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VISION Reaching our Hurting World with the Love of God in order to bring Healing and Deliverance. Our Vision incorporates the Ladder of Success: 1) Win. 2) Consolidate. 3) Disciple. 4) Send. 1) Win: Winning is all about bringing people to Christ. It is about rescuing people from this world and leading them to Christ. 2) Consolidate: Consolidating people is all about helping people clearly understand what salvation is about and what it takes to follow Christ wholeheartedly. We must be actively involved in the person’s life after conversion until they get into relationship with God and us. 3) Disciple: Discipling people is all about helping them to grow and become mature believers. It is about training people and raising them up to be good stewards of their time, their money and their gifts. We must be actively involved in a person’s life to love them, help them grow and become mature in Christ. 4) Send: Sending people is all about mission and multiplication. After we disciple a person we ask them to repeat the process and disciple another person. We also plant churches as missions is a big part of our vision. Learn to get planted and grow where God plants you. Ask God for a confirmation that HOWAP should be the church where you commit yourself. The church where you will commit to what God has for you and how He wants you get involved in this church; to give back to Him is very important. MISSION To Disciple, Equip and Send SLOGAN "Experience Heaven's touch" The purpose of this church will be to glorify God in accordance with His Word, our Statement Of Faith, and the Constitution of House of Worship & Prayer Assemblies by promoting the worship of our God, edifying believers, teaching the whole council of God, administering the ordinances and biblical discipline; seeking to win the lost to Christ through personal witnessing and the preaching of the gospel; ordaining and licensing men to the Gospel ministry; carrying on a vigorous missionary program locally and around the world; establishing other local churches of like-faith and doctrine; defending the faith; and maintaining a good testimony for Christ in our community by godliness and good works. The “House of Worship & Prayer Assemblies”, while being a self-administrative body, recognises its mutual spiritual relationship with all other similar Christian bodies in Uganda and throughout the world, including other Assemblies of God bodies and Victory Family Centre Churches.

KNOW THE DIVINE DEPOSIT OF GREAT EXCEEDING POWER RIGHT INSIDE OF YOU.
Ephesians 1:19 “And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength, Amp “. Oh, the English language and all human languages have not developed the vocabulary to be able to describe the extent of this great power that is resident in you and I. That is why English words try combining the words such as in the text above, “immeasurable, unlimited, surpassing, greatness” trying to make us understand the magnitude, the superlative or highest degree of power resident in us. The power on otherwise is beyond the description by any human language under the heavens. Human languages lack the vocabulary to describe the weight of this power which is in us who believe. There is no word that can be able to exhaust the full description.
You just need the Revelation Knowledge on the magnitude (immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness) of the power of God that has been deposited inside of you and how to put that power into use.
Just pause alittle, and make this prayer, “Father, just give me deeper and greater Revelation Knowledge for the deposit of power that is in me and how to operate in it.
Give me Deeper Revelation Knowledge on the miraculous; creative miracles.
Deeper Revelation Knowledge on provision
Deeper Revelation Knowledge on healings
Deeper Revelation Knowledge in the operation in the supernatural.
Deeper Revelation Knowledge of Your power in me. Reveal and Teach me how to harness (put to use) and operate on this deposit. Teach me how to put this deposit to use in the name of Jesus Christ.
God has tremendous power flowing all the time and unless He works and energizes in our lives, we cannot bring it out. That means in order for that power to work on behalf of humanity it must be stirred, activated, energised and vitalised. But how do we stir, activate, energize and vitalise this power?
This is done by daily spending time in the presence of God, During moments of worship, Prayer, reading and meditating upon the Word of God, and setting moments of fasting.

