 recording will start soon. Okay, recording has started. Good morning everyone. Let's take a moment to pray and then we will start with the class and I'm sure the others will join us. We went over by a few minutes in the earlier hour so students will be a little delayed in connecting but let's pray and start. Could somebody pray with us please this morning and we'll start. Okay, who wants to pray? Go ahead please. Thank you Lord Father, God we praise you, we give you glory you Lord Father. Father Lord in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, O Lord Father you have given us this time O Lord Father to learn from your word O Lord Father, Almighty O Lord Father, as your word said O Lord that O Lord Father Lord Jesus, O Father God you have blessed us with all the heavenly blessings in Christ Jesus O Lord Father, Almighty O Lord Father Lord Jesus as pastor O Lord Father teaches us to O Lord Father walking supernatural light O Lord Father for the light what you have blessed us O Lord Father on this earth is different it's heavenly O Lord Father Lord Jesus we are no more of this world O Lord Father Lord Jesus but we as a children O Lord Father shall glorify your name in our works in our acts O Lord Father Lord Jesus Father God here we are to be equipped O Lord Father Lord Jesus that your glory shall shine through each of our lives O Lord Father may be glory into your name alone O Lord Father we bless your name we praise your name we ask O Lord Father Lord Jesus for knowledge, wisdom, understanding that we'll be able to grasp everything that is taught to us O Lord Father Lord and use it for your mighty works O Lord Father to be showcased Father God to become a pastor into your hand and each one of us O Lord Father Lord Jesus help us to draw from your word O Lord Father Lord Jesus it shall bear fruit unto us O Lord Father for your glory alone in mighty and matchless name of Jesus I pray amen amen amen amen amen amen thank you thank you all right so welcome everybody to this class on keys to supernatural ministry just to quickly review where we are we started this course by talking about the invitation that has been given to us by the Lord Jesus Christ to partner with him in the supernatural said Jesus himself made that available to us then we talked about the possibility why every believer and you know the possibility that every believer can engage in the supernatural we talked about sonship glory we all have that sons and daughters we talked about the power the Holy Spirit we talked about the authority that's vested in us through the name of Jesus then we went into the third section which we spent most of our time so far which is the keys to the supernatural what are keys that you and I can operate and lose in the supernatural we went through these eight keys I'll just go on again reproduce them in the chat here just for helping us recall we talked about understanding the realm of the spirit we talked about faith the power of the word renewed mind the anointing of the Holy Spirit God's presence in glory number six then last week we covered seven and eight which was proclamation and action and eight was persistence so these are different keys so what I want to impress on our hearts is that God will move us to use any of these keys at any point in time or any combination of these keys to release the supernatural through us okay now the first one is a very generic one understand the realm of the spirit I think that's that applies that's like you know it applies to everything but the remaining seven that we talked about faith the word mind when you mind the anointing presence and glory proclamation action persistence these are you know different keys that God would use us a different situation so you and I need to know how to address a certain situation I just want to emphasize a little bit on the last one persistence before we step the next section that we're getting into today is talking about personal preparation but before we get into that I just want to emphasize one thing is about this whole aspect of laboring in birth or the king james or the king james would use the phrase travail so the word travail is like an old english word uh travailing in birth uh but you know the new king james are the other translations the versions would use laboring in birth and that is an aspect perhaps the that many of us you know may not be familiar with it in the in in in in in the in the release of the supernatural you know we are usually you know we want we look at faith and the part of word that we need mind and the anointing the presence and glory and proclamation action we see these things happen and uh they're very powerful and and it's wonderful but in the persistence side there are things where we have to travail in birth or labor in birth to see happen and uh you find for instance in Galatians chapter four and the classic scriptures on these Galatians 4 and verse 19 uh Paul is uh writing to the Galatians he says you know my little children for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you right so he's writing to Galatians says I am laboring in birth again that means it's a second time when he did it the first time and he's doing it again for what for Christ to be formed in you so here you can talk about this great work of seeing people born into the kingdom and having Jesus formed in their lives but he's associating it to a process of laboring in birth so this great miracle you know we many times we think of salvation we think of yeah you know it's an instantaneous miracle poem you know people get saved and and they're in the kingdom and you know they begin the journey but here Paul is giving us a little different perspective he's saying look I am laboring in birth for Christ to be formed in you and and he uses the word again meaning look I have to do this again second time so there is this part where certain miracles come through this process of laboring in birth sometimes or I would say you know let's take the example