Give Me This

Mountain
Obtaining Your Inheritance by the
force of Faith

By

Pastor Bankole Olubamise

Published by
First-Whitehorse G.V.

July, 2009

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Give Me This Mountain

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Copyright © July 2009 Bankole Olubamise
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This book is dedicated to the loving memory
of my late Mother Deborah Mebinuola, I miss
you so much, Mum.

My two Angels, Jesulayomi Evan Roberts and

Jesutomilade Jadesola Philadelphia, my
darling Wife Ibironke Favour. I love you all
dearly, and

All those who have chosen to face, conquer

and obtain their inheritances in life.

Welcome to Purposeful Living!

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Appreciation:

First of all, I am indebted to the Almighty Creator, who has

been my all in all over these past forty years on earth.

In a book project many people make sacrifices in the

process.

I want to appreciate my wife, Ibironke, her Uncle Pastor

Kehinde Job, his dear wife Sis Mary Job and their lovely
children Ayo and Ifeoluwa Job for providing shelter, support
and fellowship during this project. May the Lord reward you
all abundantly.

I am grateful to all the great people who have impacted my

life over the years of my tutelage as a young believer and
minister, Rev George Adegboye, Rev Sam Adeyemi, Bishop
David Oyedepo, Pastor E. A. Adeboye, Apostle John and
Ngozi Okwok, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, Bishop Noel Jones, Dr
James Gray and the numerous fathers of the faith who are
my mentors and sources of inspiration.

I am indebted to all those whose fatherly advise have guide

my path both in my studies, secular work and in my career
till date within and outside Nigeria. I am particularly grateful
to Sue Buckwell, Rev Rob & Philippa Fieldson, their lovely
kids, Timothy and Eleanor, Dr Ron McCulloch, Mel and
Frances Taylor (plus Leo the Cat), Prof Gbola and Aigi
Adesogan and their beautiful family Tobi and Tosin, Uncle
Frank and Felie Ajayi, Prof Ayo and Dickson Atsenuwa, and
Ms Olatokunbo Ige. I am grateful to my family, especially,
my father and stepmother Folorunso and Comfort
Awobamise, my brothers and Sisters Funmi, Bose, Bunmi,
Yetunde, Biodun, Foluso, Wale, Muyiwa and Tola, my cousins
and in laws, Timothy and Bukky Ajayi, Jumoke, Wole, Sesan,
Akin and Latundun Awobamise, Stephen Kuponipe, Mummy
Ife (Mrs Omilana and her children), my in-laws Sunkanmi and
Femi. Am grateful to Evangelist Ikay Obazee, Dr J. A Aremu,
Dr Jimson Olufuye who have taken me as theirs. Glad to
have as true friends, Pastor Ifeanyi Ozuem, Minister Ayo

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Oladeji, Pastor Isaac Ajibare, Pastor Tunde and Bunmi
Obidare, your families and many more too numerous to
mention. May the Lord reward your loving kindness, always.

I owe a debt I can never pay to Jesus Christ whose

atoning death made it possible for me to cry Abba
Father! To the Holy Spirit, my Senior Partner, I say
Thank You, come on now lets shake this world
together for the glory of the King of Kings, my
Father, The EL-Shaddai, the One who Is More Than
Enough!

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The inspiration for this message and now a book
came from my own life’s challenges. I came to the
point in my life where I needed to stop running
from but towards my future. In my moments of
reflection I found that God’s purpose for our lives
is not written on a platter of Gold. Many people
say Life is not a bed of roses! I have never agreed
with the statement, because, if you know the rose
plant well enough, you will know that it has
thorns. Your life’s purpose has thorns! Run
towards it, not away from it.

Many people in different cultures and climes today

want to be successful. I think if you watch the
Television, internet and read all the glossy
magazines today, the only picture they all frame
for us is that of success. I like seeing the hand of
God in all things around me, from the environment
to the disasters that makes beautiful situations
look extremely ugly.

I decided to celebrate my fortieth year on earth

with a book, here it is, enjoy it and be blessed.

Bankole Olubamise
Abuja, 2009.

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Table of Contents
1. Give Me This Mountain!
2. God Cannot Lie!
3. Locate Your Mountain
4. How to Obtain Your Inheritances in Life
a. Dare to Believe
b. Refuse to fear
c. Destroy Evil Foundations and Satanic
Covenants
d. Receive Prophetic Push
e. Walk by faith
f. Vision: As far as You Can See
g. Vows and Sacrificial Offerings breaks
delay
h. Destroying Strongholds
i. Position Yourself
j. You need Patience
k. Pray your way through
l. Take Your Life in Your Hands

5. Walk in Dominion
6. Rejoice in the Lord

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Foreword
“Give me this mountain” is a practical exposition
on the story of Caleb and the hill country of
Hebron as the Lord had long since, by Moses,
promised to give him the mountain as his
inheritance. (That was 45 year earlier at Kadesh
Barnea when he brought back good report of the
land. Num. 13:20; 14:6-9). Thus, Caleb made his
demand to have Hebron given him for a
possession.

It unfolds certain aspect of spiritual warfare that

we fight to lay hold on our
which many people ignore.
knowledge we acquire in
equipped we will be to fight
life.
inheritance in Christ,
Know that the more
this area the more
for our inheritance in

This book shows exactly which blessings God has

promised us in His word and how to lay hold on
them; for He gives assurance that His promises
cannot fail. It also shows how we can approach
God and explains the conditions for receiving the
fullness of His covenant blessings. God’s pledge of
faithfulness goes beyond the ways of men. He
gives us perfect confidence in Him and the full
assurance of all that He, in His infinite riches and
power, has promised to do for us. Blessed is the
man who truly knows God as the covenant-
keeping God; and what an unwavering confidence
of expectation it secures. Ps 89:34.

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I believe this book is written for you to declare,
affirm and embrace every promise God has given
to you in His word - for they are your inheritance;
and also to know:

How to receive your inheritance

Why you must demand what is yours, and
The surefire steps to victorious life.

Read it and be challenged to pray and possess

your possession.

Pastor Kehinde Job,

Prayerlink Evangelical Ministry,
Kubwa, Abuja.

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Introduction

Don't Run From Your

Giants
By Judy Jacobs

Most of us would do anything to avoid

life’s trials. But God always brings good
out of the hard times we endure.

Know this: There will always be an

opposition to your mission. Whenever
you step out and begin to walk in obedience to
God, there is going to be some kind of opposition
from the devil. As soon as Jesus was baptized by
John, He had to face temptation in the wilderness
(see Matt. 4:1; Mark 1:12; Luke 4:1).

Your opposition and adversity will take different

forms at different times. Today you may be facing
a health problem. Last year you may have been in
a financial bind. Two years ago perhaps you lost
your job.

Later on you might have a lot of trouble with your

teenager or conflict in your marriage or a difficult
relationship with someone on the job. Sometimes
your opposition is discouragement, sleepless
nights or the stress of having too much to do.

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God never promised that you were going to float
along on this journey of life, smelling roses and
never having another problem from the day you
were saved. He did promise, "When you pass
through the waters, I will be with you; and through
the rivers, they shall not overflow you" (Is. 43:2,
NKJV).

Get it through your head that trials, tests and all

kinds of difficulties are inevitable. God will allow
as many of them as you can handle, and He
always knows how much you can handle. Your
part is to decide now that you are going all the
way with Him, regardless of how much it hurts.

Usually, by the time you realize what's happening,

it's too late to turn back anyway. You can be sure
that He will train you and strengthen you every
step of the way because He wants you to be able
to take every step in 100 percent faith. Always
remember that it is the devil who brings the
temptations, but God brings the tests. It's all for
your benefit. It's all for your growth. The devil
brings temptations to drive you away from God,
but God will help you resist them, and He will
manage to convert those temptations into soul-
strengtheners. They become opportunities for
your growth. God brings you into tests and trials,
and they may seem counterproductive at first. But
He's doing it because He loves you, so you can be
pruned and shaped as you grow closer to Him.

Paul said it like this: "Yes, we had the sentence of

death in ourselves, that we should not trust in

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ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who
delivered us from so great a death, and does
deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still
deliver us" (2 Cor. 1:9-10). Paul wanted you to
know that even though you may feel as if you are
facing death right now, if you just keep standing,
God will deliver!

Giants in the Land

When the 12 spies came back to report to Moses
about the promised land, the fearful ones reported
that there were giants in the land (see Num.
13:32-33). Their report was enough to deter the
people from making the effort to take the land
that had been promised to them by God.

Is your promised land occupied by giants at the

moment? Do they have names such as
"insecurity," "insignificance," "unemployment,"
"deficiency," "sickness"? Who could possibly
conquer territory that's being held by giants? Are
you tempted, like the Israelites, to hold back and
stay safe?

You should know that if you do that, your giants

will only get bigger. They're not going anywhere
unless God drives them out with His mighty right
hand. As a matter of fact, those giants are
supposed to be there. They are letting you know
you are about to come into your greatness and
into your promised land—if you will stand up and
fight.

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Some of us started out fighting. But then we
started looking at the problems. We started
looking at the giants. Stop looking at the giants,
and start looking at God. He's bigger.

God wants to show you, both by helping you

through hardships and by delivering you from
them, how powerful and faithful and loving He is.
He is the lily of the valleys (see Song. 2:1). But
how will you know that He is the lily if you don't
have any valleys?

He is the "Bright and Morning Star" (Rev. 22:16).

But how will you know He is shining so brightly if
you have never encountered any darkness? He is
the deliverer. But in order to deliver you, God has
to have some kind of tribulation to deliver you
from! He is the healer. But how will you know that
He is the healer if you don't ever experience His
healing touch?

Opposition and adversity, even the fiercest kinds,

are never completely bad. In fact, God always
turns around what seems to be meant for evil into
something good (see Rom. 8:28). It's always worth
it. You can say that with two black eyes. You can
whisper it with bleeding tonsils. You can give
thanks from the bottom of a pit.

And even if, like John, you have been thrown into
hot, boiling oil and then left for dead on some
remote island, it is there that you will receive your
greatest revelation (see Rev. 1:9).

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What are some of the good things that God will
bring out of our difficulties?

Good training. Hard times provide us with

training. In order to become mature, we need to
be trained. We need to get past our tendency to
whine and complain about how unfair it all is. We
need to get on with the business at hand, learning
to respond quickly and obediently to whatever
God sends into our lives.

As Joseph Garlington says, sometimes God will say

to us: "OK. This is first grade." If we say back to
God, "What if I don't like first grade?" He will say,
"Then you get to repeat it." I don't know about
you, but I want to learn my lessons, learn them
well and move on.

The Israelites may never have learned this lesson,

although we can learn from their mistakes: "They
said to Moses, 'Because there were no graves in
Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the
wilderness? Why have you so dealt with us, to
bring us up out of Egypt?” (Ex. 14:11).

Moses responded to them: "'Do not be afraid.

Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord,
which He will accomplish for you today.' ... The
Lord said to Moses, 'Why do you cry to Me? Tell
the children of Israel to go forward'" (Ex.
14:13,15).

In other words, the people of Israel had to stop

their pointless complaining and obey what God

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already had told them to do. The Red Sea parted,
and they escaped from the Egyptians. When they
stopped complaining and followed orders, their
dire straits turned into a wonderful deliverance.

In their case, this lesson didn't stick with them.

Forty years later, they were still whining (see
Num. 20). Sad to say, such lessons don't always
stick with us either. But maturity-training is still
one of the best reasons for having trials. It's as if
God has put all of us into His heavenly boot camp.
Our latest trials are part of the training process.

Isaiah 30:20 encourages us to believe that

"though the Lord gives you the bread of adversity
and the water of affliction, yet your teachers will
not be moved into a corner anymore, but your
eyes shall see your teachers."

Good opportunities. For Christians, adversities

turn into opportunities. Hardships give us
opportunities to walk in our authority in Christ
Jesus (and, putting it the other way around, they
give us fresh opportunities to see God's authority
at work).

When the devil tries to bury you in bad stuff,

that's when you have the chance to bury him
deeper than he could ever bury you. As you lean
on God's promises and proclaim His faithfulness,
you become an overcomer. The greatest
opportunities for victory arise out of the hardest
trials. It's enough to make you want to shout His
praises for not sparing you!

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I'm glad God allows me the chance to exercise my
authority in Christ. He wants me to participate
with Him in ruling in the kingdom. That can't
happen if He just lets me keep "sitting pretty,"
free from trials and tribulations.

Obvious grace. Unfair circumstances, unfriendly

accusations and ill health provide us with a perfect
opportunity to manifest the grace of God. When
we are presented with challenging situations, we
cannot escape unless we lean hard on His grace.

Remember what Paul wrote to the Corinthians? He

told them that they had been saved so that the
life of Jesus could be manifested in their bodies
(see 2 Cor. 4:10). In other words, while they were
still here on the earth in their weak bodies, they
were supposed to show forth the glory of God—in
the midst of and because of their adversities.

Next time that jealous neighbor of yours becomes

a mudslinger, watch God work in you and through
you as you respond in wisdom and love. The
experience may not be much fun, but you can
expect God's grace to supply you with the right
attitude and the right words.

