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The Gifts of the Spirit 6 | The Believer's conference 2025 day 5

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  1. Welcome to NECF. We're thrilled you're here.

  2. Make sure to stay with us till the end, where

  3. we'll share some great resources to deepen your

  4. faith. Now, let's dive into this week's sermon.

  5. Yes, much more prophecy. Praise God. So which

  6. means that when we say let's pray in tongues,

  7. You should not be doing this mess. I think either

  8. Pastor Fred or was it Pastor Victor that showed

  9. us a posture yesterday, Pastor Victor. You know,

  10. I attended a meeting by Baba Chris Delvan for

  11. the first time, 2003. He came to our place. The

  12. first time he released his first album. You know,

  13. I bought that album with my money. I finished

  14. that album. You know, I went to NYSE. When I

  15. sing, people say I sound like him. I say I've

  16. never seen him in my life. One -on -one. But

  17. I know I attended the program. So, that was the

  18. first album. Something just within me, I said,

  19. there's something about singing and me. Why is

  20. it that my parents did not allow me to sing?

  21. When I was finished on the school, they'd say,

  22. write the group you want to go. I put choir.

  23. My mom changed it to prayer team. On Sunday,

  24. I was happy. They were going to call because

  25. you wear white, white. So, they're going to call

  26. you people and then they will announce the group.

  27. They announced me in prayer team. Ah, I was,

  28. ah. Pastor Fred said it was rigged. So I attended

  29. this program. You know, then we grew up in a

  30. place where the clothes you wear, you grow in

  31. them. So when they buy you a trouser, you have

  32. to grow in the trouser. So you should know the

  33. size of the trouser. When they buy you one shirt,

  34. I think that also kind of affected us why we

  35. have to keep clothes for a long time. We use

  36. clothes. I can use clothes 20 years. Why? Yeah,

  37. I'm wondering. You know? You know, somebody say,

  38. are you in the wilderness? I don't know. So when

  39. they will buy shoe for you, They will buy the

  40. shoe. You will grow in the shoe. You will grow

  41. in it. It becomes like an inheritor, like a legacy.

  42. You know? So, because of that, we never had too

  43. many clothes. We just had clothes to, the shirts

  44. to wear, trousers to use. There was no clothes

  45. like that. So, I was glad my cousin sent his

  46. Nautica and then one big jeans. You know, Fubu's

  47. baggy. That one big one. So, I was feeling myself.

  48. I remember I went to this man's program because

  49. those were one of my best clothes. If you say,

  50. go and wear your best clothes, that is one of

  51. the clothes I know it was my best. I wore and

  52. then I went to his meeting. So they were praying.

  53. So me, I took myself to that program. But you

  54. know, I just put my hands in the pockets and

  55. I was praying. You know, Baba Delvan looked at

  56. me. He said, Yulia! Are you mad? Do you think

  57. we came here to play? We are praying and you're

  58. putting hands in the pockets and moving around.

  59. Remove the hand or I send you home. I said, but

  60. I brought myself to this meeting to show you

  61. that I did not forget that correction. That's

  62. why it's still in my head till today. I brought

  63. myself. I saw the program. I was happy. I came

  64. there. It's the same posture that when Pastor

  65. Victor said yesterday, that was a picture that

  66. came to my head. You can't be on fire and your

  67. hands are in the pocket. Hallelujah. So when

  68. we say, let's pray, you just, that's when you

  69. now enter your big man is in. You know, you start

  70. pacing around. You start pacing around. The other

  71. day, Coladay, Coladay asked us to do something,

  72. right? To kneel down. That's a posture. We saw

  73. it from scriptures. Right? You start pacing around,

  74. that's when your body will start scratching you.

  75. And that is when your phone will start ringing.

  76. You pick up your phone, you step out, you come

  77. back. You step out, you come back. You step out.

  78. You see that lady has stepped out now. She has

  79. not come back. And I didn't know when she left.

  80. If I knew, she would not leave. So when we say

  81. pray, amen, please, boil, boil. If you're online,

  82. hear me. When we say pray, every, let me say

  83. this now, it's coming to my heart. Every time

  84. you are doing a spiritual thing, boil over that

  85. thing. Hallelujah. Do what? Boil over it. Don't

  86. take it casual. Boil over it. When we say let's

  87. take the next five minutes and then pray in tongues,

  88. please, don't pray casually. Do what? Boil over

  89. it. Hallelujah. Are we ready to do that? Are

  90. we ready to do that? Are we ready to do that?

  91. Yes, this is how we enjoy the supernatural things.

  92. I was listening to that Baba this morning. He

  93. said, every time he has a conference, he takes

  94. one week, two weeks, three weeks, not to prepare

  95. for the conference, to prepare him for the conference.

  96. He said, I prepare me. He said, I ensure that

  97. every noise inside is silenced so that I can

  98. hear him well. So when we come like this, let

  99. all our desires, we establish a reality that

  100. we have audience with God. Hallelujah. We have

  101. audience with God. So let our desires be what?

  102. Be fervent. Are we ready? Let's pray in the next

  103. five minutes in the Holy Ghost. Because the things

  104. that we are about doing in the next minutes to

  105. come will require us to be fervent. It will require

  106. us to be fervent. It will require us to be fervent.

  107. It will require us to be fervent. Thank you.

  108. Alabama Moth. Alabama Moth. Alabama Moth. Alabama

  109. Moth. Alabama Moth. Alabama Moth. Alabama Moth.

  110. If you're online and you're following, boil,

  111. boil and pray more in the Holy Ghost. It's the

  112. Epaphras who is also one of you. That's the posture.

  113. And Jesus with an agonizing posture. So much

  114. so that his sweat was thick as blood. That's

  115. the posture. And they prayed all night for the

  116. apostles when they were locked up in the prison.

  117. That's the posture. Thank you. You have an audience

  118. with God. You have an audience with God and not

  119. with men. yes yes yes yes yes yes yes Isotomenai,

  120. Adikapraila, Ejonoberai, Aramakamolo, Ezazelibrahala,

  121. Alabarababo, Alembra, Alembra, Alembra, Alembra,

  122. Arabalaba, Arabalaba, Arabalaba, Arabalaba, Ababababa,

  123. Ezazeriabala, Ayabalaba, Ayabalababa, Ayabalababa,

  124. Ayabalababa, Ayabalababa, Arabalagadabalobo,

  125. Ezazelibolaba. Thank you, Holy Ghost. In Jesus'

  126. name we pray. Can we have a seat briefly? You

  127. could do well also by just praying under your

  128. breath in the Holy Ghost. You know you can do

  129. that, right? You can listen to me at the same

  130. time you're praying in tongues. Hallelujah. Praise

  131. God. Praise God. Praise God. I know for some

  132. of us, you know, this is one of the first time

  133. we're experiencing such where you sit from morning

  134. till evening. The first time I had this experience

  135. was with Reverend Imao Para from Nigeria. You

  136. know, the first time I've never had this experience.

  137. They say we're going to have 14 hours of prayers.

  138. I say, ah, ah. What are we going to be praying

  139. for 14 hours? Well, you know, because I have

  140. the spirit of God, that saying excited me. I

  141. said, I would love to experience this. Hallelujah.

  142. Every time you hear things like that, let it

  143. excite you. I said, I would love to experience

  144. it because I've never been in a place where we

  145. prayed 14 hours. At least we've been in a place

  146. where we had fasting festival, Apostle Idama,

  147. one week of fasting, no food. Just water, one

  148. week. I came back home, only my head, my neck

  149. sling. In fact, the third day, I even vomited.

