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  1. Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is

  2. designed to uplift and strengthen you in your

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

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

  5. right in. Can you just be praying under your

  6. breath in the Holy Ghost? So this is an instruction.

  7. Can you just be praying under your breath in

  8. the Holy Ghost? As you listen to me, likewise

  9. be praying. Under your breath in the Holy Ghost.

  10. I know that song was for many here. Including

  11. myself. Hallelujah. That song including myself.

  12. I won't stop trusting the lover of my soul. I

  13. will not. He has proved himself over and over

  14. and over again. I won't stop trusting the lover

  15. of my soul. Whatever I lacked, he has made me

  16. full of it. When I'm doubting, he has assured

  17. me 10 ,000 times. In the storms he has led me,

  18. calmly in the midst of it. Nothing will stop

  19. me from trusting the lover of my soul. Hallelujah.

  20. Praise God. Hallelujah. So there's a word here

  21. during the prayers that we got, and the words

  22. is, Karatismos will be glorious. Hallelujah.

  23. The word says Karatismos will be glorious. Prepare

  24. and plan to participate in every session. Men

  25. will be built and clarity will come. Hallelujah.

  26. And then the last word here says also desire

  27. supernatural experiences much more. Hallelujah.

  28. Can you say I have supernatural experiences?

  29. I see supernatural experiences by the ability

  30. of the Holy Ghost through my life and in my life.

  31. Hallelujah. You see, the Holy Ghost has been

  32. given to us by God not to be a dormant spirit.

  33. Hallelujah. We heard last week, the Holy Ghost

  34. has been given to us. He's an active spirit.

  35. Praise God. He's living and he's active and he's

  36. dwelling in the believer. Praise God. So the

  37. believer, having the Holy Ghost in himself or

  38. within himself or in his life, daily ought to

  39. be seen his walkings. That's why when you read

  40. Galatians, it says walk in the Spirit. Hallelujah.

  41. Where we read last week in Romans chapter 8,

    Romans 8 chapter mention

  42. it says the Spirit of God dwells in your inside.

  43. So mind the things of the Spirit. So we'll continue

  44. from where we stopped, but in a different form

  45. this morning. Amen. However, I'll give us some

  46. notes. We're going to just highlight it somewhere

  47. because we're going to come back to it. Praise

  48. God. Hallelujah. We're going to come back to

  49. it. Amen. So the topic we've been handling throughout

  50. this season is Holy Ghost what? Holy Ghost meetings.

  51. Hallelujah. Praise God. Holy Ghost meetings.

  52. Why Holy Ghost meetings? Because Holy Ghost meetings

  53. or believers meetings are for believers. Amen.

  54. And then we heard last week that we are spiritual.

  55. Amen. And what has qualified us to be spiritual?

  56. Because we have the spirit of God where? In our

  57. inside. How did we get the spirit of God? Let's

  58. echo it. How did we get the spirit of God? At

  59. salvation. Salvation how? By what? Yes. So we

  60. had the gospel of Jesus Christ. We believe with

  61. our heart that God has raised him from the dead.

  62. And we confess the Lord Jesus. We got saved.

  63. So at salvation, we first had an encounter with

  64. the Holy Ghost there. Amen. So what happened

  65. at salvation is that Jesus released his spirit

  66. to dwell in our inside. Hallelujah. You see,

  67. from that day onward, what has happened to you

  68. is that you got a new nature in Christ Jesus.

  69. You don't have a nature issue. Amen. What is

  70. disturbing you is not a nature issue, as it were,

  71. because already your nature has been transformed.

  72. You're in Christ Jesus. I'm not talking about

  73. now your body. Hallelujah. Praise God. So you

  74. have the Spirit of God. We read it in 2 Corinthians

  75. 5. For if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.

  76. All things are passed away, and behold what?

  77. All things are become new. So you see, the Holy

  78. Ghost in the believer is not passive, it's active.

  79. Do you hear what I said? The Holy Ghost inside

  80. you is not what? Passive is what? It's active.

  81. And you understand a little bit why I mention

  82. this. You don't yield to passive things. You

  83. yield to active things. You see, everybody, even

  84. in the natural, you would love to associate yourself

  85. with things that are working. Is it not? When

  86. you try things, one, two, three, four, five,

  87. and they are not working, right? Do you want

  88. to associate yourself with them? No. So two things

  89. are there. It's either the things in themselves

  90. are not working or you don't understand how they

  91. work. And so you will buy a device and then the

  92. manufacturer will put a manual inside, right?

