. (Gen. 27:26-28)
Abraham was called the possessor of heaven and earth because he was meant to reign on the earth. For us to reign on the earth as an army of God, we must have a connection with the earth. The dew of the heavens, the corn, wine and fatness of the earth raised men as armies. (Gen. 27:28)
Jesus is a chosen seed being the only man on earth that became Christ. The Father loved Him and gave all things into His hand. (Jn. 3:35)
God also found David as a worthy carrier of the blessing, for he was a doer of God’s will. The doer of God’s will is the carrier of God's blessing; anyone that followed David or his pattern also became a carrier of the blessing.
When Jesus came, He received an appellation of the son of David. His coming changed the tide of war but Israel was unaware. Israel expected Jesus to be a ruler naturally, but He fought against the king of Rome in the spirit.
David was multiplied in the wilderness and thus could kill a lion and a bear with his bare hands. He, therefore, wasn't afraid when he confronted Goliath because of what was wrought in him and the blessing of multiplication upon him. (1 Sam. 17:26-44)
When we do the will of God, our armies will prosper. Also, a servant of God that does the will of God will witness the growth of those under him. No one should defile the armies of the Living God.
God’s intention is to raise men higher than the angels. The blessings of God are for ‘ammunition’. He wants to raise just one man to be many with many functions. This is a season/ era of multiplication to make the church an army of the Living God. This is a blessing that transcends Christ; it is everlasting. (Deut. 32:30)
Multiplication is a raising or giving of stature; to wield weapons and for it to have an effect, stature is needed. There is no military formation without stature. A refined soldier is a giant from earth to heaven.
‘Growth’ is a military term meaning ‘make men many’ or ‘multiplied’; to turn one man into many men. Christ is the first battalion/soldier of God, the next is the blessing of Everlasting Life- the vocation that will expose Christ as the highest instrument of war for God.
Growing up must begin from the earth to the heavens and to the throne: the everlasting realm, where angels and every being in the spirit will notice in every strata. An army is a tree that has found the ultimate destiny for which it sprouted.
God isn’t a spreader, He's a connector and He has His own sense of bringing things up. God prefers a ministry to grow up, not just spread. God intends to build His church as a formidable force to stop the gates or ammunition of hell from prevailing. For this ammunition not to prevail, God must raise His army as a formidable force. (Matt. 16:18)
One man on earth (Jesus) crumbled hell and angels without numbers fell. Jesus grew until He destroyed Lucifer himself; showing that as He grew, many men were being raised in him. He became a star of heaven. (Rev. 22:16)
All the stars of heaven signify the ability to turn many to righteousness. Jesus is a star who has the ability to heal men of all spiritual wickedness in high places. Anyone that can turn men to righteousness is also a star. Such a person must be an army with spiritual stature.
Armies are those who can change wicked programs to righteousness. An army has a height advantage; they are tall beings in the spirit. Instead of physical temples, God is now planting high mobile temples on earth that have more display, and higher definitions of expression than static stony temples seen in the Old Testament.
One man called Paul warred more than the other apostles that have been raised. He was a man of high stature and so could handle the entirety of Asia and spread across the world. God wants to turn us into a kind of weapon like Paul, not just natural men but superior men converging in a person called ‘Amen’.
‘Amen’ is the convergence of many battalions in one person; it signifies the finished work wrought in Jesus Christ. He is the Alpha and omega, meaning that nations or armies are in Him. (Rev. 3:14)
To be the army of the Living God, we have to know how to be a giver indeed in the spirit. Giving can attract grace to cleanse our iniquity and even natural healing/intervention, thus we must not play with it.