 Recording started. Let's move on to the next chapter and just share the presentation based on the next chapter. Welcome back. Yes, welcome back. Okay, we are on chapter 8 on prophecy. So we all have come across prophecy, isn't it? We all have come across prophecies. Any of us would like to share on prophecy because prophecy is a message been shared or you know, it is God inspired by the Holy Spirit gives this message to us. And in the scripture we see that the prophetic ministry is expressed in both the old and the New Testament. It is about a message from God has been shared by the human vessel to people for the edifying of the church for the exhortation and for the comfort of the people. We see that in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 3 and there are some of them who are called in this office as we see in Ephesians chapter 411. One of the offices the prophet, prophet. So as believers we are not you know, we don't despise the prophecy but we need to test all prophecies and hold on to what is good and discard what is not from the Lord. So can open to the class if anyone would like to share the prophecy that they have received and how you see it been fulfilled in your life. Class anyone can just share your experience. So as you share we all are learning. Anyone? We have brother Subhashesh, Rosalind, Divya, John, Rubin, Tamang, Zalitholi, anyone just unmute and share Sid put off your camera. You can share your experience like how God spoke to you in your life and you see that has been fulfilled. That's been happening or you are in the process in the journey or it's been fulfilled or it's yet to come. Anyone? Please feel free to share it with the class. Yes Pradina, go ahead. Some years ago before the very last day the God spoke to me. I was in the bush clearing a working around the house. It's the new house so we are putting it on myself and my pastor's brother. And I heard the voice saying, so I walked to him and said, are you calling me? He said no. So I went back to go and walk and the voice he said he said again, great times. I say you are calling me. He looked at me and said, it's better you go and answer God's calling because this is God that be watching you for some time. And he told me, she said, if God calls again, say God you are ready. So I didn't hear the voice of God until three years later. So when that voice now came for the after three years of the first time, I told God I am ready. Then he didn't speak again. So he woke up for my wedding. If we can start my wedding, I was working with Nigeria Rest Cross. Then God told me, he said stop working. I wanted to serve me full time. I told my wife just got married, just wedded. This is what God said. And my wife said, well, before I got married to you, God have told me you are going to be a pastor. And that since then, God has been speaking. Since then, God has been speaking. So I've been in business a week after my wedding. So God spoke to me from all deeply, mostly all deeply. When I speak to him on the mountain pass and he said, he didn't speak all deeply. But most time, I hear, we could need to see voice connected to my heart. Because I heard that when God is speaking, speak with parable and in the word of God, which never does not do. So that's my experience. Praise God. Praise God, brother. Thank you so much for sharing. Very helpful. It's nice to know how God gave you a prophecy and God called you into the ministry. That's amazing. Anyone in the class, the more you share, we get to learn. It opens our understanding. So it gives our understanding for those, for the students who are new to this gift that it's not only God speaks to us, but God also have spoken to so many people. And this is true. And this is how God speaks to us. Anyone from the class, just go ahead and share. It can be simple. That's okay. Just share it. And this is a very safe platform to share. So don't worry. We all are learning. Can I share? Yes, brother. Please go ahead. Well, for me, the prophecy was not for me. But my wife has a church and coming to look at it, most of the time, she gives prophecies. I think she has that calling. Recently, one member of our church was seriously sick to the extent even the family was almost giving up on her. Where we live in Lungay, where the airport is, she was taken to Freetown. That's the capital of Sierra Leone. But she was really sick. And few days after, my wife called to go for her. And her daughter took the telephone and I said, Mommy wants to pray for you. Immediately, she said, yes, yes, yes. I think if mommy pray for me, it will be well. And indeed, she prayed and she asked God for healing and she prayed. And she told her it will be well with you. My special grace of God, this Sunday, that's the day before, this Sunday passed. The lady has recovered after a few months taking meditation. She has recovered. She came to the church. This Sunday, as she said, I thank God. I thank God for mommy. She prayed and prophesied for me that it will be well with me. And indeed, I have almost given up hope. But her word gave me assurance and she gave a testimony in church. I think my wife has some amount