 Yeah. Good morning everyone and welcome to class. Let's pray and begin the prince. Could you please lead us. Father, hello be your name, Lord. We thank you for this day, oh Lord Father. We thank you for another day in our lives, oh Lord Father. As we gather in your name, oh Lord Father, here, oh Lord Father, as we're going to listen, oh Lord Father, help us, oh Lord Father, to receive for everything that you have stored for us, oh Lord Father, for this day. And just we pray that your spirit will help us, oh Lord Father, to understand, oh Lord Father, and to receive and learn, oh Lord Father, everything that you are teaching. We just submit everything into your precious hands, oh Lord Father. In Jesus' mighty precious name, we pray. Amen. Amen. And thank you Prince. So we will recap what we learned last week and then move ahead from there. We saw that we serve a speaking God and that God wants to speak to us and words are so powerful, they affect our thoughts, they affect our emotions and words can bring hope. At the same time, you know, words can bring correction, they can bring direction to all of us. And so it's really something that we desire to hear from God and we said that over the years, when we look at church history, we observe that first the church went into the dark ages, around 400 AD. But since then, what God has been doing is, like 400 to 1400 AD are considered as the dark ages because there's a lot of persecution and you don't hear of restorative moves of God during that period. But after that, like 1500 AD, 1600 AD, we listed out and said that God has done many things to restore, you know, the power of the church. And so certain teachings, people had a deeper understanding about it, whether it was what a baptism, holiness, or, you know, if it was grace, if it was baptism in the Holy Spirit. And also the move of God. So miracles, healing moves, people began to understand and people began to sort of minister in these areas. And now what is happening is, we are seeing that God is restoring the understanding of the five-fold ministry offices. So when we are saying restoring, it doesn't mean that it is something new. It was always that. If we go back to the Bible, there are prophets of God. There are apostles, prophets, we can see them in the Old Testament as well as in the New Testament. We can see apostles rising up even in the early church. So it's nothing new. It's already been there. But we are seeing that we as believers are receiving a better understanding about what it is and how to really function in it. So that is what we are calling as God is restoring to the church. So all this we saw. And then we describe that there is a progression in the scriptures. The manner in which we can minister the prophetic, we could say that there are certain levels. And we mentioned that all believers, because all of us, once we are born again, we have the Holy Spirit dwelling inside us. The Holy Spirit is able to impart the gifts that he carries with him. And so all believers to some extent are able to function in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And because we are talking about the prophetic, we are saying prophecy. All believers can function in it. So we called it as the gift of prophecy. And remember, I told us in 1 Corinthians chapter 12, there is a list of the gifts of the Spirit. And then 1 Corinthians chapter 14, Paul encourages all believers. Like how in verse 13 he was talking about, love is important for all believers. And it continues in this career, earnestly desire the best gifts, but that you may prophesy. And in that same passage at the end, he says, do it in an orderly fashion. Everyone can prophesy one by one. Many people can prophesy. So it is possible for all believers to prophesy. Now having said this, we also considered that people could move in the prophetic to a greater extent. So we looked at a passage from Romans chapter 12. So Romans chapter 12 verses 4 through 8 lists out some gifts that we can call as grace gift. So to a greater extent, people are able to minister in the prophetic. So such people or such ministries, we can call it as prophetic ministry. Not everyone can have that grace to minister in the prophetic ministry, but everyone can prophesy. Okay, so we are understanding the difference, isn't it? And so grace gift of prophecy. And then the next level or the highest level would be to function as a prophet. Now to be a prophet, one cannot sort of... Because Ephesians chapter 4 verses 11 through 12, it is God who gives the gifts, which are the fivefold ministry offices, one of which is prophet. So one needs to be assigned by God to be a prophet. Okay, not everyone can become a prophet just by desiring him. But Paul says, honestly, desire the gifts that you may prophesy. So is it possible for everyone to prophesy? Yes. But is it possible for anyone to become a prophet? No. Okay, you got it. So this is the progression and we understood regarding that progression. So the nice thing is that all of us, to some extent, we can prophesy and learn how to prophesy. And of course, keep increasing in our daily lives. For example, we've talked about this in the supernatural class. We are led by the spirit of God and the gifts are activated. Let's say somebody is a musician. You can flow in prophetic music, isn't it? Or somebody is in leadership. You can hear from God and make strategic decisions. So we can all apply the prophetic in our lives. But those who are able to apply it to a larger extent, those who are carrying prophetic ministries, you would see that there is a greater demonstration of the same prophetic and it would manifest more. And a prophet, we stated two things. One, we said is that they carry authority and they carry governmental responsibility. Remember these words. Now, if at all, if you're getting confused, what is the difference? So somebody who is a prophet carries governmental authority and governmental responsibility. So they are able to minister at the highest level, even affecting large regions, nations, leaders of countries. So that's how they do it. They can even call