  150. You know, one week, if you have never done it,

  151. you say, will I reach fifth day? As if I will

  152. die. Because your eyes will be turning you. But

  153. oh boy, you know, getting to the last day, that

  154. time in Joss, there was this so much supply of

  155. strength from the Holy Ghost. I know this Baba

  156. has been holding this conference for a long time,

  157. if you know him. I saw him, I thought he was

  158. Paul. Because the picture we see of Paul, you

  159. know, in the scripture, he has bald head and

  160. with long BS to the DC. That's the same way that

  161. Baba is. With a bald head, all he has is chalk,

  162. then his BS all to the chest. He was laying on

  163. us. I know I can explain it now. But when that

  164. man came close to me, he didn't touch me. I know

  165. this man carries much more of God's presence.

  166. You know, he had millions in his box. He kept

  167. the millions, all the millions for running the

  168. conference. He kept it on the table. He said,

  169. all of you in this conference, you know, inside

  170. this suitcase is all the money we use for running

  171. this conference. If you are a thief, come and

  172. steal it. I'm telling you, he said it. That box

  173. was there till the end of the conference. When

  174. the government of George sent him two million

  175. and one cow and ten bags of rice, he said, take

  176. it back to them. Tell them we don't need it.

  177. If they want to come here, the governor himself

  178. should come here. Not anyone. He said, only the

  179. pillar. You see that light? It's 1 .5 million.

  180. You see the other one? Only light. You know,

  181. he sent the thing back to them. Tomorrow evening,

  182. the governor came. So when you hear of spiritual

  183. and I shortly, I just came back shortly from

  184. school and I had on Sunday that people are traveling

  185. for fasting festival. I did not calculate it

  186. in my head. I did not even arrange it with my

  187. parents. I told them I had the announcing fellowship

  188. on Friday that on Sunday there is a traveling

  189. to Joss. I want to go. I packed my bag straight

  190. to Joss. These are some of the things that will

  191. preserve God's deposit in your life. When you

  192. hear meetings like that, don't run away from

  193. them. Praise God. Hallelujah. With this so much

  194. knowledge you have, at the age where you are,

  195. 16, 17, 20, 21, what you are hearing today, we

  196. never had it at 21. We never had anybody, sir,

  197. even at 23, 24, for sure not say, this is how

  198. you craft your life. Don't do this. The other

  199. day we were talking. If we had people that were

  200. following us the way we are following people

  201. and you're running away. Really will not be here.

  202. But something kept us. Hallelujah. That desire

  203. never died. Hallelujah. That desire never what?

  204. Never died. That desire should not die in your

  205. heart. Praise God. It should never die. It should

  206. never grow cold. It should never grow cold. It

  207. should never grow cold. It should never grow

  208. cold. It should never grow cold. It should never

  209. what? Grow cold by the Spirit of God. Now, in

  210. your own corner, plan out a time that I'm going

  211. to give myself to praying in tongues for the

  212. next 90 days. Praying in tongues every day for

  213. one hour. I will give myself praying. Praying

  214. in tongues. Not in English language. Not in French.

  215. Not in Zimbabwe language. Not in any language.

  216. Only tongues for one hour for the next 90 days.

  217. Plan it out. Something will happen about your

  218. life. Amen? Praise God. Yeah, so let's go. Where

  219. did we stop? So that we can run this and then...

  220. Like I told us, when we talk about... Tongues

  221. and interpretation of tongues is already what?

  222. Prophecy. Praise God. Yeah, so even when we're

  223. going to talk about prophecy later on, it will

  224. just be just almost like what? A reputation.

  225. Because we're going to dwell still on 1 Corinthians

    1 Corinthians 14 chapter mention

  226. chapter 14 and it's the same side by side that

  227. you see Paul talking about that. Amen? So where

  228. did we stop? Can you remind me please? Sorry.

  229. We stop at what? Definition of prophecy? Okay,

  230. speak by inspiration. Thank you, sir. Excuse

  231. me. So, okay, and then we said we carried the

  232. words and we put it in, right? Yeah, so and then

  233. you read it for us. Thank you for that. Holy

  234. Spirit. So, Having said that now, 1 Corinthians

  235. 14, let's just build from there. I told us we

  236. should not be tired of 1 Corinthians, Mark chapter

    Mark 16 chapter mention

  237. 16, Acts. We're going to be going there back

  238. and forth. Follow after what? Charity, right?

  239. And desire spiritual gifts. But rather that ye

  240. may what? Much more that ye may prophesy. You

  241. speak by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost at

  242. the spur of the moment. Amen? So, when Paul starts

  243. out, or as he has started out this chapter, he

  244. said that much more that ye may what? Prophesy.

  245. And then we established that prophecy is directly

  246. what? Edifying the what? The church, right? And

  247. so, when we say you're speaking by inspiration,

  248. what we are saying is that you are speaking intelligible

  249. words that the mind can understand. Do you know

  250. what I said? When we say prophecy, you are speaking

  251. by inspiration. What the Holy Ghost is uttering

  252. through you, right, is coming to the mind and

  253. the mind is understanding it. So in essence,

  254. what we mean is that now prophecy is using, let

  255. me qualify it this way now carefully, is using

  256. the common language to be able to explain. supernatural

  257. information or communication. Using what? Common

  258. language. A language that everyone understands.

  259. The language that your hearer understands. So

  260. prophecy is using what? A common language. A

  261. natural language that the mind understands to

  262. explain supernatural communication. Prophecy

  263. is using what? Natural language, common language

  264. that the mind understands to explain what? Supernatural

  265. what? Communication. So that the mind can be

  266. edified. You can either put so that the mind

  267. can be edified or the hearer can be edified.

  268. So every time prophecy comes, prophecy will not

  269. come in speakings like tongues. Prophecy will

  270. come in words that are understandable to the

  271. mind. Amen? But the sole end of prophecy is what?

  272. Edification. Don't forget. The sole end and the

  273. aim of prophecy is what? Edification. To build.

  274. So prophecies don't come to destroy. Prophecies

  275. come to build. However, I've jumped ahead. But

  276. it's still part of interpretation. Prophecies

  277. don't come to what? To destroy. Prophecies come

  278. to do what? To build. So when you get into a

  279. place and somebody is giving you a prophetic

  280. word, he's giving you tongues and interpretation

  281. of tongues, right? And then suddenly, instead

  282. of getting edified, you're feeling unedified

  283. and you're feeling destroyed, right? Two things

  284. are happening. which we are going to learn here

  285. also. Whether the person has not learned and

  286. is matured on how to pass the information he

  287. or she is receiving as a result of growth or

  288. as a result of teaching, right? Or the person

  289. is transmitting from a wrong source. So there's

  290. a place where as a result of your growth, you

  291. are not taught. So you are hearing and you are

  292. receiving accurately, right? But now, How to

  293. transmit it. I want to give one example. I don't

  294. know how to put it. Let me leave it. How to transmit

  295. it now is a challenge. Right? So, but however,

  296. now you need to be taught and you now learn how

  297. to now carefully because one of the things we

  298. are learning is that every time you receive an

  299. instruction, the sole aim is to edify. The sole

  300. aim is to what? When there is tongue and interpretation,

  301. the sole aim is what? Edification. Edification.

  302. We're going to see now. Edification. Building,

  303. building, building, building, building. Not to

  304. put fear. Not to put fear. Not to put anxiety.

  305. Not to put worry. Not to put fear. Not to put

  306. anxiety. Not to put worry. But to set up faith

  307. and to build. That's why yesterday I counseled

  308. some people to leave some groups on WhatsApp,

  309. on TikTok, Palm or Strange House group. Understand

  310. your destiny by reading the Sky group. I told

  311. you, leave those groups. That is why you're hearing

  312. things when you sleep. You see things. When I

  313. sit, I just hear things. Why won't you hear things?

