 All right, so the recording has started. Let's begin with a word of prayer. I want to request one of our friends here on the call to please lead in prayer and then we will get into today's subjects. Lubiga, how about you? We pray. Yes, please. Rest in our service and we pray. Father in heaven, we come before you, taking you for this great moment as we're going to start this lecture in keys to supernatural ministry. So Lord bless us. When King Solomon was asking for everything God gave him, he's just asked for wisdom and God added everything to him. So Lord, we also ask for wisdom and we do believe that you're going to give us good health and wealth in the name of Jesus Christ. Father, I also pray for those kids who have not yet joined the class also come and join us as we take this mission statement that Jesus Christ left us into in our divorce. So Lord also bless the pastor. So Lord give her wisdom so that she can inculcate in arts, knowledge, skills and values. We do pray in the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit and everybody says Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Lubiga. So so far we've touched on the keys to supernatural ministry, eight of them, and then we have been talking about personal preparation. In the last class, we were focusing on intimacy with God because without intimacy we cannot fully know the heart of God and especially when it comes to the supernatural, you know, the way Jesus said, I only do what I see the Father do. So he was so intimate with the Father and scriptures tell us that Jesus was in the bosom of the Father or the embrace of the Father in that sense, the closeness, you know, which he had, of course, you know, just by virtue of the fact that he's part of the Trinity, but then we observed his prayer life. We observed his walk of obedience, even though he could have exempted himself very easily, he was careful to build his relationship with the Father through prayer, through obedience and because of all these reasons, you know, he walked in the knowledge of what God wanted for him. He was able to gain the strength to fulfill God's purpose for his life and his life was filled with miracles. Yes, there was the power of the Holy Spirit, but then the sensitivity, right, the sensitivity to the voice of God, that is also important to see the supernatural. So from the life of Jesus, we observed that intimacy and we said in our own personal lives, there's a great need for personal worship and that we have to fight for it. Remember, discussing last time that life gets easier by the day, by the year, you know, different stages of life. We have so many things, you know, piling up on our plates, but we got to fight for that time with God, that intimate personal time with God through personal worship. We said meditation in God's Word is another very key thing that will help us connect with God. We talked about confession of God's Word, you know, confession, declaration of God's Word. We are taught in the Word about the importance of speaking the Word. So that too must be a part of our life. We touched on prayer and fasting as well. And you know, as Jesus taught us in John chapter 15, he said, without me you can do nothing, but with him we, who are the fruit bearing part of the branch, sorry, of the wine. So we are the branches. Where does the fruit appear on the branches? So when we are connected to the wine, the life of the wine flows through us and there is that opportunity to bear fruit. So no connection to the wine. Forget about being fruitful, even if we are a branch. Fruitfulness, since we are talking about, you know, ministry and supernatural ministry, how can we see results? How can we see the demonstration of the supernatural or fruitful? You know, how can we be fruitful? Connectedness, intimacy. Intimacy with the Father, intimacy with the Godhead. So in personal preparation, intimacy becomes the most important thing. And we've got to pursue it. We need to seek after God. That scripture encourages us that we will find Him when we seek after Him. So there is that element of taking the initiative. It's not going to fall on our heads like low hanging fruit. It's just not going to, you know, fall on us like rain. So even to get to it, you have to step out into the, there is an initiative. So we stopped with this thought that one must make the effort to draw close to God. And nowhere are we looking at this as a task or a work for salvation. No. Yes, we have received the grace of God and we are not even saying that intimacy should be pursued because we will be fruitful. No. Intimacy is just the cry of our hearts. And of course, as a result of intimacy, we are going to see fruitfulness. But intimacy is so key, so important in our work with the Lord. We can't be lukewarm. We have to be on fire in our relationship with the Lord. And from that place, we will begin to see that this supernatural ministry and all the keys that we are talking about, right? We will see those things begin to work, begin to come alive simply because we put God first and pursue our relationship with the Lord intimately. And of course, there is a release of the anointing of God from that place of intimacy. Now, let's move on. There are a couple of other points here under personal preparation. There are a total of 10 points, so we'll see how many we can cover today, at least still holiness I thought we can cover. So the next is identity. So especially when we talk about supernatural ministry, why does it matter to be strong about our identity? And we know when we say identity, talking about who we are in Christ Jesus, you know, when we believe in the Lord Jesus, we become sons and daughters of God, right? We