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right in. that as the teaching of God's word
is going, you can receive healing? Do you know
that as the teaching of God's word is going,
you can receive a word for someone and the person
will receive because of you? Do you know that
there can be walkings of miracles as the teaching
of God's word is going? So when you come to church,
and the word of God is being taught, expect miracles.
When you come to church and the scripture is
being explained, expect healing. So it's not
until when we call you out, there is a time for
that and there's a season for that and we will
do that. But when the word of God is being taught,
regularly expect healing. Expect healing. Because
the scripture says it is the power of God. Scripture
is the power of God. So as we teach in this church
regularly, when pastors are teaching, do pay
attention that you can receive healing. You can
receive miraculous working in your life. Your
faith is set up for someone to receive as pastors
are teaching. So this morning, We'll be teaching
on the power gifts, right? The power gifts, which
we started from catatismus. And we said we'll
continue to build on it as we come to church.
We'll continue to build on it as we come to church.
You see, when you come to a church like this,
right, you need to be... You need to pay attention
to everything that is taking place, right? You
need to pay attention. When I mean paying attention,
whether you're in the cell meeting, whether you're
in church, whether you're in training center,
whatever you are, you need to, you know why?
Because what we are teaching, right, are lines,
are layers upon each other that helps you to
grow. That is why I insisted that the entire
chapter of 1 Corinthians 12 be read. Right? Who
knows why? Who can explain why? Why I insisted
after explaining that everything is connected.
Because what we reviewed in cell meeting, some
of those scriptures are from here. Right? Some
of us didn't read the book and we didn't do the
review. You see, to grow, you need wholesome
teaching. Wholesome teaching comes from every
meeting that the church puts in place. So in
the cell meeting, you see that we touch on ministry
gifts there, which I believe pastors will come
and teach much more about it, right? And that
is in the same chapter, right? We have that in
the same chapter, in chapter 12. So it means
that while you are learning the gift of the Spirit,
the ministry gifts are also being taught. We
read it in the book and it's being taught in
Selmite and will be taught. So by the time you
are done, you are ready for ministry. To minister
the gift of the Spirit and to understand these
offices and the ministry gifts. Do we get it?
So by that you would understand and grow. Hallelujah.
So let's be paying attention to whatever is being
done. 1 Corinthians 12, verse 1 to 31 is already
read. It's already explained, read actually.
So 1 Corinthians 12, verse 1 to 31. Now a quick
revision, right? We're going to quickly do a
quick recap of what we did in Karatismos because
some of us were not here for that meeting. And
we talked about that the spiritual gifts, What
we call the spiritual gifts, they are divided
into their operations. Their operations of the
spiritual gifts are divided into how many? The
operations of the gifts of the spirits is divided
into how many? How many? Three. Okay, what is
the first one? What is the first one? The second
one, you can chorus it. The second one, revelation,
right? Ultron's revelation. And what's the last
one? The power gifts, right? The power gifts.
The power gifts. And we can see that in verse,
we can see that from verse 9. So 1 Corinthians
12, verse 9. He said, to another, faith by the
same Spirit. To another, the gift of healing
by the same Spirit. Verse 10. To another, the
workings of miracles. Right? The workings of
miracles. So these, these three are the power
gifts. So if you're in that meeting, you should
write it down. That the power gifts are... In
1 Corinthians 12, verse 9 to 10. To another faith
by the same Spirit, to another gift of healing
by the same Spirit, to another the workings of
miracles. So these are the three things that
we want to consider today. Of course, we know
diuresis, right? Diuresis is diversity. Means
that there are diversities of operations. So
why do we have these three? Where did we come
from to arrive at Ultron's revelation and power
gifts? Go to that same scripture, verse six.
Verse six. It says, and there are diversities
of what? Operations. But it is the same God.
Who worketh in all. Diversities of what? Operations.
So it means that the things of the spirit, they
are ways by which they operate. It means working
out. Right? The word diversity is diuresis. And
the word operation is energema. I think we talked
about that. Energema. E -N -E -R. G -E -M -A.
Diuresis and edema, which is diversity of operation.
E -N -E -R -G -E -M -A. It's it from this word,
operation. Another word you can use for it is
workings. Workings. You can put it active working.
Actively working. Actively working. So it therefore
means that energy, ma 'am, right, will refer
to actions. Actions that take place for us to
know what is at work. So there are actions that
takes place. There are actions that takes place.
