Kia ora whānau, Embassy, whānau. Great to be with you this morning, oh no, this afternoon.
12.30 it is, this afternoon. Let me come closer to you. I hope you're having a great day today.
It's pouring down here in Gisborne, pouring with rain. But the sun shines above the clouds all the time.
Anyway, it's good to be with you. Whānau, it's good to be here with these masterclasses.
And I hope you're getting, well I don't hope, I know you will be getting blessed.
Some of the inputs, some of the kōrero, some of the ministry that's going out across these sunships is kia ora iāna.
I know it's blessing a lot of people. So I'm honoured to be part of this, part of this collaboration.
And God bless those of you as you're coming on. So I'll just wait for a few.
I'm just going to open up with a karakia, with a prayer. Thank you, Jesus.
Hallelujah. Jesus, we just thank you that you are the same yesterday, today, forever.
That Jesus, you never did a thing without first seeing what your father was doing.
That everything you did, Lord, was out of response to what the Father showed you.
That you were anointed to preach the good news to the poor, to heal broken hearts, to set captives free.
But you didn't do any of that. That anointing never activated in your life until you first operated in the first anointing.
So Lord, we just thank you for your presence. And I pray, Lord, that as I have this kōrero over the airwaves,
that Lord, that your sons and your daughters that are watching, that it will pour oil upon their fire, ignite more fire within them.
It will bring a refreshing to their soul. It will bring wisdom to their feet and direction to their hearts.
Lord, of your plan, your purpose for each one. Thank you for your tremendous love.
Thank you, Father, just for that love of God pouring out upon all these sons and daughters that are tuning in today.
Thank you for your blessing. I command a blessing upon those who are watching right now.
And those who will be watching whether live or afterwards.
I release blessing upon you. I release blessing upon your family.
I release blessing upon your whānau, your whenua, and your whare, your house, your land, and your family.
In Jesus' name, I command a blessing to you. Amen. Amen, amen, amen.
Well, this morning, this morning, this afternoon, who cares what day it is?
This morning, this afternoon, tonight, we're in a kairos moment right now with God.
And Jesus is here right now. And I just pray for those who are watching.
I don't like just ministering the word of God. I minister in spirit and in the power of God.
Demonstration of the spirit and the power of God.
So I just command the release of the supernatural presence of Jesus to come to you right now.
And just begin to dissolve the arthritis. Begin to dissolve pain in that shoulder.
Begin to loosen up that shoulder in the name of Jesus.
And all who are watching, Lord Jesus, let the radiance of your light, of your supernatural presence,
flow out and touch bodies. And just begin to heal physical bodies.
Begin to quieten troubled minds, Father.
And just let your presence begin to bring waves of waves of waves of your glory.
Lord, as I'm doing your korero, let, Lord, it be, Lord, Heaven's will,
let all that which Heaven has today be released upon the earth of those who are watching.
I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.
Father, it's not unusual in my meetings where people are just sitting there
and they haven't come for healing and they get healed.
That they haven't come for ministry, but they get ministered to.
It's not because who I am, it's because who he is.
Jesus is awesome and Jesus just loves you.
And I just pray that with the release of the precious Holy Spirit now,
just to go and to massage your body, massage those aches and pains out of you.
So by the end of this korero, you'll be feeling much, much better.
I want to talk about the two anointings.
Do you know there are two anointings?
In 1991, myself, my wife, my two children who were still going to school,
we came to Gisborne, 1991.
We'd never been to Gisborne in our life before.
We didn't know a soul in this city.
We didn't know anybody.
And so we came to Gisborne.
We rented a house.
And then on the 28th of April, 1991, I hired a hall, a school hall,
and I put an ad in the paper, Sunday service morning and night at this hall.
We're starting a church in Gisborne.
So we planted the church from myself, my wife, my two children.
Four.
And the first morning and night, 67 people turned up to those two services.
