Transcript: Concerning Spirituals - The Operations of the Spirit Part 2

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Just like a soldier, going to battle, Garrett himself with every armor needed for battle and for winning. So believers must guard themselves with the gospel of peace, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield of faith, and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. Join apostle Emmanuel as he teaches God's word to equip you for a victorious life on earth. This is Believer's Equipped. The operations of the spirit are two. The four verses five and verses six. Of first Corinthians. How that there are diapalities of gifts but the same spirit. Diapalities of administrations but the same Lord. Diabeties of operations for the same God.

Are able to unveil what this means. We come to the heart of first And I told you that actually there are more than nine gifts of the spirit. As long as they are gifts given by the spirit, you'll find that there are more than nine of them. You Jesus. Thank you Lord. You'll find that there are more than nine of them. But first Corinthians gives us nine. So we do that nine first. Is that okay? Yes sir.

From verse eight to verse 10, the Bible says, 41 is given the word of wisdom through the spirit. To another, the word of knowledge through the same spirit. To another, fit by the same spirit. To another gift of healings by the same spirit. To another, the working of miracles. To another prophecy. To another, discerning of spirits. To another, different kind, kinds of tongues. To another, the interpretation of tongues. Now the nine gifts of the spirit that are listed in first Corinthians 12 are divided into three categories.

The first categories, category is the revelation gifts. The second category is the power gifts. And the third category is the vocal gifts. The revelation gifts reveal something. The power gifts. Do something. Whilst the vocal gifts say something. These are the three traditional categories given to these nine gifts of the spirit that are greed by several theological school of thought. And we'll begin from the revelational gifts today. We move with speed and see how fast we can move.

Is that okay? The first revelation gift that is mentioned in first Corinthians is the word of wisdom. For one, for to one is given the word of wisdom through the same spirit. You see, the word of wisdom here is not natural human wisdom that is accumulated through experiences, through education, through observation. That's not what the Bible is talking about here. This is supernatural wisdom. This is a fragment of God's infinite wisdom given to a believer for a specific situation. It is the supernatural revelation of the divine purpose and the mind of God concerning the future. So the word of wisdom reveals what to do in a given circumstances. It is divine direction, it is supernatural guidance, it is the mind of Christ made known to you in a moment of decision, either on your behalf or on behalf of somebody else.

It means you can receive a word of wisdom for someone else. And you can receive a word of wisdom for yourself. Are you with me? No, I if you were in the first part of this series, I, that's the operation of the spirit that is concerning spirituals, the operation of the spirit. I told you that the operations of the spirit captures the ways in which the holy spirit moves. In order to bring to bear the purposes of God upon the earth. Is that not so? Now, one of those ways happens to be through dispensation of his gifts, through dispensing, sorry, of his gifts to believers. And as we function in those gifts, we partner with the holy spirit. So that we become effective believers on earth.

So that we become powerful believers on earth, and so that the will of God is done on earth. And so there are many times that believers will be in circumstances around their lives where God's will has to be done. And your advantage in that circumstance would be how well you have become familiar with the operations of the spirit In how he chooses to move. In such a time. Are you with me? Look at how this gift operated in the ministry of Jesus. In John chapter eight from verse one to 11, the scribes and the Pharisees brought to Jesus a a woman who was caught in the very heart of adultery. And the intention of this is to set a trap for Jesus. In verse five to verse six, the Bible says now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned. What do you say?

Now if Jesus said, stone her. Are you with me? Yes sir. It would have contradicted the message of mercy and the message of grace. And if he had said, let her go, he would have appeared to violate the law of Moses. Either ways, if Jesus had said stoner or if he had said let her go, the enemies had him cornered. If he said stoner, then it would mean that everything he had spoken about the grace of God and the mercy of God is not true. If he had said let that go, then it would mean that the justice system of God against sin is also not true. But it would have contradicted the laws of Moses, is that not so? So they are...

And they wanted to pin him to a wall. They wanted to trap him. They weren't really concerned about the woman. They were concerned more about Jesus. Are you with me? Mhmm. But Jesus was operating in the word of wisdom. In verse six, the Bible says, this they said, testing him. That they might have something of which to accuse him. So did they come for Jesus?

Did they come for the lady? No, they came for Jesus. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger as though he did not hear. So when they continued asking him, he raised himself up and said to them, he who is without sin amongst you, let him throw a stone at her first. And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. None of them could say anything, none of them could speak. That is the wisdom of God silencing his accusers. One by one, they were convicted by their own consciences until they left and only Jesus remained. Then Jesus spoke to the woman in the word of grace in verse 11 and told the woman, neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.

Now this was not a prepared response. Jesus did not have a strategic planning session the night before to determine how he would handle that confrontation. This was the word of wisdom manifesting in real time, giving him supernatural supernatural insight in how to navigate a seemingly impossible situation. And the father energized his words, remember Najima. The father energized his words and the trap became a platform for revealing the mercy and the wisdom of God and for convicting the heart of the scribes. That's an Najima. Because all that he said was a question. Whoever does not... Whoever has not seen before, let him cast the first stone. What makes that word have any kind of effect?

The potency of effect is what the father does, working all in all. You remember what I've taught you this? I think you should go and get that teaching and listen to it. Because even when you walk in the gift of the word of wisdom, power that is released to turn circumstances around is what God handles. Are you seeing that? The word of wisdom operates in the same way the life of believers today like it did in life of Jesus. It means when you face a decision and you do not know what path to take, when you are confronted with a situation that requires wisdom beyond your natural ability, when you need divine direction for your business, for your family, for your ministry, the Holy Spirit can give you a word of wisdom. It can come as a certain knowing of what to do. It can come as an inward conviction. It can come as a specific scripture that illuminates your path or a word spoken through another believer.

It can come anyhow. But when it comes, you will recognize it because it will carry that weight of divine authority with it. You would know that this is what I'm supposed to do in this specific circumstances. You will know that you know that you know that this is what I'm supposed to do. The oppression of the word of wisdom. I told you also in the part one of this series that the word word there is the word locus. And locus means the communication of the thoughts of God. Is that not so? It's not called wisdom, it's called a word of wisdom to tell you that it's not all wisdom. The same way it's called a word of knowledge.

