 Just waiting for the recording to start, good. Alright, the recording has started, we're all set, ready to go. Let's take a moment to pray and then we'll get started. May I request somebody to pray for the class and then we will start, please. Who would like to pray? Father in the name of Jesus, we thank You for this gathering. We pray, commit ourselves unto You, and We will help us to learn and be able to put everything we learn into practice. Father, we thank You for how far it brought us as a group throughout the semester. This we ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Felix. Alright, welcome everyone to the class. Thanks for connecting. So today we're going to continue first on this whole aspect on personal preparation, which we started speaking about last week. Let me just share this with you. We covered some of these last week, so we will pick up from where we stopped and put this in the chat. And then we will get into some final comments here. So we were talking about personal preparation for a supernatural life in ministry. So last week we talked about intimacy, our identity, that we must as people who are wanting to be used by God in the supernatural, we need to be in that place of intimacy with God. We need to be established in our personal identity in Christ and not based on identity on the ministry itself. Third, we talked about compassion, being compassionate for people, moving out of compassion for people. A life of holiness, number four, holiness as being committed to walking in holiness and purity before God, walking in dominion and authority that we approach situations and knowing the dominion and authority we have. Now not with a sense of arrogance, but the sense of authority. And these are two different things. Arrogance is being proud and outproud in our own selves. But what we are talking about is having a sense of dominion and authority because of who God is and what he can do through us. It's when we face situations and people come to us with their needs you're not intimidated by the need or the complexity of the situation or the challenge that's before us. We have that sense of dominion and authority and knowing that every demonic work can be destroyed. Every demonic work can be undone as we operate in that. And then we spoke about number six which is growing in the anointing that we continually, you know, keep growing in the anointing that's on our lives. Let me just see where, how far did I cover that? One minute. All right, growing in our anointing and just... I think we've covered till five minutes. Oh, if I walk into dominion and authority, okay. Yeah, so let's pick up from number six then. Yeah, let's look at my notes here. So, growing in the anointing. So, we must, we're picking up for number six. So, we, as we continue to seek God to be used by him and to see the supernatural take place, we personally, in our own selves, right, as instruments, we must seek to grow in the anointing on our lives. So, remember when we said, when we spoke about the anointing? It's the presence and power of the Holy Spirit upon us or upon a human vessel. That's God's presence and power being released through that human vessel. So, we can grow in the anointing that's on our lives. That means we can increasingly express or release more of the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit through our lives, right. That means we are conduits for channels, but the channel can release more, have more of the anointing flowing. So, what are some of the things that will help us grow in the anointing and us being able to release more of God's anointing on our lives. Now, of course, remember there is grace, gift, and power. These three things are aligned, should be aligned in our lives. God's grace upon us is giftings and then the power of God is released through us in alignment to the grace and the gift of God. So, one important thing is to grow in the grace and in the gift or gifts that God has placed on your life, right. So, example, and you know all of us may be graced and gifted differently. So, in whatever grace and gift God's placed on your life, you grow in that, okay. And then the power of God or the anointing of God is really expressed through the grace and the gift in your area. So, example, if a person is, you know, an evangelist, so maybe he spends a lot of his time preaching the gospel. Now, he can grow in his area of grace and gift and is calling as an evangelist, right. But just seeking God more, learning how to, you know, be more open or how to preach the gospel even more effectively. And then it's seeing God, learning how to flow with the Holy Spirit while he's ministering. Maybe in his evangelistic meetings, he can learn how to be more sensitive. He can learn how to step out with the Holy Spirit. So, these are things, his growth, his personal growth in grace and gifting, in his calling. And as you grow in your grace and in your gifting, what will happen? The anointing, more of the power will be able to flow through your life, okay. So, we are like conduits, right. So, we can imagine the conduit meaning like a pipe or something. So, if you make the pipe bigger, you can have more of the flow of those rivers of living water, right. So, that means spiritually growing, you're increasing in the grace and the gift of God on your life. There are things that you and I can do depending on our grace and gift to grow in those areas of grace and gift so that the conduit, the pipe, so to speak, okay, just becomes bigger so that there is more of the flow of those rivers of living water which is the anointing of God flowing through our lives, okay. So, we grow in the anointing of God on our lives but then we make, we do our part, we make, you know, we put our efforts to grow in the grace and the gift so that there can be more growth in the anointing. Example, again, just