What is the use of this immeasurable, unlimited, surpassing greatness of the power of God which is in you? Is that indescribable power resident in you and I to enable you to just do some small things?
Oh, this power in you and I has; The divine deposit to heal all manner of disease and sickness among people!
The Divine deposit to work creative miracles of all kinds!
The Divine deposit to work all kinds of miracles, signs and wonders!
The divine deposit to bless!
The divine deposit to change any situation is right inside of you. The deposit in you and I can make everything work.
God has already made an investment of supernatural power in you and I although you are still lacking awareness; you are unaware, unconscious of that reality.
The divine consciousness of the power that God has already embedded in your spirit is all that is needed for you to launch into the greater depths of the miraculous and usher a torrential stream flow of signs and wonders.

Peter understood this very well and was much conscious about the deposit of power in him; that was why he told the lame man in Acts 3, “What I have I give to you”. On otherwise, from the deposit of power that is inside of me. What was that he had, “the divine deposit of the miraculous power to heal this lame man, and to do any form of miracle. He knew what he had. He knew he was in possession of spiritual power.
You must know therefore the different aspects of power of God in a believer. There are 7 dimensions or realms of the power of God available for believers in Christ Jesus which must be put to use by each believer. These are; “Exousia, dunamis, Kratos, Ischus, Enegeia, Harpazo, and Episkiazo.” These are the seven dimensions of God’s power that the believer in Christ have over sickness, death and disease.
Without the power of God you can succeed in a lifeless large auditorium using your skills and what your fans want to hear just like the stadiums that collect many fans, but you can not see miracles, and lives changed and transformed. We have seen this in some large auditoriums pastored by motivational speakers. The churches are packed and the preacher speaking day out day in without you registering any single miracle. You can’t find any trace of miracles.
Most people are only knowing of the Exousia and dunamis but have no knowledge of the remaining 5 aspects of power. We need to understand the 7 different aspects of the power of God and how we can tap into each aspect. There are 7 Greek words that describe the aspects of the power of God. The 7 Greek words that describe these 7 aspects are; Exousia, Dunamis, Kratos, Ischus, Energeia, Harpazo, Episkiazō.

  1. Exousia ἐξουσία power is the authority of a believer in
    Christ. It connotes to the power that comes through your position of authority in Christ. It refers to authority, jurisdiction, power of government or judicial decision. It is the legitimate power that comes by virtue of our position of son ship in Christ Jesus.
    As many as received Him, He gave power (Exousia) to become the sons of God. John 1:12.
    Exousia is the power that belongs to you in Christ. It is what you release in His name.
    The word “exousia” is translated as authority, which is a form of delegated power and it is based on your position in God. For example, a policeman has power, but that power is in the form of authority. He can stop a truck because of the uniform and the badge he wears. That is his authority. As a human being, he will not be physically able to stop the truck, but his authority allows him to stop the truck legally. He has power but that power comes in the form of authority. So, that is the illustration of what “exousia” is like.
    Else where Jesus said to his disciples in Luke 10:19 “Behold, I give unto you power (Exousia) to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. The scorpion and serpents represents deadly high ranking demonic forces but Jesus has given us “exousia” over them. Remember Jesus spoke this in response to the report of the disciples when they had gone for Ministry and demons submitted to them in the name of Jesus. This is the account of this, “The seventy returned with joy, saying, Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name! Luke 10:17
    When demons questioned Sons of Sceva in (Acts 19:14) saying, “Jesus I know, Paul I know, but who are you?” they were actually questioning their “exousia”, because it is “exousia” that gives us the right to cast out devils. These men did not have “exousia” to exercise over the demons, that’s why they were thrashed.
    The condition to receive Exousia power is to receive Jesus Christ in your life. Our scripture above says, as many as received Him, he gave the Exousia… So if you have not received Christ, you have no legal access to this power. If you tried exercising the Exousia against demons without having a relationship with Jesus, demons will teach you a lesson that you will never like or forget in life just as they taught the 7 sons of Sceva.
    If therefore you have not received Jesus Christ, why not do it right now. Just receive Jesus right now by saying this prayer wherever you are.

