The Power That Works In Us (The Press For More) by Apostle Selman

Lift your hands to Jesus; give Him all the praise and honor. Go ahead and bless Him, mighty God!
Celebrate Him for His faithfulness, and extol His name forever. Give Him quality thanks for His goodness and faithfulness. He has done all things well

Pray: Father, give me an encounter tonight, an encounter that will change my life forever in the name of Jesus Christ!

The Believers journey in the Kingdom of God is likened to the journey of the Israelites in Egypt.
The journey of the Israelites had two dimensions:
– Focus on deliverance
– Focus of entering into the promised land.
The journey had two significant phases:
– Their exodus out of Egypt.
– Drowning of Pharaoh to give them total freedom.

The Believer’s journey in this kingdom is likened to that of the Children of Isreal. This journey had two phases:
1. Coming out of Egypt: This was a focus on deliverance, to be free from Pharaoh and the Egyptians. There were two processes to the deliverance: the exodus and the drowning of the horsemen. For the Believer, there is a translocation from sin and demonic hold that happens to The Believer in the spirit.
2. Entering the promised land: After the deliverance from Pharaoh, the Israelites were still not free. On their own accord, they put pressure on Aaron to build a golden calf, serving satan.
They became distracted, by themselves because they did not have full liberty as they still had a programming within them that gave satan an edge.

You can be genuinely saved, filled with The Holy Ghost, righteous, holy, and loving The Lord, and still never come into the fullness of your inheritance in Christ.

Every week, as you come to church, realize you’re not just coming for deliverance from demons. The business with God is not always about satan, demons, and yokes, as much as there’s a place for dealing with those, but when you’re done with those, you press for the inheritance of the Saints in the light.

There are people who every time they appear before The Lord, all that they think is God wants to cast out the next available demons and free them from curses and yokes. All of that is to help give way for you to fully become the Believer you’re meant to be in growth and maturity

God’s ultimate goal is not to set the Believer free in experience. What God expects is that when the Believer has been delivered, he or she begins to press for more till he or she conforms to the image of Christ

The business of encounters with God is not always about deliverance from Satan, curses, yokes, and bondages, even though there is a place for that.
God’s goal is not just to set you free in experience from demons and principalities; when done dealing with these things, you are to press into God, to allow you the liberty to grow and become the perfect portrait of a Believer, and effective Witness in Christ.

As a Leader, don’t maintain followers. Build champions!

There is a pathway that leads to the maturity of the Believer and it is the responsibility of ministers to build the Believers to ultimately transition from ordinary people to witnesses

For a preacher present, don’t maintain followers; build Champions out of ordinary people, first from Unbelievers to Believers, to Transformed Believers, and then Empowered Witnesses.

As a Believer, your assignment is to submit to the transforming power of God, setting your mind to receive spiritual illumination at a higher dimension.

Avoid being careless every time you come to the presence of God. It should be your opportunity to grow, mature, and become a higher version of who you were before.

Every time you come to Koinonia, it is not just a continuation of a ministry; but that you receive light and are transcended in the spirit through The Holy Spirit and the ministry of a teaching priest. The goal is that the version that came to church isn’t the same version that returns.
Avoid being careless when you come to God’s presence. It is an opportunity to receive and an opportunity to grow.

Pray: Father, every dimension of grace I must step into, by grace, I receive it tonight. That which is due to me by mercy, I receive in the name of Jesus!

Prayer: Place a demand by faith, that whatever should have happened in my life by reason of The prophetic Word “The Year of Exceeding Great Reward”, it happens in the name of Jesus Christ!
I open up my heart to receive; I am a receiver tonight, in the name of Jesus! I receive Your benefits, salvation for my soul, healing for my soul and body, deliverance, honour in all its ramifications, I place a demand by faith and agree with The Spirit!

Pray: Father, for Your sake and for the sake of the Gospel, do a quick work in my life in the name of Jesus Christ!

