Stages

Life moves in stages. The spirit moves in dimensions.

Life on earth does not operate randomly. Everything follows stages, levels, timings, and patterns — and unless a person understands this framework, spiritual life and physical life will constantly feel mismatched. In this message, the distinctions between stages, levels, and dimensions are made clear, showing why some people rise, fall, or remain stuck even when they work hard and try to do what is right.

This article contains structured study notes based entirely on the sermon “Stages”, preached on 20 January 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AX_fPXsOwY

Study Notes

1. Stages, Levels, and Dimensions

“The physical world operates in stages and levels. The spiritual realm operates in dimensions.”

• The physical realm does not operate in dimensions.

• The spiritual realm does not operate in stages.

• Two people can be in the same stage, but their work ethic or decisions may place them on different levels.

• Stages and levels are reachable through effort.

• Dimensions are not reached by effort; they are based on:

  • grace

  • commitment to Christ

  • faithfulness

  • access God grants

    
    

Key thought:

Your stage does not determine your spiritual dimension.

2. Influence Over Human Thoughts

“No one in this world is beyond influence.”

• Thoughts are a channel of communication in the spirit.

• Even a righteous person can be influenced: Peter was influenced by Satan while standing next to Jesus.

• Blocking thoughts is impossible; if you block thoughts, you also block God.

• Inspiration = the flow of thoughts pushed by God.

• Scripture was written by divine inspiration.

• When preaching, the speaker waits for what God will inspire, not pre-planning topics.

  
  

Important notes:

• Good produces fruit and elevates humanity → comes from God.

• Anything that destroys (even if it “looks” good) is not from God.

• Not everything that looks disruptive is evil. Some discipline produces structure.

3. Why Hard Work Doesn’t Guarantee Movement

A person may do everything successful people do — wake up early, grind, work hard — but still never break into a higher stage.

Reasons:

• Hard work improves your stage.

• Hard work improves your level.

• Hard work does not open a dimension.

• A dimension dictates what can be protected, maintained, and expanded in someone’s life.

Examples given:

• Winning the lottery changes someone’s stage/level but cannot sustain them if their dimension does not support it.

• This is why people lose everything quickly — their spiritual dimension cannot hold their physical level.

  
  

Key statements:

• “Your spiritual dimension protects your stage and level.”

• “If the devil strikes you, he can succeed because your level is not being protected by your spiritual dimension.”

  
  

4. Why People Hit Ceilings (Financial or Otherwise)

• Someone may consistently earn but never break certain thresholds (tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions).

• It is not a work-ethic problem.

• It is a dimension-capacity issue.

• If something is outside your dimension, it comes but cannot stay.

  
  

“Everything you have ever lost and never regained is because your dimension did not match your level.”

Sometimes:

• God gives blessings bigger than your current dimension

• to provoke you to realize how much more you need Him

• to push you into a higher dimension

  
  

5. Dimension Illustrated Through Job

Job 1 is used to reveal the separation between spiritual dimension and natural level.

God speaks of Job’s dimension:

• “A perfect and upright man.”

• “None like him in the earth.”

• God validates Job’s spiritual placement.

  
  

Satan speaks of Job’s level:

• The hedge of protection

• His household

• His possessions

• His increase

• Everything “on every side”

Observation:

• God talks only about Job’s spiritual dimension.

• Satan talks only about Job’s physical level.

• The physical level was secure because of the spiritual dimension.

  
  

Key idea:

You can attain something but never possess it.

Possession =

• consistency

• muscle memory

• ability to do something regardless of season

  
  

Job possessed his level because his dimension supported it.

6. Dimensions Sustain Even When a Person Has Fallen

• Once someone enters a dimension, it cannot be revoked.

• A person can mess up, and God may reject them, but their dimension may still sustain them for a time.

• The example given:

  • Satan was a cherubim.

  • His grace was taken, but his dimension did not change.

  • He still functions in that dimension on earth.

Conclusion:

Dimension determines capacity, regardless of current righteousness.

