Introductuon to the Prophetic - Part 2

0:01 Um, it's good to be here this morning. Um, okay. I'm just remembering I didn't have my duster yesterday. So, can I have it um today? Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord, for unto you shall the gathering of your people be. Lord, we ask that as we go into the perfect love of liberty this morning, you will illuminate us, you will transform us by your word and your spirit. We ask for the supply of your grace. We ask for an open door of utterance. We ask for revelation. We ask for interpretation

0:46 and we ask for the grace for application. We ask Lord for the spirit of seeing and knowing. We ask for mighty impartations of grace as we teach and minister your word in Jesus name. Thank you for all our brethren on site and online. Thank you for the transformation that you're working in everyone's life to the glory of your name. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Okay.

1:36 Um Okay. Um yesterday we we started on our first course introduction to the prophetic and um I I kept looking at the first course and I saw that some of the things I've noted is becoming very wild and if I spend time all on that for the first course we may not be able to finish our syllabus at the end of the 12 weeks. So I'm trying to see how to compress and um add some of the things to the second course. It's not whether some things are captured in the first or the second course. The most important is that you learn them all. Amen. Amen. Um, you need to have this note.

2:22 Most importantly is a knowledge, a revelation within you that you work with every day. But it's also important that you have the things that you are being taught in a proper notebook, maybe a journal, a very solid hardcover notebook that you can keep for future references. Because you see the things that I'm teaching, they are things that I've learned through the years. And if I was not noting down the things that the Lord was teaching me, the things that I was learning through the years, it would be difficult to compile them to be able to teach them. Amen. Um I'm not just here trying to teach by inspiration. Whatever comes to my heart at the moment I teach. No, we have a note, we have a syllabus, we are teaching. So it's important for you to

3:08 have a solid hardcover notebook where everything that you are taught, the things that I share, the thoughts that come to your heart in the process of teaching the things that the Lord will minister to you captured in your notebook for future references because as God trains and raise us in the days to come, you should be able to equip others. Amen. That's the purpose for Rama. In 2 Timothy chapter 2 from verse 2, Paul was writing to Timothy and he was telling Timothy he said the things that you have learned from me among many witnesses he said commit that to faithful men who will also be able to teach others. So every time God encounters a man God expect at least

3:55 four generation to come out of that man. All right. God is the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of Israel. God does his work with at least four generation. Everything that God gives a man, God expects at least four generation to be partakers of that. In Exodus 20, it talks about the course of the law traveling into four generation except a man comes to break the pattern. So God is a transgenerational God. And Paul will say the things that you have learned of me among many witnesses. He said commit that to faithful men who will also be able to teach others. So Paul becomes the first generation. Timothy becomes

4:41 the second generation and after Timothy there should be faithful men as a third generation who will also be able to teach others. So God is a transgenerational God. And so you must take serious the things that God is teaching you personally and the things that you are being taught by ministry gift. Note them, learn them, understand them, have them in books that you can make references so that in the days to come as God raises you in the body, as God equips you, you will be able to teach others. You'll be able to have faithful men that will learn to teach others also. That's how God works. So it's important to cherish the things that you are learning and to put them in books where you can

5:27 make references to them in the days to come. Amen. So we are looking at um the prophetic channels of communication. Prophetic channels of communication. Now when we when we make mention of prophetic channels of communication, we are simply referring to some of the common ways as seen in the scriptures. All right? By which God communicates to people. Now we're not saying that the list that we're giving you is exhaustive. No, we we're choosing out very common channels,

6:14 common ways by which God had spoken to people in the scripture and God is still speaking to his people even today. Amen. And you will learn that that in your walk with God, there are many other ways that God communicates. But we chose seven as the seven major communication channels we have seen in the scripture and also in contemporary time that you can make reference to. But you will get to know that God is not limited to certain ways that we have known. All right? The Bible say the wisdom of God is past finding out. So God has at least a thousand ways by which he can reach you. But we are teaching this so that we can be within the context of doctrine and for reference purpose. Amen.

7:04 So number one, number one is what we call number one of the prophetic channels of communication is what we refer to as the inner witness. Number one is what? The inner witness. So in this is my black pen is not working. Faculty

7:58 Okay. All right. So, um in my subtopic this is the eight right as captured in our notes. All right. So the prophetic channel of communication. Okay. I said number one is what? The inner

8:44 witness. Inner witness. Now when we talk about the inner witness when you read through the scripture in the book of Romans chapter 7, Romans chapter 8, you will see Paul saying, "I speak the truth in Christ. I lie not, for my spirit also bear me witness." Um I didn't know that scripture here. But can you align that media people? If you have worked with the Lord for a while as a believer, you will see that the primary ways by

9:30 which God communicates with us as believers is the inner witness. At least 70% of our communications with the Lord or God's communication with us by his spirit is through the inner witness. Now the inner witness is not a voice. The inner witness is a knowing within the spirit of the believer. The inner witness is a knowing within the spirit of the believer. The Bible also in the book of Romans chapter 8 I think verse 7 verse verse 11 also it

10:19 say our the spirit of God bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. The spirit of God bears witness with our spirit. Romans chapter 8, I'm looking for that. Verse 16, he said, "The spirit itself be witness with our spirit that we are what? We're children of God." Romans chapter 8 verse 16. So the primary way God communicates with the new creation is what we refer to as the inner witness. The inner witness is not a voice. The inner witness is not loud. The inner witness is a knowing within your spirit that you cannot

11:05 explain. When you got born again, nobody needed to tell you that now you are a child of God. Now you are born again. You didn't need that affirmation from the external. You knew within your spirit that you are a child of God. That's the inner witness. The Bible say the spirit bears witness with our spirit. with our spirit that we are children of God. So that is the inner witness that in our walk with God when God wants to speak to us what he does is that he brings us the witness of his spirit. It's not every time that you hear the Holy Spirit in the voice or in typical words the communications of the Holy Spirit

