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right in. So today we're going to be looking
at what to do after Kazatismos. what to do after
a cathartismus, or what to do after a believer's
meeting or a conference. Because the city said
that he sensed that there is going to be more
prayers coming. Praise the Lord. So if you're
doubting if God is amidst us, there is your confirmation
that truly God is amidst us. praise the lord
because there's going to be more prayers more
prayers for those who were around more prayers
for those who were not around to get a glimpse
of what they have missed praise the lord and
for them to also be impacted so what to do after
a believers Conference. Acts chapter 2. Acts
chapter 2 verse 42. Acts chapter 2 verse 42.
fellowship, in breaking of bread and in prayers.
Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders
and signs were done through the apostles. Now
all who believed were together and had all things
in common, and sold their possessions and goods
and divided them among all, as anyone had need.
Verse 46 So continually daily with one accord
in the temple and breaking of bread from house
to house, they ate their food with gladness and
simplicity of heart, praising God and having
favor with all the people. And the Lord added
to the church daily those who were being saved.
Praise the Lord. What to do after Catholicism?
The first thing that we do after a believer's
conference, after... Such a time in the presence
of God is to continue in the doctrines that we
have been taught. Praise the Lord. To continue
in the doctrines that we have been taught. To
continue in the things that has been given to
us. Praise the Lord. The things that has been
taking time every day. for one hour, 40 minutes,
one hour, 40 minutes, two hours, all those teachings
to continue in them, to go back to them and to
look at them again and to ensure that they are
part of our lives. Praise the Lord. So is the
practice of what we see in the heart of the apostles,
that they continue in the apostles' doctrine.
They continue in it. Praise the Lord. It means
they were in it. They were there. Praise the
Lord. They were inside of it. They never stopped.
They steadfastly continued. They were devoted
to the apostoosh doctrines. They paid careful
attention to the things that they have been taught.
Praise the Lord. They cherish it. I remember
the last time we were looking at Matthew 28,
and we said that it's to keep as though what
you have is going to be lost. Praise the Lord.
To pay careful attention to the things that you
have been taught. They devoted themselves to
the apostate's doctrines. They continued in it.
Praise the Lord. So what did we say doctrine
was? For those who were around, what did we say
doctrine was? It was a specific teaching. Praise
the Lord. It's a specific teaching, right? To
speak in the way of teaching. To, to, to, to...
To give instruction. Praise the Lord. And we
said that doctrine is a good doctrine or the
doctrine is centered in Christ. Praise the Lord.
It is centered in Christ. So I want to find out
the people that can still remember the things
they have been given. Praise the Lord. So what
are the doctrines that you have been taught in
the Believer's Conference? Randomly, what are
the doctrines that you have been taught? Anybody?
You can raise your hand. What are the doctrines
that you have been taught? Yes. Laying of hands.
Okay. You see? Manifesting the kingdom. Okay.
Tongues are the instabilization, leading of the
Spirit. Praise the Lord. There have been doctrines
that you have been taught. There are things that
have been taken time to ensure that you learn.
Praise the Lord. So the Bible tells us to continue
in them. The things we do after the Believer's
Conference is to continue in the doctrines that
we have been taught. To pay careful attention
to them. To be committed to them. Praise the
Lord. to pay careful attention to them, to listen
to them again. We have these messages online.
We can go back and listen to it again until it
is a part of you. Praise the Lord. Until somebody
asks you, what is the doctrine of laying off
of hands? You will not say, let me go and get
my Bible. I mean, you can do that, but it is
something that you can explain and go further
in the scriptures to explain more. Praise the
Lord. Because it has become a part of you. That
is how you learn. That is what you do after a
believer's conference. Praise the Lord. As we
are praying and singing, we say that there is
a new level. Praise the Lord. There is a new
level. Revival has occurred in your life. Praise
the Lord. Revival has occurred in your life as
a result of this one week. So revival, we don't...