Dear Heavenly Father! I present my life before you today.
I confess with my mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in my heart that He died on the cross and was raised from the dead after 3 days, for the remission of my sins. I acknowledge that I’m a sinner and ask you to forgive me for all the sins I have ever committed. Wash me with the precious blood of Jesus Christ and write my name in the Book of life.
I therefore receive eternal life into my spirit right now. I declare that from henceforth, Jesus Christ is my Lord and Saviour and I proclaim His Lordship over every area of my life.
Thank you Lord Jesus Christ for saving my soul. I’m now a child of God, born again, born of the Spirit of the living God.
Amen!

  1. Dunamis δύναμις refers to the power of the Holy Ghost.
    It connotes to God’s power that comes through the Holy Spirit. It is the miraculous power. It is the power for performing miracles, signs and wonders from God.
    You shall receive power (dunamis) when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. Acts 1:8.
    In other words, you shall receive dunamis when the Holy Ghost has come upon you. Dunamis refers to an inherent power, or the dynamic ability to cause changes. It alludes to a miracle working ability; the ability to make supernatural things happen; the power and ability that’re beyond yourself!
    It denotes what we call a “doing-power,” or “working power” It also means the power of excellence and the extraordinary ability to be efficient and effective in all that you do. This is the life we have in Christ—a life of superproductivity and ever-increasing glory! This power is what you received when the Holy Spirit came to live in you. Therefore, every time the word “dunamis” is used in the New Testament, it refers to the power of the Holy Spirit. Put differently, “dunamis” talks about the ability that God imparts upon a vessel that comes through the Holy Spirit. It is that power or ability that comes from the Holy Ghost which when it rests upon a human vessel, it makes him a “superman”. That is why when the Holy Ghost came upon the disciples in the Upper Room in Acts 2:1, they burst forth into the marketplace, filled with the power and glory of God and impacted the nations.
    Moreover, when the power of God came upon Samson, he grabbed a lion like a slice of bread and tore it apart. That was “dunamis” power at work in his life. This is akin to how David overcame the lion and the bear with his bare hands. How possible is it that a man can tear a wild animal with his bare hands as if he is tearing a piece of cloth? This is only possible when operating under “dunamis” power. Dunamis power is the most explosive, electrifying and destructive power in the universe.
    It is evident on the basis of the scripture that “dunamis” power is related to the Holy Spirit. In other words, there is an intricate connection or relationship between “dunamis” the power of the Holy Spirit and “exousia” the power of the word, hence we need to analyse what happens when they come together.
    Right now, in your life, church or ministry, if you start having the demonstration of the Spirit, there will be people who are curious and those who are hungry for the supernatural coming to your meetings. This is because the supernatural draws the multitudes. But as you draw them, don’t stop there. You need to feed them the Word otherwise they will all be very shallow Christians. That’s where you bring the Word in and teach them until they are established. This is to tell you that “ dunamis ” is not enough; get some “kratos” or Word in you. Be a Word Christian; a word practitioner; the one who exhibits a voracious appetite for the word, then you will have both quality and quantity Christians.
  2. Kratos κράτος is refers to the power that is inherent in the written Word of God.
    Kratos is the power that is locked up in the Word. It comes through the Word of God. It is the dominion power. The word, “Kratos” is translated power, strength, might or dominion in the Word.

The question is: How do you draw and release the power that is inherent in the word?
When you do your devotion and meditation, the power that is released is Kratos. When you mediate on the word of God, it enters your spirit where it mingles with faith and the Holy Spirit, producing an explosive spark in your inner most being. When you speak that word out through your mouth, it enters the realm of the spirit, causing an explosion. This is what will cause the sick to be healed, devils to flee and the dead to arise. This is to show you how powerful and impactful kratos is in the realm of the spirit.