another example. So, we all know about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, okay. But now, if that gift is neglected, what will happen? It's going to hinder the expression of the Holy Spirit because the expression of the gift is actually a manifestation of the Spirit. It's the flow of the anointing. It's a manifestation of the Spirit. But if I don't express that gift, I'll just leave it to gifts. If I just leave it dormant, what are we doing? We are preventing the manifestation of the Spirit, the expression of the Holy Spirit. But if I can receive learning and training on the gift of the Spirit and I can practice it myself, that means I learned to step out. What happened? I'm doing what I can do when I'm using the word I means all of us. We are doing what we can do personally to sharpen our ability to exercise the gifts. But in the process, these gifts are really manifestations of the Spirit. It is true that it happens as he wills. But I have my part to play in learning how to pick up what he's saying, learning how to express what he is wanting to express. So that's my part that as I work on it, I learn, I step out and practice. I'm making myself more available so that the Holy Spirit can manifest. That is the expression of the anointing taking place through my life, right? So even in the flow of the anointing, we do our part to grow in grace and gift, right? So by receiving training, equipping, practicing, other ways to watch other people, see how they operate, see how they function, and so on. And then you can, that can sharpen us in our grace and gift. And that will eventually result in the growth of the anointing on our lives through the grace of the gift God has given to us. And that brings us to point number seven, which is impartation. So part of growing in the anointing, yes, to receive impartation from people or from other ministers of God. Now this is again a spiritual truth, a spiritual fact. You see it in both the Old and the New Testaments. In the Old Testament we are all familiar with what happened between Moses and Joshua, Moses and the 70 elders, Elijah and Elisha. So we understand that the impartation aspect in the Old Testament, the impartation even happened over time. When we think about Elijah and John the Baptist, the scripture tells us that John the Baptist came in the spirit and power of Elijah and they lived at different time periods. They had no physical contact and yet there was, you know, quote-unquote impartation because he came in the spirit and power of Elijah. I'll just come back to that in a few minutes. And then in the New Testament, of course, we see again examples of impartation. We see Timothy receiving through the Apostle Paul, through the laying out of the hand of the elders, Paul tells Timothy, you know, stir up the gift of God which is in you, which was given to you by the laying out the hands of the elders and do not neglect the gift of God. We also see Paul and the believers at Rome in Romans 111. Paul tells them, you know, I want to come to you because I want to impart to you some spiritual gift. And then in Romans 15 he says, I want to come to you the fullness or the blessing of the Gospel of Christ. So this whole aspect of impartation is something we see even in the New Testament. But then we must keep in mind that some things about impartation and I'm not teaching fully or explaining fully about impartation but just touch upon the important key things here. First of all, remember that impartation always happens aligned and I may have mentioned this earlier. It happens aligned to God's grace and gift on our lives. Right. So, you know, I can't go and try to get an impartation from somebody who's who's not anointed with the same and not operating the same grace and gift that I'm called. Right. So example, I mean just in the natural, a junior carpenter receives impartation from a senior carpenter. Junior electrician is not going to go to a senior carpenter for impartation. Right. It's aligned. There's a proper alignment. So depending on the grace and the gift that God's given you, you draw from somebody who is operating the similar grace and gift, you receive impartation. Impartation happens through association. That means that there is that life-to-life connection and it's happening through which impartation takes place. Sometimes, impartation can happen in an instant through just the laymen of hands but most often it happens through life-to-life connection that there's a reason God connects that way and then you're receiving through that. And whatever is received through impartation must be developed by the recipient. So even though you know God imparts into our lives through impartation, we have to develop it. That's what Paul wrote to Timothy. He said, you stir up the gift of God which is given you. Meaning, look it's been imparted into your life but you have responsibility about that. You can just leave it dormant and it'll not be of any use. It'll not bless anybody. But you stir it up, you exercise it. So that really shows us that impartation doesn't mean suddenly you'll become a super wamp, super minister, super anointed minister. No, you have to grow, you have to develop what is imparted into your life so that that can be expressed through your life. So impartation is a genuine thing. You see both in the Old and the New Testaments, but you understand how it works. Sometimes people mistakenly think, you know, if I just give money I'll get an impartation. That's not true. In fact, Peter rebuked Simon the sorcerer in Acts 8. He says, you think that the gifts of God could be purchased by money. It doesn't work that way. So it's not about the money you give that that'll get an impartation. And really it's what you're drawing through that person. And you know the interesting thing like I said about Elijah and John the Baptist, they never had