The Significance of Building Spiritual and Mental Capacity

Building mental capacity is essential for manifesting spiritual potential and achieving success in life.

### Building Capacity: The Importance of Spiritual and Mental Growth
* 🧠 Understanding the significance of **building capacity** is essential for every believer in their relationship with God, particularly in the realms of **spiritual and mental capacity**.
* 📖 While many are taught about spiritual capacity, they often overlook how to **build mental capacity**, which is crucial for **manifesting the changes** that come with increased spiritual strength.
* 🔍 It is vital to recognize that prayer alone may not solve all problems; some require **wisdom and mental capacity** to navigate effectively.
* 👤 Each individual is a spirit, possesses a soul, and lives in a body, which necessitates a **clear understanding of how these components interact for effective living**.
* 📊 The soul, comprising the mind, will, and emotions, must be **disciplined and influenced** to align with the spiritual truths one receives, as indicated in Luke 21:19, which emphasizes the need to **possess one's soul**.
* 💡 Proverbs 4:7 highlights that **wisdom is the principal thing** to seek, suggesting that understanding and applying knowledge is **essential for effective decision-making** and results in life.
* 🌱 To truly grow and achieve greatness, believers must develop both **spiritual and mental capacities**, as the latter enables them to **act on the revelations and truths** received in their spirits.
* 🏗 Ultimately, wisdom, which is linked to mental capacity, is necessary for building a fruitful life, as it allows individuals to **make informed decisions and take appropriate actions** in alignment with **God's purpose**.

The importance of building capacity, that's what we are talking about today. The importance of building capacity. One of the things that I want every believer to understand is that it comes down to capacity. A lot of people don't understand the importance of building

capacity in their walk with God, and I believe a lot of people here are familiar with what is known as, or what we call, spiritual capacity. I'm sure you have heard me talk, you have had other great men, great women of God talk about spiritual capacity. Sometimes you'll hear men of

God saying you are to build capacity, but this is what I picked up, especially in the body of Christ, is that men and women are taught on spiritual capacity, rather they are taught how to build spiritual capacity. And after building spiritual capacity, they will still remain the same

with all that capacity that they've built. Then what is the issue? Where is the problem? Because once you build capacity, something about you must change. You are no longer the same person you were before you built capacity. Here we are talking spiritual capacity. I then realized by the spirit

of God, it is one thing for one to build spiritual capacity, but it is another thing for one to build mental capacity. It takes wisdom and it takes revelation for one to understand that prayer is important, but not every problem is subject to prayer. Some of the problems

that you face are subject to wisdom, but because you don't have mental capacity, you are unable to solve, you are unable to come out victorious. Why? You are not lacking spiritual capacity, but you are lacking mental capacity. Once you understand, uh, by revelation, I'm about to

Write now who you are and who you *are*. You will operate with different sets of rules, so let's break it down. Who are you exactly? You, you, you, you, you, you are watching right now. Right now, you are a spirit. You possess a soul, and you live

in a body. Let me say that again. I know I've taught some of you this, but for the sake of context and for the sake of, uh, uh, understanding, let me pass by here so that people can understand where I'm coming from and where I'm going. Okay, so

you are a spirit. You are a three-in-one. Now let's, let's, let's, let's draw. Let's draw this. So we draw a very nice head there with little hands and of course with little legs there like that. Okay, so that is you there. That is

your, your spirit. Okay, and this is your, your soul. It will make sense. Don't worry. That is your soul. Okay, and of course, you have a body, and this is your body. You will understand by Revelation even if you are that slow today, meaning you'll hear me by fire, by

force. You are a spirit. You possess a soul. You live in a body. Here's now where the Revelation is. This is your soul, and of course, in here we have your spirit. You are you, you. A good class, I'm telling you, right? And of course, out here, you have your what? Your

body. Now I've taught you and I've said it over and over and over and over again, but for the sake of today's teaching, I will have to pass by here. Your soul is divided into how many times? Three times, right? Your soul has your mind, or has in it a mind,