of gift of prophecy. This we did not know. Amen. Amen. That's nice. Thank you. Thank you, brother, for sharing. Okay. So we'll get back to our lessons. Let's turn to First Thessalonians Chapter 5 verse 20 to 21. Can one of us please read this, which is in the presentation as well? First Thessalonians Chapter 5 was 20 to 21. Do not despise prophecies. Test all things. Hold fast what is good. Yes. Test. Do not despise prophecy. Test all things and hold fast what is good. So we need to test the source of the inspiration. Is the person truly speaking from God or is he speaking from his own thoughts? Or is it from a demonic source? We need to check that. When we say demonic source, it could be any of the occult practice or own thoughts can be just because this person wants to share something he is talking about it in general. So we need to see that. And is he speaking from God? We need to test and validate the message, the prophecy that is given to each of us. Is it written in the Word of God? Is it aligned to the Word of God? Is it from the Holy Spirit? So when we check, when we discern, we will understand it. God will lead us. God will guide us. God will speak to us. There are several ways in which God can use prophecy to bring his guidance to us. And one of, and one of it is one second. I'm just trying to project of a confirmation. So God can use the prophecy to bring a confirmation of what he has been speaking to us. We have seen this before in the Old Testament, and we also seen the New Testament through the apostles. How the confirmation comes, how God confirms us to the prophecy. We may be praying over something for a very long time, waiting on God for a direction or to make a decision. It can be anything. It can be anything. It can be with regard to your studies, career, marriage, or the place to live in. As you speak, God can speak to us either through a person. Last time we studied how God can direct us through His Word, and now we're studying about prophecies and how it can be through anything. Maybe you happen to go to a church and you're the man of God. As he's been sharing the Word, he's been inspired by the Holy Spirit and he goes there and prophesies. It can be directly to a person with the name. God can use the man of God to call out the person by name and prophesy over him. Or it can be a general, without the name of prophecy been released over the congregation, and maybe there are many in the congregation. This prophecy has been ministered to many in the congregation and you see that been fulfilled in their life. For example, in the last class as I shared, I got a prophetic confirmation when I was spring over the three points to make a way for my dad to agree that I quit my job and get back, quit my job, and my boss to relieve me from the work. The third part I was spring was seeking for the Bible college. When I went to church, I never told anything to the pastor. In fact, pastor's meeting me for the very first time in the church and he just prayed and he prayed and he exactly spoke all these three points. He said, Lord, I pray and I make a way at that, that our dad agrees and releases into the plan that you have installed for him. Thirdly, he said, bring for a boss to relieve her. And the fourth, he said, Lord, you direct her in the part that she need to go where she can get herself equipped to all the three points step by step. He covered it. See, there's a confirmation, prophetic confirmation and exactly as he prayed in the coming months, I saw in maybe the process of two to three months, things started happening. Though I forgot, I went back, I got busy with my work and I completely forgot. But again, something stirred up within me. This is the right time that I need to put down my paper. My dad spoke and then within a week, I gave my resignation letter to my boss. My boss relieved me. My dad was happy that I quit the job. Then now the third point, I was seeking for the direction. As a prophetic direction, God can use prophecy to show us what he wants us to do. It can also come as an instruction to a certain things that we need to go to a certain place to meet a certain person or certain type of activity that we need to do. Whatever the Lord has put in our heart, when we do, you see God directing us prophetically in the right way. As I was continuing to pray for the right Bible college, one night I was inspired by God and my friend Emma. I sensed within me, God asking me as how Paul met Ananias. I wanted you to go and meet Pastor Ashish. I said, okay, Lord, I took a week's time, but I went and I met him. The day when I met him, there was all the reason that he was so busy after church that he could not meet me. But I said, no, Lord, you have told me to meet him and I waited for one week for that Sunday to come. Maybe God spoke to me on a Monday. Throughout the week, I waited because I didn't know much about the church, the church office, or the email IDs, nothing. I just know him once I visited the church and he prayed over me and after some time back, maybe after two or three months, I'm directed by the Lord to meet him. So I was waiting for that Sunday to come. That urge