Dear Minister,
In ministry, you must find your unique grace and strenght
You must find your strength by the Spirit.
Look at Apostle Paul. By his own admission, ārude in speechā (2 Corinthians 11:6).
The Corinthians said his bodily presence was weak and his speech contemptible (2 Corinthians 10:10). In todayās world, they would say, he is not charismatic, not media friendly, not a strong communicator.
Yet his writings shook the world.
While others were impressive in speech, Paul was weighty in substance.
While others were visible in presence, Paul was eternal in impact.
Paul the Apostle wrote letters that are still governing doctrine 2000 years later.
Peter the Apostle validated him, calling his writings Scripture (2 Peter 3:15ā16).
Paul influenced the very architecture of the New Testament:
He shaped the theological framework that Luke the Evangelist would later document
He influenced the apostolic tradition that informed Mark the Evangelist
He dictated through scribes like Tertius (Romans 16:22)
He co authored with sons and brothers in the faith
Listen to how he introduces his letters:
Paul and Timothy, Philippians 1:1
Paul and Timothy, Colossians 1:1
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, 1 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, 2 Thessalonians 1:1
Paul, an apostle, and Timothy our brother, 2 Corinthians 1:1
Paul and all the brethren which are with me, Galatians 1:2
This is not a one man show. This is grace recognised, multiplied, and expressed through alignment.
So hear this and hear it loudly:
If speech is not your strength, what is your strength?
If the platform is not your lane, what is your lane?
If social media is not your flow, what is your flow?
Because ministry is not about doing everything.
It is about doing your thing by the Spirit.
But the tragedy of ministry is this:
men abandon their grace trying to imitate another manās manifestation.
Paul did not try to become Apollos.
He leaned into what was given to him and changed history.
So I say to you:
Find your thing.
Find the grace that works when you are not trying.
Find the lane where heaven backs you without strain.
Find the expression where your weakness becomes irrelevant because grace speaks.
Because in this Kingdom,
your relevance is not in doing everything
it is in doing what heaven has authorised you to do.
Dear minister,
Paulās letters to Timothy teach us that:
Ministry is doctrinal before it is functional
Character is non-negotiable
Scripture is supreme
Suffering is formative, not punitive
Faithfulness matters more than visibility
Finishing well is the true success metric
This is not merely advice to Timothy.
It is Paulās last will and testament to every generation of ministers.
And the defining line remains:
āIf you put the brethren in remembrance of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished in the words of faith and of good doctrine.ā
Anything less may produce activity.
It will not produce ministers approved by God.
(Excerpts from my latest book )
I hear this line often:
āThere are things you will not be able to change until you fast.ā
But that statement collapses under Scripture the moment you examine it closely.
First, fasting does not give the believer more power.
Christ is our power.
The Holy Spirit is our power.
The Name of Jesus is our power.
The Word of God is our power.
Fasting does not upgrade God.
Fasting does not strengthen your authority.
Fasting does not improve the finished work of Christ.
If something truly cannot change until you fast, then fasting has become the real saviour, not Christ.
But Scripture does not teach that.
Second, Jesus NEVER taught that fasting changes demons or situations.
He taught that fasting changes you.
Specifically, fasting brings alignment, clarity, and sensitivity by dealing with unbelief, distractions, and the clutter of the soul.
Remember His words in Matthew 17
The issue was unbelief, not a stubborn demon.
He did not say, āThis demon is too strong unless you fast.ā
He said, āBecause of your unbelief.ā
Fasting addresses unbelief
not demons.
Third, fasting is a spiritual discipline, not a spiritual weapon.
We do not fast to fight demons.
We do not fast to force heaven.
We do not fast to break spiritual ceilings.
Christ tore every veil that could ever stand between God and man.
So yes sir, we fast
but for the right reason
not out of desperation
not as a technology to move God
not to make things happen.
Our fasting follows the New Covenant pattern
Acts 13 ministering to the Lord
Revelation 5 priestly incense
yielding
alignment
fellowship
sensitivity
walking in the Spirit
quieting the noise
amplifying conviction
reducing unbelief
enlarging capacity.
We fast because our hearts need focus
not because Christ needs assistance.
What fasting changes is you
not the finished work.
Not the authority.
Not the covenant.
Not the victory.
And any fasting that is done to āmake things happenā is already built on unbelief because it assumes something is incomplete in Christ until you skip meals.
The truth is simple
Christ has done everything.
Faith receives everything.
Fasting helps the man who is receiving
but it does not empower the thing being prayed for.
