 Good morning and welcome to today's session on the Keys to Supernatural Ministry. We will pray and then begin to understand a little bit more about the third key, which is the word of God. Can any one of us lead in prayer? And then we'll proceed. Who would like to open us out with prayer? Okay, can I request, maybe Francis? Francis, can you lead us in prayer? Yes ma'am. Yeah, let's pray. Thank you Father, thank you for this wonderful morning, Lord Jesus. Thank you for the process with us, Lord Jesus. Thank you for your man, Lord Jesus, for your strength and your spirit, your wisdom to teach us, Lord. Lord Jesus, we are seeking the third point of this key, our supernatural ministry, Lord Jesus. We will use that in our life. We are going to see a new way of supernatural way today, Lord. Thank you for everything you are going to do today in Jesus' name with prayer. Amen. Amen, thank you so much, Francis. I appreciate that. So, till now, we've been talking about the fact that as believers, we can experience the supernatural. And when we say the supernatural, it's beyond the logical, limited, natural world that we see around us. We said that because there is this possibility, we've got to learn how to see the manifestation of the supernatural. And then we said that Jesus also told us that there is a possibility for us to walk in the supernatural. And then we are examining different keys that will help us to see the manifestation of the supernatural. Initially, we talked about the realms to understand that there is a spiritual realm, there's a natural realm, and that the spiritual realm is always the more powerful one. And we can see the spiritual realities overriding the natural realities. And then we went on to talk a little bit about faith and how having faith in our hearts is what is key to receiving from God. As a norm, Jesus expected people to have faith. But as an exception, sometimes even when people did not have faith, we saw that sovereignly, God did minister to them and they received healing or they received deliverance from God. Today, we will look at the Word of God and how engaging the Word of God will release the supernatural in our midst. So I'll carry on with the content that we have in our notes. But if you have questions, then as usual, please feel free. You can unmute your mics and ask those questions. So talking about the Word of God, we know that God's Word is very powerful. The Bible teaches us that God creates with His Word. When we look at Psalm 33 verses 6 and 9, it talks about the creation. And how God did it with His Word, we could maybe read these passages because it's always strengthening to look at them. So someone could read Psalm 33 verses 6 and 9 and another person can read Hebrews 11 and verse 3. So feel free. Just unmute and read. Psalm 33 verses 6 and 9. By the Word of the Lord, the heavens were made and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. He gathers the waters to the sea together as a heap. He lays out the deep in storehouses. And all the earth appeared in the Lord with all the inhabitants of the world standing all of Him, for He spoke and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. Thank you, Rin. Yeah. That shows God's creative power in His Word. Hebrews 11, 3. By faith, we understand that the world is claimed by the Word of God and the things which best mean were not made of things which are visible. Okay. Thank you, Jack. We observe that God used His Word to form the heavens. The host of them by the breath of His mouth and verse 9 says, He spoke and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. So there's something to do with the Word and the authority that it carries. There's something to do with the Word and the power that it carries. So we observe that when something needed to get done to employ authority and to employ power, what did God use? God used His Word. And it sounds very simple, isn't it? In verse 9, it says, He spoke and it was done. So God is exercising His authority through the words that He's speaking and the writer of the Hebrews captures this in his statement, Hebrews 11, 3, where it says, we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God. Things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. Something very amazing for our natural mind to grasp. How can this be? How can it be that God speaks and through the Word, things are created. Just through the Word. I'll come to the question if you have anything. Just hold on, I'll make another point. And also, in Hebrews 11, 3, it says, the scene from the unseen. So that in itself is the supernatural. God is working. How does He work? He works through His Word. His Word carries authority. His Word carries power to shift and change things. The scene comes into existence from the unseen. It's marvellous how these things can happen. But the Bible is teaching us that when God speaks, or the Word of God, by the Word of God, things can be created. Things can come into the seen realm from the unseen realm. So this is how God works. So was there a question or something, Anand? Or was that by mistake? No, it's by mistake. Okay, no problem. So we are understanding the power of the Word. There is much more that the Bible has to talk about the Word of God. So Hebrews 4, verse 12, it's a very familiar passage for us. Let me turn to it. Yeah, so it says, for the Word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. So the Word of God is being introduced to us as a very active entity. It's not dead. It's not inert. It's not lacking potential. But the Word of God is alive. It's active. It's able to do a work. So for us, when we again consider the Word of God, we've already seen now that God's Word creates. It carries power. It carries authority. It brings the scene from the unseen. Things that don't exist can come into existence because of the Word of God. Just like the heavens, nothing existed. If we go back to Genesis chapter 1, we'll study that the earth was formless. There was no shape. There was nothing. The Spirit of the Lord was hovering upon the waters. But God said, when He said, what did we just see? Hebrews 412, what of God is living and active, sharper than any double-edged sword? So the power of the Word is employed. When God said, when