every day started increasing in me. I could not wait for that Sunday to come. And the minute the Sunday came, I was waiting for the service to get over. The service got over, but I see Pastor being very busy because, you know, there were some people from Gotty V had come and he was talking to them and wherever Pastor went, I was just following him. You know, it was so funny, yes, I still remember the day just starting friend of him and, you know, giving him signs that, listen, I need to talk to you. I need to talk to you. You know, after two or three instances that he spotted that I'm following him, that I need to talk to him. He said, can you please give me some time? I'll meet you. And I needed that confirmation. When I got, I waited and after that he met me. He spoke to me and I said, I need your direction. I want to join. I'm looking out for a Bible college to join. Can you recommend me any of the Bible colleges? And then he told me, we have our own college. Would you like to join? I said, yes, immediately I was referred to the principal of the college and that's how my journey started. See the Lord directing to the right person at the right place. When we rely, when we depend on God, God directs us. God leads us, prophetic revelation. Many times people may not be aware of the potential that God has placed within them. They may not be aware the call of God or the plan that God have in their life. So now God can reveal to them through prophecy. God can bring that from within them. The desire, maybe I didn't even carry the desire to serve God. And you're in a meeting when I had my first encounter with God in a retreat center, it was on, yes, it was on the last week of July of 2008. I encountered Lord on July 31st night. And this was the verse that I received that you shall be my witness as per Acts chapter 1 verse 8. I received it and my life changed after coming back to Bangalore. And here there was a sudden urge and thirst to know his word. So I started studying his word night and day. Whenever I get time, started studying. I was working with a, with a BPO company, BPO sector. And whenever I find time, you know, every time I used to log into the Bible Bible get away, start studying the scripture, read the scripture, study. I have many questions, but I didn't know home to go and ask and inquire with. And one day there was a battle, you know, between my addiction and everything, you know, it was a very difficult face in my life. I was going through, I said, Lord, I need you please strengthen me. And one night I was addicted to the video games and, you know, I have the computer friend of me and I see all my friends play and I was just sitting there and I said, Lord, help me to overcome this. You have taken this addiction from me and I don't want to get back to it. And as it was spring that night, I was led by God to one of the prayer meeting. So I went for that prayer meeting. It was in, you know, a few months, maybe in August and September, I went and they had conducted a night prayer service in the month of December, 31st night. Then I went for the prayer meeting, you know, there was about 200 people or 300, I'm not very sure, but there were many in that hall. And, you know, they always praying and praising and because it was a New Year Eve service, they started sharing the testimony. So yeah, there was a call to share the testimony of what happened in their life. So, you know, and as we were praying, I sense a lot asking me, go share your testimony. I was a big person, very fearful. I can actually speak one to one well, but when it comes to a crowd, I'm very scared. I'm not a person who can address anything to a crowd. So I kept refusing this sets what I was getting Lord leading me asking me to go and share the testimony. But I saw a strong urge, which I've never felt before or much later. And I was led to the stage. And you know, I went up. All I remember with my sense was, Hi, I'm, I'm dying and Nancy, I just introduced myself. And I saw the strength of the Lord just flow in and through me to share the testimony. As I shared the testimony. And after that, suddenly, the man of God just held my hand and he lifted, lifted my hand up and he asked the congregation to stretch out the and upon and pray. And the whole congregation, they just stretched out their hand and they started praying for me in tongues. Just give me a minute, guys, please. Sorry about it. My bad. My laptop battery was running out. Thank you. Yes, as the congregation stretched, they hand and prayed. The man of God just spoke the same words what I encountered in, you know, a few months back in a different retreat setup, the same words asked chapter one, eight, and he said that God is raising you as a preacher as a minister of God. This was not even there in my thoughts. Not even there. I didn't even have this desire within me. So all of a sudden the desire has been birthed. I did not say yes or no to the call of God. I just said, Lord, I submit to you, not knowing what to do next. The journey went on. So I received this on Jan 1st of 2009, the evening service. It is a December 31st night. The next day was Jan 1st, the new