Maturity & Stature (Firm Foundations) Part 1 by Apostle Selman

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Hebrews 4:2 KJV

• The administration of God’s wisdom and power depends on the level of receptivity from anyone who intends to maximize that experience.

Luke 10:38-42 KJV

God’s method has always been his word.

• His method to Lift is by his word
• His method to Bless is by his word
• His method to Empower is by his word

It’s important that we receive that engrafted word, and it will help us to gain stability and to gain stature in the spirit in Jesus Name, Amen.

Ephesians 4:12-13 KJV

To Produce An Apostolic Thoroughly Furnished Community of Believers, There Are Certain Essential Bodies Of Knowledge That Must Be Known And Thoroughly Understood

Growth in the spirit is very programmed. It’s not something that just happens by wish. There is a body of knowledge that can turn anyone whatsoever to become a person of stature and grace.

Certain Things The Bible Calls The Things That Are Most Surely Believed (Luke 1:1 KJV)

To Be Apostolic in Your Faith Work, There Are Many Bodies Of Knowledge That You Need To Know And Learn. There Are Three Of Them That Will Be The Anchor:

1. God’s Prophetic Program
   • The degree to which you become useful to the kingdom is predicated on how thorough your knowledge of God’s prophetic program is.
   • The knowledge of God’s prophetic program is what will give value to every other pursuit in the kingdom
     • Your study on Prosperity
     • Your study on Influence
     • Your study on Divine Health
   • That Desire you have must have a space in the will of God and God’s prophetic program else it will not be answered.
     • There Are Three Levels Of The Anointing That Comes Upon The Believer By Reason of Being Grafted Into Christ :
       • There is the Anointing that comes upon the believer by reason of being grafted into Christ
       • There is the Anointing that comes upon the believer by reason of your office
       • There is the Anointing that comes upon the believer by reason of discerning God’s program and aligning to it.
2. The Concept Of The Vessel
   • The kind of man God is looking for
     • There are many people who want to be used by God. But it’s important for you to know that in desiring to be used by God, there is a certain kind of believer that God is looking for.
     • There is a quality control system in the spirit that is non-negotiable. And if you do not attend by grace unto that stature, you cannot be used by God. Ezekiel 22:30 KJV
     • There are men looking for God, but there are men God is looking for.
3. The Strategy For Birthing The Prophetic Program of God
   • It is one thing to know what God wants to do, it is one thing to know his prophetic program, but it is another thing to understand the system of execution
   • Strategies should not just be borrowed carelessly. No, they have to be vetted by the wisdom of God.

Understanding God’s Prophetic Program:

For a start, it’s important for you to know that God has an agenda, God has a prophetic program.

God’s Prophetic Program Affects Three Groups:

1. The World of Unbelievers
2. The Church
3. The Society

• It is from the knowledge of this program that our sermons should come.
• It is from the knowledge of this program that our books should be written
• It is from the knowledge of this program that our conferences should be organized.
• As a believer, you are not given the liberty to just invent what you think people should learn. There is a curriculum, and that curriculum is leading somewhere.
• Failure to understand the program already produces a man of God who will not be effective. You don’t have to be fake to destroy God’s program

So this is one area where the Body of Christ, in seeking to be apostolic, we must go back and re-examine God’s prophetic program.

Mark 16:15-16 KJV

There Are Three Scriptures You Must Understand To Understand The Full Scope Of God’s Program:

1. Mark 16:15-16 KJV 
   • Where To Go: Go Ye Into The World (Sent As A Preacher)
   • What To Say: Preach The Gospel (Sent As A Teacher)
   • Who To Preach It To: To Every Creature (A Demonstrator or A Witness, A Validator of a claim)
2. Matthew 28:18 KJV 
3. Acts 4:33 KJV

The Great Commission Is A Mandate Given By Jesus To All Disciples And Now To All Believers:

1. To Reach The Entire Globe With The Gospel Of Salvation.
   (World Evangelization)
2. To Bring Nations To The Knowledge of The Truth And To Spiritual Maturity Through Discipleship
   (Discipleship, The Maturity Of The Saints)
3. And Then Consequently To Bring Territorial And Societal Transformation
   (Territorial Transformation)

Matthew 6:9-13 KJV

Some Things Will Happen Naturally With Growth

The only way you can change society is to bring the power of the cross. The power of the cross is the only authorized access point to break the hand of darkness over men.

