0:03 God bless you. Thank you. It's okay. It's good to be here with us tonight. Amen. I I want to trust that you've been having a good week at work, at school, and your business place. Okay. So, can we bless the Lord? Father, we thank you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
0:50 Thank you, Lord, for unto you shall the gathering of your people be. Lord, thank you for the privilege to gather at your feet to learn of you and to be instructed, to be empowered. Father, we ask that you give us quick understanding. We ask for the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of you. We ask that the eyes of our understanding be enlightened that we will know what is the hope of your calling and the riches of the glorious inheritance that is available for us and the saints. We ask that you shine your light upon our hearts and empower us for the journey ahead of us in Jesus' name.
1:35 Amen. So, you're welcome. Amen. So, in our our last class um on the course the prophetic ministry. Okay. Thank you.
2:21 Amen. I know that um last week we touched on a few things. We touched on what is the prophetic ministry, signs of the prophetic calling, and then I talked about some of the prophetic functions, right? And um Okay, these are some of the things majorly we talked. I talked about how God prepares the prophet for his calling. Um Okay, today we'll touch on the roles of the prophets. We'll touch on that.
3:06 And then we'll also touch on We'll touch on the roles of the prophet and we'll itemize um the sevenfold function of the office of the prophet as we see from the Old Testament into the new. Um but I want just touch on something before we go on and I call it fulfilling the prophetic ministry. Fulfilling the prophetic ministry. Fulfilling
3:54 prophetic ministry. All right. So, that's my major subtopic now. So, underneath it, I want us to look at the prophetic anointing and gifts. Um we have a course on spiritual and ministry gifts. And that course we're going to take time in details to teach on all the gifts of the spirit that we see in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. We're going to touch on the three layers
4:40 of ministry. What we call the believers' gifts, the spiritual gifts, and the ministry gifts. All right? So, we're going to take time on that to explain all of the gift of the spirit, the revelatory gift, the utterance gift, the power gift. Amen. Our brethren online, are you hearing me clearly? I want to be sure the people online are following. Can you hear me clearly? Okay. Okay. Oh, that's good. Praise God. Um you're welcome to this class in Jesus' name. Um so So, when we come to spiritual and ministry gifts,
5:26 we'll take time to teach on all the gifts of the spirit, the revelatory gift, the utterance gift, and the power gift in detail. But we are treating the course um the prophetic ministry, and we are looking at fulfilling the prophetic ministry. So, I want us first to look at the prophetic anointing and gift under fulfilling the prophetic ministry, the prophetic anointing and gifts. The prophetic anointing anointing and gifts. So, what is the prophetic anointing? When we talk about the prophetic anointing, what are we actually
6:12 referring to? When you hear a believer say, "Oh, this person has the prophetic anointing." What are we actually talking about? Maybe let me put in bracket the prophetic gift. Let me put grace. Amen. So, um I'm just talking about the prophetic anointing and gift. In bracket, you can put grace. So, when we talk about the prophetic anointing, what exactly are we talking about? What are we referring to? When we say somebody has a prophetic anointing, what does that actually mean? First of all, let us understand what is the anointing. If you're going to define the prophetic anointing,
6:58 you must first of all understand what the anointing is first. All right? Uh when we talk about the anointing, the anointing is actually an empowerment of the Holy Spirit to fulfill a divine task. It's as simple as that. When we talk about the anointing, we are referring to the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to fulfill a divine task. That's what the anointing is. When we talk about the anointing within the context of ministry, serving God, we're actually referring to
7:43 that supernatural empowerment of the Holy Spirit to fulfill a divine task. So, we see throughout the scripture that God anoints people according to his task for their life, or you want to put the word calling. Um God anoints people differently. Every one of us here, we function with a different kind of anointing. Even when you see prophets or evangelists, they still have uniquely different endowment by the spirit of God. No two people are alike. Just the way in the natural our fingerprints are different, our faces are different. When it comes to the spirit, we are uniquely different. Amen. So, when we talk about the anointing, we
8:28 are referring to that supernatural empowerment of the Holy Spirit to fulfill a divine task. So, God gives the anointing upon a man based on the divine task or calling that he has placed upon the life of that man. So, when we when we talk about the prophetic anointing, we are actually talking about that supernatural empowerment of the Holy Spirit All right? To access the heart and the mind of God. That supernatural empowerment of the Holy Spirit to access the heart and the mind of God and to speak forth
9:13 God's plans and purposes. So, the prophetic anointing is what empowers a man. Is what gives a man the ability to access the mind and the plans of God. So, it's as simple as that. I don't want you to um look at a very complicated definition. It's as simple as that. It's a supernatural empowerment of the Holy Spirit to access the mind and the heart of God so that we can speak forth God's purposes and God's plan. So, that anointing of the Holy Spirit that enables you to access the heart and the mind of God in order to speak forth his
10:01 plans and his purposes. That's what the prophetic anointing is. So, by this simple definition, you know that every believer can walk in the prophetic. I've established that every believer has a prophetic DNA. If you have the Holy Spirit, you are prophetic. Jesus said, "I have so much to tell you." In John chapter 16 verse 12, he said, "However, you cannot bear them." He said, "But when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all truth. He shall not speak of himself, but whatever he shall hear, that he shall speak, for he shall take from what is mine and make it known to you." So, the Holy Spirit has the
10:47 responsibility to bring the believer into the heart of the Father. He takes from the Lord and make it known to us. So, by that, Jesus has shown us that every believer can be prophetic, all right? And in John chapter 3, from verse 5, you know the story, the discourse that Jesus had with Nicodemus. Jesus said, he came to Jesus and said, "For I acknowledge that you are a teacher sent from God, for no man can do the things that you do except God be with him." And Jesus looked at him and said, "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Except a man be born of water and of the spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God." So, we've been explaining that
