What It It
The enlightened amid fire burns My heart is captured to learn
I have in me the burning fire Oh, a sound of great things
I have in me the burning fire
Hallelujah!
Okay, so we've said a lot of things about the ministry of laying on of hands. What do you remember?
I remember that we lay hands with intentionality. Hallelujah!
So let's open our Bibles once again. Mark chapter number 16, verse 16, 17 and 18.
Mark chapter 16. I'm not going to preach for long.
Hallelujah!
Praise the Lord.
The Lord opened my eyes and I saw a multitude of people seated listening to the word of God.
Hallelujah!
Listening to the word of God.
And the Lord said, every one of these will be turned on to my divine cause.
Praise the name of the Lord.
Thank you, Father.
And he said unto them, verse 15, Go ye into all the world,
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptize shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned.
And these signs shall follow them that believe. In my name shall they cast out devils.
They shall speak with new tongues.
They shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.
They shall lay their hands on the sick.
And they shall recover.
Hallelujah!
So we've been talking about the ministry of laying on of hands.
And it's a powerful ministry, right?
Glory!
And I told you that we lay hands in the name of Jesus.
He says these signs shall follow them that believe.
Now when you see them, you are going to know by these signs.
When you see those who have believed in me, this is how you are going to know.
Every Christian has five supernatural signs that Jesus said it must follow every Christian.
And this is not when you are a pastor, when you are, you've been born again for many years or what.
For these signs, they follow you the very moment you believe in Jesus Christ.
Hallelujah!
So when you believe in Jesus, these signs are meant to follow you.
The Bible says the number one sign is that in my name, they shall cast out devils.
Today at the bath house, the Lord instructed me to preach a message, which is not part of the things he gave me for the year.
He said I should teach, which is a one-time meeting, them that he sent.
Yeah, that's the title he gave me when I was at the bath house.
He says, them that he sent.
I praise the name of the Lord.
Yeah, you see the way you laugh.
I also laugh because I didn't know what he meant by that.
Them that he sent.
Then the Lord said, do you know that everybody I sent in the Bible, in the Bible, the way, signs that followed them.
So I want you to teach on that so that everyone that accepts my sending will be able to know that these are not things he's going to struggle with.
And I go, okay, that's awesome.
Okay, so where do we go to?
Are we going into the New Testament or the Old Testament?
He said, no, just limit yourself to the New Testament.
Oh, okay, that's awesome.
And then he said, you remember I said, I'm going to teach you the way I teach you.
I said, in the word, I send you as you go, heal the sick, raise the dead, clean the lepers.
I said, you did.
Another time I sent some people and I told them, cast out devils.
And they returned and they said that even demons, the demons, the devils, they respond to us in your name.
Then he said, one of the major problems, the major root cause of the problems of men is demons.
So you will notice that everybody I sent, I give the person power first to cast out devils.
Because when everybody learns to cast out devils, the death rate will be reduced.
The rate of sicknesses will be reduced.
And it was such a powerful instruction.
Hallelujah.
So I'll teach about that.
It's an awesome thing.
Them that he motioned and called.
Hallelujah.
Them that he sent.
So here he says, these are the ones that believe in my name, they will cast out devils.
They will speak with new tongues.
And if you're here and you don't pray in tongues, we can do that.
We have to do that today.
Alright?
You're here and you don't pray in tongues.
It's a bizarre.
It's a disaster.
So I said, should all Christians pray in tongues?
Okay.
Should all human beings drive?
No.
But don't you want to drive?
Of course.
So if somebody says, all human beings are not supposed to drive, I'm not part of those who don't drive.
Are you understand that?
Are all human beings supposed to be rich?
In fact, I was learning something about economics the other day and I got to know that the economies of the world would break down if everybody is rich.
I'm like, ah.
So even poverty have advantage.
So they use poor people to manage economy.
Because if everybody is rich, there will be no economy.
And I said, hey, I never thought about that.
That's why Jesus says, the poor will always be with you.
The poor, because if the poor are not there, the economy will not be balanced.
So the world needs poor people to maintain the economy.
But guess what?
I will not be one of them.
Hallelujah.
I'm, I don't know, I'm not going to be poor.
Because you see, if everybody too is poor, there will be no economy.
So they must be rich and they must be the poor.
But praise be to the name of the Lord.
I belong to the rich.
Hallelujah.
You know.
Glory to God.
So you can't tell me that, oh, should every Christian pray in tongues?
You see, if everybody prays in tongues, maybe the economy will be something.
But you know what?
I will join those who pray in tongues because of the benefits that it has for us.
So he says, he says, in my name, that's what I want you to understand, underline that.
He says, in my name, these signs shall follow them that believe.
All right?
Them that believe in the gospel.
Now, those that believe in the gospel, in my name, they shall cast out devils.
Number two, they shall speak with new tongues.
Number three, they shall pick up serpents.
All right?
And I told you to pick a pick it up serpent does not mean go for snake hunting.
Picking up serpent, if I had time, we would have looked at that.
All right.
When the Bible talks about snakes, the Bible is talking about the phenomenal power of the enemy.
Are we together?
Yes.
The Bible talks about asps.
The Bible talks about scorpions.
All these people or all these descriptions or all these are descriptions of categories of the power of the enemy.
Hallelujah.
Now, so he talks about they shall pick up serpent.
They shall pick up serpent means that they shall hold it.
We hold the power of them.
You hold that the neck.
Praise the name of the Lord.
And then the Bible says, they shall what?
If they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them.