11:50 comes to us primarily through the inner witness. So Romans 8:16 says the spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are what we are children of God. So nobody needs to convince you. It doesn't matter what is happening around your world. There is a movie within you which is which is precipitated deep within by the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit that brings that witness. So the scripture says the spirit of God bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. So that's the primary way God communicates with you. When the Holy Spirit wants you to do something, he wants you to walk with somebody, he wants you to take a

12:36 particular direction or you just have a knowing within you that God wants you to do this, God wants you to do that. Every one of us will agree that it's not every time that you hear the voice of God telling you what to do. The primary way is by the inner witness. You just know deep within your spirit. You know that you're supposed to be in a relationship with this person. You know that you are supposed to give this person a gift. You know that you are supposed to do this. It is the witness of the spirit. It is not in an articulated manner. It is a deep-seated knowing within your spirit that is done by the Holy Spirit. So that's the primary way God engages us

13:21 is by the inner witness. His spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. So Paul will say I speak the truth in Christ. I lie not for my spirit beareth witness. I said find that scripture for me. It should be Romans chapter maybe 8 or 9. He said my spirit bears witness. Okay. In Romans chapter 9:1, I've seen it. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not. My conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit. Now when we go on, I will show you that the conscience is part of the human spirit. You will see as we go further

14:07 just the way there are three compartment of the human soul the mind the will and the emotion you will see that the conscience is also part of the compartment of the human spirit. So Paul say I speak the truth in Christ I lie not my conscience my spirit also bearing witness in the holy ghost. So you will see that across the writings of Paul in the Pauline episu you will see that the primary way God communicates with us is through the inner witness and the inner witness is established in our conscience and the conscience is part of the human spirit. So that is how you know things. That's how you know what is right from what is wrong. That's how you know a lot

14:54 of times that you're supposed to do this, you are not supposed to do this. It is by the witness of the spirit. And that's also how you know when your prayer has been answered. You see, more than 70% of uh of the communications of the spirit of God are cognitive. They are not verbal. They are not verbal. A lot of the prophetic communication we receive, they are not verbal. They are nonverbal. They are cognitive communication. They are imparted by spiritual knowings and spiritual knowledge within you. That's why as we go on you see the discipline of the prophetic person is that you must master the inner life. You cannot be prophetic if you have not mastered the

15:41 operation of the inner life. How the spirit of God bruts upon your spirit. How you receive knowings and and nonverbal communication from the invisible realm. So you see that the first channel of communication is nonverbal. It is by the inner witness. The inner witness is not a verbal communication. You cannot clearly say God says this. You cannot always put in words a a communication that comes by an inner witness. It is an imparted knowledge. You just know it. So Paul say I'm speaking the truth in Christ. I line up because my conscience, my spirit also bearing witness in the Holy Spirit. So that's the first way God

16:27 communicates to us. And as you walk with God, no matter how prophetic you are, God will not always speak to you in a verbal way. No matter how prophetic you are, you will find out that 70% of your dealings with God will be cognitive. It will be nonverbal. So you will need to master the inner life. That's why as a prophetic person you must understand the power of meditation. You must understand contemplation. You must understand solitude in your life. You must understand how to develop your inner life because the communications of God are mostly from within your spirit. That's how you must train your spirit. You must develop your spirit. I'll show you some of the prophetic disciplines that you

17:13 need to build in your life if you are truly going to be able to discern God. Amen. So the first is the inner witness. And I said the inner witness is a knowing. It's an imparted knowing of the spirit. It is cognitive but it is nonverbal. That's how God leads us. That's how you know that you are supposed to reach out to somebody. And there you know times that you just there's a knowing in your heart call this person call this person call this person and the moment you delay the next time you just see the person's call coming to your phone. It happens to me a lot. I believe it happens to every one of us. It's almost like an intuitive knowledge. It is not a voice. So you can't always

17:59 say that God is telling me to call this person. No, you can't always say that God told you. But you just know. It is not a verbal expression. It is a knowing within your spirit. And you'll find out that in your day-to-day life as a believer, 70% of your communication with God will be in that dream. Because no matter how prophetic you are, you are first a believer. So you must understand that that God doesn't give prophetic words every day. God doesn't give visions every day. When people try to function in that, it becomes easy to be a false prophet. A false prophet is not just somebody who is sent from the kingdom of darkness. A false prophet can also be somebody that

18:44 is speaking what God is not telling him to say. So you don't have to come from the demonic realm to be false. If you are saying something that God is not asking you to say, you are false. So you understand that God is more concerned about you building your personal work with him than he is about you doing ministry and pulling up a publicity for people know that you are great. God is more concerned about your personal work with him. It is out of your personal work, the overflow of your personal work that you minister. So you study the Bible, you pray, you fast, not just because you are looking for sermon to preach or you are looking for a prophetic word to declare. You are building your personal walk with God. It is out of the richness of your

19:30 fellowship with the Lord that you grow in the prophetic. So you see there is there are people who function in the prophetic not by virtue of calling. I will usually say there are two kinds of prophets in the body of Christ. There are prophets by calling and there are prophets by stature. You get that? They are prophets by office and they are prophets by stature. A prophet by office is a person that God calls into the office of a prophet with the attendant gifts to express that ministry. A prophet by stature is somebody who has grown into that place where God can trust him with his secret with his revelation because of his

20:15 friendship that he has built with God over time. For instance, there are many fathers of faith where you see people like pastor, pastor kumui, bishop and the likes. They are prophet by stature. Do you understand? They are not prophet in times of the office of the prophet. You and I know that. But they are prophets by stature by virtue of their walk with God. They have come into a place where God can trust them with certain secrets and they can speak certain words and God will confirm. They are apostles by calling. They they reveal a fullblown apostolic ministry. They may not be our generation that is titled crazy. Do you understand? But all these men actually by biblical standard they feel the office of the apostle. The

21:01 apostle they have that governmental authority widespread of you know churches reaching the nations. They are actually functioning in the office of the apostle. They may be carrying the title of pastor but they are they are apostles. So those fathers are not prophets by office. All right. But they are prophets by stature. You understand what I'm saying? Okay. So you understand that the first way God will communicate with every believer new creation will be by the inner witness. And these have done. The second way is what we call the inner voice. The second channel is the inner voice.

