 Okay, welcome. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for connecting on this call. We are learning about keys to supernatural ministry We have recently studied about the anointing how the power of God works through Willing vessel of God and in the last class we touched Upon the presence of God and the glory of God and we try to understand you know different aspects of it So I'll just touch upon presence and glory a little bit and then today we will also look at the remaining two keys Proclamation, which is key seven and persistence, which is key eight And I know I haven't posted your Or I think the key is already posted right I posted three keys together in the last Set of notes, so you should be able to access it Okay. Yeah, I think you have it. All right, so you can just have a look at it a while. You know, I continue With sharing what I have let's first begin with prayer though. So Anyone here could you please lead in prayer before we get started? Let's pray Father Almighty God We thank you for the gift of life. Thank you for bringing us here together to learn your word We thank you because you are a waymaker your promise keep on your delight in the darkness We pray that all that we are going to learn let it take away darkness that spring prevents the supernatural flow in our life We pray that all this is let it also impact in the life of the community that we are going to share your word to We pray and feel this in Jesus question. We pray Amen Amen. Thank you, brother Paul. I always hesitate to ask You know brother Paul or anyone else from? You know The nations that you come from because it must be pretty early. Isn't it? What time is it there? It is eight. Oh, it's eight. Okay. Okay. Not bad. Not bad. It's a table. All right Sure Thank you for praying So I was saying that we are going to look at Presence and glory just a little bit more So in the last class we we said that God has promised His presence where two or three are gathered in the name of Jesus when we talk about the presence of God we do not really See it or you know in the natural we are not able to Perceive it, but the presence of God is something which can be spiritually recognized We also said that the presence of God is Varying, you know in its intensity and strength now We know that God is an omnipotent omnipresent God. However as believers we can experience Stronger presence of God and presence of the Holy Spirit as we employ our faith In what God's word has spoken. So No, we know that there will be an increased Manifestation of the presence of God when we are gathered in this name There will be an increased manifestation of the presence of God when we praise because God has promised God has promised that He will be present you know where where praises so in this manner we we understand that you know God's Presence the intensity of that presence can increase and we can Experience it and why are we so concerned about the presence of God? We saw in first Corinthians 5 4 that where the presence of the Lord is his power is there So we want to engage with the Lord, but we also know that his power will engage in our lives and That is also something that you know we we want to experience and since we are talking about the keys to supernatural ministry we need the power of God's presence In our midst and and so we seek after that presence of God We also talked about the fact that the presence of God manifests in Various ways we said that the Israelites the children of Israel they had the The fire of the presence of God they had the the cloud of the presence of God We see other manifestations such as rain such as light and when the expression of the presence of God is in these ways We can understand what God is doing based on the expression of the presence of God for example if we take the Fire of God's presence for the children of Israel it meant Illumination it meant Protection of of the community as they they journeyed along So even today when we have a manifestation of the presence of God in the form of let's say the warmth of his Presence we we recognize that we are Experiencing you know the closeness of God the protection of God If we experience his presence as light, we know that God is leading us there is a Direction, you know that God is God is saying I'm leading you okay, and I'm showing you the way in which you must go So we we associate what God is doing by the way His presence Manifests so that is why we must be so keen. What if we experience the presence of God as fire Okay as fire or a sense of burning it could mean that God is Placing something on our hearts, which is burning for his kingdom It could mean that you know it is a cleansing presence of God because we know that our God is a Consuming fire. We know that scriptures talk about you know the baptism in the Holy Spirit and in fire What does the fire do it does a cleansing work? It does a burning up of the chaff case sin and unholiness in us So whenever we we experience the manifestation of the presence of God In a higher degree or a higher level Based on the way the presence of God is manifest we can actually Recognize spiritually we can discern and we can say oh This is what the Lord is doing among us So we must be sensitive to what the presence of God is meant to do in our midst And to some 132 a very very beautiful passage. There are the I will Promises of God over there from verses 13 to 18 where he says that