What To Do After a Believer's Conference pt. 2

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Amen. Praise the Lord. Acts chapter 2. Acts chapter

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2. From verse 42 to 47. So they continued steadfastly

in the apostles' doctrines and in fellowship,

in breaking of bread and in prayers. Then fear

came over every soul. Many signs and wonders

were done through the apostles. Now all who believed

were together and had all things in common, and

they sold their possessions. and goose and divided

them among themselves as anyone had needs. 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. And we said that part of the things that

we do as After the believers' meeting, or even

after any meeting of God's people, is that we

continue in the Apostles' doctrines. We continue

in the things that have been taught to us. We

make it a part of us. We go back to the things

again to ensure that we understand them. Praise

the Lord. There are a lot of people that have

questions. maybe you've not had this type of

teaching before, or you didn't understand what

is going on, that there is need for you to go

back and to listen again, to continue in the

Apostle's doctrine, to be steadfast in it, praise

the Lord, to not stop. Praise the Lord. To continue

means to not stop, right? To be devoted to it,

to give yourself to the Apostles' Doctrine. It's

what we see in Acts chapter 2, that they continue

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in the Apostles' Doctrine. The things that were

taught, they made it a part of their life. They

allowed it to change their life, to change the

things that they were doing. Praise the Lord.

Part of the teachings or part of the things that

was being taught to them is how to fellowship

together, how not to forsake the assemblies of

themselves. That's why we see that they are together.

They ate together. They saw the things that they

have and they ensured that nobody had need. Praise

the Lord. So these are some of the teachings

that came to them. And these are some of the

implications we see from the scriptures that

these people have no need. among themselves because

whenever they come together, people had enough.

Praise the Lord. People had enough. So the pastors

took time, as I was explaining on Sunday, that

the pastors took time, five sessions and maybe

minimum of one hour, 15 minutes each or more

to teach, to teach us doctrines, to teach us.

the ways of God to teach us the things that we

need to learn. So, and for example, Pastor Victor

was teaching about laying of hands, right? And

so many other teachings came. He didn't just,

I remember Pastor Costin was talking and he was

like, if somebody was teaching that, maybe from

beginning, he would just start laying hands.

Praise the Lord. But we see that there was up

to four or five sessions of teachings concerning

a thing before the practical started. Praise

the Lord. Because you cannot act or you cannot

behave out of knowledge. You cannot just do it

because somebody says you should do it. You will

do it when you have the knowledge of it. Praise

the Lord. That's why when we see that somebody

is not speaking in tongues, we don't tell you,

start speaking in tongues because this is the

Apostles' Doctrine. Praise the Lord. This is

what you should do. We go through the Scriptures

to explain to you why... you should speak in

tongue or why speaking in tongue is part of your

life, praise the Lord, or part of your makeup.

So the pastors took time to teach us, praise

the Lord. So it therefore means that we also

need to take time to continue in the things that

we have been taught, praise the Lord, to continue

in the things that we have been taught, to go

back to them. If you have questions, to ensure

that we ask them, praise the Lord. So they took

time to teach us because knowledge comes before

you begin to see manifestations. Praise the Lord.

Or you are able to do manifestation. If you don't

have knowledge of it, you will not be able to

do anything. Praise the Lord. So it also tells

us, it also gives us a pattern that we should

follow. Praise the Lord. It gives us a pattern

that we should follow, that doctrines are taught

to edify us. And when they edify us, then we

begin to do the practical aspect of it or begin

to show the manifestation of it. Praise the Lord.

We should learn from the method that we have

been taught. So it encourages us to continue

in the apostles' doctrines, to continue in the

things that we have been taught. Praise the Lord.

And the reason why we should continue in those

things is so that we will know what is original.

Praise the Lord. We saw it from on Sunday that

we'll know that which is true. You continue in

the doctrine so that you're able to distinguish

between that which is false and that which is

true. We continue because we want to live in

victory. Praise the Lord. We continue because

we want to live in victory. Praise the Lord.

