 Yeah, welcome once again. Can somebody please lead us with the word of prayer? Prabhakar, could you please lead us if it's okay? Yes, pastor. Sure. Praise the Lord. Good morning. Dear Heavenly Father, we praise you. Acknowledge your holy name, Father. At this moment, we come unto your throne of praise, Father. We dedicate ourselves completely and surrender ourselves completely so that, Father, we can gain the insights and knowledge and all the things which you want us to learn, Father. Thank you. Only lead us to Lanziga as well, Father, so that we can go together hand by hand and get what you want us to get. Thank you. And I dedicate each team members and students so that everyone shall get enlightenment and by the grace of God and the wisdom of your Father. Thank you, Father. Lead us in your own way. I dedicate each and every once again. I ask this prayer in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen. Amen. Thank you, Prabhakar. Today's class is a very important class because we will be moving on to the practical aspect of flowing in the simple gift. Before we get into that, which is in which in our notes, this is from let me quickly back up a little bit and touch on the practical instructions for profiting worship because remember the last class, we had left this out. So we said that God is able to give us songs. He gives us the words as well as the music in the now for us to worship him with it. We also saw how some songs are for the encouragement or exhortation of the people. So in different categories, there are songs that the Lord can release to us and we can sing these songs and the power of God will be sort of unleashed on God's people as we express through these songs. Then for those who are leading in this form of prophetic worship, there are some guidelines that will help them flow in the prophetic easier. So what are these guidelines? The first one is preparation. When we talk about preparation, worship leaders, it would be helpful, worship leaders, worship team, it would be helpful if they are prepared, not just musically but also spiritually. So if they spend time in the word, if they spend time in prayer, they can maintain a very sensitive spirit towards God because through these disciplines, what we are doing is we are opening ourselves up to God. So the more tuned in you are to the spirit of God, the word of God, the easier to discern what God is saying or doing in those moments. So anyone who is engaged in leading others in worship, it's good to build ourselves up spiritually and keep ourselves sensitive spiritually at all times. The other aspect of the spiritual preparation is a rich deposit of the word of God in the heart of the person who is leading. The reason why this is important is simply because when God releases a word, it goes through a process within us for us to identify what is really coming from God and what part of that could just be a natural encouragement that you and I would want to bring to the people. So having a rich deposit of the word of God in our hearts is helpful to discern. It's helpful to identify and recognize what is really coming from God. So someone who's well versed in the word of God can flow faster in the prophetic because that process happens faster within them. But let's say one doesn't know the word very well, that can be problematic. Now if initially someone who's called into the worship ministry is not very well versed in the word, there can be a learning curve. We can expect that individual to grow and eventually get stronger in the word and come to a place where they are quick to or rather quicker to discern what God is speaking. So one must train themselves. Being strong in the word is not just left to somebody who's in the teaching ministry. Everyone needs to be strong in the word and since we're talking about somebody leading in prophetic worship, it is a requirement for them to be strong in the word of God. Now the next thing is a sense of expectation and this is to do with expecting to hear from God. Generally a worship leader could come up with a set of songs for the worship session. Now while preparing the list, one could still tune into the spirit of God and discern what the right words would be or right songs would be for that particular session. So you hear from God when you are preparing for the given session and even during the session, it's important to be open. Sometimes there are words that the Lord may give during the the session itself that you may want to sing over the people or for a musician. God's spirit might be working through a musician on the team and releasing some tunes. So that person would need to be sensitive to what God is doing and release that. And for the worship leader, the worship leader needs to be sensitive that oh right now it's a tune or some music that is prophetic that needs to be released so let the musician play. So this kind of expectation that God will work with us and through us during this session is very very important. I was just listening to a particular songwriter and she was telling me that at the end of a certain session she heard a few words and those words stuck with her. She never sang those songs you know in in that time but she carried those words in her spirit. She went back and during her prayer times and seeking time seeing the Lord. She kind of placed those words before the Lord and then came an entire song out of those few words. So you see there is a need to expect and if the Lord has called us for this sort of a ministry leading people in worship then we need to expect okay God what words are you giving me what music are you giving me and the now word of the Lord you know brings that power and we've discussed all the impact that the prophetic song can have on the lives of the people