What comes next after the Believers Conference? (Part 1)

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right in. I'll just briefly introduce what we're

going to be going on for to Wednesday. Please

just continue with that sound. Please I want

you to posture your heart to receive. I very

much sensed and I'm sensing very strongly the

things that's going to be happening in this meeting.

You are just enjoying what we have been enjoying

all week. And I know, I know, I know it like

I know my name. That there are people that showed

up in this service with one thing or the other

especially especially for those that believe

in God for healing for themselves and healing

for family members I want you if not for anything

but for the sake of that loved one that needs

to experience what God has in store for them

please don't let them miss out on this please

don't let them miss out on this Micah 4 1 to

5 Micah 4 1 to 5 Micah 4 1 to 5 if you're writing

the topic is what comes next after the believers

conference What comes next after the believers

conference and our focus for today will be why

we gather We're gonna be pointing out the important

things and this is for this part This part and

then subsequently on the Wednesday service will

build up on it build up much more So I don't

have much time. We'll just establish ground We're

going to be praying for people. We're going to

spend more time doing this service. Please give

me King James. He says, now it shall come to

pass. I want someone to say, now is that time.

Now it has come to pass. In the latter days,

in these days, that the mountain of the Lord

that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be

established. The mountain of the Lord's house

is established on the top of the mountains. It

says, and shall be exalted, and is exalted above

the hills. It said, and people shall flow to

it. Say, people are flowing to it. People are

flowing to it. Many nations are coming to it.

say many nations shall come and say Come and

let us go up to the mountain of the Lord says

to the house of the God of Jacob He will teach

us his ways Emphasis teach us his ways and we

shall walk in his parts see for out of Zion the

law shall go forth out of Zion the law shall

go forth and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem

and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall

judge between many peoples and rebuke strong

nations afar off. They shall beat their swords

into plowshares and their stares into pruning

hooks. Nations shall not lift up swords against

nations. Neither shall they lend more anymore.

Four, it says, but every one shall sit upon his

vine and under his fig tree and no one shall

take them no one shall make them afraid they

say for the mountain of the lord of hosts for

the mount of the lord of hosts has spoken five

and the last say for all people walk each you

say for all people walk each in the name of his

gods see but we shall walk in the name of the

lord our god forever and ever i want us to pay

attention to this this part you see for all people

that like the way the the nlt words that part

of the verse the verse five it says he says that

five though the nations around us follow their

idols though the nations around us follow their

idols so we will follow the lord our god forever

and ever say though the nations around follow

their idols but will follow the lord forever

and ever and i want us to go back this is a key

scripture for the church i think pastor fred

has being walking. This is scripture that the

church of NECF is very much founded. This is

one thing that inspires and motivates us. And

the key thing is in the verse two. The key thing

is the verse two. It says, he will teach us his

ways. He will teach us his ways. He will teach

us his ways and we shall walk in his paths. He

will teach us his ways and we shall walk in his

path. I want us to notice that going up a mountain

is not the easiest thing to do. Going up a mountain

requires sacrifice. Going up a mountain requires

commitment. Going up a mountain requires effort.

Going up a mountain requires a lot of will to

do so. Praise God. And we know that Jerusalem

is on a mountain. Jerusalem is on a mountain.

Jerusalem is on a mountain and one thing that

keeps us or one thing that will motivate them

to go to that mountain is because of what they

will learn, right? The teaching, what they're

going to receive. is what will motivate you if

something is painful you are less likely to continue

in it because the pain itself will make you quick

but when something there's a goal i'm going up

that mountain to learn i'm going up that mountain

to learn and and it's literal for the people

of jerusalem because they have to walk up the

mountain we learned it in the week that there's

the geographical the geographical context of

these people is that they were placed on the

mountain top They were placed on the mountaintop

and in Psalms. In the book of Psalms, from Psalms

120 to Psalms 134. For Psalms 120 to 134, those

are the Psalms of ascent. Those are the Psalms,

the songs that they sing when they are going

up to that mountain. When they are going up to

the mountain, they will sing. They will sing,

I look up to the hills. It makes more sense when

you think about it. But they are looking up,

they are going up, they are going up, they are

going up. They're not going down. And there's

a spiritual context to it. There's a supernatural

context to it. The supernatural context to it

is that people go to mountains to meet with God.