And it is from this word that we have these three
explanations, that we see that there's utterance
gifts, there's revelation gifts, and there's
power gifts. So it is from this word, operations,
that we have these three explanations. And but
Scott Steen has taught us, taken us through utterance
in Karatismos. Now, what are power gifts? Write
down. What are power gifts? What are power gifts?
You can write this down. God, through His Spirit.
God, through His Spirit. In us. God, through
His Spirit in us. Can intervene. God, through
His Spirit in us. He can intervene in the physical
affairs of men. God's true spirit in us, the
believer. That tells you that person is a believer.
It tells you that person has the spirit of Christ.
Can intervene in the physical affairs of men.
That takes place on earth. The physical affairs
of men that takes place on earth. So, while we
can give revelation and we can tell you God's
direction for your life, right? You might say,
oh, this one, Pastor knew it by the Spirit and
he has informed me and I grew. While we can pray
in tongues, right? And we can give interpretation
and we can give prophecy. And in your life, You
are working out that prophecy that you have received
according to the instructions of God. Right?
So you're working that out. As you have received
the prophecy, you are working in the prophecy
that has been said regarding you. Revelation,
you received the word of reason, word of knowledge.
There are gifts that is physically seen on the
spot. And that is power gifts. So, we can say
that it means that natural principle will give
way. to the divine power of God. Natural principles,
it will clear a way for the divine power of God
to have its course. Natural principles will give
way for the divine power of God to have its course.
Natural principles will give way for the divine
power of God to have its course. This is power
gift. This is how power gift function. So it
does not function in a way that you have to wait.
You see it on the spot. When someone has faith
for another person to receive, which we are going
to teach, the person receives. When they lay
hands on you, healing takes place. Because the
scripture established that these are the things
that are found in the spirit. There's the miraculous.
There's the miraculous. Genesis 18, verse 1 to
8. Genesis 18, verse 1 to 8. Let's see. We say
the natural will give way for the supernatural,
for the divine power of God to have its full
course. This is power. I'll read from verse 1.
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains
of memory, and sat in the tent in the heat of
the day, and lifted up his eyes and looked, and
lo, three men stood by him. When he saw them,
he ran to meet them from the tent of the door
and bowed down towards the ground, and said,
My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight,
pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant.
Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and
wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the
tree. And I will fetch a mussel of bread, and
comfort ye your hearts, after that ye shall pass
on. For therefore ye are come to your servant.
And they said, So do as thou hast said. And Abraham
hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said,
Make ready quickly three measures of a fine meal,
knead it, and make cakes. upon the earth. And
Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf
tender, and good, and gave it unto a young man.
And he hasted to dress it. And he took butter
and milk, and the calf which he had dressed,
and set it before them. And he stood by them
under the tree, and they did eat. And they said
unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said,
Behold in the tent. And he said, I will certainly
return unto thee. According to the time of life,
and know, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And
Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind
him. And Abraham and Sarah were, Now Abraham
and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age.
And it ceased to be, With Sarah, after the manner
of women, therefore Sarah laughed within herself,
saying, After I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure,
my Lord being also old? And the Lord said unto
Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall
I of a short bear a child, which am old? Is anything
too hard for the Lord? At that time, At the time
appointed, I will return unto thee according
to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
Sarah shall what? Shall have a son. Now, what
is taking place here is that Abraham and Sarah,
their family, they had a divine visitation. So
this is a divine visitation, right? If you see
from the beginning, it said the Lord appeared
to them, right? And in the appearance, we saw
three men, right? We saw three men. And what
was the news they brought through? They brought
a news, right? They gave an instruction. So we
can see that in the course of fellowshipping
with these three men, right? With these three
divine, we will call them divine visitors, right?
In the course of fellowshipping with them, you
see, while they ate, Abraham was there. They
ministered something to him. And what they ministered,
is what we see in the New Testament as the power
gifts. Why do we see it as expression of the
power gifts by the divine power of God? Because
in verse 9, right? I think verse 11 says it more
better. It said, Now Abraham and Sarah were old
and well -strengthened in age, and it ceased
to be with Sarah after the manner of what? It
means that she has reached a stage, by natural
circumstances, she is not supposed to have a
child. So by the time and season of life and
age, Sarah had bypassed, she had passed the stage
of anything natural taking place. So it would
therefore mean that the birth of Isaac was divine
too. Do we get it? It means that the natural
state of Sarah was bypassed to bring forth Isaac.
