 Okay, recording is on. Good, good, good. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this course, BC 111 on Fate. Thank you for joining the class. I think others will be joining in as well. Thank you for connecting. We're going to pray, and after we pray, we'll get started, do a little introduction to the course, and we will spend time. Hopefully, we will cover chapter one today, right? So let's just pray together. I just want to request somebody just to lead us in prayer. Let me ask Lubega Collins. Brother Lubega Collins, would you be able to pray with us, please? And let us start. Father in heaven, we come before you. We thank you for this wonderful day. You know, we are not here because of our power or mighty, but we are here because of your grace. Lord, as we are going to start our lecture about faith, Lord, we call upon your Holy Spirit to guide us, to remind us, and also to enable us to do everything as per the direction of our dear master. So Lord, we do call upon also our friends who have not yet joined the class. Lord, please give them grace and favor to meet us when it's not yet too late. We do pray and believe that this class is going to go into peace, but not into pieces. We do pray in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and everybody else. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Brother Lubega. God bless you. Thank you. All right. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to this class. Now, as we do all the course notes will be put up in the Classwork section of the Google Classroom, so you just have to download it from there. And also the recordings of these lectures will be available in the Classroom section. So if you want to go back and just review any lecture, you're welcome to do that as well. I'm just going to quickly go through the two PDFs that have been uploaded and you may have downloaded those PDFs already or you can download them and follow along. So this doc, the first PDF just gives us an overview of what we're going to cover in this course. Of course, this course is on fate, so we're going to be studying fate in detail, you know, just spending a lot of time studying what fate is. How do we exercise faith and how do we walk by faith in God? And so we'll be covering various aspects of faith as we have listed here. And the whole objective really is to enable all of us to learn how to walk by faith and of course the best way to do it is, you know, put it into practice. So while in this course we are studying from the Word of God, we are learning, we are understanding, I want to encourage each of us to begin to practice it. Just apply it in your life in small ways. In whatever ways you can, the things that we learn begin to apply it in your life and you will be able to grow in this. Some of you may be already familiar with teaching on faith and so this may add to what you already know and encourage you in your walk of faith. In terms of assessment, we'll have just three simple assessments, September, October, November, based on what we are studying. And these will be put up in the Classwork section in the classroom and you can just respond to the assessments over there, the grading scheme, you're all familiar with that. And we will be giving you the notes each week as we progress. We will give you the PDF and you can download it. I would also encourage you to download one of our free books, Speak Your Faith. It's available there at apcw.org slash books. In fact, I'd encourage you just download all our books and make use of it. They're all free. Use them to nurture yourself in your spiritual life. So we're going to get started here, just giving an introduction to faith, to the whole subject of faith. You know, now, faith, it's an important theme throughout the Word of God. And why is faith important? You know, why is this whole aspect of faith important? And we will talk about, talk more about it, but just by way of introduction. I just want to mention a few things. You know, God gives us, gives to us freely by grace, but faith receives what God gives freely by grace. That's why in the Scriptures, you'll find grace and faith are so important. God gives out of his grace, faith receives what God gives in his grace. And God invites each one of us to come to him in faith and to receive by faith. So that's important for all of us because, you know, we shouldn't think and that, you know, things will just drop off on our lives automatically. Just because God is gracious, God is loving, it is true, God is gracious, God is loving, but then God wants us to pursue in faith and to receive by faith what he gives to us freely by grace. And that's why faith is important for us. And God is pleased when we do that. He's pleased when we pursue by faith what he gives to us freely by grace. God is pleased when he sees us doing that. The Scriptures tell us that, you know, without faith it's impossible to please God, or if you put it in the other way, faith pleases God. And so he wants us to pursue by faith what he's making available to us freely by grace and it pleases him when we do that. Now, some of you may know about Smith Wigglesworth. He may have read some of his sermons that have been put into books, but he was referred to as an Apostle of Faith and he was known to have made this statement. He said, God would pass over a million people in order to touch one person who has faith in him because faith gets the attention of God. So God passes so many people, there are so many people God could touch, but why does he respond? Why