Out of 67 people turning up, 12 dedicated their lives to God.
At least six of them are still with us to this day, and so the church grew from four
to five hundred in four years, did you get that?
The church grew from four, me, my wife, my children, to five hundred within four years.
It just exploded.
So we had like, well, people would call it revival, I called it a move of God.
And so hundreds and hundreds of people just started coming to Jesus, dozens and dozens
actually, and over the four years that amounted to hundreds of people.
I remember the first healing we saw was actually a woman who had AIDS.
And as we prayed for her, the power of God came upon this woman, and she began to tremble
and to shake, and she had hepatitis as well as AIDS, and she was given a diagnosis by
the doctor that there's no cure and that she's got no hope.
So she came and got a karakia prayer, we prayed for her in Jesus' name.
Within about ten minutes, the power of God went through her body.
After ten minutes, she said to us, I'm healed.
So we said to her, go and get yourself checked at the doctor, get some medical confirmation
on this, which she did.
It took months to get the confirmation, but it came back three months later, completely
healed.
Not a trace of AIDS in her today, no hepatitis.
To this day, she's walking around our city completely healthy.
That was one of the first miracles.
And then a man came to church, I read they'd been going about, I don't know, maybe three
months, four months?
And a man came to church stoned, and it's not unusual for people to come to church stoned
or drunk or out of their tree.
And he came to church stoned, and he was in pain in his back.
And he walked in, he sat at the back, and when I said, anybody want to give their life
to Jesus, his hand went up.
And he said he tried to pull his hand down, he didn't know what he was doing.
I saw his hand, I led him to Jesus, and then I prayed for his back, and God healed his
back that had been in pain for years and years and years.
He had such an incredible change in his life, that he went and told his best friend, who
was a drug dealer, who lived down in the Uruwera, which is inland from Gisborne.
And the drug dealer said, well, could he pray for my back?
I've had a broken back for eight years, I've got two plates in it, and I'm in pain all
the time.
Can he come and pray for me?
And so the message was relayed to me, I want to go and pray for this guy, which I did.
Me and my, we went down, I prayed for this man, and God instantly healed his back.
And literally within about, oh, maybe three minutes, four minutes, his back was healed.
And this guy, he couldn't believe it, he was bending down, touching his toes, his eyes
were as big as saucers.
He said, what happened to me?
I said, that's the power of Jesus Christ.
He said, I can't heal, but I'm just a hose.
And Jesus is like, he's the water that flows through the hose.
And it's the water that gives life to the seed.
It's not the hose that gives life to the seed, it's the water that gives life to the seed.
The hose is only a carrier of that water, that life-giving water.
I'm just a carrier of the life-giving power of Jesus Christ.
And he's touched you, and he's healed you.
Well, that guy, that night, he threw away all his dope, and he stopped dealing drugs
from that moment on.
And he gave his life to Jesus fully.
In turn, he told his brother, who was also suffering sickness, I went and prayed for
this brother, he was healed.
And as a result, the doors into the Uruwera opened up, and we spent about three years
down there working on the Mirais.
And we saw so many miracles, cancers dissolving, deaf ears popping open, people having to rip
their hearing aids out because the ears were healed, and they had their hearing aid turned
up high.
And so when I was preaching, it nearly blew the ears off.
They yanked out their hearing aids and threw them onto the floor because they could hear
without any hearing aid.
And at least 60 people came to Jesus, just from down in the bushland.
And every week, 30 people would drive up from Wairua to come to church.
That was the start of our church in 1991.
Why am I telling you this?
Well, that's the anointing, isn't it?
That's Luke 4.18, the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me.
He has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor, and to heal the brokenhearted,
and to set the captives free, proclaim recovery of sight to the blind.
So that's the anointing.
That's probably the anointing most Christians know about.
They don't realize that there's another anointing.
That Luke 4.18, that's the second anointing.
And I want to talk to you this morning about the two anointings, okay?
There are two anointings.
