 Good morning everyone. Good morning ma'am. Good morning ma'am. Good morning. The recording has started. Before we could begin with a class. Can I request one of us to please lead us in prayer? Father we thank you for this time you have given us. God we pray even as we come before your presence to learn from your word. God we pray that you speak to us and enrich us in your word of God. Let your word dwell in our hearts richly Lord Jesus. Help us to replicate what you are teaching us in our daily lives of God. We submit our diner to your hands and ask for your grace to be with her. And let us all grow together in you Lord. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank you John. Okay. I want to see a few comments on e-learning portal requesting to explain on the word of knowledge. So I thought for the benefit of everyone I can explain it in the class so that all of us can understand better. So what the person was asking was to share some insights or my personal experience when like how the word of knowledge started to flow. Okay. So we all know the gift of the word of knowledge. It reveals something in the present or from the past and the Holy Spirit can give us the word of knowledge that can help us in decision making process or for us along with the path that what God wants us to do. So I thought I'll share some insights from my personal life how this particular gift you know how I started to flow in this particular gift. Yes in the class I'm sure many of us would have experienced or would be flowing in the gift and for some of us who are new you know I want to tell you word of knowledge words of knowledge are an amazing gift from God and it's given its purpose of it is given to encourage people's faith to exhort them and to live righteously and also through this gift we can confirm the truth of the gospel and we can use this gift through evangelism. When we go out on evangelism God speaks to us, God will be leading us talk to this person and when you go talk to that person and it keeps keep praying in spirit. When we keep praying in spirit God will just give us certain words certain things yes we need to take the risk we need to take the risk of asking that person sometimes it flows step by step many times in Milo when we go to this campus ministry to the colleges they all are new students different type of students we would be meeting but then we start praying in tongues we start praying in tongues God reveal to us what they are going through how we can touch upon each and every students life when we pray God speaks to us and when we obey it goes step by step for example I would like to share this one of the colleges very reputed college in Mangalore so I used to take one class on theology so for the class of theology only Christian students would be part of this class only Christian students will be part of this class and for the other students of other faith they would have a moral science class or they have some other class for them so one such day I was just inspired in my spirit when I was teaching them about the Holy Spirit God asked me ask for somebody if they have a pain in their leg I have not done this before in a school set up in a classroom but then I just asked stepped out in faith I took that risk and asked is there anyone who have a pain I actually thought it may be a headache but then God asked me to ask if there is anyone who have a pain but then there was a guy who said who raised his hand and I asked him what happened and he told me I have a pain in my right knee in my right knee due to which I am unable to bend my knee he could not bend his leg like this he could not bend so I called him out and I asked him to try once again he said he cannot this he could just bend his leg only so much not completely he could not bend his leg it was just like this and it was hurting him there was pain in his right knee I said okay I made him sit on the chair I said the class can we pray do we believe that the Holy Spirit can heal him the class was silent and just before that I played some videos the healing videos like how a servant of God stepping out praying for people and how the Holy Spirit works just brings healing there is no any superpower of manifestation nothing he just lays his hand pray over them and the person has been healed so this video has already generated a faith in the students and now when we do the practical along with the teaching and with the visual what they saw and now the certain level of faith has been already generated in the students now when I ask them for the practical session they said yes I said okay let's go pray over this boy I just laid his hand and we prayed simple words he said Lord you touch him heal him the knee be loosened we commanded the pain to leave his leg simple prayer we prayed in Jesus name and after that I asked this guy to stand up try to bend his knees you know he bent his leg and he could fully do it the class was surprised and he was so happy and after that this guy surprised all of us when I asked him for his name he uttered a Muslim name he uttered a Muslim name and later we got to know this was the first time that he has come to a theology class and the Holy Spirit exactly touched him and healed him he just wanted to know what do they teach in a theology class all his life he's been attending the moral science class which is available in all these schools at colleges here for the children of the other faith so he wanted to know what does the Christians teach in the theology class let me go and see he just came to visit but you see the Holy Spirit knows that's the important thing that