Pastor Jeffrey Walter

Many Christians are under the illusion that they can passively receive the promise of the Holy Spirit. God flows to the whole of His creation on a subconscious level to constitute their existence. This does not require their cooperation or the involvement of their “will”. However, for God to dwell in our will for us to receive His great treasures, we must actively engage our will and understanding...

The Lord promises us the Spirit which is our ultimate solution in this life. Yet, we must be prepared to receive this promise. To be made ready for the Spirit, we must go the whole distance, and not what is perceived by us to be a great deal of distance. Why are we unwilling the go the whole distance in attaining the Spirit? Perhaps, we do not yet appreciate the new life we stand to gain at the en...

We are each plagued with many frailties. It is for this reason that God’s instruction (Word) is given. Each instruction aims at addressing a particular frailty present with us. The Word (instruction) of God therefore comes with a promise. This promise gives us a glimpse of what will become of us if we follow the word. The promise is the Holy Ghost, the wisdom of God in our interior mind, our prese...

A lot of gadgets get underutilised, especially in the hands of one who lacks understanding of their full capabilities. In the same vein, our natural mind gets underutilised by the carnal mind. It gets underutilised so much that we are unable to fathom its full potential. As a result, we lead a debased life, being subject to the beggarly elements of this world. However, in the hands of the Holy Spi...

Those who labour with the natural truths they receive in order to overthrow the carnal mind, enters into spiritual truths, thereby partaking in the Divine nature. Truth in the natural is external and therefore volatile but spiritual truth affects our interiors and can therefore not be lost. This spiritual illumination of truth is what Jesus referred to as the comforter (helper), who is to abide wi...

The carnal mind is called “flesh” in the scriptures because, it prioritises the material as its goal. Before we become spiritual, we are ruled by the carnal mind through the wisdom of this world. Consequently, those who are ruled by the carnal mind despise the Divine wisdom and, therefore, cannot inherit the Kingdom of God. Hence, the need for the carnal mind to be done away with. Jesus called the...

To be spiritual, our natural mind (the part in touch with earthly impulses) must first be developed, so that truth can be illustrated to us. Yet, it is our submission to the truths that opens our spiritual mind, which serves as the point of inception of Divine Wisdom. The Divine intelligence, which is able to reach us by the opening of the spiritual mind, then shines through the natural truths in...

Mastery in spiritual things, the divine blessing, is not attained on a silver platter. This is because there are things present with us that are not compatible with mastery. Hence, there ought to be a shift in the one who strives for mastery. Everyone can be open to isolated supernatural encounters, but to have a sustained supernatural presence, you must pay great prices. The greater the mastery,...

The spiritual journey can be likened to one who is making a transition from one civilization to another. Since each civilization is governed by a set of wisdom, the one who will migrate from the worldly civilization to the heavenly civilization, i.e., the civilization of the Lord’s new church, must do so by knowledge. This is necessary because, we are coming from a place where we think materially...

The Lord commands us to Love Him with all our hearts, soul, mind and strength. If only we can surrender our will to do this, we will enter into divine intelligence, thereby becoming vessels for God to operate through. Yet, there are inadequacies with us that make it difficult to attain such mastery. Hence, the need for us to strive. One key resource we need to strive to utilise in attaining the hi...

There is but one will and one understanding: the will of God and the understanding of God. The rest are deviations from this will and understanding. Thus, we attain our utmost potential by surrendering our will to be filled with the Divine Love and our understanding to be filled with the Divine Wisdom —this  is what it means to seek the face of God. However, our own contrary wills and underst...

The things in this world are not to be our highest pursuit; they serve as means of accomplishing what is of eternal value. As we engage in the affairs of this life, the evils with us draw us to the material things, which in turn capture our focus to seek them as the ultimate. The one who seeks the face of God must therefore strive to be temperate in all things concerning the affairs of this life....

