We're going to talk about the last three gifts of the Spirit
and they are the the ones that say something, the the gifts of
inspiration. OK.
And that is prophecy, tongues and interpretation of tongues.
But first I have to lay some foundation, do some explanation
and talk about a few things. So the my favorite thing that
we've done, and I believe I've seen it already in the first
week before we dive into this foundation, is that you came on
that first Sunday and you grabbed hold of the hunger and
the desire to for spiritual gifts.
And I believe it's been a demonstration that that the move
of the Holy Ghost does not happen because of who's standing
here. The move of the Holy Ghost
happens because of you. It happens because of your
expectation. It happens because of your
hunger. It happens because of where
you're at spiritually and you staying full of the Holy Ghost
and the Word. And so that's key and that's
important. Remember that first Sunday we
talked about earnestly desiring. We talked about the difference.
And when you get born again and you have a brand new spirit, the
Holy Ghost comes to live on the inside of you and you should be
walking out those fruits of the Spirit and love.
Notice love is the first one. Joy, peace, patience, and we
could go on, but love is the foundation for all of these
manifestations of the Spirit. We have to make sure that we're
in love. But after you get baptized in
the Holy Ghost, then you can operate in the 9 gifts of the
Spirit that we're talking about this month.
And so you have to have the baptism of the Holy Ghost so
that you can put yourself in a position to say the Holy Ghost
is upon me and it's for service and God.
I earnestly desire spiritual gifts.
And then pastor came in that second Sunday and he ministered
on the power gifts, the gift of faith or special faith, which is
not, it is not your everyday, the just shall live by faith.
It's not that that's an everyday faith.
This special faith is almost a, a resting faith, a supernatural
power that comes on you to raise the dead to do something
supernatural. And he talked about that gift of
faith and manifestation, gifts of healings.
He talked about that, you know, there's gifts of healings
because there's it's plural, because there are multiple
diseases and sicknesses. And and so sometimes there's
needed a gift of healing that would speak right to that
disease or right to that sickness and then a working of
miracle. So miracle means, and he talked
about this, something would have to be created or something that
wasn't there would have to come into play, for example, where it
kindle the flame this weekend. And Megan Barber, who, who works
in the medical field, was talking about this muscle in
your wrist that not everybody has, OK.
And she, we did this little test and I have it and Coco has it,
but Abby doesn't have it. And so we were kind of laughing
about that. And I said, I bet Pastor Mike
doesn't have it either. So we came home and, and had him
do his little test and he's like, oh, he don't have it.
So he's like, oh, I'll get it. I'll get that muscle.
God gave me every muscle that I'm supposed to have.
I'm going to get that muscle that would take a gift of the
Spirit. It would take a gift of the
Spirit and operation to create that muscle in him.
And I don't think the Holy Ghost needs to do that.
So I had a private conversation with him about it.
So anyway, that would be a gift to the Spirit.
So we talked about those gifts and then last week we talked
about the three that reveal and that that is a word of wisdom, a
word of knowledge and discerning of spirits.
And you know, a word of wisdom is something it's a plan of God.
It's something in the future that would be spoken by unction
or supernatural gift of the spirit, a word of knowledge.
Trenisha came up and gave a word of knowledge, which was right
now somebody has an enlarged heart and right now God wants to
heal you. That was a word of knowledge and
then discerning of spirits is that you can actually see into
the spirit realm. And, and I just want to take a
minute because I want you to understand how important these
manifestations of the gifts are in the last days.
In Second Timothy chapter 3, it talks about a rise in the
occult, a rise in sorcery, a rise in the demonic realm.
And you need to be aware of that.
You need to understand that. And that's why we as a church
need to be on top of our game. That's why we need to be full of
the word and full of the Holy Ghost.
But let's read Second Timothy chapter 3.
It says, but know this, that in the last days perilous times
will come. And that means trouble all
around. It doesn't have to touch you,
you don't have to fall into it. But troubled times are going to
be all around. For men will be lovers of
themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud blasphemers,
disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving,
unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, despisers
of good traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God. Verse 5 Having a form of
godliness, but denying its power.
And from such people turn away. For of this sort are those who
creep into households and make captives of gullible women, and
loaded down with sins, LED away by various lusts, always
learning, but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
Let that never be us, Let that never be us.
Verse 8 Now as Jonas and Jombres resisted Moses, so do these also
resist the truth. Men of corrupt minds disapproved
concerning the faith. Jonas and John Bruce were two
sorcerers in the Old Testament that opposed the ministry of
Moses. And you know, Moses did signs
and wonders and there were those sorcerers right there to do a
sign and a wonder. Next to him was this sign and
wonder from God. It was demonic.
And you need to understand that in the last days, these demonic
powers in this demonic sorcery is going to be on the rise.
I'm speaking to you for a purpose right now, and you need
to not be ignorant. And the great thing about the
Bible is, is that we don't have to be.
And we can look at stuff and go, Jesus told us this was going to
happen. I don't have to be moved.
I don't have to be scared. I don't have to worry about it.
I don't have to be freaked out when something demonic takes
place. I have authority like Pastor
Mike talked about. We have authority.
You have authority in the spirit.
You have authority outside in your realm that you can take
authority over things as you're LED.