Next time you can't sleep at night, ask for His

patience and perspective. Next time you hurt all
over and your boss tells you to work late, receive
God's help to persevere—with joy.

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The 20th century Scottish minister Oswald
Chambers said, "You did not do anything to
achieve your salvation, but you must do
something to exhibit it. You must 'work out your
own salvation,' which God has worked in you
already" (Phil. 2:12). The adversities God allows in
your life allow you to demonstrate His grace.

Good motivation. Without some compelling

reason, most of us prefer to sit tight and hope for
the best. We don't want to dive into the fray
where we might get hurt. But God loves us too
much to let us commit the "sin" of satisfaction. He
wants us to be involved. To get us off the
sidelines, He sends us adversities. It's a rude
awakening sometimes.

You might be just bobbing along, floating down

the river of your little life, when suddenly you hear
a roaring noise. Around the bend, there it is. A
waterfall!

You weren't really praying before, but brother, you

are now. You were half-asleep just a minute ago,
but sister, you are now wide-awake. You are
motivated, and you will stay motivated for a while
because you are in the middle of a crisis.

Have you noticed the way Romans 10:17 reads?

"Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word
of God." Faith comes by what you have heard
(past tense). Faith comes by hearing and hearing
and hearing.

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Everybody needs repeated, frequent—even
continual—prodding and urging to step out in
faith. That is why it is so important to keep the
Word of God in your heart and mind. Listen to
worship music; listen to the Word of God being
preached by an anointed man or woman of God. If
possible, listen on your stereo, in your car, in your
office—anything to keep your faith built up—and
"pray without ceasing" (1 Thess. 5:17). Adversities
keep us walking in faith.

In 1993, our ministry operated out of a one-room

office in downtown Cleveland, Tennessee. We
were paying $75 a month for that place, and we
had to believe God for even that small amount of
rent money.

One weekend, we were hit with a heavy rainstorm,

and we lost our computer because the ceiling
leaked. We had only one computer, and we lost it.
After that, we had had enough of small-faith
mentality. We became determined to pray for the
best God had for us. Before long, God worked a
series of miracles, and we found ourselves the
owners of the beautiful ministry center on a
hillside that we have today. I'm glad the roof
leaked in that old office.

Sometimes you have to step out on nothing and

watch God turn it into something. You have to
trust Him to take what the devil meant for bad and
turn it into good. You have to stop running from
your giants, stand strong and watch God defeat
them.

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Judy Jacobs is a recording artist, ordained Pentecostal minister, teacher and
sought-after conference speaker. She is also the founder of His Song
Ministries and the International Institute of Mentoring and the host of the TV
program Judy Jacobs Now! Her latest book, Stand Strong, is available
through www.strangdirect.com This article appeared first in Charisma ,
April 30th 2009, Reprinted with permission from Charisma Magazine, Strang
Communications, Copyright 2009.

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Chapter 1

Give Me This Mountain!

Numbers 14:7-9
7 And they spake unto all the company of the
children of Israel, saying, The land, which
we passed through to search it, [is] an
exceeding good land. 8 If the LORD delight
in us, then he will bring us into this land,
and give it us; a land which floweth with
milk and honey. 9 Only rebel not ye against
the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the
land; for they [are] bread for us: their
defence is departed from them, and the
LORD [is] with us: fear them not.

Numbers 14:24 But my servant Caleb, because

he had another spirit with him, and hath
followed me fully, him will I bring into the
land whereinto he went; and his seed shall
possess it.

Joshua 14: 6-15

6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in
Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the
Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the
thing that the LORD said unto Moses the
man of God concerning me and thee in
Kadeshbarnea. 7 Forty years old [was] I
when Moses the servant of the LORD sent

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me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land;
and I brought him word again as [it was] in
mine heart. 8 Nevertheless my brethren
that went up with me made the heart of the
people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD
my God. 9 And Moses sware on that day,
saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet
have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and
thy children's for ever, because thou hast
wholly followed the LORD my God. 10 And
now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive,
as he said, these forty and five years, even
since the LORD spake this word unto Moses,
while [the children of] Israel wandered in
the wilderness: and now, lo, I [am] this day
fourscore and five years old. 11 As yet I
[am as] strong this day as [I was] in the day
that Moses sent me: as my strength [was]
then, even so [is] my strength now, for war,
both to go out, and to come in. 12 Now
therefore give me this mountain, whereof
the LORD spake in that day; for thou
heardest in that day how the Anakims
[were] there, and [that] the cities [were]
great [and] fenced: if so be the LORD [will
be] with me, then I shall be able to drive
them out, as the LORD said. 13 And Joshua
blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of
Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. 14
Hebron therefore became the inheritance of
Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite
unto this day, because that he wholly
followed the LORD God of Israel. 15 And the
name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba;

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 [which Arba was] a great man among the
Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

The above quotation recounts one of the

most amazing stories of the Bible, of which
very few have been written nor
acknowledged.

Caleb, the son (or descendant of) Jephuneh

was one of the twelve spies sent by Moses,
the de-facto leader of a freed Israelite
nation from the bondage in Egypt. Caleb
and Joshua, who succeeded Moses as
leaders, were the authors of the Minority
report on their return from spying out the
land of Canaan. Let’s back up this story a
little.

God called Abraham in Genesis Chapter

12:1-3, but at the same time (a most
amazing caveat by God!) told him his
descendants will be slaves for 430 years! I
have often wondered how many of us
would accept such a promise even from
the Almighty. He however, promised to
deliver the descendants of Abraham from
slavery and then take them into a
promised land, which he showed Abraham.

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Genesis 12:7 And the LORD appeared unto
Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give
this land: and there builded he an altar unto
the LORD, who appeared unto him.

Genesis 12:7 GOD appeared to Abram and said,

"I will give this land to your children." Abram
built an altar at the place GOD had
appeared to him. MSG

Exactly 430 years later, God showed up to

fulfil His promises, as He will always do if
you trust and believe Him. Moses, led the
more than 3 million Israelites out of Egypt
after a fiercely contested battle with
amazing miracles of God. However, the
new nation needed to settle in their
promised land, but not without battle. We
must understand that as much as God
promises us anything in life, such things
won’t come on a platter of gold!

Numbers 33:50-56
50 And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains
of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying, 51
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say
unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan
into the land of Canaan; 52 Then ye shall
drive out all the inhabitants of the land from
before you, and destroy all their pictures,
and destroy all their molten images, and
quite pluck down all their high places: 53

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 And ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants] of
the land, and dwell therein: for I have given
you the land to possess it. 54 And ye shall
divide the land by lot for an inheritance
among your families: [and] to the more ye
shall give the more inheritance, and to the
fewer ye shall give the less inheritance:
every man's [inheritance] shall be in the
place where his lot falleth; according to the
tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit. 55
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of
the land from before you; then it shall come
to pass, that those which ye let remain of
them [shall be] pricks in your eyes, and
thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in
the land wherein ye dwell. 56 Moreover it
shall come to pass, [that] I shall do unto
you, as I thought to do unto them.

Deuteronomy 2:24-25 Rise up, take your

journey, and pass over the Valley of the
Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand
Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his
land; begin to possess it and contend with
him in battle. 25 This day will I begin to put
the dread and fear of you upon the peoples
who are under the whole heavens, who shall
hear the report of you and shall tremble and
be in anguish because of you. NKJV

Moses, as a very strategic leader, thought

the way to go about it was to first spy out
the new property to gauge the kind of

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opposition they would face and to prepare
his own forces for the takeover of the land
God had promised and had apparently
given them 450 years earlier. God will not
ask you to do anything, unless He had
completed it in His mind. He knows the end
from the beginning! What a Mighty God we
serve.

It fell on twelve leaders of the nation (one

from each tribe). Since the land would be
divided amongst the tribes, it was
important and strategic that the tribes play
important role in claiming the new land. It
is also important to note that, it was God
who asked Moses to send out the spies.

Numbers 13: 1-3 And the LORD spake unto

Moses, saying, 2 Send thou men, that they
may search the land of Canaan, which I give
unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of
their fathers shall ye send a man, every one
a ruler among them. 3 And Moses by the
commandment of the LORD sent them from
the wilderness of Paran: all those men
[were] heads of the children of Israel.

Moses’ instructions were that they should

seek to understand the land and then
report in details about the inheritance, no
detail was to be missed by them.

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Numbers 13:17 Moses sent them to scout
out the land of Canaan, and said to them,
Get up this way by the South (the Negeb)
and go up into the hill country, 18 And see
what the land is and whether the people
who dwell there are strong or weak, few or
many, 19 And whether the land they live
in is good or bad, and whether the cities
they dwell in are camps or strongholds, 20
And what the land is, whether it is fat or
lean, whether there is timber on it or not.
And be of good courage and bring some of
the fruit of the land. Now the time was the
time of the first ripe grapes. NKJV

This is a reconnaissance trip of strategic

importance. Often visions fail because we
lack proper understanding of the details of
the vision. When the Bible says God’s
people perish for lack of vision Prov 29:18,
I presume it also means that such great
visions die out because the details are not
worked out.

It is instructive to note that Moses was

concerned about the type of fruits the land
produced, even though God said the land
flows with ‘milk and honey’. Moses wanted

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to know the details of the milk and honey!
We all must learn the details of God’s
promises to us, it is our key to inheriting
our inheritances in life. Moses also wanted
to know the topography, culture, strengths
and weaknesses of the new land they were
to posses. Thus, he asked the spies to
conduct sociological, anthropological,
strategic research of their future
inheritance. How many of us take the time
and energy to gather information about
something new that we are about to do?

Many vision have died in infancy because,

especially in the third world, we do no love
information, thus conducting background
checks is like a waste of time.
Unfortunately, we pay dearly fr this
mistake, and remain listed among
underdeveloped or developing countries as
a consequence. A Nation or people that
neglects knowledge will remain perpetually
“hewers of wood and drawers of water”!

Beloved, in the world of the 21st century, as

surely as our God does not change, so also
His principles (the way things must be
done) do not change. If you want to
possess your inheritance, you must spend

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time conducting background research,
seeking information. My people are
destroyed for lack of knowledge is an
injunction for all generations. You have no
excuse, because the internet has reduced
the world to a global village. Get to a good
library and search out knowledge about
your assignment. I have spent about 10
years doing research on my assignment in
life!

The spies went as instructed. The journey

was estimated to cover about 250 miles
both ways and it took them about 40 days.
However, trouble started when they
returned and they were requested to make
a report to Moses and the waiting nation.
Even though they came back with fruits –
evidence that the land was as God had
predicted it would be, remember also that
the journey was at the beginning of the
“first ripe grapes’. There were two reports,
a majority report by ten of the spies which
suggested that the land was simply
impossible to take and a minority report
from Caleb and Joshua which urges urgent
takeover of the promise land.

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Numbers 13:27 They told Moses, we came to the
land to which you sent us; surely it flows
with milk and honey. This is its fruit. 28 But
the people who dwell there are strong, and
the cities are fortified and very large;
moreover, there we saw the sons of Anak
[of great stature and courage]. NKJV

Numbers 13:27 Then they told the story of their

trip: "We went to the land to which you sent
us and, oh! It does flow with milk and
honey! Just look at this fruit! 28 The only
thing is that the people who live there are
fierce, their cities are huge and well
fortified. Worse yet, we saw descendants of
the giant Anak. MSG

They exaggerated their reports to the

extent that the claimed they saw the
Nephilim ( a reference to the giants of
Genesis 6:4), their report claimed the sons
of Anak were the direct descendants of the
Nephilim (improbable in the least). They
now spoiled their bad report with one of
the most disrespectful and demeaning
statements of the entire Bible:

Numbers 13:33 And there we saw the giants,

the sons of Anak, [which come] of the
giants: and we were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

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Numbers 13:33 Why, we even saw the Nephilim
giants (the Anak giants come from the
Nephilim). Alongside them we felt like
grasshoppers. And they looked down on us
as if we were grasshoppers." MSG

Their characterisation of themselves as

grasshoppers in comparison to their
adversaries must have brought great
trepidation to the minds of the entire
Israelite nation. They exaggerated their
report so as to evoke fear. Nothing
subdues a people as fear, nothing! The
impact of this negative report is noticeable
in the very next chapter:

Numbers 14:1 AND ALL the congregation cried

out with a loud voice, and [they] wept that
night. 2 All the Israelites grumbled and
deplored their situation, accusing Moses and
Aaron, to whom the whole congregation
said, Would that we had died in Egypt! Or
that we had died in this wilderness!

Adam Clarke’s commentary on this verse

(Numbers 14:1) is instructive:

“Cried; and - wept that night - In almost

every case this people gave deplorable
evidence of the degraded state of their
minds. With scarcely any mental firmness,

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and with almost no religion, they could
bear no reverses, and were ever at their
wit’s end. They were headstrong,
presumptuous, pusillanimous, indecisive,
and fickle. And because they were such,
therefore the power and wisdom of God
appeared the more conspicuously in the
whole of their history.” Emphasis mine.

