 Good morning everyone, morning and welcome to this morning session we will continue with our course about prophetic and apostolic ministry we'll pray and get started so let me just begin with the word of prayer heavenly father we thank and praise you for this time that you have given us father we thank you for your word we thank you that Lord little by little Lord we are gaining understanding oh God and Lord that Father we are being prepared Father God to flow in the gifts of the spirit and Lord just to Lord keep moving forward into the fullness of whatever you have for us so Father God we thank you once again Lord we speak your blessings upon every single student their families we pray your blessings upon the faculty and their families as well Father we commit all things into your hands in Jesus name we pray amen all right so let's get back into our lesson I was telling us that today we will do practice so today is practice day I hope all of you are ready we've seen some of the some of the do's and don'ts what things help us to flow in the prophetic what things don't help us to flow in the prophetic the practical aspects have been discussed so I'm sure it will be easy for us to flow and today that's what we are going to do we were at page 146 in the last class and we said that sometimes we have a need for affirmation meaning we want people to tell us that whatever we shared was correct or whatever we spoke was accurate okay so that it's a need that all of us have but we must not become too dependent on it because it's possible that sometimes the word is correct and somebody is touched by it somebody is transformed by it but they never respond or they never show like you know they have heard from what they heard was accurate so we may never know and that's another reason why the biggest test is within ourselves what is it that I'm hearing is it accurate this is is it the right time how should I put it how should I release it do that much that's it all other things are external you know how people are responding all that don't depend too much on it that we must get an affirmation or you know we must get a positive response now coming to one last point after which we will get into the practice it is distractions obviously there are many distractions whenever we want to focus on a single matter when it comes to prophesying there could be matters like you know the way Jesus said the cares of this world the deceitfulness of riches there are all these things that are distracting us even from our spiritual walk with the Lord isn't it now when we want to prophesy these same things can affect us our mind is that place where many many many like our attention can go to many aspects right so keeping our mind focused is where we may struggle let's say I want to hear from God okay but I am too busy so when we are too busy what happens our mind is working okay how do I solve this problem how do I make this happen so we're not able to calm down our mind because of our busyness or maybe we are not able to calm down our mind because of some personal emotional struggles that we are going through and we're trying to figure it out in our minds we're not able to calm down that can happen or stress right some form of stress that is happening pressure or this has to be done or it has to be done like this I'm responsible I have to do it so our minds are like a battleground and in order for us to calm down and to tune into God is something that we have to practice okay but the good part is we can no matter how busy we are no matter how under pressure we are we can come to a place where we are tuning in where we are focusing and we can still hear from God so that will come from practice you remember we discussed one example where Elisha the the three kings come to him yeah and then you know he yeah he he discusses with them he gets angry and all but then he has to now prophesy so he doesn't know how to shift how to get into that mode of hearing from God so he calls for a musician and once the music is played then he starts saying thus says the Lord so we all will figure out how do we come into that place of focus how do we come into that place of flowing you know in the spirit of God so that is somewhat challenging but we can practice okay now coming to how how do we understand this there's a nice analogy given in that same section where pastor writes he writes if there is a dove we all know the bird right the dove bird it's supposed to be a very gentle bird so little bit of sound little bit of a jolt it'll fly away so imagine a dove is sitting on our shoulders how would we walk we wouldn't we wouldn't shake or disturb the bird otherwise it'll fly off so it's like that the Holy Spirit hearing from the Holy Spirit is like that where distractions have to be avoided okay and any like in the norm in the natural when a bird is sitting we won't shake or we won't jump we won't try to run so that we are we can avoid the bird from flying away same way the Holy Spirit in us and the Holy Spirit speaking to us so I have to shut off all these distractions then only I can hear because he's a gentle spirit and we can't you know quench him remember we read that don't quench the Holy Spirit so he's very gentle we need to allow him to speak and also tune in and listen what is he saying so now we come to the part of releasing the prophetic word releasing the gift of prophecy how do we release we can do it in three steps very easy three steps first is pray Paul kept saying desire right desire earnestly desire the gifts of the Spirit so that is something that we must recognize unless a desire it won't flow so when I pray I have to say something like Lord I I want the prophetic word please give me a prophetic word give me a prophetic word for one person many people all these people so that's the prayer we make we'll ask God and desire for a prophetic word second perceive perceive