And the second anointing, although it's powerful, although it's important, it's not the most
important anointing on your life.
If you only focus on that second anointing, your ministry won't last.
You will burn out.
It doesn't matter how many miracles you see, we're just flesh and blood.
and blood and the divine power of God flying through us and thousands of
people coming to Christ you're on demand all the time just like Jesus was on
demand all the time because of the anointing but there's two anointings and
one of the reasons I believe why Jess and myself have been now we've been
walking with Jesus nearly 40 years this year December be 40 years walking with
Jesus but we've been ministering for those 40 years just about from the day
we got born again I was ministering within the first within the first week
of being born again I was sharing my testimony at church I preached in five
churches in one day and so we've been ministering walking with Jesus for 40
years why are we not burned out we've got many friends many companions and
our brothers and our pastors friends who are burnt out this is burnt out
ministry has burned them out it's burned out their marriages it's burned out
their families and and I used to wonder how come I'm not burnt out how come Jess
and I aren't burnt out and one of the reasons is is because we understand
there are two anointings and we focus on the first anointing above the second
anointing the second anointing is Luke 4 18 that's the anointing where we're
called to minister to people that's the anointing where you have to minister to
people but there's another anointing much more important than that anointing
I want to tell you what that anointing is I call it the first anointing you
want to know what it is okay if you've got your Bible or if not I'll read it to
you it's from Exodus chapter 28 verse 41 and God's speaking to Moses and you
shall put this is the priest robes you shall put them upon Aaron your brother
and his sons with them now listen to this and you shall anoint them you get
this you shall anoint them this is one of the first anointings of man on the
earth the anoint you shall anoint them why were they anointed why were they
anointed this is so important that you catch this you shall anoint them and
consecrate them and sanctify them that they may minister and this is the this
is the key they are anointed to minister not unto man but listen to this they
may minister unto me in the priest's office that they may minister unto me in
the priest's office do you realize the first anointing of man is not to minister
to man it's to minister to God do you know you've been anointed to minister
unto God isn't that amazing human beings you've been anointed to minister in the
priest's office we know the Old Testament that there were priests and
kings but under the new covenant through Jesus Christ we're all kings and priests
unto our God so you have a priestly office and as a priest the pattern of
the Old Testament priesthood shows us how we're meant to live in the New
Testament priesthood under Christ and that the first anointing on the priest
is not to minister unto man is to minister unto God let me read you
another scripture Exodus 30 30 and you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and
consecrate them that they may minister unto me in the priest's offices in the
priest's office you shall anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate them that
they may minister unto me in the priest's office and so the first
anointing is ministry unto God every morning every day I spend time not
ministering unto man I don't use the anointing to minister to man the first
thing I do every morning it's a discipline in my life for 40 years
nearly is ministering unto God I spend the first part of my day ministering
unto God now how you do that's another story I'm just telling you about and
giving you knowledge there are two anointings the first anointing is to
minister unto God it's when you ministering unto God that he fills you
it's when he pours fresh anointing pours fresh wisdom revelation knowledge words
of knowledge he gives fresh understanding it's what I'm ministering
unto God just ministering into his presence bringing my gratitude bringing
him my attitude of of gratitude bringing him my my praise my songs I every day I
bring to him recognition acknowledgement I bring to him my affection I minister
unto God now we all want God to minister to us right yeah I just love it when the
Spirit of God just comes when Jesus just starts ministering to me it's just a
amazing we love that we want the Holy Spirit to minister to us and our
services and we just love that but God said to me one day he said you know what
I just love it when you minister to me I just love it when you minister unto me
so I thought God you you want my ministry why do you
You need me. You've got angels. You've got billions of angels and you've got saints up there. Why? Why? You would never notice me.
He said, look, son, you have grandchildren.
How do you feel when one of your grandchildren just comes in out of the blue, jumps up on your lap, puts their arms around you and says, granddad, I love you.
