 Okay, okay, yeah, why don't we pray and then we'll get started, right? We'll just pray. We'll thank the Lord, we'll thank the Lord for who He is. We'll thank the Lord because He's our Heavenly Father. Thank the Lord because He loves us, He cares for us, He's concerned about us, right? Let's thank the Lord. Father, we thank You. Thank You Lord for this beautiful day that You've given us, Lord. We thank You that every day is full of so much of potential, but Lord, You pack it with good things for each one of us to discover and to walk in. Lord, we thank You for this day. And Lord, we thank You, God, that You are so mindful of us, Master. You know, God, everything that is going on in our lives and yet, Lord, You've drawn here to us, Lord. And You take care of all our needs according to Your riches and glory. And Father God, we just want to thank You for Your love, for Your grace and Your mercy today, Master. We thank You, Lord, as Your Word declares, the blessing of the Lord makes one rich and adds no sorrow to it. And we thank You for the every blessing that we have received today, God. Till today, Master, every blessing, Lord, everything in all realms, whether it be in the Spirit, whether it be in the Lord, in our emotions, whether it be in our bodies or Lord. All aspects, Father God, we thank You for every blessing and the amazing ways in which You've blessed us, Lord. We thank You. And so, God, we today, we give You all the praise and all the glory. In Jesus' matchless name, we pray. Amen, amen. Okay. Okay, at the start, I just want us to write down any three blessings that You received. Okay, three blessings that You are thankful for, thankful to the Lord for. Okay, just write down quickly. Three blessings that You are thankful to the Lord for. Okay, all my students as well. Three things, three blessings that You have received from the Lord, and You are thankful to Him for these things, right? Okay, yeah. If you want to post it online, students, if you want to post it on the chat, that's fine. I think Sam has gone ahead and done it. So, Sam, is it in that order or order of priority? What do you post it? Yeah, it's that date also, so I have to put that. Today is Valentine's Day. I think you're muted. Can we on the monitor one second? We're not able to hear one second. Yeah, can you say something, Sam? Yeah, can you hear me first? No, one second. So on, check. For some reason, we're not able to hear, Sam. Sorry. Okay, no problem. Is it connected? No, it's not okay. Okay, everyone written down? Check. Okay, and I think bring it down. Did somebody raise their hands? Yeah, yes, Gertrude. Go ahead. Pastor, I want to thank God for the gift of life that He has given me, and gift of healing, and gift of tongues. Okay, life, healing, and tongues. Sam, it's wife, home, and ministry. Anyone else you want to list down? When we list down and we write down, it makes it even more real. Maybe it's in our mind, maybe it's there in our hearts, but then when you actually write it down or put it, text it, or enter it somewhere, and you see it for yourself, then you realize there's something that's real. It makes it so much more real. So, yeah. Anybody else wants to share? Whatever you've written down? What are those blessings? You've written down, right? Okay. Anyone else? Yeah, Kaila. I'm thankful for His good fellowship. For? Good fellowship. Thank you for good fellowship. God's thankful for His favor and love. For good talent. For talent, okay. Talent and ability. Right. Okay. See, good health, peace of mind, Bible college. That's Sanjay. Lucy Samuel, thank God for blessing me to study the word of God. I thank God for my family. Being blessed at all times with His riches, love, and good health, right? Awesome. Yeah. So, why do you think, okay, all those blessings are there, why do you think God has blessed you? Are you being a good boy, a good girl, a good person? Why do you think He has blessed you? Sorry? It's His nature. It's His nature to bless. Okay. Does that mean that you are not a good person? He saw you and it was good, and He said, okay, this is a good boy, so I want to bless the talent and fellowship. And that's true. Yeah. Anyone else? He desires to see his children prosper and be happy. I think Lucy is, but he's mindful of us, right? So, our God is not someone who is, you know, who's out there distanced from us or alienated from us, somewhere, you know, out there observing, or sometimes even not observing what is happening, not connected, you know, disconnected, out there, but He's not at all like that, like what Caleb shared, like His, that is His very nature, you know, that's what we saw last class, right? That is, it is in His internal, how do we say it, you know, it's in His very nature, it's in His personality. This is how He is that He wants to bless His people. Okay. So, sometimes we go through maybe bad experience, maybe lack, maybe some kind of, you know, difficult circumstances. And when we go through that, we are not able to connect the fact that God is a God whose nature is to bless. Yes or no? Yeah, you