So it talks about these, that in the last days it's going to be
like these two sorcerers and these things are going to
increase. If you look at verse 13 and
Second Timothy, it says but evil men and impostors or another
translation says sorcerers will grow worse and worse, deceiving
and being deceived. That word impostors means
witchcraft. It means sorcery, it means
magic. You think the devil's going to
just going to show up in his little pitchfork and his horns
and say, here I am. No, it doesn't work like that.
He is slowly dumbing down our society through TV, through
social media. If you just take a minute and
just watch a few kids cartoons on a Saturday morning or a
weekday morning, you begin to see the the witchcraft and the
sorcery that's in those. I'm not trying to be super
spiritual. I'm just trying to get you to
wake up just a bit, just a little bit.
So it means sorcery and magic and, and let me tell you
something about this whole New Age movement and this sorcery.
They're committed to the supernatural.
They're committed to see magic and signs and wonders.
They're committed to it more than the church is committed to
the Word of God and the move of the Holy Ghost.
And that should not be so in these last days when, when these
things are on the rise, if we don't get ourselves together and
understand the Word of God and be able to operate in these
gifts of the Spirit, then we're going to be going.
What's happening, what's going on?
We should not be moved if somebody comes in here from
that. We've had people in our church
that have been delivered from the New Age movement and, and
this whole new at Crystals, all of that stuff.
That's a big deal right now. If you don't know, I'm telling
you it's a big deal and people get delivered from that kind of
stuff. And what do you think it looks
like when somebody gets delivered?
You need to not be afraid and not be like, what's happening,
what's going on? Because if we have the gifts of
the Spirit operation, we're able to discern there's still a demon
on that person. We need to get that demon off.
We need to talk to that demon. So.
So I'm going to show you just a couple of examples before we go
into those last three of what it looks like when demons are
coming off of somebody so that you're not concerned if if they
scream or if they shake or convulse, the scripture says
that's what happens. And so I just want to read a few
scriptures to you so that you understand.
And let me just preface it this way.
A believer, a born again spirit filled person cannot be
possessed by a demon, but they can be oppressed by a demon.
And you need to understand that. So, so a a spirit filled born
again person could be in here could be having a form of
godliness even and and there's still a demonic oppression on
their life. And a gift of the Spirit can
operate for for someone to be able to see into the Spirit and
go, there's still a demon there. Let's let's talk to that.
Let's get that off. And so let's look at a couple of
examples of what that looks like.
First Corinthians 11/13 Let me just read this to you.
It says for such are false prophets, deceitful workers
transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.
And no wonder, for Satan himself transforms himself into an Angel
of light. So there's going to be people
who are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into apostles of Christ.
And it says no wonder Satan himself transforms himself into
an Angel of light. I just want to say this to you
as a believer. If we can't take authority in
our own mind, in our own life, in our own home with our
children, do you think you're going to be able to walk up in a
place and take authority over a devil?
So I heard the O there. I, that was a spiritual spanking
or something. But we've got to take authority
first here. Get victory first here take
authority in our home first have authority with our kids and
there's let me not go there, although I want to No, I won't
parenting big deal. And and you need to make sure
that you have authority in your home and not be like Eli in the
Old Testament who had no control over his sons.
They were in the ministry and they went around having sex and
doing whatever they wanted to do.
And he died because of it because the scripture says he
did not do anything about it. So we as parents, as authorities
in our own home, we have to take authority.
I definitely went there. OK, so are we ready for this?
Are we ready for a gift of the Spirit to manifest?
Are we ready for demons to come off of people?
Let's look at an example in Acts chapter 8, verses 4 through 8.
Acts chapter 8, verses 4 through 8, it says.
Therefore those who were scattered went everywhere
preaching the Word. Then Philip went down to the
city of Samaria and preached Christ to them.
And the multitudes with one accord heeded the things spoken
by Philip, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.
Now listen to verse 7. For unclean spirits crying with
a loud voice came out of many who were possessed, and many who
were paralyzed and lame were healed.
And there was great joy in the city.
We're going to see it. We are seeing it and we need to
be ready for it. I remember years ago when I was
at a church when I first got filled with the Holy Ghost and
went to a spirit filled church. I remember the the minister was
preaching and it's going to sound a little wild, but but
somebody from the back of the service fell on the floor and
slithered all the way to the front.
And I was like what is happening right now?
And I don't, I didn't know what was happening.
I didn't understand it, but I knew God was moving And that
person went down to the front and the minister recognized it,
casted whatever was happening out or off or whatever he did
and they were delivered and walked back to their seat.
Thank the Lord and and I just don't want you to be surprised.
I'm not saying that's going to happen, but I'm not saying it's
not going to happen. Then we're not going to see
things happen. Now Mark chapter one verse 23
says now there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean
spirit and he cried out saying let us alone.
What have we to do with you? Jesus of Nazareth, Did you come
to destroy us? I know who you are, the holy one
of God. You know, demons should know who
we are. We it shouldn't be I adjure you
in the name of Jesus, the one that pastor preaches about it
shouldn't be any of that happening from you because
you're taught the word. You know who you are in Christ.
But when we had take authority, the demons should recognize us.
They should know and say wait, don't wait.
I don't want you to come here because they know where they
know they're going to get spoken to.
They know they're going to have to leave that vessel and go find
another one. And you know us as a body.
We've got to encourage those that are getting delivered and
set free once their house is clean, we need to make sure that
we're training them so that demons, far worse, don't come
like the scripture says, to inhabit them.
And so when we see people getting delivered and saying
free, it's our job to come in and undergird them and and lift
them up and encourage them in the Lord.