And then we also learned that man is God's method

and plan on the earth. Man is God's method and

plan on the earth. So from that teaching, I don't

know if you were challenged to understand how

important you are in the agenda of God. Praise

the Lord. From that teaching, I don't know if

it's... Helped you to understand how important

you are in the agenda of God. That the things

that God wants to achieve on the earth, it is

through you. Praise the Lord. It is through you.

We also see from the teaching that Pastor Kostin

taught us. about spiritual experiences or some

of the spiritual experiences that we should have,

that the believer has utterance to their advantage.

Praise the Lord. The believer has utterance to

the advantage. It is there to your advantage.

It is there for you unconditionally. It is there

for you to practicalize in it. Praise the Lord.

To continue in spiritual experience. So the things

that we do after the believer's meeting is to

continue in those spiritual experience. If you

are speaking in tongues just as our sister has

shared, just as our brother has shared as well.

They continue in the things that they have been

taught. This is a spiritual experience. They

have experienced something. They have experienced

the ability to pray for that long. So they continue

in it. Praise the Lord. They don't go on vacation.

They don't fold their hands. But they continue

in it. Praise the Lord. Matthew chapter 11. Matthew

Matthew 11 · chapter mention Matthew 11 · chapter mention

chapter 11. Matthew chapter 11 and from verse

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1. He said, Now he came to pass, when Jesus finished

commanding him. twelve disciples, that he departed

from there to teach and to preach in their cities.

And when John heard in prison about the work

of Christ, he sent two of his disciples and said

to him, Are you the one coming, or do we look

for another? And Jesus answered and said to them,

Go and tell John the things which you hear and

see. The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers

are cleansed. The deaf hear, the dead are raised

up, and the poor, the gospel is preached to them.

And blessed is he who is not offended because

of me. Praise the Lord. So, as we have been taught

that God is, that man is God's method on the

earth. That you are the thing, you are the person

that God... He hopes to accomplish this plan

that he has. It is you that he walks through.

It is you that he walks through to perform miracles,

to heal the sick. Praise the Lord. The song that

we are singing, we heal the sick, right? We raise

the dead. It is things that should be practical

in our lives. Praise the Lord. It is things that

should be practical in our lives. So we continue

in these things. We put ourselves in the position

and in the place where we begin to learn or we

begin to align ourselves to these things that

God uses us to manifest his will and his purposes

on the earth. Praise the Lord. So we see that

the disciples of John came to Jesus and they

asked him a question. He said, are you the coming

one or do we look for another? Praise the Lord.

Are you the coming one or do we look for another?

So John knows what the coming one should be like.

Praise the Lord. He read it from the prophets,

right? There is a coming one. He prophesied about

it. And we said that part of the reason why the

Bible tells us that John is the greatest in the

kingdom of God is because he introduced the Christ.

Praise the Lord. He saw the Christ. He recognized

the Christ. Praise the Lord. The things that

the prophet could not see or the things they

prophesied about, he saw it and he identified

it and he introduced Christ to the world. Praise

the Lord. And so he asked Christ the question,

he said, are you the coming one or do we look

for another? And it's the same question that

I want to ask to us. With everything that we

have learned, with everything that we have learned

in the cataclysmos, do we need another cataclysmos?

Or you got what you need? Praise the Lord. Is

the knowledge, is the doctrine that has been,

you have learned sufficient for you? Or is it

enough? Do you still need to sit down and continue

to receive and not do anything about it? Do you

still need more teaching so that you are able

to do the things or you're able to align yourself

in the will and the purposes of God concerning

your life? Are you the one? Are you the coming

one or do we look for another? And so Jesus said

to him to go and tell him, he said that, tell

him what you see and what you hear. He said,

the blind see. And the lame walk, the leopards

are clean, and the dead is raised up, and the

poor the gospel is preached to them. Praise the

Lord. Does this look like the thing that Christ

said we are going to do? Does it look like what

Christ said that the believer is going to do?

