Build with Hari Rao

This week Prophet Hari elaborates on the importance of abiding in Christ, the True Vine, from the book of John 15. The way of the Kingdom of God is fruit and more fruit. The only direction is upward. For the children of God, there’s no subtraction, even when something looks like a reduction God works it out in a manner of multiplication. In the Kingdom we are cleansed by exposing ourselves to the sound of His Word.

As children of God, our goal should be oneness with Him. When Jesus said “Abide in Me,” He didn’t mean it in a short term, it’s meant to be a perpetual oneness and togetherness. The goal of our Christian life is not to live for the highlights, the goal should be to carry the cloud of God, to live in it daily and to become it. It’s not enough to be touched by the fire, the goal must be to become one with the fire. When we grow in oneness we begin to think and perceive on the level of God. When there’s a need for God to speak, it also means that there’s a distance, but in oneness there’s no need for speaking. Do we speak to the members of our body in order for them to work? The Kingdom of God will be fully visible on earth when we grow in oneness.

It is impossible to abide in Him without sanctification. When we make a choice to abide in Christ, that decision alone starts a process of sanctification. Saying yes to Jesus means saying no to many other things. Holiness is an invitation to operate in the God-class; to be like Him. When we become captivated by Him everything else fades away. It’s no longer about avoiding sins, but rather about beholding Him. It’s possible to avoid sin, but still fail to look to Him.

Sanctification leads to fruitfulness. Oneness produces sanctification, sanctification leads to multiplication. There is a growth and increase that is a result of your spirituality; your spirit man growing in Christ. Growth outside of Him is not approved by God.

Multiplication happens when something comes in contact with divine grace from God. For example, the 5 loaves and 2 fish multiplied when they left the hands of the boy and made contact with the hands of Jesus. The bread became sanctified and inherited multiplication. Likewise, when the lady’s last meal made contact with the prophet, it was exchanged for a lifetime supply of grace. There is a fruitfulness that is a direct result of sanctification.

“If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” (John 15:7) There is a dimension in God where whatever you wish can be granted to you.

“By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.” (John 15:8) In you entering this realm, God is glorified. Our Lord wants us to lead a joyful life, where our joy can be full in Him.

In this week’s episode Prophet Hari lets us into a conversation from a high table, a teaching inspired by his spiritual Father, Senior Prophet Shyju Mathew.

We will be studying from John 15:1-5. In these passages of Scripture Jesus compares Himself to a vine. Jesus could have picked anything to represent Himself, for example, a mighty oak, but it’s interesting to note that He chose the vine. The vine is vulnerable, and needs constant caring and tending to. A vine requires a support system, it cannot stand on its own. It requires the strength of a structure to grow and sustain itself. Jesus depended fully on His Heavenly Father.

If you want to grow in your spiritual life, God didn’t design you to live independently. There are many ways to grow, but is your way approved by God?

Everything was given to Adam and Eve in order to succeed, they were made in the image and likeness of God, but they still needed a blessing. The question is, what did the blessing add? The blessing was the permission to go and be fruitful and multiply. It’s not enough that you have all the raw ingredients to succeed, you need the blessing of the Lord. The blessing is the difference between a son and Lucifer. Lucifer took all the anointing and went his own way. There are many ways to prosper but the only way that God ordained is to succeed with a blessing.

Jesus says, every branch that does not bear fruit will be taken away. How can you be in Christ and not bear fruit? Is it possible to develop certain disorders that stop the nutrition from the root from reaching you? It can be that your fruit isn’t evident because what you’re connected to is dying. Where you are and what you’re connected to is important. Certain nutrients may or may not reach you based on your location and association.

Jesus’ formula for bearing fruit is to abide in Him. It’s possible to be in Jesus and yet not learn to be one with Him. The key to fruitfulness in Christ is to learn how to abide in Him.

How to become One with the Lord: Our soul, spirit and body has been designed with the ability to cleave. Your capacity to cleave is determined by your capacity to leave. In life, it happens that parts of you can be deposited in different locations based on experiences and relationships. It’s time to retrieve all the parts of you and bring it to the feet of Jesus, so that you can abide in Him fully. You can’t cleave without making a withdrawal or deposit.

Pursue Oneness with the Word: Teach your soul, body and spirit how to receive the Word. You are a result of the Word you receive.

Obey the Word: It's not enough to possess it. You become the Word by obeying it.

Satan understood that Adam was the greater spirit on the earth, and he knew that whatever was given to him, Adam had the grace to multiply. He was aware that if he introduced sin, it would multiply on the earth.