I said, oh, I just melt. I just melt. I just love it.
When it's just unsolicited love and love and adoration for my moko to the granddad.
I just love it. And I just want to pour out more love to them.
He says that's I put that desire in you. I made man.
I created humans and that affection of your grandchild or children ministering to you.
That's how I feel when you minister unto me because I long for your ministry.
I long for your presence.
So Jesus said to me, if you'll minister your presence to me in private.
I will minister my presence through you in public. It's been one of the secrets as if you like to my ministry.
I minister my my presence to the Lord in private and he ministers his presence for me in public.
And it's a principle in the scriptures, isn't it? When you pray, when you fast, go into the secret place where no one sees but God.
And when he sees in private, he will reward you in public. It's a principle.
And so the first anointing is unto God. The second anointing is unto man.
And the second anointing is only as powerful as the first anointing.
The first anointing is about not just ministry. It's about relationship.
This is how Jesus ministered. He ministered first to God and then he ministered to man.
He never ministered to man unless he had first ministered to God.
He used his anointing in his ministry to God first.
What's the greatest command? Love the Lord your God or love your neighbor as yourself first.
First is love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.
Second is love your neighbor. It's the principle of the anointing.
The first year we're anointed to minister to God and then we minister to man.
Now, if you understand the tabernacle principle, the Holy of Holies,
the high priest would go into the Holy of Holies once a year on the Day of Atonement,
and he would minister unto God. As he ministered unto God,
he had to be still and know that he is God.
And then God would begin to speak to the high priest off the mercy seat.
And the high priest, once he had ministered unto God, God would minister to him,
speak to him what the word of the Lord was for the nation of Israel for that year.
Then the high priest would walk out of the Holy of Holies.
He'd walk out of the holy place. He'd go up beyond the outer court
and then he'd speak to Israel, thus saith the Lord God of Israel.
The high priest had nothing to tell the people unless he had been in the presence of God first.
And you and me is God's people. We have nothing to give our people.
We have nothing to share or to release to the people
unless we have something from God first.
And the only time we get things from God is when we spend time with them.
Draw near to the Lord, he'll draw near to you.
So the first anointing is ministry unto God.
So every morning, my friend, my father, my sons, my daughters, my brothers and sisters,
put priority on your ministry unto God first.
It's not an event. It's not just something you do once in a while.
I heard somebody recently say,
Oh yeah, when I feel dry, I'll just spend time with God.
You won't last long. It's not when you feel dry.
It's a daily. It's a relationship with Jesus.
It's a relationship with God. It's every day.
It's a lifestyle. Ministry unto the Lord is a lifestyle.
Ministering to man is a lifestyle. It's not an event.
And I'm always ready because I've spent time in his presence.
I'm carrying his presence. I'm carrying fresh revelation, fresh oil.
And so that's the principle for the two anointings.
The first anointing is ministry unto God.
That determines the power and the depth of your ministry unto man.
The deeper your ministry unto God, the more you have to minister to man.
The less you minister unto God, the less you have for man.
I wanted to share something else. Now, let's see Mark chapter 1 verse 35.
Mark chapter 1 verse 35. We're going to see Jesus.
We're going to see how Jesus operated in this pattern.
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day,
he went out and departed into a solitary place and there he prayed.
So the background to this is that Jesus had prayed for Peter's mother-in-law.
She got healed. And so the whole town came to the gates,
came to the place where he was staying.
And it says that Jesus cast out demons of the world. He healed the sick.
So a revival took place where a great move of God took place in this town.