we need to pray in tongues pray in tongues and as we pray the Lord leads I would like to share one more instance the last company that I worked with a professional company I was working under a boss who was a servant of God so he had a family retreat his family retreat and he asked me I joined him to volunteer in that retreat so on the second day I guess I came to conduct the retreat he asked if I could come and you know, because there were many people there were about 100 people so he said if I could also join him and praying for the people I said okay so during the ministry time as we laid our hands on the springs I was praying for one young girl maybe she was in high school or the college meeting this person for the very first time so during the ministry time as I prayed God showed me through a vision last time when I I was praying it was just an inspiration of a word ask if somebody has a pain and this time it was a wish ring I could see that there was not a good relationship between a father and the daughter and the daughter was learning for father's love okay this was the picture that I saw and I could sense what she was what she was yearning for as I was praying for I just asked a few questions I asked her like you know how's your relationship with your dad and I asked her are you yearning for your dad's love the minute I asked it was like it is like sporting to the point she wept for some time she wept and wept she started crying and then I started praying in tongues and Lord started ministering to her started giving out few details about her past and she was only agreeing and listening and then God you know brought a restoration you know God said I'm forgiving you I sense a lot telling I'm forgiving you and I restoring this relationship with your dad and after the prayer I just prayed for her for the restoration and she was filled with God's love and this relationship was also restored back with God and at the end of the retreat she hugged her dad because it was a family retreat the whole family was there she just went and hugged her dad and asked for sorry and a relationship with her dad was restored back so God gives us this word words of knowledge and words of wisdom is to edify the people exalt and edify the church so yes it is a risk but we need to step out when we step out step by step God releases you know he gives us the picture what we need to do next how do we you know flow in these gifts we flow by having an intimacy with God we need to have we need to develop this relationship with God where we can hear the voice where we can sense the Holy Spirit speak to us we need to get our spirit tuned to that voice and the third will be taking risk first is we need to develop the intimacy with God second is we need to be tuned to his voice and the third is taking risk so when we do this we develop we develop the faith has been generated in us step by step step by step you can see how the Holy Spirit talks to us and he flows in us so next time you'll be so much with confidence like okay this is what the Lord is speaking this is how he speaks and how everything that has been thought in the class and everything that we read in our notes when you exercise it you will understand it better one thing for sure we need to know that our God is not partial and we all of us all of us have this gift within us it's already there within us and we need to activate this gift how by praying developing this intimacy with God getting our self tuned to his voice and the third is by taking risk and the safe place to take risk is in the set of a classroom here yes as this class is ministers foundation and we are just sharing sharing the knowledge how we can hear God guiding us Holy Spirit guiding us but then we also have a subject on the Holy Spirit where we will have the privilege or the opportunity to to practice it we'll have a practical session in the class of the Holy Spirit I guess that's for the first year we have that class Pastor Jake is teaching that right yes Pastor yeah so we will have the practical session to do that and we also have on Fridays we have supernatural are we recommend all the students to be part of that supernatural are morning 8 to 9 so that that's the time where we can pray in tongues and even if those who do not have tongues when we pray this gift gets activated because we are desiring for this gift when we desire when we pray this gift gets activated who's the giver of the gift who's the giver of the gift Holy Spirit yes it's the Holy Spirit and the good news is the Holy Spirit is already within us within each of us that's what John chapter 14 verse 16 says when the Holy Spirit comes within you and he abides with you forever so that's the good news we all have the Holy Spirit when we pray when we desire as I said gift of tongues is the only gift that we need to desire and it gets activated and once this gift gets activated all the other gifts will be automatically activated within us in time I never asked for any of other than the gift of tongues I never desired for any other gift but as I kept praying and stepping out in faith these gifts started activating seeing visions seeing dreams or looking at visuals whatever I could sense I started asking is it so remember we don't say that says the Lord like the old man prophets we just say is it something like this do you have a pain I know God has put the sense within you but when we share it when we put it across we have a class on the prophetic where we will be learning on how to release the prophecy there is also if you go to our APC publications there is a book called understanding the