 Hey everyone, welcome back from the break to the second session of the praise and worship course. Let's resume where we left off and go ahead and share the screen. Right, so we concluded the last session with just understanding the nature of the prophetic word, the fundamentals, the foundations of the prophetic word and how the Holy Spirit is the foundation of the prophetic word and all the different aspects of prophetic word and what the prophetic word does, it brings edification, it reveals God's plans, it stirs up and causes us to move in faith, it motivates and encourages us, it gives us strength, it releases God's power, brings correction and restoration, conviction and repentance and finally transforms nations. Now this chapter is of course both flowing prophetically in praise and worship, which is the music aspect of it. The prophetic word can also be released as a prophetic song, the prophetic song accomplishes all that the prophetic word does. Okay, everything that we've spoken about, we've learned about what the prophetic word does, the same thing the prophetic song also does, right? So let's move on. So what's the big deal? Why do we have to sing the prophetic word? The prophetic song, so in your notes if you see, I can also look at the notes on the screen. The first point there is songs to the Lord, a spontaneous song to the Lord, a love song, a thanksgiving, a worship, adoration. Can you tell me of the one Hebrew word for praise which is similar to the spontaneous song, does anybody remember? Okay, there's a couple of words, Tahira, Shabak. So spontaneous song to the Lord, it's simply a love song, thanksgiving, worship, adoration and overflow of our hearts. I think it's Tahira. I think it's Shabak because it's been lost in the past. Okay, right, Psalm 33 verse 3 says, sing to him a new song, a new song is sung when God does a new thing in our lives. God is always doing something new in our lives, right? He's creative, he's not boring, right? He's always creating something, he's always doing something new. We just need to have the eyes to see and the ears to hear of the things that he's doing new in our lives and every time we experience that and encounter that and taste that, we erupt in a new song, right? And one of my favorite examples when we see the Psalm 18, we've read this before, Psalm 18, Psalm 18 starts off by saying, I love you, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer, right? But before that Psalm starts, right on top it says, for the director of music of David, the servant of the Lord, he sang to the Lord the words of this song when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies. Now we have a written record of that song, Psalm 18. But it seemed like it was spontaneous, right? He erupted in this praise, you know, of praise and worship when the Lord delivered him, right? He tasted something new when God did a new thing in his life. He was filled with a new song, right? Because the Psalm 40 also says that verse 3 says, he has put a new song in my mouth. Okay, so we do not have an excuse saying, oh, I don't understand, I can't sing, I don't have any song in me. No, but the scripture says, the Lord has put it, he's deposited, it's up to you know, and cash it, right, to withdraw the song, you know, so he just believed that he's put a new song in our mouths, a hymn of praise to our God. And Psalm 8, we see that he has ordained praise, right, in our mouths. He has ordained it, it's all said, so erupting in a new song, asking once again the Holy Spirit to lead you in this, it's very crucial, you know, it's just praying that give me eyes to see what you're doing new, give me years to hear what, you know, what are you doing new, let me see the new things that you are doing in our lives, because most of the times, if not all the times, we take notice of only the important things, you know, that we've been praying for, we get it, okay, we see it, so that becomes a new thing. But, you know, there are so many things that goes, that can go unnoticed, there are so many things that God saves us from, that we don't even know about, we won't even know about, right, we give him thanks most of the times for the things that we know that he saved us from. But I'm pretty sure there are things that he saves us from that we don't know. So, right, it's a beautiful thing to sing praise to him, to erupt in a spontaneous song. Okay, let's look at this very interesting chapter in Deuteronomy chapter 31, right, you can just turn with me, Deuteronomy, it's an interesting chapter 31 and 32 actually all the way out. But here, something very interesting happens, okay, says verse 19, now, therefore, write down this song for yourselves, now, who's talking here? It's God, right, it's, God is teaching this song to Moses and then Moses has to teach this song to people of Israel, right, so now we've got to sing, write down yourselves this song and teach it to the children of Israel and put it in their mouths that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel, therefore, Moses wrote the song the same day and taught it to the children of Israel, right. So first, Moses had to write down, he had to learn the song and then he had to go and teach the song the same day, right, and what is more interesting is that God is teaching Moses, yeah, I don't know how that lesson went, it must have been an awesome session, songwriting session, but it's something, it's beautiful, right, again, God putting, you know, a song of praise in their mouths, but let's just actually go to Psalm 40, because there's something, there's another couple of scriptures that I want us to read, if you have a Bible's handy, Psalm 40 verse 3, I want to read from verse 1, right, says I waited patiently for the Lord, He turned to me and heard my cry, He lifted me up from the slain trumpet out of the mud and mire, He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand, verse 3, He put a new song in my mouth, okay, you see, when you read verse 1 and verse 2, it's talking about, you know, this, right, we sing a new song when we see God do something new in our lives, right, and it seems like David is experiencing that, he's seeing that God has lifted him up from the mirey clay and has placed him on the rock to