Are you with me? That is the expression of the
power gift of God because the natural was suspended
for the supernatural to have its course. Hallelujah.
So, When we talk about power gifts, you should
be expecting something in your life, right? Let's
say you're sick, that it will be suspended. The
natural situation and circumstance will be suspended
for the supernatural to take place. So if you're
expecting healing, expect that that disease will
disappear. That is what it means. So when you're
expecting divine healing and the power of God
to function is that it will disappear. You will
not see it again. So I'm building expectations
for you. I'm helping you to build expectations
so that when we call you out to come and receive,
you are expecting that as pastor lay hands on
me, this thing will disappear. That as pastor
touch my head, this headache will go for life.
You see, we have to build this expectation. Very
well in you. So that when you come to receive,
you can receive well. You can receive well. Look
at Sarah's reaction. She laughed. Will this thing
be? Will this thing be? Now let me show you something
as well. You can go and take time to read the
scriptures. And you can see it. I saw a pattern,
what I can call a pattern, not necessarily a
motif, but just one time I see it and I'm sharing
it, is that the same way the natural, right,
was suspended, of course, Abraham's heart was
still going on to her again and then she gave
birth, right? But it therefore means that by
the time, it wasn't like Mary's case. Right?
It's a fact that, okay, she stopped having the
possibility of having a child because of age,
but while Abraham still went on to her, she had
a child. Do we get it? So that's the natural
suspended than the supernatural harvest place.
Right? It's similar to the case of Mary. Right?
That one too, the natural was suspended for divine
to harvest place. That is the power of God that
came upon her, the spirit of God in upon her.
So this is the power gift. These things happen
in life. So build your expectations. If there
are things that you have used drugs, you have
used medicine, you have seen the doctor, you
have tried, and it's still there. Build the expectation
that when we call you out and lay hands on you,
it will disappear. Hallelujah. Are we together?
So the pattern I saw is that I observed there
is the same pattern that happened, right? While
Isaac painted the picture of Christ who is to
come, in the case of Christ himself, right? Through
the divine power of God, something happened.
Now write this down. This is different from decoy
or what some people call providence. This is
different from decoy. This divine power of God
working, power gift is different from decoy.
Some of you that are in training center, you
know what they call decoy. You know what we call
the providence. Decoy is when God uses the mistakes
of men and navigates, yet he brought forth his
plan. So decoy is when God uses the mistake of
men. While men are making mistakes, yet somebody
is believing and carrying on the message. Are
you getting it? So you can check across the scriptures.
You will see that while God is communicating
his message and men are planning to toil and
destroy that plan, someone was believing and
passing the message. Another one will believe.
In a generation, Caleb and Joshua. Right? So
that is decoy. God, despite your unbelief, right?
God will walk, you know, God will walk throughout.
That's decoy. And that takes time, right? Because
it has to walk through. how men are functioning
and all of that. Power give works instantly.
This is what we've seen. It works instantly.
It works on that physical issue. You see it take
place. You can write, it is the interruption
of the natural. It is the interruption of the
natural. It is the interruption of the natural.
Exodus 14. So we've seen, we can say that the
divine itself allowed this power to function.
Right? As we see in the case of Abraham, God
himself put it in place. God himself suspended
that which is natural in a man's life and family
and brought forth a supernatural plan. So let's
see Moses. You know, like I already said, you
have to pay attention to a lot of teachings from
Moses as you're teaching. Or as you are learning.
Exodus 14, 16. Just write the scriptures down.
Exodus 14, verse 16. Exodus 14, verse 16. Verse
21 to 22. Verse 21 to 22. Exodus 16 verse 13
to 15. Exodus 17 verse 5 to 7. Exodus 17 verse
5 to 7. Now, Exodus 14, 16 says, But lift thou
up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the
sea, and divide it, and the children of Israel
shall go on dry ground through the mists of the
sea. Right? Now, this is not fiction. This is
not movie. Okay, this is not CGI. Okay, this
is the power of God at work. So something that
had never happened before took place there that
the sea would part and form walls. Now, I think
it says the sea formed walls around them and
they passed on dry land. That is the power of
God. That is the miraculous power of God functioning
for the deliverance of people. 21 verse, verse
21 to 22. And Moses stretched out his hand over
the sea and the Lord caused the sea to go back
by a strong east wind. All that night amid the
sea dry land and the waters were divided. And
the children of God went into the midst of the
sea upon the dry ground and the waters were a
wall unto them. on their right and on their left.