He spoke, let there be light. Light came when there was no light. So something came into existence that did not exist earlier. But how was it possible? Only when the Word was spoken. So it is helping us understand that even in our lives, when different things are going on, we want to see the manifestation of the supernatural. Maybe it doesn't exist right now. Maybe we find ourselves caught in difficulties in our relationships. We find ourselves caught up in some form of challenges in our health. We find some issues in our finances. We may even find it challenging to journey in the purpose of God for our lives. But in these circumstances, from the unseen, we can see the manifestation of what exists in the spiritual realm when the Word of God is spoken. Because the Word of God can create, it can intervene, it can change circumstances, it can do a supernatural work of God in our lives. So that is how we will engage the Word. So we need to begin to speak the Word in our particular situation. So we have so far learnt about the power of the Word. Now the Word of God is also compared to seed. If you recall in Mark chapter 4, there is the parable of the sower from verses 14 to 20, where Jesus taught about the Word of God and said that the Word of God is the seed that the farmer sows. So in our lives, we can sow the Word, sow the Word regarding in relation to the harvest that we expect, for example. If I want to see a harvest related to success, related to, you know, being effective in life, I can sow words in line with that about how, you know, like the way God spoke to Joshua and said that meditate on my Word, speak my Word. When you do that, you will make your way successful the Joshua 1.9. So I could speak that Word or I could sow that seed in my life and then begin to trust God. Okay, if I do this, the Word of God says so, I am doing this, I am going to become successful. Or, you know, I could pull out a number of scriptures with regard to understanding how God grants understanding. You know, I can look up some scriptures like Isaiah 28, how God gave understanding to the farmer to sow, to, you know, harvest the right way, the particular crop that he sowed. Or I can go back to scriptures that talk about wisdom. Isaiah 11.2, where the spirit of the Lord, the spirit of the Lord is the spirit of wisdom, revelation, understanding, fear of God. And so when the spirit of God comes, he will impart these things to me. Or I can look up a scripture, James 1.5 and say that, you know, he who lacks wisdom, let him ask of God and God who gives abundantly that God will give it to him. So what am I doing? Basically, I am sowing the verses, scriptures of the Bible in my life pertaining to a particular area. This is with regard to success. This is with regard to wisdom, understanding, right? Or I could meditate on the lives of people like Joseph and say God was with him. You know, God was with him and he prospered. Or I could look at the life of Daniel and say Daniel and his friends, they were 10 times better than the others in Babylon. So basically, I am employing the word in my life and I am sowing the seed for the harvest of success and effectiveness and fulfilling God's purpose for my life. What happens? Now it may take a while but the way we understand the crop to grow. You first saw the seed and then you begin to nurture it over a period of time. The crop grows it yields the fruit or it yields the seeds, whatever you are expecting from that particular crop. And then comes the harvest time and at the right time there is a harvest. And even the Bible talks about it. It says that don't be deceived. If you are not sowing anything, you won't reap anything. But in order for us to reap something we've got to sow the word. So these are all the properties of the word of God. We are understanding and God has given us. It's not an ordinary seed. We know about regular seeds in our natural world and they produce according to their own kind. But the word of God is the miracle seed. The unseen right or things which are unseen right now for us. Maybe success is far out for me and I'm not experiencing success I'm just struggling in my journey of finding my purpose. But when I begin to sow the miracle seed of God's word right now it doesn't exist. But as I journey with God, right the way a plant would grow and yield its fruit or yield its result the same way I'll see the fruit of that in my life. So we've got to make an effort to sow the seed of God's word somewhere. We may be caught up in this place in our lives where we want everything instant. So especially when we work with the word of God yes, sometimes we see immediate results but in many instances it's about faithfully sowing and that's why God gives us the picture of a farmer because a farmer knows how to sow a farmer knows how to steward a farmer knows how to wait right a farmer understands seasons and timings and when we journey in such a way with the word of God surely we will see a harvest if we don't give up. So these are the properties of the word of God and to experience the supernatural in our lives we must use the word so initially when I talked about the power of the word how God commands with his word and things are made we can even go back to what Jesus taught us in his examples if you go back to the same faith scripture that we looked at last time we said that when we have faith things take place Jesus told Martha and Mary don't be afraid only believe only believe you will see the glory of God so how does faith operate faith operates when we we can appropriate faith when we speak the word so there is also this aspect we are talking about understanding what got the properties of God's word and also employing God's word how to employ God's word we can employ God's word by reading it we can employ God's word by meditating on it that's what God told Joshua meditate on a day and night right so when you meditate on the word of God we can see the power of that word and also speaking the word so when Jesus taught about faith he said if you believe in your heart right and you say to this mountain and you do not doubt in your heart then it will be done right so how to appropriate the power of the word in our lives one aspect is to speak it one aspect is to