Transcript: Concerning Spirituals - The Operations of the Spirit

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The experience is a meeting organized by the Disciples Christian Network. Be a man encounter God, his presence, and his power in an atmosphere of worship and the word. Join apostle Emmanuel as he leads us into an experience with God. Concerning spirituals hyphen, the operations of the spirit. There is a reason why Paul writing by the holy spirit to the Corinthian church, opened this discourse on spiritual matters with those words in first Corinthians chapter 12 verse one. He says concerning pneumaticus. I do not want you to be ignorant. And I taught you that the word ignorant is what had me, meaning to be without knowledge, to be unaware, to be uninformed. Paul was issuing an apostolic command that the church must not remain in darkness concerning the things of the spirit. Ignorance in the realm of the spirit is a sign of spiritual immaturity that leaves the believer powerless, ineffective, and vulnerable to deception.

Why is it important that you understand the operations of the spirit? It is because the entire New Testament economy, which is of course the age in which we live right now is the dispensation of the spirit. When Jesus Christ ascended to the right hand of the father, he did not leave the church often. In John chapter 14 from the 16 to the 17, the bible says, will pray the father and will give you another helper that he may abide with you forever, the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor know him, but you know him for he dwells with you and will be in you. And I thought here that the holy spirit is not a secondary vigor in the Godhead. I thought here that the holy spirit is God himself, who equal, who eternal, who powerful as God. Are you with me? He's the executive of the head in the earth today. One who picks the finished works of Christ and makes them operational in the lives of the believers. In the old testament, the spirit of God came upon certain individuals.

Not everybody could have the holy spirit. They could experience even the empowerment of the holy spirit. So the oppression of the holy spirit in the economy of the old testament was that the holy spirit would come upon a few individuals for specific assignments that they had to do. He came upon the 70 elders when Moses needed help governing Israel in numbers 11 verse 25. He came upon the judges like Ophniel, like Gideon, like Japheth, like Samson. When deliverance was needed for Israel, the holy ghost would come upon them and then they would judge Israel. They would move in strength like Samson. He came upon David when he was anointed king. He came upon the prophets when the word of the Lord needed to be declared. But in every case that the holy spirit's presence came upon people, it was selective.

Alright? It was temporary. It was conditional. Not everybody could receive it. And even those upon which it came, it wasn't permanent. It was temporal. Are you with me? And David knew this. He understood the operation of the holy spirit in the old testament economy. That was why when he did what he did with Bathsheba.

Right? And he was rebuked by Martha. He was broken in his spirit. And in Psalm 51 from verse one, from verse 11, He started praying a very serious prayer. He said, don't cast me away from your presence, oh Lord, and don't take your holy spirit from me because he knew that this was a possibility in the economy that he was living in. Because he had seen Saul lose the anointing when the holy spirit departed from him in first Samuel 16 verse 14. He saw it. He witnessed it. And David trembled at the thought of the same thing happening to him. So he prayed a prayer reflecting the economy he was under.

This is not the believer's prayer. Take not your holy spirit from me is not the believer's prayer. Because the believer in new testament understands that the holy spirit cannot be taken from him. Because the prayer of Jesus is he will be in you and with you. How long? How long? So when you stop the new testament, you see a different order entirely revealed in the new testament. Joel prophesied that order in the book of Joel chapter two from verse 28 to verse 29. When he said it shall come to pass in that day, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions, and also on your men servants and your mid servants, I will pour out my spirit in those days. This is telling you that in those days that Joel was prophesying, everybody would be a recipient of the holy spirit.

There would be no limitation as to who the holy spirit can come upon. It won't be just for some people. It won't be for kings and prophets alone or judges alone. It would be on everybody. That was what Joel was trying to communicate. He would be on the main servant. He would be in the mid servant. On everybody, he would pour out his spirit in those days. That's the economy that we are in as believers. Are you with me?

It wasn't a promise of the holy spirit coming upon a few people. It was a promise of universal outpouring. The spirit poured upon all flesh without distinction of gender, of age, of social status, of equivitiy, of preferences, of whether you are white or whether you are black. And on the day of Pentecost, Peter declared that that prophecy has now come to pass, That the holy spirit has been poured upon all flesh. And all that a man ever needs to do is to receive Jesus as Lord and savior. And the moment you receive Jesus as Lord and savior, you are sealed with the holy spirit of promise. Are you with me? What was once the privilege of prophets, of priests, of kings has now become the inheritance of every believer. Romans chapter eight and verse nine, the bible says, but you are not in the flesh but in the spirit. If indeed the spirit of God dwells in you, now if anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he's not his.

You are not in the flesh, but in the spirit. If need, the spirit of God dwells in you. If anyone does not have the spirit of Christ, he's not his. It means how you know that you are his is that you have the spirit of Christ. I call it the assurance of salvation. Is that not so? You remember? That you are sealed with the holy spirit of promise. That's why the bible says that you have not received the spirit of bondage against fear. Glory to God.

Amen. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Holy Spirit is showing me God said he's healing that individual now. He's healing right now. In the name of Jesus, help out. You have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, haba father. So what makes us cry haba father? What makes us know that you have received the fatherhood of God is that the spirit of God bears witness in us that we are sons of God. That's why we can cry Abba Father by reason of the spirit we have received. Do you see that work?

Yes. By reason of the spirit we have received. To be born again is to receive the spirit of God. To be a Christian is to be indwelled by the holy ghost. And that's where many believers stumble. They know that they have the holy spirit, but they don't understand how the spirit of God operates. They're like a man who owns a machine but has never read the manual for that machine. He knows that the machine is powerful but does not understand the operation of the machine. And if he does not understand it, he will either misuse it, underutilized it, or even damage it through ignorance. That's what happens when you use a machine that you don't have the knowledge of its operations.

Some time ago, I saw a phone in the hands of someone, and it was a very powerful phone, Very powerful phone in the millions. And I asked this young fellow, what do you use this phone for? And he told me, oh, I just use it to make phone calls. Now what that individual is carrying is a very powerful device. And when I thought that at Senator, he brought out his laptop. Laptop two was a very powerful one. He was using the latest chip of HAP. But all it does on laptop is to read PDF. That's all it does on laptop, just read PDF. This guy was carrying a powerful, is it m three or m four chip right now?