any kind of association and yet this was a sovereign work of God, right? That the spirit and part that Elijah walked in was put upon John the Baptist across hundreds of years. And here comes John the Baptist. But what we do see is John the Baptist never worked a miracle. So that means he didn't walk in the same expression or in all the expressions of the anointing that Elijah carried. But there was one aspect that was transferred which was to turn the hearts of the people to the Lord and to prepare a people for the Lord. That's what Elijah did. Mount Carmel, 1 Kings 18. He challenged the prophets of Baal and he said if God is God, serve him otherwise serve Baal. And we see how he prepared the people for God. And that aspect of anointing was transferred to John the Baptist who came in the spirit and power of Elijah to draw the hearts of the people back to God and to prepare them for coming of the Lord. So we learned something that impartation is a sovereign, is also a sovereign work of God. God could transfer anointing across time and generations. And we also learned that impartation doesn't always happen in full measure. That means there's only, there could be certain aspects of the anointing that are transferred, not necessarily everything. That means one person may carry, let's say, for example, if he's carrying five graces on his life, a person who's associated in drawing from that person may receive three of those five graces. So it happens in a measure in part, not necessarily in entirety. So these are things to keep in mind as we talk about impartation. And thank God today we have technology, you know, for me, I believe in, you know, reading and listening. Like, for example, there are many men of God. I've never met these people in person. So there's no chance of them laying hands on me or anything. But through the reading of books or through the listening to their experiences, I try to draw from their lives. And I especially like to go back in time. You know, so I like to listen to people say from the 1950s, 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, that, you know, I like that people from that period of time. Contemporary preachers and ministers, not so much. And I just prefer, you know, drawing from the lives of those men who lived, you know, so for example, like Taylor Osborne, or if you want to develop that healing ministry, you know, listening to somebody like the recordings for Taylor Osborne, reading his books, those those really helped me in the early days. He was a wonderful healing minister. And then, you know, and many of these things are available on YouTube as well. You could draw from their minutes by just watching. Now they have died and gone. These men of God and women of God have died and gone, but you get a chance to listen to the recordings or read their books. And through that, you could receive, you know, things that God has had placed in their lives. So that's just one way. Because obviously, you know, there's no way we're going to go and be able to meet all these people. I mean, those who have died and gone, and even those who are alive, you may not be able to go meet them. But through the reading of their books and listening to their messages, and you could draw to some measure you could receive through their lives. But that really helps. But I want to emphasize, at the end of it, you have to personalize it. That means you have to develop what you receive. You have to nurture it and develop it in your life. A few more points here on personal preparation. How God can, you know, you can prepare yourself. Number eight is Srikumar, go ahead. You have a question. Thank you, Pastor. Pastor, I just want to know, like, as you said, even if you hear the messages or read the books, the impartations used to happen. And also you said that, you know, that impartation also happens by laying hands. So is it like laying hands is every time a man of God lay hands upon a person that impartation happens or this happens only when that person intentionally wants to impart something. Like how you said that the Paul was actually telling to the Romans that when he was writing the letters to the Romans, he said that I'm coming to impart the gifts to you. So and is it something which a man of God has intentionally has to impart on the people or is it just if I'm desiring, like as you said that when I'm reading the books, so I receive that impartation. Is it only work based on my desire? Maybe the man of God is maybe like he's not praying for the impartation, but I'm just going and asking him to lay hands upon me and pray. But in my heart, I'm desiring that I should receive something from him. So in that case, whether that whether I receive that impartation. Second question is when the Paul says in the Philippians chapter one word seven, that you are the partaker of my grace. So is this what is the difference between when we say the impartation and the grace and can I receive different graces from different man of God so that I can I can be you know, more sharply used for the kingdom of God. Thank you, Pastor. Thanks a lot. Good, good questions. So about impartation, how does it actually happen? Right. So obviously, just because a man of God lays hands on people impartation is not going to happen. Obviously, because you know, you can maybe we can look at Bible. I'm sure Elijah must have laid hands on so many people. Paul, the apostle, must have laid hands on so many people. Not all of them became apostles. Not all of them, you know, ended up as preachers. So just because a man of God lays hands, then even today, you know, a man of God can maybe lay hands on hundreds of people. And out of that, maybe one or two may even emerge out in the ministry, doing something similar to the man of God. So it's not, you know, so the answer is no, just because a man of God lays hands on people doesn't