Spiritual Inspiration - Gifts of the Spirit - Pastor Angie Krulcik

We're going to talk about the last three gifts of the Spirit

and they are the the ones that say something, the the gifts of

inspiration. OK.

And that is prophecy, tongues and interpretation of tongues.

But first I have to lay some foundation, do some explanation

and talk about a few things. So the my favorite thing that

we've done, and I believe I've seen it already in the first

week before we dive into this foundation, is that you came on

that first Sunday and you grabbed hold of the hunger and

the desire to for spiritual gifts.

And I believe it's been a demonstration that that the move

of the Holy Ghost does not happen because of who's standing

here. The move of the Holy Ghost

happens because of you. It happens because of your

expectation. It happens because of your

hunger. It happens because of where

you're at spiritually and you staying full of the Holy Ghost

and the Word. And so that's key and that's

important. Remember that first Sunday we

talked about earnestly desiring. We talked about the difference.

And when you get born again and you have a brand new spirit, the

Holy Ghost comes to live on the inside of you and you should be

walking out those fruits of the Spirit and love.

Notice love is the first one. Joy, peace, patience, and we

could go on, but love is the foundation for all of these

manifestations of the Spirit. We have to make sure that we're

in love. But after you get baptized in

the Holy Ghost, then you can operate in the 9 gifts of the

Spirit that we're talking about this month.

And so you have to have the baptism of the Holy Ghost so

that you can put yourself in a position to say the Holy Ghost

is upon me and it's for service and God.

I earnestly desire spiritual gifts.

And then pastor came in that second Sunday and he ministered

on the power gifts, the gift of faith or special faith, which is

not, it is not your everyday, the just shall live by faith.

It's not that that's an everyday faith.

This special faith is almost a, a resting faith, a supernatural

power that comes on you to raise the dead to do something

supernatural. And he talked about that gift of

faith and manifestation, gifts of healings.

He talked about that, you know, there's gifts of healings

because there's it's plural, because there are multiple

diseases and sicknesses. And and so sometimes there's

needed a gift of healing that would speak right to that

disease or right to that sickness and then a working of

miracle. So miracle means, and he talked

about this, something would have to be created or something that

wasn't there would have to come into play, for example, where it

kindle the flame this weekend. And Megan Barber, who, who works

in the medical field, was talking about this muscle in

your wrist that not everybody has, OK.

And she, we did this little test and I have it and Coco has it,

but Abby doesn't have it. And so we were kind of laughing

about that. And I said, I bet Pastor Mike

doesn't have it either. So we came home and, and had him

do his little test and he's like, oh, he don't have it.

So he's like, oh, I'll get it. I'll get that muscle.

God gave me every muscle that I'm supposed to have.

I'm going to get that muscle that would take a gift of the

Spirit. It would take a gift of the

Spirit and operation to create that muscle in him.

And I don't think the Holy Ghost needs to do that.

So I had a private conversation with him about it.

So anyway, that would be a gift to the Spirit.

So we talked about those gifts and then last week we talked

about the three that reveal and that that is a word of wisdom, a

word of knowledge and discerning of spirits.

And you know, a word of wisdom is something it's a plan of God.

It's something in the future that would be spoken by unction

or supernatural gift of the spirit, a word of knowledge.

Trenisha came up and gave a word of knowledge, which was right

now somebody has an enlarged heart and right now God wants to

heal you. That was a word of knowledge and

then discerning of spirits is that you can actually see into

the spirit realm. And, and I just want to take a

minute because I want you to understand how important these

manifestations of the gifts are in the last days.

In Second Timothy chapter 3, it talks about a rise in the

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occult, a rise in sorcery, a rise in the demonic realm.

And you need to be aware of that.

You need to understand that. And that's why we as a church

need to be on top of our game. That's why we need to be full of

the word and full of the Holy Ghost.

But let's read Second Timothy chapter 3.

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It says, but know this, that in the last days perilous times

will come. And that means trouble all

around. It doesn't have to touch you,

you don't have to fall into it. But troubled times are going to

be all around. For men will be lovers of

themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud blasphemers,

disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving,

unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, despisers

of good traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure

rather than lovers of God. Verse 5 Having a form of

godliness, but denying its power.

And from such people turn away. For of this sort are those who

creep into households and make captives of gullible women, and

loaded down with sins, LED away by various lusts, always

learning, but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Let that never be us, Let that never be us.

Verse 8 Now as Jonas and Jombres resisted Moses, so do these also

resist the truth. Men of corrupt minds disapproved

concerning the faith. Jonas and John Bruce were two

sorcerers in the Old Testament that opposed the ministry of

Moses. And you know, Moses did signs

and wonders and there were those sorcerers right there to do a

sign and a wonder. Next to him was this sign and

wonder from God. It was demonic.

And you need to understand that in the last days, these demonic

powers in this demonic sorcery is going to be on the rise.

I'm speaking to you for a purpose right now, and you need

to not be ignorant. And the great thing about the

Bible is, is that we don't have to be.

And we can look at stuff and go, Jesus told us this was going to

happen. I don't have to be moved.

I don't have to be scared. I don't have to worry about it.

I don't have to be freaked out when something demonic takes

place. I have authority like Pastor

Mike talked about. We have authority.

You have authority in the spirit.

You have authority outside in your realm that you can take

authority over things as you're LED.

