Prepare & Consecrate 3 | Seven Challenges of Your Anointing | Steven Francis

[Music] so we welcome the whole uh online community who are watching with us and those who are going through challenges at the moment and you know my heart is burdened just to say a word of prayer for those who are not well and sometimes you know when people are not well they need to have a breather to go out and then the problem is now near not well they're not supposed to go out that adds on to the psychological stress as well so father we want to pray for all those who are watching and they are not well in jesus name we pray for the hand of jesus to come over them and encourage them with god the lord you will encourage them with the presence of your angels as well bring them the joy of the lord we pray that you'll put their hearts into someone's heart that they will come and visit them and bring a light-hearted moments that god your hand can be seen through into everybody's lives we want to thank you father for distances is just a measure your presence is everywhere and you are a powerful god and we pray in the name of jesus your hand will come and touch them teach us due to us as we are waiting upon you in jesus name amen amen praise god we were we were meditating on the gospel of uh rather the the book of the gospel of mark we talked about john the baptist and uh i marveled myself how long the first day message was knowing me so there's nothing to marvel so that's that's another marvel okay and uh last week was better shorter more precise today don't pray just will maintain okay god's word needs to be enjoyed i find it amusing if you follow bible school statistics okay bible school homolytics class says that an average a pastor should spend 20 hours preparing a sermon and i find it very amusing 20 hour sermon prepared must be preached in 20 minutes because that's what they say too effective listening is only 20 minutes which i beg to defer because when people argue at home is three hours minimum by the time they drive the point across is on the third hour you know they follow the jesus principle on the third hour crucified him so drag the conversation on the third hour drive the nail in you know so when the word of god is being preached i think if you are hungry for god we will enjoy and the point is let us be hungry for the lord and at the same time i understand that when a message comes from the lord we want to hear isn't it so we were talking about in the last few weeks the last two weeks and this the third week following a series of messages in fact right from the beginning of uh this year the lord gave about the message on prepare the way of the lord that we should prepare ourselves for what god is doing and then particularly now we are focusing on prepare and consecrate the last three sundays are two sundays we talked about it and then i encouraged you last sunday that on the 24th of september november at 2 30 in the morning where the word of the lord came to me and the lord showed me something about the different anointings that we pray and then we are asking god to anoint us and it's nothing wrong in asking god to anoint because we are asking god anoint me according to this anointing that anointing all that is not wrong but the moment we okay let me give you a fair assessment years ago whenever we are praying together not we when people get to pray together they will always use bible heroes as their marker and they will pray give me that visitation give me that anointing speak to me as you spoke to moses or show them miracles like you did to elijah and if you read books which is 30 years ago similar fashion they will write those are pointers of prayer and many songs were even written like that and then when people will admire bible heroes when they are praying and when they are learning so on and so forth then over time the consumerism mentality takes over the church we are no longer using bible heroes as the point of prayer it always has to do with what i want the admiration of god his word and to be transformed slowly shifts down and then when a church messages are full of self-help messages and i'm not saying we should not why because people look out for god's word to teach them what to do in the midst of the challenges they are facing at work in relationship so on and so forth right which many of these things is not that we don't know but we may not want to use it enough you'll find throughout the bible the challenge was never on god's side whether god will speak to us or not the lord always spoke so clearly you find all the troublesomes on the human side how they are responding and the challenges they are facing the onslaught that comes and sometimes it involves communication skills and things fail after that and so sometimes we can spend 25 hours praying and only 12 minutes tolerant with human interaction and we still fail the game because ministry and service to god is everything about working together in teams and human interaction always has to do with speaking and communication are you with me and so sometimes we could major on skills which are you and god prayer meditation in tongues visions fasting whatever not but when it comes to the human component of it communication spending time understanding patient long suffering is the human component to it without the human component no matter what god give to us we will fail that is why the bible says jesus grew up in favor with god and man the main part of it it's a skill that we all have to learn so that we can grow in what god has called for us to do amen and so you got to keep in mind that this kobe and whatever challenges that will come or has come before all will come tomorrow do not isolate us the moment that it's successfully isolating us and then the the challenges come so what the lord showed me was whichever men of god that we admire in the bible whether it's a woman or the man of god when we talk about bible heroes there is only to a certain extent you can look to them as your hero from then on we have to look to jesus how to fulfill the process okay now if you talk about solomon you don't know which part of solomon you want to follow the only part that you can remember give me wisdom other than that everything else he did doesn't sound like wisdom but he wrote a lot of things about wisdom in the book of uh the book of proverbs and some of the writers he wrote some of the things he wrote and actually satis is crying so much over too much of wisdom and and then he said you know too much of wisdom being scariness to your soul as well so you find the human aspect of being filled with god's wisdom and the management of it now what the lord showed me was even though the anointing can be taken from different people that we see for example elijah moses and i said encourage all of us that when we receive an anointing very heavy substantiating from different man woman of god and you pray and god releases that anointing upon you it brings about its own level of challenges jezebel whatever not every spear that we are involved in either we can use human tendency to solve problems or spiritual victories to gain what god wants you to give amen now the point being sometimes when we take on these human factors or the human anointing that we admire the lord spoke to me that we need to take on or put on jesus in your life to complete the victory process because you think about moses and moses at that time he he felt the challenge and so on and so forth you find elijah going through the challenge and then that name list doesn't stop it keeps on going so if i am now supposed to complete the story in victory that means they are not the end result they could be the starter point jesus is the end result because galatians 3 27 says that you and i are supposed to put on christ amen so by putting on christ i'm still able to fulfill the anointing that is given to me instead of failing now many people's you know people would have prayed for you and there are people who will pray god will give you the anointing of moses god will give you the anointing of elijah uh god will give you the anointing of uh anna who is praying all the time god will give you the anointing of esther it is as the lord's thing that god