21:49 Sorry our brethren online you may not be able to see what I'm writing clearly but at least just listen and um you can capture that in your notes. The second is what? The inner voice. Now the inner voice is actually the voice of the human spirit. The inner voice is actually the voice of the human spirit is the voice of the human spirit. And and and the major way the inner voice speaks is through the voice of the conscience. We can also reference this Romans chapter 9 verse1. The major scripture to use for inner witness is is Romans 8:16. Of course, we reference chapter 9 verse1, but chapter 9 verse1

22:37 will suit perfectly into the second channel of communication, which is the inner voice. Now, the inner voice is not the voice of the Holy Spirit. The inner voice is the voice of your human spirit. It's important to note that the inner voice is the voice of your human spirit. So your human spirit has a voice. It is your human spirit speaking into your soul. Now in the inner witness, you don't get to hear a voice. It's not like a flow of thoughts. It is nonverbal but it is cognitive. It is an imparted knowing. It is a weakness. You just know that this

23:24 should be and the weakness is by the spirit. So it becomes strong. All right. But he say in the inner voice it is the voice of your human spirit speaking into your soul. So as we go further in our teaching we will touch on the tripartite nature of man. Um maybe okay after this the next one I'll touch a little on the tripite nature of man so that you understand the context very well. But I'm just going to run through this. The inner witness is the voice of the human spirit which is the voice of the conscience. Everyone has a conscience. Every human being has a spirit. But for a person who

24:10 is not born again, your human spirit is not a trusted guide. When a person is not born again, his human spirit is not a trusted guide because the Holy Spirit is not inside of him. Are you following? So his human spirit can pick words, can pick knowledge, can pick information from other spirit, from different sources because the Holy Spirit is not dwelling in that human spirit. But when a person is born again, the Holy Spirit comes to dwell inside of you. The Holy Spirit is actually the life of God. All right? So when you got born again, when you accepted Jesus, what made you born again? is the Holy Spirit coming as God's Zoe, God's divine life to

24:56 regenerate your human spirit. That's what made you born again. It is regeneration. The Holy Spirit coming into your human spirit as God's divine life to regenerate your dead spirit. Your spirit was separated from God. Your spirit was dead. That spiritual death. When Christ comes into you, he comes to regenerate your human spirit by his life. So the Holy Spirit is not only the spirit of God, it is also the life of God. I think I was teaching maybe last Sunday or two Sundays ago here in church and I was mentioning I said the spirit of God is actually our life. You don't separate life from spirit. When a person dies, the spirit leaves the body. And then you look at the body and you say the body is what? Lifeless. The moment the spirit

25:43 leaves the body, life has left the body. It is the spirit that gives life to the body. So Jesus in John 6:63 says that it is the spirit that gives life. The flesh profit not. So anywhere the spirit goes life is released. If your spirit leaves your human body, life has gone out of that body. And one of the function of life is that life brings consciousness. What man would say the proof of life is consciousness and that's so true wherever there is life there is consciousness the reason why you are conscious of who is seated close to you you can hear me you can relate with your environment is because there's life in this body the moment the spirit leaves

26:30 the body life leaves the body therefore the body cannot relate with the environment so life the proof of life is consciousness And so you will need to understand that the spirit of God coming to dwell within us is actually the life of God dwelling within us. And that becomes our basis to know God to interact with God because life brings consciousness. So one of the function of the divine life, the eternal life, the Zoe of God that we have on our inside is that it unlocks a realm of consciousness to us. Are you following me? That's even the reason why you can have inner witness. That's consciousness. So we'll touch a little on prophetic

27:17 consciousness as we go on. All right. So this divine life of God in our spirit allows our spirit to know and to hear. In in the book of John chapter 17:E3 Jesus said this is eternal life that they may know you the holy true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. So eternal life brings a form of consciousness enables us to know God. You can know God. You can discern God. You can relate with God because God has given you his life. Even though the natural man is made in the image of God, but because of the fault that image is limited,

28:04 there are certain measures of God that a natural man cannot know. A natural man can recognize the presence of God because he's the creature of God. He's made in the image of God, but sin corrupted that image and likeness. But you see, a natural man can still know God, but in a measure. There is a measure in which a natural man cannot know God except he becomes born again. The Bible said the natural man cannot understand the things of the spirit. Neither can he know them because he has spiritually discerned. So sometimes when we say God told me, God said this, I don't believe is looking at you and wondering what do you mean God said to you? Did he said that in your language? Did God speak to you in Yoba? How did you how did you know

28:51 was God talking to you? All right. God has given us his eternal life and that is what has opened up our spirit to consciousness that we can bear witness to the communications of God and our human spirit can pick the frequency of the spirit of God and be able to communicate it into our soul. So it is that communication of your human spirit in your soul especially in a verbal way that we call the inner voice. Are you following? Every one of us experienced that and there times you wanted to do something and there are two line of thoughts in your heart and you wanted to go in this direction and you had a voice inside of

29:37 you is an inner voice that small still voice the inner voice actually the small still voice whispering inside of spirit and say go this direction do this don't do this call this now it is not a weakness it is beyond a witness it is an inner voice. But the interesting thing is most time that voice sounds like you. How many of us can relate? It's like you talking to you on your inside. The voice sounds exactly like you. So it's like you're hearing yourself talking to you. It is the inner voice. Is it is mostly the voice of your human spirit speaking to you. So sometimes you can neglect what the inner voice is saying to you

30:23 and then you go to do something else. When you believe it then you not come back and say ah something told me. That thing that believers are always calling something. That something is actually the voice of the inner voice of your redeemed spirit of your recreated spirit. You see your human spirit will never lead you to do something that is contrary to the will of God. It is your inner voice speaking to you. No believer has a problem of hearing God. No, there's no believer who does not hear God. Now, somebody may say, "What are you saying?" There's no believer born again that does not hear God. The problem is

31:09 that we don't discern God. There's a difference between not hearing God and not discerning God. God speaks to every believer. Every believer who is born again, who has the seed of God, has a divine life of God, God speaks to you. I can assure you. If God even speaks to unbelievers, how much more you who is his child? So God speaks to every believer. The problem is not that God is not speaking. The problem is that we are not discerning God. The problem is that we are not disciping God. So it is one thing for God to speak is another thing for you to discern God.