People go to mountains to meet with God. Because

that was a place that symbolizes even the temple

is on, the Jerusalem temple is still on the mountain.

It's on the mountaintop. So there's a supernatural

side to it. There's a thing that keeps them going.

It's not just the literal place. Because anything

can be located in a place. But what? That thing,

what that thing is, is what is going to motivate

people to come up there. If you're not going

to end something, and by the way, I was thinking

about it, there was a time, or there had been

times, someone of us has gone to St. Hilarion's

and all of those places. When you're going up,

it's painful, but the joy of looking at the beautiful

array is what keeps you going. Just looking at

the scenery, just from the top, because the view

is better from the top. Praise God. The view

is better from the top. We see the theme of mountains

scattered around Scripture. This has been shared

a couple of times. Mountains are very special

places because of the things that happen on mountains.

And even Jesus Christ himself gathered the people

to the mountaintop. And yes, there's the practicality

of it, where it is a lot easier for you to communicate

to people when you are at an elevated ground

than for you when you are at a... Even the way

we design our... because it's a lot easier for

you to see me because I'm elevated, praise God,

because I'm on somewhat higher plane. So there's

a practicality, but there's a symbolism. There's

a symbolic side to it. The symbolic side to it

is that, that this, when they hear of mountains,

you know of Mount Sinai, we know of the different

mountains, those people go there, remember he

told us that people go there to see God, people

go there to learn, people go there to be taught,

praise God. And that is a symbolism and that

makes this Passage carry a lot more weights and

we're gonna see more. We're gonna see more and

God wants to do more Even in this season for

many of us during the week the believers conference

We're learning a lot of things. We're learning

a lot of things. We took a lot of notes We were

praying we prayed we spent hours and I want us

to understand what it is for some of us that

didn't attend What is the believers conference?

What is the Believer's Conference? It's good

that we established that. What is the Believer's

Conference? And what happens in it, in case you

are not... How many of us were there in the meeting?

Let's wave so that we can see. Were there in

the meeting? There are some persons that were

not there in the meeting. I want us to know what

that is. For every week, we have our Sunday services,

midweek services, and then we have the cell meetings.

So this is us breaking out from the norm, our

weekly normal activities to something special.

and this happens once every year this happens

once everywhere and there's a special annual

meeting where we gather praise god where we gather

and when we gather in this meeting god does things

some things he does unusual things in a meeting

he does unusual things in this meetings and we

have long hours of teaching we have long hours

of teaching long hours of prayer and we have

long hours of practice we have we take time to

practice There's teaching, there's time for teaching,

there's a time for prayer, there's a time for

practice. Praise God. There's a time for teaching,

time for prayer, time for practice. All of these

things are aimed at teaching, training, building,

and equipping us. All this is at teaching, training,

and equipping us. And when we learn, we are creating,

we are learning all these things, building up

expectations, we're putting our hearts, positioning

ourselves, creating an expectation, and maximizing

the opportunity that God has given us to grow.

God has given us to grow. And what happens is

that we see great and greater expressions of

God's power in and through us. Great and greater

expression of God's power in and through us.

And we see the purpose of this meeting is to

reinforce what the Word of God says, enforce

the Word of God. The Word of God hits us more.

Some of us have not spent the long hours listening

to teachings by ourselves. But when we gather

like this, we spend that hour together and we're

committed together. And there's time for practice.

Praise God. There's time for practice. Please,

I want you to be praying, to be praying. Don't

be distracted. Don't be distracted. There are

times of prayer. And then many people get directions.

Many people get directions. Many of us in the

meeting got direction. In fact, it's not just

directions. People confirming the things that

people have said. That you didn't even, you were

not there. Some persons I see sadistic you said

might somebody has given me this exact word confirming.

It's not a coincidence It's not a coincident

and this to this even makes the whole and by

the way the passage we read in Micah Let me just

say this well while it came to mind the passage

we read in Micah is also in Isaiah 2 And I want

you to understand that Isaiah the prophet came

before Micah But both of them are saying the

same exact thing of what God is going to do Meaning

that God will confirm his word God confirms his

word. I think I give a word to someone and it

was when I give the word and I realized that

this was the word that had given to them previously.