Well, maybe you're looking forward to a time
where people are praying and then somebody is
crying. Somebody is in a flow. You say truly
a revival have happened here. A true revival
is word centered. Praise the Lord. A true revival
is to show the believers the things they have
in God. Praise the Lord. And these teachings
that we have had and this one week that we have
had has shown us through the word the things
that the believers had. It is word -centered.
Praise the Lord. So a revival has happened in
your life. Praise the Lord. So you can put it
as a date. I remember I was joking with one of
the people in the secretariat team, and I said
to them that these tags that we're giving, I
want to keep it somewhere. And I'll put it like
a card. You know people that keep cards. Praise
the Lord. So that 10 years from now, you will
say, or I will say that I was there that day
when it happened, when revival happened, because
we were taught the word. Praise the Lord. And
how can I say, or how can I continue to say that
is until I continue in the doctrines that have
been taught, until those things become a part
of my life. Praise the Lord. If those things
do not benefit you or do not continue to benefit
you, then you cannot keep such things. Praise
the Lord. So we continue in the apostasy doctrines.
We continue in them. We listen to it again until
it has become a part of us. Why do we need to
continue in them? Why do we need to listen to
them again? 2 Timothy 3, verse 16. He said, all
scriptures, is given by inspiration of God and
is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness.
17. That the man of God may be complete or thoroughly
equipped for every good work. Praise the Lord.
It is good that you continue in this doctrine
because it will equip you. Praise the Lord. It
will thoroughly furnish you. It will thoroughly
equip you for good works. There is fruit in your
life. Praise the Lord. That we continue, it helps
us to understand the Scriptures. Praise the Lord.
We saw how the doctrines were taught. They were
not just taught from one place. They were taught
from the entirety of the Scriptures. It helps
you understand the Scripture, how to read it
properly, or how to understand it properly, how
to interpret it properly. The same 2 Timothy
chapter 4, verse 3 to 4. 3 to 4. He said, For
the time will come when they will not endure
sound doctrine, but according to their own desires,
because they have eating ears, they will heap
up for themselves teachers, and they will turn
their ears away from the truth and be torn aside
to feebles. Praise the Lord. That you know what
is sound. Praise the Lord. So when you continue
in the doctrines that you have been taught, you
will know that which is sound. Praise the Lord.
You will know that which is sound. You will know
that which is sound. You will see feebles and
say, oh, this is not it. Praise the Lord. One
of the things I'm grateful to God about the church
is that Even back in the day when we have not
started teaching the things that we're teaching,
one of the things that I know for sure is when
somebody is wrongly interpreting the scripture.
Praise the Lord. There's not a lot of knowledge
about Greek or Hebrew, but I know for sure when
you open the Bible and you're speaking rubbish
or you want to make it look the way you want
to make it look. Praise the Lord. Because I've
sat in a place and I've learned what it means
to Interprete the scriptures. Praise the Lord.
So when we continue in the doctrines, when we
continue in the teachings that we've been given,
we'll know that which is not sound. Praise the
Lord. Because there is soundness in you. It is
truth that can sell what a lie is. Praise the
Lord. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 14. He said that
you should no longer be children tossed through
and through and carried away by every wind of
doctrine, by the trickiness of men, in the cunning
craftiness of deceitful plotting. Praise the
Lord. That you will not be tossed through and
through. Praise the Lord. That nothing will just
come and you start going. Oh, they said this,
you started running with it. Praise the Lord.
By every wind of doctrine. knowing little of
everything but no depth in it. Praise the Lord.
So when we continue in the apostate's doctrine,
when we continue in the teachings that we've
been given, we'll not be tossed through and through
by every wind of doctrine. Praise the Lord. You
will have a filter system that which will allow
you to know what is true and what is not true.
Romans chapter 6 verse 17. that you will know
the things to avoid. Romans chapter 6, verse
17. He said, But God bethanks that though you
were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart
the doctrines which you were delivered. Verse
18. I think there's a mist of a scripture there.
That's not what I wanted to get. So you will
know that which is to avoid. Praise the Lord.