Praise the name of the Lord.
Then he says that they shall lay their hands on the sick and they will recover.
Now, it means that every Christian has the right to lay hands on the sick in the name of Jesus.
Let's read that again.
These signs shall follow them that believe.
Come on.
How many of us have believed?
Let me see your hand if you have believed.
You have believed in Jesus.
All right.
Then say these signs.
Come on.
These signs.
These signs are following me.
So he says they shall lay their hands on the sick and they will recover.
Now, every Christian has the license to lay hands in the name of Jesus.
Every Christian.
It's not for some people out there.
It's not for those who are born again 10 years, who have been born again for 15 years, who have been born again for 13 years.
Hallelujah.
The moment you get born again, you have the right to use the name of Jesus in laying hands on the sick or laying hands in the name of Jesus.
Now, the first time Jesus laid his hands openly was for the sick to minister to the sick.
Hallelujah.
He ministers to the sick mostly by contact.
Now, I'm not talking about contact because there are different kinds of contact in the Bible.
Hallelujah.
Yes. You remember that when Elisha had to raise the woman's son from the dead, what did he do?
He laid on him.
All right.
It's a different kind of contact.
And then this contact I'm talking about is laying hands or laying on of hands.
Jesus laid his hands to heal the sick.
That teaches us that when you... Amazingly, listen, Jesus did not say that in my name you will heal the sick.
Or he did not even say that in my name they will pray for the sick.
It means that we should lay hands first before we even think about praying.
We should not pray first and lay hands.
He says that in my name they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.
Let's get into the Bible.
Let's get to where Peter's in-law was sick.
Matthew chapter 8 verse 5.
Matthew 8, 5.
Now, I'm teaching you how to heal the sick.
The first part, right?
How to heal the sick, part 1a.
Matthew 8, what?
No, 15.
And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, it means Peter had a house, he saw his wife's mother laid.
Alright?
He saw his wife's mother laid and sick of a fever.
Hallelujah.
And he touched her hand and the fever left her.
And she rose and ministered unto them.
This is what Jesus did.
Jesus goes and the woman is lying down and then Jesus touched her.
We did not read and Jesus prayed.
A very technical question.
Did you ever see that Jesus prayed for the sick?
How many of you have read the New Testament back to back before?
Okay.
So those of you who have done, about the healings of Jesus, did you ever see that Jesus actually prayed for the sick?
Okay, so I charge you to go and read over again.
The question is not command, the question is pray.
Did Jesus ever pray for the sick?
Pardon?
He commanded what?
He commanded through prayer.
No.
What is prayer?
Prayer simply means talking to God and God talking to you.
Did Jesus ever talk to God about the sickness of somebody?
Did Jesus ever pray?
The only time we see such a thing was when he went to Lazarus tomb.
But Lazarus was not sick.
And in fact, did Jesus pray to God about Lazarus?
What did Jesus say?
He thanked God.
Father, I thank you that you have heard me.
Now Jesus stands before somebody who is dead and begins to thank God.
I heal the sick.
This morning you will leave church wild.
Praise the name of the Lord.
Okay.
Jesus gets there and then the Bible says he touched her.
And the fever left.
What does it mean that Jesus touched her?
He laid hands.
Let's read that again.
He touched her hand.
Hallelujah.
And the fever left.
So it means that we can lay hands on the hand.
So hands laying is not always on the forehead.
It's on the hand.
If it's on the hand, then it can be on the stomach.
You can just, you know.
Hallelujah.
So Jesus touched her.
Now let's go to Matthew again.
I love the Lord.
Verse 1.
And when he came down from the mountain, great multitude followed him.
And behold, there came a leper and worshiped him, saying, Lord, if thou will, thou can make me clean.
Now the leper, who is a leper?
Somebody who has leprosy.
And then he says, you can make me clean.
Please make me clean.
And Jesus put forth his hand and touched him, saying, I will, my, be thou clean.
And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Father, Jesus stands before the leper.
Father, in the name of Jesus, I command the spirit, O Rokosata.
No.
I can't even say you will stand before the sick and speak in tongues.
Praying in tongues is not for the sick.
Rasha, te lebo lobo, he bad.
We are all confused.
Ayadabba shetit.
Wulebosh andaba.
I can't wait for the next meeting.
When I saw it, I said, God, I can't wait for the next meeting.
I've not been doing the thing well.
I'm not going to do it.
I should come and say out.
You know what I'm talking about?
It's not, Father, in the name of Jesus.
Now you are praying.
Hallelujah.
So in the name of Jesus, O Father, glorify yourself right now.
No, no, no, no.
Jesus touched.
See, the velocity and the voltage of the power of God that is released, we lay our hands.
Jesus is more than when you pray.
I want to say that again.
The velocity and the voltage of power that is released to the sick.
When we stand before them, when we lay hands on them, Jesus is better, is much more than prayer.
That you pray and you lay hands on the sick.
Jesus is the fastest one is to lay hands.
Put your hand there.
Now, let's continue.
Nine twenty.
OK, we'll do nine twenty in Mark five.
But.
OK.
Let's go to Matthew twenty.
And as they departed from Jericho twenty nine, a great multitude followed in and behold two blind men sitting by the wayside when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David.
And the multitude rebuked them because they should hold their peace.
But they cried them all saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David.
And Jesus stood still and called them and said, What will you that I shall do unto you?
And they said unto unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be open.
So Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes and immediately they their eyes received sight and they followed him.
Hallelujah.
