Meeting: Sunday School
Date: 7th June, 2026
Topic: Transitioning from the Prayer of Faith to Understanding the Dealings of God
Minister: Pastor David Kilanko
Tongues and Interpretation
Hunger,
Desire,
For the Father is hungry,
The Father is desirous,
For the Father is desirous of life,
For there are many places where life is missing,
The Father is desirous of life,
When I look upon the earth, what I desire to see is life everywhere,
Even life at every facet of your life,
I desire life everywhere,
I am alive because I have life,
I desire everyone to be alive,
I desire life from your soul,
I desire that everyone be alive,
You can be physically present but you are not alive,
I desire that life oozes out from your soul, even from every facet of your life,
I am the Father of life,
I desire great life,
I desire life at home, I desire life to be lived out in work places,
I desire life in your life,
I want to even drink from your life,
I desire life, I am embodiment of life,
I live by the existence of life,
Ye, come alive souls,
The Father desires to drink life upon the face of the earth,
I desire life, Father desires life,
Father desires that you come alive in every facets of your life,
In your relationship with your husband, with your wife, with your brothers and sisters, let life ooze forth,
In your relationship with the word, let life ooze forth,
I want life to be manifested on the earth,
In the beginning, there was life,
Even the light was life,
I desire that every man live out my life,
That every man expresses my life,
Ye, the Son came to show life, He embodied life and shew forth life,
I desire that everyone bring forth life,
I breathe life today, to give life today, to give you life,
I give you life today to bring you life,
I breathe again to give you life,
You are a living soul; you should not be a dead being walking on the street.
You are a living soul; live to your maker.
I bring life for you to live again.
Life should be your desire, your business,
Don’t be distracted by what is going on.
For the Father desires life, life everywhere.
Wake up, soldier of Christ, wake up.
Wake up from your dead places and give life to God.
I desire that you come into life.
Breathe life again for you to live life.
(John 1:1) – “In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” God is light. The life in God is transferred to us by shining light. Light is for seeing and walking, and when we walk, we come into ownership of that life. Light that has not been used to see and walk does not belong to you. There is nothing God is declaring as a demand that He Himself has not done. (Acts 1:1)
(Prov. 4:18) – “But the path of the just is as the shining light, That shineth more and more unto the perfect day.” What will take us from where we are to the destination called perfect day is that light will continue to shine. And the light that the Lord will shine in this teaching is how we transition from the place of the prayer of faith to understanding the dealings of God.
Prayer of faith starts with a desire. (Mark 11:24) – “Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” Desire is not the answer to receiving. The scripture says, whatever you desire ‘when you pray,’ not ‘if’ you pray. It means it begins with that place of prayer. Where believing is fine-tuned is in the place of prayer. The first resort of a soul in any situation must not be complaining or murmuring but praying. If you are going to call on anybody, call upon the name of the Lord. That is a major avenue that heaven would have us maximize.
The Lord appeared to Papa Kenneth Hagin and showed him some very valid principles. Papa Hagin titled it ‘How to write your own ticket with God’. God showed him that there are four basic steps to this.
The first step is to say it. The woman with the issue of blood first said it (Mark 5:28) – “For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.” In writing your ticket with God, the first thing is what you say. After saying it, the next step is to do it. The woman didn’t just say it and stand there. She found her way in between the crowd and touched His garment. The next step is to receive it – “And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.” – (Mark 5:29). The last step is to tell it – “But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.” – (Mark 5:33). These are valid principles. This is a testimony that was to minister to all. From this, Jesus testified of her great faith. Our rights and privileges with God are valid, and we should maximize them. Satan should not cheat us in the place of our finances, health, provision, and protection; they are already settled and have their Amen.
Anyone who has walked with God will know that life is not just about receiving what you want from God. If God helps you transition and make progress in faith and life, He won’t just give you everything you desire, even though you can pray the prayer of Faith. The goal of prayer is not to order God around to do your bidding; the goal of prayer is to fellowship with the heart of the Lord. The best use of prayer is to know the burden in the heart of the Lord, take it, and trust Him for grace to actualize it. God also has His burden; we must know this when we are taking our burden to Him. He knows what He wants to do with our lives, through our lives, and in our lives. If we do not realize this, we can become gold diggers in the spirit.
The Lord God doesn’t want us to have a transactional relationship with Him where all our life is about what we can get from Him just because He said a thing, and He is bound by His word. God is much more than what He has said. What gives integrity to His word is who He is. Not just because you can see it written in the Bible, but what makes the word “sure,” “purified,” and “tried” is the person of God. (Psalm 12:6) – “The words of the LORD are pure words: As silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.” You can bank on God’s word; it is sure and certain.
