 Let's pray and we will begin. I couldn't hear you praying the last time so someone can please pray we can begin. Let's pray. Loving Father, one prayer, Lord, we thank you so much for this beautiful day, Lord. Lord, I thank you for bringing us together once again, Lord, to know your word. Lord, I sincerely pray for the pastor. Lord, you enable with the Holy Spirit, Lord, whatever the things Lord sees is going to speak to us, Lord. Lord, I do believe, Lord through your Spirit, Lord, he is going to teach us. I pray for internet connection, Lord. Pray for the good connection, Lord. And I pray for everyone that you are listening to pastor, Lord. You bless us wherever we are, Lord. We're able to consider to you, Lord. Thank you. Praise Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Subashesh. We were talking about the anointing and I will do my best to cover as much as possible. In today's class. So, in the last class, we said that, you know, one of the keys for us to manifest the supernatural is the anointing. And I share with us that every believer carries the Holy Spirit, the indwelling presence, the Holy Spirit in them. And this presence of the Holy Spirit is what leads us, strengthens us as a child of God. However, we say that the Holy Spirit upon us is what we're referring to as the anointing. The Holy Spirit, His presence, His power in us and the release of the presence and power is what we are referring to as the anointing. And as the anointing is released, we can see supernatural works such as healings, miracles. We can see deliverances. Many things happen in the presence of God and the release of the power of God. Now, in the last class, we looked at a couple of things that help us understand how to activate this anointing. In other words, how to get this power of God moving from our lives so that we can minister in the supernatural. That's what our focus is, because all of us as believers, we want to see the supernatural manifest. So, one thing we said in the last class, from Ephesians 3-7, we saw how Paul says that he does the ministry with the gifts and the grace which was given to him. Now, that word grace, I realize later that that could have caused a little bit of confusion. So, grace means unmerited favor of God. But here in this context, grace means the enabling of God. So, the grace of God or the gift of God which was given to Apostle Paul with the help of that, he was able to do the ministry. So, what we are saying is that the anointing can flow through the grace and the gift of God over our lives. All of us, every single one of us in this class, I'm sure we have our own gift as far as life is concerned. So, I'm not talking just what you do in church. Maybe you are gifted as far as media is concerned or you're a very gifted writer. We talked about that, abilities that God has given each one of us. So, the anointing is expected to flow in the area of our gift. So, if some of us are gifted as singers, we would see that there is a release of the power and the presence of God through the gift that God has given that particular person who can sing similarly when we identify the gifts. So, when I use the term gifts, not so much referring to the gifts of the spirit, but more to the abilities, the abilities that God has given us. Similarly, grace. Grace is the enabling, the empowering of God which is given to each of us. So, we may have the grace to teach or we may have the grace to lead in worship. We may have the grace to prophesy. So, based on the giftings and the grace of God, you will see the release of the anointing of God. Anointing, what is it? I said it is the release of the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit. So, if I want to see the supernatural through the release of the anointing, I must function with the gifts and the grace which is upon my life. So, it is as simple as that. That is what we were trying to explain in the last class. So, go with your area of gifting. Go with your area of grace. Now, this is not to say that God will not anoint maybe some other ability in us when required. Let us say, you are generally a teacher of the word, but on a particular service or something, I can hear somebody. But in a particular service, let us assume that there is nobody to lead worship. So, the person who is gifted in teaching for just that service decides, okay, let me lead the people in worship. It is possible that their leading in worship is anointed, even though that is not their grace or gift. So, God can work through other abilities in us also, but those are exceptions. Generally, for each of us, if we can identify our area of gifting and grace, the anointing will flow in that area. So, it is not good for us to try and compare. You might find that a particular person is very gifted in, let us say, arts. They are gifted in using colors and just putting things together in a beautiful way. If somebody who envies that gift tries to function in the way that this particular gifted person, is saying that the anointing flows in line with our gifting and the grace. This is the normal way, but it is possible that as an exception, the anointing flows in some other way as well. But the important thing is that we recognize what that gifting is. When we begin to invest more time in that particular gifting, we are talking about this last class, I remember