Zion is my dwelling place and we know from the book of Hebrews Hebrews 12 It tells us that the church of Jesus Christ is the spiritual Zion. We are not the literal Zion But spiritually we are that place that God has chosen to dwell in so when God lives somewhere His presence lives there and wherever he lives in some 132, there is a promise I will bless her provisions I will clothe her with Salvation, you know, I will deliver her from her enemies So there are all these promises and blessings of God that God says when I am there I will do this we can expect if God's Presence is with us. We can't expect that is why we we desire the presence of God so much Whether it is our small group gatherings our home or even in the church Corporate gatherings when we come together We want God's presence unless God's presence is there We cannot experience what God actually wants to do and you know Desire is that God let your presence keep increasing keep increasing in our midst and so I remember last week I mentioned how can we Have an increase of the presence of God Whenever we take the given presence seriously whenever we Acknowledge the given level of God's presence in our midst You know as I stated last time if someone comes to our home and we ignore them They would never really want to come back again But what if we entertain them? What if we Acknowledge them There are chances that that person would like to come back and so In a similar way what we are saying is when we have God's presence in our midst We have to ask the question Okay, God is here What can I do? To keep him here. Okay by that I don't mean that God will go away anywhere because he's omnipresent, but The levels of the presence that we experience Can change so I want a greater presence of God in our midst And when his presence increases do we have that sensitivity and the discernment? We should ask the question. What is God doing? How is he manifesting? Is he manifesting as the fire? Is he manifesting as the light is he manifesting in you know any other different way because then What is happening? Not only am I sensitive to the fact that God is here, but I'm also sensitive to the fact that This is what God is doing and so I can partner with God and say okay God More of your presence more of your cleansing presence more of your healing presence more of your You know empowering presence, whatever it is whatever God is doing so Acknowledging and moving in that direction to see the increase of the presence of God Is so very important because his power will be present there and we said When we say anointing it is more of the power of God through a person's life, but Presence is where With or without that person doing anything who may be in charge of the the meeting at that time The very presence of God Will Do its work. So that can be healing that can be miracles that can be science that can be You know the leading of God in amazing ways that people experience just as they enter in the presence of God Emotional issues there are people who testify and they say I just walked in and I I felt that You know my pain which I'm caring for years. It has been wiped away. How did it happen? The presence of God the presence of God and the Bible teaches us that even mountains melt like Wax in the presence of God. So the strongholds of the devil Can be broken. There are times when you know Even I have seen just the presence of God and demons begin to manifest nothing else Nobody said anything or did anything nothing the presence of God and You know the delivering presence of God is there and demons are manifesting and they can be You know easily cast out. So we have to be sensitive. Okay, it's God's presence here What presence is here? What is he doing? How can I increase it? Okay, so God might lead us and say, okay, I want you to spend more time in worship So you spend more time in worship that you see the increase of the presence of God So in this manner, we have to Steward the presence of God and then we will see supernatural manifestations We also touched on the point of glory and we said that what is glory glory is the tangible expression of the presence of God. So can we Can we perceive a presence in a natural way? No spiritually we can recognize and discern but glory is Visibly expressed. Okay, and that that's what we see in the Bible. So You know pillar of fire it could be seen Cloud it could be seen So the glory of God is when the presence increases to an extent Where you can actually see it and I remember, you know sharing that there are many Testimonies where people say that no, we saw we saw some oil or cold dust or You know, we saw some some precious jewels or we saw something else Manifest naturally Okay in the presence of God, so What happens glory is when There is a tangible Expression in the natural world of the Presence of God. Can we have seen this in the Bible? You know, we see how there was a burning bush What was a burning bush that Moses encountered the glory of God? He could see it. There was a you know, there was a bush and it was burning and God Wanted to do something in Moses's life and thereby You know the the lives of the Israelites and so his glory was manifest and Moses had an encounter with God, okay? So That was how Moses saw the glory and we said how Israel kept seeing the glory of God through the various miracles That took place, but even after all of that, you know, Moses was hungry for the