So it talks about these, that in the last days it's going to be

like these two sorcerers and these things are going to

increase. If you look at verse 13 and

Second Timothy, it says but evil men and impostors or another

translation says sorcerers will grow worse and worse, deceiving

and being deceived. That word impostors means

witchcraft. It means sorcery, it means

magic. You think the devil's going to

just going to show up in his little pitchfork and his horns

and say, here I am. No, it doesn't work like that.

He is slowly dumbing down our society through TV, through

social media. If you just take a minute and

just watch a few kids cartoons on a Saturday morning or a

weekday morning, you begin to see the the witchcraft and the

sorcery that's in those. I'm not trying to be super

spiritual. I'm just trying to get you to

wake up just a bit, just a little bit.

So it means sorcery and magic and, and let me tell you

something about this whole New Age movement and this sorcery.

They're committed to the supernatural.

They're committed to see magic and signs and wonders.

They're committed to it more than the church is committed to

the Word of God and the move of the Holy Ghost.

And that should not be so in these last days when, when these

things are on the rise, if we don't get ourselves together and

understand the Word of God and be able to operate in these

gifts of the Spirit, then we're going to be going.

What's happening, what's going on?

We should not be moved if somebody comes in here from

that. We've had people in our church

that have been delivered from the New Age movement and, and

this whole new at Crystals, all of that stuff.

That's a big deal right now. If you don't know, I'm telling

you it's a big deal and people get delivered from that kind of

stuff. And what do you think it looks

like when somebody gets delivered?

You need to not be afraid and not be like, what's happening,

what's going on? Because if we have the gifts of

the Spirit operation, we're able to discern there's still a demon

on that person. We need to get that demon off.

We need to talk to that demon. So.

So I'm going to show you just a couple of examples before we go

into those last three of what it looks like when demons are

coming off of somebody so that you're not concerned if if they

scream or if they shake or convulse, the scripture says

that's what happens. And so I just want to read a few

scriptures to you so that you understand.

And let me just preface it this way.

A believer, a born again spirit filled person cannot be

possessed by a demon, but they can be oppressed by a demon.

And you need to understand that. So, so a a spirit filled born

again person could be in here could be having a form of

godliness even and and there's still a demonic oppression on

their life. And a gift of the Spirit can

operate for for someone to be able to see into the Spirit and

go, there's still a demon there. Let's let's talk to that.

Let's get that off. And so let's look at a couple of

examples of what that looks like.

First Corinthians 11/13 Let me just read this to you.

It says for such are false prophets, deceitful workers

transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

And no wonder, for Satan himself transforms himself into an Angel

of light. So there's going to be people

who are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming

themselves into apostles of Christ.

And it says no wonder Satan himself transforms himself into

an Angel of light. I just want to say this to you

as a believer. If we can't take authority in

our own mind, in our own life, in our own home with our

children, do you think you're going to be able to walk up in a

place and take authority over a devil?

So I heard the O there. I, that was a spiritual spanking

or something. But we've got to take authority

first here. Get victory first here take

authority in our home first have authority with our kids and

there's let me not go there, although I want to No, I won't

parenting big deal. And and you need to make sure

that you have authority in your home and not be like Eli in the

Old Testament who had no control over his sons.

They were in the ministry and they went around having sex and

doing whatever they wanted to do.

And he died because of it because the scripture says he

did not do anything about it. So we as parents, as authorities

in our own home, we have to take authority.

I definitely went there. OK, so are we ready for this?

Are we ready for a gift of the Spirit to manifest?

Are we ready for demons to come off of people?

Let's look at an example in Acts chapter 8, verses 4 through 8.

Acts 8:4–8

Acts chapter 8, verses 4 through 8, it says.

Acts 8:4–8

Therefore those who were scattered went everywhere

preaching the Word. Then Philip went down to the

city of Samaria and preached Christ to them.

And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken

by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.

Now listen to verse 7. For unclean spirits crying with

a loud voice came out of many who were possessed, and many who

were paralyzed and lame were healed.

And there was great joy in the city.

We're going to see it. We are seeing it and we need to

be ready for it. I remember years ago when I was

at a church when I first got filled with the Holy Ghost and

went to a spirit filled church. I remember the the minister was

preaching and it's going to sound a little wild, but but

somebody from the back of the service fell on the floor and

slithered all the way to the front.

And I was like what is happening right now?

And I don't, I didn't know what was happening.

I didn't understand it, but I knew God was moving And that

person went down to the front and the minister recognized it,

casted whatever was happening out or off or whatever he did

and they were delivered and walked back to their seat.

Thank the Lord and and I just don't want you to be surprised.

I'm not saying that's going to happen, but I'm not saying it's

not going to happen. Then we're not going to see

things happen. Now Mark chapter one verse 23

says now there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean

spirit and he cried out saying let us alone.

What have we to do with you? Jesus of Nazareth, Did you come

to destroy us? I know who you are, the holy one

of God. You know, demons should know who

we are. We it shouldn't be I adjure you

in the name of Jesus, the one that pastor preaches about it

shouldn't be any of that happening from you because

you're taught the word. You know who you are in Christ.

But when we had take authority, the demons should recognize us.

They should know and say wait, don't wait.

I don't want you to come here because they know where they

know they're going to get spoken to.

They know they're going to have to leave that vessel and go find

another one. And you know us as a body.

We've got to encourage those that are getting delivered and

set free once their house is clean, we need to make sure that

we're training them so that demons, far worse, don't come

like the scripture says, to inhabit them.