does he touch that person? Very often the answer is because of faith and God touches that person in response to their faith in him. Right, so that's why faith is important because it gets the attention of God. So, you know, whatever, you know, we want to receive from God, whether it's healing for our body, whether it's change in our life situations financially, change in, you know, things that are happening, overcoming temptation, overcoming the adversity, overcoming difficult situations in life, seeing the blessing of God over our lives, fulfilling the work of the ministry, every area of our lives, we have to do it by faith because the Bible says we walk by faith. That means everything we do, A to Z, everything we do in life, it has to come out of faith in God. Small things, big things, every area of our life, we have to cause faith in God to bear upon every aspect of our lives because we walk by faith. So these are some of the things we will emphasize as we go through the study on faith and we will, you know, get into the practical aspects. How do we exercise faith in God? How do we receive from God? How do we minister to people in faith? How do we handle situations in faith? So we will break it down and make it very simple, very practical. Right? So to get started, let's go to Hebrews chapter 11, verse one, and it's right there on the PDF. If you want to turn in your Bible, you know, and that's also, that's fine. We will start off just by looking at Hebrews 11 once, spend some time on it. And many refer to that verse of scripture as the Bible definition of faith. So it's good for us to, you know, try to understand it and see what it says. So could somebody please read Hebrews 11 one for us? Somebody could just... Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Amen. Thank you. So I'll just read this. This is from the New King James. It says, faith is the substance of things hoped for. The evidence of things not seen. I like to read it from the Amplified Bible and it's there in the PDF, the Amplified Bible, the Classic Edition. This is how it renders that verse. It says, faith is the assurance. And then in brackets it adds the words, you know, the confirmation, the title deed. Of things we hope for. Being the proof of things we do not see. And the conviction of their reality. Faith perceiving as real fact. What is not revealed to the senses. So first of all, and now let's just try to understand this. Now, just as a general introduction in the New Testament, we see the words, faith and the belief, faith and believe. You know, have faith in God or believe in God. Now you see the words, but what I want us to understand is that both these words come from the same root Greek word. Just that one is a noun and one is a verb, but they come from the same root word. So really faith and believing, they are really the same thing. Just that faith is a noun and believe is a verb, believe has to do with action. Faith is the key thing that you're having faith in or in. So, you know, and I've just written some statements here. One is believing is the act of having faith. You know, if you want to look at that, they mean the same thing. So we will use them interchangeably, but believing is the acting or the act of having faith. And faith, as we see it, it is, it is believing something with conviction and constancy. That means it's faith is credence that is believing something with conviction with that firm assurance, confidence and constancy. That means you're not changing over time. So faith is believing with conviction and constancy. Now, I want us to recognize that faith, while faith requires knowledge, that means you need to know whom you believe and what you believe. Faith is just doesn't stop there with knowledge. And sometimes we make that mistake, right? We, we think just because I know about something, I know about God or I know about his miracles. I know about his power. That means I believe it, not necessarily, right? The way you can tell you really believe is if we will act in accordance to it, right? So faith goes more than just knowing faith is our willingness to act according to what we know and believe, right? So faith really is action. We'll emphasize that as we go along. Now, I want us to look back here on Hebrews 11-1 and what are the two things that faith has to do with it? He's saying faith is the substance of things hoped for. Things hoped for and things not seen, the evidence of things not seen. So faith has to do with these two kinds of things, things hoped for and things not seen. Things hoped for means things that you're looking forward to, things you're desiring for, things that you, you know, you want to have hoped for, things hoped for and things not seen. That means these are unseen realities. So faith really has to do with things hoped for, things that are out in the future, things that are not there right now, but things that you really want to bring into this realm, into the now, things hoped for. Things desired for and things not seen, things that are unseen, things that are not in this natural realm. So faith has to do with these two things according to Hebrews 11-1. It has to do with things hoped for and things not seen. So let's get into some practical thoughts on that things hoped for. What do you and I hope for? You know, some of us may say, well, I am hoping that, you know, the promises that I'm reading in the Bible will be fulfilled in my life. That's a good thing. Some of us may say, well, I hope that, you know, the things that God has put in my