mean that all of them will receive. So to answer your question, it is really dependent on two things. One, it's about the recipient more than the giver. So for example, when we have a graduation service, and we've been doing, I mean, we didn't do it the last two years, but before that, every year, the day before the graduation, we'll have all our students and we'll all lay hands and prophesy and impart. And whenever I lay hands with people, I say, God, everything that said may give it to this person. So that's my prayer. But does that mean that every student will operate in it? No, because it's not just about me desiring to give everything. It's also about them receiving it. It's also about the grace and the gift that's on their life. You know, if I'm a pastor and they're called to be something else, it's okay that there has to be an alignment of grace and gift. And also they must long for this, you know, whatever they see in my life, if they don't, they're not interested in anything, then it's not going to happen. So I think a lot of it has to do with the desire from the person. You know, so there's got to be this alignment of grace and gift. And there's got to be the desire, the pull. And then they have to subsequently develop it further. And there's an impartation, but they have to flow in it. They have to work on it. So to answer your question, it really, I would say, really depends more on the recipient than the person. And it can happen even through remote ways, which is through listening to the teaching or reading the book. You know, it can happen through that, that God will impart through it into the life of the person. It doesn't always have to happen through the laying on a fence. Okay. So does that address both your questions, Shrikma? Yes, sir. Then the difference between the grace, the partaker of grace, when he says the partaker. Yes, thank you. Yeah. So this is in Philippians 1. And this is actually Philippians 1 verse 7. And then in verse 7, he says, you are all partakers with me of grace. Now, I really have thought about these two verses, you know, in the past, because I did notice, especially the charismatic spiritual circles, these verses were used for fundraising. In what sense? You know, they said, look, if you, verse 5, if you fellowship with us in the gospel, you give to us, you partner with us in the gospel, you give to us, you know, that's verse 5, then you will become, you'll enjoy verse 7, which is you'll be partakers of our grace. And so, you know, especially when in the US, living there, these verses would be used a lot by, you know, these charismatic, spiritual preachers to raise funds. So you give to us, you partner with us in the gospel, and you will partake of the grace that's on our lives. And of course, everybody likes to just save anointing. And so it was used like that. And then I said, look, is this what Paul is saying? And actually, that's not what he is saying. Right? And, you know, they are partners together in the gospel. They're all serving together in the gospel. But then in verse 7, he's not saying explicitly, you're all partakers with me of my grace. And I'm ready for the new King James. He says, you're all partakers with me of grace. That means, look, we are all serving in the gospel, and we are all partaking of God's grace on our lives. Right? So just think about that. And you can look at it carefully. Look at it in different versions. So the implication of those verses, verses 5 through 7, is not about, look, Philippians, you are receiving of what's on my life. It's not about that. It's more of, we are all fellowship, we're all joining together. And we are all enjoying God's grace together on our lives. That's the idea. Just think about those verses. Look at it, study it. And so that's what he's saying here, that we are all partakers of God's grace, joining together in the work of the gospel. Now, can I receive from other, so I'm not discrediting the fact that we can receive from the grace and the anointing that's on another person, but I wouldn't use these verses, Philippians 1, 5 through 7, to talk about that. Because really, if you look at it closely, it could be understood that just look, we are all enjoying God's grace together. Is that okay, Shri Kama? Yes, sir. So is there any difference between the impartation and grace then? Impartation, so grace can be understood in general that God is being good to us, His favor. Grace is also understood as divine enablement, empowerment in somebody's life. And in that context, yes. In that context, there can be an enhancement of grace on somebody else's life through impartation. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor. Thanks a lot. Yeah. All right, let's take up some other questions here. Rose, so Bethel Church, I would stay away from those kinds of things, Rose, simply because John chapter 3 tells us, ultimately, everything we receive, we receive from God. What is that word exactly? John 3, 34 or John 3, 27. A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. It's ultimately, even in the impartation process, ultimately, we all have to look to God. So even though I may say, I'm going to go to some person and say, please lay hands on me, pray for me, I want to receive the grace that's on your life or the anointing that's on your life. Wonderful. But ultimately, I have to receive it from God. So this whole thing about, you know, practicing grave soaking and all of those things, personally, I would say it's bizarre. It's weird. And we shouldn't be doing such things. If it happened in APC Bible College, I'll call those students and tell them don't do it ever again. That's stupid. Okay. Anyway, all right, let's just look at Charles' question. If a pastor prays for impartation as done and there's a spin don't double up, they'll say, what happens? He talked about it, but said more like, so, yeah, so