for moves of God in the body of Christ. So these are huge things. It's not just about reaching out to another believer or a set of believers and saying, I hear that the Lord is saying this to you. It's more than that. And God holds them responsible. I'm sure God holds everyone responsible. But because the function which a prophet primarily has, the role which they have is to prophesy, they are more accountable to God regarding the use of the grace and gift that God has given them. So we saw all these things. Now, coming to a section where we mentioned, there's a testimony that Pastor has shared and we all probably have testimonies like this. And we then finally touched upon the first person who is called as a prophet in the Word of God, which would be Abraham. And we understood that his way of ministering in the prophetic was not the typical manner that we understand today. When we think somebody is a prophet, immediately we get that term, that says the Lord and they are saying many things to us. But Abraham does not seem to be that kind of a prophet. So why did God really call him a prophet? Because he was one who was communicating with God, one who was communing with God. And then we stated that that is really prayer. And so in the life of a prophet, prayer plays a huge part because one is speaking to God, one is hearing from God. And that's the place, if I may put it, that's like the one prophecy to really be able to hear from God and communicate with God. So prayer will make us more prophetic. So we need to keep that in mind. Now in the case of Abraham, some of the other things which we can recognize is, when we say prophet, hearing from God, there are different ways in which Abraham also heard from God. We know when God promised him a very victorious future. He had a vision. When you read his life, you'll see that dream. And when it comes to Sodom and Gomorrah, he's actually discussing with God back and forth. Can we do this? Can we do that? So there's a lot of communication through prayer, through revelation, dream, visions. So it is there. Abraham is a prophet of God. And no wonder when that situation came, when Abhimalek and all his people were afflicted, you will have deliverance, but you should ask a prophet to pray for you. And then he told, okay, Abraham, he'll pray for you and all of you will pray for me. So when we say prophet, all I'm trying to remind us is, we have like revelation and understanding from God. So that is very much necessary in the prophetic to be able to hear from God. Now let's move on from here. So Abraham, we have an idea. Moses and Aaron, even Moses is called as a prophet. Now in the case of Moses, what initially happened is, if we recall the burning bush experience, God told him, you go to Pharaoh. So then what did God say? Okay, fine. In Exodus 7, all there in our notes, Exodus 7, 1, if you're tracking with me, then this is in the PDF version on page 12. Step-cutting Buddha. Exodus chapter 7 verse 1. So the Lord said, see I have made you as God to Pharaoh and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. Okay, so notice there that, yeah, I just, I noticed. Yeah, so Exodus 7, 1, Moses is not ready to go. He's making excuses before God. So God is giving him a solution. And what is he saying? I made you as God to Pharaoh. Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. Just think about it. See, when we say prophet, in this context, what does it mean? Moses is apprehensive about going to Pharaoh, but God is encouraging him and saying, you know, you will carry authority, you go, be bold. If you can't speak, don't worry. I'll send Aaron. He will be a prophet means what? He will speak for you. That's what it means. Okay, now if we look up that word in Hebrew, it's the word Nabi. Nabi, okay. You have to remember this word Nabi. It is used about 309 times in the Old Testament. And this word Nabi simply means a person who speaks for another person. Okay, so Aaron will be a prophet means that he will be your mouthpiece. So being a prophet is what? A mouthpiece of God. Understood. So the message comes from God. Or God is the source. And we deliver the message. So in our context, I know this generation, probably you don't know what a postman is because you're Instagram people. But if you know, in your recent history, even right now we have a postman, they come and just give the letter. Isn't it? It's like that. There is a message from God. So as a prophet, what do I do? I'm just a delivery person. And I better deliver it accurately. Understood. So that is the main understanding of who a prophet is. A mouthpiece. Somebody's mouthpiece. In this case, we are talking about being a mouthpiece of God. Message is from God in an undiluted way. In the essence of what God is saying, we communicate it to people. Okay. Alright. So let's continue. Now we said, in Hebrew, the term nabit means somebody who speaks for someone. Now there are other terms, that are also equated with being a prophet. Let us look at it. So first chronicles chapter 29 and verse 29. Here we have a passage. I will quickly read that scripture. It says, now the acts of King David, first and last, indeed they are written in the book of Samuel the Seer. In the book of Nathan the Prophet. And in the book of Gad, the Seer. So when we look up those words, Seer, Prophet, Seer, there are three different Hebrew words. There are three different Hebrew words. But who are they describing? Who are they describing? Who is Samuel, Nathan, Gad? They are all prophets. So three different Hebrew words to describe prophets, mouthpiece of God. The reason why these three words are used, we will go to it. But these words would be, one word Seer there is, Roe. And another word Seer there is, Hose. And Nabi, we all know, Prophet Nabi. So when we look at Roe and Hose, it is the process in which the Prophet is receiving the communication from God. So in English easily it has been translated into Seer. But Roe and Hose means there is a visualization process involved. Meaning, these prophets what happens is, they will get a vision. They will see a dream. They will see