 Okay, yeah, so wonderful to see that you know so many so so many of you sharing Yeah, so just want to encourage all of us you see these are different ways right some of you like zealot only shared about scripture Like if you could sense in here it was flowing and it reminded her of a scripture and There's someone else who's yeah Reminded of Isaiah 43 that was Rosalind so it reminded so you see that you know it could be a Reminder of something that God has already spoken God has already put in like Elisha said an image And of an inscription on a plant etc So something that was visual right And then who will shared yeah, so they via shared Rosalind shared about the presence of God Feeling the presence of God so it could be something very tangible You know to our spirit senses and it could also be to our natural senses. So So all those right, so I just wanted to encourage us to continue, you know with it and So you you know, you know, okay God has been speaking to me in these ways and We can always ask him Lord you you you you know, you speak to me you speak to me and In whatever way you choose you speak to me and for us to be aware of it We need to be sensitive right okay, we are sharing that just saw the feet of an old lady Covering her shoes with a peepee peepee kit kind of thing. I don't know what it means. Okay Feet of an old person covering her shoes with a peepee, okay Okay, yeah Well, of course it talks about protection Maybe it's divine protection I'm not sure what it could be Anything on those lines So you can just pray and ask the Lord the prayer, you know because shoes and feet really talk about our walk and Are also, you know, what we see in Ephesians 6 talks about the shoes of readiness to share the gospel So maybe it's a person who's you know, who's doing that and then There's a kind of a protection It can be a protection For the ministry it can be, you know, so it may not be a literal thing because we are living in, you know Places where there's a hand to make etc So maybe the Lord is you know showing that because it's something that you You know and relate to the peepee kit the peepee, you know the thing covering But it's saying that He will protect There's a protection on her life Okay, right Okay, so Yeah, so so the thing is For us to keep going right and and you see God speaks in different ways, you know, maybe some of you are saying hey I didn't sense anything Okay Okay, headache, let's praise God. Wow Wonderful, you know, maybe some of you are saying hey, I didn't sense anything. Is there something wrong with me? Is there something, you know, maybe I'm not, you know, spiritual enough No, you know nothing like that, right just that God God speaks And God speaks in different ways and sometimes, you know, we sense sometimes we do not and And so there's no, you know, there's no second-class citizen in the kingdom of God. We're all children of God, right? So just wanted to Just wanted to say that right so so you you take turns, you know, you you come on press in You know, you you be encouraged you press and maybe God speaks in a different way, you know Sometimes we're gonna look at, you know the gift of prophecy and the way he speaks and Etc. So we're gonna look at that. Okay, so we'll have some more thoughts on this and some more time in Praying and and receiving and praying for one another prophesying over one other et cetera, right? So we'll do that Yeah, okay, so let's move on to the next one which is Okay, just one more one other thing also is that Before we move on one other thing is that, you know, many times, you know, maybe even during the break You may you may, you know, you you may have seen something but your mind just cancelled it out and saying, okay That's not that's not from God. Okay. It that that happens all the time. Hey, this seems too, you know It's too foolish. There's what I'm what I'm sensing. It seems too too wonderful or too, you know, too foolish or It can't be God, whatever, you know, our mind cancels it out, right? That happens. Okay. So even for some of you who shared good stuff, maybe, you know, you're thinking Maybe I'm just saying maybe thinking, okay, you know, why did I do that? Why they share that? Maybe that's that's not God Maybe that's just me, you know, don't worry, you know, our mind just does that, right? We question that but as we journey on with God, we get more and more assured of the fact that Yes, Lord, it was you, right? So this looking in hand hindsight is good Wonderful, but we also need to take those steps of faith and be assured of God God leading us, right? And and, you know, speaking those words to those who need help, you know, or maybe for yourself, God is speaking and they receive it and receive encouragement and strength or maybe it for someone else also, right? So we we grow in confidence, grow in faith and as we walk with God, okay? Okay, so no need to feel condemned or any other, you know, way, okay? Okay, let's look at chapter nine Let me Put the notes there. Okay. So chapter nine. I hope you're seeing it. Yeah, okay It's coming up, right? Okay, so let's look at prophecy. Okay, so So we're still talking about the vocal gifts, gifts that say something. So we say we looked at tongues We looked at interpretation of tongues and now we're looking at the gift of prophecy