Same and I mean, I did not even realize. It took

me, I had to, I said, wait, wait, wait, wait,

wait. It seems like because you don't plan these

things. The Holy Spirit will bring and many of

us got words that are so accurate that you know

that it can only be God. Praise God. And I want

you to understand that meetings like this are

not coincidental you did not show up in this

meeting i shared a testimony yesterday and we

shared again just to encourage someone someone

here just to stir you up to pray last sunday

service someone because i met the guy in the

week he normally comes to service i don't know

whether he's here today he said he was going

to be here he comes he comes to service he and

another friend of his that happens to be my student

from way back and then they came together on

a sunday and the moment he showed up while we

were praying during the time of prayer as Pastor

Emmanuel said was encouraging us during that

time of prayer I got a word about his mom getting

a word about he just showed up in fact he he

wasn't the one I was talking to the friend of

his but he followed his friend along for the

meeting got a word for his mom that the mom was

sick and I was like okay which I went to him

I asked him when was the last time you heard

from your mom is your mom okay he said oh the

last time he heard from his mom the mom The last

time was a Saturday before the Sunday. And then

the mom was sick. They had stomach issue and

leg issue. And then we prayed with him. We prayed

with him. I prayed with so much intensity like

it was my mom. Only for me to contact my mom

in the week. And she said that same Sunday she

was rushed to the hospital. And then when I checked

up on him in the week, this other person that

came to the service, I called them up. and then

I asked he said the mom is okay praise god the

mom is okay glory to god the god had intervened

he showed up in a meeting randomly he even lives

in magusa that was why he couldn't they couldn't

he couldn't attend the meeting praise god and

then what we'll see is that you showed up in

a meeting unknown to you there is a circumstance

so i was praying for his mom not knowing that

my mom was in a situation and the situation my

mom was in is a situation where I prayed long

time and we had gotten confirmation and the word

had come and she just simply took the drug and

then went back to the situation and I know I

know with every fiber of my being she chatted

me up in the morning I said you are it's done

I move around knowing that it's done because

it's done she had done tests months back and

they didn't see anything praise God You want

to hold on to the word, and this is to every

one of us that have gotten a word. We have prayed

for your family member. We have prayed for your

dad, your mom, for healing. Hold on to the word

of the Lord. Stand fast. Hold on to the word

of the Lord. Praise God. And I want us to see

that in this meeting, people will get direction.

And this year's meeting has ended. It was powerful.

We saw supernatural things, part of the things

people on, and not just people in the meeting.

people online. People online too. People online

too got word. There was word. There was a lady.

There was several persons got word for several

illnesses and God had addressed those issues.

And hands were laid on individuals. A lot of

words had come, confirmations and testimonies.

We had testimonies yesterday. And I want you

to know the magnitude of the event. It spans.

It's people tuned in globally. People tuned in

from all around. for this meeting. And if you

are not part of it, I pray and I plead with you

that the next that is coming in 2027 should not

pass you by if you're going to be around for

it. And even if you're not going to be here,

we have a means by which you can follow. And

you can follow because you don't have the means

to be here. But if you are here and you can make

it, and for some people, work and all of that

did not allow you, you can still be committed

and tune into it. There's nothing, there's no...

