Name: The Mystery of Submission
Author: Apostle Charles Mutuku

About the book

The Mystery of Submission is a wisdom manual on the most misunderstood subject in the body of Christ. The Apostle has watched men and women who are sharp in business become foolish the moment they walk into a church building, submitting to anybody and believing anything because the person speaking carried a title, and then blaming God when their lives collapsed.

It defines submission as the position to gain from a higher grace, names the patterns of abuse that have hidden under the word, and gives the three checks to run before you submit to anyone, the four tests of a house, the three sacrifices submission demands, how grace actually transfers, the signs of right and wrong submission, what to do when the one you submitted to fails, and finally how a son becomes a father.

Submission is the position to gain from a higher grace.

Written for

Believers who have sat under a covering for years without growing
Anyone who has been hurt by a leader who used the word submission as a weapon
Sons and daughters in the faith, and the fathers who will one day send them

The book, laid out like a course

5 parts and 25 chapters. Open a part to see what each chapter helps you understand.

By the end, you will

Why God promotes by knowledge, not just by prayer and fasting
What submission is not, and what it truly is: the position to gain from a higher grace
The three checks you must run before you ever submit to anyone: capacity, environment and licence
The four tests of a house: its doctrine, its culture, its father and its fruit
The three sacrifices true submission demands: trust, honour and service
What to do when the one you submitted to fails you
How a son becomes a father

Full outline

Part1

The Mystery

What submission is, what it is not, and the authority it grants.

01Knowledge Before PromotionInformation brings progress, understanding brings promotion, wisdom brings trust: the three things God uses to move a life forward.
02What Submission Is NotThe lies first: the abuse that has worn submission's clothes, and what submission is not.
03The True Meaning of Submission, A Position to GainThe definition everything else flows from: submission is the position to gain from a higher grace.
04The One Submission Beneath Every OtherThe one submission beneath every other, and what protects you when you grant a man authority.
05Authority and the Submitted LifeThe oldest transaction in history, and what it teaches about authority in the realm of the spirit.

Part2

The Choosing

Choosing where to submit: your need, the three checks, the four tests and the audit of needs.

06Your Need Determines Where You SubmitYour need determines where you submit: why attraction is the wrong reason.
07The Three Checks Before You SubmitThe three checks to run before you submit to anyone: capacity, environment and licence.
08The Four Tests of a HouseWhat the three checks cannot test: the four tests of a house, its doctrine, culture, father and fruit.
09The Audit of Needs, Why You Cannot Submit to Only OneThe prison of one covering: why no believer can submit to only one person.

Part3

The Exchange

What submission costs, how grace transfers, and what to do when it goes wrong.

10The Three Sacrifices of True SubmissionSubmission is not free: the three sacrifices of trust, honour and service.
11The Mystery of HonourHonour given its own chapter: why believers forfeit more inheritance over this word than over any sin.
12How to Receive, the Mechanics of TransferHow grace actually travels from a covering to the one who submitted: words, prayers and obedience.
13Right Submission and Wrong SubmissionThe diagnostic for whether the submission you are in is nourishing you or draining you.
14When the One You Submitted To FailsThree cases, not two: the false covering, the right one, and the true father who failed you.
15Sent, Not EscapedSent, not escaped: how to leave a house without losing your inheritance inside it.

Part4

The Corporate Anointing

What a rightly gathered people carry together under one head.

16Where Two AgreeWhat God does with a people that He does not do with one believer: where two agree.
17The Oil That Runs DownPsalm 133 read slowly: the oil that runs down a house in unity.
18Do Not Despise the Coming TogetherHebrews 10:24 before verse 25: what assembling together is actually for.
19Ground, Altars, and the House of GodJacob at Bethel: why God takes ground, and what an altar means.
20Unusual MiraclesActs 19:11 before verse 12: handling anointed places and items without superstition.

Part5

The Submitted Life

The submitted life walked out: obedience, marriage, the home, the house of God, and becoming a father.

21Obedience, the Daily DisciplineFrom architecture to living: obedience as the daily discipline of the submitted life.
22Submission in MarriageEphesians 5:21 before verse 22: the most abused passage in Scripture, and submission in marriage.
23Submission in the HomeThe home is where every believer learns submission long before meeting a pastor.
24Submission in the House of GodWalking the theory into the building on a Sunday: submission in the house of God.
25The Son Who Becomes a FatherYou are not finished when you are covered: how a son becomes a father.