now Just wanted to say that, you know, we are we're gonna go quickly through this and maybe we'll take some sometime Yes, spending some time on this but but it's still not going to be a very in-depth study Like we have another course on the prophetic ministry. Okay, so that would be in your second year I think yeah second year. So So there's a course which is in-depth in the prophetic So I just wanted to say that, you know, in case you feel that hey I'm not going really deep in that there's because there's another course on the prophetic. Okay, so when you look at the prophetic or the gift of prophecy We see that prophecy is to is inspired speaking. You know speaking forth In other words, it's God speaking to man through man. Okay, that would be a very simple way of looking at prophecy that it's it is God who was speaking to man and through man. Okay, and Just a minute. I'm just getting a verse here So it's God speaking to man and and through through a person so So it is when we say, you know, it's something that we speak out or inspired speaking or it's inspired action also And when we say inspired speaking, it's it's not the same as preaching. Okay, so it's not the same as You know prepared preaching. Okay, so in fact when it comes to Prophecy, you know, you are speaking forth. There's no, you know Natural preparation in the sense of of course we spend time in prayer. Of course, we are, you know, we receive Spend time in the world and so on but you're not preparing to say that You know, you're not putting that as a message to say it is inspired speaking. You might write it down We might, you know, maybe it happens a week before you actually get to release it Right, you get to speak it. So you made a record of it. You written it down, etc. So all that is fine But then it is not something that's pre-meditated, right? It's not something that you've Thought about it planned it and then you put it down or and then you speak it. It's Inspired speaking. It's just like You know, because we tried the studying about spiritual gifts. It's something that is given by the Holy Spirit Inspired by the Holy Spirit. Okay, so one contains 14 and verse 3 talks about the fact that when we prophesy Okay, so he who prophesies speaks edification Exhaughtation and comfort so these are words of edification some things that build up Another way of looking at it is constructive spiritual progress, you know Something that happens in the inner man something that builds up and edifice is a building So there's you know, there's something that added to us in the spirit when we receive a prophecy Right something that builds us up. We are maybe encouraged. Maybe we are, you know, comforted and all that happens And when we look at it, it's this simple gift of prophecy. You know, we just explained that in a bit So it's we looked at the simple gift of prophecy. We looked at the ministry gift of prophecy also, right and also Prophecy or the gift of the spirit as a membership gift, right? So so the difference is this that for all believers It is it is available, right? The simple gift of prophecy, which is a gift of spirit is for all believers and all believers Can release prophetic words of edification Exhaughtation and comfort, okay As we grow in the prophetic ministry and as we may be some are called to The prophetic, I'm sorry, maybe some are called to the prophetic office office of the prophet or the ministry gift of the prophet then you know such People believers would flow in maybe correctional directional And also, you know foretelling, right something that is got a futuristic element to it Okay, this is something that's going to happen, right? So get ready This is something that God has prepared for you planned for you get ready or you know in In a few years from now, this is you will you know, so it's preparatory It's foretelling. Okay, so so that is the prophetic office, okay, so We see that You know, we see these these kind of things when it comes to the prophetic gift like the gift of prophecy, okay? so but in a simple manner in When we look at the gift of prophecy, we see that it's speaking words of edification edification exhortation and comfort as given or in as inspired by the holy spirit, okay? Many times we think of prophecy as I'll tell you a future. No, God is telling me something about my future It's when we look at prophecy. It's not always that right This is also prophecy. Is there an edifying word? Is that an encouraging word? Is there a comforting word that God is saying, you know, I'm with you I'm always with you as I was so I will be now. That's a edifying word. That's a comforting word, right and and that's that's prophecy if it's inspired by the spirit of God and to your spirit that is prophecy, right? So we see that the entire scripture is prophetic right Like second Corinthians 2 and sorry 3 and verse 16 says that that we all scriptures God breathed or all scripture is Inspired by the spirit of God. He's the author. He's the one who's was given us the scriptures He's the one and similarly in other references Roman 1626 and so on so So because we have the word of God now that is what we use in order to test the prophecy One second Peter 1 verse 2021. I think this is the question which Elisha asked this morning You know knowing that first no