become children of God, like John 1 12 says. So we understand our special position, we understand our position of authority, okay? We understand our position of privilege in God. And we know that from that place, we can step into the supernatural, you know, no longer can Satan condemn us or keep us prisoners with the thoughts that say you are unworthy. Because remember, when we have that sense of condemnation and unworthiness, we said that, you know, I think we talked about it when we were talking about the anointing or something where if one is not in that place of confidence in Christ, ministry in the supernatural, it can be hindered, okay? Because we will lack faith, okay? And why there's a lack of faith, obviously, you will not see the demonstration of the supernatural. So identity or confidence in who we are in Christ Jesus is very important. You know, the way Jesus said, he who believes in me shall do greater things than these in John 14 and verse 12. We've got to believe it and say, yes, I believe I am going to do greater things than these. So then it becomes easy for me to step out into supernatural ministry. But if I don't believe that and I say, I don't think so. After all, who am I? You know, like Jacob said, I'm just a worm. So I'm not basing my identity on who God says I am and what God says can do. So taking time to build ourselves up. And this might again take a while. I remember there were times when early on when I began preaching that there were some days when I would prepare my sermon. And after preparing my sermon, I will sit with the scriptures of, you know, who we are in Christ. And I will just declare that because I had that extent of self doubt. And I would wonder a lot, but how can you work through me? I don't have much, you know, experience and I don't have much. So to overcome the oppressive thoughts of self doubt, I would just declare no in Christ Jesus, you know, I am redeemed. I am blessed. I am a child of God. So I would just begin to declare and declare and declare till I come to a place in my heart where I would say no devil. I don't want to hear your voice. I know who I am in Christ. And if God has called me, he will give me the grace. He will speak through the words that I speak. So it's a battle. So when we want the supernatural to be released, identity becomes very crucial. Okay. So that is one side of identity. The other side of identity is, you know, another extreme where we are so confident. But then we may also, I'm just using the word. Okay. But it's not a very pleasant word, but I just so you get the meaning of what I'm trying to say. Like a little arrogant where we are, we are above ourselves. And because God is working through my life, you know, the servant of God that I am, or the man of God that I am, or the woman of God that I am. But you see, that's next, isn't it? Christ, we have this position. You have given authority and dominion, and we can use it, but that doesn't mean that, you know, we, we move with pride and arrogance, and even, you know, like commanding God, or people around us, expecting, you know, we use the word entitlement, where we believe that we deserve great honor. We deserve, you know, great support. Like people should treat me like this. I should be given the first front seat because God is working through my life. You know, but you see that becomes too much of an extreme. Yes, be established in the identity. That's very important for the gifts to flow. Faith, you know, because that's a place of faith. But then we must avoid the extreme where we have a sense of entitlement and we want special treatment because, hey, the prophetic, the, you know, the supernatural healings, deliverance, signs, wonders are being done through my life. See, Jesus said, when we believe these things will happen, every child of God. Okay. So, in fact, we will see later, one must walk in humility. Okay. Instead of this attitude of being and feeling and it leads to dangers. It really leads to dangers. It's, it leads to a sense of superiority. We treat ourselves differently and, you know, we can make excuses for treating people badly, poorly. You know, then we, we also another thing that you know, talking about identity and be established in the supernatural is concerned. Another extreme thing that happens to people is, let's say we are flowing the gift. Okay. And many things are happening through our lives. And in some season of our lives, for whatever reason, we don't see that much of the supernatural manifesting anymore. Or, you know, I'm just giving an example, maybe because of some personal reasons, we have to move somewhere else. And those people don't even know us. Right. What happens opportunities come down, you know, to minister in the church setting all that. So a sense of worthlessness can take over where we feel now I'm useless. You know, I don't have anything to do. So does God really love me anymore? So what's happening? We are connecting the manifestation of the supernatural or supernatural ministry to our identity. So we should never connect, you know, our ministry to our identity in such a way that it becomes counterproductive or destructive. Okay. Because when we don't have opportunity to do that ministry, we become very discouraged or we become depressed. But who am I, you know? Yes, I may be a teacher of the word. I may be a worship leader. I may be moving in the gifts of the spirit. But at the end of the day, I'm a child of God and nobody can take that away from me. Even if I don't have opportunity to minister sometimes. So being secure in who we are in Christ rather than being secure in our ministry. Okay. Is very important. It's very, very important, especially when we are moving