 All right, so thank you for joining. This is the class about keys to supernatural ministry. We will pray and get into the next key that we have for today. Just want to request one of us to please lead in prayer. But the Paul, are you able to lead? I can hear you in this class. Yes, I can. OK, let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ of Natharite, we thank you for this opportunity that you brought us together to listen and to learn your word. We pray that Lord God let the spirit of supernatural knowledge infiltrate us and let his guide us, Lord God, as we go in our ministry and as we go into the club. Commit the pastor into your hand that let this deliberation bear fruit in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you so much. Father Paul, I appreciate that. OK, so before we move further, so far we have discussed a couple of keys. And I thought, you know, for four keys we've discussed so far. Any thoughts or any questions, comments or in general about the supernatural or what you're learning from this course, we're good to know where you are at so that, you know, I know how to go forward from here. So please feel free to share. So there was one question which we had on the e-learn where one of our students had asked, why is it that believers don't flow in the supernatural easily? So I thought that was a very interesting question. So then I just made a comment saying one needs to be aware of the ways of God. Isn't it? That's what we said. We have to learn the ways of God, the provisions that God has in this word. And that's where we pick up keys like the power of faith, keys like the power of the word, the power of the renewed mind, awareness of the realms, that we are part of both the spiritual realm and the natural realm. Learn how to see the supernatural realm and the things of the supernatural realm come into the natural realm. So I just shared that, you know, one needs to develop the knowledge and all of these aspects and begin to practice it. When we do that, somehow our human spirit becomes more mature, more sensitive to the ways of God and we begin to see more of the supernatural through the lives of believers. Now if believers are not aware or believers are not walking in these things, then even though we have the mandate for the supernatural, it becomes difficult for us to see the flow of the supernatural through our lives. So that was what I shared. So what do you feel? What is it that limits believers from moving in the supernatural? I'll just ask, Zellie, do you have any views, any thoughts? John, John can share first and then Zellie will go. Yeah, Prasad. And that prayer is not answered so it might be not for me kind of a thing. So unanswered prayers might hinder believers to push themselves. Okay. So John, your voice was a little interrupted. I'm just trying to understand what you said. So you're saying, the reason why people don't experience the supernatural is because they are, they still hold on to the disappointment of unanswered prayers. Is that what you were saying? They prayed for a matter for a long time and they have not experienced that. And now when this matter comes, they feel like, oh, it's not for me or kind of a thing. Yeah, true, true. Yeah, that's so true. Even healing for that matter, if you prayed few times it hasn't happened so when we are praying the next time for healing, it's somewhat, you know, that faith level goes down. So how do you deal with it? How do you deal with it, John, in such an experience? You're on mute John. We're not able to hear John. Anyone else if you have a view when people, their disappointment limits them, how do we deal with it? Yes, Lubega. Pastor, it's a question of association and doing hard work on yourself and because in case I do pray and I think I feel like discouraged, I can go back to the word of God, what does the word say about discouragement and association can be still going to my mom, she's lost her pastor, saying, mom, what do I need to do? Or peers because, you know, leadership and all spiritual warfare can be both vertical and horizontal. Vertical you look onto God and horizontal raining with your fellow humans. Thank you, Pastor. Wow, that was an amazing answer. Lubega, 100 marks for that answer. Excellent. Thank you. So, you know, we go back to the word, we go back to our mentors, we engage in spiritual warfare, we get back our faith. So, thank you, thank you for that. John, no problem, I understand. I think there's some network issue. So you're unable to share through audio. So you were saying that that could be a fact, but the truth is God is a God of miracles, yeah. So people could have these experiences of not hearing from God, but the fact is that we know God speaks and he does all the supernatural works in our lives. Okay, so I'm just reading other comments on the chat. Jefina says, why doesn't the supernatural take place in believers' lives? Not seeking the supernatural actually limits us, that's true. So we don't seek it. Rosalind says, maybe the believers are happy and content with salvation, yes. Okay, and Lubega had pointed out there are factors ranging from natural and spiritual factors. Each group can represent the forest. Okay, thank you Lubega for that. Brother Paul, you had something to share? Yeah, I think nothing is seen when you're involved in seeing. The Holy Spirit does not dwell in you and then your altar will be dark so there will be no flow of the supernatural in you. Thank you. Yes, thank you. So sin also will limit us. So these are all some of the reasons that keep us out of the supernatural. Today, we will look at the fifth key which will help us flow better in the supernatural. So far, I enlisted earlier on all the keys that we have