Deliverance and Healing (1 of 5) - Apostolic Anointing and Ministry

just all you and appreciate you come back and continuing on the training they like what we've done before to be teaching them to be an opportunity to just practice ministering to one another now and only to scare you all out what is the biggest thing in this area is to just be able to learn how to float of the Holy Spirit so we'll outline for you some foundational teaching related to deliberate emailing and then particularly focus in activations are learning to flow with the Holy Spirit because this is the key so no matter what you learn well this thing's are the Holy Spirit of working with them is the foundationally the most important part of the ceremony stream so in the verse session what I want to do is look at Alice colic anointing in ministry the other three number two seminars we didn't do the session on their introspective the notes on it but I do want to touch on the area of apostolic anointing and ministry and go through some brief just some foundational concepts on this and I want you to just open your heart so that God should you in your own thinking about ministry and your role in that aspect the Father in Heaven we just love you we thank you you are with us tonight we thank you it's in your heart that we be equipped with repair we thank you for all the Jesus did for us on the cross and we have convinced that we can honor you most if we take what was done on the cross for us individually and we apply to our lives and then we learn how to minister to others and bring them into the freedom that Jesus heard for us we just thank you for each one that's here tonight the sacrifice the commitment the time that they've set aside for this training and we ask Lord that you would calm your ignoring would be here all the teaching would be very clear and there would be a flow of your presence to help us understand that we're here now we give you all the honor and glory Devon says a man another special nation we're going to look at the area of apostolic anointing administrator and the first thing I want to look at is is that God is raising up apostolic people now let me just describe what we mean by that this if I'm looking at this here in mark chapter 3 verse 14 and 15 back three verse 14 and 15 and it says reading of that verse 13 jesus went up the mountain and called him those himself wanted to come and they came together then he appointed twelve notice what it says he wouldn't mean position them or set them in place for a purpose so from the beginning of Jesus ministry he had a purpose of mind that involved multiplying his ministry raising up other people sometimes we can get the idea that summers work of ministry is just for a few selected people this is not true and I'll show you progressively out Jesus started with the twelve and then expanded his ministry to include you and me and so it isn't Luke that in my three appointed the twelve one but they would be with them the first and foundation for all ministry is learning how to be in the presence of Jesus learning how to build intimacy with them all ministry flows out of your relationship within secondly that he might send them out to preach so the word seen is the word atmost element it's the word which is hard to translate into English so they translated Epis taluk it's almost like they've taken the word points too hard to do anything with it just think angle size it and make an apple stock so when you hear the word apostolic you might think which down the road let's get a solid church or you may think about the stoic movement or you look and you think well that must mean the Twelve Apostles often there's a lot of confusion around at the stock and the Bible is clear that God is sick in the church a number of ministries and it says he is set the markets don't set first apostles then prophets then teachers they're working of miracles in a range of other gifts every cloud of the body has a function and one of the functions are that each ministry has their anointed for what they call to do so what we look at say for example some of these could be evangelists they ought to connect with God's people and with with unsaved people and and draw them will bring them to Christ and then raise up others with an evangelistic gifting the person who's a teacher is called to teach and establish people and they have an anointing a way of thinking a flow of God's presence to enable them to do that and it involves establishing people then the prophetic ministry is to do with convicting people into the realm of the Spirit so a prophet will bring revelation and insight into the spirit world and will activate people to get closer to the Lord so in a prophetic ministry you become very aware of the spirit world the spiritual realm but also you become challenged to get your life nearer to God and to deal with sin issues and so on so a prophet will then bring people near to God and address issues which I've got spiritual dimensions around them and and raise up other people to flow that way an apostle catches what God has got in his heart for the church so while saying evangelist or a pastor will be concerned about people and their needs an apostle to be concerned about what God wants the church to accomplish so an apostle it says is first in rank why is that not because they're more important but because their thinking is addressing what God wants the church to be now everyone has got their own idea what they want the church to be well I'd like it to be a place where I can come and be loved and people can be nice to me that's very nice that's wonderful let's pastoral thinking