prophetic you can download and read in detail there is also a class on it maybe in the second semester or third you will be learning in detail and again you will have the chance to practice all that we learn now we will have our hand on training there we usually have this training when we have the in-person class every day in the afternoon 12 to 1 we used to have the supernatural hour every day in our college and you know all the students get together starts worshiping and praying in tongues and you see one after the other these gifts used to get activated to our students we saw students flowing in gift of prophecy or in a song writing words of wisdom words of knowledge releasing to each other we see manifestation of the gifts and the spirit there so I would recommend all of us to be part of the supernatural hour which happens once a week every Friday 8 to 9 okay I know I'm not part of it because only one of us could be my husband or I so my husband you know he's part of it Paul Emmanuel he's part of it so I stay back but then I encourage all of us to be part of this session which would be a blessing to each of us you never know how the gifts of the spirit can get activated in the corporate setup so with this we will move on to dreams and visions today's session I'll just share the notes everyone can see this presentation yes mom so we are in such a time where God is pouring out a spirit on each of us where we all can see dreams, visions where we could receive and also prophesy how all this can happen is only when we open our self and we have this intimate relationship with God and we we are ready saying Lord you use us you flow in and through us you speak in and through us the minute we surrender ourselves because our Holy Spirit is a gentleman he only moves in and through us the minute we welcome him we say Lord you activate these gifts in and through us that's the main reason why we teach and also we share the practical experience what we have so that we understand that these are real they are not just theory spirit of the Lord moves in and through us so what we there are 11 ways where the Holy Spirit can speak in and through us and at the same time we don't put God in a box and say God can speak only through the 11 ways and not out of it no let's not do that but these are the 11 ways which commonly people have been documented it's been documented and experienced so we have listed all these 11 ways but that God can speak to us in n number of ways we need to understand that and you know not to judge ok this is how God speak to us and this is not the way ok let's not put God in a box so we studied on through word God speaks to us through his word through the inner witness of the Holy Spirit and also through the voice of the Holy Spirit and last week we studied about the gifts of the Holy Spirit and today we will study on the dreams visions and prophecies angels we won't be covering dreams and visions and prophecies 5th and 6th chapter so if we can turn to 5th and 6th chapter in our books in the PDF version and I would request one of us to please read Acts chapter 2 1st 17 and 18 and it shall come to pass last days says God that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh your sons and your daughters shall prophesy your young men shall see visions your all men shall dream dreams and on my men servants and on my maid servants I will pour out my spirit in those days and they shall prophesy so God speaks to us through dreams, through visions through prophecy so there are 3 different sources through which God can speak to us yes some of us can be preoccupied in our mind and sometimes that comes as a dream as well but some of our dreams are God speaking to us and at the same time there are dreams that even demon can speak to us in our sleep but we need to be sure those can be the bad dreams how do I handle those bad dreams what if it comes true we have the power to cancel the dream we have the power to cancel any curse any dream any unpleasant word that is not aligned with the word of God or in God's plan we have the power to cancel it you have to just simply go and say the name of Jesus cancel this dream some unpleasant dream that is not from God that is disturbing you you can just go and cancel those dreams but the dreams that are from God would be to edify us, warn us, build us because that's what Jeremiah 29 says I have a plan to prosper you to give you a success it would be a good dream which will edify sometimes dreams warn us sometimes the dreams guides us and God speaks to us through these dreams so Psalms 16 Psalms chapter 16 verse 7 and one of us please read I want all of us from our class to take turns and read the scripture so that we can keep ourselves much interactive in this way Sid Zillatoli, Rosalind brother Abbey yes please brother Isaac Psalms 16 verse 7 I will bless the Lord who has given me cancer my heart also entrusts me in the night session thank you Amen God gives us his counsel and he instructs us in the night season very true very true he counsels us many times we have received a dream which will counsel us which will give us an idea maybe we are praying and asking God we are praying and asking God for some kind of suggestion or some kind of direction and when we wait on him you know God speaks to us in dreams and he can counsel us he can direct us in the path that we need to go even in the night let's turn to chapter 33 verse 14 to 18 Job chapter 33 verse 14 to 18 forgot me speak in one way or in another yet man does not perceive it in a dream in a vision of the night when demons sleep false upon men while slumbering on their