No. All it does on it is to to read PDF. I begin to wonder, do you understand what what you are holding in your hand? Do you understand what it can do? Do you understand the operations of this machine? It means whenever you are given something of which you have not understood the operation of that thing, you will either misuse it, under utilize it, or even destroy it. And the bible give an instruction not to quench the holy spirit. And there are many believers who quench the holy spirit in ignorance because they don't even know how to operate in the spirit. Don't even know how the spirit operates, how the holy spirit operates. And so when the holy spirit wants to move in and through their lives, they don't know how to respond to him, and so in so doing, they quench the spirit.

The oppressions of the holy spirit are the ways in which the holy spirit manifest himself, works through the believers, and accomplishes the purpose of God in the earth. So to be ignorant of these operations is to live beneath your covenant privileges. It is to have access to divine power, but remain powerless because you don't know how to cooperate with the movement of the spirit. When the spirit is moving, you don't know how to cooperate with him. And it is dangerous to be a believer who lives like this. Because you will realize that there are many things that the holy spirit wants to do, but it's limited because it depends on your partnership with him. Bible says the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the communion, the sweet fellowship, the koinonia of the holy spirit. The word fellowship there is the word koinonia. And the word koinonia means the partnership. The sharing together.

The partnership. It means when it comes to your work with the holy spirit, it's a partnership. It's a what now? It's a partnership. That means the holy spirit cannot do anything if the believer does not understand the principle of alignment with him. It means when God wants to do anything on earth, the bible called it co laborers together with God. So it's important for the believer to understand your operations of the holy spirit so that you can partner with him when he wants to move because he needs your partnership to do anything. That's why he said, there are the ways in which the holy spirit manifests himself. There are the ways in which the holy spirit works through the believers, in which the holy spirit accomplishes the purposes of God in the earth. Ignorant of the operations of the holy spirit is to live below your covenant privileges.

It is to have access to divine power but remain powerless even though you have received power. And understanding the operation of the holy spirit is important for many reasons. Number one, is that it guards you against counterfeit spirituality. First John chapter four verse one, the bible says, beloved, do not believe every spirit but test the spirits whether they are of God because many false prophets have gone out into the world. If you do not know how the holy spirit operates, you'll be easily deceived by false manifestations, by emotional height, by demonic imitations even. You'll be easily cajoled, swayed by anything that looks divine, anything that appears divine. You'll be easily swayed by whoever is giving a prophecy, whoever is seeing a vision, whoever is saying that they are from God, whoever is telling you something spiritual. If you don't know the oppression of the spirit, deception becomes easy for you. Number two, understanding the operations of the holy spirit equips you to function effectively in the body of Christ. Because the gift of the spirit are not given so that you can enjoy them privately.

They are given for the edification of the church. First Corinthians 14 verse 12, for the edification of the church. And if you don't understand how the spirit distributes and how he operates these gifts, you will either neglect your function in the body or try to operate in gifts that was never assigned to you. And so you'll be frustrated as a believer because you have not understood how the holy spirit operates. And there are many believers like that who are frustrated in their Christian experience trying to walk in gifts that has not been given to them. Glory to God. So what happened is frustration? Frustration. Your patience of the holy spirit. And the third reason why this is important is because your understanding of your patience of the holy spirit empowers you to fulfill your assignment on earth.

It empowers you to fulfill your assignment on earth. Because you see, every believer has been called, has been equipped, and has been sent by God to accomplish something specific in the agenda of God, every believer. And in Ephesians chapter two and verse 10, the bible puts it this way. Paul speaking, for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, Created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. Created in Christ Jesus for good works. So the operations of the spirit are the divine enable men's that make those works possible. It is impossible for any believer to do good works without understanding the operations of the spirit. The bible says how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy ghost and with power and he went about doing good. And you must understand that as a believer, if you will do good. Remember that the bible says you were created in Christ Jesus for good works.

It means if you will do good under any capacity, you have to understand the operations of the holy spirit. He was anointed with the holy ghost and with power. You have to understand the operations of the holy spirit. You lack the capacity to do good, to fulfill purpose, to accomplish destiny if you do not understand the enablement of the spirit. And now he moves, and now he operates. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? The operations of the spirit are the diverse ways in which the holy spirit manifests, in which the holy spirit moves, in which he works through believers to accomplish the will of God on earth. The diverse ways in which he operates. Glory to God. In first Corinthians chapter 12, we have been doing that study.

Verse one says, do not be ignorant of spirituals, of pneumaticus. And though we've done verse one, is that not so? We've done verse two that introduces us to the life that these people were living, how that they were given to dumb idols, however way they were led. Verse three then introduces us to the holy spirit. Is that not so? Verse four then shows us operations, shows us administrations, shows us gifts, and introduces us into a deeper discourse of the trinity, how they work together, and what believer must understand about the trinity and how they work together to make you effective in your Christian experience. Are you with me? The harmonious operation of the father, of the son, of the spirit, working together in and through the church. And you would see that each member of the godhead has a different and a unique function, a unique role that the believer must understand. Yet they operate in perfect unity to accomplish divine purpose.

And I'm going to attempt to break this down for us because it is key in understanding how God has structured the supernatural life of the believer. So we begin from verse four, and we proceed from verse four downwards to wherever we are able to stop. Glory to God. Amen. There are diversities of gifts but the same spirit. This teaching also hopes to cover these diversities of gifts. Paul listed nine of them as you read down in the scripture, Are you... You will then realize that the operations of the spirit goes beyond understanding the fruition of each gift of the spirit and what they do. It goes deeper into understanding how it works, how it functions, and how to bring them to bear in your own life as a believer. Are you with me?

Understanding the jurisdiction of these gifts, it was so important. But we're not really talking about gifts because in understanding the the tripatite or the fold revelation that Paul is teaching us in chapter four, five, and six, you find out that it's introducing us to a scope beyond just the gifts, but it begins from the gift. He says there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit. The word gifts is the word charisma, and it means an endowment of divine favor or supernatural ability. Now understand that when the bible speaks of gifts, it's not referring to your natural talent and the abilities that you were born with. No. When the bible speaks of gifts, it's deeper than that. The gifts here are supernatural abilities imparted by the holy spirit to believers. It's what the holy spirit gives. It's not what you were born with.

