THE Kathizo Power..Part 1

The bible says His word is like a hammer that breaks the rock. It’s powerful, piercing through the asunder of the soul and emotionalism of the things we go through as Christians.

The word Kathizo means “set.” From our text in Ephesians chapter 1, the bible says He was raised by God and was set. The raising power is the resurrection which is very awesome but that’s not where God wants us to end. That’s not where God wants us to stay. God wants us to move a little further than just resurrection power; He wants us to function in a life that the resurrection has brought. So He raised Him from the dead and set Him at His own right hand. “Set” there talks about a dwelling, or when something is settled down. He’s not leaving the place anymore. It’s a permanent seat. That’s what Kathizo is.

Unfortunately, many Christians don’t know this about the Kathizo. They don’t know that they have been set, they have been settled in a place, they have been called into a place of power! And that’s where we operate from.

The story of Golgotha is awesome and that’s what the church loves to talk about , sing about, and write about it but that’s not all there is. The purpose that got Jesus to come into the world was not so that He dies for us. I know it gets some tears out of your eyes and gets the church a little bit emotional but that’s not it.

Jesus didn’t come just to die for us. The dying was a process, a means to an end. It’s not about you crying that He died. I’ve seen many Christians in my life and when I find them in this place of religion, I always want to wake them up to this reality of the Kathizo power – the place that we are right now. And that’s where we operate from.

Calvary is a good place, a place of sacrifice, a place of the skull (Golgotha). It’s the place where Jesus was made the substitutionary sacrifice for the sin of the whole world. He was rejected by God. You saw when He asked His father, “Why hast thou forsaken me?” and when there was an eclipse of the sun and when there was an earthquake and some people came out of the grave but there is a deeper dimension of what Jesus came to do that transcends all that. The smallest side of salvation is where most Christians have settled down and that’s the place of giving their life to Christ. You wonder why some people are so happy just to be born again. A lot of people will tell you that Christ is their saviour, redeemer, father and all of that. Jesus didn’t come to be your saviour alone. You will notice in your walk with God that the word saviour becomes a very smaller dimension of His assignment on earth. When you begin to walk by faith in your journey as a Christian on earth and you begin to work the word of God, you begin to see that Jesus’ death and saviourhood is one of the smallest things that he came to do for you. Why? Because there are other things He had to do but couldn’t do until he died for you. So dying was one of the steps he had to take to get you to where he’s taking you to. A lot of Christians like to stay in the realm of “He has saved me.” I know one guy that sang that song and a lot of churches would sing the song and play the song because to them that was the height of what Jesus came to do. People always thought that being saved from the nature of sin we had was all Jesus came to do. That’s one of the things that the devil is using to minimize what we can do as Christians and the power we have as Christians. He has blinded the minds of Christians to the truth but you’re going to read truth today.

And so, the church keeps shouting about the death of Jesus. I’ve been to some places to preach before and before going up, the choir would sing slow songs about the “cross” and the keyboardist would play saint-songs and whole auditorium is very quiet. And the person would sing about how He died and shed His blood but I realized that’s not all He came to do!!!

We have established that He came and died. He was delivered for our offenses and He rose unto our justification! A justified person doesn’t necessarily have a new life. In the Nigerian front, you see people that are corrupt but have been acquitted in court. A certain governor in Nigeria was found “not guilty” in Nigeria but when he got to the UK, he was found “guilty” of several counts. And the devil does that after we have been saved and justified. He goes back to look for all kinds of things. That’s why the word “forgiven” is the wrong word to use when you are a Christian. We are NOT the redeemed, we are NOT the forgiven; we are THE JUSTIFIED! And to be justified means we are not guilty. A lot of people fight this because “how can a guy like this say I’m not guilty?” After smoking and all that, he comes and says, “come into my life”, and people don’t understand that something happened when he spoke those words. They don’t understand that there is such a thing as a voice-activated system. You begin to activate something, a new life, a new nature. He might have some falling and up and falling and up but it doesn’t change anything! Why? Because he has been justified! JUST-AS-IF-I-HAD! After justification, God glorified us to a realm that the devil cannot deal with. Ephesians 1:20 says the same power that raised Him set Him! First He was raised and then He was set. They are two different things.  Raised means “hejeero” which means you are awakened to life, here’s your opportunity. And that’s what happened to us when we were dead in Christ. We were quickened in Christ. Galatians 2:20 says we were crucified with Christ nevertheless we live. So we were crucified with Him, we died with Him and we ascended with Him.

But the “hejeero” power is all that the church sees: “Oh, I’ve been resurrected!” “Oh, I’ve come out of darkness!” “Oh, I have come out of sin!” And that’s where some of us have stopped but that’s not where God is taking us to. When we came out of the grave another life began! And we were not the same person that went in.  In the eyes of justice, anyone that was under the ordinance of the first Adam died and never came out. That’s because the bible says, “the soul that sinneth shall die.” And so we all died in Adam. We faced the penalty and came out justified.

This means we CANNOT stay in the realm of “hejeero”, we have to move to the realm of Kathizo! Kathizo is the realm where He is set at the right hand of the Father! The right hand is a metaphorical expression that talks about the place of power. In Nigeria and all other cultures in the world, anyone on the right is always very powerful – like an advisor who can tell the King anything. It’s a very powerful position. This person had power just like the king himself. Philippians’ said, “God GAVE HIM A NAME that is above every name”. As Christians, we were raised and put in a place. But we still have many Christians staying in the realm of “HE has saved me.” But that’s a means to an end! There is a higher and vital side to salvation. And that’s what some of us are operating right now.

Some people wonder “isn’t the same Jesus we confessed as Lord and saviour?” that’s because you don’t understand the Kathizo power. Each time you wonder how do “they” do it? I speak the same tongues they speak and read the same bible they read, that’s when you need to know that they are operating the kathizo dimension of power.

Deuteronomy 6, vs 23 says He brought us out from thence… where is “thence?” That’s Egypt, and you know, Egypt is a type of sin nature. So they were brought out for God to bring them into something. But for 40 years they were in the wilderness. So the Christian today thinks that there is a wilderness life before they go into the promise. But there is no wilderness! In fact, when we go through trials, we don’t call it wilderness. The bible says we should count it all joy. Trials do not mean it is wilderness. He brought us out from thence to bring us into the promise. The death and resurrection part of salvation is the place where he brought us out but He has to take us into something. Ad what He has brought us into is what we ought to live by, not by what He brought us out of.

The Moses generation struggled with this because they didn’t understand that God can make them die in the wilderness. It was meant to be a 4-days journey of singing praises and worship, talking psalms and singing hymns to each other. But they thought it was God bringing them to a place of middle when they got into the wilderness. They said, “This mara!” “It’s bitter!” “We don’t understand it!”  The fact that you go through those things doesn’t mean you’re in the wilderness and it doesn’t mean you are out of the promise. It should signal in your spirit that there is a God somewhere if you find yourself in that kind of place.