has in it what a will and what emotions, okay? That is a T there now. I'll break it down. When you are building spiritual capacity, you are making room in your spirit. Spiritual capacity has nothing to do with your mental capacity. Your mental capacity is for your soul. Your spiritual

capacity is for your spirit. I will say it again. I will this will this this this will take you to another level. So when I am praying and I'm saying I am building spiritual capacity, I am making a room here. Are we together? Because to build capacity means

different things to different people in different places. Glory be to God, because to build capacity simply means to make room or to build space. It can also mean power. It can also mean to build strength. Glory be to God. But spiritual capacity, now we are talking about your spirit, now being

strengthened. But I want you to understand that things that are in your spirit, because also your spirit is divided into three. In your spirit, you have your what, your intuition. You have got your consciousness. You also have a place called fellowship. I'm not talking

about spirit, I'm talking about soul. Why? Because we are building mental capacity now. After you prayed, after you fasted, after you did all these things, you have built capacity here. Things don't materialize from here to here. There is a bridge between your spirit and your

body, your body. I'm talking about the outside. Hear me here. Are you hearing what I'm saying? So it does not matter what hits your spirit, it does not matter what God releases in your spirit, it has to pass through your soul in order for it to manifest on the

outside there are certain things that God can release in your life that your spirit can handle because you have built capacity but your mind will not handle because you don't have mental capacity so you have spiritual capacity but you cannot manifest it because you don't have mental capacity now watch this by

Revelation and by the spirit of God we are about to get into the scriptures right now the soul is the mind the mind of the soul thinks so with your mind you think with your will you choose with your emotions you act so I have to think

in order to choose so that I may act that is all in the soul I'm about to go deeper now Luke 21: 19 it will make sense I had to bring this board because trust me it is deep I told you I'm going to be deep but we

will demystify uh this mystery today we will unreveal it together let's go uh-huh Luke chap 21: 19 let me go there quickly myself uhhuh Luke I said Luke what Luke 21: 19 so we are starting with Luke today

she be powerful then I said verse what verse 19 let's go in your patience possess ye your soul so the Bible is now saying in the Book of Luke 21: 19 in your patience possess your soul meaning that the soul actually needs to be possessed you are missing it

I know you are thinking possessed now you're thinking demons let's flow let's flow let's flow are you here so the Bible says in your patience possess your soul and that was Jesus talking meaning that the soul actually needs to be possessed to be possessed means to be

controlled to be possessed means to be influenced, so the soul needs to be controlled, the soul needs to be influenced, the soul needs to be disciplined. But what is your soul? Your soul is your mind, your soul is your will, your soul is your

emotions. Some of you here hear me in the Holy Ghost, some of you here right, pray right for many things, and God is a faithful God, he answers us, he releases. But you have a mind that cannot be the purposes of God in your life. That is why Romans chapter 12 says

be transformed by the renewing of your mind. But what is your mind? Your mind is your soul. Why? Because why is God saying, "You must be transformed by the renewing of your mind?" Why is that? Because as a man thinketh in his mind, so is he. Proverbs

23, I believe it's verse 7, says that. So God says, as you think, so are you. Just as one has to have spiritual capacity, one has to have mental capacity, meaning what I see on the outside is what is in my soul. It does not matter what is in my spirit.

In my spirit, I can feel I'm big. In my spirit, I can feel I'm destined for greatness. In my spirit, I can feel I'm a generational case breaker, but the cures will keep breaking you. Why? Because your mind is not capacitated to produce that

on the outside. That is why it does not say, "As a man thinketh in his spirit." God can deposit something big in your spirit, but your mind can fail to be that. Why? Because your mind does not have capacity to handle what is in your spirit already. So you have been praying

and you have been fasting, not asking God for certain things, but you have been praying, you had entered a growth dimension of prayer, when now you are building capacity and God has capacitated you. Let's break this down. In our school, we spoke about something and

of course, I'm just passing by. You see, just as I said, your spirit can crash, your mind can also crash. Let me break it down. Just as your spirit can crash, your mind can crash, your soul can crash. Now, what does that mean for those who are

