 Alright, good morning and once again welcome to ministering in the Divine Healing Course. I hope you all are doing well and I hope this course has helped you understand God's heart for healing and deliverance and that He wants to see His children well and healthy. So today we'll continue with, we'll go to Chapter 9. We completed Chapter 8 in the last class. Just to do a quick recap we spoke about the different, one of the simple model for ministering healing. Just to do a quick recap of it is how do we minister healing and one of the model which was developed by John Wimber, the founder of Vineyard Ministries. You begin with the interview process, you ask the individual where does it hurt where would you like me to pray for? What would you like me to pray for? The diagnosis is why do they have this condition, the root cause, root causes. The method selection, you choose how you decide on how you want to minister to this person, either by laying hands or however. The ministry itself, as you're praying for the individual, you watch what God is doing and then some post ministry suggestions. What should they do to keep their healing? The importance of getting connected to a church and what not. So that was Chapter 8, a simple model for ministering healing. Now that's only one of the models, it's not the only model. It's not written in a rock or a stone and saying you have to follow this model. It's one of the model that's been helpful and has been successful in many people's lives. So now we move on to Chapter 9 and we will continue from there on. So this chapter talks about gifts of the Spirit for manifesting healing and deliverance. Gifts of the Spirit for manifesting healing and deliverance. It is in your hard copy, it's in page 192. In your PDFs, it's page 126. So the gifts of the Holy Spirit are a simple list of the ways in which the Holy Spirit reveals His presence and power through us as individuals. The gifts of the Holy Spirit is just a list of simple ways through which the Holy Spirit chooses to manifest or reveal His presence or power through an individual. So we all know this, the Holy Spirit is God and He can manifest Himself in any way that He desires. Psalm 115 verse 3, you remember, He is God, He does as He pleases. So Holy Spirit is God. He's not one third God or any less. He is God and He can manifest Himself in any way that He desires. And it could be more than this list of nine that we have, that we see in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 4 to 11. Can we just look at it and we'll read through those Scriptures. 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 4 and 11. It says, there are diversities of gifts but the same spirit. The source is the same but there are different gifts of manifestation. There are differences of ministries but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities but it is the same God who works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. For to one is given the Word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the Word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things distributing to each one individually as He wills. So you have Word of wisdom, Word of knowledge, faith, gift of healings, working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, different kinds of tongues, interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things distributing to each one individually as He wills. Some more scriptures from 1 Corinthians 1231 it says, but earnestly desire the best gifts and yet I show you a more excellent way. And 1 Corinthians 141 is pursue love and desire spiritual gifts but especially that you may prophesy. And same chapter verse 12 says, even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel. Okay, so we've just understood what the gifts of the Holy Spirit is. We just read through the chapters and then we see that we are encouraged by Paul that he's in the letter that he's writing to the Corinthians he's saying pursue them earnestly desire them. Okay, and all in the last 1 Corinthians 1412 we see that let it be for the edification of the church. Okay, and so the gifts that the Holy Spirit decides to manifest through you is not for you. Okay, the gifts that the Holy Spirit chooses to manifest through you is not for you, but it is for the edification of the church it's the edification of the people around you that you may serve them well. Okay, and so one of the gifts that we see is the word of knowledge. Word of knowledge can anyone in your own words kind of describe what according to you or your understanding is a word of knowledge. Feel free to unmute and share. Anyone, whatever your understanding is, there's no right or wrong. Okay, knowledge of God's word. May I speak? Can you hear me? Yes. Word of knowledge enables us through the Holy Spirit details of a person maybe something that has happened in the past or present or what is going to happen which we would normally not know. But through the Spirit we are enabled to have that information about that person and so we can exhort them or tell them. So essentially just as we read now to edify them or to warn them or whichever way the Holy Spirit chooses to communicate that to us. But we would not normally know it but through the Holy Spirit we would have that information about people. I mean whatever is happening in their lives or either past present or what is to come also. Thank you Nina for sharing. Anybody else would like to add to it? Yeah, it's exactly what as Nina mentioned is so