 Greetings each one of you. It's such a joy to be back together with you to study God's Word and this particular course that we are going to be doing is called the Keys to Supernatural Ministry. So we will talk more about the power of God in and through our lives. Let's pray and get started. I'll just begin with the word of prayer. Heavenly Father we thank and praise you for your faithfulness, your goodness in our lives. Father we know that Lord we are being equipped to Lord. Line upon line, precept upon precept. We pray that Lord you will help us deep our understanding and also Lord live out these truths Lord that we are learning about. Father we commit ourselves completely into your hands. Father I pray for each one on this course Lord and every listener that they will be blessed Father God through this particular course and Lord we commit the details even the technical details Lord into your hands and we ask Lord for blessing we pray that there will be no hindrance for them. Thank you once again in Jesus name we pray. Okay so we can get started. I am just looking at the list of students here and really happy to see so many of us from the first year. Are you able to view clearly and also listen properly? Just need a confirmation from all of you if you're comfortable kindly post on the chat and let me know the arrangement is working well. Okay glad yeah it's all fine thank you so much. Okay so since this course is about supernatural ministry we will talk a little bit about the supernatural part of God and then we will move on to looking at the keys to flow in supernatural ministry. So today's class is more of an introduction and I expect to have interaction with all of you and would love to hear your opinion so we will try and answer some important questions. The first question which I want to ask us is why are and I am instead of using the term supernatural ministry I will just say you know why are healings and miracles and deliverances and the demonstration of the power of God in all these ways important. Why is it important? Why should we talk about it? Why should we desire to flow in these things? So this is the question which we are asking so let me clarify now when I say healing, healing refers to there's an ailment, a sickness or a condition which is set right by the power of God it could be something that happens in a moment or takes a little bit of time but you know it happens that there is a recovery which was not because of any other reason but by the power of God. So when I say deliverance it means the people being set free from the work of satan and demonic powers so when I say miracles, miracle is something that you know let's say I'll just give you an example maybe there's metal in the body which is already quite different naturally we don't have metal in the body but when surgeries take place broken bones are replaced with metals or if there is an insertion of a particular device to help a system in our body then there would be metal in our bodies but maybe through ministry or the power of God the presence of God the metal disappears now we would call that a miracle something happened just beyond our explanation, our understanding so that would be a miracle. Science wonders, science wonders these are all things again that engage the supernatural power of God and demonstrate you know how great God is so when you consider things like Jesus walking on the water or Jesus multiplying food all these are amazing these are miracles so there are all these signs and wonders that he performed and we know the Bible continues to speak of that you know in our lives as believers we also we do be flowing in the supernatural so supernatural is an umbrella word for many of these things that I have just explained to us so my question to us is why supernatural is it even needed do we even need to see healings, deliverances, miracles or is it not okay to just you know go on with life as it is worshiping God so what is your opinion what is your view please feel free to share okay so Zelle has posted on the chat she says yes it's the great commission mark 16 15 to 18 where Jesus said you will lay hands on the sick and they will recover so he's calling us to go and make disciples but also demonstrate his power through all these healings miracles so he himself wants us to flow in the supernatural and it's quite obvious thank you Zelle for sharing that passage yes so God has given us the great commission and it involves the supernatural wonderful okay let's move on Siddkino I saw you raise your hand please go ahead ma'am your question was like supernatural is needed or not like ma'am practically speaking the human nature we see then we believe like Jesus Christ he died on the cross he came he was raised again but still Thomas Saint Thomas he was with Jesus he told when I will see Jesus I will put my finger in his palm in the in that hole then I will believe that Jesus is alive so ma'am this gives us a proof that the being of human nature when we see a supernatural thing is happening then only we will believe so that's why according to me supernatural is very much needed in the ministry okay thank you Siddkino so when we see the supernatural it gives us more faith to believe God for other things a very apt there thank you for sharing that any more thoughts why supernatural do we need the supernatural okay yes jeffina please go ahead yeah I think since we are the children of