  93. But in Africa, we don't care about manual. Right?

  94. Yeah, so everybody on the streets just believes

  95. that when he sees the on button, he switches

  96. it on, he just knows how the thing functions.

  97. But you see there, he will put the manual, he

  98. will put the instructions. In fact, they've even

  99. helped us, they will draw diagrams, they will

  100. show you how to put the battery, they will show

  101. you everything. You see, all those things are

  102. in a bit so that you will enjoy the device. Hallelujah.

  103. And you see, the manufacturer didn't leave you

  104. ignorant of how to use the device. You see, what

  105. God had done for the believer is that God had

  106. put his spirit in the believer so that the believer

  107. is not ignorant of his identity in Christ Jesus.

  108. So the Holy Ghost inside you will keep walking.

  109. will keep walking, will keep speaking, will keep

  110. giving you promptings, will keep instructing

  111. until you come to a place of maturity where you

  112. understand and continue or begin to yield. So

  113. your maturity in Christ Jesus is as a result

  114. of your yieldedness and participation. Do you

  115. hear what I said? Your maturity in the things

  116. of God, in the things of the Spirit, is as a

  117. result of what? Your yieldedness and your what?

  118. Participation in the things of the Spirit. On

  119. Wednesday we had in the teaching, that while

  120. we are discussing or having these teachings,

  121. is so that we know how we ought to behave ourselves

  122. in the church, in a gathering, in a meeting.

  123. Nothing grows the believer like teaching of God's

  124. word. If you want to grow, if you want to grow,

  125. if you want to grow, you need teaching of God's

  126. word. Your mind cannot be transformed beyond

  127. how you expose yourself to God's word. Yes. You

  128. strive for mastery, you want to mature. and measure

  129. up to the full stature of Christ, then yield

  130. yourself to what? To the teaching of God's word.

  131. Beloved, I will not have you what? Ignorant.

  132. And that is why I'm informing you this morning

  133. that your growth is directly proportional to

  134. your participation in teaching meetings. Teaching

  135. meetings will grow you as a believer. Teaching

  136. meetings will deepen. your relationship and commitment

  137. to Jesus, teaching meetings automatically read

  138. you of flesh. The workings of flesh. It reads

  139. you of it. Because what? Your identity every

  140. day is before you. Every day your identity is

  141. before you. Every day. Why do you think you will

  142. pay tuition fees? And the lecturers would get

  143. into your class every day of the week. And at

  144. the end of four years, you come out, you are

  145. so convinced that you're a medical doctor. Did

  146. they come and manipulate your mind? Did they

  147. come and tell you that you're a medical doctor

  148. by words? What did they do? They exposed you

  149. to an ideology. So what God has provided for

  150. the believer's growth is to expose us to the

  151. ideology of Christ. Not the philosophies around.

  152. No. And that ideology is called the gospel. And

  153. that gospel is a strategic, specific doctrine

  154. about Christ. It's not money. It's not fame.

  155. If you want to have money, go to Harvard Business

  156. School. You're going to be taught how to establish

  157. organizations and ETC. But you see, if truly

  158. you want to grow and be effective as a believer,

  159. then you have to what? Find yourself in a local

  160. church. Someone says, sir, I don't know the local

  161. church you belong to. How can I know the local

  162. church? I say the scripture has already answered

  163. it. And that is why we are here. Praise God.

  164. Hallelujah. So teaching will grow you, will deepen

  165. your relationship with Christ. Teaching, nothing

  166. more. So let me say a few points here, added

  167. to teaching meetings, and then we get into what

  168. we have. Acts 2, verse 44, everybody. Acts chapter

    Acts 2:44 Acts 2:42

  169. 2 verse 42. Acts chapter 2 verse 44. See what

    Acts 2:44

  170. the scripture says. And all that believed were

  171. together and all had things in common. Right?

  172. And sold their possessions and goods and parted

  173. them to all men as every man had need. And they

  174. continued daily with one accord in the temple

  175. and breaking bread from house to house, did eat

  176. their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

  177. praising God and having favor with all the people.

  178. And the Lord added to the church daily as what?

  179. As should be what? Saved. 42. Go to 42, everybody.

  180. And they continued what? Is it once a week? Is

  181. it two hours a day? How did they continue? They

  182. continued steadfastly in what? The apostles'

  183. doctrine and fellowship and in breaking bread

  184. and in what? And in prayer. See Acts chapter

    Acts 4:4

  185. 4 verse 4 now, everybody. How be it many of them

  186. which heard the what? Heard the what? The word.