declare it one aspect is to confess it so all these things need to be done first of all read the word, study the word understand the word meditate on the word then of course speak the word release it for the power of it to be seen so in this way we can move ahead with the power of God's word anything with regard to whatever we've talked so far like if you just want to discuss that we can I think this is familiar because we've learned so much about God's word so yes one needs to know the power of the word and walk in it that's when we can impact our natural world with the power of the supernatural so we are now looking at dealing with God's word like a farmer but you know there are times when we must learn to use the word as a sword because in spiritual warfare Paul wrote to the Ephesians in Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 17 where he says the sword of the spirit the word of God so in the armor there is this portion or this part which is a part of the armor an offensive part of the armor which is the sword of God everything else really defends the soldier but one particular part offends the enemy and that would be the sword so we as believers can take the word and we can fight the devil we can go against the devil now even that is part of walking in the supernatural because sometimes there are hindrances delays opposition that the enemy brings into our lives oppression of any form oppression in our soul oppression in our body in the form of sickness but when we employ the word and at this time I'm talking about employing the word as a sword or fighting the devil then we can have the victory it's how Jesus dealt with the devil in his time in the wilderness when he was fasting and the devil came to him and said bow down worship me I will give you the kingdoms of the world and at that time Jesus knew how to take the word to destroy the temptation of Satan and he said it is written and when he did that that is when he saw the power of the word manifesting and the enemy had to flee right the enemy had to flee and so the victory that we are searching for it is found in the word sometimes we are so you know so defeated in our Christian walk because we let the enemy have his way we let Satan do all his stuff and we are hesitating to pick up our sword and fight him but to see God's power in our life circumstances and situations sometimes the way we employ the word should be like a sword as if we are in battle and we take it and we just attack the devil and even in Revelation chapter 19 verse 15 we see that you know Jesus when he speaks the sword right it comes out of his mouth and that again is what destroys the enemy and for us today how do we destroy what the devil is doing in our lives we have got to pick up the sword of the word and begin to speak it against the enemy and in situations we will see the victory of God manifesting the word of God is very very important we must remember to firstly know the word secondly to employ it in whichever manner is the right thing to do I don't know if I've shared this testimony earlier with your batch but then there is a particular lady an elderly lady who is still alive today who is the mother of a preacher and a wife of a very famous preacher you may have heard her story about her final stage of liver cancer and this happened you know several years ago maybe about I don't know 4 decades ago or something like that even beyond where she says that when she was diagnosed with the final stage of liver cancer there was no cure those days and the doctor told her to start numbering her days when she and her husband prayed together and they believed that God is a healer and so they cried out to him and said God this is what we are preaching as a family and we know that you will come through for us and from that point onwards the symptoms did not go away you know she still had the symptoms and some of which are not edifying you know if we share them because it's quite scary the things that were going on but as she prayed she got this confidence in God that you know God is the healer and there's no two ways to that so she decided to take the word of God and write it down and the way the doctor had given her medicines to have at different intervals like morning usually you have certain tablets to take and in the afternoon certain tablets and in the night certain tablets what she did is she started along with her medical treatment she started reading the scriptures meditating on those scriptures morning once like taking medicine again afternoon once like taking medicines and evening so she did that every day taking the medicine of God's word speaking the medicine of God's word over her health and her body and the testimony is that you know she recovered beautifully from the final stage of liver cancer she's still alive and she talks about her testimony of employing the word and how through that she has actually seen a victory in her health and apparently up until now her reports are still normal as far as this liver issue is concerned and so with God nothing is impossible he's calling us to have faith in the power of the word because the word is living the word is active sharper than any double-edged sword so I'm just quickly coming to the chat section here and Rin is asking so sorry pastor there is power in the words that we speak but when we pray for healing or for a miracle it does not happen and you have also mentioned that there might be something in our part that we have to do or did not do so in order for our words to carry that power we speak what should we do so yes Rin we sometimes don't see the results and I shared in the last class that there can be many reasons why let's say a miracle didn't happen okay and the miracle didn't come through but something else happened take place as I stated something may have been a miss in the practice of our faith and I told us the right way at that point is to really reflect with the help of God with the help of His Holy Spirit to find out what may have gone a miss now if we understand if God gives us an understanding the next time we can improve and we can say okay God maybe this is one area where I should have paid more attention but now that I recognize it in the next time that I minister or the