The way to be fruitful in the Kingdom is by finding your place in Christ, and then understanding that whatever the spirit cleaves to, it has the power to reproduce it. What you feed your spirit, it has the capacity to grow it and multiply it. When you make room for the Lord Jesus Christ, your spirit begins to absorb Him.

How to walk under Open Heavens - Part 1

In this episode Prophet Hari shares kingdom principles, and the remaining keys on how to walk in the anointing.

Key #4 - Association:

Key #5 - Celebration and Honour:

The Anointing that you celebrate and honour is the anointing that will increase in your life. The anointing that you criticize will not work for you.

“These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob..” (Exodus 1:1-). In the realms of the Spirit, they were sons of Israel, but their journey was with Jacob.

Familiarity is the enemy of honour. The ones that have the opportunity to journey close to men and women of God become acquainted with their frailties and humanity. When there’s no honour the anointing stops working for you. A good father may keep a distance from you just to protect you.

There’s a language to honour. We grow in honour by studying the anointing and knowing His ways! We see perfect honour in the Trinity, because of the mutual agreement to submit.

Key #6 - Servitude:

As you grow in understanding we pray that these keys will enable you to walk in the fullness of the anointing upon your life!

Continuing in the School of Purpose, in this episode Prophet Hari shares keys on how to walk in the anointing.

Anointing is an act. The question is, what is the content of the anointing? The substance that God anoints us with is His grace (power and enablement). The anointing is God giving a part of Himself to us, so we must handle it with care and honor.

“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.” (Acts 10:38). When the anointing comes, you do good. The fruit of the anointing is good works.

Before getting into the keys, we must first mention the importance of honoring the Holy Spirit. If you only learn the keys but do not honor the Spirit that is giving the keys, the posture of your heart is wrong. The lack of honor leads people to abuse the grace given to them by doing things that are not approved by God.

If God has really given you an assignment and called you, you cannot fulfill that assignment by yourself. Divine assignments require divine energy. If it’s possible to accomplish by you alone, then it’s not divine.

It is in the pursuit of the presence of God that you fulfill the purpose of God. We need the presence to discover and fulfill the purpose. It’s possible to hear from the Lord and then go in your own strength. The arm of the flesh will fail you. Divine promises cannot be fulfilled by human efforts.

Key #1: The Nearness of God

There is an anointing and impartation of grace that comes when you are walking intimately with the Lord. Sadly, many have sold this principle as a product or a means to an end. We are meant to pursue Him for Him. There is a place in God where your life becomes immortal on earth. God causes the name of the one that walks in such a capacity to be remembered for generations.

Key #2: The Words you Receive

When God wants to anoint and equip you, He sends you a Word. The Word has the Spirit, and the capacity to recreate the world. If you don’t have a life that is built on the Word, you may receive impartations but you won’t know how to manage it (keep, sustain and grow in it).

Key #3: Tapping into your Assignment

The assignments of God come pre-loaded with the anointing of God. There is a grace given to overcome every obstacle met on the way to the promise. Wherever God sends He spends. Where there is a vision there is provision.

As you meditate on these keys, may the grace of God give you an understanding on how to walk in the fullness of the anointing upon your life.

This week we’ll be diving deeper into the specifics of how to discover purpose.

We’ll be studying from Mark 5 (Jesus Heals a Man with a Demon). The story describes a man that was bound by many evil spirits. No one had the strength to subdue him, because the spirits within him made his body strong. The Scripture tells us that the man would harm himself and cry. When nobody could hear him, there was One (Jesus) that heard him from across the sea. Child of God, may this act as a reminder for you that Jesus hears your cry.

Jesus came to his region and delivered the man from the demonic spirits. After his deliverance, the people were still scared of him. Sometimes society can be so accustomed to a demonic culture that it becomes normalcy.

The people went on to beg Jesus to leave, while many others wanted him to visit their town. The man that had been possessed begged Jesus to stay with Him.

Jesus responded by telling him to go and share all that God has done for him. He went on to proclaim in 10 cities all that Jesus had done for him.

Jesus left a miracle crusade to go after one man. By helping the one man, Jesus was rescuing the souls of 10 cities! The destiny of 10 cities was locked up in one man. Sometimes the attack on your life is proof of the destiny you are carrying. You can be a location of great spiritual activity and not even know it. God has planted something valuable in you. The devil doesn’t visit a location that God hasn’t visited first. It is the visitation of God that provokes interest.