so expect from God. Sensitivity is another thing I've already shared that with us that we have to be sensitive to the spirit of God. So a couple of things for us in order to maintain this sensitivity we need a focus. It's very easy to get distracted when you know any any form of ministry for that matter we can get distracted by our own thoughts when it comes to worship maybe you know the the thought of performing well being applauded by people you know these these sort of thoughts can distract us and yet you know worship leader if the individual can be sensitive instead to what God is saying and doing in that time that will be very powerful. So prevent oneself from being distracted. So that means again I think praying knowing your motives of why you are doing this all of those things really help to study from scripture okay what is worship how to lead worship what are some of the principles that I should have so it all sort of clears our intention when we are doing what we are doing so do not have that you know that attitude of performance or pride when we are leading people in worship so that really helps. The other thing as I told us is when we maintain that sensitivity you are careful about giving time to God and the spirit of God so whether it is the worship leader singing certain lines or another vocalist on your team singing certain lines that are prophetic or a musician playing prophetic music everyone is sensitive so it also helps as a team to pray together to practice together to sense the work of the spirit together you know these kind of sessions can be had earlier it's not new like you get on the stage and everyone the whole team is used to hearing from God and supporting one another as the spirit of God is working through them so you know all of these things really helps to maintain that sensitivity to the work of the spirit and talking about the team that is flowing together these days we have not just the singers but you also have the media presentation team so somebody could be projecting the lyrics or through PPT and all that so even that team if they are aware that God can speak in the now that person will also be sensitive to pick up the words and maybe quickly key in maybe you know when the Lord works through us and some new words flow it may not be in the already you know set of songs in our easy worship or some other software so suddenly you're like oh this is a new song this is a new line so the media presentation team can quickly type it out for the audience and they can sing along worship along so to be sensitive everyone to be sensitive to what the Lord is doing during those moments of worship becomes very very important so with that I think I will stop about prophetic song and worship and I'm sure all of us have heard you know testimonies of songwriters and how each one had the song flow out of them in certain moments you know I raise a hallelujah if you've heard that that song from Bethel that there was a little boy who was very sick and you know he was going in for treatment and at one point when his health was in a very critical condition the person who wrote the song I raise a hallelujah he heard that that boy is sick and these words came out of his spirit you know I raise a hallelujah it was like a battle cry at that time and that's how the song came about it's a prophetic song so there are many such testimonies you know I've heard as some a Hindi songwriter from from our nation in fact I heard him say I just mentioned him Sheldon Banguera he talked about how there was a time when he was riding his bike and he he got the the music to a particular song and he quickly stopped the bike and he recorded that you know on his phone and then he kind of went back and built on that song so you know we talked about being sensitive during the session of worship but look at this people are sensitive in life and songs flow out of us just at the moment that you least expect God releases those words into our spirit we pick it up and you know there come songs that bless the body of Christ so to remain expectant sensitive and preparation preparation spiritual preparation also you know I didn't touch on this but skill because sometimes the the tune that one has to sing could be beyond the range that they are used to now if that person is very skillful they can accommodate it similarly for a musician it could be something away from the common range that the musician plays it but here's a tune from heaven of their skillful they can accommodate it so being skillful you know in your natural giftings as well is very very important for a prophetic singer or a musician so I'm just stopping with that any questions we can answer them and then move on to the next chapter all right so yeah I think it's quite clear let's pray that even as the time goes by and we've talked about David's tabernacle isn't it and God said that he will rebuild that tabernacle of David so we are going to see many new songs released you know in scripture we encourage a new song new song so let's pray let's pray let's trust God for new songs to be released in the body of Christ that will be so appropriate for the season refreshing and strengthening us and you know bringing us higher in our worship of God okay so the next chapter here is about activating the prophetic gift so so far we have built a strong foundation about the prophetic gift and the prophetic anointing now we will build on it in a more practical way so now we're talking about activating the gift of prophecy within ourselves so those of us who are waiting for this moment like ma'am enough theory let's just jump into the practice of the prophetic anointing you know this is it now we are moving into more of exercising this gift so chapter eight I talks about activating the gift