of seeing somebody saved sometimes it's simple like you know you just deal with these things of the spirit you say and I take a 30 or every spirit that's oppressing this person that's every deceiving spirit everything that is disturbing their minds I come on to your leave and you know you speak those words there and then you know they come at their lives to Christ they respond and they get saved and you're like wow that's wonderful now so you've you know you used the other word you've you know you've moved out of the anointing and things have happened but then it doesn't happen like that in everybody's case in some situations you'll find that for people to be brought to a place where they can receive Christ somebody else has to labor in but the miracle is the same it's the miracle of salvation but how it happens the the key that is used if you're using our language here the key that is used to see that person come to salvation is different in one case somebody took authority somebody you know spoke the word and they were free to receive they just felt they responded to receive Christ in another case somebody had to labor in but and not only for salvation there may be other situations where you you and I have to labor in but or the old English is travail in birth until you see that result and this is where prayer and intercession comes in you know this is where prayer intercession comes so some miracles some supernatural things deliverances will come through this process of persistence laboring in birth now there is a classic scripture again and and and Isaiah which is often used often in relation to this and it's it's interesting and it's in Isaiah 66 and versus seven and eight because I mean Isaiah 66 seven and eight you know it's talking about how in this case it's a supernatural birth like you know God is saying as soon as you know before her labor came she gave birth to a male child and who has heard of such a thing we're saying she's a nation be born at once it's talking about how supernaturally is you know Israel came into existence but at the end of verse eight there's something stated as soon as Zion was in labor she gave birth to her children now Zion of course refers to the people of God under the old covenant Israel but the word Zion is also used to refer to in the New Testament to the people of God in the New Testament so we can take what has been spoken of Zion in the Old Testament and carefully we can apply it to the church and the New Testament because the church in the New Testament is also referred to as Zion and we see that in first Peter chapter two and verse six and also in Hebrews 12 give you the exact verse Hebrews 12 and verse 22 right so first Peter two six and in Hebrews 12 we do we see the word Zion used in relation to the church so what we learned from Isaiah 66 verse eight as soon as Zion you can replace the word church there as soon as the church labored in birth or as soon as Zion prevailed she gave birth and there is this whole aspect of the church entering into a labor and birth happening now what God is telling us is he'll make it happen fast but there is this aspect of laboring in birth even for the church so you see it in the way Paul mentioned it in his letter to Galatians saying I'm laboring in birth for you until Christ is formed in you and Isaiah is telling us as soon as the Zion prevailed she brought forth so here's the key that I just want to share under number eight persistence that there are some supernatural things that you and I are going to see happen which require this laboring in birth this laboring in birth is really us prevailing or engaging in prayer with the Holy Spirit it's almost like the believer becomes the womb of God to give birth to the purpose of God or a collective community the church becomes the womb of God to give birth to the work of God but it takes place through this laboring in birth in prayer and with the seed of the word of God so in some situations if you're saying God why is the miracle not happening you know you've done the other things you know we've had faith we are operating in a renewed mind and we are speaking the word and you know we know and we have the anointing and the presence of the glory and all of that and if the supernatural work the miracle is still not happening then I want you to consider a point eight persistence and under point eight I want you to consider specifically laboring in birth because sometimes the supernatural work will take place when somebody labors in birth now it could be for your personal life you know something in your own personal life or it could be something you do for somebody else you labor in birth through your prayer through your intercession until so in Paul's case until Christ is formed in you or until a person is saved or until that healing is comes through or until you know the situation change whatever you labor in but okay so I just wanted to add that part to number eight it is everybody understand this or is it okay right thanks I'll see your comments I just want to make sure you understand this before I change and go to the next section any questions on this so remember this some things you have to labor in birth just go in to your prayer closet pray pray in the holy ghost take the scriptures that are related to that matter because the scriptures are the seed you are the womb of God your praying is that laboring in birth and you just engage until the miracle happens there is no you know there's no formula that will happen in two days but just as as soon as Zion prevailed she gave birth so as soon as you get into that prevailing or laboring in birth you will give birth but you know I don't know about that process whether it's I know in the natural you know natural labor I mean natural birth process usually nine months and that's a fixed thing but in the spirit there's no like you know nine months thing it's just you do it and let the miracle happen okay all right now we're going to so having shared having