were not part of the school? We, we spoke about how important it is for one to build capacity to have a strong spirit. Luke 18:15 says, "And the child John was strong in spirit until his day to be revealed unto Israel." Right, so John had a strong spirit before God

sent him. So, we were talking about that, the importance of building what, a strong spirit or capacity. So your, so your spirit can crash simply because your spirit does not have the capacity to handle what is introduced to your spirit. So God can release information to your spirit and your spirit, because it's not

capacitated, or does not have the capacity to handle that information, your spirit can crash. And I gave an example saying, for an example, a gadget, right? If I introduce information to this gadget, right, that this, this gadget does not have capacity to handle, what will happen

to this gadget? Because the memory of this gadget can't handle the information that is coming, the gadget will crash. It is not crashing because the gadget is weak. It's crashing because it can't handle what I'm introducing to it. So, in order for the gadget to handle what I'm

introducing the gadget will need to have capacity I will have to in produce a different memory so that's why people will often have what sleep paralysis why because they are sleeping and God is releasing information that their spirit is not capacitated to handle then their Spirit

crashes then there is a battle right when they are sleeping I know I just messed somebody up right there right so just as your spirit can crash your soul can also crash so you see now it says as a man thinketh in his mind so is he so my

reality is a reflection of what is in my mind so I can feel some type of way in my spirit about my reality but until my mind conceives that I cannot receive it in the physical so I can only manifest and receive in the physical that which my

mind my soul has conceived but my mind and my soul rather to say uh my soul has to have capacity to handle that which is in my spirit he says as a man thinketh in his mind listen to this Revelation so is he one of the things please never forget this

because it will blow your mind one of the things that causes delay in life is an unrenewed mind one of the things that causes delay in a life of a prayerful believer is a mind that is not capacitated you can go to the mountain

until you name that mountain after you but nothing in the physical will materialize and that does not mean you did not conceive it in your spirit that is why we have people with great Destinies that are traded and end up only in their Spirit

Hey, God gave you a mind so that you could think. God gave you a will so that you could choose. God gave you emotions so that you could act. That is why when demons possess people, demons don't possess your spirit, but demons possess your soul.

Because once they get hold of your soul, they've gotten hold of your mind, they have gotten hold of your will, and they've gotten hold of your emotions. So they will control how you think, they will control how you choose, and they will control how you act. That is why

there are people who drink alcohol uncontrollably, and you'll hear them when they sober up saying, "But this thing is bad." Why? It is their spirit talking, but they don't have the mental capacity to accommodate that which the spirit is giving the soul. Oh, you're not hearing me.

He says, "Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, not of your spirit." Why would this guy Paul in Romans 12 want us to be renewed? Want our mind to be renewed? Because it is with the mind, according to the Bible, and it is through the mind that we serve the Lord.

This is very, very important, especially if you are a man. Hear me in the Holy Ghost, you need mental stamina. A lot of people have spiritual stamina, but they don't have mental stamina. Spiritually, demons are afraid of you, but physically you can't make

anything happen. Oh, you are not hearing me. You can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't, you can't. Let me say that again. In life, there are three types of people. Number one, people who make things happen. Number two, people who watch other

People make things happen. Number three, people who ask what happened. I don't know if you're number one, number two, or number three, but it all comes down to mental capacity. That is why, uh, I believe we... we know this book, there is a book by, uh, 

Napoleon Hill, it's called *Think and Grow Rich*. The man had a revelation. Why didn't he say *Work and Grow Rich*? You missed it already. But rather, he uses the word *think* and *Grow Rich*. And the same Bible tells you that it comes down to your

mind. And there he is also revealing the importance of having the right mindset. But believers will ignore that. Why? Because to them every problem is subject to prayer, not understanding by revelation that some problems are subject to wisdom. Now, so that is why it's very, very

important for you to understand by revelation that you can be spiritually useful but earthly useless. Okay? I... I will say that again. I told you when I got in here, I'm not trying to hurt you, I'm trying to help you. Okay? So this is so serious, this is