glory of God So we see him crying out in Exodus 33 and verse 19 He says God if your presence will not go, we will not go and show me a glory He says show me a glory and so, you know, God covers him and he makes visible To Moses his goodness his loving kindness his tender mercies Can these pass before Moses and in this way God manifests his glory? So, you know God's glory Yes, it is tangible visible, but we also see that a nature of God is revealed So on that day when Moses said God show me a glory. What was the part of God which was visible? His goodness his loving kindness his tender mercies So God's glory is an expression of who he is So does this category, you know, his goodness his kindness his mercies Cover the full expression of the glory of God. No We know that God is so much more and so as we keep seeking him and we keep Desiring and we say God we have an expectation to see your glory to see your glory You know, the beautiful thing is there is no end because God is infinite You know his his capacity is infinite and so when God reveals his glory He's not finished he can continue to reveal parts of him a portions of him expressions of him you know endlessly and It would be glorious it would satisfy us and yet make us hungry for more of oh Yes, and that is how you know the glory of God really is there is actually no end to who God is and what he can do But in what has been expressed so far We see we see all that the Bible talks about about the nature of God his majesty his His awe his goodness his faithfulness his mercy And you know, even when Jesus turn the water into wine, what is that a miracle visible glory of God tangible It is seen in John chapter 2 But what part of God's character is seen in that glory? He read that that Jesus made, you know, he The glory of God was manifest when Jesus turned the water into one glory His miracle working his omnipotent everything is possible by even water can turn into wine Not only that his compassion Why would he care about, you know, a couple who are facing lack, but there you see he was concerned So the glory of God or the nature of God who he is What he does what he can do is seen in the glory and God does things Right. And so why are we saying we want the glory as far as the supernatural is concerned because there will be an expression of the person of God, it's and so Compared to the presence the glory. It's a greater expression You know of who God really is and so that is why we seek after the glory of God and much takes place in the glory of God We've seen Encounters that people have had for example Saul on the road to Damascus that bright light. What is that bright light? It's who God is but it's a tangible expression of the person of God and what happened in that kind of glory Transformation of an individual, okay, but for that, of course, there was a requirement of The response of that individual as well So the God Manifests his glory in different ways and we must be open to it and just the way we said earlier Presence we've got to be sensitive. Okay. It's not like oh God's presence is there. Wow, you know God's presence was there Wow finished we experienced it. We are so happy about it But when we go to the next level and we ask the question Yes, there is a presence What kind of a presence is this? What is God wanting to do in our midst today? then as Let's say if one of us is leading that that time we can move with the flow and See to it that the presence increases We can Similarly glory of God. We see a manifestation of God's presence and We are sensitive to Ask the question God, what do you want to do? What are you doing? I? Will align myself to what you want to do right now and for us Different ministers of God, you know, maybe some of us here in worship some of us preaching some of us ministry prophetically in different ways When you go into the presence of God ask the question Okay, I sense the presence Why is God? Revealing this presence What is he wanting to do? What should I do? To allow him to walk in the lives of the people So do what he tells you to do don't do what might hinder the manifestation of the presence sometimes, you know We are the ones We just in a in a hurry. We just end up doing something that disrupts The presence of God or disrupts the glory of God, which he wants to Manifest, okay, so we must be very very careful of that very careful of that So I don't know how many of us we have experienced the glory of God in tangible ways whether you know, we've seen a light You know something physical something physical we've experienced But even in those moments God was doing something He had an intention Okay, and ministers of God We need to discern and Let the presence and the glory Increase and do what it needs to do Okay, so that's a little bit more about the presence of the glory of God. So any questions Once we answer the questions, I will touch upon the next two points, which are more familiar That's why it won't make take too much time So anything about the presence anything about the glory Or if you have had an experience of the glory of God a manifestation of some sort you could share Okay, so There's one example, which I heard pastor share about the manifest Presence of God so this was during one of our prayer times here at Bible College when in Like I when I was there on that day. I remember so we were all praying and pastor has this habit of walking up and down and praying so