understood that there these are different keys and God will call upon you to use these different keys at any point in time okay not every miracle happens because of that same key okay that's you must keep in mind so if one key doesn't work okay just try another one just ask the Holy Spirit you know what should I do now and he might move upon you to say use this key you know and so there's no formula to the supernatural we just know that here are some of the common ways or keys through which God unlocks the supernatural yeah in our lives or in the lives of people when they're ministering to we should be aware of the keys so that we can cooperate with God and be led by the Holy Spirit and know how to minister you know in different situations and and don't get discouraged if one particular key is not giving the result you know just just say God what what is the other way maybe God wants to use something else or maybe he wants to use a certain combination of these keys to cause a miracle okay so be open be sent mostly you know most important is just be led by God because God will tell you this is this is the way just go after it like this and you and I must ask God what must I do to see the miracle happen you know and and he will lead us okay but just be familiar be aware of these other keys so let's move on to the next section which is you know what can we do as individuals to prepare ourselves for the supernatural you know and this is section three personal preparation right and I'm going to just you know maybe yeah go I will go through this and of course I will share the document with you none of these things are you know surprising or oh wow this is something different I haven't heard of it but these are things that you and I do as part of our lifestyle as part of our preparation and what we need to do is just keep doing these you know in an increasing measure and and just make sure that these are in your life because these are the things that are necessary in order to be used by God okay so what am I going to cover I'll just list it out first is we're going to talk about intimacy with God second we're going to talk about identity that is we must be established in our identity in Christ third is we must move with the compassion of God so we need to be compassionate people fourth I'm going to talk about is holiness or our personal consecration to God fifth I will talk about our walking in dominion and authority sixth about growing in the anointing on seventh is about receiving impartation from others eight is being in a place of inner wholeness because in the areas where we are not whole emotionally we are limited we cannot express God in those areas then nine is humility and then last one is learning and expanding okay so these are the things I'm going to cover here as part of our personal preparation let me just begin with the first one which is our personal intimacy with God right so in our personal intimacy with God let me put it in the chat here so we talk about personal intimacy with God that's the first point okay so what what can I do to prepare myself to be used by God in the supernatural and these are things that we are going to keep on going after in our lives you know and personally you know I've just because of the level of responsibility here and this in the church and all of that it's become you know I'm just speaking my heart to you and I just become so busy and and I and I just came okay God you know I need to give up a lot of work that I'm doing in the church so that I can focus more on moving into spiritual things so for instance you know there's there's so much of work going on in our IT team huge amounts of work and Tarun knows a little bit some of you know some of you are involved just huge amounts of work in the IT space and so I was like God we need a head of IT and I just want to give up all this you know somebody who will drive that and then there's this whole the operation side of the church because there's so many different things happening so I just God we need somebody who'll just will run the church for me I don't want to be involved in any of it anymore and then there's the publication side the books the and now we have to resume printing and now enough that the lockdowns lifted we can get back to printing and mailing and you know all the things that need to be done with publications the digital distribution the audio books that need to be generated and distributed all this just huge amounts of work in the publication side so just like that so there's just so many so many things happening so I just began to pray I said God I want to get I want to come out of all of this it's too much and I want to focus more on this you know the things that I should be doing as a spiritual leader which is the spiritual things and not be involved in all these things so basically what we're in the process of disappointing people just giving up all these things just letting people take over so that this one number one the intimacy with God at least for me and the pastor team that should be the focus you know but then intimacy with God is an intentional thing meaning I intentionally need to give up all these things I mean I enjoy doing these things I enjoy I enjoy technology and I enjoy you know running an organization with excellence I enjoy you know I enjoy all the work but then at some point you need to say God that's not what I should be doing I need to be doing more here you know because we need to see more and more of the power of God being released so that's kind of the transition I am making right now and I think we are in a place where we can do that where I can actually get away from church work and let others handle it and we're bringing in new people you know hiring new people interviewing them so they can take over the church and the running of the church and running of the various aspects of the church in order that we focus on intimacy with God so that's the first key first key you know is personal preparation