talked about. So today's is anointing. Today's is anointing. So we'll try to understand what this anointing word means and how is it that the supernatural can flow through the anointing in our lives. So usually the term anointing is used or referred refers to the Holy Spirit. When we read the scriptures in 1 John 2 verses 20 and 27 John says there that we have the anointing within. We have the anointing of the Holy Spirit. So that simply refers to the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit which every believer has. So we all have the Holy Spirit and we have Him living inside of us and the Holy Spirit is termed as the anointing. Now anointing though the Holy Spirit abides in us, dwells with us we also see that Jesus talked about the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. So one minute Spirit is in me as a believer default. I am a born again believer who lives in me, Holy Spirit lives in me. But there is something else that we must understand about the anointing the Holy Spirit upon us. So what did Jesus say in Luke 4 verses 18-19 I would request one of us to read that passage. It's quoted from Isaiah 61 and somebody please read. Luke 4 verse 18 and 18 Luke chapter 4 verse 18-19 the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind to release the oppressed to proclaim the ear of the Lord's favor. Alright, thank you Jefina Coran. So you see how Jesus talks about himself and says, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me. He has anointed me and then He goes on to list certain things that God would do through His life to preach the good news proclaim liberty set the captives free. So the anointing of the Spirit was upon Jesus to do the works of the Spirit or it is the empowering of the Spirit to do something. So as we talk about the anointing within we understand that this is what God has given us for our personal transformation. So the anointing within Holy Spirit living inside a believer what are the functions of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer what are all things that you are aware of what does the Holy Spirit do in a believer's life. Man the Holy Spirit strengthens our relationship with Jesus. Yes, yes Okay Anything else Rosalind? Teaches us this word he writes Very good, yes It will work. Yes, so he teaches us Yes Go ahead Intercede for us Yes, very good So he teaches us He brings revelation of God's Word to us He intercedes for us He leads us He does the work of we say cleansing electrification is also another work that the Holy Spirit does within a believer in the life of a believer. So the anointing within is for the believer but the anointing that we are talking about you know as far as the supernatural manifesting the supernatural is concerned is the anointing upon a believer or it is the empowering of God upon a believer to do the supernatural works of God So throughout our session when we talk about anointing I am not so much referring to the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit which has to do with the personal life of a believer or the walk of the believer with God but I am talking more about the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit to do the supernatural works of God So that is what we are going to try and understand So we also see in the life of Jesus that you know he went about doing good healing all those who are oppressed of the devil why was it possible because God was with him created the power of the Spirit in and through his life and ministry so Jesus was anointed he already saw how he declared it in Luke 4 he said the anointing is upon him to do all these works and we see in the 9th step 38 that he actually did those works by the power of the Holy Spirit Now every believer as per scriptures we are told that we are anointed by God we are already empowered by God to do the supernatural works of God but what we need to do is we have to activate this anointing and begin to see the manifestation of the anointing So how is it that the believer can activate the anointing and therefore anointing becomes a very powerful key for the supernatural activation of the anointing what are all what is involved in the activation of the anointing So let's understand the anointing a little bit today I'll see how much I can cover I'm not too sure if we would be able to complete this chapter in today's class but we'll do our best So we firstly activate the anointing by understanding how it functions how does it function the anointing flows through us aligned to God's grace and gift it on our lives every believer every believer has a grace of God upon them whenever we say that we mean that God gives them the I mean just for our understanding I'm putting it this way he gives them an ability which is unique or special to them so God gives grace grace is an empowering ability of God so God gives grace and he also gives gift gifts which are specific to that individual so let's just quickly look at a couple of scriptures so that we settle this idea in our minds Ephesians 3 and verse 7 could somebody read that for us and then 2nd Peter 3 and verse 18 Ephesians 3 and 2nd Peter 3 verse 18 Ephesians chapter 3 verse 7 of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of his power yes thank you Azalee so in that we see that Paul was given the grace of God to do what minister for God in the capacity that he was he was an apostle he was a missionary he went ahead and did God's work he had the teaching grace on his life so all these graces and gifts we see in the life of Paul and Paul is saying that God gave the grace God gave these abilities to him to be an effective minister for God now first Peter chapter 3 verse 18 first Peter chapter 3 verse 