You will know the things to avoid. Let's go back
to the second Acts chapter 2. You will know the
things to avoid. Acts chapter 2. He said, they
continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine
and in fellowship. Praise the Lord. In fellowship.
They continued in fellowship. They continued
in fellowship. The things that we do after a
believer's meeting is that we continue in fellowship.
We don't say, I've received enough. Praise the
Lord. Let me take a break. It's not like your
work. Praise the Lord. It's not like your...
regular walk that you go to, that you need a
break from. Praise the Lord. Because at this
most one week of the believers conference is
not like your walk that after it, you need a
vacation. He said, no, I don't need fellowship
for now. I fellowship enough. Praise the Lord.
There are no such things as enough in the things
of God. Praise the Lord. There are no such things
as enough. You don't neglect the gathering of
believers. You come together. You don't say you
need a break. You don't say you need a break.
You need to go away. Hebrews chapter 10, verse
24. You see, And let us consider one another
in order to stay up love and good works, not
forsaking the assembly of ourselves together
as it is the manner of some, but exalting one
another so much the more as you see the day approaching.
Praise the Lord. He said, let us consider how
to stay one another in love. What happens when
we come together is that we stay one another
in love. Praise the Lord. We provoke love in
the inside of us. We provoke good works. Praise
the Lord. When you see your brother ministering,
when you see your brother speaking in tongues,
giving interpretation, you're stirred up. Praise
the Lord. You know you can do it. You are encouraged.
Praise the Lord. You are encouraged. So we stick
together. We fellowship with one another. We
don't go on break after. We don't go on spiritual
breaks. We don't say we don't need fellowship.
Again, we continue in the gathering, not forsaking
the assembly. There are miracles and signs and
wonders that can only happen as a result of fellowship.
Praise the Lord. There are prayers that can only
happen as a result of fellowship. Have you prayed
from nine to five? Some people have. Have you
prayed on your own in your room? Have you done
that? Praise the Lord. Have you done that? Because
there is a stirring. Praise the Lord. There is
a stirring in fellowship. There is a provocation
to do good things. To pray more. We saw some
people healed here as a result of gathering.
As a result of meeting together. They're spiritual
experiences that can only happen as a result
of fellowship, as a result of koinia, to be together.
And he says, I'm breaking of bread. They were
sharing of food. Praise the Lord. So don't stop
sharing of food. Praise the Lord. Don't continue.
Don't stop that as well. So when you have people
come over your house and then you're praying
and you're doing spiritual things, don't send
them away like that. We did not send you away
when we finished. Praise the Lord. In the middle,
there was food and you ate. Praise the Lord.
Even yesterday where there should not be food,
the secretariat pushed, I don't know what they
did, but they pushed that food should come out.
Praise the Lord. So continue. breaking of bread.
And he also said, continue in prayers. Colossians
chapter 4 verse 12 that we have been reading,
a prophet who is one of you. Praise the Lord.
He said, continue in prayers. Continue in organized
prayers. Continue in the prayers that we had.
Do not trophy in, oh, I've prayed nine to five
yesterday. Wow. That will take me for like one
month. And then after one month, I will come
back again. No. Continue in prayers. Forget about
the prayers that you prayed yesterday. That prayer
you prayed yesterday has given you strength to
do much more. Praise the Lord. It has given you
strength to pray much more. It has given you
strength to pray much more. Praise the Lord.
Don't trophy the things that are behind you.
Those spiritual experiences. Praise the Lord.
So one of the things, again, that we see in believers'
gathering, or one of the things that we do after
a believer's gathering, is that we continue in
the spiritual experiences that we've had. Praise
the Lord. In 1 Corinthians 14, Pastor Ima was
teaching from there, Pastor Kostin was teaching
from there. We continue in prayers. We continue
in praying in tongues. We continue in prophecy.
We continue to give edification to the church.