To me, it's not all knowledge. It's a fragment out of a large hole for a specific situation at a specific time. Do you understand what I'm teaching you? James one five says, if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. Verse six says, which gives us the condition, but let him ask in faith with no doubting. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. It means the way that you access the word of wisdom is through faith. You must believe that God will give you wisdom, a word of wisdom. And when he gives it, you must act on it without hesitation, without doubting, without second guessing what you have received. Are you with me?

In the book of Acts of Apostles chapter 27, when Paul was being transported to Rome as a prisoner on a ship, there was a violent storm that happened. And everyone on board became afraid. They feared as though they will perish. But Paul received a word of wisdom. Act of Apostles chapter 27 from verse 22. Paul received the word of wisdom. Paul says, now I urge you to take heart for there will be no loss of life amongst you, but only of the sheep. In other words, we would lose the sheep but would not lose lives. Next verse, for there stood by me this night an angel of God whom to whom I belong and whom I serve. Saying, do not be afraid, you need to move faster.

Paul, you must be brought before Caesar and indeed God has granted you all those who sail with you. Therefore take out men for I believe God that to be just as it was told me. However, we must run aground on a certain highland. This is the word of wisdom. In other words, imminently. But we will be shipwrecked on an island, next verse, About midnight on the fourteenth night of the storm, as we're being driven across the Sea Of Adria, the sailors sensed land was near. Next verse, they dropped a wooded line and found that the water was 150 feet deep. But a little later, they measured again and found it was on 90 feet deep. Next verse. At this rate, they were afraid we would soon be driven against the rocks along the shore.

So they threw out four anchors from the back of the ship and prayed for daylight. Then the sailors tried to abandon the ship. They lowered the lifeboat as though they were going to put out anchors from the front of the ship. But Paul said to the commanding officer and the soldiers, you will not die unless the sailors stay aboard. In other words, if you jump, you are dead. Now watch this. Jumping was the most sensible thing to do. If you understand the context, because the bible says that they saw based on natural principles that they were going to run into a rock and the old ship will crash. And when they measured the distance between land and sea, they found that it was about 90 feet deep. That means that it is possible for them to drown, especially for those who cannot swim.

And they think that, okay, it's not so deep, we can still swim to the shore. And Paul says, any of you try that, even though it looks wise in your own natural understanding, you will all die. The wise thing to do is to remain on this ship. That is the word of wisdom. Are you with me? Paul did not only receive assurance of his own survival, but also divine wisdom about how the situation would unfold and everything that happened exactly as the holy spirit had showed him. So let's move on. How do you grow in the word of wisdom? I want us to move fast because we have quite a lot to cover. How do you grow in the word of wisdom?

The first way you grow in the word of wisdom is to immerse yourself in the written word of God. Psalms one one nine from verse 98 to verse 100 says, you through your commandments make me wiser than my enemies for they are ever with me. You through your commandments make me what? Than my enemies for they are ever with me. You through your commandments. You are wiser because you know the commandments of God. You are wiser because you understand the statutes of God. Is that not so? He says, have more understanding than all my teachers for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancient because I keep your precepts.

I have more understanding than all my teachers for your testimonies are my meditation. What gives me more understanding than all my teachers is not because I read so well what I am taught by my teachers. What gives me more understanding than all my teachers is not because I'm taught or I've studied or I've read the study materials that my teachers fed on. What gives you more understanding than all my teachers is the fact that I have meditated on your testimonies. Somebody has to think about that. Glory to God. But that's not even where I'm going. That's Word of God is beautiful. That's the purpose of coming to meetings like this very hungry. Because for someone that is light already.

That's light. That's an answer to a problem. That's a solution. Only if your eyes can see it. That's why for another person, it's only scriptures. It's only words and marvel. Now what is it telling us? It means that the more you saturate your mind with scripture, the more the spirit can draw from the reservoir to give you specific wisdom for specific situations. The word of wisdom does not contradict the written word of God. It applies the written word of God to your specific circumstances.

So what happens is that the Holy Spirit takes the written word of God and he applies it to your specific circumstances. Now how it comes sometimes is not that a scripture would come to you. How it come would be what to do will come to you. And what to do will not contradict scripture. That's how you know it's the word of wisdom. What to do will not contradict scripture. That's the upper. Do you help anybody? What to do will not contradict scripture. So you cannot say, oh, I received the word of wisdom.

And then when you tell us what you received, we find out that it is the devil that suggested it to you. Since I, you know, I've not read for that exam, but I just felt as though there was one guy that was standing next to me. When that guy sits next to me, I just know that I will ask him and the holy spirit to talk to Satan will tell me the answers. You see, that's not a word of wisdom. That's a word of abundant folly. A word of wisdom will never contradict the written word of God, which is even the reason why you should familiarize yourself. Read scriptures. Listen, if you want to operate in the things of the spirit, read scriptures. Read a lot of scriptures. Read your Bible everyday.

Pray everyday. Read your Bible everyday. Pray everyday. Read your Bible everyday. Pray every day. When we get to the word of knowledge, I might stay on this a little bit. Let's go on. The second way of operating or working or developing the word of wisdom is to develop the habit of listening to the inward voice of the holy spirit. John chapter 10 verse 27, the Bible says my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me. Because you see, my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me.

The holy spirit speaks. The question is whether you are listening. The holy spirit speaks. Most believers live at such a frantic pace with so much noise in their lives, entertainment, social media, constant activity that they cannot hear the still small voice of the holy spirit any longer. You must learn to create space for silence in your walk with God, for waiting on God, for listening. Isaiah chapter 30 and verse 21, the Bible says, your ears shall hear a word behind you saying, this is the way, walk in it. And whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left, you will hear a voice behind you saying, this is the way, work in it. It means the question is, are you listening? Because you would only hear a voice behind you if you are listening. It means God does not leave the believer comfortless.

There should be no point to get to as a believer where your life lacks direction. And unfortunately, this is the reality of so many people. So many people, they lack clarity, their life lacks direction. Many people are playing trial and error with their lives. If this does not work, I try this one. Let's move this way. If this does not work, I move this way. With your life. With your life. How do you cast lots with your life, with your destiny?

Assured of what to do, unassured of how to move, unassured of where to go with your own life and destiny? Is that how casual life is to you? I'm not sure about so many people here, but for me personally, I take precedence over the steps and the actions that I take in life and destiny. Oh, I'm extremely dependent on the only spiritual direction because one of my greatest fears is to walk twenty years in the wrong direction. To walk thirty years in the wrong direction. To walk ten years and to find out eventually that I turned wrongly, that I moved wrongly, that I should not have branched where I branched. And you know, in the mercy of the holy spirit, there are times that he will restore years to you. But the fact remains you have lost years. And sometimes it will take serious humility to gain back the advantages that came with the years that you lost. This is the reason why I cherish direction so much.