Mark chapter 16. Mark chapter 16, verses 15 to

Mark 16 · chapter mention Mark 16:15–18

18. And he said to them, Go into all the world

and preach the gospel to every creature. He who

believes and is baptized will be saved. He who

does not believe will be condemned. And these

signs will follow those who believe. In my name

they will cast out demons. They will speak with

new tongues. They will take up sapient, and if

they drink anything deadly, it will not by any

means hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick,

and they will be recovered. They will recover.

So we see here that this is what Christ says

about those who believe. Praise the Lord. The

same thing that he said to the disciples of John.

He said, the lame walk and the blind see. The

gospel is preached to the poor. Praise the Lord.

So these signs also should follow you or would

follow you, he says. who follow those who believe.

So if it's a question of, are you the coming

one or should we expect another? You say, oh,

this is what I'm doing. Or this is what I have

been doing. Praise the Lord. I've been in the

purpose of God. I've been in the plan of God.

I've been in alignment to the things of God.

I speak in new tongues. I heal the sick. I preach

the gospel. Praise the Lord. So there's no expectation

for another because I'm already doing that which

God has destined for me to do. I'm already doing

that which God has said I am going to do. So

I say that John knows by the prophet what the

Christ is or who the Christ should be or what

he should do. So he speaks about you that you

would heal the sick, that you would speak with

new tongues, that you would cast out demons.

Praise the Lord. So there is no expectation of

another. 1 Peter tells us that you are a choosing

generation, you are a royal priesthood. He's

not just telling you things that will puff you

off. Oh, you know, some people will tell me,

you know, they will say, The word is, is it hail

me or something? You see somebody, you're hyping

them up. Hype me up, hype me up. Maybe the person

is wearing a clean dress. You're hyping the person

up. This is not a hype. Praise the Lord. It's

not what is said to make you feel good about

yourself. Oh, I'm a choosing generation. I'm

a royal priesthood. Praise the Lord. It is a

reality of your life. It is the reality of your

life. Like I mentioned on Sunday that If we're

looking for revival, revival has come to you.

Something has happened in your life. A shift

has happened. Praise the Lord. A shift has happened

to you. A shift has happened to you. Greater

work will you do. Praise the Lord. So again,

my sister was saying something during the prayers

that after what we do is to also pay attention

to the spiritual things or the prophecies that

have been said to us. Praise the Lord. The word

of knowledge, the prophecies, the word that came

to us, we should pay attention to them. So this

is what we do after a believers meeting or after

a gathering of believers is that we pay attention

to the things that are said. We don't despise

them. Praise the Lord. 1 Timothy chapter 4, verse

1 Timothy 4:12–16

12 to 16. He said, let no one despise your youth.

Praise the Lord. Don't let your mind despise

your youth. You know, there is... Sometimes there's

a notion in our head that, oh, we are young people,

you know, there's still time for us to do some

things. You know, let's not, as a young person

now, somebody sees you and they say, ah, this

person is on fire for God. He's going to be like,

I don't, let me just be, you know, let me be

somebody who goes to church, but, you know, I

can have some other accommodation of things.

Praise the Lord. Let not your mind despise your

youth. Praise the Lord. Don't despise your youth.

Before you start showing it and let others despise

it, you first. Don't despise your youth. Praise

the Lord. Don't say you are too small for these

things. Praise the Lord. The word that came to

you did not come to you and say you are small.

Praise the Lord. We see in judges, right? We

see in Judges about Gideon. Judges chapter 6.

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About Gideon. He says, and verse 12 says, The

angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to

him, The Lord is with you, you mighty man of

valor. Praise the Lord. The Lord has called him

mighty man of valor. He's small among the smallest

tribe. Praise the Lord. And he's hiding. He's

showing weakness. By the way. He's hiding. His

physical state is that he's hiding for his life

and he's coming out. And the Lord is saying to

him, you mighty man of valor. So even the Lord

has not said, oh, you are such a small person.