one is, you know, a pastor may, you know, so let's say he lays hands on 25 people or 30 people or 50 people, whatever. It doesn't mean everybody received an impartation. It doesn't mean everybody received impartation. But for those who did receive, if they don't develop it, it just means that they are like Timothy, they are just leaving it dormant in their lives. And they need to stir up the gift of God that's in their lives. Okay. So the real test of whether somebody has received an impartation is in the manifestation of that grace in their lives. It's like, you know, Elijah and Elisha, though, how did the prophets know that Elisha received what Elisha had? You know, Elisha took up the mantle, said, where is the Lord God of Elijah and he parted the waters? And he did what Elijah did, you know, and that was evidence that, yeah, here's the junior prophet who stepped into what his, his, his man, the person Elijah had. Okay. Okay. So a Prabhakar's question about the woman who touched the hem of Jesus' garment and she received. Now, the answer is yes. This is an example where the virtue, the power that was in Jesus was imparted to this woman so that there is an impartation. But usually the word impartation is used in the context of transferring anointing or transferring grace for ministry. So that's how the word impartation is used usually. But in this case, it was the anointing flowing into the woman causing her to be healed. So we don't use the word impartation because it's a work of God that's taking place to heal, unlike impartation, which is a transferring of anointing to empower somebody else to do the work of the ministry. So the woman of the issue of blood was healed by touching the hem of the garment of Jesus. We say, look, the anointing flowed into her life. The anointing touched her, you know, so we just use that language. We don't necessarily use the language of impartation because the understanding of impartation is a little different. Is that okay, Prabhakar? All right, say your question, please. Sorry, Pastor. I just wanted to just add that the pastor for Bethel Church, he came out and mentioned that they don't do grave soaking. What they usually just do is those who have gone to be with the Lord, they really, you know, did a lot for the kingdom of God while they were alive. They just go there to kind of draw inspiration, not necessarily soaking anointing. He actually came out on an audio show and actually, what do you call it, discourage that they don't do grave soaking. And then just to also compliment what you mentioned about impartation. Let's also remember that it is the Holy Spirit that is in those who impact. So invariably, like you said, sir, it is not them. It is the Spirit of God, engracing, impacting upon whoever is being impacted. Right? The vessels are just point of contact. You know, the Spirit of God can work directly and he can work indirectly. Just to buttress what you said, sir. That's all I wanted to add. Excellent. Thank you. All right. Let's go back. Yeah. So eight, nine, and ten. What I want to talk about here is these are simple things. As part of our preparation to be used by God, our personal inner wholeness is important. It means inner wholeness refers to our own personal emotional well-being. Right? Because if I personally am not in a place of emotional wholeness, my problems tend to taint the expression of ministry through my life. And sometimes it's just you know, so bad things happen. So example, if a pastor has problems with immorality, right? That means, you know, he's got sexual addictions, whatever form of addiction is. And he's ministering. You know, that's a problem. In many ways. One is sometimes, and I'm not saying in every case, you will see all of this. I'm just sharing some things that I've heard and seen. Sometimes in his preaching and teaching, a lot of the connotations will be sexual, you know. And then you're wondering like, why is that coming through? And that's because emotionally his inner person has a problem and it comes out in the preaching and the teaching. Sometimes his areas of problems, addictions become actually areas through which unclean spirits can operate through his life. And the expression of the ministry may look good, but they're actually unclean spirits operating through his life and they affect people. And it takes somebody with spiritual discernment to recognize what is right, what is of the Holy Spirit, what is coming through his areas of weakness, actually unclean spirits operating through his areas of weakness. So he's a genuine minister of God. The Holy Spirit is operating through his life, through his strengths and through things that are areas of consecration to the Lord. The Holy Spirit is operating, but through his areas of impurity, addiction, unclean spirits can exert their influence. And it's hard for us to understand, but then you can see it, you can discern it, and you can see the results of it when it affects people. Okay, so as a minister of God, I have a responsibility for the unseen area of my life, the inner person. People are not going to see it. They only see the outside, right? They see the person on stage or they may see the person whom they're talking to. But if there's no inner wholeness, this can affect. I'll just say example, if a preacher or a minister of God has hate inside him, maybe he hates one other preacher. One is you may, it may come out in the preaching, right? In his preaching and teaching, you'll find that he's, he's criticizing that person. Sometimes they do it openly by name. And sometimes it may be very subtle, but you can say, hey, those things that what he said about this actually coming from a place of hurt. It's coming from a place of hate. There's no love of God in those words and those things he said. You can discern it because he's hating somebody else and he's speaking