 Right, we finished chapter 8 and now we move on to chapter 9 and end with this chapter today. Okay, so chapter 9 titled, Gifts of the Spirit for Ministering Healing and Deliverance. Okay, Gifts of the Spirit for Ministering Healing and Deliverance. One of the steps of points we looked at in previous chapters is that the healing power of the Holy Ghost, right? How he moves and how he empowers and moves through us to minister healing and deliverance to people. Okay, so in this chapter the Gifts of the Spirit are a sample list of the ways in which the Holy Spirit reveals his presence and power through us as individuals. It is not necessarily a complete list of ways in which the Holy Spirit works, but a representative list. The Holy Spirit is God and he can manifest himself in any way that he desires. Okay, he is God and he can manifest himself in any way that he desires. We don't like to put him in a box and say, okay, this is what it is. He can move in any way that he wants to, but this is just a list that is presented to us in the Holy God. We see in the first part of the chapter 12 from verse 4 to 11, right? So there are diversities of Gifts but the same Spirit. There are differences for ministries but the same Lord. There are diversities of activities but it is the same God who works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. For the one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit. To another faith by the same Spirit, to another Gifts of healings by the same Spirit. To another the work of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things distributing to each one individually as he wants. First Corinthians chapter 12 verse 31, But honestly desire the best Gifts and yet I show you you are more excellent way. 14-1, Pursue love and desire spiritual Gifts but especially that you may prophesy. Verse 12 of the same chapter, Even so you, since you are a cellist for spiritual Gifts, let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel. So we pursue spiritual Gifts. We pursue the Gifts of the Holy Spirit for the edification of the church. That's one of those things. And secondly we are also commanded, right? Desire spiritual Gifts, the Bible says. We are encouraged and motivated to go after the spiritual Gifts. So the Gifts of the Spirit are important tools for ministering healing and deliverance. We must desire these Gifts, stir them up and see them in manifestation as we co-labor with the Holy Spirit to minister healing and deliverance. We present briefly how various Gifts of the Spirit would operate in the context of ministering and healing and deliverance. The comments below are not comprehensive. The more we co-operate and work with the Holy Spirit, the more we learn about the ways in which these Gifts are used. The more we co-operate, the more we know about the Spirit of the Living God. So the first one we look at is the word of knowledge. The word of knowledge. So to simply paraphrase it, a word of knowledge, as it says, is something that an individual will already know. For example, you know, I'm praying for you or Ananda is silly praying for you. And let's say I get your date of birth or your phone number or your home address, or the color of your car, for example. So these are information that you would already know, isn't it? So God would use that most of the time to get our attention. And suddenly the spotlight, we feel like the spotlight of Heaven is shifted on us, on you as an individual. And this happened to me as well. I'm sure it's happened to you, for example. There was a time when my car needed to be repaired. It needed to be fixed because it gave me a lot of problems and troubles. And I was very disappointed. I was very discouraged. But at the same time, I was also leading worship that Sunday. And Pastor Nancy was leading the service. And at the end of the service, as she was praying, she just said, does anybody here have a red car? And I was like, yeah, I have a red car. And so she was like, okay, don't be discouraged. God is watching you. He's got his eyes fixed on you. And at that moment, that is all I needed to know. I was not necessarily looking for finances and whatnot, but I was just disheartened. I was like, man, my car is broken. I need fixing and whatnot. But just the fact that word of knowledge was released, it brought so much of reassurance to me. And it just made me feel that God knows. He sees. He is watching. He knows. And that was enough for me. And in all honesty, more than the solution itself, what was sufficient for me was that he knows what he sees. And so that's the word of knowledge, where God uses the information or the knowledge that an individual will already know. You must have seen it. Does these numbers make sense to anybody? And it might be someone's data book or a phone number or a phone address, anything, isn't it? So God would normally use one thing to lead into another. So a word of knowledge to lead into a prophetic word. So we talk about it in just a bit. So we see that Jesus also ministered, isn't it, to the women of the world. So marriage in women is that he says, you are right when you say that you are not married because you have five husbands and the one that you are living with now is not your husband. So what a knowledge. And then she's like, are you a prophet? You must be a prophet. And then she goes into the town tells, come and meet the man who told me everything I've ever done. She wasn't evangelizes the whole town basically. So that's the word of knowledge. And that's given to us by the Holy Spirit, the spirit of the living God. So a word of knowledge can help identify some of the individual's current or past problems. It can also reveal individuals or conditions that God is healing at present. This can build faith so that the person knows that God is at work. Word of knowledge, it builds faith. I remember just like what this scripture says in 1st Corinthians 14-12. It's for the edification of the church. It edifies the individual. Different ways God gives words of knowledge for healing. Different ways again. So God gives his revelation in different ways and that is true of words of knowledge for healing as well as other kinds of revelation. Some of the most common ways