You know, I see that you're afraid. No. He said

to him that you are a mighty man of valor. So

God sees him. Praise the Lord. So what your definition

of yourself is from God. We did these studies

that we get the revelation of ourselves through

Jesus. Praise the Lord. The revelation of ourselves

is through Jesus. So don't despise your youth.

And Gideon said to him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord

is with us, Why then has all these things happened

to us? Where are all the miracles which our fathers

told us, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up

from Egypt? But now the Lord has forsaken us

and delivered us to the hands of the Midianites.

And the Lord said to him, Go in this might of

yours, and you will save Israel from the hands

of the Midianites. Have I not sent you? Praise

the Lord. So even Gideon himself knew the things

of God. He knew that there's some abnormality

about our state. Praise the Lord. He knew that

there's something wrong about where I am. Right?

In as much as, yes, I'm small. In as much as

my family is the smallest. In as much as we are

suffering and we are hiding and we cannot even

plant. And if we plant, the Midianites will come

and take it from us. Praise the Lord. They will

come and destroy our crops and take it. In as

much as those things are happening to you. Right?

He's saying that there's something off about

this. Because what our fathers have told us is

that God is great in this kingdom. Praise the

Lord. What our fathers have told us is that God

has been great in this kingdom. So how is it

that we are suffering? So in the mind that he's

going is in the mind that he knows that we are

not supposed to be there. Praise the Lord. So

the strength that he's going on is he's going

in the strength that he knows that something

is off and we are not supposed to be where we

are. Praise the Lord. So God sees you for who

you are. So do not despise your youth. Do not

say you are too small. Do not say you are the

firstborn of your family. Maybe they will say

you have carry Christian things in your head.

Praise the Lord. Do not say there is nothing

for me to do. He said, you mighty man of valor,

a man who is hiding. Let's go back to Timothy,

1 Timothy chapter 4, verse 12 to 16. He said,

1 Timothy 4:12–16

let no one despise your youth, but be an example

to the believers in word, in conduct, in love.

In spirit, in faith. Praise the Lord. He said,

do not let anyone despise your youth. Right?

What he's saying is that you should be a believer.

Be a believer. Praise the Lord. Be my child.

The list he's giving here is what a believer

has or what a believer, the traces or what we

can see in a believer. But be an example in word,

in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in

purity. Till I come, give attention to reading

and exaltation and to doctrine. He said, Do not

neglect the gift of God that is in you, which

was given to you by the prophecies with the laying

of hands of the eldership. Meditate on these

things. Give yourself entirely to them, that

your progress may be evident to all. He said,

Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue

in them, for in doing this, you will save both

yourself and to those who hear you. Praise the

Lord. Let's go to verses 13. 14 run. He said,

do not neglect the gift of gold that is in you,

which was given to you by the prophecies with

the laying of the hands of the eldership. Praise

the Lord. He said, do not neglect them. So the

prophecies that came to you, As a result of your

prayers, as a result of the cathartismus, rather,

as a result of the prayers that we had here,

is to do not neglect them. Don't say they are

too big. How are we supposed to achieve this?

Or you have received so many words in the past

before, you know, they said you're going to be

a pastor. You know, they told me that three years

ago, four years ago. I'm still here, still struggling.

Praise the Lord. You say you don't neglect them.

How do you not neglect these things? How do you

not neglect these things? How you don't neglect

them is that you pray about them. Praise the

Lord. How you don't neglect them is that you

have it written down. Praise the Lord. You have

it written down and you pray about them. The

fact that there is a prophecy that came to your

life does not mean that it would automatically

flow. And go and you will start walking in it.

Praise the Lord. You have to pay attention. You

have to pay attention to the things that have

been said concerning your life. The prophecies

that came upon your life. You have to give attention

to them. You have to pray about them. You have

to meditate on them. You have to practice them.