The Kratos power comes through reading, studying, meditating, and confessing the word of God. The amount of power which any believer can have is directly proportional to the amount of “Word” in your spirit. How much of the word of God is resident in your spirit is what determines the degree of power that will flow out of your life.
Unfortunately many seek after power “dunamis” but they don’t have much “Kratos” established in their spirit, hence they don’t make any significant impact in the realm of the spirit. Sadly, many believers speak the Word but their situations and circumstances do not change because the Word is not seasoned in their spirit. The Word only works when it is assimilated into the depths of your spirit.
Kratos is not just God’s word in the pages of the Bible. Instead, it is God’s Word picked from the pages of the Bible infused and mingled with faith in the depths of your spirit such that when you release it, there is a river of power that flows from your spirit.
It was akin to the experience of Peter at the House of Cornelius, whom as he began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell upon all them who heard the word. Where was this power coming from? It was oozing out from God’s word encapsulated in the depths of his spirit. How do I know that? Because the scripture says the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word. That means the word is what was releasing the kratos power over the masses.
Acts 19:20 So mightily (Kratos) grew the word of God and prevailed.

As long as you are ignorant of the Word of God, you can not be able to tap into the realm of the Kratos power. You must know well your Bible.
There was a man that God himself gave this key, his name is called Joshua. The LORD spoke this to Joshua, read it clearly: “Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying… This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” Joshua 1:1,8
This man meditated faithfully upon the word of God. And on the day he released the kratos power from within him, he was able to control nature.
“Then Joshua spoke and said in the sight of Israel: “Sun, stand still over Gibeon; And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”
So the sun stood still, And the moon stopped, Till the people had revenge Upon their enemies. [Is] this not written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go [down] for about a whole day.” Joshua 10:12-13.
This is to show you how powerful the kratos power can be when you engraft, infuse and mingle the Word of God into your spirit through reading, Studying, and meditation upon the Word of God.

Say this prayer: ” Father, open the eyes of my understanding through Revelation Knowledge as I read and study your Word. May You always release the kratos power whenever I read, study and meditate upon your Word. Open my understanding that I may understand the Scriptures (Your Word).
May You always transform and change my life by the power of Your Word every moment I study and meditate on your Word in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen”

“May you manifest the Glory of God everywhere by releasing the kratos power in doing mighty works for God.
May You unlock the power locked in the Word of God and release it into your life.
May you receive the dominion power into your life from the Word of God over situations, circumstances and every force of darkness in Jesus name.

  1. Ischus ἰσχύς is a special authority unique in its sense.
    It is the power that is inherent within a believer. It is the power that comes from within you as a believer. It is the prevailing power. It is the power of God in you, in your spirit which every believer can draw from to change his world.
    Luke 10:27 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength (ischus).
    Ephesians 1:19 And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty (ischus) power
    This speaks of the abiding power or strength to overcome which is resident within a believer. In a related scripture, when John says greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world, he speaks of this power (Ischus) that is inherent within a believer.
    This greatness is the power that is resident within a believer which needs to be taped, activated and triggered to flow. That is why the Bible says out of your belly shall flow rivers of living waters.
    It is evident that all the different powers are related. Just as Kratos is CHRIST in us through the Word, dunamis is the power of the Holy Spirit. So, Ischus is the tangible dunamis that becomes a part of us. It is the ability of God that has become so much in your life. He has become a permanent and integral part of your being. As we move into Ischus more and more, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are imparted to you and you operate in them so much that Ischus and the gifts of the Holy Spirit have become a part of you. At that level, it is very hard to divide Ischus and you anymore.
    It has been absorbed as part of you, infiltrated every fibre of your being such that it is now your second nature Ischus is the in-working of the Spirit in our lives. His graces, His ability that He places in our lives has become a part of us so much so that you cannot differentiate that which is of you and that which is of God.

When “kratos” and “ischus” come together, it produces energy working in you; changing or transforming you. See, we have to change first before we can change the world. And we need the working of “kratos” and “ischus” in us to change and transform us. And the combination of “kratos” and “ischus” is divine energy.