And we're going to do that. We are that body.
I want to keep reading in verse 25.
But Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be quiet and come out of him.
And when the unclean spirit had convulsed him and cried with a
loud voice, he came out of him. Then they were all amazed, so
that they questioned among themselves, saying, What is
this? What new doctrine is this for?
With what authority? He commands even the unclean
spirits, and they obey him. This is no new doctrine.
This is the authority of God. This is the name of Jesus.
This Is Us speaking. Do you think you might see
somebody convulse? Do you think you might see a
demon scream and come out? You're going to see it.
And I'm telling you more and more in the last days as the
occult is on the rise and the New Age is on the rise, we've
got to have such wisdom and be led by the Holy Ghost and such
discernment to understand, because they'll even use the
name of Christ, that whole New Age movement.
They have this, this whole mind body connection, nothing to do
with faith, nothing to do with the Holy Ghost.
And they'll say you're so beautiful that you have Christ
in you. They'll take words in verbiage
from the Scripture and use it. And we've got it.
There's got to be something in you that goes, something's not
right. Something's not right about
that. We've got to be so in tune with
the Holy Ghost and know the Word of God that we can speak to
stuff, that we can take authority in the spirit.
It's no new doctrine. It's the power of God.
And the unclean spirits obeyed him.
So if we want demons to obey us, we've got to understand, not be
ignorant, make sure that we're taking authority in our own
home, our own lives, our own mind.
Amen. Three of the four gospels tell
the account of a boy who was demon possessed and Jesus cast
it out of. I'm going to read one of them to
you. In Mark Chapter 9 verses 26 and
27, it says after crying out and convulsing him terribly, it came
out and the boy was like a corpse so that most of them said
he is dead, but Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up
and he was able to stand. I remember when Pastor Mike and
I worked at the group home here in Saint Augustine and we, we
lived with eight, what they called emotionally handicapped
boys. They're not emotionally
handicapped. They're broken.
And there's a difference when you have a dysfunctional home.
Those, those things affect you in your adulthood if you don't
allow God in and you don't allow God to heal.
But there was a kid there, not Jacob, but another one that that
would have these moments. He'll know what I'm talking
about when I say it. He would have these moments and
his whole face would change and his whole behavior.
If you're would change and I remember pastor Mike and I were
dealing with him in the bedroom one time and this demonic thing
came over him and he started looking at me saying you're
you're never going to have a baby.
You're never going. I hadn't I didn't have any
children by birth at the time. It just started speaking some
things. I was like, I stood there for a
minute and I I said to my husband, I'm going to do it.
And I because I knew I had unction that there's a demon on
him, maybe in him that he's yielding to.
And so we laid hands on him, cast that thing out and he was
he was violent, he was vicious. He was, you know, doing stuff
that that he would have had to be physically restrained for.
And all of a sudden when we cast that demon off of him, he just
stepped back and sat on the bed, actually was kind of drooling.
Just sat there was calm like that.
It came out and he was like a corpse.
He convulsed. He he had a moment.
We had to get on top of that, get that thing out.
And then he just sat on the bed and he was calm it back in his
right mind. This is real.
This is not kooky. This is not weird stuff.
This is, you know, the spirit realm is more real than you and
me. What's happening in the spirit,
what you can't see is, is a lot more real than what you can see.
And we've got to be aware of that.
We've got to understand that in the last days, these demonic
things in these, this sorcery and this occult is going to be
on the rise. And we've got to be in the
Spirit, in the Word, having discernment, yielding, coveting,
earnestly desiring spiritual gifts.
And that's why I'm so grateful for our senior pastors.
That pastor said, we've got to talk about this.
We've got to talk about the gifts of the sphere because most
of the church doesn't know and really is ignorant about it.
And so they don't operate it. They can't desire it because
they don't understand it and they don't really know how to
get in there and study it out. So, so no more from this point
forward, we're a body that's equipped and we're a body that's
going to go out into the ignite impact influence and say God, I
earnestly desire spiritual gifts.
I'm hungry for the Holy Ghost and full of the Holy Ghost.
So remember, these seducing spirits and doctrines of demons
are going to be so prevalent in the last days.
And if we if we remain carnal, if we remain, you know, not
built up in the spirit, you, you're not going to survive.
Can I just say that because you're going to be tossed to and
fro by every wave and every wind of doctrine that comes along and
every trial that comes and go, what's happening is Jesus coming
back. What's going on?
You got to be so strong that you literally can just look at it
and say, Jesus told us this was going to happen.
Lord, tell me how I need to pray.
Tell me what I need to do Amen. So we're going to be aware
because the Word of God is your foundation, and you got to make
sure that you're staying in the Word.
We can't get off even in the gifts of the Spirit.
Really, those things have to be done decently in an order the
Scripture talks about two or three at the most, because
that's why actually Paul had to come in and talk to the
Corinthian church because they were getting out of order.
And so, so the word of God, don't you ever, ever, ever
despise the word of God being taught, the word of God being
preached to you. That's when you should be
leaning in. That's when you should be on the
edge of your seat saying, talk to me, God, I'm yielded to the
Holy Ghost. Because that's when we're going
to see solid, mature believers who know how to yield to the
gifts. Amen.
So that's the foundation got to be laid.