Every believer in Christ is entitled to enjoy

of the blessedness of the Kingdom. God
has given an inheritance to each of us in
life. However, we must respond
appropriately, because our response
determines our possession. The Bible
warns in Proverbs 20:4 The sluggard will
not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore]
shall he beg in harvest, and [have]
nothing.

In come Joshua and Caleb.

Numbers 14:6-9
6 And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh, [which were] of them that
searched the land, rent their clothes: 7 And
they spake unto all the company of the
children of Israel, saying, The land, which
we passed through to search it, [is] an
exceeding good land. 8 If the LORD delight

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 in us, then he will bring us into this land,
and give it us; a land which floweth with
milk and honey. 9 Only rebel not ye against
the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the
land; for they [are] bread for us: their
defence is departed from them, and the
LORD [is] with us: fear them not.

When men say there is a casting down, the

Spirit of God will lift you up. When the door
seems closed, God will open a roadway of
escape.

As the whole nation became despondent,

at their wits end, confused, demoralised,
God stirred up the hearts of Joshua and
Caleb to rouse the nation from their pit of
despair.

God throughout History has always worked

this way. He will never leave Himself
without a witness to His power. I pray you
become God’s witness for your generation,
as I hope to be for mine.

Joshua and Caleb were angry (they tore

their clothes!) at the peoples doubt of the
power of God. They could not believe the
same people that had seen the mighty
hand of God in recent times (Egypt, Red

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Sea, Wilderness) could now doubt God.
Sometime we are like the people of Israel
at this time, we forget easily the miracles
and deliverances of God in our lives, we
murmur and complain, we look at things as
if the same testimonies we had shared in
times past had suddenly dried up. Yet the
bible says :

1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath

not seen, nor ear heard, neither have
entered into the heart of man, the things
which God hath prepared for them that love
him.

The Children of Israel not only showed

ingratitude to God’s grace, as many people
often do, especially when they face
challenges, they were not interested in the
minority report of the other two spies.

However, Moses, the Leader believed the

minority, but the people of Israel refused,
so God made them wander in the
wilderness for forty years till all those who
doubted Him died. Num 14: 11-2, 18-24,
26-38. Only the houses of Joshua and Caleb
were preserved. It is important that we
trust God. Doubt can lead to spiritual and
physical death. The ten spies died

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instantly, because they provoked the wrath
of God. According to Pastor Benny Hinn,
the wrath of God is a revelation of His
Holiness, don’t think God is a Holi God that
does not get angry. I pray our actions will
never bring the wrath of God on us and our
children!

It is also instructive to note the exceptions

that God made in Numbers 14:24
specifically about Caleb. I believe God had
already planned for Joshua as the next
leader of the nation of Israel to replace
Moses. So a special verse of promise was
reserved for Caleb and his seed after him.
Even though they had not physically taken
possession, God had already gone ahead
to reserve a possession for Caleb.

This is spiritually significant, God will never

embark on a project that He had not
completed already. Jesus Christ was the
Lamb of Sacrifice at the foundation of the
World. It is therefore impossible for the
Devil to have kept Him the in grave. I am
too sure God has completed my case on
earth, all I need to do is to discover His
message to me and get on the road to
fulfilling it. Same goes for you as you read

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this book, I am sure your assignment and
inheritance in life is a fait accompli by God.
Why then are you tardy to face the
challenges that will give you victory.

Caleb was given an inheritance 45 years

before physical possession, just like the
Children of Israel when God promised
Abraham 430 years earlier. Do you know
why you must trust God? It is because, God
cannot Lie!

Let’s examine certain truths about God

that can make us face our mountains.

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Chapter 2

God Cannot Lie!

Hebrews 6:12-20 “That ye be not slothful, but
followers of them who through faith and
patience inherit the promises. For when God
made promise to Abraham, because he
could swear by no greater, he sware by
himself, Saying, Surely blessing I will bless
thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
And so, after he had patiently endured, he
obtained the promise. For men verily swear
by the greater: and an oath for confirmation
is to them an end of all strife. Wherein God,
willing more abundantly to shew unto the
heirs of promise the immutability of his
counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by
two immutable things, in which it was
impossible for God to lie, we might have a
strong consolation, who have fled for refuge
to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
Which hope we have as an anchor of the
soul, both sure and stedfast, and which
entereth into that within the veil; Whither
the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus,
made an high priest for ever after the order
of Melchisedec.”

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Titus 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that
cannot lie, promised before the world
began;

You are about to enter into your season of

harvest. God is the one that is taking you
into that season of harvest. You may think
that you can labour; you think that by the
wisdom of your life, and the ability of your
hands that you can do it. Take a look at
this, when God told Abraham that He was
going to make him a father of many
nations, by his own hands, labour and
works of the flesh, Abraham caused
something that God did not decree. But
when God’s time came, God fulfilled his
promise. You have tried it by your own
strength and in your own way, but His own
time has come, it is termed for you a
SEASON OF HARVEST.

God swore by himself because there was

none greater for him to swear by, He has
indeed committed himself and decreed of
Himself that those things which he said
concerning you and me, he will bring it to
pass. You know when God searched in
heaven, there was nobody there that he
could swear by. He looked in the earth and

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saw that there was nobody that could
establish anything beyond Him. So He
swore an oath by Himself using as basis
two immutable things –things that are
infinite, that cannot change for all eternity–
His word and His Name!

Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that he

should lie; neither the son of man, that he
should repent: hath he said, and shall he not
do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not
make it good?”

THE STRENGTH OF ISREAL

1 Samuel 15:29“And also the Strength of Israel

will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man,
that he should repent.”

The scripture here describes God as the

strength of Israel that cannot lie. If there is
a group of people that the world has done
everything to wipe off the face of the
earth, and totally annihilate, it is Israel, as
a nation. In 70 AD, Roman invaders led by
Titus came upon Jerusalem and burnt it to
ashes. No single block remained on
another in that city. The people were
scattered upon the face of the earth. There
were few remnants and in 135AD, another

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group of invaders came in and burnt down
the whole nation. Many have determined
that the nation of Israel will neither stand
nor exist. In different nations of the earth,
the Jews are there because of these
different scattering. Between 1939 and
1945, Adolf Hitler supervised the
Holocaust, during which over 6 million Jews
perished in gas chambers!

However, on May 15, 1948, it pleased God

to begin to establish the state of Israel – in
one day! Something that has never
happened before. That is what only the
Strength of Israel can do. That nation came
back together, and was established,
according to the pre-determinate counsel
of God in Isa 66:8. The One who established
that nation against all odds is THE
STRENGTH OF ISRAEL and he wants you to
know that as long as Israel is in existence,
He will fulfil His WORD concerning you, He
will not fail you. You have good assurance
to trust in the WORD because ‘THE
STRENGTH OF ISRAEL’ will not lie or repent
seeing that he is not a man.

Men can make promises and fail to live up

to it, but God wants you to look up to him

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because He desires to take all the glory for
your life alone. God cannot share His glory
with another. He cannot lie concerning
what He has promised you.

Romans 11:29 “For the gifts and calling of God

are without repentance.”

God cannot forget those promises He has

made concerning you. You don’t have to
consider your age when it comes to the
promises of God concerning you. It is not
wise to use clock and calendar as a
yardstick for measuring the fulfilment of
God’s promises.

Age is one of the things that do not matter

in the counsel of God. Assuming, you are
due for marriage and you think that God
has forgotten you…No! God has not
forgotten you. Promises have been made
and oaths have been sworn concerning you
and because of that heaven and earth are
both bound and locked together to fulfil
those promises. That is what God can do in
the life of everyone who believes Him.

James 1:17 “Every good gift and every perfect

gift is from above, and cometh down from

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 the Father of lights, with whom is no
variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

God is a straight forward person. He does

not play pranks. Have you ever seen the
sun just dangling in the atmosphere,
loosely suspended and swaying to and fro?
It is a representation of what God can do.
When the sun rises in the morning, until it
sets in the evening it remains constant,
day in day out. It is the rotation of the
earth around the sun that produces the
day and night effect. The sun itself remains
constant. Now, as constant as that sun is,
that is how constant the WORD of God is to
us. God cannot lie because to lie is
contrary to his nature.

What does it mean to lie? It is to deceive

people. Can you imagine God deceiving
people? That is not possible by any means.

To lie is to be deceptive, to change, to

alter, to remove what one has already said.
No matter how many translations of the
Bible are made available to us, we are still
going to have this same Genesis to
Revelations. Nothing can be added to it
and nothing can be taken away from it. In

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fact the Bible itself makes us to understand
that anyone that adds to or extracts
anything from the Bible, a curse hangs on
that person. Rev 22:18-19.

God has decreed His counsel and that is

what is going to stand from age to age,
until the day you and I see Him in glory.

Numbers 23:19 God [is] not a man, that he

should lie; neither the son of man, that he
should repent: hath he said, and shall he not
do [it]? or hath he spoken, and shall he not
make it good?

Isaiah 45:23 I have sworn by myself, the word is

gone out of my mouth [in] righteousness,
and shall not return, That unto me every
knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth

forth out of my mouth: it shall not return
unto me void, but it shall accomplish that
which I please, and it shall prosper [in the
thing] whereto I sent it.

Jeremiah 30:24 The fierce anger of the LORD

shall not return, until he have done [it], and
until he have performed the intents of his
heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.

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God is not a man who cannot be trusted.
God is faithful, if He promised you
anything, then he will surely bring it to
pass. God is so sure of Himself He swore by
Himself to fulfil everything He ever said!
God’s word is the ONLY thing on earth and
in heaven that cannot fail. The world has
seen with increasing certainty that every
prophetic word of God concerning the
nation of Israel for example has been
fulfilled. Jesus said in fact heaven and earth
may pass away, but not one dot in the
word of God will go unfulfilled!

Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till

heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle
shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be
fulfilled.

Matthew 5:18 God's Law is more real and

lasting than the stars in the sky and the
ground at your feet. Long after stars burn
out and earth wears out, God's Law will be
alive and working.MSG

Luke 21:32 Verily I say unto you, This

generation shall not pass away, till all be
fulfilled.

Luke 4:21 And he began to say unto them, This

day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

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Mark 15:28 And the scripture was fulfilled,
which saith, And he was numbered with the
transgressors.

There is a very interesting story in Isaiah

39. Its very interesting that God Himself
sentenced Israel into slavery in Babylon as
He did when He called Abraham. As surely
as the day will dawn tomorrow, it came to
pass.

Isaiah 39:6 Behold, the days come, that all that

[is] in thine house, and [that] which thy
fathers have laid up in store until this day,
shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be
left, saith the LORD. Isa 39:7 And of thy
sons that shall issue from thee, which thou
shalt beget, shall they take away; and they
shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of
Babylon.

According to Adam Clarke’s Commentary

on the Bible “This prediction was fulfilled
about one hundred and fifty years after it
was spoken: see Dan 1:2, Dan 1:3-7. What
a proof of Divine omniscience!”

God is not limited by space, we human

might be, but God, no he is everywhere
including the future. One of His most
interesting names is that He is Alpha and

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Omega, the Beginning and the End, He
knows the end even from the beginning.

We are therefore not surprised when Caleb

invoked this side of God in reminding
Joshua of the promises of Moses 40 years
earlier, that Caleb would be given this
special mountain. This was because Caleb
was aware that God’s promises through His
servants remain sacrosanct till whenever
it’s fulfilled.

It therefore means that as we seek our

mountains, we must know that, if you have
a promised inheritance in the Bible, then
you can go to sleep, knowing fully well that
the One who promised you is not asleep,
He watches over His words to perform it.

Job was so sure of God’s words while he

was on the bed of affliction, that he said:

Job 23:12 “Neither have I gone back from the

commandment of his lips; I have esteemed
the words of his mouth more than my
necessary [food].”

He was ready to wait all his life for the

promises of God to come to pass. He was
certain that there is hope for a tree, even

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when it is cut down to sprout again, at the
application of water (which represents the
word);

Job 14:7-9 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut

down, that it will sprout again, and that the
tender branch thereof will not cease. 8
Though the root thereof wax old in the
earth, and the stock thereof die in the
ground; 9 [Yet] through the scent of water
it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a
plant.

God’s word is a certainty! David was

reflective when he said in Psalm 119:103
How sweet are thy words unto my taste!
[yea, sweeter] than honey to my mouth!
This is what we need to do, when looking
for our mountains. Search for it in the
scriptures and hold on to it like the
sweetness of honey in the mouth.

God is also not frivolous with His words. In

fact there is no idle words in His thoughts.
The following scriptures are instructive:

Proverbs 8:8 All the words of my mouth [are] in

righteousness; [there is] nothing froward or
perverse in them.

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Isaiah 59:21 As for me, this [is] my covenant
with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that [is]
upon thee, and my words which I have put
in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy
mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed,
saith the LORD, from henceforth and for
ever.

Ezekiel 12:28 Therefore say unto them, Thus

saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my
words be prolonged any more, but the word
which I have spoken shall be done, saith the
Lord GOD.

Zechariah 1:6 But my words and my statutes,

which I commanded my servants the
prophets, did they not take hold of your
fathers? and they returned and said, Like as
the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us,
according to our ways, and according to our
doings, so hath he dealt with us.

