Date: 8th November 2025
Message:
Minister: Pastor Laide Olaniyan
(Luke 17:12-19) — “And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off: And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed. And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God, And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.”
When Jesus healed the ten, and He said, go show yourself to the priest, and give the token that is needed for your cleansing. On their way, one turned back and came back to Jesus, and He asked him, were there not ten that were cleansed, where are the other nine?
God didn’t make a demand, but He was expecting it. The one that came back couldn’t answer for them, because the answer could have said, you were the one that told us to go and show ourselves to the priest, and by all means, they were following instructions.
I learnt from a man of God sometime ago, He said when God speaks to you, listen for what He didn’t say but He said. For example, if God says this month I will give you victory; when you hear victory, you rejoice, but what God is saying is that you will have battles, because without battles, you can’t be victorious. But we carry victory, then when battles come we say Lord this isn’t what you promised me, but He said it, we just didn’t hear it.
There are many things God says but He didn’t say expressly. A sign of maturity is seen in our ability to hear what He did not say expressly!
You might not say things directly, but in parables, and a wise son would still pick such a saying. For a child you have to spell out everything.
This man that returned to give thanks, regardless of the instruction given to go show himself to the priest; he knew within himself that the instruction was to fulfil the law of Moses, but he was able to realise that Jesus is the true priest of the testament of life and that the essence of showing themselves is in gratitude to God.
They all went to fulfill the law of Moses, but did not come back to Jesus, but the one that came back heard something they didn’t hear.
You can’t do well in this walk if you can’t see what others can’t see and hear what others can’t hear. It was said concerning Moses that he endured as one who saw the invisible. (Heb 11:27)
There is something that you must see that others do not see and there is something that you must hear that others have not been anointed to hear, otherwise you will behave in the same way they behave. To do differently, you must see and hear what they don’t see and don’t hear.
God has blessed us today to catch the wind of a direction for our blessing. God is bringing a seal upon what He has used this year to wrought in our life. There is a grace that comes to seal a thing.
(1Pet 1:13) — “Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;”
The teaching is the vehicle through which grace will come, but the teaching and the grace are not the same thing. You can hear the teaching, but you didn’t hope till the end, you didn’t wait to purge the grace, you weren’t patient enough to receive the grace.
When God brings grace, it’s an atmosphere of the spirit, a substance of life that is put in your soul, as a seal of grace, for to secure a work.
Grace like peace is like a guidance of the mind.
(Phil 4:7) — “And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
It’s not only peace, it’s both grace and peace that will be multiplied to you through knowledge. The knowledge that is coming is to bring a material called grace and peace; these things can garrison a heart.
When you are listening to the word, don’t lose sight of grace. The essence is to labour till grace comes and when it comes, hold it firm, don’t let it slip, hold the grace, and then use it to live.
There is a skill we have to learn. We must learn to guide grounds of grace, contend for it and not relax when we have gotten it. Grounds of grace are lots of inheritance that require so much warfare to get it. But sometimes after warring to secure it, we now relax. It’s like the ground full of lentils that the philistines took and then one of the mighty men of David had to fight to get it. (2 Sam 23:11-12).
(Rom 5:2) — “By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.”
Grace is a ground that enables you to stand in the spirit. It’s a solid ground, and a secure lot.
That work is in the heart, but it’s also a ground upon which a soul stands in the spirit. It’s a ground that must be defended and cherished.
Many believers don’t discern grace ground, but easily move away from grace ground; they don’t continue in the grace of God, they don’t fight to preserve it. This is not doctrine but spiritual experience.
You can perceive a soul who has come to a ground of grace and the next time you look at him, maybe after two weeks, he has strayed away from that ground; he has moved away, maybe not from the experience, but from the lot and allocation that he ought to guide and use until it becomes his life. He broke into it but he was so spurious or erratic that he couldn’t settle, which in turn made him not get established in that grace.
Grace is to cause you to be established until nature is formed. Word is brought to you as a result of a previous grace experience, to bring you to a higher ground of grace that is supposed to add to your stature.