So there are hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of people.
coming to this house because of the presence of Jesus and and so he's
having a move of God he's having like it's like at your church that we
might only get a few hundred people along on a Sunday but suddenly there's
about 3,000 people out there and all the sick are being brought in the moment
they get in the door boom they're healed and so for you and I we want to milk
that wouldn't we we want to keep that revival keep that move of God going but
Jesus says a great wall before day about maybe 4 a.m. he disappears he put
he withdraws from the meeting and people don't see him leave because the
disciples are looking for him and and so the disciples realize Jesus isn't here
where is he gone this might be about 4 a.m. in the morning I'm not sure so the
disciples they also went looking for Jesus and they climbed a hill and they
found Jesus up on a hill in a solitary place by himself but he wasn't by
himself you see he'd been down in Nazareth operating in the Luke 4 18
anointing the Spirit of the Lord God is upon me to preach the good news to
the poor to heal the brokenhearted so he's operating in the second
anointing but then he said I've got to go and spend time for my father I've got
to go and replenish my anointing and so he goes up and he's up on the mountains
what does he do he's ministering in the first anointing he's operating in the
first anoint he's ministering unto God as father how do we know that because
the disciple says master where have you been everybody's looking for you come on
let's go back to the revival I'm that's my paraphrasing there see Peter and the
disciples has come on everyone's wanting you the needs of the people are crying
out to you but Jesus is no we're going to go to other villages today we're
going to go to other villages today now I don't know about you but if it was me
I want to go back to the revival man there's souls getting saved there's
miracles happening there look the church is growing I want to get back there man
because you know that there's just a move of God there but not Jesus he said
to the disciples we're going somewhere else today and and I understand this is
what happened because he'd be ministering unto the first anointing
unto the Lord unto the father father said to him don't go back to there today I
want you now to go to another village why do we know that because that's what
he said we're going to go to another village why do we know the father said
it because Jesus said I only do what I see the father do I only say what he
says I only hear what he says me what he speaks to me and so out of his first
anointing his ministry unto the father unto the Lord determine his ministry
unto people and the father said no don't go back there now go to another place
and this is so important for ministers for pastors for leaders for people in
ministry if you don't operate in the first anointing then the needs of the
people will wear you out you will always respond to the needs of the people
instead of the will of God you will always respond to the needs of the
people into the will of God if you only operate in the second anointing and
there's so many of God's people running around operating in the in the second
anointing they're burning themselves out and and and their sense of significance
comes out of their ministering to man my sense of significance your sense of
significance doesn't come out of your ministry ministry unto man it comes out
of the ministry of God to you it comes out of my ministry unto the Lord my
significance comes out of my relationship with Jesus not my
relationship with man my relationship with Jesus first I have nothing to give
me unless I have something from Jesus and so the first anointing is my most
it's the highest priority on my life on my ministry every day ministry with the
Lord serving the Lord ministering unto Jesus how long does it take me well it
depends whether I'm ministering I'm on the road or I'm flying somewhere to a
different nation but when I'm on assignment if I'm on a special
assignment I will spend up to three to four hours just ministering unto the
Lord but generally it's at least two hours I'll spend ministering unto the
Lord and one and just one sitting why because I just love it I just love his
presence I just want his presence I mean what you know what it's like when you're
in his presence you don't want to come out but you've got to come out you're
gonna minister to people you go on the mountains with the Lord but you've got
to go into the valleys and cast out the devils and free the people hmm so this
principle is seen also in the and the book of Acts where we see that the
disciples God said in Luke 24 49 Jesus said I'm going to send you what my
father has promised but stay in the city until you receive power from on high
until you're clothed with power on high and so the hundred that the disciples
there were five hundred saw Jesus rise from the rise from the dead and ascend
up into heaven but only 120 were there on the day of Pentecost but then I 120
spent ten days
unto the Lord. And then on the day of Pentecost, boom, God ministered unto them, and then they
began to minister unto man. The Luke 4.18 anointing came upon them. First they had the
anointing ministering unto God, and then the Holy Spirit came upon them, then they were able to
minister unto man. And this principle is seen through Moses. He didn't go ministering unto
man until he spent time in the presence of God. We see that with Joshua. Joshua would spend time
inquiring of God before he operated in his ministry for his nation. We see David, that he
didn't kill the lion, the bear, or the giant, or Goliath. That wasn't his first anointing. His
first anointing was he would spend times in the hills ministering unto God. He was a worshiper,
he was a minstrel. And so, ministry unto the Lord. There are two anointings. Make sure you put
priority on the first anointing, your ministry unto the Lord first, and don't put priority on
the second anointing, Luke 4.18. Put priority on the first anointing, and the strength of your
first anointing determines the impact of your second anointing. And so, why did I tell you about
the story about me coming to Gisborne in 1991, just coming back to that now, coming to a close?