is intimacy with God to be in that place where God can work through us now how do we build intimacy with God it's through personal worship meditation God's word confession of God's word prayer and fasting these five disciplines now this you know when I share these things please don't take them as laws okay we don't we're not living under law we are under the spirit right we are under grace so please don't think of these as okay you know pastors giving us rules to live by that's not the point all of these things you know worship meditation confession prayer fasting should come just out of love and it should come out of our love for God our pursuit of God our desire for God right so don't do it as a rule that that would put us under law right but do it out of love for God but this place of intimacy is very important for all of us we know right in Acts chapter 6 the apostles said you know we should not leave the word of God in prayer to serve tables now as a leader as a pastor especially if you are leading an organization sometimes you have to serve tables because there's nobody else to serve the tables right or maybe you can't afford to have other higher people to serve the tables so you serve the tables and then you go and you pray and spend time in the word you do everything but then there comes a time when you say look I can leave the serving of the tables to other people there are people who will do it and they'll do it well and so you just leave it to the others and you choose to go and focus on prayer in the word that's the place of intimacy with God and for all of us we need to do that okay now let me just say you know something that and again I'm looking back in my life I need to ask about the developing intimacy now I'm going to settle a bit about my early age early days but don't you know don't try to make it a rule in your life it's just what happened in my life so and I'll tell you how I do it now compared to those days but in the early days you know as a student I didn't have hardly any responsibility that everything was taken care of you know you didn't have to go to work you didn't have to earn your money you didn't have to pay your bills everything was taken care of and all you had to do was go to school and come so in those days I'm talking about you know 13 to college years and whatever do is so initially when I started reading my Bible I started by reading five minutes 10 minutes but very quickly the time became 15 minutes and half an hour one hour so eventually in those days what I did was I kept time 4 a.m to 7 a.m as my time with God and so every day my goal was to wake up a little before four o'clock make a big cup of tea everybody's sleeping at home and I'll make myself big mug of tea and I get into my little room my stuff I had to study room and I'd just be in it from 4 a.m to 7 a.m nobody disturbed me and we'll just spend time with God spend about an hour and a half in prayer and confession of the word an hour and a half in meditation of God's word and studying the word so I just divided the time you know one and a half hours which is more of prayer worship confession one half hours was meditation reading and studying God's word so that's how the three hours was divided and I just did that you know as part of my life and nobody told me like you have to do this or it was just something that's spontaneous and then on the weekends on Saturdays I would go those days we used to attend a Methodist church so I'd go to the Methodist church and I would just spend the whole day Saturday in the church they had a separate building I just go into one of those rooms and yeah usually I would be there like 9 a.m to 3 p.m 3 or 4 p.m just divide that time in prayer and in the study of the word and then at I think it was at 4 o'clock or something I did a Bible study so people would come and I would just conduct a Bible study and then by we'd finish up by 5.30 and then I'd get back home so that used to be you know during the school days from my 8th grade to my 12th grade in school that's kind of my that used to help me my early days but remember those days I didn't have any responsibility you know I didn't I wasn't like leading an organization or there's no no other than school there was no responsibility so it was pretty easy to make all the time to spend in prayer spend in the word and minister to people but it was basically spent in intimacy with God you know in worship meditation compassionate word prayer and fasting that's how you are developing intimacy with God now these days things are quite different because there's so much of responsibility so much of work going on so I spend my time in the morning and then I would also take time off during the day whenever I can I just just you know spend time in prayer try to keep many as much as possible Saturdays seeking God now some Saturdays we have weekend schools which we will be starting up back in November so even Saturdays become busy because we run weekend schools we have other things happening like membership class or other ministries are doing different things on Saturdays but I intentionally this time this phase of life because all the responsibility and I have to keep my time in the morning and divide my time between time in the morning and then sometimes during the day I would take off an hour maybe two hours just to go and pray and then I would keep try to keep as much as possible my Saturdays free from engagement so that I could spend extra time and just prayer and meditation so now it's a little bit more fluid in my early days it was very structured morning every morning four to seven nobody disturbs me Saturdays nobody disturbs me because okay these days it's a little bit more fluid meaning I just have to flow with the various things that happen and make the time to you know seek God and and focus on him so it's challenging it's more challenging now than it was in the early days because of the responsibility so but I'm just sharing that personally because