word of knowledge is a piece of divine knowledge that reveals the fact of things past or present of a person, of an individual. So for example it's let's say you're praying or you're ministering and then you get a certain number. Say you see you know there's certain digits and you say okay you know 2271987 does that make sense to anybody. So the word of knowledge is no. The piece of information that another person that you're praying for or anyone you're not necessarily praying for already knows. So that's what word of knowledge is also. So the piece of information that you're sharing the other individual already knows. So when you come down when you look at this passage another portion in your notes says different ways God gives words of knowledge for healing. Three different ways we see you know we see we can see it we can hear it and we can feel it. Okay so when we look at a seeing oh again just pull back a little bit coming back to you know the definition of understanding word of knowledge. A couple of examples that I can think of is in the Gospel of John self-aware you know the disciples of Jesus is talking to Nathaniel and saying you know this is Messiah this is person you know he's from Nazareth and then Nathaniel says can anything good come out of Nazareth and then you know Jesus finally meets Nathaniel and he says that Nathaniel I saw you when you were standing under the fig tree right and then Nathaniel is all amazed and you know wow how do you know how did you know this right and so Nathaniel knew that you know where where and when he was standing under the fig tree so he knew that's knowledge okay and so Jesus just gave that to him and another passage that I can think of is from John chapter 4 where he talks about from verse 24 that Jesus will encounter with this woman at the well and say you know go bring your husband and then she says I do not have a husband yes I know and also you know the five husband that you've had before and then again this woman is all amazed and saying you know how did you know of this are you prophet and whatnot so you know those are some of the examples of giving an individual a word of knowledge that an individual already knows okay and so let's just look at some of the ways that God reveals his word of knowledge to us one is seeing okay so you could see an image or a motion picture right that God is revealing to you right you may see images of a body part or a body parts being restored like an elbow or a bone or a knee cap or whatnot right or back spine discs and you know an X ray an image of an X ray or whatever right so those are certain ways that God can reveal you know his word of knowledge and so we need to recognize what we are seeing understand what God is revealing through these images and then call them out okay so you we need to recognize what God is trying to communicate tell you and then call them out okay so for example if you know you could there was a time this was I was not ministering in healing or deliverance and this is the time when I was in in the in I was part of a band that was leading worship and the worship leader turned back and say and said I want you to prophesy with your with your drums I was playing the drums then and and so and I just as I began to play I started to see an image of a sunrise right and and so as God was revealing that I was just saying agreeing amen to it what he was revealing with my instrument and then it later it was interpreted as a new beginning or a new start or a new day dawning which was life you know that's one of the images so that's one of the ways that God can you know reveal his word of knowledge and the other is hearing right God uses the years of our spirit and reveals his message to us it's as simple as that right he uses the years of our spirit and reveals his message to us and to simply understand this point it's like the FM radio you know have anyone of you seen those old radios or do you still have it you know where you you know you turn those dials and you keep dialing dialing dialing turning turning until you find the right frequency to catch a certain channel you know what I'm talking about we've all done that isn't it right I'm also just reminded of this example where you know I forget the passage reference but it's in the book of Kings where Elisha and his helper is surrounded by the army and you know Elisha walks up with his with the servant and then servant sees the army you know surrounding them and only and then Elisha sees that and he says don't worry for those with us are greater are more than those who are surrounding us and then Elisha prays and he says Lord open his eyes that he may see what I am seeing and then God opens his eyes and he sees the chariots of fire surrounding them as protection right so God is speaking God is showing all the time and we just need to have the eyes to see and the ears to hear right our antennas our spiritual antennas always have to be up you know just leaning into what God is trying to say what God is trying to do at that moment okay and so there could be so many instances for example we may have an impression about a certain kinds of disease being healed okay or people who have been in a certain situation like a car accident being healed and so again we discern what God is saying and then call these out right sometimes as you start speaking or ministering words that you have not planned to say would seem to come out so just recognize what God is doing and speak those out in faith okay so seeing hearing