God and we have to be like Jesus more in this life and Jesus was supernatural he did the impossible things and before he went he said I give you the authority to heal go and do supernatural things so since we are his children I think we have to do that and just follow Jesus wonderful thank you thank you jeffina that's right we follow the example of Jesus and Jesus moved through with all these miracles healings even through his life just this Sunday we were sharing on Matthew chapter 8 and Matthew chapter 8 is so interesting because it covers the healings of Jesus and the deliverance of Jesus one after the other and it's it's like going through a day in the life of Jesus so he heals the leper he says that word of he speaks it over the centurion servant who was healed and then later he visits Peter's home and his mother-in-law is sick and she you know he depicts the fever she's healed and she begins to minister to Jesus so you notice it's just a day in the life of Jesus and all these miracles are happening you know as he's going about his normal life when he's outside healing took place when he visited somebody's home healing took place and then the scriptures tell us when evening came in the evening many people brought their sick to them and he spoke a word and you know he he cast out demons so even in the evening when Jesus is ministry the supernatural is so natural it was part of his life and as deputy rightly shared with us this is how Jesus was and we are supposed to be like him right so the supernatural is important so let's continue on this thought it's so nice to hear your views and opinions so the question that i'm asking is why supernatural why is the supernatural important for us as believers why is the supernatural important even in ministry what do you think kindly add to the list of views that we already have can i say something yes please i think go ahead yes and we we know and it's established that our body is the temple of the lord and we already we also know that sickness and ailment always come from most at most time from the devil so we need the supernatural so that we can conquer the works of the devil so that he cannot pollute or destroy the temple that the lord has built which is our body so we need the supernatural to engage the work of the devil which is being sickness illness and so on and so forth thank you ma'am yes so true thank you Isaac so our bodies you know as Isaac shared um sometimes we're afflicted by the works of the devil and to overcome that we need the supernatural because God's original intention is for us to be whole and well that's how he created us even when we look back at creation everything that God made you know it was good and that world was so perfect there was no sickness when God created man thank you Isaac so the we have to overcome the works of the the devil in our body in our health so good that's true anything else kizeli is adding to uh the the thoughts she's saying through supernatural ministry demonstrates the love of God the power of God and the glory of God correct selling so uh correct about that when these things happen right it's miracles take place or just consider the the Bible whenever Jesus did a healing okay let's take for example the leper in matthew chapter 8 do you think the leper was you know oppressed by his condition most definitely as a leper we recognize that he would have um suffered discomfort in his body we also uh understand that you know leprosy especially in those days uh was such a thing that people would be excommunicated or they would not have the um like that the privilege of of uh being included in the society right so that would have been uh difficult for him to take mentally all right uh and of course you know so many other things when you're not together with your family uh emotionally you suffer so he must have been going through so much and leprosy is also a debilitating disease uh it progressively destroys our our ability to do different things so the leper would have been in so much of distress and pain but when it comes to Jesus and says Jesus if you are grilling you make me whole and Jesus immediately looks at him he says okay no I am willing and the leper is cleansed right away just imagine with me how he must have felt because it not only restored his physical body but his life would have turned around from that point onwards we no longer would need to live in those leper columns he can come back he can pursue the destiny that God has for him so just this one incident who reveals to us how God's love has ministered through that work of healing so as Zell is saying uh when God's power is demonstrated you know God's love is shown uh for people uh God's you know care and compassion is shown for God's people how God needs that needs at that very point in time so many different examples we can see from scripture when you heal the the centurions the servant the centurion would have been so encouraged by that the servant you know once his body is healed he would have been encouraged and uh wanted to know more about Jesus so you see the power of God is very much connected to the heart of God and God shows his love his compassion his mercy his goodness look all of that through these supernatural works okay uh so yes Zell you're you're so right supernatural ministry it demonstrates the love of God power of God and the glory of God glory of God is the greatness how great God is