The second stage of prophetic ministry: application.

Using the story of Joseph as a guide, participants learn how important it is to consider timing, audience, purpose, and motivation before sharing a prophetic word. The teaching shows how good revelation and interpretation can be undermined by poor application. Believers are encouraged to seek God for wisdom so that their response builds up others, honours God, and reflects maturity.

Through Scripture and personal reflection, participants learn how comparison, self promotion, and fear of failure can distort prophetic ministry. The teaching highlights Moses as an example of prophetic meekness and calls believers to become people who draw attention to Jesus rather than themselves. The session invites learners to embrace a posture that serves others and reflects the heart of God.

This session equips participants to discern the difference between authentic prophetic ministry and false or unhealthy expressions. Drawing on both Old and New Testament examples, the teaching explores signs of counterfeit prophecy including speaking from one’s own imagination, telling people only what they want to hear, covering over sin, greed, sensuality, and lives that bear poor spiritual fruit. Participants learn to become fruit inspectors who recognize maturity, integrity, and accountability as marks of true prophetic activity.

This final session teaches believers how to receive prophetic words with openness and discernment. Participants explore what Scripture says about valuing prophecy, testing it, recording it, and cooperating with God as He invites them into His future. The teaching explains the difference between reacting to a prophetic word and partnering with it through prayer, obedience, and wise counsel. This session encourages believers to welcome God’s voice and to steward prophetic words in a way that leads to growth and transformation.

Paul’s opening words in Colossians set the tone for the whole letter: identity rooted in Christ, not in role, achievement, or spiritual performance. Even in two short verses, Paul reminds the church that grace and peace come from God—not from striving—and that believers are “saints” because they’ve been set apart by Him, not because they’ve earned a title. The session highlights Paul’s humility in introducing himself simply as “Paul, an apostle,” keeping function and identity distinct, and modelling a way of ministry that resists status and embraces servanthood. It also places the letter in its context—Colossae facing subtle, blended influences that threatened to nudge believers off course by only a degree or two. In a world full of “designer spirituality,” Paul’s introduction quietly calls the church back to the clarity, authority, and sufficiency of Christ from the very first line.

In this session, the teaching highlights Paul’s remarkable pastoral heart toward a church he had never met. Instead of beginning with correction, he starts with thanksgiving—anchoring the Colossians in the reality of God’s work already evident among them. From there, Paul lifts their eyes to the nature of true apostolic ministry, contrasting the grounded, servant-hearted model he embodies with the extremes and suspicions often attached to the term. He then turns toward the power of the gospel in their midst—its fruit, its growth, its grace, its effect on community love—and prays that they would continue to walk worthily, shaped by wisdom from above rather than the counterfeit wisdom pressing in from their culture. The session closes by centering on the breathtaking reality of redemption: believers transferred from darkness into Christ’s kingdom, called to remember where they’ve come from and what now belongs to them in Him.

Colossians 1:15–23 draws the group into the heart of Paul’s message by lifting their eyes to the unmatched supremacy of Jesus. Rather than getting lost in philosophies, competing worldviews, or religious add-ons, this session recentres faith on the person of Christ—Creator, Sustainer, Head of the Church, and the One in whom the fullness of God dwells. Paul stacks phrase upon phrase not to overwhelm but to reawaken wonder, reminding believers that everything—visible and invisible—holds together in Him alone. From that foundation, the passage shifts to the miracle of reconciliation: people once alienated and hostile toward God are now made holy and blameless through Christ’s sacrifice. The session calls believers to continue steadfast in this gospel, resisting both the temptation to add to Jesus and the pressure to subtract from Him, holding fast to a faith built on Christ plus nothing and Christ minus nothing.

This session explores Paul’s deeply personal reflections on the privilege and the price of his calling. He sees himself first as a servant, entrusted with a stewardship from God—to make the Word fully known, to reveal Christ to Gentiles, and to help believers grow toward maturity. Paul’s ministry wasn’t glamorous; it demanded suffering, perseverance, and emotional weight as he carried the concerns of young churches he’d never even met. Yet he speaks of these hardships with joy, because they draw him deeper into the life of Christ and remind him that God supplies the strength for what He asks of His people. The session closes with Paul’s pastoral prayer: that believers would be encouraged, united in love, grounded in Christ, and able to stand firm against teaching that sounds convincing but leads them away from Him.

Paul’s words in Colossians 2:6–15 remind believers that the Christian life is a journey walked the same way it began—by trusting wholly in Christ’s finished work, not slipping back into self-effort. This session highlights four pictures Paul gives for healthy discipleship: being rooted in Christ, built up over time, established through years of steady faithfulness, and overflowing with thanksgiving. From there, the teaching warns the church to stay alert, refusing to be “kidnapped” by philosophies, traditions, or spiritual influences that sound wise but pull believers away from the simplicity of Christ. The heart of the passage, however, is Paul’s sweeping reminder of who believers are in Christ—spiritually circumcised, buried and raised with Him, forgiven completely, and made alive by God Himself. The session ends with Paul’s triumphant vision of Christ’s cross: every accusation canceled, every spiritual enemy disarmed, and the believer invited to live from victory rather than striving toward it.

Paul exposes the heart of the threat facing the Colossian church by pulling back the layers of the so-called “philosophy” that promised deeper spirituality but ultimately pulled believers away from Christ. This mixture of rigid Jewish regulations and mystical pagan practices looked impressive on the surface, yet it replaced the substance of the gospel with shadows that could never give life. Paul reminds the church that Christ is the Head, and anything—visions, angel-worship, or human rules—that distracts from Him is spiritually dangerous. True growth comes from staying rooted in Christ, not in chasing experiences or tightening man-made restrictions. At its core, the passage calls believers to discern the difference between religious pressure and genuine life in Christ, and to guard the unity and simplicity of the gospel.

Paul turns our attention to what life in Christ actually looks like when the gospel begins to reshape us from the inside out. Salvation isn’t only about what we’ve been freed from—it’s also about what we’ve been freed for. In this passage he shows how the Christian life grows as we intentionally set our minds on things above, put to death the patterns that once ruled us, and learn to walk in the character of Jesus. The outward habits matter, but the deeper work happens as the Spirit renews our hearts, forms new desires, and teaches us to see one another through the lens of Christ rather than old divisions. It’s a picture of a community being slowly, steadily shaped into His likeness.

Text: Daniel 3

God is calling us to trust Him through thick and thin.

Text: Numbers 13:25-33

Understanding God in you changes the way you live.

Text: Nehemiah 2:17

God wants you to live above life’s harsh realities.

Text: Matthew 14:22-36

God is calling you out of your comfort zone.

Text: Genesis 11:27-12:9 and Hebrews 11:8-10

Faith begins with God speaking and ends with you obeying.

Text: Hebrews 6:1

Faith is vital for a relationship with the Lord.

Text: Galatians 5:22-25

Becoming a godly person begins with recognizing your source.

Text: Colossians 3:16

Love offers gracious words of correction.

Text: Isaiah 26:3

Peace is yours if you do your part.