stay, right, and then now he says, he put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God, and now see the result of that singing, it says because of the song of praise, because of this hymn of praise that I am singing, many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord, as a result of my song of praise, as a result of the song of praise, many will see the Lord of what he has done and they will see and fear, right, and that's exactly what's happening in Deuteronomy, right, when God's saying, write this song down for yourselves and teach it to the children of Israel, put it in their mouths that this song may be a witness, right, that they may see and know and fear the Lord, right, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel, therefore Moses wrote the song the same day and taught it to the children of Israel, right, it's pretty cool, isn't it? Another example of a new song, we see that Jesus singing to the Father as well, it's mentioned in Hebrews 2, 11 and 12, it says, for both he who sanctifies, that is, and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason he, Jesus, is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, I will declare your name to my brother in the midst of the assembly, I will sing praise to you, right, it's beautiful, isn't it? So singing a new song, singing your own song is not as complex as it sounds or not, it shouldn't be as complex as we've made it, right, which is before we get to a couple of examples here that's mentioned on the screen, how many of us have brought a greeting card and, you know, given it to someone? How many of us? Okay, just the two of us? Okay, do people even give greetings card these days? Right, okay, so where am I getting at? You don't just buy a greeting card and, you know, from Archies or Hallmark and then give the same thing as it is, what do we do most of the times is, the greeting card, we write our own message in it, isn't it? Although there is a message already in the greeting card that comes, but you still take a piece of, you know, take a pen and you write, right, you note to that person what you think, what you feel, wishing them, etc., etc., right, and that's pretty much with what, how a new song or a spontaneous song, you know, or a prophetic song can be, right, but even when you take a song like, say, here I am to worship or no longer slaves or whatever it is, right, you make that song your own, right, you go, you fought battles with that song, right, darling Czech, she says that when she was fighting cancer, she, you know, she would say she fought cancer with this, the song I don't forget, you made me, in Jesus' name, no, but she talks about you make me brave by Amanda Koch, and so as a result of that whole thing was, you know, this in Jesus' name was born, but she said during that time, she went to war with that song, you know, and she made it her own, it's like, you take that greeting card, you know, you just make it your own, you write your own thing, you know, it becomes one with you, and then, you know, you sing that as a new song as well, right, so that this power in singing your own song, people, I hope you realize that by now, you know, the prophetic song, the second point there is songs of exhortation to the people, well-known passages, and I think, let's go to the book of Ephesians and Colossians, and let's read those two passages one more time, which we read so many times. Ephesians chapter 5 verse 18 to 20, it says, do not get drunk on wine which leads to debauchery, instead be filled with the spirit, speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, okay, look at the previous verse, it says, be filled with the spirit, and then it goes on to say, you know, release the songs, okay, speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to the Lord, to the God, the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, let's go to Colossians, okay, Colossians 3 16, it says, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God, okay, one more time, it says, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God, okay, songs of exhortation to the people, there's something about congregational corporate worship, us coming together and releasing these songs, and songs that, and the prophetic song we also see in Zephaniah chapter 3 verse 17, that the Lord himself sings over his people, he dances and he rejoices over his people, right, sorry, just give me one second, okay, yeah, so the prophetic song is also declarative songs, warfare songs over demons, circumstances, or nations, in Psalm 8 verse 2 it says, you have silenced my enemies, with my praise you've silenced my enemies, right, and we see in the chapter the power of praise, the example of King Jehoshaphat and how they started, you know, praising God spontaneously, which was, must have been prophetic in nature, it was a declarative songs, you know, in warfare, so prophetic worship, prophetic song, releasing a new song, which is prophetic in nature, it leads us through the battles of our lives that we face, that we have to endure, that we go through on a daily basis and helps us come out victorious, right, so that is the power of releasing a prophetic song, and so the three points there is songs to the Lord, it's the songs of exhortation to the people, people are encouraged, right, they are empowered, they are edified, and then it gives us, it leads us into victory in our battles, right, and so finally, now just some practical guidelines on how do we prepare, you know, some practical tips, guidelines on how do you prepare to move in the prophetic, how do we take all of this of what we've learned and applied in our daily lives, it's just so fundamental, relationship and walk with the Lord, your intimacy with the Lord is key, right, depth in prayer and in the word of God, there is no substitutions to this, right, you must be hearing about this in all the different courses, and you must have had so many of your pastors talk about the importance of your personal relationship with the Lord, right, we don't pursue the gift of prophecy for us to look cool, right, it's like, oh I got the gift of prophecy, so all of y'all fall down before me, you know, it's not for us to be elevated, we need to pursue the gift of prophecy is