Let me start by just sharing a little story about myself. It's kind of connected to the sermon, so I'll share that. As President mentioned, I had been in a number of different churches. I became a staff in Church of our Savior in January 1997. Sometime in late 1998 or early 1999, I can't remember the exact period, we had a visiting preacher from overseas, a Malaysian returning from Australia, and it was staff worship day that day on a Thursday morning. There was about 70, 80 people in the staff, and this pastor was preaching and sharing the word that morning, and suddenly he paused and he pointed to me. I was sitting somewhere. I can't remember where. And then he gave me a prophecy. He said, I can't remember all the details of what he shared, but there's one thing he said, I remember vividly, and those days we didn't record. 

This was a long time ago, right? Phones were not so practical. Phones were not there yet, I think. We were only using pages at that time. So what he said was, he saw many children around me, and I thought to myself, "Hmm, I'm not involved with the children's ministry." And I was involved with the Christian education at that point. At that point, I was sort of hating it already. And I have no desire to be involved with children's ministry, and my wife and I, we don't have biological children. And I wasn't interested in orphanage or children, so I was wondering, I'm not sure what it is about, but I didn't reject it, but keep it in view. And then a number of years later, I kind of moved to St. James Church, just in 2002, so a number of years later. And then two years later, Bishop posted me to St. John's and Margaret in 2004. There's still no children's ministry, not involved with children. Then in 2005, just one year later, I was posted to Chapel of Christ at Redeemer from St. John's and Margaret's Church.

  And then I became a chaplain to St. Hilda's Primary School. And Primary School, you know, is a Christian Anglican school. And there were about 2,000 children in the school, a lot of children, a lot. And some of them were really small, they were P1, P2, so when they come, I'm like a giant to them. And then I have to give them the prefect badge, you know, and the student counselors badge, later the economic student counselors, and then the BB and GB, also there were many of them,

 Each group as about 100 over. And then when you present the enrollment, the new cards or the badges to them, really there were a lot of children around me. And you know when I was posted to Chapel of Christ at Redeemer from St. John's and Margaret, it was only one year, as I mentioned, it was just one year there. And when I was going to be posted out from there, I was a little bit unhappy about my posting. I'm on, I was in two years in St. James, and then one year at St. John's and Margaret, I'm not going to get posted out, not that I did anything wrong. So I was like, why is this happening? I wasn't very pleased about it. But then when I visited the church the first time, because I didn't know about Chapel of Christ at Redeemer, so finally when I went there and I found out, I realized that, wow, the Lord really prophesied. And you know, the word came six, seven years earlier, that this is going to happen. And so it wasn't really like, you know, man could plan, but God is the one who makes the decision, right? So God prepared through the prophecies of when it happened. I knew it was really the will of God, even though bishops pose you around, but you know, God is still in control. And so I felt a sense of peace that God wanted me to be there. And I was there about 10 years, I'm here with there about 10 years. In fact, my wife still continue to serve in St. James' primary school, even though we are not there anymore. 

Yeah, so let's pray. As the Lord will speak to us through His word, Lord, we just thank you, your God who knows everything about us, Lord, even when we do not understand, even when we sometimes Lord struggle to understand, but Lord, you know, and as your word says, you have good plans for our life. And so today, even as we learn to receive from you, from your spirit, and even through people too, who may speak to into our lives, Lord help us to hear, help us Lord to even learn how that we can be also your tool to be a blessing to others. And so I just want to invite Holy Spirit to come now and speak to us, Lord, take away any anxiety, any confusion. We just want to bind any distractions in the name of Jesus. And Holy Spirit be free to just touch our hearts and minds so that we can hear you. We can hear what you are saying in Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen. 

In 1 Corinthians 14 verse one, as we was just read to us, Paul tells us to pursue love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy. Pursuing love is a given, okay. And all our services are including the use of spiritual gift. We must be motivated by love. In fact, love for God and love for the people we are ministering or serving. Our service must never be about us. We must not serve because we want glory for ourselves or we want attention. Sometimes we do that, but that must never be something that get over our heart. It must always be about love, how we want to bless others, how we want to bring the love of God to others even when we minister to unbelievers as well. But because my focus of the sermon is on prophecy, I would just say briefly about pursuing love. Not that it's not so important, it's in fact more important as Paul puts it, but for the sake of the sermon, I will just focus mainly on prophecy. But let me just say a bit about love. 