Now let let's look at, or let me just quote to you Ecclesiastes
84. As these things are on the rise,
we've got to have not only an intimacy where the Holy Ghost
but Ecclesiastes 84 says where the word of the King is, there's
power. So we've got to make sure that
we have the word of God and the Holy Ghost.
Acts 1038 says how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy
Spirit and power who went about doing good and healing all who
were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Notice it says he was anointed with the Holy Spirit and power.
He wasn't just anointed with just the power.
You know, that's how people get off as they just want the power.
They just want to move in the power.
No, Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost, the intimacy of the
Spirit of God. Remember, I read to you in
Second Corinthians that we're supposed to have that communion,
that intimacy with him on a daily basis, all the time, all
day, not just be hungry for I just want to see a sign.
I just want to see a miracle. I just want to see that's how
you get off. You got to make sure that you're
in the word and you're in intimate fellowship with the
Holy Ghost, not just power, intimacy and a life yielded.
You know, we're really living in the greatest time.
We really are living in the greatest time if we'll just
empty ourselves, if we'll just get, you know, as I read in
Second Timothy, it says people are going to become lovers of
their own selves. You've got to really guard
against that. You've got to really guard
against that in the last days that we are not lovers of
ourselves, our lives, what we're doing, our ministries are this,
this is what I'm doing. But then almost you just take a
complete backseat from ever talking about what you do.
It's just a safe place to be if you'll just every time, remember
I said this last week, every time someone gives you a praise
or an accolade that you just, you just give that as an
offering to the Lord that I just give that back to him that you
just don't take any credit for anything like that because it's
not about you. And we can't just look to the
ministry gifts, the pastor, prophet, evangelist, teacher, we
can't just look to those ministry gifts to move in the
gifts of the Spirit. It's the whole body.
It's all of us. Now let's jump into these last
three. Thank you Lord, I thank you
Father. Hallelujah.
First Corinthians chapter 12 Now concerning spiritual gifts,
brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant.
You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb
idols. However you were led.
Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the
Spirit of God calls Jesus a curse, and no one can say that
Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
There are differences of industries but the same Lord,
and there are diversities of activities, but it's the same
God who works All in all. But the manifestation of the
Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all.
It's always going to profit. For to one is given the Word of
wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge
through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same
Spirit, to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit, to
another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another
discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of
tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
But one and the same Spirit works all these things,
distributing to each one individually as he wills.
Verse 31. But earnestly desire the best
gifts. And yet I will show you a more
excellent way. So he distinguishes between
gifts, ministries, and administrations. 2 important
things to remember when these gifts are in in manifestation is
that Jesus will be glorified and the body will benefit.
The body or whoever's being spoken to and whoever's giving
the Word or are manifesting the gift of the Spirit, it will
benefit Jesus, will be magnified.
Now we're going to cover these gifts of inspiration, prophecy,
tongues, and interpretation of tongues.
These three are primarily for the church.
Remember I said these 9 gifts of the Spirit are for service, and
they are. But these three are really going
to operate right here the most the majority of the time right
here. They're for the church.
All of chapter 14 is about prophecy.
First Corinthians all of chapter 14 is about prophecy, tongues
and interpretation of tongues. So interesting that first
Corinthians chapter 12 lays out these these things of the
Spirit, these gifts of the Spirit tells us, teaches us
about it, talks about the ministry gifts and then says,
but you know, make sure love is first.
And then it goes into first Corinthians 13, you know, talks
about what love is, what the love of God.
You can speak in the tongue of men and angels and you don't
have love. Doesn't profit anything.
And then it goes on to chapter 14 and dedicates a whole chapter
to prophecy, tongues and interpretation of tongues.
Why does it do that? Why does it give us a whole
chapter? One reason because they were
getting off in these things. But then also because the
Scripture talks about there's diversities of tongues and
people get confused about that. There are differences of tongues
and we're going to talk about that.
If tongues were just a sign at Pentecost for the church, then
why would he give us a whole chapter explaining what these
different kinds of tongues are? So it so it gets rid of that
explanation. And I just say that to say, if
you're not baptized in the Holy Ghost with the evidence of
speaking in tongues, you need that.
You need him. He's not a dove, he's not a
bird, he's not the wind. You need him.
You need the Holy Ghost upon you.
So let's start with prophecy. Prophecy is, I hope you're
taking notes. Prophecy is the simplest form of
inspired utterance. Oh, there's great clarity coming
to you if you lean in. Prophecy is the simplest form of
inspired utterance. It's supernatural, it's inspired
by God, and it's spoken in a known tongue in English for us
it would be spoken. Howard Carter calls prophecy the
poetry of the Spirit. Prophecy of the is the first of
these three gifts of inspiration.
But let me explain to you, if there's a tongue in
interpretation that happens, it is equal to prophecy.
Those are equal. First Corinthians chapter 4
verse 3 says, but he who prophecies speaks.
This is the definition for it, edification and exhortation and
comfort to men. So you understand this is what
happened when Pastor Mike got up here.
I believe it was during no, he came up and gave it what he and
during offering you had a little bit of of a gift of prophecy as
well, but he came up and gave an inspired word that that got our
attention right. It wasn't, it wasn't just that
he was even in the beginning doing the offering, but then he
then he got off on something that was like, whoa, it grabbed
you, it grabbed your attention. He got up and gave a word that
edified you. It exhorted you, it brought you
closer to God, it comforted you. That is the simple gift of
prophecy. And so for explanation purposes
for you to understand a prophet, the ministry of the prophet is
different when we say the prophet prophesied.