when he performs these mighty miracles so that's right yeah any other thoughts why is supernatural why is it important yes Anita please go ahead ma'am uh through the supernatural God reveals his nature like he is and he heals and he delivers us from everything like to this we can really know who God is like what he can do for us yeah true Anita so God's nature is revealed through the supernatural power of God so there are many different names of God and he has already revealed to us that he's a healer he's a provider he's the God of peace he's the God of righteousness many things about himself all of that is demonstrated when we see these supernatural works take place in our lives yeah that's very true so the nature of God is revealed okay any other points any other different points about the need for the supernatural wouldn't be okay to not have okay let me let me ask a different question now would it be fine to not see any demonstration of God's power and just carry on with knowing what Jesus did in the Bible can I say something yes please yes I think yeah I think it's it's you know it's okay to just live without the supernatural works as demonstrated by Jesus Christ because he already said it and he has to be accomplished that if we believe in him we can do great greater and mighty works than he did so I think it's necessary that we manifest the supernatural to complement or accomplish the world that Jesus said because he already started and we as followers need to accomplish the mission that he has started thank you ma yes thank you Isaac so it was Jesus who said that we will do greater works than these so how can we not want the supernatural because it is the great commission which Jesus gave us and he said that we also must accomplish great things for his name sake and that he empowers us for it so it's just part of the mandate it's part of the commissioning of the believer so we cannot subtract the supernatural from our lives thank you Isaac and I also see here a comment by Rosalind she says when we operate in supernatural we show God's power and also by its souls are added into the kingdom of God so good Rosalind that's right the new point here is that people are saved so when they see God's supernatural power being demonstrated so for all these reasons we we understand that the supernatural is so very important for the believers we would really be missing out on what God wants to do in and through our lives and in this generation you know if we don't work with the demonstration of God's supernatural power so I've already quickly shared you know what we mean by the supernatural healings and miracles and deliverance emotionally healing sinus wonders etc okay now let me go over a couple of reasons which some of them you have already enlisted but I will go over them again and these are available for us in ABC publication ministry healing and deliverance the first chapter so there are eight reasons that are listed there for the importance of the supernatural so the first one I'll enlisted and then go over each one briefly the first one is miracles healing and deliverance reveal the reality and the nature of God the second miracles reveal God's greatness third miracles demonstrate God's compassion miracles have a powerful effect on people especially on those who do not believe the importance Jesus gave to miracles is the fifth one six the kingdom comes with power seven the gospel is to be preached with accompanying science eight miracles encourage people to believe for more of the supernatural now we'll briefly look at each one of these if you have any more comments as I'm sharing these thoughts feel free to sort of you know unmute yourselves and speak or put it on the chat so the first reason why the supernatural is important it reveals the reality and the nature of God so God has revealed himself as the healer in Exodus between 26 and he reiterated that through through the kinds of Moses we also see that not only did he really himself as the healer but he did it in the lives of his people in fact Psalms it records that when God brought the people out right he brought them out of Egypt there was none of people among his tribes so this is the way in which God touched the bodies of his own people in the Old Testament times because he said he's a healer he did the healing work in the lives of the children of Israel we recognize that what he does through the supernatural is what he is okay so it reveals to us who God has spoken of of himself and you know and that is demonstrated now we know that all this that God did in the Old Testament Jesus came to reveal the father he came to reveal the nature of God so Jesus became the image of that invisible God all the old people under the old covenant they knew that God had given them the covenant names and all that but Jesus walked in it and people could look at Jesus and say hey this is what Father God would do when somebody is sick or when somebody is oppressed by the devil and so on and so forth so Jesus became that image of the invisible God as it says in Colossians 154 Jesus is the express image as a Hebrews 1 3 puts it off this God that we serve and nature was revealed all the things that Jesus did and as we've all discussed already the life of Jesus was marked by the supernatural now the second reason why the supernatural is important is it reveals God's greatness somebody had mentioned earlier that people will know