And so when we see people getting delivered and saying

free, it's our job to come in and undergird them and and lift

them up and encourage them in the Lord.

And we're going to do that. We are that body.

I want to keep reading in verse 25.

But Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be quiet and come out of him.

And when the unclean spirit had convulsed him and cried with a

loud voice, he came out of him. Then they were all amazed, so

that they questioned among themselves, saying, What is

this? What new doctrine is this for?

With what authority? He commands even the unclean

spirits, and they obey him. This is no new doctrine.

This is the authority of God. This is the name of Jesus.

This Is Us speaking. Do you think you might see

somebody convulse? Do you think you might see a

demon scream and come out? You're going to see it.

And I'm telling you more and more in the last days as the

occult is on the rise and the New Age is on the rise, we've

got to have such wisdom and be led by the Holy Ghost and such

discernment to understand, because they'll even use the

name of Christ, that whole New Age movement.

They have this, this whole mind body connection, nothing to do

with faith, nothing to do with the Holy Ghost.

And they'll say you're so beautiful that you have Christ

in you. They'll take words in verbiage

from the Scripture and use it. And we've got it.

There's got to be something in you that goes, something's not

right. Something's not right about

that. We've got to be so in tune with

the Holy Ghost and know the Word of God that we can speak to

stuff, that we can take authority in the spirit.

It's no new doctrine. It's the power of God.

And the unclean spirits obeyed him.

So if we want demons to obey us, we've got to understand, not be

ignorant, make sure that we're taking authority in our own

home, our own lives, our own mind.

Amen. Three of the four gospels tell

the account of a boy who was demon possessed and Jesus cast

it out of. I'm going to read one of them to

you. In Mark Chapter 9 verses 26 and

Mark 9:26

27, it says after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came

out and the boy was like a corpse so that most of them said

he is dead, but Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up

and he was able to stand. I remember when Pastor Mike and

I worked at the group home here in Saint Augustine and we, we

lived with eight, what they called emotionally handicapped

boys. They're not emotionally

handicapped. They're broken.

And there's a difference when you have a dysfunctional home.

Those, those things affect you in your adulthood if you don't

allow God in and you don't allow God to heal.

But there was a kid there, not Jacob, but another one that that

would have these moments. He'll know what I'm talking

about when I say it. He would have these moments and

his whole face would change and his whole behavior.

If you're would change and I remember pastor Mike and I were

dealing with him in the bedroom one time and this demonic thing

came over him and he started looking at me saying you're

you're never going to have a baby.

You're never going. I hadn't I didn't have any

children by birth at the time. It just started speaking some

things. I was like, I stood there for a

minute and I I said to my husband, I'm going to do it.

And I because I knew I had unction that there's a demon on

him, maybe in him that he's yielding to.

And so we laid hands on him, cast that thing out and he was

he was violent, he was vicious. He was, you know, doing stuff

that that he would have had to be physically restrained for.

And all of a sudden when we cast that demon off of him, he just

stepped back and sat on the bed, actually was kind of drooling.

Just sat there was calm like that.

It came out and he was like a corpse.

He convulsed. He he had a moment.

We had to get on top of that, get that thing out.

And then he just sat on the bed and he was calm it back in his

right mind. This is real.

This is not kooky. This is not weird stuff.

This is, you know, the spirit realm is more real than you and

me. What's happening in the spirit,

what you can't see is, is a lot more real than what you can see.

And we've got to be aware of that.

We've got to understand that in the last days, these demonic

things in these, this sorcery and this occult is going to be

on the rise. And we've got to be in the

Spirit, in the Word, having discernment, yielding, coveting,

earnestly desiring spiritual gifts.

And that's why I'm so grateful for our senior pastors.

That pastor said, we've got to talk about this.

We've got to talk about the gifts of the sphere because most

of the church doesn't know and really is ignorant about it.

And so they don't operate it. They can't desire it because

they don't understand it and they don't really know how to

get in there and study it out. So, so no more from this point

forward, we're a body that's equipped and we're a body that's

going to go out into the ignite impact influence and say God, I

earnestly desire spiritual gifts.

I'm hungry for the Holy Ghost and full of the Holy Ghost.

So remember, these seducing spirits and doctrines of demons

are going to be so prevalent in the last days.

And if we if we remain carnal, if we remain, you know, not

built up in the spirit, you, you're not going to survive.

Can I just say that because you're going to be tossed to and

fro by every wave and every wind of doctrine that comes along and

every trial that comes and go, what's happening is Jesus coming

back. What's going on?

You got to be so strong that you literally can just look at it

and say, Jesus told us this was going to happen.

Lord, tell me how I need to pray.

Tell me what I need to do Amen. So we're going to be aware

because the Word of God is your foundation, and you got to make

sure that you're staying in the Word.

We can't get off even in the gifts of the Spirit.

Really, those things have to be done decently in an order the

Scripture talks about two or three at the most, because

that's why actually Paul had to come in and talk to the

Corinthian church because they were getting out of order.

And so, so the word of God, don't you ever, ever, ever

despise the word of God being taught, the word of God being

preached to you. That's when you should be

leaning in. That's when you should be on the

edge of your seat saying, talk to me, God, I'm yielded to the

Holy Ghost. Because that's when we're going

to see solid, mature believers who know how to yield to the

gifts. Amen.

So that's the foundation got to be laid.