I don't want to start something and find that I was led by my flesh. I don't want to enter into something and find that eventually that my emotions led me. But we're already 10 into it. We're already eight years into it. We're already five years into it. You see. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. So develop the habit of listening to that inward voice. Great time for the holy spirit.

Great time to hear him. Great time to pray. Spend time studying scriptures. And thirdly, whenever the holy spirit gives you a word of wisdom, step out in faith. Don't analyze a word of wisdom to death. Don't second guess a word of wisdom. Don't consult with flesh and blood to see if they agree with what the spirit of God has shown you. In Galatians chapter one from verse 15 to verse 16, the bible says, there was Paul that was speaking about his own testimony. He said, but when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through his grace. Can you see that?

To reveal his son in me that I might preach him among the Gentiles. Can you read the next line together? One, two, three, go. That's what many people do. The moment God reveals to you what it has pleased him to use your life to do, we immediately confer with flesh and blood. And flesh and blood might not understand the wisdom of God. Flesh and blood might not understand the direction in which God is leading many a times. Your response to the word of wisdom must be faith. To jump out and to step out by faith, especially when God begins to lead you by faith. There are times when there are great endeavors in your front, where there are projects in your front, where there are maybe multiple projects.

You are juggling several activities, and then you are frustrated and you are asking God, oh God, what should I do and all of these things, what happens is that your spirit begins to move. And one of the ways in which it moves is to supply a word of wisdom. This is why if you are not in tune with the spirit of God, there are many things your life will lack. You will be so frustrated. I'm telling you. And it's not because God wants you to be frustrated. It is because you are just out of tune with how the holy spirit is moving. You see, you are out of tune because your ears have become different to his voice. You are expecting to receive supernatural strength to juggle multiple activities, whereas what he's given is wisdom. And you might think that you are doing right not knowing that you are acting in folly.

Life in the spirit is sweet. If you understand... It makes your life so easy. Makes your life so easy. Life in the spirit makes your life so easy that you are able to become conscious. And there are times when you take your concerns and take it to the holy spirit in prayers. It might even be your burdens. It might even be those things that you are looking for multiple counsel from flesh and blood about. In finances, in academics, in business, in family, you take it to the Lord in prayer. Oh, precious Holy Spirit.

And then how does the word of wisdom operate? The Bible says that the holy spirit is inside of you. These things are called contemplative prayers. There are times that the word of wisdom operates spontaneously. And by that, I mean, you are inside a specific situation and you require action instantly. There's no time to go and pray about it. You are in front of a panel. They are waiting for your answer now. You can't reach out to apostle. You can't call somebody.

You can't say, oh, this is what I'm... What should I do in this case? I mean, this is an interview board. Whatever you say right now can determine whether you lose the job or get the job. This is a people vetting your proposal. They can decide whether to give you that contract or not just by what you say right now. I'm the word of wisdom. The word of wisdom. That knowing of what to do, you will hear a voice behind you saying, this is the way. Work in it.

Yorubas have a program that they say. They say a dog that is destined to be missing. A dog that is destined to be lost. Who can complete it for? He will stop listening. He will stop listening to the whistle of the owner. This is an ancient proverb, an ancient proverb to describe hunter dogs. Because those days when hunters go into the forest to hunt, they take dogs with them. And how they locate themselves is through whistles. And the forest can be so vast that the dog is only safe as long as it is with the hunter because the hunter carries a rifle.

So in as much as both of them are hunting, both of them are meant to secure each other in a way. Because there are animals the dog would come across that cannot hunt. We can alert the hunter to his presence. The hunter runs there and then carries his rifle. So the security of the dog is in listening to the hunter's whistle because the hunter would call, you are leaving the forest though wherever you are, at dawn for the day. I would blow the whistle. At the moment he blows the whistle, the dog would decrease from wherever he is. So when a dog is destined to be lost, he blocks his ears to the whistle of the hunter and he begins to navigate his path alone. That's exactly what happens to believers when we no longer want to hear what the spirit says. That's the point where you are confused in life.

Life is not so difficult. Life is not so difficult. The comfort of the spirit is not so far from you. The wisdom of the spirit is not so far from you. One of my interesting young women messaged me, and they messaged my fiancee as well when I did not reply. And, you know, my fiancee is nicer than me. So probably she would get the reply from her. I hope she did. And she said, today is meant to be my convocation, but I'm not happy because there is so much sorrow in my soul. I don't see people posting pictures, posting pictures, posting pictures.

What is there to be happy about? I didn't even follow you with the first class. I didn't even follow you with the second class. What is there to be happy about? Should I... I I I didn't even have the boldness to tell my parents that today is my convocation. What would they... What would they... What are they celebrating? If I'm like this person now and they mention someone, who got this?

I know there is something to celebrate. You know when this person when I was reading this thing, I just shook my head. I shook my head not only because I've thought this several times without number, but the stubbornness of the heart is a very dangerous thing. Take that aside. What caught my interest is also how this individual is so far away from the wisdom and the comfort of the spirit. Makes you wonder, do you pray? Do you read your bible? Do these simple things that they that we... That they say we should be doing since when we were young, do you do it? It's just do you even have a spiritual life left?

Because if you do, the wisdom of the spirit and the comfort of the spirit will tell you that you are the one that you celebrate the most. You are the one that you thank God the most. The fact that you even finished. Who should rejoice the most? The soldier that went into battle shot all the enemies and came out. All the one that the enemy shot. All the one that the enemy shot. And he thought he was almost dead. And somehow, he was able to drag himself out of that battlefield and return home. And after he returned, he was now told that we won the war.

Who do you think should rejoice the most? The guy that should thank God that I am alive. I finished this thing. You can't imagine as I... When I was writing my final exam, I thought I wasn't going to make it. You will kill a cow. You will be in front of ah. You will be in dance. That's why you know believers that are far from the comfort of the spirit. You are there far.

That's why such grief can overwhelm you. What? So so stupid. In all sincerity, it is stupid. It is stupid because it's not a new believer. It's not someone who started listening to me yesterday. Someone who has been listening to me since, what, thousand and what, five years? And then you get to junction point in your life where you require to respond by the spirit, where you require response by the spirit, and you're feeling such things. How would you you handle greater things? Something that little, how would you handle greater things?

