Latest / Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons / Believers’ Meetings and the Demonstration of the Things of the Spirit (Part 3)
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- 0:01Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is
- 0:06designed to uplift and strengthen you in your
- 0:09walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until
- 0:14the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive
- 0:18right in. You see, the reason why we do the things
- 0:28we do When it comes to believers meeting we said
- 0:32it last week, but we're going to talk about it
- 0:34much more this morning for every manifestation
- 0:38you see What it does to your life as a believer
- 0:41is that it deepens your conviction regarding
- 0:45Jesus You know what I just said for every supernatural
- 0:51manifestation you see What it does to you as
- 0:54a believer is that this it does what it deepens
- 0:57your what? conviction, right, about the power
- 1:01of the Holy Ghost at work in your life. So what
- 1:05am I saying in essence? I'm saying that desire
- 1:09to see more manifestation. Hallelujah. Do you
- 1:12know what I just said now? Desire to see what?
- 1:15Desire to see what? Desire to see what? Yes,
- 1:19desire to see more manifestation. Don't ever
- 1:25live a casual life, a normal life. Work in it.
- 1:28See it. Expect it. Be zealous about it. Convert
- 1:31it. Convert it. Convert it. Convert it. Let there
- 1:34be miracles. Let there be signs. Let there be
- 1:37wonders. Following with you in your house, in
- 1:40your family, to your friends, to your extended
- 1:43family, in Africa, in Asia, any part of the world.
- 1:47Desire to see more, more, more, more, more of
- 1:51the power of the Holy Ghost. You see when you
- 1:59don't desire to see the things of the Holy Ghost
- 2:01It will not be long you will start doubting that
- 2:07the Holy Ghost dwells in you Hallelujah You will
- 2:11start what? doubting The fact that it's not working
- 2:19you are not desiring it does not mean that it's
- 2:21not available Hallelujah The fact that you are
- 2:25not desiring to see the workings of the Holy
- 2:26Ghost, it does not mean that it's not what? It's
- 2:30not at work. It's not available. No, it's there.
- 2:39Let's do something very fast. I may not necessarily
- 2:42finish because what we are doing today is much
- 2:45more practical. Hallelujah. And because it's
- 2:47much more practical, it will require every one
- 2:50of us to be able to sustain a level of prayer.
- 2:53then we see those things happen amen often what
- 2:58we do is that when we gather we just come and
- 3:01then pray just for five minutes and then go our
- 3:05way hallelujah but you see today what we're gonna
- 3:07do we're gonna hold a matter and we will pray
- 3:11about it until there's a note of peace in our
- 3:13hearts you know what I said until there's a note
- 3:16of what peace in our hearts It's like someone
- 3:20that has been expecting an alert. Have you ever
- 3:23called your father to send you tuition fees?
- 3:26And you know that tomorrow is the end of the
- 3:28day for registration. You keep waiting. You keep
- 3:32waiting. You keep waiting. You keep waiting.
- 3:34Any message that comes in, you want to check
- 3:36your phone. The next thing is tell sin. The next
- 3:38thing is tell sin. Telling you that you are under
- 3:41control deficit. The next thing you tell sin.
- 3:44At the main time or at the end of it, then suddenly,
- 3:48and a lot comes and you see zimbabwe bank of
- 3:51international money transfer something something
- 3:53something you know what happens to you you just
- 3:57jump with shout you get to that international
- 4:00office and tell them this is the receipt can
- 4:06you activate me now you know the day i came out
- 4:12of international office i went i almost fought
- 4:15with the woman i'll not call her name And she
- 4:18said, it does not matter whether I am the vice
- 4:21HOD. What I am doing in the faculty is different
- 4:25from what I am doing as a student. I must pay
- 4:27them their 4 ,000 euros. I said, no, remove it
- 4:31from my salary. She said, no. I said, okay, let's
- 4:34do it this way. Can you clear it? Let me work
- 4:37for you people for maybe three years. Let me
- 4:40say something that just came to my heart. Never
- 4:42negotiate God's plans for your life with your
- 4:45plans. Hallelujah. Do you know what I just said?