Oh, but I used to have dreams when I was young, and my dream used to come to pass. That is not a gift of the spirit. Do you understand what I'm teaching you here? Ask on the gift of the spirit. When you read from verse eight to verse 10, Paul lists nine specific manifestations of the spirit, and we'll examine each one in-depth later as we go on. But the principle I want you to see here is this, the gifts are diverse, but the spirit is the same. Why does Paul emphasize the oneness of the spirit whilst he's talking about the diversity of the gifts? The diverse nature of the gifts. Because diversity without unity leads to division. And unity without diversity leads to uniformity, Both of which are not how things work.

Let me explain what I'm saying. When you have differences without unity, there will be division. Because everybody will believe that they are the superior. And when you have unity without differences, there will be uniformity. Do you understand what I'm saying? Because God is not building a religious assembly line where every believer looks the same, every believer speaks the same, every believer functions the same. God is building a living body, an organism where every member has a distinct function. Yet, all the members are animated by the same spirit despite having different abilities. That's what brings beauty to the body of Christ. Please stay with me.

You will be so blessed. Amen. Look at how Paul puts it in first Corinthians chapter 12 from verse 12 to verse 14. The Bible of body body Christ Christ. Christ is is Christ. For by one spirit, we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greek, whether slaves or free, and have all been made to drink into one spirit. For in fact, the body is not one member but many members. You see that? This is a revelation of the organic nature of the church. That you are not just a Christian who is attending a church.

You are a living member of the body of Christ. And just as your physical body has different members, it has eyes, it has ears, it has hands, it has feet, all kinds of members, all of them performing different functions, but are directed by the same brain. So does the body of Christ have different members operating in different gifts, but are directed by the same holy spirit. And the eye, for instance, does not resent the ear for hearing what it cannot hear. The hand does not despise the foot for walking to where it cannot walk. Each part of your body recognizes that its function is necessary for the health of the whole body. Now this is where the revelation even deepens. The holy spirit is the one who distributes these gifts. In verse 11 of first Corinthians 12, the bible says, but one and the same spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as he wills. The Greek word for distributing there is the word and it means to divide or to apportion or to give out in measured proportions.

It the holy spirit ultimately decides what he gives to men. I was going to say that the holy spirit does not give all the gifts to a man, but that would be wrong. Because if he is the one that is deciding in his sovereign will, he can decide in that sovereign will to give a man every gift. You see? However, in his sovereignty, the bible makes it very clear that he gives, he divides, he measures in proportion to everyone as he wills. You see that? It means you don't choose which gift you will operate in based on how impressive it looks, based on what seems desirable. The holy spirit determines the distribution based on the father's will and the needs of the body of Christ and the problems you have been chosen to solve. That's the reason why competition and comparison in the body of Christ makes no sense. They are manifestations of canality.

When you compare your gift with someone else's gift, you are questioning the wisdom of distribution of the holy spirit. You are saying that you are a wiser distributor because he is the one who distributes as he wills. His wisdom that someone is more prophetic than the next. It's in his wisdom that someone is more blessed in teaching than the next. It's in his wisdom that someone is blessed with the gift of healing than the next. It is also in his wisdom to ensure everybody is blessed. The problem is that we live what he has blessed us with. Instead of uncovering it, discovering it, understanding how to operate in it so that you become a blessing to the body of Christ, you instead focus on someone else's gifting because the person has so mastered the operation. Is that not so? And that's what even makes it beautiful.

What makes it beautiful is the fact that they have mastered it. What makes it desirable is the fact that they have mastered it. And when you see someone who has obviously mastered their own operation, their own manifestations of the spirit, you then begin to desire it without even checking to see what has the holy spirit blessed me with. And so your labor is in frustration. You are laboring for what is not accessible or what is not available or what has not been given to you. Because the bible says the holy spirit gives to each one as he wills. Are you with me? When you compete with another believer, when you try to outshine somebody else, or you try to diminish the function that somebody represents in the body of Christ, you are fighting against the very spirit who distributed the gifts. And Romans chapter 12 from verse three to verse six addresses this very thing. It says, for I say through the grace given to me to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

For we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function. So we, being many, are one body in Christ and individually members of one another, having them gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us. Let us use them. You see that? Having them gifts differing according to the grace that has been given to us, let us use them. If prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith. Next verse. Are you with me brothers and sisters? In proportion to our faith. Now what strikes me the most is the word as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

As God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. It means every believer has been given a measure of faith. And that faith is not generic faith. It is specific to your function in the body because the context of this speaking here is with respect to your function in the body. We respect what we call your purpose. We respect what call your assignment. There is a measure of faith that God has given to you. It's not with respect to your generic Christian living. It's with respect to the assignment that God has conferred upon you. There's a measure of faith that God has given to every believer.

That's the context. Go back there. Look at this. If prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith. Next verse. Or ministry, let us use it in our ministry. The word ministry is the word dichotomy. We'll get there very soon. He who teaches in teaching, next verse. He who exalts in exhortation, he who gives with liberality means there is actually a gift and a measure of faith that makes men give.

In context, you see, the second thing you'll find is that giving is ministry that God gives to some. And doesn't mean that everybody will not give, but it just means there are comparisons you cannot compare. Because when somebody gives, he could just be working in what has what God has blessed him with. Are you with me? Yes, sir. He who leads with diligence, he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness, you would find out that all of these things are with respect to areas of assignment and areas of purpose, areas of ministry. It's not with respect to your everyday Christian life. It's not with respect to how you believe God for what you would hate. But this is with respect to your function in life, your function within God's agenda, within God's purposes, within your area of assignment, you see. And the bible says, everybody has been given a measure of faith.

A measure of faith specific to your function in the body of Christ. So if God has called you to be a teacher, what happens is that it gives you a measure of faith required to teach. If he has called you to operate in the gift of healings, it gives you a measure of faith required to minister healing. And this does not mean that your faith is deficient. It means your faith is precisely calibrated to your assignment. The problem arises when you try to operate in someone else's assignment with someone else's measure of faith because what you see someone doing, he has been given the measure of faith to do. That's what many believers don't know. That's what many believers have to understand. Please stay with me. It is in teachings like this that you are equipped to sustain the discipline to learn.

Sustain the discipline to do what? To learn. Sustain the discipline. Glory to God. Amen. To learn. Thank you, Lord Jesus. So the problem arises when you try to operate in somebody else's assignment. It doesn't make sense when you do that. And a lot of believers do this.

We envy people's assignments. We live in competition. And so we quench the working of the holy spirit in our lives because there is something beautiful and unique that God has also given to you. Something beautiful and unique that God has also given to you. In fact, when you read down, you'll realize that it becomes even more specific. Let's go down. Next verse, verse five. The Bible says, there are differences of ministries above the same Lord. The word ministries again. The word ministry there is the word daconia, and it means service.