know, sometimes we go through some difficult times and then we say, okay, where is God in all this, right? But the thing is we need to get back to who God says He is, or what God says about Himself, right? And the best place is, of course, the Word of God, where He describes about Himself, where people testify about God, about who He is, right, and what He has done. And the pages of scripture testify to the fact that He is a good God, that He is a faithful God, right? And so we understand that it is in His very innate nature to bless people. Okay. So that is why we can go and pray. See, if you look at the covenant names of God, right, what are some covenant names of God? Jehovah, Jaira, Rafa, Shalom, Nisi, Sidkenu, right? Muktadesh, you know, all these funny sounding, you know, words. But they are packed with meaning and it is, you know, these are covenant names because God is actually making a covenant. He's introducing Himself and He's saying, this is who I am. Okay, so He's saying, okay, Jehovah Nisi. So He's saying, I am the banner of victory for you. You know, there's a meaning behind that name, right? So whenever He introduces Himself, He says, this is who I am. This is what I can do and this is what I will do, right? Whenever He introduces Himself. We see that, you know, not only is it in His nature, but the way He introduces Himself, He describes Himself as this, okay? So He's one who brings blessing. He's one who guarantees this. He introduces Himself as this. So therefore, we can be confident, right? We can have faith in the fact that God is a God who wants to bring this into my life, who wants to bring victory into my life, who wants to bring success or prosperity into my life. See, otherwise, what's the point in praying, right? If God is not a God who will bless, if God is not a God who will heal, you know, what is the point in praying? Because we are not praying, in that case, we are not praying according to God's will. We cannot stand in faith, right? We can't be sure of, you know, like what faith is, right? It is the evidence of things not yet seen. It's a substance of things that are hoped for, right? So what is the point in praying at all? So we can pray in faith. We can pray fully believing, because when we understand that this is who God is, right? So also when it comes to blessings and what God does for us and what God wants to bring into our lives, we can be fully confident because it is His nature to bless. So we're just going to look at a few things and to answer that question, right? How can we be confident? We need to be confident, right? We need to be sure. Otherwise, you know, we will never be, we will always be in two minds, right? We will waver in unbelief, right? We will not be in one mind, single-minded about these things, right? Maybe sometimes when difficulties come, God, are you there or not? Do you want to bless or not bless? Do you want to heal or not heal? We'll be in two minds when we see some circumstances, which are difficult, right? But when we know for sure this is who God is, we can be, you know, fully trust Him. We can fully, you know, depend on Him, okay? So we looked at a kind of couple of scriptures. We saw Genesis 1 last time, Genesis 127, where He created man in His own image, and He blessed, right? That's the thing, He blessed them. It says, He created Him male and female. Verse 28, then God blessed them and said to them, okay, do this, right? Be fruitful and multiply and so on, okay? So we see several scriptures like that, right? James 1, 17 in the New Testament. God, every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights, okay? So He's talking about God, the Father, that the perfect gift, the good gift, comes from Him, right? Which means He's the giver of good gifts. He's the giver of good things in our lives, right? It comes from Him. So we can be absolutely, you know, confident and sure. My God wants to give me good things, right? He wants to bless me with good things. Why? Because that's who He is, right? That is His nature. Okay, so we look at, you know, the Lord Jesus, okay? Isaiah 9 and verse 6. Now this is what it says about the Lord, right? The prophetic verses, scriptures, right? For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. Isaiah 9 verse 6. And the government will be upon His shoulder and His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Okay, Prince of Peace. Which means Shalom. Okay, that word peace used there, Shalom. And it doesn't mean just something, a quiet place. The word peace used there is Shalom. It goes beyond some place quiet. You know, sometimes when we look at some forest or some, you know, maybe some green grass is there and some trees are there and everything is very quiet. You know, they're out there. You say, oh wow, such a peaceful place, right? Such a peaceful place. So it's not just absence of noise that we are talking about. He's the Prince of Peace. It's not that God will just, you know, create that ambience or all that the environment where there is no noise or conflict. It's more than that. It goes beyond