has revealed is that many of the bible heroes and people whether you know them or you don't know them in the bible are being fulfilled and the anointing is poured over to the next generation to fulfill a certain task are you with me i remember i was in a particular church in australia and when i went there to speak i was in the pastor's room i was praying before the sermon started so the pastor gave me some room to pray before the worships where the worship was going on while i was praying i saw a vision of a senior pastor who passed away and the son-in-law has taken over as a senior pastor and i saw him at the corner kneeling with the bible on the floor and he was weeping and praying for the church when the son-in-law came and i said the location he was kneeling and how he was praying he was very surprised he said this is the way the father-in-law used to pray for that church because he pioneered it i said i think i said that he's still praying for you you know he's still praying for you said he better be because at this church but the point being are there saints of god that god allows for them to be present and like they take on the intercession ministry of the church they take on the intercessory ministry even in heaven there are ministries that continues after a person goes on to jesus please don't think that you will be somewhere in heaven in near the starbucks or tethari shop eating your noodles and singing songs till you drop or playing a bow and arrow with the angels and that's all i do and then you go into a la la land there is no ministry you'll find in the book of revelation the heaven is a busy place it's full of worship and it's a it's a kind of a it's a another government that is at work in god's government that is at work and then god gives us ministry that we will continue and many are given that kind of a job so you got to remember that as we are preparing ourselves here we are also preparing for the ministry that god has given to us even in heaven amen you see all of us are here someone prayed for you and you accepted christ that someone who prayed for you you may know them or you may not know them because that's what intercession means you know you have experience when you are sleeping and suddenly your spirit is so disturbed and you are praying in tongues and you don't know what you actually prayed for burden came in such a way and you are praising god you just felt like praising god and you are praising so sometimes you think to wonder if you are waking up in the middle of the night that means you are probably praying for someone in a time zone which is opposite to you know they are awake probably let's say america russia wherever else and some of them when they are sleeping in god makes them to wake probably they are praying for saints in asia you just don't know amen so god allows us to be trained i remember once i was in prayer i was praying and when i opened my eyes i was not i was in the spirit in a plane and i could hear the mayday sound and i was together praying in the aircraft praying for the safety now what happened to the aircraft i don't know which aircraft i was not shown but i was brought in transported in the spirit and you are praying so many people and sometimes you know people give that testimony something was about to happen and praise god god saved me you see that is an a a result of someone praying either we know or we don't know amen can god use me in that way yes if you are not all the time bothered by your own needs then you on god's assignment so therefore give yourself some time not to just pray about your own needs but also on god's assignment lord what can i pray today or my agenda is not all the time challenges are going to be there but lord i have given this time for you if there are things that you want to intercept sometimes people write 25 things on their note paper as they are praying but god can say today i don't want to hear anything cancel everything and pray for something else it's possible right amen that because we're on god's assignment so in this way we are putting on the lord jesus christ now how did jesus overcome now just to recap the seven areas that we talked about the seven challenges of an anointing in your own life the things that we have to overcome now most of the time we are looking for the demons to bring about certain areas of attack we have not factored in human factors to it that means this manipulation can come through a company it can come through your friendship it can come through a government it can come through policy changes that manipulates or seduces the child of god to a point that we can't make those stands now is it is it new no it is not throughout the history of the world they have false propaganda always is the first way a nation gets manipulated during war this ally will talk about the others so that they will raise the money japanese people have to talk against america and the world that they are under attack so you have to raise money so it's always same story and today what happens is we tend to believe false propaganda better than even scriptures why our mind is so full of world news and today's world news is given to everybody in fact some people have become newscasters and reporters sitting at home listening to every other person and just saying now because they have another hundred thousand followers and they make money out of youtube everybody's a newscaster today and the thing is right in between if he eat he puts on a false you just don't know you think it's verified and then people listen to 10 different types of sermons and nothing could be verified you understand saying everybody seems to have a leak document amazing in fact god did not leak anything he gave us an open book so that you and i can study together amen the revelation that is meant to you will be important now during that time of war children were protected by the parents you don't have to teach the children how to fight as long as you know how to protect the children are you with me so in the same way in the kingdom of god there are many different types of growth some are children in the lord no matter how much you teach them they remain a child it's just their mechanism is different is god going to judge them no they will not they will go through different challenges but god will still admire it is my child so there will be different levels of growth will god abundant the child no he will not god will lead them through the others whom god has appointed over their lives are you with me are you following but when the child is asking why god didn't tell me anything personal because you're not growing up you will not be able to discern the voice of god and so we have to understand where we are in the different challenges we are oh i'm talking and talking and god doesn't tell me so i search the google and this is what's happening today if the holy spirit doesn't speak after the triune god they have the fourth one called mr google and so there is a test of seduction manipulation number two the test of who i can trust number three the test of wrongly accused we talk about the spirit of conspiracy and falsehood everybody will try to do that number four the spirit of fear anxieties that will come challenges that can come if you say something can be thrown in prison at the moment in singapore if you speak against the government you can be challenged yeah unless you have a valid point in some other nations of the world you say anything you can be hanged you talk about royalty in in thailand you can be put in prison it's not what you said is to whom you made the comment about certain things are no go so there are certain things that you are working on and then number five the test the spirit of unstable mind double mindedness and then number six the spirit of wisdom or the test of hiddenness when to say and what not to say number seven the spirit of sacrifice is the spirit of martyrdom where the lord creates those stories that we saw in the life of john the baptist now the same seven things in that morning the lord said look at the life of jesus how he overcame all the seven things to the point that when his life was taken away jesus said the romans didn't take my life i gave my life