11:34 being born again gives you access to be able to see the kingdom of God and to be able to enter into the kingdom of God. And we see from the book of John chapter 5, verse 19 and 20 and also verse 30, Jesus said, "I can of myself do nothing, but what I see the Father do is what I do also." He said, "And the Father loves the Son, and he will yet show him great and mighty things that you may marvel. I can of myself do nothing, but what I see the Father do is what I do." In verse 30, he said, "I can of myself do nothing, but as I hear, so I judge." All right? And Jesus established the fact that the reason why the Father commits
12:19 himself to him is because he's a son. So, that's where I I got the understanding that the prophetic is for sons. Sons are the ones who are given the privilege to see what the Father is doing, to hear [snorts] what the Father is doing, and then to align with the Father to establish his will in the earth. Amen. So, the prophetic anointing is given to us so that we can see and hear and know what the Father is doing. So, that we can establish his counsel upon the earth. So, when we talk about the prophetic anointing, we're actually talking about the supernatural empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Can you see that? The ability of the Holy Spirit that gives us access
13:06 into the heart [snorts] and the mind of God. So, you cannot access the heart of the Father by your own ability. It's [snorts] the anointing of the Holy Spirit that flows inside of your spirit that gives you access into the heart and the mind of God. Suddenly, you are able to know the will of God. You are able to access the plans and the purposes of God by the agency of the anointing. So, the Holy Spirit is a custodian of the anointing, but we see that there are different kinds of anointing. That's to show that there are different abilities of the Holy Spirit that flows through the believer. And that's why I established that the anointing is a
13:52 supernatural empowerment of the Holy Spirit to carry out a divine task or calling. So, God gives us the anointing, even though the Holy Spirit is the one who has the fullness of the anointing, the ability of God. But you see, he pours his ability into our spirit according to his purpose. So, God anoints us differently. But that anointing that brings us into the heart of God, to know the mind of God, to be able to speak for the plans and the purposes of God, is what we call the prophetic anointing. And so, when you look at first John chapter 2 verse 20, you will see that one of the characteristics of the
14:38 anointing within the believer is that the anointing has a teaching ability. The anointing can teach. So, John said, "We have an anointing from the Holy One, and we know all things." So, that measure of the Holy Spirit, that ability of the Holy Spirit that brings us into revelation, into knowledge, into the heart and the mind of God, is actually what we refer to as the prophetic anointing. So, you will see that every believer can function in the prophetic anointing because the prophetic anointing gives you access into the mind and the heart of the Father. So, that you can speak forth the plans
15:26 and the purposes of God. So, John is showing us that one of the characteristics of the anointing is that it has the ability to give us access into spiritual knowledge. All right? And that's one of the functions of eternal life. I think I established that. That one of the characteristics of eternal life is that eternal life has the ability to bring us into the knowledge of God and the knowledge of the things of God. That's the Zoe that we have inside. That is God's prophetic anointing. But you see, the prophetic anointing is in measures. The prophetic anointing is in layers. But we must establish that every
16:12 believer can walk in measures of the prophetic anointing. But you see, when the prophetic anointing is given to a believer for the purpose of fulfilling a ministry, then we can now say that the believer has a prophetic ministry. Are you getting me? The prophetic anointing is given to every believer. It's within your spirit. But you see, the prophetic anointing within you can unlock the plans and the purposes of God within you. That's not a ministry. Knowing the will and the plans of God for your life and aligning yourself to fulfill it is not you ministering to somebody. That anointing brings you into the revelation of the plans and the purposes of God. It is the prophetic anointing
16:58 that enables you to know God's will, God's plans, God's intention for your life. But you see, when that anointing is given to you in a measure that allows you to minister to people, then we can now say that you have a prophetic ministry. Are you getting it? We can now say that's a prophetic anointing because that anointing is now given to you to be able to minister to people. And ultimately, that's the purpose of the anointing. We say the anointing is a supernatural ability of God that is given to a believer. All right? Supernatural empowerment of the Holy Spirit that is given to a believer to fulfill a divine task.
17:43 So, we say that the prophetic anointing primarily brings us into the revelation of the plans and the purposes of God. It gives us access into the mind and the heart of God. But you see, it is given ultimately so that we can speak the plans and the purposes of God. Then, this prophetic anointing is given to fulfill a ministry. When the prophetic anointing is given to you so that you can know God, access God's will for your life, and do the things that God is calling you to do, when you are under that prophetic anointing, it is not a ministry because it is given for your own personal edification. But when the anointing is given to you and the depth
18:28 of the revelation that you are fetching is not just for yourself, it is for the building of the body of Christ, for ministering to the needs of people, ministering um God's direction, God's correction, God's counsel to people, then we now say that you are fulfilling the prophetic ministry. So, even though the prophetic anointing can give you access into the plans and the purposes of God for your own life, the ultimate reason why God gives the prophetic anointing and gift is so that you can fulfill the prophetic ministry. And so, if we explain the prophetic anointing within the context of the prophetic ministry, we can actually say that not every believer is given the
19:14 prophetic anointing for the purpose of ministry. Every [snorts] believer can access the prophetic anointing, but not every believer is given the prophetic anointing for the purpose of ministry. Does that make sense? So, the prophetic anointing can be given to you to know the plans and the purposes of God for your life, to keep you, you know, um at peace with what God is doing with your life so that you don't miss out. But you see, ultimately, the reason why God gives the prophetic ministry, the prophetic anointing, is so that you can be equipped to fulfill a ministry. So, the prophetic anointing is that supernatural empowerment of the Holy
20:01 Spirit in the believer that gives him access into the mind and the heart of the Father in order to speak forth the plans and the purposes of God. So, the prophetic anointing is given majorly or primarily for ministry. But, like I said, it can also be for your own personal edification. But, when you are given in a measure that allows you to minister to people, you are already functioning in the prophetic ministry. So, when we are talking about the prophetic, we must understand that there is such a thing as the prophetic anointing, the prophetic gift, and the prophetic ministry. Do you understand that?