in the supernatural. So never be so connected as far as your identity is concerned with, you know, ministry or supernatural ministry. It's okay. People don't recognize us as a pastor or teacher. That's okay. At the end of the day, we are children of God and we are still as valued, you know, as anyone else. So this is a little bit about our heart, where our heart should be as far as our identity is concerned. And that's a very powerful place and we should be able to serve God from there. Just to remind all of us if at all you have any additional thoughts or questions, please feel free. You can always just unmute yourself and begin to talk. And continuing just so we can cover more ground. Okay. So the next aspect here in supernatural ministry is compassion. So heart preparation, my preparation. When we look at the ministry of Jesus, now we always see that the Lord Jesus, He looked at the people, you know, there are passages of scripture that say He was moved with compassion, that they were like sheep without a shepherd, that they had all these challenges. So we can ask the question, what initiated the supernatural, you know, as far as Jesus' ministry was concerned? You know, when He multiplied food, He looked at the people and they didn't have food. So He was concerned. He told His disciples, we've got to do something for them. A heart of compassion. That's where the ministry initiated. He looked at the woman of Nain, her young son died and he was compassionate. Oh, she has nobody. So what did Jesus do? He raised up the son of that lady of Nain. But what is it that is, if you want to use the word like a trigger for Jesus to do all these wonderful works, whether it is miracle, whether it is a resurrection, compassion. Okay. And when we think about supernatural ministry, compassion and love in our hearts for the people is key. You know, sometimes we might go into this mode of thinking that, you know, okay, this is how the principles of God's word works. These are how the gifts work. Okay, I'll just stick to that. I don't care. We may have other motivations. Like, oh, I have prayed this year that I must see healing. So whether I care for the people or not, you do a miracle. You know, it's working well for the people. But where is my heart? My heart is at the resurrection ministry. Or, you know, I want to be known as, you know, sometimes people say, you know, oh, so powerful, this really powerful man of God, you know. So, thanks for that. Sometimes we want that fame. We want that validation. At the ministry of the place. And actually, we want to be known as, you know, oh, person comes only sign miracles, healings. So what's happening? My identity is based on my ministry. And I'm not so concerned. And God touched my body. What do we see? Some passages here and I'm not actually, you know, getting us to leave them. But they all state like Matthew 14 14. Mark 634 versus 11 through 70. They all state that for Jesus, the motivating factor was, I have touched the people and nothing good for them. So he did what he did. So even for us, you have to ask the question. Do I really care for the people? No, why am I? And I think it's applicable not just for supernatural ministry, but for every ministry. If I'm teaching, I ask the question. Is it edifying is blessing for the people? Are they being established with God? Is it for a name for myself? Or if I'm again leading worship or doing art or whatever, any ministry, supernatural ministry? How is it a blessing for the people? How is it meeting their needs? Love and compassion, right? When we care for the people. In fact, we will go a greater distance to serve them, serve them well, serve them better. Okay, so sometimes we see people putting so much of hard work, you know, studying the word and sharing the. You know, when that comes to a place of compassion, what they couldn't be thinking is, I need to get the truth of God's word to be able to feed the people, nurture the people with the word. So excellent ministry is flowing from a place of compassion. And so we must always remember that, especially when it comes to supernatural ministry. Don't go by, this is the principle. Okay, because I have seen that in my own life and I have also maybe, you know, made mistakes sometimes where it's just about, it's just command and what's happening to the person, we don't care. The miracle has to happen. You know, the healing has to take place. No, but what about the individual? Compassion and love for the individual. You know, the Bible says in Galatians 5.6 that faith works by love. So we need faith for supernatural, but what is faith standing on? Love, a heart of love. We must pray and ask the Lord, give me a heart of love for the people, Lord, the people that I am ministering to. And then you will see a greater manifestation of the supernatural. Second Thessalonians 1 verse 11. It also teaches us that, you know, God meets our work of faith with his power. So we've got to have, I've been saying, love as the basis and from love comes, you know, the right kind of faith. And when we step out with faith, that's when God's power can come and be at work. So you see, there's a connection, right? We are only looking for the power, but behind the power is faith and behind faith is love. Without love in our hearts, you know, we cannot step out into true supernatural ministry. So I see that there's a hand raised. Yes, Zellie, you have something to share. You're on mute, Zellie. Okay, not sure if that was by mystic. We'll proceed and we'll see in case she's able to. Okay, it was by mystic. Okay, no problem. Let's move on. So anything so far about identity or compassion? Okay, so just think about it and to pray regarding