So. So a prophet should be operating
in a word of wisdom and a word of knowledge.
And those things, generally speaking, can be called
prophecy, but it's different than this gift of prophecy.
So you need to understand that if someone says, you know,
Brother Barry gave me a word of wisdom and that was a he spoke
prophetically over me. Did he?
Yeah, he did. And that's different, though,
than what Pastor Mike did this morning.
A word of edification, a word of exhortation, and a word of
comfort. That word, prophecy.
This gift of prophecy, it means to flow forth, to bubble forth
like a fountain, and to lift up or just spring forth.
It's fresh and pure inspiration from God for that moment, and it
brings edification. But not every inspired utterance
is this gift of prophecy. And for example, preaching is
not prophecy, but is it inspired?
It is. But during preaching, could a
gift of prophecy come? Yes.
So if preaching was this simple gift of prophecy, then you
wouldn't need to study because it would all just come.
It would just all come out. But during whether it's been
when I've been up here, when pastors up here, whoever's up
here, during the preaching of the Word, it's inspired and he's
proclaiming, but all the sudden there will be a moment that
grabs you. It grabs your attention.
It's like edification for you. It's like exhortation for you.
It, it lifts the whole body. That's the simple gift of
prophecy. So you'll know when it happens.
It happens in worship. It happened this morning in
worship. It happens when when they're up
here singing and get a word to edify you.
That's a simple gift of prophecy.
The gifts of the Spirit are there to arrest the attention.
So even at the day of Pentecost when tongues fell and they all
were baptized, that was a sign. It was a a tongue that was a
sign. But they didn't get saved until
Peter preached. So, so these gifts of the Spirit
are in operation to grab the attention of an unbeliever or a
believer. So we need to understand that.
So I want to, oh, I already explained that.
I already explained that First Corinthians chapter 4 verses one
through 5 says pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, but
especially that you may prophecy.
Why does it say that pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, but
especially that you may prophecy?
And it's because it's going to help us.
Do we need help? Do we need comfort?
Do we need lifting up? And so that's why it says
especially desire that you may prophecy.
It brings us closer to God. It's a vocal gift that that
brings joy and lifts us up. First Corinthians chapter 14
verse 39 says, therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to
prophecy and do not forbid to speak in tongues.
Let all things be done decently and in order, decently and in
order. I want to give you a couple of
examples in First Samuel. This one kind of is is mind
blowing. We got to think about it.
Sometimes we read the Old Testament and go, wow, they did
some amazing things for not having the Holy Ghost within and
upon them. And how much more should we be
equipped because we do, we have the Holy Ghost within us and
upon us. First Samuel, when Hannah
dedicated Samuel in verse 27, chapter 1, it says I prayed for
this child and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.
So now I give him to the Lord for his whole life.
He will be given over to the Lord and he worshipped the Lord
there. And then chapter 2, then Hannah
prayed and said, think about this.
So when I read this, can you think about this woman?
When I read this, this woman had a baby and weaned him.
So I don't know how old he he was exactly, but she weaned him
and then took him and gave him to the Lord.
Can you imagine as a Mama what she may have felt in her
emotions? But it says in chapter 2 verse
one. Then Hannah prayed and said, my
heart rejoices in the Lord, in the Lord.
My horn is lifted high, my mouth boasts over my enemies, for I
delight in your deliverance. There is no one holy like the
Lord. There's no one beside you.
There's no rock like our God. Maybe she started out in her
emotion. Maybe she started out just
saying, God, I'm going to praise you.
And, and, and I can only imagine that that there was emotion and
there were tears streaming down her face.
But but as she began, as she began to thank him, this this
gift of prophecy overtook her and she began to say, Oh, my
heart rejoices in the Lord. There's none like you got.
And can I just encourage you? Sometimes you got to just kind
of step out in the flesh and then the and then and then there
it is. Hallelujah.
Thank you, Lord. Sometimes you just got to step
out because you, you just know, OK.
I remember a time when I had injured my knee and we had gone
to a meeting. Marty Blackwelder was
ministering. And I remember I couldn't run,
much less walk normal. And I remember, I don't even
remember what he was saying. Something came over me and I
knew I just needed to take off. And so I did.
I took off and I was healed. I wasn't healed in my seat.
I wasn't healed and wouldn't have been healed if I'd have
stayed in my seat. But the minute I obeyed and just
stepped on out and and took off, it was all gone.
Completely healed. And I'm just telling you, that's
a word of encouragement for a lot of you.
Sometimes you just need to get out of your comfort zone.
Sometimes you just need to get out of your seat.
You just need to, there's a freedom on the other side of you
obeying God that some of you haven't even touched, haven't
even experienced yet. And I'm just telling you that
some of you, it's just going to take, even if it's just like,
I'm just going to step right on out here into the aisle like
this. I mean, this is what I'm going
to do. And maybe that's your step of
faith. That's OK, do that, but you need
to get out. And sometimes it takes that move
of faith for you, for the Spirit of God to come on you.
And things to happen. So I cannot imagine Hannah's
prayer and her moment of thanking God in that moment.
But that's an example of the simple gift of prophecy.
Psalm 134. There are so many psalms that
are the gift of prophecy. Psalms 134 says, Behold, bless
the Lord, all you servants of the Lord, who by night stand in
the House of the Lord, lift up your hands in the sanctuary and
bless the Lord, the Lord who made heaven and earth, bless you
from Zion. Psalms 138 says I will praise
you with my whole heart before the gods.