that, right? So that word Shalom, it means total well-being. Okay, which means peace of mind. It also means there is goodwill. There is deliverance. There is prosperity, safety, so on. So that's the word Shalom. Okay, so who is Jesus? He's the Prince of Shalom, right? He's the author. He's a Prince. He's from which Shalom originates. So you see that he's the Prince of Shalom, right? This Shalom comes from him, which means that he is, you know, the originator of Shalom. Okay, one more verse that you see in verse Isaiah 48 and verse 17 and 18. Thus says the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. I'm the Lord your God who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go. Oh that you had heeded my commandments, then your Shalom would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. So saying your Shalom, your peace would have been like a river. So a river is not stationary, it is moving. So sometimes we wonder, okay, after 10 minutes will the river stop flowing? What do you think? It does not, right? It just keeps flowing. There's a never ending supply of water and because of which it's called a river and it is flowing. Okay, and here scripture is talking about, oh that you had heeded my commandments, then your peace, your Shalom would have been like a river and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. So what do we understand? The Prince of Shalom, his intention is to bring Shalom into our lives and here it says, if you had heeded the commandments, if you had heeded the instructions of the Lord, your Shalom would have been like a river, never ending without limit flowing like a river. Okay, and we know that God is not a partial God wanting Shalom only for some people but whoever approaches, whoever seeks him, this is something that is available. Okay, so that's one thing that we can say that, okay, the very nature of God is to bless. Okay, this is internal nature to bless people. Okay, the second thing we can, why we can be confident that God wants to bless people. Second thing is that when you look at the general promises that are there in scripture. Okay, so we need to understand, you know, the difference between what is Logos and what is Reema. Okay, I think we would have studied it last semester also. You know, what is Logos and these two Greek words, Logos and Reema. Okay, Logos is the general instruction of God's Word, the general teaching of God's Word. And Reema is something that is quickened or highlighted specifically for a personal need, which is something that is highlighted or quickened from the Logos from the general instruction. So simply put, we can say, okay, I'm reading my Bible and I've read, I'm reading it and the Holy Spirit is highlighting something, like making something real is like taking this real and say, okay, this need for you today is met through this word. Like we understand, right? So it's like something that is personal, that is deep, that takes care of something, it touches your heart and that's the Holy Spirit quickening the Logos for us. So the Reema is like the quickened Word of God. You know, when we read Ephesians chapter 6, we read about the sword of the Spirit. Okay, and the word that is used there is Reema. Okay, the sword of the Spirit is the Word of God. The Word used there is Reema, which means that the quickened Word of God is a weapon as we use it, as we speak it, that is the sword of the Spirit. It's a weapon we use, right? Against discouragements, against lies, against deception. When we release that word, that is the Reema Word of God that has been put in our hearts, right? Okay, so we know what is the Logos, what is the Reema. Okay, so you read this through the scriptures, we read through some of the promises and the Holy Spirit highlights this to us and says, okay, you know, this is your Word for today, right? Or this is the meaning and so we are very deeply convicted in our hearts, right? But apart from that, when we look at the general principles, okay? It's not, you know, it is there. It is there as a Logos, the general principles of God's Word. You know, when we see that, there is enough and more, which talks about the fact that when we take these principles, when we take these promises, these are to bring a blessing into a person's life. For example, Psalm 1. Psalm 1, 1, 2, 3, you all, maybe we have read this verse, right? Several times. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly. It starts like this. You are blessed if you're not living a life according to the wisdom or instruction of the ungodly people, which means, you know, if you're not walking according to ungodly wisdom, something that's against God, right? Saying blessed is that person. Blessed is the man, right? Blessed is the man. And then let's just read through the whole thing. Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful, but his delight is in the law of the Lord. And in his law, he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper. So this is a promise. This is a general promise to everyone, right? You, me, everyone. And it comes with certain conditions. It's a conditional promise. What is the condition? Blessed is the man who does not walk like this, who does not live like this. That's how it starts. And then it also says, but he does this. He or she, you know, does this. What does he or she do? Delight is in the law of the Lord. So delighting in the Lord, meditating in the law in the word of God day and night. And then goes on to 3, say in verse 3, this is how the person shall be, like a tree planted by the rivers of water. So what does that mean? That means that the tree is actually getting enough and more nutrition. There's a never ending supply, right? So by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in season, right? So the tree brings forth its fruit in season. It means fruitful, productive, right? Whose leaf also shall not wither. So this means that irrespective of what's happening in the environment, the tree is still thriving, flourishing. And whatever he does shall prosper. So he's saying, this is how this person who's delighting in the word of God, who meditates day and night in the word of God, this is how this person shall be. So that's a general promise for anyone, for any believer who can actually take it and do this and say, okay, God, you know, I'll do this. I'm not going to walk in the council of the ungodly. I'm not going to sit in the seat of the scornful, right? But I'm going to do this. So this is the promise, Psalm 23 again, where Psalm 23 starts with saying, the Lord is my shepherd. And what is the second part of it? I shall not. Yeah, what does that mean? It means lack. Yeah. So which means that there won't be any insufficiency in my life, right? I will always have sufficiency because the Lord is my shepherd. And it goes on today, you know, talk about how he's my shepherd. But he leads me. He guides me. It makes me to lie down. He provides for my needs. He protects me, right? He's there as my constant companion, even though I walk through the valley of shadow of death. And he, you know, he makes up, you know, public display of me in front of my enemies. He, you know, provides for my needs and all that. And then so that the Psalmist declares and says, surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. You know, that's just testimony. So these are, again, something that is general for everybody, applicable for everybody. And so on, you know, we see all these things. So we see that the general promises of God also point to the fact that God is a good God and he's the one who brings blessing, good things into our lives. Okay. So we should not, when we look at the struggles of the world, when we look at things of the world, sometimes it's like, you know, you don't have to look around much. You look at the newspaper, end of the day, you know, you feel so depressed. What is happening in the world? What is happening in the world? All these, all the negative things are just as if it's captured and put there in one place. You watch, you know, news, that's it. It's nothing good that is reported. There could be 101 things happening that are good things, but those are not, you know, reported. And sometimes we think, what is happening? You know, there's nothing good that is happening. You know, God, what is God doing? The fact is that this is his nature. He has given his promises. And God is, you know, like you, all of you, you know, wrote down, okay, hey, this is a blessing. This is a blessing. And I need to thank God for it. So each of us, we are mindful of the fact that God is, you know, somebody who's bringing these good things into our lives because of who he is. Okay, third thing, how can we be confident that God is someone who wants to bless me is when we look at the blessings of Abraham. You know, you and I are living on the other side of the cross, right? And because we live in this new dispensation, okay, now this side of the cross is before the cross. This side is after the cross, okay, after what happened on the cross. So we are people, we are privileged to be living in this dispensation, the side of the cross and because of it something has happened to us, okay. Okay, first let's just look at the blessings of Abraham, okay. This is what it says Genesis 12 and verse 2, right, you have there in all the notes. Okay, 12-2 says, I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing. So, so many scriptures about just blessings, so many scriptures having that word bless, right? I will bless those who bless you, I will curse those who curse you, etc. Genesis 13 verse 2, we saw this that Abraham was very rich in livestock in silver and in gold and so on. So we looked at that, you know, earlier when we looked at people who were blessed by God, we looked at Abraham, we looked at the generations Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and so on, okay. But the good thing is this, I'm just coming down to Galatians 3, okay. Galatians 3 verse 13 says, Christ has redeemed us, what is this us referring to all of us as believers in Jesus, right? Christ has redeemed us which means taken as out, taken as out of what we can