  1. Energies ἐνέργεια. This is power that is released AS DIVINE ENERGY from the realm of the spirit through the air.
    It is usually manifested as the anointing. It is the energising power.
    Ephesians 1:19 And what [is] the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working (Energeia) of his mighty power,

Energia is the power of God that comes directly from the realm of the spirit in the
form of divine energy. It means energy, working and efficiency. In other
words, this power works almost like electricity in the natural realm. The
word energia connotes to the energizing that takes place when those 4 Greek
words are combined in different manners. When ischus and kratos combine
together, we have an energizing that goes deep into us. When exousia and dunamis combine, we have a different type of energy that flows. It is the
energy that flows out through our life to minister to other people.
This ENERGIO is the best explanation for the anointing because
the anointing is the ENERGY OF GOD. This power originates from the
Throne room of God in the Heavens’ Power House and is released to earth every
minute as divine energy. There is tremendous power that God is releasing
from the Heaven’s Power House and such power comes as divine energy.
This was the energizing power that came upon Samson to do great things.
This was the energizing power that energized the stone of David to kill this big giant called Goliath.
This power is always released to energize one to perform special assignments and divine appointments. As long as you are carrying out a divine assignment, this enablement is released to empower you to carry out the task in the form of anointing.

May you receive divine empowerment right now so you can be able to carry out what God has assigned you to do.
May you be energised with power from the throne room of heaven. May you be electrified with power from on high do exploits for God.
May you be mightily energized with great power to carry out that assignment that God has set before you.
I speak the energizing power to fall upon you right now in the name of Jesus Christ.

  1. Harpazo ἁρπάζω This is the power of God in violent action. It is aggressive power.
    It is the power for deliverance. This harpazo power comes with territorial dominion and spiritual warfare.
    Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take (harpazō) it by force.
    There is power released from the Heavens to equip and empower the church for engagement in spiritual warfare activities. It is the power that is released during the battle, hence those who are never involved in spiritual warfare activities never get to partake of this power. That is why ministers who have taken over territories and are operating at a global level seen to be moving in higher realms of harpazo power because they have received harpazo to enable them to take over territories of the world. It is the power to dismantle violently anything that is not of God as we minister His Word of grace. This is highly explosive, inflammable and electrifying power.
    Anybody who moves in this dimension of power becomes dangerous in the spirit world.
  2. Episkiazō Ἐπισκιάζω: is the power that comes through the glory of God.
    This overshadowing comes to shed influence upon you.
    It is the highest concentration of God’s power. It talks about the possible fullness of God’s power displayed or exhibited in a particular locality. It is the power of God’s glory which He administers directly from Heaven. Episkiazō is the power that is manifested when the glory of God invades a territory. The greatest depths of miracles, signs and wonders can be reached in this realm.
    Luke 1:35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow (Episkiazō) thee.
    Episkiazō is the most important and highest element in the realm of God’s power. It is a higher realm in God’s power whereby you just become unstoppable and the devil cannot temper with you anymore. During transfiguration in Luke 9:28-34, it says a cloud overshadowed (Episkiazō) them and they feared as they entered a cloud. This represented the full manifestation of God’s power. In Acts 5:12-15, it speaks of the shadow of Peter falling on the sick. That is another manifestation of Episkiazō whereby the power of God was highly concentrated and reflected through a shadow. In Luke 1:28-35, as the angel addressed Mary, he mentioned that the power of the Highest shall overshadow her and she shall be with a son. Episkiazō is a type of power called the power of the Highest which depicts the apex or highest level of concentration of God’s power.

How do you provoke the Episkiazō power to manifest? You must create a Spiritual Atmosphere for the Glory of God to descend.
It is an atmosphere of worship that provokes Episkiazō to Manifest. The ingredients in the atmosphere of glory are continuous prayer, offerings, intercession, praise, worship, obedience, and honor. These ingredients create a spiritual atmosphere of Glory.

Therefore when you come to know the deposit of power in you, when you show up at the hospital to raise multitudes from their sick beds, it’s not whether God wants to heal them or not as some have inadvertently presumed. The question will be whether you have power or not. When you walk into a mortuary and command the dead to rise, it will not be about whether the dead have faith to be raised or not but the question is whether or not you have the power to give birth to a resurrection.