year of 2009. I was just normally getting back to my work, working. But then things started changing. Things started changing. God started leading me to a good youth group. I started serving in the youth group and the different ministries, whatever came my way, where I can volunteer and serve. And I started learning. That was a process where I started learning and this desire to serve God started increasing within me. To be equipped in the word also started to increase in me. So it was about three years that I prayed that I need to quit my work and join a Bible college. There was a revelation revealed through the man of God in that prayer meeting. That's how God can speak to us, call things into existence. I may have never thought that I could serve in a ministry. I didn't even have this desire, but God just birthed this in me. He brought it. He brought this call within me. He unveiled his plans and purpose that I was very particular in the way that I lead my life and the choices that I make in my life. From then on, every step that I take, I started seeking God. God, is this your will? Is this what you wanted me to do? There were times that the enemy could have planned to deviate me from the call of God. But every time when I seek God, God by supernatural intervention, he has saved me, has protected me, and he has always kept me under his path so that I could pursue his call and this plan and purpose will be fulfilled my life. And also I would like to reiterate on the emphasis of testing all the prophecies. Test it. Is it aligned with the word of God? And do you also sense within you? Do you have the desire to pursue what God is asking you to do? And at the same time, we need to be conscious of not going around from meeting to meeting or from each person seeking for a prophecy. But we need to wait on God. It can just happen. It can just happen. That's how God speaks to us and even leads us. But at the same time, I see there are many servants of God who share the experience saying, I didn't have any dramatic experience. I just sensed God leading me in this path. And here, I chose the ministry and God is leading me and they have a powerful ministry. So it's not that every time we should have a dramatic experience like how God called Paul and how God spoke to me No. We don't have to. But at the same time, God is leading us. He speaks to us in the way each one can understand, can be led, can believe, can increase the faith that can be increased in each one of us. So God speaks to each one of us in different ways. God had to do many signs for Gideon when we were studying on the book of Judges. Gideon asked for three signs and God just did what he was asking for, just to increase the faith in Gideon for him to accept the call of God and step out to be a mighty warrior. So each one of us, according to our faith, God ministers to us. God speaks to us in the way that we could understand. If we can understand much better in a wish way, he gives us the wish when if we can understand through the senses, God speaks to us in our senses. If we can understand by the touch and feel, he speaks to us in that way. So there are different ways God speaks to us according to the person. So we need to be open enough. We need to ask God, God speak to me. Okay, so I'll open up to the class if anyone would like to share the different way how God gave you the prophetic confirmation of the prophetic direction, the prophetic revelation. Please go ahead and share it with us. I'll just share one incidence. Yes, please. So during January 2020, the first of January, I'm sitting in the presence of the Lord and asking for guidance for this year. So Sam's 92 was for you have made me glad by the works of your hand. That was one verse which popped up in my mind. I used to hold on to that and kept praying about it and just believing God to work for the peace in 2020. And my marriage proposal came through in the month of June. And during that time, I was just asking God regarding confirmations and God gave multiple confirmations and this was one of the verses God reminded me which he spoke in the month of January. And my wife's name is Gladz and somehow the word that God spoke in the month of January also had a word Glad in it and it's kind of a confirmation which I took personally and I'm saying this to copy for everyone but I'm just saying that I could relate to it very much. Yeah, praise God. Praise God. That is nice. Yes, God speaks to each one of us in a different way and he confirms to us in that way. Okay, anyone else who'd like to share? That was very inspiring. Anyone in the class? Sid, Divya, Roslyn, Brother Subashish. I'm just calling out the names that I could see on my screen. Brother Isaac, Ruben, Zealotoli. Just go ahead, share. Even if I've not called your name, please go ahead. As the Lord is inspiring you to speak with the benefit of the class. Just go ahead and share. What's in your heart? How God ministered to you through these gifts? It can be any prophetic confirmation or this direction or the revelation. Divya, would you like to share if you have received any prophecies towards any confirmation or the direction