Dear children, let's not merely say that we love each other, let us show the truth by our actions. Oh, it's there. Okay, it's not there. In a church context, I'm not sure about you. In many churches, people will say, "Oh, we love you. We love you. Give hugs. We are quite comfortable to love." Maybe the COVID part, we get a bit harder, but generally people are very open about saying, "Yeah, we love one another in a church." That's very common, right? These are words we use very often. Some of us may be more verbal, okay? Maybe when you send messages, we put love, emojis below and all that, but some maybe it's not. But mentally, we all agree, yeah? As a church, we should love one another, right? I don't think anybody will disagree with me that. But you know what? 

We must do better than just expressing verbally or maybe in our messages. We must follow up with actions, yeah? Actions that will cause us time. Sometimes love is spelled T-I-M-E, right? It will say, "Cause us time. Cause us money. Cause us energy and emotions as well." Sometimes when you hear somebody's story, you are moved as well. It's a lot of leaders. Of course, we cannot really do that for everybody. 

So a lot need to lead us. But as a lot, it will cause us something. And sometimes we have to weep with those who are weeping and rejoice with those who are rejoicing. And the word pursue is an active verb. Means you need to make effort. It doesn't just drop. It's not like falling in love, right? It's an active verb. You need to pursue love in all our ministry and all that we do. 

And so I want to encourage us, let it be something we are passionate about that we want to pursue. We may not be there yet, but once we set our heart to pursue, the Holy Spirit, God will give us the desire and the passion will grow. Okay? So I'll just say that much about pursuing love. I want to go on to the prophecy. So what happens when you prophesy? 

Again, back to 1 Corinthians 14 rather, verse 3 and 4. Let me read in the new living translation. It says, "But one will prophesize, strengthens others, encourages them, and comforts them." A person who speaks in tongue is strengthened personally, but the one who speaks a word of prophecy strengthens the entire church. See, when you prophesy, you are building up the church, the people, as you encourage them, as you comfort them. 

Just a quick comment here. In this chapter, Paul was primarily addressing the misuse of tongues. He wasn't forbidding the use of tongues in case some of us begin to think that way. He's not, but rather how to use tongues in an orderly way. Because there was some confusion in the church, but again, my discussion is not on tongues today, so I will not go into that. But I want to say that there is benefits of use of tongues, and there's a beneficial way to use it in our gathering as well. But again, today is just not a focus, so the focus is on prophecy. But I must quickly highlight that there's nothing wrong about using tongues.

 I don't know how many of you may have been told, or perhaps somehow assumed, that only some people can prophesy. Okay, I'm not going to ask you to raise your hands. I'm sure some of us will think that, okay, only certain people can prophesy. And we often benchmark prophecy in the New Testament with the Old Testament prophets. I mean, there are only some people who prophesy in the Old Testament, right? So, we think, oh, there should be only some people who can prophesy in the New Testament. But I want to say that there's a clear difference between giving prophecy, what we're talking about today, and serving in what we call in the office of a prophet. Okay, let's look at Ephesians chapter four. 

Again, familiar passages, and talks about how he, Jesus himself, gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. So this is what we call the office. So there is such a thing as called office of a prophet, just like office of a pastor, and evangelists and teachers. So when you give prophecy, it doesn't make you a prophet in that sense, the Old Testament or even some New Testament prophets, whether you believe them or not. Just like if you go and evangelize somebody, it doesn't make you an evangelist, like Ray not Bonnier or Billy Graham and so on. And when you teach in a cell group, you don't become a teacher in the office of a teacher. So that's what we call offices, which people have special anointing, calling and all that. 

Okay, but for all of us, Paul says, we must all desire the gift of prophecy. If this spiritual gift is only for some people, then it will be a bit strange for Paul to tell all of us to desire earnestly. If I say it two times, as you read the passages now, if it's not true, then what Paul is saying is actually for us, if we do that, it's cover justness, right? Because if it's not meant for you and you desire it, there's a bit cover just. But Paul is saying, all of us should desire to prophesy. And now a day of Pentecost, the passage was read, let me again go through that just quickly. Peter as he sends up in quotes Joel chapter two, he says, "In the last days, it shall be God declares that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh." 