of prophecy and again I've been saying that for all believers the way we are built up in the prophetic is to go from the simple gift of prophecy to you know prophetic ministry if God has that for us and those of us who are called into the prophetic office move on to the higher calling of ministering as a prophet but everyone starts with the simple gift of prophecy thereby this is applicable to everybody okay all of us can flow in the simple gift of prophecy now going back to our key passage from 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verses 1 through 11 we've read that in uh some of our earlier sessions I won't be reading through the entire passage but what we understood there is that there are diversities of gifts but one holy spirit who supplies all these gifts to the believers and the manifestation of the holy spirit is in the form of there are nine gifts that are listed in this passage so there's a mention of the word of knowledge there is a mention of faith by the same spirit there's a mention of gifts of healings working of miracles prophecy discerning of spirits tongues interpretation of tongues and we uh learn that the holy spirit is the one who is distributing to each person and no it ends by saying as he wills now there is a a little bit of clarity that we need to bring into this passage and the understanding of the working of spiritual gifts before we move on to um more direct you know activating the gift sort of uh topics so the clarity here is that every believer can manifest all the nine gifts of the spirit so that's the statement that we are making that all believers or every believer can manifest all the nine gifts of the spirit sometimes uh we we settle with the idea that some believers can manifest or maybe some believers in leadership can manifest the gifts of the spirit and we also think that not all nine gifts a few gifts will be manifested so that is the idea that you know many people carry now why are we saying that every believer can manifest and all nine gifts of the holy spirit first reason is the gifts belong to the holy spirit okay the gifts belong to the holy spirit and he is the one who is working in the believer to manifest these gifts now let's look at a couple of verses when we begin with 1st Corinthians chapter 12 okay the list of the gifts is given there and although it says the spirit as he wills if you go to verse 31 of that same chapter it says earnestly desire the best gifts earnestly desire the best gifts so what is god saying you know god is encouraging every believer to desire the best gift so god would not ask us to desire something if it was not uh to be given to us so what is the best gift the way we understand this is in a given situation you know whatever ministers to the individual would be the best gift now if somebody is sick okay if someone is sick what would be uh the best gift to be given to that person okay healing she kumar such healing that's right so the gifts of healings is appropriate now somebody is discouraged what could be the best gift among the gifts of the spirit encouragement okay great so anita encouragement through the gifts of the spirit which which gift will you pick prophecy okay so abhishek has answered that question prophecy would be the best gift let's say uh it's a very difficult situation that a person is in and uh they you know they need that strength from god to make a move what would be a best gift okay i think word of wisdom maybe she kumar answered my earlier question but now i'm asking in a difficult situation uh somebody needs the strength to make the move that god is telling them to do to make what would be a good gift you can look at your list of gift of faith that's right yes yes mangy gift of faith okay because uh you need that faith to be able to uh take that next step so now we understand what the best gift is whatever is required in that moment to minister that is the best gift so in a given situation a believer can desire honestly desire the best gift god right now this person is discouraged help me flow in prophecy or the word of knowledge word of wisdom right and it happens maybe we are in uh the ministry of deliverance and you have to cast out a demon again we could say lord i desire to flow uh in the word of knowledge to what exactly happened why is this person bound or the discerning of spirits what are the demonic spirits operating right now so those would be the best gifts now if i am by myself individually uh what would be the best gift from this list if you could tell me i want to minister to myself okay anita says dreams uh from the gifts of the spirit anita from first corundine chapter 12 tongues okay susan and brabhakar have uh typed tongues that's true so tongues once again there are different types of tongues the basic gift of tongues is the one that is given for our personal edification first corundine 142 says that we speak mysteries unto god and jude 121 says you're building yourself up in your most holy faith praying in the spirit so the normal basic tongues edifies and strengthens the believer and paul writes about us he says i speak in in an unknown tongue much more than all of you so he exercised the gift of tongues as well uh to a very large extent so when i am by myself i would pick the gift of tongues to minister to my own spirit so the best gift simply means the gift appropriate for the moment okay so we understood that also uh moving on when we start with uh yeah when we start with first corundine 14 verse 1 he you know paul said okay honestly desire the best gift and then he talks about love now the chapter in verse classification there uh has been done for the convenience of the reader now and we know that when paul wrote it he didn't write first corundine's 12 and then okay now i'm