prophecies of scripture of of scriptures of any private interpretation Okay, so which means that we interpret in In the light of scripture Right, we discern we interpret in the light of scripture as led by the Holy Spirit So it's it's not that I rationalize it. I put together of course we can use our minds and so on but but as led by the Holy Spirit as moved by the Holy Spirit. So We understand that since it's based on the word of God a prophecy a true prophetic word will not contradict the word of God There will not be in opposition to the word of God or the word of God's You know the the standard of God's word Etc. You know the word the Prophetic word will never contradict Right because God's word is God's will God's desire and the spirit and the word agree one John five or seven Spirit and the word agree. So there's always an agreement So that is why we say, you know, test it with the word of God because the word of God is prophetic in nature I'm inspired by the spirit of God and so this word is also inspired by the spirit of God so you take that and You, you know, your reference point is the written word Okay, always check and say, you know, does it contradict because we you know, this the word of God is You know, we value it the it's our foundation and That cannot be higher than any, you know, prophetic direction or you know, it's based out that this is our foundation, right? so in the Old Testament we see several People several in fact, I think when we say prophet the picture that comes to your mind will be somebody with a you know Grey beard long flowing hair somebody with a stick very stern So that's a picture that we have, you know if you've grown up and in church and you heard all these stories and that's a you know picture of prophet right so we see many prophets in the Old Testament whom God raised up and whom God used and Just like we see the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament the Old Dispensation How was it that he would come upon some? Individual certain people for a specific time maybe it in their lifetime he'll be there upon them and Through them fulfill Whatever plans and purposes, right the agenda of God would be fulfilled through that person for that generation, right? so That person will be the spokesperson or the mouthpiece of God right for people and then even you know It could be a priest. It could be a prophet So the kings would go people in authority people in influence, you know would go and ask Just like how they did with Elijah With Elisha it would go and receive direction. What is God saying? Please tell us because They did not have the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit. So this is how the Holy Spirit moved So when it comes to the prophetic, this is how it was on certain Individuals alone. Okay, but in the new covenant We see in the new dispensation that the Spirit of God Indwells us the Holy Spirit indwells us. So we see that's a major Difference, no, it's the same Holy Spirit Same God same Holy Spirit But the way he moves has different, you know in the New Testament is you know for all believers Right and there are measures in which he moves like the simple gift of prophecies for all believers and there are believers In the church or in the body of Christ or through whom the Holy Spirit moves in certain specific ways and Prophecies in prophetic is also one where they are function in the body of Christ Their function in the church is to move consistently in the prophetic But they are still not prophets, right? And there are some who are called to the prophetic office and they are prophets where the territorial Influences more they announce the moves of God and so on right. This is what they are called as a ministry so same Holy Spirit which mean what As believers and more so because we have you know second Corinthians 3 talks about how we it is a more glorious Covenant more glorious ministry of the Spirit. Okay, right. So in the New Testament several examples, you know Especially just before the birth of the Lord Jesus We see several people who prophesied. Okay, and we looked at that earlier also, you know Elizabeth being filled with the Holy Spirit prophesying Zacharias prophesying over John the Baptist His own son and he prophesied then the Simeon prophesying over the baby Jesus and maybe when they came into the temple Then Anna the prophetess she prophesied, you know around the same time, right? So we see John the Baptist also prophesying. You see the Lord Jesus also was recognized as a prophet, right? People recognized him. They said look chapter 24 was 19 This is Jesus of Nazareth was a prophet mighty indeed and word before God and all people right and the Lord himself When he said, you know when people actually said, you know, isn't he Jesus the carpenter's son So the Lord's You know a response that there's a prophet is not without honor except in his own hometown, right? So so he Referred himself as a prophet Okay, how about the early church? Well early church and we read through the book of Acts we see that Plenty of, you know prophetic People moving in prophecy Well at the beginning itself when we see Acts chapter 2 we see that when Peter Peter makes that connection No, he experiences the baptism of the Holy Spirit and he says this is what prophet Joel