Discipleship:

• The project that matures a believer, molting you like a reptile until you become a more superior version of yourself.

1. Unbeliever:

• • The starting point of every believer’s journey is as an unbeliever
  • The Power of Choice, The Power to Choose, And The Holy Ghost can empower that choice is called the enabling grace.
    (Psalm 51:5 KJV, Deuteronomy 30:15-20 KJV, Luke 15:11-32 KJV)

2. Believer:

• Then you get saved. The Formula For Salvation is found in Romans 10:8-10 KJV, Acts 4:12 KJV, Acts 2:36 KJV
• You are called a believer, but you are an infant. John 1:12 KJV, Galatians 4:1 KJV

Transformed Believer

There Are 3 Ministries That You Must Encounter To Move From An Infant Believer To A Transformed Believer:

1. The Ministry Of The Holy Spirit (John 16:13 KJV)
2. The Ministry Of The Word (Acts 20:32 KJV)
3. The Ministry Of A Teaching Priest Or Structured Mentorship (Jeremiah 3:15 KJV)

Acts 19:1-4 KJV

The Most Fortunate Thing That Can Happen To A Believer:

1. Is To Be Saved
2. And To Find Your Way Under The Ministry Of A Man of God That Fears God, Has Character, and is a teaching priest.

Galatians 3:29 KJV, John 1:1-3 KJV

What is Transformation?

• Transformation is the name given to the process that makes you become like Christ in experience.

You want to see the power of the eternal? Watch it work in the life of a transformation believer

Use The Word of God as An Instrument of Transformation 

One of the ways you will know you are like Christ is that people will be confused as to where you come from because you have been so elevated, the negative traits that are connected to your bloodline, and the territorial limitations no longer work.

Empowerment (Empowered Believer)

• Empowerment gives you the credence to defend the things that you believe.

People who are transformed but not empowered, they won’t lie, but they will say so many things they cannot defend.

It is not what you say, it is the altitude from where you are speaking from.

Romans 10:12 KJV, Romans 8:28 KJV

Visions and Prophecies, Even If God Ordained, Can Be Aborted. They depend on your corporation and the degree of compliancy through alignment for their manifestation.

The Bodies Of Spiritual Truth That Produces Men Of Statures:

• What Do You Know About The Holy Spirit? And Who Taught You?
• What Do You Know About The Word Of God? And Who Taught You?
• What Do You Know About Consecration and Death To The Flesh? And Who Taught You?
• What Do You Know About Fasting And Prayer? And Who Taught You?
• What Do You Know About Giving? And Who Taught You?
• What Do You Know About Diligence? And Who Taught You?
• What Do You Know About Relationships? And Who Taught You?
• What Do You Know About Spirituality? And Who Taught You?

Transition in the spirit is not a gift; it is a conscious determination that God has a program

The Highest Honor God Can Give A Man Is Not To Give You Things, The Highest Honor God Can Give A Man Is To Make You A Steward Of His Prophetic Program.

• He will test you by stewarding things. If you pass the test with stewarding things,
• Then he will grant you the grace to raise men. If you pass the test with raising men,
• Then he will give you the highest honor from a ministerial standpoint, which is God will come to you. Psalm 89:20 KJV

1. Knowing That God Has A Program And That You Must Exalt His Program Beyond Your Desire and Beyond Your Ambition
   • That Must Become The Pivotal Drive Of Your Life
2. Walking With The Spirit To Engage This Transition.
   • It can mean the difference between your being useful in the kingdom and to God’s program
   • It can mean the difference between your prayer for more being answered or being staunted by the mercy of God

1 John 1:1 KJV

Doctrine is the cost curriculum for transforming people from infants to witnesses, and then the sound exegesis of the word.

Doctrine comes from the word doctrinal, which means:

• A body of knowledge that causes a student to be as informed and to gain the stature like the one who taught him. Acts 2:42 KJV

Hebrews 6:1-2 KJV gives the 6 Foundational Doctrines Upon Which The Christian Faith Stands

Revelations 21:15-17 KJV, Job 28:7-8 KJV, Philippians 3:13-14 KJV, 2 Timothy 2:20-21 KJV

That a man can purge himself, and that purging is called the refiner’s fire.

Part 2: Maturity & Stature (The End-Time Army) Part 2 by Apostle Selman

Originally posted on July 10, 2025 @ 5:23 pm