Pr James Kawalya
Prayer transforms.
We are a product of
revival.
We are transformed because
someone prayed.
The Spirit of the Lord
will breakthrough with signs and wonders.
There must be salvation,
sanctification and baptism in the Holy Spirit.
We must see people saved,
sanctified and baptised.
We must see people saved.
We must be convicted and accept Jesus Christ. We confess to Him and be born
again. But that’s not the end.
After being born again, we
must seek God for sanctification to cleanse us, to remove the filth, the
presence of God fills our lives, and the fire of God to burn in our lives.
And there must be baptism
of the Holy Spirit.
If we are to see revival,
there has to be more than just healing and miracles and deliverance. We must
emphasise salvation, sanctification and baptism of the Holy Spirit.
We must be sure that we
have accepted the Lord. It is not about joining a church or going to church on
Sunday mornings. Christianity sounded good to them and they joined a church.
These people are just convinced but not converted. They do not have an
encounter with Jesus.
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After coming to the Lord,
many people remain at the stage of salvation. They have not come to the place
of being sanctified.
Sanctification comes through
seeking God—praying every day, being before the Lord, reading the Bible,
letting the Holy Spirit convict you until you have removed all that the enemy
has deposited in you. We need to seek God for sanctification, not only for
salvation. We come by salvation, but when we come, we must go deeper in seeking
the face of God, in staying in the presence of God, in praying, in reading the
Bible, that we may be sanctified, that the presence of God now goes through all
parts of our lives and make us clean and holy.
After the sanctification,
we continue pressing on until we are baptised in the Holy Spirit. Every one of
us must go through the baptism of the Holy Spirit, accompanied by signs of
speaking in tongues and prophesying. When you are baptised in the Holy Spirit,
you will lose all things that defile you because the Holy Spirit satisfies you.
That is transformation. A
man who is saved, sanctified and baptised in the Holy Spirit is a transformed
man. He is not just a church-going man but a transformed man. No man who has
been baptised in the Holy Spirit will keep on lying and cheating, and continue
to live in sin and unforgiveness because the Holy Spirit will give you the
image and nature of Christ.
The Word of God sanctifies
you and the Spirit of God sanctifies you. You are transformed by the renewal of
your mind.
You will be like Christ.
Sin will not be part of you because now you are full of the life, power and
spirit of the living God.
When God is ready, nothing
will hinder Him.
If you are not ready, He will
go to your children.
No power and principality
can stop God.
Go with the wave and move
of God.
We are coming as midwives.
We are not the revival. We are not the ones to lead the revival. Our work is to
facilitate the birth of the revival.
It is time to raise
platforms—spiritual structures—that will host the move of God. The structures
are what we call prayer altars.
It is the prayer altars
that will host the move of God.
Strategic principles of
prayer altars:
1) Purposes and
ordained functions
2) Protocols
3) Power
4) Preservation
Psalm 19 New King James
Version (NKJV)
The Perfect
Revelation of the Lord
To the Chief
Musician. A Psalm of David.
19 The heavens
declare the glory of God;
And the
firmament[a] shows [b]His handiwork.
2 Day unto day
utters speech,
And night unto
night reveals knowledge.
3 There is no
speech nor language
Where their
voice is not heard.
4 Their
[c]line has gone out through all the earth,
And their
words to the end of the world.
In them He has set a
[d]tabernacle for the sun,
5 Which is
like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber,
And rejoices
like a strong man to run its race.
6 Its rising
is from one end of heaven,
And its
circuit to the other end;
And there is
nothing hidden from its heat.
7 The law of the Lord is perfect,
[e]converting the soul;
The testimony
of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple;
8 The statutes
of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
The
commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;
9 The fear of
the Lord is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments
of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
10 More to be
desired are they than gold,
Yea, than much
fine gold;
Sweeter also
than honey and the [f]honeycomb.
11 Moreover by
them Your servant is warned,
And in keeping
them there is great reward.
12 Who can understand his
errors?
Cleanse me
from secret faults.
13 Keep back
Your servant also from presumptuous sins;
Let them not
have dominion over me.
Then I shall
be blameless,
And I shall be
innocent of [g]great transgression.
14 Let the words of my
mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable
in Your sight,
O Lord, my
[h]strength and my Redeemer.