through which words of knowledge are given include the following. Through seeing, hearing and feeling. God reveals things to us through images and pictures that come out of our spirit and into our conscious mind. These would be still images or motion pictures. Or whatever. You are having this vision. You are seeing. So we may see images of body parts, areas of regions of the body, people with certain problems. So I'm seeing, for example, you might have a vision of an X-ray of a person's back. That's something that's happened to me before. You get to see an X-ray kind of vision or image of a person's back and you might get a word associated with it. It says hearing as well. Burning into discs. Things like that. So one is with seeing. The second is hearing. God uses the years of our spirit and reveals his message to us. God uses the years of our spirit. It's so important to note that when we don't hear something, what we do, our tendency is, we tend to, for example, I can't hear you, we tend to come closer. And he's like, what are you trying to say? Or if you can't hear someone, you push the phone into your ears and say, I know, I can't hear you. What are you saying? Can you hear a little louder? And I think that's the same method some of us or most of us tend to use or do when we want to hear God. It's like, what are you saying? We take all these faces in everything always, you know, always just me, I don't know. But he speaks to the years of our spirit because God is spirit, he speaks to our spirit and our spirit needs to be in tune, in line with the frequency that he chooses to speak in. Isn't it? And most of the times, so often than not, he would speak when I'm not so focused or trying hard to listen to him. I might be just mopping the house or vacuuming. Most of the time, he speaks something when I'm vacuuming the house. I don't know why. That's just my observation. I think, okay, if I want God to speak to me, okay, I think I'm going to vacuum the house and my wife will be very happy with that. But, you know, he speaks to our spirit. He'll spend me a calm. So it's up to us to, you know, for our spirit to be in line in tune with his. And the next thing is a feeling. God uses the spiritual sense of feeling to communicate information to us. God can also cause sensation in the part of our own body that corresponds to what he is doing or wanting to do. Okay? And I've seen some of the pastors in this example is they would say, okay, does anybody have a back problem that's like a word of knowledge linked with the feeling. And so, you know, and I've asked this question to some of the pastors and they would say, you know, that part of their body will also start pain or hurt. Say, you know, I'm feeling like there's this warmth in my ankle. Is someone's ankle so warm? For example, right? There's a warmth around my ankle and I think the God is healing your ankle. So you get that feeling and you kind of, okay, you know, you quickly kind of know that this was God's doing something at this time. Okay, so those are the three things seeing, hearing and feeling that God kind of, you know, uses to release wisdom, et cetera. Okay, so God can speak to us and give us words of knowledge before we are ministering or during the ministry during the time of ministry. Okay, please note God can speak to us and give us words of knowledge before we are ministering or during the time of ministry. If you remember the video clip we just watched in the last class he said, as he started praying, he heard the word herniated disc and it got more specific that it is on the left lower back. Okay, so those are all the words of knowledge that he keeps releasing as we are obedient to his voice he keeps giving information after information, like a puzzle after a puzzle that you can put together and minister. Okay, just give me one second, sorry, thank you. Okay, so these are the three common ways God speaks to us seeing, hearing and feeling. These same means of communication are used for the exercise of other gifts of the spirit. The same means of communication. There are other ways that God can and will speak and give words of knowledge. These include dreams, visions or situations or encounters with other people that may be an indicator of what God wants to do somewhere else. Okay, remember the example of the activity that another church group does is the treasure hunt. Okay, the different ways that he speaks and all of that includes vision hearing and seeing. Okay, so how to give words of knowledge. How we say what we say is important. Okay, how we say what we say is important. We try to be simple, gentle and open about the fact that sometimes we are not sure about what we have perceived. It's okay to say that I'm not sure who this is for, if you don't know the individual, it's fine, but we try to be simple, gentle and open about the fact sometimes. We are not sure. Okay, we avoid using phrases like thus says the Lord or God told me, unless we feel this is essential, unless you are 100% sure, to get the person's attention. In most cases, we simply say, are there one or more people with such and such a condition? Is there anyone here with such, such condition or do you have such and such a problem in your body? Is there anybody here with a lower back problem with the left knee problem with the knee pain, etc. We try to be clear and specific without adding to what we have seen. For example, if we have seen the lower part of the right leg highlighted in the picture we are seeing, we call out are there people here with problems in the lower part of the right leg? Okay, saying exactly what you're saying, but do not add other information that was not shown, such as broken bone, sprain, pain, etc. Only call out what was revealed. Okay, only call out what was revealed. On the other hand, call out as much detail as was revealed. Okay, call out as much detail as was revealed as this can encourage faith in the individuals who may have that condition. We do not get discouraged if people do not respond to a word of knowledge. If you release the word of knowledge, you ask all the right questions the way that you should be asking and if nobody puts up their hand in the congregation it's okay, just move on. We do not