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Believers’ Meetings and the Demonstration of the Things of the Spirit (Part 3)

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  1. Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is

  2. designed to uplift and strengthen you in your

  3. walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until

  4. the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive

  5. right in. You see, the reason why we do the things

  6. we do When it comes to believers meeting we said

  7. it last week, but we're going to talk about it

  8. much more this morning for every manifestation

  9. you see What it does to your life as a believer

  10. is that it deepens your conviction regarding

  11. Jesus You know what I just said for every supernatural

  12. manifestation you see What it does to you as

  13. a believer is that this it does what it deepens

  14. your what? conviction, right, about the power

  15. of the Holy Ghost at work in your life. So what

  16. am I saying in essence? I'm saying that desire

  17. to see more manifestation. Hallelujah. Do you

  18. know what I just said now? Desire to see what?

  19. Desire to see what? Desire to see what? Yes,

  20. desire to see more manifestation. Don't ever

  21. live a casual life, a normal life. Work in it.

  22. See it. Expect it. Be zealous about it. Convert

  23. it. Convert it. Convert it. Convert it. Let there

  24. be miracles. Let there be signs. Let there be

  25. wonders. Following with you in your house, in

  26. your family, to your friends, to your extended

  27. family, in Africa, in Asia, any part of the world.

  28. Desire to see more, more, more, more, more of

  29. the power of the Holy Ghost. You see when you

  30. don't desire to see the things of the Holy Ghost

  31. It will not be long you will start doubting that

  32. the Holy Ghost dwells in you Hallelujah You will

  33. start what? doubting The fact that it's not working

  34. you are not desiring it does not mean that it's

  35. not available Hallelujah The fact that you are

  36. not desiring to see the workings of the Holy

  37. Ghost, it does not mean that it's not what? It's

  38. not at work. It's not available. No, it's there.

  39. Let's do something very fast. I may not necessarily

  40. finish because what we are doing today is much

  41. more practical. Hallelujah. And because it's

  42. much more practical, it will require every one

  43. of us to be able to sustain a level of prayer.

  44. then we see those things happen amen often what

  45. we do is that when we gather we just come and

  46. then pray just for five minutes and then go our

  47. way hallelujah but you see today what we're gonna

  48. do we're gonna hold a matter and we will pray

  49. about it until there's a note of peace in our

  50. hearts you know what I said until there's a note

  51. of what peace in our hearts It's like someone

  52. that has been expecting an alert. Have you ever

  53. called your father to send you tuition fees?

  54. And you know that tomorrow is the end of the

  55. day for registration. You keep waiting. You keep

  56. waiting. You keep waiting. You keep waiting.

  57. Any message that comes in, you want to check

  58. your phone. The next thing is tell sin. The next

  59. thing is tell sin. Telling you that you are under

  60. control deficit. The next thing you tell sin.

  61. At the main time or at the end of it, then suddenly,

  62. and a lot comes and you see zimbabwe bank of

  63. international money transfer something something

  64. something you know what happens to you you just

  65. jump with shout you get to that international

  66. office and tell them this is the receipt can

  67. you activate me now you know the day i came out

  68. of international office i went i almost fought

  69. with the woman i'll not call her name And she

  70. said, it does not matter whether I am the vice

  71. HOD. What I am doing in the faculty is different

  72. from what I am doing as a student. I must pay

  73. them their 4 ,000 euros. I said, no, remove it

  74. from my salary. She said, no. I said, okay, let's

  75. do it this way. Can you clear it? Let me work

  76. for you people for maybe three years. Let me

  77. say something that just came to my heart. Never

  78. negotiate God's plans for your life with your

  79. plans. Hallelujah. Do you know what I just said?

  80. Never negotiate God's plans, right? With what?

  81. For your life with your plans. I was there trying

  82. to time my life while God has gone ahead of me.

  83. Do you know we started dragging, she started

  84. getting angry. I said, okay, no problem. I will

  85. get you your money. I came down from the door.

  86. I called my mama, my head of department. I did

  87. not tell her anything. She didn't know I was

  88. there. She just said, how are you fine? How are

  89. you doing? What are these international office

  90. saying? I said, I must pay the 4 ,000 euros.