as a sacrifice amen so this is the point that number one we talk about manipulation you'll find that in the life of jesus now as you are there i will show you another scripture i wanted to take a look you'll find number one the spirit of manipulation the pharisees has a lot of questions to manipulate jesus to catch him in his own answers and that's what the bible says they try to ask him question to catch him yet jesus with wisdom he answered them there are more than 300 questions that were asked throughout the life of jesus if you count how many questions were asked he only answered effectively yeah he only answered about nine you know not every question needs to be answered are you with me just because a dog is barking don't bucket the dog simple as that the problem we get into unnecessary trouble is we bark at every dog that is barking at you we react to every statement that is being made about you if one of the attacks that the enemy is going to use in this end time is falsehood damaging your character saying things you never say saying things you never did creating a smoke to tarnish who you are and then you are reacting to every single thing then you are getting caught by the spirit of manipulation remember what god said through peter when people falsely accuse you let them see through your character what god has done and let the light shine through your actions are you with me because you realize that when you defend something fake when people create a false rumor about you your ministry you start defending once out of that one there will be another five questions out of that five it will multiply to 35. so the original problem is one now you are defending all the clowns it's not even the true and you are just defending everything by paper because people are smoking and distracting and so the lord created those kind of venues if it's false from nowhere it came to know where it will go in jesus name that we need to stand by the truth that god has given to us some of us our we defend our our reputation as though it is the very idol you are living for and because our very reputation will be challenged and that's one of the things that we have to learn how to die to that the bible says jesus did not even consider his reputation everything else they'll be okay you know they talk about church they'll be quiet people will be cursing jesus they'll be quiet they will talk and tear down about leadership they'll be quiet in fact some will add some salt and pepper to the story some more really yeah but as i'm saying you know what i heard so talk about them volcano will eat up how can you say that about me so far you talk about everybody else you kept quiet huh you see how the enemy can even stir our own and then get you caught into an unnecessary situation where jesus the son of god the man who did not even had sin in his life through natural circumstances you want to fabricate the story you can no problem mr jesus did you look after your family while you're doing ministry yes how i spend my i sent the money and looked after my brothers and sisters were there but are you not the elder brother you should be there right yes but i was busy my father yeah sure of course you mean he neglected your mother and then you did your father's book so the story will never stop are you with me some of us when we are serving god you gotta just choose and this is the type of stories where number two is the trust of men in john chapter 2 24 25 the bible says jesus on his part i'm reading the scripture john 2 24 25 jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them because he knew all people and he needed no one to bear witness about men for he himself knew what was in man now keep in mind this scripture speaks about the spirit the gift of knowledge the word of knowledge and the word of wisdom and the gift of discerning of spirits that's how you will know what is inside people it's not just like you are so self-centered you don't want to talk to anybody and you pull yourself behind you know you have a suspicion about everybody and you know the rejected people are always suspicious about everyone you know i went there they're so nice to me they want something from me you're asking people to bless you and people are nice to you one day you understand what i'm saying i wonder what they really want to know that's why you keep on wondering throughout your life because no one wants anything from you by the way people are just being kind they are being gracious because god is trying to teach you how to get out of that spirit of suspicion and become loving and gracious are you with me so you got to overcome the part setbacks of our life because we live in that scope you'll never come out and then we can't recover from that trust of men there is no way we can go through life without being hurt in some way and sometimes we hurt ourselves we betray ourselves the confidence when your inner conscious says don't do yet we do things to betray our own integrity and there are many things so how are you going to learn from that point is to have confidence that god is changing you amen that god is going to bring something out better in your life god has never told us to punish ourselves he has told us to bring all our burdens to him and so the trust of man has be can only be handled by the gift of word of knowledge and word of wisdom and the gift of discerning of spirits now if you are placed into challenging environment you got to ask god lord give me that anointing the type of people i'm working with everybody can get the anointing if you ask god now if you are in a company that does this all beyond the point that you don't have the joy of going to work anymore then ask god to open a new door for your life are you with me ask god sometimes god can be stirring up your nest for you to believe that god can do new things out of your life you don't have to remain in a slave mentality and so the trust of man can be overcome by the gift of god number three the way jesus overcame false accusations now if you read mark chapter 14 55 and 56 psalms 31 13 to 15 you'll find when jesus have to he overcame false accusation by a few ways you can't find jesus ever sitting down and interacting with them and proving that they were wrong and he was right you can never find that either he walks away he doesn't engage sometimes you wonder why he doesn't engage well think about this if you know you only have three and a half years to leave you'll be very wise in who you are spending your time with isn't it if you know your clock is turning downwards you're not going to sit down with every single person and talk to them you're very choosy because your your clock is going downwards so in the same way the false accusation if it's false and you know it's false then don't try to defend the false false will multiply into another false somewhere along the line you got to stop defending so that it will die by itself people will only ask you this question if you know it's false why are you defending if you are defending it something is really wrong so sometimes wisdom is created now my ladies and gentlemen in the coming days one of the enterprises of of uh the government of antichrist is to cast the shadow of false accusations against the house of god and this is not something new no till today if you read books by those pastors who are accused with false accusations by government who will not allow conversions by governments will not allow the preaching of the gospel and when they want to put some pastors inside prison leaders inside prison they always come up with a false charge and it's not really about they preach the gospel so they arrested it's something has to do with money something has to do with false propaganda against and no matter what you say they're going to go in and so there god is going to help us are you with me so we need to pray for god's goodness to help us during these times in our hearts goes to many known or unknown men of god heroes of god who are in prison forgotten we pray in the name of jesus that god will reveal the truth and help them the fourth area jesus has to overcome when fear knocked on his door it was in the garden of gethsemane where at that point he cried out his