get discouraged if people do not respond to a word of knowledge that is given. Sometimes people do not admit to a certain condition, either out of fear or embarrassment. Just keep pressing on in the ministry. Just keep doing what we are called to do. That is how some of the ways in how we can release a word of knowledge. Let's move on. Word of wisdom When ministering healing and deliverance the gift of the word of wisdom can reveal the method to administer healing to the person. It's interesting, isn't it? When ministering healing and deliverance the gift of the word of wisdom can reveal the method to use the to administer healing to the person or sometimes a practical solution to unlock a person's healing. That is the word of wisdom. Most of this thing as we go through the list of the gifts of the spirit most of the time one thing will lead to another word of knowledge will lead to a prophetic word. Like I just mentioned word of knowledge is something that an individual will already know and a prophetic word is giving them insight, a revelation of other things that they don't know yet. That is the basic difference. God will most often use the word of knowledge to release a prophetic word. Having said that that is not the only way. So discerning of spirits the gift of discerning of spirits is the ability to supernaturally see either into the spirits of the people or into the spirit realm to discern the spirits of the people. The reason I highlighted discern most of the times it is very easy to use the word discern to judge people. I have this gift of discernment and let me judge people just to we can't be wrong enough and we can't be careful enough when it comes to the gift of discernment and I have learned a huge lesson when it comes to this. It's a lesson that I will never forget in my entire life when God teaches you something you don't forget. And so I have this I can discern and when having a conversation with an individual I can kind of discern in the first five minutes if I want to be friends with a person or not and most of the times I can be right but here's what happened once I think as a leader you tend to keep having the antenna up all the time and there was this individual who was not behaving the way that with the opposite sex for example there's this guy in one of the places of ministry it seemed like he was too close with the opposite sex and as a leader you're trying to protect your sheep you want to make sure that everybody you say nothing inappropriate is happening and whatnot and I went to a friend of mine I was having a conversation with him and he said there's something wrong about that person he's way too close with the opposite sex he's way too close with the girls basically and I'm thinking about this and I'm thinking I need to go and speak with that individual and with the other leaders about this and so that's when my friend tells me and he didn't know that I was thinking about this and he tells me that that guy's sister was killed recently and so and he's in the place right now and he's still not gotten over the fact that his sister was murdered and so he treats every other girl the way he would treat his sister and that's why he used it and I did not even voice that out and I'm sharing this but please note that nothing about this is I'm proud about I'm embarrassed very shameful about the fact that I thought about it and I'm very thankful that God would teach me a lesson like that and that's something that I would carry for the rest of my life is embrace people don't use discernment to judge people and I think we all need God's help to just walk with integrity isn't it so let's be careful when we are discerning when we are moving in this gift of the spirit especially the discernment we discern the spirits of the people to discern the source of influence on people to see what the Lord is doing to see what Satan is scheming and doing the discerning of spirits is different from spiritual discernment which is an acquired spiritual ability so when ministering healing means through the gift of discerning of spirits God can reveal what kind of demonic spirits are operating when ministering healing and deliverance through the gift of discernment of spirits God can reveal what kind of demonic spirits are operating he can reveal that's a dumb as the mute spirit etc etc and the next is the gifts of healings something that we've covered before healings are supernatural work of the spirit of God resulting in the physical or emotional healing of a sick person for example as soon as we call a certain condition the person receives their healing as soon as we call a certain condition the person receives their healing for example this is a testimony of another person who said a drug addict was set free from his addiction the minister said you are being set free from drug addiction as the word was released the person was healed miraculously from addiction and never went back into drugs so that's one of the examples so sometimes a person in a crowd as a spectator who is not expecting anything to happen to them personally receives healing again another expression of a gift of healing okay and the working of miracles the gift of the working of miracles causes things such as restoring missing body parts restoring organs that have been removed surgically recreating body parts causing implants to disappear causing function that is not explainable medically and other workings that are not natural those are the working of miracles have you heard testimonies of people's kneecaps being formed that person did not have a kneecap but supernaturally a kneecap was placed was restored was brought back where a person's feet a club feet made straight a person one feet is longer another feet is shorter where the shorter leg kind of grows supernaturally or a person with a flat feet is given curves so that they can walk properly that's just examples so many stories like that of persons sinuses being cleared supernaturally and I'm sure you've heard of so many other things that way so those are all the working of miracles supernatural and creative miracles as they say okay the next is the gift of faith the gift of faith is the supernatural impartation of faith into the heart of a