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THE LIFE OF GOD

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 DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to he Lord Jesus Himself! Jesus, I really do want to

pour out my life on You! You are the lover of my soul— how I long for
your courts and to enter into Your presence. I am a ruined man before
you met me and irst loved me! hank you, Jesus!

Philip Cephas

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 ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Over the years, I have had the high privilege of being impacted by
some of the greatest teachers and generals of prayer. heir deposits into
my life have been enormous and irreplaceable. I thank he Lord for all
those sacriicial servants who have helped to hold up my arms as we
continue with endurance to run the race that is set before us. I want
to acknowledge my friends and brothers, who we have been labouring
together for the kingdom in Zoe rain ministries and spirit barracks
intercessors. I also want to thank the pioneers who have gone before
us, where would we be without them? Books and sermons have been
my mentors. hanks to all those who laid the foundation that we get to
build on.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title ................................................................................................................... i

Connect with Philip Cephas ............................................................................. ii

Copyright .... ...................................................................................................... iii

Dedication ......................................................................................................... iv

Acknowledgemnet ............................................................................................. v

Table of Contents .............................................................................................. vi

Birthing the Giant .............................................................. 2

Who are you? ...................................................................... 3
Giants unleash .................................................................... 6
he Intention of God .......................................................... 9
Notes .................................................................................................................. 13

About the Author .............................................................................................. 14

Correspondance ................................................................................................ 15

Other Books by the Same Author ..................................................................... 16

River of Words Feedback .................................................................................. 17

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 Birthing
THE GIANT

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 Birthing The Giant
u
You are an offspring of God,
therefore there is a giant hidden
within you in which only Him
can reveal it to you

Birthing the Giant

K
ingdom matters are not executed by babes as such the need for
the equipping of sons into maturity. he Kingdom needs soldiers
who can die for it. We have longtime celebrated things that are
of no value to kingdom advancement as a people, and we have become
more distracted than ever before. We are in dangerous times and the
culmination of ages; therefore, we cannot keep on focusing on trivial
things, but on heavy matters. What you see and have handled in God
now is not compared to what He wants to reveal to us.
All of our earthly pursuits that have no ailiation with the desires of
he Father is considered irrelevant on this journey. As time wraps up,
God will begin to be particular about His investments in people, cities,
nations, and even organizations. We need to focus on where God is now

The Kingdom needs soldiers who can die for it 2

 Birthing the Giant
and not where He used to be, to be relevant in the season we are in. Our
hunger is one major vehicle he Holy Spirit is using within this season
to take us deeper. Here are few questions to help you check where you
are currently: You used to hear the voice of God before but can you still
hear him now? You saw visions and dream dreams can you still do that
now? What kind of fruits are you producing? Are you that comfortable
and satisied with what you have in God? Do you know there is more to
what you think you know and you can actualize more beyond what you
have now in God? How hungry and desperate are you for more of God?

Who are you?

I am sure many of you have a diferent view of who we call giants
amongst the circle of believers. Many assume that this term is used for
only our fathers in the faith who are long gone or some giants such as
Goliath who are blocking our entering into our promise land, not at all.
In this chapter, the giant is referring to believers who are strong and
mature in faith.

You are an ofspring of God, therefore there is a giant hidden within

you in which only Him can reveal it to you. If you see the true reality
of who you are in the spirit, you will be
“ Do you know surprised at how powerful you are. When
there is more John was given the revelation of Jesus in the
to what you spirit, he saw the realities of Jesus he never
knew about Him while He was on earth.
think you He saw Him in diferent dimensions, with
know and you horns, crowns, a sword from His mouth,
can actualize hair as white as wool, etc, this implies to
more beyond us as well. he true nature of a man is only
what you have seen through the eyes of the Spirit. his is
now in God? why the scriptures say, “Judge no man by
the lesh.” 2 Corinthians 5:16.
he dimensions of man can be seen in the depiction of Christ by
the four living creatures as seen by the prophet Ezekiel and John in the
book of Revelations. Some have the dimension of a lion, an Ox, an eagle,
or even dimensions beyond what has been revealed. I once saw how I