Now let let's look at, or let me just quote to you Ecclesiastes

84. As these things are on the rise,

we've got to have not only an intimacy where the Holy Ghost

but Ecclesiastes 84 says where the word of the King is, there's

power. So we've got to make sure that

we have the word of God and the Holy Ghost.

Acts 1038 says how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy

Spirit and power who went about doing good and healing all who

were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

Notice it says he was anointed with the Holy Spirit and power.

He wasn't just anointed with just the power.

You know, that's how people get off as they just want the power.

They just want to move in the power.

No, Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost, the intimacy of the

Spirit of God. Remember, I read to you in

Second Corinthians that we're supposed to have that communion,

that intimacy with him on a daily basis, all the time, all

day, not just be hungry for I just want to see a sign.

I just want to see a miracle. I just want to see that's how

you get off. You got to make sure that you're

in the word and you're in intimate fellowship with the

Holy Ghost, not just power, intimacy and a life yielded.

You know, we're really living in the greatest time.

We really are living in the greatest time if we'll just

empty ourselves, if we'll just get, you know, as I read in

Second Timothy, it says people are going to become lovers of

their own selves. You've got to really guard

against that. You've got to really guard

against that in the last days that we are not lovers of

ourselves, our lives, what we're doing, our ministries are this,

this is what I'm doing. But then almost you just take a

complete backseat from ever talking about what you do.

It's just a safe place to be if you'll just every time, remember

I said this last week, every time someone gives you a praise

or an accolade that you just, you just give that as an

offering to the Lord that I just give that back to him that you

just don't take any credit for anything like that because it's

not about you. And we can't just look to the

ministry gifts, the pastor, prophet, evangelist, teacher, we

can't just look to those ministry gifts to move in the

gifts of the Spirit. It's the whole body.

It's all of us. Now let's jump into these last

three. Thank you Lord, I thank you

Father. Hallelujah.

First Corinthians chapter 12 Now concerning spiritual gifts,

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brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant.

You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb

idols. However you were led.

Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the

Spirit of God calls Jesus a curse, and no one can say that

Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

There are differences of industries but the same Lord,

and there are diversities of activities, but it's the same

God who works All in all. But the manifestation of the

Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all.

It's always going to profit. For to one is given the Word of

wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge

through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same

Spirit, to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit, to

another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another

discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of

tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

But one and the same Spirit works all these things,

distributing to each one individually as he wills.

Verse 31. But earnestly desire the best

gifts. And yet I will show you a more

excellent way. So he distinguishes between

gifts, ministries, and administrations. 2 important

things to remember when these gifts are in in manifestation is

that Jesus will be glorified and the body will benefit.

The body or whoever's being spoken to and whoever's giving

the Word or are manifesting the gift of the Spirit, it will

benefit Jesus, will be magnified.

Now we're going to cover these gifts of inspiration, prophecy,

tongues, and interpretation of tongues.

These three are primarily for the church.

Remember I said these 9 gifts of the Spirit are for service, and

they are. But these three are really going

to operate right here the most the majority of the time right

here. They're for the church.

All of chapter 14 is about prophecy.

First Corinthians all of chapter 14 is about prophecy, tongues

and interpretation of tongues. So interesting that first

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Corinthians chapter 12 lays out these these things of the

Spirit, these gifts of the Spirit tells us, teaches us

about it, talks about the ministry gifts and then says,

but you know, make sure love is first.

And then it goes into first Corinthians 13, you know, talks

about what love is, what the love of God.

You can speak in the tongue of men and angels and you don't

have love. Doesn't profit anything.

And then it goes on to chapter 14 and dedicates a whole chapter

to prophecy, tongues and interpretation of tongues.

Why does it do that? Why does it give us a whole

chapter? One reason because they were

getting off in these things. But then also because the

Scripture talks about there's diversities of tongues and

people get confused about that. There are differences of tongues

and we're going to talk about that.

If tongues were just a sign at Pentecost for the church, then

why would he give us a whole chapter explaining what these

different kinds of tongues are? So it so it gets rid of that

explanation. And I just say that to say, if

you're not baptized in the Holy Ghost with the evidence of

speaking in tongues, you need that.

You need him. He's not a dove, he's not a

bird, he's not the wind. You need him.

You need the Holy Ghost upon you.

So let's start with prophecy. Prophecy is, I hope you're

taking notes. Prophecy is the simplest form of

inspired utterance. Oh, there's great clarity coming

to you if you lean in. Prophecy is the simplest form of

inspired utterance. It's supernatural, it's inspired

by God, and it's spoken in a known tongue in English for us

it would be spoken. Howard Carter calls prophecy the

poetry of the Spirit. Prophecy of the is the first of

these three gifts of inspiration.

But let me explain to you, if there's a tongue in

interpretation that happens, it is equal to prophecy.

Those are equal. First Corinthians chapter 4

1 Corinthians 4:3

verse 3 says, but he who prophecies speaks.

This is the definition for it, edification and exhortation and

comfort to men. So you understand this is what

happened when Pastor Mike got up here.

I believe it was during no, he came up and gave it what he and

during offering you had a little bit of of a gift of prophecy as

well, but he came up and gave an inspired word that that got our

attention right. It wasn't, it wasn't just that

he was even in the beginning doing the offering, but then he

then he got off on something that was like, whoa, it grabbed

you, it grabbed your attention. He got up and gave a word that

edified you. It exhorted you, it brought you

closer to God, it comforted you. That is the simple gift of

prophecy. And so for explanation purposes

for you to understand a prophet, the ministry of the prophet is

different when we say the prophet prophesied.