Okay, that won't be of no problem. "And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see vision and your old men shall dream dreams, even on my male servant, female servant. In those days, I'll pour out my spirit and they shall prophesy." So there's an assumption here that when God pours out his spirit on all people, men and women, okay, so there's no gender issue here. Full time or lay people, okay, so it doesn't matter whether you are called full time to serve or not, they will prophesy. And so your age doesn't matter whether you are young or old, okay, whether you're man or woman, whether you are a servant or you're an employer or a boss, whether you are holding high profile jobs or you are working in so-called ordinary job, it doesn't matter. 

Okay, of course, it doesn't mean you will can prophesy every time and whenever you want, okay, that's not what it means. But it does mean that when God can give words or impression or pictures to anyone, as long as you are a believer, God can use you. So no one is so-called unqualified as long as you are a believer and no one is exempted from it. In the situation caused, we can step into to give prophecy. You know, when Jesus saw Simon Peter for the first time,

 Okay, one of the slides there, one of the two heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, my name's sake. Simon Peter's brother, he first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah," which means Christ. He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John. You shall be called Cephas," which means Peter. You know, Jesus gave a prophecy about Simon. Of what Simon would become, we know that the word Peter means rock.

 And I believe it was an encouragement to Peter. I probably don't know about himself, right? You know, we always have all the jokes about the apostle Peter, right? And this brother, Andrew, listening to him, "Who else know better about your hood and your spouse or your sibling?" And he's probably listening and he's thinking, "My brother become a rock? I don't think so." What happened? He probably doubted. But for Simon hearing it, he would be like, "Wow, no, one day I'll be wrong." It took a long time, yes, before he became a rock, but he did become a rock, right? And so what does the prophecy do? It encourages you. It builds up the person listening to it. Let me share another prophecy I received. This prophecy was given on 21st April, 2017. Not just about a few days. It will be six years. 

So that was a long, long time ago. And at that time, I was posted back to SJSM. So I was in SJSM, I got posted out and I got posted back, got posted in 2015, about the same year as Pastor Daniel. And so I was there in November, 2015. And after about one, two years, I was getting frustrated. I was getting somewhat restless. You see, I just felt I was just hanging around SJSM. There were quite a number of clergy at that time. It was like, "Wow, so many clergy. What are we doing? What am I doing?" You know? And then I had a desire to be involved in missions.

 And that didn't seem to be happening. And if the bishop promised me it's going to happen in one, two years time, it didn't happen. And so I was getting a little frustrated. And let me just give some little background. So in 2014, I think it was August, I joined. My wife and I, we joined this church here on the Mission to the West Timor. And somehow I felt a draw to want to serve the people of God in Timor, especially the Timores. 

Now, I've been to many other islands in Indonesia. It's easily six, seven other islands. And also been to other countries on Mission trip. But I never felt that draw that I felt when I went to Timor. Somehow I felt like, "Hey, I think God is calling me to want to serve here." And so the following year, my wife and I actually spent about a month, or even five weeks, October, November, 2015. We spent about a month there in Timor, both in the Kupang site and also in Niki Niki, so, "Hey, which you all will be going?" So we spent some time there and just felt God is growing the desire to be more involved there. But then after I got posted to the SDSM, it seems like there's no further development. 

In fact, there wasn't any encouragement for me to pursue. And so in April, 2017, when I was in Philippines and Cebu, I was a speaker for a church camp of a local church there. And after the camp, we stayed on for some conference by another church group, international church group. So I was attending there. And there was one of the key speaker was someone I knew him from many years ago, from Sri Lanka, actually. But more than five years, he have not kept in touch. So he doesn't know what was happening to me. So when I asked him, "Can you pray for me?" He gave me his prophecy, yes. So I want to show the prophecy. Nothing to do with me, but just to talk about how God can even use others. So let me just read that. My name is there. "And grew God is leading you by spirit, although it seems like everything is at a standstill." 

Okay, wow, so exact. "He is holding your hand and leading you through, like Jesus told Nethaniel in John 1:51, you will see heavens open and great things happen in you and around your life and ministry. You are going to grow in God's favor, and those who are associated in ministry with you are also going to be blessed. A great breakthrough is about to happen, therefore, await expectantly and serve Him with great anticipation, for the Lord your God is powerfully with you. You will grow in favor with God and man and the reach of your influence will extend lips and bone." So after this conference, I came back to Singapore, not too long. There was an important change happened in SJSM. Pastor Daniel was around the time. And I got appointed as the admissions pastor. 