18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to him be the glory both now and forever okay so here is the next piece that we can add to our knowledge we said that God gives grace for us to do notice grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ so what does that mean there is a possibility for us to grow isn't it so we can grow in the grace so can the grace over your life grow let's take for example a grace for teaching so we understood that God gives the grace the ability or the empowering comes from him from that teaching anointing if you want to call it that's understood the second bit to add to that is grow in the grace I can grow in the teaching anointing or the teaching grace over my life now let's quickly look at another scripture this is James chapter 4 verse 6 again one of us can you please read it for the class please James chapter 4 verse 6 but he gives more grace therefore he says God resist the proud but gives grace to the humble yeah thank you so we notice here that while we can grow in the grace that God has given to a particular person he gives more grace to the humble so even beyond you know just increasing the anointing of God in that area on our life for the sake of using the anointing life of submission to God matters so when we walk in humility before God God gives more grace so there is a possibility of increasing the grace of God over our lives so I hope we are not getting lost in what I am saying I just want to make sure that you know we are able to get the hand key is that okay everyone or too confusing we are just getting started okay good thanks Jefina so Jefina is saying can you explain it one more time okay so what I am saying is anointing is God's empowerment and here are the characteristics of God's anointing which flows through our lives all of us have carry a certain kind of anointing so we saw how Paul said God has given me the grace to be a minister to you so he is using the word grace there grace is also an ability which God gives so different ones of us we all have different abilities in the kingdom of God like you know we could be a teacher we could be a prophet we could be an evangelist we could carry different graces okay but what I am saying is these graces I am also using the word anointing the anointing which God gives us we can grow in it we can increase in it and God is a God who is infinite okay he is able to release grace over our lives so I may have an anointing but with my walk of submission to the Lord and my walk of humility before the Lord that ability which I have can increase okay so in a quick nutshell that's what that first point is about so we can exercise God's grace his gifts they can become bigger and we can also become better conduits of God's power and anointing expressed through our lives so that's the summary of it okay so that's a bit about the anointing we have understood so then we can think about how to increase the anointing over our own lives and that we got a hold of that thought moving on the anointing or the empowering of the Holy Spirit to do is your love accompanies the word of God John 6 and verse 63 Jesus said my words they are life and they are spirit they are life and they are spirit so the word of God causes the anointing to flow through our lives but I am depending on the word of God when I am meditating in the word of God spending time in the word of God the word is also spirit okay so we are associating anointing with God we began by saying the Holy Spirit is the anointing is called as the anointing so how can I have more anointing how can I have more anointing of the spirit by having more of the word in my life so when I spend more time in the word it will nourish me it will also cause a greater release of the anointing of God to flow out of my life so let's just take a simple example healing healing and deliverance so when I start to spend time in God's word I am meditating upon passages of healing passages of deliverance what happens the empowering or the anointing of God in that particular area it gets activated so then when I begin to pray for people praying for deliverance I would just see that there is a better flow for an understanding and using such terminology there is just a better flow of the healing anointing but what did I do to get there I spent time in the word of God okay so this is also something we can do to activate the anointing I said first that we must understand what the anointing is how it gives ability of grace to us second is accompany the anointing with the word and the anointing will increase so engage engage in the word of God to see a particular kind of anointing flow let's take for example prophetic if I want to flow in the prophetic anointing it would be good for me to take time studying the prophetic how does one hear from God what is this whole thing about hearing from God so as I am doing that what is happening the prophetic anointing in me is getting activated and I will see that when I pray for people or in general trying to hear from God it is just faster easier and I am more sensitive to what the Holy Spirit is doing through me so I am going to stop again and just check if you are all here in spirit or how I don't know which parts of you are here if you zoned off any thoughts or questions at this point about the anointing what do you think you don't mute I think I will have to use the second key faith and keep continuing teaching I have no response from all of you no worries I think we will get it slowly this might seem a little abstract moving on Lubega says his mind is clear Celia also said it is clear so we can move forward alright so we said that the anointing flows better when you are in the Word the anointing flows better when we are