that, especially, you know, at times when ministry is very tiring, it happens, particularly when we go for mission strips and all that. Sometimes we just feel like stopping, but the crowds are huge. But you know, in those moments, sometimes I've thought to myself, what is it that is giving us the energy? It's compassion. When you look at the faces of the people, you sense that love of God where you don't want to stop. You want to pray for another person and another person and another person, right? And even particularly, like for me, it has happened when I see people who are demon possessed. Yes, there is anger against Satan and the demonic, you know, spirits that are tormenting that person. But when you look at the person in that state of trauma, your heart just melts to see how a child of God can, you know, face all that difficulty. They should be set free. And then we go ahead and we minister because we want them set free. Okay, so compassion is very important, particularly for supernatural ministry. Okay, moving on, holiness. Now it goes without saying that holiness is not just necessary for ministry, but it is important for a good, the right kind of a Christian life. Okay, when Paul wrote to Timothy, he wrote to him and he said, if you cleanse yourself from all the evil things of the world, you will become a vessel that is ready and useful for the master's use. So holiness is to be cleansed and be available for God. And that is applicable whether, you know, we are thinking about ministry or not. As a child of God, we know God says in his word, be holy as I am holy. So we are called to holiness and that's the way. Any child of God should live their lives. But when it comes to ministry and supernatural ministry, what is it about holiness that, you know, we want to look into? Yes, we will avoid sinful deeds, sinful thoughts, get rid of sin in our heart, in our mind also. So you see, there are these levels, right? So deeds are more in our behavior, what we do on the outside. But then the inner level is our heart and our mind, where we choose to consecrate from the place of initiation, our thoughts. We dedicate it to God and we say, God, I want to be holy. Not just in what I do, but also, you know, as the psalmist said in Psalm 19 verse 14, may the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in your sight of God. So words and meditations of the heart at every level, holiness, being set apart for God, you know, that is the call of any child of God. So when it comes to, you know, someone who is pursuing the supernatural, you know, as a minister of God, we can look at it in this way. Again, like we're not saying that a minister or somebody who's serving God is better than a believer. No, that's not what we're saying. But if we do consider a civilian and a soldier, you see the lifestyle of a soldier will be very different from a civilian. A soldier is thinking and preparing oneself, himself or herself for the war. So if there is a crisis situation, you know, my body should be fit. You know, I should be ready to go to battle. I should be ready in every way skill wise, you know, my fitness wise or my mental preparation wise. So a soldier is very intentional to win the battle. So as ministers who are pursuing the supernatural, we have to be intentional. So we might just talk about, okay, you know, don't do sinful deeds and just be, you know, just do the right thing. And that is holiness. But for somebody who's pursuing mystery and supernatural ministry, it is right to say that we may also need to go one step higher, somewhat like a soldier, okay, with more focus, more intentionality. So by that we mean that let's say we are living a holy life. We're not doing anything sinful. We're not thinking anything sinful. But God may deal with parts of our life which may be unnecessary. Is it sinful? No, it's not. But it may be unnecessary. There can be certain things which may be unprofitable, okay, to us. Or there could be things which are unedifying, things that don't build us up. And, you know, God has this way of putting his finger on those things also in our lives and saying, can you get rid of that? Okay, but we might say, Lord, it's not wrong, no? I'm not doing anything wrong. However, when we respond to God, even in these matters where, you know, it may not be sinful really but just because God is speaking to us regarding those matters, we make a change. It's a place of greater consecration. Okay, now others might look at us and say, what is wrong with you? You know, the Bible doesn't say don't do this or don't. It doesn't say, no? Then it's okay. Why are you making it so legalistic? But, you see, for each of us, it may be different, whatever I'm talking about. Let's look at some statements that Paul made and then I will see if I can give you an example. So, in 1 Corinthians 6-12, you know, Paul said, all things are lawful for me. But all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Okay, he repeats a similar thought in 1 Corinthians 10-23 where he says, all things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful for me, but not all things, edify. So, in other words, he's saying, it may be okay, but it doesn't really add to my, add to me in any way. It doesn't strengthen me in any way. Okay, and he also points out there that brought under the power of any. So, we can take something very simple. Okay, something like, let's say, watching movies. Is it wrong? No. We can watch good movies, clean movies. It's okay, you know, as something that one does for entertainment. We could be a believer. We could also be in ministry. But maybe, you know, we do watch some good movies, learn from it, be inspired by it. There's absolutely no problem. But