Jude New King James
Version (NKJV)
Greeting to
the Called
1 Jude, a
bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,
To those who are called,
[a]sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:
2 Mercy, peace, and love
be multiplied to you.
Contend for the Faith
3 Beloved,
while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I
found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the
faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For certain men have
crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly
men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord [b]God
and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Old and New Apostates
5 But I want
to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the
people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
6 And the angels who did not keep their [c]proper domain, but left their own
abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of
the great day; 7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar
manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone
after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the [d]vengeance of
eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these
dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of [e]dignitaries.
9 Yet Michael the archangel, in [f]contending with the devil, when he disputed
about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but
said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not
know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they
corrupt themselves. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have
run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion
of Korah.
Apostates Depraved and
Doomed
12 These are
[g]spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving
only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried [h]about by the winds;
late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; 13 raging
waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is
reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
14 Now Enoch, the seventh
from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes
with ten thousands of His saints, 15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all
who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed
in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have
spoken against Him.”
Apostates Predicted
16 These are
grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth
great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. 17 But you, beloved,
remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus
Christ: 18 how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who
would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. 19 These are [i]sensual
persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.
Maintain Your Life with God
20 But you,
beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy
Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our
Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
22 And on some have
compassion, [j]making a distinction; 23 but others save [k]with fear, pulling
them out of the [l]fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.
Glory to God
24 Now to Him
who is able to keep [m]you from stumbling,
And to present
you faultless
Before the
presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
25 To [n]God
our Savior,
[o]Who alone
is wise,
Be glory and
majesty,
Dominion and
[p]power,
Both now and
forever.
Amen.
Purposes of prayer
altars:
1) To attract the
presence and activity of the kingdom of God.
Jesus has always been
about preaching the kingdom of God, and then healing of the sick.
Today we want to heal the
sick but we do not want to preach the kingdom. Today we want to raise the dead
but we do not want to preach the kingdom.
But the power of the
kingdom is in the altar.
We raise prayer altars to
attract the presence and activity of the kingdom of God.
When we raise altars to
God, we raise a highway of holiness between earth and heaven. We create a
route, a conduit for angels to ascend and descend. We bring the kingdom of God
where there is joy, peace and righteousness in the Holy Spirit. The altars
begin to influence people in the things of the kingdom of God. The kingdom of
God is not just words, the kingdom of God is power.
When we let people raise
demonic and Satanic altars of darkness on earth, they raise a network of
tunnels connecting that place to hell. These tunnels are used as ways of
capturing souls.
2) To be a platform of
presenting spiritual cases in courts of the spiritual realm.
In the spirit, it is not
who shouts that wins. It is about who is doing it legally. Whatever the enemy
is trying to do in your life, city and nation, he is looking for a legal basis
to do it.
Without a prayer altar,
what you are praying is informal. Being informal, the spirit realm does not
recognise it. It is illegal.
There are prayers that we
pray that we do not get answers. But we take them to the altars and present
them as a case before God, we are doing it legally.
3) To dissolve curses
and establish the blessing.
The prayer altar destroys
curses. It is on the altar that you come to confess sins, to offer sacrifices,
and to worship God.
You cannot break a curse
but you can dissolve it by bringing the presence of God to remove the curse.
4) To launch out and
fight spiritual battles for families, communities and nations.
Spiritual battles are not
man against man. Spiritual battles are between an altar and another altar.
Otherwise, it means that
you are fighting in your own strength.
As you raise a prayer
altar, you are creating a platform to launch and fight spiritual battles.
5) To establish the
influence of the kingdom of God, over individuals, institutions and territories.
If you move in a certain
area and you identify key places and you raise prayer altars in those places,
you’ll find that the entire place is now influenced by the power and the will
of God.
Ordained functions
of prayer altars:
1) Gates into the
spiritual realm.
When you establish a
prayer altar whether in your church or in your home, it becomes a gate.
In Genesis, Abraham raises
a prayer altar in a place called Bethel. (Genesis 13:4) After many years, his
grandson Jacob finds himself sleeping in that place. While he is sleeping, he
has a dream in which he sees the heaven opening. He wakes up and says, “How
awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the
gate of heaven.” (Genesis 28:10-22)
He didn’t pray. He just
picked a stone and slept. But that place was an altar some years ago and it
remained opened to heaven.