After I was appointed as the admissions pastor, my engagement in missions in Timor, I should say more than double, even a greater way. Okay, how would that happen? First, I went back to West Timor again in 2018. I brought a couple with me in 2019. I led a team of about 10, about six youth, young adults, and another family with two children. And then I was there. Of course, COVID couldn't travel, but I was there in January this year, and we'll be going in July again. That's West Timor. But in multiplied, I also went to the other side of Timor, the East Timor. My first time was there in 2017. Then I was there again in 2018, two times. In 2019, I went there three times. 2020 just once, and then COVID come, COVID travel, 2022. Last year, I went twice, and I was there just in February. I'll be going again in May. So my engagement in Timor just zoom, multiplied. And the prophecy that was given to me, a few months before my new appointment, it encouraged me to trust God and prepare me for this new appointment. And prophecies can do that.

  When you are not sure, you don't know what to do, prophecies given to you, long or short, can do. Sometimes the prophecy that was given to me is a bit long. Some of us, we are not able to do that, but over time, we can. We can get better, but it's not the length. It's what God is saying at that point. But I must quickly emphasize that, in case some of us are a bit concerned, and it's true, we must not try to do things to fit into the prophecy. Okay, it's very important. If God has not spoken to you, God has not, in somehow, other means have spoken to you, or already been putting into your heart, we must not try to fit into the prophecy. Someone give a prophecy, it's like, okay, that's not gonna help, I need to fit there. Especially what is said is new to you. Don't reject it, like what I did in the first time, but don't try to make it happen.

  Okay, otherwise you will be basically led by prophecy. You're not supposed to be led by the spirit, not by prophecy. Okay, prophecy is encouraged to be loved, to confirm, not to lead you. When you're unsure, you're not sure, is this prophecy really something I should pursue? Yeah, go and consult your pastor, consult another mature leader, and say, "It is what I receive, what do you think?" "Discern, we again, God, Holy Spirit will guide you and discern."

 And also true prophecies will never contradict the return word of God. So if someone say, "Hey, I got this prophecy for you." You know that non-Christian friend, you are with, God is telling you, go and marry them. Marry the person. Please reject that prophecy. Prophecy will not, I mean, prophecy from the Lord will not contradict the return word of God, something that's so clear, it will not contradict. It will not contradict. And also the kind of prophecy we're talking about today in the general church is it should not be directional. It must not be telling you what to do, especially changes that are significant in your life. So again, if someone prophesied that you should go full-time, or you should migrate and go to another country, or go into business, but God has not spoken to you, God has not even been leading you in the direction. Don't act on it, okay? You can pray and wait for more confirmation, because if the Holy Spirit is the one saying to him or her, he will confirm it, because God knows we need to hear confirmation. So again, don't be led by prophecy, be led by the Spirit. But prophecy is to encourage you, to comfort you, to give you something consolation, especially when you are going through a difficult time.

 So a quick working definition of prophecy, it is listening to God and sharing what he wants to say to the person or to the group of people that we are going to minister. See, God knows about us, every one of us God knows about us, okay? And sometimes he even sometimes revealed a little bit even years ago, that plan. And he has wonderful plans for every one of us. And his thoughts is also for good, right? And sometimes we may have some thinking, some thoughts, we may not fully have it formed, but God knows. And he puts a desire in your heart and he prepares. And so all of us can be his mouthpiece to encourage another person. But remember, he must be motivated by love. 

So we're going to have a simple practice session later in the service. Okay, I hope you don't get a bit startled by it. But I want to talk about some important points you need to remember, so that we will all be encouraged by prophecy rather than get confused. So first of all, make sure whatever word you want to give, it must be encouraging and comforting. Okay, even if there's a little correction in it, occasionally happens, it still must be given in an encouraging way. For example, you're going to pray with somebody, especially those who do alter ministry or insult group, any occasion and God will give you a word, "Hey, this guy is not reading the Bible. He needs to read the Bible. He needs to pray more." Don't say that way. Don't say, "You need to read the Bible more. You need to pray more." Okay? You must instead phrase it in an encouraging way. How do you phrase it? You can say something like, "You know, brother or sister, God wants you to pray more. God wants you to read the Bible more." 

