 Hey, good morning everyone and welcome to a new week. Sorry, we didn't have class yesterday But let's pick up from where we stopped before we begin. Let's start with a word of prayer, please See would you mind leading us in prayer? Yes, Pastor Our father in heaven will bless you and adore you Thank you for another opportunity Lord to be thought and instructed We thank you Lord for all you've been doing Lord since the beginning of this semester How our lives have been transformed Lord by all the cool things through your son Pastor Paul And we thank you Lord for yet another moment for wisdom to be impacted in our lives Lord to be better stewards of the gifts and the opportunities you've given us To be effective representatives in the marketplace and All that Lord you've called us to be and to do in our time here on earth You call me this class to your hands and we say that the spirit of God will take control and That the spirit of revelation and understanding will be made available for each and every one of us and Lord we pray this time shall be a blessing to each and every one of us Guide or God the utterance of your your son and use him greatly to impact upon us wisdom Thank you everlasting father for in Jesus name we have prayed Amen. Amen. Thank you so much safe for leading us in prayer All right. So last week we began with chapter 19 Work-life balance and we look at why it is so important to balance professional life and personal life And we looked at practical recommendations practical things that the scripture teaches us on You know maintaining a work-life balance now I also gave a lot of examples on how now people have been extremely successful in their business But they have failed in the area of looking after their families or the other way around to where people have been Extremely good in you know looking after their family, but they haven't been able to do any work and provide for their family Right, and when you look at it in the in ministry many leaders who have been extremely Successful the Lord has really Anointed them to their ministry. They've done wonderfully exceptionally well in their ministry. It has grown ministries have the ministry has you know Expanded to different nations become international yet You know, maybe their children Have have the sense of okay. I didn't have my father with me for the small things in my life growing up And and so here's why it is very important That we must have a good work-life balance. It's important to work It's important to also make sure that we are there for our family And so we looked at a few things maintaining a rhythm of work worship and rest Being committed to what is important There will be times when there's additional work work is you know, it's just that season where okay We have to work hard continually And then there are seasons when you we can take rest stay back be with the family spend time with family Now all of this can be done when we know what is important to us If we feel that you know, we looked at this point also last week when we feel that only growing up the ladder Professionally is important Then we're gonna only focus on that and we will end up not being there for our family Right. So we must understand what is we must have a value scale. What what is of true value, right? You know money can't buy happiness Money cannot buy resources money cannot buy peace money cannot buy rest But we must have a value scale. We must understand. Okay Making money. Yes, it's part of it growing up the ladder and the business. Yes, that's part of life But there are certain intangibles Right where we may never get back Building a relationship with your children building a relationship with your spouse your extended family Now I always have myself My my children are young now So I must give more time to them because they'll come at time when you know, they are 18 20 years old They don't want us. I mean meaning they don't want to always be with us and always, you know Ask us questions Very rarely, right? They have their own they will have their own set of friends. They will have their own Visions and plans ahead of them And so it is very important that we impact our children at a young age even even those who are You know, that is why we put emphasis on children's church. Why it's so important to you know impact our children and then we also looked at Keeping important things important, which means Yes Family and work life the balance is something that we need to know really Disiffer, which means we have to understand. Okay, this time must go to the family this time should go to work But these there are going to be some tough choices to make along the way, right? But we must keep things important as important, right? if if something is important to our children or to our parents and If we are able to do it, but we choose to do something else In place of that then, you know, we're losing focus, right? Family time is important. Keep short accounts checks and balances meaning Check check how our life is remember what Jesus said No, he sent the disciples. He said go out do your ministry and come back and they came back They were very tired and I'm sure Jesus noticed that and he said to them, okay, let's stop everything Let's go away alone. Let's get some rest No ministry for some time. So let's get some rest. So It's very important to keep checks and balances, right? And then we stopped at this point guard your resources just your time energy and your money And we looked at something called as energy leaks, right? When we don't mind our own business, it becomes an energy leak when we get involved in things We shouldn't