it's got a fair bit of self-centeredness in it but God's planned for the church from the Apostolic point of view has to do with governance of actually bringing things into Kingdom order and alignment the governance of God over our finances so the apostolic ministry is very concerned about the kingdom of God advancing in the world and so when a church has got apostolic leadership it will increasingly have spiritual power dimensions and a movement of the church to engage community and to advance the gospel into the world so it says he appointed the twelve that he might send them out so the apostolic anointing is a commissioning sending empowerment in other words God doesn't want us just to sit around he wants to send us into the community so for you to have an apostolic anointing over you is to have the empowerment to go into wherever you are in the community and start to impact it and impact lives for the kingdom of God so he that he might send them out to preach and have power over sicknesses and to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons so you notice that the apostolic ministry has with it the gospel of the kingdom and the power dimension and what we wanting you to do is to actually understand you yourself may never be an apostle but you can be apostolic you can embrace I have a mission from God you know I love that movie The Blues Brothers were on a mission from God and they have a mission from God it's a very funny movie well you're on a mission from God the question is whether you know your mission and whether you embrace the assignment God gave you and learn how to bring his spirit where you're going so it says here notice that word in in the original language an apostle that that name or a per Stella was used in the Roman Empire say for example when the Romans sent an ambassador out or a general out to go out to a new territory and conquer it and bring it under Rome that was Epis taluk we would never think of the Roman army being apostolic but that's what the use and understanding of the word was so in that in the day in which that were was used an apostle or someone who was apostolic or was sent was commissioned to go and advance the kingdom of Rome in a new territory and establish its government in that in that area so for people who were listening to this when it says send you out it has in mind they would immediately think of the Roman general going out conquering new territory establishing the kingdom of Rome or the laws of Rome and the governance of Rome so when the Bible talks about you being apostolic or since it has in mind this that in your own life and in the community where you are you would see yourself as advancing the kingdom of God and bringing lives into order now obviously that requires confrontation of the demonic realm so if a Roman army went out to conquer territory there was always someone occupied it and we're willing to fight to stop them getting in there so when they send out an army they send an army because it required power to displace the other armies and to conquer the territory and then to establish governance in it and the Romans were remarkable at it they governed the whole world at the time of Jesus and at the whole known world and had built roads so that they can actually quickly move their troops everywhere so in the day that Jesus first came or when he came into the into this world the the whole area had been apostolic Li shifted by the Roman army and the Roman governments so now you've got Roman governance right through from the Middle East right through up into England so that's the environment within which this happened and that's what the thinking is when they hear the word apostolic they're not thinking of some highly annoyed administer they're thinking of conquering territory gaining ground for the kingdom of God so if someone's got demons Jesus said if I cast out demons the kingdom has advanced if someone's got sickness and you heal the sick the kingdom has advanced if someone doesn't know Jesus and you share with them the gospel and they come to Christ the kingdom is advancing if someone's got their finances and bondage and they need to be healed and restored and and realign to get their finances right the kingdom is advancing so we need to understand what thinking about apostolic anointing and ministry we're thinking about advancing the kingdom bringing people not just to receive Jesus as a savior but to move their lives so they're now living out of Kingdom principles so that's the Holdem that's the bigger picture we're going to get right down to the deliverance or the practical side of it as we go through the next couple of days so apostolic people are sent by God on a mission a unique assignment it's helpful for you to understand this is that every believer has an assignment from God and that assignment is your own life it also includes the place you live where you work where you your we all neighborhood that's your territory that's the place God calls you to go now I may never go there and win people to Christ or pray for them or get them here but you can the thing is to believe you can and know what to do that's what this is about as helping you to know what to do so you notice here he took the twelve disciples with them now if we have a look in st. Matthew and we go to Matthew chapter 10 although anything whatever look it's Luke chapter 10 I'm sorry Luke chapter 10 there we go okay and so after these things after he'd sent out the twelve verse one of Luke chapter ten after these things the Lord appointed another seventy also and he sent them two by two before his face into every city in place he himself