This is the divine power of God that is still
at work today. It's still at work today. Right?
We see the physical being suspended for the natural.
Exodus 16, 13 to 15. We'll run a little bit.
Exodus 15, 13 to 15. Exodus 16, 13 to 15. As
you just pray, you know, just be praying in your
hearts. Pertaining circumstances that you thought
have been difficult, that God, that these circumstances,
this natural, will give way to the supernatural.
As you are reading those scriptures, be praying
in your hearts that these natural circumstances
that has been abiding, that by the power of God,
it will give way to the miraculous power of God.
Now look at this one, another one which is quite
historical, 16 verse 13 to 15. And it came to
pass that at the evening, quails came up and
covered the camp. And in the morning, the dune
laid round about the host. And when the dune
that lay was gone, was gone, behold, upon the
face of the wilderness, there lay a small round
thing, as small as a whole frost. It means that
they saw something they had never seen before.
Something that they had never ate before. Something
they had never experienced before. They didn't
have a name for it. They said this has to be
manna. Then Moses gave them maybe an explanation
to that word. He said, this is the bread from
heaven, the bread of God that God has provided
for you to eat. So we see divine provision, right?
Power gift can make divine provision available.
Power gift can what? Can make divine provision.
Some of you, we have believed for you. and something
has happened in your life. You see, there's a
way this teaching will get to. I'll be calling
some of you to come and share your testimony.
You know why? Because sharing increases the faith
of other recipients. When you share, it increases
the faith of other recipients that have been
saying, is this thing real? So they will see
it in your life. They will see how it happened
and they will be ready to receive. So there will
be a time we have to share. You know, we've not
really given more time to testimony, but we have
to share because in Karates, a lot of people
receive. A brother was sharing with me on Friday
and, you know, some of you have shared with me
how divinely the power gift of God. When we tell
you that you should call your parents back home,
we are not saying it because it's not a way to
end the service. It's not a way to end the service.
It's a way to tell you that call them because
we expect it will happen. We expect that it will
happen. So sharing raises the faith of the recipients.
And as well, it increases the faith, right? Of
we that administers it. Of you that administers
it. Do we get it? So when you lay hands on someone
and the person got healed, right? Don't pray
for someone and the person... You just forget
about it. No. Right? Ask. You know, some of you
are scared. What if I ask? The person says he's
not. You deny it. Ask. Ask the person. When you
pray for someone to receive him, call the person.
Have you been healed? How is it? Ask the person.
The manifestation, the demonstration comes. See,
even if you ask, let me tell you, I'll share
my experience with you. I pray for someone, right?
And I just met a person in the hospital in Astana
here. And I prayed for the person. And after
some time, I just feel it. After some time, I
prayed for the person and I went to meet the
guy. And the guy is not a believer, right? He's
not a believer. And the brother told me his mom
was having cancer. So he brought her down from
their country to be treated. And I just, in Astana,
I just blocked him and just prayed for him. And
after some time, I called him. And he just, how
is your mom? He now told me that she passed.
Right? He said, she passed. Now, I begin to,
because then, that was quite a time. I begin
to, there's power gifts. I begin to stop. Within
my spirit, immediate, you will not stop. He said,
you continue. He said, you continue. Right? You
continue. Say, you don't understand what happened
in this context. But that does not stop your...
It's God that is at work, right? Through you,
right? Your responsibility is to keep laying
hands. Your responsibility is to keep praying.
Your responsibility is to keep functioning in
that ministration of the gift of the Spirit.
Right? You will see the healing. Daddy, I sat
down. I took time. I started thinking. Say no,
say no. He said, you don't understand the entire
context of what happened. You just met the guy.
You just administered to him. Right? So you don't
understand. So just keep doing it. So I never
got myself discouraged. After that time, if I
see anybody again, I'll still pray for the person.
Right? So don't be discouraged. Don't be discouraged.
Don't be discouraged. Have I seen the one that
we have prayed for and the person got healed?
Yes. Many. We pray for your praying, they get
healed. We pray for this person, they get healed.
So the power gift is your duty there is to keep
administering it. Do we get it? Your duty is
to keep desiring that the supernatural will continue
to prevail in natural circumstances around you.
