 Okay, welcome once again. And I have faith that you're enjoying my class. Good. According to my faith that you're happy sitting here in this class. Okay, let's look at what else Jesus said about faith and did with regard to faith. We saw how he encouraged people even when they were struggling to have faith in God. Now, the next important thing that we see here is that sometimes even when people did not have faith, God did a miracle. So why do you think God does a miracle even when people don't have faith? Why does God do a miracle? See, God wants us to have faith. Without faith, miracle cannot happen because Jesus even rebuked his disciples for the lack of faith. But sometimes he did the miracle when there was no faith. Why does he do that? Now, if you ask for examples, examples would be there was a paralyzed man at the pool of Bethesda and he never believed that Jesus can do a miracle. So when Jesus came, started talking to him, he was simply narrating to him the process of getting healed. An angel will come, it will stir the water. The first person who gets inside will be healed. But here is this man, you know, some 39 years long, long he's been waiting by the pool and never been healed. And when Jesus is coming and speaking to him, he still doesn't express his faith. He doesn't say, Jesus, I know you can heal me, nothing. But Jesus still ministers healing to him and he gets healed, the paralyzed man. Now, there are other instances like Martha and Mary. They don't believe that Jesus can raise up Lazarus now, but did Jesus raise Lazarus? Yes, he raised. Not because there was faith, because there was no faith actually. But still Jesus raised Lazarus. There was a lady from Nine whose son had died. She's crying. Jesus looks at her. He has compassion on her and he raises up her son. Even that lady in that moment, it's not like she believed, but two resurrections and, you know, one very major healing took place without faith. So why does God do this? Why does he even minister his power to people who may not believe? What is the reason? Okay, Paramita says he wanted to, he wants us to have faith, so he does miracles even when someone has no faith. Okay, interesting. So he wants others to have faith, so he does a miracle even when somebody doesn't have faith. Okay, fine. Any other reason why God does miracles even when there is no faith? We can see the, okay, when we see the miracle, we glorify the Father, okay, yeah. Any other reason why God is doing a miracle even when there is no faith? Okay, so Shekhar says love and compassion, God's love and compassion. Alright, so that's true. It's the nature of God. Our God is a gracious God. Okay, the Bible says that he makes the son to rise on the righteous as well as the wicked. You know, it rains on both the righteous and the wicked. Why? Because he's gracious. He's good. He's merciful. He's compassionate. So the nature of God is such that there are times when God just wants to step in and release a miracle because of the goodness of His heart. There may be no faith associated with it, but you think about Lazarus, the Bible says Jesus wept. He was really moved by the situation that had happened to a family that he went ahead, he did the miracle. He saw that woman who lost her son. He was moved with compassion and he did the miracle. So we serve a good God. So even sometimes when people don't have faith because he is so good, he does the miracle. Okay, he releases the healing. So without faith in exceptional situations, miracles can happen. Answers can come because of God's goodness. So that's how we understand it and God can even touch people powerfully. Maybe somebody comes to a meeting to find fault with it or somebody comes to a meeting to create trouble and that person gets healed and they are amazed. You know, how can God do this? You know, that person is not a good person, but who are we to judge? God is the one who knows people, knows their hearts and he decides what he wants to do for the people. And it's because of God's goodness that he moves sovereignly and releases miracles in people's lives. Now coming to one more insight. It is possible for us to stand in faith for somebody else. In the Bible you have many such situations. For example, that Centurion, he did not want healing. Who needed the healing? His servant. But who went? The Centurion. He goes and says, Jesus, my servant is sick. Heal him. Now Jairus, his daughter is sick. So Jairus goes. There is another incident where there are four friends. They take their paralysed friend. They have faith that their friend can be healed. But God heals that paralysed man because of the faith of those four people. So even today, when we trust God for somebody else, maybe we are believing God for, you know, a brother, a sister, a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, right? A husband, a wife. Could be anybody or our friends. There are some friends of us who need God to work in their lives. On their behalf, we can go to Jesus with our faith and God can do a miracle for them. It works even in that way. So it's very, very valuable. We can have faith for others. Now we also see that Jesus was very angry or upset, unhappy when people did not have faith. So every time, what was, you know, one of the things that really upset him? Lack of faith. So we observe Jesus rebuking his disciples. So in Matthew 8, I already said that he rebuked the disciples when he woke up and he told them, why are you fearful or you of little faith? So he was amazed because he had lived with them. He had walked with them. They had seen Jesus every day and when the storm came, they got scared instead of trusting that God can do a