It means administration. It means the execution of a particular function or the execution of a particular office. That's the word administration, the word ministries. Are you with me? There are differences of ministries, of functions in the body of Christ, of service in the body of Christ, of administrations in the body of Christ. But the same Lord, the word Lord there is the word Lord does. But he's talking about Jesus, the person of Jesus. So we see, the first one is the same spirit giving the gifts. Is that not so? The second, who is managing ministries?

The Lord Jesus. So the Lord Jesus is the one that administers ministries. So while the spirit distributes the gifts, the Lord Jesus administers the ministries. This means that Jesus assigns specific areas of service to different believers. Now when you understand what I've just said, it will not make you see what Paul is saying here exactly. That means the holy spirit gives you the gifts in proportion with a a proportionate faith. Is that not so? That powers that gift. Is that not so? The Lord Jesus gives you the assignment for which the gift would function.

Follow me. A gift is what you do. A ministry is where you do it, how you do it. For example, two believers can both operate in the gift of teaching. But one of them, ministry wise, might now have a ministry to young people, whilst the other one has a ministry to business leaders. Both of them have the same gifts, different administrations. Do you understand what I'm saying? Different administrations, different ministries, different daconia, different functions as you would see it. The gift is the same, but the administration, the sphere of service, the focus of the anointing is different. And you see, your administration, the sphere of service determines the kind and the nature of the anointing God places upon you.

And there is always an anointing for the assignment God has given to you. There is gifts. There is empowerment. There is the anointing that God supplies. To preach the gospel to the poor. Recovery of such them that are blind, to heal the brokenhearted. Is that not so? Set the captives free. That is the extent of Jehovah's function with respect to his ministry whilst he was alive. But watch this.

He said the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. So that was the function. Preach the gospel to the poor. And that function came with an enablement. It came with an empowerment. It came with an anointing, you see. And then it came with faith. It came with everything that the function would need to survive. What must you know in this as a believer? It means whatever function God has given to you, whatever function Jesus has apportioned to you comes with a measure of faith.

The anointing, gifts, comes with resources, enablement, empowerment. Are you with me? That allows you to function in that office effortlessly. God does not leave us comfortless. He wouldn't tell us to do something that he hasn't given us the enablement to do. He wouldn't tell us to do something he hasn't given us the empowerment to do. So if what you found out first was the ministry, that means if what you found out first was your purpose, was your function, was your assignment, and you become scared because you feel as though you have enough to do this. What you must understand is that there are diversities of gifts in the same spirit, and the gifts come before the function. It means God will never never give you something to do that has not given you abilities. Are you with me?

Yeah. Stay with me. Stay with me. You are still building somewhere. Ephesians four from verse 11 to verse 12 identifies five distinct ministry offices that Christ has given to the church. And he gives some to the apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, some teachers for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for they are defined on the body of Christ. Notice the language in verse 11. It says, he himself gave some. He himself. Who is the he himself?

Jesus. Can you see that? The embarities of ministries, but the same Lord. He himself gives it. He himself. Do remember the parable of the wheat and the tares and the parable of the sower? And I've taught you this again and again. So if you have been taught, begin to link this thing up in your mind that the son of man is the one sowing. The son of man is the one putting people in different places of influence and power. I don't have time to go over these things.

I've studied before. Glory to God. Glory. He's the head of the church. It determines where each member will function. It means you cannot appoint yourself to ministry or to a ministry or to a function. You cannot create your own title and declare yourself to be an apostle or to be a prophet or to be a teacher just because you like the office. No. Christ must be the one to give you that office. A man cannot give you.

A pastor cannot give you. Christ must be the one to give you that office. Now what does he give you? Through calling, through equipping, through confirming, through releasing. He calls you inwardly by his spirit. He equips you through his word. He equips you through experiences. He confirms your call through the witness of mature believers, and then he releases you into ministry through open doors of opportunity. Now watch this. Somebody asked me some time ago and said, apostle, if you're gonna anoint people pastors, is it anybody who is mature that you would anoint pastors as the ministry grows?

I said, no. We can't do that. No matter how mature a person is. We're not the one that anoint men pastors. It is Jesus who calls men. So if anybody becomes a in church, in the pastoral office, it would be because they have been called into the five fold ministry by Jesus himself and not because a man of God likes them and wants them to be one. And that's the mistake we make in churches. We just see somebody who is fervent in the Lord, fervent in the spirit, strong in prayer, strong in the word, and we don't verify if Jesus himself has called him office. So what we do is that we make a novice, a leader. That's what we do in church, and it's wrong.

And that's why there is a lot of identity crisis because the man of God speaks to everybody as though he's speaking to pastors. So even the businessman think he's a pastor. The financial giant think he's a pastor. The politician thinks he's a pastor. And so everybody comes and prays for ten hours. Everybody comes and prays for twelve hours every day. And those who are meant to be studying diplomacy, studying politics, studying international diplomacy, understanding how nations relate because God is setting them as judges, as diplomats across nations, negotiating peace between countries. Wants to drop out of school because he's under an Elijah who makes him feel as though as long as you are with me, you are an Elijah. It's a problem. It's called cloning.

So what we do is that we assume that everybody that carry the same ministry of the man of God. And when the man of God is passionate, it speaks to everybody, and it's good sometimes. He makes everybody aware that you are ministers, but not with the detriment of your own calling and of your own office. Because even though Mordecai can train you in the way of the Lord, he does not understand how queens dress. He does not understand. Mordecai can even push you. You might not even be aware of the opportunity. You might just be serving the Lord and coming to church every time. And Mordecai catches here and there's a queen. The the king the king needs a queen and tells you, listen, the spiritual daughter, there's a need for a queen there.

Go and push for it. Mordecai does not have enough knowledge. It is not within his jurisdiction to begin to teach you how queens dress, how queens appear, how queens look. Are you with me, brothers and sisters? It means when you get to the palace, God would have to connect you to an... The king's dresser. Hey, guy. What do you call it? The king's dresser dresser would need to now start teaching you that this is how a queen appears. This is how a queen looks.