God is a living, breathing person. Much more than what He has said, He is a being that we must know and fellowship with. God wants us to know His person. The goal of His word is to know His person, not to see what you want and see what you can get from Him and move on. Many times, the relationship we build and the culture we have with God are primarily about what we perceive as our needs, not about what is in His heart. In the dealings of God, the goal of God is to bring what is in His heart and make it known to us. The essence of prayer really is transition. Anytime a soul hits the ground in prayer, by the time he rises up, he should have moved in the spirit; he must have communed with God, and God must have said things to him. The reason for the constant exhortation to read our Bibles, meditate on the word, pray, and give attention to prayer is not just so we can get answers to our prayers; the real reason is to know God when He is in a situation. Where our problem lies is that we have issues discerning the voice of our doubt, the voice of our mind, and the voice of God in a situation, especially the ones that look like contradictions to what God said in His word.
(Heb. 12:11) – “Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” To be exercised thereby is to engage in the process of chastening and allow God. What makes it difficult to allow and go through a process with joy, knowing that God is in a situation, is that you have not known His voice and His person. To pray about a situation is not necessarily to move it away; it is to know what is in His heart. We need joy and strength to endure the dealings, chastening, and scourgings. The goal of scourging and chastening is not because God enjoys it but to receive us as sons. If we continue receiving all that we want, God may not be able to remove some things from our lives. How He removes things from us is through dealings.
(Psalm 23:1-4) – “The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” Even though ‘The Lord is my Shepherd…,’ there is still ‘though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death’. What kept David from praying away the situation was his persuasion that the Lord is his shepherd. This is a soul that has engaged God to the point where he knows His voice and person; that should suffice. Studying the word and prayer is not just to know our rights and privileges in God; this is very important because if we don’t, Satan will cheat us. But more than that, those exercises should equip us to know the person of God.
The level of light we have depends on our estate in the spirit. The difference in ability to discern God clearly is height and how much you have used your fellowship with God in your dispensation. (Acts 21:10-14) – “And as we tarried there many days, there came down from Judæa a certain prophet, named Agabus. And when he was come unto us, he took Paul’s girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles. And when we heard these things, both we, and they of that place, besought him not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.” Agabus gave a prophecy concerning Paul by the spirit, but Paul didn’t take it because, by reason of his relationship with God, He knew what was in God’s heart. But it became clearer in Acts 23:11 – “And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.” The Lord said Paul should be of good cheer; that he should be strengthened and have joy knowing that He was with him. Paul knew that the Lord would have him go through that situation, so he didn’t pray it away. This level of relationship has trained him to know the heart of the Lord in every situation, even when it doesn’t look like what the Lord usually does. There is a level where God meets your every need, but after a while, God begins to deny you some things. Denial doesn’t mean God no longer loves us. Our confidence should be that God is with us in every situation. The reason we have not been so trained is that we only ask and do not try to hear from God in prayer. Communication is not just about sending a message; it is about a sender sending a message, a receiver receiving it, interpreting it, and sending feedback.
(Matt 26:53) – “Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?” Jesus knew it was His time, and that is why He allowed them to catch Him. This looked like a contradiction; His disciples didn’t understand, seeing that Jesus had performed many miracles in the past. There were other times when He had to escape amid attempts on His life (Mark 4:14-30). In those seasons, it wasn’t yet time; if He had been killed, it would have been a premature death.
The feeling about God must be known. We must be trained to know God in situations; what makes God recognizable when He takes you through a terrain you are not used to? Is there something that will help you recognize that it is your Father at work?
(Jer. 33:3) – “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.” After God answers your call, He reveals the things in His heart, which are things revealed by the Spirit (1 Cor. 2:11). One of the confusions we can have is that even our doubts and the voice of our mind’s worries can quote scripture. Just like how Satan quoted scriptures for Jesus during temptation. If we are going to transition with God, we must value the person who wrote the word more than what was written. If we are not careful, we can use what was written to fight the person who wrote it. The person who wrote the word is more important. The reason why I’m searching the Word of God is not primarily to get what I want. Heaven wants to lead us beyond what we think we want.
For many people, prayer seems like a chore. Our daddy, Pastor Laide Olaniyan, said that one of the best ways to rest is to pray in the spirit. The reason prayers seem like a chore is that we don’t understand many things about it. (Isa. 28:11-12) – “For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.” There is something we are not enjoying. Relationship is about intimacy. In relationships, you can make demands, but when it is all about demands, you can lose the relationship. The place of fellowship is the place of truly knowing. We should not be transactional children.