and finally feeling again God uses the spiritual sense of healing to communicate information to us okay now this can seem strange but then again he's God and he can communicate in any way that he feels right right God can sensation or a feeling in some part of our own body that corresponds to what he is doing or wanting to do like for example and I've seen Pastor Ashish minister this way as well and so many other pastors are associate pastors saying okay I'm feeling a pain in my left shoulder right a minister would say this I'm feeling a pain in my left shoulder is there anyone here who's having a pain in the left shoulder okay and so that's another way how God releases his word of knowledge I hope you understand what's being communicated or shared okay so hearing seeing and feeling okay so God can speak to us and give us words of knowledge before we are ministering or during the time of ministry okay so he can give us words of knowledge before ministering or during the time of ministry okay now how to give words of knowledge and also a few couple of guidelines for us to know how to give words of knowledge right how we say what we say is important right we try to be simple we try to be gentle and open about the fact that sometimes we are not sure about what we have perceived okay so it's okay to say I don't know who this is for and be very simple very gentle without complicating things and yeah just communicating what God's telling you to say right so a couple of guidelines is we avoid using phrases like thus says the Lord okay or God told me unless we feel this is essential to get the person's attention okay and so in most cases we simply say are there anyone here or is there anyone here who's having a certain condition and then you just call it as it is and you say it as it is okay we again it comes to one of the images where say you know you are seeing that there's that there's a condition that an individual is struggling with let's say for example your bottom of the right foot a person is having a problem at the lower part of their right leg okay we don't add any other information that was not shown to this image that you are seeing okay so God is very clearly showing you that there is a problem in the lower part of the right leg that's all now he hasn't shown you if it's broken or if it's a sprain or a pain or a fracture or anything so we don't need to add to that okay so you just don't because you don't seem to fully understand you only call out with as much as detailed as to what is revealed to you if you only see that okay there's a problem in the lower right leg you just say that and if there's anybody there you pray and you declare healing over them it's as simple as that okay and another thing is we do not get discouraged if people do not respond to your word of knowledge okay like I said for example if there's anybody here you're feeling the sensation in your left shoulder and you ask is there anybody here you know who's having who needs healing in the left shoulder and if nobody responds don't be discouraged it's okay right sometimes people are we can be shy to admit or they do not admit to a certain condition either out of fear or embarrassment it's okay right what is important is that you and I are obedient to the voice of God you and I are obedient to declare or to say exactly what he tells us to say or what he's shown us okay word of wisdom and every other thing we're just going to give a little bit of glance of the rest of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and you know I'm sure most of you are already if not all of you are already aware of everything that we're about to kind of learn divine wisdom is that is supernaturally imparted to a believer that reveals the mind purpose and the will of God to solve a problem that is the word of wisdom okay divine wisdom that is supernaturally imparted to a believer that reveals the mind the purpose and the will of God to solve a problem okay one of the passages that you can look at that I'm reminded of is from second Corinthians sorry we've used a lot of Corinthians second Kings chapter 3 verse 15 specifically second Kings chapter 3 verse 15 it talks about how prophet Elisha calls for a musician to come and play for him to be able to hear from from from God okay this is one of those times where he chooses to you know he felt like okay let's have a musician come and play so I can hear now if you read the entire chapter and the chapter before the context is that everybody's going through a very hard time and Elisha has to hear from the from from God because if he doesn't hear from God some of the kings are going to die so he's waiting on God's instructions and guidance on a certain situation okay and and so and then you know the musician comes he plays and goes and then he hears from the Lord regarding he gets a solution and then that is the word of wisdom where God gives you he reveals the mind his purpose and his will over a problem okay so when ministering healing and deliverance the gift of the word of wisdom can reveal the method to use to administer healing to the person that's one of the examples right so for example God may reveal that the real cause for person problem and you know which we can then proceed to address and release the person from their problem okay so you know remember the interview process you interview you diagnose it and what not but there can be times where the person doesn't have to say anything God reveals everything to you and then you know he's