heart was so burdened he stumbled and he felt and he cried out and he said if it is your will let this cup be taken away the fear can consume the man of god and when that happened jesus surrendered to the will of the father rather than giving in even at that moment you see was the situation changed no it was not it is going to happen he can only surrender his own fear his own emotion to the will of the father now if you did not surrender he could have find any other way to get out of that situation isn't it jesus judas came he said well it has to happen peter came it has to happen no way it can be stopped in fact when the communion was being taken jesus tells judas now whatever you have to do please go and do it nothing can stop now nothing should stop the time event which god has created so how to overcome fear jesus showed us by surrendering to the will of the father number five was doubts jesus knew the father hears him all the time and you talk about trust issues in john chapter 11 42 he said jesus father i know you always hear me so how to overcome doubts is to know that god hears you all the time there is a trust that the father will not do evil things around me you know people whenever they are talking to you they say oh you must be that bad that's why god kicked you out of a donkey even a donkey doesn't know you know they'll all the time use a donkey and then you wonder when people do that to you so i used to bring these matters before god lord am i that bad that he gotta use a donkey to kick me from behind am i not your son if i've done anything wrong please teach me so that i can learn because when a donkey kicks you there's nothing to learn are you with me if you don't know what's a donkey please go to the zoo if you still don't know what's a donkey please come to us they have donkeys in properties and the donkey protects the farm and the other animals by protecting it amazing amazing okay so you got to think about this for a minute that jesus to overcome doubt he grew in his trust from god in some of our growing background some parents bring up their children in doubt all the time every time they say something they will ask another question to doubt the children by making them are you sure you said the right word and the fellow will be wondering did he really say it right or not you see you cannot grow make your children grow up with faith and doubt at the same time there is an element when you want to make them think twice but creating doubt is not the way to make them think twice i don't know what else to use you got to find your own words i got to make things up if you are sure you are sure you're done you're done but don't keep because the more you keep asking and it becomes a second phrase in your house are you sure are you sure are you sure so i've said it to people i am very sure you are the one who's not so deal with that in the army you know what they'll do remember all the guys have been to the army when you're cleaning your weapon your rifle the sergeant will come and check the battle he said i can see an elephant there are you sure you'll be wondering you did you like half an hour you know put in put out pulling buddha and you are absolutely sure just because someone asked a question you doubt now they plan that to be double sure and when i came out from the army i have to pluck that seed unnecessary doubts that has been come that for every small thing i ask a secondary question i've decided to take it away and so when i do something do it right the first time amen so that we deal with this spirit of doubt and confusion using doubt as a component of faith doesn't really work together because god says a double-minded man will not get anything from god and so if you have grown up that way of your parents brought up that way or you are in an environment that doubt has been a major component so you start working on growing in faith and trust trust in god at all times fear not what the evil do remember what psalms 37 says and you get very upset you know god my problem has upgraded itself it has multiplied and when i come to you when it was level 1 you said trust god level 2 trust god level 3 trust god level 10 trust god the word of god is not changing the same level of trust regardless how big the problem is becoming the truth is when we trust god you'll be never be put to shame when you trust god means you're allowing god to work through our circumstances you're going to allow god to work through time because it's not just about the miracle certain miracles involves elements of other things involved human will conditions so on and so forth and so god creates those moments in our life and so that is fine and number six is the wisdom hidden wisdom that jesus said luke chapter 4 29 and 30 when jesus preached in the synagogue when he said this scripture is fulfilled the bible says the crowd tried to push him out from the cliff right in front of them he walked through and he disappeared the bible says another group of people find him found him on the other side i wonder what happened to him how was jesus that invisible remember i shared with you that was one of the miracles of the invisible angels and also the miracle of translation they'll just hide i remember i heard a testimony by the ministry of brother andrew and he is not alive he's operation andrew in singapore also they have an office they have offices around the world where they smuggle bibles into communist nations and one of this time or brother andrew was carrying bibles into a crossing border when the crossing into a communist country and while he was standing at the border in fact the border patrol was not supposed to be there someone leaked the information that the suitcases the large suitcases he was carrying which was full of the new testament was inside so there was a cross-border police that stopped the bus they were taking and they asked to open everybody has to open up and then he prayed he said god when they open up my bag all they're going to see is the bibles not clothes there's no clothes there so he said god i pray that when they open up my bible you will shut their eyes off they can't see or they will be made blind not to be able to see and these fellows right in front told him to open the bible the back when you open up the back it's not just it was cannot be empty then you'll be also suspected right it was all of other things not the bibles amen god can do now people do ask this kind of question lord can you do those things when we go and check into the airport so that our excess baggage cannot be seen [Laughter] all kind of testimony you give they will use it all for the wrong reasons lord you take two cups of coffee and you pay for one can you please wipe their nose off it doesn't work you know and then we go last minute to the late to the check-in airport and you're praying in tongues that lord we pray that this uh you know the checking officer will be blinded in jesus name will be dumb and stupid they will not be able to check me through blah blah blah blah kind of the whole witchcraft thing takes place there you know instead of just going early and i've been through with people like that man i just got out of please bless the person who's doing because that lady is also doing her job you excessively pack the things you want to make up blind and stupid and dementia she can't think beyond that kilo hidden wisdom wisdom simply means when to when not to but when you need to be bold then your faith level is high enough to trust that you are making stand for jesus and there are many listen regardless of who you are in the lord god will give us the opportunity to exercise the muscles of your wisdom and strength you can't get away from it and especially sometimes i want to encourage you know especially in these end times parents are usually very strong when it comes to them when it comes to their children they become very weak but are you not supposed to carry the same shield for your children as well sometimes we give in when false accusations come against your children and then your patience your walk of love go down the dream you become a monster and then put on i'm sorry the same truth we are teaching our children resilience from within how to