Koinonia Message: “SENT BY GOD (WHEN GOD BACKS A MAN WITH APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN

Koinonia Message: “SENT BY GOD (WHEN GOD BACKS A MAN)” – JOHN 17:18 (AMP) WITH APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN

Beloved Saints,
Welcome to this comprehensive summary of the powerful Koinonia service held on October 19, 2025, at Koinonia Abuja. Apostle Joshua Selman delivered a transformative message titled “Sent By God (When God Backs A Man)”, anchored on John 17:18 (AMP): “Just as You commissioned and sent Me into the world, I also have commissioned and sent them (believers) into the world.” This sermon explores the dynamics of divine backing, spiritual maturity, and the strategies God imparts to those He sends for His kingdom purposes. Drawing from the live notes jotted by @koinoniaeni on X (formerly Twitter), we’ve compiled key highlights, prophetic declarations, prayers, and visual quotes from the service. The full audio message is available for download here (file name: SENT BY GOD (WHEN GOD BACKS A MAN) – JOHN 17:18 (AMP) WITH APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN.mp3; size and metadata indicate it’s the official sermon recording).

Experience the depth of this teaching through the curated notes below—may it ignite your faith and position you for divine backing!

Sermon Highlights and Key Teachings

Apostle Selman emphasized that God’s agenda is to bring all humanity into the knowledge of Himself, aligning everything—prosperity, elevation, and people—with His purpose. God doesn’t work in isolation; He uses willing, yielded, and trained vessels. The fulfillment of God’s program in any dispensation depends on such individuals.

Non-Negotiable Demands to Be Used by God as a Dispensational Witness

The message outlined four essential demands for those sent by God:

1. The Demand of Total Surrender to the Will of God (Luke 22:42): Come to God just as you are, but understand you cannot be used by Him as you are. Willingness and availability are starting points, but transformation is required.

2. The Demand of Submission to the Making and Training Process: God uses a person who contends for growth and spiritual maturity. True spiritual maturity requires growing in the knowledge of God and cultivating intimacy with the Holy Spirit (Acts 26:13-18 KJV).

3. The Demand of Growth and Maturity – Growing in the Word of God, Doctrine, Mysteries of the Kingdom, and Intimacy with the Holy Spirit (Galatians 4:1-2): As Believers, it is our responsibility to actively steward and partner with the resources God has provided, ensuring that no one doubts the authenticity of your calling. The ultimate goal is to attain spiritual maturity and the stature where Galatians 1:24 becomes our reality, where God is glorified through every aspect of our lives.

4. The Demand of a Thorough Understanding of Your Assignment (Exodus 3:7-8): The assignment of a strategy is to capture the attention of the generation to which you’re sent. This is the primary role of influence: to command the attention of people. You will never be able to serve the assignment given to you for a generation if you don’t know how to command their attention.

Profound Quotes from the Message

• “The reason we have seen a decline in the strength and relevance of the Body of Christ is that we have not stayed long enough in His presence to receive the strategy for this time. The Church of God must return to the place of waiting, to hearing and receiving divine blueprints for this generation. As Believers, we must resist the urge to blindly copy the strategies of those who’ve gone ahead of us. Instead, we must seek and ask God to reveal our unique strategy to us.”
• “Strategies are time-dependent, yet too often in the Body of Christ, we resist paying the price for originality. We want to benefit from the labor of others instead of engaging in the process ourselves. Every prophecy for the times is true, but what causes prophecies to fail is our inability to stay in the secret place long enough to receive the strategy that brings it to fruition.”
• “One of the benefits of the secret place is staying with God long enough to engage Him and receive strategies that are relevant to your assignment. What proves to men that God really sent you is not just the mandate, but the unique strategy you have received from Him to fulfill it.”
• “A major challenge within the Body of Christ is the problem of selective transformation, where Believers choose as an act of their will to protect certain areas of their lives from God’s work. The areas you refuse to allow God to deal with or refuse to surrender to God are the areas the enemy will fashion your greatest attacks.”
• “When God sends a person, what gives them an edge is not just their wisdom but the strategy God gives. Once you discover the strategy for your assignment, no one can bring you down; the only thing that can is yourself.”
• “It is possible to carry the anointing by reason of being a Believer, yet fail to operate in its power due to disalignment from what God is currently doing.”
• “The reason only a few men and women achieve great exploits for the Kingdom is that being used by God comes with demands; it will cost you something. You are permitted to come to God just as you are, but unfortunately, you cannot be used by Him as you are.”
• “The fulfillment of God’s programme in any dispensation depends on the presence of available, willing, yielded, and trained vessels. God can use everyone; in fact, every individual should be used by God, but sadly, not everyone will be used by God. The reason is that there are demands to be used by God. It takes beyond willingness and availability.”