Praise the Lord. You need to get direction consigning

some of them. And so you need to pray about them.

You need to seek the face of God consigning some

of the things that you have received. If the

Lord is saying to you that he is going to, or

somebody, you know, the Lord is saying to somebody

that you are, you're going to preach or you're

going to be a preacher. And then where you are

right now, you don't know any Greek word, for

example. You don't say, ah, they told me something

that is too big for me. Praise the Lord. It means

that you need to seek counsel and get direction

concerning what you should do. It means that

you need to start learning. You need to come

under training. Praise the Lord. You need to

come under training so that the things that were

said concerning you will begin to find manifestation.

Praise the Lord. You need to find, so you don't

just run off and start. I remember a preacher

was saying that, God was saying to him that you,

he's going to, you're going to make friends with

some people and that is going to be for the kingdom.

Right? And he just took off and started making

friends. Praise the Lord. He did not ask for

which friends should we make or who are the people

that you are sending me to that we're going to

be friends, that is going to help us or is going

to help me, that I'm going to partner with that

will progress this kingdom. He just took off

and said, oh, okay, I see that preacher. I see

this preacher. Okay, let's be friends. Praise

the Lord. But then he later found out that those

are not the people that he should be friends

with because they were going to cause him issues

and problems. So when the Lord is saying something

to you or has said something to you, you're confused

or it's too ambiguous or it's too big, you need

to start praying about them. You need to start

seeking counsel about them. What am I supposed

to do now? Praise the Lord. What am I supposed

to do now? How do I go about it? Don't leave

it in the back of your book and maybe somebody

else again will come and tell you after one year,

the Lord is saying this thing. You now say, ah,

they have told me this thing before, but you

are waiting for it. Praise the Lord. You start

walking in it. You start finding alignment. You

start aligning yourself to the things that were

said. You don't wait for it. Praise the Lord.

You don't wait for those things to come and meet

you. Or maybe somebody is You are living the

way you should not live and they ask you, what

are you doing like this? Do you not know the

Lord has said I'll be a preacher? Why are you

talking to me like this? Praise the Lord. And

so that's where the church then comes in to help

us. Praise the Lord. This is where the church

comes in to help us. I started on Sunday talking

about the family of God. I was talking about

Why the Lord has given us the local church. Praise

the Lord. Why the Lord has given us the local

church. And I said that the local church is God's

structure for your spiritual growth. Praise the

Lord. The local church is God's structure for

your spiritual growth. It is what God has designed

that you grow, that you find direction, that

you find family. It is where you learn how to

function. Right? In the local church, it's where

you follow the instructions and the directions

of the pastors because this is what God has designed

for you, for your growth. They will guide you.

And I said to us not to be careful not to join

those who are saying many bad things about the

church. That a local church might not be perfect,

or it might not be as you think it should be,

but it doesn't mean that you should be speaking

bad about it. Praise the Lord. Because this is

God's design for your growth. There are some

people that have used it for their own benefit.

Praise the Lord. But it doesn't mean that God

is not interested again in the local church.

Praise the Lord. So to give yourself to the local

church as a place of training. So we must be

planted again in a local church because that's

where we learn how to function. Right? We cannot

grow when we have divided commitment. You are

in this church. You are in that church. Your

mom is Anglican. Your father is Catholic. You

say, okay, let's go to Catholic this Sunday.

Anglican the next Sunday. You will not grow.

Praise the Lord. Oh, okay. I'm here in NECF.

I am somewhere online. That's my church too.

You know, some Sundays I might not come because,

you know, my church is holding something online.

You will not grow. Praise the Lord. There will

be a lot of confusion in your life because the

church then has a structure or have a plan for

your growth. Praise the Lord. The church, the

local church has a plan for you to grow. They

don't just say, okay, on Sunday, you know. As

the Lord is leading, you just preach anything.