miracle. And so he tells them, why were you afraid or you of little faith? It's a way of, you know, just giving them a rebuk. Not just there, but even Peter. So when Peter fell, what did Jesus tell him? Oh, you of little faith. Why did you doubt? So he was not happy that he, you know, Peter didn't have faith. Now move on. In Matthew 16, again, there is an incident where he makes the same comment. He says, oh, you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread? So that was a time when they needed a miracle from Jesus, you know, the, the multiplying of food at that time when people were quite logical. It was that they were afraid there is not sufficient food for everyone. But in a crisis, what does it tell us? God expects us to have faith. So especially in a crisis, we have to look to God and say, God, yes, the situation is really bad. But we know you can do something about it. And that is faith. But when we get worried, when we, you know, sort of show our anxiety, obviously, it's almost like we can hear Jesus tell us, oh, you of little faith, why did you doubt? Why were you afraid? Instead of that, God wants us to have faith even in the midst of a crisis situation. Now in Matthew chapter 17, there is an incident when there is a child that is demon possessed and that child is brought to Jesus's disciples. The disciples try to cast the demon out, but they are not successful. Okay. And they bring the snatter to Jesus and they tell Jesus, this child is demon possessed and Jesus immediately cast the demon out. However, one thing that he tells his disciples in Matthew chapter 17 and verse 17 is, oh, faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? Bring him here to me. So Jesus is rebuking them, but it shows God's displeasure to a great extent because he says, oh, faithless and perverse generation, they were only faithless. But why did Jesus say perverse? Perverse means sort of, you know, when your character is corrupted, morally corrupted, that is the meaning of the word perverse. So Jesus is associating unbelief with perversity. So it's really huge the way God is looking at unbelief. It just goes to tell us that God does not like unbelief at all. He loves faith, but he hates unbelief. So he's rebuking his disciples and he's saying, oh, faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How much shall I teach you? How much shall I show you? And still there is unbelief in the hearts of the disciples. So faith is very important to God and it's very important for God to work in our lives. At the same time, unbelief really hinders the work of God. God does not like unbelief and the last section here, we see that there are some places where Jesus went and the Bible says he could not do many miracles because of their unbelief. Okay, so if we want to think of, look at it this way. If we want to stop God, what should we do? Don't believe, that's all. God wants to do, God can do, but you don't want him to show his glory. Unbelief will stop it. Even if God wants to move powerfully in our midst, if there is no faith, the Bible says Jesus could not do. How can Jesus not be able to do? He can always do, right? But the Bible specifically says in Matthew 13 and Mark 6, Jesus could not do many miracles because of their unbelief. Now think about the opposite. If there was faith, then what would the author have written? Jesus did many miracles because of their faith. The same thing is applicable to us today. When we don't carry faith as individuals or let's say as a community, a church community or now we are a student community, if there is faith, many miracles will take place. But if we carry unbelief, even though God can do, it's almost like, sorry to use this illustration, but just to make us understand I'm using it. I don't mean that we can chain God or anything like that because he's Almighty God, but it's as if unbelief can put handcuffs. God wants to do, but he cannot do. Why? Because unbelief is holding God back. And it's a big deal to understand this that with our faith, God can move. But with our unbelief, we can actually stop God. And that is quite dangerous. So we have to always remember to grow in our faith and to trust God to move in our midst. So these are some things, key things that we notice about Jesus and how he dealt with faith. So the important thing that comes out of our chapter three is we need to have faith. And according to our faith, how much faith we carry based on that we can see God work in our lives and guard your heart against unbelief. So I'll just give you one small example from my life. So whenever we used to have exams back in college and all, it was quite scary, especially like my first year of college, the subjects were very difficult. And when the final exam came, students were so scared that some were falling sick and all crazy things were happening. So with a lot of focus, commitment, we had prepared for the exams and you would go for the exams. But you know how it is, before you go into the exam hall, there'll be a lot of students talking. They'll hold their books and they'll be reading and then they'll say, did you read this question? Did you read that question? This has this answer. And come, let's revise the long answer. So in the beginning I used to listen to them. Then I thought, you know what, the little mustard seed faith which is in my heart is flying away like a bird. So I don't want to stand with any of these students. I'll just go separately, just guard my heart, guard my faith and answer what I know. I'm not going to be bothered by, you know, all this unbelief conversations also used to happen. Things like, oh, that subject, that teacher didn't teach well. So I don't