was about to come so the gospel never advances without someone going and wherever you go Jesus wants to come with you into that place his presence touching lives by your life and your ministry and your witness for him say notice here he's expanded it from 12 being Central Commission now he's got seventy extras so now he's got eighty two people sent out there and they have the same Commission they are also anointed and we know they cast out demons because they came out very excited about that in verse 9 to 17 they seventh that they returned with joy saying even demons are subject to us in your name so first you have the twelve then you have the seventy and then if we look at the end of the Gospel of Mark Gospel of Mark it says verse 15 the Commission to the church the Great Commission go into all the world preach the gospel to every creature verse 17 these signs will follow all who believe in my name they will cast out demons speak with new tongues take up serpents lay hands on the sick and they shall recover so you notice Jesus progressed he started with twelve expanded it to seventy and then expanded it to everyone who believes so you are commissioned to advance the gospel and God wants you to understand how to work in deliverance and in healing even if it's at a simple level there's so many people need help and many of them just don't realize the problems are demonic they don't want to talk about it in case you think they're crazy and we find over and over and over people who are trouble with demonic spirits demonic visitations nightmares dreams troubling things in their life but they don't want to talk about it in case you laugh at them or in case you think boy you're nutty you're crazy the reality is they just need to know this is normal and to be listened to and to receive help and you can give them that help at a level you feel able to and are led by the spirit too so the first thing then we see is that apostles are sent out we're all called to be apostolic god bless you welcome come on in there we are help yourselves to a seat the Holy Spirit also is apostolic you notice the Holy Spirit is a sending spirit so in Luke 24:49 behold I send the promise of my father upon you white and Jerusalem till you endued with power from on high so the Holy Spirit comes on you to send you never think about a lot of people think the Holy Spirit's main purpose and coming in power in my life as I can speak in tongues and have a happy life but this is not true in in acts 1:8 it's very clear you shall receive power from on high and shall be witnesses unto me in other words the power of the Holy Ghost is to empower us to live a life and to witness so other people are able to experience God so what you'll find a course is whenever you seek to advance the kingdom of God that there is always opposition so we're going to have a look at just some of the opposition that was encountered in the New Testament when we start to talk about opposition people get a bit wavery and they say oh no about that and I just want an easy life want to be blessed and just don't bug me and just leave me alone and and of course we'll see a little bit later that's the demons prayer leave us alone you know leave me alone don't bother me and that is definitely the demons prayer apparently in the Bible so I want us to have a look at a New Testament a New Testament scripture the first one we're going to have a look at is in Luke chapter 10 then we're going to look at whether the Apostles faced some confrontation Luke chapter 10 and verse 17 again the seventy returned with joy saying even the demons are subject to us in your name now you notice they weren't heavy they weren't serious though whoa they would like that they were Wow God what a wicked dad you see people set free that's Greg joy they can make joyful they were laughing they were celebrating see sir joy is always associated with the work of the holy spirit in the kingdom of God now that's what Jesus said he said I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven behold I give you authority to trample on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing nothing nothing shall by any means harm you I give you authority that word Authority is the word to delegate the legal right to represent Jesus and speak and act on his behalf I give you authority and that authority is to trample on serpents and scorpions those are pictures of the devil with these nasty bites and poison and over all the Dunamis the power the supernatural dimension of the enemy and nothing shall in any wise harm you now I want if you got a Bible underline nothing shall in any wise harm you you may get harassed you may have some difficulties you may have a few setbacks but nothing shall harm you create there it is Luke chapter 10 and verse 19 now let's have a look at the apostles and what happened to them and there's a there's several examples I will just pick up one in Luke in Acts chapter 13 X chapter 13 and we're looking at the Apostles and having a look at some of the difficulties they face so apostles always faced spiritual opposition of some kind when we seek to advance the kingdom there's always challenges that's part of the deal so verse 4 Acts chapter 13 and verse 4 they were sent out by the Holy Ghost there's the word castello they were commissioned and sent forth by the Holy Spirit and they went to Seleucia and from there they sailed to Cyprus then they went down to some Armus and they preach the Word of God and the synagogues of the Jew and had John as their assistant and that placed there that they were that's the the place that they had visited alarmists there was the site