 are comfortable to pray from where you are. You could please lead and pray this morning. Elisha, are you okay to pray? Yes, yes, Pastor. Okay, shall we pray? Heavenly Father, once again, we are most grateful. We thank you for the gift of life this morning and we bless you for the opportunity to be gathered here under your feet, oh God. Father, we pray, commit our discussions and our studies into your hands. Lord, come and take absolute control in the name of Jesus. Father, we pray, commit every mind, every thoughts. We pray, commit personas into your hands, oh God. We pray that you take absolute control of her, Father, and grant her utterances, the ability to explain things for us to be able to understand in the mighty name of Jesus. We pray, commit our brothers who are here to join also to you, into your hands. Father, grant them the grace and the messes to enable them to join us, to continue in this our journey. We bless you in the mighty name of Jesus. We pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Elisha. So as I told us, what we'll do is we will quickly go over the content that is remaining in our notes and then we will have an extended period of practice session today. So here chapter 15, if you are following me from the dear version or even your printed copy, just come to chapter 15. Basically, it has examples there of women who ministered with the prophetic anointing. So we understand from scripture that God did bless women with this gift. We see Miriam was a prophetess, Deborah was a prophetess, Haldah is spoken of as a prophet, Isaiah's wife as well is referred to as a prophet in scripture. So there were many prophetesses, Anna in the New Testament, Philip's daughters, prophesied, we are told. So the anointing was for women as well. As we see, some women are called as prophetesses, which means that they were in the office of the prophet. So going back to what we learned when we studied about Kingdom of God, or house of God, we said that even women are called to serve as leaders and also in the five-fold ministry offices. We explained how when we look at Ephesians chapter four and we see that God gave gifts to men. The word men there is Anthropos, which is actually a gender neutral word and therefore both men as well as women can be anointed and positioned in the five-fold ministry offices. So we can accept if women are prophesying in the church and it's not something that the Bible is silent about women do. Many women have prophesied and women do prophesied. Now coming to the next chapter here about practical issues concerning prophetic ministry. Basically we just have to be careful about following or moving in the prophetic anointing in a scriptural way. Unfortunately we see many things around us which don't fit what the word of God says and so we must know the difference and be careful to set a good example when it comes to the prophetic. Now prophecies have been used to you could say you know even manipulate people, control people, influence them in the wrong way. So you know when we see things like that it really breaks our heart to know that the gift that God has given which is so pure and it's being used in the wrong ways and sometimes there's a lot of hype associated with the prophetic anointing. There is you know sensationalism created so that people will be attracted to a ministry or a church or a certain individual. So when we flow in the gifts of the Spirit we must avoid these things. So what are some pitfalls that we must avoid? One is prophesying for money. We see Balam is Balam we saw his prophetic experience and we learned from that but the attitude which Balam had where he was ready to prophesy anything to have a gain. Now that kind of an attitude is a wrong attitude and we should never do that. Even Gehazi he was Elisha's assistant and he tried to you know make a quick buck. He went behind Naaman and he told him that hey you know my master has sent me to get something from you some reward some benefits for the service rendered to you. So anyway Elisha through that prophetic anointing was able to discern that Gehazi has not done the right thing but again you know Gehazi is a bad example who went after profit and had a money making attitude from the gift. So that is not good and expectations of people playing to people's expectations. Now that is also a pitfall. We see Isaiah 30 verse 10 says who say to the seers do not see and to the prophets do not prophesy to us right things speak to us smooth things prophesy deceits. So when there's a lot of pressure sometimes what happens is you know other prophesying believer or the prophets they want to keep things smooth and so they can just come up with a nice prophecy and not rock people's boats but that's not what God has called us to and so we have to be careful and don't let people's expectations pressure us whatever God is saying in a wise way we must be revealing that and then the next thing here is abuse of a prophet's reward. Now the bible does say Matthew 1041 he who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophets reward. So with this one verse there are many prophetic ministries prophets who preach that you have to give them you know some offering or something. So unfortunately even numbers are added to it like okay if you give if 10 people give 10,000 rupees each then God will bless you with whatever 10,000 blessings things like that. So you know the scripture yeah it's true we are called to honor the prophet and there is a reward associated with honoring a prophet but it doesn't mean that people use it you know take it to this extent where unfortunately in many cases it's nothing but a fundraising you know a fundraising promotion so we have