next time I apply that truth in my life I will be a little more alert now so what Rin said is sometimes we speak the word when we pray and pray for healing offer a miracle and it does not happen so I am trying to answer that question Rin and you said in the end that what should we do when this doesn't happen what should we do right so Rin the answer is build faith okay as long as we build faith all things are possible I want to take us back to Mark chapter 11 let me post it in the chat section and then I will read it for us 11 24 22 to 24 here let me read it for you says so Jesus answered and said to them have faith in God for assuredly I say to you whoever says to this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea and does not doubt in his heart but believes that those things he says will be done he will have whatever he says therefore I say to you whatever things you ask when you pray believe that you receive them and you will have them so Rin even when it comes to the power of our words you said that sometimes we pray right and it doesn't happen and in order for our words to carry power when we speak what should we do the key is right here it tells us time and again if one first of all see there are two things one is we can pray to God okay that is there but the second thing is to employ the word of God so say to this mountain say to the mountain is not prayer prayer is say to God so we can pray to God that's a good thing to do but regarding let me just take for example healing okay let's say I have this pain in my elbow and I am praying for it to be God so I would pray to God and I would say God I thank you because you are my healer I thank you because you know you have already provided for my healing in the work of the cross let's pray but now Mark 11 also teaches us that you can say the word so I can say to the mountain meaning what is my mountain right now maybe my elbow is paining so I am speaking to my elbow I say to my elbow in the name of Jesus I command healing be healed elbow you say to the mountain there is something about the words that we speak and the power that they carry so for me to see the power I can directly speak to the situation or the way Jesus spoke to the storm and he said peace be still he didn't say father I know that you will calm the storm that's also good but there are times when we have to speak to the situation okay so that is one thing say to the mountain maybe we haven't spoken to the situation elbow be healed in Jesus name or what else can you say any other miracle right you just speak to it be done in Jesus name but how to speak it there is a way to speak it it's not just you know repetitively I go on and on about elbow be healed elbow be healed it may not work but when will it work there is a key there you speak to the mountain and then does not doubt in his heart there is a combination to see the effectiveness of the words that we speak what is that combination first of all you got to say it secondly you got to say it with faith you say to this mountain do not doubt in your heart then what will happen right and again there is a repetition but believes that those things he says will be done he will have whatever he says verse 24 therefore I say to you whatever things you ask when you pray again coming to prayer when you pray whatever things you ask believe that you receive them and you will have them so how to see the words working we've got to believe so when we believe our prayer will be effective and when we speak to our mountains to the situations and employ the word it will become effective it will work did I answer your question or is there still some part that is how to get the words to carry the power we have to believe okay great so Rin says yes sure thank you so yeah so that's how we use because that's how God did it you know God never never I mean think about this when he created the heavens and the earth the bible doesn't say he said let there be light let there be light not even thrice because what he spoke he believed and the power of the word was so real just once even in the ministry of Jesus you find that when he speaks go home your servant as well it's done words are being employed but what is behind faith don't doubt in your heart but how to come to that place right how to come to that place of believing now that can be a journey and sometimes we get very upset with ourselves and we think oh you know everyone else is commanding and it's happening I am commanding and nothing is happening don't worry think about Abraham even he journeyed with God he was not perfect when he started off there were doubts confusions he made a mistake and yet you know you see the journey of Abraham he believed but he strengthened himself in the faith isn't it and that's how there was a manifestation of that miracle in his life so let's be honest sometimes we've got a journey even though we believe and we are speaking the word in God's case he spoke once and it happened but in our case we sometimes need to work on our faith make it stronger so you know it's okay don't be embarrassed to speak the word many times if the declaration you know you started making the declaration about healing a few months ago and you're still finding symptoms in your body don't be ashamed it's okay because it's a journey of faith we are continuing to build our faith we are continuing to strengthen our faith and as we do that like Abraham right even Abraham he grew in his faith he became stronger in his faith and then he saw the manifestation so maybe right now it feels like my faith is ineffective my speaking is ineffective don't worry keep building the faith and by faith when we speak we will see the results and you know we will come to know the effectiveness of the words we speak just the way God was speaking with power okay so those are some additional thoughts that I wanted to share with us yeah anything more regarding the word of God okay I think we all understand the importance of God's word and how you know it really releases the power of God in our lives so yeah depending on the different situations let's take the word collect it you know like that lady that I spoke about who wrote down all the scriptures pertaining to healing and started to meditate on it