We fast often, yes
but not for leverage
for alignment.
Not for power
for posture.
Not for results
for readiness.
We fast because the heart must be still
not because heaven must be moved.
That is the New Covenant.
Thank you sir. But let us read what Jesus actually said, not what tradition has assumed.
In Matthew 17, the disciples could not cast out the demon.
Jesus did not say, āThis kind of demon does not go out except by fasting and prayer.ā
He said, āThis kind goes not out except by prayer and fasting.ā
The question is
What kind?
The demon
or
the unbelief
Jesus already answered it Himself.
He said plainly
āBecause of your unbeliefā
not
ābecause of the strength of the demon.ā
The entire conversation was about their unbelief, not the demonās resistance. Jesus never once attributed the failure to the demon. He put the responsibility squarely on the disciplesā lack of faith.
So when He said āthis kind,ā He was referring to the kind of unbelief that was at work, not a kind of demon.
And to make it even clearer, He added:
āIf you have faith as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain and it shall move.ā
This means
even the smallest measure of faith would have handled that demon instantly.
So the idea of āa stubborn demon that only respects fastingā is not from Jesus. It is from human tradition.
Moreover Matthew 17 happened before the Cross
before principalities and powers were disarmed
before the new creation
before the believer was seated far above all rule
before the authority in His name was bestowed on the church.
Jesus was speaking to men who were not yet born again
men who had no indwelling Spirit
men who had not yet received power from on high.
In that old covenant moment, prayer and fasting helped them deal with their unbelief, not with demons.
Demons do not become weaker because you skip food.
But your heart becomes more aligned, more yielded, more attentive to God
so the unbelief that blocks authority is weakened, not the demon.
The demon in that story left instantly the moment Jesus spoke because demons are not the problem.
Faith is the issue.
Unbelief is the mountain.
Fear is the hindrance.
If demons needed fasting before they obeyed, Jesus would have fasted first. But He didnāt.
He simply rebuked the spirit and it left.
So what is āthis kindā
This kind of unbelief
This kind of spiritual dullness
This kind of inner instability
Prayer and fasting deal with the man, not the demon.
And now after the Cross
after the resurrection
after the name above all names was conferred
after believers were raised and seated far above
after every demon was placed under Christās feet
Prayer and fasting do not strengthen your authority
They strengthen your alignment.
The demon was never the problem.
Unbelief was.
And Jesus said it boldly.
That is the truth.
And it is liberating.
Thank you sir. This is an important question, and the answer lies in understanding what Paul meant by āwrestleā and how Ephesians 6 actually frames the battle.
Paul did NOT say we wrestle to defeat principalities.
He said we wrestle against them.
Not for victory
but from victory
and in their defeated state.
Let us break it down.
1. The āprince of Persia worldā is over
Daniel 10 described principalities that were armed, empowered, and legally able to intercept heavenly traffic.
But Colossians 2:15 announces loudly
āHe disarmed principalities and powersā
So yes
Their weapons are gone.
Their authority is gone.
Their jurisdiction is gone.
Their ability to intercept is gone.
What remains is not power
but schemes
lies
accusations
suggestions
deceptions.
They operate through strategy, not strength.
2. What then does āwrestleā mean in Ephesians 6
The Greek word āpaleā does NOT describe two equal forces competing.
It describes close contact resistance
an attempt of a weaker foe to destabilise a stronger one.
Wrestling in this context is not
āstruggling for victoryā
but
resisting from victory.
Proof: read the chapter in context.
3. Paul never said āfight to winā ā he said āstandā
Count it.
Ephesians 6 says:
āStandā
āWithstandā
āHaving done all, standā
āStand thereforeā
Four times he commands āstandā
Zero times he commands āattack.ā
Why?
Because the war has BEEN won.
The believer is not trying to conquer darkness
but to hold ground in Christās finished work.
Wrestling is essentially
standing unmoved
while a defeated enemy tries to push you off what Christ already gave you.
This is not Danielās world.
No prince of Persia is blocking anything.
This is a defeated enemy attempting mind games.
4. Ephesians 6 is not about āhow strong demons areā
It is about how to remain unshaken in the triumph of Christ.
The armour is not for warfare
It is for standing.
The belt of truth
The breastplate of righteousness
The gospel of peace
The shield of faith
The helmet of salvation
The sword of the Spirit
All of these are realities of the new man in Christ, not tools for fighting to overcome demons.
Paul was showing us how to stand firm in what Christ already accomplished.
5. So what is the wrestling
It is the daily confrontation with lies, accusation, deception, fear, and illusion from an enemy who knows he is defeated.