20:48 There is a prophetic anointing, there is a prophetic gift, and there is what? The prophetic ministry. So, in order for a person to fulfill the prophetic ministry, God pours into you the prophetic anointing and the prophetic gift. Now, you see, the anointing and gift, they are similar, but they are not the same. Because somebody say, "What's the difference between the anointing and gift?" Even though these words are used interchangeably, but they are not the same. They are not the same. The prophetic anointing
21:34 actually comes upon you seasonally. Comes upon you to fulfill a purpose. Even though it is what God has given you, but it is not always upon you. Do you understand? The prophetic anointing primarily is given for ministry. And anybody who understands ministry knows that the anointing upon, which is the anointing for ministry, is not always upon you. Because if the prophetic anointing is always upon you, it means you can prophesy the whole day. Because the anointing is upon you. Because as a Bible student, you will know that there are two layers of the anointing that operates within the life of the believer. There is the anointing upon,
22:20 and there is the anointing within. The anointing within primarily is made for your transformation, enables you to know God, maintain fellowship with God, and ultimately is the anointing within that guarantees your eternal destination. Because that's what prepares you for the life after. It is for your personal build, personal fellowship, growing in the knowledge of Christ. But, you see, the anointing upon is actually the anointing for service. It is the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. So, even though we can say a person has the prophetic anointing or a prophetic gift, it therefore doesn't mean that the person is functioning under the prophetic anointing at all
23:07 time. You get it. It's like the healing anointing. The healing anointing is not always upon you. If you are functioning in the healing anointing, you will know it. Many times when the healing anointing comes upon you tangibly, you will feel it. Your body will know it. It is a tangible, undeniable anointing. Not only your spirit, even your body will feels the weight of the anointing. So, the same way when the prophetic anointing comes upon you, it is so tangible that you will feel it. You will know it. It comes upon you as God wills. So, the prophetic anointing flows through a believer through the will of God and the desire of the believer.
23:52 So, the will of God and your desires should meet. God will not just always move you in the anointing. That's why you have to desire the anointing and prepare for the anointing. So, the prophetic anointing comes upon. It is a tangible anointing. It's an anointing that you can feel. When it comes upon you, you know it is upon you. It is very tangible. But, you see, the prophetic gift is not necessarily like that. The prophetic gift is more like an operation that is within. The anointing is upon. It's a tangible force. But, the gift is within. You get that? The gift is within.
24:39 Even though ultimately it is the Holy Spirit that activates the gift, all right? But, the gift is resident within your spirit. Sometimes it it doesn't take so much for you to activate the prophetic gift within you. But, it takes a lot of preparation to have the prophetic anointing comes upon. You see, sometimes when we try to teach these things, we are just using limited human words to explain. A lot of times, our human words are not enough to explain these things. So, the anointing is better experienced than explained. All right? The prophetic anointing comes as a force upon you. God clothes you
25:25 with it for you to minister in a season. It's just like how the healing anointing comes. So, some of the ministers you see with very powerful healing ministry, you may meet them at home or walking on the street, and they may not be able to raise a But, the next moment you see the guy raising the Because the fact that God has given you an anointing for ministry does not mean that you can switch in switch on that anointing at will at any time. It takes a lot of preparation. It takes a lot of consecration for that tangible, undeniable anointing, that presence to rest upon you as God wants you to walk in it. But, you see, the gift is within.
26:11 So, there is a connection between the prophetic gift and the prophetic anointing, but they are not the same. The prophetic anointing is more tangible. It comes. When it comes upon you, you know. All right? It's a It's like a clothing that comes upon you. You speak under the anointing with a with a stronger authority, with a stronger force. It's like the spirit mantles you. He clothes you. When the anointing comes upon a person ministry, you will know. You are sensitive. You will know the switch. The person could just be teaching, just preaching. But, when that tangible anointing for the ministry that he has received from the Lord Jesus Christ comes upon him, it is tangible.
26:59 But, you see, the gift is inside. You can wake up from sleep and the prophetic gift can switch on. So, the prophetic gift and the prophetic anointing has to do with um two dimensions of manifestation of the Holy Spirit. One has to do with something that is internal and resident within your spirit. The other has to do with that which comes upon you. You get the difference? So, the prophetic gift can just switch on on your inside gently and mildly. Maybe you are in a business meeting discussing. You are on the streets. You are trying to take um maybe breakfast somewhere in an eatery, in a fast food joint. The gift can switch on anywhere.
27:46 But, you see, when the prophetic anointing comes upon you, it is tangible. Sometimes it is overwhelming. So, if the prophetic anointing, that mantle of grace, is upon you around the clock, you will not be able to live a normal human life. So, it is like how electricity operates. You know there's you can step down electricity in the transformer, and you can step it up. It is the same electricity, but at different measures. So, the prophetic gift is like a step down version of the prophetic. That's why it is within. All right? The anointing that comes upon you is like a step up version of the
28:31 prophetic. So, it is the same Holy Spirit working, but the manifestation differs. So, you can be in the classroom, you can be in the board meeting, um you can be having a conversation with somebody, and the prophetic gift just switches on. But, when the prophetic anointing comes, it is altogether a different thing. It is a clothing of the spirit. Remember what happened at Rama. When the prophetic anointing came on the on on the servants of Saul, you saw how they prophesied and almost lost their cool. When Saul came and the prophetic anointing came upon him, you saw how he prophesied until he tore his garment. It was as though he was not in control.
29:19 All right? So, we see that the prophetic gift is like a step down version of that anointing, of that grace. Then, the prophetic anointing is a step up version that comes upon you. And you see, the prophetic anointing is not only limited to public manifestation. The prophetic anointing can come upon you tangibly in your closet, in your moment of prayer. The prophetic anointing can come upon you when you are alone. It can come upon you when you are with just a handful of persons. God does not wait for a hundred people, a thousand people to be gathered in a service before the anointing come. Sometimes it may be you and somebody,
30:04 maybe your prayer partner partner. You are just together praying and that anointing comes upon you. And God begins to give utterance. You see, when the prophetic anointing is manifesting there is depths and there is authority that comes with the utterance. A person who is speaking under the prophetic anointing, all he needs to do is to yield. He's not trying to ask himself, am I sure this is God doing this? No, because there is a presence. There is a presence. There is a force. There is an influence that the anointing has upon you when you come up under it. It's like a cloak that comes upon you. It's a heightening, a step up operation
30:51 of the grace of the prophetic. So, a lot of times that anointing comes upon us at the point of service. So, you know when God has given you a prophetic grace, a prophetic ministry. We talk about preparing. You prepare for the anointing to come upon you. So, it's all together a work of faith. But the prophetic gift you can pray in tongues just a few minutes and you activate it. And sometimes the Holy Spirit just switches it on even in your public space. So, you just meet somebody, you are shaking somebody and the prophetic gift is switched on. You just know things.