- 4:49Never negotiate God's plans, right? With what?
- 4:53For your life with your plans. I was there trying
- 4:56to time my life while God has gone ahead of me.
- 5:02Do you know we started dragging, she started
- 5:03getting angry. I said, okay, no problem. I will
- 5:05get you your money. I came down from the door.
- 5:10I called my mama, my head of department. I did
- 5:15not tell her anything. She didn't know I was
- 5:16there. She just said, how are you fine? How are
- 5:19you doing? What are these international office
- 5:22saying? I said, I must pay the 4 ,000 euros.
- 5:27Mind you, before I went up, there was a brother
- 5:30that was asking me, a pastor. So he did not get
- 5:33this 4 ,000. What will happen now? I said, don't
- 5:35worry. God told me that he will bring it. Mind
- 5:39you, as I'm holding on to God's words, Dad wants
- 5:43to click into my heart. Yeah, because I know
- 5:45in the whole of Cyprus who will give me four
- 5:48thousand euros I Came down. She calls me I said
- 5:53custom. Don't worry. We will go to the bank now
- 5:56and I'll get the money and I'll give you About
- 6:00the whole atmosphere but so because there might
- 6:03be a change 4000 euros, not from Africa, not
- 6:08from USA, not from anywhere, but in Cyprus. You
- 6:13see, when God gives you a word, let me say it
- 6:17now, extreme, be willing to die for the word
- 6:20and he will show up for it. Do you know what
- 6:24I said? When God gives you a word, be willing
- 6:27to die for it, stand with it, he will show up
- 6:31for it. Why did I bring us this route? I brought
- 6:37us this route because when we discuss power gifts,
- 6:41there are manifestations that are evident. There
- 6:45are manifestations that are tangible. There are
- 6:48manifestations that carry something, a message
- 6:51to tell you that God is here. So we will pray.
- 6:58We will take some 25 minutes. We will pray. prayer.
- 7:01There's a sister. We say we're going to pray
- 7:03for your mom. Where is she? Yes. God bless you.
- 7:06And then there's a brother too that came on Wednesday.
- 7:09We say we're going to pray for his dad. I saw
- 7:12the brother somewhere. God bless you. And then
- 7:14a couple of people. I saw somebody this morning.
- 7:19The right feet. Your leg. Has an issue has been
- 7:24paining you. I don't know whether you're the
- 7:26one but I know I saw somebody with a issue on
- 7:30the feet. and you are here this morning we are
- 7:34going to pray for you and you're going to stand
- 7:36that feet and you will feel the pain no more
- 7:40hallelujah yes needs are going to be met in this
- 7:48atmosphere we're going to pray it sustain it
- 7:53until we get a note of peace in our hearts hallelujah
- 7:56and we will know it has arrived praise god So
- 8:01believers meeting, let's write this down. The
- 8:09role of the believer in the things of the spirit,
- 8:13the role of the believer in the things of the
- 8:17spirit, the role of the believer in the things
- 8:21of the spirit, for things to be done. The role
- 8:30of the believer in the things of the spirit for
- 8:34things to be done The role of the believer in
- 8:39the things of the spirit for us for things to
- 8:42be done. Hallelujah If you remember the second
- 8:47thing we said we said the Holy Ghost demonstrates
- 8:50himself in power Which means that things are
- 8:54going to be done The Holy Ghost demonstrates
- 9:00himself in what? In power, which means that things
- 9:04are going to be what? Are going to be done. Give
- 9:07us James, James chapter 5. However, it's not
- 9:12a scripture I'm supposed to start. I don't know
- 9:14why I'm going there. There's a reason. James
- 9:18chapter 5 verse 16. Amplified version. He said
- 9:29the Holy Ghost demonstrates himself in what?
- 9:32In power. How does he demonstrate himself? Can
- 9:36somebody help me? He demonstrates himself in
- 9:38power. How does he do that? Through us. God bless
- 9:44you. So the Holy Ghost demonstrates himself in
- 9:48power through us, through me. For things to be
- 9:53what? To be done. Hallelujah. James chapter five.