  314. The source of what you're hearing is not edifying

  315. you. I remember a sister came here. And she told

  316. me that she's already hearing since she's here.

  317. I will not say her name. But she's not in the

  318. hall here. And I hope she's listening to me online.

  319. You know, and we asked her, what book and what

  320. are you hearing? She said that she has been reading

  321. something about demonic, demonic something, something,

  322. something. And there's somebody that she's following

  323. online. There was one guy that they released

  324. on YouTube that talks about, is it hell or Satan?

  325. was something demonizing. I said, why are you

  326. listening? She said that she's listening so that

  327. she can understand their operation. And I asked

  328. her, you have not finished with the operation

  329. of what we are doing in this church. You are

  330. giving yourself fully to that. Why won't you

  331. be hearing the things you are hearing? Why won't

  332. you be seen? She said when she sleeps, she sees

  333. people are following her like she's seen demons

  334. around. Do you know what she told me? She said

  335. when she looks at people, she sees demons on

  336. their head. Yes. It took time. She has stopped

  337. seeing them now. The sole aim of tongues and

  338. interpretation is what? Edification. And I said

  339. something earlier that interpretation is not

  340. translating syllables of the sounds of your tongues.

  341. Interpretation is not what? Translating the sounds

  342. or the syllables of your what? Of your tongue.

  343. No. And I said something profoundly that interpretation

  344. is also a diversity of the Holy Ghost within

  345. the believer. The believer has tongues within

  346. him. He also has what? Interpretation. So the

  347. source of interpretation is the Holy Ghost. So

  348. interpretation does not come from your mind,

  349. but interpretation comes from your what? From

  350. your spirit. So it's interpretation that comes

  351. from your spirit and then the mind is able to

  352. catch up with the information. Praise God. So

  353. when interpretation comes now, your mind now

  354. takes it up. I say, glory! They never spoke yesterday.

  355. Brother Prince and other brother, remind me your

  356. name. Simon. They never met yesterday. They never

  357. spoke yesterday. But the same word he gave me

  358. today, the same word he also gave me today. Yesterday,

  359. sorry. He also gave me. Just a confirmation.

  360. And my mind understood it. Why? Because for the

  361. past few weeks, I've been getting lots of information

  362. of the same thing. In fact, with lots of messages.

  363. People that we have not talked to for a long

  364. time. So now, you see, they've interpreted it

  365. and my mind has what? Understood it. Am I edified?

  366. Yes, I'm edified. That's interpretation of tongues.

  367. Are we all here? So, run away. You have passed

  368. that place now. But when you meet people now,

  369. because you have passed the level of what I was

  370. about to say. So I've changed it now. When you

  371. meet people and they're struggling with the sounds

  372. of tongues, the sounds of tongues, right? You

  373. know what to tell them now, right? Right? So,

  374. and then you know what to tell them regarding

  375. interpretation, right? Perfect. Glory to God.

  376. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So, verse 3 and 4 now.

  377. We say, but he that prophesied speaketh unto

  378. men. To what? Can you see why I kept stressing

  379. edification? But he that prophesied edifies.

  380. Say I prophesy and I edify. I prophesy and I

  381. edify. Hallelujah. So because prophecy brings

  382. edification. Prophecy brings exaltation. Prophecy

  383. brings comfort. Prophecy does not bring, should

  384. not bring anxiety. Prophecy should not bring

  385. fear. Prophecy should not bring sleepless nights.

  386. We're going to teach extensively on prophecy,

  387. on the prophetic. Amen? So you see, I'm already

  388. mixing interpretation and prophecy at the same

  389. time. Praise God. Hallelujah. Are we all here?

  390. So verse 3, verse 4 now. He that speaketh in

  391. an unknown tongue edifies who? You now know why

  392. the scripture says that you edify yourself, right?

  393. Why? Tell me. Yes? Yes? Yes, sir. Yes sir, that's

  394. one. Oh, this class. Please, we'll share the

  395. grace and go. You've written these things on

  396. your book now. When we say, he that speaketh

  397. in an unknown tongue, or he that prayeth in tongue,

  398. he defies himself. He's talking about one person

  399. now. What does he mean? Yes! You have audience,

  400. you and God. We say it's what? It's an elevated

  401. discussion. You and God. So what's happening

  402. is that God and you are understanding what you

  403. are speaking. You are edified. Praise God. Hallelujah.

  404. That's what's happening. But you should not stop

  405. there. See what the scripture says in verse 4.

  406. But he that prophesied edified what? The church.

  407. Why? Because when it's prophecy, now the words.

  408. What did I say about prophecy? Yes, the language

  409. other people understand. Or when I pray in tongues

  410. and I interpret the tongues, I edify the church.

  411. Why now? Because in interpretation, what's happened

  412. is that I use common language that the mind can

  413. understand. So, in the short moments now, we're

  414. going to split ourselves, right? And then we're

  415. going to pray in the Holy Ghost much more. And

  416. then we'll say, give a word. Do you give a word

  417. when we say, give a word? Come, for example.

  418. Let's do something. Let's pray. Let's pray for

  419. two minutes in the Holy Ghost. Don't look at

  420. us praying in the Holy Ghost. Praise God. Hallelujah.

  421. I've received a word for him. Right? I've received

  422. a word. In my heart now for him. But now. Let

  423. me give him the word. Are you with me? Rejoice

  424. now. So you are rejoicing. How do you understand?

  425. What did you understand? Are you rejoicing? Did

  426. you understand anything? Nothing. But now. If

  427. I come now. After we have taken time. And I tell

  428. him that I perceive in my heart. That there is

  429. so much desire for the supernatural. There is

  430. so much desire for the supernatural. And the

  431. spirit of God is saying that in this season.

  432. He is satisfying that desire much more. That

  433. you will see signs, wonders and miracles walk

  434. through your hands. He said even in the seemingly

  435. natural things that you desire. Those things

  436. that you've been praying much more. Those things

  437. that you've been, oh, you've been asking. Oh,

  438. really these things are possible. And I know

  439. it's possible through my hands. He said, I'm

  440. making them your reality much more. You will

  441. walk in them. You will see them. And many will

  442. testify of it. Hallelujah. Does he understand

  443. it? That's interpretation. Hallelujah. That's

  444. interpretation. That's just it. So as you keep

  445. it up, as you keep it up, as you keep it up,

  446. you get better at it. Don't shy away from it.

  447. Hallelujah. Good. So now, I just perceived this.

  448. You know, this thing that happened now, a couple

  449. of people have received a word in their heart.

  450. A couple of people have received a word. Two,

  451. three people have received a word. Who is the

  452. person or who are the people? Don't shy now.

  453. I just finished saying the word. I'll set you

  454. up. My management says I should not do this sign,

  455. so I'll not do it. But I will set you up. I will

  456. set you up. My management knows the sign. So,

  457. the Lord will give you understanding. Are we

  458. all here? So now, verse 4. He that speaketh in

  459. an unknown tongue edified himself. We have established

  460. what edified himself means, right? But he that

  461. prophesied edified what? The church. 5 now. I

  462. would that ye all speak with tongues, but rather

  463. that ye what? Prophesy. For greater is he that

  464. prophesied than he that what? Speaketh with what?

  465. With tongues. Except he, what? Interpret that

  466. the church may receive a defiant. Hallelujah.

  467. He said, for greater is he that prophesied than

  468. he that speaketh with what? With tongues. And

  469. we establish a word there, rather. Have you written

  470. something like that? Rather. You wrote it before,

  471. right? What's the word? Much more. Praise God.

