Father of light, we thank you for always showing us your light and divine directions. We look up to you for blessings today and receive an abundance of them in Jesus’ Name!

We all know that we are KINGS, and we know that we are PRIESTS. The only thing many don’t know is HOW to live as a king and as a priest. In Revelation 5:10, it is stated that God has made us kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth. To be a KING means to dominate in the physical affairs of life, while the priesthood is for the spiritual realm. That is why all kings have a chief priest. However, we know David as a king who was also a priest. Therefore, God wants this combination in us as believers. To rule, you need to practice FAITH.

To have faith, you need information.

Tonight, let’s talk about PRIESTHOOD. The priestly office is mainly the PRAYER OFFICE. In the Old Testament, a priest stood between God and man, offering prayers on behalf of the people to God. A priest is someone who has control in the spiritual realm, and gaining control in the spiritual realm is all about prayer. Many today are complaining about demonic oppression and dominion, but Jesus talked about the basic ability of believers, which includes the ability to cast out demons, as mentioned in Mark 16:17. The first thing is the casting out of demons, meaning it is the simplest. The second is speaking in new tongues. Many of us can speak in new tongues, but demons are still casting us around. The reason is that we have failed to take our position in our priesthood office. We are still acting as someone who is begging the priest to intercede on their behalf. A priest is in control of their dreams and spiritual affairs using the tool of prayer. The problem, therefore, lies in prayer.

When you dream and see a snake bite you, what are you supposed to do when you wake up? You are supposed to pray. But many are praying and yet still failing to occupy any priesthood office. So, what does that mean? It means THEY DON’T KNOW HOW TO PRAY.

The first problem with prayer is that many do not know that there are different kinds of prayer. For example, a lady wanted to quit her teaching job because she didn’t like the class they assigned her from the beginning. I asked her if she wanted to quit or command the school authority to change her class. She said she wanted to command the School Authority. When she prayed, what she typed out was just nonsense. She thought she had prayed, but she only said many things without truly praying. I taught her how to pray over that kind of situation, and when she resumed, the principal called her and changed her class. Ephesians 6:18 instructs us to pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. The biggest mistake of believers towards prayer is that we don’t realize that there are different kinds of prayers for different situations. We often think that everything is about asking God to do something for us, like asking God to heal or provide. This approach may yield occasional answers, but when we don’t get the answers, it’s because we have failed to apply the right key. Our healing is not with God; our healing is with us.

There are three approaches to prayer that a priest must know: rebuking the devil, claiming our blessings, and commanding angels, human spirits, and situations.

When you rebuke the devil, you are casting him away in Jesus’ name. You don’t ask God to help you cast them out, beg the devil to leave, or cry at the devil. If a disease looks demonic, rebuke it to go out.

We also claim our blessings, as stated in Ephesians 1:3, where it is clear that God has already blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms. We need to understand the tense used in the scripture. When we see “has” or “have,” it indicates a past participle tense. If someone has already given you something, you don’t need to ask for it again. Instead, you claim it. So, if you need money, you can say, “Devil, take your hands off my school fees of 200,000 naira in Jesus’ name! I receive (claim) my school fees of 200,000 naira in Jesus’ name.” That’s how we reign as priests, that’s how we pray.

Additionally, as priests, we have the authority to command angels, human spirits, and situations. The real essence of a person is their spirit, and just as evil spirits can control and manipulate people’s spirits, we have the ability to do the same.

For instance, if you want a change in your circumstances, you can command the spirit influencing your boss to release your salary. We rebuke the spirit, claim what is rightfully ours, and command the spirit to obey and pay us.

It is important to note that there are certain things we ask for in prayer, such as grace and mercy. These are the things we are permitted to ask from God. However, we should also claim what has already been provided, like healing and blessings. Many times, believers have misunderstood the concept of asking in prayer. We don’t need to ask God to heal or bless us because He has already done so. Instead, we claim those blessings and speak them into existence.

To truly learn how to pray all kinds of prayers and receive answers, we offer a course called the School of Prayer. This course provides comprehensive guidance on effective prayer, and there is currently a 100% discount available. Investing your time in acquiring this knowledge will be beneficial for your life.

In conclusion, by understanding our roles as kings and priests, we can live in dominion both in the physical and spiritual realms. Prayer is the key to unlocking our priestly authority. We need to learn how to pray effectively, recognizing the different kinds of prayers for various situations. By rebuking the devil, claiming our blessings, and commanding angels, human spirits, and situations, we can manifest the power and authority we have been given. Let us cultivate a strong prayer life and experience the right results.