31:55 All right? So most times God speaks to us in the inner voice using the voice of our human spirit our recreated spirit as new creations in Christ Jesus. So it is the voice of your conscience because your conscience give expression to the content of your human spirit inside your soul. So that inner voice you are hearing that you are always calling something it is actually the voice of your human spirit. You know, I've had people ask question through time and say that what what will be the faith of the people who did not hear the gospel and they died.

32:41 Have you ever thought about that? What will be the fate of people did not hear the gospel? The scripture in the book of Romans chapter 2, if you read one verse five downward, it gives us insight. He said God will judge everyone. Paul was trying to answer that question because you are not the only person who has brought up a philosophical question. There are several people in different generation who have answered that question and Paul was trying to bring an answer to that. I'm trying to look for that. Romans 2:12 Paul say for as many as have seen without the law shall also perish without the law. Can you see that? And as many as have seen in the law shall be judged by the law. For not the hearers of the law, are just before God. But the doers of the law shall be justified. For

33:27 when the Gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things containing the law, this having not the law, are a law unto themselves. In the day when God shall judge the secret of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel, behold, thou had called a Jew and rested in the law, and I maketh bones of God. It says his will and approvest the things that are more excellent being instructed. I'm looking for that scripture. Okay, let's stay at verse 15. He said, "Those who do not know the law, they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the

34:15 meanwhile accusing or excusing one another." So the conscience of a man bears witness. So Paul is saying the people who did not get saved, who did not hear the gospel, how God is going to judge them is God is going to judge them by how they respond to their conscience. You get that this is not a class of apologetics. So that's not where I'm going to major on. But go and study the scripture and understand God will judge men in respect to how they relate to what their conscience told them. Their conscience on that they will excuse them or accuse them. Amen. So the inner voice is actually the voice of the human spirit coming through the channel of the conscience speaking

35:01 the will of God the counsel of God into your mind. Because you see man is trapatide spirit soul and body. The soul of man happen to be the driver of man. The mind of man is what determines the direction of man. I will explain that when we come to understanding man. I will explain that more. So the inner voice is actually the voice of your human spirit that been established. A lot of times when the Holy Spirit is speaking to me, even in receiving word of knowledge in prophetic revelation, many times I hear my spirit talking to my soul and telling me the things that I know that I minister with. All right? There are times that is the authoritative voice of the Holy Spirit speaking, but it's not every time. Most times the Holy Spirit flow through your

35:47 human spirit. And that's why Paul in 1 Corinthians chapter 15 um chapter 14 was teaching the believers how to build their human spirit. In verse three he say he that speaks in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men but unto God for no man understands him. However in the spirit he speaketh mystery. He say he that speaketh he that prophesies speaketh to men for edification exaltation and comfort. And then in verse four, Paul said he Paul was now telling the church, he said, "Build your human spirit. Edify yourself by praying in tongues and edify the church by prophecy." So he said, "He that prays in an unknown tongue edifies

36:33 himself, but he that prophesies edifies the church." Then you will see that the key, the number one key to moving in the prophetic anointing, the gift of the spirit is learning to edify yourself through praying in tongues. So you will see that most of the people say maybe denomination say they don't believe in speaking in tones. How many of them do you see move in the gift of the spirit? How many of them move in the anointing? How of them move in the power of God? Because God puts that as a means of generating life and power to do the will of God. So he said he that speaketh in anoint edifies himself. What does it mean to edify? It means to build up. Jude 20 said building up yourself in your most holy faith by praying in the Holy Ghost.

37:18 So when you spend time praying the Holy Ghost, you are edifying. You are building yourself. Then the overflow of the Holy Ghost in your human spirit is what you use to minister prophetically. So he said he that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifies himself. But he that prophesies edifies the church. So a while ago, the Lord opened this scripture to me and said, "If you want to edify my people in the prophetic, you must learn to edify yourself by praying in the Holy Ghost." So the more you pray in the Holy Ghost, the more you are stead, the more the content of the Holy Spirit floods your spirit, light comes into your spirit, power come into your spirit, the wisdom of God floods your spirit, then it is from that supply that you have received

38:04 that you can minister. It is out of that supply that the gift of healing flow. It is out of that supply that the workings of miracles flow. It is out of that supply that word of knowledge, word of wisdom, prophecy, and all the manifestations of the spirit flow. Amen. So that's the inner voice. If you edify yourself a lot, the inner voice will speak to you to your soul. You will find direction. Many times as you pray in tongues and you pray along, you begin to hear the Holy Spirit speaking through your human spirit into your soul. You begin to get interpretation of tongues. Many believers don't know what the interpretation of tongues is because they don't stay long enough in the river until the interpretation begins to come into their soul.