like this. So it's coming out in his preaching and teaching. And then in his ministry to people, his, that hate can, in many ways, affect people that he's ministering to. For instance, he may be very harsh in dealing with certain kinds of things that are, you know, in his mind, in his emotional days, related to that kind of a pastor or preacher. He'd be very harsh in that, and he can end up hurting people, sometimes abusing people simply because of hate inside him towards somebody else. Now, these are real things which many times just go unnoticed in the Christian world, right? Because everybody's looking at the performance. Everybody's looking at numbers. Everybody's looking at the show. And nobody's like, okay, was discerning like, hey, is that really of the Holy Spirit? Is that really glorifying Jesus Christ? Is that Christ like, you know, people are not pausing to think and ask those questions, you know, and so people are not just discerning. Where is this coming from? Is that from the Holy Spirit? Is it from hate or jealousy or pride or greed or lust, those kinds of things. So basically point number eight is, as ministers, it's important for us to let God work in a wholeness in our own lives so that we don't let those things flow out of us and hurt people. And I'm not saying, you know, we never get angry or, you know, we never commit sin or, no, we don't live in that. So the moment I get angry or the moment I do something wrong, I tell God, God, I'm sorry, I denounce it, cleanse it, you know, you're putting it away. But for somebody to continue in that, that's a problem. That's a place of, in a wholeness that's needed to be, that needs to be addressed. Number nine has to do with humility, which is very important, because remember, God gives grace to the humble. God resists the proud, but he gives grace to the humble. So you want more grace to be given to you. What happens? You'll have to become more humble. Right. So the place of humility is the place where you receive grace. And the higher you go up in ministry, the more grace you need to stay there, because it's going to be more challenging you know, takes a lot more. So the higher you go up in ministry, the lower you have to go in humility in order to receive more grace to stay up there. The problem with many of us is, as people, as God begins to elevate us, you know, do more powerful things through our lives, because we forget humility, you know, soon pride comes in and so on. And then what happens? The mighty fall, because we've stepped out of a place where grace can keep us. And the only place grace is available is the place of humility, because God gives grace to the humble. So we have to watch over our lives and that, and nobody can do it for us but ourselves. You know, there may be some people who may come and tell you, hey, you've become so very proud now. But sometimes, many times people don't do that, because when you're being used powerfully, oh, whatever come and tell you that you're doing something wrong. Right. So you have to be careful. We have to be careful. We have to keep a check on our own lives and, you know, always stay humble before God. Okay. Number 10 is that we always have to keep learning and expanding. Okay. We never come to the place where we say, okay, I know everything. Right. No, you and I have to continue to keep learning, keep expanding, you know, keep researching the scripture, studying and say, God, open my eyes. How does that work? You know, how can I, you know, receive more of the prophetic? How can I receive more of the word, the word, the gifts of the spirit? How can I, you know, just there's always that constant learning and expanding, learn from other good ministers of God, learn from other good examples in the ministry. And most importantly, keep learning from the scriptures and keep searching the scripture, studying, meditating, engaging with God. And he continues to expand our understanding, our learning. And through experience, we keep growing. And lastly, I just want to share four simple thoughts here before we wrap up this class. I've already taken another five minutes. As in line with what we've said, want to, you know, encourage us to pursue the supernatural in everyday life. That happens every day. Yeah. Now, many of us, if we are in ministry, if you were pastoring a church or whatever, you know, we sometimes we live from Sunday to Sunday, because the next time you're going to preach is next Sunday. We tend to live from Sunday to Sunday and we only expect miracles on Sundays. But that's not the way to live, right? For us, every day is an opportunity for the supernatural. So in everyday life, so whether it's Sunday or Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday or whatever day of the week it is, we need to be open to pursue God for the supernatural. And in light of that, I want to present these four thoughts. One is expectation. I mean, you know, expect the supernatural every day, any day, any time. Don't limit the supernatural only to a certain day or a certain place or a certain time. And for those of us in ministry, our problem is we only limit it to Sunday morning on the stage, on the pulpit kind of thing. That's not right. And for us, our expectation must be God any day, any time. I just want to see the works of God. You know, every time there's a need or ministry of somebody, I want to see the works of God. Right? Charles, I'll come to you just after these few thoughts. Number two is take risks, right? So faith, and you've heard the statement, faith is spelled R-I-S-K. Right? Faith is spelled R-I-S-K. Just another biblical verse or anything just to help us to motivate us. That two step out in faith really is to take a step off, is to take a risk from a natural standpoint, not from a spiritual standpoint, you're on safe ground because you're walking on the Word and you're resting