heart, I will be able to achieve, I will be able to accomplish, there are dreams that I have. I want to see those dreams fulfilled. Well, faith works in relation to those things because those are things hoped for. Then some of us will say, well, you know, God has promised something, but it is a spiritual promise. It is in the spiritual realm. I want to see it happen. Well, things not seen, things in the unseen realm, faith is in relation to those things. But God has promised for us in the spiritual realm and we want to bring it into the natural realm. So faith concerns things hoped for and things not seen. It's in relation to those things. But what is faith in relation to things hoped for, in relation to things not seen? What is it? He says two things. It is the substance. It is the evidence. It is the substance. It is the evidence. Faith, what is faith? It is the substance. It is the evidence of things you're hoping for, things that you cannot yet see. But faith is the substance. It is the evidence of such kinds of things, things you're hoping for, things you cannot yet see in your life. But you want it there. Now, what is the meaning of the word substance? And the word evidence. The word substance, as you can see how they put it in the amplified Bible. And if you also look at the Greek, I've mentioned it in the notes a little below. The word substance simply means the groundwork, the firm. The word literally there are hypostasis. It means groundwork. It is the reality. It's the groundwork. But it also is a word in the Greek that was used to refer to title deeds. Title deeds means proof of ownership. When you buy something, you get a title deed for it. That you are the owner of it. So, you know, let's say example, you buy, let's say you buy a car or you buy a house or something. Then you get a piece of paper that says, you know, this property located at such and such a place was sold to and they put your name on it. Or same thing with buying a car. You know, this car vehicle number this, this, this was sold to put your name. And that piece of paper is your proof of ownership. It says, you know, that thing belongs to this person. That's the title deed. So what, what this verse is saying, faith is the assurance. It is the confidence and it is the, it is the substance and it is the title deed, the proof of ownership of what? Of things hoped for. That means there are things I'm hoping for. Desiring for. I don't have it now, but I want that. I desire that. But my faith is the substance of those things. My faith is the proof of ownership of those things. That is my faith says, I have it. I have the substance of the things I'm hoping for. The thing I'm hoping for is actually out there. It's not here. I don't have it yet, but my faith is the substance of that. It's saying I already have it. My faith is the title deed of things I'm hoping for. That means it says I own it. But actually it's out there. It's things hoped for. But my faith is the substance. It's the title deed of what I'm hoping. And it is also the evidence of unseen things. That word evidence, if you look it up in the creek, it simply means conviction or proof conviction. So faith is the conviction of things not seen. That means I like the way the amplified Bible puts it. It says it is, it perceives as a real fact, what is not revealed to the senses. That means faith is the conviction of things not seen. They're still the spiritual realm. My senses don't recognize it, but I'm convinced about it. Because God said it. Because God promised it. So I'm convinced about it. Of things not seen. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to repeat what I said about Hebrews 11 1 and after that I will pause and we will take some questions. So in case you want me to explain anything or have any questions, we will take it up. But let me repeat what I just said in Hebrews 11 1. We see the Bible definition of what faith is. We said that in the Bible, faith and believe come from the same root word. So except that faith is the noun and believe is a verb. So really faith is or believing is the act of having faith. And you know, we need to act on it. What we believe. Faith has to do with two things. According to this verse, things hoped for things not yet seen. Things hoped for things that you're deciding longing to have. Things hoped for things not seen thing. They're unseen things. They're not there yet. Yes, maybe in the spiritual realm. But faith is the substance of things hoped for that word substance. It's the groundwork. It's the reality. It's also means title deed proof of ownership. So the things that I hope you're hoping for, but your faith is the substance of it. Your faith is as good as you having it. Because it's a substance of that. And it is also the title deed. It's a proof of ownership of that things you're hoping for. But your faith is saying, I got it. And faith is the evidence, the conviction of things not seen. That means it's out in the future. It's unseen, but you're convinced. So that is right. It's your proof of ownership. It's your conviction of what you're hoping for of things not yet seen. So I'm going to pause at this moment. And I would like to take up any questions you may have on what we just looked at. Hebrews chapter 11 was one. Any questions, any thoughts on that? Any clarification you need? Was it clear? Did you all understand it? Any questions, please? Was it clear? Okay, go ahead. Did you have a question? Go ahead. Yeah, I was just, I don't know whether it will be covered in the subsequent chapters, but