31:40 You just know things. So, when we're talking about the prophetic gift, we're actually talking about the prophetic grace that is resident within a believer. A lot of times is the prophetic gift within your spirit. That step down version of that grace that allows you to that makes you receive dreams. It is that anointing opening you up in your moment of sleep into dreams. Or you step into a place, you just know things. Because a lot of times that's how the prophetic anointing the prophetic gift work. When the prophetic anointing comes, it is forceful, it is powerful,
32:25 it is tangible, you can feel it. You feel the words welling up within your spirit. Or you will hear the voice of the Lord within your spirit. There is a measure of forcefulness. There is a measure of authority that comes upon you when the prophetic anointing comes. It's a garment. You know a lot of times people try to say, oh, there's prophetic, somebody has a prophetic gift, another person has a prophetic anointing, another person has a prophetic mantle. And especially as Pentecostal charismatic, we just like to complicate things with a spiritual word called mantle. Did you see the New Testament? Did you hear any of the apostles say, I have a mantle or this person have a mantle? We just like big words to complicate things
33:12 and make us sound spiritual. The prophetic anointing is actually a mantle. Because how the anointing feels when it comes upon you, it's like a cloak coming upon you. So, that's a mantle. So, there's no point saying this person has a prophetic gift, this one has a prophetic anointing, this one has a prophetic mantle. They know, the prophetic anointing is a mantle. And when we even talk about the concept of mantle in the Old Testament, it was a cloak that the prophet wore. Particularly we see that word being used mantle with respect to anointing with Elijah. Elijah was a kind of prophet. He was known by his garments. So, the the the cloak that Elijah wore.
33:57 And because he was staying a lot around the deserts. All right. So, the cloak that Elijah wore. The desert area is cold, so he can't dress like somebody who is living in a beautiful palace, you know. So, Elijah spent most of his time around the desert area. So, there's a particular cloak that Elijah wore to help shield and protect him for that area. So, everybody knew him. And of course, the Holy Spirit also inspired him to dress in a particular way. You see John the Baptist when he showed up, he was dressed like Elijah. So, it was an inspiration of the Holy Spirit. But the anointing was not the physical the mantle of the Holy Spirit was not the physical mantle. Was not the physical cloak that Elijah was wearing. What
34:43 Elijah was wearing as a physical cloak was a type of what the Holy Spirit was putting upon him in the spirit to enable him fulfill his ministry. Are you understanding that? So, the Holy Spirit led Elijah to dress in a particular way, which we see John the Baptist also doing when he showed up. And so, it was not that that physical cloak that Elijah was wearing, that was not the anointing. It was a kind of dress code that he was inspired by the Holy Spirit to wear. So, somebody say, how did they remove it? Why if if it was not the anointing, how did they remove it you know to to to smite and to separate to part the river Jordan?
35:30 It's because you see, when an anointing is tangible upon a man at that moment, when that man is under the influence of the anointing, anything that that man yields by an act of his will to the Holy Spirit carries the anointing. So, Samson will carry the jawbone of an ass and suddenly because it was Samson holding it, the anointing will come upon that jawbones of an ass and Samson will use it to do what? To slay over a thousand people. So, Elijah had the anointing of the Holy Spirit upon him. That cloak was something that he was inspired to wear by the Holy Spirit. So, when he removed the garment to smite, it doesn't mean
36:17 that the anointing of the Holy Spirit was in that garment. But like I said, anything in the hands of an anointed man becomes anointed. So, the garment of Elijah carried the anointing by the principle of contact and transmission. In the same way that Paul the Apostle in Act um chapter 19 verse 11, the Bible says handkerchiefs and aprons were taken from the body of Paul to they that were sick and the diseases left and the demons departed from them. It doesn't mean that the apostolic anointing of Paul was in handkerchief and apron. No. And the Bible will use the word they were taken from Paul. So, it was not that Paul used Paul hold what some of
37:04 some churches do in the charismatic circle. Paul did not hold a mantle service and tell everybody bring handkerchief. If that's the one your faith allow, I'm not saying it's bad. What I'm saying Paul did not go to that service planning that he will give people handkerchief to go and heal the sick. Paul was just ministering. All right. And the Bible did not say Paul gave, the Bible said they were taken. All right. So, it was like somebody, maybe a minister. I've had those kind of experience where somebody comes by faith and say, please give me handkerchief. Meanwhile, don't ask me for this after my teaching. I'm just giving an explanation. Where somebody comes by faith. The person just saw you ministering under a tangible anointing, all right. And then the person's faith
37:51 connect and say, I want your handkerchief. Maybe I have a loved one who is sick. I've seen people healed and delivered like that. All right. So, that was what happened with Paul. Handkerchief and aprons were taken from his body. As a matter of fact, Bible um um church history, you know, scholars, they told us that before Paul was killed by Emperor Nero, that one of those times when Paul was dragged through the city that Paul was bleeding because of all the you know, the beating and all of that and blood was coming out of him. And it was said that there was a lady called Perpetua. You know, you must have heard the word Perpetua among the Catholics. That there was a lady called Perpetua. When she saw
38:36 that Paul was bleeding, she carried an handkerchief and cleaned Paul's face. To clean the blood and the sweat from Paul's face. And when she did that and took back her handkerchief, unknown to her, the handkerchief just touched her face and one of her eyes that was blind was healed. All right. Paul was being taken for his persecution. And she saw that Paul was bleeding, Paul was sweating. And she just used her handkerchief and cleaned Paul's face. And unknowingly to her, when it made contact with her face, her blind eyes were healed. Anyway, that's that's Bible um church history scholars, church historians. That's the account. So, for Elijah, it didn't mean that Elijah was using his
39:22 mantle every time he needed to cross road. It was an inspiration of the Holy Spirit at that moment. That's why you must separate when you are inspired by the Holy Spirit to carry a prophetic action from making it a doctrine. That's why many of us, especially in the African churches, A great man of God was inspired by the Holy Spirit to do something. The next thing he turns it into a church doctrine. So, for Elijah, it was an inspiration that Elijah had by the Lord to carry the mantle to strike. It didn't mean that everywhere Elijah went before that time, he was using his mantle to if he sees people on the road, clear them off, use a mantle to open door. No, it was at
40:08 that moment, it was by the inspiration. It was a sudden teaching of the anointing. And because Elijah knew that everything that comes in contact with the anointed becomes anointed by by the principle of contact and transmission. So, Elijah knew that when they got to the River Jordan, how to part the river was for him to pull out his mantle and instruct the river and the river parted. So, whether you say is a mantle, a prophetic mantle, or a prophetic anointing, is the same thing we're talking about. A lot of times, people use mantle to show that it is in a higher measure. It's just Pentecostals and charismatic semantics. Are you following me? Because we see in
40:53 the New Testament, Paul did not say, "Me, I have apostolic mantle. What Peter have is apostolic anointing." We see those words, they are Old Testament references. So, in our New Testament context, we can only talk about the prophetic anointing and gifts. All right. So, when we are talking about the prophetic gifts, when any of the revelatory or utterance gifts is operating through a prophetic vessel, we call it a prophetic gift. Don't forget the prophetic gift is like a step down version of the anointing that gives you access into the mind of God, to the will of God, gives you access into revelation. But, we see that in 1 Corinthians
41:40 chapter 12, 1 Corinthians chapter 12, from verse 7 to 10, Paul was talking about the gift of the spirit. So, in the gift of the spirit that Paul um um listed for us there, we will see that the gift of the spirit are in three categories. I'll focus on that next week when we get to um the ministry spiritual ministry gift. But, I want to show you of the nine spiritual gift that was mentioned, three of the gifts are called revelatory gifts. All right. Three of the gifts are called revelatory gifts, which are the revelatory gifts or the revelation gifts.