he was praying in one corner and That corner was away from everyone. It was away from everyone But as he was praying He shared that he could smell a very Beautiful fragrance. Okay, so this was during our five days of prayer. We usually have you know day of Entire day of worship prayer all that going on. So one of those days he could smell a Sweet aroma in that corner where he was standing and praying Actually worship was going on at that time and so he was surprised. Where is this smell coming from? And he noticed, you know, there was not particularly any window over there or nobody even standing close to him Worship leader is, you know lost in worship in one corner and people are lost in worship in another corner so he knew that it was something unique like It was coming from actually nowhere the smell So apparently he called one of the pastors and I think it was Pastor Selena So he called and he asked her like, can you check Selena? Can you smell something even she could smell it? He shared about how There was an aroma. Okay, the manifest presence and Why would God do that? Why would God Reveal an aroma during worship just To say that, you know, I'm pleased with your worship Okay, so you see how there is a manifestation, but God is trying to say something through the way in which he is manifesting Right, so we've got to be sensitive Okay, what is the presence like? What is the glory like? What is he saying? What is he doing as we become Deserning of the presence of God, we won't just do oh, I'm leading worship to songs You know two fast songs three slow songs Praise the Lord. It won't be just that or even ministry No, I just have to pray like this and close. No Spiritually discern What is God saying? What is God doing? What is his presence here? trying to Accomplish and begin to flow with it. Okay, then We will see more of the supernatural Manifesting more testimonies more miracles more healings. Okay, so Yeah, so if there are no questions, I will move on. But if there's anything at all, please do share I just want to share about the manifestation of his presence that I Felt one day during our Friday worship time we usually fast and Friday here at Bible College and This this one thing that I'm sharing was special for everyone who was gathered there There was some work going on the basement so everyone we were all in the second-year classroom and we had the worship actually here and That day one of our classmates saw a black shadow a black shadow that was moving and That same shadow was touching everyone and he he was so sure that that it was Jesus that it is his presence And that day I felt someone holding me so tight and there was one One of my other classmate who couldn't feel anything on his body like he couldn't feel his legs and There was one of my other classmate She said I felt someone tapping on my back. I felt someone comforting me and Especially that day was so special for us and one of my other classmates saw a black cloud that is a covering this whole place Even still now today everyone remembers that day everyone remembers that day because we all felt How how his presence was manifested and we all were really in a great joy We felt his presence and I think That day even we were fasting we were not hungry we kept speaking about everyone had some presence Everyone had some feeling and we kept speaking about what happened in that Time for like an hour and one of ours. I think so I still remember that touch. I still remember how powerful his Presences and he he's just great. He's just so awesome. Yeah Thank you. Refina so blessed to hear that and That's that's what you want, right? Every time we desire that kind of a presence of God the the work of God in our midst Yeah, so Let's let's press into this and know that the more we we seek him we will have his presence and Like I just you don't think back off the days when as a child My mother used to take me for certain meetings and at that time I hardly knew scripture Hardly knew I just knew some Bible stories. So I didn't know much But I remember without knowing too much of the world without even knowing You know about God and his nature I can't recall I would just enter and people will start singing in those meetings and I would be drenched with tears for an hour two hours like for as long as the meeting goes on because not that I was repenting of my sins or anything but It was just a loving presence of God You know that just melts your heart that you feel God's love in such a deep way Which you don't feel anywhere else and you can't even explain it But it was just the presence We didn't know anyone in these meetings. We would rush and rush out But the moment you enter You can tell Something is different over here, you know, so I mean just think about that even a little child Can sense spiritually that God is here And that's what we want We want a lot of that more of that, you know, all the time everywhere And so as God's people, let's begin to seek after this and we will see mighty miracles take place now Let's just look at the other two keys here and in the next Coming sessions we will talk more about the preparation for the manifestation of supernatural So the last two keys are proclamation and action and of course persistence. So here Uh proclamation and action simply means that you know many times the supernatural manifests after we release What God is showing us Now in the case of Jesus If you