#4 You resigned into NOTHING.

This is the biggest cause of HUNGER among full-time ministers. As you know that I am an advocate of full-time ministry but I have had to caution a lot of people. This year alone, I have received up to three people who pressed me that God wanted them to go into the ministry full-time. They said God asked them not to work, not to school but to just serve or pray. They didn’t really have any ministry they are running. They sounded so bold that I lacked words to say. They said GOD SAID, so, what will I say? I just kept praying for them and kept checking on them. To the glory of God, all those I know, who were my disciples are now back serving God and pursuing their careers. They have not built ANYTHING let alone talk of RESIGNING into it. Only old people and widows are permitted to resign into SERVING & PRAYING and not young people who still have their full life to live. Check your Bible (Luke 2:36-37, 1 Timothy 5:9-10). The Church or ministry is expected to feed those set of people and they can live around the church. They are not expected to have much need except food and shelter. No Android phone or TV subscription. Think about it. Is that what you said God has called you to do?There’s another category of people who believed God has called them into full-time. They have started something “ministry” but they went full-time before their time. The truth is, when God speaks about the future, He says it as if it is now. Many think it is time but it is not. They run from their masters thinking they have learnt all they need. Some never had any master to start with.To some, it is time for them to go full time but the ministry they started is not yet ripe. They have failed to build their ministry into the stature required. There is “starting a ministry”, there is ” organizing a ministry”. Baptist Churches usually have two dates for take-off. On the signpost, you will see something like: “Established on September 17th 2005″, ” Organized on January 2007″. Your ministry is organized when you have a viable body of leadership running it and a clearly tested system of activities. This could happen the same day you started or weeks or years after. But such structure sustains the work such that without your personal earning, the ministry runs itself.The last set that resigned into NOTHING are those who were called to BUILD A MINISTRY but thought they were called to RUN AN ITINERANT Ministry. I thank God I discovered this earlier. It only took a few months. I had thought I was resigning so that I can attend to ministerial invitations only for me to resign and the small invitations I was getting stopped coming. During those periods, I was beginning to see HUNGER face to face. I wasn’t taking SADOZ seriously. I was just running it like a part-time job. What I wanted were invitations. Holy Spirit called my attention and said: “If you resigned so that you can be an itinerant minister, then you have resigned for the wrong reason”. I was shocked because SADOZ, to me wasn’t a task that required full-time attention. On that spot, Holy Spirit explained His vision for SADOZ to me. That was the day I actually resigned into SADOZ full-time. I began to labour seriously as if I have no other life. I stopped visiting friends unnecessarily or going to irrelevant events or wishing for invites. I began to BUILD as the Lord helps.I hope you find direction in this article. Comment for links to parts 1-3.

AGAIN ON HOUSE CHORES
Getting help for your wife starts with you. It is really not about money but your mindset. You, the husband, is your wife’s first help. My permanent chore in the house is plate washing. So, if anyone comes around and washes the plate, the person helps me.

Her second help is technology. You should be deliberate in buying tools & machines that relieve kitchen stress. After our wedding, the first thing we bought was a blender, followed by a fridge. That was before we got a TV or settee.

The third help is guests, friends & relatives that come around for visits and to spend some days. If they sleep over and eat food then, they should help one way or the other even if they are the husband’s siblings.

Then you talk about CONTRACT or PART-TIME DOMESTIC WORKERS (as your finances increases). My wife had never needed to wash heaps of clothes since our marriage. We always sort it in different ways. These days, we sort it by inviting someone to wash and get paid. I iron my wife’s clothes.

Then, we talk about LIVE-IN people be it family members, domestic staff or whatever. They are in to help as well. “Husband’s family members living in (more often than none) are more of an additional burden than a help to the wife”. You may want to read that twice.

Talking about meals. In our early days in marriage, I used to feel no one should cook for me other than my wife but because I am not wicked, that changed. If you have good electricity, bulk cooking with a helping hand is a big relief. You can portion it into the freezer. Another option is her making the soup & stew while you or someone else make the meal. She can cook sometimes and other people (live-in or staff) cook most times. Bulk buying of foodstuff is also a massive relief. If you can afford someone going to the market on your behalf, do it. And again, it’s not all about money but mindset. The last time my wife went to the market to buy foodstuff was a long time ago.

When you have a baby, you need help as much as you are capable of getting. I don’t think it can be too much at this point. Again, the most important place to start is the mindset either you earn low or high.

Personally, I hate house chores. I am a “purpose” person. I want my wife to fulfil her purpose and pursue her dreams. House chores are a big obstacle to this if it’s not taken off the road as much as possible. A number of times, I do tasks in the house even when there are people around to help. Nobody should live for chores.