prophesied He made that connection and he said, you know that God prophesied says I will pour out my spirit on all flesh and And this is what it is This is the outcome of that outpouring of the Holy Spirit says your sons and your daughters shall prophesy Your young men shall see visions your old men shall see dreams and on my men servants and on my maids maid servants I will pour out my spirit in those days and they shall prophesy they shall speak forth as inspired By the spirit, you know, they shall speak forth So the Holy Spirit Spore out and they will speak forth they will prophesy. Okay, so we see that as as a prophecy coming to pass in in the early church then the apostles they were Apostolic and also prophetic in nature that they were the The Lord Jesus with the chief cornerstone and the church was built on the foundation of the apostles and the Prophets so we see that they were prophetic in their ministry Several versus talking about that in the church in Jerusalem. Also, there were several prophets We read about agabas. We hear about Judas and Silas who are referred to as prophets right so Acts chapter 11 talks about that in those days Let me just read that in those days the prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch so these were people who were in Jerusalem One of them agabas stood up and showed by the spirit that there was going to be a great famine. So, you know, we see that prophetic office was very much there in the early church In Jerusalem, we see in Antioch and and so on Okay The believers in the early church in the local churches that were established around that time, you know when Paul begins his ministerial journeys his mission trips and he and he Plans churches he writes to the Corinthians right and and then he talks about how They He talks about the prophetic gift, right? If you if you look at I think we spent a lot of time looking at those verses in chapter 13 and chapter 14 We see that Paul is Writing about sorry chapter 13 was about love He but he makes reference to prophecy Right and chapter 12 again about prophecy chapter 14 a lot about prophecy Right prophesying as believers. What are some? Some guidelines for that. So he talks about that So we see that this was a teaching to the local church of that day. So we see that people were You know Moving in the prophetic gift believers were moving in the prophetic gift We see both men and women prophesied we read about Philip who's one of the seven who was chosen to serve the tables who was chosen to serve food to the you know to the widows and Philip we see is mentioned as an evangelist and we also is mentioned as having four daughters who prophesied right Accepted 21 worse night Okay Then when we come to Ephesians 4 verse 11 12 we see that the Lord Jesus gives this the the office of the prophet as The gift of the office of the prophet and he places That ministry in the body of Christ in the church Right for the equipping of the saints. So we see that being laid out very clearly Okay, um and so on and even in the in the tribulation we read about in That in revelation chapter 11 that um Elijah and Enoch You know, there'll be There'll be two witnesses and most likely these two and they will be prophesying. Okay Okay, so, uh, what about today right today? Is it valid? So we know that it's little times valid today. Also, we see that Uh, it has not ended. It is very much valid. Okay um, if you want, uh, you know, we're going to have this course Next year, but if you want to learn more read more about the prophetic you can actually download this book understanding the prophetic, okay, so you can go to abcwo rg slash books And uh and download understanding the prophetic um, so it's a great book written by pastashesh and Very very valuable As a instruct, you know, you know as a guideline as something for us to Learn very in-depth about the prophetic ministry, right? um, very useful. Okay, so All believers Who are baptized in the spirit can prophesy Okay, because when paul writes to the kundin church He says first you love desire spiritual gifts Okay, so is he writing to only some? Is he writing to all he's writing to all? Okay, when he when he puts down, um the guidelines for You know earnestly desire the best gifts. Is he writing to some or he's writing to all? Obviously, he's writing to all like one kundin's 12 and the last was there earnestly desire the best gifts 14 first you love desire spiritual gifts then he goes on to talk about Um, you know, I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesy This is verse five one kundin's 14 verse five that even more that you prophesy um So we see that You know he's saying this is my desire that you will prophesy all of you will prophesy then Then in his instruction for How it should be done in the church, you know, this is what he says in verse 31 one kundin's 14 verse 31 for you Can all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be encouraged use that word twice in that verse all Prophecy all may learn all may be Encourage so it's for all believers Prophecy is for all believers. So Is prophecy for you as a believer? definitely yes a big yes because um, it is for all believers which includes you and me All right, so it brings an inspired word Okay, a word Inspired by the Holy Spirit breathed by the Holy