3 The true nature of a man is only seen through the eyes of the Spirit.
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looked in the spirit and I was blown away. he way you see and perceive
yourself in the physical realm can be contradictory to how you are seen
and perceived in the realm of the spirit, so do not be quick to judge
yourself. here is a giant inside of you that seeks to ind expression,
which is what the school of the spirit helps you achieve. he tribe to
which you belong in the spirit will help educate you on how to become
the real you. Each tribe has its level of inluence, power, and position of
functioning in God. You must see beyond this realm of operation to a
higher one if you must bear fruit.
It is true, the kingdom will be advanced by what God supplies to you
and there is a whole lot locked up within you. You are a giant carrying
the destiny and possibilities of nations, and the excellence of God must
be revealed in and through us. Our boast must be that we know God
and in the strength of His love for us not in the manifestations displayed.
Everything we are today is a product of grace which enables us to do
and become. You may be out of alignment with God and not know it.
herefore, evaluate how aligned you are today, else you will be out of
touch with what God is doing in this end-time because God speaks from
alignment. If He speaks to you outside of alignment, it is to enable you
to come back into alignment in Him.
You need to be deeply rooted in God so that you can lourish. he
standard of Christianity has now been corrupted and compromised. We
will need to restore pure apostolic and prophetic order that seeks only
the advancement of the kingdom of God. We much check the quality of
our lives and not just the quantity in relevance to God and His kingdom.
he quality of our lives is what God looks at not the quantity. he quality
of the eternal Zoe within us matters so much to God than the ephemeral
paraphernalia we have embraced over time. A new breed of believers
without greed must rise. Believers that are zealous for the things of God,
who will become strong men, mighty in their ability to witness for God.
An army rightly positioned in God who will be able to contend with
princes at the gates.
In our day and time where many have become lovers of self and
walking in their wills and desire, we see the rise in the darkness, and
weaker men. his is a very dangerous position to take on this side of

There is a giant inside of you that seeks to find expression 4

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the battle because you will become a slave to the devil and his cohorts.
Your degree of compliance to God is to the degree to which God helps
you because man cannot help himself. Without the help of God, you will
weary out in this pathway of light.
God is still birthing giants for His sake, to conquer and win with
them. We all are products of God’s grace and where grace is involved, no
mortal can boast. We are unique in our diversities of gits, ability, and
operations.
Until we are dead to self and personal ambitions, the revival we cry
for will never come. We are the revival - the movement of an army, a sect
of people giant and mighty in the spirit. Our alignment with the host of
heaven grants us an advantage in advancing the kingdom of God. When
God builds a man, He aims to make him a giant. God does not hand
out great kingdom responsibilities to babies, He gives them to giants
- matured, great and mighty men. I don’t know about you but I desire
more of God, more of every dimension of God, in power, wisdom, love,
and revelation so that I can stay a giant.
Many of the giants in our current dispensation have been crippled
because their genes have been corrupted and mutated and as such, they
cannot function in the order of God without being rebellious. We have
a system and a rebellious people, a generation where God is not he
LORD of their lives. No wonder ater a while they crash, no matter how
big they have become.
We need to disentangle ourselves from the gospel of self-promotion,
cheap popularity, and inluence not given and approved by God. Any
giant not birthed by God is still a liability that must be brought down.
We are to kill the lesh because the lesh and he Holy Spirit cannot
occupy the same giant. When you intend to advance, God will allow
you, but without the help of God, you are doomed to fail.
Our pride has deprived us of paying attention to relevant kingdom
issues and reality. You may not be rebellious in your intentions but your
true quality betrays you because you live in perpetual disobedience and
character failure.