When we hear this phrase, “grace is in levels”, it’s quite true. For us we come into grace in measures according to stature, unlike Jesus, that was full of grace in His time. (John 1:14)
A person can come into grace and fall from it, because he was too unstable on that ground to inherit it, get established in it, for it to become one with me, and then grow from there to the next grace point.
A person can come to the next grace point which is a victory and breakthrough, but is not steady enough to remain there and be established in it until he secures it and it becomes a nature in his soul.
Breakthrough into a grace ground or allocation is beautiful, but securing, being jealous over it is more essential if we are to grow more. Otherwise a person can find himself in circles; like in the case of the slide ground children play on, which is not an abiding place.
The step of a believer should be like a staircase, moving higher and higher, there should be no down turn, or displacement from grace.
God desires for us to take every grace ground; that is, be fully aware of it, contend for it until you are established in that grace. (1 Cor 15:10).
While we thank God for breakthrough in a sense we must be aware that it’s not the end of the warfare, we must ask and discern God for the consecration of the grounds where we are, because every ground has laws that are compatible with it. (Num 13:32).
If your life is not compatible with the grace ground, it will overthrow, devour or expel you.
Grace is like a widely spinning saucer that spins a thing, making it oscillate at a velocity until that thing is one with it. spins you until you are one with it.
Grace requires you to discern the consecration of the ground you have come into. Grace brings you to the point where you become one with it because your pace has been increased to align with the ground of the law you have been found, that way you won’t lose grace.
There are principles of grace; you don’t benefit from grace without a conscious effort. You can’t utilise or maximise grace without a deliberate cooperation with grace. You have to discern it, know it and consciously agree with it, otherwise you will lose it. You can use a part of grace and waste the rest, while you think that you have used it well, which is why we must be very careful.
(2John 1:8) — “Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.”
All of the things that we have taught, the grace of it is being pressed upon our spirit, and we must not lose it. The sign of a slothful soul is that he allows it to slip. In the spirit, you need diligence to increase in grace. (2Pet 1:5). Diligence is the consistent factor you use to add. You can’t be slothful and expect to grow in grace. (Heb 2:1).
You can’t be slothful and then increase in grace. Diligence and discipline are constant factors needed to be able to use grace well.
You can’t be absent minded and grow in grace, not even in natural things moreorless spiritual things. Some people are so poor that they can’t pay attention, it’s too expensive for them to pay; if you can’t pay attention, you can’t pay anything.
Before you lost money, you lost attention. The secret is in the details, but your inability to pay attention, made you lose it. The root of your poverty is that you can’t pay attention to details.
To increase in grace, you have to be diligent. Diligence is not first an outward work, it’s first a work within, it requires mind engagement, and mind presence (meditation).
How much of our mind do we give to grace. If our mind is exposed, how frequently do we engage in thoughts pertaining to it? If our thoughts are evaluated per hour or in a day, how much of our thought is centered on resolving mysteries of grace or doing them.
(Joshua 1:8) — “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”
Meditation is what makes you observe or pay attention to details. Without observing you can’t notice what you need to do. Attention makes you pay attention to what you need to do.
Satan has made some of us very busy in our minds. We think about everything that is not our business.
We find ourselves unable to focus on the things that are important to us because Satan has scattered the mind. The fight of Satan is to make us not pay attention so that we aren’t able to observe, which in turn won’t make us see commandments when they are brought to us.
Satan scatters the mind, so that even when there is a breakthrough, we still can’t keep the ground.
Diligence is the ability to first focus or mind the internal work being wrought in us
(Malachi 3:16) — “Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.”
You can’t observe anything of the Lord that you haven’t given attention to.
(Deut 6:5) —“And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.”
The ‘might’ made mention of in the scripture is the steadfastness of heart. We must war because our mind doesn’t just stay on one thing. The mind is very spurious, especially due to the wide spread of social media, it can cause the mind to travel everywhere. This is a vehicle the enemy has been using to baptise us into the world of other people. Some of these vehicles are for our ruin. They are not meant to be our world. Our world should be in the spirit, that is where our attention is needed.
If we are not intentional about these things, we will end up losing grace that we don’t use to live. Grace comes as first knowledge, then as a work in the soul, whose consecration must be discerned.