who God is now this look back at the time when Jesus began his supernatural works and it was in the wedding of Kena where the water was turned into white man and the scriptures tell us that he manifested his glory and the disciples and his disciples believed in him in John 11 so when these supernatural works take place no we can all say that this cannot be done by man it has to be God and so it turns our heart towards the greatness of God and that is another reason why the supernatural is so important and God continues to work these miracles in our midst so it basically reveals the goodness of God a man might say this is not possible that is not possible I'm sure you know we've come across some testimonies where we hear it and we think oh I never thought something like this could happen I never thought that you know a healing of this sort is possible or a healing of somebody who's who's critical and seems like they are sinking it is possible how how can this happen but the word of God reminds us that nothing is too hard for the Lord if God has spoken it if he has revealed it if it is in the will of God and we know that healing is we will talk more about it as we go forward he is able to do it even what may be impossible for people he does it and when the impossible takes place you know it turns our attention towards God and we say wow this is a great God that we are talking about so the supernatural reveals the greatness of God and the next point that I mentioned is miracles demonstrate God's compassion we many of us said that God's love is shown when these miracles happen so I talked about the leper also you see how God could understand the lepers and bring him out you know of that place of bondage which the sickness kept him in in the same way there are many such healings and miracles that we see even through the life of Jesus and in many parts of the Gospels it says that he was moved with compassion at the 1414 where Jesus went out and saw a great multitude and he was moved with compassion for them and he healed their sick okay so this is how God ministered Jesus ministered and Jesus did what the nature of the Father is isn't it so compassion his compassion there was a lady who son passed away and she was weeping so Jesus goes and he raises the son from the dead what does it show about Jesus he cares for the lady he cares for that young man who was raised from the dead so his compassion is demonstrated the disciples you know were helping Jesus when he was ministering to the multitudes and at one point there was no food after the preaching session the multitudes are hungry why should God care about hungry people but he does so in him breaking the bread and distributing it the bread and multiplying the fish we see the compassion of God because he cared about the hunger that people are going through so same thing even in our times we all have needs you know and people are going through circumstances and situations where they want God's intervention miracles demonstrate God's compassion and a miracle happens you know people said I really needed this money to study in that college God made it happen you know and I I really needed this breakthrough or an open door God made it happen what is it sure he cares about what we are going through and miracles demonstrate God's compassion what else miracles have a powerful effect on people and especially those who do not believe so they get the attention of those people remember we just said in John chapter two when Jesus turned the water into wine what happened the disciples they again you know were awakened to the fact that wow how can God do this this is amazing it takes years for water to I mean grape grape and you know all those derivative derivatives of grape for it to turn into wine but here is Jesus turning water into wine amazing and so it really helps them what does scripture say they believed they believed in him so miracles have a way of getting people's attention they may not even be thinking about who God is but when these things happen you know people just wake up they're like how did it happen you know it has to be God so even in the life of Jesus we see that people saw his works and multitudes followed him around why are they following him around in fact Luke 515 it says great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmity so they knew he could do this it got their attention so they were following after Jesus so miracles have a way of drawing people's attention they cause people to also turn to God and another beautiful example is Philip in the book of Acts when he goes to Samaria and all these miracles start taking place people start putting their faith in Jesus you know it's like so many people start believing in Jesus then another apostolic theme is said to teach them about the baptism in the Holy Spirit so you know these miracles were done God's hearts towards people's hearts towards God so that is another reason why they are important so now we can quickly look at some of the other reasons why just give me a moment so the next thing we said was that Jesus gave importance to the miracles and remember when John the Baptist had a doubt are you really the Messiah Jesus or is there someone else who needs to come at that time Jesus did you know all his works his answer was he went and healed and delivered and did all of his works and he told the people go and tell John what you saw so his answer was