of a temple to the goddess start a which is a New Testament version of Jezebel it's are controlling witchcraft spirit so it was the center of a temple and when they gone through the island of pathos this is where the site of the temple was they found a certain sorcerer a false prophet a Jew whose name was Bar Jesus son of Jesus because Jesus was a popular name in those days and he was with the proconsul Sergius Paulus an intelligent man and this man called for Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God but elements the sorcerer for that was his name withstood them seeking to turn the proconsul away from the faith so let's ever understand it we have a Roman proconsul that means he's the ruler over the island and wherever you get governance of any kind witchcraft spirits will always seek to attach to them to try and control that person and so whether it's in the home or the family whether it's in governance and the community there'll always be people who have controlling spirits seek to get around that area to try and gain control and so the sorcerer was working alongside the Roman proconsul and trying to influence him so he could get control over the whole island and it notice here it sought to turn him away from the faith and soul who's called Paul filled with the Holy Ghost looked intently on him it's full of the Holy Ghost the Holy Ghost inspiring him and he rebukes him and the man immediately gets struck blind see notice now this is a power confrontation Paul is advancing the gospel and the consequence of that a demon surface and he has to confront them and he was not afraid to do so whenever we seek to advance the kingdom whether it's in our own life or in the lives of others there is always some forms of resistance and you have to understand that and learn to recognize it and learn to stand up and assert the authority God gave you you have authority over all the power of the enemy so whatever lies in front of you in your mission for the Lord you have authority God gives you power to deal with it it's your choice whether you believe that or whether you're intimidated it's too big and too hard and of course when we face demonic opposition or demonic spirits or demonic resistance and advancing the kingdom we find it usually comes in the form of accusations or pressures and difficulties or of overwhelming accusing spirits that tell you you're not good enough and who do you think you are anyway so if you have those voices going through your head that would be lovely we'd love to pray for you later time to break your agreement with the voices from Hell and learn to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit who says you can do it I'm with you you've got what it takes we're on a great journey together God is a great encourage of the Holy Spirit it's a great encouraging spirit and when you were sent on a journey remember the one who sent you is with you always so if God has sent you to do something he said I'm with you we're going to do this together I didn't send you there to do it on your own you can't do it without me and I'm not going to do it without you we're on a journey together so don't be agitated or surprised or frightened of anything difficulties come so what about Philip I well there's also was opposition came with Philip eyelets have a look at it in Acts chapter 16 so the point we're trying to make is that if you seek to advance the kingdom of God you will experience at times seasons of pressure now you think oh well it's all right for you you're the pastor let me tell you and if you go and ask parcel in afterwards that's my wife joy have you faced struggles and difficulties with demons and pressure from the spirit world and the answer is regularly and does it affect you yes but we always rise above it when it's just you got a watch that you don't come under anything and allow to dominate your life okay let's move on a little feather so let's have a look what happened to Philip I now and they were to happened they went to prayer and a certain young woman who was possessed or controlled with the spirit of divination a pike spirit met us and she bought him asked as much profit by fortune-telling and the girl followed Paul in us and cried out saying these men are servants of the Most High God who proclaimed to us the way of salvation but she's got a demon and this is false flattery what she's saying is true but the Spirit motivating her was a demonic spirit trying to gain attention and gain the credit for the work of ministry of Paul and Silas and so she did this many days and Paul greatly annoyed or greatly irritated or feeling under pressure from the spirit finally turned around spoke to the spirit I command you in the name of Jesus Christ come out and it came out that very hour so here we have another example of the Apostles encountering spiritual resistance as they seek to advance the kingdom if your business world you will face spiritual resistance if you're in education you'll face spiritualism wherever you seek to advance the kingdom there will be spiritual resistance it will come in the form of reactions of people to you of our frustrations of misunderstandings communication breakdowns it will come in the form of accusations false accusations there are many ways it comes at all has this in common it's designed to intimidate you and get you to draw back and be contained or overcome and you just have to be able to stand up and this is why and I'll ask when we talk about building a strong spirit man so when pressure comes on you you've got what it takes to stand up you're drawing on the Holy Ghost so you notice Paul encountered the woman