Mordecai must not believe that just because I'm the one who mentored you thus far, I would be the same one that would mentor you in ways of the palace. You have no idea how the palace functions. And men of God must have that humility to understand that the businessman can go to a business school. It is not a disability to your uncle. Are you with me? And even the child of God must know this, that you cannot pick everything that you need for your own area of influence in what you know in church. There's knowledge you must get, Yes, sir. Thank you, Lord Jesus. The same Lord. The same Lord.

That phrase, the same Lord is very important. There are differences in ministries, but there is only one Lord, the same Lord. That means there is no ministry that is independent. Every minister is under the lordship of Jesus Christ. A prophet cannot say, oh, I am not under anybody authority. I only have to God. I don't need accountability. You're wrong. An evangelist cannot say my ministry is more important than the pastor's ministry because by the one that got us old. You're wrong.

The apostle cannot say, you know, we are the ones who govern. You're wrong. All these things are wrong. The same lord. All the ministries are part of the same body, serving the same Lord, advancing the same kingdom. So the bible says, let nobody think of himself more highly than he ought. Let no man exalt his office. Let no man think that because God has given me this function, mine happens to be more superior. No. No.

Let everybody stay within the confines of the assignment and furnish their duties with humility. Are you with me? Yes. The same Lord. And you would see how made out in the early church. In Acts 13 from verse one to verse two, the Bible says prophets and teachers gathered in hand yoke. Prophets and teachers, different backgrounds, different functions, but all ministering together. And when the holy spirit called Barnabas and saw it into apostolic ministry, it did it in the context of the local church with the confirmation of all the ministries. This is the pattern. The same Lord.

And when you find ministries operating harmony under the lordship of Christ, the church becomes a formidable force on the earth. But when ministries operate in isolation, in competition, or in rebellion against divine order, then the church becomes fragmented, becomes confused, become powerless. That's the danger of competition. That's the danger of comparison. There's different ministries but the same Lord. So Paul says in first Corinthians chapter one verse 10, it says, now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions amongst you and that you are perfectly joined together in the same might and in the same judgment. Perfectly joined together in the same might and in the same judgment. Let's move farther. Let's move farther. Verse six, the bible then says, and there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God.

Go back to verse four. Let me show you something. Of gifts, the same spirit. Diavarities of ministries, next verse. The same Lord. Diverities of activities, but it is the same God. Now it has added something that was not there with gifts and with ministries. The same God who works all in all. So the same God works the gifts, works the ministries, works all in all. Now we need to understand what activities are here.

I think the word activities does not do justice to it. KJV still tries a little bit. Let's look KJV. KJV uses the word operations, diversities of operations. When you study your original Greek word for this word, you realize that it's not even what you're thinking at all. Because you might be thinking that it means operations as in the operation of these things, how it operates, you see, or you'll be wrong. The word operations in the Greek means, and it means ability. It means energy. It means power. It means it is the same God that supplies power that makes everything function.

So whilst the spirit distributes the gifts and the son administers the ministries, God the father energizes everything. He is the source of all power. He is the one who activates the gifts. He is the one who empowers the ministries. He is the one that causes supernatural results to manifest. It works because God makes it work. Do you understand what I'm saying? This means when you operate in a gift of the spirit under the administration of the Lord Jesus in a ministry that God assigned to you, it is not your human ability that produces results. It is God himself working in you and through you. It means if there are ever results in my ministry, that is the same diverse operations, the same God.

Diverse operations, the same God. Are you with me? Philippians two and verse 10 and verse 13 says, it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. The Greek word for works is the same root as the word energy First Corinthians 12 verse six, God is the energizer. He's the same one who supplies the power that makes the gift effective, that makes the ministry fruitful. It means it's one thing to have ministry, It's another thing for the ministry to be fruitful. It's one thing to have discovered purpose and even to work in purpose. It's one thing for the ministry and the purpose to be fruitful. It's one thing for the gifts. You have it.

It's another thing for the gift to deliver results. Are you with me? And God is the one who works all in all. He's the one who works all in all. That's why Jesus said in John chapter five verse 19, most assuredly I say to you, the son can do nothing of himself but what he sees the father do. For whatever he does, the son also does in like manner. If Jesus the servant perfect submission to the father's father. Will, and the the father father walked was through a of him. So in John 14 verse 10, the Bible says, do you believe that I am in the father and the father in me? The same way you are in Christ and Christ is in you, the words that I speak to you, I do not speak of my own authority, but the father who dwells in me does what?

So who is doing the works? That must be the pattern for every believer. You are not the source of the power. You are barely a channel of the power. God the father is the source. The holy spirit distributes the gift. The lord administers the ministry. And when these three operate in harmony through you, then supernatural things begins to happen. The sick are healed. Not because you have power, but because God works through you.

Demons are casted out not because you are mighty, but because the father energized the words that you speak. The prophecy comes forth not because you are eloquent, but because the spirit gives you utterance. And you have to understand the inworking of this tree, the harmonious functioning of this tree. This is what makes us stand there doing what I am doing. The harmonious functioning of this tree. That's the reason why you cannot be me. Because it is diversities of gifts. The gift that I have been given that is likely that you might not have been given, and even if you have been given, it is still different operations, different administrations, different ministries. Are you with me? And the bible says that God is the one who energizes it.

It means the way it will work in my life and the way it will work in your life might be different. A man of God can want to heal the sick, and he calls on every sick body. And he arranges them in an healing line. And it gives to touch every single one one after the other for them to be healed. And as many hands as he lay... As many people as he lays hands on are healed. And another one just declares on the pulpit, if you're sick in your body, be healed. Come out when you're healed. You can't say that one of them is more anointed than the other just because of how they are operating. Because they did the same gift, but the administration can differ.

The ministries can differ. That is why some believers are so immature, so immature that the discussions and the conversation that they have with themselves is which man of God is more anointed? Who is more this? Who is more that? And they are using so silly indices, so foolish indices. Because God is the one working in and through us, you see. No man of God can claim glory for any kind of result he ever gets. And the believer must also learn this. You cannot claim glory for any kind of result you can... You ever get in your life.

Otherwise, you cease to become effective. So if you want to be an effective believer, what must you do and what must you understand? Understand this first, that the spirit is the one that gives the gifts. And he gives the gift as he wills. And there's no believer who has not been given the gift of the spirit. Are you with me? Who has not been blessed with gifts, Numerous gifts of the spirit. Both the nine gift of the spirit and even ones that are more than the nine. The nine gift of the spirit is not all there is. That's all that Paul saw.

