God is a speaking God, he revels in the fact that he can speak while other gods cannot speak, he spoke from the beginning and through his speakings he created everything and set them to order by the words of his mouth so this underscores the importance of the word of God in our lives as believers hence why we will be studying this new series and in this new series some of the things we will be learning are as follows:

1. The Person of the Word 

2. The Dynamics of God’s speakings

3.. The Ministry of the Word which will be studied in the line of the Lordship of Jesus and the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer

4. The process  and trying of the Word

5. The Revealing of the Word

Texts: Jude 1:3, 2 Corinthians 10:4

                                                         Notes

We considered the process of faith last week, that when God sends his word which births faith in our heart, he tests the same word before the word comes to pass and the instrument through which he does this is the instrument of time. We learned that time will test the word of God in our heart and we have examples of men like Abraham, Joseph, David etc who experienced this test and came out on the other side of faith which is obtaining promises.

This test however is beyond a test, it is a warfare that we all must fight as it requires contention before we lay hold of the promise and this is called the good fight of faith. Fighting the good fight of faith is not as though we box the air, there is a precision to fighting this fight and that is what we want to consider this week as we wrap up on our series on the doctrine and operations of faith.

We have been considering this topic and so far we have learned that the only way we engage God or that God engages us as his children is through faith and that the first point of call in engaging God is to do so in the place of prayer and in doing so, our hearts are quickened to his word and through the hearing or quickening of his word in our hearts, faith is formed and it becomes the basis upon which we engage God. We also learned that when faith comes, it requires that we continually speak what has been quickened and that the more we speak, the more we believe and our belief rests upon four pillars which are: the nature of God, the will of God, the ways of God and the abilities of God.

This week, we will proceed in our teaching on the process of faith and how to fight the good fight of faith.

S. Texts: Hebrews 11:1-14, Romans 4:1-25

                                                      Notes

We have been considering the doctrine and operations of faith and it is our understanding that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God and that when the word of God comes to us, the tarmac upon which it lands is our spirit man, however for it to be fruitful and manifested in our lives, it must be believed and to believe it means we must meditate on what has been received in our spirit and meditation is basically speaking what God has spoken to us in line with 2 Corinthians 4:13.

Faith requires that we believe in God and our belief is built through our speaking but there are pillars and foundations upon which our speakings rest and we will consider these pillars today.

The Pillars of Faith

What gives effect and power to our speakings is rooted in knowing the God that has spoken to us-Jeremiah 9:24, 1 Corinthians 1:31 and knowing him rests upon the pillars of faith for it only takes faith to know God. The knowing that we have of God is what reinforces our belief in God and gives confidence and power to our speaking and this knowing rests on the following pillars:

Faith is the only system through which man can relate with God and this faith comes by the hearing of God’s word. Hearing God’s word is not about the letter but about the quickening of the Spirit of God of his word in our heart and there are two things we obtain by faith when we follow through its cycle and they are as follows:

1. Good Testimony

2. Obtaining Promises.

These two are usually received as validation of faith either jointly or separately, however the first that every man receives when they believe by faith is a good testimony, everyone must receive this as a validation and proof of their faith but not everyone will obtain the promise. The cycle of faith is the process of faith being incubated into manifestation and the test of a true manifestation of faith is in obtaining a good testimony and the promise.

God brings his people to his realm and dimension through his speakings and his speakings come as a promise to his people which forms a covenant between Himself and his children-2 Peter 1:4 and that through this speakings and promise we become active participators in his life and dimension.

There is a dimension where God dwells and that dimension is a place where God quickens the dead and calls those things that be not as though they are, in this realm when God speaks, his speaking’s are as though the matter is settled because the nature of God implies that when he speaks, the matter becomes done and settled in heaven.

We learned last week on the protocols of approaching the mountain of God and having learned that, we will consider today how to do business on the mountain of God.
Finally when we approach the Mountain of God, our first responsibility is to wait on him to see what he will say to us and upon the revelation of his will and our alignment to it we begin to do business or transact in alignment with his will. So what we do is we begin to engage the Holy Ghost by praying in the Holy Ghost until your human spirit becomes sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit and the end goal of his voice is for alignment.
The proof of alignment with the will of God is in our obedience because the nature of God is a King Spirit hence he governs our lives by his instructions and these instruction eventually birth the manifestations of which we approached his mountain.

Topic: The Ministry of Prayer-Part 3
S. Texts: Daniel 4:17, Hebrews 12:22-26, Acts 6:4
Notes
We learned last week on the protocols of approaching the mountain of God and having learned that, we will consider today how to do business on the mountain of God.
Finally when we approach the Mountain of God, our first responsibility is to wait on him to see what he will say to us and upon the revelation of his will and our alignment to it we begin to do business or transact in alignment with his will. So what we do is we begin to engage the Holy Ghost by praying in the Holy Ghost until your human spirit becomes sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit and the end goal of his voice is for alignment.

We learned last week that God is interested in the affairs of men and within that examination, the system through which he makes his will abound is the system of his administration which is the Heavenly Council and we learned that this council consists of the following:
1. Innumerable Company of Angels
2. General Assembly / Church
3. God the Judge of All
4. Spirits of those made perfect (Clouds of Witnesses)
5. Jesus as Mediator of the New Covenant
6. Blood of Sprinkling.

God is interested in the affairs of men on earth to the extent that bible says he rules in the affairs of men-Daniel 4:17, Genesis 11:9, Acts 17:26, Job 12:23 which means God did not create the earth to leave it just at the beck and call of man, he created it so he could function on earth through his partnership with man.

The system through which God makes this partnership happen is what we will be considering in the course of this series and that system is called the system of prayer.