Reproducing The Works

I shared the science of the power of memory with my son. He was exhilarated. He went to tell his mum.

Then he went to his room and did what I shared.

He simply recalled the memory when he first did it. The 20 cents got stuck.

Then he did the $1. It's still stuck there since yesterday.

If it's based on anointing, you need a certain man of God to do the job.

If it's based on principles, everyone can do it.

I am convinced that preaching from the pulpit probably moves only 5% of people into doing.

But if we demonstrate what we teach, we move a much greater percentage of people into reproducing the same works.

Jesus demonstrated His works to His disciples. He empowered them speedily. Because what you first caught in your memory will form the neural firing patterns needed for the next encounter when you recall back what was done the first time.

To disciple people, it takes demonstration, not preaching. This is why discipleship doesn't take place in a church service.

Perhaps, instead of spending hours and hours preparing a sermon every week that produces little result, we should spend hours and hours demonstrating so that it produces more fruit.

The Science Of The Power Of Memory In FAITH

The Science Of The Power Of Memory In FAITH

As I was spending time with the Holy Spirit today, He spoke to me about two things in faith.

Faith is empowered by a borrowed conviction (i.e. the people around the Samaritan woman) and a 'borrowed' atmosphere (i.e. Saul prophesying around prophets). I will expound this in another post.

I was reminded of a particular 'borrowed' atmosphere many years ago in a meeting. As I recalled the memory, I could feel faith charging up within me. I can't explain this in words.

So I put coins on the wall and I didn't say anything. I didn't expect anything. But I did an experiment. I simply recalled a memory of coin sticking to the wall.

Then the coin immediately got stuck to the wall (as shown in the photo attached).

I checked out science and realised how memory is connected to brain neurons in a powerful way that will re-activate your faith.

There is a neural firing pattern, when you form and recall a memory. When you form a memory, your brain stores it as a unique pattern of neuron firings. 

Neural firing is the process by which neurons communicate with each other using electrical impulses and neurotransmitters. It's how the brain carries information about sensations, movement, motions, and memories.

When you recall a memory, your brain replays the same pattern of neuron firings. It re-activates it. In other words, sensations, movement, motions, etc are ALL re-activated together.

Your brain reactivates the neural firing patterns that were ORIGINALLY used to form the memory.

I believe this is strongly connected to FAITH! We can re-activate the SAME faith that was ORIGINALLY used to form certain supernatural events and miracles (in the memory).

By recalling the memory of coin sticking, the faith that was used to stick objects to the wall (defying gravity) was re-activated. Without saying anything, the miracle is repeated automatically.

Now, how is this going to affect healing and miracles?

When we recall our past healing and miracles WHILE ministering to the sick in front of us, I believe FAITH will be re-activated to repeat the same in front of us. Jesus!!!

P.S: Recalling a memory works differently from imagination. Imagination activates mirror neurons that are used in the real-life experience or during observation. The visual processing regions are more active when recalling memories than when imagining something. This is because recalling a memory reactivates the ORIGINAL perceptual experience.

Being Christ-Centred

Being Christ-Centred

To be Christ-centred means that you have to look away from yourself. It is to deny yourself.

Denying yourself is not self-denial. The latter is still about you because self-denial has to do with improving yourself through sacrifice. But denying yourself is to surrender your will and focus on His will.

It is Christ-centredness.

Very often, we teach about Christ-centredness in the area of character, which is the fruit of the Spirit. There is nothing wrong with that.

In recent years, some churches begin to teach about Christ-centredness in the area of power, which is the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit.

Yet Christ-centredness applies in every practical aspect of our lives, not just in fruit and gifts. It's the whole Christian living.

This means that I stop looking at my bank account, and start looking at His bank account. This means that I stop looking at my expenses and start looking at His resources. This means that I stop looking at my circumstances and start looking at who Christ is.

In other words, if I step into a place that is expensive, I don't say, "That's expensive." Because it will be self-centred and not Christ-centred.

If I step into a place that is dirty, I don't say, "That's dirty." Because it will be self-centred and not Christ-centred.

The list goes on.