- 9:56Everybody, one, two, go. Can we do it together?
- 10:02Wait, reduce it. Let me hear our voices all.
- 10:04One, two, go. Your false steps, your offenses,
- 10:10and pray for that you may be healed and, yes,
- 10:14all together, let's echo it. Can accomplish.
- 10:18Can accomplish. Yes, let's go again. When pulled
- 10:22into and made by who? it is what and can have
- 10:29tremendous power of the Holy Ghost the power
- 10:34of the Holy Ghost is made effective through me
- 10:38this morning as I pray hallelujah glory to God
- 10:44is made effective is made effective so when we
- 10:51say the power gifts we mean healings You can
- 10:55write this down as a reminder. The power of gifts,
- 10:59when we say things need to be done, we mean the
- 11:02gift of healing, gift of healing, walking of
- 11:08miracles, walking of miracles, and then the gift
- 11:13of faith. The gift of faith. Are we there? So
- 11:24when we say signs and wonders, all the power
- 11:29gifts we put them under what? Signs and what?
- 11:33And wonders. Please write this thing down. Pastor
- 11:36Emma taught us this. All the power gifts we classify
- 11:39them as what? Gifts for signs and what? And wonders.
- 11:43All the gifts are for signs and wonders. Hallelujah.
- 11:46Praise God. But there's a reason why we are saying
- 11:49this now. When we say a sign, a sign means an
- 11:56action that conveys a message. A sign means what?
- 12:02An action that conveys what? A message. Hallelujah.
- 12:09I'm still young in marriage. We are still building
- 12:12our sign language with my wife. You know? For
- 12:17somebody like our daddy, mommy. They already
- 12:21have a sign, they understand. Pastor Victor is
- 12:25a little bit ahead of us. He has built some signs.
- 12:30But you see, mommy that has spent 40 years and
- 12:32counting, signs are already everywhere. Amen?
- 12:40We, till now, if you do like this, I'm like,
- 12:42what is like this? We're still building the signs.
- 12:47Amen? What did you do? I say what's wrong with
- 12:50this one? She's conveying when we now reach home.
- 12:56She'll say ah tell you do I need to come and
- 12:59tell you yes. You see we have passed one level.
- 13:04Time will come now she will not say the sign.
- 13:07She'll just think it and I'll know it. I'm telling
- 13:12you I've seen it work. Praise God. These are
- 13:21what? Actions that conveys what? Message. Whereas
- 13:27wonders, wonders are expressions of amazement
- 13:35caused by something remarkable. Wonders are expressions
- 13:43of what? Amazement caused by what? Yes, something
- 13:52remarkable that has happened. Hallelujah. So
- 13:55when we say signs and wonders we mean certain
- 13:58actions are happening by the power of the Holy
- 14:00Ghost and we go wow This must be the Holy Ghost
- 14:08Because nothing natural can make this thing happen.
- 14:13Hallelujah. Glory to God. Acts chapter 6 verse
- 14:178 now Ask chapter 6 verse 8. Ask chapter 6 verse
- 14:278. Everybody see. And Stephen, full of what?
- 14:34And what? Please, can we read it this way? Put
- 14:37your name there. Can we read it this way? For
- 14:40whatever reason, that's the instruction I'm getting.
- 14:42Can we put your name there? And who? Want to
- 14:48go? And Custin, full of faith and deeds, great
- 14:55wonders and miracles. Okay, let's do it this
- 14:59way. And Custin, full of faith and power, is
- 15:04doing great wonders and miracles in NECF. Hallelujah.
- 15:09Does this sound like faith -filled words? Can
- 15:12we read it that way again? Let's read it now.
- 15:14One, two, go. And Custin is In where? Wait, wait.
- 15:23Let's say it all together. Do you know that's
- 15:26something we should pray about now? Can we pray
- 15:28about it? Can we pray about it? Can we pray about
- 15:33it? That's why we are doing this morning. That's
- 15:35how power gives flow. I am doing great wonders
- 15:41and signs. Hallelujah. Mark chapter 16 again.