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Many people are not being used by God or partnering with God
rather they are using God to achieve an expected goal and ambition. How
far are you led by he Spirit and how much are you leading yourself? he
issue is not being a giant but a giant that is birthed by he Spirit. Many
people advocate for robotics, good as those things are if they cannot be
controlled and regulated, they become very dangerous. A giant that is
not under the government of God and birthed by Him is no diferent
from a robot that has lost control and is now a freelancer heading for
destruction.
Jesus said unto Peter, while you are small you go where you want to and
do what you want to do, but now as you are becoming old and becoming
a giant someone will have to lead you. God has no issue making a giant
out of you, but He has been betrayed overtime by numerous mortals and
immortals he has made giant. Many have become proud and arrogant
not needing God again for survival. here is no independence with
God, we all are dependent upon him, whether mortal or immortals.
Independence in this kingdom is rebellion, you must always watch your
level of submission to he Holy Spirit of truth. It is them that are led by
he Spirit that are still current sons of God

Giants unleash
We have seen throughout scriptures the reality of giants and the
giant slayers, what do you think was playing out? It will take a greater
giant to slay another giant. Everyone that has ever slain a giant was a
greater giant as we saw in the story of David
and all his mighty men. here was nothing “
If you don’t
normal and natural about them, they were know yourself
all giants but disguised in the body of lesh. in the spirit,
When the giant within them is revealed and the giant
given expression by God, even if it is for a within you will
second, the impact unleashed is beyond always remain
comprehension. here is a giant in you, inactive.
I speak even to the least among us. If you
don’t know yourself in the spirit, the giant within you will always remain
inactive. Men without fear are men who have unleashed the giant within
them, no wonder Samson was enough to answer the Philistines.

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here have been giants before and there are still giants now. his
nature of God in us is a potential upon which when given expression will
birth the strongest dimension of us. We saw David take men that were
depressed, wounded, in pain, distressed, and even in debt, these men
were disadvantaged, but as they turned to God even their disadvantage
became an advantage when they collided with God who is power. God
was able to unleash the giant within them and feeble men become strong
men able to slay many more giants for God.
God still needs giants and the rebellious ones may not be relevant
to God now. Do you know that you can be unto God a weapon of war?
Many were made giant and later became rebellious. I hope you know that
as magniicent as you are, your degree of loyalty to God is paramount to
your survival and relevance. If you remain in disobedience you will not
know when you create a system and a civilization that is against God.
We saw over time giants creating civilizations that were against God
and of course, they all were destroyed. God can’t be toyed with and His
supremacy is beyond the understanding of mortal and the immortals.
Our only way of survival is allegiance and partnership with him. You
can’t survive even in isolation you will be tagged for doom.
he way of freedom is to be led and guided by God, You can’t lead
yourself. You must be led and guided by he Spirit of God. Your strength
is not in your wisdom and understanding, but in yielding to he Umpire
of your life – Triune. You didn’t save yourself so you can keep yourself
or promote yourself. Regardless of how far you work with God, Jesus
remains he Lord of your life.
In your waiting on God, you build the capacity for obedience,
waiting on God is obedience. Until you wait on God, you will weary out
and journey into strange paths yet untold. he greatest barrier to your
moving in the power of God is not the devil but yourself. If God can
conquer you, He will conquer through you.
At Gethsemane, we saw even Jesus battle His will with that of he
Father and he Father prevailed. Until God wins you, He can’t win with
you. A man once said the price for all of God is all of you. Only Dead
men can carry the glory and the power of God. Your carnal life is always