  91. Mind you, before I went up, there was a brother

  92. that was asking me, a pastor. So he did not get

  93. this 4 ,000. What will happen now? I said, don't

  94. worry. God told me that he will bring it. Mind

  95. you, as I'm holding on to God's words, Dad wants

  96. to click into my heart. Yeah, because I know

  97. in the whole of Cyprus who will give me four

  98. thousand euros I Came down. She calls me I said

  99. custom. Don't worry. We will go to the bank now

  100. and I'll get the money and I'll give you About

  101. the whole atmosphere but so because there might

  102. be a change 4000 euros, not from Africa, not

  103. from USA, not from anywhere, but in Cyprus. You

  104. see, when God gives you a word, let me say it

  105. now, extreme, be willing to die for the word

  106. and he will show up for it. Do you know what

  107. I said? When God gives you a word, be willing

  108. to die for it, stand with it, he will show up

  109. for it. Why did I bring us this route? I brought

  110. us this route because when we discuss power gifts,

  111. there are manifestations that are evident. There

  112. are manifestations that are tangible. There are

  113. manifestations that carry something, a message

  114. to tell you that God is here. So we will pray.

  115. We will take some 25 minutes. We will pray. prayer.

  116. There's a sister. We say we're going to pray

  117. for your mom. Where is she? Yes. God bless you.

  118. And then there's a brother too that came on Wednesday.

  119. We say we're going to pray for his dad. I saw

  120. the brother somewhere. God bless you. And then

  121. a couple of people. I saw somebody this morning.

  122. The right feet. Your leg. Has an issue has been

  123. paining you. I don't know whether you're the

  124. one but I know I saw somebody with a issue on

  125. the feet. and you are here this morning we are

  126. going to pray for you and you're going to stand

  127. that feet and you will feel the pain no more

  128. hallelujah yes needs are going to be met in this

  129. atmosphere we're going to pray it sustain it

  130. until we get a note of peace in our hearts hallelujah

  131. and we will know it has arrived praise god So

  132. believers meeting, let's write this down. The

  133. role of the believer in the things of the spirit,

  134. the role of the believer in the things of the

  135. spirit, the role of the believer in the things

  136. of the spirit, for things to be done. The role

  137. of the believer in the things of the spirit for

  138. things to be done The role of the believer in

  139. the things of the spirit for us for things to

  140. be done. Hallelujah If you remember the second

  141. thing we said we said the Holy Ghost demonstrates

  142. himself in power Which means that things are

  143. going to be done The Holy Ghost demonstrates

  144. himself in what? In power, which means that things

  145. are going to be what? Are going to be done. Give

  146. us James, James chapter 5. However, it's not

    James 5 chapter mention

  147. a scripture I'm supposed to start. I don't know

  148. why I'm going there. There's a reason. James

    James 5:16

  149. chapter 5 verse 16. Amplified version. He said

  150. the Holy Ghost demonstrates himself in what?

  151. In power. How does he demonstrate himself? Can

  152. somebody help me? He demonstrates himself in

  153. power. How does he do that? Through us. God bless

  154. you. So the Holy Ghost demonstrates himself in

  155. power through us, through me. For things to be

  156. what? To be done. Hallelujah. James chapter five.

  157. Everybody, one, two, go. Can we do it together?

  158. Wait, reduce it. Let me hear our voices all.

  159. One, two, go. Your false steps, your offenses,

  160. and pray for that you may be healed and, yes,

  161. all together, let's echo it. Can accomplish.

  162. Can accomplish. Yes, let's go again. When pulled

  163. into and made by who? it is what and can have

  164. tremendous power of the Holy Ghost the power

  165. of the Holy Ghost is made effective through me

  166. this morning as I pray hallelujah glory to God

  167. is made effective is made effective so when we

  168. say the power gifts we mean healings You can

  169. write this down as a reminder. The power of gifts,

  170. when we say things need to be done, we mean the

  171. gift of healing, gift of healing, walking of

  172. miracles, walking of miracles, and then the gift

  173. of faith. The gift of faith. Are we there? So

  174. when we say signs and wonders, all the power

  175. gifts we put them under what? Signs and what?

  176. And wonders. Please write this thing down. Pastor

  177. Emma taught us this. All the power gifts we classify

  178. them as what? Gifts for signs and what? And wonders.

  179. All the gifts are for signs and wonders. Hallelujah.

  180. Praise God. But there's a reason why we are saying

  181. this now. When we say a sign, a sign means an

  182. action that conveys a message. A sign means what?

  183. An action that conveys what? A message. Hallelujah.

  184. I'm still young in marriage. We are still building

  185. our sign language with my wife. You know? For

  186. somebody like our daddy, mommy. They already

  187. have a sign, they understand. Pastor Victor is

  188. a little bit ahead of us. He has built some signs.