- 15:46Please you can be praying. You can be praying.
- 15:48you can be brain mark chapter 16 from verse 16
- 15:52let's read from verse 17 and this and this what
- 15:59did we define signs as and these actions shall
- 16:03what shall follow them that what in my name okay
- 16:10let's make it the way we read the other place
- 16:13say this way And these actions are following
- 16:17custom that believes. In Jesus' name, I cast
- 16:22out devils. I speak with new tongues. I take
- 16:27up serpents. And I drink deadly things. And they
- 16:33never hurt me. I lay hands on the sick. And the
- 16:38sick what? Recover. Hallelujah. Can we read that
- 16:45that way? Can we personalize it? Don't worry
- 16:50We are still on time. Can we personalize it that
- 16:54way? Put your name and make it a present Continuous
- 17:00tense. Yes, my English is good. English people
- 17:03are here a present continuous what tense? Can
- 17:08we read it in a present continuous tense? Can
- 17:12we read that? because that's our reality hallelujah
- 17:16do you know why because the power gives those
- 17:18actions of the holy ghost are still happening
- 17:21today and they are happening now and we will
- 17:24see them in this morning service now hallelujah
- 17:28can we read them in that present continuous tense
- 17:30one two go put your name yes i'm following custom
- 17:35that believes in jesus's name i cast out i speak
- 17:41with yes Yes, and if I drink any deadly thing,
- 17:47it shall not hurt me. I lay my hands on the sick
- 17:51and the sick what? I lay my hands on the sick
- 17:55and the sick what? Can we just still pray it
- 17:58again? Can we pray it again? Can we pray it?
- 18:09I speak with new tongues. I am costing their
- 18:12beliefs. The actions of the Holy Ghost are still
- 18:15manifest in my life today. They are manifest
- 18:18in my life this morning. I lay hands on the sick.
- 18:21The sick recover. I lay hands on the blind. The
- 18:25blind see. I lay hands on the deaf. That ear
- 18:28opens. This morning the seats are walking in
- 18:32the name of Jesus in that which Christ has accomplished
- 18:37at resurrection. Add these scriptures to it.
- 18:42Matthew 11 verse 4. Add Matthew 11 verse 4. I
- 18:53think it would do us good to read it. Matthew
- 18:5511 verse 4. See what Jesus will say. Thank God
- 19:02for the pastors that they created a material
- 19:05for us and we treated this in the cell meeting.
- 19:07Hallelujah. You know that day I saw it and I'm
- 19:12like wow Everybody let's read it together Jesus
- 19:18words Answered and said unto them go and show
- 19:22us those things which words Say today say today
- 19:28through me men will hear and men will see Everybody
- 19:33let's read verse five together the blind words
- 19:36and the lame and the lepers are, and the dev,
- 19:42the dead are, and the poor have not, said this
- 19:46am I reality, by the ability of the Holy Ghost,
- 19:51this morning in this atmosphere, in the name
- 19:53of Jesus, the blind see, the deaf hear, the dead
- 19:58are raised back to life, and the gospel is preached
- 20:02through me by the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah. So
- 20:09what pastor in man taught us we have gift of
- 20:11faith walking of miracles and we have what? healings
- 20:15amen hallelujah So let's just have just write
- 20:27this in the next five ten minutes I'm done with
- 20:30this and then we are going to pray and then practice
- 20:34So by by 15 12 .15 I'm done. We have all these
- 20:42messages. Yesterday I was listening to all Pastor
- 20:45Eman's messages. Came back home late but I still
- 20:48had to do it even this morning. Amen. Yes, so
- 20:52they are all there. So we are not going to preach
- 20:53the message again. They are already there. Praise
- 20:56God. What we are here to do is practicals. So
- 20:59whatever we are doing here, you know, you know
- 21:02if you do home economies in secondary school
- 21:06there is practicals. I didn't do it, but I had
- 21:09juniors that did it. So because they like me,
- 21:13even though they don't like me that I flock them,
- 21:15but they like me because they can approach me
- 21:17and talk to me. So when they do home economies,
- 21:20they do some small jobs here and there. And often
- 21:23they will bring us as seniors to what? To eat,
- 21:26to test. Amen. So the main course of this meeting,
- 21:33go and listen to them. Pastor Imams taught them.