simply means receiving receiving is God speaking something or not trying to figure that out that is perceiving so when we are perceiving it's almost like for those of us who know what radios are because Gen Z you know some examples you won't even understand if we say so radio is a device that was used earlier to you know listen listen to different stations and those old gadgets like I remember we had one in my home and my parents used to tune it so unless you get the right frequency you won't hear that that program so it's like that so when we are trying to perceive it's like your your life on radio you're trying to check the frequency or is God saying something am I connecting to the station so we we have to connect to his frequency now we are saying this because the way God speaks can be in a couple of his communication can come in a couple of ways so when we say which frequency all we are saying is like check in our hearts is there an impression do we sense an impression in our hearts no impression it's kind of hard to explain it's like a still small voice everything will be fine something like that or a scripture be still it's not like you heard it or anything but you just get it in your spirit it's an impression so maybe there's an impression or maybe you are seeing something like a flash of information you know you're seeing a picture come to you you're seeing a vision of some sort so then you have to check that frequency also am I getting any pictures am I getting any vision see okay if it's that great then you can share now sometimes information comes into your spirit okay how do you know that it's hard to explain but you kind of know it I don't know if I shared with our class once when I had to write one sermon I was not getting the title at all so I prayed and prayed and then finally I got that title and I came out of the room as if like I have the title this is from God and I can't explain it to others how the way I felt but I knew that I knew that I knew I got it in my spirit and then I started writing it it was it was flowing the the content was flowing so what happened it's like for our generation we understand like a download you click one file and lots of you know megabytes of information just came into your spirit that's information getting information from God it can happen like that also so check that frequency any information has come into my spirit or not you could also check for words right can we hear the audible voice of God sometimes we could but mostly we may receive a word or a sentence or a paragraph how do we receive it we may see a picture of that word or we may sense that word a word like power okay it's it's not an image it's not a vision it's not not even that information but you kind of you know that it's a word God is speaking power or one scripture one paragraph and you can pick up the word so the words come in minus the sound that's how God speaks that's the way the words come in then of course you have physical sensations physical sensations physical sensations can be like you feel hot you feel cold or you may feel pain we are fit and fine there's no problem with our bodies I remember we used to do this program called Elevates in different colleges we used to do and back in those days there was permission so we should take Bible called students also and we would pray in different colleges in one of the hospitals I still remember till today I was just sharing and during prayer time I got the sharp pain in my elbow very sharp pain and I called it out I knew it's not my pain I didn't have any issues why should I get a pain in my elbow I immediately recognize it's a physical sensation word of knowledge so I called it out right arm sharp pain of the elbow is there anyone like that and then a few girls brought one of the girls and came I think she had had a fall and she was going through a lot of pain in her elbow exact place exact thing and when we started praying for her you know she was crying she was going through that and they were so amazed the students were so amazed that God knows what somebody is going through so sometimes we can know that you may feel something in your body which is not yours but actually God is showing you that it is for somebody else okay that also can happen all right so these are all the ways in which we pick up what God is saying and then comes the part when we have to prophesy prophesy simply means communicating it releasing it in an appropriate way so first we pray then we perceive whether God is speaking in any one of these methods then once we get it we have to then share it okay sounds simple okay great so what we'll do is we'll just practice this we'll pray and trust God to give us a word for one another we have our friends online as well so please feel free if you get a word you can unmute and share or you can post it here in the chat and I'll read it out for for all of us so let's trust God to speak to us okay and it's for me especially it's the most exciting thing to hear from the Lord so let's do this let's begin I'll just say a word of prayer after which I encourage us to just be calm just be calm and begin to perceive then after about one minute when I say all right let us share then let's start to speak to one another yeah so let's begin with the word of prayer heavenly Father we thank you we praise you Lord how beautiful it is that you are a God who speaks to us Father this morning we pray that you will speak to our hearts Lord you will speak to our situations oh God Lord we thank you that you are a speaking God and Father we desire to hear from you Lord speak to us we pray this in the name of Jesus amen I just perceive if you want to pray in the spirit you can do that as well as you pray in the spirit just wait on the Lord we'll take about a minute and then we will come back and share with one another yes Father we thank you thank you Lord for this time and