limitation to what God is able to do once you

commit to the things that you are believing him

for and when we gather like this prayer happens

we hear from God for ourselves we hear from God

for others and this is a break in the usual rhythm

this is a break in the usual rhythm what is important

and it requires sacrifice it requires sacrifice

I will keep using the word sacrifice there was

a time when we came to the island there was no

means of transport as we have these days and

then we needed to go to church for some of us

it will be you you you will have money but you

say oh we can't afford to go to pay for a taxi

to take us to the place for for us that time

we didn't have the luxury of the fact you didn't

have a taxi to call we will trek to service not

minding out we'll trek to service we'll find

a place we'll ensure that because once you something

is important to you make room for it You make

room for it you make room for it you make room

for it and if I'm saying this so that will resound

to you that if Healing is important to you. You

will posture yourself to receive To receive to

receive to receive and I want to just drop this

Looking at the time. I want to just drop this

very quickly and I want us to see something it

says They will hammer their swords into plowshares

their spares into pruning hooks. Their spares

into pruning hooks. I want you to see that they

are changing the tool for warfare into implement

or tool for farming. Tool for warfare into implement

or tool for farming. Tool for warfare into implement

or tool for farming. I want you to see that that

happened that we see we're seeing that in the

same Isaiah. The Isaiah 2 verse 4. Isaiah 2 verse

Isaiah 2:4 Isaiah 2:4

4 and then in Micah we're looking at that in

Micah 4 verse 3 Micah 4 verse 3 Micah 4 verse

Micah 4:3 Micah 4:3 Micah 4:3

3 and Isaiah 2 verse 4 Micah 4 verse 3 and this

Isaiah 2:4 Micah 4:3

same incident happened in 1st Samuel 1st Samuel

13 1st Samuel 13 19 to 22 the new King James

He says, now there was no blacksmith to be found

throughout all the land of Israel. For the Philistines

said, this the Hebrews will make swords or spears.

But all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines

to sharpen each man's plowshare, his macaque,

his axe, and his sickle. And the charge for his

sharpening was AEP, man, this is like eight grams

of silver, for the plowshare and the mattock,

the forks, and the axes, and to set the points

for the gods. I want us to look at that word,

we'll come back to it in 22. So it came about

that on the day of the battle, there was neither

sword nor spear. found in the hand of any of

the people who were with Saul and Jonathan. It

says, but they were found with Saul and Jonathan,

his son. I want you to picture this. You're going

to battle. What you have is famine implements

as just sharpened. And this, I don't know whether

you understand the magnitude of this. This is

a whole nation fighting against Philistines.

They are very much equipped than they are. Only

the king Hanesun has the right tools for battle.

Has the right tools for battle. And I want you

to look at that gird. Just go back to, yeah.

And the sharpen, and I don't know whether you

are able to picture. The plowshare is, it's very

funny when you think about it. The plowshare

is that thing that you put on the back of a ox

to plow the ground, to till the ground. That's

a plowshare. and then you have forks, smart forks,

that one is like it has a pick and then all of

those things are farming, they are farming implements.

They are farming implements. And this is what

they are going to use, just sharpen and use to

fight. The god there is another tool that they

use to guard the ox. If they use that, it has

a pointing head and then it's like this. And

then it's just attached, it's an eight meter

stick with that metal attached at the top. And

this is what they use to ensure that the ox stays

in line. This is what they use to ensure that

the ox stays in line. I want us to see something,

let me go a bit off to take us to Apostle Paul.

In Acts 26 verse 14. Acts 26 verse 14. And I

Acts 26:14 Acts 26:14

want us to see this metaphor was used by Jesus

speaking to him in Acts 9, but he's recounting

this too. to King Agrippa. He says, and when

we all had fallen to the ground, that's recounting

what happened in Acts 9, I heard a voice saying

to me, and saying in the Hebrew language, so

-so, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for

you to kick against the gods. And I want you

to think, because this is a metaphor, I want

you to think about this. The ox is trying to

go off and then, yeah, and then just imagine

the ox is kicking against an object that is sharp.

What do you think is gonna happen to the ox?

What is gonna happen to the ox? It's gonna be

injured, right? It's gonna be injured. And this

is a metaphor, it's not saying that, it's not

to be taken literally, right? I want you to put

it up in NLT, NLT explains it. NLT explains it,

put it up, the same person NLT says, and when

it fell to the ground, I heard a voice saying,

to me in Aramaic. So Saul, why are you persecuting

me? It is useless for you to fight against my

will. It is useless for you to fight against

my will. And I want you to picture this. Note

that this man, at this point in time, is now

converted. Praise God. At that point in time,

what he was doing is that he was warring against

the people of God. He was warring against the

people of God. And that was him fighting against

God's will. God's will is for his people to go

and, the Great Commission, right, to go and make

disciples of all nations. And this was him disrupting

that, killing some of them. We have in Act 7,

killing these people. And then we see him in

this place making a defense. We learned this

during the course of the week, Pastor Emmanuel

taught us during the course of the week. It was

him making a defense for why he believes what

he believes. And brothers and sisters, you have

to make a defense for why you believe what you

believe. No matter what we say is an apology.

You're not apologetic. We say it's not to give

an apology for why you believe what you believe.