think we'll be able to answer properly. Or we don't know for this, we don't have the book. So if this question comes, you won't be able to write it. What is all this unbelief, right? So I would think to myself, I have to guard my heart. I don't want to listen to any unbelief getting into my ears. So just go to a corner, guard my faith, right? So that I can go into the hall, write my exam in faith and come out. And it always worked. It's best sometimes not to listen to words of unbelief. Always keep your faith high. Look for environments of faith. Be planted in an environment of faith. Speak faith. Encourage faith. If there's unbelief, try to stay away from it. Because we know what can limit God. It's our unbelief. But what can allow God to work in our lives? It's faith, right? So faith and unbelief. There's this whole dynamics that happens. But as individuals to be able to determine, I have to live in such a way every day that I need to get faith. Stay away from unbelief. So it helps. And I'm just giving you one small example of the exams. But I think in everything else in life also, it's so helpful to be in an environment of faith. Now let's move on. Let's read a little bit more about faith. And regarding Jesus' teaching about faith. Chapter 4 here. Where Jesus taught specifically concerning faith. What are some key lessons that you can learn from the teachings of Jesus? Okay, so before we get into that, there is a small section which says truth versus facts. And what we want to explain here is that there are facts around us. For example, when in Matthew chapter 8, there was a storm and the disciples were on the boat. What are the facts? There is a storm. The boat is shaking. The water is coming in. It's very windy. The disciples are scared. These are all the facts. So we cannot deny the facts. This is the reality, natural reality. But what is the truth? Truth is the spiritual truth. The spiritual truth is God can stop the winds. God can calm the storm. That is the truth. So we put our faith in the truth. Not necessarily in the facts. Okay, so when we live in this way, we are not denying the facts. No, sometimes we see people who are sick or even in our own bodies, we experience some symptoms. And when we put our faith in God, that God will heal us. The question comes to our minds. Hey, I am saying, by the stripes of Jesus, I am healed. But I am sneezing. I have a cough. I have a cold. I have a pain. And how is it possible? Because the facts do exist. What are the facts? There are symptoms. But what is the truth? By the stripes of Jesus, I was healed. There is a greater spiritual reality. Though circumstances reveal the facts, there is a truth that we must put our faith in. So that's how we build our faith. We are not saying that I don't have fever. I have fever or I don't have any pain. I may have pain. So it's not about denying facts. Faith is not about denying facts. Faith is about proclaiming the truth of God's word. Now, facts would be, let's say, if somebody is in a poverty situation, we don't have food. We don't have shelter. We don't have clothes. We don't have money to pay the bills. These are facts. But what is the truth? Jehovah Jaira, the Lord is my provider. He provided for those thousands of people in the wilderness. He can provide for me. Every day, fresh food, fresh mana, he provided. He can provide for me. So we do not deny the facts. The natural facts. But we put our faith in the greater spiritual reality. So maybe today we may have a dream in our hearts and our minds and we're thinking, I know that God is going to make me lead a church or lead an organization five years from now, 10 years from now. Who knows, maybe God is going to establish, help me establish a Bible college. We don't know, right? But if God has put that dream in our hearts, we can look at ourselves today and say, but I don't know, I have not completed my theology course, but I have not got any opportunity to preach. You can look at all the facts and make that a big deal. Or you can look at the truth that when God said, He will bless me, He will bless me. Yes, right now I may not know everything, but I'm trying, I'm working hard. So we work through these facts, but we put our trust and our faith in the truth of God's word. So let's remember this. Okay. Don't deny facts. Denying facts is not faith because sometimes people teach that people say, you just say, I'm fine. You may actually have pain, but you're saying, No, I'm okay. I'm fine. I don't have any pain. I don't have any pain. You know, but actually you do have pain. So it's not about denying the facts. It's about relying on the greater spiritual reality or the truth of God's word. Now moving on to some things that we can learn from the teachings of Jesus. So when we look at the facts of life, you know, if we are not careful, we can make the facts as our doctrine or our teaching. For example, let's, let's say that if I have prayed for people. Okay. Just imagine with me. Maybe I prayed for 10 people. Okay. And all the 10 people died. I'm just saying if I pray 10 people and all the 10 people died, I can come and I can teach all of you and say, You know what? Sometimes prayer works. Sometimes prayer doesn't work. Sometimes even if we pray, people don't get healed. People, you know, yeah, the Bible says Jesus died on the cross, but it doesn't work. I can come and teach you things like this because I am coming from my experience. I'm coming from facts. Okay. We have to remember that we must never make the facts, the reality because now my experience can always change. Now tomorrow if I go and I pray for another 10 people, all of them in critical situations, all 10 of them