be involved in these are all energy leaks overreacting to situations social media distractions Now I'm not saying that we must not use social media We can use but the moment it becomes something which takes Too much of your time and energy Then we need to make sure that you know, we can cut down on it right because many times social media can really You know take us away and not only social media gaming and you know, YouTube all of these things can Become energy leaks in our life right and takes up our time takes up our resources Then all of a sudden we feel hey, how did this whole year go and I was just you know I had planned so much but the whole year is gone I hardly could do whatever I planned. So Important is to stay focused stay in the center of God's plan for your life, right and and so We will look at how we can be efficient also. Let's look at the next point so I'm on chapter 19 work life balance and this is the point on develop Personal efficiency productivity and time-saving skills. So if you're tracking along on your notes I'm on that point Ecclesiastes chapter 9 16 and 18 it says Wisdom is better than strength and Was 18 says wisdom is better than weapons of war right now Wisdom is something that we all desire, right? Knowledge is something that we attain, but we need wisdom the wisdom of God Enables us to work efficiently to maximize our output, right? Sometimes we I don't know if this has happened to you, but it's happened to me where it's a simple task It takes probably about half an hour but just because of you know Distractions or things around that half in our tasks takes one and a half hours. I Remember this one time We had to update our an excel sheet with you know The names and numbers of a few of our church members. So probably about 30 of them in that list It hardly it should hardly take about 30 minutes, but nothing nothing more than that But I remember You know that that one time I was doing it and it was past two hours And I thought to myself why am I taking So long to finish the next cell sheet with name number email address for 30 people and I realized that The way I was getting about doing it was completely wrong my mind was thinking about something else and I was planning about a task which I was you know, I was doing a certain task, but I was planning about another task You know, sometimes these menial tasks Can take up all our time So it's very important to understand that okay, this is a task which I need to complete and The output I should be productive efficient in what I'm doing What is what what takes 20 minutes or half an hour? Let me complete it in half an hour Right, and then we can also use technology tools To improve our productivity and efficiency right to-do lists is something that we can do So every time I switch on my laptop, I get the notifications, right? So these are the to-do lists, right? So that could be you know, birthday wishes for church family Or anniversary wishes or okay There's this task that has to be done on Tuesday by 5 p.m. So everything comes up So I have this to-do list Sometimes I have it on my phone as well. So I just have that list I know okay, these are the things that I have that has to be done and Software, you know technology helps us right it helps us to you know Get things done in a quicker way in a more efficient way, right? Then here's a very important thing learn to delegate Even when you feel like doing it yourself now if you're in a place of authority or a leadership role Learn to delegate right now especially in ministry You know there will be times when you've done we've been doing you know leading a small group or a church for many years And we're comfort comfortable doing that, right? Comfortable with the Bible study comfortable with you know praying for people And for the life groups and comfortable doing everything because that's where you know, that's what we like to do But there are times when we as Leaders must learn to delegate Why because it also gives firstly you are you know, you know that okay? I can do something else during this task. Secondly, you're giving an opportunity for somebody else to grow in their gifts and calling Right, so if you feel that okay Life group is happening or small group. You don't have to go every week learn to delegate right say, okay, why don't you go and look after the Share the word right also, you know when you learn when when it comes to delegating We need to also keep certain things in mind like have they been faithful have they been growing the Lord and all of these things but learn to delegate When we do that really it You know, you're raising up other leaders And that's wonderful because you know Paul himself says and when we look at the life in the Ministry of Apostle Paul He raised up so many leaders and that's what we want to do, right? Now give opportunities to others set deadlines for your tasks Right now when we don't set deadlines, what happens is we are working in the air Meaning we don't know. Okay. This task is something that takes two days But it's been five days. It's been seven days. It's been ten days and there is no deadline. So we just take it easy Right. So that's not how it should be. We need to set short deadlines It could be some menial task at home as well, right? So for those who are not working We're at home And you know Set menial tasks You tell yourself, okay by one o'clock You know, I need to complete this about five o'clock I need to do this and then when I'm able to do it, you know, you will realize that you're being very very effective Right, you know, suddenly you have a lot of time in your hands You can spend that