Build with Hari Rao

This week Prophet Hari continues the series on Tribes, and teaches on the power of alignment. We are all equally loved by God, but our experience of God’s grace is not always equal. The soul can be saved, but the experience on earth varies from person to person. There is a grace from which lifetimes of labour can be shrunk and given to you in minutes. One such grace is the power of alignment.

In the book of 1 Samuel, we see that Samuel was the man that opened heavens over Israel. He became the location for the voice of God. In the realms of the Spirit, people are locations and doors.

God’s great mystery is not a building, God’s great plan is a living House with living stones. The living stones are people with grace and treasures locked within them.

In 1 Samuel 10:5-8, Saul receives a prophecy from Samuel which says that there will be a band of prophets coming down from their place of worship, and at that time the Spirit of the Lord would come upon him powerfully and he would prophesy. As spoken, Saul prophesied. Something happened to him when he entered a tribe of prophets. He came in contact with another DNA which superseded every limitation that was upon his natural DNA. In one moment, he received training to prophesy. By instruction and alignment he partook in a grace that took a lifetime for Samuel to build.

Submission is not your limitation, submission is your elevation. We enter the courts of heaven on the merit of Jesus Christ, not on our sacrifices alone. By this principle we begin to operate in grace that we have not physically taken care of.

Submission is a revelation. You mustn’t submit out of fear or obligation, submit out of revelation. By revelation, we unlock different dimensions in people. Submission fuelled by revelation will unlock greatness and grace.

Sonship cannot be forced, it must be fuelled by revelation. That is the way to unlock the grace above your head. The heart of every father is that his sons and daughters will do greater works than himself. Your father is not the end, your father is the beginning.

In this episode Prophet Hari shares about friendship that is approved by God. Are your friends the friends of your past, present or do you see them as friends of your future? Are your friends adding to your destiny?

Many people take friendship casually. Friendships can be a clever strategy of the enemy to shift you. One conversation can change the course of your life.

One quarrel between Lot and Abraham’s shepherds caused Lot to leave a blessed place. He left a relationship that was meant to cover him. All it took for Lot to leave a blessing was a few sheep. He was sincere, but sincerely wrong.

Where did Judas find the time to fellowship with the pharisees? Judas was a true disciple at one point, but he kept certain connections alive. They still felt comfortable walking with him and talking to him. What appeared to be harmless conversations eventually took Judas away from the Master.

Jesus gave us the definition of divine friendship through the story in Matthew 12, when his mother and brothers wanted to speak to him while he was teaching. He said, “For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” (Matthew 12:50).

Entitlement is a pain. Jesus was doing His Father’s work, so the ideal response from Jesus’ mother and brothers should have been to identify who is speaking, and humble themselves to sit and hear this great voice. Instead, history and familiarity dictated their response. They stood outside. There’s only so much you can draw from a person because of natural connections.

Divine friends are the ones who do the will of God. Mary is not the mother of Jesus because she gave birth to Him, she is his mother because she said yes to the will of God. As long as Mary will continue to do the will of the Father, she is family. The relationships you have now, are they actively helping you do the will of God? Define relationships by their posture to the will of God.

Keys for Divine Friendship:

1. We cannot be friends only because of shared history. We are friends because we have a glorious future together.

2. Friendships formed out of pain are very powerful, but they can cost you your destiny.

3. Study who adds fuel to your fire

Stop listening to people who are not friends of your future. If you give someone enough of your time and attention, you will share in their destiny.

By listening to a voice that had already fallen, Eve participated in a fall that was not designed for her. By giving their attention, they began to participate in the serpent's destiny. You will fulfil the plans and the purposes of the one you are listening to! Who has your attention?

In this week’s special Prophetic service, Prophet Hari expounds from the book of Joel 2, about how there are prophets who can see a matter and there are those that can change a matter. Joel was one of those prophets that could do both.

Joel was able to tap into God and see the future and the desires of God. Not only was he able to zoom into the heart of God, he was able to pick up on the underlying plan. He told the people how to avoid disaster; by returning to the Lord with all their hearts. That required special spiritual intelligence.

It is a trademark of the friends of God that they get notice of what is about to happen. For friends of God, the prophetic is not just a vehicle for information, rather it is an invitation to change the outcome.

When you give your full focus to the Lord, you are not a victim of the times but you become a partner with the very source of life. The future is not an event that we arrive at, the future is something we build in collaboration with God. We can shape the future with intelligence from God.

You can turn destruction into destiny with Christ! God is making a way for you to exit suffering, He says return to me with all your heart. Why cry after suffering? Weep before the Lord before, and change the disaster.