diagnosed it for you and you just declare and release healing over the person so word of wisdom okay and and then we look at discerning of spirits now discerning of the discerning of spirits is very different from spiritual discernment which is an acquired spiritual ability okay I'll say that again the discerning of spirits is different from spiritual discernment which is an acquired spiritual ability okay right so this gift is to discern the source of influence on people so when you say discerning of spirits you know you're seeking again you're leaning into God's heart to see what he's saying and which the Holy Spirit again helps you discern the source of influence on people okay to see what the Lord is doing to see what Satan is scheming and doing against that individual okay and that is the discerning of spirits so through the gifts of discerning of spirit God can reveal what kind of demonic spirits are operating okay so through the gifts of discerning God can reveal what kind of demonic spirits are operating okay and I mean there could be so many things that God can reveal to you through this so again this is very important and the beautiful gift that the Holy Spirit chooses to manifest himself through and then we have the gifts of healings the gift of healings again released often with the gift of healing is often released through it's released along with a word of knowledge or a word of wisdom you know for example as we call a certain condition out the person receives the healing for example right I'm going back to the left shoulder please bear with me it's just an example okay I hope nobody has an issue with the left shoulder right so as you are calling out saying okay you know I feel a sensation of pain in my left shoulder someone cure and you know they put their hands up and you declare healing over them and that person is healed right there okay and that is the gift of healing another manifestation of the Holy Spirit choosing to manifest through the word of knowledge through the word of wisdom and then healing the individual okay and working of miracles is another gift of the Holy Spirit working of miracle causes things such as restoring supernatural excuse me restoring of missing body parts restoring organs that have been removed surgically recreating body parts causing implants to disappear causing function that is not explainable medically and other workings that are not natural working of miracles this is beautiful right this is so divine everything I mean all the gifts is so beautiful and so divine and but I mean just think about it right you are praying over an individual and you suddenly you know again the person that you prayed for had a metal rod inserted in their hands and then you declared healing over them and that person goes back and gets it checked and does an x-ray just to figure just to find out that the metal rod has been dissolved completely and they don't have any pain right and then there could be another individual that you are praying for and who does not have a kneecap or a broken kneecap or you know a dislocated kneecap you know and then you pray and then you see that God just in his wondrous ways restoring and giving a new kneecap for this individual that is working of miracles there is nothing impossible with him isn't it he can restore any failing kidneys or livers and make it new or just give a new one, new set of lungs you know anything so those are working of miracles we are talking about the Holy Spirit God and he can choose to manifest the way he wants to there is nothing impossible with him because he is our demon so that is working of miracles and the other gift that I would like to talk about is the gift of faith a gift of faith supernatural faith that imparts healing deliverance in situations that we may not have the required faith for ourselves there could be a lot of situations circumstances where you can look at it and say boy this seems impossible how is this going to happen, what are we going to do for example getting a person to rise up from their wheelchair and walk we normally will not do this to every person we meet in a wheelchair but in this situation the Holy Spirit may infuse this kind of faith in our hearts and lead us to do it so the secret here the important part here is that he is leading us to do it the Holy Spirit is leading us to do it and asking this individual to rise up and walk and so he is just he is giving you instruction and then he is filling your heart with faith so the result is always certain in this kind that the person gets healed and the Holy Spirit tells that this person is getting healed that person is getting healed so the gift of faith would also be typically infused in our hearts when God leads us to raise a dead person back to life it could be the same thing when you see a person who is dead physically it just seems like okay, what are we going to do now and then you hear the Holy Spirit saying go and pray and declare life over this individual and it fills your heart with faith and then it's up to us to take that step of faith in obedience to what God has just told you to do and you declare healing so that is the gift of faith are you all with me, any questions that you have or any thoughts that you want to share okay, all right as they say okay Nina, go ahead the gift of miracles that is there normally it would operate where? does it need to be only in a meeting kind of situation or if you have been praying for a person because it's talking about all creative healings