to be very careful what is our motive is God really saying that there have to be you know 10 donors and they have to give this kind of money so the prophet is the right person to you know judge his or her own motive. So yeah to be careful about that and using thus as the Lord we've already talked about it and we said you know when we when we use thus as the Lord it's like saying I'm very sure very very sure don't even question what I'm saying. So use it sparingly sometimes the term thus as the Lord or the phrase is used to control people because then once the pastor has said or the prophet has said thus as the Lord you know how can anybody go how can anyone make other decisions. So do not use it in a manipulative way then of course death and doom prophecies so we've talked about this and said that you know sometimes because people carry a critical spirit prophecies talking about you know people being judged people going to die all of those things are pronounced over you know well-meaning God-loving believers and even you know when things happen like this I think I told us earlier that it just creates a lot of fear and more than faith in God I paralyzes people so we should never be making such prophecies and if we come across things like this then we must if we are in that position of authority to to instruct and correct the minister then yes or if we are in touch with the people who have heard such prophecies we can encourage them and say this is not how God speaks so we could be careful about that and then of course we heard in pathetic prophecies there's a section here where again to please people to gain benefits there are incidents where people go to you know homes and just as a revelation say so many things I see that Satan is trying to do this to you or I see that in your home in this corner there is there is you know some power of darkness which is sucking out your financial blessings so then okay allow me to pray over that that wall in your house so I mean things like that where there is no proper outcome to what is being spoken now if at all you know something good is coming out of this prophecy you know maybe maybe a more appropriate way if people are suffering financially because of a demonic struggle the best thing is to go take authority pray over that household break that then maybe float the gifts of the spirit through the yes discernment has shown us that there is there is a demonic influence but also a word of wisdom where we can guide people and tell them what they should actually do because that will be more useful than just saying okay it's this corner or it's that cupboard and you know there are things like this that happen so we we've got to be careful and never never do things like that and we've been saying that ultimately the word of God is what is our um Lumbline our standard so we go by that and if required you know we seek a confirmatory word through the word of a prophet and it shouldn't be the other way around so let's continue to trust in the spirit of prophecy revelation 19 10 second partner says for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy so every true prophecy reveals Christ to us reveals Jesus even more to us that is the spirit of prophecy and we will see more of it displayed in our midst and we must expect we must expect the supernatural even signs and wonders the way prophets like Elijah and others experienced during their time so the last section here chapter 17 is about the making of a prophet and here we see that God has called different prophets I'm specifically talking about somebody who's in the office of a prophet they're called in different ways so Samuel was dedicated by his mother Moses grew up in Pharaoh's court and he was called at a certain age in his life and then he he tried to pursue the call of God on his life now Elijah Elijah likely to be students from Samuel's prophetic school and then you have you know Isaiah Ezekiel Jeremiah Amos everyone was called in a different way and they recognized what God was doing through their lives and we also noticed that many of them you know went through a time of isolation a good example would be John the Baptist he was in the wilderness and nobody really knew what he was all about till a certain time and then you know he emerges he preaches about he prepares the way for the revelation of Jesus so generally we notice that prophets go through a time of isolation now in our setting it may not be somebody going off into a wilderness but it can be more of obscurity where people don't know us we're just serving in small ways but the gift of prophecies flowing through us but you know we just have to be open to it because what God is really interested in is our character and so God uses every opportunity to to build the character of his people especially those who are called to you know these offices prophetic office because when God pours out the anointing which is the wine we need the right wine skin otherwise if the wine skin breaks or the character breaks all the wine will you know like be wasted so God wants the person to have good godly character and so one must yield themselves to what God is doing 2 Timothy 2 verse 2021 very encouraging it says but in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay some for honor some for dishonor therefore anyone cleanses himself from the latter he will be a vessel for honor sanctified and useful for the master prepared for every good work and that's what God wants from every child of his so we are constantly yielding ourselves to cleanse you know our character our motives are in a man so when we are doing that we are offering ourselves in a dedicated way to be that vessel of honor and say okay