 Okay. So there's a wedding happening nearby. We're all hearing the reminding us of the covenant. Yeah. And Valentine's Day. Yeah. Okay. Let's pray. Father, we just want to thank you for the covenant. Lord, we thank you for the new covenant. We thank you for what you have accomplished on the cross. Lord, we thank you that we are recipients, Lord, today. And we can, Lord, recipients of the blessings, Father God. Recipients of every curse that has been broken, Father God. And thank you for releasing us to walk in blessing. And Master, we thank you that physically, emotionally, spiritually, relationally, materially, in all aspects, Father God, that we are blessed because of the finished work of the Lord on the cross. And Master, we are so grateful for what you did for each one of us, Lord. And yes, Lord, even as we, Lord, choose to be aware of it, recognize it, recognize this truth. And Lord, we pray that each one of us will walk in the blessing, walk in the blessings of Abraham. Lord, that we will be called friends of God, that we will walk in greater faith, that we will walk in material blessing, that Lord, that we will walk as overcomers of all the enemies. God, Father, we pray that we will walk in the blessings of Abraham. Let it be so, Father God. Let it not be a just one-day thing, but let it be a journey of walking in blessings. We thank you. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay, so we, we, yeah, let's just pick up from where we stopped. We looked at, okay, we looked at the last four steps also, right, about ongoing lifestyle changes for us to have inner wholeness or healing and, healing and deliverance, right? Yeah, we looked at, I think the last thing that we saw was that, that we need to learn and develop some new skills, or develop skills that we need for a fruitful life. And these need not be quote-unquote spiritual, right? So these, these can be management of time. These can be some professional skills, but these also help in reducing, you know, what we can call as stress or stress related, you know, lifestyle or stress related things that, stress related breakdown of things that happen in our lives. So we can actually, you know, walk in the fullness, you know, this is one, one more thing that we need to look at, you know, what are some skills that I need, right? And if some activity stresses me out, because of the lack of skills, then, which means that I can actually improve my skills in order to overcome that, you know, that stress level, which emotionally brings me down, right? Okay. Okay. So now we're going to look at the next one, which is journeying into emotional wholeness, right? And we're just going to look at three things that are important, or three main pillars for us to, you know, walk in, journey, sorry, kind of journeying into emotional wholeness, and certain things that we need to live consistently. Okay. So here are some truths. First one, simple one, but a very important one is that we need to receive the Father's love, God's love. Okay. Because we read so much about it, that God so loved that he gave, and also that while we were yet sinners, he died on the cross, Romans 5 talks about that, and the amazing love that he has for us, right? And the way he chose us and so on. But the thing is this, that like we said, we might be punishing ourselves, we might be, you know, hating ourselves so much, so much that we are, you know, we are regretting whatever we did, we are blaming ourselves for whatever happened, and we are not looking at God's love, right? Not looking at God's love, we intellectually kind of agree God's loves, right? We kind of agree that God's love, God loves the world, John 3.16, God so loved the world, right? It's always outside. Forget that. I'm also part of it, right? I'm also part of that world which God loved, and God loves. And therefore, you know, I'm also loved by God intensely, right? So that's, you know, that's the truth. And when we receive that truth, right? When we receive that truth, we receive God's love. When we receive God's love, a lot of other things actually go away, right? For example, scripture talks about how perfect love casts out all fear, right? Okay, let's look at 1 John 4. Okay, 1 John 4 was 18. It says, there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love him because he first loved us. So it says that, you know, this perfect love casts out, okay? Which means that when we receive this perfect love of God, when it really, you know, influences or affects our mind, our imagination and everything, there's a consequence for that, or something happens because of that. What is that? That casts out fear, okay? With fear comes torment, right? Fear of man, fear of future, fear of people, fear of, you know, whatever. But this perfect love of God kind of erases or pushes out that fear, okay? So it sets us in a way, it sets us free, okay? Look at all the things that the perfect love of God, the agape of God sets us free from or releases us from, okay? It releases us from guilt, shame, condemnation, okay? Efficiency chapter one and verse four, okay? Efficiency one and verse four, what does it say? It says, yeah. Of the world, that we should be holy and without blameless before Him in love. So it says that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, right? Before Him in love. So this is the reason for which He chose us. So which means that in love, you know, all the other things like blame and, you know, all those things are actually removed. All, let's say, all impurities are actually removed because He chose us and He wants us to be in Him in love, okay? Verse six, verse six again says, to the praise of the glory of His grace by which He made us accepted in the beloved, okay? So He has accepted us. Now