Spirit because he knows Who are the people who need comfort and he wants to bring comfort through you and I to hurting people And what does he do? He inspires us to speak these words of comfort and And it could be you know about the person about their lives about their past about their future, you know And along with the prophecy, you know, we are also going to learn about word of knowledge and word of wisdom And what are the difference and these actually flow together Prophecy word of knowledge word of wisdom these flow together So we're going to learn about that also But but the thing is this that the Holy Spirit who knows the hearts and minds of people Right, he knows what the need is. He knows that people need to hear this He knows that people are weak. They need to be strengthened. So He chooses to bless them Right, he chooses to express himself. We saw that the spiritual gift is actually a manifestation of the Spirit of God Right, so he wants to reach out. He chooses to do that through us who are members of the body of Christ Right, so he brings an inspired word So on our part We must be expectant. We must desire to prophesy And it is with again faith that we prophesy by faith we receive by faith we minister in the prophetic We should not despise prophecies Okay, now how you know, you might wonder, you know, why should one despise prophecies? Right, because it's it's such a wonderful gift Why should one despise prophecies? Well It can happen because of abuse just like the abuse of any gift right abuse of even You know The the gospel the way it is shared the way it is communicated Probably it's not done in the right way. Maybe it's done with the wrong motives Which is an abuse. No, it's not the proper use of it. It's abuse of it. Which is not the right use of it. So Because of which You know people are hurt right people don't want anything to do with certain things So they Despise they say, okay, I don't want this actually. I love Jesus But I don't want this. I you know, I have nothing against Jesus But I don't want this because it has not been represented. Well, the gift has not been ministered in the right way, right? Maybe they were you know Spoken, you know condemned or you know, all kinds of things, right? So Paul writes to the Thessalonians and he says Do not quench the spirit. Do not despise prophecies Test all things and hold fast to what is good, which means Don't hold fast to what is not good. Well The gift is perfect The prophetic word that comes is perfect because it comes from God inspired by the Holy Spirit But the vessel human vessel is imperfect right So, yeah, there are limitations. They are imperfect and therefore We need to test the need for testing right and therefore we need to hold on to what is good And not hold on or reject what is not good Okay, if you've tested and you've seen that hey, this is this part of it is Is not good then don't despise prophecy But don't hold on to what is good. So that's the That's the instruction because when we despise prophecies What happens is we are actually despising the work of the Holy Spirit We are, you know, because he is it is a manifestation of the spirit And when we despise prophecies, we are also quenching the spirit, which means that Spirit of God wants to do something in our lives and we are throwing water on it He's trying, you know, he wants to be that fire roting fire in our lives But we are pouring water quenching it right, okay Um Let's go through this. Uh, this is interesting that about the uses of the prophetic Of the of the gift of prophecy right So it reveals what the Lord is saying to a person It it is the witness of The Lord Jesus what Jesus says and does and You know So it is pointing to the Lord Jesus revelation 19 and verse 10 interesting words. It says Where you know, John falls down to worship this angel and and then it says The you know, the angel says, you know, see that you do not do that I'm your fellow servant and one of your brethren who are fellowship of Jesus um Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. So The the prophecy is something that give testifies to The Lord Jesus that reveals it reveals the truth about Jesus, right and the truth that points to Jesus So, um prophecy does that Okay, it gives evidence. It gives weightage to the truth About Jesus and what he speaks and what he says Okay, secondly, it brings edification, exhortation being strength. It brings encouragement. It brings comfort It motivates people to act in a certain way to or in a certain You know, take a certain course of direction, you know, when we see acts 13 Now they Minister to the Lord that they are in prayer all these people, you know, some of these prophets some of these teachers They are in Antioch in this church in Antioch and they are spending time in prayer and they are in fasting and prayer and Here comes the message here comes the profiting message as they minister to the Lord the Holy Spirit said now separate to me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them Okay, so here's a inspired utterance, right? So Obviously, they must have prayed and they must have you know and prophesied over Paul and cyclists saying You know, this is what Barnabas and Saul sorry This is what the Lord says the Lord wants to separate you for the work the Lord