Let me tell you an interesting story. Many years ago, I got a job with a client, and I was working with that client and it was a good pain at the time being. And then I secured another opportunity that was 10 times better than what I was currently doing. But the opportunity required me to stop what I was doing at the moment because it had to be fully central towards that goal. And so I had to be sure that this was gonna work out before even stopping anything. So I got on the call with the president in charge of the project, and the president said, oh, no. This is already we've already concluded. This is already yours. We've already decided. This is the direction we are following.

And I said, okay. No problem. Thank you very much. When I was starting, they sent me a contract letter, Signed it, sent it back to them. Thank you very much. Wait for us. Thank you so much. Wrote my recognition letter, stopped working where I was working. That was the last I heard from them. So what?

You rejoice in the spirit. Because you think that when some of us speak, we speak because there are no disappointments. We speak because we don't see anything as a disappointment. Not because there are no events that are disappointments. Thank you lord Jesus. If you are sad in the prison, if you are sad because you are in the prison, brother, how do you think you will see those you are meant to help in the prison? If sorrow is what governs your reality in the prison, how do you think you will have time for helping somebody else in that prison? If your perspective perspective about about your your situation situation is is overwhelms you, allows that problem or that circumstance to overwhelm you, how would you help people who are really there? Who are really there? Because that can be where your deliverance is.

Because it it was for Joseph. Imagine that that guy took the posture of the remaining prisoners because those guys were so overwhelmed by their own sorrow that they didn't even have time for another person. They just sat down and said, I didn't do anything. I'm here. I had a dream. I'm here. He too was a prisoner, and he was going to other prisoners as though he was their lord to show you that he wasn't overwhelmed by circumstances. He did not have the holy spirit inside of him. I believe that's not funny. I believe that's not funny.

Whilst the word of wisdom reveals what to do, the word of knowledge reveals what is. It is supernatural insight into facts, circumstances, or conditions that you could not know by natural means. The word of God can reveal past events, past situations, secret thoughts, hidden sins, physical conditions, or any information that God wants to make known for a specific purpose. Let me reiterate that. Any information that God wants to make known that who? God. That who? God. That you want to see? That God wants to make known for the entertainment of it for a specific purpose?

Jesus operated constantly in the word of knowledge. In John chapter four, he encouraged the Samaritan woman at the well. And after a brief conversation, Jesus said to her in verse 16 to verse 18, go and call your husband and come here. And the woman answered Jesus, I have no husband. And Jesus responded, you have well said, I have no husband for you have had five husbands and the one whom you have now is not even your husband. You have spoken truly. That is the word of knowledge. It is insight into his present situation. Present circumstances. What is?

For a specific purpose. Jesus had never met this woman before. He had no natural way of knowing our marital history. But through the word of knowledge, the holy spirit revealed to him the details of this woman's life. Another revelation became the key that unlocked a heart and the heart of the entire city to the gospel. The bible says she ran back to her city declaring in John chapter four and verse 29, come and see a man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ? The word of knowledge in this case led to the redemption of that woman and the salvation of a city. It didn't lead to condemnation. The word of knowledge is not to condemn people.

Jesus did not tell that woman, even the one you have now is not your husband. One day I will teach you on the fatherhood of God. And we'll come back to this woman's story, and you will see the amazing thing about this woman and the reality of the fatherhood of God. Because if Jesus can be interested in this kind of woman, he said the one you are with now is not even your husband. You know what that means? It means it's somebody else's husband. That's the type of woman that you keep your husband away from. You greet her outside and she tells you, how is your husband doing? Just no answer. Just turn the other way.

Don't even allow her to know that you're married. This is not for today. The word of knowledge you see is not mind ready. The word of knowledge is not some kind of psychic ability or some kind of clairvoyant ability. It is not human intuition. It's not clever deduction. The word of knowledge is supernatural revelation from the holy spirit. It comes from the holy spirit. The source is the holy spirit. And the purpose of the word of knowledge is always redemptive.

God does not give you a word of knowledge to embarrass people. God does not give you a word of knowledge to expose people's secrets just for the sake of exposure or to demonstrate your spiritual superiority. He gives it to you to bring conviction to people's hearts, to open the doors of ministry, to confirm the presence of God or to provide information necessary for prayer or for deliverance or for healing. Are you with me? In Acts chapter five, you are aware how Peter operated in the word of knowledge from verse one to verse 10, with Ananias and Zaphira also the piece of property, and then they brought that part they brought part of the proceedings to the church and to the apostles, claiming that they were given the full amount when in fact they had kept half of that amount to themselves. And no one knew this except Ananias and Sapphira. When they came to Peter, Peter by the word of knowledge was able to deduct what had been done. Are you with me? Yes, sir. He was able to deduct what had been done.

What followed after shows you the sobering power of the word of knowledge. When God reveals things, it is not for entertainment. It is for correction. It is for protection. It's for direction. It's for instruction. It's so that we can minister to people's needs. Are you with me? And in the case of Ananias and Sapphira, the word of knowledge produced some kind of purity in the early church because it sent a clear message to people that hypocrisy and deception would not be tolerated in the house of God. So in verse 11 of acts five, the bible says, so great fear came upon all the church and upon all who heard these things.

You see, the word of knowledge also operates powerfully in the ministry of healing. Because oftentimes physical sicknesses has a spiritual root or even an emotional root. The holy spirit can reveal through word of knowledge that a person's chronic pain is connected to unforgiveness. The holy spirit can reveal through word of knowledge that the anxiety that a person is going through, you're speaking to someone who is so anxious and the holy spirit reveals to you that that anxiety is rooted or is connected to a chronic pain or a traumatic traumatic experience that they had from their childhood or that their illness is as a result of a demonic oppression. You can know by word of knowledge. And when the root cause is exposed through the word of knowledge, you can address it directly and then healing can manifest. And so when you're helping someone, you're not helping the person just from the perspective of the effect you're seeing. The orthodontist shows you the root or the cause. So you can be talking to someone who is telling you their symptoms, and you would be trying to address symptoms, And you keep on addressing that symptom over and over again, but there's no change. But the time comes when you are open to the ministry of the world of knowledge, that even as the person stands in front of you, whilst they are speaking, you are able to tell by the world of knowledge that this that you're saying is only The root cause is this that the Holy Spirit is showing me.