You are not normal. You
are from another kingdom. You are here on a mission to establish your kingdom
authority and go back. You are an ambassador of another kingdom. You work is to
bring the rule of your kingdom into this kingdom of darkness. So wherever you
go, you possess by raising altars. You sanctify it, you declare it holy, and
you claim it in the name of Jesus. You commission angels to arrest the demons
and save the person’s soul. The next person that comes after you will be healed
and delivered.
2) Foundations of
communities.
Why do you feel like a
bird? When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?
(Psalm 11:1,3)
Spiritual foundations are
laid when communities are being formed. Before they build houses, they raise
altars as foundations of communities.
As a man of God, as an
apostle of God, as a prophet of God, break evil foundations and raise altars
for God that become foundations of communities.
You may go as the Lord’s
secret service agents to change the spiritual atmosphere.
3) Command centres of
spiritual activities.
In spiritual and physical
activities, the real power is at the command centre. It is where information is
received and sent out.
A prayer altar can cause
people who are not willing to pray, to pray.
You can command spiritual
activities in an area.
4) Custodians of
covenants.
Covenants are stored,
established and proclaimed on the prayer altar.
5) Governmental places.
Through prayer altars, you
can influence systems of government.
For example, when you
raise a prayer altar in your house, a mountain of the Lord’s house is
established in your house.
It is on Mount Zion—the
mountain that shakes and burns with fire--that innumerable multitudes of angels
joyfully gather together; that Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant and the
saved and the great men that have gone before us; that the blood of the new
covenant that speaks of a better covenant than that of Abel. (Hebrews 12:18-24)
All of these are at the
altars on the governmental places.
Because an altar of God is
a mountain, Jesus Christ the Mediator is on the altar.Thousands of angels are
on the altar. All the men that are in paradise (Elijah, Elisha, Moses, John,
Peter, James) are also on the altar. The blood of the new covenant is on the
altar. And the blood is not silent. The voice of the blood of Jesus is speaking
a better covenant on the altar than the blood that has been condemning all this
while. There is a voice 24/7 on the altar.
On Mount Zion, there shall
be deliverance, and there shall be holiness. And the house of Jacob and Joseph
shall take possessions. (Obadiah 1:17-18)
The prayer altar is a
mountain that is not easily destroyed. Demons find it difficult to climb the
mountain. Because the mountain of the Lord is above the mountains of the world.
(Isaiah 2:1-4)
And on this mountain, the
Lord shall establish His will.
6) Maintain cries,
voices and sounds of sacrifices.
Cries, voices and sounds
are symbols of the spirit realm.
Sometimes, you may have to
blow the shofar. The sound keeps echoing in the spirit realm until it has
fulfilled the purposes of God.
As you release the sound,
the spirit recognises it and follows what is being declared by the sound.
It is on the prayer altars
that we maintain these cries, voices and sounds.
The Lord told Moses that
He heard the cry of the people of Israel. (Exodus 3:7-9)
The spirit realm responds
quickly to songs and cries than words. Songs and cries are spiritual sounds.
That’s why you forget a sermon but not a song. Your deliverance is connected to
a certain song. When the Lord is to deliver you, He brings a song of
deliverance. When the Lord is to heal you, He brings songs of healing. There’s
also songs of salvation and songs of victory because that’s what the spirit
world listens to.
On the prayer altar, there
must be a song.
There is always a song for
the season. The heaven releases a song for the season of your life.
Recognise the song of the
altar in a given season and keep singing and get the message in it because that
sound will be a memorial in the spirit every time you come onto the altar.
Maintain that sound until it has created a cycle, a pattern in the spirit until
other altars speak the sound. Then it will become a wave, an atmosphere of the
power of God because of that sound.
The children of Israel
complained and said how they could sing the Song of the Lord while being held
in captivity in Babylon. (Psalm 137)
May the Lord put a song on
your lips in this season. May your heart begin to sing the Song of the Lord in
this season of revival. May your spirit arise in song in this season of
deliverance.
7) Execute judgments
and verdicts.
Declarations and
proclamations made at the altar execute the judgments of God and the verdicts
of heaven. The angels will run from the altar and bring deliverance.