I was thinking what is the difference, the real difference between faith and hope? Yeah, so, yes, I think we have a chapter that comes up talking about faith and hope. But let me just give a brief few statements on that. Faith has to do with now. Hope has to do with the future. For example, we all have the hope of being with Jesus after we leave this world. Whether, you know, the Lord comes and takes us home in the rapture, or whether, you know, we die and go to heaven. We have this hope that we will be with Jesus. It's a hope. Hope because it's not something we're expecting now. We know it's there in the future and we leave it there in the future. I am not by faith trying to pull that in the here. No, I believe it, but it's in the future. I'll leave it there. So that is a hope I have because I'm confident about it, but I've left it in the future. So hope is in the future. And I think Romans 8 explains that. I'll just give you one verse on that, Romans chapter 8. Romans 8 and verse 24 and 25. Romans 8, 24 and 25. Divya, you want to read that? Yeah, yeah, sure. Romans 8, 24 and 25. For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. Yeah, so you're saying, if it has to do with the now, then that's not hope, right? Hope is what we do not see, and hope is something we are waiting for. But we hope inspires endurance, right? With endurance, we are waiting for it in the future. Whereas faith has to do with the now. That means God, there are things I desire, things I don't see, I want to bring it in now. Example, healing, right? So think about two things. Healing for our body versus a glorified body. A glorified body is something we hope for, meaning it's going to happen, but it's in the future. And I cannot bring it into the present because God will do that in his appointed time. Our bodies, our mortal will put on immortality and death will be swallowed up by victory, and we will have glorified bodies. But healing is something we can go after now because it's God's promise, right? So I can desire for it. Maybe if there's healing I need in a certain part of my body, I can desire for that because God promised it. It may be unseen, that means my physical senses may not at this moment experience it. But what is faith? The faith is the substance of things I desire. What do I desire? Healing. It's the conviction of unseen things, of unseen realities. What does it, what my natural senses don't perceive yet? Healing. And I'm convinced about it. So faith brings into the now what God has promised. Or faith brings into the now what I desire. Whereas hope leaves in the future what God has promised. Hope leaves in the future what, what, what, you know, what God has promised what we're looking for, right? So that is the difference. I hope I explained it. Yeah, yeah, Pastor, but both faith and hope, both of them require faith, right? Yeah, yeah, so both are important. Both are important. So let's put it like this. Hope is a precursor to faith. Hope is a precursor to faith. Hope pulls faith out of our hearts. So there is, there are elements that we hope for, which we leave in the future. But there are elements that we hope for, which we want to bring from the realm of hope into the now. Example, I hope to be able to bless people. That's a hope, which I want to be able to pull into the now. Right? That means I want to really bless people. Or I hope I will be able to, you know, minister God's word. I hope I will be able to pastor a church someday. Somebody may have a hope that, you know, I hope I can, you know, bless whatever, you know, we have hope. So that element, that aspect of hope, we want to bring it into that now. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. All right. I see Paul's comment past. I think there should be a separate person assigned to admit people into the class. We're waiting for 30 minutes. Okay, Paul. I am sorry about that. But the way Google classroom works is we set up an auto. It has an auto admit feature. That means so we don't physically admit people. It's auto admit so you can come in. But I think what at least what I've observed is when I change the screen, that is when I go off this Google meet and I'm looking at the PDF or so, people tend to get stuck. The auto admit feature doesn't work automatically. And I think that's why this happens. So maybe I would suggest if you don't mind, join the class a few minutes before the class starts. So, you know, if the class is starting at nine o'clock, you can just join at eight 58 or eight 59. So then what happens is when I start the class and if I have to move to a PDF or if I have to move to another screen on my computer, you know, and sometimes the auto admit feature doesn't work, you can still you'll still be there. But there is nobody who's controlling it. It's an auto admit feature in Google classroom. Okay. So maybe that would be a good solution. Just join for a couple of minutes before the class starts. It should be fine. Then you won't get stuck, right? I hope that would be okay. Okay. God bless you, Paul. Thank you. All right. Yes. So, yeah, so that's a very interesting question about faith and hope and we need that, you know, like we all are familiar with first Corinthians 13. It says there is faith, hope and love. Faith, hope and love. And of course one day faith and hope will be done away with because everything, you know, we will be seeing the Lord face to face and only love will remain. But there is a distinction there between faith and hope. Both are important. And if you see really, as I said, there are things that we hope for, but Hebrews 111 says, you know, faith brings that hope into this realm. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. It is the title deed of things hoped for. Yeah. And faith is also the conviction of unseen things, things that are a natural sense to say, well, I can't feel it. I can't, you know, experience it right now, but faith is convinced about it. And the reason is because of who God is and his word, right? And we will, we will come to that. So Hebrews 111 is a very beautiful definition of faith. Let me look at some other questions in the chat. Titus asks, sorry, can faith, sorry, your question is, can faith call a prophecy word in our life? I'm not sure if I understood that question of this. Can faith, did you mean can faith fulfill a prophetic word over our life? Is that what your question is? Yes, sir. Right. Okay. So I think the question is like a prophecy word. Okay. Okay. I'm trying to understand. Maybe this is what I understand from your question. Maybe somebody gives us a prophecy and I think your question is, can faith cause that prophecy to be fulfilled? Right. And that's important. Right. So faith is needed in order to fulfill prophecy or prophetic words over our life. I'll just give you two scriptures on that. One is second chronicles chapter 20 and worse 20. Again, it's a familiar words in second chronicles 20 and worse 20. The prophet there says, believe the Lord your God and you will be established. Believe his prophets and you will prosper. Right. Second chronicles 20 and worse 20. So we have to believe. We have to believe the prophetic word. And another scripture is first Timothy chapter one verse 18 where Paul is telling Timothy. He says, you know, with the words of prophecy that were spoken over your life. First Timothy chapter one and worse 18. Paul says. I want you to wage a good warfare with the prophecy spoken over your life. You know, so while prophecies are spoken, we have a responsibility. He must wage a good warfare. We must fight a good fight with those prophecies. Okay. So that's where faith comes in. Next question is from Titus. When does the faith, when does the faith hope for comes to reality? How much time does it take? That's an interesting question Titus. You know, there is, there is no like set time. We will see in scripture and we'll also see in our own experience that there is no set time. We can't say take five minutes, five hours or five days for something to be fulfilled. There's no set time like that. What the Bible does teach us is to have endurance until we see the promise fulfilled. You know, so Hebrews chapter six verse 12 and all of these scriptures we will be touching on. And as we, as we develop this course, it's good you're asking questions and it's good to repeat things as well. Hebrews six and verse 12, the Bible says, you know, follow the faith of those of all of the example of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises. You know, faith and patience inherit the promise. That means God has given a promise you have faith, but you need patience to receive it. So if you just look at two examples, example in Mark 11, we will be studying that Jesus cursed the fig tree. But when he cursed the fig tree, nothing happened at that moment. Nothing happened. Because he cursed the fig tree. He said, no fruit will grow on you. Now on, nothing happened. The disciples were there. They looked at it. Nothing happened. They kept walking. But the next day, the next day when they passed by, they saw the fig tree and it was dried up. And they were also excited. I said, master, master, you know, look, the fig tree you cursed is dried up. So it didn't happen instantly. It didn't happen at that moment. But they, you know, we don't know, it may have, I don't know, it may have happened five minutes later. It may have happened 10 minutes later or whenever, but they just saw it the next day. But we can say it didn't happen instantly. They saw it the next day. So there was a time element there. But then you also think about Abraham. God gave him a promise and it took 25 years for him to have Isaac. You know, so there's a different time element than Hebrew 612 is actually pointing to Abraham says, follow the faith of Abraham who through faith and patience inherited the promise. So there's a time element. There's no fixed time. We just, you know, have to walk with God, right? I see now, Sid Kenu. How do we have the right amount of faith? So I would respond to that question. There's a question here by Sid Kenu asking, how do we know we have the right amount of faith because you said if you have faith as a mustard seed, you can move the mountain. I think there are two things to look at. One is, which we will learn. See, faith will produce. So if your faith is producing, then you know you have the right amount of faith. If your faith is not producing, then like Paul wrote to the Thessalonians, that we need to find out what is lacking in our faith. This is 1 Thessalonians 3 and verse 10. I'm just referencing 1 Thessalonians 3 verse 10. Paul says, you know, he's writing to Thessalonians. He says, you know, I want to perfect what is lacking in your faith. So if our faith is not producing, means to ask God, God, what is lacking in my faith? Because Jesus, if you have faith, it will move the mountain. So the one way to know that there is that faith is, is it producing? If my faith is not producing, then I need to go to God and say, God, what is lacking in my faith? And that's what Paul writes to the