The reason I told you about when we came to Gisborne and the church grew from four to 500
in four years, and 98% of them were from the streets, they weren't church people,
these were people who were unsaved, living all sorts of reparate lives. Why did I tell you that
at the start? I told you that because that illustrates the second anointing. That's me
operating in the four, Luke 4.18 anointing. That's Jess, that's our church that was operating in the
Luke 4.18 anointing. But the reason why I came to Gisborne, the reason why Jess and I and my
family came to Gisborne, was because of the first anointing. Because I spent time ministering unto
God in Oamaru, north of Tago. And as I was ministering unto God, two years, 18 months before
I came to Gisborne, God showed me as to come to Gisborne. God spoke very clearly about coming to
Gisborne and planting a church in Gisborne. And so, the church in Gisborne would not have come to
if it was not for the first anointing. The church in Gisborne, sure, because of the Luke 4.18
anointing, that's how it grew. But that anointing wasn't the reason why I came, it was the
first anointing, that's why we came. And so, out of the first anointing, when I'm doing services,
that's where I get the words of knowledge. Often I'll get them as I'm just waiting in the presence
of God. As I wait in the presence of God, He's the one that tells me what cities, what nations I'm to
go to. As I was waiting in the presence of God, He said, I want you to start a thing called the
Warrior Activist Course. And I want you to go around the nation, and I want you to train only
20 people at a time. And I want you to invest your life into them, and I want you to teach them how
to move in the supernatural culture of the Holy Spirit to help bring back the supernatural culture
into the Church of Jesus Christ. It's under the first anointing that the second anointing
operates for this power. So whanau, I hope you enjoyed that. There's a lot of meat there.
I haven't got time to talk to you about how do you minister unto the Lord. It's pretty simple,
you know how to do it. You know, I don't have to teach you how to minister unto God. I don't have
to teach you how to worship God. I don't have to teach you how to adore Him. I don't have to teach
you how to be still and to hear His voice. You know, I'm not here to hold your hand through
everything. I'm here to help motivate you and for you to believe in God, but to believe in yourself
also, and to allow the Holy Spirit to motivate you in all that you do for Jesus. So these Master
Classes, I hope you've been enjoying them, but I just want to give a bit of a plug. There's
something coming up soon. It's called the Online School of Sonship. Now the Online School of
Sonship, it's going to take this to a deeper level because we want to raise world changers,
history makers, nation shakers. And to do that, we're going to have to go a bit deeper into
training and to teaching, not just teaching, not just academic, but training. And so Online School
of Sonship will be coming up. So keep your eyes open on the Embassy for that and Benji will be
letting you know sooner or later. But anyway, I hope you've enjoyed that. If you've been
healed while you've been watching this kōrero, if you've been healed, just send me a message and
just say, Jesus healed me. Why? Why should you tell me? Because it honors Jesus. It honors Jesus.
To testify is to glorify, but to not testify does not glorify Jesus. And so I thank you,
Father, for that back that's being straightened right now. I thank you, Heavenly Father, for
that infection and the blood being healed right now for
that infection been driven out of the blood for those sores are going to begin to dry up now
and that your strength is going to return and even your appetite. I thank you for those Lord
who you're healing and I thank you that you're the same yesterday today forever.
Thank you in Jesus name. Amen. Okay whānau, kakete anō. Bless you.