  472. So if you realize, much more. When you check

  473. the original context of this writing, right?

  474. Translators have been able to act to help our

  475. understanding, actually. Right? They've been

  476. able to act, hear that. All the world has been

  477. seeing that. Right? So, because now, Paul is

  478. communicating from verse 1. And the matter of

  479. the discourse has not changed. Praise God. And

  480. the discourse is about the prophecy. Much more.

  481. Prophecy. He said, when you speak in tongues,

  482. interpret. The end of it, edification. Hallelujah.

  483. Yes, so he can come again and negate a reality

  484. and say that, oh, you know, when you speak in

  485. tongues, you are now greater than, sorry, when

  486. you prophesy, you are now greater than the one

  487. that what? That speaks in tongues. And then now

  488. every one of us go about. We say, you know, this

  489. man is a prophet. He is greater than us. And

  490. let me just say something. You can receive a

  491. word. In Africa, it's not common, but let me

  492. say it now. It just came back. In Africa, you

  493. cannot receive a word for your pastor. It's difficult.

  494. Even when you receive it, it cannot reach him.

  495. It will take you one year maybe before it reaches

  496. him. The first time I learned that actually,

  497. you can actually give a word was the day we were

  498. doing prophetic activation with Papa Steve. When

  499. he said, no, you can give me a word, I said,

  500. ah! Who am I? I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy.

  501. And you know, so we prayed, prayed, prayed. So

  502. by the Spirit, I now just, you know, I said,

  503. I perceive, sir, that you people are planning

  504. to move to Europe. Yes, Europe. I just perceive

  505. Europe. I didn't get the country, France. I saw

  506. him smiling. I said, ah, maybe I messed up. So

  507. he said, Koston, I said, yes, sir. He said, hmm.

  508. So, did you get the country? You know, I immediately

  509. said, I got it. I felt like, come on now. I've

  510. received a word from man of God and I know his

  511. class. Because where we are coming from is strange.

  512. Glory to God. But let me tell you, I announced

  513. to you that you can receive a word for a man

  514. of God by the Spirit of God. You can receive

  515. a word for your pastors. If you're online, you're

  516. hearing me, you can receive a word. Hallelujah.

  517. And give them the word. Praise God. Hallelujah.

  518. Yes, that is to answer one question in someone's

  519. heart now. Amen. Praise God. So Paul would have

  520. not been speaking that the one that prophesies

  521. is what? Is greater than the one that speaks

  522. in tongues. And also what? Because the sole aim

  523. of this communication in verse 5 is about what?

  524. Edification. Praise God. Because when we read

  525. verse 4 carefully, let's go to verse 4 everybody.

  526. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue does what?

  527. Edified himself. But he that prophesied edified

  528. what? The church. So he wants to explain much

  529. more what is his communication from verse 4.

  530. Right? Because if he's saying in verse 4, in

  531. verse 5, sorry. If he's saying in verse 4, the

  532. prophecy edifies the church. But the man, right,

  533. that prays in tongues, edifies himself. So verse

  534. 5 will be. So when I edify myself and I have

  535. to edify the church, what should I do? Do we

  536. understand? Do we understand? That's what's happening

  537. in verse 5. Everybody go to verse 5 now. That's

  538. what's happening now. See now, he says in verse

  539. 5, I would that ye all speak with what? With

  540. tongues. But rather, much more that you do what?

  541. That you prophesy. Why? Because previously he

  542. has said that prophecy edifies the church. However,

  543. now, when we keep reading now, for greater is

  544. he that prophesied than he that what? Speaketh

  545. in what? With tongues. Except he interprets,

  546. what will happen? That the church may do what?

  547. That the church may what? So now, fast now, because

  548. I want to quickly run over this place. I have

  549. a few minutes here so that we can do the things

  550. that we have ahead of us. When you check the

  551. what, that greater is maison. M -E -I -Z -O -N.

  552. He wasn't saying the one that prophesied is greater

  553. than what? The one that speaks in tongues. It's

  554. about edification. Praise God. So Paul would

  555. have not been contradicting the communication

  556. from verse 1, 2, 3, 4. Mason. M -E -I -Z -O -N.

  557. Mason. M -E -I -Z -O -N. And that word there

  558. is more. And that more there is not talking about

  559. ranking or classification. Prophecy is greater

  560. than what? than tongues. No. What he's saying

  561. is that the same way that prophecy brings edifying,

  562. when tongues is added with interpretation, edification

  563. also comes to what? To the church. Amen? Hallelujah.

  564. How did I know? Verse 6. See verse 6 now. How

  565. did I know? Verse 6. Now, brethren, if I come

  566. to you speaking with tongues, what shall I what?

  567. Profit you. Except I shall speak with you either

  568. by what? Revelation or by knowledge or by prophesying

  569. or by what? Doctrine. So he's saying that when

  570. I come to you, the only way I can profit you,

  571. that what profit there, the only way I can be

  572. of advantage to you is that I have to either

  573. bring their tongues and interpret it. A disclosed

  574. matter is now, an undisclosed matter is now disclosed,

  575. right? That's revelation. Amen? Yes, because

  576. interpretation, I've said it, that it happens

  577. by what? Revelation. Praise God. So now, the

  578. only way Paul will say that what? Is that I come

  579. to you either by revelation or by what? Knowledge

  580. or by what? Prophesying or by what? Or by doctrine.

  581. All of this will come with a natural language.

  582. So that the human mind can what? Can understand

  583. and be edified. So verse 5 is not talking about

  584. ranking of who is great and not. That word he

  585. that was added by translators. So that word greater

  586. is talking about more. And that more there is

  587. saying that prophecy. Right? The same way we

  588. define prophecy. You remember the definition,

  589. right? Yes, sir. Prophecy, as much as prophecy

  590. brings edifying to the church, when tongues is

  591. mixed with interpretation, edification comes.

  592. Praise God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So because

  593. now there are lots of assertions that no, he's

  594. the one that prophesies. He's greater than the

  595. one that what? That speaks. Ah, that comes to

  596. me. I saw a man somewhere. I saw a man that come.

  597. Maybe you have seen it. One pastor brought one

  598. lady up. She spoke in tongues. And he now asked

  599. somebody to come and interpret. Have you seen

  600. the video somewhere? He was shaming, shaming

  601. tongues. You know, I just saw that man. The word

  602. that came to my heart, he said, You know, he

  603. called the lady and told her, pray in tongues,

  604. pray, pray, pray. And the lady seriously prayed

  605. in tongues. In fact, she fervently prayed that

  606. prayer. And he now said, can anybody come and

  607. come and interpret it? You have not seen it?

  608. It's somewhere online. I saw it some time ago.

  609. Yes. I felt pain in my heart. And you know the

  610. scripture he read? It's that place. We are coming

  611. to it in Acts chapter 14. That if there be no

    Acts 14 chapter mention

  612. interpreter. He now ridiculed tongues there.

  613. He ridiculed. He even ridiculed the lady too.

  614. No Allah. We are here. That's why we are here.

  615. Praise God. See, that's why I'm here. Yes, that's

  616. why we're here. Amen? Yes, are we all here? Yes,

  617. wrong point. Where did we stop? Okay, in six,

  618. right? Okay, perfect now. Good, good, good, good,

  619. good, good, good, good. So you see, Paul would

  620. have not been contradicting himself because all

  621. the while, Paul has been encouraging, pray in

  622. tongues, interpret, prophesy. Pray in tongues,

  623. interpret, prophesy. I would have loved that

  624. we read the whole chapter. Right? Probably that's

  625. the last thing we'll do. Please remind me. Remind

  626. me, please, that we're going to read the whole

  627. chapter and then we get into what we're going

  628. to do after learning all these things. Amen?