(1 Thess. 3:1-4) – “Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone; and sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God and our fellow-labourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith: that no man should be moved by these afflictions, for yourselves know that we are appointed thereunto. For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.” Even though you know what God says you are in the scriptures, you don’t know God. You don’t know God in His full essence. Though your first resort in afflictions is to pray, there are, however, some things that the Lord has appointed us for. This is not to dispute the prayer of faith, but we must know that there is transition and movement in God. In our walk with God, there is movement further for Him to receive us as sons. The movement is that there are things He has appointed for us, and those things don’t make Him a liar.
How God presses out things is by leading us through circumstances that seem contradictory. When Jesus prayed for those persecuting him, he wasn’t trying to sound political; he knew the Father was in it, and they truly didn’t know what they were doing. We should not be discouraged concerning the things that the Lord permits. The Lord chastens sons that He loves and wants to receive. There is a side of His love that holds a rod of correction. There is a correction that the word of God can bring that will remove foolishness from us (2 Tim. 3:16). That correction is for the side of you that hasn’t known God. In the seasons of contradiction, you see another side of God. He is the God of all comforts. You may not have seen Him that way and have only seen him as your provider, but really, Him being a comforter is the best side of God. The essence of the Godhead is that they are comforters (John 14:26). Jesus may have been doing many things, but what He is really doing is to minister comfort. God doesn’t just desire to afflict us; He takes responsibility for it. Comfort is receiving an essence in God that makes you appreciate Him more. Just as He did with Job when Satan afflicted him. God knew He wanted to promote Job. Job knew it was God allowing those things to happen, and even though he didn’t know why, he refused to curse God. Job had a fear for his life and family, and that is why He prayed and made sacrifices for them, but God moved him above them all.
The Lord wants to move us upward and cause our faith to be in him and not in things. If our faith is in things, it would be difficult for God to transition us. There is nothing here on earth that deserves our hearts holding on to much more than God. We should not be afraid. Nothing bad from the enemy’s standpoint will happen to us, but the will of God will be done.
We must not get stuck in our journey with God. Nobody deserves to be stuck on the journey because the path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day (Prov. 4:18). It is your continual walk that shines brighter. Our confidence should be that God has said that He will never leave us nor forsake us. This promise should be enough for a believer who is concerned about journeying. If you believe that He won’t leave us or forsake us, and He withdraws His hands, but He is still with you, it should suffice because it is about Him and His person, not about us. We must be a people who are rugged and ready to endure hardness as good soldiers of Christ who are ready to die at our posts (2 Tim. 2:3).
Round up by Pastor Laide Olaniyan
God wants us to fall in love with him; he wants our hearts to be rooted in him, not in what he can do. We know our God can do a lot. But you can marry a kind-hearted person, not for their heart, but for their acts of kindness. Often, people marry for selfish reasons. Selfishness is multifaceted, but God is not unfazed by that; He wants us to break the veil. God wants us to reach a place where we discern, know, and appreciate Him. If God is your God, there are things He allows, not because He is wicked but because His plan is salvation. The question is not whether God can do a thing or not; it’s about feeling His heart. It is a prayer to want to feel the heart of the Father. To desire to know what is in the heart of the Lord.
We can ask the Lord what He has in His heart each day. It is good for us to know the prayer of faith because it is in His word, but there are desires in His heart, desires concerning the situation of things. Many times, we don’t get to know the Lord in the place of our asking. We should get to a place where we know the feel of Him, different from ourselves, our minds, and our lust. We must learn to know and feel after Him. Many of us do not know the Lord. You can’t even discern Him. Have you learned to know the Lord, to feel after Him? How you get to know a person is by getting to know their heart and personality. You can know the Lord even when He is not speaking. You can know the Lord so much that when He brings something, you know it is Him and not Satan.
When we are not mature or have not grown well enough, we will be confused. Is it the Lord? Is it Satan? He is greater than what is written. Sometimes you think you know what is written, but He needs to explain what is written. Not because it isn’t written, but because you don’t have the same Spirit and all of the judgment to interpret what is written yet. Papa Hagin says learn the spirit, not just the word. We need to prosper in this. When we get here, we will overcome certain offenses and things that make people stumble and go out of the way.
It isn’t about whether the Father wants to give you something, but about if it is the right time. If he doesn’t think so, then we should be ok with it. He is intrinsically Love, and anything He thinks is the best is the best. God can answer us according to the idols of our hearts, but we would have gotten it from His displeasure. We should want to please Him rather than to get things from Him. We must learn to feel the heartbeat of the Lord and not be numb. Sin has numbed us so much that we are not careful about the pleasures of His heart.
(Isa. 53:10) – “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.” Not only was His body an offering for sin, but His soul too. The actual offering was His soul, the estate of righteousness in His soul. If you don’t know the Lord, you won’t agree to such dealings. We can get stuck in an allocation of the gospel, and there is no grace to go further. We must labour to know Him.