Prayers and Prophetic Declarations

During the service, Apostle Selman led powerful prayers and declarations:

• Prophecy: “I decree that God will lead you to the right audience, positioning you before those who will receive and support your vision, in the name of Jesus Christ!”
• Prayer: “I am sent by God to this dispensation for such a time as this. I am a candle that is lit, manifesting wisdom, and radiating the glory of God. A bearer of light, a bearer of wisdom, manifesting dispensational prowess.”
• Prayer: “I am evidence that God can help a man, that though my beginning be small, my latter end shall greatly increase.”
• Prayer: “I am evidence that the colour of my skin does not define my destiny. That the same Lord is rich unto all. I am proof that He is alive, that He is the lifter, and the restorer.”

From the closing declarations:
– “In the name of Jesus Christ, every power opposing your manifestation, we declare: give way now. Every power resisting your rising, shining, evolving, and becoming, we decree it gives way now, in the name of Jesus Christ.”
– “This week, manifest the wisdom of God. May the favor of God and the character of the Spirit manifest powerfully in your life, in the name of Jesus Christ! You will walk in divine authority like never before. It will be evident through your life to all that God is with you and that He raised you for such a time as this.”
– “I call you the head, not the tail; I declare you’re above, not beneath. Because you are clothed in the righteousness of Christ, it is well with you, your family, and your place of work.”
– “Your travels will be safe. No accidents, no attacks, no assaults from wicked men. The Lord will preserve your testimony. May this week be your week of evidence. The Lord will show through your life that He lifts, honors, and elevates those He calls, in the name of Jesus Christ.”
– “Shame and reproach are far from your life and your habitation this week. Every decision you make propels you forward; no setbacks, no regressions, in the name of Jesus Christ.”
– “You will find help this week. Enjoy the ministry of men, experience prosperity, advancement, and pleasant surprises throughout the week.”
– “I place a mark of honor upon your head; no one will despise you. Your sleep will become an avenue for encounters, divine strategies, and revelations from The Lord.”
– “Go forth and be a wonder and a marvel to your world. Next week, you will return full of testimonies, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.”

Salvation Call and Next Steps

The service closed with a heartfelt call to salvation: “If you’ve made the decision to receive Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior tonight, we celebrate you, and Heaven rejoices with you! We would love to hear from you and walk alongside you on your new Christian journey.” Use this link: https://bit.ly/JESUSINMYHEART or email koinoniaabuja@gmail.com.

The salvation prayer shared:
“Lord Jesus, I believe in You and welcome You into my life. I believe You are The Son of God Who paid the price for my sins. By faith, I receive You into my heart as my Saviour, Lord, and King.
Today, I receive the life of Jesus Christ and declare that the powers of sin, satan, hell, and the grave are broken in my life. Henceforth, I declare that my sins are forgiven and I am born again. I am a child of God. I go forward ever and backward never, in the name of Jesus!”

Join the next service: October Miracle Service on Sunday, October 26, 2025—expect healings, deliverances, and impartations!

May this message empower you to embrace God’s backing. Download the full audio and meditate on these truths. God bless you!

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