  189. But you see, mommy that has spent 40 years and

  190. counting, signs are already everywhere. Amen?

  191. We, till now, if you do like this, I'm like,

  192. what is like this? We're still building the signs.

  193. Amen? What did you do? I say what's wrong with

  194. this one? She's conveying when we now reach home.

  195. She'll say ah tell you do I need to come and

  196. tell you yes. You see we have passed one level.

  197. Time will come now she will not say the sign.

  198. She'll just think it and I'll know it. I'm telling

  199. you I've seen it work. Praise God. These are

  200. what? Actions that conveys what? Message. Whereas

  201. wonders, wonders are expressions of amazement

  202. caused by something remarkable. Wonders are expressions

  203. of what? Amazement caused by what? Yes, something

  204. remarkable that has happened. Hallelujah. So

  205. when we say signs and wonders we mean certain

  206. actions are happening by the power of the Holy

  207. Ghost and we go wow This must be the Holy Ghost

  208. Because nothing natural can make this thing happen.

  209. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Acts chapter 6 verse

    Acts 6:8

  210. 8 now Ask chapter 6 verse 8. Ask chapter 6 verse

  211. 8. Everybody see. And Stephen, full of what?

  212. And what? Please, can we read it this way? Put

  213. your name there. Can we read it this way? For

  214. whatever reason, that's the instruction I'm getting.

  215. Can we put your name there? And who? Want to

  216. go? And Custin, full of faith and deeds, great

  217. wonders and miracles. Okay, let's do it this

  218. way. And Custin, full of faith and power, is

  219. doing great wonders and miracles in NECF. Hallelujah.

  220. Does this sound like faith -filled words? Can

  221. we read it that way again? Let's read it now.

  222. One, two, go. And Custin is In where? Wait, wait.

  223. Let's say it all together. Do you know that's

  224. something we should pray about now? Can we pray

  225. about it? Can we pray about it? Can we pray about

  226. it? That's why we are doing this morning. That's

  227. how power gives flow. I am doing great wonders

  228. and signs. Hallelujah. Mark chapter 16 again.

    Mark 16 chapter mention

  229. Please you can be praying. You can be praying.

  230. you can be brain mark chapter 16 from verse 16

    Mark 16 chapter mention

  231. let's read from verse 17 and this and this what

  232. did we define signs as and these actions shall

  233. what shall follow them that what in my name okay

  234. let's make it the way we read the other place

  235. say this way And these actions are following

  236. custom that believes. In Jesus' name, I cast

  237. out devils. I speak with new tongues. I take

  238. up serpents. And I drink deadly things. And they

  239. never hurt me. I lay hands on the sick. And the

  240. sick what? Recover. Hallelujah. Can we read that

  241. that way? Can we personalize it? Don't worry

  242. We are still on time. Can we personalize it that

  243. way? Put your name and make it a present Continuous

  244. tense. Yes, my English is good. English people

  245. are here a present continuous what tense? Can

  246. we read it in a present continuous tense? Can

  247. we read that? because that's our reality hallelujah

  248. do you know why because the power gives those

  249. actions of the holy ghost are still happening

  250. today and they are happening now and we will

  251. see them in this morning service now hallelujah

  252. can we read them in that present continuous tense

  253. one two go put your name yes i'm following custom

  254. that believes in jesus's name i cast out i speak

  255. with yes Yes, and if I drink any deadly thing,

  256. it shall not hurt me. I lay my hands on the sick

  257. and the sick what? I lay my hands on the sick

  258. and the sick what? Can we just still pray it

  259. again? Can we pray it again? Can we pray it?

  260. I speak with new tongues. I am costing their

  261. beliefs. The actions of the Holy Ghost are still

  262. manifest in my life today. They are manifest

  263. in my life this morning. I lay hands on the sick.

  264. The sick recover. I lay hands on the blind. The

  265. blind see. I lay hands on the deaf. That ear

  266. opens. This morning the seats are walking in

  267. the name of Jesus in that which Christ has accomplished

  268. at resurrection. Add these scriptures to it.

  269. Matthew 11 verse 4. Add Matthew 11 verse 4. I

    Matthew 11:4 Matthew 11:4

  270. think it would do us good to read it. Matthew

    Matthew 11:4

  271. 11 verse 4. See what Jesus will say. Thank God

  272. for the pastors that they created a material

  273. for us and we treated this in the cell meeting.