I will sing praises to You. I will worship towards Your holy
temple and praise Your name. Praise Your name for Your loving
kindness and Your truth. You have magnified Your word
above all Your name. In the day when I cried out, you
answered me and made me bold with strength in my soul.
These Psalms are Psalms that some of you need to grab hold of
and just and just start singing them at home and just start
quoting them out loud at home. Get in the mirror and just start
saying them out loud. And there's something that ought
to, something that ought to rise up in you and go, Yeah, yeah.
Kind of like when I'm reading these scriptures, you're you're
listening and I can sense that you're, you know, you're leaning
in. But the more I read, you're
like, there's something in your spirit, man, that's like, I want
to stand up. I want to lift my hand.
I want to do it respond to God because it's your spirit, man
being strengthened, being edified, being exhorted, being
lifted up more and more. And when pastor gets back and
begins preaching the word, if something ignites you, then be
ignited. Get get up on the inside.
Nobody's going to stop you unless you are not in the
spirit. Then I, I have the I get the
tackle ministry because I want it.
I just because I want it. Actually, I want the tackle
ministry. But we'll only tackle you if
you're, you know, being kooky and not in the spirit.
And trust me, we'll know it and everybody else will know it that
you're acting kind of wild. OK, let's go to Ephesians
chapter 5. Let me say this to you.
I want you to think about this in your personal life.
Guard against always having something in your ear and in
front of your face. Because if you always have
something in your ear and you always have gotten social media
in front of you, you're not building your spirit up.
If you think that you can just come and sit in church and not
go home and be a doer of the word by not only reading, but
singing praises to the Lord, glorifying his name, magnifying
him at home. If you don't do any of that, I'm
telling you, you're not full of the spirit.
There's no man and no woman that that that accidentally cheated
on their spouse or accident. We went that was a spirit filled
believer. No, they weren't.
No, they weren't full of the spirit that day, and they
weren't filled with the spirit probably about a month before
either. You got to make sure that you're
full of the Holy Ghost. And that means it doesn't matter
how you feel. I'm telling you, if we can just
grab a hold of it, it doesn't matter how you feel.
You just got to grab. Oh, I bless you, Lord, all the
servants of. I bless you, Lord, You're so
good. Your mercy endures forever.
Thank you, Lord, that you give strength to my soul.
Thank, thank you, Lord, that you quicken me, that you get home,
do these things because it doesn't matter that you can come
in here and do it. You know, the Lord spoke to me
years ago. Thank you, Lord.
Hallelujah spoke to me years ago about Saul and how he, David
would come in and play for him because he was tormented and,
and every time David played for him, he would feel good and the
torment would go. But then when David would leave,
there he was. And, and the Lord spoke to me
and said, many people in the church are that way.
They come in and they, they feel better 'cause they're in the
church and they feel better because they worship and they
feel better 'cause they heard the word and they go home and
they stay in the same torment and the same strongholds and the
same bondages should never be. God created us to be a mighty,
mighty force on the earth, on the earth.
And that the Church of Jesus Christ could not be stopped.
The gates of hell would not prevail.
You're the church. So we've got to make sure if
we're going to, like I said, take authority outside of us,
that we're taking authority here, that we're living it right
here on the inside of us. Ephesians chapter 5.
See then, in this last day can I add to the Scripture.
See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but
as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the
Lord is, and do not be drunk with wine, which is dissipation,
but be filled with the Spirit. We read this the first week.
Be filled with the Spirit speaking to one another in
psalms. There's the psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs. Singing and making melody in
your heart to the Lord. Giving thanks always for all
thanks to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Submitting to one another in the fear of the Lord being filled.
Singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs.
Psalms chapter 96 says, Oh, sing to the Lord a new song.
Sing to the Lord, all you, all the earth.
Sing to the Lord and bless His name.
Proclaim the good news of His salvation from day-to-day.
Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among the
peoples, for the Lord is great and greatly to be praised.
Colossians 316. Let the word of Christ dwell in
you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one
another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with
grace in your hearts to the Lord.
You know you ought to be able to sing anytime.
Make a joyful noise. You don't have to sound good,
but you ought to always be able to sing.
Thank you, Lord, you're worthy. I honor you.
You ought to be always be able to just lift up your voice and
and sing to him at home, not just here all the time.
And if you need help and you can't get at your own Psalm and
your own song to come out, just start reading the Psalms.
Just start singing the Psalms. Revelation 1910 Prophecies for
the Church. It's for believers, edification,
exhortation and comfort. Then he said to me, Revelations
19, I'm going to start in verse 9.
Then he said to me, right, blessed are those who are called
to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
And he said to me, these are the true sayings of God.
And I fell at his feet to worship him, But he said to me,
see that you do not do that. I'm your fellow servant and of
your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus worship God,
for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, for the
testimony of Jesus is a spirit of prophecy.
So if I asked you to come up here and give your testimony,
you know, months ago we had a testimony service.
I can't remember if we had a guest minister, if pastor did
it, but but several came up and gave their testimony.
They didn't, they didn't write it out, they didn't practice it.
It was just unction. It was just come up and give
your testimony. That is called prophecy.
The simple gift of prophecy because Jesus is being
magnified, Jesus is being glorified.
So the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
So for example, Raphael, come up here.