So. So a prophet should be operating

in a word of wisdom and a word of knowledge.

And those things, generally speaking, can be called

prophecy, but it's different than this gift of prophecy.

So you need to understand that if someone says, you know,

Brother Barry gave me a word of wisdom and that was a he spoke

prophetically over me. Did he?

Yeah, he did. And that's different, though,

than what Pastor Mike did this morning.

A word of edification, a word of exhortation, and a word of

comfort. That word, prophecy.

This gift of prophecy, it means to flow forth, to bubble forth

like a fountain, and to lift up or just spring forth.

It's fresh and pure inspiration from God for that moment, and it

brings edification. But not every inspired utterance

is this gift of prophecy. And for example, preaching is

not prophecy, but is it inspired?

It is. But during preaching, could a

gift of prophecy come? Yes.

So if preaching was this simple gift of prophecy, then you

wouldn't need to study because it would all just come.

It would just all come out. But during whether it's been

when I've been up here, when pastors up here, whoever's up

here, during the preaching of the Word, it's inspired and he's

proclaiming, but all the sudden there will be a moment that

grabs you. It grabs your attention.

It's like edification for you. It's like exhortation for you.

It, it lifts the whole body. That's the simple gift of

prophecy. So you'll know when it happens.

It happens in worship. It happened this morning in

worship. It happens when when they're up

here singing and get a word to edify you.

That's a simple gift of prophecy.

The gifts of the Spirit are there to arrest the attention.

So even at the day of Pentecost when tongues fell and they all

were baptized, that was a sign. It was a a tongue that was a

sign. But they didn't get saved until

Peter preached. So, so these gifts of the Spirit

are in operation to grab the attention of an unbeliever or a

believer. So we need to understand that.

So I want to, oh, I already explained that.

I already explained that First Corinthians chapter 4 verses one

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through 5 says pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, but

especially that you may prophecy.

Why does it say that pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, but

especially that you may prophecy?

And it's because it's going to help us.

Do we need help? Do we need comfort?

Do we need lifting up? And so that's why it says

especially desire that you may prophecy.

It brings us closer to God. It's a vocal gift that that

brings joy and lifts us up. First Corinthians chapter 14

1 Corinthians 14:39

verse 39 says, therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to

prophecy and do not forbid to speak in tongues.

Let all things be done decently and in order, decently and in

order. I want to give you a couple of

examples in First Samuel. This one kind of is is mind

blowing. We got to think about it.

Sometimes we read the Old Testament and go, wow, they did

some amazing things for not having the Holy Ghost within and

upon them. And how much more should we be

equipped because we do, we have the Holy Ghost within us and

upon us. First Samuel, when Hannah

dedicated Samuel in verse 27, chapter 1, it says I prayed for

this child and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.

So now I give him to the Lord for his whole life.

He will be given over to the Lord and he worshipped the Lord

there. And then chapter 2, then Hannah

prayed and said, think about this.

So when I read this, can you think about this woman?

When I read this, this woman had a baby and weaned him.

So I don't know how old he he was exactly, but she weaned him

and then took him and gave him to the Lord.

Can you imagine as a Mama what she may have felt in her

emotions? But it says in chapter 2 verse

one. Then Hannah prayed and said, my

heart rejoices in the Lord, in the Lord.

My horn is lifted high, my mouth boasts over my enemies, for I

delight in your deliverance. There is no one holy like the

Lord. There's no one beside you.

There's no rock like our God. Maybe she started out in her

emotion. Maybe she started out just

saying, God, I'm going to praise you.

And, and, and I can only imagine that that there was emotion and

there were tears streaming down her face.

But but as she began, as she began to thank him, this this

gift of prophecy overtook her and she began to say, Oh, my

heart rejoices in the Lord. There's none like you got.

And can I just encourage you? Sometimes you got to just kind

of step out in the flesh and then the and then and then there

it is. Hallelujah.

Thank you, Lord. Sometimes you just got to step

out because you, you just know, OK.

I remember a time when I had injured my knee and we had gone

to a meeting. Marty Blackwelder was

ministering. And I remember I couldn't run,

much less walk normal. And I remember, I don't even

remember what he was saying. Something came over me and I

knew I just needed to take off. And so I did.

I took off and I was healed. I wasn't healed in my seat.

I wasn't healed and wouldn't have been healed if I'd have

stayed in my seat. But the minute I obeyed and just

stepped on out and and took off, it was all gone.

Completely healed. And I'm just telling you, that's

a word of encouragement for a lot of you.

Sometimes you just need to get out of your comfort zone.

Sometimes you just need to get out of your seat.

You just need to, there's a freedom on the other side of you

obeying God that some of you haven't even touched, haven't

even experienced yet. And I'm just telling you that

some of you, it's just going to take, even if it's just like,

I'm just going to step right on out here into the aisle like

this. I mean, this is what I'm going

to do. And maybe that's your step of

faith. That's OK, do that, but you need

to get out. And sometimes it takes that move

of faith for you, for the Spirit of God to come on you.

And things to happen. So I cannot imagine Hannah's

prayer and her moment of thanking God in that moment.

But that's an example of the simple gift of prophecy.