Are you with me? I've seen this play out in so many circumstances. I don't have the time to share with you stories today. But in my own ministry experience, and this applies to every believer who desires to operate in this gift. I've seen the word of knowledge manifest in various ways. Sometimes it comes as a sudden knowledge and inward witness that a specific person is struggling with a specific issue. Sometimes it comes as a mental picture of a vision. A mental picture, it comes as a vision itself. Sometimes it comes through a specific scripture that the Holy Spirit brings to mind in connection with a particular person. Sometimes it even comes through a physical sensation.

The spirit may cough it or feel emotions or feel pain in a certain part of your body to indicate that somebody present needs healing in that area. Or feel or enter into the emotions of somebody else. You can be speaking to someone for instance and you suddenly feel some kind of overwhelming grief. And when you are in tune with the Holy Spirit, you begin to know that this is connected to how this person might be feeling in that particular time. Are you with me? So how do you develop sensitivity in the word of knowledge? The first, again, is intimacy with the Holy Spirit. Are you seeing the importance of this? Because the word of knowledge flows from relationship. There's no technique to it.

There's no... When you go out, close your eyes, open your eyes, close your mind, put the person's name in your mind, call the name two or three times in your mind, focus on the person, see the person very well, continue to look. All of that is nonsense. There's no technique to it. It flows from a place of relationship Because you would find out that when the word of knowledge begins to work with you, it might not even work in ways you'd expect. You can just be speaking to someone and then just give an example, and the example you have given is a word of knowledge. It just it just comes to your mind and say, okay. For example, someone is going through this and that and that and that. And everything that you have said somebody is going through is what that person is going through. That is the operation of the word of knowledge.

It's what happens when we teach. That's the reason why you shouldn't listen to stories and illustrations in teachings like these as just mere words because they can be word of knowledge many a times. That's what happens also when you speak, especially when you become conscious of it. When you become conscious of it. You're speaking to someone and then a detail drops in your mind. A name drop in your spirit. A condition drops in your spirit. And you ask the person, let me not go ahead of myself because how you present it matters. So I said the word of knowledge flows from relationship. First Corinthians 10 verse 12.

The Bible says, but God has revealed them to us through his spirit. For the spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except the spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of this world, but the spirit who is from God that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. Now the spirit knows all things and the spirit lives in you. As you fellowship with the holy spirit, as you learn to recognize his voice, as you yield to his promptings, it will begin to reveal things to you. You will begin to search the deep things of God and begin to communicate these deep things of God to you. Are you with me? Yes.

Stop. First Corinthians chapter two from verse six. Can we read this together? Show me verse five. Alright. No. No. I just showed. Let's move to the next verse, verse seven. One, two, three, go.

Now many years ago, I saw a revelation here. When the Bible says we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery. In other words, the mystery is the vehicle that holds the wisdom of God. We speak wisdom inside mystery. In other words, what we are speaking is mystery. But wisdom is insight. Because the Bible says we speak wisdom in a mystery. So it means what is outside is the mystery. What is inside is the wisdom. Do you understand what I'm saying?

First Corinthians 14 verse two. Keep that. One, two, three, go. So when you speak in tongues, what are you speaking? What is inside mysteries? It means the more you spend time speaking in tongues, the more you spend time speaking in tongues. This is the benefit of long ass prayers, of stretched ass prayers, of consistent prayers. Consistent prayers, thirty minutes every day, one hour every day. You lock yourself in a place where you're just spirit. The searching ministry of the holy spirit.

The holy spirit begins to search. It begins to search. The more you speak, the more you search. The more he's searching. The more he's searching. You see, the more he's searching. He begins to search and he's to reveal to you the things that he is searching. That's the reason why we tell people, take your concerns in prayer. Just lay it on the table and be praying in tongues. What happens is that as you're speaking mysteries, wisdom is being searched.

Wisdom is being communicated. Your spirit man will begin to know. Many a times you would go and sleep and dream dreams that are divine. You would wake up from that sleep, and many a times you would know what believer. Don't be a spooky believer. There's no need to be chastened after altars and witches and wizard when you have all these blessings in Christ. Now you have left the blessings alone. You don't even know how to activate the wisdom of God, but you can chase witches. You can tell who is a witch and who is not the witch, and you can discipline witches. But wisdom of God is far from you.

How how how does that even... Believers can sometimes be very funny. Blessed? Number two, how do you become gross sensitivity in these areas? Develop expectancy. Expect the Holy Spirit to give you words of knowledge. Too many believers live with their spiritual radar turned off. They go through life assuming that everything that they perceive is natural. That every thought in their mind is their own. That every impression they receive is merely human intuition.

But it's not true because in Romans chapter eight verse 14, the Bible says, for as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are sons of God. Sons of God are led by the spirit. This means the spirit is constantly communicating. The spirit is constantly guiding. The spirit is constantly revealing. You must train yourself to recognize his communications and expect his communications. Expect him to lead you. Expect him to guide you. Expect him to lead you. Expect him to guide you.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. Number three, I think one teaching that might help you even as you listen to this and you follow this series is a series entitled the school of the spirit. It's a series done many years ago that you might want to get on the telegram platform to corroborate with what you're receiving now to help you because there are things I might not mention that I've mentioned there. Things like how to separate between the holy spirit's voice and the voice of your mind. How do you know who is speaking? These are things I've taught you. So you can get that issue. I believe it will help you. Are you with me?

Yes, sir. Number three, take risk. Take risks. Take risks. When you sense the spirit giving you a word of knowledge, out in faith and speak it. Step out in faith and speak it. Listen, you might be wrong sometimes because you might misinterpret what the holy spirit is showing you. Especially if it comes as pictures. But you will never develop accuracy in the word of knowledge if you are paralyzed by fear of making a mistake. This is how we grow.

This is how we grow. You try to walk and then you fall. You try to walk and then you fall, but you walk again. You don't because you fell once, not... Then decide you will not rise again to walk. You'll be crippled. Your legs will atrophy. You will no longer be able to use that leg to walk. That's what has happened to many believers in the operations of the gifts. Perhaps you spoke to somebody once and then you were disappointed at the outcome of it, and then you decided you will not speak again.