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass

away, but my words shall not pass away.

God cannot lie, believe Him today, just like

Caleb believed and he obtained his own
inheritance. However, first things first,
where are your mountain of inheritance?

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Chapter 3

Locate Your Mountain

Joshua 14:12 Now therefore give me this
mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that
day; for thou heardest in that day how the
Anakims [were] there, and [that] the cities
[were] great [and] fenced: if so be the LORD
[will be] with me, then I shall be able to
drive them out, as the LORD said.

Our Personal Testimony

When my wife had our first Child in
England (Wales), she was told by her
Doctors that if she wanted another child,
she must conceive within a short period of
time or else it would be difficult, because
they notice fibroid growths in her tummy.
This became our mountain with respect to
our marriage. We began to pray and fast
after six months without her conceiving.
Fibroids became the giants o the land of
promise to us that we will have more than
one child. After three years, we had a
breakthrough by the Anointing of God,
fibroid gave way and my wife conceived
and now our daughter, Jesutomilade (Jesus

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is my Crown) is a very beautiful five years
old!

Where is Your Mountain?

Caleb did not mince words as many

Christians would do. Even though the
promise was forty years old, Caleb and his
family knew what belonged to them among
the inheritances of Israel. You MUST locate
your own mountain of inheritance!

All children of God have been given an

inheritance. In fact when Jesus was praying
in John 17, He made this statement, which
indicated that all of humanity are expected
to enjoy the inheritance of God through
Salvation in Christ Jesus.

John 17:20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for

them also which shall believe on me through their
word;

God made provisions for everybody on the

face of this earth.

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Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness: and let them have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all
the earth, and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man
in his [own] image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he them. 28
And God blessed them, and God said unto them,
Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth,
and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 29
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb
bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the
earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of
a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 30
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl
of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon
the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have given]
every green herb for meat: and it was so.

It is however left to each individual to

make his or her claims on the promises of
God. There are thousands of promises in
the word of God, how many have you
claimed?

Caleb was not going to let his inheritance

be taken by other tribes of Israel. Many of
us have allowed others to take over as it
were the joint heritage of humanity. In fact

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in social sciences the world is divided into
three- developed, developing and
underdeveloped, the poor and the rich, the
haves and those who do not have. The
World Bank recently made a worse
clarification; the poor are those who live
with under a dollar day!

Your inheritance is located somewhere.

God created everything perfect in this
world and placed in the world laws which
control how the world operates. If you
understand these laws then you enjoy the
world, but if you do not care to understand
the laws as they operate, then you loose
out on your inheritance.

Even our Lord Jesus Christ had to locate his

assignment here on earth;

Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me,

because he hath anointed me to preach the
gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal
the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to
the captives, and recovering of sight to the
blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19 To preach the acceptable year of the
Lord.

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Matthew 15:24 But he answered and said, I am
not sent but unto the lost sheep of the
house of Israel.

Hebrews 9:15 And for this cause he is the

mediator of the new testament, that by
means of death, for the redemption of the
transgressions [that were] under the first
testament, they which are called might
receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

1 John 3:8 … For this purpose the Son of God

was manifested, that he might destroy the
works of the devil.

Paul the Apostle knew his mountain even

though he located it late by human timing,
but God was right on time:

Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner

of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles, 1Pe 4:6 For this
cause was the gospel preached also to them that
are dead, that they might be judged according to
men in the flesh, but live according to God in the
spirit.

Every man must locate his wife and vice

versa - Ephesians 5:31 For this cause shall a
man leave his father and mother, and shall be
joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one
flesh.

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Caleb at age 85 located his mountain of
inheritance and thereafter claimed it by
defeating the giants in the land. We all
must make up our minds to locate and
claim our inheritances in this life. No one
owes you an apology, your success in life is
your own making. Every mountain has
giants in them that must be dislodged,
there is no mountain without giants, but
we must realize these giants are often
times more imaginary than real.

Consider these patriarchs of the faith:

• Satan was the giant Jesus had to

conquer Matthew 4: 1-22

• Adversaries were the giants Paul had

to conquer to enter his open great
and effectual doors. 1 Corinthians
16:9

• Patience was the giant Abraham had

to conquer to get Isaac. Genesis 21:5

• Isaac had to conquer the Philistines to

become very great. Genesis 26:16-28

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• Jacob had to wrestle with God to
become Israel. Genesis 32:28

• His brothers were the giants Joseph

had to conquer to become Prime
Minister in Egypt. Genesis 37.

• Barrenness was the giant Hannah had

to conquer to get Samuel. 1 Samuel
1:17-20

• Daniel had to conquer jealousy and

lions to become Governor General in
Babylon. Daniel 6:20-28

• Joshua had to conquer Jericho to enter

the Promise land. Joshua 5:13- 6:26

• David had to conquer the urge for

revenge against Saul to become a
King. 2 Samuel 5:1-5.

• Mary had to conquer the jest of men

to become the mother of the Saviour.
Luke 1:26-56

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 • Jephtha had to conquer his own
siblings and his past to become the
Captain. Judges 11 and 12

• Bill Gates had to conquer jeers of

others to become the richest man on
earth.

• Mahatma Ghandi had to conquer the

fury of the British to become a
leadership Icon.

• Nelson Mandela had to endure 27

years in prison to rule South Africa.

• Liverpool FC overcame a 3.0 deficit at

half-time to become Champions of
Europe!

We can go on and on about those who

through faith obtained their promises and
inheritances, some even saw it afar off, but
they left legacies that they prevailed,
Hebrews 11.

I want to challenge you to know that you

too can prevail. If Caleb and his family had
listened to the fears of Israelites their
inheritance would have remained

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perpetually under the Anakims, but he
believed in the God who promised and
does not lie and today Hebron is a heritage
of the descendants of Caleb. What will your
generation yet unborn say about you, what
legacy do you want to leave behind for
them?

Hebrews 11:32-40 And what shall I more say?

for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon,
and [of] Barak, and [of] Samson, and [of]
Jephthae; [of] David also, and Samuel, and
[of] the prophets: 33 Who through faith
subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness,
obtained promises, stopped the mouths of
lions, 34 Quenched the violence of fire,
escaped the edge of the sword, out of
weakness were made strong, waxed valiant
in fight, turned to flight the armies of the
aliens. 35 Women received their dead
raised to life again: and others were
tortured, not accepting deliverance; that
they might obtain a better resurrection: 36
And others had trial of [cruel] mockings and
scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and
imprisonment: 37 They were stoned, they
were sawn asunder, were tempted, were
slain with the sword: they wandered about
in sheepskins and goatskins; being
destitute, afflicted, tormented; 38 (Of
whom the world was not worthy:) they
wandered in deserts, and [in] mountains,
and [in] dens and caves of the earth. 39

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 And these all, having obtained a good report
through faith, received not the promise: 40
God having provided some better thing for
us, that they without us should not be made
perfect.

The Bible says a good man leaves an

inheritance for his children’s children
Proverbs 13:22. It is high time you take the
challenge of facing your mountain and
delivering to your descendants an
indestructible heritage. They will be very
proud when history is recorded about how
you conquered the giants in your land and
obtained your inheritance.

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Chapter 4

How to Obtain Your

Inheritance in Life
In this life I have discovered that the laws
of God cannot be tampered with, you will
break yourself trying to break them. These
are what I have discovered can help you to
obtain an imperishable inheritance and a
legacy for all times. They are simple
principles but we must adhere to them at
all cost. These same principles gave the
heroes of faith their place in history, why
not adopt them and become a hero to your
generation.

a. Dare to Believe:

Hebrews 11:1-3 Now faith is the substance of

things hoped for, the evidence of things not
seen. 2 For by it the elders obtained a good
report. 3 Through faith we understand that
the worlds were framed by the word of God,
so that things which are seen were not
made of things which do appear.

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Faith is absolute trust in God. Faith is the
interactive currency between heaven and
earth. Just as you travel to many nations of
the world and can only transact business in
that nation if you have their national
currency in abundance or else you use the
US Dollars which you still have to change
to the local currency, otherwise you cannot
transact any business. In the same way, to
communicate with heaven on getting
information about your inheritance, you
need faith, total trust in the Word of God.

The Bible is God’s communications to the

earth about His plans for us and it contains
all our inheritances and how to obtain it.
God Himself makes faith our key to
obtaining this inheritance.

Hebrews 11:6 But without faith [it is] impossible

to please [him]: for he that cometh to God
must believe that he is, and [that] he is a
rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Jesus did all His miracles through the

instrumentation of Faith:

Luke 5:20 And when he saw their faith, he said

unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.

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Luke 7:9 When Jesus heard these things, he
marvelled at him, and turned him about,
and said unto the people that followed him, I
say unto you, I have not found so great
faith, no, not in Israel.

Luke 7:50 And he said to the woman, Thy faith

hath saved thee; go in peace.

Luke 8:25 And he said unto them, Where is your

faith? And they being afraid wondered,
saying one to another, What manner of man
is this! for he commandeth even the winds
and water, and they obey him.

Luke 8:48 And he said unto her, Daughter, be of

good comfort: thy faith hath made thee
whole; go in peace.

Luke 12:28 If then God so clothe the grass,

which is to day in the field, and to morrow is
cast into the oven; how much more [will he
clothe] you, O ye of little faith?

Luke 17:5 And the apostles said unto the Lord,

Increase our faith.

Luke 17:6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a

grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto
this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by
the root, and be thou planted in the sea;
and it should obey you.

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Luke 17:19 And he said unto him, Arise, go thy
way: thy faith hath made thee whole.

Luke 18:42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy

sight: thy faith hath saved thee.

Jesus however asked this pointed question

before Hs departure:

Luke 18:8b …Nevertheless when the Son of man

cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

Why was this question necessary? He was

sure many would abandon faith for their
own ways, even though the Bible clearly
states that the just shall live by faith.

Romans 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of

God revealed from faith to faith: as it is
written, The just shall live by faith.

Galatians 3:11 But that no man is justified by

the law in the sight of God, [it is] evident:
for, The just shall live by faith.

Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith:

but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall
have no pleasure in him.

Therefore let us all begin to live by faith-

with a daily absolute trust in God. Caleb
trusted in the Word of God for 45 years and

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his inheritance came to pass, how long
have you been waiting for your own
inheritance to come? Dare to believe the
Word of God today and you will never
regret doing so.

b. Refuse to fear

2Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the

spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and
of a sound mind.

Fear has crippled many destinies. It was

fear that made the children of Israel to
doubt and reject the report of Joshua and
Caleb whilst accepting the report of the ten
spies.

There were two reports, a majority report

by ten of the spies which suggested that
the land was simply impossible to take and
a minority report which recommended
immediate take over of the land.
Unfortunately the people, even though
they agreed to the fruitfulness of the land,
chose to believe the majority report
because they became afraid of the
purported giants in the promise land.

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Numbers 13:27 They told Moses, we came to the
land to which you sent us; surely it flows
with milk and honey. This is its fruit. 28 But
the people who dwell there are strong, and
the cities are fortified and very large;
moreover, there we saw the sons of Anak
[of great stature and courage].

Numbers 13:27 Then they told the story of their

trip: "We went to the land to which you sent
us and, oh! It does flow with milk and
honey! Just look at this fruit! 28 The only
thing is that the people who live there are
fierce, their cities are huge and well
fortified. Worse yet, we saw descendants of
the giant Anak. MSG

They exaggerated their reports to the

extent that they claimed they saw the
Nephilim (a reference to the giants of Gen
6:4), their report claimed the sons of Anak
were the direct descendants of the
Nephilim (improbable in the least). They
now spoiled their bad report with one of
the most disrespectful and demeaning
statements of the entire Bible:

Numbers 13:33 There we saw the Nephilim [or

giants], the sons of Anak, who come from
the giants; and we were in our own sight as
grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

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Numbers 13:33 Why, we even saw the Nephilim
giants (the Anak giants come from the
Nephilim). Alongside them we felt like
grasshoppers. And they looked down on us
as if we were grasshoppers." MSG

Their characterisation of themselves as

grasshoppers in comparison to their
adversaries must have brought great
trepidation to the minds of the entire
Israelite nation. They exaggerated their
report so as to evoke fear. Nothing
subdues a people as fear, nothing! The
impact of this negative report is noticeable
in the very next chapter:

Numbers 14:1 AND ALL the congregation cried

out with a loud voice, and [they] wept that
night. 2 All the Israelites grumbled and
deplored their situation, accusing Moses and
Aaron, to whom the whole congregation
said, Would that we had died in Egypt! Or
that we had died in this wilderness!

Numbers 14:1 After the Israelites heard the

report from the twelve men who had
explored Canaan, the people cried all night
2 and complained to Moses and Aaron, "We
wish we had died in Egypt or somewhere
out here in the desert! 3 Is the LORD
leading us into Canaan, just to have us

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 killed and our women and children
captured? We'd be better off in Egypt." CEV

What a thankless generation! After the

many miracles of God in Egypt and in the
wilderness, yet these people still saw
themselves as grasshoppers! The best
picture of your life is that which you
describe yourself to be. Whilst many
African-Americans see themselves as
victims of history, a young man whose
father was from African descent saw the
potentials of transforming the world
through the Presidency of the United
States, of course, he is today the President
and not a victim or the negative
stereotypes others see in America.