say as a curse of the law. You know, he is taken as out of that, having become a curse for us on the cross where it is written cursed as everyone who hangs on a tree, verse 14 that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus. Okay, so we look at the blessing of Abraham and we say, okay, he was very rich in livestock, he had, you know, the Lord blessed him, he had favor upon him, he was a, you know, he had communion with God, he was a friend of God, he had faith which God commended and all that we see, all the blessings that he walked in. Now we could say, okay, that is his blessing, what about us, what about me, right? In Galatians chapter 3, we see that Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, every curse that you can think of, he has redeemed us, which means he has taken it out, right? In fact, he has taken us from where we had fallen and restored us even higher from where we had fallen. He has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, verse 14, you know by becoming a curse for us, he redeemed us, that's one part of it. The second part is that the blessings of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles, which means you and I, right? We are not born as Jews, but that the blessing of Abraham might come upon us, the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, okay? So whatever we can list as the blessing of Abraham, okay? God wants you and I to receive that in Christ Jesus. Do you believe that? So when do you want to experience the blessing in heaven or... See, that's a question, right? We think, okay, some I don't know, maybe 30 years from now, 40 years from now right? God wants us as the Gentile believers in Christ that, you know, that these blessings should come upon us and of course we receive by faith, right? We receive by faith. We first of all, we clear our mind of any wrong thinking that God is in a bad mood, God is always angry, he's waiting to punish me, waiting to destroy my life, anything good happens, you know, he wants to step in and change it. No, we take all that out of the way and sometimes people think, okay, I don't know what God's will is, right? I don't know what God's will is, I don't know what's going to happen, right? And we look at the word of God, we see the will of God. What is the will of God? God's desire, the ways of God, God's heart for us. Okay, did somebody raise their hand? Sorry, I heard something, so if you have a question you could ask. So, and also the second part of it, it says that we might receive the promise of the Holy Spirit through faith, the promise of the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity coming and indwelling and also the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, everything, the Holy Spirit wants to bring into our lives that we receive through faith. When we read this, it's such an awesome promise and awesome position that God wants every believer to walk in. Okay, so when these scriptures become real to us or it becomes a revelation in our spirit then we will never be discouraged. We will never be discouraged, right? No matter what's happening, what challenges, what mountains that we are facing, we will never be discouraged because this is who we are in Christ Jesus. God has made a way in Christ Jesus for us to receive and walk in the blessings of Abraham. Right? That we might receive the spirit, gift of the Spirit, promise of the Spirit through faith. Look at this verse 29, and if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. Heirs according to the promise, which means an heir receives an inheritance. Right? So he's saying that you are actually heirs of the seed of Abraham, your heirs and Bible also talks about how we are co heirs with Christ. Right? So all this, all these wonderful things happen because of the cross and we here we are recipients to receive what Christ did for us because of the finished work on the cross. Any questions? Just under the dreamer line on page 13, we cannot take a specific reema to someone else and apply it to oneself. Okay. What if there's a specific reema word, like for example, Philip okay, Philip in the book of Acts, we see that he was there, there's a whole lot of revival happening Samaria and God sends a message saying leave. Right? So can I take that and apply it in my life as a pattern? Something like that, right? Example. No. Because a reema word is something specific for that person, for that environment, for that time. Right? So, well your reema word could might well be similar to that but we cannot take that and say okay, you know, that happened so therefore I'm in the midst of revival and I'm sure God wants me to go unless you're very, very sure that God has indeed spoken through the quick and quickening work of the Holy Spirit. So in line with that, like for example, Jeremiah 29, 11 we often, you know take it for us, yeah. So that's a general promise. That's a general promise that's available for everyone, you know, that the thoughts of God, it talks about the nature of God the thoughts that I have for you, the plans that I have for