42:28 Are the gift of what? Number one, word of knowledge. Word of knowledge. Number two, word of wisdom. All right. Number three is the discerning of spirits. Discerning of what? Spirits. So, these are the revelatory gift which we will touch in details when we come to that separate course. But, these are what? The revelatory gifts. And then, we can
43:14 also look at the second category of gifts called the utterance or inspiration gift. So, let me use the word inspiration gifts. Inspiration gifts. That's the second category of gifts. You'll see that from 1 Corinthians chapter 12 from verse 7 to 10. So, in the inspiration gift, we have number one, the gift of what? The gift of prophecy. Number two, the gift of tongues. All right. Gift of tongues. Then, number three, the gift of the interpretation of tongues.
44:10 So, actually, is these two category of gifts that make up the prophetic gifts. The prophetic gift comprises of the revelatory gifts and the inspirational gifts. So, if you look at the inspirational gift, you are going to see the gift of tongues. That means you are actually prophetic. Every believer is prophetic. Because you can see every believer have the gift of tongues. And you see in the book of Acts that when the disciples were filled with the Holy Ghost, they spoke in other tongues and prophesied. You see that in Acts chapter 19, when Paul met certain disciples in Ephesus, they spoke in other tongues and they prophesied. So, you will see
44:58 that in the inspiration gift, we have the gift of prophecy, the gift of tongues, and interpretation of tongues. Actually, many Bibles teachers or prophetic teachers believe that the gift of tongues and the interpretation of tongues actually is equal to the gift of prophecy. So, when you speak in other tongues, that's a gift of the spirit. The gift of tongues is branched into two. There is a gift of tongues which is our prayer language. There's a second layer of the gift of tongues, which we call the gift of diverse kinds of tongues. All right. So, in the gift of the spirit, actually, the Bible use the word diverse kinds of tongues. The gift of diverse. So, you
45:44 can put the word diverse kinds of tongues. In the diverse kinds of tongues, it is you coming under the influence of the spirit and speaking a language that you have never spoken before under the inspiration of the spirit. So, maybe you begin to speak Mandarin. You begin to speak Spanish. You are just praying in tongues or your ministry and you find yourself under the inspiration of the spirit, you are speaking Spanish, a language you don't know. You may not even know you are speaking Spanish. And then, when you finish, the person is people listen to, maybe there's a Spanish person there and the person is shocked that he just spoke his language. That's partly what happened in Acts chapter two, where the Bible say they were speaking in the language of the proselytes who came from different nations declaring the wonderful acts of God. So,
46:30 that's the gift of the diverse kinds of tongues. But, the gift of tongues is also part of what we have received from the Holy Spirit. So, a lot of times, when you are praying in tongues, speaking the gift of tongues, the Holy Spirit can activate the gift of the interpretation of tongues so that you begin to understand the tongues that you are speaking. A lot of times, that's how divine direction and divine revelation comes. In those moment, you spend time, you you are just seeking God, you are speaking in other tongues, and then before you know it, the Holy Ghost just unlock the gift of the interpretation of tongues. Suddenly, you begin to interpret your your your vocal cord is speaking in your prayer language, but the understanding within your spirit is down. Your mind is
47:17 suddenly understanding that unknown tongue that you are speaking. So, that's the gift of interpretation of tongues. It could be for your personal life. It could be you in church, somebody speaking in other tongues, and then suddenly, the interpretation of what the person is saying begins to come into your mind. Now, it's not called the gift of the translation of tongues, it's called interpretation. There's a difference between interpretation and translation. Interpretation means and translation means you are going to give word-to-word meaning for everything that the person says. Interpretation is that you are giving a general understanding of what the person has said for the purpose of communication. All right. That's why when you are preaching an evangelistic sermon and
48:03 somebody is interpreting, we do not say the person is translating. The person is actually interpreting. So, there [snorts] is a gift of the interpretation of tongues. It can flow in your life interpreting your own tongues. It can flow interpreting the tongues that another believer is speaking. All right. When that happens, when there's tongues and interpretation, it is actually equal to prophecy because the mind of God is made bare. When that person begins to interpret, he's actually interpreting what God is saying either to an individual or to the congregation or to multitude or to a nation. So, that's the gift of prophecy. But, you see, the simple gift of prophecy is the Holy Spirit inspiring a
48:51 believer, giving you words that capture the mind and the intent of God to speak out in a known language. So, that's a simple gift of interpretation in simple gift of prophecy. In the simple gift of prophecy, it doesn't carry the element of prediction. The simple gift of prophecy does not carry the element of um prediction. That's why you see, every time people are filled of the Holy Ghost, they spoke in tongues and prophesied. That prophecy does not mean that they were predicting the future or foretelling the future, but they were speaking forth. I I I I I I taught you two kinds of prophecy, fortelling and
49:38 foretelling. So, a lot of times in the gift of prophecy, it is mostly fortelling. So, you see that sometimes somebody come under the influence of the spirit in a Holy Ghost meeting and the person begin to speak, "The Lord is in your midst. The Lord is saying this. God said he has heard your prayer. God said he will vindicate you." All of that. The person is not necessarily foretelling the future, but the person is speaking forth the word of God for the now, for the present. So, foretelling captures the will of God, the plans of God for the future, but fortelling deals with the intent of God, the will of God for the present. So, every time a person stands to release a prophetic word, the prophetic word should either be fortelling,
50:26 speaking for the will of God for the now, or foretelling, speaking the will of God for the future. But, the gift of prophecy is just the ability to speak for the mind of God by divine inspiration. All right. So, when you come to the revelatory gift, there is a word of knowledge, there's a word of wisdom, there's a discerning of spirit. When we say a person has a prophetic gift, it means that under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the person is able to tap into the mind of God by that gift, >> [snorts] >> either by revelation or by inspiration.
