Seven Days Of Glory - Wonderful by Apostle Michael Orokpo: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Isaiah 9:6

Three Levels of the Ministry of the Word

• Graph, the written word. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All scripture is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness. Yielding to the written word is what brings a believer to maturity and equips them for good works.
• Logos, the mind and methodology of God. John 1:1-4, 1 Corinthians 2:12-14 This dimension awakens discernment so a believer begins to think at God's frequency, and what limits others no longer limits them, the way the same flood that destroyed the world was the flood that sustained the ark.
• Rhema, the spoken word. Matthew 4:4 This is where the word becomes a weapon in the hand, a tool to bring situations under control rather than merely an advantage to live by.

The Supremacy of God — His Incommunicable Attributes

Only God possesses these, and this is the foundation of what scripture means by calling Him Wonderful.

• Eternal — He has no beginning and no end, unlike anything else in creation, which was either made or born.
• Immutable — Malachi 3:6 He does not change with time, information, or circumstance, which is why what He speaks in one season cannot be undone in another.
• Omnipotent — Revelation 19:6 He holds all power, yet that power cannot corrupt Him; He does only what He ought to do.
• Omniscient — He knows all things at all times; nothing discovered by man was ever unknown to Him.
• Omnipresent — He exists in yesterday, today, and tomorrow simultaneously, which is why a person's past can be edited by Him even while their future is being prepared.
• Self-existent — He is the great "I Am," existing because of Himself alone; creation exists only as it aligns with Him.

The Communicable Attributes of God

Righteousness, truth, mercy, and goodness are attributes God shares, so that wherever they are found genuinely at work in a person, they can be traced back to Him. A woman who survived an attack that killed her family later discovered and cared for the very man responsible, forgiving him before he even asked. That kind of mercy is recognized as divine because it exceeds what is natural to a person.

The Sovereignty of God

He is the only Creator; science can form and reshape existing material but cannot create life itself. He holds authority to change times and seasons, and He alone will judge all creation, Revelation 20:11, in a single sitting, without the delay or corruption that marks every human court.

The Channels That Carry God's Wonder

• Blessing — Genesis 1:28, Numbers 6:23-24 The patriarchs did business with the spoken blessing; Isaac blessed Jacob and nothing could reverse it even under the corrupt house of Laban.
• Prophecy — Ezekiel 37 Dry bones only came together after the prophet was told to prophesy to them, and told to keep prophesying without stopping. Decreeing a thing is what establishes it.
• The Name — In the Old Testament, God's wonders were distributed across many names, the Elohimistic names revealing His majesty and creative power, the Jehovah names revealing His covenant relationships. In the New Covenant, all of these were aggregated into one name. Colossians 2:9 The fullness of the godhead dwells in Jesus bodily, so that calling on that one name carries what every Old Testament name once carried separately.

Eight Ordinances for a Life That Carries God's Wonder

Calling on the name is not automatic; the name must be received through a structure. Violating these ordinances limits what blessing, prophecy, or the name can do in a life.

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1. Consciousness

   Jeremiah 1:5 Life and possibility begin with awareness. God first awakens consciousness in a person, the way He told Abraham to lift up his eyes and number the stars, before He blesses.

2. Training and Development

   Proverbs 22:6 Even the patriarchs were skilled tradesmen, farmers and irrigators. A name does little for a life that refuses to be trained and developed.

3. Principled Living

   Relationships, money, and daily conduct must be governed by principle rather than lived haphazardly.

4. Values and Virtue

   Spiritual virtues such as humility, love, and the fear of God; ethical virtues such as integrity and sincerity; and moral virtues such as sexual purity, must all be embraced. Violating them will sink whatever platform blessing or prophecy has built.

5. Productivity

   Something must come out of a developed, principled, virtuous life, a gift sharpened, an idea produced, a treasure released from within.

6. Influence

   The ability to shape the thoughts, decisions, and actions of others follows productivity.

7. Leadership

   When a life is affecting more people than it can personally reach, it must replicate itself in others and delegate so the impact can scale.

8. Legacy

   The product of consistency, a life that outlives itself and becomes the joy of generations to come.

This structure can be started at any age. What matters is committing to walk through each level rather than expecting the name alone to do the work the structure was designed to do.

Believing and Confessing the Name

Romans 10:9-10 With the heart a person believes, and with the mouth confession is made. The name must not only be understood as structure, it must be believed and proclaimed, and ultimately submitted to as Lord over every area of life.