7. Dimensions Are Accessed Only by Opportunity

“Dimensions can only be accessed by opportunity.”

• You cannot pray your way into a dimension alone.

• You cannot fast your way into a dimension alone.

• God must present an opportunity, and you must seize it.

Biblical patterns referenced:

• Moses accessed God through Jethro, the priest.

• Abraham entertained three men → new dimension.

• Zacchaeus climbed a tree → access granted.

• Joshua received impartation through Moses → that was his access point.

• Before Jesus resurrected, no human spirit could enter heaven → the dimension changed only when Jesus opened it.

Summary bullet points:

• Opportunity = doorway to dimension.

• Missing the opportunity → remaining stuck.

• Many believers pray, fast, and live right but never advance because they ignore or fail to recognize the opportunities God sends.

  
  

8. The Spirit of Adoption (Romans 8)

Key scriptures quoted in the sermon:

• Romans 8:15–17

• John 3:35

• John 1:3

  
  

Main points given:

• Every human being is born bound (spiritually).

• Receiving Christ gives a new spirit — “a new creation.”

• Angels are never called sons.

• Only Jesus is “begotten,” and believers share that same spiritual nature.

• Being a child of God makes you:

  • heir of God

  • joint-heir with Christ

  • spiritually seated in heavenly places

  • participant of “all things” the Father gave the Son

Because people don’t know their dimension:

• They pray below their rank.

• They ask for a house when God says, “Ask me for the nations.”

  
  

9. Why Some ‘Good’ People Remain in Lower Dimensions

• Many who live “right” remain in lower dimensions because dimension is not based on moral perfection.

• David had scandals but had a high dimension.

• Others lived clean but carried low dimensions.

• People judge based on behavior, not dimension.

• Some believers interpret others’ success as “evil” or “witchcraft” because they cannot explain the dimension.

10. Accessing Dimensions Through Men

Repeated patterns given:

• Jethro → Moses

• Abraham → Lot

• Moses → Joshua

• Elijah → Elisha

• Various figures in scripture whose names carry specific dimensions

  • David → victory and sustained reign

  • Jacob/Israel → establishment and fruitfulness

  • Moses → ways where there are no ways

  • Elijah → force and fire

  • Joshua → redeemed time

  • Solomon → wisdom and peace

Key point:

• No one enters a dimension without a man assigned to open that realm.

• That is God’s pattern throughout scripture.

  
  

11. Evidence of Dimension: Sacrifice Driven by Love

“Your sacrifice is the evidence that you have crossed over.”

Examples given:

• Woman who wiped Jesus’ feet → “because of her great love, her sins have been forgiven.”

• Mary Magdalene → her devotion revealed her deliverance.

• Widow who fed Elijah → access to life-preserving dimension.

• Israel leaving Egypt with riches → evidence of deliverance.

• Abraham’s offerings → access to covenant promises.

• Job’s friends → had to give in order to be restored.

• Giving in the presence of an opportunity = doorway to higher dimension.

Final note:

Sacrifice is not giving to “get something.”

It is responding whenever God opens a door to a higher place.

Scripture References

Verses Read Directly (Full Verses Included)

Job 1:7–12 (ESV quoted by reader)

Job 1:7–10

The Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down on it.” And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?” Then Satan answered the Lord and said, “Does Job fear God for no reason? Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side?”

Job 1:10–12

“You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land. But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.” And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand.”

John 3:35

“The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.”

John 1:3

“All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made.”

Psalms 2:7–9

“I will tell of the decree: The Lord said to me, ‘You are my Son; today I have begotten you. Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.’”