For example, I'm going to have Raphael not planned, not not
written out. Give the testimony of what
happened at PCI. Come up here, Raphael, the
testimony of what happened at PCI, which I could say 17 got
born again last night at PCI, but also Pastor also wanted me
to mention in Brazil, six got born again and three filled with
the Holy Ghost, Amen. And we're seeing that happening
here among this body too. But this would be considered the
simple gift of prophecy. He's going to talk about PCI and
Jesus is going to be magnified and glorified.
Amen. Hallelujah.
Glory to God. Well, last night, praise God,
Ernie and I, we were there ministering and I just had AI
just had two scriptures, didn't really know where I was going.
I just had one word and that was enough.
And during that moment, as was ministering and about humbleness
and humbling stuff under the mighty hand of God, the man was
just engaging. And then just one, one moment it
just clicked it just the spit of the Lord just started kicking in
so strong that he went a direction of jurisdiction.
And so obviously I'm in prison. So they understand what
jurisdiction is. And, and in this moment, I just
remember that, that these men as they were engaging and, and just
I said, you know what, if you don't have faith, you're not
giving Christ jurisdiction of your life.
And they're just engaging in this.
I'm like, this is not a religion.
This is literally a government where God cannot touch your
life. He can't heal you, he can't save
you, He can't deliver you. God wants to do something, but
your faith allows God to have jurisdiction of your life, to
break everything that's on the inside of you.
Now remember, if you don't give God jurisdiction, you're done.
Forget about it. He can't touch you.
So and I said if you don't believe in him, he can't touch
you. If you don't confess him, he
can't touch you. So this whole religious service
ain't going to do any good for you because you're thinking
religion. And if you leave here, if God
for some reason open doors and your time and your sentences is
finished and you're out and about and you still see Jesus,
religious Jesus, he ain't going to touch you because you still
have not given him jurisdiction over your life.
And so we're ministering this thing.
And my goodness, man, and these guys are grabbing hold of it.
And it's just that one moment I said, if you want God to have
jurisdiction over your life, Hallelujah, I got to do this
other preaching of your life. Amen.
As if you want the Lord Christ to have jurisdiction over your
life and be the Lord. Lord not save you.
Lord mean he owns you, He'll deliver you, He'll set you free,
you'll belong to him. He now has jurisdiction over
your life, which means that when he comes in, something has to
come out. Anyway.
So the Long story short, yeah, you did this to me.
So exciting. So anyways, man, when they
raised their hand, I said 12345. We counted 17 people, 17 people
that said I'm done. I give him jurisdiction, He has
control of my, I gave him up. And man, we just praise the
Lord. This is something so simple of
what the Lord is doing. I said you are now potentially,
I said there are now people here that are probably more free than
those who are who are out here. And so anyways, the Lord did
something great in their lives. You can see the difference in
them. They're shouting me, there are
free people in prison. There's church service in
prison. There's more church indeed than
in sometimes I have in here. I don't know why, I'm just
saying the truth. And they say and I don't want to
get out, but I said I got to go. I got to go.
I can't, you know, stay here. But the Lord did some great 17
people gave Christ's jurisdiction over their life.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Thank you, Lord. That is a testimony of Jesus.
That is a simple gift of prophecy and manifestation.
Was Jesus being glorified? Was he being magnified?
Did 17 people come into the Kingdom of God?
Yeah, we magnify the Lord because of that.
And this is a simple gift of prophecy.
Now let's move on to the gift of tongues and interpretation of
tongues. So the Scripture talks about
diverse kinds of tongues or different kinds of tongues.
So different kinds of tongues is supernatural utterance by the
Holy Spirit in languages never learned by the speaker, not
understood by the mind of the speaker, nor necessarily
understood by the hearer. So we will see.
Let me just say this to you. You'll see a connection to all
the other gifts of the Spirit because of praying and tongues,
but there's different kinds of tongues.
So all everything that happens with tongues we've got to
understand because first Corinthians chapter 14 explains
it to us, the differences. And Brother Hagin made a a
comment that I wanted to read. He said the more I pray and
worship in tongues, the more manifestations of the other
gifts of the Spirit I have. The less I do, the less
manifestations I have. Speaking in tongues is the door
into all the rest of the gifts of the Spirit.
You cannot live, and I want to say this to you, cannot live a
spirit filled life and not ever have the gifts of the Spirit
manifestation in this last day revival.
We've got to be fluent and understand how to flow with Him
and how to yield to him. Mark chapter 1617 says, and
these signs shall follow them that would believe in my name.
They will cast out devils, and they shall speak with new
tongues. Tongues is a supernatural sign.
Jesus said that tongues would be a sign that will follow
believers and we should all speak with tongues.
Now let me explain to you the three different ways tongues can
operate. Tongues can be a sign.
Acts chapter 2 was a sign tongues were given as a sign of
a new dispensation the Holy Ghost coming upon.
And tongues can be a sign for an unbeliever in the scripture
talks about that tongues can also be a ministry tongue, which
is a tongue and interpretation that is given equal to the gift
of prophecy for the edification of the body.
And then tongues is also for personal use.
And you need to understand the difference because people take
the scripture out of context. Should all speak with tongues?
No, what's it talking about? That's talking about a tongue
and interpretation of tongue that's going to be given in
front of the church. It's not talking about your
personal tongue, because if it was, why did Paul say I pray in
tongues more than you all? So you got to understand the
scripture and know the difference. 1st Corinthians 14
two says for he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men,
but to God, for no one understands him.