It was that awareness that caused Paul to write to the Roman believers that “I desire to come so that I can impart or give you spiritual gifts,” Romans 1:11. Someone who does not understand this deposit will reason saying, “No one can be able to impart or give spiritual gifts.” The term Paul used here is μεταδίδωμι metadidōmi; to impart, to give. Paul was certain that the deposit (the Holy Spirit) was living in him and was using him to give spiritual gifts. Since you are an ambassador of Heaven, you are the eyes of God, the ears of God, the hands of God and the mouth of God on earth.

You are pregnant with the possibilities of God; adequately equipped, empowered and enriched in every way with every Heavenly blessing which might be needed by the habitants of the earth, hence you are Heavenly qualified to be a solution to every predicament the world is facing.
You therefore need to learn how to draw from the best within you from the the inherent, creative and explosive power resident inside of you.

When you get much aware of this deposit in you, then you will not pray power down, but you will pray power out.
You must understand this, and come in terms with this deposit, if you are to operate and move mightily in the realms of the supernatural.
If you urgently and desperately need anything from God, just activate, energise and stir yourself up and make a withdrawal of power from within the depths of your spirit.
Don’t be crying out and always looking somewhere for power; instead, look inwards because power is resident in you; in the extreme quarters of your spirit. That is where He has made a deposit of an investment of His power, in what Paul penned as, “treasures in earthen vessels”. Don’t be like Moses who cried to heaven, when the solution was right at his hands. The power was right at his stand not in heaven but he was crying for the help to come from heaven. The power you need is right inside of you not in heaven. For the case of Moses, when he kept crying God asked him, what do you have in your hand. And God is asking you what is in you? You have in you “the deposit of divine power.” God was telling Moses, “Stop crying to me! Why are you making all this noise? What is it that is in your hand? Stretch it forth towards the Red sea and your way will open up.”

John Wilson Okurut

ONE TIME EXPERIENCE WITH GOD

You just need a one time experience with God.
Moses had a one time experience with God for his face to be changed. It was just one morning not the whole day. When he came out of this one day experience with God, he had his face glowing with fire. In the forty years that Moses walked with God this happened once and was one of the most outstanding day in his life, Exodus 34.
This was not a daily occurrence, it just happened once in the life of Moses. You Just need a one time experience with God like Moses that will change and revolutionalize your life forever. John Wilson Okurut

Christian Transformation

CHRISTIAN TRANSFORMATION

Christian transformation is the process of getting conformed into the image of Christ. Conformity into the image of Christ is becoming spiritual as Christ was, to walk as Christ walked! To live as Christ lived! To love as Christ loved. To have compassion on people as Christ had compassion on people! To seek the Lost as Christ sought the lost. To bear our suffering patiently as Christ did.
This does not happen by chance, but through intentional discipleship.
Conformity to the image of Christ is a process. That means it needs a discipler to be patient with his disciple (s). It is a gradual process which involves not only sharing the word of God with the disciple, but also sharing physical things, life experiences, life struggles and being open to the disciple.
The Greek word used in this process is metamorphoo_ the term used for the gradual process in the life cycle of a butterfly.
The life cycle of a butterfly when you consider it well is not an overnight growth. It is a process that takes a number of days for the beautiful butterfly to come out.
From an egg to a larva it takes 7-14 days
From a larva to a pupa it takes 10-21 days
From a pupa to an adult butterfly it takes 6-10 days

So for it to complete the whole cycle in order to be transformed, it takes days not an hour. The natural process of growth following the principle of metamorphosis must be obeyed.
When it comes to the Christian growth and change to conformity to Christ, it does not come naturally though it follows almost the same process of metamorphosis. It is not the natural laws of growth, it is the discipler’s law of diligent work on the disciple that brings change in the life of a disciple. Paul says, I travail until Christ is formed in you. Galatians 4:19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
Paul knew this that it was his responsibility for Christ to be formed in the lives of his disciples. It was dependent on him (Paul), upon his deliberate, and diligent labor and efforts. With the knowledge of this, it is possible for the person to be born again and Christ is not formed in that person if the discipler does not travail for Christ to be formed in that person. Paul was not speaking to none believers, but to people who were already born again_ Compared with an egg stage of our process of metamorphosis.