Psalm 134. There are so many psalms that

are the gift of prophecy. Psalms 134 says, Behold, bless

the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who by night stand in

the House of the Lord, lift up your hands in the sanctuary and

bless the Lord, the Lord who made heaven and earth, bless you

from Zion. Psalms 138 says I will praise

you with my whole heart before the gods.

I will sing praises to You. I will worship towards Your holy

temple and praise Your name. Praise Your name for Your loving

kindness and Your truth. You have magnified Your word

above all Your name. In the day when I cried out, you

answered me and made me bold with strength in my soul.

These Psalms are Psalms that some of you need to grab hold of

and just and just start singing them at home and just start

quoting them out loud at home. Get in the mirror and just start

saying them out loud. And there's something that ought

to, something that ought to rise up in you and go, Yeah, yeah.

Kind of like when I'm reading these scriptures, you're you're

listening and I can sense that you're, you know, you're leaning

in. But the more I read, you're

like, there's something in your spirit, man, that's like, I want

to stand up. I want to lift my hand.

I want to do it respond to God because it's your spirit, man

being strengthened, being edified, being exhorted, being

lifted up more and more. And when pastor gets back and

begins preaching the word, if something ignites you, then be

ignited. Get get up on the inside.

Nobody's going to stop you unless you are not in the

spirit. Then I, I have the I get the

tackle ministry because I want it.

I just because I want it. Actually, I want the tackle

ministry. But we'll only tackle you if

you're, you know, being kooky and not in the spirit.

And trust me, we'll know it and everybody else will know it that

you're acting kind of wild. OK, let's go to Ephesians

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chapter 5. Let me say this to you.

I want you to think about this in your personal life.

Guard against always having something in your ear and in

front of your face. Because if you always have

something in your ear and you always have gotten social media

in front of you, you're not building your spirit up.

If you think that you can just come and sit in church and not

go home and be a doer of the word by not only reading, but

singing praises to the Lord, glorifying his name, magnifying

him at home. If you don't do any of that, I'm

telling you, you're not full of the spirit.

There's no man and no woman that that that accidentally cheated

on their spouse or accident. We went that was a spirit filled

believer. No, they weren't.

No, they weren't full of the spirit that day, and they

weren't filled with the spirit probably about a month before

either. You got to make sure that you're

full of the Holy Ghost. And that means it doesn't matter

how you feel. I'm telling you, if we can just

grab a hold of it, it doesn't matter how you feel.

You just got to grab. Oh, I bless you, Lord, all the

servants of. I bless you, Lord, You're so

good. Your mercy endures forever.

Thank you, Lord, that you give strength to my soul.

Thank, thank you, Lord, that you quicken me, that you get home,

do these things because it doesn't matter that you can come

in here and do it. You know, the Lord spoke to me

years ago. Thank you, Lord.

Hallelujah spoke to me years ago about Saul and how he, David

would come in and play for him because he was tormented and,

and every time David played for him, he would feel good and the

torment would go. But then when David would leave,

there he was. And, and the Lord spoke to me

and said, many people in the church are that way.

They come in and they, they feel better 'cause they're in the

church and they feel better because they worship and they

feel better 'cause they heard the word and they go home and

they stay in the same torment and the same strongholds and the

same bondages should never be. God created us to be a mighty,

mighty force on the earth, on the earth.

And that the Church of Jesus Christ could not be stopped.

The gates of hell would not prevail.

You're the church. So we've got to make sure if

we're going to, like I said, take authority outside of us,

that we're taking authority here, that we're living it right

here on the inside of us. Ephesians chapter 5.

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See then, in this last day can I add to the Scripture.

See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but

as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the

Lord is, and do not be drunk with wine, which is dissipation,

but be filled with the Spirit. We read this the first week.

Be filled with the Spirit speaking to one another in

psalms. There's the psalms and hymns and

spiritual songs. Singing and making melody in

your heart to the Lord. Giving thanks always for all

thanks to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Submitting to one another in the fear of the Lord being filled.

Singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.

Psalms chapter 96 says, Oh, sing to the Lord a new song.

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Sing to the Lord, all you, all the earth.

Sing to the Lord and bless His name.

Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day-to-day.

Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among the

peoples, for the Lord is great and greatly to be praised.

Colossians 316. Let the word of Christ dwell in

you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one

another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with

grace in your hearts to the Lord.

You know you ought to be able to sing anytime.

Make a joyful noise. You don't have to sound good,

but you ought to always be able to sing.

Thank you, Lord, you're worthy. I honor you.

You ought to be always be able to just lift up your voice and

and sing to him at home, not just here all the time.

And if you need help and you can't get at your own Psalm and

your own song to come out, just start reading the Psalms.

Just start singing the Psalms. Revelation 1910 Prophecies for

the Church. It's for believers, edification,

exhortation and comfort. Then he said to me, Revelations

19, I'm going to start in verse 9.

Then he said to me, right, blessed are those who are called

to the marriage supper of the Lamb.

And he said to me, these are the true sayings of God.

And I fell at his feet to worship him, But he said to me,

see that you do not do that. I'm your fellow servant and of

your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus worship God,

for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, for the

testimony of Jesus is a spirit of prophecy.

So if I asked you to come up here and give your testimony,

you know, months ago we had a testimony service.

I can't remember if we had a guest minister, if pastor did

it, but but several came up and gave their testimony.

They didn't, they didn't write it out, they didn't practice it.

It was just unction. It was just come up and give

your testimony. That is called prophecy.

The simple gift of prophecy because Jesus is being

magnified, Jesus is being glorified.