We wrestle them
in their defeated state
not to bring them down
but to refuse their attempts to bring us down.
We are not trying to stop them from blocking heaven
They can no longer do that.
We are refusing their mind games, suggestions, and deceptions.
The wrestling is not against a powerful foe
but against a powerless foe using schemes.
6. Summary that aligns everything
The prince of Persia era ended at the Cross.
The disarming of principalities ended the age of interception.
Believers are now seated far above where conflict used to occur.
The only arena left is the arena of deception and resistance.
And we wrestle by standing, not by striving.
We hold our ground in Christ.
We enforce a victory that is already given.
We resist a kingdom that already fell.
So Ephesians 6 is not contradicting victory
It is teaching us how to operate inside victory.
We wrestle, yes
but in the same way a crowned champion wrestles off a desperate challenger who has already lost the match.
We fight no battle for triumph
We stand in the triumph Christ already won.
Daniel lived under an era where principalities were ARMED.
Their thrones were valid.
Their interference was legal.
Their resistance was recognised in the heavens.
So yes the answer came day one, but a territorial prince stood there and blocked it for twenty one days.
Not because Daniel was weak.
Not because he needed a longer fast.
But because the BLOOD had not yet spoken.
Because the CROSS had not yet stripped the rulers of darkness.
Everything that delayed Daniel existed in a world before Christ stepped into death and crushed the spine of every principality. This is part of the faultlines of the Old Covenant that the book of Daniel exposes. And this is exactly why the New Covenant is called a better covenant that took care of everything the old could not fix.
But hear this loudlyā¦
When Christ died, He did not negotiate.
He DISARMED.
He STRIPPED.
He HUMILIATED.
He TRIUMPHED.
What fought Daniel did not survive the Cross.
Christ did not just win a victory
He reconfigured the entire spirit realm.
He disarmed principalities and powers, and more importantly situated the believer seated in Christ FAR ABOVE principalities and powers.
Not just above.
Far above.
A realm they cannot climb and cannot contest.
The same realm that blocked Danielās answer is now under the feet of the One who raised us up and seated us with Him far above every power and every name.
Daniel prayed from the ground.
We pray from the throne.
Daniel hoped the answer would break through resistance.
We stand where answers originate a realm where interference cannot exist.
This is why for us every delay must be situated in the broader context of believing that you have received and abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Delay for the believer is not a spiritual warfare zone it is a posture issue. We do not wait for heaven to break through. We thank because heaven has already answered.
You are not fighting to get a message past the heavens.
You are seated far above the heavens.
You are not begging through a blockade.
You are functioning from the right hand of Majesty where no prince can stand.
This is why New Covenant believers do not fast to break demonic barriers.
Christ already broke them.
We do not fast to move a prince.
The Prince of Peace already crushed them.
So why do we fast and pray even more passionately today
Because our model is Acts 13.
āAs they ministered to the Lord and fastedā¦ā
Their fasting was not a warfare strategy it was ministry to God.
A posture of worship.
A yielding.
A burning of incense.
And our picture is Revelation 5
the golden bowls full of incense,
the prayers of the saints rising before the Throne without interference, without delay, without obstruction.
We fast because we are priests.
We pray because incense must rise.
We minister because we stand before the Lamb who already triumphed.
Not striving for breakthrough
standing inside breakthrough.
Not fighting for victory
operating from victory.
Now let this shake the room
Danielās delay is not your template.
Danielās warfare is not your blueprint.
Danielās twenty one days were the story of a world where darkness still had weapons.
We live in the world Christ reconfigured where those weapons no longer exist.
Your story is written in blood
the blood that silenced the accuser,
shattered the princes,
and enthroned the believer far above their reach.
There is no prince of Persia in your heavens.
There is no twenty one day blockade over your answers.
There is no demonic checkpoint between you and the Father.
Daniel lived before the triumph.
You live inside the triumph.
So when you fast, you minister.
When you pray, you incense the throne.
When you speak, you speak from the seat of victory
the place where Christ reigns and where no darkness can stand.
This is the New Creation reality.
This is the Gospel.
This is the loud truth that silences every delay forever.
A very,very serious question from the ongoing school of ministry...week 4
Question-
Sir,
I have been listening to you for a season now and from your teachings you come across as a very balanced teacher especially during the ongoing school of the ministry.
God has used you to open my eyes to many things.
However I have some concerns and I believe what am battling is a transgenerational curse...