The work of the Cross is both redemptive and transformative. It’s impossible to be a Jesus lover and not have godly sorrow over your sin. There must be a conviction in your soul when you are living beneath your identity. We must transform every day to reflect God accurately.

We believe that God is raising up a spotless generation, because of the redemptive and transformative work of God!

The posture of your heart that you have before the Lord is what will decide the future. Bring your heart to Jesus. Bring to Him what judgement would have been forced upon you. Consecrate that aspect of your life, and bring it to the light. What is consecrated before God can’t be judged before the same God. Whatever you honour God with is immune to judgement.

Return to the Lord with all your heart today.

Prophet Hari continues sharing the invitation to unusual favour. This week he elaborates on the verse in Luke 2:52, about how Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man. It’s a mystery how this one verse encapsulates 18 years of Jesus’ life. This tells us that there are levels of understanding, stature and favour. If there weren’t levels then there would be no need for increase. Jesus was on a constant trajectory of increase. The man Jesus was growing every second, and was not giving permission to talk about it. Therefore the requirement for favour can be that you have to hide it for some time. As we grow, there is an increasing proportion to the joy we bring to God. We should all desire to not stagnate in our favour. Increase is our portion in Christ.

Why did Jesus need to grow in favour of man? Favour with man is not just about them liking you or saying nice things about you, favour is what causes people to give their life for your cause. When you enjoy a dimension of this favour, you enter a zone where men cannot say no to you. An example of this is when Jesus approached the disciples for the first time. When they saw and heard His voice, there was an irresistible pull to His call.

There is a place in God, where you can ask whatever you want and it won’t be refused. I like to call that dimension of grace and favour the whatsoever dimension. In that place, we have to guard our hearts from asking for things. If we don’t protect our hearts, we could end up abusing that kind of favour. There is a favour with God where you don't ask for anything and yet you lack nothing. In order to not abuse it, there is a lifestyle of holiness required.

Unusual favour is something that must be given to you by the Lord. In that high place, even the laws of creation can be suspended. There is a favour where God even speaks to people on your behalf. Only the friends of God can walk into these realities. May you accept the invitation to walk in unusual favour!

In this episode, Prophet Hari continues teaching on Unusual Favour. He expounds on the life of Daniel; how he received favour from God.

Royalty is not and cannot be rushed. These distinct individuals that were selected would have to be put into 3 years of training for one appearance to stand before the king. There was a preparation required in order to present themselves in a manner that the king approved of.

Daniel understood something, that if he was called into the palace by the king, the king also had the power to kick him out of the palace, so he went to a superior power. He understood that winning the favour of the King of Kings is more powerful. There is a favour where the kings of the earth cannot fire you. If you truly stand for God, there’s no power that can cause you to fall. You can win the favour of kings without going and looking for the favour of kings. If the Lord likes you, what option does the king have? When the favour, grace and presence of God come upon you, you become irresistible. Your light causes you to become a candidate for unusual kindness.

Keys on Favour:

1- Favour is a result of you honouring God and His ways in your generation. It’s impossible to truly honour God and His ways and not enjoy a measure of favour.

2- Favour requires/demands preparation.

Queen Esther, the king’s wife, who was rightfully given the privilege to access the king, still prepared herself to make her request known. She didn’t throw a tantrum. Throwing tantrums doesn’t work with God. He wants us to learn His ways, and change our ways so that we know how to approach Him.

3- One of the blessings favour brings is access.

There’s no greater test than access. Favour has protocols. You abuse the protocol, you lose the favour. Favour brings access, and access brings information. Information brings more favour.

4- There is a situation that provokes God to have favour over your life.

When enemies hate you and fight you for no reason, you must celebrate, because they create a case for you that you can’t plead for yourself. By your conviction and love, when you put yourself in a place of disadvantage to honour God, God sees it and is moved to act on your behalf.

5-  The cost of unusual favour is unconditional LOVE

This week Prophet Hari shares prophetic utterances over the month of September, and unpacks the mystery of unusual favour. We are expecting this season to be one of many testimonies, great rewards and reports. For those who believe, it will be a time of unusual favour.

There is a favour from God that cannot be explained. There are many wealthy people in the world, but not everyone who is wealthy enjoys the favour of God. There is a misconception that receiving a breakthrough is the same as receiving God’s favour. A breakthrough is the removal of resistance. It’s possible to experience a breakthrough but still not enter the favour of God. God’s favour is a higher dimension of grace. His favour is the most precious commodity that you can possess on the earth. It is the favour of God that makes you unstoppable. It’s easy to locate a favoured individual; they cannot and will not sink. Breakthrough is a single occurrence, favour is a daily lifestyle. For the favoured ones, divine results are not occasional but a daily matter. May divine results become your lifestyle!