Praise the Lord. At least we don't do that. To

just say, okay, yeah, just preach anything. Praise

the Lord. Or just say anything that comes to

your mind, you know. Or, you know, what studies

do you think we should do next? Praise the Lord.

So there's already a plan consigning your growth.

So when you begin to have those divided commitments,

you will not be able to grow properly. So to

hear one thing is how to grow, right? Not many

things. So you grow by hearing one thing. You

grow by hearing one thing, not many things, as

a result of the fact that you have access to

the social media. We cannot grow like that. We

cannot have a lot of commitment and grow spiritually.

Luke chapter 10. Luke chapter 10. Luke chapter

Luke 10 · chapter mention Luke 10 · chapter mention Luke 10:38

10 verse 38. Now it happened as they went that

he entered a certain village and a woman named

Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had

a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus'

feet and had his word. But Martha was distracted

with many servings, and she approached him and

said, Lord, do you not care that my sister has

left me to serve alone? Therefore tell her to

help me. And Jesus said to her, Martha, Martha,

you're worried? and troubled about many things.

But one thing indeed, one thing is needed. And

Mary has chosen the good part, which will not

be taken away from her. Praise the Lord. Which

will not be taken away from her. So what Martha

was doing was very important. Right? What Martha

was doing was very important. It's a very important

thing to do, to serve, to... serve in the house

of God or in the local church, as you say. It

is a good thing to serve, right? But she was

worried about many things. She was worried about

serving, helping. In our case, listening to many

things or not being committed to a local church

is the troubles and the worries that you might

have. Praise the Lord. So in our case, listening

to many things and not following, not being committed

to a local church is a thing that will become

the trouble and the worries that you are having.

Praise the Lord, or you might have. Praise the

Lord. And he said, if you sit, he said Mary sat

in verse 39. He says, and she had a sister called

Mary who also sat at Jesus' feet and had his

reward. So sat at Jesus' feet. It's not just

talking about that what sat at Jesus' feet. It's

not, it's just merely a geographical location.

Okay? So it's not, it's not merely that she sat

on the floor. Praise the Lord. Right? But rather,

it is that she gave herself to trading. Praise

the Lord. So, Sat at Jesus' feet that Mary did

is not just that she's physically sitting at

Jesus' feet. Just like every person is seated

in church, but not every person is given to training.

Praise the Lord. So, sat at Jesus' feet is much

more than that. That word, sat at Jesus' feet,

is just more than that. It means to give yourself

to training. So Mary gave herself to the training

that Jesus is doing. Praise the Lord. Mary gave

herself to the training in which Jesus was given.

So the church is where you give yourself to training.

The local church is where you give yourself to

training. We also see in Acts chapter 22 verse

Acts 22:3

3. He said, and he said, I indeed am a Jew born

in Tharsis of Sicilia, no, Silesia, right? But

I was brought up at the city at the feet of Gamaliel,

right? So we also see this place. I was brought

up at the city at the feet of Gamaliel. It's

also saying that he gave himself to training.

Right? Taught according to the strictness of

our father's law and was zealous towards God

as you all are today. Praise the Lord. So, brought

up at the city, at the feet of Gamaliel, he's

saying that he gave himself to training. It's

the same word that we see in Luke chapter 10,

Luke 10:38

verse 38, 39. Right? So, he's giving himself

to a mentorship. So the church is where you give

yourself to training. Praise the Lord. You give

yourself to be trained. So it therefore means

that you are not the one that designed the curriculum.

Praise the Lord. So you don't design the curriculum.

You give yourself to be trained. So the local

assembly brings structure to your life. Right?

It brings structure to your life. It's a place

of mentorship. You should not be just everywhere.

Praise the Lord. You give yourself to training.

And so that's why I gave the example of last

week that if you're thinking about the subject

of anointing and we are dealing with something

else, the gospel in Genesis, you might have to

wait for anointing to reach you. Praise the Lord.