additional time in the world or listening to worship songs listening to sermons Building yourself up in the Lord, right? now Why why? Deadlines are important is because many times we can lose focus when we don't have deadlines Right. So one of the things that we at APC all of us do is you know Whenever there are tasks assigned and we know that we have to do we always give a due date always, right? There's a due date. Okay. By this day You know, these things has to be done. That's the reason we have a due date for our assessments There's a due date. So, you know, okay This is the due date and I need to complete this task before the due date Right and it's not that we as teachers are giving you the due date and you have to do it No, we ourselves do it, right as you know when we were preparing content for material for the courses you know the last last semester I was preparing for John The book of John and John one two and three John so that's I knew okay The content is lots like the whole of John one two and three John and and so that content is more so said, okay, how am I going to Complete the notes using these commentaries and you know, how am I going to make sure that I get the right Output from all these commentaries compile them together make sure that they're good And make sure that I don't overwrite or don't underwrite But just so that it's enough and it's it touches the main points of the entire book. So Setting deadlines what I did was okay John the book of John. I must completed in 15 days So I knew okay 15 days is my target. So Whether it was day or night Didn't matter. I knew okay 15 days. So I had that date in my mind. Okay now It's eight days. Okay, 10 days are up. I have another five days need to make sure I completed so that way Sorry that day. I'm that way. I know that I'm being effective. I know that okay my work Now here's another important thing just because I have a due date. We don't just do something and you know Okay, I have to submit this. So I just do some Half-hearted work in this submitted. No, we do our best Keeping in mind, you know, these due dates now set Realistic, you know deadlines don't have a deadline where do you say okay? It's a task which takes 15 days. Don't say I'll finish it in eight days right What's gonna happen is for it one, we may not finish it in eight days. So that's an unrealistic deadline to Just because it's eight days, we may do a half-hearted work and just completed But at the end of the whole thing is going to come back at us right so set good deadlines short deadlines and Appropriate deadlines for your tasks and then you will see that you will be so effective now I'm not saying that I you know, these are things that I always used to do but after you know trying these You know these points that I'm sharing after applying it in my own life I realized that hey, we can be so much more effective and efficient in our work, right? So There'll be times you can reuse content updated Modify it rather than starting from scratch now for example There will be times when we will be asked to update our notes, right? I'm a college notes or things that we are teaching in colleges. So we just see what we have Have been build on that right Next point is to regenerate yourself Right now here's very important Isaiah chapter 40 Versus 28 to 31 Isaiah 40 28 to 31. Yes. Could one of us please read that? Isaiah 40 28 to 31 Let's go ahead any one of us As I have 40 28 to 31 Is that 40 28 to 31? Don't you know anything? Haven't you been listening? God does not come and go God last He creates of all you can see or imagine. He does not get tired Tired out does not pause to catch his breath and he knows everything inside and out He energize those who get tired give fresh strength to drop out drop out for even you people tired and drop out young folk in their prime stumble and Fall but those who wait upon the Lord get fresh strength They they spread they spread their wings and sawed like eagles They run and don't get tired. They walk and don't lag behind. Amen. Thank you Buster Amen. Thank you Abinas. Now. This is a very common words, you know, a lot of us Have it on our dough dough frames and our walls. We have this thing those who wait upon the Lord Shall renew their strength. This is the message translation, which is a little bit different But those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength They shall rise up with wings like eagles. They will run and not be weary They will walk and they will not faint our Physical our emotional our spiritual strength or energy must be renewed every moment I find out what renews yourself Exercise is it worship is it rest? What are the things that renew your mind? Now as you're doing all these things to regenerate yourself time out with God is very important, right now for some of us for me personally how I Regenerate myself is I listen to some new worship songs and then I try to learn it on the keyboard or the guitar And so then I feel refreshed. That's me Well, some of them, you know learning an instrument. It's it's a pain, right? So if you feel that it's, you know, stressing you out, we don't have to do that, right? So find out what regenerate to you You know, there's there's a young man in our church and he says after after a long day of hard work What I like to do is I like to come back Change and go to the gym For me, it was like, okay, you had a hard days work, you know, why don't you just you know rest on your bed? But no, he feels regenerated Physically when he goes and he goes any exercises in the gym. He feels regenerated now. That's not my cup of tea I like to come back and listen to