that we will also grow in that particular area where God has called us. So, that is what each one of us needs to get a hold of. I need to figure out where God's anointing flows through my life and that is the area where I need to concentrate. So, when you figure that out, then we are no longer trying to compare with somebody else's gift. Maybe the anointing moves or you can see the power and the presence of God when somebody is teaching. That is not my area of gifting. Even if I try to do it, I will not see the release of the anointing. So, the key is figure out the gift and the grace of God and try to move in that direction. It is also possible for the anointing to increase as we develop that grace over our lives. We also said that the anointing accompanies the word. In John 6.63, Jesus said that my words they are life and they are spirit. So, the more we spend time in the word, you will begin to see that there is a release of the power of God. There is a release of the power and presence of God that comes from the word. We also need to understand that the spirit is very much in line with the word. As John 5.7 says, the spirit and the word, they are very aligned. So, the spirit will agree with what the word of God says. Which is why I need to take time in the word. I need to spend time meditating upon the word. I need to spend time declaring the word, applying the word. I will see that there is a greater release of the anointing. A good example is the prophetic gift. So, when one begins to take time to study more about the prophetic, give the prophetic the operation of the prophetic in the word of God. One would see that there is a greater release of the gifts. So, the anointing, the release of the anointing is associated with the word. So, this can be true even in the area of healing. I remember once as a little funny experience that there was a particular person who needed deliverance. We got this mail from a pastor. He had asked us to go and minister to this person. A few of us to go together and maybe just minister and cast out the demon. So, when I heard that I have to go in for something like this, what I did is, I went to all the gospels, I pulled out every single incident there where Jesus cast out a demon. And I started studying about it. I read passage after passage where Jesus cast out this demon. Jesus cast out that demon. How did Jesus do it? So, what is happening? Faith begins to build and you are able to see the release of the power of God in that particular area. So, in this case, it was deliverance. Before I went into minister to that person, my faith was built up and the release of the anointing basically just means the power of God gets released easier if we take time with the word. So, this is true of anything healing, deliverance, prophetic, whatever, any subject that you want to take up and serve people in that area, spend time with the word and you will see a better flow of the power of God. Then we said consecration. When one is submitted to God, when one is yielded to God, we said that there is a greater flow of the power of God. So, that's understood. So, it's important for us to keep ourselves consecrated, dedicated as the passage in 2 Timothy 2 verses 20 and 21 say, when one gets rid of sin and keeps themselves as a vessel of honor, God's presence and power can take over through that person. So, we must maintain ourselves in consecration before the Lord and expectation. This is also something that we talked about in the last class where we said, the reason why usually before ministry, the word of God is thought is so that faith arises in the hearts of the people and expectation arises in the hearts of the people. It's only when there is expectation that God's presence moves. We know later on, we will see the things that hinder the move of the power of God. Unbelief comes as one of the main reasons why sometimes you can have the most anointed worship leader, but nothing really touches the hearts of the people who are gathered in a particular place. Why? What happened? They lack expectation or they lack faith. So, the anointing is not able to flow. So, we usually use the word flow because the power of the presence of God, it flows at the distance. It's just some language that we are using to understand how this power really does its work. So, for a better flow of the anointing, we need to have hearts of expectation. We saw the example of the lady who came and who touched the hem of Jesus's garments and she was able to minister. So, that is how the anointing really flows. Just a moment. My screen blanked out. Oh, it's blanking out again. No, that's okay. I'll manage. I'll use the PDF. Post it here. Yes, you can. Now, talking about the anointing, we also have to understand that there are different measures of the anointing. When people say anointing, there's a lot of excitement that, hey, somebody carries a particular anointing, I can get the same anointing. But when you see in scripture, that's not exactly how the anointing works. Now, why are we talking about the reason, the flow of the anointing, the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, ministers to people and the supernatural takes place. So, how does this anointing get, if you want to use the word transferred to others? The word transferred, some people use the word impartation from one person