38:51 So that's what happened. Light comes. That's the inner voice. The third is what I'll call the audible voice of this Holy Spirit. Now look at what I'm writing by this side is I'm doing this for clarity. Do you understand? So that when we say the

39:37 inner voice I'm putting in bracket of the human spirit. It is the inner voice of the human spirit. Now I said the audible voice and I put in bracket of the holy spirit. Now the third one is the audible voice of the holy spirit. And this is very common in the scripture. The audible voice is very common in act of the apostle chapter one. In Acts of the Apostle chapter one, the Bible says, "As they ministered to the Lord, as they prayed and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, "Separate unto me Paul um Saul and Barnabas for the work wherein I have called them." Act 13:1 Act 13 from verse 1 and two you will see that there were certain prophets and teachers Maniah um um Saul Barabas Lucia

40:27 and all of that in the church the Bible says Sirene Lucio ofSirene as they ministered to the Lord and fasted the Holy Ghost said in verse two separate unto me. Can you see that they ministered to the Lord and fasted? Then the Holy Ghost said separate unto me Barnabas and Saul for the work where onto I have called them. So as a minister, it was not inner witness they received. It was not the inner voice they received. It was the audible voice of the spirit. It was the Holy Spirit speaking out. When we say audible, it does not mean that it's coming from external. It is coming from within. But this is a lot

41:14 more authoritative than the inner voice. The inner voice is the voice of a human spirit. It is not an authoritative voice. But the voice the the audible voice of the spirit is an authoritative voice. So the Holy Spirit said to them, "Separate unto me Barnabas and Saul for the work where to have called them." They could not deny that the Holy Ghost spoke to them. Everybody knew. I want to believe that he spoke to them individually or perhaps it was a spectacular encounter that everybody in there heard the voice of the Holy Spirit. So that's the audible voice of the Holy Spirit. You see that scatter across scripture. It is audible. It is undeniable. When God speaks to you that

42:01 way, you cannot pretend that you are hearing God. You know for sure. You know without a shadow of doubt that God is speaking to you because the voice is audible enough for your spirit to trap it. But many times people are not able to discern accurately the inner voice. But the audible voice is very clear and very authoritative. Amen. I've g you a scriptural reference. The fourth is let's look at the fourth as let's put visions dreams and transes visions dreams and and what transes. So the fourth category we will

42:49 refer to as visions, dreams and transes. Now this is very important because according to the scripture the primary way that God reveals himself to prophets according to the scripture is through visions and dreams. Numbers 12 verse 6. Numbers 12:6 he say if there be a prophet among you I the Lord your God I I the Lord will make myself known to him in a vision and I will speak to him in a what? In a dream. He said now my words. If there be a prophet among you I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision and will speak to him in a dream. It means

43:36 prophets receive visions and dreams. It means that the primary way that God discloses himself to people that he is calling to sit in the office of the prophet is that God comes in a vision or in a dream. Actually, a dream is a vision. Do you understand? A dream is a vision that you see but in a sleep state in your subconscious state. You know I heard um a very great servant of God in the body of Christ. One of the very sound teacher of new creation in this country. He said that dreams is not for New Testament believers. And I was shocked. The fact that God has not given you a significant encounter in a dream

44:23 doesn't mean you can make such authoritative statement. It's not Peter that quoted Joel chapter 2 on the day of Pentecost and say I poured out my speech upon all flesh. Your sons and daughters shall do what? Shall see vision. Your old men shall dream dreams. And we see God encounter Joseph. You know, you may want to give excuse and say Joseph was in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, even the book of Acts, Paul had dreams, the appearance of the man of Macedonia. I think in chapter 9 or chapter 10, a man appeared to Paul in the night. It was in a dream state. And he said to Paul, "Come to Macedonia and help us." It was in a sleep state. How can you make such authoritative statement? That's why when you listen to men, you should know the Bible for yourself

45:09 because you may find out that one of the major channels of communication for you is dream. And you may be a member in that congregation. And then a man may look at the word of God through the lenses of his own personal bias. And then he comes to tell you that God doesn't speak to believers through dreams in the New Testament. He has to be visual. That's his own personal bias. But there are scriptures scattered through the old and the new testament showing that even in the new testament God speaks to people through dreams. All right. So we hear God speaking to them Moses, Aaron and Miriam. He said that if there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak to him in a dream.

45:56 Sometimes visions and dreams are inseparable. All right. A a vision in a general sense we will explain about vision. Vision are more termed to be encounters you have in your conscious state. Dreams are encounters you have in the subconscious state. In a vision there are three levels of vision there is what we call the inner vision. In vision for vision vision we have three categories what we call the the inner vision.

46:42 Inner vision the closed vision and then the open vision. So there are three kinds of vision. All right? There's the inner vision, there's a closed vision, there's a open vision. Um our students on online, I hope you're getting that we are looking at vision, dreams and transes. And then we said all under the category of vision, we have three kinds of vision. Now we are seeing God saying that if there's a prophet among you, I will make myself known. The making known of God to a man is how he calls that man. Are you understanding? That means how God

47:27 reveals himself to a person to call him into the office of the prophet. As we have seen in the scripture, not by the um um um the philosophy of men, as we see in the scripture, how God calls a man into the office of the prophet. God himself is saying if there's anyone that I'm calling as a prophet among you, I will make myself known to him in a vision. It means I will reveal myself to him in a vision and I will speak onto him in a dream. It means that for a prophet or a prophetic person, you will realize that visions and dreams will be part and parcel of your life. And in Joel 2 28, it tells us, he said, it shall come to pass in the last days. I will pour out my spirit upon all

48:14 flesh. Your sons and daughters shall what? See visions. Your old men shall dream dreams. He said, I'll pour out my spirit upon all flesh, and you will prophesy, and I will show signs in the heavens, wonders in the air, blood, fire, pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, the moon into blood before the great and terrible day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that as many as who call upon the name of the Lord, they shall be saved. So God is simply showing us that the prophetic gift in prophecy, visions, dreams, and transes, all of this encounter is to one end that will bring souls into the kingdom. Are you seeing that the end result of your gift and anointing is to enable men to call upon the name of the Lord and receive? If your gift and