So the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

So for example, Raphael, come up here.

For example, I'm going to have Raphael not planned, not not

written out. Give the testimony of what

happened at PCI. Come up here, Raphael, the

testimony of what happened at PCI, which I could say 17 got

born again last night at PCI, but also Pastor also wanted me

to mention in Brazil, six got born again and three filled with

the Holy Ghost, Amen. And we're seeing that happening

here among this body too. But this would be considered the

simple gift of prophecy. He's going to talk about PCI and

Jesus is going to be magnified and glorified.

Amen. Hallelujah.

Glory to God. Well, last night, praise God,

Ernie and I, we were there ministering and I just had AI

just had two scriptures, didn't really know where I was going.

I just had one word and that was enough.

And during that moment, as was ministering and about humbleness

and humbling stuff under the mighty hand of God, the man was

just engaging. And then just one, one moment it

just clicked it just the spit of the Lord just started kicking in

so strong that he went a direction of jurisdiction.

And so obviously I'm in prison. So they understand what

jurisdiction is. And, and in this moment, I just

remember that, that these men as they were engaging and, and just

I said, you know what, if you don't have faith, you're not

giving Christ jurisdiction of your life.

And they're just engaging in this.

I'm like, this is not a religion.

This is literally a government where God cannot touch your

life. He can't heal you, he can't save

you, He can't deliver you. God wants to do something, but

your faith allows God to have jurisdiction of your life, to

break everything that's on the inside of you.

Now remember, if you don't give God jurisdiction, you're done.

Forget about it. He can't touch you.

So and I said if you don't believe in him, he can't touch

you. If you don't confess him, he

can't touch you. So this whole religious service

ain't going to do any good for you because you're thinking

religion. And if you leave here, if God

for some reason open doors and your time and your sentences is

finished and you're out and about and you still see Jesus,

religious Jesus, he ain't going to touch you because you still

have not given him jurisdiction over your life.

And so we're ministering this thing.

And my goodness, man, and these guys are grabbing hold of it.

And it's just that one moment I said, if you want God to have

jurisdiction over your life, Hallelujah, I got to do this

other preaching of your life. Amen.

As if you want the Lord Christ to have jurisdiction over your

life and be the Lord. Lord not save you.

Lord mean he owns you, He'll deliver you, He'll set you free,

you'll belong to him. He now has jurisdiction over

your life, which means that when he comes in, something has to

come out. Anyway.

So the Long story short, yeah, you did this to me.

So exciting. So anyways, man, when they

raised their hand, I said 12345. We counted 17 people, 17 people

that said I'm done. I give him jurisdiction, He has

control of my, I gave him up. And man, we just praise the

Lord. This is something so simple of

what the Lord is doing. I said you are now potentially,

I said there are now people here that are probably more free than

those who are who are out here. And so anyways, the Lord did

something great in their lives. You can see the difference in

them. They're shouting me, there are

free people in prison. There's church service in

prison. There's more church indeed than

in sometimes I have in here. I don't know why, I'm just

saying the truth. And they say and I don't want to

get out, but I said I got to go. I got to go.

I can't, you know, stay here. But the Lord did some great 17

people gave Christ's jurisdiction over their life.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Thank you, Lord. That is a testimony of Jesus.

That is a simple gift of prophecy and manifestation.

Was Jesus being glorified? Was he being magnified?

Did 17 people come into the Kingdom of God?

Yeah, we magnify the Lord because of that.

And this is a simple gift of prophecy.

Now let's move on to the gift of tongues and interpretation of

tongues. So the Scripture talks about

diverse kinds of tongues or different kinds of tongues.

So different kinds of tongues is supernatural utterance by the

Holy Spirit in languages never learned by the speaker, not

understood by the mind of the speaker, nor necessarily

understood by the hearer. So we will see.

Let me just say this to you. You'll see a connection to all

the other gifts of the Spirit because of praying and tongues,

but there's different kinds of tongues.

So all everything that happens with tongues we've got to

understand because first Corinthians chapter 14 explains

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it to us, the differences. And Brother Hagin made a a

comment that I wanted to read. He said the more I pray and

worship in tongues, the more manifestations of the other

gifts of the Spirit I have. The less I do, the less

manifestations I have. Speaking in tongues is the door

into all the rest of the gifts of the Spirit.

You cannot live, and I want to say this to you, cannot live a

spirit filled life and not ever have the gifts of the Spirit

manifestation in this last day revival.

We've got to be fluent and understand how to flow with Him

and how to yield to him. Mark chapter 1617 says, and

these signs shall follow them that would believe in my name.

They will cast out devils, and they shall speak with new

tongues. Tongues is a supernatural sign.

Jesus said that tongues would be a sign that will follow

believers and we should all speak with tongues.

Now let me explain to you the three different ways tongues can

operate. Tongues can be a sign.

Acts chapter 2 was a sign tongues were given as a sign of

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a new dispensation the Holy Ghost coming upon.

And tongues can be a sign for an unbeliever in the scripture

talks about that tongues can also be a ministry tongue, which

is a tongue and interpretation that is given equal to the gift

of prophecy for the edification of the body.

And then tongues is also for personal use.

And you need to understand the difference because people take

the scripture out of context. Should all speak with tongues?

No, what's it talking about? That's talking about a tongue

and interpretation of tongue that's going to be given in

front of the church. It's not talking about your

personal tongue, because if it was, why did Paul say I pray in

tongues more than you all? So you got to understand the

scripture and know the difference. 1st Corinthians 14

two says for he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men,

but to God, for no one understands him.