you is to give you hope and a future not of calamity. So that's talks about the heart of God, the nature of God, who describes who he is and the fact that it's something that is applicable for all of us. The Lord speaks to Jeremiah. What is something that we can we can Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah, I get what you're saying. So if it's God's heart for someone, let's say the Old Testament sayings or I think, can I appropriate that? Yes, we can. Yes, we can. Just talking about the specific reema word of God, because when we say reema word it goes into great details. It talks about maybe something that is directional, something where it requires some hard decisions maybe. So it's good to just make sure okay, this is something that God wants me to do in this time and this juncture. So that is why I said we can't, okay, God did that, so he wants me to do it as well. But wherever we see scripture pointing to the heart of God, the very nature of God, it's for, because he never changes. He never changes through time. He's the same yesterday, today and forever. So, we can take that. Any other questions? Pasta, I have a question. Pasta, if God has promised you a blessing and you missed on it, would that blessing be available again? Okay, so the question is, I missed it because of the fact that I didn't believe God, maybe I didn't there could be many reasons, right? Yeah. Maybe I just doubted God, I was angry with God my heart was not right with God whatever reason. So the fact is this, sometimes maybe we missed that chaos moment let's say like a job offer maybe like a particular role in a particular organization and we were probably, we said whatever, we just kind of didn't work on it and so that window closed because someone else took up that role that position is not there in that organization anymore, right? So, in that way, yes, but can God restore can God? Financial blessing I'm talking about? Yeah, financially also I'm just saying, you know, so can God, let's say if you're talking specifically about provision and finances, can God provide in some other way? Can God open up some other door? Definitely he can definitely, he can right? So it requires my heart to come aligned I need to recognize that oh yeah, I missed that and then yeah, so definitely God can do that and that's why we call, you know, he's the redeemer, right? He redeems those, even those lost opportunities and makes a way for us right? Thank you Buster No, yeah Okay, any other questions? Okay, so let's look at the fourth one, you know so we are looking at all these things which actually should build faith in us, gives us the confidence that that God is the one who's a giver of blessings right? He's the one who wants to bless he guarantees to prosper okay, one more the new covenant of blessings, okay? So we know covenant is a promise covenant is a promise you know, it's a solemn promise between God and man and we see that God has made a covenant with us and in fact scripture talks about this new covenant that he has with us, right? It made on better promises and so on what we read in Hebrews and 2nd Corinthians 3 so this covenant covers all, you know, blessings, everything and and so we you know, and so we can be sure that okay God has made himself available for us all of him available for us through the covenant right? So that is what he has said that he has made himself available for us saying I'm for you, I'm with you so I can bring this into your life so that's what we see okay so let's look at you know, if you look at Deuteronomy 28 okay from up to verse 14 talks about the blessings for the person who actually obeys the law okay Deuteronomy 28 verses 1 to 14 okay verses 15 on words talks about the curse of disobedience okay so let's not read that right now okay and actually if you read it's you know, we need to read it by saying thank you Jesus that you redeemed me from this right because Galatians 3 talks about the fact that the blessings of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus okay the blessings of obeying everything comes to us because of the Lord right so Deuteronomy 28 talks about the about the covenant sorry about the blessings right so we know that Deuteronomy 28 is something because of the old covenant where it talks about the blessings of a person who walks in obedience and who walks in obedience to the entirety of God's law okay now the verses that we saw Galatians 3 talks about the fact that well he took the curse okay he took the curse Jesus took the curse upon himself so verses 15 on words till the end of the chapter he took that curse upon himself the curse of disobedience of the law he took upon himself okay so that's why you know this whole thing of grace is something which is mind-blowing really he took in this so this new covenant that is why he said it's a better promises built on better promises this new covenant he took upon himself every curse okay and just one second yeah so let's let's look at 2 Corinthians 3 okay let's look at 2 Corinthians chapter 3 and verses 6 on words maybe we should read