get healed. Then what, what, what should I do? I'll change my teaching. First I said, if you pray also, people don't get healed. Now they all got healed. So I'll go and teach. If you pray, people get healed. Right? People get blessed. So we don't preach our experience. Are you all understanding what I'm saying? Because what happens? Experience can change. I can have a good experience one day. I can have a bad experience another day. And there can be many reasons why, you know, people may not have got healed. Maybe I didn't have faith in my heart. Maybe they didn't have faith in their hearts. It wasn't, you know, or something that they needed to repent for. There could be a thousand reasons why the person did not get healed. But if I go around preaching my experience, then I'm not preaching the word of God. Because no matter what my experience is on any given day, the truth of God's word says, Jesus died on the cross. He carried our sorrows. He carried our griefs. He carried our sicknesses. By his stripes, we are healed. That is the reality. The truth of God's word always remains the same. So when we preach, we must preach the truth of God's word and not our experiences. Because people should put their faith in the truth, not in our experiences. Okay? And that is something for us to remember. So we don't have the right to modify the truth based on our experiences. Now, let's move on. Look at some of the teachings that we find from Jesus. So the first insight for us is that the power or the force behind the mustard seed-sized faith is the infinite God Himself. So it was Jesus who said in Matthew chapter 17 and verse 20, because of your unbelief, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move from here to there and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you. And again, in another passage, Mark 9, he says, if you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. So in these passages, we understand that Jesus said, when we have faith, all things are possible. If you believe, all things are possible. Isn't it? Now, we may only depend on the faith aspect because it says here, Jesus said that if you believe, you are going to see the mountains moved. But the point we are making is, why is faith powerful? Faith is powerful because of the God behind the faith. Do you understand? Because of the God behind the faith. And that is what makes our faith powerful. So when we believe that a mountain will be moved or if we believe that we are going to be blessed because of the truth of God's word behind that faith, the miracle takes place. Now, if we don't understand this reality, what happens is, people may start using faith for the sake of faith. I'll just give you one example. There are times when people say things like, yes, we are blessed because of the cross. If you have faith, you can have anything, right? So I will literally ask for anything. I want a billion dollars and I want a Mercedes Benz and I want this and I want that. Why? If you believe, if you have faith in your heart, if you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. Jesus said, right? So I can just have faith in faith. But that's not how it is supposed to be. Yes, faith will work. People may even receive from their faith. You know, all these things outside of God's purpose. People may even receive it. But what was Jesus trying to say? The force will work or the power of faith will work. But faith must be anchored in God. Faith is powerful because of God. If we miss out God and his purpose and we are just using faith. Okay, you say it, you get it. You claim it, you believe it, you receive it. So many things happen in the Christian world because people are using this concept of faith and saying it will work. It has to work. They are right. It has to work. But why is faith powerful? We must never detach the infinite God behind this faith which works. So if we just separate and say, God, we don't want you. We don't want your will. We don't want your purpose. Just help us have faith. Give us faith. Faith is enough. We will use faith and get whatever we want. That's not the right way to express our faith in God. And we must be careful about that. So even though Jesus said that if you can believe all things are possible to him who believes, why do we believe so that we can live according to the purposes of God so that we can establish the things that God wants established in his kingdom. So separating faith from the infinite God is not the right thing to do. Now let's move on. Let's learn some more regarding faith. We will receive according to our faith. Now this is very, it can be very encouraging or it can be very discouraging. I'll tell you why. So there are two passages in our notes here. It says in Matthew 8, Jesus said to the Centurion, go your way and as you have believed so let it be done for you and the servant was healed that same hour. So what did the Centurion believe? He believed. If Jesus says one word, right now the miracle can take place. And Jesus says you go according to what you have believed. You believed that your servant can be healed right now. In the same way, the servant will be healed and it happened. In Matthew 9, for a blind man he says, according to your faith let it be to you. So it's again very encouraging because the blind man believed that he can see. So when we have faith in God for a miracle, those miracles take place. But imagine if we don't have sufficient faith. Now if the blind man, his faith was, yeah Jesus can heal but you know, it's so complicated. Maybe conjunctivitis, Jesus can heal but blindness, I don't know, maybe he can heal a little bit or I'll get, I said in only one eye. And if