However, in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself.

What is this? A personal tongue edifies

himself, but he who prophecies edifies the Church.

Verse 5, I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that

you prophesied, For he prophesizes greater than he who

speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets that the

church may receive edification. So here is talking about if it's

going to be a ministry tongue, it has to be interpreted.

I cannot get up here and give a tongue that is clearly for the

body and there not be an interpretation.

But it does not mean that you're not going to walk in this church

and you're not going to hear us pray in tongues at moments.

But you know the difference. If there's a tongue given to the

church, it's going to be clear, it's going to be bold, it's

going to be out loud so that the the church will know there's a

tongue and interpretation coming.

Pay attention. But it doesn't mean you might

not hear us up here praying or hear somebody in the seat

praying in tongues. And that tongue does not need to

be interpreted. That is your personal tongue and

you need that. The Bible says in Jude,

brethren, build yourself up in your most holy faith by praying

in the Spirit. This is how you stay built up.

It's like you can sing in the Spirit, you can talk in the

Spirit, pray in the Spirit, you can sing with your

understanding, you can sing in the Spirit.

You can do all of those things, but you need to be praying in

tongues. You need to be doing that.

So the last one is interpretation of tongues.

The interpretation of tongues is the supernatural showing forth

by the Spirit the meaning of an utterance in other tongues.

So if I was to give a tongue, then there has to be an

interpretation, and an interpretation is not going to

happen unless there's a tongue. Otherwise, it's just the gift of

prophecy. OK, so this can be public or

private. You could have a tongue in your

personal life that that the Lord could interpret for you.

You could be in a private prayer time, just you and the Lord and

you. You have function that that

needs interpretation and the Holy Ghost is right there to

interpret that for you. But in public always because

it'll be a sign for the unbeliever and it could be a

word of, of exhortation for the body always has to be an

interpretation. Now a public example is first

Corinthians 12/30. It says do all have gifts, do

all speak with tongues, do all interpret, but earnestly desire

the best gifts. And yet I show you a more

excellent way. So he's saying not everybody

should get up here and give a tongue, not everybody should

come up here and prophecy. Not everybody can come up here

and give a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge decently and

in order. But privately, First Corinthians

1418 says I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all.

Yet yet in the church, I would rather speak 5 words with my

understanding that I may teach others also than 10,000 words in

a tongue. So you understand this, these

gifts of inspiration are mainly going to operate here.

Prophecy, tongues and interpretation of tongues and

you're going to see it and it's not always going to be

announced. Pastor Mike, when he came up and

gave us a word of exhortation, that simple gift of prophecy

didn't say that was prophecy. It's not going to be something

that's announced, although for teaching purposes, we're

teaching it. We're explaining it and coming

up here and saying that was the gift of prophecy.

Trenisha coming up, that was a word of knowledge.

God is teaching us. God is showing us these things

so that we can operate in them. Listen, we live in the latter

rain. You know that.

We live in the last days. We live in the outpouring of the

Holy Ghost. First Corinthians chapter 14

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says banned. You can come pursue love and

seek earnestly the spiritual things and rather that you may

prophecy, pursue love. And I encourage you and exhort

you, as we've taught all nine of these gifts and manifestations

of the Spirit, that you understand that in this church

and in life, those things need to be done decently and in

order. And it has to be.

It has to be backed by love. Love has to be your foundation.

You cannot want to get up here and magnify yourself or think

that you're super spiritual or think, look what God did for me.

And that's why I caution you, if you ever do come up and give a

word or a tongue or interpretation or, or operate in

any of the gifts of the Spirit, that you walk off this platform

and you leave it right there that you walk off of here and

you say, God, that was you. And I thank you, Lord, that the

people were lifted up, that the people were encouraged, the

people were edified. And I won't speak another word

about it. And if we take that position as

a body and in the right kind of boldness and humility, I believe

God wants to use us mightily. God is opening so many doors in

this community and outside of this community.

And we, when we go to these things, when we enter into these

events, whether it be here or outside of here, we need to be

full of the word and yielded to the Holy Ghost.

And I want to encourage you when you're doing things to say,

Lord, I yield myself to you and God, I earnestly desire

spiritual gifts. Lord, I covet them.

If you desire to move in a gift of the Spirit, I'm yielded to

it. I'm ready for it.

There's no place for pride. There's no place for self

seeking. But I believe God wants us to be

a body that moves in the supernatural, that moves in the

gifts of the spirit. And let me say this to you,

spiritual things are spiritually discerned.

They are spiritually discerned. And I say that to you because if

we're not in the Spirit and we're not strong in the Lord, we

don't have the the strong spirit of the man that the Bible talks

about, then we may not discern things properly.

And God wants us to be spiritually full, spiritually in

tune. I want to read as we close

Isaiah chapter 61, the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me.

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You need to, you need to say it. I want you to say it with me.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has

anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor.

He sent me to heal the broken hearted, To proclaim liberty to

the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are

bound. To proclaim the acceptable year

of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God.

To comfort all who mourn, and to console those who mourn in Zion.

To give them beauty crashes the oil of joy for mourning, the

garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be

called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that

He may be glorified, that He may be glorified.

Hallelujah. I want to end with First

Corinthians 1412. Even so, you since you are

zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification of the

Church that you seek to excel.