pray for those who falsely accuse them so you don't unnecessarily defend or use your human wisdom instead of teaching godly wisdom amen thinks that how jesus overcame and the seventh point is how jesus sacrificed in ephesians 5 2 walk in love as christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering sacrifice to god so you'll find in all the seven things that we saw about last week when the seven enemies that will come to challenge your anointing so we are no longer afraid to pray if the lord gives you an anointing like this person or like that person you are not looking at the problems that is going to come we know they are going to come that means when you have elijah's anointing jezebel is going to show up remember i shared with you that you have moses anointing pharaoh is going to come you have daniel's anointing some lions will come and share your bed but you're no longer afraid about all the challenges because in the new testament praise be to the name of jesus you have put on the lord jesus christ can jesus alone be admired absolutely the book of uh x tells us how god anointed jesus of nazareth amen i just want to share with you another aspect the anointing of john the baptist the bible says like what we saw the first verse or first week i want i'm thinking yeah okay here we go i just want to read to you one aspect in the book of mark oh sorry luke was it where he will be great luke chapter 1 verse 15 and he will be great before the lord i heard this prophecy in my life when i was 15 and a half that god will use you mightily now we don't know what mightily means when god says that god will use you greatly the word great means is going to be a big challenge that's going to come towards you no one can grow up and do effectively like an instant magic many churches have this potential to grow and be effective to serve god but not everybody is willing to serve they just give a lip service and that's why some churches remain as a community church that's all they are they want to remain as a family church it's for you for me my children all grew up here it's almost like a clan like an association i got married here 55 years ago now my children are grown their children are here we dedicated and the church just multiplied biologically it stops there it's like a clan association where when it's the kingdom of god it can grow lips and bounds but the truth is if you will study growing churches the work is a lot more if you want to make a business grow it's a lot of work you can do things but when people come beside you you will die first because there will be will take over and then you were wondering but god gave me a word i will be great absolutely but you need to pay the price to be great god says you will use your anointing to be effective there are many people who receive anointing to pray for the healing of the sick and i see people you know prophecy time you'll see people that god has given the oil in your hand when you pray for the sick you shall they shall be healed but then this person doesn't pray for anybody and how will anybody be healed and so when you have such callings in your life you got to have a hospital visitation ministry visit people who are in the old age homes visit people who are in the community hospital visit those who are homebound and they are not well or they are in palliative care or they are parents who have dementia and all that because god said he will heal which way god heals that one is up to god but you are taking advantage of the oil that is given to you amen now the lord gave me an anointing he said i will anoint you to prophesy so i was finding for all kinds of reason i told some of my fellows if your cat is sick let me know i'll pray because prophecy is stirred up through prayer if you don't pray prophecy can then stir up so that was the early days of learning to pray for everybody so that the gift of prophecy and a lot more people will come and ask me brother could you ask what the lord is saying so that became my challenge i began to you know this was like 16 17 18 where people came to know that i could prophesy i can only prophesy for five minutes but they'll ask me for five hours so that pressure you know and then decided okay and then people will call brother can you pray and tell me what god is so i will be dropping whatever i'm doing to go and pray so that i can tell them for that three seconds what the lord is saying that fear came so then i began to grow up and say okay i cannot be just getting prepared every time people call be prepared all the time learn to tune your spirit man all the time so whenever the phone call comes i can just switch into the lord and still give a word of the lord amen so this is our challenge that you and i can be used as a conduit when the challenges are coming so the point that i want to give when the bible says that you shall be great before the lord i want to explore the word great the word great before the lord is a very interesting greek word that's why we get the word mega church the word great it involves a lot of words so when god wants to give great done you need to measure the word great in john the baptist's life did he be become a mega guy yeah in a certain stance because thousands of people came to be baptized by him did he start an industry out of it no he did not was he effective absolutely why did he die because his time was up that was his lifespan he is supposed to point jesus and then jesus will take over the ministry that was the lifespan but i want to explore to you the word the word called great now in the greek the word mega simply means authority mighty voice the other two i will reserve and i'll tell you first few first god can when god wants to use us to be great before the lord that means he's going to teach you how to use your authority the authority that you have when people come and tell your challenges even especially our children when they are growing up challenges pray use your authority bind the devil resist the doubts speak faith into their life you use the authority that god has given to you and sometimes god has given the grace where god will use the church mightily the word mightily means that you are also doing mighty deeds yes you cannot be doing your normal things and expect god to do mighty things out of you because if you want the church to grow then we are getting everybody to work through and that one of the call everybody is given the anointing the potential of growing and touching people's life is whether you have make the time to do or not but the truth is ladies and gentlemen and those who are watching online keep in mind you and i will stand before the king of kings and the lord of lords on that day we will give an account now everybody's account here is different i am in the full-time ministries i give a full-time account now some of you are working or in fact many of you are working and those who are watching you will give a different account in other words probably you only have 20 percent of your life of your time that you are serving god because you are working god didn't call you full time so out of that 20 percent that you are serving god you are supposed to live hundred percent in that twenty percent correct or not that means you're fully settled this is what i'm doing now and i'm doing with all my heart and i'm not fighting against those things i'm doing 100 of the call at this moment i only got 20 percent of my life 80 percent is given to family given to work and depend on what kind of job you're doing even an entrepreneur there is no right so the list keeps going on my point being are you giving yourself the time to serve god in that potential with the time that you have given because in that way then we are growing in the might of god in the grace of god and so the potential of what god has given to us grows along with us now i want to recall many times to our own church members as well as those who are watching you know the type of things that we were involved church started warriors training camp was there college of prophets was going on school of prophets started and then you have friday prayer meetings you have discipleship classes you you keep naming it and it keep going on and then the lord