...i believe the anger of moses that showed up many generations after was an offshoot of the curse upon levi pronounced by Jacob...or how how do you explain moses the meek man in one instance of anger missed the promised land...
I also believe some of the issues I face in ministry are transgenerational and are stopping me from reaching my Promised Land.
( posted by permission)
My answer-
1. Yesātransgenerational curses may be real and there are instances, but more real is the finished work of Christ.
We do not deny that ancestral or evil patterns exist. In fact, many believers, especially early in their walk, still battle the effects of them. This is often because believers are at different levels of spiritual maturity, light, and the renewal of the mind. A born-again spirit can be victorious, but if the soul is unrenewed, patterns can still operate through ignorance, fear, or religious bondage.
However, the solution is not to empower the curse, but to exalt the victory of Jesus. And thatās what I teach. Thatās what I write. Thatās the basis of my latest book, Breaking Evil Patterns on the Faith Lane. The book doesnāt deny the warfareābut it also refuses to place the believer as a victim under endless cycles. It teaches how to walk in victory, practically and positionally, from a new covenant standpoint.
Before we go further, let me now directly address the question:
Was Moses under a transgenerational curseāspecifically the curse on Levi by Jacob?
Let scriptures speak
2. Jacob did not curse Leviāhe judged Leviās anger.
Let the Scriptures speak clearly. In Genesis 49, Jacob prophesied over his sons:
āGather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last daysā¦ā ā Genesis 49:1
Of Simeon and Levi, he said:
āCursed be their anger, for it is fierce; and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.ā ā Genesis 49:7
Read that carefully: Jacob did not curse Levi. He cursed Leviās anger.
Just like God did not curse AdamāHe cursed the ground for Adamās sake.
It was a judgment on temperament, not a curse on destiny.
3. Moses was not under a generational curse. He was judged for unbelief, not for bloodline baggage.
Letās hear Godās own verdict on why Moses didnāt enter the Promised Land:
āBecause you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.ā ā Numbers 20:12
From that statement, it is crystal clear: It was not Leviās curse. It was not Mosesā anger. It was unbelief. And this was not just Mosesāit was the verdict over the entire generation that came out of Egypt:
āSo we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.ā ā Hebrews 3:19
Unbelief was the reason a whole generation fell in the wildernessānot bloodline issues, not transgenerational cycles.
Even in their most rebellious state, Balaamāa prophet hired to curse themāwas forced by God to proclaim a contrary truth:
āThere is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel.ā ā Numbers 23:23
So how can the people God refused to let be cursed suddenly become victims of a generational curse when God has already said no enchantment, no divination, no curse would work against them?
Let me share with us one of the questions from the ongoing school of ministry...it speaks to a lot of ministry things...I have the permission to share...but name withheld.
Sir, Iāve been following you for years now, but I must say what really drew me in was during that heated moment when Pastor XYZ was being attacked on Twitter. You stepped in to defend him with calm, scripture, and honourāeven when the attack shifted towards you. You were misquoted, misjudged, yet you never retaliated. No insults. No drama. Just calm, truth, and maturity. That incident marked me. Since then, Iāve read all your postsāeven though I donāt comment. Iāve noticed you never ride trends, you donāt attack others, and your posts always go deep into Scripture, sometimes in ways Iāve never seen before. My question is: what is the secret to this level of maturity, consistency, and restraint in your online ministry?
(This question came from a senior minister in Nigeria.)
My response:
Thank you for this thoughtful question. I remember that moment vividlyāwhen Pastor XYZ was being dragged publicly. I didnāt speak to score points. I spoke because I live by a deep conviction: if love canāt guide your truth, then your truth is incomplete. I wasnāt trying to win arguments. I was trying to maintain alignmentāwith Scripture, with the Spirit, and with the integrity of ministry.
And to your question: this is not just a social media strategy. This is my life philosophy. It is a posture. A consecration. A way of seeing people, truth, correction, and conflict through the lens of Christānot culture.
1. I donāt post to reactāI post to reveal.
Social media thrives on speed, outrage, and applause. I donāt. I post to reveal Christ, to establish truth, and to edify the bodyānot to respond to noise.
āWe have renounced the hidden things of shame⦠not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truthā¦ā ā 2 Corinthians 4:2
If I respond to everything, Iāll lose the rhythm of what heaven is truly saying. So, even when my silence is misunderstood, I choose itābecause silence is sometimes louder than shouting.