2 Samuel 24:10-21 New King
James Version (NKJV)
The Judgment
on David’s Sin
10 And David’s
heart condemned him after he had numbered the people. So David said to the
Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done; but now, I pray, O Lord, take
away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”
11 Now when David arose in
the morning, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Gad, David’s seer,
saying, 12 “Go and tell David, ‘Thus says the Lord: “I offer you three things;
choose one of them for yourself, that I may do it to you.” ’ ” 13 So Gad came
to David and told him; and he said to him, “Shall seven[a] years of famine come
to you in your land? Or shall you flee three months before your enemies, while
they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ plague in your land? Now
consider and see what answer I should take back to Him who sent me.”
14 And David said to Gad,
“I am in great distress. Please let us fall into the hand of the Lord, for His
mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”
15 So the Lord sent a
plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to
Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died. 16 And when the [b]angel
stretched out His hand over Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented from the
destruction, and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “It is
enough; now restrain your hand.” And the angel of the Lord was by the threshing
floor of [c]Araunahthe Jebusite.
17 Then David spoke to the
Lord when he saw the angel who was striking the people, and said, “Surely I
have sinned, and I have done wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done?
Let Your hand, I pray, be against me and against my father’s house.”
The Altar on the Threshing
Floor
18 And Gad
came that day to David and said to him, “Go up, erect an altar to the Lord on
the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” 19 So David, according to the
word of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded. 20 Now Araunah looked, and saw the
king and his servants coming toward him. So Araunah went out and bowed before
the king with his face to the ground.
21 Then Araunah said, “Why
has my lord the king come to his servant?”
And David said, “To buy
the threshing floor from you, to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague
may be withdrawn from the people.”
David binds the property
to raise an altar to God that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.
Protocols of prayer
altars:
Protocols are systems of
rules that explain the correct conduct and procedures to be followed in formal
situations.
When it comes to praying
on the altar, it is a formal situation.
An altar is a time and
place sanctioned, set apart and sanctified for formal spiritual activities and
transactions by a recognised authority.
In a family, there is an
authority. In every altar, there must be an authority.
1) Protocol of faith.
Hebrews 11:4 New King
James Version (NKJV)
Faith at the
Dawn of History
4 By faith
Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he
obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts; and
through it he being dead still speaks.
God rejected the sacrifice
of Cain because he brought a sacrifice without faith.
Hebrews 11:5 New King
James Version (NKJV)
5 By faith
Enoch was taken away so that he did not see death, “and was not found, because
God had taken him”; for before he was taken he had this testimony, that he
pleased God.
Hebrews 11:6 New King
James Version (NKJV)
6 But without
faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that
He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
We come to the altar by
faith.
The just shall live by
faith. (Habakkuk 2:4)
The righteous shall live
by faith, not by sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7)
How does faith come? Faith
comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God and the word of Christ.
(Romans 10:17)
Come to the altar by keep
on hearing and reading the word so that your faith is strengthened. Then you
can discover the altar.
The word of God is
spiritual food for the soul. (1 Corinthians 10:3-4) You need a full course of
spiritual food, not a few verses here and there. That’s why so many people are
malnourished in the spirit.
2) Protocol of honour.
Leviticus 10:2-3 New King
James Version (NKJV)
2 So fire went
out from the Lord and devoured them, and they died before the Lord. 3 And Moses
said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke, saying:
‘By those who come near Me
I must be
regarded as holy;
And before all
the people
I must be
glorified.’ ”
Nadab and Abihu, the sons
of Aaron, brought "strange fire" (unauthorised, foreign or profane)
to the altar and the fire of the Lord consumed them.
The prayer altar is
serious business. Stop all the games.
God is holy. When He
comes, He comes in His holiness.
And because God is holy,
you need to be holy. Men and women that God has trusted with revival have to be
holy. Honour God as God.
Where is the fear of God
in the church? Service starts at 8 and you only start your journey at 8:30? You
fear your spouse more than God. You fear your bosses at work than God.
God says, “Do not use My
name in vain.” But people use His name as a full stop. For example, “I shall
slap you in the name of Jesus” or “Come here in the name of Jesus.”
What are you doing? That
name is holy. It should be feared. At the mention of that name, every knee must
bow.
But you are playing with
that name.
Do not defile the name of
the Lord.
The name of the Lord is
holy.