here I am flowing in science wonders and miracles doesn't that testify of who I am so Jesus himself gave that testimony to John the Baptist and he also spoke of the fact that if he didn't do the miracles then you don't believe me that's the way Jesus even talked and he have several scriptures that I would encourage you to look at these notes from the publication the ministry healing and deliverance chapter one so Jesus gave importance to miracles and if Jesus gives importance to miracles then we do should give importance to them then the kingdom comes with power so this kingdom that we preach of we always see that the power of God needs to follow and that's the way even about Jesus when it's good just talk about Jesus it tells us that he was attested by science wonders and miracles so the life of Jesus his preaching was attested his life was attested by the supernatural and that also helps us recognize that it is so important for us to move with these things that the gospel is supposed to be preached with accompanying science early on one of us in the chat section we posted we said that Jesus said you shall lay hands on the sick condition recover so he gave us the great commission but he also said that you are going to do these ones these signs will follow those who believe so it's supposed to follow us the gospel is supposed to be preached with accompanying science and miracles encourage people to believe for more of the supernatural as sitkin pointed out when something happens the people believe God and they expect more from God so these are all the reasons right why the supernatural is so important now the next question that I want to ask us is do you think you know there can be opposition when we believe in the supernatural and if there is why is there opposition when we talk about the supernatural and want to flow in the supernatural any thoughts on that or in other words lack of acceptance people find it hard to accept the supernatural why why do you think so one reason could be that a lot of counterfeit yeah that's very correct John there's a lot of counterfeit meaning the supernatural takes place you know even among those who don't necessarily believe in Jesus okay so that's counterfeit but what do you think John so if there is counterfeit then how do we approach this yeah so if counterfeit exists doesn't mean that or it means it's not this the example of the currency if government has seen that there is counterfeit 2000 rupees currency they won't withdraw all the 2000 rupees originals and or it doesn't go invalid so that's that should be anything even more way to do supernatural ministry in the right way so that it proclaims the truth yeah wonderful John so true isn't it just because the false exists it's not that we must stop moving forward with the truth let the false exist we will move forward with the truth and you know like God's nature his power his glory be revealed so just because there are counterfeit demonstrations of some supernatural power we don't stop ministering the supernatural or believing God for ourselves we can believe God for the supernatural okay so yeah that's that's very true okay what else what are the other thoughts why do people find it difficult to accept the supernatural I think people today are so much practical that they want to find a reason for everything from their own knowledge like they don't even believe that God created us they have a theory for us they say earth was created by big bang theory and we are created from monkeys so they want to find everything from them and they are using their head and their knowledge and they think everything is science and everything is universe but they're more practical so they couldn't accept even God so they could not even accept this supernatural things too yeah thanks Stephanie I know when we are we want we are intellectual and we want to explain everything through logic sometimes we don't have the words to explain the supernatural right and so then what happens people find it difficult to accept the supernatural as as you were saying but you know we will talk about it later it's not that you know the supernatural contradicts science or the supernatural is against science but for now what I would say is we science is not able to explain everything okay and that doesn't mean that those things are not real the things that cannot be explained could be as real as the things that cannot be explained so we leave it at that but we'll come back for more discussion on it so yeah great thoughts any other thoughts why you find it difficult to accept the supernatural I have one more I don't know whether it is right to say this but some people feel that it's not real because it didn't happen to them they didn't feel it they didn't see that happening they're like if God is there why he didn't do it to me and there is I believe in some time it's one of the reasons to yeah sure sure I get that so if it hasn't been your experience then you can have struggled to to walk in it to accept it so yeah that makes sense sure so that is another reason any anything else from your own side as I think about sometimes I think for for me it's when you've prayed about something for a while and then it doesn't happen the supernatural doesn't manifest itself then it's but natural to wonder why why didn't it happen you know I believed in it and it didn't come through but the way I look at it or I have learned in my