Okay, sounds more encouraging, right? So that it is uplifting rather than condemning. Or if you came to a man, you are praying, and then you got the impression, God is saying that this guy has not been very nice to his wife. You know, he's not loving. He's sometimes very harsh. Please don't say it that way, okay? You need to be encouraging. You need to say, "Oh, brother, you need to love your wife, spend more time showing your love for her, making us put a smile on her face." Okay, so that it becomes uplifting, encouraging. 

And of course, sometimes it needs to be given very privately. But basically for us as a whole, all the words we are giving, it must be encouraging, it must be comforting, must be for building up. If you're really getting something negative, I think it may not be the Holy Spirit, okay? You may be very hungry, very tired, or you're upset, or perhaps you're hurting, huh? Sometimes we can even so-called give word from our own spirit. 

So anything negative coming, you know, it's not necessarily the Holy Spirit, okay? You want to just pause and hold it, huh? Because remember, it must be in love. And the prophecy could come like a picture, like an impression, even a scripture verse just pops into your head, huh? And some of us can even draw, huh? I've received prophecies that are drawing and a couple of them, and it can be drawing too. But for today, because you're going to do it quickly, drawing may not, but who knows, some of you could do it.

 And then what the Spirit impresses upon you, you write down, okay? Again, some caution, don't use your knowledge about the person or what you like them to do as a prophecy. That's really manipulation. So you, I don't know whether you need more Asher, but let's say you need more Asher, and then you go and pray for this brother. He says, "This is the best time." God says, "You should serve as Asher." That's called manipulation, huh?

 So don't use your own knowledge about a person or any other reason and try to do that. And also when you have impressions, pictures, words, usually those are accurate. Okay, sometimes you need to get clearer and to practice as you become sensitive, in prayer, become clearer. But generally they're accurate, huh? Because this is what you receive, right? But the way we interpret may be not be accurate.

 I don't have time to go into detail, but I just want to say that, you know, what you receive, what you sort of like impress, usually is accurate. So you just share as what you receive. Don't interpret for today, we won't interpret, okay? Maybe the class will come this Saturday, you'll practice interpretation, but for now we don't. You just give as what you receive. The person who is receiving it, if it's speaking to them, especially if you are, in a sense, it's appropriate, they will understand, they will know how to interpret it, huh?

 So we'll talk about it another time. So how are we going to do it? Okay, we're going to use our phones. And today you're allowed to use your phone during sermon, huh? To send messages, okay? I don't know whether you have ever done this. So we're going to use our phone to do that. So what I want you to do is, I want you to find a message to somebody in your cell group, or ministry group, some of you are in a ministry group. If you don't know who to send, if you don't know who to send, then send to a staff member. And I just found out from Pastor Daniel, there is a phone number in your bulletin, which is like a general number you can send to for anybody. So if you want to send to specific staff, you can put your name and use that number. It's in the bulletin. 

But first priority is your cell group, because you know them, or someone from your ministry group, like for example, anxious or worship and so on. So what you do is, you first ask God for a word, Lord, what do you want to say to somebody in my cell group? Just a simple prayer, a little lead in a prayer. And then whatever impression you have, you just type it down. Okay. After that, you ask God, God, who should I send to? Okay. Not ask who first, then you type, the other way around. Why? Because I don't want it to be influenced by the person you are thinking about. Just say, Lord, what do you want me to say? You know, the impression comes or what comes. You just start, even if it's a verse, then I might just send a verse, or just a short encouragement. Remember it's encouragement. Just put it down. 

Okay. And suppose we're very short. I will give you like two minutes, one minute to pray, one minute to type it. Don't need long messages. We're just practicing, right? I want to encourage everyone to participate. For those who don't have a phone, maybe you can use paper. I see very good. How can I not? Are you willing to try? Yes, that's great. Okay. Don't think too long. If you think very long, your mind starts getting involved. Remember, it's not what you're trying to write. It's what God is saying. Okay. So it's a simple exercise allowing the spirit to just impress your mind. Okay. So I'm going to pray and then you can do, remember the prayer. After that, you can just pause and just ask God, God, what do you want me to say to somebody? And then you write the message in, let me just repeat this part. Now, after that, then you say, who should I send to? Okay. And just sign it. So later, if you're going to hear or buzzing here around this, very good. Okay. It's time. All right. 