so serious that I want you to get it by revelation, and I want you to understand it, that you can be spiritually useful. Are you hearing what I'm saying? But earthly useless. Why are you spiritually useful but earthly useless? It's because you have spiritual capacity

but you don't have mental capacity. Because on Earth, you are as you think. You will always travel to the direction of what is in your mind. What is in your mind shapes your reality. That is why we have a lot of Christians who don't understand what I'm

talking about because even when they wake up in the morning they don't expect anything good to happen to them what they are dealing with is beyond you know what we actually think they're dealing with they are not only dealing with the demon of poverty

they are also dealing with the demon of ignorance and believe it or not the greatest curse that God can ever lift off of you remove from you deliver you from is a curse of ignorance he said my people die I don't

know who asked why are they dying and an answer came because they lack knowledge not because they are not prayerful not because they are not anointed not because they don't fast not because they are not committed but because they lack knowledge hi hi hi say oh Lord help me build

capacity this brings me to wisdom by Revelation because here we are talking about what mental capacity the Bible says please read that scripture let's go Proverbs 4 Proverbs 4 and we read verse 7 let's Proverbs 4: 7 yes wisdom is the

principal thing uh-huh therefore get wisdom my God and with all thy getting uh-huh get understanding my God so is that in your Bible hey let's break that down so the Bible then says wisdom is a prin principal what thing wisdom is a what a principal thing

hear it hey wisdom is a principle thing therefore get wisdom that's what the Bible is say so it says get wisdom doesn't say pray for wisdom oh you missed it it does not say fast for wisdom I'm not saying you can't pray for wisdom

because James says if anyone of you here lacks wisdom another version says is there anyone here who lacks wisdom you see that now meaning one has to come to an acknowledgement to an awareness that they don't have wisdom in order to ask it from God but Proverbs says get wisdom

I will explain that as I go deeper but it then continues to say but it says and in all thy getting get understanding I've taught you this knowledge is information understanding is comprehension wisdom is application I've taught you that right so the Bible says

in all thy getting get understanding it will make sense right so when we talk about wisdom so let me quickly break that down I'm talking about mental capacity but I want you guys to hear what I'm saying here so when we talk wisdom or when we are talking about

wisdom we are talking about the correct scriptural application of knowledge for your profiting let me say that again it is not just the correct application of knowledge in your life as a child of God is the correct scriptural application of knowledge for your

profiting the power of wisdom and the presence of wisdom is seen in the quality of the decisions you make and that brings you back to your mental capacity let me take it down the power of wisdom and the presence of wisdom is seen in the quality of the decisions

you make that is why Philippians says what Pastor I believe it's Philippians 2:5 it says let this mind be in you which was in Christ another version says let the same mind that was in Christ be in you also why doesn't the Bible say Let The

Same Spirit that was in Christ be in you also but it says let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, mental capacity, mental capacity. You can is hearing me, mental capacity. Once you get this Revelation you realize that the devil is a loser. You realize that the devil is a

loser. The devil is a liar. Once you get this Revelation, once you get this understanding, are you hearing me? Let's continue. I know one says but I I hear you Apostle, okay, I hear you Apostle. I hear what you are saying, my Apostle. Right, how do I know that the wisdom

because now I know I've just pinned something. I've just connected something. I've just introduced something there, but one is asking how do I know that the wisdom of God is at work in my life? I've been a Christian for 20 years. I've been

a Christian for 15 years. I've been a Christian all my life and I've prayed for wisdom, but how do I know that the wisdom of God is at work in my life? The answer is simple. Number one, wisdom is connected to Mighty Works. Wisdom is connected to results. I'm

talking about results here. That is why you'll see ordinary men with wisdom doing Mighty works. Why? Because wisdom is at work. So it does not matter which area of your life, once wisdom is at work, you will see results. That is why every time you see results or or or see Mighty

works that brings glory to the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I want you to know it was built by wisdom. What does Proverbs say? I believe it's Proverbs 24, it says through wisdom a house shall be built. Another vision says through wisdom