just to, you know, take a piece of towel, put it on your hands and you're ready to serve, right, and in all of this you're giving glory to the Lord, isn't it, so there is no substitute or alternative for your personal walk with the Lord, that's how you prepare, okay, if that is not in place, please, please, please get that sorted right away, don't delay it, right, depth in prayer and in the word of God, okay, depth in prayer and in the word of God, if you, there is APC publications on prayer, there's so many sermon series on prayer and one of the well-established, a well-known author from the past is Liam Bounds, he's written a lot of material on prayer, yes, we as worshipers, as Christians, you know, people of all different ages, we need to get serious about prayer, right, we need to understand and learn about God's heart for prayer, right, there's one very interesting thing that the disciples asked Jesus to teach, after seeing him, you know, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, so many things, calm the storm and whatnot, of all the things that the disciples could have asked Jesus to teach, they asked him to teach them to pray, right, now if you want to learn something, say cooking, you go to someone who's very good at cooking or a chef and you ask them to teach me to cook, right, if you want to learn guitar, you would go to a guitar teacher who's very good in the instrument, you would ask them to teach guitar, right, you don't go and ask a chartered accountant to teach you to sing or play a piano or you don't go to a chef and ask them to teach you to paint, right, you will go to an individual who's well-established in that area, in their area of profession or in their skill and you would ask them to teach what they know, isn't it, so disciples must have seen Jesus pray and pray and pray, they by now have realized that Jesus is a man of prayer, right, so depth in prayer and in the word of God, crucial, just fundamental, basic foundations, building blocks for us to prepare ourselves to move in the prophetic, okay, expectation, sensitivity, so what happens is you expect God to move through you, okay, you expect God to move through you, you just, I'm putting myself in the line, I'm putting my trust in you, I'm putting my faith in you and most often it's the expectations of an individual that separates another individual with no expectation, right, it's like age-old story of a farmer preparing his field, expecting the rain to come versus the farmer who just did not prepare the field and the rains came and nothing happened, right, so you prepare your heart and you prepare your heart for, when you prepare, when your relationship with the Lord is on point, when you've been walking with him, when you're intimacy with him is on point, when you prepare yourself in prayer and in the word of God, what you've done, you've prepared and now you expect the rain to come and when the rain to come, you know he's going to move through you, right, and sensitivity, I become prepared, expectant and sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit, it's possible to be preoccupied with worries distracted by what's happening around us and therefore lose sensitivity to the leading of the Spirit of God and the same happens if the worship team is more preoccupied with getting the song right rather than listening to the to the Holy Spirit and singing as an offering of worship, okay, being sensitive to the voice of God, you know, I give this example to the worship team that I play with, this is an example of the quote by Jeremy Riddle, he says, you prepare like it depends on you, but you lead like it depends on God, okay, can I say that again, you prepare like it depends on you, but you lead like it depends on God, right, in the context of a band of a worship team in the church worship team is, yeah, we meet for practice, we put the song list together, we discussed which key you're going to be singing the song in, how many times the intro is, who's going to start the intro, who's going to be singing the first verse, the second verse and whatnot, so we prepared ourselves, right, like we're going to lead, but we're going to lead like it depends, you know, on God, he's going to lead us, like, do you want me to sing the song one more time, do you, you know, what do you, what is your heart, what do you want me to say now, right, et cetera, et cetera, so being sensitive to the move of the Holy Spirit is very key, right, so I mean, these are all the things that we just mentioned and it's in the notes, but before we just go any further, you know, everything is being mentioned, what I want us to do right now is not just, you know, let's stop presenting, put into practice what we've learned, right, is everybody doing all right, I hope everybody is able to gauge of what's been happening, thank you, I see your comments in the chat section, so let's just, you know, quieten our hearts and settle our hearts right now, everything that we've learned about the prophetic, the beauty of the prophetic is that God is always speaking, right, and it's his great pleasure to speak with us, to communicate with us, right, it's, and let's pray that we have the eyes to see and ears to hear what he's saying to our spirit, man, like the different impressions of how the prophetic word is released, like an impression or a picture, everything what we've learned, right, and what a prophetic word does with all of that in mind, what I want us to do is, I'm just gonna play like a pad in the background, but I want us to start receiving from the Holy Spirit, okay, let him minister to your heart, now, say in 10 minutes or so, 10, 15 minutes or so, if God releases a word, you know, for an individual in the class, okay, go ahead and release that, okay, this is after say 10, 10, 15 minutes or so, and I want you to write down, have a pen and paper handy, okay, as you, as you just wait on the Lord, be expectant, be sensitive to what he's saying, okay, and if you've never done this, it's like, oh, what is this only one class of prophetic and you expect me to move in the prophetic, it's not about us, isn't it, so let your dependency be on the Holy Spirit, okay, so can I encourage us to trust the leading of the Holy Spirit, right, can we do