Let me, let's pray now. You can also daily, okay. Grow in days. How do you do it? What you can do is each day as you do your devotion, as you pray for people in your prayer list, just ask God, God, what is the word I can give to somebody in my prayer list today? Okay. Again, if you have five people, you're praying. You don't need to be all five unless you have a lot of time, which is good. And some of us may have more than others, but at least one person, Lord, what is one word I can give to one person today? Remember, it must be encouraging, huh? Anything negative, please don't send. Okay. And the Lord will just give you a simple word for somebody and just say, you know, this is something I felt God impressed upon my heart this morning when I prayed for you. That's all you need to say. And then just whatever encouraging word. You may not know what they're going through. Okay. 

But God knows. And that person will be so encouraged when the word comes so appropriately. Even if it's a short word, you know, God is saying, I love you, my son, you know, he's with you today, you know, whatever, you know, even a simple word like that. It will be so encouraging. I know some of us like to forward messages from different people, you know, sometimes you receive 10 same messages from different people forwarded. After all, we were done to read, right? But when it's a special word from the Holy Spirit to them directly, it's so encouraging. Okay. 

So something you can do regularly each day, 1%, it will get sharper and sharper. Okay. The same thing you do. Another thing you can do is before Sunday, like today or yourself group, before you come for service, pray, ask God, you know, take some time to pray and say, Lord, is there a word you want me to give to the group? Now it's for a group, right? Not individual. And again, you can write it down. But because of order, we need to work with the leaders who are in the group. 

So if it's a cell group, tell yourself leader, you know, God, get me this word for someone in the group. I don't know who, but I like to share. I didn't get the leader's permission to share. I'm just remember I'm done in order. Similarly for service too. You prayed before you came and then you can come to Pastor Daniel or wherever is responsible. Uh, to manage it, to say, Hey, I need word for this congregation. Uh, so the pastor can read it out for you or maybe give time for it to be, uh, read out in appropriate time of the service. 

So you can do that too, so that you are learning to grow. But same time we are building up the body of Christ. Even somebody who's new come, uh, can receive a word and be encouraged. Yeah. Um, um, I recently, I tell you, I do travel a lot, right? Yeah. So, uh, and even last year I was in different countries ministering in one country. I was in, it seems Philippines. I go to quite a fun, um, in one of the service, uh, I did about two services day in that week. I was there. One of the service got, show me a picture of a later. I will share some words of knowledge, which split the prophecy a bit. Um, and the picture I saw someone wanting to use a rope to take end their life.

 Okay. And I try to share as, uh, uh, gently and carefully as possible. And I've got, I didn't know who the nobody will come forward, right? Because they are embarrassed, but later on, uh, the pastor told me that somebody came forward privately and mentioned about that. And because the Lord pointed it out to him, he actually, uh, encouraged that God noticed him, God cared about him. And after that he changed and it's so active in service now in church, just changed, you know, just because he knew that God cared about him. He probably thought God didn't care about him, you know, like maybe my life not worth living. 

So you do not know how much a word like that can be so encouraging. So don't underestimate what you could say because he was free of God. He saw a life to tell you. Okay. So do that as well. So again, underscore must be motivated by love and must be encouraging. Okay. Anytime your word comes to you as negative, please don't share, but if the Lord is really giving you a burden about that person with that word, go to your pastor. Okay. Say, you know, pastor, I prayed for this person. This is what I've been, I feel, you know, I more than once I felt it. Maybe it's from the Holy Spirit is fine, but you don't share it directly to the person. Okay. 

And that's discern how best to do it. Huh? So that one, I want to say that yes, you may receive sometimes word about somebody that may be negative, but you don't share it out directly. Okay. So there's a place to do that. But for us, we want to do only what is encouraging and that's a primary purpose to encourage, to build up. So please don't use the word, you know, manipulative way again, don't let it cause others to get upset or hurt and or manipulated to do things. And we don't want that as well. And you as a recipient too, when the word comes to you, it must confirm, encourage you. Okay. But if it is totally new, KIV. Don’t reject it. KIV. Just let the Lord confirm in His own time, okay.