music play the guitar and just relax. That's regenerating for me, right? But whatever it is Whatever, you know, you do to regenerate yourself Time out with God is so important resting in God Let's tell God God. You are the center. You are the core The reason I'm doing what I'm doing is because of you, right? Yes, we do things right. We can go to the gym. We can cycle we can play music It can regenerate us But the core of all of this must be God God even as I'm doing this to regenerate myself It is you it is your presence that can help me You are the center that holds everything to me and then we listen to God We pray we read his word we examine we reflect upon our lives reflect on how God has You know been so good to us and the seasons that he has taken us through and then we evaluate our lives So regenerate yourself very important Right take time off. You know, sometimes it is you know, just going out with your family out to the park To be so regenerating There are many times I just paused at work and I said, okay It's getting too much, you know, sometimes we there's a lot of material and everything is going in and You know, we are trying to prepare and plan material for the church and things ahead What needs to be done and you know, sometimes it gets tiring There are many times I paused and I said, okay, let's just go out Luckily we in Mangalore the in the city that we stay stay and we have beaches so he would go and just you know Set in the beach relax So find what regenerates yourself your strength will come as I 30 15 your strength Will come from settling down in complete dependence on me That is where our strength is from and our our natural abilities are our strengths But our real strength is settling down in what God has done for us Right next point stop demonic disruptions and delays John 1010 is a common words. It says a thief is only there to steal kill and destroy I came so they can have real internal life More in better life than they ever dreamed of Right now It's not that every time there are distractions Uh, you know a traffic jam is not an evil spirit like power failures not an evil spirit Or if this rocks machine is not working or the computer crashes It's not always, you know, the enemy or the devil that is trying to stop us from, you know, working No, all these are natural things, but Remember that the enemy can use these tactics to steal away our resources Right our time our money our energy Let me give you this example It was last semester And my laptop, you know, it gave me a problem. It said it needed to be Updated or something. So it was just not switching on So I went I gave it to the service station and they repaired it and they gave it to me in the next day But that was a season where there was a lot of work to be done Right so that one day also mattered But I said, okay, God this one day somehow I will, you know, uh I will compensate for the work that I missed out on that day And so I got the laptop back back and then I you know, I knew, okay, there's a lot of work ahead Next month is going to be a hectic month Preparing material, preparing courses, preparing content for for Bible callers for the ministry for the church Preparing sermons, preparing, uh, you know, Bible study material for our Wednesday Bible study for Friday prayers, we had to prepare a lot of material. So I knew that there was a lot of work Two days after using the laptop, the laptop crashed again It was just not switching on And I said this is something that is not Common, I mean, I just gave it for an update. I just gave it for repair And I started getting really, you know, stressed. I said, why is this happening to my laptop? What do I do? I couldn't just keep going and giving it to the service station and then day to day come tomorrow come the next day Uh, and and I really got you know, I was getting frustrated Well, because this work to be done Remember just sitting in the Holy Spirit just reminding me and saying Calm down You know, calm down. Just just stay calm Uh, and and so I remember saying, uh, you know in my own way I said the whole said to the Holy Spirit. How can I stay calm if I don't get my work done? Uh, and these are tasks that have to be done and you know, I can't leave them pending like this and this laptop is acting so funny Uh But I remember the Holy Spirit saying just pray Right, you don't have to do anything this pray. So I told my wife to let's just pray right and I prayed I just prayed I said god Make this laptop work again because you know, I have a lot of tasks and I command every Distraction that the enemy is trying to bring I commanded to be gone uh And I just shut and I just closed the laptop and after about 15 minutes. I switched on the laptop and just came on Right what I tried for about two hours. It just did not come on Uh, but I switched on and it came on now they will now I'm not saying this we can do this every time But what I'm trying to say is There will be these kinds of ways where the enemy can bring distraction. These are tactics that he can use Right stay alert if you sense it's a demonic Hand now the reason I felt it was something demonic was because just two days back I gave it for a service and a google update. So it should be working fine But then two days later if this happens, I knew that something is not right Uh, but then it began to work again and I was able to do my tasks my work that was assigned to me, right? So in seasons like that Stay bold stay strong tell the storms Be seized because you intend to reach your destination Uh, now this is just a practical way practical thing But the enemy can come in different ways