in God. But from a natural standpoint, it may seem like a risk. Here, I'm doing something that's out of here, the normal. I'm stepping out of the natural into the spiritual mind. So be willing to take risks, you know, in order to see the supernatural. Sometimes God may tell you to pray for a stranger. Sometimes he may remind you of somebody, but do that. Just willing to take risks. That's like Peter stepping out of the boat. Right? And number three is step up to higher levels. That means, see if you want to see more of the power of God, you know, we need to step up to higher levels. Like if you're comfortable operating here at a certain level, just stretch yourself a little bit more. Okay, let me operate it at something a little higher than what I'm used to be living to step up to higher levels. So practically, maybe you're used to receiving words of knowledge, you know, in a certain way, like maybe you're used to seeing pictures coming up. Wonderful. But what about, and maybe you're used to giving one word? Wonderful. But how about saying, God, I just want to go more. I want to see, I want to not only see a picture, but I want to see more details or God, I want to hear more. I want to hear from the Holy Spirit more, seeing pictures is good, but I want to hear more. So what you are doing, you're intensely stretching yourself, you're pushing yourself up to higher levels in how God is working through your life. Right. So in everyday life, you say, God, one more level, one more, some more God, stretch me in this area, stretch me in that area. You know, so in different areas, you say, God, take me to higher levels, stretch me a little bit more. Right. So in everyday life, we constantly do that. We constantly pursue God that way. And number four is, don't give up. Be relentless. You know, so we may not see 100% success every time you pray for the sick person. You may not see miracles happen instantly. It's okay. I'm not going to give up because Jesus said, the works he did, I will do and greater works. So God, I want to keep pressing in and I'm not going to quit. I'm going to be relentless. Nothing is going to stop me. I'm going to keep learning, keep pressing in and I'm going to keep pursuing because Jesus already made that statement. The works he did, we will do and greater works because he's gone to the Father. So you never quit. Don't relent. Don't give up. Don't bank out of this. Keep pursuing. He has spoken it and we're going to make the journey. Okay. Charles, we can take your question or your comment right now. Thanks. Thanks much. I'm inquiring. Okay. I'm following up the statement that expect the supernatural daily, every day. Pastor, what do you have to say about this setting, especially here in Uganda, when they are saying on Thursday, we are going to raise the dead, we are going to make the lame walk, we are going to make the sick healed, bring them, bring them, but on other days they are not doing it. What do you have to say about that? How is it related to expecting the supernatural on a daily basis, not on certain days only? Thank you. So I am guessing that maybe on Thursdays they may be having a special service or a special gathering to pray for such people. So there's nothing wrong with that. It's just maybe it's just a convenient thing that you pick a day when everybody prepares themselves and they come together on that particular day in order to minister to people who are sick and who need healing and who need deliverance. So there's nothing wrong with that. It's like you're arranging something on a particular day so everybody knows on that day you can bring the sick people. So I would say do that plus do it every day informally. So that's a formal thing like okay we're having a service where you can bring people in so we can pray for them minister to them. Okay that's a formal thing. It's good, it serves a purpose, it's fine, but on all the other days we can still pray for the sick wherever they are, wherever you get an opportunity, we can still minister to the supernatural. So do both. Thank you Pasta. Okay all right let's take a question from Louis Pasta. In this part of the world the subtle language is one has to be under spiritual covering before one can receive impartation into ministry. That's the concept of spiritual covering has become an issue. What is your thought? Now see one thing in the Christian world is that we keep recycling mistakes over and over again. So this whole thing about spiritual covering was a huge doctrinal error that it really affected the world Christian world back in the 80s I think 80s to 90s and it had its roots earlier to teachers like Watchmen Knee and Witness Lee. So basically what happened was let me look at church history. So there were these predecessors and they these were good men I mean and I'm not saying anything these people are wrong but they had in their teaching these ideas that you know they took spiritual accountability to an extreme. So see it is true that God has placed people in spiritual authority. This is biblical you find it in Paul's writing to the Corinthian church you find it in many places in the episodes that God has placed people to be overseers right. Holy Spirit has placed people as overseers. That means they watch over our spiritual lives. That is true. But what happens if you take that to an extreme where you begin to say that because God has set somebody to watch over your spiritual life. You cannot do anything without their permission or this is the only place you need to be committed or this is the only place you to receive spiritual input. That is a big mistake that is not biblical right because what does the Bible say? He's placed apostles, prophets, bosses, teachers, evangelists to equip the saints. He's placed more than you know he didn't place just one prophet and one apostle and one pastor. No he's placed many