  274. Hallelujah. You know that day I saw it and I'm

  275. like wow Everybody let's read it together Jesus

  276. words Answered and said unto them go and show

  277. us those things which words Say today say today

  278. through me men will hear and men will see Everybody

  279. let's read verse five together the blind words

  280. and the lame and the lepers are, and the dev,

  281. the dead are, and the poor have not, said this

  282. am I reality, by the ability of the Holy Ghost,

  283. this morning in this atmosphere, in the name

  284. of Jesus, the blind see, the deaf hear, the dead

  285. are raised back to life, and the gospel is preached

  286. through me by the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. So

  287. what pastor in man taught us we have gift of

  288. faith walking of miracles and we have what? healings

  289. amen hallelujah So let's just have just write

  290. this in the next five ten minutes I'm done with

  291. this and then we are going to pray and then practice

  292. So by by 15 12 .15 I'm done. We have all these

  293. messages. Yesterday I was listening to all Pastor

  294. Eman's messages. Came back home late but I still

  295. had to do it even this morning. Amen. Yes, so

  296. they are all there. So we are not going to preach

  297. the message again. They are already there. Praise

  298. God. What we are here to do is practicals. So

  299. whatever we are doing here, you know, you know

  300. if you do home economies in secondary school

  301. there is practicals. I didn't do it, but I had

  302. juniors that did it. So because they like me,

  303. even though they don't like me that I flock them,

  304. but they like me because they can approach me

  305. and talk to me. So when they do home economies,

  306. they do some small jobs here and there. And often

  307. they will bring us as seniors to what? To eat,

  308. to test. Amen. So the main course of this meeting,

  309. go and listen to them. Pastor Imams taught them.

  310. Hallelujah. The media team are going to share

  311. all the links. Preparing us for catatismos. Hallelujah.

  312. You know from next week in all our cell meetings

  313. there will be practical demonstration of the

  314. things of the Holy Ghost. In all our services

  315. that's what we'll be doing till catatismos. Praise

  316. God. Amen. So all we are doing here is home economies.

  317. Amen. We are testing and then we are doing that

  318. this thing is working. I think the magic is good.

  319. The gift of faith can be understood as the ability

  320. resident in the believer to minister and receive

  321. a miracle. The gift of faith is the ability in

  322. the what? Of the Holy Ghost in the believer to

  323. do what? To give and receive a what? A miracle.

  324. So often I will pray for my brother, right? Without

  325. even him knowing, and yet I will do what? i will

  326. receive a miracle a knowing for what for him

  327. do you know that ma it does not have to be in

  328. an atmosphere like this you can visit your house

  329. and we are just talking and discussing and you

  330. will receive a miracle for me hallelujah jesus

  331. never most of jesus's miracles were not in crusades

  332. He was just moving and then the centurion man

  333. said master, please please my servant is at home

  334. Please I beg you. I know I'm the man of authority.

  335. You don't need to come to my house. I Have servant

  336. so I know what power is But all I want to because

  337. I know do what please speak and send forth your

  338. word I know my servant will do what will get

  339. healed He came and received a miracle for his

  340. servant that never knew that that event was happening

  341. What am I saying by the Spirit of God that in

  342. this atmosphere you can receive a miracle now

  343. for somebody in Africa You can receive a healing

  344. now for somebody in Asia. You can receive a healing

  345. now a miracle for somebody Why? Because the ability

  346. of the Holy Ghost is resident in us now here.

  347. Praise God. That's what gift of faith is. So

  348. let's go listen to what Pastor Eman has taught

  349. us on that. Matthew 8. I'll just read the scriptures.

  350. I don't need to go back to it. Matthew 8 verse

    Matthew 8:8–13

  351. 8 to 13. Matthew 8 verse 8 to 13. Matthew 17

    Matthew 8:8–13 Matthew 17:14–19

  352. verse 14 to 19. Acts chapter 3 verse 1 to 11.

    Acts 3:1–11

  353. Good. So often we see the gift of faith to give

  354. and receive miracles works with what? Works with

  355. healing. Hallelujah. And then works with walking

  356. of miracles. I just say something profound now.

  357. The gift of faith often will work what? With

  358. the gift of healing and working of what? Miracles.