There is no breakthrough in any area where we are self-centred. It's like the pipe of Christ gets choked when we focus on self. But where we are Christ-centred, the life and power of Christ gets to move in and through the pipe freely.

God is teaching me personally that what I say in the secret place must be the same as what I say in the public place and in my interactions with others.

If we want breakthrough in our lives; first, change your word in the secret place and in the public place. Next, live Christ-centred in every area.

Intentionally stretch yourself to go to places beyond your ability so that you can walk out Christ-centredness by faith.

P.S: If someone invites you to a restaurant above your means, you say, "Thank You Jesus that the Cross has paid for it." Christ-centredness.

Self-Centred Prayer

If our prayer is self-centred, we can be praying to God and still be drawing the demonic into our lives.

Praying out of desperation never brings any good thing. It's the kind of prayer that the enemy loves to hear, so that he can come in and destroy further.

You don't receive what you pray for. You receive what you believe for. 

Just because you pray does not mean that God has to answer you. Just because you fast does not mean that God has to answer you. Just because you go for prayer meetings does not mean that God has to answer you.

Just because you spend 3-4 hours praying everyday does not mean that God has to answer you.

And this is the confidence that we have toward Him, that if we ask anything 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of Him. - 1 John 5:14-15

Every time when we pray out of self, we get answered by the devil.

God-things

We can be very busy doing good things but not doing God-things.

To do God-things, we have to spend time with Him. Apart from Him, we can do every good thing but not God-thing.

Jesus went about doing good, healing ALL who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him (Acts 10:38). We can see a few things from this verse.

1) Jesus focused on doing good.

2) Healing is always good.

3) Jesus healed all who were oppressed by the devil. This means that the root of every sickness and disease is an oppression of the devil.

4) Jesus healed ALL. Yet He didn't heal ALL throughout His ministry on earth. This means that He only healed ALL those who came to Him, as well as those whom He saw/met when He went about preaching in the cities/villages.

5) The reason Jesus didn't heal ALL everywhere is that He had to move on to where God told Him to visit/preach (Luke 4:43-44). This reveals that He wasn't busy doing good things but God-things.

He would depart from people at times to spend time with God so that He knows the God-things to do, instead of good things.

6) Since healing is always good, and that sickness is an oppression of the devil, to focus on simply doing good things and not God-things means that the devil has successfully drawn you away from God's assignments.

To put it in a practical sense, if I spend all my time ministering healing to the sick and not care about my wife and my son, not providing for them, not parenting my child, etc, the devil has succeeded.

Good things can distract you from God-things. Ministry is not when you are doing good things, but when you are doing God-things.

P.S: Sometimes, it's about washing the toilet bowls.

The Nature of The NT Prophetic

The Nature of The NT Prophetic

The nature of the prophetic did not change from the Old Covenant to the New Covenant. But the focus did.

In the Old Covenant, the prophetic pointed to the people's identity --- their relationship with God. Majority of the prophecies focused on repentance and returning to God.

In the New Covenant, the prophetic pointed to the identity of sonship. It focuses on encouragement, edification and d̵i̵r̵e̵c̵t̵i̵o̵n̵ comfort (1 Cor 14:3).

While the prophetic can sometimes be directional, it's not the main focus, because it ruins sonship and identity. People start going after prophetic words unsure instead of the prophetic Word made sure (2 Peter 1:19), which is the Word of God.

We were ministering at Clarke Quay to close the year 2024. Four young girls came. One of them came from Perth. We said, "We are seeing social justice on you. You are bold and you stand up for what is right. There is also creativity in you and you will blend social justice with creative means, breaking the traditional approach of using the laws. Are you studying law now?"

She nodded in amazement. "Yes, I'm studying law."

What if today's prophetic focuses on the intent of calling out identity? What if there is less instruction and more revelation of who the person is in the Kingdom?

What if the prophetic brings more empowerment than dis-empowerment? When we focus on identity, we always empower people. When we focus on direction, we always disempower people.

The whole chunk of epistles and the New Testament documented very few prophetic stuff as compared to identity stuff. This tells me one thing ------ God is more interested in us knowing who we are in Christ, than giving us directions.

When you know who you are, you will know your direction.