And they said, Oh, that was Jesus. Jesus's issue was a special issue.
No.
No, the same spirit that was a work in Jesus is the same spirit as our working eyes.
So Jesus didn't stand before the blind and say,
Jesus, I want to see you.
Jesus says, What do you want me to do for you?
I said, I want to see.
See, if I'm supposed to do this whole thing for a very long time, how to heal the sick, I've taught you that in the healing of the sick, you need to ask the people what they want.
Jesus did that a lot. Jesus saw blind men and said, What do you want me to do for you?
Or maybe you don't want your eyes to open.
You see, sometimes you have unnecessary pity on the sick.
Yeah.
Most of the time, that's what you do.
You're just pitying them.
You're going to put your eye inside their eye, your hand inside their eye.
And the person does not want that place to be healed.
Can you hear it? He was casting out a demon. The woman said, Please don't touch that demon. It's for me.
And what did she do? Is he all right? Then he moved to the next person.
So it's foolish to cast out a demon that the person loves.
Because the demon will come back. In fact, after days, if the demon is not there, you'll be calling for the place. Where are you? Where have you been?
Hallelujah. So Jesus touched them.
What is touching them? You know what he did? He just placed his hand like this.
And then they saw.
Immediately.
So can you imagine that this hand, and I know the hands you use, you couldn't use any other hand.
It's this one.
So if we are following the pattern of Jesus in the ministry of laying on of hands, if somebody comes in, the person is having issues with their eye.
What do we do?
You know, you understand what I'm talking about? You do like this.
So the person comes, first of all, this. No, you're not following.
These are this thing. You understand? So it goes like this.
You get it? You can hold it and just try to.
You feel like giving a testimony. Hallelujah.
Do you understand that? So Jesus laid hands on the eye, touched the eye.
And then the eye got open immediately.
Hallelujah.
Now, let's look at let's look at somebody when somebody is deaf.
OK, let's go to 31 31, Mark 7, 31.
And again, departing from the coast of Tyre and Sidon, he came onto the Sea of Galilee through the midst of the coast of the Decapolis.
And they bring onto him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech.
We're talking about who? Deaf and dumb. OK.
OK, and he took him aside from the multitude. Oh, well, you know, and they besieged him to put his hand upon him.
Did you see that? So they told Jesus, please lay hands on him.
It means that the people actually know.
How the sick can be healed. They didn't have the power.
All right. So they say, put your hand on him.
And he took him aside from the multitude and put his fingers into his ears and he spit and touched his tongue.
Hallelujah. And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said unto him, a father that is be opened.
Praise the name of the Lord. I love Jesus. So he put his two fingers and it was this finger.
You know, it went like this. All right. And actually his spot on the tongue.
Now, someone say, oh, yes, really, what do you have there?
Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh. And touch his tongue.
So two fingers in the ear, his spot. Where did he spot? Where? He spots to where?
The ground. Do you know this was not the only one time Jesus spot?
There was one he spot on the ground and mixed clay and used it to.
Now somebody is asking, can we still be doing that today? Of course, yes.
Of course, listen, your problem is civilization. Civilization is killing you.
If we see somebody doing that, we now call the person what?
The person looks some way. There was this man of God.
All right. During, um, Wigglesworth time, when he's praying for you,
he will spit on you and smear the spittle all over you. And then you get healed.
I'm telling you, it's not a joke.
What you call nonsense, God can see wisdom in it.
Now some say, oh, we lay hands on, and I'll talk about it when I talk about
the prophetic ministry and tokens and symbols.
I'll talk about it, but I don't think it's DC and next year, you know.
Some say, ah, all the power is in the name of Jesus. Just say Jesus.
It's not like that. It's not like that. Please relax. It's not like that.
It's not like that. Now am I going to use any of them? Of course, God has not told me so.
And I don't think I have time for that.
I like quick, quick, you know, that's where I'm, you know, hallelujah.
But listen, Jesus spat and touched the tongue.
So likely Jesus may have done like this.
And touched the tongue. The tongue met the saliva of Jesus.
I don't know why I say that.
That's just by the way. So and then he touched.
So he touched the ears. So definitely the the the spittle may have gone
first to the tongue and then two hands in the ear.
Then the Bible said he looked up to heaven and then says, be opened.
Hey, let's let's read it. And straight away, immediately his ears were open
and the string of his tongue was loosed and he spicked plain.
Did you see that? And the one that was deaf and you know,
for example, you meet someone who is deaf, you've prayed and prayed and prayed.
It doesn't work. Come here. Whatever Jesus did, do it.
Including a spittle. Of course, yes, Jesus did that.
What if the person said no, let the person go and be dummy?
Because some of you don't like this thing.
That is what the Bible says. Why do you think they would take time to capture,
to capture such a thing?
Don't you think they it's like whoever was recording at least could have removed
this part, this part from there. It's not hygienic.
It's not hygienic. OK, let's continue.
OK, let's go. What did we read now?
OK, let's go look.
OK, Luke 22 verse 48. Oh no, 49.
When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto the Lord,
Shall we smite with the sword? That was when they about to arrest Jesus.
And one of them smote the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear.
That was Pedro. And Jesus answered and said,
Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear and healed him.
He cut off the ear. Now he touched his ear. What does that mean?
He picked the ear. The ear. I mean, when you read it from different accounts,
Peter chopped off the ear. The ear fell down.
A force which could reach out. So then Jesus picks it.
And then he has the ear in his hand. And then he goes like this.
They said, don't be doing that. How would you do that?