You are making a defense for that. And he was

defending himself in front of King Agrippa and

then the governor of Festos. I want us to see

25, 16. Let's go back 25 verse 16. 25 verse 16.

So 25 or 16 it says I say I pointed to you that

the Roman law does not conduct Does not does

not does not convict people without a trial says

they must be given an opportunity to confront

the accusers and defend themselves and defend

themselves in the King James you see that the

defense go to go to the King James Say defend

themselves go to the King James says and the

King James he says I said an answer to them,

the accuser that the word there is, he says to

put a charge, he says to deliver to any man for

destruction before his accuser meets face to

face and has the opportunity to answer for himself

concerning the charge against him. Answer for

himself concerning the charge against him. And

he says he has the opportunity, him having the

opportunity to make that difference. He says

having the opportunity to make that difference

is him taking the opportunity, is him making

that stand, because he says had, right? He uses

the word had. He uses the word had, meaning that

the apostle Paul seizes the opportunity to make

the defense for God and the gospel. Seizes the

opportunity to make the defense for God and the

gospel. And look at this, look at what happened.

I want us to note that in what had happened in

first Samuel, with the tools that the children

of Israel had to fight. I want you to know, in

this next chapter, you see that they still won

that battle. They still won that battle. And

you can be here and you feel that you don't have

the right tools to fight. I want you to be reminded

that the tools or the weapons of our warfare,

as Crypto says, they are not carnal, right? They

are not carnal. But there's something about the

tools that we use to fight that beats any other

tool. Because the person that is with us is greater

than the people or the persons that are against

us. And we say that this battle is not a physical

battle. This battle is spiritual and that is

what we explain why they had the victory that

they had. Praise God. And even when you take

your mind back to the case of Saul, Saul for

himself, not the shift, he was fighting the people

of God. Now what he is doing is making the defense.

And Apostle Paul we know and we have seen through

scripture is a co -laborer. Praise God. It's

only God that can change, and by the way, this

whole idea of plowshare, beating your swords

to plowshare, makes very perfect sense when you

superimpose it on the actions of Apostle Paul.

Apostle Paul was a man that was fighting the

church. Now we see him defending the church.

Now we see him planting churches. We see him

laboring in the lives of people. We see him raising

men. See him raising men. See him raising disciples.

See him raising, all of this was a function of

him God intervening or coming into the situation,

praise God. And there is nothing that is impossible

with God. There is nothing that is impossible

with God. And I want us to see this, just to

stare us up, in Matthew. Let's go to Mark, because

there's Matthew 9, 1 to 8. There's Mark 2, 1

to 12. Matthew 9, 1 to 8. Mark 2, 1 to 12. And

there's Luke. 5 17 to 26 just write that down

is all the same account Let's look at let's look

at look let's just look at looks account Let's

look at looks at looks account Look 5 17 to 26

very quickly he says okay we're familiar with

the story the story is this man needed healing

he was lame and was paralyzed note that his friends

took the effort to go and ensure that this man

meets with the solution for to his problem and

this is the posture this is the mindset that

when you come into a meeting by the way there

were a group of people that were criticizing

what was happening but there's a group of people

that needed their friend to get healing needed

their friend to be healed of because they know

that there's solution when they arrive praise

god and i want you to know that there's solution

in this house and the solution is going to come

to you when you post yourself to receive not

when you post yourself to criticize or pursue

yourself to say i don't know i don't know i don't

know but you know because you have heard what

are you hearing What are you seeing? What are

you believing God for? There's a posture and

these friends did not see any limitation He opened

up the roof and they knew that once he landed

in front of Jesus it would change because there

was no sickness that came across the Lord that

there was no that it didn't turn around and Because

we have that same God is the same God yesterday

today and forever He's the same God today. Praise

God is the same God today is the same God even

right now and it will come and that situation

will pass in the name of Jesus that situation

will pass in the name of Jesus. I want us to

be praying because when you entertain entertain

any form of critical mind any form of thinking

contrary to what God wants you to do you are

the one that is putting yourself putting the

barrier you're the one that's putting the barrier

because for God is done already for God it is

done already and for many of us we know this

We know this to be true because we have seen

family members get healed. We have seen people's

situation turn around in a split. We have seen

circumstances and situations turn. Praise God.

I want us to rise to our feet. We appreciate

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