of the revelation? Yeah, best to share. I just got disconnected. Yeah, so one, I have one of my mentors. She, I was going through a little tough time during 2017, no, two years before I think it's 2019. So she encouraged me with the words in Psalms 40. It's two to five. I'll just read. And it, during that time when she said that I was not able to receive it, what it was saying, because I was not able to understand or believe it. But I just kept it in my heart. I just wrote it down in my journal and I just went on. And yeah, the verses like this, Psalm 40, I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined to me and heard my cry. He also brought me up out of a horrible pit out of the Myrie clay and set my feet upon a rock and established my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God. Many will see it in fear and will trust in the Lord. So after this, there was a meeting in which I got the opportunity to attend and the pastor was, you know, just in general, he was prophesying upon people. So he just said, so as I went on to the platform, he was praying or praying for each one. And as he prayed for me, he said exactly these words. So it was kind of a confirmation for me. I was trying to ask him the reference, but yeah, similarly, he was also really busy. So then I went back and checked what I had written down in the journal and that's worse. And I felt it is a prophetic confirmation for me. And like he has put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God. Many will see it in fear and will trust in the Lord. I'm just seeing, you know, the, you know, fulfillment. Yeah, it is in the process, praising God. Praise God. Praise God. When we hold on to all the promises we see, you know, it's been fulfilled. We read, can one of us please turn to Habakkuk chapter two verse two? Thank you, ma'am, for the opportunity. Praise God. Thank you for sharing. Yeah. Can one of us please turn to Habakkuk chapter two? Ma'am, Habakkuk chapter two versus? Two. Then the Lord replied, write down the revelation and make it plain on the table, on the tablet, so that the herald may run with it. Three. For the revelation awaits an appointed time. It speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it lingers, wait for it. It will certainly come and will not delay. Amen. Amen. See what a, you know, encouraging word is this for each one of us. Though many in our class would have received prophecy, but I would encourage you to please journal it, write it down. Do not think that, you know, it's not been fulfilled. But the word is encouraging us. When we write it down and wait upon it, there will be a time when every word that has been shared as a prophecy will come to pass, though it tarries, but it will be fulfilled. Though it is delayed, it will be fulfilled in the right time. There's a process for every word, every season that we go through. God is strengthening us. There is a process. God is building us. We are learning something new in the process for that word, for that prophecy to come to pass in our life. So hold on to it. Don't give up. Isaiah 55.11 also says every word that goes out of our mouth shall not return and void, but it will fulfill its purpose. Okay. So as we end this session, let's pray. God to open up these spiritual gifts and areas in our life to see visions, to see dreams, to prophesy, and also some of us who have received the prophecy will not yet fulfill and we are waiting on the word. God will build us. God will make that word to be fulfilled in and through us. Okay. So can I request one of us to please lead us and pray? Okay. So you can go ahead. Sharda, we thank you. The King of glory we appreciate your mention. Yes, Lord. Well, thank you for your lecture. We thank you for the participants who are students. We thank you for the foundation of this school. We thank you for family. We thank you for giving us this knowledge of your word. Be that glorified in the name of Jesus. Sharda, we ask you for your strength over our lecture and more revelation and more insight in the name of Jesus. The ultimate goal, the essence of this lecture is to make heaven, to know your word and to make heaven. Oh God, none of us will be with product of your product in the name of Jesus. My Father, my God, by the time, oh God, you will come back again to meet us. We will be with you in the name of Jesus Christ. And I ask for grace for every upon every student and a lecturer and a foundation and the master or God of the school and the chancellor of the school. Let your great rest upon us in the name of Jesus. Father Jesus, and I decree and I declare, he shall be where we talk, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Thank you so much, Brother Inok. God bless each one as we prepare our self and open up for the gifts of the Spirit. And the following days, let's ask God, God speak to me. And each of us will experience God speaking to us in dreams, vision, prophecies. And we'll also flow in the words of wisdom, words of knowledge. And when we wait, then take that risk. Okay, thank you so much. Have a great week. God bless you all. See you all next week. Thank you. God bless.