the woman was hanging around now you couldn't see the spirit but you could feel its influence on he could feel the influence it was making it very hard going you ever noticed some service of some church service how hard it can be you've asked the question wonder why it's hard this is the house of God we come to worship God God's here why is it so hard because there are spiritual pressure and resistance and you have to overcome it and where does that come from it comes because people come under demonic influence through the week and they come to church and they're still living under it and they haven't broken out of it and so I have to stand up you have to stand up and believe what God says and learn how to walk in the presence and power of the Holy Spirit Cheryl you things a bit more about that so this man Paul confronted the demon and overcame it okay then so the last thing I want to share on this is that the Apostolic anointing is a breakthrough anointing so that's a wonderful thing to know is a breakthrough anointing let's have a look in Micah chapter 2 in a Micah chapter 2 in verse 13 Micah chapter 2 verse 13 and here's what the verse reads it says the one who breaks open will come up before them they will break out they will pass through the gate they'll go out by it and their king will pass before them with the Lord at their head wow isn't that a fantastic Scripture that word breaker the word that where it refers to breaker means literally the one who bursts out who breaks through limitations breaks through obstacles and the one who's the greatest breaker of all was Jesus Christ isn't matter where he went he always broke through always got a freedom always got release in people's lives he said he said the one who breaks open will come before them or the break will come before them and then they will break out see notice Jesus himself there's nothing that evil sent against them that he didn't overcome I became at all pressure misunderstandings confusion opposition resistance betrayal people lying people trying to catch him and and accuse them all he overcome everything and it says if we align and follow him we also will overcome will also break out and we just need to learn how to do that so it says they will pass out and through the gates and go out by it in other words we will carry Authority and Dominion in our life provided our lives are under the headship of Jesus Christ to be under his headship means I intentionally align my life to be in agreement with God and His Word so in the move in the whole year of deliverance you'll find probably the foundational aspect of it we have to get people back into alignment with Jesus Christ and His Word and break their agreements with other things that have given legal rights to demons to enter them then they can break through and we'll show you a little bit about what's required to do that so the breaker anointing is as an anointing that enables people to break out of spiritual resistance spiritual limitations and to get breakthrough it's not only our own life but in the lives of others now of course the first place if you get a ministered anyone is to get a breakthrough in your own life how many could identify there's things in your life you feel man I need to break through I need to get a breakthrough in that area of my life it could be an area in the way you think could be a reaction in heaven life it could be some habits you have in your life it could be something that is containing you or restricting you how many can identify this something I need to break through that me could I give them this whole heap of people here that's fantastic why don't we just now why don't we just stand up and why don't we just lift their hands and have voice and pray in tongues and let's begin to ask the Lord for a breakthrough that a breakthrough will start this weekend and we'll carry on should we do that and then we'll just take a little break together and come back for second session ready okay let's just spread to pray in tongues call up up up up I see color buddy up there about salabat up by a laburnum that I'm not kind of idiot that I'm I get a video out by a lover under a Michelle oven up there am I gonna be the at night buh-buh-buh-buh-buh buhbuh she can have any hot knives Ella ba ba ba ba ba baby she caliber yet there am I gonna be out nights yellow bar under a marsala booth will never get immediate dive here Baba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba she can remediate I Ella ba ba ba ba ba ba ba CK lemuria tell Ibaka's ii I I love a negative idiot therapist Sullivan at night Ella ba ba ba ba ba ba she Kara Marriott died a ba ba ba ba see Kara Marriott died hallelujah Lord we lift our voice we pray for breakthrough breakouts release from limitations release from hidden bondages hidden fairs where we ask for your spirit to move powerfully and lightly upon us over this weekend as we come to worship you and honor you come mighty spirit of the Lord come and flow in us and through us in Jesus mighty name amen amen why don't we do this on the count of features give a clap offering to thank the Lord in anticipation of that breakthrough amen one two three thank you Lord how are you yeah wonderful Jesus [Applause]

Channel: Mike Connell

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Keywords: Apostolic, freedom, flow with the holy spirit, sent, opposition, break through, anointing, spiritual resistance, spiritual energy, held down, great commission, sphere of influence, metron

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Length: 29min 52sec (1792 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 05 2013