  359. Faith to heal. Faith to work miracles. The prophet

  360. came to the woman. He said what do you have in

  361. your house? Say we have nothing except something

  362. small. You see what we are going to do is we

  363. can do something with it. For the believer, let

  364. me say this, for the believer, we are not moved

  365. by sight, but by what? By faith. Those things

  366. that look or seemingly look as they are not working

  367. in the natural, don't determine how a believer

  368. sees. things might not be working right and for

  369. the believer all he sees is a world of possibilities

  370. go guard our vessels not a few because something

  371. supernatural is happening now what do you have

  372. is a master we just have few loaves of bread

  373. and few fishes We don't have enough money to

  374. feed 5 ,000 men aside women and children. Silver

  375. and gold we do not have. But what we have we

  376. give unto thee. We have something and that thing

  377. is called the power of the Holy Ghost. He dwells

  378. in our inside. He creates supernatural things

  379. happen beyond the natural. You see? He moves

  380. from Cyprus He moves from Cyprus to my sister's

  381. mom That part of the Holy Ghost from here. He

  382. moves from here, right? And then whatever condition

  383. mark chapter 16 said these signs shall what?

    Mark 16 chapter mention

  384. Shall follow shall follow us that what? That

  385. belief so what God had done is that he has given

  386. us the authority hallelujah The authority that

  387. Jesus gave, he gave it to the church. Hallelujah.

  388. That the signs and wonders are to be written

  389. by who? By the church. Well, we now, God, that's

  390. why we see all the lead cut in the scriptures

  391. from the book of Acts. All through, you see what?

  392. healings, healings. If I first call you to chapter

  393. two, he told them my speech is not without enticing

  394. words of men's wisdom. But in the spirit and

  395. demonstration of what? Of power. That all through

  396. the scriptures, you see a little testimonies

  397. of the supernatural. Power gifts. The working

  398. of miracles. Let's write this now and we pray.

  399. All that we are saying, Pastor Eman taught them

  400. in detail. What we are having, your notes will

  401. be small, don't worry. We want to have more practicals

  402. and small notes because we have more of the notes

  403. now. Amen? Let's write this, working of miracles.

  404. What is a miracle? A miracle is a violation of

  405. natural laws. A miracle is a what? Is a violation

  406. of what? Of natural laws It implies that the

  407. power of God in demonstration The power it implies

  408. that the power of God in demonstration Violating

  409. the natural laws of nature a Miracle is a violation

  410. of natural laws implying that the power of God

  411. in demonstration violating the natural laws of

  412. what? Of nature. You can write John chapter 2

    John 2:1–11

  413. verse 1 to 11. John chapter 2 verse 1 to 11.

    John 2:1–11

  414. John chapter 5 verse 1 to 9. John chapter 5 verse

    John 5:1–9 John 5:1–9

  415. 1 to 9. John chapter 6 verse 1 to 13. Hallelujah.

    John 6:1–13

  416. Acts chapter 3 verse 16. Acts chapter 3 verse

    Acts 3:16 Acts 3:16

  417. 16. Acts chapter 6 verse 5. Acts chapter 6 verse

    Acts 6:5 Acts 6:5

  418. 5. Acts chapter 6 verse 8. Acts chapter 14 verse

    Acts 6:8 Acts 14:9–10

  419. 9 to 10. Acts chapter 14 verse 9 to 10. Are we

    Acts 14:9–10

  420. there everybody? Are we there everybody? Can

  421. we rise to our feet? One of the things Paul taught

  422. the Corinthian Church, he taught them something

  423. very powerful regarding the things of the spirit.

  424. And he gave them a word and that word he told

  425. them to convert endlessly. Hallelujah! To desire,

  426. to desire, to be zealous. That word desire is

  427. a very strong word When we say you are desiring

  428. something It's an expression of emotions That

  429. is not normal Amen, you can want a thing You

  430. can you can really think about it that you want

  431. it But you see when you desire it ah He is extreme

  432. That's the word that Paul used for the Corinthian

  433. Church. He said when it comes to the things of

  434. the spirit, dear believer, your life must be

  435. on the edge, always desiring to see the workings

  436. of what? Of the spirit. So which means that there

  437. should not be a day where you don't see the supernatural

  438. at work in your life, whether it's in the office,

  439. whether it's in your family. Can you say I desire?

  440. this morning I desire by the ability of the Holy

  441. Ghost to see all the expression of the power

  442. I give at work in my heart at work in my hands

  443. at work in my home at work in everywhere I stand

  444. and even in this local church right now in the

  445. name of Jesus Can we just pray everybody? Can

  446. we pray? We appreciate you being here today We

  447. hope you carry this worry with you throughout

  448. your week. Don't forget to check the show notes

  449. for additional insights. Stay connected with

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  453. stay blessed.