recall there were times he went to the leper and he said stretch forth your hand And we know Jesus Shared this about his relationship with the father. He said that I only Do what I see the father do So when he would have said stretch out your hand, obviously It was a prompting of God And when the leper stretched out his hand, he was cleansed So there's a proclamation Of what we receive from God And there is an action which follows Now if that person does not stretch forth his hand I don't think he would have seen the fullness Of the healing Similarly at the time when Jesus meets a blind person What does he do? He mixes his uh saliva with the mud He rubs it on his eyes and he says go and wash, you know the pool of cello and When this man goes there and he washes He's able to see now so Proclamation of what God is showing And an action follows Either of these is missing We may not see the results So again, we are sensitive. What is God showing me now? What is the instruction? I must give the people so you notice how there is no formula Sometimes it is stretch your hands. Sometimes it is go wash your eyes in the pool. Sometimes it is take up your bed and walk so unless We proclaim and declare what God is saying unless An action is taken You know, you don't see what God can do right so sometimes No one has to hear from God and build the ark first you build the ark Then God will do so when it comes to the manifestation of the supernatural There are times when you God might Cause us to say or do something and when we do that The results will be seen Okay, and so we need to be sensitive to that now this proclamation Of the word it can come in different ways. We could have You know a prophetic inspiration Where we are hearing from God and we are releasing that particular word. So yes that prophetic word and Action follows there's a result or there can be a word of wisdom a word of wisdom is basically a solution Okay, it's not just telling you Uh, this happened that happened. No, it's a solution do this You see a result So it kept me a word of wisdom or the gifts of the spirit are operating and we proclaim the word of God And then the miracle will actually take place. Okay, so even for the red sea to part what happened Moses had to raise the rod of God. So he told the people right what is going to happen all that And God told Moses God already revealed his purpose and his instruction to Moses. He had to act on it So he acted on it. What is the action he took? He went and stood in front of the sea raised the rod Finally the sea part in so This sequence is also something that God can use And we've got to be sensitive with those movements when God says yeah, do it like this You do you build this or you do that or you you uh, ask people to to raise their hands or Ask them to stretch their hand. So when they do that action what you are saying is an inspired word and it's followed by The action and then you see the result Okay, so that's how it works. So proclaim boldly proclaim boldly And uh, you you will uh, see God's work Okay, so now the last one is persistence Persistence a beautiful example is of course Elijah We read about the Time when God reveals to Elijah that there is going to be a raid Okay, but there is no manifestation yet so again the word is revealed but Elijah has to persist And he persists we read about that in first king's chapter 18 He he prays and he you know Wait still This is the manifestation very interesting. He already knows what God wants him to do But it's not happening But he's co-laboring with God Not once not twice, but seven times So sometimes, you know, we give up thinking The healing has not happened or uh, you know, the marriage has not yet restored Or uh, I have not yet got a breakthrough in my job We just leave it We say, oh forget it God God said but he he doesn't mean it. I don't think he means it But look at Elijah The word came He was assured of the word To the extent that he even told Aham. It's going to rain get ready Go eat and drink be merry. It's going to rain. But in the natural In manifestation Thing is there no rain But what is this last key which Elijah had? persistence When he knew the will of God when he knew the word of God, what did he do? He went up on the mountain put his head between his knees and began to pray seven times How long did each of these seven times take? Did it take each prayer? Did it take 10 minutes one hour? We don't know but The attitude Which says I will not give up Till I see what God has spoken That is the key Right. So he stays on focus And finally it happens Even that is just the uh, a cloud as big as a man's fist hand coming Up in the sky But that is good enough for him to understand Yes Here is the release Of the word which God had promised And so James apostle James he takes this example from first kings 18 and in uh, James 5 16 He says Elijah He was a man like us But what is the specialty? Fervent Effectual prayer of a righteous man So basically he's saying honest Heartfelt prayer this man did not give up He trusted God And honestly he prayed With faith He made the heartfelt prayer He didn't give up So What happened? God did what he promised So Ernest effectual prayer of a righteous man avails much there are results For heartfelt prayers of faith That we make as righteous people God will answer Don't give up Okay for the supernatural to manifest if it takes time We should not say oh nothing is