Always remember that the Proverbs31 woman (virtuous woman) is a Proverbs31 woman because she has a lot of live-in domestic staff.

There are two cheat codes for deliverance.

Engage the demon to tell you it’s legal stand.

Don’t get too deep conversing with demon else, you’ll be charged with a crime called “consulting a medium”. But from experience, you can’t cast some demons out until they reveal or you know their legal stand. I have seen cases where until we loosed the attachments on the lady’s head, the demons didn’t leave. Not that attachments are demonic, e get why e be like that, if you want to learn, ask ni, don’t argue.

Another case, she was coming to my house. She quickly wiped her eye brown (hope I get it).

She met us praying. She fell and started manifesting. Demon told us she used a friend eye paint. We didn’t seen any on her but we cleaned the eye with water. We cast, demon left. When she woke, I asked her. She said ” BUT I CLEANED IT BEFORE GETTING HERE. That’s one of the reasons our apostolic fathers banned all these things. Again, eye paints are not demonic- e get as e follow.

Second cheat code –

After all effort and tarry. Get the person to talk if they know of any legal standing for the demons. Anything at all. THEN, LET HIM DELIVER HIMSELF. This is a case of the door being locked from inside, you can’t open it from outside. He should open from inside with a simple CONFESSION. Then pray for him. FAITH & SHALOM.

I made a post on the easy way to handle deliverance where I stated my experience in some deliverance sessions. I mentioned cases demons refused to leave their hosts until we had loosed the attachment on the person’s head and a case we had to clean the eyes’ paints. Deliverance ministers will tell you that they experienced a lot of cases like this. And this is one of the reasons the apostolic fathers of faith totally condemned the use of those items.

However, I added in the post that those items are not demonic but there’s a reason demons may demand cleaning them or losing them before they could depart their host. I will explain this by citing Rebecca Brown MD. Rebecca Brown is a topmost deliverance minister that resides in the USA. She doesn’t deal with witches, wizards and possessed people, she deals with SATANISTS. I mean real Satanists and not the ceremonial ones. Those that hold meetings with Satan and demons. They have covenanted with him. She has delivered some top-ranking Satanists. She said Lucifer once appeared to her threatening her PHYSICALLY (not a vision). She was attacked by a werewolf. She said a male friend of hers who I believe is her husband was attacked by a vampire. Not in the dreams but PHYSICALLY. I tell you this so you know she’s an authority in the field of deliverance. I learnt many things about deliverance from her.

Talking about attachments, paints and so on, she explained that those items are used when Satanists hold their meetings with Lucifer. Ex-Satanists confirmed this to her. Because of that, demons could easily attach themselves to those items. Other factors could aid this to happen anyway. Most especially the person’s spiritual life just like the lady I prayed with. She was low spiritually. She borrowed eye paints from a friend in a tutorial class. That way, a demon was passed unto her.

To be on the safe side, if you must use these items, PRAY OVER THEM, CAST OUR DEVILS AND ANOINT THEM. I usually anoint any new thing we bring or buy into the house especially the ones we have to use or wear.

As I flashed back on those days when I was neck deep into deliverance, casting and binding, I was asking myself, if I am in a deliverance session today and the demons asked me to lose the hair of a lady before they can leave, will I obliged? I guess, I won’t. I will lay my hands on the hair and break their grip over it. If she bought the hair, she owned it and the devil cannot lay claim to it. I haven’t put this into practice anyway because I haven’t been much involved in “casting out” in a while. The few I get involved with didn’t take me through this route. I will be on the lookout to put this into use. If have any experience in this line, do share.

Should I tell you that it is not all demons in deliverance sessions that SPEAK AUDIBLY? Some don’t speak at all and some talk in the spirit. You need to hear them spiritually before knowing what to do. This happened in Jesus’ ministry. It is a post for another day. If you demand it, I will write on it.

Still in the mood of anniversary, Every SADOZite are to share their SADOZ encounter story, Use this format that will be posted shortly to write the story in the comment box, it will reach the president and be published for all to see

1.Name:

2. Who introduced you to SADOZ/How did you get to SADOZ?:

3. Who is your best leader in SADOZ/the person that planted you in SADOZ?:

4. Tell us how SADOZ has been a blessing to you:

5: Which study or SFA topic has been a great blessing to you?:

6. What is that thing you love most about SADOZ?

7. Have been in any KBI course before? Share with us your experience:

8. Have you been to retreat, MAS or LFR before, share with us your best moment:

9. Where do you see this ministry and yourself in the next 5 years?:

10. Do you have any recommendation to the house? Please go ahead

11. Pray for SADOZ

Hurray!!!