In Exodus 33:13, Moses requests “Now therefore, if I have found favour in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favour in your sight.” He goes on to say, “Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?”

The favour of God is the nearness of God; the manifest presence of Jesus. The proof of favour is God going with you. When the Lord smiles upon you, your presence is confirmed with a superior presence. What makes us distinct is the manifest presence and glory of God coming with us. We stand out by hosting a measure of His glory.

Before Moses made his request, God promised to grant them victory and the supernatural. He was assuring them that He would fulfil the promise He made to Abraham and take them into the promised land. What more could they ask for? It’s possible to have all the evidence of God’s presence without God in your life. We don’t just want results, we want results with God! We don’t just want the fulfilment of the prophecy, we want God in it. We don’t just want movement, we want God in that movement.

The favour of God brings a revelation of His ways. His presence brings understanding. There are people that witness the acts of God, and then there are those that have the mind of God. There are degrees of favour and knowing God. The primary function of favour is to know Him! Favour unlocks God.

When we compare Zechariah and Mary’s divine encounters with an angel, we see that they asked similar questions but Zechariah was made mute, while Mary received answers. Why is that? The mystery is found in the greeting. To Mary, the angel called her highly favoured. Zechariah was getting an answer to prayer. That means that you can receive answers to prayer and still not be considered favoured. Mary didn’t pray any prayer, and yet because she was highly favoured, favour qualified her for answers and understanding. In the realms of the Spirit, you need to be qualified to ask certain questions and to receive certain answers. Zechariah was in a place to receive results, but not to understand how they would happen. When you are highly favoured, you receive things that you didn’t pray for!

When you find favour with God, divine information flows to you, the opposite is also true. May you grow wings and take off this month!

This week, Prophet Hari continues in the Spirit Life series. In this teaching, he shares how to increase your spiritual range.

In 2 Corinthians 10, Apostle Paul speaks about God-given spheres of influence. This is important because we serve a God of perfect design and order. He has a way of organising power, authority and spiritual rank. If we have all been assigned a sphere of influence, then we must know the boundary of grace upon our lives.

Paul describes the geographical boundary of his grace when he says that Corinth exists within that boundary. He had jurisdictional and territorial authority over them. From this we learn that we cannot rule beyond the measure of the grace that is given to us. Your grace has a boundary according to your assignment and nearness to God. When God calls you, He calls you with true grace, power and authority (rank). Our boundaries can be pushed and expanded. God places boundaries for our protection; they stop us from going into error. It’s a sin to leave your boundary. When you don’t honour boundaries, bondage is the future. We know this by the Scriptures that describe the angels that did not stay within the limits of authority that was given to them. We see time and time again in the Scriptures that jumping a boundary brought about judgement.

Studying from the life of Daniel, we learn that when he prayed for understanding he was hindered by a principality for 21 days. It gives us insight about how the realms of the spirit work. We see that there can be resistance over a territory. A spiritual conflict brought about a delay in natural time. There is a measure of strength given to spiritual beings. The principality had enough power to resist the angel Gabriel. When the same angel came to Mary there was no hindrance in his passageway because she was located in Israel. That means there are also points of entry in the realms of the spirit. Gabriel was sent to Daniel like a spy to deliver information, but because of the resistance, the angel Michael had to come down to assist him. There are angelic beings that watch over nations. Everything that happens in the world is a result of what’s first happening in the spiritual world.

The reason why Gabriel was resisted was because he was carrying information that would expose the plans of the enemy. It was given to Daniel what the kingdom of darkness was planning. What does the enemy know about your future that you don’t know that he’s fighting you for? The enemy always fights future glory and who you will become.

The intelligent in the bride of Christ study their life, have an understanding of boundaries and rules their sphere of influence well! The range that you cover in life is determined by your proximity to God. The closer and higher you walk with God the more time shrinks for you. When that happens, you are able to see more than most people.

Continuing in The Spirit Life series, Prophet Hari teaches on The God of Order. In 1 Corinthians 14:33, it states “For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,”. We serve a God of order. When we think of order, we often think of rigidity, but our God is not that way. He is a God that predetermined a way for us. The God we serve is a God of design, intelligence. There is a system for the things that issue out of Him. While it may look random or not make sense by the human mind, everything that precedes from God is intelligently designed and has an order to it. When you study God’s order, you’re understanding a portion of His Spirit. His order is the prescribed way a thing must function. We serve our highest and best when we function the way God designed for us to function.