  629. Good. So now, So we now see that from his teaching,

  630. that tongues followed by interpretation is what?

  631. Is prophecy. It brings edification. Praise God.

  632. So we can say, when a believer prays in tongues

  633. and interprets the tongues, it serves the same

  634. purpose with prophecy. It's not that prophecy

  635. is greater than what? Than tongues and interpretation

  636. of tongues. When a believer prays in tongues,

  637. right? And then interpret the tongues, it serves

  638. what? The same purpose. With what? With prophecy.

  639. The same purpose. And what's the purpose? What's

  640. the purpose? Edification. Edification. Because

  641. verse 6 says, in verse 6 he said, if I come to

  642. you speaking with tongues, what shall I? Profit

  643. you. That word profit is the word Ophelio. Ophelio

  644. means useful, advantageous, benefit. Ophelio.

  645. O -P -H -E -L -E -O. O -P -H -E -L -E -O. Profit.

  646. That word profit is Ophelio, which implies useful,

  647. advantageous. So what Paul would be emphasizing,

  648. right? Is that our participation in tongues and

  649. interpretation of tongues brings advantage. Our

  650. participation in tongues and interpretation of

  651. tongues brings what? Advantage. Oh, it brings

  652. usefulness. Hallelujah. It brings benefits. Praise

  653. God. It brings benefits. Are we all here? So

  654. in that verse 6, he ended by saying something

  655. there. He said, Except I shall speak to you either

  656. by what? Revelation. By what? Knowledge. Or by

  657. what? Prophesying. Or by what? Or by doctrine.

  658. That word revelation is translated from the word

  659. apocalypses, which implies disclosure. Right?

  660. Disclosure. Apocalypses. To disclose something.

  661. Praise God. Apokalupsis. Which implies disclosure.

  662. So it means that interpretation carries what?

  663. Revelation. Interpretation carries what? Revelation.

  664. Disclosure. He said, oh, I speak to you by knowledge.

  665. Which we know. Gnosis. G -N -O -S -I -S. Right?

  666. Which implies insight or experiential knowledge

  667. of facts, places, people, events, time. Much

  668. more. God's words. Praise God. Knowledge. Gnosis.

  669. G -N -O -S -I -S. Which implies what? Insight.

  670. Experiential knowledge of facts. So insight to

  671. facts, places, people, events, time, but much

  672. more what? God's word. Praise God. Are we all

  673. here? So all these now, I'm saying them because

  674. you use the common language to be able to explain

  675. them so that the mind can understand them. Then

  676. doctrine. We know doctrine. Amen? Yes. What is

  677. doctrine? What is doctrine? Which means what?

  678. Is it any teaching? General teaching? What? Specific

  679. teaching. Do you teach in tongues? And you say,

  680. yes. Yes. Say, I receive it. What are you receiving?

  681. How do you teach? Explanation. Praise God. Are

  682. we all here? Yes. So what Paul is saying is that

  683. he said tongues and interpretation of tongues,

  684. this is the benefit. So when I come to you in

  685. tongues, I have to also interpret it. I have

  686. to bring it also. If I'm not going to bring it

  687. in tongues and interpret, then I prefer to bring

  688. it by what? Revelation. I prefer to bring it

  689. by what? Knowledge. I prefer to bring it by what?

  690. Doctrine. Hallelujah. Praise God. So are we all

  691. here? So, with all these things that we have

  692. said, we know now that it's the believer that

  693. prophesies and it's the believer that also what?

  694. Prays in tongues and interprets what? Tongues.

  695. 1 Corinthians 14, 26. Verse 5. We've been reading

  696. verse 5. Verse 24. Verse 24. See verse 24. But

  697. if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth

  698. not, or one unlearned, what will happen to him?

  699. He is what? He is what? Why do you think he's

  700. convinced? Why do you think he's convinced? He

  701. will what? In what he understands. So you go

  702. to evangelize or you go, we are going to even

  703. have it now in the next few minutes now. Because

  704. we are going to pray. We'll take some time and

  705. pray. And then you're going to speak. You're

  706. going to give a word to someone here. Or to your

  707. brother or to your sister. Because the words

  708. you're going to give are what? Words that the

  709. mind can what? Understand. See 26. The same.

  710. Communication. How is it then brethren? When

  711. you come together, every one of you had a psalm,

  712. had a doctrine, had a tongue, had a revelation,

  713. had what? Interpretation. Let all what? Things

  714. be done unto a defying. Each one of you has an

  715. interpretation. Can you see that place in your

  716. verse? Each one of you. Each one of you. So when

  717. all of you, Come together. You know, the same

  718. way all of you have a tongue, all of you also

  719. have a what? Interpretation. See that verse carefully.

  720. He said, each one of you. Praise God. 31. Also,

  721. for ye may all what? Prophesy. Can you see? All,

  722. all, all, all, all, all. Each one of you. Every

  723. one of you, everyone, everyone, ye may all do

  724. what? Prophesy. So you all, all of us in this

  725. room have the ability to what? To prophesy. We've

  726. read that in 1 Corinthians 12, 10, right? We've

  727. read that in 1 Corinthians 14, 5, 14, 26, 14,

  728. 27. You will see the same thing. Hallelujah.

  729. Praise God. Praise God. So now, verse 12 and

  730. 13. Yes, it is beautiful. Verse 12 and 13. Even

  731. so ye, for as much as ye are zealous of spiritual

  732. gifts, seek that ye may excel to what? To the

  733. edifying of what? Can you see? Seek that ye may

  734. excel to what? To the edifying of the church.

  735. 13, everybody. Wherefore, let's read together.

  736. Let him that pray that he may let him that speaketh

  737. in tongue pray that his pastor interprets. Is

  738. that what the scripture is saying? Let him that

  739. speaks in tongues pray that what his sister will

  740. interpret. Who does the interpretation? The speaker.

  741. Who does the speaking? The speaker. Right? Perfect.

  742. Hallelujah. But you see, that word there, he

  743. said that even so, for as much as ye are zealous,

  744. can you see zealous, right? Good. Perfect. You

  745. know, this church, you know, we read in verse

  746. 1, chapter 1, verse 1, that they are not, they

  747. have never come behind, you know what? In no

  748. gifts. So, now, if Paul is even as much as ye

  749. are what? zealous. He's a child that desires

  750. the spirituals. Seek that ye may excel to the

  751. edifying of what? That what, even so, just similarly

  752. means that in the same way. Because he has been

  753. talking from verse 11. So as he's reading verse

  754. 12, right? He say, even so, similarly, that what

  755. even so means, similarly, in the same way. Are

  756. you all with me? Are you all with me? Yeah, so

  757. in 12, in 11, he said, therefore I know, I know,

  758. if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall

  759. be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he

  760. that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. Without

  761. interpretation now. Verse 12, see verse 12 now.

  762. Even so, similarly, in the same way, praise God.

  763. You should seek that you may excel to edify in

  764. what? Of the church. That what ye may excel is

  765. the word periso. Ye may excel is the word periso.

  766. Well, we are coming now to the last part of this

  767. foundation that we have laid on interpretation

  768. of tongues. That what ye may excel is periso.

  769. P -E -R -I -S -S -E -U -O. P -E -R -I -S -S -E

  770. -U -O. Berisu. And which implies to be in abundance,

  771. to be in excess. Hallelujah. To be in abundance,

  772. to be in what? To be in excess. Have we written

  773. that? 1 Corinthians, now that verse 13 says,

  774. Wherefore, let him that speaketh in an unknown

  775. tongue pray that he may what? The word that.