that's, I don't know about acceptance. Acceptance is a, you know, it's a big thing, right? So normally, you know, as a child, a child wants to be accepted by the parents, wants to feel love, accepted attention, right? If you notice, the kids who are actually, they start moving around and, you know, crawling and all that. And at that stage also, they want the attention of the parents. They want, you know, they do a lot of things to get their attention. You know, they might say, look, look, look what I drew. Look what I did. And they want, you know, people to say, wow, fantastic. They want the acceptance and approval. Now, if they don't get it, now they, they try and get it in a negative way, right? So they might break something, right? They do some naughty things, by which at least some attention, you know, the parents are showing attention, right? They do it in a negative way also. So this acceptance right from the beginning, right? Maybe you're a teenager. The teenager wants to feel accepted, wants to feel accepted by his peers or he saw here peers and the group of friends whom he esteems very highly, right? The peers. I want to be part of this group. I don't want to be out of this group. Therefore, you know, the person feels what is called peer pressure, right? The pressure to feel, do something in order to feel accepted, do something in order to feel loved and so on. So what happens when we know that we are accepted by God, loved by God unconditionally, then it's actually sets us free from all these kinds of unnecessary pressures, right? You feel, you feel, okay, it gives you a sense of security. You are secure in yourself because you're accepted by him, loved by him, okay? The next thing, you know, 1 John 4 9 talks about the fact that, let's just read that verse, 1 John 4 and verse 9 says that, in this, the love of God was manifested towards us that God had sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loves us, we also ought to love one another, okay? So, you know, it says that he loved us even before we knew him or loved him, right? It says he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. So we were, while we were yet sinned, that's what we read in Romans. So, which means that, you know, when we receive this kind of love, it frees us from a performance mentality, okay? Now, you know, when we say performance mentality, it means that, okay, I don't have to do anything to prove to God or, you know, to make sure that he loves me, right? So, many times we think because of how we, you know, how we, certain things like, it comes to spiritual disciplines as well, right? When it comes to, let's say, reading the Word, okay? Reading the Word is good. It's necessary, right? It's like a lifeline for the believer, right? The Lord said, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Why? Because it nourishes the believer, you know, it is sowing to the spirit, right? But if we think that if I, you know, stop reading, then God does not love me, okay? Now, you know, I'm saying this very carefully because sometimes, you know, it can be misunderstood, right? Yeah, if you, reading the Word is necessary for us, but does God love you because you read the Word, because you read those five chapters? But somehow we think like that. Oh, today I read, ah, God loves me. So today, yeah, today I prayed more and, yeah, I fasted, I prayed and so I'm loved by God. So that is, see, doing those right things, deal with things in the flesh, deals with, you know, all those things. And we, maybe, you know, the Word that you read just cleansed your mind, you know, scripture talks about the entrance of the Word gives light, gives understanding to the simple and because of that understanding a lot of fears may be left because of that faith, maybe a lot of things left and you're feeling freer, you're feeling that liberty, right, in your spirit. But that does not mean that God loves you any more or any less than yesterday, okay? So, so that's the thing. So when we get an understanding of I'm loved by God, then that sets me free. I don't have to do anything in order to prove to God, God, you need to love me more because I did this, right? But that also, yeah, you have a question? Yeah, you can use the mic. So like we can't, we can't, like we don't need to do anything in order for God to love us, right, like spiritual disciplines and all, but to have a fellowship with him, we have to do, right? Or even if we don't do, still we have, we'll be in fellowship with him. No, I think he is, he is putting things like prayer, worship, which is, which are all good things for us, right? We draw near to him in prayer, we draw near to him and in reading the word of faith is being built up or wrong understanding or strongholds in the mind are broken. So he's put all these things for us. So when we keep away, these things are getting affected for sure, right? I'm not experiencing the outcome of or the benefit of reading the word. That's the thing. But does God still love me? Yes, He does. And His, in His love, He wants me to grow up. He wants me to be strong. He wants me to have victory and all that. So it's a very fine line. Then what else? From all sense of unworthiness, worthlessness, from all sense of being a slave or being trapped. So we are actually released from all that because of God's love. It's a simple thing that Jesus loves us. It's a very simple statement, but it has very profound impact to a person because they are accepted unconditionally, loved unconditionally and all these things are fall away. All these things are released from us. All these things fall away from us. So receiving the Father's love is a very important thing. Second one, first one is intimacy, love. The second one is identity. So another very important