51:11 So, functioning with a prophetic gift means you have a high susceptibility into accessing the mind of God. God is able to give you access into his mind through a gift. Even though the word gift is a very is an all-encompassing word, but you see, we can break that when it comes to the prophetic. When we say a person is moving in a prophetic gift or the person has a prophetic gift, it means that under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the person will either move in the word of knowledge or word of wisdom or discerning of spirit or prophecy or even interpretation of tongues. But,
51:56 mostly when we say a person has a prophetic gift, is that the person moves in the gift of prophecy and in this revelatory gift often. That's what makes it a gift because it is given for ministry. You are able to move in it often. All right. So, it is a grace, but I try to differentiate that with the anointing, the prophetic anointing in times of it's a tangible anointing that comes upon you. It comes forcefully. It comes with a higher measure of authority. But, a gift is within you. It is unlocked as God wills and also as you desire.
52:43 I remember years years back, we we were on a mission trip um with I think two of my friends. So, we were in Uganda. We finished from the mission field in No, we stopped in Uganda and then had a meeting or so in Uganda and we're moving to Kenya. And our host in Kenya uh told us that uh from Kampala to where we're coming was just 6 hours. We didn't know that they were setting us off for a roller coaster. So, we say, "Ah, if it's 6 hours, I mean, it's something." They say, "Ah, we can do that by road." We say, "Okay, at least 6 hours. Let's see we'll see how the country looks like as we travel." That 6 hours journey took us almost 24 hours. That's that's that's a story for another
53:28 day. But, when we got to the border because we're going to cross from Uganda to Kenya. So, when we got to the border, the moment the lady saw our Nigerian passport was like a demon rose inside of her. So, they say, "Ah, what what are we coming through you Uganda? That we should go back to Kampala and fly to Nairobi. Why are we crossing through the border?" And she checked and found out that that's even the first time. So, we're doing she was trying to cause trouble for us. We were pressed with time. She said we should go back. That's going to take us like maybe 4 hours trip from that Kenyan border, somewhere called Busia, back to Kampala. So, as as we were there,
54:14 my friend now says, "Touch me and say prophesy to us you allow us pass." You know when people want to set you up, they prophesy to us you allow us pass. So, I kept looking in my spirit, looking. We'll go back and beg the lady. She said she will not stamp our passport, that we have to go back to Kampala. So, I went to her. Something rose inside my spirit. So, I went to her and and told her I said, "Is it Nigerian that broke your heart? It's not us now." She looked at us. So, her friends now started laughing. I said, "Is it Nigerian pastor that broke your heart? It's not us that broke your heart."
54:59 Her friends were all laughing, but they knew the story. She had one Nigerian guy who came around, plundered them to their money, disappeared, broke her heart. She was expecting to marry, but the guy escaped. So, [snorts] when I said that, the friends all laughed. You would expect that it would allow her to want to allow us enter, but the demon rose inside of her. She said, "Eh, that's why I don't like Nigerians. A Nigerian pastor came, he broke my heart, he did this." She was angry the more. So, that word of knowledge did not save us that day. You would You would expect that when you give that, she would not be humbled and say, "I can see that you people are servants of God. Pray for me, let my predicament
55:46 change." The thing angered her the more. She said, "And that's why she doesn't like Nigerians. That she doesn't care. That uh this your this if you like prophesy, you are not the first Nigerian prophet I've seen." Apparently, Nigerian prophets have come there, took their money, slept with the ladies. So, my word of knowledge was not impressing her. Because she had seen other people who came, did word of knowledge, exploited them, and left. So, my word of knowledge and my friend pressured me to say, "Remove one of those you have now us. Let us prove to them that we are servants of God." I did it there. It didn't bring repentance. Rather, the word of knowledge angered her the more. So, they pushed us. Somebody who who did
56:31 not know us had to come there and rescue us. That's how we entered into the country. So, I'm saying that the prophetic gift can just rise inside of you. Many times I've seen that like when I used to enter a lot of maybe bus travel like those days in school from Zaria, I'll travel to Makurdi to go for Apostle Immanuel's meeting and all of that. I've had those kind of experiences. Where I was in a bus with a lady and as we were dropping, I saw that a serpent was tied to her waist and I told her what I saw. She was shocked. She wanted me to pray for her. Then our friend came and said, "Don't mind all these 419. He has washed his eyes." And started screaming in the in the motor park.