Imagine that was how you decided you will not walk again the first time you fell. The bible says, oh, by reason of use, I've developed their senses. By reason of use, I've developed their senses. By reason of use. In other words, how you develop senses is by reason of use. Use it again. Are you with me? First Corinthians 14 verse 29, the bible says, let two or three prophets speak and let the others judge. Let two or three prophets speak. Let the other judge.

In other words, when it comes to these things, speak what you perceive. But do it with humility. Because somebody will judge. Are you with me? So it is okay to allow mature believers to judge what you have said. Because the Bible says, let the other judge. The definition of prophecy in context is speaking in tongues plus interpretation of tongues. When you speak in tongues and you interpret the tongues you have spoken, you have prophesied. We'll get that later. Glory to God.

One of the definitions rather, one of the definitions. We'll get there later. It is the same operation with the word of knowledge. That's the reason why when you're growing the word of knowledge, I don't advise you to be too forward. Don't counsel it to be too forward as you're stepping out and as you're growing, especially if you're ministering to people or you're talking to someone and you sense your preacher getting something about that person. Don't be too forward. Don't go as though you were there when the person was born, and then speak like you have some kind of authority. Is your brother not cool? No. Calm down.

Calm down. Calm down. Calm down. Ask questions. Do you know who this person is? And the person tells you, oh, no. I don't know. Give glory to God. Move on. Use that gift and again, this is how you grow.

You know, when I was growing the word of knowledge, I didn't hire teachings like this, but I was extremely intentional because I desired the gift and I knew I had it. So what I needed to do was to grow in it. And I determined to what extent I will grow, not the holy spirit. Is it your father that determines how muscular you will be? Yes sir. Is your responsibility the cause of the g? Yes sir. To strain your muscles. Are you with me? Yeah.

It works the same way in the gift of the spirit. You've been given it. Now grow it. Now do you grow it? Use it. Use it. You sense that you have the gift of healing will get there very soon. How do you grow it? Use it. Enough books.

You've read about five books. You've not even prayed for one person. You will not grow that way. Supposedly, know I've read... I've read this. I've used them. Now who have you prayed for? Who have you prayed for? Use. Are you with me?

Use. Just step out and lay your hands on people. Somebody tells you I'm just feeling sick. Don't get to the gate of healing person. Are you with me? Lay your hands on them. Declare that they are healed. Use it. Write now in the world of knowledge. Do not be too presumptuous.

Yes? Communicate with people as though you are trying to find out information. And check within your spirit if it confirms what you have seen or what you have received. If it does, give glory to God and speak then continue speaking. Are you with me? Do what? Not me speaking. If you were wrong, learn from it, grow from it. If you are right, glory to God. Develop the gift.

Are you seeing? Yes, sir. Another thing you must learn from the word of knowledge is that it is never full. It does not come to you fully. It comes to you in bits because it is the word of knowledge, not a sentence of knowledge. So you might not ever know the old picture. You might only ever get a fragment of the information. And sometimes the full ness of the information would come to you when the person confirms what you have received. That's the reason why so when we are ministering and people don't respond in ways that favor the gift and the operations of the gift. Because when you call somebody, usually, you don't know everything you have called the person for.

All you have done is to speak out the false information you have seen. It's the word of knowledge. As the person comes up, another gift cannot begin to operate, which is the gift of prophecy, which can be the sign of spirits. But you might never get the full picture and the full scope of it. And don't presume that you have. Don't go beyond the scope of what has been revealed to you. Especially continuing with your brain, what started in the spirit. It's a dangerous mistake. So you can sense in your spirit that somebody is afraid. When the person comes out and say, are you currently afraid?

Are you dealing with fear right now? And the person say, god. And then you just assume that the fear is probably because the person is having exams or something. You use your physical senses to permute it so that you're not at the loss of words or at the loss for words rather. No. Let let it be by the spirit. What did I say? By the spirit. When we'll have more time, with with some practical classes. Number three, reveling the gift of revelation.

Number three on the revelational gifts, the discerning of spirits. The discerning of The designing of spirit spirits. Is supernatural insight into the spirit realm. What did I call it? And this is perhaps the most misunderstood and the most neglected of all the gifts. Yet it is absolutely critical for spiritual warfare. Absolutely critical for the deliverance ministry. And even for protection from deception. The design of spirit is not the ability to detect character flaws in people. It is not the gift of criticism.

It's not the gift of suspicion. You don't start suspecting people under the guise of walking in discernment of spirit. Design of spirit is the supernatural revelation into the spirit realm. The ability to perceive whether a spirit is divine, if it is the Holy Spirit, if it is God, if it is an angel or human, if it is a spirit of a person, if it's just a human being or if it's demonic, an evil spirit or a demon that is behind an event or a circumstance or a situation or whatever. That's what discerning of spirit is. Designing of spirit has to do with spirit. Now that's not all there is to discernment. There are different kinds of discernment that works different ways. That's why I have a teaching called operating a discernment because there are different kinds of discernment. There discernment by the word.

Are you with me? But the discerning of spirit that is a gift of the spirit works to discern spirits. Glory to God. First John chapter four verse one, the bible says beloved, do not believe every spirit or test the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets have gone out into the world. So how do you test the spirits? Through the design of spirits. One of the ways, through the design of spirits. Because this gift enables you to perceive the source of a spiritual manifestation. Is this prophecy from the holy spirit? Or is it a human being speaking out of his own imagination?

Is this a physical symptom? Is this just a medical condition? Or is there a demonic spirit causing this? Is this person genuinely speaking or genuinely seeking God? Or is there a spirit of deception operating through them? Is this man of God genuine? Or is there another spirit speaking through him? Are you with me? You see Jesus operating in the design of spirits in scriptures. In Mark chapter five, you read from verse one to verse 20, when he encountered that demon possessed man in the region of the Gadarenes.

Jesus did not just see a mad person. He didn't just say, oh, this person is mentally ill. Let's take him to the hospital. What he perceived was a demonic presence immediately and he commanded in verse eight, come out you unclean spirit. In verse nine, he said, is your name? He says my name is legion for we are many. Jesus discerned not only that this man was demon possessed, but also that multiple demons were present in him. And that supernatural knowledge enabled him to minister effectively and to bring complete deliverance to the man. In Acts of Apostles chapter 16 from verse 16 to verse 18, Paul also had the same experience where by a different one actually, he encountered a slave girl who had a spirit of divination. The Bible says she was possessed with a spirit of divination.