Saw. And even if that's not even all that Paul saw. Because there are still the ministry gifts. There are still gifts that Paul talks about that are not part of the nine. Like the giving he spoke about. Like the helps he spoke about. Like leading he spoke about. But there are people who can actually learn leadership. But in Romans, the bible says, if leading, be diligent. It means leadership for some is a gift, scripturally so.

Doesn't mean that cannot be lent, because I believe that leaders also can be trained. The same way giving for some is a gift. So you have to understand that every believer has been blessed. Can you say? In exaltation. It means there are people that are gifted in exaltation. Give me a handout. One, two, three, go. Make my goodness, give my goodness. First, go back to the kingdom of worship.

So that you will realize that it can be a gift. The people just come around you and whatever you say, just lift the hearts of men. It's a gift. And there are believers who don't know that this, they have been gifted in this because they're not an apostle. But this is even more powerful than a motivational speaker. And you can guide people just to encourage them. People who are downtrodden, people who are depressed, people who are battered down, people who are torn. And the workings of the gifts is to encourage people. And when you speak, hope, hope. Somebody who has never thought he can become great in his life.

Hope. Hope is ignited immediately. Suddenly, he's listening to you and he's wondering, I I will be a doctor. I will be be a diss. I will be a... I will leave this country. And it's not as though you are spiking someone's emotion off. It's a correction of a gift. And guess what happens when that gift is functional? The Lord apportions the ministry by which the gift functions in.

So the Lord says, you would have a ministry to young children. You would have a ministry to women. Same gift. Divas ministries. You would use these gifts in serving people. These are the type of people you would serve. It's the Lord that does that. Are you with brother and sisters? Yeah. And when you come and you found that you have this gift of speaking to people and they are encouraged, I told you that where this gift would function is with women or young people or children or business people or leaders.

Then what happens is that God now begins energizing the gift. That's the reason you are now speaking. My words and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom. Diverse operations. So I can be speaking, and people might not necessarily be flying under the power because that is not the operation. But it would be foolish to sit down under anointing and imagine that because people under the power, the man is not anointed. You would not be so wise. You are so canal. You got fed tabernacle, you will not find anybody screaming. I will say that bishop David or any boy is...

You will be so foolish. But there are some of us that cannot help it. Even if I don't want truth, there will be signs and wonders. There will be. Even if I try to have a calm meeting, and I say that today we're going to have a calm meeting. The bible says, men of Israel, hear these words. Emmanuel Oboluwazi fell over your state. A man attested by God to you. Am I the one doing it? Who is doing the attestation?

To who? It means every time this man shows up, God must attest. Attest means give me energy. God must validate. God must bear witness. Give me energy. Give me energy. One, two, three. Go. You see, that there are those that God will...

I'm the one doing this thing. No. There will be a public endorsement. That's why if I give a word of knowledge or I give a word of prophecy, there must be a sign that follows it. It is a part of the oppression that accompanies my ministry. It doesn't have to be part of the operation that follows somebody else's ministry. Somebody can give word of knowledge and nothing happens, but a miracle has happened. He says, endorsed Jesus, the Nazarene, by doing powerful miracles, wonders, and signs through him. You see? And signs through him.

So it is possible that I want to give an example. And even in the example, the power of God is flowing. And it is important that you even know the nature or how God operates with the man of God that you are under. That's why it is important you discern. That's why it's important that men of God sometimes teach people how to learn from them because your operations differ. Your operations differ. How to receive from me might not be hard to receive from the next man of God. That's why it is foolishness to come to this place for instance and now look around and say, why are people just saying yes or yes, sir? Why are they praying in tongues? Why are they starting up?

Can't you sit down? Let's hear. Let's hear. You will miss out. Yay. Because that's not how you receive from this operation. It's just the truth. I wish you weren't so, but it's just the truth. I call somebody out by prophecy, and then the person is walking out their day. I've gone.

I've gone. I moved. It's how God works with them. It's how God works with me, with us. An anointed minister can come up and he's singing powerfully, and people are launched into encounters. The holy spirit moving in the hearts of people. God working in the hearts of people. People are repenting, sinners, especially sinners, people iniquity, living in iniquity are repenting. The holy ghost is convicting their heart, convicting their soul. Somebody breaks down and and just cries.

And the father is calling people to himself. You might not experience any drama because such things happen in so pretty. There is some kind of soberness, these things. You might not see any kind of drama happening, but the holy ghost is moving the hearts of men using that person's vocal call as the gate of heaven. The possibilities enshrouded and the activities the holy ghost wants to do. The bible says that when Elijah wanted to prophesy, the bible says the guy was too hungry. His emotion was not aligned to his spirit. So the guy could not prophesy. The bible says said, get me a minstrel. And the Bible says, as the minstrel was ministering, the hand of the Lord came upon Elijah, and he prophesied.

It means there are minstrels that ministers, that the operations of power at work in their lives is that people enter into their ordinations. That's what happened to the prophet. The prophet prophesied because a minister ministered. That's the same way the creatives can receive wisdom because the minister ministered. That's the same way the healing evangelist, they hand the gospel come upon him or her because the minister ministered. You see? And then people begin to empire into their different ordinations because the ministry of ministered and the person ministering must know. Otherwise, what would happen is that they begin to judge the activity of his ministration by the next person that ministered after him. Are you ready, God? Amen.

That's what happens. And when you understand this thing I'm teaching you, you realize that it even goes so deep that there are those... I met a lady yesterday, studied civil engineering, has a master in civil engineering. Brilliant and sharp. And guess what she does? Guess what she does? Guess where she's working? She's teaching children With civil engineering, she's teaching children. And you can tell that this lady is powerfully gifted. The woman would be probably in her sixties or probably her late fifties.

And she was talking as though she was a baby. Every small example she's given to me, she's given to me as talking, she will stand up the way babies do to exemplify this thing. And she was saying, that's why one of my daughters came to me. And she said, mom, this was a woman in her late fifties. The energy, the vibrancy, and I was observing. I said, my god. What gift? This lady spoke for more than... I don't have that gift. Amazing woman of God.

As she's speaking again, she would speak of how little children would come to her, and they would just Amazing begin to pour themselves out. Clearly, they cannot even tell their parents, tell their loved ones. And when she speaks, some of them will start crying. They would get saved instantly and begin to speak in tongues instantly. Instantly. What is that? Operations. Operations. And this woman's giftedness made her leave what she studied in school to focus on what God has called her to do. To measure the effectivity of your life by your degree is lack of wisdom.