The teaching of anointing to reach you because

that's the structure that it is right now. You

cannot tell your teacher that he's teaching you

a subject at the beginning of the seventh stanza.

You want to learn what is before finals. Praise

the Lord. He should teach you what is beyond

before finals. So there's a structure that the

church brings to your life. Praise the Lord.

You cannot do everything at once. You will not

just learn everything at once. It comes gradually.

That's how you get impacted with knowledge. That's

how you grow. It is that things are done gradually.

So the church brings order in a systematic way

to your life. It is not a place of entertainment.

Praise the Lord. So there's people that will

say, ah, this is your church service. They're

not dancing too much or they're not bringing

comedians. It's not a place, you're not the custodian.

Praise the Lord. It's not a place of entertainment.

So it's not, the growth in the church is not

from human perspective. You don't say, you know,

as young people. We need some few jokes around,

some entertainment here and there, some drama

here and there, some dancing here and there,

some performance in the stage. We need to bring

a comedian, you know, something like this. Praise

the Lord. So it's not, the church is not, the

growth that happens is not to your own perspective.

Praise the Lord. That's why it's a place of training.

It's also not a place where you go. To get pleased.

The way you go and say, let me please myself.

Like the way an entertainment place is. Or a

place where you say you want to go and shine.

Praise the Lord. A lot of people that came to

shine, some of them have left. Praise the Lord.

It's a place of training. So the local church

provides stability to the believer, stability

to your prayer life, right? And supernatural

experiences, just like the way we had catatismus,

just like the way we had all day prayers. It

brings stability to your prayer life, to supernatural

experiences. We organize believers conference.

We organize a Holy Ghost meeting. Praise the

Lord. The church brings these things to bring

stability to your life. Right? We have time for

prayers. Just like in this service, there was

50 minutes of prayers. Praise the Lord. So we

have all these things to ensure that the believer

is stable and is growing. There's time for evangelism.

There's time to serve. Praise the Lord. So by

listening to many people or many things, you

begin to lack stability. Praise the Lord. Because

what is said here might be different from what

is said there. Praise the Lord. And you are getting

a little from here and there. So when you stick

to the local church, you will gradually begin

to grow. Praise the Lord. When you stick to the

local church, you will gradually begin to grow.

So you focus more on what is happening in your

local church, not in the body of Christ. Praise

the Lord. Focus more on what is happening in

this local church. not what is happening in the

body of Christ. If you focus more on what's happening

in your local church, there will be much more

growth. Praise the Lord. Because you might see

somebody that you, you know, according to you,

the person is misbehaving, but there might be

somebody in your local church that is showing

you signs and some symptoms. Praise the Lord.

If you don't focus on that person, you will grow

up to become one of those people that will bring

much more problems. Praise the Lord. So you focus

more on what is happening in your local church.

Lord, what are they doing there? They are not

even praying. They are not even singing. They

are not even teaching the word. Focus more on

what is happening in your local church so that

you grow. 2 Timothy chapter 1, 2 Timothy chapter

2 Timothy 1 · chapter mention 2 Timothy 2:1–2

2, verses 1 to 2. He said, You, therefore, my

son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ

Jesus, and the things which you have had from

me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful

men who will be able to teach others. Praise

the Lord. Commit these things to faithful men

who will be able to teach others. So the one

thing about the local church is that it has people

that think alike. Praise the Lord. For example,

they say, let's rejoice. Everybody here understands

what it means to rejoice. So the local church

gives you this opportunity to think alike, to

behave in certain ways. So you share in common

things. You share the same thing. You share the

same word. He said, the same thing you should

commit to faithful men. He said, the things which

you have heard from me, among many witnesses,

commit these things to faithful men who will

be able to teach others. How do you know a faithful

man? Praise the Lord. You know a faithful man

from a local church. Praise the Lord. You know

a faithful man from a local church. And because

this man is being around, he's in the local church,

he's able to commit these things to many other

people because he has had the same thing. He

has received the same thing. Praise the Lord.