Don't do that. Don't you know that your priest can't know who was in that hand?
Don't do that.
I mean, if I was Marcus, the arrest would make me.
So we can see from this and numerous scriptures.
And you know, there are people who also got healed when they came to touch Jesus.
I'll talk about that.
Do you know laying hands is done with intentionality?
Now, if you come to lay hands on me now, I told you laying hands is not just on my forehead.
That place, regardless of intentionality, you fall down.
You can lay hands here, you fall down.
Now, that's just by the way. But listen.
Somebody can decide that, oh, I'm going to lay hands on the man of God.
It's just the word. All right. I'm going to touch the man of God.
That's what I mean. OK. So that I will be healed.
You remember the woman said, if I can only touch the hem of his garment, I'll be whole.
And she did so and she was whole.
Telling us that the moment there is a body to body, body to hand contact, there's a release.
There's an impartation. Come on. Hallelujah.
So it is not an it's not an ordinary practice.
All right, that you're just there.
I said, lay hands on me. And then they lay hands on you. And then that's that.
There is a tangible release or something.
But I'm telling you for your sake already by meeting pastors.
If you remember, I've limited the laying of hands to healing, to believers.
You can't go and lay your hands to do all kinds of things except to a pastor.
Hallelujah.
Now, the pastor has the license to lay hands to put people into office.
OK, let's go to first Timothy.
One of the Timothee's.
Are you enjoying this thing? OK.
See, my hands are out.
OK, first, chapter four, verse four.
Till I come again, first chapter four, verse 14, sorry, till I come again, 13, till I come again, till I come,
give attendance to reading, to exhortation and to doctrine.
Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the Presbyter.
Did you see that? So he tells Timothy that the gift that is in you, that gift came by prophecy.
All right. Uh huh. And what?
Come on. Uh huh.
No, read it. Read it. One, two, go.
Uh huh.
So, listen, the prophecy came with the laying on of hands.
Come on.
The prophecy came with the laying on of hands. It means that whatever gift that was in Timothy,
there was the prophecy that this gift ought to be in Timothy.
The courage from the Presbytery, from the elders of the church, to Timothy, was through the laying on of hands.
Are we together? So, if you are not a pastor, you can't do this. You cannot, you can't be a member and do this thing.
All right? It is the pastor that has been given that authority to lay hands on people to receive specific callings and giftings.
Are we together? Now, you can't get up there and lay hands on somebody and say, you are an apostle this day.
Even the hour will not come.
You see, so the ministry of the laying on of hands to the Christian is limited to healing.
Hallelujah. You can prophesy to a brother, but you don't lay hands.
Are we together? You don't lay hands on your brother.
Are you following that? See, the ministry was so sacred, I told you the last time, it was so sacred that
Philip Dems, when they had finished with Samaria, they had to go and call Peter and John to come and lay hands for the people to receive the Holy Ghost.
See, a lot of the charismatics, we don't have order. Everybody is laying hands on anybody, including their pastors.
I saw there's this video that Tyler Perry laid hands on T.D. Jakes.
Yeah, I mean, the man of God was okay. I mean, it's fine if he was okay with that. That's fine. But it's wrong.
You can lay hands on your pastor, except if your pastor is sick or something and then they say, oh, maybe your pastor is dead.
They say, somebody say, let's go and raise the bazaar from there. Then all of you can come around and then see what you can do.
Praise the name of the Lord. You should be scared.
Then I call you come and lay hands on me. They say, ah, sheke baratstu.
You may end up with your calling destroyed.
But listen, he says that the gift that was in Timothy came by the laying of hands with prophecy.
It means that today a gift can come to you by prophecy with the laying of hands.
Are you understanding that? Yeah. He says, don't neglect it. It's amazing.
He says, don't neglect. It means that people can neglect it. He says, don't neglect it.
Don't forget it. Don't absent yourself.
Don't forget it. Don't forget the gift of God that is in you that came to you by the laying of.
That's why I told you that. See, when hands are laid on you, you call them.
Because you see, if Timothy kept on forgetting, that gift will no more be in operation.
It will no more be. Hallelujah. Come on. Praise the name of the Lord.
So when hands are laid on you, constantly visit them.
You know there was a point, he says, stare up. Stare up. Put to flame.
Put to flame the gift that is in thee. Put to flame the fire that is in thee.
So the hands are laid on you that you fell down. Constantly, constantly put it on fire.
Glory to God. Constantly put it on fire.
Constantly put it on fire. Constantly put it on fire.
Constantly put it on fire. Glory to God.
Constantly. Except you've not had any gift through the laying of hands.
But if you have, don't neglect it. Hallelujah.
Then, let's go to that same place.
Now, let me say this before we get there. Then he says that.
So he says neglect not the gift that is in thee. The word neglect also means don't be careless.
Don't be careless. Alright? Reckless.
Don't be careless with the gift that is in thee.
See there are a lot of people that are careless with the gift they got through the laying of hands.
They are very careless. They don't care about the gift. They do what they want.
They say what they say. They do what they want to say. They go wherever they want to go.
And all of that. He says don't be careless.
For example, you believe that you have the gift of prophecy.
You have the gift of prophecy. And so God can make you prophesy one or two things.
The person can be there, okay, three months. He hasn't received any prophetic word for anybody.
You are careless. You are very careless.
Very careless. You believe and you know that you have the gift of prophecy.
And for a whole three months, you've not received a word.
You are careless. In fact, you have neglected the word, the gift that is in you.
Think about those who believe that they have the gift of healing.