Because you see, you limit what God wants to do through you when you begin to function like that. You limit it. Do you know that it is possible for you to be a gifted teacher only teaching leaders? Speaking to leaders in different categories, in different places. It's possible to be a lawyer that the gift of speaking that God has given to you is for law. Defending people in the court of law, standing in for those who cannot defend themselves, whether paid or unpaid. It's possible that the gift of speaking that God has given to you is for poetry, for spoken words. And God gives the wisdom to put some kind of creativity in your spoken words that it different from others. Different gifts. Different administrations.

So the administration of the same gift can be different. That I can have the same gift as the fellow person, but how we administer by it differs even though we are both doing the same thing. The same thing. Because the spirit works wisdom in you. Thank you, Lord Jesus. How about healings? Do you know that there's a place where, as a believer, you walk in healings by faith because the bible says, heal the sick, cast out devils. That's the mandate given to every believer. So you can, by the operation of faith inside of you, walk in healings. You can lay hands on the sick and they are healed.

The bible says it. By his stripes, you were healed. You can stand on scriptures and begin to enforce healing. Is that much so? But there are people that the oppression of healing in their life is a gift. And you would find out that if these people are properly mentored, what you would find out that is that even before they begin to grow in the knowledge of Christ or in the knowledge of all things ethical and divine or even in the knowledge maturity, you would find that that gift is the first thing that will begin to amplify. It's the first thing that will begin to announce them that gift. So it is possible to be gifted in that area, but not be mature because gift only respect maturity. Gift don't respect maturity. I know people like that.

I know believers like that. There's a young man who I used to work with. You could tell that what God gifted him with is healing of a thing. My God. He doesn't struggle with it. We work together, and there are times even... But this was many years ago. There are times even. We just became sure if we got together. That we would be moving together, right, and then I would go to the me.

To go pray for people to be healed. And I would leave the place, come back tomorrow, and they are still there. Come back next day, are still there. But I'll be praying for them every day. And this young man would come one day, follow me, and the people I had prayed for for the past three days, he would walk up to them, just stretch his hands at them and say, what is wrong with you? Oh, I'm having this. I'm having that. Oh, sorry. Sorry, brother. Be healed in Jesus' name.

I'll move to the next person. And before we leave that room, everybody is healed. Now what I'm learning through faith is operating in in a gift. Glory to God. Amen. You know, and if I've stayed envy of what God has given to him, I would not have learned by faith, and I would not have grown in my gift. You know, then I can call you right now and tell you everything about your life whether you haven't met me. He can do that. He can do that. He would have to learn that too.

Are you with me? God blesses each one of us differently. We all can sing, but our singings do different things. If I go to any territory, we have done meetings, we hosted meetings in different places, I've been invited to different places to speak. The only thing that makes me leave that place without actively demonstrating the power of God is dishonor. Otherwise, the people can be as cold as cold stone. Doesn't matter. The power of God will wreck them mercilessly. It's a gift. Unless I decide not to.

There are even times when I decide not to, and it still happens. Are you with brothers and sisters? It's possible to be so gifted in the word of knowledge that it becomes strong in you. How about the word of wisdom that becomes strong in you? The revelational gift that becomes strong in you. It is possible to be gifted in the revelational gifts. The word of knowledge, the word of wisdom, discernment of spirits, gift of prophecy. Is that not so? But when you call on that ministries, the aconia, you finally are not even a prophet. You're a business person.

When you come to Diakonia, you find that you're a business person. But heavily gifted because God wants to show something remarkable your life as you rise in that mountain of influence. Because you will meet people that the pastor and the prophet who is also equally gifted cannot... Because the people that God will enable you to meet as you rise, the person who is a prophet who are the same as you will not meet them ever. But you will meet them. You will meet them in boardrooms. You will meet them in offices. You will meet them and you would wonder, young man, what is going on with you? And by the time they begin to speak to you, one or two, three word of man has dropped. One prophecy has dropped.

One one word of wisdom has dropped. The person who joined is crying. And before you know, you have started a business, men fellowship. And they tell you, see, it doesn't matter. Just go. Let's just go. Every Friday, two to three, you must go. And God is doing something remarkable in your life. Diverities of administrations, of ministries. When you understand this as a believer, you understand the operation of the spirit, and you begin to know that there is never a reason for any believer to live in comparison or in competition.

Competition chokes the grace of God upon your life. It chokes the administration of the spirit upon your life. It chokes what God has given to you. It chokes it. It chokes it. It chokes it. God has given you utterance as a gift when you speak. Ah, thank you, Lord Jesus. Like fire on your lips that brings the words you speak into manifestation. Now the problem here is that you are beginning to compare your prophetic dimension with someone else who sees.

Because the person comes and he says, oh, I'm just seeing two angels. I'm seeing five angels. I'm seeing the angel. He has color purple wing. And that color purple wing, he has a brown gold on his something, and he has a disc. And then you are also in that ministry for different workings of the gift because what God has given to you is utterance in your lips. That you might not see angels, you might not see this, but if you said this will happen, it will happen. But enter into this realization as a church, we would see more manifestations of the spirit that has nothing to do with the man of God. Tell him. This was where the Corinthians stepped into, that Paul had to start bringing order in the church.

Paul had to say, when one is prophesying, let the other one keep quiet. It was too strong. What they needed now was order. Order. Order in the house of God. It was too strong. You see somebody coming in weak in the church and then, what happened to you? He said, I'm just having pain. Why? I should come.

Can I pray with you? And then you put your hands, and instantly, flows through your hands. Enter into his bones and begin to reconfigure. Begin to reconfigure. And they tell you, oh, Do I know you before? Said, I don't know you before. I know who that person is. He said, no. It's me. You'll see people come to Christ.

You'll see more salvations. The bible says the gifts is given for church to profit without. It is for the profiting of the body of Christ. That's the reason for the manifestations. That's the reason for the oppressions. Are you with me brothers and sisters? And I've said it before that these gifts are not your natural abilities. It is what the holy spirit gives to you. And what God does that he energizes the giftings, energizes the ministry, makes everything work together in power. You know, are prophets that might not even prophesy, but there is a strong gift of intercession upon their lives.