  187. So the word was taught. The word was preached.

  188. That is the only way that they must have heard

  189. about it, right? Good. So, and many of them that

  190. heard the word did what? believed, and the number

  191. of men was about what? 5 ,000. Amen? Acts chapter

    Acts 5:12–14

  192. 5, verse 12 to 14. You see, the hearing of the

  193. word brings about increase and multiplication.

  194. Amen? Acts chapter 5, verse 12 to 14. Join himself

    Acts 5:12–14

  195. to them. But the people did what? Magnified them.

  196. And believers were the more added to the Lord.

  197. Multitudes. Both of what? Men and what? And women.

  198. Hallelujah. So we saw them as believers. They

  199. got into Christ. They were addressed as believers.

  200. Right? All the places that we read, they were

  201. all addressed as what? Believers. Believers.

  202. Believers. Believers. Believers. Right? They

  203. had the words, they got saved, and they are now

  204. what? Believers. Amen? So, but now let's go to

  205. Acts chapter 6. Let's go to Acts chapter 6. Acts

    Acts 6 chapter mention Acts 6 chapter mention Acts 6:1

  206. chapter 6 verse 1. See now from believers what

  207. is already happening now to them. Acts chapter

    Acts 6:1

  208. 6 verse 1. And in those days, when the number

  209. of the what? When the number of the... When the

  210. number of the... When the number of the... Who

  211. is a disciple? Come on now. Who is a disciple?

  212. Okay, if you're in training center, who is a

  213. disciple? Pastor Victor, they are not answering.

  214. Who is a disciple? Come on now. Who is a disciple?

  215. Okay, you. Okay, but you is a big answer. Who

  216. is a disciple? Okay, a believer is still a big

  217. answer. Who is a disciple? A follower is still

  218. a big answer. Break it down. Who is a disciple?

  219. Someone who is going under training. I have marked

  220. your face. Someone who is undergoing what? Training.

  221. Every believer that God saved or that God saved

  222. should not be left hanging in the air. He must

  223. be trained. Hallelujah. There were Thomas believers.

  224. They had the word. The number of the believers

  225. increased. It increased. But as we got into chapter

  226. 6, what has happened what? Disciples. We now

  227. see Philip among them. We now see Stephen among

  228. them. Disciples. Every believer in the local

  229. church must be a disciple. Non -negotiable. That's

  230. why you're not growing. You see, in the program

  231. of God, you don't choose who discipled you. That

  232. is why when you read Ephesians, it says that

  233. he is the one that gives the gifts. He gave the

  234. apostles. He gave the teachers. He gave, okay,

  235. all of them are teachers. He gave the evangelists.

  236. He gave the prophets. He gave the pastors. Did

  237. you choose them? You don't. See, you know, me,

  238. I like, I like Pastor Shoko Bleke. Anytime he

  239. is teaching, he injures me. It's just because

  240. you are ignorant. Every time Pastor Munene, he

  241. teaches, I know he is attacking me. It's me.

  242. It's my... Because even the way he is looking

  243. at my direction, who are you in that? Who are

  244. you? If you feel he is talking to you, then yes,

  245. he is addressing you. So you got saved by hearing

  246. the gospel, right? But you don't remain there.

  247. If not, like I always say here, you become what?

  248. UFO. Unidentified flying objects. You're online,

  249. church. You're online, church. In fact, sometimes

  250. you touch shrine. You come out. You touch mocks.

  251. You come out. They invite you to cloud nine.

  252. Here. You go there. Sometimes you come here.

  253. You know? The glory of God fills everywhere.

  254. You cry on your knees. You get out there. And

  255. your mumutious friends carry you again. You move

  256. around and then you're just struggling with identity

  257. crisis everywhere. The cure to identity crisis

  258. for every believer is teaching. Do you hear what

  259. I said? The cure to what? To identity crisis

  260. for every believer is what? So now see everyone.

  261. Was multiplied? There arose a murmuring of the

  262. Christians against what? The Hebrews because

  263. their widows were what? Neglected in what? In

  264. daily ministration. And from there we can keep

  265. reading. You will see how they were addressed

  266. as disciples, disciples, disciples, disciples,

  267. disciples. You must be discipled. You are a product

  268. of teaching if truly you yield yourself to discipleship.