God you know pour out your anointing in me here I am to do your bidding here I am to do your will so and you know God continues to work on his people those in the prophetic office he calls he stretches them sometimes and you know God is a great God and a big God so we might have plans for ourselves and think that at some point in time this is what I should be doing but God may take us to a completely different route because what he is doing is he's stretching us inside and you know preparing us for a time when he will bring us from obscurity to a place where we can minister you know in the capacity that he intends for us so we have to be trusting of God yielding to him and keep at this process of cleansing ourselves then God can use us as a vessel of honor and yes there will definitely be a time when God will position us at at the right place and then we can flow out of the anointing that God has given us so while all this is happening it's important for us to have good support encouragement guidance correction so we can pray that God will connect us with such people who will really build us up in our journey you know of of living our calling out for God so and I mean even if there are no mentors unfortunately in some cases there are no mentors but that should not make us question our calling you see Samuel during his times the word of the Lord was there so he was like a lone ranger but God brought out such amazing prophetic ministry through his life so what we're saying is even in the absence of a mentor the anointing can thrive so we shouldn't say that oh somebody doesn't have a mentor so how can you be a prophet no we can't do that God can work in any way if there are no mentors one can still shine for God's glory okay and a prophet is also groomed to confront challenges in the ministry we've already seen that that there are demonic opposition demonic influences that can rise up against the prophetic anointing but also a prophet when you especially see ministries of people like Jeremiah a lot of rejection okay because here you are saying the word of the Lord and people are not ready to listen to it or like Jonah you go say something and then the people repent something else happens and here people are saying oh false prophet so there's all of that that a prophet could go through but for the sake of the call you know we must be in a place where we keep ourselves strong and trust that you know God will continue to release his anointing and bless the body of Christ through that so with that we have completed all the key points that we need to look at so if there are any questions we will take that up and after that you know we'll just go into a time of praying for one another so yeah I'll just leave this time open few minutes in case you have questions okay so if there are no questions then what we will do is I'll I'll will assign breakout rooms to everyone because I know yesterday we couldn't have sufficient time so there are 23 people on the call right now or 24 okay 24 so we can just do uh yes is that a hand raised or a comment okay actually yeah there's some noises there I think there's no distraction I can't speak but okay yeah that's okay Abinash you can just join and be part of the group so what we will do is we will we will have eight groups here eight breakout rooms and I'm again just gonna do a random shuffle in a bit you will all be going off into those rooms okay so yeah if there are only two people in a room don't worry about to just pray for one another so I'm opening up the rooms please stay 10 minutes so three people in a room I think 10 minutes is good okay Christopher to be able to move from room to room who me could you could you please only me okay yeah okay let me see I'll I'll work on it so let's start now so I will give everyone 10 minutes and you'll have sufficient time to share we'll come back we'll discuss the process and everything it should be sufficient the time so okay we're going into the rooms and uh yeah please pray and see how you can hear from God and share that 10 minutes okay everybody yes yes okay okay great okay let's do it yeah sure so it's 922 please come back at 932 yes yeah please go ahead okay uh Nisha Salomi Kennedy Louis can you hear me please let me know if you can hear me because we can pray for one another here while we wait for the others to finish sir we've all been transported back to the main room I know some of you are still praying but I hope that you got sufficient time compared to the earlier session uh so yeah sorry if if anybody's prayer got interrupted but uh was it okay was it okay this time yes pastor yes this time it's not enough time okay wonderful wonderful yeah yeah uh in case you haven't shared a prophetic word or want to pray for someone the stream page is always there please follow up on that uh we'll take a few minutes to see how different ones of you heard from God so I'll just go ahead and ask um so Tarun I I came to your room and then you know you were sharing some words for your teammate would you be able to tell us how exactly you you said what you said yeah so I I saw an image um uh of a beam of light but uh it it was going in kind of a closed room um like a like you know you you it's like you put a torch inside the box and the the light of the torch is not coming out of the box because the box is closed so I I felt that you know there is a deposit of light that is happening but there's a door needs to be open for it to flow out so and that that door I felt could be anything like I for example you start a life group and you start sharing things God works through that his light will flow through that door a life group could be a door through which God could speak to