Jesus had said, okay, according to your faith and he gets only one eye, I said the other, he doesn't get eye sight. Why? Because his faith was small. Okay, so it works both ways. It's wonderful that Jesus said according to your faith, let it be done for you. If our faith is big, then all that we are expecting from God takes place in our lives. But if our faith is small, we can't blame God, right? Because God is saying you are believing only so much. I want to give you so much but you want to believe only a little bit. So then according to your faith, let it be done for you. So it's a question that we can ask ourselves, how big is my faith? Or how much can I believe God? What am I expecting God to do for me? Okay, so I'll just give you one nice example here. This was 2020 when COVID hit and 2020, I think beginning of the year, somewhere around March, we had on-campus students here in the same Bible college campus and we had to send them back home because COVID, right? They have to go back home. So we had to close off our residential program. And then on Zoom, we continued the classes for one semester and completed it. But the next semester, again, there was lockdown. Nobody expected lockdown for so many months. But think about this. God is so amazing. Like Pastor came up with this idea, why don't we open it out to the global community? We can get students from all over the world. So let's have online Bible college, okay? But when he first told us this, he told us, let us believe God to give us 200 students. Now you can think about this. Just now we've closed, finished one semester on Zoom and we're moving into online Bible college and Pastor is giving us the target 200 students. Where in the world, sitting at home, you're going to get 200 students, right? So he said, believe with me, everyone. Let's pray together. We'll get 200 students for our online Bible college. So very honestly, I couldn't believe it. I was like, 30 students? Okay. 200 students? You know, like honestly, I was like, how are you going to get 200 students? And that too from all over the world. So that was the target and I think, you know, everyone believed in it. But literally, there were 200 plus students from 200 countries registered on our online Bible college in 2020. So a situation where we have to close off the online Bible college on campus batch. Now God has moved it global. So we had students from New Zealand, from Canada, from, you know, so many nations in Africa. What are the nations we had? We had, I think the US also some people registered, Australia. So, I mean, the list just goes on. About 200 odd countries. Who can imagine that, you know, God can do exceedingly above more than you ask, think, or imagine, right? So that's how God works. According to your faith, if you can believe all things are possible. And that was really a huge lesson for me because my faith, I was like, I actually couldn't believe maybe because of the faith of the others. God has still done the miracle. And from that year onwards, like even right now, we have at least 400 odd students registered both for e-learning as well as online batch. So though, you know, we have, we don't see everyone together, the same classes are being or these same classes are attended by around 400 students, okay, on three different platforms. So anything is possible if you believe God and God can make a way for anything to happen. But it is according to your faith. And that's what Jesus was saying. So it's always a good thing for us to check. Like I checked myself. How big is my vision? How big is my dream? Sometimes we are the ones who are limiting God. God wants to do great things, but we tell him it's too big for you God. Let me help you. Okay, just make it a little less. Then it's more believable for me, right? But God is saying I don't have any problem believing. You are the one who has a problem believing. I can do great and mighty things according to your faith. But how big is your faith? How big is your dream? How big is your vision? That's a question that you would need to ask yourself. For God, nothing is a problem. Okay, let's move on. The next insight which we have here says our will and desire are involved in the exercise of faith. So there are many times when Jesus said something like, he said to the woman who is a Canaanite in Matthew 15, Jesus said, Oh woman, great is your faith. Let it be to you as you desire. So there is a connection between desire and faith. So we say that when we have faith for something, there's got to be a strong desire. For example, a good example that I cannot forget is the testimony of Pastor Yonge Cho. Many of you would have read his books and all that, but just to share about his ministry of how the church grew. So he shares in his books that when he started out his ministry, he got healed of tuberculosis and that was a big miracle in his life that when he experienced that God can heal and from that moment onwards, God put a dream in his heart to build a large church in South Korea and he started out with something like three people. But in his heart in his mind's eyes, whenever he would pray he would see thousands of people. So he was very passionate about it. So when his church had only about three people it seems he would preach like he's preaching to 300 people and the people sitting there three people, his family members only they would be like you're shouting too much we can already hear you. It's only three of us. Why are you shouting? We can understand your message. But in his heart, he was preaching for how many people? Maybe 300, 3000 people. The hall is empty. There are only three people. But he talks about how his desire was so