  269. There's so much that will change in your life.

  270. You see, you are too full of yourself. Really.

  271. Small revelation. You think you have arrived.

  272. And the revelation is just how to go through

  273. BLB. You just understood how to check. Let me

  274. use one. Zoe, just that, cardboard. You know,

  275. according to BLB, you don't know anything. Revelational

  276. knowledge excites. I'm telling you, it excites.

  277. So let me say this as a word of caution. The

  278. more you feel excited, it should be a sign for

  279. you to calm down. You know, in someone's language,

  280. it's a Nisuru, Nisuru, Nisuru for a ballet. The

  281. more you want to, what? Me what? Nisuru. Calm

  282. down. There is more you need to know. Praise

  283. God. You know why I said that now. Hallelujah.

  284. So now, if you're writing, please write this

  285. now. It's important. So every church ought to

  286. be a Bible school. Every church ought to be a

  287. what? A Bible school. Listen to me. I will not

  288. have you ignorant. Listen to me. Every church

  289. ought to be a what? And I say it on this authority.

  290. If you go to any local church and you're not

  291. taught God's word, Something is going to happen

  292. to you now in a short time. Every local church

  293. ought to be a Bible school and the teaching meeting

  294. is a classroom. You come, you sit down, and you

  295. are taught. You hear, you walk with the instructions.

  296. Amen? It's important. Except your teacher does

  297. not understand the responsibility. But if a teacher

  298. understands the responsibility, he will want

  299. your full attention. It's so unfortunate that

  300. we come here on a Sunday morning, on a Wednesday,

  301. on a Friday, and that is when you feel best fit

  302. for you to carry your phone and play Candy Crush.

  303. I don't know the games that are online now. So,

  304. in teaching meetings, we only have one person

  305. that is teaching. I need to say this now. In

  306. teaching meetings, we only what? Have one person

  307. that is what? Our participation is actively in

  308. listening, learning, taking notes and asking

  309. questions. In teaching meetings, only one person

  310. is what? Is teaching. What is our participation?

  311. How do we ought to behave ourselves? In what?

  312. Actively in listening, learning. Taking notes

  313. and what? Asking questions. You should never

  314. be found. Teaching is going on. You and your

  315. two friends. You are in corner. You are also

  316. having your teaching class. How do we ought to

  317. behave ourselves in teaching meetings? How do

  318. we ought to behave ourselves? Actively what?

  319. Listening. learning, taking notes. This is a

  320. full characteristic or feature of a disciple.

  321. Pastor Fred is my discipler. Pastor Fred is my

  322. discipler. Pastor Fred is my discipler. But when

  323. we see your life, there is nothing comparing

  324. you to this type of life and behavior. It means

  325. that you are not actively listening. It means

  326. you are not actively listening. When you actively

  327. listen, you actively learn, right? You take notes,

  328. you ask questions. In a short time, you will

  329. be like your teacher. Hallelujah. Because that's

  330. the fruit of teaching. The fruit of teaching

  331. is that the disciple becomes a what? Yes, the

  332. discipler. Hallelujah. So, take this down. We

  333. are coming back to them. The second kind of meeting

  334. is prayer meetings. Put number two, prayer meetings.

  335. There is a manner in which we ought to behave

  336. ourselves in prayer meetings. We are going to

  337. talk about it in detail. Number one is what?

  338. Teaching what? Meetings. Number two is what?

  339. Prayer meetings. Write this down. Number three.

  340. Outreach meetings. Evangelical meetings. Evangelical

  341. meetings, number three. Number four. Healing

  342. meetings. Healing what? Meetings. Glory to God.

  343. We're going to talk about all this in detail.

  344. Number five. Leaders' meetings. Leaders' meetings.

  345. You see all the meetings that I'm asking us to

  346. write, there is a posture. And all of them are

  347. from the scriptures. Leaders' meetings. Are we

  348. all there? Number one is what? Number two? Number

  349. three? Number four? Number five? And then number

  350. six now. In itself now. Holy Ghost meetings.

  351. Or you can say believers meetings. Holy Ghost

  352. meetings or believers meetings. Thank you, Holy

  353. Spirit. Can we pray in the Holy Ghost for two

  354. minutes, everybody? Can we just pray in the Holy

  355. Ghost? And what are we praying for? Just praying

  356. the Holy Ghost for two minutes. And when I say

  357. praying the Holy Ghost, I mean praying tongues.