going to write first corundine's 13 no it was a flow it was a letter that he wrote and it was flowing so he was talking to the believers as a collective audience and he told everyone pursue the best gift and you know especially that you may uh prophesy oh sorry uh first corundine's 12 31 he said honestly desire the best gift and then he talks to all the believers about love you know about how love should be the basis uh of the practice of the spiritual gifts now moving on to first corundine's 14 and verse 1 he says there pursue love and desire spiritual gifts but especially that you may prophesy now once again the question before us is who's the audience so far he's been talking to everybody all the believers at the church corundine and he says in one breath pursue love so to whom is he saying pursue love to all the believers now how can you suddenly switch to a small section of the audience and only tell them now everyone pursue love but only some of you pursue desire spiritual gifts especially that you prophesy you know it would not be um uh logical of me to conclude that way when he's talking to the entire audience that whole sentence is applicable to the entire audience so he's telling all the believers pursue love and desire spiritual gifts but especially that you may prophesy so he's telling everybody everyone please desire that you may prophesy okay so that again gives us clarity there if the command to pursue love is for all believers then you must apply desire spiritual gifts especially that you may prophesy apply that to all believers also okay so all believers are to desire spiritual gifts but especially that we may prophesy and that is very scriptural now I told you that we need some clarity before we go further when we look at another passage first corundines 12 over there again there is a list of gifts that I mentioned and the the language that Paul used is he says like for to one is given you know and for and to the other like one is given so he he speaks in that manner and based on that and also first corundines 12 11 that was also says but one and the same spirit works all these things distributing to each one individually as he wills remember that passage we talked of earlier it ended with as he wills now based on this some interpret that the decision of which gift will operate through you know a particular individual is left to the discretion of the Holy Spirit so the believer can't desire okay but we've already understood the meaning of the best gift and you know what he wills what would the Spirit of God will he would will the flow of the best gift for the moment it doesn't mean that the Holy Spirit is withholding certain gifts and only releasing you know okay John you get only two gifts you work with that and you know Paul you get only three gifts you work with that as he wills he does not restrict and limit the the the delivery of the gifts through the believers now that's not the point because we've already seen that the instruction to pursue love and honestly desire spiritual gifts especially that one may prophesy is applicable to all believers so what is the meaning of as he wills it simply means appropriate for that moment okay and one more thing that you know just want to point out here is when we read 1st Corinthians 14 Paul lays their instructions for the practice of the gifts of the Spirit and in that in that set of instruction he he mentions to the believers you know if you all want to prophesy prophesy one by one one by one so such that giving an opportunity for everyone who has a word to share the word but do it in a proper way because in 1st Corinthians 14 you know he has other instructions also he has instructions about only if you have an interpretation for for tongues only then you you speak in tongues in the church okay so and different things or women you know for for the cultural context he tells the women okay be silent so he says be silent be silent a couple of times all the instructions are put into 1st Corinthians 14 for the orderly and decent operation of the gifts of the Spirit okay and even in those instructions we see Paul writing to the believers and saying if you have a word to share everyone prophesy one by one like don't don't all speak together and create commotion because the word will not be clear how would one receive it and work with it so there is a way in which you must deliver the prophetic word so I hope this gives us clarity on the fact that every believer can flow in all the nine gifts of the Spirit so let me pause right now if there are you know questions doubts more clarity that we require we can discuss and then I will move on to other points here yes thank you pastor yeah please go ahead pastor as you said the desire for the gifts of the Spirit my question is this like we all can have the general gift of the prophets prophetic so how I can able to know that my office of a prophet and and and and based on that knowledge I grow in that prophetic you know office and how I can able to distinguish between these two things like it's an am I a prophet or you know am I called as an opposed person in the office of a prophet or the gift of prophecy which is working in me is it a general gift so that's my question thank you okay so you're asking that any believer how would they know if they're called into prophetic as a prophet as a prophet because as we as we know that you know we all can generally be as the as we desire and we can move in the prophetic but how can I how someone can distinguish how can he know that is I'm called as a prophet because in that flow of the prophecy is anyway in a general gift also moving and but how can he distinguish or he may because of that gift of prophecy can go as an evangelist or sometimes some people take a decision and move