“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.” Ephesians‬ ‭3‬:‭20‬-‭21‬ ‭(KJV‬‬)

Everything that was wrought in Christ was not just for Him, but the Believer had been made a partaker of that reality by the mystery of identification and when the Believer works with keeping the truth of that reality, the reality can be made manifest in the Believer’s life here and now.

The central message in Ephesians 3:20-21 is that of glorifying Jesus Christ, from a doctrinal standpoint.
This is consistent with the flow of Scripture, as the Bible tells us that all things were made for God’s glory. (Psalm 148:1-14)

Declare: God, in my life, be glorified!

I pray for you that everything that concerns you shall glorify the name of the Lord, in the name of Jesus Christ!

There is a dimension of praise and glory that only the Church/Saints can bring.
Paul in speaking about the desire to bring God glory notes the extent of His glory, to help us appreciate the greatness of God. He shows us the extent and vastness of God’s ability.
Anytime there is a lack of manifestation of results, God’s ability should never be part of the diagnosis, because God is ALWAYS able! (Ephesians 3:20)

It’s important that you know God is able because anytime you’re sent, you ought to have the consciousness of the might of your Sender. It’s what gives you boldness and confidence.

As Believers, the level of might of the one who sends you, whether economic or financial, is where you derive your boldness from.
No request comes before the throne of God, that causes Him to worry.

The God of heaven possesses the ability to tackle anything within human imagination, bearing in mind the infinite possibilities and mental capacities of mankind.

You need to grasp an essential truth about God: your ability to give Him glory is connected to your understanding and awareness of how mighty and powerful He is.

Your confidence as a Believer on a spiritual journey is directly proportional to your understanding and consciousness of how mighty and powerful God is.

There are experiences God does and brings into your life that make it a profound sin to doubt Him.

When God wants to build the faith of the Believer, He exposes the Believer to a level of His power that has never been seen, and that realization automatically drowns unbelieve.

Don’t be too used to pain. God is greater! Don’t be too used to defeat, frustration, and negative conditions, God is greater than your negative experiences!
Your mind through pain can build a resistance to God’s power. God is mighty, He really is!

Before your life can bring glory to God, you must first believe and know that God has the ability “To Do”.

The reason why we keep laboring on people to have faith in God is because God’s power is scarce, importing spiritual realities to this realm and making it VISIBLE for all to see.

Every Believer in this end time who desires to bring glory to God must understand the greatness of God’s power.

For Believers to accomplish great things in this end time, it is important to understand the exceeding greatness of God’s power at work within us.

Throughout history, there have been great men of faith who walked upon our earth, deserving of reverence. They wielded words powerful enough to shift climates, leaving a lasting imprint of their encounters upon the earth.
Though those figures have passed and are long gone, we are still here. What will be the testimony of our generation?

The kind of ministries that God is expecting will bring Him glory in these end times is far beyond falling under the anointing, it is about greater dimensions and expressions of His power.

f God has called you into ministry, take your time before seeking to express it. The standards have risen higher, beyond the very things you think will attract people.

Pray: Father, let my life manifest Your power, a genuine manifestation of Your power, bringing many to Christ.

In diagnosing the limitations in our results, we ruled out that it was a problem with God’s ability. Never has God been confronted with a problem that surmounted His power. It is NEVER a power problem.
Never allow your mind to think that it is because God was incapable that results did not happen. Rule out incompetence on God’s part.

Never has God been confronted with a situation that is insurmountable.

Prophecy: I pray for you; may God reveal His power in your life in such a way that will humble you, in the name of Jesus Christ!

No one would dare despise prophecies if there were clear empirical proofs and evidence of their effectiveness in the lives of people.

When people lift their hands and shout “amen” to prophetic declarations, they often do so with a sense of hope that it works, but many are weighed down by disappointments due to a track record of seeming lack of potency and unmet expectations regarding the manifestation of God’s power.

We need to go back to God and ask for the real formula for the manifestation of the genuine apostolic power of God.

Declare: God is able; He is able to do!

“He is able to do” means He is able to restore, heal, and bring laughter, lifting the sick from their sickbeds.