pillar that we need to be rooted in in order to journey into emotional wholeness is the identity that we have. So everybody searches for identity and sometimes they come to this place of thinking that, okay, if I have this, if I have more of this, enough of this, then I am somebody. So in the world, it's like that. If you have so much of material possessions, if you have this kind of success, then you are somebody. Then you are a person of worth, then you are a person of importance, whereas if you don't have any of this, then you are a nobody. But sometimes we take that into our relationship with God also. We say, okay, if I do these things, only then do I become a person of worth. But Christ has already done something for us and He's giving us a sense of worth. He's giving us a sense of worth. He's giving us a sense of identity of who we are. So this thing is very important. Whatever we studied in the first semester about who we are in Christ, what we have become in Christ, the fact that we are justified, that we are washed by His blood, that we have become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. So these are things that we need to remember and we should never forget because every time we see, why do people fall? One of the reasons is they forget who they are or Satan has conveniently kind of blocked their minds to the truth of who they are. The fact that they are sons and daughters of God, the fact that they have an open communication relationship with God, the fact that they have authority over the demons, over the enemy, they are loved by Him unconditionally. So the minute we forget that, we walk differently, we behave differently and we fall. Many times we open the door to sin because of the fact that we've forgotten who we are, our identity. So we need to be strong in our identity. So this would lead us into a place of wholeness. So what happens, it really changes the way we relate to God and we have a strong sense of identity. When we know that we are sons and daughters, when we know, there's a great reassurance. So the way we relate to God, we know that, okay, I'm not a slave. He's my Heavenly Father. I can walk in and I can ask. I can talk to Him. There's no formality. So He has made a way, like what we see in Hebrews 4 and it talks about the fact that we can come boldly to the throne of grace. So all that changes because of our identity in Christ. The way we look at ourselves, we change. We're not constantly blaming, condemning, putting ourselves down and saying we are worthless because Christ says, okay, you are of worth. You are worth so much that I died on the cross. So therefore, we change the way we look at ourselves. We change the way we relate to others, other people. We don't need to have a superiority complex. What does superiority complex mean? I'm the boss all the time and I need to constantly do something to show you I'm the boss, which means I might try to put you down, cut you down, dominate. I want to have the last word. I want to show you I'm the boss. I'm in control. That's a superiority thing. Right? Inferiority is just the opposite of that. I'm nothing. I'm nothing. I don't have anything. I'm nothing. I'm worthless. Everybody's more talented. Everybody's has something. Everybody's loved by God but I'm of no worth. So it's inferiority. Both are wrong. Both are bad. And in the way we relate to people, that changes because God has given us worth. So there's no need to be insecure. There's no need for me to prove myself to be a person of worth. There's no need to dominate anything or anyone in order to show my worth. I'm to say that I'm special. I don't have to do anything to show. Also, I don't have to constantly put myself down because God has lifted me up. So that's what identity does. It makes us secure as a person. So you walk confidently, not arrogantly, not boastful, but you walk confidently. The confidence Christ gives us. So it changes the way we relate to others, changes the way we relate to life situations, definitely against the powers of darkness and so on. So these are some things that we can, you know, the who we are in Christ's truth or the truth of identity, you know, again, reiterates the fact that we are a child of God. You are a new creation. You abide in him. You are alive with a new life in Christ that you are an air and a joint air with Christ. You are sure of all promises. We are blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places. We are delivered and these are all in Christ promises, in Christ's truths. So these are some things that, you know, if you see that the enemy tries to hit at these things, hit at the identity in order to destroy it. If you look at the temptation that the Lord Jesus faced, every time Satan would come and ask that question, what is the question that he started with? If you are the Son of God, what is that statement, identity? Are you really Son of God? If you are the Son of God, then why don't you do this? So for us also, you know, we know that this gets attacked, our identity, that we are children of the Most High God, that gets attacked all the time. So this truth that we are, you know, we are blessed with all the blessings, we are delivered, enriched, established, etc. In all these, there are references to each of these statements. So we need to, you know, if we are not strong in this, we need to remind ourselves. Okay. When we are feeling down, we need to remind ourselves. You know, it's good to ask ourselves, why am I feeling down now? Why am I feeling upset? Just think about it. Ask, why am I, like, Sam is asked, why are you cast down on my soul? Something that he asks, he's talking to himself, why are you cast down? And then he says, hoping God, I will yet trust him. So it's good to be aware. Why