And in verse 17, she was following Paul for many days, and she had one job as she was following Paul. The Bible says, say, these men are the servants of the most high God who proclaim to us the way of salvation. Now on the surface, the words that she was saying, what was coming out of her mouth was true. She was advertising Paul's ministry. She was declaring truth about who they were and about what they were preaching. To They do that. Were principality in that territory because she was seen as the voice of God. She was seen as a major prophet. The bible says that her masters profited through her because people knew her. People came to her to seek for direction.

So if somebody who is already a popular prophet in town comes to announce your ministry and tells everybody, these men are the servants of the most high God, you should be happy. Because that is an endorsement. Servant of the most high God who proclaim to us the way of salvation, and everybody will be listening. Every... All the customer of the girl will come and say, for this girl to be endorsing this person, it means he must have more revelatory powers. And low and behold, he did. Glory to God. Glory. Look at verse 18. And this she did for many days, But Paul, greatly anoint, turned and said to what?

To her? To what? To her. Command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her, and he came out that very hour. That is the discernment of spirits. What do we call it? What does this tell you? That tells you that truth, fact, or what is true can be spoken by a lying spirit. It means the fact that someone speaks truth does not automatically mean that they are speaking by the holy spirit. In Mark two chapter four, Satan Demons can prophesy accurate information.

They can perform signs and wonders. Second Thessalonians chapter two from verse nine to verse 10. The Bible says, the coming of the lordless one is according to the working of Satan. Give me NLT. One, two, three, go. With what? With what? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Verse 10.

So it already shows you the type of people that will get deceived. Hi. Scriptures is beautiful. Love the bible so much. You ready God? Amen. Counterfeits power. And when you don't have discernment of spirits, you will be swayed by this. That's the problem I have with believers who have itchy ears, who are moved by everything, especially when you are still growing. And you cannot discern what spirit is speaking, what is divine and what is not.

And you assume that because somebody somebody is speaking like this or because somebody is saying what looks to be true, the person must be speaking by the spirit and you'll be horribly wrong. And you'll be terribly wrong. Are you with me brothers and sisters? Now this is what you want to understand. The discernment of spirit is not given to make you afraid of demons. It is given to make you effective in spiritual warfare. So when you discern what kind of spirit you are dealing with, you can address it with precision and accuracy. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. That means that if the power of God is moving in this place and there's a deliverance happening, somebody could not know the power, probably the person is possessed by a demon or oppressed by a demon.

And the person is manifesting demonically, and the demon checks out of the person. And fear grips you where you are because you can sense that a demon is the one that is manifesting. And that fear is so strong in your heart that you feel like running away, you feel like collapsing, you feel like leaving the presence of God at that moment in time. And you say, oh, I just have discernment of spirit. I can sense. You don't have discernment of spirit. You need deliverance. That is a demon. What is working in you? It's the same thing that we are putting up with that person.

It is true. It is demonic. You are oppressed. There's oppression in your soul. Come for deliverance. Come that you might be delivered or be delivered by truth. Are you with me? Yes, sir. It is not okay that every... That's not the operation of the time mental spirit.

It doesn't come to make you afraid of demons and make you suspicious of every single thing. Knowing this, how do you develop? Sensitivity in discernment of spirits? You have to first understand if you're going to develop sensitivity in discernment of spirits, you have to first understand that that gift is not to create some kind of paranoia inside of you. It's not to make you always suspicious of demonic activities. The believer who is always seeing demons in every situation, who attributes every problem to a demon, who is constantly fearful of spiritual attack, does not have a genuine discernment of spirits. That person is operating in fear. That person is operating in superstition, not in the gift of the spirit. And there are people like that. Your roommate has a character problem.

You say she's a witch. You say she's a witch. If somebody is angry, do you see that they are oppressed by a demon? Because it's a work of the flesh. Anger is a work of the flesh. Doesn't mean that the person... Even believers get angry because they've submitted their soul to be governed by their spirit. It's work a of the flesh. Are you aware that witchcraft is a work of the flesh? Are you aware that a believer can practice witchcraft?

In the same way that a believer can be hungry. Because Galatians five, when the bible mentions the works of the flesh, witchcraft is part of it. What is witchcraft? It is intimidation. It is manipulation. It is domination. It is subjugation. Anything that you do to affect the will of a man that is not divine is witchcraft. Either you manipulate the person, which means you deceive the person to change their will. Or you dominate the person.

You control the person to change their will. Or you intimidate the person. You make the person afraid to change their will. Are you with me? Yes, sir. It is witchcraft. Some people practice witchcraft with money. Yes. I want to change your will and I put money inside. I say, if I...

If you don't do this, I won't pay your school fees again. Brother is witchcraft. It's domination. It's intimidation. I have to make you afraid. I have to inflict fear on your inside. That's some people's partner leadership. Parents do it. It's witchcraft. Children do it.

They wanna get something from you. They start crying. Doing... To manipulate your emotions. It's witchcraft. Women do it. You are addressing an... And a concern. She probably the one that is wrong, and you are telling now, you... This is how you are wrong.

You're saying. You're saying. And then suddenly, cannot speak again because you are afraid of ordinary emotions. You cannot even correct what you wanna correct. And start saying, no. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. Sorry. It's witchcraft. And there are people that just have serious character problem, constantly hungry, constantly manipulative, constantly oppressive.

There are people that are just wicked, serious character problem, and as a result of how they were brought up. Probably they didn't grow up in good homes, and you're unfortunate to live in the same room with them. The lecturer will give you a past question, and then you are in the same department, and they won't tell you. Then you will then find out the adventure that they have it. And then it's... And you say, this person must be a witch. I just sense that this person is a witch. You and your senses are wrong. Something is wrong with you and your sense. That person just has a character problem.

Just simple as that. You don't have to suspect and throw demonic suspicion in everything and go around with superstitious feelings. It's just... Come on now. Come on now. Grow beyond that. Beyond that. As how many people have been told that their mothers are witches, their wives are witches. Homes have been destroyed and lives wrecked like this. Your mind, a woman that has no characterization, she's a witch.

Were you blind when you were a mariner? Glory to God. But the moment you develop that kind of behavior that makes you suspicious of every single thing, you are not walking in the assignment of spirit. You need deliverance. Demons have oppressed your soul. Are you with brothers and sisters? Yeah. If you wanna walk in that discernment of spirits, you must throw away paranoia. You must throw away that suspicious, that thing that makes you hyper suspicious of everything. You enter into intelligence just because you lack you lack you lack sense.