has called you for the work And and so soon after that you see that they bless them and then send them on their journey And they start so and that's how starts the missionary journey of Paul Like he honors the first missionary journey. He goes and Many are saved and churches are planted and so on right? So That's how it the whole thing starts the minister to the Lord in fasting and prayer and here comes the prophetic utterance and They release that and this what so which means that to motivate Motivate someone in ministry to push someone into a or lead someone into a direction in which God is called for them You know the gift of prophecy Does that okay to reveal the potential That God has placed in a person, you know, maybe it's the call that God has the potential that God has like The Lord Jesus looked at Peter and he said you are Simon sign of son of Jonah. You shall be called safe us Okay, which is safe us means tone And Simon means a read so the Lord was saying you shall be called this And this is what you are, but you shall be this which means that You know, this is going to happen in your life You will have much strength and and that's exactly that is what happened Like Peter we see Peter standing and preaching and three thousand coming and being added to the church You see is a very different Peter from the very different person From the one who actually denied the Lord Having you know denied the Lord not just once but twice Having known him having having met him. He denied all that right now. We see a very different Peter It's not Simon the read anymore, but he's actually Simon Peter is now safe us which is a stone Right The the prophetic also confirms what God has been speaking to someone. It's a confirmation And you know, maybe God has been leading in a certain way And and here comes the prophetic word, right? God has been speaking to you And yes, but what you've been planning and deciding God wants you to do it So go ahead and do it, right? So a prophetic word will be a word of confirmation Right, it could be a word of Establishing already something that God has been speaking It could be to bring correction to an individual like we we see in in the case of Prophet Nathan and David now David has had committed adultery murder And prophet Nathan comes and brings correction to David Right So prophecy does that bringing correction. It could be to an individual It could be to a church. It could be the community family maybe because why because God wants restoration, right and God is bringing individuals and speaking through individuals to It could be to an individual. It could be to a community right and also There are several other things, you know, you can go through it You know to alert people to bring correction to warn of danger Let's look at this to reveal the secrets of the heart so that people will be drawn to God, you know So prophecy also gift of prophecy in evangelism Right, we see that in one Corinthians 14 And versus 24 25, you know, it says if all prophesy and an unbeliever Or an uninformed person comes in right so this is in church. There's prophecy happening Then he is convinced by all he's convicted by all and thus the secrets of his heart are revealed And so falling down on his face He will worship God and report that God is truly among you Okay, now secrets of the heart. There are certain things that maybe A person has, you know, has not revealed to anyone living on earth only that person knows And when there's a prophetic utterance about it This person shaken How can this person know? How can he know? How can she know? Right. There's humanly impossible Then the other thing other conclusion is yes There is a God and that God knows All not only does he know that what he sees and he He wants to intervene in my life And he knows everything so Paul says, you know, this is what will happen Yes, an unbeliever But then the secrets of his heart are revealed because God has spoken and you have been obedient to speak that And their life is changed. Okay It is also to a point to fight the good warfare You know when it comes to Timothy Paul gives this instruction to Timothy and he says Timothy According to the prophecies that that was made over you You wage the good warfare meaning You know, you know, you know these prophecies were made over you And you've you know received them you've taken hold of them Now you fight the good fight It's the good warfare, which is the fight of faith So when you when you face these battles always remember The word that was spoken over you Remember that you were called to this ministry. Remember that you were called to, you know Timothy was a young man, you know, you called to ministry you were called You know, remember that the kind of faith that your mother had and your faith your grandmother had Same faith is in you, you know, remember all that All the prophetic word which was given that you will do this that you will be ministering that you will be sharing Don't forget that Because when in the heat of battle, you know, when you're fighting the fight of faith When the enemy tries to intimidate with accusation discouragement lies Sometimes we forget We forget that we are called to this we forget that, you know in in the heat of battle We forget that yeah, I'm facing so many difficulties so