a picture. Okay, so that is the way in which they receive most of their communication. So there is a visualization process that is involved in receiving the message. It's as simple as that. Okay, now Nabi. What about Nabi? This term Nabi, again in the book of Amos, the word Nabi is used. It is, as we are calling it Prophet. And there is also another relatable word in Hebrew for this in Micah chapter 2 and verse 11 which is not tough. Okay, so we understood Roe and Hose. It has to do with the visualization process. Now we are looking at the words Nabi and not tough. What does it mean? You know, it simply means that the process in which through which one receives the word of God is through inspiration. Okay, one is visualization. Whereas the other seems to be inspiration. Inspiration is like flowing forth. Inspiration is like bubbling up. Okay, so how does the word of God get released? These prophets may not necessarily see any pictures. They open their mouth and it's like a river. River is flowing. They're saying this and that and this. Now if we may ask them, okay, what did you see? What did you hear? They may actually not have any pictures to describe for us because it's through inspiration. It's flowing. Okay, it's bubbling up. And the word Nattas, it also means like oozing out or distill. Oozing is you know, the way we understand that is little little by little when something is oozing little little, you know, it's sort of coming out. So in drops in like, you know, in pieces the word is coming out. So first, let's say they start to share something. They'll say a little bit and then a little more will come and then a little more will come, you know, bits and pieces. So this is the way that God mostly communicated with prophets with these two methods. One is the visualization process. One is the inspiration process. Now, we must also understand that there are times when one can receive a word from God in either of the ways. We must not box up people and say, oh, this is a seer and this is a, you know, like nubby inspiration in our own personal experience also. Maybe most of the time we see something but that doesn't mean that God is not going to speak, isn't it? Like through inspiration. It can happen because God is a very creative God. He may choose to speak anyway. We have to be open. Okay, and we can strengthen both of these like our experience with both of these methods. So if we'll go later and we'll see, right? Like, there are certain certain steps to prophesy accurately, to bring that word from God accurately, which involves like interpretation. So that depends on us. We, when we work hard, then we are in a better place to actually interpret correctly because after all, we are what? Just mouthpiece. We should not add to what God is saying or we should not subtract from what God is saying, right? That is the effort that we want to make and yeah. So just, you know, have all this in mind. Just have all this in mind. We'll see how exactly to do that. But when we strengthen ourselves in interpretation, reasoning and all, we will become better. Now similarly, just because we are doing that, we shouldn't stop from being strengthened in the inspiration side of things, right? So sometimes you just wait on the Lord and things just come. So we need to strengthen ourselves in every way and be ready, whichever way God wants to speak. Okay. We should be in a position to release the authentic, genuine Word of God. Now, when God speaks there are prophets that have explained it as a sense of urgency or a sense of compulsion that they really wanted to speak that word. Amos chapter 3, verses 7 and 8, where it says surely the Lord God does nothing unless He reveals a secret to His servants, the prophets. A lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken. Who can but prophesy? So Amos is talking about his experience where he says that you know when in a jungle if a lion roars what do you think will happen? All the other creatures do you think they'll hear it? Yeah, they know a lion has roared. Like there's a definite knowing this has happened. So as a prophet he's saying his experience and he's saying when God speaks you know I feel like there's something you know something to be released something to be spoken something is done by the Lord. So there's a very definite sense of God doing something okay. So that's what he shares and yeah so there's that sense of compulsion where a prophet wants to release the word now we'll go into talking about the method in which you know just basic we'll touch on just the basic over here the visualization process okay but I think I'll have to start that in the next class so we'll stop right now but so far you know based on this is other any questions any yeah. Ma'am like now we are seeing this to right like Nabi prophet and the Sia prophet so it's like it's how God communicates and now we are also seeing that all believers can also prophesy so as we are telling like all believers can receive or prophesy through seeing or through inspiration but still not prophet as it was as we have seen in the scripture yeah so they are not prophets basically their their position is not as a prophet but even as a believer these processes apply process could be the same yeah correct process could be the same yeah sure so alright let's wrap up today's class could somebody from the online batch pray please faster shall I pray I think Jack is praying yeah please go ahead Jack Father God thank you Lord thank you for this time Lord God Father help us Lord to understand what you have for us Lord God by understanding the prophet Lord God Father you have called each of us Lord God you have given each of us grace gifts Father God help us Lord to tune ourselves to your spirit Father God thank you Lord for this time Lord that you are teaching us Lord thank you for choosing us Father God help us Lord to hear you Lord God and put it into practice what you have for each and every one Lord God for your glory in Jesus name we pray amen amen thank you Jack in thank you everyone God bless you and we shall meet in the next class bye for now