If you don’t conquer fear, it makes your

mountain looks much more impossible
than it actually is. Imagine the whole army
of Israel in front of Goliath for 40days! See
1 Samuel 17. I love the commentary of
Matthew Henry on this episode and would
quote it here, with emphasis mine:

1 Samuel 17:31-39
“A shepherd lad, come the same morning from
keeping sheep, had more courage than all

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the mighty men of Israel. Thus God often
sends good words to his Israel, and does
great things for them, by the weak and
foolish things of the world. As he had
answered his brother's passion with
meekness, so David answered Saul's fear
with faith. When David kept sheep, he
proved himself very careful and tender of
his flock. This reminds us of Christ, the good
Shepherd, who not only ventured, but laid
down his life for the sheep. Our experience
ought to encourage us to trust in God, and
be bold in the way of duty. He that has
delivered, does and will continue to do so.
David gained leave to fight the Philistine.
Not being used to such armour as Saul put
upon him, he was not satisfied to go in that
manner; this was from the Lord, that it
might more plainly appear he fought and
conquered in faith, and that the victory was
from Him who works by the feeblest and
most despised means and instruments. It is
not to be inquired how excellent any thing
is, but how proper. Let Saul's coat be ever
so rich, and his armour ever so strong, what
is David the better if they fit him not? But
faith, prayer, truth, and righteousness; the
whole armour of God, and the mind that was
in Christ; are equally needful for all the
servants of the Lord, whatever may be their
work.”

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Fear makes us live in defeat, poor,
destitute and unable to rise beyond the
situation of a temporary circumstance.
Caleb should have retired as a Soldier, but
at 85 listen to this fearless soldier:

Joshua 14:10-12 Joshua, it was forty-five years

ago that the LORD told Moses to make that
promise, and now I am eighty-five. Even
though Israel has moved from place to place
in the desert, the LORD has kept me alive all
this time as he said he would. 11 I'm just as
strong today as I was then, and I can still
fight as well in battle. 12 So I'm asking you
for the hill country that the LORD promised
me that day. You were there. You heard the
other spies talk about that part of the hill
country and the large, walled towns where
the Anakim live. But maybe the LORD will
help me take their land, just as he
promised. CEV

This is the mindset of someone who wants

to take territories and conquer his
mountains. Yet you have many young
people all over the world afraid of taking
steps that will take them into destiny. We
must destroy fear because God has not
given us such a dangerous spirit-.

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Here is Joshua’s very rewarding reply and
the consequence:

Joshua 14:13-15 Joshua prayed that God would

help Caleb, then he gave Hebron to Caleb
and his descendants. 14 And Hebron still
belongs to Caleb's descendants, because he
was faithful to the LORD God of Israel. 15
Hebron used to be called Arba's Town,
because Arba had been one of the greatest
of the Anakim. There was peace in the land.

Fear is simply False Evidence Appearing

Real, its another name for Satan – resist
him and he will flee from your life! James
4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

c. Destroy Evil Foundations and break

Satanic Covenants:

Job 4:19 How much less [in] them that dwell in

houses of clay, whose foundation [is] in the
dust, [which] are crushed before the moth?

Job 22:16 Which were cut down out of time,

whose foundation was overflown with a
flood:

Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD,

Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a
stone, a tried stone, a precious corner

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 [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth
shall not make haste.

Job 3:1 After this opened Job his mouth, and

cursed his day. 2 And Job spake, and said, 3
Let the day perish wherein I was born, and
the night [in which] it was said, There is a
man child conceived. 4 Let that day be
darkness; let not God regard it from above,
neither let the light shine upon it. 5 Let
darkness and the shadow of death stain it;
let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of
the day terrify it. 6 As [for] that night, let
darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined
unto the days of the year, let it not come
into the number of the months. 7 Lo, let
that night be solitary, let no joyful voice
come therein.

Foundations are important in life. Even God

laid foundations for this earth. Christ was
crucified at the Foundation of the World. To
secure and obtain your inheritance in life
you have to make sure your foundation is
secured. You have to break demonic
covenants at the foundations of your life.

Job in Chapter three gives a picture of what

the foundation (the night he was
conceived) looked like. We therefore can
see that his foundation was corrupted even
before birth, that was why he went through

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hell, but thank God he corrected his
foundation by trusting in the God who can
change situations.

Job 14:7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut

down, that it will sprout again, and that the
tender branch thereof will not cease. 8
Though the root thereof wax old in the
earth, and the stock thereof die in the
ground; 9 [Yet] through the scent of water
it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a
plant… 14 If a man die, shall he live
[again]? all the days of my appointed time
will I wait, till my change come.

God specializes in giving hope to those

who look up to Him. What has been the
foundation of your life? Have you visited all
manners of religious cults to get help?
Have you strayed away from the path of
righteousness and holiness-these things
pollute your foundations and cannot allow
you to claim your inheritance. But, by the
scent of the water of the Holy Spirit, I pray
for you that every false foundation will be
transformed into a firm foundation built on
the Chief Cornerstone of our Hope, the
Lord Jesus Christ Himself, amen. Whatever,
the enemy has used in your foundation
against your life and destiny, I destroy

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them by the anointing in the mighty name
of Jesus Christ!

d. Receive Prophetic Push

Saul was looking for an Ass, but God

intervened and gave him a Kingdom by the
mouth of a Prophet (1 Samuel 9)!

Jehoshaphat and his company lost their

way in the wilderness and they were about
to die of thirst, but by a Prophet,
mysteriously water filled their valley –

2Kings 3:17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not

see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that
valley shall be filled with water, that ye may
drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your
beasts.

Hannah had been to Shiloh many times,

but until the Prophet spoke her destiny did
not conceive of a Child 1 Sam 1:17. Listen
to me, in this life there are certain things
we cannot obtain without Prophetic helping
hand or push. Find a Prophet of God and
align yourself to him, submit under his
guidance and authority and your prosperity
in life is guaranteed.

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2Chronicles 20:20 And they rose early in the
morning, and went forth into the wilderness
of Tekoa: and as they went forth,
Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O
Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem;
Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be
established; believe his prophets, so shall ye
prosper.

Hosea 12:10 I have also spoken by the prophets,

and I have multiplied visions, and used
similitudes, by the ministry of the
prophets…13 And by a prophet the LORD
brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a
prophet was he preserved.

1Samuel 9:6 And he said unto him, Behold now,

[there is] in this city a man of God, and [he
is] an honourable man; all that he saith
cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither;
peradventure he can shew us our way that
we should go.

As a Prophet of God, I pray for you today

that you inheritances shall never be taken
away from you anymore. From this day
henceforth enter and posses you
inheritances in the mighty name of Jesus
Christ. Amen. Wherever your inheritance is
located, by the Prophetic hand of God, I
command you to locate it, dispossess the

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giants and posses your inheritance in Jesus
name.

e. Walk by Faith

You not only need to believe God, you

need to demonstrate your believe in Him
by you daily actions.

Circumstances around you may suggest

hopelessness but if you can continue to
confess your hope in Christ, your situation
will change for good and you can claim
your inheritance. Caleb was beside Joshua
all of 40 years, I am sure everyday he
confessed possessing his inheritance in
Hebron. God told Abraham he will become
a father of many nations, he waited for
25years for the manifestation of 1 child,
but four hundred years later 3 million
children entered the promise land and
today Billions line up as Children of
Abraham. He walked in faith and it was
counted for him as righteousness. They
hoped against hope not looking at their
physical appearances and not listening to
the communications from their decaying
bodies.

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You must learn to walk by faith on a daily
basis and confess what you want. Caleb did
not just wake up one day to claim his
inheritance; he confessed it right from the
day the servant of God Moses made the
pronouncement, forty years earlier. Whao,
what a walk of faith!

In face of the worst challenges to your life

you must walk by faith, believing,
confessing, announcing to whoever cares
to listen that, like Job … all the days of my
appointed time will I wait, till my change
come. Job 14:14. Take practical steps to
posses your mountains. Caleb said … if the
Lord will be with me, I shall drive them out
just as the Lord said. That was exactly
what happened, he drove them out and
there was peace.

Can you imagine if he had never moved an

inch when Joshua handed over the land to
him? The giants would have multiplied and
became too strong for him. Many of us
should be far from where we are, but
because of inaction, our giants have
become co-owners of our inheritance, in
some cases they have even become
landlord and you their tenants.

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The African continent is so rich in diversity,
minerals and agricultural products, yet it is
the poorest part of the world! Princes are
walking on foot and servants ride on
horses! No! Take action and God will be
with you to give you your inheritance!

Your change has come in Jesus name!

f. Vision: As far as You Can See

Do you see giants in your inheritance or do

you see targets that you cannot miss when
you aim your weapons of warfare against
them. David told Saul and the army of
Israel:

1 Samuel 17:32 And David said to Saul, Let no

man's heart fail because of him; thy servant
will go and fight with this Philistine. 33 And
Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go
against this Philistine to fight with him: for
thou [art but] a youth, and he a man of war
from his youth. 34 And David said unto
Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep,
and there came a lion, and a bear, and took
a lamb out of the flock: 35 And I went out
after him, and smote him, and delivered [it]
out of his mouth: and when he arose against
me, I caught [him] by his beard, and smote

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 him, and slew him. 36 Thy servant slew
both the lion and the bear: and this
uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of
them, seeing he hath defied the armies of
the living God. 37 David said moreover, The
LORD that delivered me out of the paw of
the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he
will deliver me out of the hand of this
Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and
the LORD be with thee.

Whilst the others could only see Goliath as

a giant, David saw him as an
uncircumcised Philistine (enemy of God).
The devil is the enemy of God therefore all
his agents are enemies of God, any
obstacle on you way to your inheritance is
therefore an enemy of God which must be
dealt with. Of course David cut off the head
of the giant that have kept the King and his
mighty but fearful army at bay for 40 days!
Remember, David did not have a sword!
But when he was ready to cut off the head
of Goliat, a sowrd surfaced, the sowrd of
Golaiat was used to severe his head. Many
people cannot face their ginats in life,
because they are thinking of what they do
not have, go out with what you have, when
you need what you don’t have, it will
surface. That is the way of God!

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We need to lift up our eyes and see clearly.
God told Abraham to lift up his eyes and
look-as far as your eyes can see, so will
God give to you. I see a glorious ministry
impacting hundreds of millions all over the
world in the next few years. I am not
afraid, I see the pictures in my mind
everyday and will never allow the
circumstances of life as at today to limit
my vision!

God Himself encourages us to see visions

of a glorious future. Habakkuk 2:1-3

Habakkuk 2:1 I will stand upon my watch, and

set me upon the tower, and will watch to
see what he will say unto me, and what I
shall answer when I am reproved. 2 And the
LORD answered me, and said, Write the
vision, and make [it] plain upon tables, that
he may run that readeth it. 3 For the vision
[is] yet for an appointed time, but at the end
it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry,
wait for it; because it will surely come, it will
not tarry.

Habakkuk 2:1 While standing guard on the

watchtower, I waited for the LORD's answer,
before explaining the reason for my
complaint. 2 Then the LORD told me: "I will

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 give you my message in the form of a
vision. Write it clearly enough to be read at
a glance. 3 At the time I have decided, my
words will come true. You can trust what I
say about the future. It may take a long
time, but keep on waiting-- it will happen!
CEV

God’s vision for your life will surely come to

pass, if you see it clearly and write it down.
God showed Isaiah His glory because Isaiah
was waiting in His presence. If you want
God’s vision for your life to be fulfilled,
then wait on Him to reveal it to you. God
will only move on what He shows you and
nothing else. Caleb could see beyond the
lousy giants in his inheritance. He saw
Hebron as his generational blessing and
was not going to allow no giants to take
that away from him. Get down to God
today, wait on Him and He will show you
visions of the future.

Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD

shall renew [their] strength; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they shall
run, and not be weary; [and] they shall
walk, and not faint.

g. Vows and Sacrificial Offerings break

delay

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In Genesis 22 God asked Abraham to make
a sacrificial offering of his precious son, to
test his heart, if there was anything he
could withhold from God. He passed God’s
test and God made this astounding
statement:

Genesis 22:15 And the angel of the LORD called

unto Abraham out of heaven the second
time, 16 And said, By myself have I sworn,
saith the LORD, for because thou hast done
this thing, and hast not withheld thy son,
thine only [son]: 17 That in blessing I will
bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply
thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as
the sand which [is] upon the sea shore; and
thy seed shall possess the gate of his
enemies; 18 And in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed; because
thou hast obeyed my voice.

This was the first time God will swear by

Himself to show that His promises will
come to pass. You have God’s assurance
that you can lay hold on hope

Hebrews 6:16-20 For men verily swear by the

greater: and an oath for confirmation [is] to
them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God,
willing more abundantly to shew unto the

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 heirs of promise the immutability of his
counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath: 18 That
by two immutable things, in which [it was]
impossible for God to lie, we might have a
strong consolation, who have fled for refuge
to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19
Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the
soul, both sure and stedfast, and which
entereth into that within the veil; 20
Whither the forerunner is for us entered,
[even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever
after the order of Melchisedec.