A house is built, what then? That should tell you is that wisdom builds great things. Great things are built by wisdom. Great organizations are built by wisdom. Great companies are built by wisdom. Even Christians who, who are born again, are you hearing what I'm saying? Who, who, who

run companies, who run organizations, they don't hire people because they pray. You didn't hear what I just said. They don't hire people because people pray a lot. No, they are looking for mental capacity. They don't have a problem with your prayer life, but can your soul

accommodate what is in your spirit? So we have a lot of gifted people, anointed people, but don't have mental capacity. Why? Because the church does not talk about mental capacity. It is much easier for everyone to understand spiritual capacity, but there is a bridge between

your spirit and your body. That is why the Bible calls your soul the lamp of your spirit. Are you getting what I'm saying? Meaning your spirit and what is in your spirit cannot see where it's going as long as this lamp is not on. It calls your soul the

candle of your spirit. That's in your Bible. I'm about to say something here that will offend other people, but it will also help other people. And I'm saying this with all humility. I'm not trying to hurt anybody. By revelation, God is

transforming somebody. You just have to personalize this message and say, 'Lord, you have remembered me.' And some of you, your mental capacity brought you where you are. But in order for you to move from where you are to another level, you will need to build

mental capacity because remember capacity means room, capacity means space, and right now you need to make space for what God wants to bring from your spirit to your soul. That is why people will know I'm a businesswoman, but they will never start... I'm a businessman, they will never start.

they will know what they need to do, but they will never do it. So the problem is not here, the problem is here. So when they're about to do it here, they crush. Why? They don't have the capacity. Even procrastination is because one does not

have mental capacity. I'm about to say something that will help others and will offend others, but I will say it by the spirit of God. When our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was choosing his disciples, he did not go to the synagogue. You see, as a Christian, as a

Believer, I would have expected the Lord Jesus to go to church because he's looking for disciples, followers. So as a Christian, I would have expected him to go to the synagogue. Why? Because these were people who were ready, not just for his coming, but were spiritually

ready. Were spiritually ready. So they were ready spiritually, but instead Jesus goes to another place called Escariot, in a place called Kario. Are we together? I know you know Judas Iscariot. Say break it down, Apostle down, and I told you this before, his son

name was not Iscariot. That is why all the Disciples of Jesus there, they don't have sun names, but how come this one has a name and a sun name? Iscariot was not his son name. Iscariot was a place in

I don't know where Judas was coming from, but because there was Jude, the brother of Jesus, amongst the disciples, they had to separate Judas and Jude, and they gave Judas Iscariot the place of his origin. I don't know if they got it so he

was never Judas Iscariot because Iscariot was his surname. No, he was Judas Iscariot because he was coming from a place called Iscariot in Kerio. So Iscariot was his place of origin, but

what happened in Iscariot? What was happening? Why would Jesus go to a place in Kerio to choose a disciple, yet there are people praying, yet there are people going to the synagogue? He leaves all of them and he goes to a place called, uh, Kerio, and he

locates a place in Kerio called Iscariot, and right there he locates a man called Judas. So in Kerio, uh, Iscariot, people understood money. That's where money was spun, that's where money was exchanged. Are we together? So Judas understood money. He understood how to handle money. The guy understood currency, the guy understood revenue. No wonder why he was Jesus' treasurer. Jesus did not go to church or

to the church. He went to a place where somebody had capacity. They were praying, but he looked for capacity. I'm talking mental capacity. Some of you right now, with all the prayer, if Jesus was to come and start choosing disciples, he will not even consider you with your

prayer why because he's not only looking for spiritual capacity he's also looking for mental capacity that is why when he calls them they were fishermen Fishers of fishes but he does not actually demote them he promotes them he says you are

going to use that ability but this time around for the Kingdom so he uses what they already had as capacity he says I will make you fishers of men so the skill you have the knowledge you have because you know what to do there is patience in