that, everybody, can we do that class, right, whatever it is you're doing, I don't know what you're doing, I can't see you, but I believe you, right, this is very important because I don't want there to be any distractions in your room, wherever you're at, I want you to pump the posture of your heart and the posture of your body as well to be appropriate, so let's get right now, okay, I'm just going to share the screen and play pads, so let's just the Holy Spirit minister to you right now, let's pray as we just begin, so Father we are here, expecting to hear you, the Holy Spirit I pray, over among us, I just feel like releasing a song, it's a field with gratitude, it's a field of thanks, but Mike's muted wherever you walk and we just worship him for a couple of minutes, let's just worship Jesus for a couple of minutes, Holy Spirit of God, precious Jesus come and do a new thing in our lives, who is like you in the heavens, who is like you on the rest of ten thousand, you're the fairest of ten thousand to our soul, the lily of the valley, morning star Jesus, come on if you can pray in the tongues, let's go ahead and pray in tongues, there is no one like you in your faithfulness, there is no one like you in your strength, there is no oneness, there is none like you, there is none holiness, there is none like you Father and the elders around your throne pass their golden crowns before you Lord, and so I cast my crown before the end of the earth, just lift up the song of your heart to him, let the fragrance of your worship fill the room where you're in, let the aroma of worship arise, it is you Jesus, out of every wilderness season, our days you rescued me, it is your light that shines, that shines, that shines deep inside of me, so search me oh God and see if there's any wicked ways in me, and see if there's any wicked ways, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid to come into my, some of you are going to start feeling the tangible presence of the Lord in your room, like a blanket you're going to feel, weight of his presence, you're going to feel a pressing in your hands because of the weight of his presence, there's a tangible presence of God in your room, I just just continue to minister before the Lord, and if the Lord's speaking, putting something in your heart, I want you to go ahead and release it right now, prophetic word for someone, take risks, it's okay, so I feel free to raise your hand if you want to unmute and speak, so yes, thank you Holy Spirit, there's fullness of joy, and in your presence there's freedom, there's restoration, there is healing Lord, Lord I bless you, Lord I worship you, thank you Lord, thank you Holy Spirit, I can really sense the tangible presence of God, the presence of the Holy Spirit is so strong, thank you Lord, thank you Jesus, thank you Lord I just also feel like someone's heart is like burning of passion or desire for Jesus, this is warm, this is even pure, but I feel like your heart is burning with passion and desire for Jesus, and he's calling you to a deeper depths of intimacy with him, saying that there is more, there is more, what you desire is available, it's like God is inviting, well if there's anybody else who wants to just unmute and release a prayer, release bowling, just go ahead, and something might get released even as you pray, you never know I'm going to give you His presence, and God is capable to give you, you can ask or imagine because He is a God of surplus, and His presence is more than enough God of surplus, God of surplus is so much, so much more, there is so much more in Jesus in Jesus, you shall not be in want, because He is in heart and need, tired in your heart even though we know this person, I feel like this person, sometimes you think you know, I know this but it's not happening, I know this but it's not coming to existence, it's when I call you once again that the Lord is your shepherd Anyone else, do you see a picture or an impression or a quickening of a scripture you can either put it in the chat section or feel free to unmute and speak I feel like God is calling someone, telling me, you've again been oppressing yourself or you've been having doubts of yourself, but how am I going to do this, how am I going to do this or it's something to do with guilt as well maybe, how am I ever going to get out of this Okay so two things, how am I going to do this for what God's called you to do and then the other aspect is, how am I going to get out of this and for which I feel like this scripture coming up saying God is calling you more than a conqueror, you are more than a conqueror think of all the conquerors in the world of history think of everything that they have conquered, you are more than them you are more than a conqueror because I am with you, says the Lord I just want to encourage someone with this scripture I'm Joshua chapter one, it says, God says as I was with Moses, so will I be with you everything may seem like it's changing, it's going happening too fast everything may seem like it's changing, it's in constant motion while everything is changing around you, the only thing that is constant is me says the Lord, as I was with Moses, the leaderships may change everything around you may seem like it's going too fast as I was with Moses, I am the constant one, I will be with you says the Lord I just pray Father, we thank you for moving in our midst we thank you for doing a new thing in our lives we thank you for your presence God, we thank you for who you are we thank you for this privilege that we have that we can come into your presence and call you Abba Father we bless your name, we thank you for everything that you're doing in us and through us Lord, help us too help us to never lose the wonder of who you are help us to never lose that wonder of who you are we thank you Father, in Jesus' name great, recording, I didn't realize the time goes so fast thank you yeah, thanks for joining in today I hope there was something you could take away just continue to prepare your hearts for God to minister and expect him to move through you and he will, amen awesome, thanks everybody for joining in for today's session see you all next week, take a quick break for your next session take care guys, God bless you all