Right, uh, he can come uh, you know stealing our time Taking away our time our energy, you know, sometimes we wake up and we feel so tired and groggy Be like, oh, I don't feel like doing anything. Uh, you can just speak over yourself. Say, okay, god I know that there's I'm feeling this way But your word says you will give me strength to rise up like wings like eagles. Give me the strength Physically mentally to do the tasks that have been assigned to me. So right so we can we can always rebuke the works of the enemy Next point is to plan ahead Ecclesiast is three one. It's a wonderful verse. It says to everything that is a season a time for every purpose under heaven Uh, you know when you plan Uh, when you're deciding ahead of time When where and how your resources are going to be used Right mark out slots in your calendar. You know have a calendar for yourself Look at your calendar and plan out, right? Whether it's ministry whether it's work whether it's family plan out Uh, because planning is is is very important very very important. Now if you read the book of numbers And you see the way god orchestrated his work the way he told the people of Israel Even to the point of where Uh, you know where each tribe should walk what flag they should carry how the flag should what the flag should look like or even if you look at the old, uh Tabernacle and what the things that jesus started the things that god told Uh, moses and uh, the people of israel It is so well planned out god is a god of plan planning right, uh By my teacher used to say this I don't know if I mentioned this but I'll just mention this again Failing to plan is planning to fail Right failing to plan Is planning to fail If we don't plan that means we're planning to fail ahead right, uh You can develop a daily plan. We can develop a weekly plan a monthly plan or quarterly plan an annual plan Whatever this have a plan Then you can uh, you know have plans of two years three year plans five year plans Currently i'm working on a five-year plan and okay In 2027 I actually started off in 2021 So 2026 is when that You know, I've written I've put down some things that I want to you know, achieve and I want to see myself in 2026 um And so I put that down and I look to achieving those plans, right? Of course, there will be times when god can bring divine Interventions and divine changes be open to that But I look to okay personally. I want to see myself here As a family. I want to see myself here in 2026 Some of us I think 2026 You know, we got so many years still. Why don't you just plan yearly? Yes um, I have a yearly plan too But I like to keep those plans as well So when I have the short plans, I have those longer plans, but plan ahead And be able to accommodate changes now when you look at ministry as well It is very very important to plan ahead when we look ahead and say okay god This is what I want to see the church. This is what I want to see Or if it's a business, this is what I want to see the business ahead in the next two years three years And when we do that god begins to work with us God sees our hard work and he blesses the hard work that we do right You know the bible teaches us that The the hands that work hard are a blessing to the lord Like god will bless our hard work Uh when we work hard, right? He will definitely bless it And the bible says that when the lord blesses he will add no sorrow to it That's so wonderful, right? When god blesses he will add no sorrow to it Uh, will there be seasons of challenges? Yes, but whatever we have We will be grateful. We'd say god. I want to thank you We're not going to look at others and say oh look at them. They have a house. They have this thing They have two cars. They have five houses. They have you know, they go for family out in they go to this place They you'll not compare your life to others because When god blesses you He will bless you in such a way that you will be content You will have no sorrow in that blessings So that's wonderful, right? Next point take a Family-friendly approach to business now. This is mainly for entrepreneurs like Uh providing needs or basic needs for your employees and all of it if you are Uh, even in the ministry if you're if you're a pioneer in the ministry You have your own ministry or your own business There will be times that you will have to understand that people who are working with you are also family Right. So provide for facilities, you know, if not in the beginning But as your ministry grows or as your business grows provide for them, right? So small things like, you know maternity leave travel policies flexible work timings Uh, you know, uh company sponsored events. These are small things but it adds a lot of value to The business and to the ministry That we are working at Right. So any questions we complete this chapter any questions about work life balance any of you want to share your thoughts Any questions on work life balance Any questions any any thoughts Any of you would like to share anything? How has it been for maybe uh those who are in ministry and family, you know, managing that has it How have we been managing, you know, both of them, you know, sometimes it gets really hard Anybody would like to share Yes, Tasha, please go ahead Hi pastor, I have one Well, for me, I work full time and I also do ministry And as I said before when I started it's more rocky to get the foot in the door to try to find balance with family and um Ministry and jobs sometimes it's overwhelming And honestly when I get over is as if I want to stop And at times I do stop and say I'm not doing anything right now And the Lord has the pretty