God is urging us to stop celebrating mere shadows and press for substance. There’s a deeper level of glory waiting to be revealed.
Evangelism faces challenges today due to a lack of tangible evidence. We often discuss power, sometimes abusing it, which has led to a distorted perception of ourselves.
May God bring restoration!

Our efforts to promote church attendance using publicity shouldn’t feel desperate. There is an abundance and a rich outpouring of the Spirit that should naturally attract people to church.

Lay your hands on your head and cry: Lord, I am available, invest greater measures of your power upon my life!

We have yet to recognize that economic hardship is a strategy employed by Satan, causing people and even Believers to compromise for the sake of survival.
Some have reverted to seeking dark powers, with a plan to seek God’s forgiveness afterward.

If Jesus Christ instructed a man to catch a fish and a coin appeared, what does it take for a Believer to declare something and see it come to pass?
If we don’t contend for the power of God, a generation is rising that will say, “Justify my coming church?”

Believers must wake up and rise to a place of power.
The embarrassment that powerlessness is bringing to the Body of Christ is alarming.

We must:
– Awaken from the embarrassment that powerlessness is bringing to the body of Christ.
– Awaken from the embarrassment that powerlessness is bringing to the priesthood.
– Awaken from the embarrassment that powerlessness is bringing to Believers.

Believers must arise and cry to God to take them to the chambers in the spirit where there is power to lift and heal.

Pray: Lord, I am available in this season. Let me be one of the factors that takes away shame and reproach from Your name.

God’s power is abundant, yet it operates according to the power that works in us. (Ephesians 3:20)
These possibilities beyond what we ask or think are limited by a rule; the rule that it is affected by the power that works in us, the power available in Christ.

“According to the power that works in us” means the power of God is limited by the allowance our consecration, yieldedness, and personal press give The Spirit to manifest that power.

The way God receives glory from the Church is to make His tremendous power available to the Church.

The Holy Spirit is both the custodian and conveyor of God’s power. All power resides within His office or domain. (Acts 10:38, 1:8, 19:2)

The administration of spiritual power resides within the office of The Holy Spirit.
Most people have not incorporated a thorough knowledge of the person and the ministry of The Holy Spirit, and His office to make God’s tremendous power available through us.

It is impossible to discuss God’s power without the person and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the conveyor, the custodian, and the administrator of the power of God.

Many Believers are yet to come into rich fellowship with The Holy Spirit.
If there is a scarcity of power flowing through you, then you need to diagnose your understanding of The Holy Spirit and your yieldedness to Him.

There is a life-giving ministry of The Holy Spirit which is likened to a river, flowing from your innermost being and bringing forth rivers of living water through the ministry of The Holy Spirit. (Romans 8:2, John 7:38-39)

The Holy Spirit works in the life of a Believer through renewal and sanctification (instant and progressive sanctification): This is an inner work done by The Holy Spirit, purifying your consciousness and mentality. (Ephesians 5:26).
This inner work takes a long time; it is likened to clearing drainage and removing debris and dirts that has filled your heart.
The Holy Spirit then brings enlightenment that eventually births God’s power. (Ephesians 1:18)

The channels through which The Holy Spirit can find expression in a Believer’s life have been blocked by jealousy, pride, and flesh, causing a disalignment.
You must pray that God expands you and that if there is a need for the change of wine-skim, it happens.

Every manifestation of The Holy Spirit that seems difficult to find expression through your life is because The Holy Spirit has been forced to make do with the current level of yieldedness in your life.
You must expand your capacity!

Whenever you question God about the lack of manifestation in a situation, most often, it reflects a bankruptcy in the flow of His power.
Thus, when you pray, “God, use me,” you are essentially asking, “God, expand me.”

While we commend ourselves for the little God is doing, we must challenge ourselves; the world needs desperate answers, and it is the assignment of the church to bring these answers.

Those who align themselves with God and ask, “Lord, use me to address the world’s questions,” will emerge as the most valuable individuals on Earth.