believer to trust God for a miracle in a particular situation or a moment of time supernatural impartation of faith into the heart of a believer how many times we've seen that you know your faith has made you your faith has healed you that's the example there so in ministering healing and deliverance the gift of faith causes the infusion of supernatural faith that impacts healing deliverance in situations where we may not have the required faith ourselves for example in telling a person to rise up from their wheelchair and walk we normally will not do this to every person we meet in a wheelchair however in a certain situation the Holy Spirit may infuse this kind of faith in our hearts and lead us to do so right the Holy Spirit that's the key there he will lead you and once again as we always keep saying it is our responsibility to be sensitive to his leading if he's not leading if you don't hear him don't do something that you haven't heard like I said if you're praying for someone's sight to be restored you don't take their glasses and throw it away right so you may have to buy them a pair of glasses ok so be sensitive and that's the gift of faith prophecy the gift of prophecy is simply God speaking to man through man that is the gift of prophecy God speaking to man through man it is simply a message from God which a person receives and communicates it is simply a message from God which a person receives and communicates God speaking to man through man in ministering healing and deliverance prophecy can be used to bring encouragement strength or comfort that inspires faith a prophetic word can cause the breaking of demonic strongholds and of depression emotional bondages and so on keep in mind that the gifts of the spirit are usually released in combination with one another gift tax right so like I said that knowledge can lead to releasing a prophetic word ok or anything else so while ministering there may be more than one gift flowing together so rather than compartmentalizing these we just learn to flow with whatever the Holy Spirit is giving to us we learn to flow with whatever the Holy Spirit is giving to us ok so there is some practical pointers as mentioned for us here before at the end of chapter 9 ok I'll stop here ok so does anybody have any questions we were able to follow understood and have you used any of these methods before and have you seen God move in one of these ways that we just learned hello yes I have a concern anyway first of all for me I'm still new in ministry I don't see those things I don't see in the spirit of the Sandman prophecy yes I'm still new but they have also seen churches where maybe a pastor has been in ministry for over 20 years but now he cannot do any of those things they don't minister healing they don't discern they don't prophesy so how are these gifts how can one receive these gifts in such a situation how can one receive these gifts in as involved if you don't mind say that again too how does one receive the gifts are you saying how can one receive these gifts the gifts of the Sandman the gifts of prophecy I was giving example that have seen so many churches where for example a pastor cannot do anything he cannot minister divine healing he cannot prophesy he cannot discern anything so it is just prayer as usual and people go so that's my concern is how can one receive this gift and then in the situation where people are praying for a church where a pastor does not receive does not have these gifts what should happen should people go away should they look for another church or what just answer your first part in terms of how do we receive healing it's the same way we've discussed in how do we receive healing for example we address this question saying is it God's will to heal us absolutely yes isn't it we know that his desire is to heal us that's how we receive the healing same way these are called as the gifts of the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians chapter 12 it's a gift how do you receive a gift someone just comes and gives it's made available for us it's already there the blank check has been given to us and that's why it says in 1 Corinthians 12 verse 31 it says earnestly desire the best gifts and then chapter 14 verse 1 it says pursue love and desire spiritual gifts okay verse 12 of the same chapter chapter 14 verse 12 it says even so you since you are zealous for spiritual gifts okay so I think that's the key there Paul is are you hungry are you desperate for that do you desire those gifts and and I think that's the only thing in a pre-requisite that's there you need to desire for those spiritual gifts and it's already made already before that and he's a good father that he's willing to shower us with everything that he's done so I think in my opinion a key is to desire the church needs to desire actually the chapter 13 we will talk about what a church should look like I think that's going to be a wonderful chapter and it might also answer your question but I hope I have answered yes thank you Paul anybody else anything else if you want sure anybody else motivated or encouraged by this course healing and deliverance thank you Colise you have a question yes pastor just as you're asking that is there anybody who is motivated by this course really we are motivated because we know that we are in the dispensation of the whole spirit and when we talk about divine healing and ministering it is in that domain so anybody who thinks it's not important I think it would be on the other side of re-editing so I think it's very important thank you so much thank you for sharing the phone yeah thanks guys thank you for sharing Colise you the rest of your hand can you say something okay we are heading towards the end of this course probably by next week just a heads up we will not be covering chapter 10 11 and 12 from the book that will be covered in in BC 1 1 2 and BC 2 1 6 and the course on believers authority and and in a wholeness so those three chapters will be covered with the tip of three start from chapter 13 from the next class okay so we'll stop here we'll stop recording and I'll see you all next week and thanks guys thank you all for joining in yes take care I'm sorry about the blunder that I did