as a pastor but maybe he's not a pastor but they take a but because of the desire to serve the God they can end up in you know doing a ministry as a pastor but maybe they are not called as a pastor but they are called as a prophet so how can we come out from from this kind of you know confusions or dilemma and how can we know that you know this flow what I am having or this gift I'm having it is God has given me to be a prophet for the church or the prophet for the nation how can we know that I just want to thank you yeah yeah very pertinent question there so Shri Kumar two ways one is again through the prophetic word God can reveal that a certain person is called to the prophetic ministry or the prophetic office so I can know that okay this is the journey that I'm making yes I've started off with flowing in the simple gift of prophecy but I know what God is calling me for so that is one way God can already reveal it now the other way and that would be the better way is everyone flows in the simple gift of prophecy and you keep doing your best because earnestly desire means we are really wanting this to happen we're really wanting the manifestation of the gifts of the spirit to happen and we also see in 1st Corinthians 1426 where Paul says let all things be done for edification so with the desire that I want to build the body of Christ strengthen you know edify the body of Christ encourage the believers I am pursuing the gifts more and more and as I'm doing this what will happen is I will begin to make progress in the this particular gifting the prophetic gifting it is good as my prophetic gift grows for me to keep practicing it in the right manner with the right motives and maybe maybe I go from being a prophesying believer to being in the prophetic ministry and who knows you know maybe I'm called to the prophetic office people will begin to recognize it before you put I am prophet so and so people will begin to tell you that we can see this gift flowing out of your life we think and even you know the leadership and people that you respect in the ministry they themselves would affirm and say I think you're called to the office of the prophet and people start to call you as one in the prophetic ministry or one call to the prophetic office that would be a better way you know once the gift is demonstrated from our lives and you know God has sort of put that on your life and given clarity to people around you through the manifestation of the gift then when you know the time is appropriate and people begin to recognize that gift over your life and say okay so and so is called to the prophetic ministry or called to the prophetic office or they begin to call you a prophet that would be a better way of knowing that hey this is my this is the area where God wants me to serve so I hope I've answered your question yes faster thank you thanks a lot yeah sure thank you okay let's move on then so now you know we have I'm hoping that you know we have clarity because there are no questions yet so let's move on to practical aspects about the gift of prophecy okay and I'm talking about the basic gift of prophecy here it's a simple gift of prophecy firstly a prophetic gift or any gift in our spiritual gift needs to be stirred up okay we see Paul writing to Timothy in 1st Timothy 414 he tells him do not neglect the gift that is in you which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the elder ship and then again 2nd Timothy 1 6 he exhorts him and says therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands so here is an instruction to stir up the gifts it can be all the gifts and since we're talking about prophecy you know we we are focusing on prophecy so you can stir up the gift of prophecy but here's the other the flip side we can also neglect the gift of prophecy now what did Paul want Timothy to understand basically he wanted Timothy to understand that if you have a gift you have to make it shine okay if you just put it in the claws cupboard or shelf and just close it it'll gather dust it'll be a dormant gift in us and it will not be useful for the body of Christ however if we take that gift and we use it we stir it up we rekindle the fire and work with it no then it begins to manifest then it begins to work for the kingdom of God so bottom line stir up the gift use it how do we do this there are a couple of things there's no scripture and verse for this but you know sometimes just praying in tongues it it does something within us where you begin to see the release of the gifts of the spirit in an easier way so when we are going to minister someplace and you really need to depend you really depend on the gifts of the spirit one of the things that you and I could do is to just pray in tongues and of course the good part is you can pray under your breath you don't really have to be loud and nobody even needs to know that you've been preparing yourself in this manner praying in the spirit but the gifts get stirring you and then starts the flow of the gifts of the spirit and something that you could pray and observe yourself that there's a there's a release a faster release of the gifts of the spirit the second way to stir up the gifts is to flow in it so a lot of believers what they end up doing is they say I'm not so accurate I'm not you know I don't feel very confident I know God is telling me this but I'm not sure so okay I won't say it you know so you're not using it the moment you stop using the gift that's when it starts gathering dust and becomes dormant in us so using the gift is very important and we will come to how to use it appropriately but put it into practice the gift of prophecy the more you prophesy I think the other day I shared with all of us right that I really struggled to to real flow in the gift of