It’s interesting to observe how the evil spirit interacted with Jesus. The spirit negotiated with Jesus by using certain principles. Instead of hiding, it went straight to Jesus. The spirits were cast out and went into the pigs, and we see that all 2000 pigs decided to run in the same direction. They were in different bodies but collectively there was a synergy between them. Jesus didn’t tell the spirits to leave the country, but then later He sent the man to deliver the 10 cities. In delivering a man, He delivered a location. When the man that God places over a location prospers, the location prospers.

We see that Jesus was willing to leave without telling the man what to do. Being saved is different from living in destiny. Salvation is God visiting you, destiny is you being with God. In the pursuit of the presence of God, you find purpose. It’s in you longing to be with Him that you are sent. When Jesus told him to go, in that moment, he was transformed. In the presence of Jesus, His assignment was made known to him. In that word, grace was given to him to be a successful evangelist.

The cornerstone principle of discovering your purpose is by being with Him. When you come to Jesus, the parts of you that you thought were dead come alive. Everything He puts in you begins to shine brighter when you are with Him.

All we need is His presence and glory. In the fire, your assignment is revealed. The greatest discovery a man finds after Christ is his assignment and purpose in God. May this message inspire you to pursue proximity with the Lord Jesus and His Word!

This week we will be continuing in the School of Purpose. We will be unveiling the revelation that purpose is a divine location.

“In Him, we live and move and have our being..” (Acts 17:28). Christ Jesus is the divine location. Everything about us begins in Him. Outside of Him, it’s possible to be very successful and not fulfill your highest purpose and original design.

The connection between pain and purpose: Pain is often the catalyst for somebody to discover purpose. A lot of people derive meaning in life because of the pain they have suffered. Ultimately, the pain was not God’s design to discover purpose. Just because He uses everything doesn’t mean that He ordained it. You don’t have to suffer tragedy to discover purpose in life. If you register to the school of the Spirit, then you don’t have to go through the school of suffering to discover purpose. If pain was the prescription, then why did God place Adam in the garden and not the valley of dry bones?

We do not extract our identity from our circumstances. We derive our identity from who we are in Christ. There is suffering that comes because of the gospel, but that’s a different thing altogether. Suffering doesn’t make us, and neither does joy, Christ makes us. God can use suffering and pain, but that is not His prescription to discover purpose.

We also don’t define purpose by happiness. We must pursue design over happiness. When we find what He has designed for us, there is joy everlasting. We are not servants of pleasure or happiness, we do what He asks us to do. We delight in doing His will.

Importance of Spiritual Location: When you encounter the body of Christ, you are encountering Christ Himself. We see this through the life of Paul the Apostle. When he encountered Jesus for the first time, he was asked “why are you persecuting me?” At the time, Paul was persecuting the children of God, but how can you hurt the body without hurting the head? By persecuting the body, he was persecuting Christ. The same Spirit that leads the head, leads the body. In this context, Paul understood the revelation of the importance of the body of Christ.

As part of the body of Christ, we must find our purpose within the body. Members that are out of order can’t serve their highest purpose or function in full capacity. Our gifts and graces find full expression in the right location. Joseph’s gift nearly got him killed in one location but was the reason for his elevation in another. If you don’t find your location, your purpose will suffer. Find the place where you are received and celebrated. It’s in an environment of honor where you discover gifts and graces inside of you that never flowed out before.

Your effectiveness and success in fulfilling your God-given destiny depends on you knowing your identity in Christ and you finding your location in His body.

Welcome to episode 2 of School of Purpose. Our desire is that you might hear this teaching not just as gathering information, but rather as the Father’s invitation to enter into your destiny.

We cannot talk about purpose without first talking about identity. Your works do not give you identity, your identity gives you works! Out of your identity flows your assignment.

2 things that contribute to the formation of your identity which leads to purpose:

1- Eternal identity: Your eternal identity doesn’t change with seasons. Once you are adopted as a son of God in Christ Jesus, you partake of His identity. Our eternal identity is derived by our relationship with Jesus Christ.

2- Functional identity: Your functional identity is decided by where God places you in the body of Christ. Your function is decided by God and is connected to the community God places you in. That location is where you are allowed to shine, and those around you compliment you. Your functional identity is never individual, because we serve a God of families. We exist in the Body to serve God and the members in the Body. Ex: Joseph’s elevation was to sustain his family as well as to glorify God. In order to understand your purpose you must learn to discern the Body and where you are placed.

The company you choose will decide your destiny. By association, you can either participate in grace or curses. 1/3 of the angels in Heaven partook in the punishment of Lucifer because they chose his company over God’s. As children of God, we are enjoying the benefits and merits of Jesus because we chose His company. Identity is directly connected to the relationships you form.