  358. What are you praying for again? Can you say pray?

  359. That you pray the Holy Spirit, use me to be a

  360. blessing to my neighbor this morning now. Use

  361. me, use me much more. Speak through me for my

  362. neighbor. Speak through me for my friend. Speak

  363. through me for my wife. Speak through me for

  364. my husband in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Holy

  365. Ghost. Our eyes are open. We see by the Spirit.

  366. We hear by the Spirit. We have supernatural experiences

  367. by the Spirit of God. We have hearing ears. We

  368. have seen eyes by the Spirit of God. Our hearts

  369. are open. We receive instructions and directions

  370. by the Spirit of God. We prophesy by the Spirit

  371. of God. We give a word of knowledge by the Spirit

  372. of God. We give word of wisdom by the Spirit

  373. of God. Tongues and interpretation of tongues

  374. by the Spirit of God. The power to heal is available

  375. by the Spirit of God. In the name of Jesus, we

  376. are edified and we leave this place rejoicing

  377. by the Spirit of God. Weaknesses are taken. Fears

  378. are taken. Depressions are taken. Diseases are

  379. healed. In the name of Jesus. Baptism of the

  380. Holy Ghost. Demonstrations of the gift of the

  381. Holy Ghost. Strength, strength, strength, strength

  382. supplied to us in the name of Jesus. We thank

  383. you, Holy Ghost. In Jesus' name. What is a Holy

  384. Ghost meeting? Holy Ghost meeting or a believer's

  385. meeting, you can say it's a meeting where we

  386. see the demonstrations of the Spirit of God.

  387. Where we see the demonstration of the Spirit

  388. of God. We give the Spirit of God a room to manifest

  389. Himself. We give the Spirit of God what? Room

  390. to what? To manifest Himself. However, it has

  391. an order because there is someone, there is a

  392. leader that will give us instructions on what

  393. to do. But often, it's not programmed. Amen?

  394. Holy Ghost meetings are not what? Are not programmed.

  395. However, it has an order, right? But it's not

  396. what? It's not programmed. We're going to look

  397. at it in the Scriptures. So we give room for

  398. the Spirit of God to do what? To manifest. We

  399. see the demonstrations of the Spirit. So in Holy

  400. Ghost meetings, what we find, two major things

  401. we find. Number one, the teaching of God's word.

  402. And number two, the demonstrations of the things

  403. of the Spirit. In Holy Ghost meetings, we see

  404. two things. Number one, we see the teaching of

  405. God's word. And number two, we see the demonstrations

  406. of the things, or you can put it, the manifestation

  407. of the things of the Spirit. In Holy Ghost meetings,

  408. we see first of a necessity and a priority, the

  409. teaching of God's word. And secondly, we see

  410. room given or the Holy Ghost allowed to demonstrate

  411. or manifest himself. So why should we give room

  412. for the word? Acts chapter 10. Acts chapter 10.

    Acts 10 chapter mention Acts 10 chapter mention

  413. Because the teaching of God's word gives birth

  414. to every experience we see in the spirit. Hallelujah.

  415. The teaching of God will do what? Will give birth

  416. to what? Will give opportunity for every experience

  417. or manifestation we see. Amen. So Acts chapter

    Acts 10 chapter mention

  418. 10 now everybody. Let's read the scriptures.

  419. Acts chapter 10 verse 34 to 46. So it's going

    Acts 10:34–46

  420. to be a long reading. We're going to read it.

  421. Please don't be showing scriptures. I want everybody

  422. to read his Bible. Please. Just help me, right?

  423. I love you. Everybody go into your Bible. Acts

    Acts 10:34

  424. chapter 10 verse 34. Acts chapter 10 verse 34.

    Acts 10:34

  425. Let's read. Then Peter opened his what? Then

  426. Peter what? Then Peter what? Say in the Holy

  427. Ghost meeting. In the Holy Ghost meeting, I always

  428. open my mouth and the Spirit of God moves through

  429. me. Yes. Then Peter opened his mouth and what?