Vows and sacrificial offerings are ways of

cornering God if I can say that. Solomon,
and Hannah applied it to an unbelievable
effect.

2Chronicles 1:6-12 And Solomon went up

thither to the brasen altar before the LORD,
which [was] at the tabernacle of the
congregation, and offered a thousand burnt
offerings upon it. 7 In that night did God
appear unto Solomon, and said unto him,
Ask what I shall give thee. 8 And Solomon
said unto God, Thou hast shewed great
mercy unto David my father, and hast made
me to reign in his stead. 9 Now, O LORD
God, let thy promise unto David my father
be established: for thou hast made me king
over a people like the dust of the earth in
multitude. 10 Give me now wisdom and
knowledge, that I may go out and come in

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 before this people: for who can judge this
thy people, [that is so] great? 11 And God
said to Solomon, Because this was in thine
heart, and thou hast not asked riches,
wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine
enemies, neither yet hast asked long life;
but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for
thyself, that thou mayest judge my people,
over whom I have made thee king: 12
Wisdom and knowledge [is] granted unto
thee; and I will give thee riches, and wealth,
and honour, such as none of the kings have
had that [have been] before thee, neither
shall there any after thee have the like.

When there is a delay in our lives, we need

to bring God forward through vows and
sacrificial offerings (offer that rings!) God
does not live in time, but we can make Him
work within time. In Matthew 8:5-13 the
Centurion’s offerings to the Jewish
Synagogue made him a candidate for
God’s blessings through Jesus Christ. In
Acts 10:1-31 Cornelius was visited by
Grace because of his sacrifices to God and
alms giving-remember he that gives to the
poor lends to the Lord (Proverbs 19:17)
and God owes no man!

h. Destroying Strongholds

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Every Child of God must have a warfare
mentality according to Ephesians 6:10-18
and Matthew 11:12 And from the days of
John the Baptist until now the kingdom of
heaven suffereth violence, and the violent
take it by force. You must take your
mountains by force because the occupying
giants have no interest in giving up your
inheritance free of fighting. That is why
they are called giants in the first place to
scare you off your inheritance. They build
strongholds around themselves to further
make the situation look impenetrable and
impregnable. Like Jericho, they may look
impenetrable, but a shout of warfare will
bring down all strongholds.

The greatest stronghold of every man is

the mind. The battles of life are fought and
won in the mind. If you cannot win in the
mind, you cannot win real life. I love this
scripture Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in
you, which was also in Christ Jesus:.

Most of us do not have the mind of Christ.

In recent times I have come to encounter
different people as I make a personal
transition. Most people only profess Christ,
they have nothing inside them that shows

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that they truly belong to Christ. Their
bellies are their god! Philippians 3:19
Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is
their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their
shame, who mind earthly things.

The proof of love is in giving, but when you

give grudgingly, with another thought in
your hearts, you have not given.

Paul, the Apostle gave this advise in

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to

this world: but be ye transformed by
the renewing of your mind, that ye
may prove what [is] that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

You must win the battle of the mind-it’s the

battlefield of life. Every stronghold of your
mind that is limiting the revelation of your
true worth, I destroy in the name of Jesus
Christ. Amen.

i. Position Yourself

It is interesting to note that right from the

day Moses chose Caleb and Joshua they
remained in that assignment till the ripe

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age of 85 when Caleb claimed his own
inheritance.

To claim your inheritance you must

position yourself. God will always create
opportunities for us to develop and
become what He wanted us to be. We must
recognize these opportunities and position
ourselves. Is 40:31 said they that wait
upon the Lord shall renew their strength-
that is positioning. Isaiah saw God’s glory
fill the temple because he was properly
positioned. In the various activities of our
daily lives, we must seek Gods direction.
God is speaking everyday, but have you
heard Him recently? Are you positioned to
hear the next instructions of your life?

Peter became the leader of the Apostles

not because he was the brightest or the
strongest, far from it, he was properly
positioned. When Jesus wanted to know
human understanding of who He was, it
was Peter that made the bold statement
that “…Thou art the Christ, the Son of the
living God.”, Jesus clarified something very
important here, He said “Flesh and blood
hath not revealed this to you but my
Father in heaven”.

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Matthew 16:17-19 And Jesus answered and
said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon
Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not
revealed [it] unto thee, but my Father which
is in heaven. 18 And I say also unto thee,
That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will
build my church; and the gates of hell shall
not prevail against it. 19 And I will give unto
thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven:
and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever
thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in
heaven.

Now the question is there were 12

Disciples, how come Peter caught the
revelation of the deity of Christ? That is
positioning. Get properly positioned today
and you will lead your generation.

• You can position yourself by

• Aligning with the right people to
Mentor you.
• Studying to show yourself approved
• Serve God-voluntarily in any way you
can.
• Giving Sacrificially
• Doing whatever you hand finds to do.

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j. You Need Patience

Hebrews 6:12 “That ye be not slothful, but

followers of them who through faith and patience
inherit the promises.”

Patience is something that you need in

other to be able to wait for the promises of
God. You just have to build up within you
the patience to wait for him.

Being patient is the ability to stand, until

what God has promised you, comes into
your hands. Patience is that unique ability
to wait for a long time without getting
anxious and angry. Somebody who comes
into the presence of God wondering why he
ought to be thanking God, since he has not
seen a manifestation of what God promised
him is only demonstrating that he is
impatient. Until the package God promised
you are delivered into your hands, you
must wait for him.

Caleb waited for 45 years to see his

inheritance delivered and thereafter there
was peace in the land. If he had not been
patient, he probably would have spent his
old age fighting numerous wars. When

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God’s time came to posses his
possessions, he easily defeated all the
giants no matter who their progenitors
were.

k. Pray your way through

Isaiah 40:31 “But they that wait upon the LORD

shall renew their strength; they shall mount
up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and
not be weary; and they shall walk, and not
faint.”

You know I was asking God what it means

to mount up with wings as an eagle. He
said to me, it means to pray until you see
the deliverance of my promises. I pressed
on with my enquiry. “LORD, to pray? What
exactly do you mean by that?” He said
“When you look at an eagle mounting up,
they keep pressing on to different heights,
they soar. They don’t just reach a
particular level and choose to remain
there; instead they keep pressing on until
they have attained the highest height
possible.” He went on to explain that in the
place of prayer, as a believer you ought to
keep mounting up until you gets to the
highest peak. When you have arrived at
that peak, you enter into rest. At that

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point, strength begins to enter into you;
that is what it means to pray through. I
believe that you know that when you pray
you should not just be paying lip service to
prayer, but you are expected to pray
through until what you are trusting God for
is delivered. Then you begin to wait
patiently and expectantly. When eagles
mount up to that height, at the top of the
mountain, they begin to use their old worn
out beaks on the rock until that old beak is
removed and a new one replaces it. The
eagle then waits until that new beak
becomes very strong before they fly out.

God further explained to me that I need to

lay hold on Him in the place of prayer and
get the different keys to open the different
doors that I will encounter in life. Until you
get it, don’t leave the place of prayer.

Prayer can be that period that you are

waiting on him. As you are waiting on Him,
God expects you to get different insights of
what you need to do in life. Until you locate
it and get it into your hands, you don’t
leave that sweet place of prayer. “A
promise is not delivered until it is
received”. When God sends a promise to

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you, it will remain a promise until you
receive it and that can only occur in a
place of deep communion with God.

As you press on to God in the place of

prayer, you have to definitely know that
THE STRENGTH OF ISRAEL who cannot lie
will never fail you. He is a promise keeper
that you can definitely depend upon.

l. Take Your Life in Your Hands

There are some very interesting scriptures

I want to explore in this section. No Matter
what happens in life, resolve what to do
and take your life in your hands!

Luke 16:3-4 Then the steward said within

himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh
away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig;
to beg I am ashamed. 4 I am resolved what
to do, that, when I am put out of the
stewardship, they may receive me into their
houses.

Judges 11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a

mighty man of valour, and he [was] the son
of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. 2
And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his
wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out
Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not

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inherit in our father's house; for thou [art]
the son of a strange woman. 3 Then
Jephthah fled from his brethren, and dwelt
in the land of Tob: and there were gathered
vain men to Jephthah, and went out with
him. 4 And it came to pass in process of
time, that the children of Ammon made war
against Israel. 5 And it was so, that when
the children of Ammon made war against
Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch
Jephthah out of the land of Tob: 6 And they
said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our
captain, that we may fight with the children
of Ammon. 7 And Jephthah said unto the
elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and
expel me out of my father's house? and why
are ye come unto me now when ye are in
distress? 8 And the elders of Gilead said
unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to
thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and
fight against the children of Ammon, and be
our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. 9
And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead,
If ye bring me home again to fight against
the children of Ammon, and the LORD
deliver them before me, shall I be your
head? 10 And the elders of Gilead said unto
Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us,
if we do not so according to thy words. 11
Then Jephthah went with the elders of
Gilead, and the people made him head and
captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all
his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.

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Judges 12:2 And Jephthah said unto them, I and
my people were at great strife with the
children of Ammon; and when I called you,
ye delivered me not out of their hands. 3
And when I saw that ye delivered [me] not, I
put my life in my hands, and passed over
against the children of Ammon, and the
LORD delivered them into my hand:
wherefore then are ye come up unto me this
day, to fight against me? (Emphasis mine)

Jephtha’s life story is recorded above in

Judges 11 and 12, and what a very glorious
story it is! If you want to possess your
inheritance in life you must realize certain
facts. First, is that no one on earth owes
you ANYTHING! We are all pilgrims on
earth. In fact the Scriptures says we must
fight for our salvation with fear and
trembling.

Philippians 2:12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye

have always obeyed, not as in my presence
only, but now much more in my absence,
work out your own salvation with fear and
trembling.

Jephtha’s life story is similar to that of

many people all over the world, I am sure
some of us reading this book can identify
with this story. Son of a harlot, thrown out

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of his father’s house and living with a band
of vain men. Yet this man that life seems
to have rejected took his destiny in his
hands and in the process of time with the
help of the mighty God became the captain
or leader of the same nation that rejected
him. What a story!

Caleb and Joshua had a minority report

against the overwhelming report of the
other 10 spies, the nation rejected the
minority report for the majority report and
thereafter spent forty years in the
wilderness! But in the process of time, the
minority report became the true history of
Israel.

Do you have similar circumstances in your

life where people have cast you out as a
never do well? Do you have vain men or as
another translation puts it worthless men
around you? The key is to take your life in
your hands and take life heads on, listen to
me, in the process of time you will win and
become the captain!

Jephtha and the servant in Luke 16:3-4

took their lives in their hands. They
resolved that irrespective of their current

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circumstance in life, they were resolved
not to beg, not to steal, not to dig. What
have you resolved to do with your current
situation? You cannot afford to fold your
hands and wait for kingdom come, you
must do something with the opportunities
you have today. Resolve today and you will
not beg tomorrow. In the process of time,
God will make all things beautiful for you.
He is the same yesterday, today and
forever. Halleluyah!

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Chapter 5

Walking in the Power of

Dominion
The world is expecting something from
you, earnestly waiting for the
manifestation of the sons of God. When the
world is looking to you to manifest as a son
of God, may you not be found wanting.

When Joseph was looked upon to interpret

dreams, he was not caught napping. When
Daniel was looked upon at a time when the
whole nation was in confusion, he
delivered on demand. When the world calls
you, answer must come from you!

Judges 5:13 “Then he made him that remaineth

have dominion over the nobles among the
people: the LORD made me have dominion
over the mighty.”

When the world makes a demand on you,

there is something in you that must
respond to the world. May the power of
God rest upon you, in such a way that you
will have dominion over the nobles and the

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mighty in the land, in Jesus name! Take a
look at that same scripture in the New King
James Version of the Bible.

Judges 5:13 "Then the survivors came down, the

people against the nobles; The LORD came
down for me against the mighty”. (NKJV)

The LORD will come down for you against

the mighty.

When God created man, let’s look at what

he said:

Genesis 1:26-28 “And God said, Let us make

man in our image, after our likeness: and let
them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth. So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them. And God
blessed them, and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the
earth, and subdue it: and have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of
the air, and over every living thing that
moveth upon the earth”.

You and I were created to have dominion.

God wants us to occupy a position where

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we dominate our environment. Now man
has gone to the moon, man has conquered
virtually everything inside the sea. There is
no animal that is in the sea now that man
does not have a means of controlling,
through different inventions. Man has been
made to operate under the simple
command of dominating and you need to
recognize this and operate in the dominion
that God has commanded. You will
discover that life takes a different meaning
when you begin to operate in those things
that God has said concerning you.

God blessed man and commanded him to

have dominion. It is an instruction from
God. He has created a position called
DOMINION for you and I to occupy. But
many believers either don’t understand
this or have not fully come to the
knowledge of it.