And there are no healing stories around them.
They healed somebody in 2017, 2019. They healed somebody in 2022. They healed somebody in 2023.
They don't know what is happening. You've neglected.
You see, listen, anointings are like muscles.
They get strong when you exercise them constantly or frequently.
Hallelujah. When you constantly exercise them, they get strengthened.
And then they are able to be felt. That is why most of them are not people who work in the gift of healing, especially.
Most of us, we start healing people with headaches, stomach aches, and what have you.
Then a person will move further. We deal with maybe asthma and stuff like that.
The person will be moving further. The person now, my leg, I cannot walk properly.
Then the person begins to walk. He gets to blindness and stuff like that.
And then he gets to where people are dead in parts of their bodies.
If somebody is blind, the person is dead in the eye. Hallelujah.
Now, so if you get a blind eye to be healed, it means that you've actually resurrected the dead.
You've resurrected a dead eye. So where do you think you are heading to?
The full body. Hallelujah.
Because you see there, and then anointings are energies.
So the anointing you will need to heal a headache is not the same thing you need to raise the dead.
No. You understand?
So that you healed somebody who had a problem with headache,
that's not me. That when you stand before somebody who is in a wheelchair, you can bring the person out.
It can happen the very first day you got born again, you get somebody out of a wheelchair.
So that's why we raise the dead. But that is not the norm. There is such a thing as ministerial trainings into your giftings.
Because even in, see, by what we read, that's what I'm talking about, by what we read,
it tells you that there are administrations in the Ministry of Healings.
Think about it. Jesus stands before somebody, prays for the person, I mean, tries to heal the person.
And the person says, I see men as trees.
Then the Bible says he laid his hands again, and the man says, now I can see well.
So if you don't know, you laid hands once, and the person says, oh, I see men as trees. Alright.
When you see them, climb them.
But he did again. Who told Jesus to spit on the ground and mix clay and put it in the air?
Who told Jesus that death and death spit and then put it on the tongue?
So there are administrations. If Jesus had stood before the man and said, hey, brother, be open, do you think it would have been open?
No. Jesus, because, you see, the ministry is not just what you do. It's also how you do what you're supposed to do.
You understand? So you don't just have to know what to do. You must know how to do what to do.
Come on, are we together? Come on, are we together?
So God told the children of Israel, he says that he told Miriam and Aaron, he said that to the children of Israel, I showed them my act.
But to Moses, I showed them my ways. I showed him my ways.
So ministry is both act and ways.
Come on, are we together?
And those of you who don't have anything for Pastoralism, what I'm teaching this morning, is you're like, man, what they can't exhort us.
Alright, so ministry is both act and ways.
The ways are knowing how to act.
So somebody can see healing come, ah, I'm healed. But the person will not know that there are ways to getting that particular testimony to come.
One time I was praying for somebody, I forgot the exact instruction, but the person complained of something.
So I was going to lay my hands there, and the Lord says, no, I should lay my hands in another place.
It just happened like in a glimpse like that.
So that's part of it.
Are we together? Yeah, it's part of it.
Can a minister miss it? Of course, yes. And when you miss what will happen, you'll not have so much results.
You'll not have so much results.
That is when you are doing ministry of healing.
When you are doing Christian healing, he just told you, lay hands. That's fine.
Come on.
So that's that. Now, what was I saying before we go there?
I was talking about Timothy. Now, let's look at that.
Let's look at the same place, verse 22, 522.
Next chapter, 522.
Okay, what did he say? One, two, go.
Suddenly lay hands on no man.
All right. Don't suddenly. And here he was talking about putting people in leadership.
Now, why? Because Timothy is now a pastor. He's a pastor of pastors.
So he now has gained the right to put people into office.
Hallelujah. So I was discussing with someone and the person said, you are too young to be ordained pastors.
I'm like, what in the world are you talking about?
Me? Too young to ordain pastors. How?
I'm not too young to ordain pastors. I'm a pastor. Hallelujah.
I can ordain. I can ordain in this day.
Praise the name of the Lord. Yeah. So when you are a pastor, when you are giving that, you see,
in the Bible, you can't just get up and be a pastor.
No. So Aquila and Priscilla, they have to bring, what's the name of that guy? Is it Apollo?
Is it Apollo or Apollo?
Apollo.
Mighty. He was the one who was the mighty in the scriptures, right?
They have to bring him and teach him the way of the Lord.
Are we together? No, it's not like today. You are just up there. You just decide, yeah, I'm a pastor.
It doesn't work that way. Where are you coming from? Like, from which line are you coming from?
So I will understand your doctrine. Oh, I'm from Paul. So Paul, when Paul is sending Timothy,
he will send a letter ahead and say, receive him. I'm the one who sent him. Receive him.
For example, you just come to church and someone begins here and the person is now teaching.
You have to stone the person.
Who sent, what are you doing in this church? Who are you? You understand?
But the person will come, like, oh, I have sent, or you know what I'm talking about?
Oh, this one is called Pastor Koba. He's so-so and so and so-so and so that people will know, oh, OK, it's acceptable.
You can't just, as we are here right now, maybe you are waiting for me, I'm not coming.
Then you see one man you have never seen before. He just climbs up and they come and pick the microphone.
Praise the name of the Lord. What will you, how will you feel?
Rabbi doesn't know about it. Nobody knows about it. How are you going to feel?
What will you do?
Then the person, you will listen to the person for like maybe five, six to know.
Then the person will say, there are demons in this place. You just don't know.