57:16 And trust this is Africa. You experience mob action before they find out that of God. To carry my bag and escape. So, I've had those kind of experiences. Sometimes I travel with somebody in a car and the Lord gives me a word of knowledge to comfort the person. The lady sat with me in the car, this back where traveling, and she was just pushing me, sleeping, and pressing on me. If I tried to talk, she was trying to make it a fight. So, I kept quiet until when we were dropping. So, that thing rose up my inside. So, I told her that the Lord said her mom that she was going to see in the hospital was healed. She looked at me. Tears filled her eyes. And she said, "I'm a man of God." She was apologizing for all that she did. I said, "God said just go. Your mom is
58:03 healed." So, those kind of things happen. I've sat in a vehicle before with a guy and the Lord told me that he had lost someone, that he's heartbroken, that I should comfort him. So, I told him that God loves you. That the Lord is saying that he has lost someone, but God is bringing healing and comfort. But, I didn't feel an overwhelming anointing. All right. That's the prophetic gift coming up. That's the word of knowledge just coming into your spirit. The ability to access the mind of God, to know something that happened in the past and in the present. That's word of knowledge. But, in discerning of spirit, a lot of times the discerning of spirit operates with a vision. So, you don't only know something,
58:48 sometimes you just see something. A lot of times that's how the discerning of spirit work. The discerning of spirit means the ability to see or hear from the spirit realm and also to know the source of an activity or an event or a word that somebody speaks. The discerning of spirit helps you to know the spirit behind. That's why it's not called the gift of discernment. Mark it. It's not the gift of discernment. It's a gift of the discerning of spirits in plural. So, the gift of the discerning of spirit can be activated in your spirit as one of the prophetic gift that you walk in. So, you can step into a place and know and see somebody speaking, all right,
59:35 and you can discern by the operations of that gift the source of the person's utterance. The source of what the person is doing. You can know if it is the Holy Spirit speaking through the person, if it is a demonic spirit, or even if the person is speaking from his human soul. All right. So the gift of the discerning of spirit helps you to know the source of a thing, the spirit that is behind that activity or that utterance. It is also a prophetic gift. And I tell you in these last days we need stronger measures of the operation of the discerning of spirit. Because in the days of all kinds of deception, we will need God to heighten our discernment level. There is a basic discernment that is
1:00:21 built through um fellowshiping with the word. There's a level of discernment you grow when you are a student of the word. So when you see somebody doing something that does not align with the word of God, you know instantly that this thing is not of God. All right. So there's a measure of discernment that you grow by virtue of you knowing the word and by virtue of your spirit being trained through fellowship with the Holy Spirit. But you see, there is a measure of discernment that is a gift. Is a gift of the Holy Spirit. So when we say a person functions in the prophetic gift, it means that under the operations of the Holy Spirit, one of these gifts of the spirit flow through
1:01:06 the person. Especially like word of knowledge and word of wisdom and these and these three. The gift of prophecy. As a matter of fact, let me say this categorically, you can know that what makes a person stand in the office of the prophets because when we go into teaching on gift I'll explain that careful more, but I want to touch that now. What makes a person stand in the office of the prophets is that he functions in the gift of prophecy number one and then secondly, he functions in at least two of the revelatory gift frequently. So the gift of prophecy plus
1:01:52 two or three of the revelatory gift flows frequently in his ministry. That's what makes a person stand in the office of the prophet. All right. I'm talking about the the gift combination that makes up the office of the prophet. Anybody that is called into the office of the prophet, the gift of prophecy, plus two or three of these revelatory gift are going to be very frequent in your life. They are going to flow as a prophetic gift through your life. They are going to flow under a tangible anointing in the prophetic. So anybody who is called into the office of the prophet, the gift of prophecy,
1:02:40 which is an inspirational gift, plus two or three of these gift are going to be frequent in your life. They are going to be flowing frequently in your life. >> [crying] >> So when we talk about the word of wisdom the word of wisdom is actually the deepest gifts that makes a person function in the office of the prophet because the gift of the word of wisdom is actually the supernatural ability to know the mind the plans and the purposes of God with respect to the present or the future. So most times when we have prediction
1:03:27 foretelling, it is actually a manifestation of the gifts of word of wisdom. When a person predicts a future event or tells you of something that will happen in foretelling, that's not word of knowledge. Word of knowledge has to do with supernatural knowledge of the past and the present. Supernatural ability to know something on the mind of God that is within the past and the present. So if a knowledge that the Holy Spirit reveals to you captures the past and the present, then that's the word of knowledge. For instance, as we are here, through a word of knowledge, you can know if somebody has a particular health issues.
1:04:12 [clears throat] I minister a lot by word of knowledge. As I preach, as I pray for the sick, I can know certain health cases that people have, certain areas they have growth, they have pain and all of that. That's word of knowledge. Knowing the name of a person, knowing details about people as you minister, that's word of knowledge. Knowing something that happened to somebody either in the past or the present, that's word of knowledge. All right. So while word of knowledge deals with the past and the present, word of wisdom deals with the present and the future. So every time God gives a word of wisdom, it is connecting the present to the future. Word of knowledge connects the past and the present. Ecclesiastes chapter 3 verse 11.
1:05:00 It says for God has put eternity in the heart of man. God has put what? Eternity in the heart of man. Yet man cannot understand all that God is doing. Eternity has been planted in the heart of man. When we talk about eternity being in the heart of man, it means that within the heart of man is the ability to access the present the past and the future. And what? The future. The Bible say God inhabits eternity. Have you seen that scripture? The one who inhabits eternity. It means the past, the present and the future exist as one with God.
1:05:46 The past, the present and the future. And because eternity, God has put eternity in the heart of man, the Holy Spirit is able to open the dimension of eternity that is within him in your hearts, giving you access to know something that is of the past, something that is of the present and something that is of the future. So the gift of word of knowledge connects you to the past and the present. The gift of word of wisdom connects you with the present and the future. All right. So the strength of a prophet's ability is not word of knowledge. The strength of a prophet's anointing, his ability is in word of
1:06:34 wisdom. Because it is word of wisdom that gives you access to the plans and the purposes of God. In word of wisdom, the plans and the purposes of God are revealed. In word of wisdom, God gives you access into the knowledge that has to do with his plans for the present and the future. In word of knowledge, God connects you from the past into the present. When Jesus met the Samaritan woman what Jesus spoke to her was a word of knowledge. He said, "Uh go and bring your husband." She said, "I have Where is your husband? Say he's at home.
1:07:19 And Jesus said, "That's not only your That's not your first husband. You have had six. You have had five. This guy is the sixth person in your life." And the Bible says she was broken and she went into the city and told all the people, "Say come and see the man that told me all that I've done." What Jesus did was he gave her a word of knowledge. So the word of knowledge revealed her past and her present. She was with the sixth guy and she had had five guys before that one. That's a word of knowledge. When Jesus in John chapter 1 look at um Nathaniel who came with Philip and said, "While you were under the tree, I saw you." He said, "Oh, Nathaniel a an Israelite in whom there's no guile."