Sons And Daughters Of Zion [SADOZ] Global Harvest Ministry is 9 years old today May 1st, 2023.

You are having 3 things to do today:

1. Drop the story of who added you to SADOZ or how you heard about SADOZ in the comment box.

2. Tell us how SADOZ has affected your lives as well and the aspect of SADOZ you loves lot.

3. Text or call the person that added you or planted you into the ministry to say THANK YOU.

N:B- You can drop any suggestion you have as well for the ministry

#2 You mix God’s money with your money.

Many GOs, founders and presidents of ministries dabble into God’s offering committing the sin of Hophni and Phinehas. They say to themselves: “God’s money is my money and my money is God’s money”. That’s sacrilege.

Bishop David Oyedepo told us a story of a man of God he went to preach for. After the service, the man dived to where they were counting the offering and dipped his hands into the box. He took some cash and drove off. While on their way, he stopped the car, got down and came back with sardines, bread and orisirisi in his hands. Bishop exclaimed: “is it the money you took from the offering box that you used to buy all these things?” He said: “Yes, we are going to take care of the man of God, isn’t it?” Bishop said- “God forbid I eat from that money”.

Nobody counted the money.
Nobody recorded it
And he is not going to report how it was spent to anyone.

We can’t even begin to mention the consequences this act is costing you and the ministry.

First, to take unaccounted money leaves others with the power to do the same when you turn your back.

You are building trust issues around yourself.

You are not preparing for a great ministry. You can do that because you are small and you will remain small.

Above all, you are heaping the curses of Hophni and Phinehas upon yourself and your generation.

In our ministry, if my family has any kobo to give to the ministry, we send it to the ministry’s account and it is recorded as a seed.

There is something called impress. If I need to make any purchase on behalf of the ministry, the money is released and I return with a breakdown to the last dime. The treasurer will put all in her records. It is the same with whoever is taking any money out to get a thing done on behalf of the ministry. That is how we run the ministry from 2014 till date. It is all recorded in a hardcover.

Taking and spending unaccounted money for whatever reason is STEALING. It doesn’t matter if you spend it on the ministry or even added your money to it. You are still a THIEF. Please, REPENT and put things in order.

THE LORD BE WITH ALL OF US. Amen

Lookout for part 3.

Link to part 1 https://healingnexusblog.com/reason-youre-poor-as-a-full-time-minister-pst-ife-adetona/

#1 Wrong expectations.

When I decided I was going to go full time, I started asking God some questions like: where am I going to live because I was staying in an official lodge? I also asked God: “WHO IS GOING TO PAY MY SALARY?”, ” Where will my money come from?” Do those statements sound familiar? I first heard it from Bishop Oyedepo as some of the questions he asked God and so I decided to do the same.

God asked me, “Who pays a Teller that works in a bank? The bank or the customers? I said: the bank.

Then, He said: customers bring money to the bank in other to save it. The Teller must not look at the customer or the money in expectation to be paid from it. I said YES.

He went on: but the Teller must attend to the customer well even though she’s not expecting to be paid by the customers or from the money that was brought by them. “YES SIR”.

Also, He said: the Teller’s salary and promotion are based on how well she attends to the customers. Again, I said YES.

Then, He explained the meaning of the illustration: I am your Employer, I am the one to pay you and not the people or your members you minister to. They will have testimonies just like customers bringing money to the bank but they are not to pay you. You must also attend to them well because that determines if you will be paid or not.

I argued: BUT IT IS MEN THAT GOD WOULD USE.

He replied: look up to God that will use men and not the men that God would use.

It is painful that pastors would labour on someone, they will have testimonies but not remember their pastors. But it is very wrong for any pastor to feel OFFENDED BY THIS. It’s like a teacher getting offended that his students didn’t pay him or bankers getting offended that customers who came to deposit a huge sum of money didn’t pay them.

It is this wrong expectation that leads to OFFENCE, BITTERNESS, CUSSING, and ANGER towards yourself and those you are ministering to.

If you feel bad, take it to God. If you’re angry, take it to God. If you feel cheated or neglected, take it to God. It is God that employed you and not those people. If you try to look up to them, the biggest they can give you is what they call ” tipping”. And if your Employer catches you asking for tips, you can be fired! Many are pastors whom God has left to enjoy the “tipping” while their salaries are withheld. Stop cheating yourself. Satan is not the one that kept you poor. Get over the wrong expectation.