journey is that the standard of God's word doesn't change and the will of God doesn't change about a matter whether I have seen its manifestation or not right now why didn't I see its manifestation there can be so many reasons to answer that question but definitely you know one of the points is not that you know that truth has changed God who doesn't change he has never changed you know throughout scripture throughout the ages he remains the same if he has spoken and said I'm Joe and Alpha the God who heals you he has never taken it back so that is who he is and that is what he does so I just learned to walk in it so I think sometimes it's maybe discouragement that you find it hard to believe in the supernatural okay so anyone else any of your thoughts ma'am may I sure she was okay ma'am actually I am not talking about like the western perspective but from the Indian perspective according to my learning what I have seen and witnessed like we've been Christians we believe in all the supernatural things like Jesus came he died for us that all we believe but the other another thing is that another expert of the coin of the Indian civilization is that they already have their own supernatural things so when we go out and tell them like Jesus loves you this they will say we are already having 32 corrode gods with us they're also loving us how Jesus is different we will tell them Jesus died for us we will like one of my friend I was having a kind of a talk with him I told brother Jesus loves you he said no I don't want like he was telling me Christianity is a religion I told him no Christianity is not the religion it's a relationship he told me he was giving me some of the examples then I thought like he's also right as his thing what was his point he was telling me that Jesus I see Jesus he was just as a man he was as a prophet but for me like you are also having supernatural things I believe that like the thing is that in what was incident yeah we see as the Red Sea was divided in the Bible the Red Sea was divided that was a supernatural thing and we believe that God gave Moses that stuff he praise God that that in that scenario and Red Sea was divided similarly they were telling me you were telling that Red Sea was divided in our Hindu text also there are some equal thing when Yamuna river was divided Lord Krishna need to cross the road that that time also the rivers were divided so the thing is that what I'm trying to say the people they are not able to believe the supernatural things because they already have their own supernatural things and when we go to them and we explain them like this is all the things Jesus loves you this this and that they tell they tell no sorry we don't need that we all already having thing your God is a foreign God we are not able to accept it ma'am this is my point of view okay sure you know I get your uh so you're saying that people have their own you know just people have their own beliefs and their experiences of the supernatural and they don't feel that there's a need for you know any other form of the supernatural but as John shared earlier I think you know many such supernatural manifestations can exist but then we must keep going forward with what God wants to do and when people will encounter the power of God they will know for themselves isn't it so pray for them and just continue to minister the supernatural and also you could pray that you know they will they will encounter God through all of this whatever we've been talking about if it happens in their own experience it'll it'll be a different statement coming from them right so uh is that okay sit down yes ma'am thank you ma'am sure so yeah thank you everyone for answering these questions so we are just getting warmed up to talk more about the supernatural so think on these things why is the supernatural important what are the arguments that people have even in the Christian circles for um not wanting to accept the supernatural power of God in our times okay so very important uh questions you could ponder on it uh we could begin the next class with a little bit more discussion time and then I'll move into the next chapter here okay so let's pray close for now uh I would like to request any of our students to please pray okay any volunteers yes sit can you please go ahead Lord thank you for this day as you have given us a lot as we have learned about your supernatural things Lord all the supernatural Lord about your world Lord whatever we have learned today Lord whatever personal Nancy ma'am has Lord put the seed in our heart Lord in our mind Lord it should not be based on what it should be used for your funeral special Lord and oh glory be given to you Lord Lord we thank you for personal Nancy Lord we thank you for all the students who have been letting in both the models Lord in offline and online Lord from wherever part of which part of the country they are from Lord Lord bless them and guard them protect them or provide them in Jesus name we pray amen amen thank you thank you sit can you so thank you everyone for connecting on the call really excited about all the sessions to come but for now we will close up God bless you please do look up the notes right which will be posted for now I posted the APC publication ministry healing and relevance so if you look it up more notes will be posted for the subsequent sessions okay so bye God bless see you see you next week thank you