  430. And said, you're going to see why. Of a truth

  431. I perceive that God is no respecter of what?

  432. Of persons. But in every nation he that feareth

  433. him and walketh righteousness is accepted with

  434. him. The word which God sent unto the children

  435. of Israel. Preaching peace by Jesus Christ, he

  436. is Lord of all. That word, I say ye, I say, ye

  437. know which was published throughout all Judea

  438. and began from Galilee after the baptism which

  439. John preached. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth

  440. with what? With the Holy Ghost and with power

  441. who went about doing good and healing all that

  442. were oppressed of what? Of the devil for God

  443. was what? 38, again, let's read together. One,

  444. two, go. How God anointed Jesus Christ with what

  445. of Nazareth? With what? Holy Spirit and with

  446. what? Say, I have the Spirit of God. I have the

  447. power of God. I have the Spirit of God. I have

  448. the power of God. I go about. I go about doing

  449. good. I go about preaching the gospel and healing

  450. all that are oppressed of the devil. For God

  451. is with me. And we are witnesses of all things

  452. which he did, both in the land of the Jews and

  453. in Jerusalem, whom they slew and hanged on the

  454. tree. Him God raised up the third day and showed

  455. him openly, not to all the people, but unto witnesses

  456. chosen before of God, even to us. He was speaking

  457. about himself now. Who did eat and drink with

  458. him after he rose from the dead. And he commanded

  459. us to preach. Hallelujah. And he commanded us

  460. to what? To preach. And he commanded us to what?

  461. See why Peter is making emphasis on that now.

  462. Unto the people and to testify that it is he

  463. which was ordained of God to be the daughter

  464. of the quick and the dead for the dream. To him

  465. give all the prophets what? Witness that through

  466. his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive

  467. remission of what? Sins. While Peter yet what?

  468. Speak. The people started laughing. Is that what

  469. your scripture says? While Peter yet spake these

  470. words. What happened? What happened? So what

  471. gave opportunity for the move of the Holy Ghost?

  472. Huh? Talk now. This is a classroom. What gave

  473. opportunity for the move of the Holy Ghost? Huh?

  474. The what, my sister? Touch her, touch her. Yes,

  475. what gave opportunity for the move of the Holy

  476. Ghost? The Word. He was teaching. Hallelujah.

  477. He was teaching. The Holy Ghost now began to

  478. move. Fell on all of them which did what? Had

  479. the Word. All of them that were there, the Spirit

  480. of the Lord did what? Fell upon them. 44, 45.

  481. And they of the circumcision which believed were

  482. astonished. And as many came with Peter, because

  483. that on the Gentiles also was poured out the

  484. gift of what? Of the Holy Ghost. See 46. For

  485. they heard them. With what? How did they hear

  486. them? They heard them with what? With tongues.

  487. What were they saying with tongues? And magnified

  488. God then answered what? Peter. Teaching was coming.

  489. Teaching, teaching, teaching, teaching. What

  490. was the thing that Peter was preaching? The previous

  491. verses. As he was teaching, he didn't change

  492. the message. He didn't say there is going to

  493. be one spectacular power that is going to come.

  494. What was he talking about? He was talking about

  495. the death, burial and what? The resurrection

  496. of Jesus Christ. He said, while he yet spake.

  497. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  498. Right? Romans chapter 1. Let's read it together.

    Romans 1 chapter mention

  499. We need to read it together. So that you will

  500. know. There is no any kind of special message

  501. you need to preach for the Holy Ghost to come

  502. upon people. Hallelujah. Same message. Romans

    Romans 1 chapter mention

  503. chapter 1. Verse 16. For I am not ashamed of

  504. the gospel of Jesus Christ. For it is the power

  505. of God unto salvation. To what? To everyone that

  506. what? Believe it to the Jew first and also to

  507. what? To the Greek. There is no special kind

  508. of message you preach for the Holy Ghost to move.

  509. No. Same message. The death, burial, and what?

  510. Resurrection of Jesus. Same message that gets

  511. people saved. It's same message that gets people

  512. filled with the Holy Ghost. It's same message

  513. that causes the manifestation and the demonstration

  514. of things of the Holy Ghost through their lives.

  515. Same message, sir. There is no another kind of

  516. message again. You know, I think, you know, because

  517. I was just telling them how Jesus died and rose

  518. again, that is why I think the Spirit did not

  519. move. No. That is what, that is actually what

  520. makes the Spirit move. Hallelujah. Praise God.