if, let's say, there's somebody who likes to spend time with videos and movies and things like that, and they're not particularly with intention trying to gain some knowledge, but just spending time to imagine this habit of watching movies or spending time in videos. You know, it begins to take up a few hours per day. It starts like that. Just randomly watching, scrolling, doing that to us. Yes. Same thing happens next day. Same thing happens next day. If we ask a question, is it right or wrong? See, we may not be able to give an answer to that. The person may not be watching anything filthy or, you know, ungodly. But if we ask the question, is it helpful? The answer is no. It's not helpful. Okay? And does it edify? Does it strengthen the person in God or in any other way? No. You're just scrolling through and you've lost whatever, 10, 20 hours a week, you lost time. We can also ask the question, can you manage without, you know, spending this time with the videos and the movies? May be at some point, the individual, they actually know. I want to spend some time to unwind. So what's happening? Slowly that is taking control over us. So you're being brought under the power. What Paul was saying is, see, this is another dimension of holiness where we need, if I may say so, like a little higher level of commitment and higher level of consecration. Now, it's not about right and wrong, but it's about, is it helpful? Does it edify? Is it making me a slave? You know, this can happen with food. It can happen with many things that all of us like. Very legitimate, valid things that many of us like. But somewhere, if we feel and see it's very personal, the things that affect you may not be affecting me. Okay. But we ask the question. If this is something that may begin to control me in some way, then I don't want it in my life. I don't want anything to control me. Okay. I want to be free to worship God. I want to, you know, at any point I should be ready to serve the Lord. And let's say any substance, small little substance, that should not be an addiction for me. Are you all getting what I'm saying? Yeah. So it's like moving with God when he's showing us certain things. Okay. And as I, as I've been saying, we'll have to hear the voice of God personally for us ourselves to know what, what are those things in our own lives that, you know, we should avoid and how we should consecrate ourselves unto the Lord. Okay. And at different stages in life, it might be something different. But through all this, God is just taking us to a greater consecration and a greater separation unto him. And also we shouldn't impose it on others, isn't it? So each one could make their own journey of committing and dedicating themselves unto the Lord. So God has this method as far as holiness is concerned. He'll just keep taking us higher, higher, higher. So when we read about the passage of Jesus being the wine and us being the branches, we also see in verse two that every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away and every branch that bears fruit, he does what prunes, that it may bear much fruit, bear more fruit. So here's the next point. Talking about supernatural ministry and bearing more fruit. We may be bearing fruit, but to bear more fruit from time to time, God works like this in our lives. He'll say, okay, how about you fix this area of your life? How about you fix the other area of your life? Are you willing to let go of maybe some extra sleep or some money or some clothes or some friends? It could be anything. But we have to allow God's pruning in our lives. Whenever pruning takes place, what is the gardener doing? More fruitfulness, more fruit. How can this tree have more fruit? Okay, cut off the dry leaves, cut off the extra branches, you know. So in that way, allow more sunlight. Ultimately, there will be more results even as far as our ministry and supernatural ministry is concerned. So we must allow the pruning to take away, you know, as we've been saying, certain things in our lives so unnecessary, unprofitable, unedifying things. And when we do that, we will move to greater levels of fruitfulness in God. Okay, so I think I will just stop here today. We've touched on three aspects. One is identity for supernatural ministry. We said compassion and the third holiness. We will do more in the next class. But any thoughts as of now or something to add? All right, so you could think through all these aspects. And let's close off with the word of prayer. Again, I want to invite maybe someone else. Lubega began. And someone else can please pray and we will close the class. Father, we thank you for this time of learning. We thank you for teaching us our God, for preparing ourselves, abstaining from things that you want us to prove. Oh, God, we pray that you will be able to identify and move according to your spirit. Lord Jesus, everything that we need to change in our lives for God, we pray that we would be sensitive to your voice and whatever which is not profitable, we pray to God that you show us and we would be able to change our God so that we would be channel of your glory, channel of your power, and we'll be able to minister to people. Father, we pray that help us to identify the areas that we need to work on. Work towards it, Lord Jesus. Thank you for enabling person Nancy to share your word. Bless each one of us, God. Thank you. Thank you, John. Thank you, everyone. God bless you. May you see much fruit in the ministry that you're involved in. Thank you, Ma. Thank you, Ma. Thank you. Thank you, brother. Happy You're here. You're here. Give it to me. I'm born a mess. I got you to be by my side, you don't. OK. I got you to be by my side, you don't.