However, in the Spirit he speaks mysteries.
He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself.
What is this? A personal tongue edifies
himself, but he who prophecies edifies the Church.
Verse 5, I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that
you prophesied, For he prophesizes greater than he who
speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets that the
church may receive edification. So here is talking about if it's
going to be a ministry tongue, it has to be interpreted.
I cannot get up here and give a tongue that is clearly for the
body and there not be an interpretation.
But it does not mean that you're not going to walk in this church
and you're not going to hear us pray in tongues at moments.
But you know the difference. If there's a tongue given to the
church, it's going to be clear, it's going to be bold, it's
going to be out loud so that the the church will know there's a
tongue and interpretation coming.
Pay attention. But it doesn't mean you might
not hear us up here praying or hear somebody in the seat
praying in tongues. And that tongue does not need to
be interpreted. That is your personal tongue and
you need that. The Bible says in Jude,
brethren, build yourself up in your most holy faith by praying
in the Spirit. This is how you stay built up.
It's like you can sing in the Spirit, you can talk in the
Spirit, pray in the Spirit, you can sing with your
understanding, you can sing in the Spirit.
You can do all of those things, but you need to be praying in
tongues. You need to be doing that.
So the last one is interpretation of tongues.
The interpretation of tongues is the supernatural showing forth
by the Spirit the meaning of an utterance in other tongues.
So if I was to give a tongue, then there has to be an
interpretation, and an interpretation is not going to
happen unless there's a tongue. Otherwise, it's just the gift of
prophecy. OK, so this can be public or
private. You could have a tongue in your
personal life that that the Lord could interpret for you.
You could be in a private prayer time, just you and the Lord and
you. You have function that that
needs interpretation and the Holy Ghost is right there to
interpret that for you. But in public always because
it'll be a sign for the unbeliever and it could be a
word of, of exhortation for the body always has to be an
interpretation. Now a public example is first
Corinthians 12/30. It says do all have gifts, do
all speak with tongues, do all interpret, but earnestly desire
the best gifts. And yet I show you a more
excellent way. So he's saying not everybody
should get up here and give a tongue, not everybody should
come up here and prophecy. Not everybody can come up here
and give a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge decently and
in order. But privately, First Corinthians
1418 says I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all.
Yet yet in the church, I would rather speak 5 words with my
understanding that I may teach others also than 10,000 words in
a tongue. So you understand this, these
gifts of inspiration are mainly going to operate here.
Prophecy, tongues and interpretation of tongues and
you're going to see it and it's not always going to be
announced. Pastor Mike, when he came up and
gave us a word of exhortation, that simple gift of prophecy
didn't say that was prophecy. It's not going to be something
that's announced, although for teaching purposes, we're
teaching it. We're explaining it and coming
up here and saying that was the gift of prophecy.
Trenisha coming up, that was a word of knowledge.
God is teaching us. God is showing us these things
so that we can operate in them. Listen, we live in the latter
rain. You know that.
We live in the last days. We live in the outpouring of the
Holy Ghost. First Corinthians chapter 14
says banned. You can come pursue love and
seek earnestly the spiritual things and rather that you may
prophecy, pursue love. And I encourage you and exhort
you, as we've taught all nine of these gifts and manifestations
of the Spirit, that you understand that in this church
and in life, those things need to be done decently and in
order. And it has to be.
It has to be backed by love. Love has to be your foundation.
You cannot want to get up here and magnify yourself or think
that you're super spiritual or think, look what God did for me.
And that's why I caution you, if you ever do come up and give a
word or a tongue or interpretation or, or operate in
any of the gifts of the Spirit, that you walk off this platform
and you leave it right there that you walk off of here and
you say, God, that was you. And I thank you, Lord, that the
people were lifted up, that the people were encouraged, the
people were edified. And I won't speak another word
about it. And if we take that position as
a body and in the right kind of boldness and humility, I believe
God wants to use us mightily. God is opening so many doors in
this community and outside of this community.
And we, when we go to these things, when we enter into these
events, whether it be here or outside of here, we need to be
full of the word and yielded to the Holy Ghost.
And I want to encourage you when you're doing things to say,
Lord, I yield myself to you and God, I earnestly desire
spiritual gifts. Lord, I covet them.
If you desire to move in a gift of the Spirit, I'm yielded to
it. I'm ready for it.
There's no place for pride. There's no place for self
seeking. But I believe God wants us to be
a body that moves in the supernatural, that moves in the
gifts of the spirit. And let me say this to you,
spiritual things are spiritually discerned.
They are spiritually discerned. And I say that to you because if
we're not in the Spirit and we're not strong in the Lord, we
don't have the the strong spirit of the man that the Bible talks
about, then we may not discern things properly.
And God wants us to be spiritually full, spiritually in
tune. I want to read as we close
Isaiah chapter 61, the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me.
You need to, you need to say it. I want you to say it with me.
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has
anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor.
He sent me to heal the broken hearted, To proclaim liberty to
the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are
bound. To proclaim the acceptable year
of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God.
To comfort all who mourn, and to console those who mourn in Zion.
To give them beauty crashes the oil of joy for mourning, the
garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be
called trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that
He may be glorified, that He may be glorified.
Hallelujah. I want to end with First
Corinthians 1412. Even so, you since you are
zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification of the
Church that you seek to excel.