this is how life is you know sometimes we think wow ministry is so nice late till you get into it and then you realize oh so it's so busy I'd prefer life without ministry because you can have more time with God but anyway let me just say this so personally I'm in that time of wanting to admit the transition away from running the church away from leading the you know church in all these areas to focus it more on intimacy with God so I could spend more time doing these things which is worship and meditation and prayer and fasting and so on okay so that's the same thing I want to shape it all of us first person preparation is intimacy with God okay scripturally you see first of all you see Jesus if there was anyone who was a minister of God who didn't need to spend time with God I think we all vote for Jesus right we'll say there's one person who doesn't need to spend time with God that's Jesus he's the eternal word it became man but so unusual Jesus took time to be alone with the father one of the scriptures that really inspired me in my early days to do what I did was mark one and verse 35 when I read that verse I said I need to do that it says you know and he he rising up a great while before day went to a solitary place and they're prayed that's the king James version so basically talking about Jesus he woke up early in the morning he went to a quiet place and he prayed and that really struck you know stuck with me so wow if Jesus did that then I need to do it and then you find many many examples you know where in the gospels where Jesus sent the multitudes away and he went and prayed so the very person that we say who doesn't need to pray he's the one who is making time in the busyness of his day to go and pray and in fact Luke 6 and verse 12 records the instance when Jesus went away to a mountain and he continued all night in prayer to God so this is like wow he's spending the whole night in prayer so Jesus is our greatest example of intimacy with God he went and was alone with the father so part of our personal preparation is this being alone with God our intimacy with God and Jesus put it like this in John 15 right he said I'm the wine you're the branches he who abides in me and I in him the same bears much fruit so you see that bearing much fruit is coming out of that place of abiding in him and he and us that place of connectivity or you know intimacy with the Lord so sometimes we think well much well much fruit comes with a lot of good strategy I'm not against good ministry strategy we will learn about it and we will use it sometimes we think ministry comes out of you know fruitfulness much fruit comes out of you know a lot of work I'm not against work the apostle Paul said you know I labored more abundantly than all the other apostles so he worked hard there is a place for hard work but everything has to first there's something that supersedes all that which is this place of intimacy with God so you and I need to constantly you know take time away from our busyness to be with God and what do we do in those in that time of intimacy with God well we spend time in personal worship that means you just worship him you know however you want to do it you know you could if you're a musician you could play your instrument and sing and worship him or if you're like me I don't play any instrument and I don't sing so I just meaning in private I can sing so I can listen to some music and I sing along with that or am I just worship him with words and I can then we also meditate in the word you read the word you meditate let the word get into you you spend time in speaking the word in the presence of God you spend time prayer in prayer and praying in tongues and you spend time in fasting so these are things you do well you're alone with God in your intimacy with God building your relationship with God and out of that out of that you and I can minister is that okay any questions on this first first point of personal preparation which is intimacy been gone okay everybody's quiet so that's at least if you were all in class I could look at your faces and I know what's going on right now I don't know okay contemplating how to build up more intimate relationship when we are hearing this thank you okay okay okay thank you all right all these things are deep so we we we have to listen and then we try to process them these are things that are not taught in church they are not in bible study so we we listen and sometimes we even can't know even how to ask just we listen we ask the Lord tell it first understand them and be able to apply them okay okay thanks thanks yeah I see all your comments in the chat so yeah so yeah Shreya Kumar this whole thing is you know we would refer to it formally as quiet time or time alone with God or yeah so yeah you could call it quiet time or you can call it you know time in your closet or time in your people use different language you know some people call it their personal time with God or their personal altar or yeah different language but I think it's that place of you and I being alone with God having that place of building our relationship with you okay yeah okay so I will just place it before you I'll place these things before you and each one of us you know see how we can grow personally in our relationship with God all I would say is don't make it a law don't do it out of you know a rule do it out of love for God right just you're seeking God and you know our intimacy with God affects our anointing the anointing that we carry which we will talk about a little later you and I cannot have anointing on our lives if you don't have a place of intimacy with God so many times we say God I want to have the anointing well well there's something that we must have before the anointing comes on us what is it this place of intimacy with God now there will be times there will be times and God is so gracious when even when we have not been you know very strong in our intimacy with God spending time with God the anointing