- 21:36Hallelujah. The media team are going to share
- 21:38all the links. Preparing us for catatismos. Hallelujah.
- 21:43You know from next week in all our cell meetings
- 21:45there will be practical demonstration of the
- 21:47things of the Holy Ghost. In all our services
- 21:49that's what we'll be doing till catatismos. Praise
- 21:52God. Amen. So all we are doing here is home economies.
- 21:57Amen. We are testing and then we are doing that
- 22:00this thing is working. I think the magic is good.
- 22:03The gift of faith can be understood as the ability
- 22:07resident in the believer to minister and receive
- 22:10a miracle. The gift of faith is the ability in
- 22:15the what? Of the Holy Ghost in the believer to
- 22:19do what? To give and receive a what? A miracle.
- 22:24So often I will pray for my brother, right? Without
- 22:28even him knowing, and yet I will do what? i will
- 22:32receive a miracle a knowing for what for him
- 22:36do you know that ma it does not have to be in
- 22:41an atmosphere like this you can visit your house
- 22:45and we are just talking and discussing and you
- 22:48will receive a miracle for me hallelujah jesus
- 22:52never most of jesus's miracles were not in crusades
- 22:56He was just moving and then the centurion man
- 22:59said master, please please my servant is at home
- 23:03Please I beg you. I know I'm the man of authority.
- 23:06You don't need to come to my house. I Have servant
- 23:11so I know what power is But all I want to because
- 23:14I know do what please speak and send forth your
- 23:19word I know my servant will do what will get
- 23:22healed He came and received a miracle for his
- 23:29servant that never knew that that event was happening
- 23:33What am I saying by the Spirit of God that in
- 23:37this atmosphere you can receive a miracle now
- 23:41for somebody in Africa You can receive a healing
- 23:45now for somebody in Asia. You can receive a healing
- 23:49now a miracle for somebody Why? Because the ability
- 23:55of the Holy Ghost is resident in us now here.
- 23:58Praise God. That's what gift of faith is. So
- 24:02let's go listen to what Pastor Eman has taught
- 24:04us on that. Matthew 8. I'll just read the scriptures.
- 24:07I don't need to go back to it. Matthew 8 verse
- 24:118 to 13. Matthew 8 verse 8 to 13. Matthew 17
- 24:22verse 14 to 19. Acts chapter 3 verse 1 to 11.
- 24:30Good. So often we see the gift of faith to give
- 24:38and receive miracles works with what? Works with
- 24:41healing. Hallelujah. And then works with walking
- 24:45of miracles. I just say something profound now.
- 24:48The gift of faith often will work what? With
- 24:51the gift of healing and working of what? Miracles.
- 24:58Faith to heal. Faith to work miracles. The prophet
- 25:08came to the woman. He said what do you have in
- 25:10your house? Say we have nothing except something
- 25:12small. You see what we are going to do is we
- 25:16can do something with it. For the believer, let
- 25:24me say this, for the believer, we are not moved
- 25:28by sight, but by what? By faith. Those things
- 25:32that look or seemingly look as they are not working
- 25:35in the natural, don't determine how a believer
- 25:39sees. things might not be working right and for
- 25:46the believer all he sees is a world of possibilities
- 25:51go guard our vessels not a few because something
- 26:00supernatural is happening now what do you have
- 26:04is a master we just have few loaves of bread
- 26:07and few fishes We don't have enough money to
- 26:14feed 5 ,000 men aside women and children. Silver
- 26:21and gold we do not have. But what we have we
- 26:26give unto thee. We have something and that thing
- 26:30is called the power of the Holy Ghost. He dwells
- 26:33in our inside. He creates supernatural things
- 26:36happen beyond the natural. You see? He moves
- 26:42from Cyprus He moves from Cyprus to my sister's
- 26:47mom That part of the Holy Ghost from here. He
- 26:52moves from here, right? And then whatever condition
- 26:56mark chapter 16 said these signs shall what?