said conferences and you see the amount of things we were involved to fulfill the extension of the call of god in our life amen thousands of life were touched thousands of people know jesus my king thousands of people have heard it has multiplied itself but it all amount to the hard work now today we have the luxury of uh watching through the online in order to make the online uh accessible you have more than 20 over people in the media in the staff team and the technical team to do everything so nicely that we all can watch that seamlessly amen so the word mighty means and look at the word god says i will give you i will make your life great before the lord and the third word for great is the word voice that means god will give you a voice and what was john the baptist job he was a voice in the wilderness and god has given you a voice if you pray for people god that they should be saved that means you should also carry a voice of evangelism you are sharing to people and you have the word of the lord share to people who need it please don't and and prophesy or people who don't need it and that's the problem with the prophetic people you know they are overly prophesying to people who already know what they are doing and then you try to put another piece of paper into them and then they reject you because that's only how much you can take but when you go to the people who are hungry and needful oh my church don't receive me to be to receive you is not your call to know about jesus that's your mission amen if you want to give a word give to the brokenhearted give the word to those who are needy not to those who are full and you'll reject when a child is full you will reject the food but some parents don't let go overly fit until no difference between elephant and elephant that's what happens don't over feed and that's what happens when you overdo prophecy stuff when you go to a prophetic meetings everybody wants to prophesy for what let the ones who are in charge of the meeting do the job honor those people who are in the ministry or respect your host if you are not a host you are attending the service that's not your job go to other people's church and stop prophesying hello if they didn't call you please don't do it if you really want to prophesy use the gifts to the world outside because the world without jesus is waiting for your anointing amen please don't showcase your anointing within the church to be accepted by the church is not the reason why god anointed you to people to lead people to jesus amen god will give us a voice and that voice to speak about jesus the word of the lord is one of those anointing where it will make you great but now i'll tell you the fourth one that is going to knock you out you'll be so surprised that there is such a word for the greek word called mega and you know what is that fish can you believe that or not the word mega in greek also defines fish and the word that is given to us is john 21 verse 11. remember when they were casting a net and they caught all the different types of fishes and you know what is very interesting it is given to us 153 fishes were called another text says multitude it was so heavy that peter basically hello they did not catch uh for the sake of our international audience they did not catch anchovies you know not economies not 153 these are big fishes so when you say 153 you're not enough strength to carry through so peter has to call all the other bulls is all the other disciples come and carry but why i was meditating why fish and very particularly one five three when you put one five three together you get the number nine isn't it fish represents the anointing of god the oil represents the anointing of god somehow whenever the fishes are involved and the word mega simply means when god wants to make you great and wants to use you you need to be filled with the anointing of the holy spirit and 153 it is number nine if you put it together it is nine gifts of the spirit and the nine fruit of the spirit is all given to you to earn favor with god and with men and those who have done college of prophets i've shared this with you in the subject the fruit of the spirit or shaping your character for certain gifts that you have in your life you must compensate by certain fruit of the spirit so that the gifts will not bring pride into your life god is just an amazing god he has given us different fruit to compensate different gifts so everything has a measure to it when it's overly used it produces holes right within our ranks are you with me so when god says that i want to bless you to be great before the lord and we are believing that john the baptist is supposed to prepare the way of the lord before the second coming of jesus and that means the church has a commission to be anointed to be use of god to get soul safe to make their voice heard to be walk in the authority of god to show in mighty deeds and in action rather than in talking please don't waste time telling everybody you have a dream to reach the world i want to preach the gospel to the world then please go to the world why why you're not going i've heard you see not only i've heard 15 years from now the guy will talk the same thing i've talked to such people you know 15 years from now i i will go to the hands of the world and preach the end of the country they have not been how to go to the ends of the world it all remain as a fantasy instead of using it in mighty deeds and action now why am i emphasizing this you'll find throughout the book of acts the disciples everywhere they went they did mighty deeds and actions they showed and demonstrated the power of god they preached the gospel and they kept themselves pure to the conviction which the lord gave jesus himself when people were questioning him this is what jesus said either believe me for the word words that i'm preaching to you or believe me for the works that i've done amongst you so every church every child of god the more you're anointed it must be accompanied by deeds and actions if not it will just dissipate and the word fishes simply means nine fruit and the nine gifts that we can use but there is a fourth the last one that i want to give to you for that i need to read john chapter one john chapter 1 and in verse 15. john chapter 1 verse 15. john bore witness about him and cried out this was he of whom i say now pay attention to the esv that we are picking up a a a word that is very interesting to us this was he of whom i said he who comes after me what is the next line next the word ranks before me because he was before me the word ranks is a military statement the word rank means that it's authority structure why is this word important to us because one of the words or meanings for the greek word great before the lord the word great in greek words mega one of the explanation of that mega means the word ranking very interesting you know i did not understand the word rank in this scripture until i studied this greek word then i remember i remember reading this word rang where was that i started searching in bang it was just here that means in heaven there is a spiritual authority ranking system is that is a understanding could be a military order and i've shared with you many times i've seen hosts of angels where they carry certain orderly structures they have certain orderliness in the way they serve who comes why they are coming for in heaven i've never seen so far and even on earth when i've seen in encounters in god and angels coming through and i've seen many times like a i wouldn't say battalion of angels i'll see i've seen uh it's not a battalion what do you say uh uh a company of angels you know a company could be within a hundred 70 80 it's a smaller one a battalion is much more bigger right i've seen companies of angels so far to make it a little bit humorous and i've seen them flying i've seen them dancing before god i've seen them worshiping i've seen warrior angels uh worshiping angels so far i've never seen once in all these years of ministry not once they bang into each other and say sorry hey sorry sorry sorry too fast not once the execution of the orderliness is that powerful it's almost like the fighter aircraft's on display the execution is