started to speak it and she saw the manifestation you know it's like you saw the seed and then the crop will grow and then the harvest will come so we will walk in the blessings of what the word produces for us but if we are not sowing the word then we have every reason to be worried because if we have not sown anything how can we expect to reap anything out of it so meditate on the word of God see the possibilities the word of God opens up for us all the possibilities of what God can do right and so it's a window to the power of God the ability of God so the more we read the word, the more that word goes into our hearts and you know we begin to think about it we begin to make that a part of who we are and you know even speaking the more you meditate on it it will just come out of you because it becomes your conviction and we see that in the life of Abraham also that you know faith actually is a conviction assurance of things hoped for the things not seen and so faith will arise in our hearts because faith comes by hearing right and hearing by the word of God and the word of God will release the supernatural so we'll probably close the class then but I want to ask us if there's any testimonies of standing on the word and you saw a miracle taking place does anyone like that if you can share with the rest of the class I think that will be very strengthening for us okay Rin has a question she says for Jesus whenever he spoke it happened so after doing all these things like speaking to it and believing it practicing it can the same thing happen in our lives that when we speak it immediately yes Rin that's what I'm saying I'm saying we can get to that because that is the standard in the case of Jesus we note that it was all one step he said and demons fled he said and people were healed but in our case sometimes that journey of faith is where we must strengthen ourselves and worry like if we make mistakes and it doesn't happen but we will see that as we get stronger and stronger in faith this will take place when we speak it will happen okay so I'll just quickly share like one small incident that I have experienced so this commanding right commanding for sicknesses to leave commanding for demons to come out so my experience there are times when I have commanded many times have not seen any results it still happens today maybe in some areas my faith is not up to the mark but in some situations I have seen like instant you could say only once I've commanded and then I've seen the glory of God in that particular situation and it encourages me so at times when I'm discouraged by the repeated commanding and the repeated confessions and declarations I just encourage myself of the times when you know it has happened with maybe just one word so I remember this once there was a student who came to the not church and she's not regular and she came and she was like pastor pray for me and I started praying for her she said for my health she gave me her hand I held her hand and I prayed but I didn't realize there was a swelling at somewhere near the elbow I didn't realize that and after I prayed she said like pastor just check and when I felt it there was like a ball swelling over there and I just got scared and she told me that it's not looking good they have insisted that I do a biopsy and I'm so scared I don't know what's going to happen and all so I don't know in that moment I just got this godly anger against sickness and disease and like against the devil I felt like how dare you devil you know you afflict god's people so the one thing that I did at that moment is I looked at that swelling I touched it and I just rebuked it I said I rebuked you in the name of Jesus you will disintegrate you will disappear in Jesus mighty name I just said that and I left it that was that and you know and this girl is not regular right so she didn't come after that service and I also forgot about it but in a couple of weeks she came back and she came to me and she's like pastor you remember you prayed for me I was like yeah I remember and she said I had that swelling for many months but after you prayed from the day you spoke to it it started to reduce and it's gone it's like fully gone in a couple of weeks it was fully gone and the doctors when they looked at it they said what biopsy it's gone so there's nothing to do now so I mean that one particular testimony it encourages my heart because in that one incident it happened immediately but yeah I I mean I can tell you about so many others where it didn't happen so it's my journey of faith also right where I'm trying to grow and I these are all there in the world so I need to learn how to apply it and by faith begin to do it you'll see the fruit of it so yeah I just wanted to share for us Shri Radha says my mom met with an accident and doctors said there was big fracture we saw it in the X-ray plate we started praying and declaring the word of God after 7 days they did another X-ray but there was no fracture all bones came into place where they were praise God thank you so much Shri Radha for sharing so real right God's word is true it's only when we employ it that we recognize the power of it so praise God for that wonderful testimony we thank God for that yeah so yes class go ahead speak the word begin to pull out scriptures meditate on it and trust God for miracles to take place okay so with that I think we'll close today's class would someone like to pray before we wrap up you may unmute and pray please Lord Jesus I thank you Lord for this class that we had where we could learn about the power of our word Jesus so I pray that we would continue to speak your word continue to believe in what we are saying to have faith in our hearts with no doubt that you will do what you said Lord I pray that we will grow stronger and our faith and in the word and that your word will dwell which is in our hearts for Jesus thank you Lord I pray that we will continue to believe you will hear on this earth and that we will use as monthly prayer for you Lord Jesus thank you Lord for everything and thank you for the stake in your name I pray Amen thank you everyone God bless you have a blessed day and wonderful weekend we'll connect again in our next class bye for now thank you thanks