You know, how this would function is that there would be such desire for people. Sometimes people they've not even met. Sometimes people they know. And God will begin to put pictures, desires of people in their hands. Almost as though God is telling them, pray for this person. Pray for this person. Pray for this person. Now where God now comes in, the operations, is that this prayer begins to produce huge humongous results. That all it needs to do... When God wants to move in anybody's life, operations of the spirit.

The only God wants to raise a prophet, and that prophet is still And as he's praying, God is putting names in his spirit. Sometimes it might even be nations and countries. Let your will be done. Let your will be done. That was what Hannah the prophetess was. That Jesus had to be born, and there had to be a prophet who locked herself off. This prophetess, our marriage was no longer functional. And she locked herself up inside the temple, and all she was doing was praying, giving expression to what the holy ghost wanted to do. Listen. That's what it means to quench the holy spirit.

That when the holy ghost wants to start moving in this manner, when the holy spirit starts tearing your heart in areas where you have been gifted, oh, partner with me. Use this thing. The believer becomes ignorant of the gifting, ignorant of the ministry, and so God cannot work all in all. What happens is that that believer quenches the spirit and spirit. When it comes to administrations, you now realize that in the realm of administration, limelight and influence and popularity is not all that matters. What matters in administration is where did God put you? Where did he put you? Because you might find out that like Hannah the prophetess, you all did not hold microphone. You would have a wish to stay on the... With the arms of the altar and begin to legislate and begin to enforce the will of God done upon the earth.

And there are some of you that yours might be to hold a microphone or to speak to a particular category of people. There might be some of you that yours might not be to hold a microphone. Yours might be the wisdom that God gives to you in business to come up with strategies, innovations, inventions. The bible calls it the spirit of God that works in a whole lab and basileal. It's an oppression of the spirit of God to build. What they were building was temple, but you can build businesses. You can build companies. You can build organizations. It's an operation of the gift of the spirit. In the beginning was the word.

In the word logos. The word logos means the communication of the thoughts of God. The communication of the intent of the mind of God or of the thought of God. It means when the bible speaks of the word of wisdom, the oppression of the word of wisdom is that what picks a fragment of his mind. A fragment of his intention, a fragment of his thoughts towards a particular situation, especially as it concerns the future, either in avoiding the problem or in solving a problem. And then God puts it in your heart. So it is a fraction of the thought of God itself. Let me show you the operation of the word of wisdom. It's called the word of wisdom and not wisdom because it's not all wisdom. It is a specific wisdom for a specific situation for a specific time.

That's why it's called the word of wisdom. It means when this gift is operational in the life of a believer, that believer can never be stranded. It is impossible that you will not know what to do. That is the operation of the word of wisdom. And it was at play in the life of Jesus. The bible says they brought a woman to Jesus that was caught in the very hack of adultery. And the bible says that the intention of those that brought that woman was to trap Jesus, was to put Jesus in the corner. Do you know what that means to trap Jesus? To see whether or not it will go against scriptures so that they can now have a reason to stone him to death. They wanted to trap him.

People came to trap him. And as they brought the woman, you could tell that the intention of these people were not pure because they only brought the woman. Whereas, can the woman commit adultery with herself? There has to be a man. The woman even concerned about the man because justice was not what they were after. Trapping Jesus was the him. Trapping Jesus was the him, and there were plenty. All of them were ready. We know you cannot escape from this one. And the bible says the man bent down the word of wisdom.

That when life comes to trap you in a corner, when it looks as though you have been boxed in, hiding on every side. And I wonder there's no way out again. There's no way That was what they came to do for Jesus. And the bible says the man bend down and started writing things. Looked at the man said, whichever one of you have not sinned before, let him be the one to cast the first The word of wisdom. Immediately, everybody who came to stone Jesus, the stones was for Jesus. It wasn't for the woman. Because the idea was that, let him make a mistake. Finally, we will now have an excuse. We have been looking for an excuse all this while.

We have not found one. And the bible says all of them drop their stones one by one. Drop their stones one by one. Then Jesus turned to the woman and says, where are them that accuse you? That's what happens when you are in a particular situation, a particular challenge, then logos opens up and brings a fraction of the thoughts and the intention of God for that particular situation and drops it in your heart. And instantly, you know what to do. That was what was operating the life of Paul when Paul was captured as a prisoner, and he was being marched to Rome. And he was on the ship, and the bible says a storm arose. And immediately, the storm arose. Everybody thought they would die.

And all of a sudden, wisdom, the word of wisdom. Given per situation, per circumstances, per time. Imagine a believer strong in this gift alone because it's part of the operations of the spirit. It's part of the operations of the spirit. Imagine you're working with this as a business person. Imagine you're working with this as someone in ministry. Imagine you working with this even in your family. You know there are many families that have broken down because problems arose when there was no word of wisdom. That was what was operating in the life of Joseph because he was an operation of the holy spirit. When he gave the interpretation of the dream and then gave them the word of wisdom, he said, let us build silos.

Let the king do so and so. That is the word of wisdom. I sense so strongly that there will be an activation. Listen. Listen. Listen. There are several giftings. Several giftings. And the holy spirit gives us a wills. But I just say so strongly that there will be an activation of the word of wisdom.

Listen. Listen. Rise up on your feet. Listen. Do you know that? Listen. Paul told Timothy, he said, steer up the gifts. Stear up the gifts, the charisma, the gifts. The charisma, stir it up. The word stir up there describes a situation where you have fire that that was lit.

Right? And then maybe those of you that have experience with fire that is lit with firewood. You... Or charcoal or something. You understand that there are times when the fire begins to go down, but the charcoal is still there, the firewood is still there, there is still the potential for the fire to light back up. And you'd agree with me that what needs to happen there is not that you come and light fire again. What you need to do is to just come and fan it. I begin to fan it and fan it. And as you fan it, fire begins to come up back. Fire begins to come up back.

That is exactly what Paul is describing when he says tell. It means at some point, it might have been lit. But probably because of lack of use, probably because it was quenched, because you had no understanding, because you were ignorant, it died down. But it didn't die. It didn't leave you. The wood is still there. The firewood is still there. The charcoal is still there. All you need to do on your own hand is to stir it up, is to fan it up, to fan the flames, to fan the flames. Are there individuals who can steal, who can steal?

What I want you to do is to pray in tongues loud and clear. And as you pray in tongues, the holy ghost is praying in and through your life. What is happening It's tearing. It's tearing. Jesus name we have stirred up. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Thank you, Lord Jesus. You, Lord Jesus. Would there be silence? He's breaking through right now.

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