am I feeling bad? Am I feeling bad because somebody is doing well? Am I feeling bad because, you know, I'm comparing myself in an unhealthy manner? Am I feeling bad because, you know, many things, it's good to ask ourselves and remind ourselves of this truth. Remind ourselves of this truth. You know, saying that, okay, I need a shift in thinking. I can't continue thinking like this and expect to live a healthy life. If I'm used to thinking like this, I need to change, right? Because this is who I am. I'm loved by God, I'm accepted by God. You know, many times we feel a little, you know, let's say, not up to it, you know, maybe certain tasks, maybe certain, you know, ministry or ministry opportunity. We don't feel up to it, right? We, because in our own reasoning, in our own eyes. Now, what did the spice, no, the tense spice went? Remember one of the statements that they said, what did they say? Yeah, so they said, we are like grasshoppers, right? Which means that there are giants and we are like grasshoppers, like insects. But if you, what is the second part of it? Is it in our own eyes? Okay, not in the giant's eyes, not in, you know, anyone else's eyes, but in our own eyes, we are like grasshoppers, which means in our own estimation, in our own reflection, we feel that we are like, you know, we are like grasshoppers. Okay, so which means that in our own estimation, sometimes we estimate ourselves wrongly. Okay, but we need to estimate or esteem ourselves the way, you know, according to the truth of what has happened to us in Christ Jesus. Okay, so that really liberates us, frees us and immediately changes our thinking. And then you realize that, hey, this kind of depression, this kind of heaviness, you realize that that's, that's leaving, you know, that all it has left already because I've shifted, I've changed my thinking. Okay, so this needs to be part of our lifestyle, right? So first pillar about the love of God, the fact we are loved, accepted, along with that love, we are released from so many things. Second one is about identity, same thing, you know, when we are strong in our identity of who we are, again, you know, it puts to rest so many insecurities. And, you know, we walk in, in a different way, we walk in a different way in the sense where we live and our behavior changes, the way we relate to God, the way we relate to people, the way we look at ourselves, the way we relate to ourselves, everything changes and becomes healthier. Okay, so there's a lot of healing that happened. The third thing is releasing the past. Yeah, sure. People who are unbelievers. So when they were, I mean, when they were depressed in there, you know, and then how we can relate identity to them, like how we can. Okay, so they are feeling down and depressed and so on. We can share the same truths, right? But the person has to kind of internalize it and receive it. We can share the same thing, saying, you know, Jesus loves you. But they need to be a recipient of it, receive that truth that Jesus loves them and, and maybe, you know, even receive Jesus Christ in their lives, so that all the other things become applicable, the fact that they are new creation, the fact that they are, you know, but this fact that they are loved by God, even when they don't know Him or when they have not called upon Him, the fact that they are loved by God is a reality, is a truth that God so loved the world while we were yet sinners. So it's a reality which is applicable for them. So if they would just receive that, it can bring a lot of healing, that they are loved by Him, that they are esteemed by Jesus, so much that He went to the cross on their behalf and it can be a, I mean, a very radical transformation in their lives. That's how people's lives have changed, lives have changed, right? They just, one aspect which is the love of God completely changed them. They wanted to know more about this God who loved them so much and that completely changed their lives, right? Yeah. The motivational speakers, I mean, in the colleges, they'll go to students and they'll speak and there, there are some people who are Christians also, they're professors and they'll speak according to the people. If they go to college, they'll speak in the context of students, not in the sense of God, but they'll interchange the points. Is that okay to do? I've seen many. In the schools and colleges, they say, don't use the name of Jesus, okay? Don't, yeah, don't say Bible, but you can share content from the Word, but don't say this is the only truth. So sometimes we have restrictions like that, constraints like that, and then we still go ahead and share. But with the hope that, okay, the public forum, we share it and then hopefully, individually, maybe they can reach out and we can talk to them because in individual conversation and they say, I can say this is how, this is what I believe. This is what happened to me. I can testify and say it's only because of Jesus. So some people are like that. But this motivational thing is excluding Christ, excluding God's love to say that I am special. I am special anyway. In a sense, it's true. They are special to whom? And to what end? Why? So when you take God out of the picture, it kind of, yeah, so is it for this life only? What is it that makes you special? All those things. With Christ, the picture is complete. With God, the picture is complete. Hey, you're a new creation or you're fearfully and wonderfully made. But when you take God out of the picture, then it's kind of a very poor substitute. But at the same time, a lot of things are true. I won't say maybe it's 80% truth. Yeah, so that's the thing. It has its place. It has its impact on the soul. So when you say, get up and say, this is going to be a new day. This