  776. The word that. Let him that. Speak it in an unknown

  777. tongue. Pray that he may interpret. That word

  778. is hina. H -I -N -A. Hina. Which means in order.

  779. So as. That word that. It means in order. So

  780. as. So when we say the one that, wherefore him

  781. that speaketh in an unknown tongue, what will

  782. happen what? Yeah, so he is the person. So as

  783. to what? Also interpret that tongue. We are coming

  784. to it now. So that word pray. Right? So when

  785. we read now, everybody now, stay with me. We

  786. have established that the word seek is what?

  787. Okay, yeme excel is what? To be in abundance,

  788. to be in excess or what? Yeah, excess or increase.

  789. So the word seek, please put this now. I forgot

  790. to tell us this now. The word seek. To seek,

  791. to excel. Seek. That word seek is Z -E -T -E

  792. -O. Z -E -T -E -O. Z -E -T -E -O. Which implies

  793. to desire strongly. To desire strongly. to be

  794. eager and forward about something or to go after

  795. something. That word seek is not a mere desire.

  796. That word seek is to desire something strongly.

  797. Are we all there? Are we all there? So now, having

  798. established that, Even so, similarly, for as

  799. much as zealous of spiritual gifts, that ye may

  800. what? Excel. That ye may be in abundance to the

  801. edifying of the what? Of the church. He didn't

  802. stop that communication there. How will that

  803. happen? How will you excel when it comes to edifying

  804. the church? That's what Paul would now say in

  805. verse 13. Praise God. How will I excel? How will

  806. I be in abundance when it comes to what? to the

  807. edifying of the church. Now, Paul will say in

  808. verse 13, when you pray in tongues, what should

  809. you do? You should also what? You should also

  810. pray that you should what? Interpret. That word

  811. pray is not saying that you should go, Lord,

  812. I need interpretation. I need interpretation.

  813. Oh, I think I did not get it. Interpretation

  814. did not come. You know, that's what's happening

  815. to us. When we say, can you give a what? You

  816. say, ah, sir, sir, there is no word. In fact,

  817. let me say something now, much more, stronger

  818. now. You know, you know, sometimes some people

  819. think when we say, can you give a word? And then

  820. they go, sure. Inside their mind, they say, ah,

  821. you should not come here to, you know, come.

  822. Ah, they will not get it. Ah, up to now, nothing,

  823. nothing, nothing. Ah, finally. Light don't show.

  824. Ah, my son, my son. Oh, I want you to do this.

  825. Hey. See, when you pray and then you give interpretation,

  826. it's not like you're using a charm to bring out

  827. the interpretation. Do you know? When we say

  828. you should give a word. You can come and don't

  829. need to pray. You can come and don't need to

  830. do. Finally. The Lord said. You don't need it.

  831. All we are just saying is. Every time you pray

  832. in tongues. There should be what? Interpretation.

  833. So which means. You can receive instruction in

  834. your heart without necessarily coming to do keko,

  835. ko, ko, ko, ko, ko, ko. Then interpretation comes.

  836. Because I realize it's almost like when we call

  837. people to come and give a word, they will now

  838. say, they're first now, they say, oh, that's

  839. Pastor Victor. I think my tongue should be higher.

  840. Rubber. What has come? No. Praise God. Why we

  841. are saying, or why you see, when we say give

  842. a word, and people just come and pray in tongues,

  843. and pray in tongues, they are just setting precedence

  844. to the interpretation. Simple. Amen? There is

  845. nothing more. Because so that you don't feel

  846. as though if I don't pray in tongues, the interpretation

  847. will not what? Will not come. Or when we say,

  848. give a word. Is it because, ah, I don't have

  849. a word to, but two minutes, two minutes. Ah,

  850. it has come. Say, I have the Holy Ghost in me.

  851. I have the Holy Ghost in me. I have the Holy

  852. Ghost in me. I have the instructions of the Holy

  853. Spirit in my spirit. Hallelujah. It's in your

  854. spirit. There are people that I was just chatting

  855. with them and then suddenly it was almost like

  856. my eyes just got open. And then the discussion

  857. changed. Has that happened to you? You're just

  858. talking and then suddenly so much, so much instructions,

  859. promptings just flood your heart. And then changes

  860. the direction of discussion. I've been telling

  861. them something. I say, I've been praying about

  862. it for a long time. How did you get it? By the

  863. Spirit of God. Did you pray in tongues? Did you

  864. type in tongues? Did you type it on the listening?

  865. And how did you give them the instruction? Or

  866. you told them, give me two minutes, please. Let

  867. me chat up. Praying in tongues before interpretation

  868. or giving a word is not chatting up. You're not

  869. doing it to chat up. Praise God. Are we all here?

  870. Are we all here? So now, when I pray in tongues,

  871. it's my spirit that is praying. We have seven

  872. minutes now. Okay, it has become six. When I

  873. pray in tongues, it's my spirit that is what?

  874. That is praying. It's my spirit that is praying.

  875. Sorry, I did not finish this part. Verse 13,

  876. what Paul is saying, and you do not remind me.

  877. Okay. Okay. So, in verse 13, what Paul was saying

  878. is not that you are going to pray to interpret,

  879. amen? What he was just saying is that what? He's

  880. saying that wherefore let him that speaketh in

  881. an unknown tongue, right? That won't pray there.

  882. He's not saying you should do what? You should

  883. go and pray for interpretation. Because already

  884. he has started a text. There's a communication

  885. from verse 12. Are we all here? And that communication

  886. is that what? To edify the church. So what he's

  887. saying is that, wherefore let him that speaketh

  888. in an unknown tongue also desire to what? To

  889. interpret. Praise God. Before you say, oh, let

  890. me pray. You don't need to. Interpretation is

  891. in your spirit. Hallelujah. Praise God. So when

  892. I pray in tongues, it's my spirit that is what?

  893. That is praying. Say my spirit. My spirit is

  894. praying when I pray in tongues. And I have interpretation

  895. for the tongues. The same thing we see him say

  896. in verse 2. How be it in the spirit he speaketh

  897. what? He speaketh mysteries. How be it in the

  898. spirit? The same we see in verse 14 and verse

  899. 15. Wherefore, if I pray in an unknown tongue,

  900. my spirit, what? Pray it, but my understanding

  901. is, what is it then? I will pray with, and I

  902. will pray with the understanding also. I will

  903. sing with, and I will sing with the understanding

  904. also. So that word the spirit in verse 2 is the

  905. same that we see him talking about in verse 14

  906. and what? And verse 15. Praying in the spirit

  907. means praying in tongues. Are you hearing me?

  908. Praying in the spirit means what? Praying in

  909. what? In tongues. So can we be inspired by the

  910. Spirit to pray? Yes. Ephesians chapter 1 verse

    Ephesians 1:15

  911. 15. Ephesians chapter 1 verse 15. Wherefore I

    Ephesians 1:15

  912. also, after I have heard of your faith in the

  913. Lord Jesus and love for all the saints. See what

  914. Paul will say. What is the next thing? After

  915. he has heard this. What is the next thing in

  916. verse 16? I cease not to do what? To give thanks

  917. for you, making mention of you in my what? In

  918. my prayers. This communication, was it in tongues?

  919. Was it in tongues? Was it in tongues? No, it

  920. wasn't in tongues. Amen? But what he had regarding

  921. their faith, right? Inspire him to be able to

  922. do what? To pray for them much more. Hallelujah.