others uh with you as a channel uh so there there's a door that needs to be open for the light to flow out yeah thank you thank you Tarun thank you for sharing so basically it was uh more like a visual but maybe not stationary little more than that and so that is what Tarun saw and he interpreted the light and the limitation and all that and he shared so that's that's wonderful that's wonderful okay so uh mangi there's a message for you on the chat here from beth thank you and beth for sharing that okay all right uh sister Rupa I heard you also praying and saying some things so can you share how exactly you you mentioned what you did ma'am yes thank you uh it's rarely I see a vision but when somebody is talking I sometimes the spirit of the God puts a strong knowing and a verse for them that's how I usually minister only rarely God puts prophetic words but for this time I have received verses for brothers and just shared it with them that's all thank you thank you thank you sister so for her it was a verse that came and based on that she was ministering uh okay so uh beth if at all you can you know you can share and speak uh would you be open to telling us how you received this word um yeah so uh brother Louis was in our group with mangi mangi me and um he shared something to mangi and mangi shared that what God was putting on his heart and it it um flowed with what I was feeling to share with mangi um and we didn't I didn't have time because we came back into the group so I I shared part of it with him um and then I just typed out the rest of it um here in the chat wow thank you so much thank you for sharing beth so for beth it was a sense uh yeah yeah uh one second Kennedy so um for beth it was a sense or a feeling she described it as and in this case because it's a group as we were discussing you have a confirmation someone saying something and the spirit of God is ministering in the same way or a similar way uh and so she felt that it's flowing that feeling is flowing with what was being mentioned so yeah great thank you thank you beth yes Kennedy please go ahead I think what my idea is the super you told me something that I've been praying for something that is in my heart so it was timely okay yeah thank you thank you so that's a that's an affirmation whatever she said that is how things are so this is a rupa it's an encouragement that you know you are hearing from God uh what you said God praise God thank you amen praise God so anyone else here felt that oh it's bang you know bang on whatever this person said it's actually happening anyone like that okay say please go ahead say so I was in the room with um Maxine and um Salon um so I I shared what I was seeing when I was praying and two images came was one was like a stream with um plants leaves right basically and then I also saw an image of honey pouring right and so when Maxine also mentioned what he heard the Lord reminding him while praying he was reminding him of Eden the place of Eden and he also he mentioned that um God was talking about fellowship the first fellowship he had with man and that the reason why he drove them out was due to the sin so when I look at the stream and the leaves it looks like a place of peace and um God keeping us fresh in all seasons but I see the connection again going further with the reminder God giving Maxine about the place of Eden for closer fellowship and uh for us to go deeper with God so I just saw the connection basically with what I saw and what he heard from God from that okay all right thank you thank you say for sharing uh so what we'll do is we will continue to use the stream page and also the chat section here throughout our course we still have to complete the teaching on the apostolic but in any session if you send something you know general it can be shared openly then use the chat section you use the stream section and you can post okay a word for someone so let's keep it going let's keep the the anointing flowing and keep blessing one another that's what we'll do we'll also cover apostolic ministry starting next week um but if we are able to wrap it up quickly maybe towards the end we can have another session have more time to really pray over one another in this way okay so that is the plan thank you once again everyone for joining in and Christopher brilliant idea I didn't know about the features of uh you know breakout rooms here but very helpful so let's close with the word of prayer heavenly father we thank you god for this uh lord uh this course on understanding the prophetic father we thank you for ministering to us by your spirit lord we pray that lord what has been activated in each one of us lord that you will help us lord flow in a greater measure uh lord with this anointing I pray a blessing upon everyone and god the way Elisha prayed and said let their eyes be opened father I speak that over every person let their eyes be open ears be open hearts be open to what the spirit of the lord is saying now and father we pray that lord as your body we will rise up oh god and god that each one will overflow with the power of the holy spirit lord we submit ourselves and we believe that lord you will keep taking us higher oh god even in the prophetic anointing thank you for the words that have been revealed to us and father we pray for the wisdom to apply those words in our lives father so that lord we can see your kingdom built god we thank you once again we give you all the glory and honor in Jesus name we pray amen amen amen god bless you thank you everybody have a beautiful day yeah god bless god bless bye you can carry on to your next course so take care have a wonderful weekend as well god bless thank you thank you same to you