So because he's been in a place of training,

he's able to pass these things on to faithful

men. Praise the Lord. Luke chapter 1. Luke chapter

Luke 1 · chapter mention Luke 1:1–4

1, verse 1 to 4. Inasmuch as many have taken

in hand to set in order a narrative of the things

which have been fulfilled among us, just as those

who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and

ministers of the Word deliver them to us, it

seems good to me also Having had perfect understanding

of all these things, from the very start, to

write to you an orderly account, most excellent

Theophilus. Praise the Lord. So he had had the

same thing. He has been among them. Praise the

Lord. So he can, he can, he can, we can say that

he's a faithful man because he has been among

the same set of people. He's not going to write

something else to Theophilus. Praise the Lord.

He's not going to write something else to Theophilus

because he has been among the happenings that

are happening around. So he's going to write,

the thing he's going to write is not going to

be contradictory to the things that has been

taught. Praise the Lord. So Luke is a faithful

man. It's the same thing that Jesus tells us,

right? In Matthew 28, verse 20. Matthew 28, verse

Matthew 28:20 Matthew 28:20

20. It's teaching them all the things I've commanded

you and know I'm with you always to the end,

even to the end of the age. Amen. It's teaching

them to observe all the things I've commanded

you. Praise the Lord. Do you know what Jesus

is saying to them? I know that you have learned

everything I've commanded you. Praise the Lord.

You're not going to water down the things I've

taught you. Praise the Lord. Because you have

been in a place of training, because you have

been with me all this while, because you have

been in a local church. Praise the Lord. You're

not going to water down the things that you're

going to command them. It's all the things I've

commanded you. So these men are faithful men

that have received, that have been trained. Praise

the Lord. So a faithful man is a man who has

received training, right? Who has received training.

A man who has received training, who has been

in the local church. One who is safe, right?

Who gives himself to the message. And he teaches

others the same thing that he's been taught.

Praise the Lord. He's not trying to add some

spices to it. He's trying to add his own doctrines

to it. Praise the Lord. He's a man that I received.

The way he received it is the same way he's going

to deliver it. Praise the Lord. So these are

faithful men. Deliver it unto them. So we should

not be people that have information about many

things but have no depth about these things.

That's what the local church comes to. do for

us. He comes to bring stability to our life.

He comes to commit the word of truth to us so

that we're able to commit it to others. Praise

the Lord. You have two years or one year here.

Praise the Lord. And when you are done, it is

expected that you're supposed to commit the same

thing that you learned. Not a watered down thing.

Okay? Lord, they say, okay, come and preach laying

of hands. You now say, if I just lay hands on

you now, you fall. Praise the Lord. It means

laying of hands is when you touch somebody's

forehead, you fall. That's not what you were

taught. They took four or five sessions to teach

you and two hours message. And then you just

came and said, come and receive it. Praise the

Lord. So, to be faithful men. So, the church

helps us to be faithful men. Praise the Lord.

The church gives us the platform to receive the

word of righteousness so that we are able to

commit it onto other people, so that we are able

to teach it to other people. Praise the Lord.

So that's what we do after Catholicism. Praise

the Lord. We stay in the local church. So I just

want us to take some time now. The mic is still

on. We're just going to pray for this house.

We're going to pray for this church. Okay? And

we're going to give word consigning this church.

Praise the Lord. In the next 10 minutes, we're

going to pray consigning NECF. And we're going

to give word consigning NECF. The secretaries

are very active and available to receive this

word. And the mics are on for us to receive this

word. So for the next 10 minutes, I just want

us to begin to pray for this church. Pray for

the leaders of this church, especially the lead

pastor of this church. Praise the Lord. And we're

going to receive word for this local church.

Let's just be on our feet. If today's message

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next time, be blessed.