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The Believer and His Priesthood: The Sixteen Laws of an Altar, Part 5
Whoever carries the superior altar carries the day (2 Kings 3:23-27) .
- The higher your level of sacrifice to your altar is the more likely you are to overcome
- Sometimes someone may raise a heavy altar against your marriage or job and you end up leaving your marriage/job
- If you see yourself facing indignation without any probable cause you should raise more heavy Altars
- How strong are your Altars? (1 Sam 5:2-7)
- You should never fight a witch who is more dedicated to their God more than you
- Do not fight out of your realm (same as in boxing there are heavyweights, lightweights etc)
- But do not be dismayed because you can upgrade your class in the spiritual realm
- You can always build your altar base such that your Altars are heavyweights but there is always something to do in order to strengthen your altar
- Your altar grows by consistent sacrifices
How to Grow and strengthen your Altar
- The body as a living sacrifice (Rom 12:1) .
- Righteousness promotes while sin demotes (Prov 14:34)
- God won’t empower Altars of believers who walk around in sin
- One cannot walk in holiness and not walk in substance
- Holiness is a lifestyle that seeks to please God (Prov 28:13)
- The sacrifice of praise (Ps 107:8) .
- Praise is a mystery that is loaded with strange order of testimonies
- It is an acknowledgement and appreciation of what God has done in our lives (Heb 13:15)
- You are not always meant to wait for Sunday and Wednesday services to praise God
- Don’t murmur and complain because it hinders your praise to God
- Through giving and sharing.
- Giving to the work of God, and giving to mankind
- Sacrificial giving is one of the fastest ways to build and strengthen your altar (Heb 13:16)
- The Prayers Of The Saints.
- Prayer will always make you to be strong in the spirit realm
- One quick way to build and strengthen your altar is when you pray for others
- When you make intercession and cry out to God it is symbolically depicted as ascending incense before the throne (Rev 5:8)
- Serving God (Job 36:11) .
- Obedience and serving will always usher you into greatness
- Don’t come to church and do nothing…find something to do!
- Grow in revelation and understanding (Acts 20:32) .
- The more you know the better you function
- It is the word you understand that answers to your life and destiny
- Grow your faith (Matt 9:29) .
- If you don’t like the place you are in now just grow your faith
- We need to keep strengthening our Altars
Case study.
- God will strengthen your altar in order for you to fight your ultimate battles
- That’s where we get the saying from the Apostle ‘don’t confront what you won’t conquer’ > this simply means you can feel the level you are operating on in the spiritual realm and sometimes for you to conquer the giants ahead of you your altar would need to be a giant kind of altar if not be patient and build up your altar.
Elijah.
- He was called to defeat Jezebel
- But in his calling he wasn’t yet ready to do some confrontations to Jezebels Altars hence he first had to strengthen his altar by doing some exploits revealing the hand of God in his life
a) Brook Cherith [1 Kings 17:3-7]
- He was fed by ravens which are considered to be stingy birds
- Through this exploit his faith in God grew which enabled his altar grow as well
b) Zidon [ 1 Kings 17:9]
- Zidon was in Zarephath and this was the home of Jezebel
- He was sent to a widower who was so poor that she was preparing her last meal so she could eat and die
- Well this wasn’t the case because this is where he got to grow his faith again and we see the woman having a supernatural sustained flow of food for 3 and half years
- He even raised the dead [1 Kings 17:22]
- Many times as believers we are fighting an enemy that we have no knowledge of. No wonder why many of us are seen shadow boxing in the spiritual realm
- Elijah was in the backyard of Jezebel and could best study her gods and practices. (KNOW YOUR ENEMY)
- This reveals the importance of spiritual mapping when dealing with spiritual opponents
c) Confrontation.
- After his mighty exploits in Zidon was he then sent to confront his enemy
- This is where he commanded that the rain would end the famine [1 Kings 18:1]
- By this time he had knowledge and understanding of :
who Jezebel’s god was
how this god was worshipped
the procedure of the worshipping
procedure of the evil altars
when that god would appear
- That is why he gave the prophets of Baal all the time he did and even provoke them to cut themselves to shed blood in honour of their god [1 Kings 18:28]
- He was then clear of what he was dealing with
- God will build you up before you take down the altar of your bloodline