This is not from this guy. No, let's stone him. Let's stone him fast.
You understand? So you suddenly lay hands on no man.
It means that when you lay hands on people and confirm them as a pastor, it happens.
So it's not, there are some laying on our hands, we don't do it.
Like we don't do it suddenly.
A masquerade with proofs.
Hallelujah. That's why I don't want many sons.
You can't just come from anywhere and call me your father. I won't. I won't collect that fatherhood.
Because you see, the moment I lay hands on you, I commissioned you.
In fact, not commission, commission is even from ordination. I ordain you.
As a pastor, I'm talking ordination when I ordain you.
I am a partaker of whatever you are going to do.
Praise the name of the Lord. Yeah.
So I will not lay hands, I don't know, I mean all the apostles around telling, I mean, laying hands on people, I don't know their problem.
But the moment, whatever you are, in fact, I gave you the license to do that. That is what it means.
Joshua was full of wisdom because Moses laid his hands on him.
This guy is full of whatever because that person laid hands on him.
Are you understanding that? Come on, are you understanding that? Yeah.
So these are the sacred areas of laying on of hands.
You can't meet somebody six months and then you lay hands on the person and ordain the person into ministry.
Any minister that does that is sick.
Sick.
There was this man of God.
And he said, this guy came to his church.
And so on and on, they started talking and the guy had interest to do ministry.
The guy was like, so finally they ordained him and blah, blah, blah. They had issues with their father and you know, all these kind of things.
Then he told the man to ordain him for ministry.
Then the man too wanted to ordain.
So they prayed because it was, you know, there are some people they have maybe monthly or every year they have a stipulated time that they ordain.
So the guy just went to join so that he can also be ordained.
Then he was praying and the Lord told him that don't ordain this guy.
Why? He said send him back to his father.
I said he was shocked. That was the first time in his life.
He mentioned the years, twenty something, but I forgot it.
That such a thing was told him.
So he asked, is that he's not called or he said he's called?
But send him back to his father. Don't be a partaker of where he's going.
Are you understanding that? So Paul says, suddenly hands on normal. You don't know where the person is coming from.
And you see the amazing thing is that time reveals the true heart of man.
Are you understanding that? I mean, I can meet you six months, you are still excited. I am more chocobolo to Zamba beyond to.
You've been speaking in terms of heavy than mine.
Are you understanding that? I mean, you can meet somebody. I love you. I'll marry you. Oh, I'll die for you.
In your love, give time. Are you understand that?
Then the one that say, if you leave me, let Tender Fire me.
Say now if you leave me, may the blessing of God follow me.
So he says, suddenly lay hands on normal. He says, normal. Don't let it be sudden.
You cannot be press, you should as a pastor, I mean, you should not be, I can't be pressure to lay hands.
I know. You can't pressure me. Lay hands for you on what?
If it's healing, it's a sudden laying of hands. You saw it immediately, straight away.
But when it comes to, when it comes to ministry, it's not straight away.
Did Moses lay hands on Joshua?
Did Moses lay hands on Joshua? How many years did Joshua followed Moses?
When did Moses lay hands on Joshua? When he was about to die.
How long did it take Elijah to catch mandate from Elijah?
And how long did Elijah transfer mandates throughout the scriptures?
I will tell you that. So when it comes to ministry, there's a path.
Like the laying of hands must be slow. You must check things.
If it's church commissioning, fine, why not? Everybody go and do a pass.
At least if you get a car, come home, come and sit down. You go and sit at the back.
Let's continue the work.
But you hear somebody come out from outside. So, man of God, I'm called Shande Lekko Manti Zabai.
Lay hands on me. Bobaste. Do I know you?
You've not been with me for two months. Do I know you? Do you know me? Am I you? Are you I? Am I I?
Hallelujah. So Paul says, suddenly lay hands on no man.
Are you understanding that? Yeah. So a pastor must not lay hands suddenly.
See the Bible school we went, you can just go there and then you tell them you are called into ministry.
And just six months, if you like missed classes, just pay your money. They will lay hands on you.
They will commission you. At least I'll match his hand. Just put it on you and you try to go and do whatever you want to do.
And amazingly, that kind of system have raised a whole lot of nonsenses called pastors.
Yeah. A whole lot of... They don't have doctrinal persuasions. They don't have character.
They've not been built over the years. They don't even have fathers. They don't have...
You see, I would never be a friend to somebody who got a father along the way.
No. No, no, I don't do that. Can God call somebody? Of course. Can God? Of course, yes.
Do some of them have genuine ministries? Of course, yes, they do. Is God sending them? Oh, God is sending them.
They're also sending God. That's fine. But...
No, no, no. I can't relate with you when you are like me. If I'm right now looking for a father.
No, no, no, no. There's a problem with that. Why didn't you get the father at the beginning? What was the problem?
If you are coming from Saudi Arabia and stuff like that, I understand. But here, Ghana, a hub of fathers.
Oh, come on. There are fathers all around. Hallelujah. Yeah.
I was talking to the man of God and said, Kwame, fathers are not plenty. I'm not looking for sons.
I mean, fathers are not plenty. Fathers are everywhere. I mean, if you want a father,
I just... after 12 years, I should not go and look for a father. Nobody is going to father anybody.
You are my father. Hallelujah. Yeah. So, because a father, a father borns and a father raises.
Are you understanding that? You can't come with your own doctrinal persuasions.
Once I'm preaching the gospel of God, you are preaching what? Fire on the mountain.