  521. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So we see, the speaking

  522. of the word, The teaching of the Word, which

  523. will not go back to it now, brought about the

  524. demonstrations of the Spirit. Nothing more. All

  525. that had the Word, the Spirit of God, fell upon

  526. them. In catatismus, what will be happening is,

  527. as we are hearing the Word, the Spirit of the

  528. Lord will be falling upon people. We're going

  529. to see people feel much more with the Spirit

  530. of God. We're going to see demonstrations of

  531. things of the Spirit like no other day that we

  532. have seen. We're going to see convictions stirred

  533. up much more. We're going to see people see by

  534. the Spirit of God. We're going to see people

  535. hear by the Spirit of God. We're going to see

  536. people heal instantly by the Spirit of God. The

  537. teaching of those words. Nothing more. You see,

  538. if you understand what I just said now, you will

  539. stop running from church A to church B, to church

  540. C, to church 3. That is why you keep following

  541. majors, majors, majors, majors everywhere. Your

  542. life is still a minor. The Lord will give you

  543. understanding. Stay where you are and grow. Tell

  544. your friend, stay where you are and grow. Stay

  545. in NECF and grow. Please tell the person there

  546. is nothing you are looking outside for there.

  547. Yes. Oh, let me say this now as it's coming to

  548. my heart now by the Spirit of God. All that you

  549. need as a believer, you'll find it in this local

  550. church. You know, I was talking to someone some

  551. last two weeks. She said, sir, you know, why

  552. me? I said, but we have not been seeing you in

  553. church. We have not been seeing you in cell meetings.

  554. We have not been seeing you in this. She said,

  555. sir, every time I come around, I feel people

  556. are judging me. I said, actually, your feelings

  557. are valid. But... You see, this judgment, we

  558. have to give it a context. Are they judging you

  559. or you feel judged? She said, I actually feel

  560. judged. I said, so what did you do to prove them

  561. that this feeling is not true? She said, I did

  562. not say anything. So I said, so where have you

  563. been that we have not seen you? She said, I'm

  564. attending this church. Definitely I will not

  565. tell you people their name. I said, so since...

  566. you enter that place. You know, because she shared

  567. a problem with me and the problem was that when

  568. she, there are certain people, I will not call

  569. names definitely, there are some people in this

  570. church that when she sees their life, when they

  571. talk about Jesus, they talk about Jesus out of

  572. conviction and they don't talk about Jesus out

  573. of duty. And I ask her, have you gone to meet

  574. them and then they tell you they are before and

  575. now? Do you know that they came to this place

  576. worse than you? But you see, that thing you call

  577. duty is actually what makes it works. That feeling,

  578. now that you moved to that place, so far, have

  579. you feel any kind of this thing? She said, not

  580. yet, nothing. I told her, I said, you will never

  581. see it. I know what, I took her to 2 Timothy,

    2 Timothy 4 chapter mention

  582. chapter 4. He said, you know, a time will come,

  583. they will heap for themselves. false teachers

  584. with itching ears. They would be jumping around.

  585. When she read it, she shouted. I said, I didn't

  586. say it. You read it. And you know, she caught

  587. herself and read Amplified. So I now said, having

  588. said all these things, what will you do? She

  589. says, I will go and pray. I said, no, you don't

  590. pray about a church to be part of. The scripture

  591. has answered your prayers on which local church

  592. to be part of. See, if you're hearing me here,

  593. never pray about a church to join. Never. The

  594. church to join has been defined in the word.

  595. Your prayers have been answered. You just have

  596. been praying for two months. Where? You're lying.

  597. It's just that you don't know. Find a church.

  598. Where God's word is giving much more credence.

  599. Find a church where prayers is giving much more

  600. credence. Find a church where you are encouraged.

  601. Let me say this hard now. Find a church where

  602. they are on your neck to serve God as a duty.

  603. That is how you grow. Our mothers are here. They

  604. will tell you. Yesterday I was with Pastor Victor.

  605. One of his babies is finding difficulty to this

  606. season. But... Imagine now, she says she will

  607. not eat. What will you do? She must eat. You

  608. don't negotiate your growth in Jesus. It's God's

  609. responsibility for you as a believer to do what?

  610. To grow. Every responsible father wants to see

  611. his sons and daughters do what? Grow. You become

  612. an issue if you're not growing. However, since

  613. then I've not seen her around. Maybe she's still

  614. praying. I'll give her some additional one week.

  615. And then I'll call her again. Tell your friend,

  616. don't run away from church. Because you feel

  617. judged. Now say this now. If you feel judged,

  618. it's because you are guilty. Yes. It's a word

  619. for somebody. So. Holy Ghost meetings, what gives

  620. back to demonstrations is what? Teaching of God's

  621. Word. Amen? So now the second thing we see, the

  622. first thing we see is what? The Word of God is

  623. giving what? Is giving place first. Do you know

  624. why? Because the Spirit of God has been given

  625. to us so that we can become speaking spirits.