48:59 anointing is not leading to increasing the kingdom of God, the gift is useless. If the gift is only serving your personal ambition, God is not profiting from that gift. But you see the scripture showing us that the end result of this prophetic manifestation is so that men will call upon the name of the Lord and be saved. So now we see God showing us that for a prophet, God will come to a prophet in a vision. God will come to a prophet in a dream. Dreams are also visions. But dreams are visions that are received in a subconscious state. All right. So let's look at vision. An inner vision. Let us say vision is the revelations

49:46 that you see in a conscious state. All right? Don't forget that word. A vision is the encounter and revelations that you see from God in a conscious state. And in that conscious state we now have three categories of vision. The first is the inner vision. Now an inner vision is the kind of vision that you will have maybe seated right now as I'm teaching and the Holy Ghost wants to give you a vision. You are still looking at me but suddenly you can see either a picture comes into the eyes of your mind. Now let me explain one scripture in Ephesians

50:31 chapter 1 verse from verse 16. You know in verse 17 and 18 Paul say I pray for you that God will give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him that the what? The eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling. Now the eyes of your understanding is what you use to see visions is what you use to receive spiritual communication. The eyes of your understanding if we check that word understanding in the in the Greek because the New Testament is written in the Greek. When we check that word eyes of understanding the word understanding there is actually the Greek word dinoa.

51:17 So the dinoa actually means the mind. So if you see it in the Greek, I'm reading that from my Bible. The dinoa means the mind has a faculty of understanding. Are you following me? The mind has a faculty of understanding. You know a lot of believers talk spirit but they talk less of the mind. You cannot be a true spiritual man without engaging the power of your mind. When God speaks to you into your spirit, every communication that comes into your spirit, if it is ever going to profit you, it must enter your mind. The mind of man is a seat of consciousness. The mind of man is an organ of knowledge.

52:06 So in vision, you are not just seeing with your spirit. Paul says that how God brings you into visions and revelations is that the eyes of your understanding. The eyes of your mind is being enlightened. It means God floods the eyes of your mind with light. You know it is by light we see. Even though this is morning time, if we switch off all the bulbs in this auditorium, shut up all the doors and the windows. I hope you know your your sight will be limited. You may not even be able to see if you if you step into your home at 8:00 p.m. or 9:00 p.m. in the night and all the lamps, the light bulbs are switched off, you not be able to see. What enables you to see is

52:52 light. We are able to see on the earth because of sunlight. So the light enters into your eyes and you know all the biology and the physics that plays on optics and all of that that happens. The light force to the retina to the propill and all of that that happens behind the scene and an image is cast. It is the light that cast that image that enables you to see. And the Bible clearly says that in Ephesians chapter 5 from verse 13 he say light is that which makes manifest. Man can only see by light. So the way it is in the physical, that is how it is in the spiritual. So when God wants you to see in the spirit, what it does is that he floods the eyes

53:38 of your spirit and your mind with light. It is the light that forms the image on your mind. So Paul is showing us here. He say I'm praying that God will give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him that the eyes of your mind your dinoa will be enlightened will be enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling. So it is only when light shines into your mind that you can have spiritual thing. Another word that is used for that dinoa is also the word imagination. And if you are going to be prophetic person, you must know the power of your imagination. You know there are many believers who think spirit spirit and they think God doesn't have any business with your imagination. You cannot be a

54:23 spiritual person without the power of your imagination. Imagination is not demonic as it were. It's not something that Satan put inside of you because of the fall. The imagination is put there by God. All right? So if you are going to engage the power of the imagination when we go further I will explain one scripture in Genesis chapter 11 where we go further exploring the tripartite nature of men but now I'm just teaching about the channels of communication. So in inner vision it is God giving you a vision in a conscious state just the way you are. A picture can align on your mind. I want you to mark the word I'm using mind because many of you underplay the power

55:10 of your mind. You think holy spirit visions enters your spirit but it comes alive in your mind because your mind is a seat of consciousness. Your mind is a place of understanding. So right now you can see you can just see a tree. Now let me teach you something. I told you that the word used for mind is also the word imagination. So in visions, God uses your imagination to create a mental picture for you. Imagination is not a bad word because I like you to know that the same faculty you used to see a vision from God is the same faculty you used to imagine. For instance, if I ask you where is your house? I say Nicholas, where do you live? What happens to you? intuitively

55:57 within a split second the picture of your home coming to your mind. That's your imagination working taking advantage of the information that have been stored in the hard dicks of your mind because a human mind you see the computer system is designed after the human nature. Just you have a hard dicks that store information. All right, your mind has a memory bank. So if I ask you where do you live, your imagination goes straight into your memory bank and fetches an image, a picture and instantly projects it into your mind. So the picture of your mind comes to you. I'll show you how that works and how God is able to give us word of knowledge using the resources of

56:43 the Holy Spirit and the creativity that he has put in our human nature. So in an inner vision a picture or an image or sometimes an anov visual plays out in your mind. You see in in in in in multimedia all right in multimedia every one of us understand physics. In multimedia we have what we call still images right we have text we have still image we have video we have audio then we have what audio visual. Am I right? All of these things that man has built, he did that based on

57:29 how God wired man. Just the way in our human communication, I can I can send you a message as a text. You just read it. Please come to my house. A message has been communicated. But you didn't hear a voice. You didn't see anything. It's a text. That's the first level multimedia. And then I can also send you a voice note. That's an audio. All right. I can also send you a picture. I didn't say anything. You didn't hear any voice. It's just a picture. And then I can send you a motion picture. A motion picture is a video. All right. So in our communication with God, a vision, you can just have either a picture come