much as if you want to add underneath the covers So the Lord has to remind me it's not my anointing. It's his So I have to keep going but it's Especially if you feel like as if you don't have any support You have to do everything yourself, but it's about managing your time Managing everything it's balance and you learn that as you go And I learned that as I am still learning it. I have a master that does it. I'm still learning it So That's it's a work in progress for me. So I'm still at it, but I am I am saying I am Doing much better Than when I start I just keep going and improving day by day Thank you so much days. Oh my god bless your ministry and we heard a lot about your ministry and It does get tough balancing ministry, especially if you're pioneering something. It's really tough to You know balance Both the ministry and the family, but the Lord will give us the strength the Lord will give us wisdom So that's great. Thank you for sharing anybody else want to share your thoughts you have any questions Okay. All right. So, uh, we have another 10 minutes. Let's pick up from Taisha, you raised your hand again Yes, it just dropped in my spray. What about those that are Thinking about going into ministry. Maybe you could shed some light. I'm wondering Is there a right time to start do I have to quit my job to start Do they're just seeing that they're bouncing off walls don't know to quite Get it together. Maybe you could give some encouragement to You know, yes, you know just start, you know and see God Maybe you could share some light on that Sure, sure. Yeah, so, uh, um, especially for those in the workplace and you know, we we we've been working for many years And then we feel okay God is calling us to start our own ministry Now it's very very important. There are certain points. I'll probably give you two or three points But here are some things that we must be very very You know careful and we must Use the wisdom that God has given us one uh, you know that this The the thought of starting your own ministry is from God, you know that God has called you to do it And you have this assurance within you, you know, the holy spirit has put that in your heart And you know that this whole thing is from God, right? Then You be assured that okay. God is going to help you right because many a times Uh, you know, many people think okay ministry is something. Okay. We can just do whatever we want however we want So get out of this workplace thing. I don't want to sit in the You know in in the office. So I I want to go meet people. I want to have my own time I want to have lunch when I want to you know, I want to go so People join ministry not only for good reason, you know, there are wrong reasons for people to join ministry Right or sometimes people want to be evangelists just because they can travel all across You know people will invite them they can travel And they're not you know, they like to travel. So they that's why they want to become evangelists Now these are wrong motivations or wrong reasons to join the ministry So when we know that God is telling us it is God who has put it in us number one thing Is we must be assured that it is God putting it in our house, too When we know it's God the important thing is to take time Take time and think about what needs to be done. That's where that's where the point of planning comes into place, right? Yes, because God has called me doesn't mean You know, I quit my job Hey, God has told me join me. I quit my job And then I go and I start ministry and then you know that you have a wife You have two children the children have to have to go through school There are school fees that are they need to put food on the table And then there's nothing And then we can sit and pray and say God You said, you know, I rebuke this enemy and that enemy and that would be the wrong way of doing things Right. So always plan ahead If God has put it in our heart What we can do is Say, okay One year from now or two years from now. I'll prepare myself Right financially Right. Okay. I know that these are the things I need to do And and so I'll prepare myself. I say, okay before I launch out. So during these two years I'll save up some money Right, uh, because I need money to you know, open the trust. I need money to hire or rent a place I need money to buy equipment for the church or could be just Chairs and a stage or, you know, musical instruments. I can't just randomly start something right So I need to plan out now one of the things that You know, you know, I personally did was when I knew that okay, I'm going to join I wanted to join bible college Now I was working in the it company, but I wanted to join. I knew that is God But I had to give it some time So remember it was about eight months or Eight to almost a year But what I did was I as much as I could I saved up Saved up some money because I knew that if I'm joining bible college First day I need to pay the fees to I need to You know be able to you know, at least help myself for these one or two years Right and then after that I can go ahead and get a job or see what God has called me But but I knew that I if I had to get into ministry There were no bible college. I had to have some kind of planning ahead right so Um, so too is plan ahead because there, you know, I remember meeting this Young man a young pastor. He stays in a different city of our nation God called him He had definitely a calling of God upon his life. God called him to be a pastor But the mistake he made was he was doing and he was an electronic engineer So he was earning enough to look after his family. He had a small child The mistake