prophecy and it took me several classes weekend schools that I've attended you know studying what I'm teaching you right now again and again and again and again and trusting God little by little little every word that I get okay I need to release that word I need to be confident overcome my own self-doubt so put it to work so when you put it to work it begins to get activated so stir up the gift in us so that is one way in which you begin to release the gift of prophecy I'm just going to go with the content here if you need to ask a question then just unmute yourself and stop me and please ask okay next thought here is spiritual gifts can be activated and imparted so we only saw how Paul said there are gifts in you by the laying on a fence so something it's a spiritual dynamic how did the gift go into Timothy we know that the gifts are from God only God can do it but when one is praying God can take a certain anointing over a person and put it on another person okay so impartation is something we see in scripture yeah and of course once there is an impartation in us those gifts need to be activated we also see Paul writing to the Romans in Romans 111 he says I long to see you that I may impart to you some spiritual gift so that you may be established so is it possible that one had no gift for something and you know because of impartation now they have a deposit of the gift which did not exist earlier yes it can happen okay so impartation is very biblical or we've talked about the transfer of the anointing okay so transfer of the anointing can happen now we've also understood that the entire anointing doesn't get transferred so depending on the calling of the individual parts of the anointing can be imparted and we must always remember that the gift is in us in its in a certain form but we are responsible to grow that gift in other words to mature that gift and when it comes to the prophetic gift you know to become more accurate become more effective in the usage of the prophetic gift the next thought here is that we need faith for the release of the gifts of the spirit Romans 12 6 Paul teaches us he says having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us let us use them if prophecy let us prophesy in proportion to our faith and then he goes on to list you know some of the other gifts now these are all we call them grace gifts okay so prophecy is also included in that and that is why we said that someone could have a prophetic ministry which is a grace gift of prophecy everyone can have simple gift of prophecy but some can have grace gift of prophecy meaning they have a prophetic ministry now this scripture is Paul says prophesy in proportion to our faith so if there is some faith there can be some prophecy if there is more faith for prophecy there can be the release of prophecy to a greater extent now what if there's a lot of faith there can be a lot of prophetic anointing flowing through a person and expressed through you could say prophetic word prophetic power prophetic worship prophetic intercession but what is the ingredient or the prerequisite there faith so wouldn't be all right to say that if there is no faith there will be no flow of the prophetic correct if I lack faith then I will not be able to release the gift in fact all gifts of the spirit are activated or released through faith so when I want to prophesy you know it really takes faith it takes a lot of faith to hear from God and to say okay yes I believe I know this is God speaking to me and I have to put it to work if I'm not operating by faith if I'm like okay whatever you know I will not be able to release that word so I need to have my faith level high now to keep your faith level high there are different things that you know one can do faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God so one of the things that we're doing right now which is to study about the gift of prophecy from the word of God what it's doing for us is it's building our faith right now so getting into the word is the best way to build our faith for anything so if I want to experience healing what should I do get into scriptures on healing you're building your faith in the area of healing now if I want to flow in the prophetic gift same thing study prophecy in scripture study maybe Balam's account how did he prophesy no he his eyes were wide open he fell on the ground he heard the word of the Lord he received the knowledge of the Lord so the more you're meditating on something faith is being generated and so you know getting into God's word and building our faith is going to help us in flowing in the gifts of the spirit okay we've run out of time let's go ahead and pray in any case we have a class tomorrow so we will continue from where we have stopped so what I request one of us to please close and prayer please Pastor can I pray yeah yes please go ahead precious father we thank you praise you honor you God for this wonderful morning oh God we praise you father God for long master for everything what we learned today we pray that father let these words deeply rooted in our heart and let me grow then Lord master in the gift of the Holy Spirit and let our gifts be sharpened so that not only we be a reply but Lord master others be blessed through the gifts of the Holy Spirit of God help us to handle the gifts of the Holy Spirit in your wisdom and in your grace of Father God we surrender everything into your mighty hand bless your servant of Father God strengthen her so that she can be used more powerfully in coming days thank you Father God for everything what you did for us in Jesus name we pray amen thank you pastor amen thank you thank you Shri Kumar thank you everyone God bless you have a wonderful day we'll meet again tomorrow bye for now thank you pastor