I said, who is your father? He said, oh, that, that, that, oh, oh, oh. Leave that. Hallelujah.
Suddenly lay hands on no man. Suddenly.
Some of you, your anointing are still in my pocket because if I lay right now,
it's sudden. It's a sudden laying of hands. Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord. Yeah.
Maybe we have to lay hands for you to get money. We lay hands right now for the money to come.
We'll not find you again. Hallelujah. So, suddenly lay hands on no man.
And when the hands are laid, I mean, God could have said, the reason why I said you should not lay hands is because when you lay, nothing will come out.
If you suddenly lay hands, the anointing will flow, but the person may use the anointing in a different way.
Are you understanding that? Yes, sir. Yeah. A young guy, a young guy was having it some years ago.
I mean, I think we had a leaders camp, the one we had at LA and a young guy was with this, another young guy who had started a ministry.
And so I had to meet up with the guy. I think it was a Saturday afternoon or something.
One of the days I met up with the guy because the guy lived in that area and I was talking to him about his, his father, his man of God, so to speak.
And he said he has done something and the father says that he's leaving.
The father had done something and he's leaving the father. So he's leaving the grandfather. You know, you are talking about.
Yeah, he's leaving the grandfather. And what have you? What have you? And so he's looking for a father.
So two things. Will I father him or should I take him to my father?
So I asked how long have you started, five or six or seven years? I said, oh, no, he's enough to be a father already.
So tell him, I mean, your father can die and you can continue. So let him let him father himself.
Suddenly lay hands on Oman. You know, there are young pastors, young they are looking for signs.
They call him father, father, man of my father, my father, my mother, my in-companions, my London, my Ballander and that he excited, you know.
I told him to show me a video of that father who is looking for a father.
And when I saw the walking against me, this guy doesn't need a fire.
There's a way they walk.
You know, there's a way they walk. Some of you have not seen them. You got born again here and you are being raised here. So you don't know what is going out in the world.
There's a way they walk. And there's a way they behave.
Oh, my God, I'm going to get a head. Jimmy and we're Jimmy.
Which, you know, those those kind of things.
They talk anyhow. They, you know, you're talking about.
The person has not been raised from home.
Are you understanding that? The person has not been raised from home.
So their way of doing things, you know, their way of handling things somehow every day they are somehow.
You just you can pick some odd things about them.
You know, the way they walk, the way they talk, the way they preach.
The way they share testimonies, the testimony is one, but on the finish, this one is hundred.
They've not been fathered. It's good to be in a good church.
Hallelujah. So suddenly, lay hands on this instruction.
Because see, when a true son goes to mess up there, the father must be there.
Yeah. It's not that the father, the son will always be doing great things.
That's how a mess up. But if it's a son that you have raised, you have to do it in.
So you cannot because you don't know what this person that is meeting along the way is going to do.
You know what I'm talking about? Yeah.
So, I read I read from Prophet.
The chairman told him that he will not go anywhere.
Yes. My God. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Don't worry. Just do yourself.
You will go anywhere. Just leave them. You will go anywhere.
And that was that. The mother is destroyed.
So you have to use your face to go and destroy the things.
Are you understanding that? So suddenly lay hands on.
You can say this, suddenly put no man in ministry.
Suddenly. Now that's the wisdom of God.
You, you cannot be going out putting people in ministry.
Are you understanding that? Yes.
I know new creation. We are all one. The same spirit that went and try.
So I told you there's there are acts of ministry and there are ways of ministry.
There are two different things. Some people know acts.
They don't know ways. And in fact, maturity is seen in the ways, not in the act,
because the act can be done by anybody.
But the ways are developed through consistent training.
The ways are the ways come through consistent training, learning and practice.
See, consistent means over the years.
Hallelujah. Yeah. Very, very important.
Yeah. So it says suddenly don't put people into ministry.
Are you understanding that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You see the prophecies that I give about ministry, don't let it suddenly make you feel like you're a man of God.
See, in charismatic, we have problems with a man of God. Oh yeah.
Emoji, man of God. Oh, emoji, man of God. It is the first class.
Class one. Are you understanding that?
It has a lot of ramifications. Man of God. Oh yeah.
Relax. Relax with a shout. Praise the name of the Lord. Yeah.
Yes, we are called as ministers of God, right?
The man was able ministers of the New Testament.
Every one of us is able. Are we together? Come on, we all have the ability.
All right. So let's go. Their ability is trained, raised, directed, nurtured and cultured.
Hallelujah. Good. A gentleman went to the man of God one day and they cut that one too because the person was surely less.
It's good that you are chaste so I can tell you which one is to cut from it.
So he went to the man of God and then, you know, daddy is fond of, you know, you calling you, oh, pastor, so pastor, so.
Me, he's never called me a pastor. He called me Kwame. Yeah, I'm fine.
You know, aha, my boy, I'm Kwame. I'm okay. I don't have a problem.
And he said, oh, pastor, so pastor, so pastor. So this particular brother who is not comfortable because the pastor is also not being pasted.
So like I think like joke like joke, then he went to punch it. I mean, I doubt I'm a pastor. I'm not saying something. I'm doing something, you know.
He said, he said, although in your body, I mean, the marine feed.
I call them pastors in my church. I don't call them pastors outside. So we hear that you are pastors. You are not inside. I can't call you a pastor.
Wait, you understand what I'm talking about? Very important to tell us that to lay hands.
All right. There are areas in the laying on of hand that is reserved for pastors.
Then there are areas also that are reserved for senior pastors.