Joseph is somebody who had recognition of

this command to have dominion. In
Genesis 37, we understand that he had a
dream, he saw twelve sheaves, his own
was in the middle and the other eleven
bowed down to his sheaf. He felt elated
and he decided to share that story with his

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brethren; he did not mention anybody’s
name. Look at what his brethren said to
him,

Genesis 37:8 “And his brethren said to him,

Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt
thou indeed have dominion over us? And
they hated him yet the more for his dreams,
and for his words.”

When you begin to occupy, and begin to

operate in the level where you are
supposed to occupy, it does not matter
what the world does, the world can envy
you, hate you, disapprove of you, but the
point is that no matter what they do, they
will eventually submit to whatever you do
as a person operating in the power of
dominion. Assuming, you are the managing
director of a conglomerate, do you know
that whether you are in the office sitting on
your seat or not, you are still the Executive
Director? Whoever comes into that office
must submit to that position that you
occupy, whether you are physically present
there or not. So if you recognize your
position as somebody who is supposed to
walk in dominion, situations and
circumstances will recognize that you are
different.

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Jesus operated in a realm of dominion and
the Bible records concerning Him, “And
having spoiled principalities and powers,
he made a shew of them openly,
triumphing over them in it.” (Colossians
2:15)

It was easy for him to make an open show

of the enemy. Remember when He sent
the seventy out, when they returned to
Him with testimonies, here was His reply,
“And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as
lightning fall from heaven.” (Luke 10:18)

Well, how could He see Satan fall as

lightening? It is because he was already in
a position that is far above, principalities,
powers, rulers of the darkness of this world
and spiritual wickedness in high places.
When you occupy the position that is
meant for you in the spirit realm, the
enemies around will submit themselves
unto you.

To have dominion means to overcome, to

control, to subdue, to subjugate. Most of
the nations that are currently free, had to
remove the dominion of some other people

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over them: - they had to fight for their
independence. That is because when
something is under dominion, it means
that it is not independent, it is under the
subjugation of somebody else.

You are not supposed to be in a position

where somebody is ruling or controlling
you. You are supposed to be the one in
charge. You are going to be in charge in
the mighty name of Jesus.

To be in dominion means to lead. You are

to be the head and not the tail according to
the promises of God, not for some time but
as a life style. Afflictions may come, but
the bible says “But the God of all grace,
who hath called us unto his eternal glory
by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered
a while, make you perfect, stablish,
strengthen, settle you.” (1 Peter 5:10) Any
suffering that is above a while is not for
any child of God. You are meant to be
above always. That is the standard that
God has set for you in the spirit realm.
Whenever you find yourself under the
oppression of situations and
circumstances, you need to lift up your

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head and ask your self - what exactly is
happening?

To have dominion is to be the head, to be

supreme, you are the commander in chief
when you are walking in dominion,
irrespective of what the situations and the
circumstances around you are, you are the
one supreme ruler. When you become the
commander-in-chief that you are
intentionally designed by God to be,
everything else takes instruction from you.
When you are in charge, even the devil
knows who is in charge. Witches are
supposed to send intelligence network to
find out which route you are using to travel
so that they can clear off the road for you
to pass, and they will not hold any meeting
that particular day, because a commander-
in-chief is passing by. Situations and
circumstances are supposed to take
instructions from you and me. They will
however only do that if you operate in the
level where God has created for you.

It has nothing to do with your gender. In

Judges Chapter 5 is a song by Deborah the
prophetess. The children of Israel were in
bondage, no one could rise to the occasion

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until Deborah came, a lady walking in
dominion showed up on the scene. We
were all created to walk in such level of
dominion. The head of the army had run
away, every one who was supposed to
have done something one way or the other
was in hiding. Yet the nation was under
subjugation until one lady who knew who
she was in God, decided to rise and take
the position that was due to her. Because
of what she did, the Bible records the
following:

Judges 5:13 “Then he made him that remaineth

have dominion over the nobles among the
people: the LORD made me have dominion
over the mighty.”

Take the step to occupy that position that

belongs to you in the spirit realm. God has
a special grace and that is the grace of
dominion that will make the nobles of the
land to begin to recognize you. When the
army captain saw Deborah, walking in the
power of dominion, - she was a prophetess,
she had not gone to military school before;
but they made her mother in Israel, and
decided to submit to her. She became a
judge in the land and the army General

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would come to her to get instructions
about what to do. Israel as a nation then
was under somebody’s dominion. Deborah
decided to single-handedly operate at the
level that she knew to be her original
designation. Now, that is operating in the
dominion that God had called her to. So
when God created you, He put a mark after
your name and added to your name-
dominion. In the realm of the spirit, what
does the devil see after the comma of your
name on your complimentary card, it is
boldly inscribed: DOMINION. That is
because dominion is the original mandate
of God.

Psalms 72:8 “He shall have dominion also from

sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends
of the earth.”

Psalms 114:2 “Judah was his sanctuary, and

Israel his dominion.”

God himself operates in dominion. “To him

be glory and dominion for ever and ever.
Amen.” (1 Peter 5:11). God’s dominion
does not have anytime that it goes down. It
is forever and ever, extends from one
nation to the other, from coast to coast and
from sea to sea. That is what was imputed

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into you in Genesis 1:26. Your dominion is
supposed to be forever as long as you are
on this earth, you are supposed to walk in
dominion. “And hath made us kings and
priests unto God and his Father; to him be
glory and dominion for ever and ever.
Amen.” (Revelation 1:6)

When you were created, God made you a

king and a priest forever. For that reason
when we return with Jesus at his second
coming, we are coming to rule with him.
That will be a company of kings and priest.

That was the original way God created you

and me, crafted for dominion. Some
people however, recognize this thing and
still don’t operate it. Until you operate and
activate what God has created you to do,
you cannot enjoy the benefit of that rule.
That was why when Jesus recognized that
dominion will come for him over
principalities and powers, he agreed to go
through the agony of the cross, and came
out on the other side, the Bible says and
God has highly exalted him and given him
a name that is above every other name,
that at the mention of this name every

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knee would bow, whether in heaven, or on
earth or under the earth Philippians 2:9-10.

That is exactly the picture that is supposed

to operate with you too. When you pass
through the cross, you receive Jesus as
your personal LORD and saviour, the same
thing happens to you. You are elevated
above these things. And at the mention of
that name, the name that was the first
among the dead, you also enter into the
same level of enjoyment. We then become
joint heirs with Jesus. We however need to
come into recognition of who we are.
Dominion is not for a few people, it is the
birthright of each and every believer.

How can you enjoy Dominion? First we

have to recognize it. How do you recognize
it? You have to know why you need it
because if you do not understand the
purpose of a thing, abuse is inevitable.

Psalms 110:1-4 “The LORD said unto my Lord,

Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine
enemies thy footstool. The LORD shall send
the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou
in the midst of thine enemies. Thy people
shall be willing in the day of thy power, in
the beauties of holiness from the womb of

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 the morning: thou hast the dew of thy
youth. The LORD hath sworn, and will not
repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the
order of Melchizedek.”

Secondly, you must go out for it. To get

Dominion you must go after it, you cannot
sit down at home and claim it. You have to
pay the price. Everything level in life has a
price attached to it. Pay it and you will
secure it. Thirdly, you must demand it.
Nobody will give you dominion until you lay
claims to it. When you have paid the price
for a product you collect it for your use. In
Psalms 24, Jesus had to demand for the
keys of death sand hell from Satan who
cheated Adam to collect it in the first
instance. When He demanded, hell resisted
but the Blood and the paid price prevailed.

Here are some of the reasons you need to

walk in dominion:

The first reason why you need to walk in

dominion is because you have enemies.
Don’t ever live in a fool’s paradise thinking
that you don’t have any. God was in the
scripture quoted above to Jesus, and
because David was the friend of God, he
listened in on the discussion. “Sit at my

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right hand till I make your enemies your
footstool”. Since the King of glory had
enemies how much more you?

You have to recognize that there are

enemies outside the door. Revelations
12:10 tells us that we have an accuser of
the brethren who accuses us before God
day and night. Let me give you a picture of
what happened here, the angel reporting
here was just giving us a picture of what
was happening in heaven. When the blood
of Jesus was presented to God, salvation
and strength, and the kingdom of our God
and the power of His Christ came. So there
was rejoicing in heaven because Jesus our
advocate intercedes on our behalf against
the accuser of the brethren who accuses
the brethren day and night.

The second reason why you need to walk

in dominion is because our enemy must be
subdued. He is an enemy that accuses us
continually day and night. The church has
to be very vigilant and intercessors are
encouraged to pray continually all around
the clock because things are happening in
the realm of the spirit that you and I do not
completely comprehend. In Luke 10:19,

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Jesus told us that he has given us power to
tread upon serpents and scorpions and
upon all the power of the enemy and
nothing shall by any means hurt us. Now,
that is the power of dominion. Jesus has
already won the victory for us but you have
to activate that victory. You have to put it
into operation. Until you do that, you may
not enjoy the victory that has been won for
you.

The third reason why we need to walk in

dominion is for us to be able to manifest
our blessings. Remember that the creature
earnestly waits for the manifestation of the
sons of God (Romans 8:19). The world is
waiting for you to become what you were
created to be. The only way you can be
what you were created to be is for you to
walk in dominion. Remember that in John
10:10 Jesus had come to give us life and
that life more abundantly, to enjoy to the
fullest until it overflows into the life of
others. You however have to be walking in
dominion to enjoy this, if you don’t, there is
an enemy waiting to steal kill and destroy.
John 10:10.

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Another reason why you have to be
walking in dominion is because the enemy
intends to destroy and you can’t afford to
let him. So you have to do what is called a
pre-emptive strike. When power is in the
hand of somebody that has no control
they can use it to destroy other peoples or
anything. Imagine Iranian President
declaring that he will wipe Israel from the
world map, to now allow such a man to
have Nuclear weapons is to fuel his
madness! Israel must carry out a pre-
emptive strike to destroy his nuclear
plants.

Psalms 19:13 “Keep back thy servant also from

presumptuous sins; let them not have
dominion over me: then shall I be upright,
and I shall be innocent from the great
transgression.”

As much as God wants you to walk in

dominion, the enemy wants to use sin to
dominate you. That is why the Psalmist
was here crying out to God to keep him
from presumptuous sins. Presumptuous
sins are sins that challenge God, that
wants to test who God is, those things that
one does to try to belittle God. You want to
pray that God should keep you away from

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such things because such things can put
you under in a very short while. The LORD
will give you dominion over such sins in the
mighty name of Jesus.

HOW CAN WE GET DOMINION?

First you have to be born again. This is the

key that takes you into the room where the
garment of dominion can be given to you.
Nicodemus was sincere in John 3, when he
asked Jesus how somebody can be born
again when he is already old. Jesus had to
tell him that except a man be born of the
spirit and of water, he cannot enter into
the kingdom of God, in other words he
cannot enter into that room where the
garment of dominion has already been
sown for him. Then you have to receive the
power of the Holy Spirit first then you can
become whatever you want to become
thereafter.

Secondly, you need to get the WORD of

God for now. God is speaking everyday and
in every generation He has a particular
assignment and instructions to be carried
out. God did not abandon the world after
creation. In fact, if you recollect the story

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of the fall of man, God came in the
evenings to fellowship with Adam. God
stopped that physical visitation but
continues to visit His children Spiritually,
through His words, His servants and
sometimes by Himself or Angelic
visitations. It is therefore important for you
to hear what God is saying for now. What is
the move of the Spirit for this generation,
what is God’s agenda for today? That is the
word for now, secure your instructions from
Him and the world will yield to your
instructions.

The third is through the power of prayer.

When you pray the way you ought to pray,
a different grace comes upon you, the
grace that brings dominion such as came
upon Deborah. When you enter into the
realm of dominion, you don’t operate at
the level of a few anymore. Things in their
multiples begin to come your way. No
longer in trickles, they begin to come in
torrents.

THE INSTRUMENTS OF DOMINION

I. The Name of Jesus

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Philippians 2:9-10 “Wherefore God also hath
highly exalted him, and given him a name which
is above every name: That at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and
things in earth, and things under the earth;”

II. The Blood of Jesus

Revelation 12:11 “And they overcame him by
the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their
testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the
death.”

III. Testimonies
Revelation 12:11 “And they overcame him by the
blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their
testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the
death.”

IV. The Anointing oil

James 5:14-15 “Is any sick among you? let him
call for the elders of the church; and let them pray
over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the
Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick,
and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have
committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”

V. The Mantle
Acts 19:12 “So that from his body were brought
unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, and the
diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits
went out of them.”

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 VI. The Holy Communion
John 6:53-58 “Then Jesus said unto them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of
the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no
life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh
my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up
at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and
my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh,
and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in
him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live
by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall
live by me. This is that bread which came down
from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna,
and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall
live for ever.”

VII. Impartation
1 Timothy 4:14 “Neglect not the gift that is in
thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the
laying on of the hands of the presbytery.

2 Timothy 1:6. Wherefore I put thee in

remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God,
which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.”