Verses Referenced or Paraphrased

• Ecclesiastes (times and seasons)

• Genesis 18:1–10 (Abraham entertaining the three men)

• Luke 19:1–10 (Zacchaeus)

• Exodus 3 (Moses at the burning bush; Jethro connection)

• Romans 8:15–17 (“spirit of adoption,” “Abba Father”)

• Ephesians 2:6 (“seated in heavenly places”)

• Matthew 26 & John 12 (woman who anointed Jesus)

• 1 Samuel 28 (Samuel appearing from the ground)

• Exodus 12 (Israel leaving Egypt with riches)

• 1 Kings 3–10 (Solomon’s wisdom and peace)

• Matthew 6:11 (“daily bread”)

• Isaiah 61:1–6 (priests of the Lord, rebuilding desolations)

• Book of Job general references (faithfulness, sacrifice)

Prayers

“Father, be glorified forever. You are only Lord and you are only God and apart from you we have no other. You are my strength, you are your children's strength, and you are the only tower that we hide in.”

“Lord we step aside and walk in the wrong path, we step away from the narrow path, but your right hand Father holds us and puts us back on the path consistently and continually. You protect us and you keep us from every block, every stumbling block and every wicked one. You keep us consistently.”

“Father, I pray that you purify us, sanctify us as we listen to your word; that Lord, you alone will be glorified; and that Father, we will leave this place knowing that there is no other way except your Son Jesus.”

“And that Lord, not only our lives and things connected to us will be redeemed and be saved, but our very souls will be secure in you.”

“Father, I thank you for deliverance and transformation that is beginning now for everybody that is hearing my voice. Father, I bless you, I thank you for you are God alone. In the name of your Son Jesus, amen.”

Golden Nuggets

Stages, Levels, Dimensions

• “The physical world operates in stages and levels. The spiritual realm operates in dimensions.”

• “Your stage does not determine your spiritual dimension.”

• “Your spiritual dimension protects your stage and level.”

• “Dimensions are not about how hard you work.”

• “Somebody can have faith to move mountains, but if you’re in the wrong dimension, you won’t move.”

• “Dimensions are accessed by opportunity.”

Influence & Inspiration

• “No one in this world is beyond influence.”

• “In the realm of the spirit, your thoughts are language.”

• “Inspiration is the flow of thoughts pushed by God.”

• “If you block thoughts, you also block God.”

• “Every good and perfect gift comes from above.”

Hard Work vs. Dimension

• “You may do everything successful people do, but that doesn’t ensure success.”

• “Your physical level is not supported by your spiritual dimension.”

• “Everything you have ever lost and never regained is because your dimension did not match your level.”

• “God will give you something beyond your dimension to provoke you to the next one.”

Job’s Example

• “God spoke about Job’s spiritual dimension. Satan confirmed his physical level.”

• “You can attain something, but that doesn’t mean you possess it.”

• “Your dimension will always sustain you.”

• “Job’s properties were secure by his spiritual dimension.”

Identity & Inheritance

• “Every human being is born bound.”

• “You were given a new spirit; you became a new creation.”

• “You are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ.”

• “Ask me for the nations, and you are asking for a house.”

• “You pray below your dimension.”

Why Some People Stay Low

• “People think righteousness is dimension.”

• “David had scandals, but he carried a higher dimension.”

• “Those in lower dimensions will judge what they cannot explain.”

Access Through Men

• “God will never give you a dimension without access through a man.”

• “If Joshua went to the mountain, God would not speak — his access was Moses.”

• “The dimension he was operating in was Abraham; when Lot left, everything disappeared.”

• “Dimensions are always given through opportunity, not effort.”

Sacrifice as Evidence

• “Your sacrifice is the evidence that you have crossed over.”

• “Because of her great love, her sins have been forgiven.”

• “The evidence they were delivered is that the Egyptians came out and gave them gold.”

• “Your ability to sacrifice is the evidence that you have entered another realm.”

• “He who gives to those who are in need is lending to God.”

Opportunities

• “This is your opportunity. What oil do you want?”

• “Desire the nations. Don’t desire your need.”

• “Just because you don’t do it doesn’t mean it will not happen — this is God’s work.”

• “Some people gave, then asked for it back because they thought this would not happen without them.”

Dimension & Evidence

• “If heaven doesn’t approve you, you’re not getting rich.”

• “Your spirituality must also be measured by what you have.”

• “You will enjoy the riches of the Gentiles — that is evidence you are a priest of God.”

• “Jesus was recognized as a king even when He tried to tone it down.”