strong. And for many days it was a small group and then slowly the church grew, some 30 people he had and he shares about how those days they had a tent in which they would meet so he would pray. He would go walk around the tent, pray hard, pray in the spirit and believe God. God told him, okay now you believe for more numbers. So God gave him another number something like 300. I don't know the exact numbers something like 300. So he started praying and he started saying Lord, you have to now help this church grow to 300. So he would walk around and pray 300. God, this is going to increase to 300, 300. And then slowly what happened? The church went from 30 to 300. Now it's one of the largest churches in the world in Seoul, Korea. It's called Yeouido Full Gospel Church and there are so many people in that church that now they cannot even have one combined service because you cannot accommodate so many people in one hall or in one place. So I'm not trying to promote any ministry. I don't even know much about their ministry but the point I'm making is a man who had a vision from God and God said I will increase your ministry to thousands of people. But there was a season when there were only three people right? But what is the most important thing that he had at that time? A strong desire, a faith in God which said God can do it right? Even if I'm sure there must have been times when they didn't have enough money when they didn't have permissions, when they didn't have people so many things could have gone wrong but when you carry on with the vision that God has put in your heart and you have a strong desire you say no God, you said it it's gonna happen. I'm gonna see it right? So then what happens? God wants that strong desire. What did Jesus tell that woman? He said, you know, great is your faith let it be to you as you desire. So firstly I asked the question how big is your faith? The second question is how much is your desire? We tell God I want to serve you. How much do you really desire to serve God? God I want to know you how much do you desire? This much? Or you know a whole lot. So it depends on our desire. It's only when we have a strong desire that faith will work alongside that but when we don't carry the desire even God understands that. He recognizes that hey actually yeah they're saying they want to serve me but yeah it's just like a small desire somewhere it doesn't help much but we find that there is a role that desire plays along with faith so we can check our own hearts in our own lives and ask the question how much do we desire to know the Word of God? How much do we desire to go deeper in worship? How much do we desire to know the things of the spirit? How much do we desire to demonstrate the power of the Holy Spirit? How much do we desire to walk in purity, to walk in holiness? These are all things that will reflect in our life it will reflect in our ministry because God will work on the basis of our desire. So when we say faith faith is associated with strong desire we need to develop strong desire for the things that God wants us to do through our lives. It may be for some of us here we may want to impact in the area of, I mean I heard many of your testimonies right the other day, maybe in the area of music but do you have a strong desire that I need to make an impact throughout the nation or globally? How strong is your desire? Or some of us we may want to establish, be in the corporate world but be a testimony for Christ, how strong is your desire? Or we may want to establish many churches how strong is your desire? God is asking us to really check our faith and our desire and he will work on the basis of our desire okay. Alright so let me just pause here for today and we will pick up from page 29 in the next week. If there are any thoughts or any questions we can deal with that now and then close with a word of prayer. You know sometimes we say that God is a good God, he will bless everyone, let him bless, let him make my church grow, we kind of put the responsibility on God it will happen, God will do it whenever we say things like that it's as if we are you know forgetting about our responsibility of carrying faith and also the strong desire which God wants from us. Okay so to say that yeah let God do it, God can do it, God will do it and being very complacent is not how Jesus taught us about faith. So if we are in that place where we say let God do anything, if he blesses it's okay, if he doesn't bless it's okay, if he heals it's okay, if he doesn't that's actually not the way God Jesus taught about faith he wanted us to be very intentional or you may even use the term specific about what do you want me to do you wanted those answers from the people so maintaining strong faith maintaining strong desire is important to see God working in our lives alright so if there are no more questions can we please pray and wrap up, I want to request somebody from the online batch to lead us in prayer okay just feel free anyone yes please go ahead Father God we just thank you for this power of study and we just pray that whatever you've taught us will help increase our faith not only for today but for the days to come Lord bless us Lord in this journey that we have taken with you and help us in every area of our lives where we have not expressed our faith in accordance with thy word and I will we pray for a blessing upon the entire staff and all the students here Lord and lead us Lord today tomorrow and in the days to come thank you Lord Jesus amen amen amen thank you thank you brother and thank you everyone God bless you yeah we'll close for today and we'll get back into faith next yeah bye for now