happening. Let's give up. No One of the keys is present present. It didn't happen today. No problem present tomorrow present day after keep going keep going keep going So that is the attitude we need if God has spoken God will do it. Okay. Don't give up especially in prayer Even in the testimony of Paul, you know, he talks about Travelling I I labor in birth Till Christ is formed in you Galatians 419. So what is Paul doing? He's yielding himself to a deeper level of prayer Where he is Suffering in the inner man or he is agonizing. So traveling prayer is a prayer in which, you know, you Go before God with Intensity intensity the way Jacob in Genesis 32 He has a grip on God and he wrestles with God and he says God I will not leave you till you bless me Persistent it's a spiritual grip on God which says I will not give up I will not give up Till I see what has been promised in the word of God, Lord You said in your presence there will be salvation Lord, we want to see, you know your Forgiveness we want to see your healing. We want to see your deliverance. We want to see every person blessed We want to see every person filled with peace and joy. So what are we doing? We are going after God with a spiritual intensity even travail to where travail is associated with like, you know that deep prayer where you're you're Weeping you're sighing you're groaning You're waiting upon the Lord You know with that intense spiritual hunger And you know the manifestation whenever a woman travails In labor what happens? She's able to give birth So it's those birth pants that we go through spiritually After which comes the manifestation. So the point is One must be willing To persevere persist travail Some things come so quick But there are many things Even in the supernatural realm Which need to be pursued. So when we talk about the revivals, you will recall More even revile 100 years people prayed There are many other revivals two years three years Right months together layman's revival a couple of months people were praying Oh, why didn't it happen in two days? What if they gave up in two days? right, so We need to persist till we see a move of the spirit of God upon You know the people the region the community the church the nation And it is through persistence that even Revivals have taken place. So these two last keys one we said Proclamation and action and the finalist for assistance Okay, so let me just see if there are any questions or thoughts before we wrap up to this session Okay, john has uh supposed to do here. How do we explain about prayer as not twitch, uh, okay Interesting God's arm and traveling in prayer. How do we draw the contrast? Okay, good question john so Persistence is different from Forcing God to do something that you want and he doesn't want okay So that forcing God for what you want and he doesn't want is called twisting God's arm Okay, so what is the difference the difference is The will of God Okay, john so when I know something isn't the will of God for me And I am persisting in prayer I will Engage in travail travail will happen But if it is not the will of God That's not travail that's twisting does it make sense Okay, great. So that's the difference john. So as long as we know something is God's will then uh, if we are persisting You know, there's there's a travail aspect of that Okay, and travail, uh, I think we all have done it in our first year course. So you understand it Pretty well and also I encourage you. There's a sermon, which was preached. I think 2021 about So you could Listen to it 2021 or 22. I don't know. Uh, but there is a recent sermon as well Which helps us understand how one waits upon the lord, uh, in, you know, intense Grip and earnestness towards God Okay, so if we employ these keys as the holy spirit leads, we will surely begin to see a greater manifestation of God's presence. So, uh Are there any more questions opinions thoughts? Okay, so maybe there should be testimonies, isn't it since this is the keys to supernatural ministry and now eight keys We've already completed. So how about we start sharing some testimonies on the stream section and also in the classes Uh, as we go forward But for today, we will pray and close. So, uh, can somebody please pray Before we wrap up Yeah Dear heavenly father, we come tender the name of Jesus We thank you for this beautiful day and for the beautiful class we have lot But how awesome that is that you are thinking about us and you are loving us beyond imagination chases We are in such an underserved place But because of Jesus because you took the cross we are standing here God and each and every day you are Manifesting your presence in us Jesus each and every day you're loving us more each and every day you're drawing us closer Jesus Each and every day are helping us to grow in the relationship with your lord We give you all the praise we give you all the glory as we are learning about all these supernatural keys Jesus Help us to apply it in our life Jesus Help us to do that action and faith for you Jesus so that people will get saved so that your glory will be manifested and the And heaven will rejoice chases chakers and uses here We are surrendering each one of us who has gathered here chakers and uses we love you Jesus and we thank you Jesus name of prayer Even thank you And thank you everyone Okay, so we wrap up today and we shall connect next week then Bye for now. God bless. Thank you