he made was immediately he put his papers down and he said God has called me And he was really excited He was praying He was sitting at home and praying and he would go reach out to people He realized at one point he didn't have money to put petrol in his bike And then he didn't have money Like he looked out for places to start the church, but he didn't have money to make the rental agreement So what happened? He began to ask people Can you help me to Do this because I want to You know start the church And then that went on. Can you give me some money? I want to buy speakers. Can you give me money? I want to buy the instruments. I want to buy this. I want to buy that And what happened was he started the church But by the time he started church, he was in a debt of about three to four lakhs And a few months into the church the people came And said where's my money? It's been so long that you haven't given my money back. Now some of them were believers They said no, we need the money. You took it from us saying you'll give it to me in six, two months Or one month or that I didn't get it back So the way the ministry started itself There was too much of hurt It's too much of chaos and then the church people were asking what happened. Why are these people behind you? No, I had borrowed money from that. Oh, this pastor borrows money from everyone I hope he doesn't so the whole church Right, probably they were about 30 40 people It was kind of this the feeling in the church was like, okay pastor's going to ask us for money pastor's going to ask and because of that Without him realizing most of his sermons were about money You know when you give to god And then they came and stopped thankfully god ministered the holy spirit ministered to him and he realized his mistake But when he realizes mistake, he was already too far in Right, but thank god, you know god somehow restored him and he's back in his on his feet But he always tells me, you know, everyone who starts ministry, I tell them don't be in a hurry Now god will when when when you know that god is calling you prepare yourself financially materially Yes, there will be these one-off times with god says, okay, go right now. I'm going to make supernaturally god is going to provide That's wonderful Right, but if god made moses wait god made the apostle paul wait god made david wait And that waiting time we studied about it, right that waiting time was not wasted time. It was it was preparation time right, so Firstly know that what god has called us for it is from god god is telling you to do this and to Plan and prepare well Right, so I think this will really help us to set the stage, right? Right, and we know that okay. We're starting the ministry in the right way And three I would also like to bring this Don't always look for big opportunities This is a lesson that I learned it and I'm thankful for that God opens doors in small ways The bible teaches us never despise meager beginnings Right, you start off in the ministry. Don't always look for okay that big stage the big You know the big sound system many people that may be there burning in our heart. That is good But be ready to serve even when there are five six people Right, we we we must be not we must not be in a place by saying okay You know, I'm a senior manager in this company now. I've left that and come here and I can't minister to these five people Right now that would be pride firstly and and that that's not the right way to deal with things when god gives he gives us Usually it's meager beginnings every ministry. I think in this world Would have started off with two or three people Right and now they've grown up. So Businesses have started off small Right, if you even if you look at the biggest businesses globally right now, it's reading about uh forget that business Forget that the chinese man. I forget his name uh, but I was reading about this business and uh, and the way he started off and And he started off in a small rented in a house He rented a room in the house not on the whole house because he didn't have money and now he's a multi million dollar He's got a multi-million dollar business. So everything starts small So don't be afraid to start small Right, it could be ministering to two people Missing you may be put in charge of the life group, which has 10 people You know to say oh these 10 people I want to preach in the church front of 50 or 100 or 1000 people No God always Gives us starts off with small beginnings and we don't despise it Jesus himself thought us those who are faithful and small much will be given to them Right. So So these three points know that it's from god to Plan ahead three don't be afraid for small beginnings I think when we stand on these Principles god will definitely establish our feet Right. All right. So we've come to the end of our class We'll pick up from next week with chapter 20. We may be doing next week. Maybe the last Two classes and then we can bring this course to a close. So All right, so let's close in prayer Maybe any one of us can close Kennedy. Can you close in prayer for us? Yes, I will Yes, let's be I have any father Thank you for the good Time that we've had with our lecturer Regarding your regarding my teaching on how we should plan and how we should execute our Our duty and without using king kingdom standards over I commit everything into their hands It's my prayer and it's my desire that whatever we plan the whole we're going to put it into practice For your honor and glory. Amen Amen. Amen. Thank you. Kennedy. Thank you everyone for joining. Have a wonderful week ahead. I'll see you next week. God bless