consecrated can somebody please read 2 Timothy 2 verses 20 and 21 2 Timothy 2 verses 20 and 21 but in great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay some for honour and some for dishonour therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter he will be useful for the master prepared for every good work so thank you Rosrin so what is there that we are vessels or at least that analogy is given a vessel is meant to contain something and we know as believers that we have this conflict with the flesh I could either go with what the flesh wants or I could go with what the Holy Spirit wants so consecration means yielding to what the Holy Spirit wants so you can imagine a vessel and that vessel is holding the Holy Spirit instead of the desires of the flesh we would say that the vessel is given to the Holy Spirit ok now if it is dedicated is being holy or set apart if you set something apart and say hey this vessel it will only carry in this case the Holy Spirit then what happens I am walking in consecration in other words in practical ways even through our lives when we are saying God we are saying no to the things of the world and I will say yes to you what am I doing I am submitting myself I am dedicating myself I am consecrating myself to God and the Holy Spirit and what have we read in this passage we become vessels of honour ready for the Master's use God is able to use us or in other words work through us because we have set ourselves apart for His use so the anointing flows better when we are consecrated and we are yielded to the work of the Holy Spirit so these are all ways in which we can see a greater flow of the anointing through our lives ok so all of what we discussed just now depends on the person who is ministering the person understands what grace I have so depending on the grace you flow so let's say I have a grace to write and I don't have the grace to sing I would expect to see the anointing of God flow through my writing instead of trying to sing you get my point when I go with the right grace there is a better flow of the Holy Spirit and if I try to sing what happens I might not see a very effective ministry then because I am trying to do something where there is no anointing so similarly if one has the grace for administration and they are trying to function in a teaching anointing it may not work because there is no empowering there so one has to go with the anointing which they carry and that's where understanding the grace understanding the gifting comes in second a company with the word so once I recognize the anointing that I have if it's a prophetic anointing I spend time with the word of God and what did we learn earlier grow in the grace so I can grow in the ability to do those things and the last bit we saw there was when we humble ourselves we are able to experience a greater anointing being poured out into us and then we set ourselves apart and God is able to flow through that dedicated vessel or submitted person under the law so this is the way in which the anointing flows so all of this had to do with the person who is ministering now let's look at what else might affect the flow of the anointing so on the part of the people who are receiving expectation is a factor that is crucial now if people are not expecting something to take place you might find that the anointing doesn't flow that well so we have the example of Jairus in Mark chapter 5 he came to Jesus to seek healing for his very sick daughter he had an expectation from Jesus we know that the people around they stopped him they said hey your daughter is dead don't bother Jesus anymore but he still had an expectation from Jesus that Jesus could do something so what happened Jesus did minister to that child and she was raised from the dead now there was also a woman in Mark chapter 5 who was trusting God for a healing for the flow of her blood stopped so for 12 years the Bible says she suffered the hands of all kinds of physicians but it really did not benefit her in any way but she goes with expectation to Jesus and touches the hem of the garment you also see there that she says to herself if only I may touch the hem of this garment I will be read well and immediately the Bible says immediately the flow stopped so what was it on the part of this woman that caused the anointing to flow and then we also see how Jesus says hey you know who touched me Jesus was aware that power went out of him what is this power remember we are talking about the anointing is a flow of the spirit the empowering spirit the Holy Spirit who has given us a particular kind of grace so in this case we would say the healing anointing or the healing empowering of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus when a part of that left Jesus and touched this woman she was healed Jesus was even able to perceive in his spirit that the power had gone out of him okay so what made the power or the anointing minister to this woman her sense of expectation if I may touch the hem of this garment I will be bead well so she had an expectation from Jesus when people have an expectation that hey God is going to show up my needs are going to be met or God will speak to me today there will be a better flow of the anointing which is why in church services generally we have a teaching time before you have the ministry time when we talk about the power of God this is who Jesus is so what happens faith is built up and before one prays or even sometimes you don't even have to go till the ministry time people are expected and they begin to reach out to God the spiritual realm and they receive their miracles why expectation goes up what if there is no expectation there were times where Jesus ministered in places