- 27:00Shall follow shall follow us that what? That
- 27:04belief so what God had done is that he has given
- 27:08us the authority hallelujah The authority that
- 27:12Jesus gave, he gave it to the church. Hallelujah.
- 27:15That the signs and wonders are to be written
- 27:18by who? By the church. Well, we now, God, that's
- 27:21why we see all the lead cut in the scriptures
- 27:23from the book of Acts. All through, you see what?
- 27:26healings, healings. If I first call you to chapter
- 27:28two, he told them my speech is not without enticing
- 27:32words of men's wisdom. But in the spirit and
- 27:35demonstration of what? Of power. That all through
- 27:38the scriptures, you see a little testimonies
- 27:42of the supernatural. Power gifts. The working
- 27:47of miracles. Let's write this now and we pray.
- 27:55All that we are saying, Pastor Eman taught them
- 27:57in detail. What we are having, your notes will
- 28:00be small, don't worry. We want to have more practicals
- 28:03and small notes because we have more of the notes
- 28:05now. Amen? Let's write this, working of miracles.
- 28:10What is a miracle? A miracle is a violation of
- 28:15natural laws. A miracle is a what? Is a violation
- 28:22of what? Of natural laws It implies that the
- 28:29power of God in demonstration The power it implies
- 28:37that the power of God in demonstration Violating
- 28:43the natural laws of nature a Miracle is a violation
- 28:51of natural laws implying that the power of God
- 28:54in demonstration violating the natural laws of
- 28:58what? Of nature. You can write John chapter 2
- 29:04verse 1 to 11. John chapter 2 verse 1 to 11.
- 29:10John chapter 5 verse 1 to 9. John chapter 5 verse
- 29:141 to 9. John chapter 6 verse 1 to 13. Hallelujah.
- 29:23Acts chapter 3 verse 16. Acts chapter 3 verse
- 29:2716. Acts chapter 6 verse 5. Acts chapter 6 verse
- 29:325. Acts chapter 6 verse 8. Acts chapter 14 verse
- 29:389 to 10. Acts chapter 14 verse 9 to 10. Are we
- 29:46there everybody? Are we there everybody? Can
- 29:50we rise to our feet? One of the things Paul taught
- 30:01the Corinthian Church, he taught them something
- 30:05very powerful regarding the things of the spirit.
- 30:11And he gave them a word and that word he told
- 30:14them to convert endlessly. Hallelujah! To desire,
- 30:19to desire, to be zealous. That word desire is
- 30:27a very strong word When we say you are desiring
- 30:33something It's an expression of emotions That
- 30:39is not normal Amen, you can want a thing You
- 30:44can you can really think about it that you want
- 30:47it But you see when you desire it ah He is extreme
- 30:55That's the word that Paul used for the Corinthian
- 30:58Church. He said when it comes to the things of
- 31:00the spirit, dear believer, your life must be
- 31:04on the edge, always desiring to see the workings
- 31:08of what? Of the spirit. So which means that there
- 31:13should not be a day where you don't see the supernatural
- 31:17at work in your life, whether it's in the office,
- 31:21whether it's in your family. Can you say I desire?
- 31:24this morning I desire by the ability of the Holy
- 31:29Ghost to see all the expression of the power
- 31:33I give at work in my heart at work in my hands
- 31:37at work in my home at work in everywhere I stand
- 31:41and even in this local church right now in the
- 31:44name of Jesus Can we just pray everybody? Can
- 31:47we pray? We appreciate you being here today We
- 31:53hope you carry this worry with you throughout
- 31:55your week. Don't forget to check the show notes
- 31:58for additional insights. Stay connected with
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- 32:11stay blessed.