and body parts and all of that and it's kind of related to faith also because there is a thing saying that you tell a person to rise up so this would operate because we are in prayer we would know that people who are specially gifted in that area just want to know how it operates again it can happen in a corporate setting it could be in a room of 10 people, 20 people 150,000 doesn't matter or it can happen individually as well and I have seen a lot of this working of miracles for example I am not sure if you have heard of Todd White Todd White is one of those street evangelists who goes around praying for people in the streets and seeing healings and working miracles and there are multiple healings for example where again God gives him this word of knowledge he walks towards this person or he just begins by saying can I pray for you and then as he begins to pray God reveals the words of knowledge and what not and then their health condition it could lead to the back and what not and then there has been times where an individual will say my one leg is shorter than the other leg and then he begins to pray for them in the street and then it's caught on camera where the leg grows to the same length as the other and there is not just one or two there is multiple healings like that and so that's the way God chooses to work you can work in a corporate setting you can work as you just street evangelism individually or you are constantly or consistently praying for another individual you know this person unfortunately has something to do with the kidney or what not and you are praying for them earnestly right and you are persevering and you are fighting for them and then you see God coming and breaking through and just healing and completely restoring the kidneys or whatever and so yeah those are the ways God works in miracles and I hope I answered your question and in many ways you know most of his gifts you know more than one gift manifest when you are ministering divine healing right anything else okay anyone else would like to share or ask anything Yesenia go ahead so the beginning of the working of I mean having these giftings gifts operating in our lives is when we seek honestly the best gifts I mean does it begin with it we really want to or does it just emanate from you know being in a place of intimacy and fellowship with the Lord I mean do we purposefully yeah I think anything related see these are gifts one of the things that we have to remember right we don't it's given to us right but then we are also encouraged to desire it to go after it to pursue it and and all of this is birthed out of our love for God for more of his presence to just build that intimate relationship with him and then he chooses to use you the way he wants to use you and one of the things about that 1st Corinthians 1231 where it says but honestly desire the best gifts is so and again for start in one of our weekend school of healing and ministry is the way this scripture was explained is the best gift is a gift that is suited for that that is appropriate for that particular situation or circumstance okay so for example you know in a given situation a person needs healing you know you are the Holy Spirit to work through you through healing right and it's not it's not enough just to give us a word of prophecy or word of knowledge so the best gift at that point of time which is appropriate is working of miracles you get what I'm saying that's just an example you know so but again it's all born out of our intimate walk with the Lord okay and one of the last gifts I mentioned mentioned is prophecy right the gift of prophecy is simply God speaking through man through man okay the gift of prophecy is simply God speaking to man through man okay it could be a combination of word of knowledge and word of wisdom and a prophetic word is something you know talking about the future so it is simply a message from God which a person receives and that person communicates it could be for a corporate or it could be for an individual as well right so in ministering healing and deliverance prophecy can be used to bring encouragement strength comfort that inspires faith alright so what we need to we need to keep in mind that the gifts of the spirit are usually released in combination with one one another right as gift packs right so while ministering there may be more than one gift flowing together alright so that's what we need to keep in mind the last gift that's mentioned is prophecy what you need to simply understand is the gift of prophecy is God speaking to man through man alright so that's kind of concluding this chapter chapter 9 as we conclude this chapter what I want to encourage you is you know we've come a long way in this course and understanding divine healing and deliverance keep taking that step of faith don't have any second thoughts if you look at a person and think okay you know I want to go pray for that person don't hold back walk up to the person and don't be afraid and ask the person can I pray for you it could be a person that you don't that you know or that you may not know right but take the step of faith and start working on everything that you've learned so far okay start putting it into practice that's the point of this subject is that you you know begin to exercise it and practice put into practice everything that you've learned alright so we'll pause this we'll pause now as we conclude this chapter and then we'll resume the next session alright I'll see you take a break