Jesus Himself calls God
“Father.”
The fear of God must be
back to our churches.
3) Protocol of harmony
and agreement.
Matthew 5:23-25 New King
James Version (NKJV)
23 Therefore
if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has
something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar, and go your
way. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are on the way with him, lest your
adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer, and
you be thrown into prison.
How many people are
raising altars but are not talking to one another?
You cannot reconcile with
fellow men and now you are coming to the church altar.
Before you come to the
altar, there must be harmony and agreement. You must be in the same spirit.
But for most people, our
altars have become places of competition to prove who is more spiritual, who
speaks more tongues and better tongues, and who prophesies and sees in the
spirit.
That’s why our altars are
weak. We are not in the prayer covenant and we are not in agreement. There is
only confusion.
The Holy Spirit is not a
spirit of confusion.
There must be harmony and
agreement at the prayer altar.
Matthew 18:19-20 New King
James Version (NKJV)
19 “Again[a] I
say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask,
it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are
gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
Power of prayer
altars:
1) Integrity of the
priesthood.
The person has to be holy.
You cannot be hurting everyone in church and be in charge of the prayer altar.
You cannot be the one breaking marriages in prophecies and be interceding for
the church.
Why people do not come to
the altar is because the so-called intercessors at the altar are the source of
problem for the ministry.
The priest—the one at the
altar—must be the one who walks without blame and has a great life’s testimony.
Where is your testimony, even at home?
2) Consistency of the
sacrifice.
3) Status of the ruling
spirit.
The Holy Spirit is the
spirit of revival and transformation.
4) Timing and seasons
of operation.
Preservation of prayer altars:
Preserve against:
1) Familiar spirits.
They are church-going people who
still talk to the dead. (Eg. “My dead mother still comes to give me
instructions. My dead grandfather comes and tells me what to do” or “My pastor
comes. My pastor is Jesus. I hear His voice in my room” or “The Holy Spirit has
come on my head, then it moves to my hands, and it’s now on my feet.”) When the
ghost of Samuel appeared to Saul after his death, it was a familiar spirit. (1
Samuel 28)
2) Jezebel spirits.
Jezebel spirits love to prophesy. They
like to show that spiritually, they are greater than you. Jezebel spirits love
to control. (eg. “God is telling me…, God has shown me…”)
3) Spirit of sorcery.
The spirit of sorcery defiles the
mind and brings false knowledge. Sorcery corrupts the mind. It brings spiritual
practices and activities that are not acceptable before God. (eg. Necromancy,
transcendental meditation, oriental things, Scientology) There’s also false
dreams, lying visions and strange powers. The altar is now a place of demonstrating
power.
4) Spirit of infirmities.
Spirit of infirmities brings
sickness and diseases on the altar. Everyone becomes sick until they cannot
pray.
5) Leviathan spirit.
Leviathan is the spirit of pride.
Leviathan is the father of pride.
Watch against these powers that
defile and break altars.
When the enemy cannot destroy you,
he will join you on the altar to defile you and the Lord rejects your altar.
People are believing in objects.
Now people are carrying pictures of men of God.
People are believing in oil than
the Holy Spirit, and say, “In the name of Jesus, go!” That’s witchcraft. You’ve
become a witch now.
Jesus is enough. The name of Jesus
is enough. Do not bring other things to add on the name of Jesus. Do not carry
Jesus on the handkerchiefs, on stones and on sticks. That is evil!
We need the Holy Spirit in us, not
in the stick. Or in the bottle. So when they steal the bottle, they steal the
Holy Spirit?
Lord, I thank You that Your name is
enough. I am more than a conqueror. I overcome every familiar spirit, the
spirit of Jezebel, the spirit of sorcery, the spirit of infirmities, the
Leviathan spirit in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, I have victory
over the spirit of fear, disease, torment, pain. I defeat every evil spirit,
force, principality, personality, power, throne in the name of Jesus. In the
name of Jesus, I turn every defeat into victory. I plead the blood of Jesus
upon my family, my home, my children, my office, my body. On this altar, there
shall be deliverance, healing and transformation. In the name of Jesus, I
overcome and defeat the spirit of sorcery and witchcraft in my family, in my
bloodline, and in my community. No weapon formed against me will prosper. I
declare that victory belongs to Jesus. Amen.
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