from verse 5 says not that we are sufficient of ourselves and or think of anything as being from ourselves our sufficiency is from God okay verse 6 who also made a sufficient as ministers of the new covenant not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter kills but the spirit gives life and then from verse 7 on words he talks about the contrast of the old covenant and the new covenant right for if the ministry of death written and engraved on stones was glorious so that the children of Israel could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of the glory of his countenance which glory was passing away how will the ministry of the spirit not be more glorious for if the ministry of condemnation had glory the ministry of righteousness exceeds much more in glory for even what was made glorious had no glory in this respect because the glory that excels verse 11 for if what is passing away was glorious what remains is much more glorious and so on so Paul is just contrasting between you know the Old Testament or what flows out of the Old Testament and he's talking about the old covenant sorry and he's talking about the new covenant how it is much more glorious right in that we are in a new dispensation and so on right so because of this new covenant and new dispensation that we live in right we can be sure we can be confident that as a recipient as someone who's part of this new covenant this is applicable to me God himself has made himself available he's saying that I'm there for you so that's another reason for us to be confident of God's assurance to bless now these are things that should be that needs to be really ingrained in us be part of us because just like the nature of God the general promises of God and so on this needs to be really like a pillar of truth inside of us right because if it is so if it is not so we will waver we will waver in unbelief we will not be able to trust because it talks about the nature of God it talks about what God wants for the New Testament believer or what God has done in Christ through the cross for each one of us right so this really needs to be strong a pillar of truth inside of us where we which we hold on to say God I need more revelation help me to be rooted grounded in this truth okay so having said that we might have questions okay now I understand that I got this truth I understand the nature of God then why are things not happening we might have those questions why is that person not prospering from the outside I see that everything is you know he's picked all the checklists 1 2 3 it's all falling in place why then are things not happening why then we might have some questions now here are some hindrances that we're going to look at to God given what's a hindrance right what blocks like it's a barrier a hindrance is a barrier right something that blocks you know it's like a wall which blocks something from coming across to us right so first thing that we see wrong motivation can be a hindrance hindrance to receive from God hindrance to receive the blessing of God okay now God is making it available okay God is making it available God is you know is given us this wonderful new covenant that we are living in and all these promises the very nature of God is to bless and so on and yet if my motivation is wrong if I have a wrong motive right then that acts as a hindrance okay let's look at this James chapter 4 verses 2 and 3 says you lust and you do not have you murder and covet and cannot obtain you fight and war yet you do not have because you do not ask you ask and do not receive because you ask a miss that you may spend it on your pleasures okay so saying you know you don't have you lust which means that you know intensely desire something and you don't have you murder and covet you know all these things are wrong methods yeah you murder you covet and you do all this you're violent and you do not have and it says at the end you don't have because you do not ask so it is saying showing the difference you know difference in the method by which you can actually receive right chisely like you're saying you're doing this you're doing that because you do not ask you do not have because you do not ask and verse 3 says you ask and you don't receive because you ask a miss what does that mean any other version ask a miss what version is that diksha yours MKJV is it okay any other does anyone have like a any other version asking a miss this is James chapter 4 and verse 3 okay it's like asking out of place and asking maybe with wrong motive wrong intention and sorry because you ask wrongly yeah and the reason is that you may spend it on your pleasures you're so obsessed with yourself and that's the reason why you ask and that's why you do not have and you do not receive okay okay so we'll stop here we're looking at hindrances to God given prosperity but I just really like us to read through the scriptures that we went through right now about the new covenant of God's guarantee to bless how we can be sure how we can be confident with that once through thank you God bless