That's your duty. And that is what we are calling
you to do. So as someone who administer this
as a believer, you must keep expecting that surrounding
me, Now, there's a point I wrote here, which
of course I'll still read. I wrote here, I said,
you do need to have some special formulas. The
reason why you always want to think that you
have to go back to pray, you have to do some
72 Psalms, you have to first go and check your
life, you have to first, you know, sanctify yourself
and do three days of fasting is because it has
not become a regular practice in your life. So
if I had stopped, right? I'll stop. It means
that probably the next day I'll try it. I'll
be doubting it. So if I stop the moment that
person says, ah, since I prayed, I will start
doubting. That was doubt set in at that moment.
But when I continue to practice, there is no
doubt. There is no doubt. So you don't need some
special formula to work it out. Right? Moses
did not say, guys, wait. Let me go and pray and
fast for seven days. Or let me go and do this.
He administers the power gift, the miraculous
on the spot. He administers it there. As the
instructions come, he administers. So power gifts
are not something that you go and come and say,
let me go first. It's doubt that it's working
though. When you see the circumstance in the
natural, you do what? You lay hands. You heal.
Hallelujah. 1 Kings. 1 Kings 17. Which I think
I touched a little bit upon in Karatismos. 1
Kings 17. You will see something in Elijah's
life. 1 Kings 17. Verse 7. Now, just go to verse
11. Just go to verse 11. It's 1 Kings 17, verse
7 to 16. Actually, 1 Kings 17, verse 7 to 16.
Write that down. Then we can start from verse
11. I know God will heal somebody here. I believe
strongly that he will heal someone here. Some
of you have circumstances that you have held
on to and you have doubted. But the power of
God will begin to work that circumstance out.
Verse 11 says, And as she was going to fetch
it, he called to her and said, Bring me, I pray
thee, a mussel of bread. So they are in a dying
circumstance. Israel was in a dying circumstance
facing the Red Sea. Right? They are in a dying
circumstance because there's no more provisions.
But look at what Elijah said. He said, And Elijah
said unto her, Fear not, go and do as thou hast
said, but make me thereof a little from it, a
little kid first, and bring it unto me, and after
make for thee and for thy son. Look at the next
statement. He said, For thus saith the Lord God
of Israel. The priority of me shall not waste,
neither shall the cruise of oil fail, until the
day the Lord send rain upon the earth. Where
did Elijah get this one from? Go to verse 8 and
verse 9. He says, And the word of the Lord came
unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarephath,
which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there. I
have commanded who? A widow woman there to sustain
thee. So it means that God was communicating
something to him that there's abundance somewhere.
Somewhere I've made an abundance. God is communicating
that I have made what? Abundance somewhere. Did
the woman know that? No. But the man of God knew
it. Right? So when the woman came and when Elijah
came and the woman was saying, This is what's
in the natural. This is what is available. Did
you get it? She said, in the natural, this is
what is available. And in the natural, we are
about to die. But the man of God had a divine
word. Hallelujah. See, I have a divine word.
I have a divine word that I can work in the supernatural.
I have a divine word that I can work in the power
gifts. I have a divine word that I can heal the
sick. I have a divine word that miracles can
happen through me. Hallelujah. The man of God
had a divine word. So what did he do? He said
that divine word. He said, Ask. He said unto
her, For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The
barrier will not waste, neither shall the cross
all fail until the day. That was the divine word.
That there is abundance somewhere, though she
cannot see in the natural. He brought it to pass.
Say, I bring things to pass in the supernatural.
Things in the natural are giving way for the
supernatural through me. So what did we see there?
We see that Elijah received a word from the Lord.
That's the first thing. He received a word from
the Lord. That is why he said you have a divine
word. That the things of the Spirit functions
through you. You have a divine word. That the
things of the Spirit does what function. Elijah
had what? He received a word from the Lord. Verse
8 and 9. He received a word. That there's somewhere
the supernatural is already taking place. You
just need to go there and bring it to the physical.
That was what he did. Right? He said, there's
some who have made abundance provision. She can't
see it. But you as a man of God, when you get
there, bring it to pass in the natural. That
is what we do when we walk in the power gifts.
In so many circumstances that are surrounding
you, they are already solved. You don't know.
They are already solved. Oh. What you need to
do is to bring it to pass in the natural. Let
us see it. Let there be a display of the healing.
Let there be a display of the abundance provision.