If the Church fails to address the needs confronting society, it risks becoming extinct. But not in our lifetime! We are the generation that proclaims “Maranatha”!
“Lord, come!”
“Your power, come!”
“Your wisdom, come!”

The Holy Spirit desires to move upon The Body of Christ again because there is scarceness of God’s power.
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We forbid in our generation that one day there will be an organised confrontation against the church; never in our lifetime! We must arise and find the treasure, like the parable of the lost coin, lighting the candle, sweeping through until we find that lost treasure, demonstrating the reality of The God-life, here and now.

Your assignment tonight is to cry that that inner work of The Spirit is done in your life.

Empowerment is not the problem, The Holy Spirit is ever ready to empower individuals, but you must be ready to host heavier dimensions of The Spirit by grace, without measure.

Pray: Lord, I press for more, allowing The Holy Spirit to find expression in and through my life.
Restore the flow of authentic apostolic power, authentic manifestations of the power, and flow of The Holy Spirit. Deliver us from being noisemakers; let the margin of trial and error be eroded from our lives. Bring us to a place of accuracy and mastery, in Jesus Christ name.

Pray: Vist us with Your power, Oh God; genuine, apostolic power. Enlarge our capacities in the spirit to hold greater dimensions of Your Spirit!
Let it flow to bring healing to families, careers, and destinies. Let many again call upon the name of The Lord by the efficiency of our witness.
Do an inner work first in me; the work of renewal, cleansing, enlightenment, and empowerment. Realign me, in the name of Jesus Christ!

I pray for you: In the name that is above all names and by the power that raised Christ from the dead, as The Spirit of God is recruiting men to this unique school of The Spirit, that will emerge a certain school of Believers; believers who will become worthy hosts of His presence and power, I pray for you, by mercy and by your determination, may you be found to be one of those students, in the name of Jesus Christ

Exercise caution when it has to do with spiritual matters. Avoid using science to interpret and conclude on spiritual things.
For example, wealth answers to value, relationships, and productivity, but you also need to learn that there are virgin dimensions of The Spirit that power certain realities. There is more to learn beyond the realm of science!

What we’ve seen is just a glimpse of what exists. As we acknowledge God’s past works, we must remain aware that the Spirit is still working.
In the face of our current challenges, there are still dimensions of God we have yet to discover—economically, spiritually, and beyond.

Ask The Lord to use you: that this message will not be used against you; hearing this tonight is likened to being entrusted with 2, 3, or 5 talents. Talents are not meant to be buried; they are meant to be traded.

I decree and declare over you, let your week’s beginning, be a blessed one! Let this week be a week of favor and grace and a week where you experience the power of The Holy Spirit!
May your intimacy with The Holy Spirit grow this week! You will be more enlightened this week! The reality of your dominion will be made manifest this week, in Jesus Christ’s name!

I call forth helpers into your life! For every project you are engaged with, I declare that you prosper!
No weapon fashioned against you will prosper. And every tongue that rises against you will fall in judgment, in Jesus Christ’s name!

I declare that joy and laughter will be your heritage this week, in the name of Jesus Christ! You are protected from evil, protected from sorrow, protected from sadness, in Jesus Christ’s name!
I declare that the joy of The Lord is your strength!

I declare that you will be a Believer with a difference. I place grace upon your life; return with testimonies! Your families are blessed! The works of your hands are blessed! Your spiritual life is blessed!
I speak over your finances; let the long-awaited testimony manifest this week. Let the long-awaited testimonies of favor, lifting, and jobs; let it manifest this week in the name of Jesus Christ!

I pray that whatever made you cry in the past week, in Jesus’ name, has no power over you this week. Enjoy the grace of God, in Jesus Christ’s name!

Genuine peace and fulfillment flow from an encounter with your Creator. Jesus Christ is reaching out to you right now. He wants to give you a new beginning, regardless of your past or current situation.
Take the bold step to begin the journey of salvation by saying yes to Him. With faith in your heart, declare this prayer of salvation to receive Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour.

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