backs then he opens the years of man and seals their instruction so from this passage we see that Job 33 it's very interesting to see that how God speaks to his people in dreams when we are sleeping when we are resting he open up our ears and causing us to hear his word and here he is talking about spiritual here not the natural one he imparts his instruction his guidance his direction to us through dreams so that we can attempt and be cautious so that we don't fall into any problem or we don't make any error recently I had a dream which was repeated two times because I didn't take an action in the night that you know my uncle my uncle my mom's brother was unwell so I had a dream that he's unwell and they asking me to pray for him and morning then I got up I could clearly remember the dream I thought I need to call him and pray but then I was busy with our class so I came I was busy with the class and I thought okay after the class I will call him up after the class you know again I was busy with our e-learning portal work and you know I kept myself busy and I missed to call him and then after that and I started preparing for the next day class and as I was preparing I was so tired I thought okay I will rest for 30 minutes I just rested this dream comes again this dream comes again for example if it's on a Monday it was on a Monday so I get a dream on Sunday night I remember it on Monday morning I had a class then again that evening I just rested maybe around evening 4 or 4 30 late evening it was yeah I was just resting I had this dream and immediately I got up immediately I got up I don't think I would have rested even for the 13 minutes you know maybe the whole purpose was got to remind me of the instance he gave me sleep it was something like that I just had this dream immediately I got up and I started praying I started praying I said sorry Lord I could not call up but then I will start praying now I prayed I prayed and I was again occupied with my own work I didn't call my uncle but I prayed for it the next day it was on a Tuesday after the class in the afternoon again I had since I need to call him I need to call him and check how he is he's a very healthy man there was no problem with him he was healthy I just called him when I called him I just asked how are you doing uncle I just thought okay and quiet and that's when he said Nancy yesterday at 5 o'clock there was a heaviness on my chest and I felt like I'm going to have a heart attack and he was all alone at home his kids were out on work there was no one so he had to rush himself to a hospital and he could not go to a hospital so he has ran to a nearby clinic he's a very elderly person he's in his late 60s he rushed himself to the clinic and you know he tried to explain to the doctor what he had I don't know whether after doctor giving him an injection he vomited I don't know exactly what happened but then this condition was very critical and doctor intervened and she gave the timely treatment which saved him and that evening he was better he just went to a clinic and she gave him an injection he was feeling better after that within a last time he was recovered though the family asked him should we take you to the hospital he's feeling better and he was much better the next day when I was speaking to him you see how the Lord can intervene and Lord can ask us to pray it's not that every time we get a dream we have to call that person but what is very important is God is asking us to pray for that person so we need to pray that is important so that God can move on our behalf God can move, God can bring a healing God can bring a deliverance God can show us the direction so we need to pray whenever God reminds us through dream or through vision or he just puts that sense within us we need to just pray for that person and then we pray God moves okay with this we will move on to the next point, next slide and we see God speaks to us through dreams God speaks to us through dreams you know the first is meet and encounter us can one of us please read Genesis 28 chapter 12 and others each one please take up each verse we can take Acts chapter 18 verse 9 to 11 and the next person take up Matthew chapter 1 verse 20 the other person take up Matthew chapter 2 verse 19 to 21 okay whoever is taken Genesis chapter 28 verse 12 can read Genesis chapter Genesis chapter 28 verse 12 he had a dream in which he saw a staircase resting on the earth with its top reaching to the heaven and the angels of the God were ascending and descending on it see God met Jacob there and he had an encounter there with God and that's called as Jacob's ladder where he encountered God and he saw God ascending and descending the presence of God the angels ascending and descending the next verse encourage us how God encouraged Paul at Corinth Acts chapter 18 verse 9 to 11 Acts chapter 18 verse 9 to 10 Acts chapter 18 verse 9 to 10 Acts chapter 18 verse 9 to 10 then speak the Lord Paul in the night by vision be not afraid for speak and hold not that peace for I have with thee and no measure set on thee towards thee for I have much people in the city Amen Amen and can one of us read Joseph sorry Matthew chapter 1 verse 20 as he considered these things behold an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying Joseph son of David do not fear to take Mary as your wife but that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit Amen you see how God is instructing and teaching Joseph because Joseph thought he could silently put aside Mary but then here we see God send an angel to instruct him to teach him the same with the next point