and all of them serve to build up the body of Christ. So anyway so what happened back in the 1980s as this whole shepherding movement came out. It was promoted by four or five main Christian leaders who were based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in those days and they banded together and they came up with this idea called this teaching which later was called as a shepherding movement but they said every person must have a shepherd and you must be under the covering of your shepherd. Well and good you know God does place shepherds but it was interpreted and applied globally to the extent that you could not do anything without a shepherd. Almost to the point like you know people started telling you know calling a lot. So lots of abuse happened with that doctrine and a lot of abuse happened. People were being controlled. People were if you don't have a spiritual leader or you were referred to as a spiritual orphan all kinds of abuse happened. Now this happened in the 80s and 90s and then these four or five men I think I forget the exact number these leaders actually repented of teaching the doctrine publicly and Carisma magazine carried that thing that like these men said look what we have taught is wrong but by that time that doctrine had spread all over the world and had already hurt many people. So that's the shepherding movement but it was a recycling of what was previously you know in some way taught by you know these men watch many and witnessly in their books. So it's actually like a recycling of things. So now here we are about you know 40 years later and the church is recycling that whole thing again in so many parts of the Christian world but now it is coming on in a different form saying you know you have to be under a spiritual covering to receive impartation you have to receive yeah see there is genuine there are genuine pastors or shepherds they're not controllers of God's people they're shepherds they're there to guide that they're to protect the care to care they're not there to control they're not there to abuse right and God has placed many shepherds or many pastors or many preachers or many prophets or many apostles it's not just one so you'd be unmeant to receive from all of them right so personally and I've given a long talk on this but just to quickly answer your question Louis to force somebody to come on the quote unquote your spiritual covering in order to receive your impartation it's not biblical it cannot be backed by scripture and maybe just have to go back to that earlier verse in John 327 I think who was it saying was mentioning right ultimately everything comes from God and man is only a channel so in many ways we are repeating mistakes made by the church in previous years and we should avoid it yes it is true that you know we all of us are planted in a local church we thrive there until we you know move to another place but we cannot be controlled by any person is that okay okay so people wrap up with this I will put out whatever notes on this and put a simple assessment for you to do you can take time to work through it and continue in your journey seeking God to work through you supernaturally uh Charles says we don't feel like ending may not Charles there's there's there's a lot we can learn and we will continue meeting next semester learning new things okay and growing together in the things of God okay if there are no more questions bevel rapper thank you pastor for your patience in answering our questions it's really really really really appreciative honestly um you take your time and you're not always in a rush but you always take your time to answer our questions and clear our confusions we're really grateful I am really really grateful for seeing thank you thank you all right Charles is saying I'm coming to Bangalore for graduation welcome Charles welcome all right so let's take a moment to pray and then we will dismiss who would like to close out this class and pray okay okay please pray thank you sir let's pray our father in heaven we thank you for how far you've taken us and where you've brought us to and all that we have learned in the course of time we thank you that we're not the same people that started this course Lord but Lord we have been transformed by the teaching of your word by the equipping of your word thank you Lord for your son who you've used patiently Lord to guide us to teach us to expose us to clarify our our concerns and our confusions thank you for using him alone in our lives to impact upon us the knowledge of your word and the understanding of your word we pray in the name of Jesus that you reward your son abundantly and increase him on all sides and expand his influence for your kingdom we pray that for us who have learned and being under his teaching by the spirit of God that we will take all that we've learned and multiply your word and be a blessing to others and set people from any kind of ignorance to know the truth of your kingdom and all that Lord we have been privileged to walk in we pray that Lord the supernatural will be a lifestyle for each and every one of us that 24-7 even while we sleep will enjoy the supernatural walk and manifest in the supernatural and not just our lives oh Lord manifest in the supernatural Lord we pray that by our own lives many will come you will learn and be inspired to also walk in the supernatural Lord above all let everything we do bring you glory and bring your kingdom here on earth and further your work here on earth thank you everlasting father for in the name of Jesus Christ we have prayed amen amen amen thank you thank you everybody god bless you enjoyed our time together continue strong and i'll see you again soon god bless each of you god bless you all thank you thank you bless you bye now bye everybody god bless thank you thank you everyone thank you god bless bye now