The first stage of our salvation considering the process of metamorphosis. The butterfly lays an egg and it leaves the process with the natural process of growth to complete the cycle. Compared with the born again experience and Christian maturity: The Holy Spirit birthes us into the kingdom of God_ a term known as being “born again” and then the process of growth He puts it into the hands of the discipler while He (the Holy Spirit) superintends it. But the growth and transformation in most ideal cases is left in the hands of the disciplers. That is why, if the discipler does not do his work diligently, the born again believer’ process of change can be aborted, a believer can even backslide in the same way the butterfly egg can be destroyed and the process of metamorphosis is aborted.

Characteristics of the Believer at the egg stage of spiritual maturity. At this stage of the born again experience and Christian maturity, a believer is numb, and everything is new and he or she appears dormant. They tend to get innocent and the sense of self righteous. They tend to get isolated from others as a sense of separation.
But they should not be left here, they need to be guided to a next level of growth and maturity to a larva stage of the born again experience and Christian maturity.

Stage 2_ The larva stage. Characteristics of the Believer at the Larva stage of spiritual maturity.

The caterpillar is eating to prepare for the next stage in its life cycle, when it will put those calories to use to power a startling transformation.
This is the stage of activity and disturbance of a disciple. Here they tend to be stubborn, unruly, self confident, self dependent and unsettled.
The forgotten bad habits of the old man want to re-appear and take dominion.
Their spiritual curiosity and life wakes up. They come to discover their freedom in Christ which if not controlled can cause spiritual death. They want to discover and try things by themselves. The restrictions of Christian Life (boundaries and fine lines of salvation) begin to seem legalism to them and therefore are not applied to their lives, as they begin to falsely and ignorantly think. They begin doing what is right in their own eyes contrary to biblical principles. At this level they begin to think that they have arrived, and forget that they are just on the second level.
At this stage, the discipler is to do the work of correction, guidance, instruction and modelling if the process of growth is to continue.
It is at this level that some disciplers can some times lose their cool and end up giving up with the disciple. This is the difficult stage of the growth of the disciple. They begin to use so much reason and carnality.
Identity is confused with character flaws as freedom.
If you are a disciple maker, then keep this in mind; “Disciples are not window shopped, or produced by just prayer, but they are made by teaching, being with them, training, giving instructions and corrections to them and praying for them. Jesus never produced the twelve disciples and others by just sitting down and begin praying for them, He made them by spending time with them, by teaching, training, giving instructions and correcting them and praying for them. Disciples are made, that is why Jesus commanded his disciples to go and make disciples. He said, “Go and make disciples.”

Pupa stage. Characteristics of the Believer at the Pupa stage of spiritual maturity.

At this level, a disciple experiences a silent period of testing, modelling, to complete transformation_ a preparation to fly__ manifestation. He or she must learn to endure. They begin to despise sin. They are called out for isolation, training into righteousness. Life cares, worries begin to loose their Dominion. Worldliness begins to loose it’s dominion in the life of the believer. Death to self happens here. There is separation from the world. Conformity to the Word of God begins to take a strong grip in the life of the believer. This is the time for gift and talent identification and discovery. This is preparation for revelation with the image of Christ. It is a preparation for manifestation for the glory of God.

Adult stage. Characteristics of the Believer at the adult stage of spiritual maturity.

When the first steps are complete, the disciple growth spiritually mature_ to a father in faith_ the pater in Greek. They are able to aid others through the same process of spiritual maturity. At this stage, they are able to reproduce others. This is the stage of reproduction. They are able to raise other leaders after their own kind.

Note: It is not the general rule that as long as you are born again, you automatically grow into spiritual maturity to a pater in faith.
Secondly, the process of growth is not determined by the number of specified days, months or years. Because some people can even spend all their born again lives while they remain babes. Some can grow into spiritual maturity after a number of years. And yet others can grow spiritually mature completing our process of metamorphosis within a few months.
The determinants for completing the whole process or cycle of growth is not time but it is these seven determinants for spiritual growth;
1. Spiritual hunger/ yearning
2. Spiritual Curiosity
3. The level of obedience
4. The degree of exposure to the Word of God_ through personal Bible reading, personal Bible study, Scripture meditation and reading good Bible literatures.
5. The heart of Worship
6. The level of teachability
7. The degree of commitment to prayer.