You are handling this branch. There's a particular laying on of hands you can't do.
You should not even try. Your hands will break.
Are you understanding that? Very important. One day I had a vision. We're going to have a program and I was lying on my bed. I was praying into it.
I was praying into a trance. I was in the meeting. I was ministering.
Then there was a particular situation. I think demonic whatever with sickness.
The person was sick and it was connected to something.
So I got to pray for the person. As I was praying, the prayer was not going.
And the person, I prayed, I was sweating. And I got confused. I didn't know what to do at that moment in the vision.
So somebody told me to step back. I just stepped back. I stood there like this.
And here and here. I saw that it came out of me.
Now I'm standing here and he's standing before me.
And then he charged the spirit out. When he finished, he just came back like this and entered into me.
Then my eyes got open.
Are you understanding that? Yes, sir.
What does that mean?
What does that mean? And that is not once. It is not once.
It is not once. It happened down there too.
There was a particular service we had.
That meeting, the Lord told me ahead of time to pray into this particular Sunday.
So there was a particular Sunday I saw circled on a calendar.
Alright. I was praying service, church, service, church. We are going to close right now.
I will lay hands on a lot of you and then we will close.
And then I saw a calendar and it dates. I think it was 18th or something.
But it was in the 10th, 10th, 10th or something. And it was circled.
So when I got out from the dream, it was a dream actually.
So I saw it was a Sunday. They understood that it was church.
So I was just praying about it and then the Lord said pray into that meeting.
Pray into that particular Sunday service.
So I started the prayer coupled with some little kind of fasting.
Then I had a trance.
And in the trance I saw a small church building.
The whole place was packed. A lot of people.
I couldn't even count them like that.
Then service was ongoing.
And I was preaching. I said I have been preaching.
My prayers. So I said, Hema, you know like who throw jan.
I said, Baal, you know. Who throw jan Hema?
You know.
Then I nod again.
He just came out like this. Then he waved a handkerchief over the crowd.
And the place was crowded.
People were everywhere. Littered everywhere.
Some crying. Some shouting. Some roaming.
When he just came out. That one he hugged me like this.
And I shook brothers and sisters on my bed.
That meeting.
That meeting I lay hands on Rashid here. Rashid said, God! God!
Like that.
I remember he's going very very very very well.
Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
So there are ways and there are acts.
There are levels in administering that ministry.
But what do I want us to stick to? Because I'm teaching the church.
Just stick to healing.
Hallelujah.
That you lay your hands on the sick. In fact, if you let this thing go today.
I don't know what I'm going to teach upon it again.
You need to start practicing it.
Hallelujah.
Practice it.
The next time we have a meeting and we are calling, oh there are sick people.
If I call. Wait. If I'm not called don't come.
If I call. Come and lay hands on the sick. Run.
See when that instruction is giving you. It shows. It shows readiness.
You are standing somewhere and they call you. Oh, so so so come.
Now which hand are you coming to lay?
You hear that your man of God is ministering to the sick.
And I say come. If you are here in the middle. Don't look for here.
Jump on the people and like slide.
It shows readiness. It shows. See the Bible says.
Covert. Endlessly desire.
Spirituality.
So if you are hungry for it. What are you going to do?
Come on. You understand what I'm talking about?
I don't know which program was that. I was ministering to the sick.
Then I asked. I think it was David. I asked. Are you watching?
All night. People have come.
I'm praying for the sick.
You are seated. What are you doing?
The people are chatting. You are chatting.
The people don't have a problem. They are not going anywhere.
You are going somewhere. Hallelujah.
So learn to lay hands from this message. Go and lay hands on the sick.
Don't go and be praying a lot. Hallelujah.
The person who is from my men says have not come. Six years now.
I don't even know what it looks like. Just lay. Put your hand there.
There at the abdomen.
Most often than not you see Jesus put his hand exactly where the problem is.
So it means that in mini sin healing you put your hand where the problem is.
Except the Lord instructs you otherwise.
If the person says I have a back pain don't go and touch the belly.
Put your hand there.
You understand?
If you are not sure where exactly then the person says at this place.
Then you put your hand there. You get it?
Sometimes you just shook your finger inside.
However, you understand?
And then you just, if the person cannot bend, just put your hand there for some minutes.
Alright?
And then say I command you, you know those things that we say.
Come out. Come out. You are no more there. Pain. I command you to die.
Just say something. Alright? Say something to the pain.
Then just let the person go and come.
And when the person...
You know, you ask the person how is it?
You say okay we are going again.
You know, whenever the person is going like this, you say, ah Jesus.
Jesus, is it okay? Let's try again.
You say, okay man.
You say, actually stay there. Don't let the person.
You say relax, relax. Go a little.
Sometimes you hear, I was praying for somebody and I heard, keh.
Are you understanding that?
Yeah, yeah.
I didn't know. Here, we know the play here.
Hallelujah.
That's how you pray for the sake.
So let your hand be useful. Say my hands are useful.
Come on, we are about to close. Let me see some fire.
Say my hands are useful.
My hands are useful.
Say I'll minister the healing anointing.
I don't have people in church. Say I'll minister the healing anointing.
Through my hands.
I'll lay hands on the saint.
Say I have divine verities.
Woo! Say I have divine verities.
Say I lay hands.
I lay hands.
That's power in my hands.
Glory to God.
Come on, open your mouth and pray in tongues.
The anointing amid fire burns.
My heart is captured to work.
I have in me the burning fire.
Oh, a shell of cravings.
I have in me the burning fire.