where there was unbelief people did not believe the Bible says he couldn't do miracles he couldn't do much because people did not believe because they did not believe so unbelief can actually hinder the flow of the anointing what is the anointing saying it in different ways the Holy Spirit His power according to the grace that particular grace so I talked about the healing of a woman 12 years she was oppressed now you can look at this as put the teaching example again when we are speaking to people if there is an expectation ok I am going to hear from God I am going to understand something from God's word what happens there is a better flow of the teaching example but if people don't expect anything it might be the best sermon but there is no manifestation of the supernatural ok so expectation among the people is an important thing that is something that we should look into now when we say expectation we should be careful not to raise expectations in a false way just simply hyping things up and making everything very super spiritual that is not what we are talking about so don't do it in the wrong ways but a sense of expectation which is built on the word of God that kind of expectation is created the supernatural flows better ok so we are trying to look at all this so bad we can have flow of the anointing in and through our lives ok so before it becomes like super abstract and all of you doze off online what I am going to do is I will just share an example and I don't think I can finish this subject today at all so we will have to revisit it in the next class so I will just share an example you can ask some questions that will make it interesting so based on whatever we have discussed so far one can minister one can use this practical information to minister I know of certain ministers who work on this principle especially expectation how they build people up in the word of God or they can be sharing of some testimonies or there can be an exhortation right before they pray for the people so expectation is built up and then when they minister the supernatural Lakshmi takes place ok so any comments at this point yes I have a question yes when you said that grace is an ability from that moment I am struggling with this so is it like God is increasing the grace or we are experiencing more of this grace ok yeah thank you for that question is it that God is increasing that grace or we are experiencing more of the grace ok so as we saw in Ephesians 3-7 there is an amount of grace which is given when you take this word grace the word grace is used in different contexts in different passages the grace that we are talking about is the empowering the ability even the ability which God gives so it is both that is the answer God already gives us a level of grace and it becomes my responsibility to steward that grace if I want I can leave it dormant but if I want I can increase it yeah it is both does it help yeah thank you so let me just touch on another portion here that might bring more clarity ok so in our notes if you are looking at move ahead move ahead of the expectation point and it says that there are different measures of the anointing we will come to that point later next look at the section that says there are different kinds of anointing so this whole ability right like jeffina what we said it can be different for different people different abilities and according to that ability or yeah I am just going to use the word anointing so God gives you the anointing to we say anointed singer anointed preacher so there is an anointing with regard to that gift which God has given of the ability that God has given so there can be different kinds of anointing now it is the same Holy Spirit but there are different expressions of the gift based on the expression we would you know term it as anointing or that anointing or some other so there are different kinds of anointing even when we are ministering sometimes let's say it's a church service it's going on towards the end of the service and I have experienced this sometimes I just sense that there is such a power of God which is present for me to minister in the prophetic so then I go ahead and release words of knowledge I go ahead and call forth things and I am just flowing in the type of anointing that exists or the power of God that exists at that point in time which is a prophetic anointing but there are times when we sense that the Holy Spirit is actually wanting to heal people's bodies so then we flow with the healing anointing so there are different kinds of anointings and the same spirit of God can manifest these anointings through the life of one individual at different points or he can manifest these different individuals so I think whatever we have learned today forms a base it will be easier to build on it in the next class so let's just stop here and I want to request one of us to pray and we will wrap up the class brother Paul can I request you to pray please again not sure if he is able to hear me who else would be willing ok Zellie ok either Zellie or Jeff ok let's pray we can pray yes Paul go ahead father in the name of Jesus we give you thank, we give you praise we worship your door you and we leave your name so high thank you for your word today thank you for your message that has inspired us that has taught us Lord now come and dwell in us let it increase us and multiply us we pray all these for the glory of your name in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit amen amen thank you thank you Paul thank you everyone see you then see you the next class please to go through your notes ok we will study the same chapter the next session as well bye for now thank you thank you thank you Paul sister