speaking to our hearts oh God Lord even as we release your word we pray that it will be a blessing for each of us oh God in Jesus name we pray amen all right let's go ahead please use the mic you can share what you saw or you perceived and even those online please feel free to share anyone any whatever you sense you can share go ahead don't worry right or wrong you just go ahead I don't know for whom I don't have any specific but I'm sure I saw this one like the beginning like I saw no and I saw like blood flowing through the nerve okay wow so you saw a nerve yeah and blood is flowing through the nerve oh please God please God okay what it means like yeah yeah I don't I saw that one and also like I when I saw that I don't know what it is I was just praying in the spirit and then I got an image or image of a fruit and for me I sense like it's a promo granite okay sure sure so can anyone relate to this a nerve nerve and blood flowing through it and then later when he played he saw fruit so anyone anything that you feel connects you to this word all right so no worries we'll leave it out there we'll just share the words okay and any interpretation of what this may mean yeah I'll just share my interpretation we'll of course leave it open for others also to share but I just feel like it's probably got to do with the nerve condition that somebody may have and I I from what whatever you you said this is my sense I have I feel like so somebody is going through a nerve condition but they're healed and even like the blood of Jesus right the blood of Jesus is that symbol of our redemption so now that we are redeemed healing is part of what we have so healing for that nerve condition and maybe the person is also praying and saying Lord if I'm free of this I can be more fruitful in my life so maybe that's what the Lord is saying you know you're I'm healing you and you continue to serve me so that's my sense but yeah of course we're open to others also commenting about the interpretation anything else just be bold step out and this is the place to learn any of our online batch yeah pastor this thing that I receive is for specifically for Francis okay yeah yeah Francis is here so Francis the Lord is asking you Francis do you love him he asked in John chapter 21 and the notes your answer but he wants you to know for yourself by spending in his presence and accept and answer his call over your life okay sure Lord specifically I'm asking Francis will you honor God above thing else is his question to you personally you don't have to answer us for answer now you already know the call of God in your life will you answer him that's this that's what all I said okay sure yeah thank you Jack in thank you for sharing that so Francis you can just keep it you don't have to worry about it and then slowly you can pray and you can ask the Lord you remember what did we say you should always put it on a shelf put it in the shelf pray about it and see like okay what is God saying and if you have a if you feel a confirmation to that word then you receive it and then you apply it okay yeah thank you Jack in thank you let's go ahead just share don't worry this is a class so we are all learning I won't fear yeah okay praise God yeah did you did you sense it for somebody or just general general okay you sense it for in general okay that's good sure thank you thank you Nina any anything else anyone else I was just reading again and again I I don't know for it this for whom this reference I got this Isaiah chapter 5 verse 2 okay it says like he dug it up and cleared out of out its stones and planted it with the choicest wine he built a tower in its midst and also made a wine present it so he expected it to bring forth good grapes but it brought forth wild grapes okay so I was I in the first two minutes only I just got this Isaiah and fight to it was it was like in my like in my eyes I see but I didn't open it now after you just play it I don't know for whom to share but what I felt is like someone of us someone I don't know I'm not that's why I'm not specifying we are not like obeying him in some way okay he was expecting more from us but we are not up to it not up to it okay fine fine yeah sure so Isaiah 5 2 and the sense is that God's expectation is more than what we have to offer and we have to step up okay fine yeah we can keep that so Nina I think the online batch couldn't hear your voice properly would you mind repeating it yeah I sensed that song man I was not thinking about that so I just have that sense of that first verse of that song yeah sure yeah so Jack and I hope that was clear you heard it right so do not fear that is the sense that she got yeah anything else once is okay yeah alright Nikhil nothing alright any anyone from the online batch okay so I can just share what I saw and then we can do this again okay we'll do a second one so I felt the first one I saw jewelry yeah jewelry like beautiful jewelry with a lot of intricate designs and everything and I was like Lord who is this for who do you want to share this too and like I think the passage is Isaiah 60 right where God talks about beautifying his house yeah he talks about beautifying and strengthening so these are the kind of works that the Lord does and I felt it was for Nina for you Nina I felt like God is saying I will strengthen you I will you know bring that glory my glory into your life and cause you to shine so I felt like that's an encouraging word I'm bringing like even beauty for ashes it says right so so I could immediately I when I said Lord who is it for I'm seeing this jewelry then and I also could sense that interpretation that it's about strengthening and beautifying and then it immediately came this is for Nina so that's for you and I also saw bones I saw like one long bone and I felt like somebody with any bone issue bone conditions it's a lot of touching them healing them so if you know of