  923. Praise God. Then now, Philippians 1 verse 3.

    Philippians 1:3

  924. Philippians 1 verse 3. I thank my God upon what?

    Philippians 1:3

  925. Remembrance of you. Always in every prayer of

  926. mine for you. For you. All making requests with

  927. what? With joy. Hallelujah. So when you see verse

  928. 9. And this I pray that your love may abound

  929. yet more and more in the knowledge and in all

  930. what? And in all judgment. Verse 11. Be filled

  931. with the fruit of righteousness which are by

  932. Jesus Christ unto the glory and praise of what?

  933. Of God. Hallelujah. Ephesians 6 verse 18 now.

    Ephesians 6:18

  934. So that we can put a context to it and then we

  935. see. Ephesians 6 verse 18. Yes. Ephesians 6 verse

    Ephesians 6:18 Ephesians 6:18

  936. 18. Are we all there? See now. Praying always

  937. with all what? Prayer and supplication where?

  938. In the spirit. First, he has established that

  939. praying always with all prayer. Then now he moves

  940. on to say and supplication in what? In the spirit.

  941. In the spirit. So he will say, if I pray in an

  942. unknown tongue, my spirit, what? Pray it, but

  943. my understanding is what? Is unfruitful. So every

  944. time you pray in the spirit, what is happening

  945. is that your understanding is what? Is unfruitful.

  946. That what your understanding is unfruitful is

  947. that your mind cannot be able to understand what

  948. is being uttered. So I will pray in the spirit

  949. and I will interpret that prayer. Praise God.

  950. Because some people say praying in the spirit

  951. means, you know, praying in English language.

  952. You are in the spirit. We know you are in the

  953. spirit. Hallelujah. Say I'm in the spirit. I'm

  954. in the spirit. I'm in the spirit. And when I

  955. pray, I pray by the spirit of God. You are in

  956. the spirit. Hallelujah. But when you pray in

  957. tongues, your understanding is what? Is unfruitful.

  958. That's prayers. For example, when we say, can

  959. we pray? I say, Father, Lord, thank you for life.

  960. Thank you for strength. Thank you for salvation.

  961. Thank you. What is happening is that you are

  962. praying in your understanding. Are you all with

  963. me? Are you all with me? When we say, sing in

  964. the spirit. That's the last thing that will hit

  965. us. When we say sing in the spirit, singing in

  966. the spirit is making melody with tongues. And

  967. when we say sing with your understanding, we

  968. are talking about singing with intelligible words

  969. that your mind can understand. Amen? Why? Because

  970. when we say you are praying with understanding,

  971. it means that you are praying with human language.

  972. That's the right word to use. You are praying

  973. with what? With human language. Praise God. In

  974. a language that is intelligible to the mind.

  975. So what Paul will say is that I will pray in

  976. the spirit. I will also pray in my what? In my

  977. understanding. I will sing in the spirit. I will

  978. also sing in what? In my understanding. Hallelujah.

  979. So when I sing in the spirit and I interpret

  980. that singing, it's already what? It brings what?

  981. Clarity, explanation to what? To the understanding.

  982. That's why I say my understanding is unfruitful.

  983. That idea your understanding is unfruitful is

  984. that your mind cannot what? Comprehend it. Hallelujah.

  985. Praise God. Praise God. Are we all here? Are

  986. we all here? So when he said, I will sing in

  987. the spirit, he's just making melody, right? You

  988. know, singing has melody. Yes or no? Yes. So

  989. when we say singing in the spirit, what we are

  990. just saying is that you are what? You are praying

  991. in tongues. Let me say it this way so that you

  992. can understand what I'm saying. You are praying

  993. in tongues, but with a melody. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  994. This one is new again. It's not new. Praise God.

  995. You people follow all these people that sing

  996. with chants. Don't do like you don't know. Immediately

  997. they want to start it out. You know, as the piano

  998. just give one sound. It has now become like an

  999. anthem. Even though most of them don't even know

  1000. what they are doing. He said, sir, why are you

  1001. saying like that? Yes. Because what they now

  1002. sing after saying that is not the interpretation

  1003. of those tongues. Yes. How do I know it? By scriptures.

  1004. Yes. Okay, chance, chance. Okay. It's a chance.

  1005. Let's rise to our feet. As they rise to our feet,

  1006. explore and smile. Huh? Huh? Reading of chapter

  1007. 14. Oh, I love you. Thank you. Let's rise to

  1008. our feet and ready to stand. So when we say sing,

  1009. sing in the spirit, right? When we say sing in

  1010. the spirit, praise God. Maybe some of you have

  1011. even done it. Amen. is that I'm going to sing

  1012. with tongues. I'm going to make melody with tongues

  1013. and then give meaning to it. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  1014. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. He says,

  1015. sir, but there is no keyboard now. You don't

  1016. need keyboard. He says, sir, but I need guitar.

  1017. Sir, you know, my type, I need guitar. One string

  1018. instruments need to happen. Then the thing will

  1019. now stay up. You don't need it. Say, I already

  1020. have the melody that I need for singing in the

  1021. spirit within me. Hallelujah. I'm already singing

  1022. in the spirit As I'm doing like this, he says,

  1023. sir, how about the interpretation? I can give

  1024. accurate interpretation to what I'm singing right

  1025. now. I'm just giving a practical for us so that

  1026. we can understand. Is that I give melody to the

  1027. tongues. Hallelujah. I give melody to what? To

  1028. the tongues. So you can be, you can be on the

  1029. streets and you are moving. You can be on the

  1030. streets. Or one worry, I just perceive in my

  1031. heart now, one worry wants to just swallow you

  1032. up. I will never be afraid. For the Lord is holding

  1033. my right hand. And he's saying, child, never

  1034. be afraid. I am with you. I'm here to help you.

  1035. I'm here to guide you. I'm here to instruct you.

  1036. My joy is in you. My peace is in you. Your heart.

  1037. You see. I'm already doing it. And I'm interpreting

  1038. it. You say. How do I know? By the spirit of

  1039. God. By the spirit of God. By the Spirit. This

  1040. is interpretation. You are the one. Interpretation

  1041. is inside you. By the Spirit of God. All that

  1042. we have discussed is prophecy. If we have to

  1043. teach prophecy, you realize that it's just going

  1044. back over and over again. So the same way. Hallelujah.

  1045. Hear me now. Hear me now. And then we're going

  1046. to flow. Don't worry. Today, whatever is happening

  1047. is conscious. Praise God. I realized some people

  1048. are already stretching. They say, ah, today.

  1049. Thank God. Tomorrow. You know, I also always

  1050. say, tomorrow is the last day. Praise God. Where

  1051. you should be saying, we need one more week.

  1052. You see some people say, ah, ah. I told some

  1053. people that we're going to pray for 36 hours.

  1054. They wanted to run away. I said, no. We're going

  1055. to do it. Is it non -stop? Of course. Non -stop.

  1056. That's it. Yes. Yes. Non -stop. Just a few weeks

  1057. ago, with some people, we prayed from morning,

  1058. nine hours. Just a few weeks now. God had it

  1059. six hours, just a few weeks ago. Just a few days

  1060. ago. Non -stop. Non -stop. Non -stop. Non -stop.

  1061. So tell me, how is this pharmacy going to die?

  1062. How is it going to die now? What will kill it?

  1063. Nothing will kill it. Nothing. Who told you to

  1064. do it? We just got a prompting in our heart.

  1065. It seemed good in our heart. Let's do it. Oh.

  1066. I just got a word for somebody. Let doing the

  1067. things of the Spirit seem good to your heart.

  1068. At your own location, let it seem good to your

  1069. heart. You're staying in Lefkosha one of these

  1070. days. Say, you know what? Every day, I'm going

  1071. to leave my house. I'm going to leave that bed.