If your desire is to walk into your purpose then discern the Body of Christ, investigate where you have been placed, and begin to shine!

Welcome to episode 1 of School of Purpose. We pray that these teachings give you the understanding to walk into your God-given destiny.

First and foremost, Child of God, you must know that you are not a mistake. You are not the product of your parents' thinking, you are a product of God’s divine intention. You are here on the earth today because God planned and purposed it that way.

Know without a shadow of a doubt that God has a plan and a purpose for you.

When you shine your God-given purpose, the world around you benefits. You are the salt and light of the earth. You were created to shine. Our creator never makes junk, He only makes valuable things.

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11) Whose report are you going to believe?

Keys to Discover your God-Given Purpose

We must first lay the foundation before getting into specifics. We cannot discover our purpose without first understanding our identity. The way God assigns purpose is by first defining who and what a thing is. To establish purpose without establishing identity is to make you a servant.

God first develops who you are, and out of that identity flows your assignment and purpose. Ex: At the baptism of Jesus, when the Father spoke over Him, He shared His identity as a beloved Son. Interesting to note that He did not address Jesus as Saviour or Redeemer at that point, He announced Him as Son. The Father spoke the identity and not the function.

1- Understand the identity that God has given to you as a Child of God. Out of that identity flows your assignment. Our society is obsessed with assigning identity with function. The things you do are not your identity, be mindful not to confuse the two. Your identity is greater than your purpose. One day what you do will cease but who you are will remain.

How do we Understand our Identity?

For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. (Romans 8:29)

Your first pursuit should be to be transformed into the image of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To be like Him is the highest and the greatest purpose in life. We get to know our identity by beholding Christ. That is the will and heavenly calling of God for the Church, that the world might be able to experience Jesus through us. He is our ultimate standard.

There cannot be a discerning of the will of God without the transformation of your mind (Romans 12:2). As we set our hearts to renew our carnal minds to reflect and become Christlike, that’s the only time we’ll be able to discern the will of God.

The greater our maturity in our identity, the work that we do will be corresponding. The same God that predestined you to be conformed to the image of Jesus also predestined you for certain works in Christ (Ephesians 2:10). Our works testify of how much Christ has been formed in us.

Remember this, our purpose in life is: 1- To grow in the image and the likeness of Jesus Christ, 2- To walk in the good works that He has prepared for us.

In this episode we will be continuing on Dominion DNA, and how the dominion on the inside of you can begin to overflow into your environment.

In the book of Acts, we read the story of the lame beggar by the side of the Beautiful Gate, and Peter and John offering something superior than money to him. They were declaring that they had something superior inside of them, more valuable than riches and gold. They were demonstrating that they possessed a DNA that was not crippled. This is a prime example of functioning in dominion. They offered the grace and dominion that they possessed on the inside to change the outward results.

When you experience dominion on the inside, it can’t stay inside. This dominion DNA is the Spirit life that God wants everybody to experience so that it can be shared to help others.

We can only release what we possess. Every person is carrying a spirit. Some spirits are of confusion, chaos, violence, so wherever the person goes that begins to manifest on the outside.

Peter used words to communicate what he possessed on the inside of him. The transfer happened through words. Be careful whose words you’re listening to.

God is very protective of His people. He will call men and women to be a blessing, but if they do not submit themselves to the leading of the Spirit and development of their character, God will not allow them to function in fullness because He doesn’t want that spirit to be transferred. God in His mercy gives us space and time to develop our Spirit man.

As seen in the book of Genesis, God first formed Adam and then placed him in the garden of Eden. God first forms you and then places you. He makes you before He sends you. Remember, you cannot be placed without first being formed.

If God hadn’t formed Adam first, he would have released his formlessness into the garden. After the fall, God had to remove him from his environment because his DNA became contaminated by sin. He no longer qualified to be a steward of that sacred environment.

Another example of this is seen through the life of Jacob, his father in law began to prosper because of what he was carrying. Is your environment being charged by what you’re carrying?

If you still don’t have full confidence in what you carry, it is an indication that your identity is still not fully formed. Know what you carry. The greatest Spirit lives inside of you. It’s time to rise up. Victory and dominion is your portion in Christ!

The chaos you see around you must first be conquered inside of you. You are carrying a world inside of you. There are dimensions and realms of the Spirit locked up inside of you. The world outside has to make room for the world inside of you.

The declaration of the gospel is God introducing His world to this fallen world. It was one realm exercising authority over another realm, not merely empty words. Dominion must first happen on the inside, and then spill out of you to help the world around you.