You say it is a demon. Powers of my father's one that brought yourself here. Can't you see how your divisions led you here? You see that whoever sows to the flesh will have the fleshly corruption? Because when you become suspicious of everything, you have thrown away the ability of the holy spirit to lead into our throat. Are you with me? Yes sir. Thank you Lord Jesus. If you want to grow in sensitivity in the signing of spirits, what is the secret you must know? Who knows what it is?

Intimacy with the holy spirit. Intimacy with the holy spirit. A master jeweler can look at a diamond, a fake diamond, and be able to immediately tell whether it is real or whether it is genuine. He does not need to run any kind of complex test or run all kinds of or use any kind of sophisticated equipment just to tell whether this is a fake diamond or whether it's a real one. Because he now has a trained high. And with his trained high, he can spot the difference instantly. How did he develop that ability? It is through years of handling what is genuine, studying what is genuine, examining the characteristics of what is genuine. He has now grown so much in the knowledge and the mastery of what is genuine that when he sees that which is not genuine, he can instantly tell that this is fake. That's exactly how the discernment of spirits work.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. The more time you spend in the presence of the holy spirit, the more you study his ways, the more you study his nature in scriptures, the more sensitive you become to anything that is not of him. Because you already know what is of him. So when something else comes to speak that is not of him, even if that thing is speaking what is true, you can tell that something is off. And I've never been wrong in these things. Thank you, Lord. John chapter 10 from verse four to verse five illustrates very well this principle. It is my sheep. When he puts forth his own sheep, he goes before him.

When he brings out his own sheep, he goes before him and the sheep follow him for they know his voice. Look at verse five. Yet they will by no means follow a stranger but will flee from him for they do not know the voice of the strangers. In other words, the sheep do not need any form of geological education to recognize the shepherd's voice. They simply know the shepherd's voice because they have heard it day after day. They've spent time hearing it. So when a stranger speaks, they immediately recognize that this is not the shepherd, and then they flee. This is exactly how spiritual discernment operates. It becomes so familiar with the voice of the spirit, the presence of the spirit, the ways of the holy spirit that when anything else tries to present itself as God, you instantly recognize it as counterfeit. Are you with me?

And number two, you have to understand the biblical criteria for testing all spirits. You want to grow in discernment? It is important that you understand the biblical criteria for testing all spirits. First John chapter four from verse two to verse three gives us the primary test out of several. It says, by this you know the spirit of God. So how do you know the spirit of God? By this. So what is a this? Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God. Next verse.

And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist which you have heard was coming and is now already in the word. Listen, that confession that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not merely an intellectual Jesus the revelation revelation that Jesus is is God. God. That Jesus is Lord. That he is the only way to salvation. That his blood is sufficient for redemption. That he rose from the dead and that is returning in glory for the church. Any spirit, any man, any person that denies this fundamental truths is not from God. Any teaching that diminishes the person and the work of Christ is demonic in origin.

No matter how spiritual it sounds, no matter how many signs and wonders that accompany that ministry. That's why Paul wants in second Corinthians 11 from verse three to verse four, but I fear lest somehow as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you may well put up with it. That's our fear he says. Another Jesus being preached. A Jesus who is just a good teacher. He's a social reformer. He's a moral example. He's a prophet, but he's not God. And there's a different spirit that comes with that gospel.

A spirit that produces emotionalism, that produces mysticism, and experiences that are not rooted in scripture. There's a different gospel. A gospel of works, a gospel of self improvement, a gospel of positive thinking, another gospel of grace that works salvation through faith in Christ Jesus alone. The discernment of spirits protects you from this deception. When you observe a teaching, when you observe a spiritual manifestation, when you sense a spiritual presence, the holy spirit will bear witness within you whether this thing is of God or it is not. In Romans eight verse 16, the bible says the spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the sons of God. That same spirit that bears witness to your sonship will bear witness to the authenticity of any spiritual activity. So if something is of God, you will have peace. If something is not of God, you will have an inward check within you. A spiritual uneasiness within you.

A sense that something is wrong within you. Even if cannot articulate what exactly it is, run away. Are you with me? Yes, sir. Run away. Because many times you might think that something is wrong, but you might not be able to place your hand on what it is. But there's that unease in your spirit. Oh, I don't waste time. The moment I sense that unease in my spirit, instantly, I respond. Instantly.

There are many men of God. Several men of God. Well respected. Well recognized. What you'd call a global ministry. And when I see them do what they are doing, there's that one he is in my spirit. And many times I can't tell I can't tell why. I don't wait to understand why. I run away regardless. But I've learned that the fact that you say what is true does not mean that you represent truth.

Are you with me? Yes, sir. The design of spirits protect you from deceptions. It protect you from deceptions. There are times when you meet certain people. It might be men of God, it might be prophets, it might be teachers, whatever, even believers. And their manner of operation lacks maturity in the things of the spirit. You can tell that the administration of the gift doesn't come with maturity. There's no renewal in how they are administering their gifts. It's not refined.

It's not polished. But by discernment of spirit, you can tell that they are genuine. In other words, it's not how you would normally operate. You might not agree with many of the instructions, but you cannot deny that the spirit is true. Do you understand what I've just said? Because you see, somebody can believe that before a demon is casted out, they would have to say ring a bell or pray on water. When they pray on water, you sprinkle that water in your house, bathe with that water, do all kind of things. There's a realm of understanding that they could be speaking from. But when you operate in discernment of spirit, you can tell that some of them are true. Some of them are genuine.

It's just limited understanding what they are genuine. Are you with me? And when you operate in the same understanding, in the same discernment of spirit, you'll find out that some of them are entirely false, entirely occultic, entirely. That's the reason why the discernment of spirit is very important for the believer. Are you blessed? Yes, sir. Very important to to for the believer. That is the last of the revelational gifts. Next that we move into the next class is the power gift, which consists of the gift of faith, the gift of healings, and the workings of miracles. Three of which I happen to love so much.

I would consider this in the next class. Please rise up on your feet. Jesus mighty name we have pray what you have seen it is obvious and in all of its sensitivity in the revelational gifts. You need intimacy with the holy spirit. Need it. Have Because he's the one that reveals. That's why it's called the revelational gift. One Thank you for listening to this message. We trust you have been blessed. You can get more life transforming messages from apostle Emmanuel Boluatife on our Telegram page at DCN media channel.

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