We continue to edify ourselves. Maybe some of
us for the first time, you found that God was
speaking through you. My God can speak through
me. Praise the Lord. So continue in it. It did
not happen. It should not be that it happened
because you were just here. It should continue
to happen. You found out something about your
identity. That God can speak through you. That
God can speak edification through you. That somebody
can be blessed because of your speaking. Praise
the Lord. Because of your laying of hands. Somebody
can be blessed because of the prophecy that you
gave. You can defy yourself by praying. You continue
in those things. Praise the Lord. We continue
in prayers. We continue in long prayers. That's
one of the things that you should have learned
is that some of the prayers that we prayed were
not focused on Necessarily the things you can
see. Praise the Lord. How you can pray long is
not about your need. You only pray for five minutes.
Praise the Lord. Your needs are not that big.
You cannot pray one hour for just your need.
Praise the Lord. So this kind of prayers you
pray is God kind of prayers. That you grow, that
you mature. He prays for you that you may stand
strong. That you may continue in faith. Praise
the Lord. That you continue in spiritual experiences.
That it becomes a part of you. It becomes part
of your growth. It becomes part of the things
that you do. Is he listening to us? Are you listening
to us? Okay. You continue in spiritual experience.
You continue to practice the things of the Spirit.
In John 10, verse 4, it says that my sheep, they
know my voice. They know my voice. You found
out that you know the voice of God. In the midst
of the chaos, in the midst of everybody shouting,
in the midst of everybody praying, you found
out you can hear. That this is what God is saying
in the inside of you and you say it to somebody
and you found that that is true. Praise the Lord.
You continue in those things. It should give
you the strength and the motivation to continue.
Oh, if I can hear when everybody is shouting,
what happens when I sit on my own? Praise the
Lord. If I can hear the voice of God when everybody
is shouting, what happens when I'm just sitting
by myself? I know His voice. I understand His
language. We continue in these things. You found
strength in weakness. You found out the comfort
of the Spirit. You found out that man is God's
method and plan on the earth. Praise the Lord.
You bring yourself to that alignment. You continue
in that light. You bring yourself to that alignment.
Oh, so this is God's plan. So I am God's plan
and method on the earth. God is not using angels.
He's not going to preach by angels. He's not
going to say angels go to that place. It is you
that he says you are his plan on the earth. You
are his method on the earth. You continue, you
key yourself to that goal of God. So you continue
in the apostate doctrines and the spiritual experiences
that you have gotten in this week. And I said,
this is the revival that has come to you. Praise
the Lord. My God can speak through me. Praise
the Lord. This is a revival that we have gotten
this week, that my God can speak through me.
I know the doctrines of God. I know the mind
of God. I know that God's method is me. Revival
has come to you. Praise the Lord. Revival has
come to you. There is a new dimension. I found
out a new dimension. We found out a new dimension.
That we are God's plan on the earth. Praise the
Lord. We are the one that carries His message.
We're the one that carries his message. So another
thing that we do after Catholicism is that we
stay in the church. The church is God's stability
for your life. Praise the Lord. We stay in the
church. Pastor Fred told us from Matthew 16,
he says that salvation is a person. That person
is a person of Christ. Praise the Lord. That
the church is God's assembly. Right? The church
is God's assembly. It is a kingdom of Christ.
He said it is upon the resurrection that the
church was formed. Praise the Lord. And this
is our identity, that we are the church. of God.
Praise the Lord. We are the church of God. We
are the church of God. So one of the things that
God has helped us or has given us is the local
church. Praise the Lord. This gathering, the
meetings that we have, the local church. It is
God's structure for our life. Praise the Lord.
It is God's structure for our spiritual growth.
If you notice from the epistle, you will discover
that it was written to churches. Praise the Lord.
It was not written to the body of Christ. It
was written to churches. To the church in Corinth.
Praise the Lord. To the people of Corinth. It
was written to churches. The church is God's
structure for us, for our spiritual growth, for
our life. So we must know how to function in
the local church. We must know how to behave
or we must know how to align in a local church.
I think we're going to continue this much more.