to the other person. So, here are a few basic things that we have to understand about anointing. Anointing comes in measures. So, you might have, let's take the example of Moses and the 17 elders. Moses was leading, it was too much of work for him. So, the suggestion that came to Moses was, how could you have leaders under you who could also help with managing the people? It was a good advice. But before he went ahead with that, we see that Moses asked for the anointing of God to fall upon these 70 elders. So, the anointing fell on them. Now, did they all become, you know, another Moses where there are 71 Moseses because Moseses are an anointing fell on the 70 elders. No, only a measure of the anointing on Moses was put upon or transferred or imparted, whatever word you want to use on the 70 elders. When we look at the ministry of Moses, we know that there was an anointing of leadership upon him. He's also known as a prophet. So, we saw the many miracles that took place through him in Egypt. All the plagues and everything and, you know, we see how he went to Pharaoh's court and he demonstrated while the sorcerers competed with him. He demonstrated the power of God and the supernatural. So, there was a prophetic anointing. There was an anointing for leadership. Now, when you look at the 70 elders, they primarily got leadership, wisdom from Moses. So, the measure you could say was imparted to the 70 elders. Similarly, when you look at Moses and Joshua, both of them, you know, when there is association, we will see later on that there can be a connection. The anointing can be transferred when there is an association. For example, people take the example of Elijah and Elisha. So, Moses and Joshua, they were together. There was an association. However, when you look at the kinds of anointings both of them carried or the power of God, the way ministered through their lives, you would see that Moses again, you know, leadership prophetic. Joshua, more of a leader for the conquest of giants and the occupation of land. So, that's how the anointing manifested through Joshua's life. Now, if you look at the association of Elijah and Elisha, scriptures would tell you that Elisha had like a double number of miracles through his ministry. And he also desired a double portion of the anointing which was upon Elijah's life. So, can there be a difference in the measures of the anointing that people carry? Yes. Okay. So, it doesn't get transferred in an exact way. That's the point I'm making. So, we just have to use whatever anointing we have at the measure of the anointing that we have. Now, can the anointing over our lives increase and grow? Yes. As you grow with that gift, with that grace, you will find that the breakthrough of the presence and the power of God is that much easier, that much faster. If earlier it would take about two or three songs for the presence of God to show up, maybe when one is serving in worship over and over and over again and maintaining all the other things, consecration, expectation, all that, what happens? The moment they come, sometimes we hear people say also, right? The moment they open their mouth, we can sense the anointing, the presence and the power of God, that does the work of God, that does the supernaturism. So, one can grow in the area of their anointing. There are different kinds of anointings and I touched about this in the last class. So, based on the different speeds, we classify them as teaching anointing, prophetic anointing, healing, miracle anointing. People have so many other words that they use nowadays, which are not even there in the Bible, and are not made to pray for children. Somehow, one particular person I knew, whenever they would pray for somebody who didn't have children, there would be a testimony that, okay, they can see it. So, we don't know exactly how the power of God works, but with regard to a certain gift and a grace, the power of God is flowing out of our lives. So, the key is, we've got to recognize it, okay, I carry the anointing in this area. So, let me do it, maybe counseling. Every time we sit and we minister to people, take time with people, we see that there is a breakthrough or there's an open door or something like that. So, you can categorize it based on the area with names, the simple names that have to do with the gift. Okay, so we can grow in the anointing. That's also something that we have learned. So, we can invest time in growing that anointing. Impartiation. Impartiation is another very key thing for us to understand. There is an entire sermon at APC that I would recommend for us to go and, you know, look up on our website apcw.org from the sermon series. But here, a few key things regarding impartation have been mentioned. So, when we talk about impartation, as we've seen earlier, through association, impartation is possible. Okay, because we've seen that in the life in people like Moses and Joshua, Elijah and Elisha. So, we've seen that. It's possible through association. Impartation is only a measure. So, Moses and his leaders, there was a huge difference in the levels of anointing that, you know, each like the leaders carried and Moses carried. So, it wasn't exactly Moses's anointing which was fully imparted to the 70 elders. No, it wasn't. So, the 70 elders were about leading the people. So, in line with what