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a barrier, it has so much weakness and inirmities. Our generation has
so bad that God can’t ind a people to use. Many have become big girls
and big boys. heir lives are deined by daily
carnal living. hese have not even begun the
journey. To me, it has become more than a “ There is truly
burden but a heart-cry for my generation to never a saint
encounter God again. It is always personal without a
to me because I was once upon a time in the history and a
bondage of the big boy syndrome. We smoked sinner without
cigarettes and marijuana every day, drank a future in
alcohol, got so addicted to drugs, watched God.
pornography, slept around, and clubbed
daily. We enjoyed and was never remorseful. It took time for me ater I
was saved and delivered to realize that smoking and drinking can’t make
you a big boy, nor will sleeping around make you a big girl. Real big boys
and girls pray, study, fast, and prophesy.
Nevertheless, while others are yet to come into this light, others who
are in the light are too big for God to help and walk with. You need to
be small and humble so that God can make you big. When you are too
big in yourself, God becomes too small but when you become too small
God becomes big in you. God will always resist the proud but give grace
to the humble. We must always be careful as we advance because it is
possible for shining stars not to shine again and rising stars not to rise
again. Many rising stars don’t rise further because they have neglected
the very God that raised them. Even as ministers of light and life, when
it comes to posting in ministry God may not ask for your permission.
If you still decide over God and chose and will against his instructions,
you will soon become useless. Remember, the same God that lits people
can also bring them low. Selah.
I have never believed that he Lord can come for such a great sinner
like me until grace found me and I realized that there is truly never a
saint without a history and a sinner without a future in God. You may
be plagued in such a situation and even worse or less, the truth is this,
Jesus still loves you and He wants to make you not just His son but
unleashes the giant within you so that by you He can war and advance
His kingdom.

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You must have to sincerely repent and open your heart to Jesus again.
Ask Him to come and forgive you all your sins and become he Lord of
your life. Ask Him to lead you not into temptation but deliver you from
all evils and also give you the grace never to return to such habits again.
As simple as this heart declaration is, it has granted you life eternal as
I have explained in the previous chapter on the life of God. If you have
any more doubt in your heart, make the declarations again or go to the
end of the book and say the prayer again and also the declaration against
satanic and demonic bondage. Jesus is faithful, He can deliver you from
every darkness because darkness intends to have men become giants in
darkness as God seeks to birth His giants. You cannot become an army,
giant for the advancement of the kingdom of darkness but giant unto
God.

he Intention of God
here are a few intentions of God as he births men to become giants
upon the earth. His intentions are never to terrorize the earth, rather He
wants a world that can mirror heaven. It becomes impossible for such
to be achieved without the birthing of giants as machinery. here have
been diverse kinds of giants upon the earth working in order of power,
wisdom, and intelligence. It is the desire of God that these will become
the answer to the darkness which has been revealed. hey will become
the repairers of bridges and the restorers of the destiny of men which
was sabotaged by the rebellious giant resident upon the earth.
From the inception of creation as revealed by God to men, we saw
diverse things play out. We saw mortals and immortals play diferent
roles in the intentions of God, but hidden within that intention are the
establishment of His will and the advancement of His kingdom.
One of the irst intentions of God is to raise others as gods. God
wants His kind and was so desperate that He had to hide inside a mortal
man so that it will become impossible for a mortal to tap into that endless
possibility at his disposal until he aligns with Him to unleash that.
We are heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ. Just as He is, so are
we also upon the earth. his is the truth, but the reality of many of these
truths are sealed and locked up in man.

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Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that
we should be called children of God! herefore the world does
not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are
children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be,
but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for
we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him
puriies himself, just as He is pure.
1 John 3:1-3

Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You
are gods”’? “If He called them gods, to whom the word of God came
(and the Scripture cannot be broken)
John 10:34-35

he demands of God can’t be done by men, it will require the God

dimension in anyone to be unlocked to carry out such a task. No man
that does the work of God was normal. Many have been made gods
and have tapped into the possibilities of God hidden within them. We
being gods are not a thing to brag about as God remains your God even
though you are a god under God. You are a king but under a King and
lord under a Lord. Christ gains equality with God through he Word we
become equal with God through Christ as such we can’t forget our roots.
Christ expresses God as he Word explains Him. We can say Christ is
God simpliied and he Word personiied. hat is why God gave Him
the commandment to explain Him to the world, He sent His son to
express Him and sent His Spirit to animate and give creation life.
he second intention of God is to establish
a relationship with Him. he Holy Spirit helps “It is still His
us achieve that. Our intimacy with the Holy intention that,
Spirit helps us align to the purpose of God we can get for
upon the earth. It is the responsibility of the free everything
Spirit of God to guide us. It is written that, that belongs to
when he Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide Him through His
us to life and light. Jesus said He will not leave Spirit.
us as orphans and this speaks of relationship.
From the very beginning in Eden, God wanted a relationship with