2. Iād rather restore than react.
When I disagree, I donāt attack. If I know the person, Iāll call. If I donāt, I pray. And most times, I hold my peace. Why? Because Iāve seen people double down in public, then confess privately months later: āWe thought this was right, but now we seeā¦ā
> āA brother offended is harder to win than a strong cityā¦ā ā Proverbs 18:19
So Iād rather win a brother than win a battle. I believe in confronting with truthābut I donāt believe in wounding the Body of Christ to prove a point.
3. I donāt build a ministry on trendsāI build on truth.
Trends are loud. Truth is lasting. Every time you speak, you plant a seedāeither in the flesh or in the spirit. Thatās why I don't chase what's hotāI pursue what's holy. Because years from now, someone will still read that post. Will it still be edifying?
āHeaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.ā ā Matthew 24:35
4. I speak from consecration, not competition.
I know why I was sent. That clarity keeps me consistent. I donāt need to trend. I donāt need to clap back. Iām not called to everything. Iām called to build, equip, and align. I stay within that grace zone.
When you know who sent you, youāre not moved by who misunderstands you.
5. Iāve seen what haste and fire-for-fire spirit producesāitās not Christ.
Iāve lived long enough in ministry to see people cancel others in one season, then apologise in another. Iāve seen hashtags turn into heresies. Iāve seen fire-for-fire defenders become later remorseful. So I don't take everything people post today too seriouslyāthey may change their minds tomorrow.
Mercy teaches you to wait. And love teaches you to listen.
Dear minister,
You must never be found interceding 'against' the Church, no matter how deep your grief or how justified your frustration may feel. Yes, you will encounter troubling trends. Yes, you will hear teachings and see behaviours that cause your spirit to ache. Yes, there will be moments where you will be tempted to say, āWhat is left of the true Church?ā
But I urge youādo not let your pain speak louder than the voice of revelation. Do not turn sorrow into accusation. And do not assume that the 'visible' Church is the totality of what God is doing.
This is where you must sit with Elijah. Elijah was a prophet. Passionate. Bold. Devoted. But also human. James reminds us that Elijah was a man of like passions (James 5:17). That is not a casual phrase. It means Elijah carried the same emotional framework you carryāthe same longing for purity, the same holy zeal, and yes, the same vulnerability to sorrow and fatigue.
1. In Romans chapter eleven, Paul brings Elijah into the conversationānot merely as a reference to history, but as a prophetic mirror for ministers who grieve deeply for the people of God.
Romans 11:3 ā āLord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life.ā
This was Elijahās lamentānot spoken to men, but to God Himself. He was sincere. He was in anguish. But his conclusion was off. Elijah was not lying; he was limited. His perspective, clouded by despair, convinced him that he was the only one left. And this is where many young ministers today must be careful: we must not let deep sorrow blind us to divine activity beyond our line of sight.
2. Elijahās grief was real, but it led to a flawed conclusion: āI alone am left.ā He interpreted his exhaustion as evidence that no one else was standing. That is a dangerous assumption.
Grief, when not surrendered, becomes isolating. And isolation begins to whisper liesāthat your voice is the last faithful voice, your theology is the last sound theology, your ministry is the last remaining hope. But such thoughts, though they may feel weighty, are not propheticāthey are projections of exhaustion. Elijah prayed with the burden of a prophet, but he also projected the blindness of a weary man.
3. But then came the divine responseāgentle, sovereign, and corrective.
Romans 11:4 ā āBut what does the divine response say to him? āI have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.āā
This is heavenās holy interruption. God did not debate Elijah. He revealed truth. He said, in essence, āYou are not the only one. I have preserved many others. You do not know them, but I do.ā
And that one sentence silences every prophetās panic. You are not alone. You were never alone. The remnant may be silent, but they are standing. They may be hidden, but they are holy. They may not be known to you, but they are known to God.
4. This is where every young minister must pause. Because before you form conclusions about the Church, you must ask: āWhat does the divine response say?ā
God has always had more than what we can see. His work is deeper than our discernment. His remnant is broader than our radar. To speak prematurely out of sorrow is to risk speaking against what God is still building. Before you say, āThis is not the Church Christ is coming for,ā you must let God say, āI still have seven thousand.ā
5. What Paul does next is brilliant. He uses Elijah not just as an illustrationābut as a resolution to the grief he introduced in Romans 9.
Romans 9:2 ā āI have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart.ā
Paulās sorrow was deep. He wept over Israelās disobedience and blindness. But unlike Elijah, Paul does not spiral into isolation. He processes his grief through Godās covenantal faithfulness. This is the mark of mature ministry: to weep, but not waver; to grieve, but not accuse; to hurt, but still honour what God is doing.
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