is going to be a great day. Yeah, it does impact. But the lasting change is when you say, okay, because this is the day the Lord has made. He is in this day. He is with me. Then that's the full truth, right? And truth sets us free. Okay, the third thing, third pillar is releasing the past. Okay, so I think we dealt with this about forgiveness, forgiving others, releasing forgiveness, forgiving ourselves, right? That's the most difficult thing sometimes. Even others we can forgive, but forgiving ourselves, sometimes it's a big challenge. Okay, so now whatever has happened has happened. Okay, now we cannot go back and change things. We cannot, but we can definitely change the present and we can maybe restore things in the present if possible. So we need to actually release the past. When we say release the past, which means that these things will be in our memory, right? Whatever has happened, we can't just forget it. We can't just one day delete. No, the human mind is capable of remembering a lot of information, storing a lot of information. But the fact when we say release the past, we're saying, okay, we're not, you know, I'm not going to be tormented by it. I'm not going to be troubled by it. I'm not going to blame myself over and over again by the past, right? Whatever happened, I bring it under the blood of Jesus. And we know that there's nothing more powerful. So it is covered by the blood of Jesus. When it is covered, settled, dealt with, I'm not going to dwell on it. Yes, I might remember. Maybe I go to some place, you know, even now, suppose I go to a particular city like Mangalore, and I remember how I was, you know, as a believer, you know, as a spirit filled, flesh walking believer, how I was. So, but I'm thankful. I look at some places where I stayed in and I thank God, God, you changed me. Okay. So we will be, we will be, you know, kind of reminded of our past, but we don't have to dwell, we don't have to punish ourselves, we don't have to stay in guilt and condemnation, which of which we have been forgiven. Okay. So that is what we mean by releasing the past. It's very important because our present gets affected if we don't release the past. Our present and our future. Like it's like, I get into a boat. I want to sail, but the boat is still tied to the shore. Right. I'm doing all the right things. I'm getting into the boat, I'm looking at the dam, I've got a map. Oh, this is where I need to go. This is the place, wonderful adventure. I packed for the journey, everything. I've got into the boat and I'm rowing, rowing and rowing, but no progress because the boat is still anchored to the shore. So I need to release the past. I need to do that. We need to do that in order to move forward. If you don't release the past, we hold ourselves as prisoners to the past and not, we don't enjoy the present. Nor do we enjoy the future. So it's very, very important. The examples we see is Jacob. Jacob, you know, that he manipulated, got the birthright from Esau when Esau was at his weakest moment. He was hungry and so on. So then after many years now, he's going to meet Esau and Esau is coming with this big company of people and that night Jacob cries out to God. He wrestles with God. He has an encounter with God and God changed his name. He changed his name to Israel. So what is that? That means that, okay, I'm giving you a new identity now. You're a prince or you're a prince with God. So new identity, new future. So don't dwell on the past. Don't dwell on that old name. Here's a new name that I give you. So the thing is this, that we will be reminded sometimes and when we think about it, it might bring some fear, some kind of regret, but then you remind yourself again about who you have become, about your new identity and that, let that change your present and future. A good example that we see is the life of Joseph. Okay, very difficult, very traumatic time as a slave, in Potiphar's house, wrongly accused, put in prison, etc. Okay, so this is how Joseph testifies, right? Genesis 41, verse 51, Joseph called the name of the first born, Manasseh. Okay, says, for God has made me forget all my toil and all my father's house. Okay, second son, he calls you frame. For God has cost me to be fruitful in the land of my collection. Okay, so every time he calls his children, Manasseh, a frame, come here, do that, he's reminding himself that God has made me forget my toil. God has cost me to be fruitful. Right? Another version says like this, and to the first, he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house, all those bitter memory and hurt and pain. God has removed that. Okay, so much so that he came to a place, he was healed so much that he came to a place of forgiving his brothers when he had the ability to actually punish them. He was a top man in Egypt. He could have done anything. He could have taken vengeance on his brothers and we see so many things happening in families. When it comes to issues of let's say property or finances and things like that, so many things, double crossing, cheating, forgetting that they are actually of the same family, like we see those things happening. Whereas here, despite a lot of things going wrong because of his family, because of us directly, because of his family members, a lot of things going wrong. But he still is in a place of, let's say, we can say he's in a place of inner wholeness or inner health where he says, I forgive, am I in the place of God? You meant it for bad, you meant it for evil, but God turned it around for good. And he is able to have that special new perspective because he was able to let go. So this letting go is very important for us. So the question is this, in what areas are we holding on? And I'm sure God will show us, the Holy