Every grace comes as an ability to respond to a God’s demand in a particular dimension. If I don’t respond to grace and I lose it, it will be more difficult to obey instructions tied to that ground. I won’t have the ability to respond, it will be warfare; like I am wrestling with myself. What was once natural when the ambience and spirit came, would now become a warfare because I lost that ground of grace, and I didn’t stay.
We must be conscious, and skillful in the spirit so that Satan doesn’t rob us. Satan likes taking life and grace from us. When we are left with knowledge without grace, we fall into condemnation, because we will know the demand of God but we will lack the energy to execute it, making us feel condemned, which is his desires.
But if we can cooperate with the spirit and secure every grace provision brought to us, we will come to realise that the commandments of God are not grievous because we are doing through grace the demand of the spirit. We will find ourselves yielding to the grace made available to us by God.
Don’t just have knowledge, have grace and when you have it, guide it with your life.
Every grace allocation has its own consecrations. Some grace provision that comes to you comes with enablement to do life, we must not deliberately do against or violate the law of that grace; it’s a dangerous thing. Satan deliberately trains a soul like that because that is how they raise children of perdition.
(Heb 10:29) — “Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?”
Part of the training of Satan is to train the heart to refuse grace. For Satan to raise any son of perdition, he will train him to resist grace or walk contrary to grace. They train the heart to act against grace.
Some grave demands will require apologising even when you are right for the sake of peace. You just want to keep grace, you don’t want to be right at the expense of grace. You are just jealous of the atmosphere or ambience of the heart, not wanting to lose it. Sometimes when grace is leaving you, you know, you know that something is departing from you. At that point, you must quickly repent, that is a heart that is cautious and mindful of grace; an example of such a man is David. To be mindless is to love death.
We must cherish grace grounds that God has brought us to, until we become one with it. We might notice on some occasions the need to be quiet, rather than talk, that is grace instructing us.
Before now in some other economies, you didn’t have that capacity, so they first brought light and then grace visited you, then the next time you can choose to speak, and then defile grace, you will immediately find yourself feeling hurt, if you aren’t quick to repent, and you repeatedly find yourself defying grace and remaining unrepentant, though you are still born again, you will find out that you have lost something that might take a cycle of the working of God to gain such a thing back by mercy.
We must be trained to be jealous of grace grounds, until we are established in it and it becomes one nature with our soul, then we can ascend higher to other workings of grace.
(2 Pet 3:18) — “But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.”
Eternal life is not just knowledge, it’s a grace work within the heart that births a kind of man.
Nothing grows if the frequency of what you are having is not more than what you are losing. So also you can only grow when you are adding more grace than you are losing. If you are losing more than you are adding, you can’t grow. You can never increase if the rate of your loss is more than your addition.
To add to your faith is to grow; don’t just add, abound. Ensure that you are having more than you are losing or you add without losing at all until you increase (2Pet 1:5-7).
God will help us to block all leakages and then increase the rate at which we add, this is only how growth can happen. (2Pet 1:2, 2 Pet 1:15).
The only thing that must be subtracted from us are walks of death, things that add to life must never be subtracted from us.
For growth to take place sometimes we must allow something to go, the warfare of growth is holding everything together.
(Matt 23:23) — “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.”
We must learn to hold one and add the other to it without letting both go. To hold truth and increase in it, is to not allow any escape or slip.
For every level or stage God brings us to, there is a wisdom needed to manage everything given to us to do without letting go of that which is more important to our growth.
I have seen this several times when people are exposed to a new level of light, they drop everything they have used before and focus on this new light alone, then after some months they become defective, and then you realise that everything they ought to have added, they dropped it and focused on this new light alone.
If we leave the other undone, we will find ourselves in cycles. So instead of growing, we find ourselves going round and round the cycle.
But God will give us grace on how to add without losing, and multiply without dividing.
There are certain things that are divisions in our life. Divisions tear us and make us leak out. Some certain relationships are divisions in our life. They don’t just subtract from us, they divide terribly. Unequal yoking is a massive division. God wants us to guide what is given to us.
(2 John 1:8) — “Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.”
THE END.