No one begins seeking the face of the Lord without the Lord first calling unto them. The Lord calls us by bringing us to the awareness of the bankruptcy of our wisdom or way of life. It is the deep awareness of the fact that no good thing dwells in us, that spurs us to run to the Lord for refuge. This awareness is supposed to mark the beginning of everyone’s spiritual journey. However, many people...

There are supposed Christians who are bombarded with the will/requirements of God through the introduction of doctrine. And there are others who set out to seek the will of God that they may follow after. The former feel burdened with the requirements of God and easily become rebellious. The latter are yielded to God and consequently come to a deeper appreciation of the will of God. Those who go a...

Anyone who will receive the blessing of the Lord (Divine Love and Wisdom) must first go through struggle. The struggle is initiated by approaching the light of the Word of God which is the agency of the blessing. The struggle becomes necessary because there are contrary desires and wisdoms initially with the person. The goal of the struggle is to give up the evils with us, which tend to deprive us...

What we desire determines how we relate with God and His Word. Those who love and seek God, by virtue of their freewill, submit their will and understanding to be filled with the Divine Love and Divine Wisdom respectively. To such, God becomes their God and they become proper men. Those who love themselves and the world, shut out the Lord by misinterpreting the Word in line with their carnal desir...

Many think they would be better off in their faith if they had encountered the Lord during His incarnation. As a result, they rate the material birth of God above His spiritual birth (the appearance of the Lord to the hearts of men). What they do not realise is that, because God is spirit, any form of manifestation of Him in the flesh veils his glory. That is why Jesus in His earth walk, emphasise...

Whatever the Lord would accomplish on earth, He requires a body (that which will express His will) for it to come to pass. Thus, the one who would be used by the Lord must first consecrate themselves to the Lord’s desires by yielding themselves in prayer till they are consumed in it. This goes beyond uttering of words, usually accompanied with groanings which cannot be uttered. In the message, “Th...

Jerusalem was known as the Holy city because of the presence of the temple, which represented the Word of God, in it. Since our worship is in our submission to the Word, Jerusalem was known as the place of worship. It was therefore the custom of the Jews to pray facing the temple within Jerusalem. Their facing the temple in prayer was indicative of their agreement to that which the temple represen...

When the Lord opens our eyes to understand His intentions, His intentions become our expectation (hope). It is this hope that drives the watchman into the place of prayer. Anyone that comes into contact with the revelation of the promised glory of the Lord’s church will have only one desire – to see it rest with men. In the message, "The Ministry of Intercession: The Hope Of The Intercessor", Past...

The one who lives the spiritual life in the earth comes to an understanding of truth, which makes them able to see. Such is the one who is awake and is called to be a watchman, i.e., an intercessor. They therefore have the ability to see what the Lord is up to and what is militating against it. This is what drives the watchman into prayer. In the message, “The Ministry Of Intercession: The Watchma...

Just as the Israelites always encamped around the tabernacle, so is the Lord’s church organised around the Word of God. In the Lord’s new church, it is the Word of God that is paramount. The spiritual sense of the Word, not the literal form. It is the reason why we gather as a church; it dictates how we gather and the course of our lives. The vitality of the word in the building of the Lord’s chur...

The heart of a man together with the belief systems that it generates is a man's truest foundation, for it is from this fountain that the man lives his life. Consequently, the church's greatest and most important work is upon the hearts of men, teaching men to turn from their selfish desires towards love for the Lord and the neighbour which is from heaven.   The presence of the church in soci...

Every civilisation is built by men. However, the men who will build the civilisation are plagued with selfishness, the main nemesis of civilisation. How will the builders be healed from their selfishness, without the church? It is the church that deals with the hearts, way of thinking and dealings of a people, which naturally don’t promote civilisation. And these are the core of every civilisation...

Divine order cannot be circumvented. For a person to receive from God, their heart must be set on God. The one whose heart (desires) is set on the world detests everything of God. Since the rendezvous point of our reception of God is in the heart, the heart that loves the world has no room for what is of God and can therefore not receive from God. The reality is that, we do not truly desire the th...