Spirit will show us, this is one area where you've not let go. You have to let go. This is one area where you're still struggling, you're holding on, which is affecting your present, which is affecting your future. So something that will help us to let go is this. We must actually be willing or we should give up our right to hold this past against God, maybe, or against people or against ourselves. Okay. Sometimes when you're hurt, you say, okay, I have the right to be angry. I have the right to be angry. I have the right to have angry with this person. I have the right to punish that person. Why? Because they did something wrong. I have the right to be angry with God because he disappointed me. He did not answer my prayers. He did not give me the breakthrough. I have the right to be angry with him. Okay, I respect God, all that, but inside I'm angry. Okay. So if we would give up that right to be angry, saying, okay, I have the right to feel this way about this person. I have the right. For all you know, it can be, if you look at it, it might seem like the right thing in a worldly sense. It might seem like, yeah, you have a right to be angry because they did all this against you. The least you can do, okay, you don't want to take revenge, but at least you can be angry. At least you can be offended. It might seem like, oh, this is something that I can. I'm only human. But if we would give up that right, okay, like we see all these examples, especially in Joseph's life, he gave up that right from what we see that he gave up the right to be angry with his brothers who had done this. And therefore, he was walking in that healing of emotions and healing of the past. Okay. Specifically, we can give up our right to say, God, where were you when all these things were happening? Why did you permit all this to happen? Who would give up that right? Second thing, against other people, why did you do this? Or I hate you for what you did for me. I hate you for what you've done this in my life. The least I can do is at least hate them. The least I can do is hold this grudge against them. If we would give up that right even. See, that is what is dying to the flesh. It feels so bad. How can I just give up this right? How can I give up this right to hold this grudge? Because the flesh is actually very strong, saying, you have to hold on. You are offended. Or it can even be like, don't you have your pride? Don't you have your sense of pride, self-respect? How can you not be angry? Okay. But if we would give that up, then we would release the past. Then another thing that would help us is to say, I'll never forgive myself for what I did. I'll never forgive myself for what I said. I'll never forgive myself for what I did because what I did or what I said, it had so much of consequences. I think I was sharing about how I found it very difficult to forgive myself because of my 12 standard marks. 10 standard did very well. 12 standard did poorly. So finding it very difficult to forgive. Lot of opportunities, lot of chances, a lot of encouragement and yet you did not make the best use of it. So I found it very difficult to forgive myself. But I had to do that in order to move on in life. Secondly, what we can do is to place our past in God's hands. Okay, saying God, you know what? I cannot revisit, I cannot change. But Lord, you know, can I put it in your hands? Can you help? Whatever has been wrong, whatever wrong thing has been done to me, maybe it's injustice, maybe I did not get what I was supposed to rightfully get, Lord. But you're the one who can turn things around. You're the vindicator. You're the God of righteousness and justice. So I place this, maybe this person, this event, whatever things that have happened, Lord, I'm just releasing, placing in your hands, please change. So here's a sovereign God, all powerful one, all knowing one. And we can say, okay, so the first thing is that we give up our right and then we release the past. We give up the right to be angry. We give up the right to take revenge. We give up our right to hold a grudge even. We give up our right. Second one, place it in God's hand. Thirdly, release forgiveness. This is something that we saw. Release forgiveness to all who have said something, or offended or done anything for us. And then the most important thing is this, that we need to stand firm with our decision. So what does that mean? That means that if I let go, I've let go. I will have opportunities to pick it up again through people who might say, I heard that this happened to you. So what are you doing about it? In our own, in my own life, that happened. There was a person who actually, with regard to some property is what happened, some court case and everything. He was actually known to one of my relatives, but then he turned against that person and then filed a case in order to take the property. And the thing was this, the case was so strong that finally it went in their favor. So the thing is, people still ask, even in the real estate agents, they ask, Sir, I believe this happened. This person, after all those years, so I have to make up my mind and say, okay, yes, this is true, but that's a close chapter. Let's not even go there, let's close chapter. And in our hearts, in our minds, at least personally for me, I had to make the decision and say, okay, God, I release forgiveness, bless that person. And the thing is that person is in ministry. So all the more, you feel, how can a person do that? But then, you know, you release forgiveness, bless that person, bless the ministry, God, you bring about your justice in your way, in your time, just release that person. So we need to stand firm to this decision that we've made to give up. Okay, we'll stop here and then we'll come back.