right to the nanoseconds because that one second can kill you i want to share with you this encounter that i had in one of the school of pastors that i conducted in philippines a few pastors came to me came with me to singapore 400 pastors and their wives gathered in medan medan is indonesia sorry when i say philippines no sorry it's in maidan indonesia up there we hosted this school of pastors and the second night there was a very powerful demonic force and principality in that area a lot of fasting and prayer was there and the singapore pastors when they came up guess what they did in their first night each of them i'm talking about each of them after praying doing all the work they say pastor pastor stephen can you give us a night off we are very very important thing to do i say how can all the three pastors who came have important things to do on the same night so i went for my session and i came back after the evening when i came back they all bought big baskets of durian and they were all eating like hungry ghosts each one one basket you know not one basket three each one is one basket and they were all eating by the time i come the whole area was full of durian that i have to put the mosquito coil you know so that i can sleep on the second night while the worship was going on a pastor friend of mine was preaching i was doing the worship but the lord said tonight there will not be any preaching of the word lead them into victory so i began to lead into victory in the song of worship that was going on while the song said the lord said now take the mic and i took the mic and i was leading that indonesian song because that that's a song that i know how to lead so i was leading and the worship was fantastic people were screaming people were crying you know what happens when the worship becomes intensive the holy spirit that's an intensive surgery in the hearts of the husbands and the wives the pastors and their wives because their hearts are all broken and needs healing and it doesn't open up when you're in the ministry you become hardened to a certain extent you will not be easy to open up when the holy spirit comes he gives the injection where you'll forget yourself when you start worshiping and then all the hurts start coming out when that did i saw the first angel of worship came out of the window and the lord said the angels are going to come so don't stop worshiping they're going to manifest they're going to bring the glory of god into the session when i saw the first and the second and the third and they were going and they were flying all around such a beauty and a splendor that i was so caught up in watching i forgot the lyrics so i told the team you just keep singing don't worry about me i was observing and i'm telling the more i'm saying different angels were coming all the people started to erup started to scream because the angels were touching them the glory of god was exposing the herds and the hidden things while these angels came another bit a company of warrior angels came down this warrior angels were very interesting they were worship warriors they are different colors and different ranking groups they are not just warrior warriors they carry like two ranks so there were two color bars that i saw in the in the sesh they were wearing and angels their groupings are identified by the color of their rope or the the shares the chesh that they are wearing they are different color codings some of them belong to worship team but they are also warrior class they are not just the nice worshipping group who don't know how to fight different groups of angels came and that's where the beauty of coordination you know what happened that service lasted more than three hours pastors and husband wives were weeping before the lord and i tell you what happened the next morning session it we had all the videotapes man but over the years we're talking about vh uh s do you remember those days so all the tapes were gone because we didn't we didn't have the ability or facility to look after those tapes so fungus came over time if not i would have shown all this was recorded and and the next day morning session it was just full of testimonies and tears and breakthrough now i wanted to understand when a true glory of god manifests the testimonies will be filled with god it won't be filled with men full of god and what god did and what god did and what god did and because i didn't lay hands on anyone there is no way anybody going to say pastor stephen lahan so now i was so thin i was crying because you see the extent of jesus showing his glory do you know those days can happen again if god can find his people worshiping him in spirit and in truth amen and that's what we should aim for we should aim for that and that's why one of the reasons we should intercede and pray that this kovid and all of that the whole world will recover so that the praises of god could be heard in every church and every house in jesus name amen don't let the devil steal the praises out of your mouth don't let worship be stolen out of our mouth that we can see a manifestation of god not just we singing together that's not the reason we are singing together we are singing to god that god will manifest his power amen so that is why this word ranking is important now why is god going to give us this anointing of ranking because demonic powers are operating in spiritual structures principalities and powers now if you are going to fight against principalities and powers you need to know your ranking where you stand the authority where you operate when you don't have to scream away until you are drinking water and the demons are just watching you oh i see no name so that is can i use authority without shouting those are things that we want to learn along the way amen i remember brother djs tinagram when he was praying he prays for the mask you're talking about half a million people you know he prays and they come with all kinds of talisman to his meeting he will pray after praying he said okay now you can take and trade throw the talisman away they want no power jesus came and broke every witchcraft over your life amen but you know what we do or we tell people take the talisman first if you don't take god cannot touch you hello god can touch you regardless because he's god are you with me because people will not take out talisman if they have not tasted the power of god then they make the choice of to throw it away if they do it for you after you leave they will put it back on are you with me now there is a different level of authority i'm not saying that's not the right thing to do i'm saying we operate from a different level of authority because it is impossible for half a million people you are sitting all there and you talk about let's say yeah let's say 10 000 people are wearing talisman how will you go and take out there's no way right so we operate in a different level of authority amen the same way now the because of kobe we cannot do this because of kobe we cannot do that cannot do this but the authority that god has given to us can do more things whether it's kobe to not cover i mean if you cannot physically touch anybody the lord's hand is going to touch the lord hands always has been touched we implore the angels to come and serve together hallelujah so we need to understand the rankings we are carrying in the spirit and that is why john understood that drinking when that word was used that he who comes up to me ranks before me because he was before me the word rank simply means the authority the son of god was carrying in heaven okay in acts chapter 19 27 when the princess of prince dhayana she was a goddess people were worshiping and that is why in the book of efficient you'll have more spirituality principality problems because that's where this goddess was found and these problems was found so i wanted to understand my brothers and sisters depending on where god has placed you know your rank now i want to wrap it up uh this uh morning session with these thoughts okay in order for me to know my rank in order for me to serve god the fundamental thing now i want to show you a scripture now in verse 6 7-8 john chapter 1 verse 6 7-8 there was a man sent from god whose