  1072. I'm going to pace around the whole area. I'll

  1073. be praying in tongues. I'll be singing. I'm going

  1074. to sing. Let me tell you something in case you

  1075. don't know. There is no place I've not trekked

  1076. in this Lefkosha. There is no place. I tell you

  1077. this. My wife, when we move around, I tell her,

  1078. I say, you see, from Merit, I've trekked to Gonyele.

  1079. Most of the time, Pastor Chidi says, most of

  1080. them that we stay together, I say, I'm coming,

  1081. I need to just go around and this thing. There

  1082. is no place I've not trekked in this Lefkosha.

  1083. So sometimes I say, they say, walk. He says,

  1084. my leg. What is happening to your leg? He says,

  1085. what are you doing? Praying, praying, praying.

  1086. I'm in CIU. There is no place in CIU where I

  1087. have not walked praying. My wife is here. She

  1088. will tell you, for the past two, three months,

  1089. we've been praying every night. Every, the whole

  1090. of CIU. Every night. One hour, at least 15, 20

  1091. minutes. Every night, praying. What will kill

  1092. this fire now? What will kill it? Nothing can

  1093. kill it. Let me tell you, Jesus will ensure that

  1094. nothing kills it. He says, you love the things

  1095. of the spirit. He does not love the things of

  1096. the spirit. You don't know what he's doing regarding

  1097. the things of the spirit. What you're just seeing

  1098. there is just the outside part. God is using

  1099. you for the work of ministry. Hallelujah. And

  1100. those things cannot happen on your bed. Those

  1101. things are what is experienced here. You just

  1102. sit down from morning to now. You are shaking

  1103. body. You are doing like this. So you now, when

  1104. we use organized camp meeting and you want to

  1105. do work of ministry, we will take nations. We

  1106. will take nations. This is how you make nations.

  1107. We said we'll do nine to nine. He said, ah, nine

  1108. to nine. Oh boy. Say, I do greater works than

  1109. the pastors of NECF. Ah, say it now. Are you

  1110. people unbelievers? Say, I do greater works than

  1111. the pastors of NECF. Yeah, so if we are organizing

  1112. catatismus from 9 to now, you're going to organize

  1113. it 24 hours. 6 to 6, 6 to 7, 6 to 12. What are

  1114. you telling me? It was the last catatismus year

  1115. that we were playing. And one of the pictures

  1116. that I got here, and one of the instructions

  1117. I got, that the next place God is going to take

  1118. us to, one of the things we're going to establish,

  1119. that we're going to go around every university.

  1120. Every university will not escape us. Every university

  1121. will not escape us. You are doing ministry like

  1122. this. You are here. You are still struggling.

  1123. Oh boy. See, we're going to boil. We're going

  1124. to boil hot regarding these matters. Praise God.

  1125. And that is what we're going to do. The things

  1126. that we're going to do in the next one hour,

  1127. 30 minutes or 20 minutes. When we say pray in

  1128. tongues, pray. When you return home, because

  1129. tomorrow we're going to pray from morning till

  1130. evening. In fact, I don't know whether there

  1131. is five boss or what boss is the last boss. If

  1132. the last boss is 10 boss, we're going to take

  1133. it to 10. You see? This night, as we're going

  1134. to do the things, this night, when you go home,

  1135. drop your Bible, take some time out later after

  1136. resting, eating, buffing, right? Later in the

  1137. night, take some time out. Say, Pastor Custon,

  1138. let me try out something. I'm going to take...

  1139. Yes, I'll take time out this night. I'm going

  1140. to leave everything. I'll walk from my house

  1141. to Alakoi. You know? You see? Somebody say, Gee,

  1142. I walk to Alakoi. Praying. I can show you. He's

  1143. there. I got the instruction. I wrote. I got

  1144. the instruction even when I didn't know these

  1145. locations. So I'm going to do it. Take time.

  1146. Don't pray in English. Let me encourage you,

  1147. please. Don't pray in your understanding. Pray

  1148. in. Pray in. And. Interpret. Please drop your

  1149. watch. Drop your phone. Because some of you want

  1150. to time yourselves. Before you open your eyes.

  1151. You are the runabout. Let me tell you, something

  1152. is going to change inside you. See, let me tell

  1153. you, you're going to feel you're already moving

  1154. towards being you. You say, yes, you have not

  1155. experienced it. I challenge you by the spirit

  1156. of God. exercise yourselves much more in the

  1157. things of the Spirit. If you want to see, many

  1158. people have asked me, sir, how is it that you

  1159. know things just like that? I don't just know

  1160. things because I'm doing nothing about them.

  1161. How do our pastors just know things? It's not

  1162. like that. Pray more, pray more, pray more, pray

  1163. more, pray more, pray more by the Spirit of God.

  1164. It should not be casual. Matthew, remember that

  1165. night that we splitted ourselves over Lefkosha?

  1166. You know the other day I was driving around that

  1167. Presumptual Palace? I said, we prayed about this

  1168. land. We prayed everywhere here. Pray, pray,

  1169. pray. So it should not just be just like that.

  1170. Are we ready to do that? Are we ready to do that?

  1171. You see, you are taking this thing lightly. You

  1172. are taking your tomorrow lightly. You are taking

  1173. the work of God in your life lightly. You are

  1174. taking, Pastor Chidi is here. 2022, I had so

  1175. many dreams. I prayed about them. I landed in

  1176. Nigeria and all of them were a reality. You don't

  1177. love ministry? You can't say you love Jesus and

  1178. you don't love the work of faith. Because loving

  1179. Jesus is equal to doing ministry. And doing ministry

  1180. starts from how you participate in doing these

  1181. things. It's how you go on with fire. There is

  1182. no way in the scriptures that we are called nominal,

  1183. normal Christian life. No. You realize that we

  1184. are all supernatural. We are spiritual. Have

  1185. you ever met any unserious native doctor? No,

  1186. tell me. Have you ever seen any unserious native

  1187. doctor? Even the one I met in this Cyprus, they

  1188. threaten people. Say I'm spiritual. You are not

  1189. too young. I just heard this now. Somebody say

  1190. I'm young. You are not too young for the work

  1191. of ministry. And it's going to happen here. This

  1192. is the time to catch the fire. This is the time

  1193. to pray more. This is the time to desire more.

  1194. This is the time to see more. See more with the

  1195. eyes of faith. Desire more with the eyes of faith.

  1196. Can we pray in the Holy Ghost? You tell me you

  1197. are young. You tell me that you are this. You

  1198. tell me you are that. No! We have this deposit

  1199. in our insides. We see fathers. We see mothers.

  1200. We see children. No, no, no, no, no, no, no,

  1201. no, no, no, no. We know better. We have received

  1202. better. Please don't be doing... Boil with fire.

  1203. Boil, boil, boil, boil, boil. Tomorrow, people

  1204. will say we really contended for the work of

  1205. faith. Pastor Victor gave us a testimony about

  1206. his grandfather. Won one soul and the one soul

  1207. became a huge vessel in God's hands. One man,

  1208. 15 years, one soul. Doing the same thing for

  1209. 15 years. You cannot just wake up and arrive

  1210. like that. No. Without all this spiritual discipline

  1211. and equipping, the work of God is in our hands

  1212. and we are taking it. We are taking it. We are

  1213. boiling fervently over it. You are not young.

  1214. Oh no, I don't believe you are young. You are

  1215. not young. It has nothing to do with your age.

  1216. It has all to do with the knowledge that the

  1217. Holy Ghost is in our insides. We're thankful

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