VIII. Contact with the anointed:

Mark 14:3-9 “And being in Bethany in the house
of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came
a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of
spikenard very precious; and she brake the box,
and poured it on his head. And there were some
that had indignation within themselves, and said,
Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it

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might have been sold for more than three
hundred pence, and have been given to the poor.
And they murmured against her. And Jesus said,
Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath
wrought a good work on me. For ye have the poor
with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may
do them good: but me ye have not always. She
hath done what she could: she is come aforehand
to anoint my body to the burying. Verily I say unto
you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached
throughout the whole world, this also that she
hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of
her.”

IX. Anointed books:

There is nothing you are going through in
life that somebody else has not gone
through before. God has helped us some of
them have been recorded in books.

AREAS THAT WE NEED TO WALK IN

DOMINION

God wants us to walk in dominion in every

area of our life. Those areas include but
are not limited to the following:

A. Finances. “And God is able to make

all grace abound toward you; that ye,

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 always having all sufficiency in all
things, may abound to every good
work:” (2 Corinthians 9:8 KJV) Psalm
112:2 His seed shall be mighty upon
earth: the generation of the upright
shall be blessed.3 Wealth and riches
[shall be] in his house: and his
righteousness endureth for ever. 4
Unto the upright there ariseth light in
the darkness: [he is] gracious, and full
of compassion, and righteous

B. Marriage: Genesis 2:25 And they

were both naked, the man and his
wife, and were not ashamed.

C. Ministry: “Thou therefore, my son,

be strong in the grace that is in Christ
Jesus. And the things that thou hast
heard of me among many witnesses,
the same commit thou to faithful
men, who shall be able to teach
others also. Thou therefore endure
hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus
Christ. No man that warreth
entangleth himself with the affairs of
this life; that he may please him who
hath chosen him to be a soldier.” (2
Timothy 2:1-4)

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 D.In life “And the princes of Issachar
were with Deborah; even Issachar,
and also Barak: he was sent on foot
into the valley. For the divisions of
Reuben there were great thoughts of
heart.” (Judges 5:15)

E. In Healthy Living 3John 1:2

Beloved, I wish above all things that
thou mayest prosper and be in health,
even as thy soul prospereth.

What made Deborah to walk in dominion?

She turned her heart into that grace. And
God empowered her heart. So much so
that Barak the commander of the army,
submitted to her. So the key to you
walking in dominion is your heart. You
must tune your heart into the room of
dominion. Deborah did this and God
empowered her and made her a woman to
have dominion over mighty men. She
simply tuned her heart even by exciting
others to do it, immediately she made up
her mind to do something about the
deplorable state of her nation, grace came
upon that heart and generals submitted

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themselves to her. She did what she had to
do with all her heart.

Pray for yourself and connect your heart to

the room of dominion. Everything that you
want to do, do it with all your heart! If you
want to walk in dominion let your heart be
trained into it. And when the soul is
employed in this holy exercised, the
strength of our spiritual enemies will be
trodden down and they will fall. Sisera was
the opponent of Deborah, but because her
heart was tuned into that room, he had to
submit to her. From now henceforth all
your enemies will submit themselves to
you as you walk in this power of dominion
in the mighty name of Jesus.

Judges 5:19-21 “The kings came and fought,

then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach
by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain
of money. They fought from heaven; the
stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
The river of Kishon swept them away, that
ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul,
thou hast trodden down strength.”

When you enter into this realm, you

activate the heavenly forces to work for
you. You know that the weapons of our

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warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty
through God to the pulling down of
stronghold. Eph 6:10-18 Message
translation

Ephesians 6:10-18 And that about wraps it up.

God is strong, and he wants you strong. 11 So
take everything the Master has set out for you,
well-made weapons of the best materials. And put
them to use so you will be able to stand up to
everything the Devil throws your way. 12 This is
no afternoon athletic contest that we'll walk away
from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is
for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against
the Devil and all his angels 13 Be prepared.
You're up against far more than you can handle
on your own. Take all the help you can get, every
weapon God has issued, so that when it's all over
but the shouting you'll still be on your feet.
14Truth, righteousness, 15 peace, 16 faith, 17
and salvation are more than words. Learn how to
apply them. You'll need them throughout your life.
God's Word is an indispensable weapon. 18 In the
same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing
warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your
brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep
each other's spirits up so that no one falls behind
or drops out. MSG

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Chapter 6

Rejoice in the Lord

Habakkuk 3:17-19 “Although the fig tree shall

not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the
vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and
the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall
be cut off from the fold, and there shall be
no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the
LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
The LORD God is my strength, and he will
make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will
make me to walk upon mine high places.”

Habakkuk 3:17-19 Though the cherry trees

don't blossom and the strawberries don't
ripen, Though the apples are worm-eaten
and the wheat fields stunted, Though the
sheep pens are sheepless and the cattle
barns empty, 18 I'm singing joyful praise to
GOD. I'm turning cartwheels of joy to my
Savior God. 19 Counting on GOD's Rule to
prevail, I take heart and gain strength. I run
like a deer. I feel like I'm king of the
mountain! (For congregational use, with a
full orchestra.) MSG

Rejoice because to rejoice is a portion that

has been given unto you. It is a privilege

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given only to the children of God. Anything
that has limited your joy this far by the
anointing upon this commission I terminate
it, in the name of Jesus. To rejoice is
ordained by God. It is for you and your
entire family to enjoy. God will lift you from
where you are to where you are supposed
to be in the mighty name of Jesus. Every
enemy of your joy will be dethroned.

Deuteronomy 16:11-12 “And thou shalt rejoice

before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son,
and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and
thy maidservant, and the Levite that is
within thy gates, and the stranger, and the
fatherless, and the widow, that are among
you, in the place which the LORD thy God
hath chosen to place his name there. And
thou shalt remember that thou wast a
bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe
and do these statutes.

The New Living Bible translation presents

that scripture like this:

Deuteronomy 16:11-12 “It is time to celebrate

before the LORD your God at the place He
chooses to put His name to be honoured.
Celebrate with your whole family, all your
servants, all the Levites from your towns,
foreigners and orphans, and widows who
live among you. Remember that you were

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 slaves in Egypt: so be careful to obey this
laws.” TLB

REJOICE! It is given to you to rejoice in the

presence of your maker. God is omnipotent
and omnipresent, so you are supposed to
rejoice anywhere you are. There is no
where that you can run to that God is not
there. David discovered this and penned it
sweetly in the following scripture:

Psalms 139:7-12 “Whither shall I go from thy

spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy
presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou
art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold,
thou art there. If I take the wings of the
morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of
the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me,
and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say,
Surely the darkness shall cover me; even
the night shall be light about me. Yea, the
darkness hideth not from thee; but the night
shineth as the day: the darkness and the
light are both alike to thee.”

Since God is everywhere you ought to

rejoice where ever you find your self
because God commands you to do so
especially where He has chosen to put His
name. It doesn’t matter how the tears of
the night has been, joy will come in the

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morning. From the scripture we read, to
rejoice means to be glad, to be happy, to
be satisfied, and to be filled with joy. For
some people their joy level has gone so
low! They have been bent over and caged
in their spirit by the circumstances of life.
Whatever has caged your spirit, I speak as
an oracle of God; I command those gates
to be broken open in the mighty name of
Jesus. Let the joy level that has gone low in
you begin to rise in the mighty name of
Jesus.

To rejoice means to exult, to celebrate in

His presence. When you go out and you
come in, your children exult at your arrival.
That’s the way you ought to be rejoicing
before your Heavenly Father. Whatever the
situations and the circumstances of your
life, you just rejoice in the LORD your God
because you have just been presented with
another opportunity to demonstrate the
power of God. You should not look at
situations and circumstances as if they are
fixed. They are not fixed! There is no
mountain that is fixed before Zerubbabel.

Zechariah 4:7 “Who art thou, O great mountain?

before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a

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 plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone
thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace
unto it. ”

Excuse me mountain, who art thou?

Declare yourself, because the God I serve
when He moves Himself, mountains skip as
ram before Him.

You have to rejoice since you know the

end from the beginning. Rejoicing is for
you and your entire family including the
strangers within your jurisdiction. As a
believer you are not supposed to have
anybody around you that is unable to make
it.

When I was much younger, we used to live

in Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria in the
railway compound and I was a little bit
smallish in stature. There were these group
of boys in the compound who took
pleasure in harassing and tormenting my
sister and me. They just enjoyed beating
us up. Being the favourite (only son, then
in the family), I enjoyed a lot of special
love. So you can only imagine when we
come home from school weeping,
everyone at home will be interested in

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knowing who was responsible. One of my
cousins then was a mechanic, whose
biceps were well developed by reasons of
his work. So usually, on our way back from
school those bullies will take on my sister
and I and all we could do was go home and
cry. Then my cousin decided to take on
those boys for us. Every time they
attempted to beat us again, he would give
them a thorough beating. It was such a
delight to see those bullies belittled and
my sister and I had the joy of jeering at
them as they were beaten, humiliated and
confounded before our eyes by our cousin.

That is how you are supposed to be

rejoicing in the face of the devil. Jesus has
taken him on and he is defeated for you!

To rejoice is to lift up a song. When you

are going through a trial and a temptation
and you don’t know what to do, just lift up
a song. Sing unto the LORD a new song.
One of the keys that you can use to open
doors is to sing to him in the face of
apparent mountainous problems. You will
just discover that the devil will say you see
now he is singing again. And he will leave
you alone. Sing to the LORD when you

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wake up in the morning, when you go to
bed, or you are just going through your
day.

To rejoice is to glory in the LORD. It is

to extol Him. That is what we do in
worship. Remind Him of how big and
awesome He is to you. Many years ago,
when I knew that God had some awesome
things to do in my life, I had to go to Him to
make enquiries - LORD if they say who
sent me, what should I tell them? A servant
of God must go back to God and get that
definite reply from Him. Moses made that
same request from God. It is so important
because when you decide to step out for
God, the enemy will definitely bombard
you with questions that you need to tackle.
You have to be ready to give him an
answer. Since the devil is so trickish you
have to know your God because those who
know their God they shall be strong and do
exploits.

If you want to do exploits on this earth you

must know your God , so that when
situations ask you who sent you , you will
be able to say this is who sent me. God will
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us. The same way our faces are different is
the same way God wants to show Himself
strong on our behalf. The assignment and
the challenges that He has placed in front
of you is different from mine. You have to
know His name. Jesus knew God as
FATHER. Knowing the name of God will
bring you into a point of rejoicing
throughout. God wants you to rejoice in His
presence. Because we have victory in the
LORD Jesus Christ, only the will of God will
come to pass in your life. Nothing will
terminate our rejoicing. Anyone that has
gathered evil will use His own head to
carry it, in the mighty name of Jesus.

To rejoice is to celebrate. When you

look back you will find a cause to rejoice.
You must rejoice and never allow anything
to limit your joy.

The Bible tells us to praise God, to worship

Him, to sing, to make a joyful noise, giving
God a big shout. A shout brought the walls
of Jericho down. Your shout will bring every
wall of Jericho down. I command the entire
curses in the Bible to enter into anything
that wants to limit your joy. Rejoice
because it isyou’re your victory in the

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battles of life. Caleb had peace after the
conquest of Hebron and his legacy in life
was established. I pray that my God will
give you victory over your own mountains,
that He will empower you to take your
inheritance and make you walk in
dominion.

I command you to occupy till he comes.

MARANATHA!

Bankole Olubamise, July 2009.

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Welcome to Lakeside
International Christian Ministries
(LICM) a.k.a Compassion House
Christian Centre International
(CCCI).

Our Ministry is an International

Centre for the raising of faithful
disciples for the end-time harvest
of souls thereby advancing the
Kingdom till the second coming
of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ. (Luke 5:1-11; Matthew
9:35-38).

Contact:

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 Pastor Bankole Olubamise,
P. O. Box 18063, Garki, Abuja, FCT,
Nigeria.
Tel: 234-802-660-8087
Email:bolubamise@gmail.com;
lakesidemin@gmail.com
Blog: www.bolubamise.blogspot.com

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To know more, participate or support
this ministry please contact:

The President,
Purposeful Living
P. O. Box 18063, Garki,
Abuja, FCT, Nigeria.
Tel: 234-802-660-8087
Email: bolubamise@gmail.com;
lakesidemin@gmail.com
Blog: www.bolubamise.blogspot.com

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Are Your Born Again?
For God so loved the World He gave. What
are you willing to give to enjoy your paid
for right to eternity in heaven with God. Do
you know this life is not all that is? You and
I will have to face eternity, an endless
time. But the question is how are you going
to spend it? In Heaven or in Hell, which do
you choose? Make up your mind today and
accept Jesus as your Lord and personal
Saviour. He wants you to spend eternity in
heaven with Him and not in hell with Satan.
If you would like to decide for Christ, say
this simple prayer with me:

Dear Lord Jesus, come into my

heart, be the Lord and Master of
my life. I am sorry for my sins
and hereby renounce them all. I
accept your atoning death and
the gift of eternal life through
your resurrection. Thank you for
accepting me into the Kingdom. I
am yours forever. Holy Spirit, fill
my heart with your love always,
in Jesus name I pray, Amen.

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If you just said this prayer, please
write to me and I will send you
materials to help your faith grow. You
are blessed always in Jesus name.

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