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Apostle Michael Orokpo begins by stating that oppression in a believer's life stems from ignorance of God's nature. He asserts that knowing God leads to strength and exploits, referencing Daniel 11:32. Orokpo challenges the notion that God's existence is the problem, instead attributing suffering to a lack of knowledge about God's various dimensions. He explains that the devil exploits this ignorance due to his prior understanding of divine mysteries, promoting pathways that lead to further spiritual blindness. True life, as Jesus said in John 17:3, is found in knowing God, and this knowledge brings freedom and allows believers to overcome darkness.
Orokpo shares a vision where an angel revealed three spiritual commodities God is releasing: grace, strength (stamina), and wisdom. Grace is God's ability for believers to live above death and corruption, enabling them to lead their generation. Stamina is essential for finishing strong, emphasizing the need to tend to God's presence, unlike previous moves that died out. Wisdom is the ability to access God's counsel and live by His light, allowing believers to navigate challenges and confirm His word through their speech. These provisions are not for the smart or intelligent, but for the 'engraced of God' who prioritize spiritual depth over worldly attributes.
The Apostle details the devil's subtle strategies to undermine believers: mutation, dislocation, and distraction. Mutation involves combining light and darkness, leading to compromise and God's rejection, as seen in Revelation 3:16. Dislocation causes believers to run in tracks not designed for them, resulting in wasted effort and unfulfilled destinies, illustrated by evangelists becoming politicians or intercessors becoming evangelists. Distraction, though not a sin, depletes spiritual energy and prevents progress, trapping believers in cycles that take them backward instead of forward. Orokpo stresses the importance of waiting on God's direction, as exemplified by Abraham and Jesus, to avoid these traps.
Orokpo emphasizes that the primary way to overcome these challenges is by looking unto God. He references Psalm 34:5, stating that looking unto Him makes one radiant and unashamed. This act of beholding God shifts focus from afflictions and limitations to His eternal perspective, making sickness and poverty seem trivial. He shares a story illustrating how beholding God can heal sickness even before prayer. Inspired by Moses, who retained his strength and vision at 120 years old by constantly beholding God, Orokpo asserts that beholding God through His word transforms believers from glory to glory, making them impervious to worldly challenges including diseases like cancer.
The sermon concludes by highlighting that the spiritual process involves laboring to see God's truth, which then grants the authority to declare. Citing John 3:32, Orokpo explains that what is seen and heard from God is declared, and this declaration commands supernatural results. He urges the audience to focus on hearing and receiving God's word, as it is the activator of divine power. This 'spirit of faith' allows believers to see the unseen with the word of God and declare it, leading to the miraculous disappearance of long-standing problems like cancer or eye conditions. The speaker challenges everyone to open the eyes of their heart to see God, for in seeing Him, they are qualified to receive and are transformed into His likeness.