many, you know, I'm discouraged. There's nothing happening I'm I'm going on, you know, I'm ministering day in and day out. I'm I'm the one who's opening the church I'm sweeping the thing I'm putting the chairs, you know, nobody's showing up and I don't know how long I should continue you know, all these questions come and Or you know, I've been praying God I've been staying in this situation I've been you know, I've been using all my willpower and doing this but then there's no change And then, you know, you remember the prophetic word Say, God, you spoke You don't lie you spoke And therefore God, you know, I will stand in faith And so I will declare to this mountain mountain you move I will I will walk through the waters and I know that they will not sweep over me And then that fiery furnace god, you are there With me and I know that I will not be burned. And so, you know, we fight that good fight of faith Right. So Paul is telling Timothy, you know, Timothy Don't forget those prophecies Okay and also the in ministry also Right in first Timothy four Paul writes Timothy and he says Timothy don't neglect that gift which is in you now We doesn't specify which one but says don't neglect that gift which was given to you by prophecy With the laying on of hands of the eldership Okay, so the the the the elders of the church and Paul laid hands Prayed prophesied over Timothy and appointed him for that particular ministry So he's saying don't forget that Right. Don't and also don't neglect the gift that that was imparted By the Holy Spirit by the laying on of, you know, of hands of the eldership Right. So don't neglect that gift So, you know, several of these things happen around the prophecy. You see, it's a it's a wonderful gift It's a spirit of God moving in this way Okay, so how is prophecy? Okay, any questions? Till here we have about three more minutes. So Okay, maybe I I'll just go into Just talk about how prophecy is received Okay, the same way all the when we're talking about the gifts again. It is by faith Uh, we we are, you know, just like how So not to neglect. Yeah, not to neglect meaning Walk in those gifts, you know, like today we pray in tongues. We, you know, watched out for the interpretation So don't neglect doing it. You know, don't let it be the next class when you do it But you know, that's that's the thing. So don't neglect it. You know, be strong. Keep exercising. Yes, you're right right Okay Okay, so So we we stay tuned to what God is saying what God is doing So, uh, in our spirit man In the inner man, right? Now I just want you to, you know, receive this correctly. Okay, like Scripture exhorts us that we need to be we need to have a rich deficit of the word Okay, rich deficit of the word. Okay And where do we see that? Colossians three, right? Let there be a rich deficit of the word of God. So no compromise on that Right, um, let the word of God dwell in you richly. Colossians three, 16 The word of God is food The reima word of God is like the Lord Jesus said no man should not live by bread But every word that proceeds from the mouth of God, right and use the word reima there Um, so the reima comes from the logos, you know, unless we are full of Um, the word of God, uh, the Holy Spirit cannot really light that fire, right? So we so there's no compromise Right on reading the word meditating on the word studying the word. Okay now That is on one hand on the other hand Don't you know, let it be just a theoretical academic intellectual exercise. Oh, I know this I know that and I know the you know This is important At the same time move into being sensitive to what the spirit of God is speaking and revealing You know as you've got a rich deficit of his word Right, so that's why we also see be Filled with the spirit Either the word of God dwell in you richly Be filled with the spirit when it comes to being filled with the spirit and asking the Holy Spirit to fill us He will manifest in these ways Right, he wants to show himself strong So he will display His power his presence so you and I we need to be sensitive and say, okay, God this is what you are leading us to speak leading us to do and Yeah, we are we need to learn that as well That we need to learn that because what happens is because of the fall You know we everything that we touch and feel is what we are aware of right? But now we are redeemed. We are restored the connection is back And the vine and the branch, you know, never forget that we are connected. So what flows let a love Spirit of God flow in and through you and be aware of what is flowing in through you What is being communicated by the spirit of God? We have the word of God to check and validate and You know give us a reference point Right and we and the best thing is we have the Holy Spirit again to alert us Because he will guide us into all truth. So what is not of the truth? He will alert us All right, so we have all this checks and system and balances We just need to do it Okay, so next class we will we will go into how prophecy is received and and how You know we can test prophecy validate prophecy And we'll also try it out in class Okay, so So just continue to pray pray more Read more be in the word And yeah as we journey on right. Okay. Thank you. God bless Have a great weekend See you soon. Bye. Bye