Which stage of spiritual growth are you at. Judge yourself.

John Wilson Okurut
Pastor
House of Worship & Prayer Assemblies

BIBLE TEACHING

Bible Teaching is the ability to get the verse from the Bible and write it in the hearts and lives of people so they begin living out their lives in accordance with Bible principles. When that happens you witness the greatest miracle on Earth. The greatest miracle on Earth is not the lame walking, or blind seeing; it is the change of the human heart_ that is called in Christian terminology “Life transformation.” A change of a sinner to a saint.

Pray this prayer:
Elohai, give me the heavenly wisdom, knowledge, understanding, workmanship and ability to get and to write Your Word, the Scriptures into my heart and mind and into the hearts and minds of thousands and thousands for life transformation and conformity into the image of Jesus Christ.

             _John Wilson Okurut_

BE THE LIVING COPY OF JESUS CHRIST!

BE THE LIVING COPY OF JESUS CHRIST!

People can never see Christ today in the physical form, but they can see Jesus in you today. Jesus will not come in the physical form to heal people today, but Jesus will come to heal people today through you and I by using you and I to do it. He empowers us to do the same things which He would have done in the physical himself. When He is doing it through us, he uses you to do it as though Jesus himself has walked physically on earth and doing it physically.

I am continuing to do what Jesus started to do in the mountains and hills of Galilee 2000 years ago. We are not doing anything new, but we are excavating upon those old remains of what Jesus laid when he came to earth. We are excavating upon the teachings, miracles, signs and wonders and great works that Jesus did yesterday. These things must come alive in us today if we are true disciples of Jesus. We must witness what Jesus did yesterday by allowing the risen Christ to do it through you and me today. We are disciples of Jesus. And a disciple is a student, from Latin word discipulus; meaning, a student, pupil, a learner, a disciple. A disciple in the ancient biblical world actively imitated both the life and teaching of the master. It was a deliberate apprenticeship which made the fully formed disciple a living copy of the master or teacher.
Jesus said to this effect, ” Students are to be like their teacher… ” Matthew 10:25 NLT.
Now if we are students of Jesus Christ and yet we are not doing what our teacher did yesterday in Galilee and in all Israel, it then cast serious questions of doubt whether you are really a true disciple of Christ. If you claim to be a disciple of Jesus and yet not believing on the teaching of the solid biblical truth and on the presence of the miraculous, then you are an illegitimate disciple.
Jesus healed yesterday all kind of sickness and disease among people. To be like him, you have to heal all kinds of disease and sickness among the people as one of his true disciples. When Jesus called his people, he gave them power to heal all manner of sickness and all kind of disease, Matthew 10:1,8
[1]Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.
[8]Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give. Luke 9:1 One day Jesus called together his twelve disciples and gave them power and authority to cast out all demons and to heal all diseases. Luke 10:9 And heal the sick there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ Healing is a command of Jesus to all his legitimate disciples or students.
As if that was not enough He gets them into an extravagant spectrum. Jesus says, ‘You will do what I do, and I am not insecure about anything, I tell you this out of my whole heart, ‘You will do greater things than all these things you have witnessed me do in the presence of many.” John 14:12 “Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do–that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father”
This fact of you doing what Jesus did can’t be debated or disputed about. There is no room or allowance for arguments. This is an absolute truth! What it only allows is believing and acting on it.
It only needs to be believed and acted upon and then you will begin to witness tremendous results in your life of being the student of Jesus.
Like Simon Peter, when he saw his teacher walk on water, he said, call me also to walk on it. When Jesus called him to walk on water, Just like the teacher, Peter jumped on the water and never saw water and began to walk on it.

John Wilson Okurut