So if we know that God's... a plan for us is
the local church or his plan for spiritual growth
is the local church, then it therefore means
that we have to listen to the instructions and
the direction of the people that God has set
in charge of his church. Praise the Lord. We
have to listen to the direction and instruction
of the things that they are saying. If they are
saying that we're going to teach this. this topic
for the rest of the month. That's what we are
doing. So it means that that is God's plan for
your growth. God is saying that you're going
to grow by understanding the gospel in Genesis.
This is God's plan for this season. So you have
to key into it. Praise the Lord. You have to
key into these things. You have to key into the
things that they are saying. So we must also
note those who speak very bad things about the
church. Praise the Lord. The church is not perfect.
The local church, right? So we must also note
those who speak so many bad things about the
church. Because this is God's plan for your spiritual
growth. Praise the Lord. It is God's plan for
your spiritual growth. It is still God's plan.
It is what God intends or how God intends that
you grow. Praise the Lord. That's how we intend
that you grow. That's why we encourage you to
come to church. Because we know that in your
house, there is no structure. Praise the Lord.
You have no structure to organize a meeting by
yourself, for yourself, for three hours. Praise
the Lord. You cannot worship alone. You cannot
pray alone. Praise the Lord. You cannot grow
alone. You cannot preach to yourself alone. So
we encourage you to come to church because it
is God's plan for you. It is how God has made
it that you should grow. The gathering of believers.
Praise the Lord. The gathering of believers.
There must not be people who are divided by,
who have divided commitment. God has said, this
is my plan for you. This local church is my plan
for you. But you're everywhere online. You're
listening to that person. You're listening to
that person. You're listening to that person.
You're going to have confusion. Your life is
going to be confused. You're going to have questions
that you cannot answer. Praise the Lord. God's
plan for you is a local church. Praise the Lord.
God's plan for you is a local church. This is
his plan for your growth. Your growth, you cannot
grow at once. Praise the Lord. You cannot become
30 years old in one day. It has to take steps.
It has to take a lot of nutrition, a lot of taking
care of yourself, a lot of things, a lot of people
around you for you to grow. Praise the Lord.
So you cannot grow at once. So when God is saying
to you through your local church that your plan
for growth is the Bible in Genesis or the gospel
in Genesis, if you have plans or thinking about
the anointing, wait first. Praise the Lord. That's
why Pastor Vito always encourages us. He says
you should wait. We'll have that teaching. Praise
the Lord. But for now, the plan is for you to
learn the gospel in Genesis. When you finish
that one and it's a part of you, then we can
go to what the anointing is. Praise the Lord.
So this is how we continue in Catartismus. This
is how we continue in Catartismus. So I'm going
to stop now and we're going to pray. Praise the
Lord. We're going to pray. We're going to edify
one another. We're going to lay hands on one
another. We're going to do impartation for those
who are not here. Praise the Lord. Who are not
in the cataclysmos. Right? And we'll continue
as well on Wednesday. So we learned that the
doctrine from Hebrews chapter 6, the doctrine
of laying of hands. And we were taught that laying
of hands is spiritual. Praise the Lord. We were
taught that laying of hands is spiritual. It
is not a physical thing. When Joseph was laying
hands, he was touching people every day. Praise
the Lord. He was, I'm sure he was touching people's
head every day because he's elderly. And part
of the things, some cultures, you need to bend
down and they probably need to touch your head
or touch your shoulders. Praise the Lord. In
those touching, he was not impacting anything
to them. Praise the Lord. But when he decided
that he wanted to impact something, he impacted
something to them. Praise the Lord. The laying
of hands is spiritual. It is not just physical.
It's how we exercise our dominion. These are
the things that we learned. Praise the Lord.
It's how we cause things to happen. Praise the
Lord. It's how the Holy Ghost is administered.
So let's just rise on our feet and just begin
to pray. Just begin to pray. We also learned
in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 that talks about
speaking in tongues. That he that speaks in tongues,
edifies himself. He that speaks in tongues and
interprets edifies the church. He that prophesies
edifies the church. Praise the Lord. So we want
to speak in tongues now and we want to edify
ourselves. We want to edify the church and we
want to lay hands. Praise the Lord. So let's
just begin to pray. Let's just begin to pray.
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