anyone you're praying for who is going through a bone issue then just claim it for that person yeah okay so these were my thoughts how about we pray again let's pray okay down to trust God you're from God come on so this time around what you can do is just we'll take one and a half minutes for half a minute pray in the spirit and then one minute perceive and then let's come back and let's share all right let's come back and begin to share what we feel the Lord is speaking I especially want to encourage the online batch please do share it's a good opportunity to step out yes who'd like to get started do you see anything did you sense anything did you get a word maybe a scripture okay how many did not get anything can just put up your hands okay one how about online okay yeah some yeah okay few of us here that's fine that's okay at least I'm glad you know you you are able to recognize that you didn't get anything that's fine so that makes only three out of so many of us that means everyone else got something anyone has to share today whatever it is it's fine just say just say I saw a bookshop mom okay I don't know what it is okay you saw a bookshop so when you say you saw a bookshop how how did you see a bookshop like what exactly like it's a kind of video like a scene there is a bookshop and there are some steps and and and I went there sometime I think so okay not sure okay but I saw a book but I couldn't interpret in any way I see I just saw that and then it's blank and you're sure you you didn't sense anything more just that picture yeah okay okay we will we will take that so let it be and let's continue let's continue let's see so I don't know it's actually for whom okay maybe Nina Jackie know Ravali because I open my stream like first I saw Ravali but I saw the name of Ravali but I'm not sure for anyone but but I saw his first day sharpen knife I like to call I saw a weapon okay and a watchtower so it means like like who have the more prayer life or who have the passion for the nation yeah God is empowering and like or that person have little of fear how it's gonna do possible like if I am doing like especially in the prayer life okay like while praying my my interpretation for that is what I sense is like no need to fear you already got you the authority and the weapon and like whatever you need all the strength of new no need to fear and no need to doubt about that and God give the calling to to watch over all of the things not only for your family on your physical life and all especially this person have the passion for the the place they're leaving okay and like okay very concerned about the people who is like losing their life without knowing Jesus they have the passion on the life but they're not able to come out from that feeling that is a reason they're start prayer life but now is going through like little of fear kind of thing okay they're saying like this is like no need to fear I already given the other tea I'm already saying the new yeah I need to worry about anything yes so you mentioned you're not sure but Ramali jacket not Nina Nina you just felt like it could be them okay got it got so Francis one sec one sec so just for us to learn okay so I'm saying how how did you get this message how like did you see a picture first I saw the mission and I okay like I saw the picture like this is the thing and I sensed like this okay this could be like you sensed something you sensed okay this could be like I'm not confirmed like is it the real is I need to talk then I start talking yeah like suddenly it's come out like this is the right right right yeah so I noticed that because I think you just started with just you wanted to share that much only but when you started speaking so much you said so it happens like that also when we take the first step everything else starts flowing you remember we said Nabi yeah inspired see a profit Nabi profit so that's how it works sometimes you just have to start you open your mouth and then it'll flow okay so good yeah thanks thanks so much for sharing that that's really good that's helpful Nikhil what was your experience I don't remember just when I was playing so that time I just saw one land so that land was fully dried then because rain came so that filled with water so new grass came so I don't know what God is gonna to bless someone through many blessings okay I don't know who's that okay but maybe so many blessings is going to come I'll claim it off if you can do that you know I always do that like when you hear something and you sense it in your spirit like yeah that's meant for you then you know it's for you but otherwise if it's a good word why not just say amen yeah thanks Nikhil that's a good word thank you yeah so in first time like when I'm praying like I saw kind of same thing I saw a dry land yeah it's a small pit of mud then like it's changed its transform into a construction building like okay it's like kind of blessing on the property or like who is seeking for like some blessings or I sense like breakthrough yes who is praying for breakthrough or who is seeing for I need to like this position I need to engage so that I think that for that person sure so see in because we know scripture we can tell that this is correct because God is a redeemer he's a redeemer restore from dryness to flourishing he does that so it's from the Lord so amen to that and yeah whoever feels this a word for you you can just take it right thank you thanks Nikhil sharing Prince anything else anything more I just want to like have give my like when Nikhil was sharing what the understanding of it what that was inside of me is like maybe there is a shift in change from wilderness hardship to a new season yes that's what I have got it inside when as he was sharing like the dryness represents the hardships or the season of testing what we go through wilderness and all and maybe that season has finished