58:14 into your mind projected by the Holy Spirit. Someone may say, "How do I know the picture I'm seeing or the visual I'm seeing is by the Holy Spirit." You will know when the Holy Spirit speak to you because you have his life. Many years ago, when I started having very wild prophetic encounters, wild visions, I was asking God, how do I know these things? And the Lord began to take me to the scripture. And I wonder why it looked like God was taking a long time to teach me these things through the word. It was years later I understood that God was taking me through those dreams because he knows that part of my calling will be also to teach and equip people in the prophetic. So God was taking time to ground me in scriptures. Are you understanding? So that I will not just be teaching my experience. I

59:01 will know enough scripture to be able to explain the things that I am teaching. Amen. So in an inner vision is like you are sitting here. You are in a service. You can be in the bus. You can be in the airplane. You can be anywhere. You can be in your bedroom. You can be in your restroom. And the Holy Spirit gives you a picture, a vision within your mind. You know that this is God speaking to you by the sense of life. That's what he told in John 1:4. The scripture say in him was life and that life is a light of men. So the divine life of God is what is responsible for the educational system of heaven. The divine life of God, the anointing within you is what teaches you. So are you seeing a vision

59:48 now? You are sleeping. Are you seeing a vision or you are sleeping? Okay. In him was life and the life was the light of men. So it is the divine life of God, the Zoe of God that teaches you. How you know that the picture, the vision you are seeing in your mind is not just imagination or the devil trying to interrupt your mental faculty. You will know when it is God speaking to you because of God's divine life. And the more you have fellowship with God and have stirred up the operation of the Zoe inside of you, the easier it becomes for you to discern. That's why we say prayer and intercession is the lifeline of the prophet. It is those spiritual disciplines that opens your spirit. Prayer, fasting, studying the word,

1:00:35 meditating on the word, all of those things. Is this spiritual discipline that builds up and grows your human spirit so that it becomes very easy for you to discern what is of God and what is not of God because of the overflow of God's way that is upon your human spirit that is also flowing into your soul. That is how you know whether the picture I'm seeing is my mind playing games on me. Whether it is the devil interrupting my thought or it is the Holy Spirit because you will not say that every vision you saw in your mind is from God. The human mind is creative on its own. And the devil also will interfere with your thinking pattern. But it will take your engagement in the divine life to be able to recognize the speakings and the

1:01:22 teachings of the anointing. Because one of the function of the anointing in the believer is to teach. The anointing is not just power. Because most people think only power in terms of anointing dunamies. One of the function of the anointing is to teach. 1 John chapter 2 verse 20 he say you have an anointing from the holy one and you know all things the anointing what we call the anointing is actually the overflow of Zoe the anointing is the overflow of the divine life and one of the function of the anointing is to teach you you have an anointing from the holy one you have an uncction on the holy one and you know all things verse 27 says the anointing that you have received of him abides in you that you do not need that anyone should you. But as the same anointing

1:02:09 teaches you of all things and is truth and is not lie, even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him. So one of the function of the anointing which is the overflow of Zoe inside of you is that the anointing teaches you. All right? The anointing teaches you. The anointing brings you into knowledge. So it is the anointing that brings that picture, that vision inside your heart. And you are going to know that this is God speaking to you because of his divine life. But I can tell you that you grow in these things. You will not master the communications of the spirit overnight. That's why we are doing what we are doing is that we're teaching and equipping. Nobody can make you a prophet overnight. What we do is to teach you and to impact you and then your own

1:02:54 personal responsibility with God will determine your level of growth. Are you following me? Your level of commitment and sacrifice to God is also going to determine your growth rate. That's why two believers can be born again together after 5 years. They are not on the same plane. So in the inner vision you are actually seeing and interacting with your external environment but the picture are lights in your mind. A vision plays out. It could just be words you see written. It could be image, a picture, could be anything. It could be audio vis. It could be a motion picture meaning it is visual. You are seeing a vision playing out. All right. That's audio visual. That's motion picture. It can be that's visual. It can be audio

1:03:40 visual. That means you can be seeing in a visual and you are hearing. You know there are visions that where you come out from you can remember what you heard in a vision. And in some vision you didn't hear a voice you just saw. So there are different depth of communication. But that's what a vision is. An inner vision happens in in a conscious state. You are conscious. You're interacting with your environment. You could be meeting somebody for the first time. You could be a board meeting. That's why I want believers to be taught how to move in the prophetic in their day-to-day life. You could be in the board meeting. Yeah. Sometimes I'm meeting somebody for the first time and I'm shaking somebody and something enters my heart and you know whether God wants you to relate to the person, God wants you to avoid the person. their things and you

1:04:27 will need this equipping of the Holy Spirit in the business place. I've seen people who have lost millions and they have not recovered. If you were alive in the spirit and you know what it means to discern the voice of the spirit, such losses would have been avoided because God is the one who teaches you to profit and lead you in the way that you should go. God does not lead you to destruction. He leads you to the path of life. So if you are yielded to his spirit certain losses in your life should be avoided should be avoidable. So that's the inner vision. You are conscious. A closed vision is almost like a trance but it's not a trance. In a closed vision you are seated and maybe you you you just close your eyes

1:05:14 or you lost consciousness of your immediate environment just for a brief moment. All right. And then you saw something. That's a closed vision. In an inner vision, all your external senses are alive and then your inner senses activated for you to be able to see and perceive. But in a closed vision, it looks as if the Holy Spirit shut out your external consciousness for a moment and then you are able to see something. That's a closed vision. They are all visions. I'm just showing you the difference. And then in what we call an open vision. In an open vision you are seated where you are for instance and

1:06:00 you are interacting with the spiritual and the physical realm. In an open vision you are seeing both the physical realm and the spiritual realm at the same time. An open vision is not very common. You can be a prophet and never have an open vision all your life. I had an open vision once. You can be a Christian and never have an open vision. An open vision was what happened to Saul of Tasos on his way to Damascus. That's a typical example of an open vision. All right? Because he was seeing his physic he was seeing Jesus and he could still see his physical environment. In an open vision, you are seeing both the invisible and the visible realm at the same time. You are seeing both the