Let there be a display of the miraculous. Things
around you are already responding. It is you
that will make it visible. So Elijah received
a word from the Lord God, verse 8 and 9. The
second thing is that it is a word that there
is abundance. It is a word that there is abundance.
For you is the world that the supernatural walks
through you. It is the world that the supernatural
walks through you. If I may say, the world is
the world of abundance. There's abundance, supernatural.
Pay attention to circumstances around you. There
are many of us that healing passes through you
and you let it go. Like some healing should have
been administered by you. You just allow the
person to walk away. Thank you, Jesus. Pay attention.
When people come around, pay attention. There
are some things that you should be ministering
to people, but you are letting them go. Those
things are supposed to build your faith as you're
ministering them. You're letting them go. Do
we observe that Elijah did not go back to meet
God and say, let me go and meet God first. If
that word is still sure. You know, some of us,
when you are praying, when you say, let the person
be healed, let the person be healed. You say,
let me go and fast. You are going back to ask
God, God, is the things of the Spirit still in
me? Can we walk in it? Some of us, some people
will not even make it worse. Will you give it
to this person? What is will you give it to this
person? That is what you do when you say, I want
to go back three days, seven days of prayers,
take oil, water, mix it together, shake it. Pour
it on your head or you come and pour it. You're
wasting time. Somebody who knows the power has
released the person. Before you came back, the
person has received healing because you are planning
formulas. It doesn't work that way. So you don't
go back to ask God. You don't go back to ask
God and say, God, is he available? No. You administer
it because it's a sure word. It's certain that
it's active, ever present, ever working. In you.
Is active. Ever working. In you. Now there's
one thing about this gift as well. There's one
thing about this gift. I think. Pascosti hinted
us on it. That these gifts. Work together. They
work together. Right. The power gift. The revelation
gift. The. The. Ultron's gift. They work together.
you will see that actually there was a pronouncement.
There was an utterance. Do we get it? There was
an utterance. So what we see there is that Elijah
said an utterance. He said, as long as God liveth,
right? Thus saith the Lord, this oil will not
fail. This abundance, it remains until the day
rain that will bring the natural one. Right?
would come to pass. So he said, this supernatural
will continue until the time that everybody wants
the natural things will join it. So there was
outrance. So power gift also comes with what?
Power gift comes with what? Outrance. That's
when we are healing the sick. We are calling
the name of the disease, calling the place that
is feeling the pain and we are saying something.
Thus said, The Lord. It works with all trans.
We are saying something to that disease. We are
saying something to that circumstance that it
will cease. So the power gives us to work with
all trans here. You can add the scripture Acts
chapter 3 verse 6 to 7. Acts chapter 3 verse
6 to 7. Some of the scriptures, we'll come back
to them again. but to see. You will see that
even Peter spoke something. He said something,
right? So you will not just do, touch the person
and walk away. That's faithlessness. Like you
are not sure of what you are doing. See, touch
the person. That's not how to administer healing.
See, that's not how to do it. There's an oppression
as with these functions. So, when you are administering
these things, right, you are saying something.
Someone called you, right? Someone called you,
said, ah, they are going to chase me out of my
house so I don't have rent and all of that. You
can, the gift of faith functions in a way that
you just, don't worry. God is making a provision.
Right away, God is making a provision. The person
who dropped the call called you back. He said,
Provision has been made. Provision has been what?
Has been made. I have been preserved in that
house. This is how it functions. Because you
said it. So if you didn't say it, you say it
in your mind. Where is the person's faith built
up? Where is the edification in the things of
the spirit? The things of the spirit must what?
Edify. The gift of the spirit edifies, isn't
it? It edifies. So the person who is receiving
is edified. Then the person has expectation to
see, right? Some of us, one of the things that's
used to do, let me just share with us, is for
people who are still growing. Just an example.
So you receive a word for someone, right? Receive
a word for someone. You did not share it, right?
You have seen by revelation that God is going
to work certain things out through that brother.
You did not share it. You doubted it. Someone
else now shared it, right? Because you refused
to alter it and bring it to pass in the natural.
Ah, me too, I saw it. Ah, I was about to tell...
You did not edify the person. The person will
just be looking at what are you talking about.
You never gave me an entrance that edified me.
Right? But you know that that thing was true.