where God was pouring out his reign for the flourishment for the things to grow yes that's what the meaning I have got when he was getting it when yeah in what I have experienced there are many things I have seen but I don't know for my side I'm I'm first thing is I'm pretty sure I have seen these things but I don't know how they can be connected or how they can make sense so first I saw a door okay it's like a old door like vintage kind of door it is yeah and then I saw like a digging a pit like yeah so maybe to like tell it more clear it's like when burial happened they will dig up it for like it's like that it's a pit that was already dug that one I saw and I saw this old door and then I saw a keys I saw keys okay so I saw especially I saw keys in a to a finger I saw that one and then I also have two words I got two words one is like mine like so much troubled mind yes and like mind battle like related to mind war fat battling and then I got like you speak peas over that mind so this is what okay so all these images are for one person or are they disconnected that I don't know but first like I saw one picture at the time by the time I have recognized though it's a old door and then that image was faded off and I saw another one so like we can always ask God you can say like Lord what is it who are you showing this for is there anyone is this all meant for one person so we can also keep communicating with God and and checking but it's good you know you've received all I'm more focused on what I'm seeing yeah but when you say I saw I saw how was it like you closed your eyes yeah I close my eyes I just made everything still I just like whatever coming into me I just kept it and just like I just kind of like how we say like be still in God's presence I was just still yeah I prayed in tongues for few minutes and then I just felt like I come and actually to be even Frank I didn't even I just forgot I was in the classroom for a minute okay until you I have heard your voice yeah I'm not here with me I like I just like the surrounding was so unconscious yeah yeah sure sure yeah thank you thank you so much Prince that's really good to hear what the Lord is speaking to you I will go to the online batch here I think Anthony did you want to share I saw your hand raised so if you want to share please do you can unmute and share alright so while you know Anthony let's see yeah so Anthony I thought you raised your hand so that's a masking you please do share if you have anything I'll quickly come to the chat section here where Nina John says I'm actually at a clinic okay fine so I'm able to do more at this point okay I understand so she's not able to respond that's fine but I think it's good we've had an initial exercise right and a couple of things that we have learned from our experiences today there are pictures that we can see and you know we also can tell who that is for so we can speak to God and we can get more information regarding what he's speaking to our hearts okay what else did we see we saw that sometimes we just have to step out once you step out more comes okay so that also we've seen we've seen how we can assess the word is it in line with what God is saying or the nature of God so certain words is so clear-cut it's aligned to the character of God then it's easier for us to accept it right so I would just encourage us pray in the spirit pray more and more and more in the spirit okay and stilling ourselves that can be done in various ways through prayer sometimes we are so anxious but what does Paul write to the Philippines don't be anxious for anything but you know in prayer for all things in prayer make your request known to God so how can I still myself prayer prayer will help me then I can be calmer I can hear from the Lord so prayer life pouring out our hearts before the Lord overcoming that anxiety we can hear God better how can we hear from the Lord when we are meditating more in the word of God what happens to us one is faith arises more faith for operating in the gifts of the spirit but Isaiah 26 verse 3 that will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on the so how do we stay our mind on God by staying our mind on his word so the more I meditate on the word of God peace and calm peace and calm see for us as pastors it's sometimes it's very challenging you might have had a really tough time driving up to the church service or somewhere and now you have to minister your mind is like that guy the way he drove and you're like over there but then you got to calm down because you have to hear from the Lord right so it's the good things that you know I feel like worship time and worship happens that's a nice time like you're able to calm yourself down or you meditate on scripture some scripture just declarations switch to that so sometimes when I'm driving up to church also I'm only praying in the spirit I'm just hearing like okay the work of the cross was so powerful you know what what are the blessings of the cross what are the covenants of the cross I try to think about these things so when as you're focusing your mind on the Lord you hear better when you're going to minister so just a couple of things so it has to do a lot with what we are saying right train yourself practice the more we do these things the more our spirit man gets aligned and then we are able to flow better okay so with that let's wrap up for this session and I request any one of us to please pray before we close and if I thank you thank you for your with us Lord your presence is does thank you for your leading in the prophetic way Lord Jesus thank you for which efficient you show which in the protection of Jesus all for your glory Lord yeah thanking you we are giving you thanks in Jesus name we pray amen amen thank you Francis thank you everyone God bless you continue to hear from the Lord and we will connect on Monday Monday morning bye for now