they needed to do, the anointing was imparted from Moses to them. Okay, so here are the key points we have to understand. A measure of impartation takes place and the impartation takes place aligned to God's gift and calling on our lives. So, just because I associate, you know, with a worship leader, maybe I am serving in the ministry and I don't have the gift of singing. Maybe I cannot sing. I cannot expect that I will, you know, suddenly be able to sing. It's not possible. It's just not possible. So, impartation cannot change me as a person and my area of grace and giving. But the impartation will be aligned to my gift. So, let's assume that I have a songwriter but I can't sing. Just an assumption. The anointing from that ministry can maybe help me flow better in writing songs. But I'm not able to sing. You understand? So, it's in line with the gifting and the calling of God for my life. So, we cannot assume that, oh, I'll go hang out with this person and that person and the way that person is anointed, it'll just rubber fun. Impartation doesn't work like that and we don't see that in scripture. Okay, let's move on a little bit more to understand about impartation. Impartation cannot come from a person to a person. Impartation is from God. One cannot receive unless it is given to us from heaven. John chapter 3 says, So, when Elisha asked Elijah, give me a double portion of the anointing which is upon your life. You know what? Elijah knew that he could not do it. If any of us could give somebody else a double portion, would we not give ourselves a double and a triple and a quadruple portion because we can multiply anointing over our own life so that the power of God flows better. But here's the truth. Anointing is from God. No human being can give anointing to another human being or to themselves. Elijah knew that and which is why he told Elisha, Okay, if you see me being lifted up, then you will have what you're asking for. So basically, Elijah told Elisha to pursue God though it was like asking Elisha to pursue him. He was asking Elisha to pursue God so that Elisha could receive from God. So anointing is from God. No human agent can release anointing impartation on others. So that is something we have to recognize. What is received through impartation must be nurtured and developed. So we said that Moses, he prayed and the anointing of leadership came upon those 70 elders. Now once the anointing comes upon us, it's not like saying, okay, I can sit back and relax now. I am anointed with the anointing which was on the life of such and such a leader. So if one has an impartation of let's say leadership anointing, one needs to practice it, one needs to nurture it, one needs to grow in that anointing which has been given to that person. Same thing applies for healing anointing, one needs to grow. Maybe I've received an impartation because of my association with a particular person, but that doesn't mean I will start flowing like that healing minister of God. Okay, because yes, there is some measure of anointing in my life, but I have to grow in it. I have to begin to act by faith and see a release of that anointing. So class, I just want to ask you, is it okay to take another 10 minutes of your time? If it is okay, I will continue. Otherwise, we will just pick up in the next class. All right, so what I'm going to do is I will continue to finish the class today. Those of us who would need to leave, please feel free, you can leave. The content will anyway be uploaded on your stream page, so you can come and listen to the rest of the lecture. So we will move ahead. So yeah, we've understood a little bit about how impartation works. So it's not like 100% that you're with somebody and you become a carbon copy of that person and their anointing. So why are we talking about all these things? See, we are learning the keys, right? So that I can apply it in my life. Oh, okay, is this how the anointing works? Fine. So let me find the gift. Let me find the grace of God over my life. I can be associated with good men of God, women of God, ministries, and surely there can be some measure of anointing which I can receive, you know, through impartation, but I will still need to nurture. I will still need to develop that gift, which has been given to me. So now coming to administering the anointing or releasing the anointing of God. In John chapter 7, Jesus said that out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. So in a sense, not that the Holy Spirit flows like what these are all ways or we are associating the work of the Spirit with water, the way streams of water flow. The work of the Holy Spirit is released like that. So streams of living water shall flow out of your belly, he said. So that is how the anointing gets to flow like a river. So the power of God, we need to be sensitive to how the power of God is actually moving and administering into the lives of the people and we must flow along with that. So I will just give you one example. Just this Sunday, we had the Sermon on Faith and Science and it was talking about Creator God, Creator God. So as I was sharing about it, in the sermon, I knew some key things that I wanted to touch upon. But as I started speaking, as I started speaking, I could just sense, I'm using the word anointing, anointing or a flow. How do you sense, we know that