In Mark 5:9, it says, “And Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” Even the kingdom of darkness understands the principles of order. A legion is a highly organised unit. The Spirit realm is a highly sophisticated environment where order is clearly understood and executed. Every being knows its place.

When the presence of Jesus descends upon you, it brings a certain understanding of how things were designed and meant to operate. The presence of God brings perfect order in our lives. When we host His presence daily, it brings order to our family life as well. There is a method of parenting that comes from the place of the Spirit. There is a divine order that supersedes the natural order.

In every circumstance, above the wickedness of man, there is an unseen and divine hand of God. When the nearness of God and His favour comes upon you, enemies that are stronger than you begin to fail and fight each other. The nearness of God brings confusion to the camp of the enemy. When divine order comes, it brings chaos in the camp of the enemy.

As you become a mature believer, divine order becomes a part of you. As you read and hear this message, may God bring divine order to your life.

This week Prophet Hari continues in the Spirit Life series, deep diving into the teaching of The Lifestyle of Spiritual Giants. The Kingdom of God is a Kingdom of honour. If we don’t learn and grow in this principle that is designed to encourage and elevate people, we run the risk of plateauing or even declining in our life. If honour is a culture then the enemy has a counterculture which is the culture of dishonour. As a society, we are constantly being bombarded by these two systems.

Every day you must make the choice of which system you want to belong to. Honour is the posture of heart we must develop in order for the truths to follow in this teaching to work for us. What is honour?: 1- Honour is an accurate assessment of God’s deposit on an individual. It’s important for you to see people the way God does, and in order for that to happen, you must have a window into the heart and mind of God. It is easy to honour those who are already highly decorated in life, it doesn’t require revelation. You are a true child of God when you meet an individual, and you don’t see the accolades yet in your spirit you’re able to weigh and assess the deposit God has in their life. When you have a view of that, there is a corresponding response which is to honour what God has honoured. 2- Honour is a reflection of who you are. It’s an expression of how well you have understood the kind of vessel God has made you to be. The culture of honour requires you to remember who you are, and respond to life from that place. 3- The culture of honour requires you to conduct yourself in such a way, because you represent another Kingdom, and you represent the Most High God on the earth. Let's now get into the lifestyle of spiritual giants. Every great man and woman of God in the Bible understood the power of prayer and sacrificial giving. In a child of God’s life, there is a great need to develop an intimate prayer life. There is a connection between men and women of prayer and generous givers. As lovers of God, we do not give because of the law, we give because of revelation. We give because we know who our God is. It is the DNA of a spiritual giant to be an addictive generous giver. 

The last principle we will discuss today is the key of consistency. God is looking for people that are very consistent in their commitment to God and obedience unto God. Anybody can be great once in a while, but to be truly great you must repeat certain things over and over again. There is power in doing the right things consistently.

This week Prophet Hari shares keys on how to grow in your spiritual life. The greatest possession we can have in our life is the presence of God. There is nothing more valuable than His presence. The way that we are transformed into His image is by beholding the glory on the face of the Son of God. The more we see the Son, the more we become like Him. To become like Him, you must know Him. We serve a gracious God, when we take steps toward Him, He takes steps toward us.

The first principle for your consideration is, 1: Without dispute, the lesser is blessed by the greater. We are all equally loved by God, and all believers can walk boldly to the throne of grace, but that doesn’t mean that there’s no arrangement of grace and authority in the Kingdom. By alignment, we can connect ourselves to a greater light. We can find a greater light and come under the influence of that light by the instruction of the Holy Spirit. A good mentor is an accelerator to your spirit.

The second principle is, 2: Study your associations. You become the company you keep. The fastest way to change your life is by monitoring and changing your company. May God give you a company that elevates your spirit.

The third principle is, 3: Be in an atmosphere where the Word is not just appealing to your soul, but is mentoring your spirit. When the Word goes deeper than your soul, it begins to shape your spirit. In order for a Word to touch your spirit it must be born in the Spirit. Listen to preachers who can minister to your spirit.

The fourth principle is, 4: Dig deeper in the Word of God. Don’t stop reading when your soul is moved. Study further, meditate until you hit the Spirit behind the Word. Study until the Spirit that is in the Word leaps out at you. The Word must become flesh.

The fifth principle is, 5: Obedience is a catalyst, it provokes a response from God. Train your flesh to submit to the Spirit of God that is calling you. As you obey, new dimensions of grace are opened to you.

This month, overcome and obey at all cost. May you gain understanding in the Spirit realm. There is a blessing reserved to the overcomer and the one who obeys.