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mankind. It is still His intention that via a genuine vital relationship, we
can get for free everything that belongs to Him through His Spirit. Jesus
Christ died that we may have a vital relationship with God through His
Spirit. Intimacy with God is key and from that foundation, everything
is shared between God and us, the strength to pray, study, and even love
Him is imparted to us. Prayers will help us sustain this relationship.
Partnership with His Spirit is paramount for us to become relevant in
His agenda. We yielding to His Spirit as we progress in the relationship.
If we are consistent in partnership and yielding to he Holy Spirit, it will
guarantee obedience from us.
Obedience to God leads us to representation, which is the third
intention of God upon the face of the earth.
God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among
the gods. How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to
the wicked? Selah Defend the poor and fatherless; Do justice to the
alicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy; Free them from
the hand of the wicked. hey do not know, nor do they understand;
hey walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are
unstable. I said, “You are gods, And all of you are children of the
Most High. But you shall die like men, And fall like one of the
princes.”
Psalms 82:1-7

We are supposed to be the legal representatives of God upon the

earth and living witnesses of His Truth. Be willing to testify even unto
death the testimony of His faithfulness. It is the cry of God to have true
sons, keepers of the gates, intercessors, watchers, portals and so many
functionaries upon the earth to represent Him. here are things given
to men that God can’t do no matter what because God has given the
earth under the jurisdiction of men who are His representatives to
administrate and ensure it works according to His will. God may be
handicapped without such people because he can’t come to do for men
what men need to do for themselves. Every sector of life upon the earth
no matter how carnal it is; needs a representative there. God needs men
that will continue to preach, teach, mentor, and show forth His power,
love, wisdom, intelligence, and glory to the world.

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You and I are part of the representative council of God and if we do
nothing, God will come to judge us for allowing injustice to rule and
our region will be lacking in legal witnesses of he Truth. Every country
has a legal council that legislates on behalf of the entire nation. Legal
members of each constituency are sent to represent diverse regions and
if any member of the council fails to represent his region well, his region
can be deprived of social amenities and beneits of being part of the
country; the same is applicable in the kingdom of God. God has men
and women as the legal territorial representation of His kingdom. If they
fail in exercising their duties, the kingdom of God sufers a lot because of
the irresponsibility of its representative members.
How faithful are you oh! member of the council of the Kingdom of
God in your constituency?

--------Get involve, Get engaged. he master called unto you-----

- Cheers.
-Godspeed.
-Much love.
-Philip Cephas

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 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

PHILIP CEPHAS

P
hilip Cephas is a seasoned apostolic and prophetic teacher of
the gospel. He is a man of love, wisdom, revelation and prayer.
He is cantered on efective balancing of Kingdom principles,
doctrine and revelations to equip the Body of Christ apostolically and
prophetically into its full manifestation of Christ. His love for the Body
of Christ is endless. his drive has led him to evangelize and conduct
outreach programs in diferent cities and villages so as to reach the lost
souls and administer the gospel of Christ within those environments.
He is interested in raising and mentoring youths in prayer, leadership,
inluence, anointing and investment. He is also a proliic writer. He has
authored many books such as he Prophetic and Vision, Pathway to he
Anointing, he Vision of a Great People and many others. He has been
a instrument in the revival movement within Nigeria. He is resident in
Laia, Nasarawa State.

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THE PROPHETIC AND VISION

he prophetic and vision is a revelation from he Holy
Spirit, and a clarion called into the experiences of the
prophetic. You don’t have to be a prophet called into the
oice of the prophetic to function in the prophetic. he
speaking and dealings of God is prophetic in nature.

PATHWAY TO THE ANOINTING

Pathway to the anointing is not just a product of a

research done in the lesh, but a personal dealing of
walking with he Holy Spirit over time which has
resulted to a smearing of the anointing upon my life by
God.

VISION OF A GREAT PEOPLE

he vision of a great people is a lile story and a
iction of a family who has been helped by God and
still being helped by Him. Among many systems of
God expansion upon the face of the earth, a man is
pivotal.

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