the Spirit or the Holy Spirit bears witness with our Spirit. So when we know the Holy Spirit is guiding and leading us in a certain direction, we sense the flow of the anointing in that direction. So as I was speaking, though my way of emphasizing the text was planned in a certain way, I realized there were some teenagers who had come for the first time to church. And I could sense such a deep and a powerful love for those teenagers in my heart. As a God is wanting to reach out to them and as a God is wanting to minister to them. So I could sense that flow of the anointing. And my words were moving in light with saying that God is a good God and God is a God who loves you. We were talking about creation and the galaxies and how he has made everything so perfectly. And yet being such a great God, he still knows you, he knows me. And there was just a presence of God for salvation I would say. And leading those people to Christ and I could feel it. So I was moving as the anointing or you want to call it like a river in line with where the river is going. So we need to sense the flow of the anointing and move in line with that anointing. That's when we will see the results. At the end of the service I called out for the salvation prayer. Once again invited those people to come back and I'm hoping they'll come back, they'll grow with the Lord. So not just that. There can be a time when the river of the Holy Spirit moves in a certain direction. Where healings need to take place in that group of people who have gathered. So what needs to be sensitive to the flow of the river. But we know it's really the presence of the Holy Spirit and where that is taking us. So how do we administer the anointing? We can minister by faith. So you just move in line with what God is putting on your heart. So by faith maybe God would lead us to pray a certain prayer or God would lead us to do something. So if you look at some of the old time tent revivals and healing ministers of God. They would put action to what they were saying. So they had faith in what they were sensing from the Spirit of God and where the anointing was. And they began to move in that direction. So through our faith we can release the anointing. We can release it through touch. You remember the lady who touched the head of Jesus's garments. That's how the power went out. So that's why sometimes we touch people. We pray for them. And there are times when you can sense. You can sense even more tangibly or in the physical. You can sense something like a power being transferred between you and the person whom you are ministering to. But these are all things that happen. This is what the anointing is and when that happens you know that God is at work. God's Holy Spirit is at work through the spoken word. Sometimes we release it through the word that we speak. We might just issue a command and say be healed. What happened when you said that or you might just speak to someone and say this is the scripture that God is giving me to give to you. The anointing is released through that and God's power starts working in that person's life. So these are all ways in which the anointing is released. Action, action. You remember the time when the head of the axe it sank. Elisha what does he do? He goes and he kind of uses a rod. He goes and stirs that water and the axe begins to float. So there are times when God may want us to take action and the anointing flows. If you see John chapter 3 where there is a layman Peter what does he do? He holds him and the Bible says that he developed strength in his feet when Peter held him and sort of raised him up. So these are all supernatural things. How can this happen? We have to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. So sometimes for the anointing to flow God might want an action from our side. We are just waiting and saying I know that there is an anointing but God might say do this. Take oil put it over somebody and pray. You do that action whatever that is lay hands on somebody or speak a word over somebody. Take action when we take action the anointing will flow and the supernatural will be released. Sometimes the anointing can be transferred through material. We see this in Acts 19 when Peter Paul the garments which were on his body. When those garments the scarves they touched people people were delivered from demonic operation. So we might ask the question what is this how can cloth release the power of God over someone. But you see even material objects can carry the anointing. We see that in scripture which is something that we can when we know all these things we can move it. There are times when people pray over water. Have you heard and seen that? People pray over water and say now you drink it. How does it work? Very simple. The power and presence of the Holy Spirit which is taken up by a material. There are times when people pray over handkerchiefs and they say ok take this and pray over this. You will be healed. Can it work? We see that in Acts 19 there are these unusual manifestations of the Holy Spirit. So the anointing can work through material objects also. So this is how it works. Ok let's move on. So what are things which can hinder the flow of the anointing? Unbelief. Where Jesus went to minister even there he was limited. Why? Because people did not believe. So what can hinder the flow of the anointing? Unbelief. So when we go to a particular place to minister. It might be helpful to first take some time to build them up to the word. So once faith is established. What happens? There is a better flow of the anointing. So unbelief can hinder the anointing. Unwilling to step out and take risks. Do not quench the Holy Spirit. 