we see to direct and guide again the angel of the Lord appears to Joseph and says take the child and move to Egypt again such instances we see continuously reveals the future events like how in the Old Testament God revealed Joseph through a dream where all the 12 brothers will bow down to him and ask for help and the next point we see revealed secret things to us can one of us turn to Genesis 31 verse 10 to 13 Genesis chapter 31 verse 10 to 13 in breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and I saw that the male goats mating with the flocks are strict, speckled or spotted the angel of the God said to me in the dream Jacob I answered here I am and he said look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flocks are strict, speckled and spotted for I have seen that all Laban has is being doing to you I am the God of Bethel where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me now leave this land at once and go back to your native land you see how God can instruct us, reveal the secret things a God is a God who sees us there is nothing hidden though Laban was cheating Jacob but God is watching over Jacob he wants to bless Jacob so God reveals the secret things to Jacob as Jacob trusted the same thing that what he saw in the dream he saw it happening God is a God of blessing and at the same time God reveals the secret things to his children he does not give us the surprise he always reveals it reveals it to his children before in hand the same thing we see correct and realign us and the example you are given is Abimelek Abimelek was born in a dream not a Dutch Sarah God clearly says Abimelek though he had the power with him God clearly says I will kill you you will die if you touch you need to hand over Sarah to her husband Abraham and this brings a fear into Abimelek and also there is a curse upon his kingdom and God says you need to ask Abraham to pray for all the female in his kingdom so that they may not be barren from the birth to a child see how God can do it the same God who was with Jacob with Abraham with Isaac same God is with us he is watching us he is guiding us he speaks to us he reveals the secret things to us because he desires to live in and through us and he corrects us and then we are doing wrong I remember one day when I didn't have a solution I was about to do something wrong suddenly in middle of the night God just woke me and gave me a verse he gave me a verse you know even if we are in deep sleep when God wakes us that sleep leaves us and I was so fresh I took my Bible I opened it I went to that verse to read and clearly God was directing me to the thing what I was about to do God has not desire for his children you know to get into any kind of error he warns us and he protects us for that we need to give that right to God asking God God you know you help me you guide me you help me not to sin you guide me from making any kind of mistake you know God reminds us and that day he ministered to me through that verse and I could completely avoid that mistake or avoid that sin or avoid that error praise God he alerts and warns us in that way so this way when we depend on God God speaks to us but this will move on to the next visions what can you use visions to give us you know he gives us to guide and direct us God uses vision to guide us and direct us and we see different kinds of vision here one is the spiritual vision second is the trans third is the open vision we see travel in vision fourth and fifth is transported in spirit the spiritual vision can be the most common for every believer every believer when we depend on God God gives us the vision through that vision he can guide us in the right path it can be a picture, a visual a symbolic it can be anything what God wants to reveal to us or you can also that picture of vision it can guide us to take the right path or it can also strengthen us maybe we are going through a situation or circumstance or even before you can go through you don't know what to do the path that you are handing the face that you are going to move the next face in your life you don't know what God has in store for you but here God reveals it before in hand like the way how we revealed it to Paul even before you could go to Rome there is a person comes and wants Paul saying that I see you are both the hands are changed he come ties his hand and he says this is how I see when you go to Rome you will be in chains so Paul is before in hand but knowing everything Paul goes because that is what God has in store for him but at the same time he has been strengthened saying that the Lord is with him even through the difficult time he has not been abundant we also see a vision a dream you know when it is a vision in act 16 verse 9 to 10 we see and a vision appeared to Paul in the night a man of Macedonia stood and pleaded with him saying come over to Macedonia and help us now after he had seen the vision immediately we sought to go to Macedonia concluding that the Lord had called us to preach the gospel to them there so before this could happen there were other two places when Paul and Barnabas wanted to go not Paul and Barnabas I guess it was Silas they were stopped Paul was stopped Holy Spirit did not allow him to go but he was stopped in the mission and then when Paul was spring and pondering he gets this vision that a person in a Macedonian man was calling him and here now he knows which place to go he journeys to that place and you see what happened God opened up a new door God ministered to that people the church was birthed there same way the Lord can direct us in a vision now what is a