You saw it. True, right? You knew it within your
spirit. You now became the confirmer. Instead
of you to be the one who is administering it
and others will confirm it. Right? So you must
utter, you must say something. Right? You must
say something. Acts chapter 3, verse 6 to 7.
Then Peter said, silver and gold. Right? Is that
natural? Is silver and gold natural? Okay. Silver
and gold, maybe the guy needs money for some
operation, right? Maybe the guy needs some funding,
you know, to do some surgery, right? The person
has been scheduled to go into the theater for
a number of days. But silver and gold, you can
say you have none, but see what you can give,
just like Peter gave. He said, silver and gold
have I none. But as such that I have, which is
supernatural, as such that I have, give ID. In
the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, do what?
Rise up and what? And walk. So you say what you
want to see when it comes to the power give,
right? This is what I want to see. I want to
see healing. You are healed. There is no more
pain. There is no more helmet. You say it. As
much as I have, I give, healing, you receive.
There is no more lack in you. You will go to
those offices and they will respond. They don't
even know how they are responding to you. It's
the miraculous power of God at work. He said,
as much as I have, as such that I have, I give
it in the name of Jesus Christ. Rise up and do
what? And walk. Now. Look at what Peter now added
to it. What did he do? He took him by the right
hand. And what? And lifted him. These are things
that happen through the power gift. He said something
and aided the man up. So all trans. is important
in administering the power gift. We're going
to explain the three of them one by one, but
you must know that this utterance is important.
It's not something that is done unconsciously.
It's not something that is done in passing. It's
not something that is done, you know, haphazardly.
That is why when you come, we want to administer
to you, we ask you questions, right? We ask you
questions. What is the circumstance? We will
not just say, oh Lord, is healed in general.
No. What is happening? Tell us. And when you
say it, that thing is addressed directly. Hands
can be laid on legs, laid on shoulders, laid
on head. So we see all trends in this. Now, since
we've seen divine provision, let's see again
something. So we say faith for divine provision,
right? In Elijah's case, faith for divine provision.
Now, if you move further to verse 17 and 24.
1 Kings 17, right? Verse 17 to 24. Something
else again happened in the woman's life. You
know? She just seems to have too much coming
around. She just seems to keep having these reoccurring
issues and something. And imagine someone that
has administered supernatural, she almost wanted
to say he's not a man of God. Let me take you
to the verse. Now, go to verse 24. It said, And
the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know
that thou art a man of God, and the word of God
in thy mouth is truth. You ate manna, because
I can liken what she ate to manna. Can we liken
that? Yes. That's divine provision. What was
taking place in the house, we can liken it to
manna. You did not believe. So, when another
problem now came, right? They now solved that
one. Maybe she's doing at the mouth of one or
two or three witnesses. Maybe that's what she's
trying to do. But do you observe that consistently
Elijah continued to minister? You must be consistent
in these power gifts. Let it be your regular
place. Be consistent. The more you do it, the
more it functions. The more you see it, the more
you get used to it, the more it becomes your
natural. It becomes your natural. You must become
regularly. Someone asks you for this, you pray
for the person. The person calls you again, there's
circumstances. Pray for the person. Minister
the gift. And it came to pass after these things
that the son of the mistress of the house was
sick and his sickness was so sore that there
was no breath in him. And she said to Elijah,
what have I done to you, O man of God? And thou
come to me to call my sins. You know, this is
the ideology then, right? To call my sins to
remembrance and to slay my son. Now, if you go
to verse 22. He said, the Lord heard the voice
of Elijah and the soul of the child came back.
He said, 21. He said, and he stretched himself
upon the child three times and cried unto the
Lord and said, O Lord God, O Lord my God, I pray
thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
So he entered the supernatural and said, bring
this child back to life. Power gives divine provision.
What do we see here? Power gives what? Healing.
Or the miraculous, right? Because the child was
dead, right? But he said it's as good as there
was no life in the child, right? So we see that
within a man's life. Now, this is what makes
much attention goes to this kind of people in
the scriptures because of the power gifts. But
every believer can do what? Can work in the power
gifts. Can you begin to pray in the Holy Ghost?
We'll stop here. Can you just begin to pray?
I just want you to pray in tongues. Circumstances
in your life in the natural that you want the
supernatural to take place, can you begin to
pray in tongues and put them into order? Can
you pray in tongues? Circumstances in your life
that have delayed for long. Circumstances in
your life that have dragged for long. Circumstances
in your life. Can you pray? We appreciate you
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