1 Thessalonians 519 says. So when the anointing of God is leading us in a certain way. Let's say this has happened sometimes in our services. That I don't know which year it was. I think 2019 January. So the location where I worship. There was one particular Sunday when the worship leader started leading in worship. And the fun part is we never stopped. So after sometime when it was turned for the sermon. Even I sense that there is an anointing of God for worship right now. And it's a very rare thing. We always have our sermons. But this particular Sunday I felt that I should not go and take that time. Which God wants to use through the ministry of worship. So I just told the worship leader you carry on. And that day to there where I still remember. There was at least one man in the congregation who was wailing and crying. Usually this doesn't happen. But he was experiencing the presence of God. He had testimonies like people saw angels coming into the room. People saw light and they had all these experiences. But it was important for us to take that step. What was the step? Continue with worship. Now maybe at times it can be for healing some other step. God is saying we can take oil put it on people and pray. Or God is saying pray in tongues for people or lay hands on something. Some step which you and I are being led to take. We have to take. If we don't take it we will not see the flow of the anointing. The anointing will stop. And scriptures tell us don't quench the Holy Spirit. And that is why you have to be so sensitive. What is the Holy Spirit saying? What should I do? How should I minister? And it's like a river. You have to allow the river to flow. That's when you will see the manifestation of the supernatural. And the works of the flesh will also limit the manifestation of the anointing. Talk about the anointing. The Old Testament. We are told that what was made for God. Not getting the word right now. Okay. Can somebody quickly read Exodus 30 and verse 32? I think with that we come to an end of the content in our notes. We can of course take a couple of minutes to ask questions and all that. Hopefully in the next class to clarify more matters. But yeah, as far as the content in our notes is concerned, we have touched upon it today. So can someone read please from Exodus 13 and verse 32. Exodus chapter 30 verse 32. Do not pour it on men's bodies and do not make any oil with the same formula. It is saccharite and you ought to consider it saccharite. Yeah. So the oil or the preparation which again you see it represents all these terms oil, river. They represent the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit. So what are we told the preparation which was for God, the oil which is prepared for God, that it should not be poured on anyone else or anything else. So that just goes to show us that the anointing is only meant for God and the work of His Spirit. The anointing is not meant for the flesh or human activity. There are times when our flesh takes over where the ministry is about exalting a person or the ministry is about me getting fame or the ministry is about something to do with the flesh, pride, lust, jealousy. But the anointing is not meant for the flesh. It's meant for God and His work and which is why whenever the flesh comes in, we might see that the work of God which is taking place so beautifully that might actually get hindered and the anointing may no longer flow. So that's why we have to understand. These are all things which will hinder the anointing in my life and in my ministry. So I must be careful about not allowing the flesh, about not having unbelief in my heart. And I must also be careful to have the courage to step out. So if God is telling me to do this, step out and give it a shot. You will see that the power of God begins to flow there. So with that, I'll wrap up. Maybe one question or two questions because it's an important subject. If there's anything like immediate you could ask, we'll quickly address it before we pray and close today's class. Okay, sure. So you could read through, think through and please join in the next class and we'll see if there are matters to be addressed with regard to the anointing. But I hope you've got a hold of anointing as a key. All right. So thank you everyone for being here together. I will request Zeli to pray. Zeli, can you please close off with a word of prayer? Sure. Let's pray. Father God, we want to thank you so much for this wonderful session which we had today, Lord. We thank you for our pastor Nancy for teaching us about the anointing and how to flow, Lord God. Whatever we have learned in this session, Holy Spirit, continue to minister to us and continue to remind us so that we can flow in the anointing and it will be used for your glory. We thank you, Lord, for each one of us, Lord, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, everyone. God bless you. All the best for your assignment. All the best. Bye for now. We'll see you in the next class.