will come but don't take too much advantage of that because the tendency in many people is anointing is there whether I pray or not anointing is coming so what happens people stop praying people stop spending time with God what happens you'll find the anointing is no longer there and then what happens is we get into playing games what do you mean by that it means we start imitating the anointing because we know how to behave under the anointing right yeah we know we act a certain way we speak a certain way we so hey I'll just do it whether the anointing is there or not I just act and that's a very dangerous place to be okay now we talk about that a little late when we come to that point but remember from this place of intimacy comes the flow of everything Jesus put it like this in John 7 37 to 39 he said he who is thirsty let him come to me and drink and out of his inner most being will flow rivers of living water so see the sequence this is John chapter 7 37 and 38 he who is thirsty come and drink and out of his inner most being will flow rivers of living water so if you are going to have rivers of living water flowing out of your inner most being what must you do before that he must be thirsty go and drink that means go where go to Jesus he was thirsty let him come to me and drink so I go to Jesus it's a lot I'm thirsty I'm thirsty for you thirsty for your presence thirsty for your power thirsty for your work thirsty for you and then you go and drink so it's almost like I mean I'm just using language here your tank is being filled up as you drink then what happens rivers out of your inner most being that means out of your tank that is full because you've been drinking of the Lord out of your inner most being flows rivers of living water but if I have not been drinking now I may have a reservoir I may have a reserve so some flow will happen but soon that rivers of living water may end up becoming a trickle so we have to be careful yeah yeah Rose that rivers of living water is the presence in the power of the Holy Spirit flowing out of our lives right so that whole water and river is very referring to the Holy Spirit because in John 739 it says this he spoke concerning the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive so that water in the river is symbolic or representing the person of the Holy Spirit but what must we do we must go and drink that means there is an infilling or inflow of that and then there is an outflow so that inflow happens as we go to Jesus in our life of intimacy in our quiet time or in our pride closet or in our personal time you know and with God you're drinking and then out of that comes the flow of rivers of living water so I want to I want to leave us with that that's the first personal preparation and I cannot overemphasize I know I've just said it in like maybe 20 30 minutes but I can't overemphasize this part intimacy with God you and I us taking time to personally seek God whether it's you know and there are different ways like we said worship in the word and prayer and fasting and confession of the word all of these things all of these things are just us seeking God and being intimate with God okay so there has to be an inflow if there has to be an outflow so go to him and drink go to him and drink and then there will be those rivers of living water flowing out right we'll build on this next week any questions before we dismiss any questions on this so I want to encourage you if you've never done it before and and don't this don't do this as a rule do this out of love try and spend extended hours in God's presence maybe an hour two hours three hours four hours keep pushing it you know five hours six hours seven hours eight hours okay keep pushing it just you and God right but be mindful of you know other people in your life if you're married of course you have responsibility towards your spouse and your family you know if you're single it's okay you know nobody's going to bother you but if you're married you know be mindful and while you are you know keeping things in proper order you also find time to do this but push it the longest I've done I've done is like I've done eight hours just praying eight hours in tongues just praying eight hours in tongues just you know of course we take bathroom breaks and water breaks or tea coffee breaks it's a short short breaks but that time is just spent praying right and you know because you need short breaks in between but it's just you alone in your room praying so do that from time to time as part of your life of intimacy with God but do it properly like don't offend your family members or others just bit permission and you know making sure that they are cared for you go and you spend time okay all right who wants to close in prayer today all right home can I hold father thank you Lord for teaching these truths and imparting these internalized father Lord help us Lord that is the real thirst Lord to drink a few more and more father Lord we may spend more and more time in the presence so that we will receive the anointing Lord we may meditate upon a word father and we drench a lot with the anointing with the spirit Lord we will drench with the spirit and be saturated father with the word and with the infilling so that living waters may flow from us and others may be touched over life and over me thank you Lord for teaching this verse Lord let it remain in every one of us father throughout our life that we may bear good food in the kingdom in this world Lord we once again thank you for teaching this the inner aim father we bless the pastor for imparting these truths into our lives father Lord he is in vitality and abundantly according to will strengthen him not in every way strengthen it to the mission Lord let me belong to glorify novice mission and for every one of us in Jesus name I pray amen man thank you Ravan God bless you enjoy your enjoy the rest of the day see you soon bye now thank you pastor God bless you thank you thank you Ravan thank you