fishing because if you want to be patient if you're somebody who struggles with patience just go fishing ask me I will tell you I took my son like this he said Dad let's go fish I said no problem I took him bought new hooks nice beautiful

hooks bought everything for him you know rods everything of course we used to have the old ones but this time rev is there is the one who went to buy I we ready bought all new hooks everything we had everything hey 1 hour we are

fishing 2 hour nothing 3 hour nothing then when we were about to say okay now this is it we caught one my son looked at me said I'm never going back there again cuz in his mind he thought we were going to come back with fishes like this

patience so they understood that when you deal with the soul especially a lost soul because you need to be skillful you need to know what kind of bait must I need to use for this kind of fish you are not hearing it I'm not fighting the fact that one

has to be anointed to preach I'm not saying that but there is mental capacity great Ministries are built through wisdom and where does that fall under mental capacity you can be a man of God who has spiritual capacity you pray for people

they fall things happen but at home your family is falling apart God is a god of unity I've seen men sacrifice their families your first Ministry is your family I don't know if they're getting what I'm saying HH didn't the Bible say just as

Christ loved the church love your wife uhuh what did Christ do for the church he died meaning the Bible expects true husbands to also be in a position where they are ready to die for their wives so I'm like Christ to my wife so people will do God a favor

without his permission why because they are feeling something in their spirit you can do the right thing and God still comes and say but I didn't permit you to do it therefore what is wisdom Apostle wisdom gives you the ability so to say not not wisdom is the ability

Building mental capacity

Miz Mzwakhe Tancredi

Focuses on the significance of building capacity, particularly spiritual and mental capacity.

Explains the concept of spiritual capacity and its common misunderstanding.

Highlights the issue of individuals building capacity without experiencing transformative change.

Introduces the concept of mental capacity as equally important as spiritual capacity.

Emphasizes that not all problems are solvable through prayer; some require wisdom and mental capacity.

Understanding the Tripartite Nature of Man

Describes the human being as a three-in-one: spirit, soul, and body.

Illustrates the relationship between spirit, soul, and body using a diagram.

Explains that the soul comprises mind, will, and emotions.

Differentiates between building spiritual capacity (in the spirit) and mental capacity (in the soul).

Explains that building capacity means making room or building space, power, or strength.

Introduces Luke 21:19, emphasizing the need to possess one's soul (mind, will, emotions).

Explains that possessing the soul means controlling, influencing, and disciplining it.

Connects Romans 12:2's call to be transformed by renewing the mind to the importance of mental capacity.

References Proverbs 23:7, highlighting that as a person thinks, so they are.

Illustrates how spiritual capacity without mental capacity hinders manifestation.

Explains that both the spirit and soul (mind) can crash if overwhelmed.

Uses Luke 18:15 to illustrate the importance of a strong spirit.

Uses the analogy of a gadget crashing due to insufficient capacity to handle information.

Connects one's thoughts to their reality, emphasizing the role of the mind in manifestation.

Highlights an unrenewed mind as a cause of delay in life.

Explains that demons possess the soul (mind, will, emotions), not the spirit.

Emphasizes the importance of renewing the mind, not just the spirit, referencing Romans 12.

Highlights the need for mental stamina, contrasting it with spiritual stamina.

Categorizes people into three groups based on their ability to make things happen.

References Napoleon Hill's *Think and Grow Rich*, emphasizing the power of thought.

The Role of Wisdom in Building Mental Capacity

Discusses Proverbs 4:7, emphasizing the importance of acquiring wisdom and understanding.

Clarifies that wisdom is not solely obtained through prayer or fasting, but through actively seeking it.

Defines knowledge, understanding, and wisdom, highlighting the importance of application.

Defines wisdom as the correct scriptural application of knowledge for personal benefit.

Connects wisdom to the quality of decisions made and references Philippians 2:5.

Explains how to know if God's wisdom is at work in one's life.

Connects wisdom to mighty works and results.

Highlights that mighty works and results are built by wisdom.

References Proverbs 24, connecting wisdom to building great things.

Emphasizes that organizations and companies seek mental capacity in hiring, not just prayer.