  626. The Spirit of God. So what the teaching of God's

  627. word will do to us is that the teaching of God

  628. will reveal to us our identity in Christ. That

  629. the teaching of God's word will unveil to us

  630. to know that we are what? Speaking what? Spirits.

  631. Oh boy, we change things by words in this kingdom.

  632. We speak. We speak life. We speak life. We speak

  633. life. Speak life. Speak life. Speak life. When

  634. something is not going right, we speak life.

  635. We bring order to every chaos around. See, I'm

  636. a speaking spirit because the Spirit of God dwells

  637. in me. Yes. He's a speaking spirit. So the demonstrations

  638. of the gifts of the Spirit are a product of speakings.

  639. Yes. 1 Corinthians 12, verse 3. So that we'll

    1 Corinthians 12:3

  640. see scriptures now. So while Peter yet speak,

  641. imagine Peter was there and he refused to speak.

  642. Do you think anything will happen? Oh, I just

  643. got this now in my heart. When we come much more,

  644. all these weeks that are coming ahead of us into

  645. Carthaginus, learn to speak. Because by speaking,

  646. things will begin to happen. Because by speaking,

  647. you will see the supernatural. Because by speaking,

  648. order will be set in places where there are chaos.

  649. Yes. 1 Corinthians now, chapter 12, verse 3.

  650. See. Please pay attention to that verse. Wherefore,

  651. I give you to understand. No man by keeping quiet

  652. by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accost. Please

  653. pay attention. Verse 3, everybody. Wherefore,

  654. I give you to understand that no man, by keeping

  655. quiet by the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus a ghost.

  656. No man what? No man what? How does the man speak?

  657. By what? By the Spirit of what? Of God. And that

  658. no man can say that Jesus is Lord, but by what?

  659. When I was standing at the back there, he said,

  660. if you can say that Jesus is Lord, then you can

  661. say healing take place. If you can say Jesus

  662. is Lord, then you can say eyes open. If you can

  663. say Jesus is Lord, then you can say ears open.

  664. If you can say Jesus is Lord, because the same

  665. spirit that has worked in your heart to say Jesus

  666. is Lord is the same spirit that is working in

  667. you now to say eyes open, eyes to open. And this

  668. son shall follow them that believe. In my name.

  669. It's not another spirit. Same spirit. You will

  670. have supernatural experiences every day. Hallelujah.

  671. Praise God. Hallelujah. So God has given us a

  672. spirit so that we can speak. No man can say.

  673. by the Spirit of God. No man can speak by the

  674. Spirit of God. No man. On Wednesday, by God's

  675. grace, we're going to build on a short path.

  676. And I believe from there, we're going to have

  677. full understanding and instructions of what is

  678. going to come in the Karatismos much more. Hallelujah.

  679. Position yourself for this conference. Participate

  680. in this conference. If it's in your power to

  681. tell your boss to give you that one week, please

  682. tell your boss and be around. Amen. Please do

  683. all you can. This year is going to be different.

  684. I know by the Spirit of God now. I know what

  685. I'm saying now. I've seen it. I've seen it. Not

  686. once, not twice. I've seen it. I'm praying about

  687. it every day from last month till today. I've

  688. been praying every day for this program. The

  689. pastors have been praying every day for this

  690. program. A prayer team are praying every day

  691. for this program. So what will stop you from

  692. praying for this conference? What will stop you

  693. from preparing your hearts for this conference?

  694. Can we rise to our feet? Desire the supernatural

  695. in your life, in your family. As a husband, as

  696. a wife, upon your children, upon your friends,

  697. desire to see the supernatural. The Spirit of

  698. God is speaking through us and is even doing

  699. now. My hands, they heal my eyes. They see my

  700. ears. They hear in the Holy Ghost. My hands,

  701. they hear my ears. They see. One more time. My

  702. eyes, they see me. Can you say, Lord, I have

  703. supernatural experiences? I see supernatural

  704. experiences. Can you declare it? Can you declare

  705. it? Can you declare it? Can you declare it? The

  706. Spirit of God is a speaking Spirit. And that's

  707. the Spirit that is within you. I hear you by

  708. the Spirit of God. I prophesy by the Spirit of

  709. God. I see by the Spirit of God. I bring direction

  710. to my friends. I bring so much of the abilities

  711. of the Holy Ghost. Much more. We appreciate you

  712. being here today. We hope you carry this word

  713. with you throughout your week. Don't forget to

  714. check the show notes for additional insights.

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  718. Until next time, stay blessed.