1:06:45 spiritual and the physical realm at the same time. That's an open vision. That's an open vision. You are conscious of your physical environment yet you are seeing through the spiritual realm. That's an open vision. In an open vision, you could see the Lord Jesus. You could see the throne of heaven. An open vision was what happened to Ezekiel in chapter one. He say, "And I was among the captives by the river Cabba." He say, "And the heavens was open, and I, Ezekiel, saw the visions of God." It says, "And the word of the Lord came upon me, and there the spirit rested upon me." So you see, it was a very deep encounter. He was seeing the

1:07:33 visible and the invisible realm at the same time. A man, you can be here and if God so pleases, he can open your eyes to see the throne room. What is happening in the throne room? That's an open vision. You can be seeing the invisible realm. Seeing angels in the invisible realm and then you turn, you are seeing us in the visible realm. That's an open vision. It is not a very common encounter, but it is one of the ways that God speaks to people. We see Daniel having a lot of that. We see Ezekiel. We see Isaiah in chapter 6. That was an open vision he had. All right. So, Zechariah in Luke chapter one, that's an open vision where Gabriel appeared to him by the altar when he was out to burn the incense to carry out the sacrifice. So, that's an open vision where you are

1:08:18 seeing the visible and the invisible realm at the same time. That's an open vision. So dreams, dreams are visions that you see in a subconscious state. Every one of us know what a dream is. Everybody dreams. Your physiological wiring, your biological wiring allows you to dream. Everybody, every human being dream. Some people say they don't understand their dreams when they wake up. Some people say they don't remember their dreams. But your your makeup physiological makeup allows you to dream. Everyone dreams. Dreams are activated at certain frequency of the human brain. There's a certain brain wave that your brain enters into. There's a certain frequency that your

1:09:05 brain wave comes into that allows you to dream. So every human being dreams when they sleep is that there are different levels of dream. There are dreams that are natural. The book of Ecclesiastes, it talks about dreams that are come from multitude of business. All right? So there are dreams that people have from multitude of business. Maybe you have children, little children or when you are a child, have you seen children dreaming and talking and they talking on their bed, you see a child dreaming, maybe my kids when they play football, somebody is sleeping and he's stretching his leg to kick football. Have you seen that? So children dream dreams can come out of multitude of business. Too much eating can make you dream. That's why you want

1:09:52 to be a prophetic man. You want to grow in the things of the spirit. You must have control over your appetite over food. As much as possible don't eat much in the night if you want to be a spiritual person. Some of us it is ministry engagement. Sometimes you close meeting late. You are fasted all day. you have to get home maybe 7 or 8 or 9 or maybe you do iterian means you are getting to the hotel room 1000 p.m. sometime 11 p.m. and you didn't eat all day and you know that the fast is going to continue the following day. Son of man must was must was must was must was must was must was must was must was must was must was must was must was re well all right so you get to eat so some of us end up eating late but as much as possible when I'm at home I avoid eating late even

1:10:37 when I'm fasting I ensure that I don't eat later than 6 but sometimes you can't help it you finish from church you have not eaten all day you have to eat because too much food affects you see there is a balance that the spirit soul and body has a lot of people in eastern religion and the new age they seem to understand this thing more than many Christians. There is a balance that the human spirit soul and body have. So there is how if you feed this body too much is going to affect the delicacy between the spirit and the soul and its impact on the body. Even witches and occultic people know they know that there are certain spiritual missions they want to go through go through that they have to fast meaning your flesh must be light. The veil of your flesh must allow the

1:11:24 spirit to be able to interact with this physical world. That's why as believers we fast. And let me tell you, I'll read that out. You want to be a prophetic person, fasting must be part and parcel of your life. I fasted every day of this year from January 1st. But you see, I haven't known that fasting is going to be part of my life. I now have a way of organizing my fast. So there are times that I do a kind of fast that I don't eat. I eat maybe in the afternoon, I don't eat in the night, in the morning, then I eat the following afternoon. Nobody says that fasting must be 6 to 6 in the evening. It is religion that puts you in that mode. Sometimes you will, if you want your body to

1:12:10 adjust, sometimes you need to change how you fast. Sometimes you need to fast out dinner and breakfast. So you eat lunch now, you don't eat break, you don't eat dinner, you don't eat breakfast, you wait to eat lunch tomorrow so that your spirit and your body can be in partnership for you to be awake through the night and eat. Too much food makes you sleep because the moment you just eat food, you want to sleep. And it is those kind of things that affect the balance of your spirit, soul, and body. You know there was one funny so-called prophet in Nigeria who said food you must not eat food that you must not eat in the night that's on a lighter note he mentioned coke he mention okra soup and some funny

1:12:56 thing that's when demonism meets religion all right but I'm teaching you that if your dreams are going to be prophetic if you are going to maximize the night season you must ensure that you are it in the book of Job chapter 33 from verse 17 it said God speaketh one way and in another way yet men perceive it not Job 33 verse1 17 or put from verse 13 verse 13 let us see the power of dreams go to 14 let me see for God speaketh once yeah twice eyes yet man perceive it not. Can you see the

1:13:42 scripture? He say God has come to you once you did not discern it. He came to me in another way. You still could not discern that God is communicating. Then God will now resort to coming to you in your dream. God speaketh once ye twice yet man perceive it not. Then it goes on in a dream in a vision of the night. So you see that dream is also a vision but a dream is a vision that is seen in the night. Do do you understand this scripture gives us perfect insight? Then in a dream in a vision of the night when deep sleep fallth upon men in slumberings upon the bed. Then he opened the ears of men and sealed their instructions that he may deliver man. Go on. that he may withdraw

1:14:30 man from his purpose and hide pride from man. So one of the way God delivers you from your agenda, he delivers you from the path of destruction is that he comes to you in a dream to speak to you. Why does God choose dream? Many times because dream is one of the ways that God can reveal to you without

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