name was john verse 7. he came as a witness to bear witness about the light that all might believe through him now he was not the light but came to bear witness about the light okay now let's go to verses 19. this is the testimony of john where the jews send priests and levites and jerusalem to ask him and levites from jerusalem to ask him who are you he confessed and he did not deny but confess look at the way the the the the words are all put together he confessed he did not deny it but he confessed and what did he say what did he say i am not the christ that's the opening statement he did not say i am the john the baptist he didn't say that his opening statement i am not the christ it's a negative connotation now in psychology we call that self-rejection isn't it in psychology we say that you're not acknowledging who you are but are using a mirroring effect by saying the other way some people say um you are so pretty yeah no my sister is more prettier than me you get what i'm saying suddenly the deflection will take place now but people are not sick talking about your sister they are affirming you and if someone affirms you what do you say praise god full stop finish what is that you say your blouse is so nice remember i bought it with a chicken a cheap a secondhand stove who is asking for the address never ask you if they say that praise god thank you one line finishes it isn't it so we because we learn to deflect easy we always learn to put yourself down but here he says i'm not the christ and then they ask him another question and they ask him what then are you elijah he said what i'm not and he say are you the prophet he said no so i wanted to understand a very important aspect of ranking not only in the ministry we must know what we are called to do we also must know what we are not to do who you are not is equally as important as who you are it doesn't mean that you are this but you can do everything else and that's how we burn our resources in our time serving god our energy gets depleted we do things which god did not tell us to do and then for the things which god told us to do that is no longer energy because it's all used up in the wrong place or sometimes we are so busy doing everybody else ministry and you don't have time to fulfill your own and so one of the things that we want to be mindful about spiritual ranking now the ranking can be an issue of pride do you know who i am or responsibility if you think you are older in the lord you are more mature in the lord you know a lot more deeper in the lord you know very specific this what god then demonstrate through your brotherly kindness through the love that you are walking in to getting people together and show them the way that you're supposed to get it done are you with me because you can't say the world's way of doing it you know who i am okay then dig the hole please since you're older the bible says those who are strong lift up those who are weak our knowledge mustn't be used as pride but it must be used to bring up others that god has given in your life and that's a challenge of prophetic community we pride ourselves what we know the other person is walking in danger you know they're going to fall into the ditch yet he said never mind let him fall so that i will come up and that's where the demonic spirits latch onto us and kill us from within i want to encourage remember ian bounds who wrote 18 books on prayer today it's a classic it says not the length of time in which you pray but to get the years of god make sure god is listening to you is more important than how many hours you are praying the same way in john 1 33 john john the baptist did not know who jesus was the father told him on whom you see the holy spirit resting on so i want to encourage us today when god gives us a word that you shall be great before the lord and you need to prepare the way of the lord before the coming of jesus and one of the word is the way to get it done is through the greatness of the holy spirit in your life that means we have to rest under the anointing of god we cannot do anything by our flesh it is not how much money we have it is not so much of the quantity but the quality of the work amen you know sometimes when god tells us to go to fish one area out of that many fishes say 153 one of them could be the apostle paul you just don't know who there was it could be the next man or the woman whom god is going to raise up and that is why every womb is dedicated to jesus when the baby is being born you don't know what your child is going to become but he will bring up in the way of the lord god will have a word amen can i say this word my ladies and gentlemen the one word great requires years of dedication discipline excellence to serve the living god you cannot say i want to be great and we show attitudes of lousiness we cannot say i want to be great and then i will die short and that's what happened to john the baptist ministry no one was beside him everybody left him after a while and when he died in the prison he died alone but the ministry of jesus continued because jesus organized teams jesus learned to work together with the questions of his disciples the fears of his disciples the anxiety of his disciples the doubts of his disciples the betrayals of his disciples he walked through them and with them you can never see him saying please leave i'm done with you since you doubted i'm done thomas you want to put your hand onto my wound what i tell you you want me to drill your hand and show you he didn't say come touch me that one word invitation to touch he repented he said no lord no but jesus insisted you must touch because why the call that you have in your life is going to be greater you must be convinced i am the one there are people who want to have encounters beyond just listening what's wrong with them if they want an encounter with god amen but however your encounter cannot be self-conceited it cannot be self-centered it must be a reason to be touched by god so that you want to be a witness for jesus christ amen so when the bible says that god will use us a calling it requires timble it requires prayer meetings leadership meetings bible study and all the things that we are putting together so that the wisdom of god will grow into the life that we have called amen this is not the time to put things down and do things because no one else is watching god is watching through the spirit of excellence amen if god has given you a call and he has promised you that god will use you in a great manner encourage yourself if we'll commit ourselves to dedication the bible says observe the man whose diligent in his face he will stand before kings and princes amen not everybody can stand before kings you know you need to be diligent in your ways so i want to encourage us that god will give us this new anointing he will lead us in that way that truly the anointing of god will use us to be great before the lord amen let's pray father we pray in the name of jesus that your presence will come you'll give us that wisdom father teach us use us for your glory we pray for our sons and daughters we pray for all those who are watching true online for all the calls anointings which are buried in different people's lives we pray god let the wind of the holy spirit come and stir the callings up let the wind of the holy spirit bring about a combustion where life will be injected into their callings we remember the churches who are discouraged churches have lost people in covet and they have lost their faith or discouraged right now i pray a new wave of encouragement will come over their hearts of god father we pray even all the countries where they have the second and the third wave which is happening right now we pray in jesus name bind the demonic spirits right now god we pray for your mercy your love and encouragement to be released that father in the midst of darkness we can see the light of christ shining people will know it is jesus let your name be magnified we thank you in jesus name amen god bless you please meditate on the life of john the baptist and the bible says we shall be great before the lord and we shall be in jesus name amen

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