dream and what is a vision dream is something that you get when you are asleep and vision is something that you get to see when you are awake when you are awake and the second we see a trance we see in acts 10 9 to 16 acts 10 9 to 16 acts 10 9 to 16 Peter's vision about noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city Peter went up on the roof to pray he became hungry and wanted something to eat and while the meal was being prepared he fell into a trance he saw heavens open and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners it contained all kind of four footed animals as well as reptiles of the earth and the birds of the air then a voice told him get up Peter kill and eat surely not Lord Peter replied I have let him sit thank you sir thank you so we know the story what happened Peter was awake he was in the terrace sitting and here in a trance that means he was awake maybe he was just closing his eyes and praying just for a moment he could see the vision he could see that in a trance the vision appears like a sheet of all types of animals that come so what happened God was convicting God was conveying a message to Peter what he said is holy what God has cleansed you must not call as common and this was done three times and the object was taken up into heaven and following this a three man came and called Peter to Cornelius house because Peter was very particular about ministering only to the Jews and not to the Gentiles so through this vision God conveyed a message to Peter and he opened his heart to minister even to the Gentiles and not only to the Jews because God is a God to all the people and not to just one particular set and through this when he ministered to the house of Cornelius we know what happened the Holy Spirit came upon Cornelius and his household and this opened up the understanding of Peter that he could understand that God loves everyone and the Holy Spirit himself came upon them and what am I how can I choose to minister only to the Jews and not to the Gentiles so this opened up the ministry to the Gentiles and all the apostles you know started ministering to everyone around them and there was also a next point we see the open vision Peter, we see in the Matthew chapter 17 verse 1 to 6 we see Peter, James and John so an open vision of Jesus transfigured along with Moses and Elijah the mount of transfiguration they saw what was actually happening in the spiritual realm at that time you see that's open vision something happening in the natural and they have been ministered to and then we will move on to the travelling in the vision we see they have been transported from one place to the other from the natural world to the spiritual world in a vision and your spirit soul and body are in one place but you have been travelling in a vision geographically as well as in time into the past and into the future something very nice our kids get to watch is the super book they show the kids in the natural but they get to travel to the past of the times it's just a demonstration for us to understand to go back to the time and see but many of our prophets have been experienced that way we see in the book of Ezekiel and we also see that in the book of Daniel as he was transported in a vision and saw what was happening in the future so that they could narrate it and write and we see many such experiences you know I read a book of Heidi Baker called compelled by love there she also shares inside of how in spirit she was taken to different places and how Lord ministered to pray and minister to those people she was transferred in a spirit she was transported from one place to the other and we also see transported in spirit the last point is where our spirit leaves our body and travels and observe the things in the natural and the spiritual world we see in the book of revelations chapter 4 verse 1 to 4 John was caught up to the heavens and we also see in the book of 2nd Corinthians chapter 12 verse 1 to 3 Paul shares his experience as how he was caught up to the third heavens we also see Dr. D.J. is the Nagarin in our time who has shared his heavenly visit most of his sharing on the heavenly visit has been available on youtube I think it's heavenly insights or something with the topic but you can put Dr. D.J. is the Nagarin he just shares of his experience when he prays our spirit went to the heaven and Lord started showing him and sharing and giving him greater insights of God so we need to we need to receive these dreams and we need to be open enough to receive dreams and visions because this is how the Lord speaks to us through vision and through his dreams okay only when we are open God speaks to us in these areas he can flow in and through us the God who spoke to all the prophets in the Old Testament and in the New Testament all the apostles and to many other leaders and how God is speaking to each of us in our own time to all our ministry leaders and to all the believers God can speak to each one of us even in our class we are attending many of us would have experienced the way God speaks to us in dreams, visions, prophecies let's be open for those who are new keep it open ask God God speak to me open this realm of dreams and visions that I could hear you that I could see things happen that you can be you don't want me guide me and instruct me and when we pray like this you see these things getting opened up in the spiritual realm for you and me and we can start experiencing it okay with this we will take a short break okay we will come back after 10 minutes now it's Indian time it's 9.54 10 minutes from now okay thank you God bless