1:08:05 And Nathaniel was like, "How did you know me?" Jesus said, "While you were under the fig tree, I saw you." That's a word of knowledge. So you see word of knowledge flowing in the ministry of Jesus a lot. Of course, Jesus did not make drama with it the way African prophets are doing. He didn't make so much drama. Have we met before? Have I known you? Jesus did not make drama. He just went straight to the point. He didn't draw any attention. Just straight to the point. That's the word of knowledge. So with the gift of word of knowledge gives us supernatural access into the mind of God to know things that pertains to the past and the present. That's word of knowledge. But word of wisdom gives us
1:08:52 supernatural access into the mind of God to know the plans and the purposes of God as it pertains to the present and the future. But you see, the second element of the word of wisdom is in giving direction for the present. You know, Ecclesiastes chapter 10 verse 10 says, "Wisdom is profitable to direct." One of the fruits of wisdom is in direction. One of the fruits of wisdom is in direction. And so the gift of wisdom flowing in a person as a prophetic gift can enable you to provide solution to a present situation. When you go to 2 Kings chapter 2,
1:09:39 after Elijah was taken up to heaven, [clears throat] and the Bible say Elisha came to the city called Jericho. And they said, the people came and met him when they acknowledged that the spirit that was upon Elijah had rested upon Elisha. They said to him, they said the situation of this land is good, but the water is bad. Elisha tapped into the second layer of word of wisdom. And the Lord showed him what to do to deal with that situation. Elijah said, "Bring me a cruise of salt a new cruise." They did that. And he said, "Put salt inside." They did that. Elijah now said, "Take me to the source of the river."
1:10:24 That means the spring of the river that they drink from in the land. He said, "Take me to the source." Now, when they took Elisha there, the Bible say he poured what the salt into the water. And he said, "This day is this water healed." And the scripture say from that day up until now the water is healed. I've been to Jericho before. I drank water there. The water was truly healed. Amen. I drank water in Jericho. The water was truly healed. So, what happened was a manifestation of the gift of word of wisdom. So, there are two layers to the word of wisdom. The word of wisdom also helps to provide solution for the present. When you look at the miracle ministry of Moses, you will see a very mighty
1:11:10 manifestation of the word of wisdom. It was by the word of wisdom God will say to Moses, "Stretch your rod over the Red Sea and part it." That's word of wisdom. God will say to to Moses, he said, "Go to Pharaoh. In the morning, you will see him at the river. Stretch your rod over the waters and the water will turn to blood." So, all of those signs and wonders that you saw Moses manifesting was a combination of word of wisdom and the gift of faith and workings of miracles. So, the power gift that followed that signs and wonders were the gift of faith and working of miracles. But, the revelatory or the prophetic gift that opened the door for the manifestation of the power gift of
1:11:57 faith and working of miracles was the gift of word of wisdom. So, the gift of word of wisdom is a very tangible gift in the miraculous. So, Psalm 103:7 will say the the Lord 103:7. He said the Lord made his know his ways known unto Moses, but his acts to the children of Israel. So, it was the revelation of the ways of God through the word of wisdom that enabled Moses to manifest the act of God. Because it doesn't make sense. There's no logic in you speaking to a rock and then water will come out. But, that's the word of wisdom.
1:12:42 You will see the word of wisdom in the ministry of Jesus. He will look at the guy who was blind, spat on the soil, and make some mud, and blinded the guy's eyes the more. And said, "Go to the pool of Siloam and wash." That's the word of wisdom. The word of wisdom opened the door for the workings of miracles. So, you will see that the gift of the spirit are interrelated. The gift of the spirit um flows together. So, sometimes you can see more than one, two, three gifts flowing in a moment. Let me not go so deep into that. When we come to the gift of the spirit and ministry gift, we'll deal with that. But, when we say a person has a prophetic gift, is that the person frequently functions in these gifts.
1:13:30 Um all of these, the word of knowledge, word of wisdom, discerning of spirit, and the gift of prophecy flows frequently in the person's life and becomes the person's identity. But, you see, you can have the prophetic gift and not necessarily be called into the office of the prophet. I hope you understand that. Because the prophetic the office of the prophet is not only a gift of the spirit. Now, what makes up the office of the prophet? When a person is called into the office of the prophet, he's going to have both what I call the believer's gifts, spiritual gifts, and then tangible manifestation
1:14:16 of the presence and the power of God following that. When we talk about the believer's gift, when we come to that, I'll show you. The believer's gift are actually spelled out in the book of Romans chapter 12 from verse 3 to 7. That's where you see the see what we call the believer's gift. Can you put Romans chapter 12:7? So, you see that as a believer's gift. Romans chapter 12 from verse 3 to 7. Okay. You see verse 3 say, "I say through the grace given unto me to every man that is among you not to think more highly of himself, but as God has dealt to everyone the measure of faith." Go
1:15:01 on. Okay. For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office. Go on. Go to verse 6. Having them gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the measure of faith. Or, go on. Or ministry, let us wait on our ministry. Or he that teacheth on teaching. Or he that exalteth on exhortation. He that giveth, let him do it with simplicity. He that ruleth with diligence. He that showeth mercy with cheerfulness. You will see seven gifts that the Bible mention here. They are
1:15:47 what I will call the full income gift of a believer. Every one of us, the moment you got born again, at least one or or two or more of these gifts were imparted into your spirit. They are not gifts that you desire. They are gifts that form the foundation for your ministry in the body of Christ. But, the three major gifts which God gives to people who be called into the fivefold ministry, among those gifts is number one, the gift of prophecy or the grace of prophecy. Number prophecy. You see prophecy. Number two is teaching. Number one is prophecy. Number two is teaching. So, write teaching. Number three is what? Exhortation.
1:16:35 Exhortation, in bracket you can put preaching. So, every person that is going to function in the fivefold ministry, you will have at least one or two or all of these gifts. But, every believer that is born again, you are going to have at least one or two or more of the seven gifts. The gift of mercy, the gift of of ministry, the gift of leadership, all of that. You see that that's not my focus. You see. But, if a person is going to function in the office of the prophet, he's going to have the gift of prophecy, then two or three of the revelatory gift, and then he's going to have these two or three of these graces at work.
1:17:22 He's going to have the grace of prophecy plus the grace of teaching and preaching or just prophecy
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