Thessalonians, verse Thessalonians 3 and 10. He says, you know, I want to come and I want to perfect what is lacking in your faith. And we need to have that happen to us. That word perfect means to fill up, you know. So you can imagine a cup, water, maybe is three fourth away. It's not full. There's something lacking. And so, you know, you fill it up so that it's full, right? So you bring it to completion. So Paul is telling them, you know, we need to find out what's lacking in the faith. So we do that as we go through, we will learn how to fill that up so that our faith can produce. So one way to know that you have the right amount of faith is, is your faith producing? If it's producing, then you have the faith that you need. The other thing also is that faith goes through a process of maturity, right? You know, the same word perfect that's used here in Thessalonians 3, verse 10. You also see in James chapter 2. And again, we will be looking at all of these things as we journey through faith through this course. I'm just answering questions in James chapter 2 and verse 22. James 2, verse 22. James is writing about the faith of Abraham. And he says, by works, faith was made perfect. By works, faith was made perfect. That means his faith came to a place of perfection, a maturity through works. So sometimes we start off with faith, but we need to do some works. We need to act of faith. We need to put our faith into action so that the action brings our faith to a level of maturity that it can produce. So if I find that there's something lacking in my faith, what can I do? James 2, 22 says, our works bring our faith to maturity, to a place where it can produce. So if my faith is not producing, how do I perfect what is lacking in my faith? One of the ways is I need to start acting on my faith because through my actions, my faith is brought to perfection, to a place where it can produce. So I hope, did we all understand that? Is it okay? So we will be covering all of these things in depth as we go along, but I'm just touching on it because you've asked some questions. Very good. So what we've done so far is Hebrews chapter 11, verse 1. Faith has to do with two things, things hoped for, things that you are desiring, things you're hoping, things hoped for and things not seen. That means it's not there right now, sorry, it's not there right now in your life, things not seen, your senses cannot perceive it. But faith has to do with those kinds of things. And what is faith? It is the substance or the title deed. It is the substance of things hoped for. You're hoping for it but faith says I have it. It's almost like I can feel it, I can touch it, it's where is it? It's in my heart, right? So faith is the substance. Your faith is the substance of things you're hoping for. You know, it's a hope but you've got the substance of it. For you it's a real. Or like we said that same word means title deed, proof of ownership. So in your heart you're saying I have it. When somebody says how do you have it? Give me proof. My faith is my title deed. My faith is my proof of ownership. My faith says it's mine. My faith is the substance of what I'm hoping for. My faith is a title deed. It's the proof of ownership of what I'm hoping for. That's faith. And secondly, Hebrews 11-1, faith is the conviction of things not seen. And you can't see it. Your natural senses say I can't feel it. It doesn't seem like it's there. But faith is convinced about it. It is mine. I have it. So that is faith. Faith is the substance, the title deed. Faith is the conviction, the confidence, the assurance in our hearts. Is that okay? So we're going to build upon this. We will take a quick break. And we will come back in 10 minutes. And we will build on this further. Any questions, please feel free to ask. So let me just quickly answer Elisha's question. And then we will go for a break. So Elisha has a question. How different is this faith? What we're discussing from the gift of faith. We talked about in 1 Corinthians 12. That's a good, very good question. So what we will learn as we journey through this course is, and what we're dealing with is our personal faith. Faith is each one of us have been given a measure of faith. So Romans chapter 12 and verse 3. Romans 12 verse 3, we will be looking at it. God has given to us a measure of faith. So every person has been given faith. Faith is in your heart. It's there. You have the ability to believe God. And then you nurture your faith. You grow your faith in God. The gift of, so that faith you carry in your heart all the time. It's your faith in God. It's in your heart. The gift of faith, which we read in 1 Corinthians 12 verse 7 through 11, is a supernatural momentary impartation of faith in God to achieve a certain task. So the gift of faith is given to you at a certain moment by the Holy Spirit for you to believe God. But it's momentary, meaning it's given to you for that moment of time. And it is for a specific task to minister to somebody in a certain way. So the gift of faith, it's there. You operate it. I mean, it works and then it's gone. Whereas your personal faith is something you grow in, you walk in, you nurture. So what we are going to learn about in this course is about our personal faith. How do we grow in our faith and how do we walk in it? So this is faith you can use any time. Whereas the gift of faith is given to you by the Holy Spirit at that moment to minister to somebody. So example, if you're ministering, you know, if there's a person who's sick, the Holy Spirit imparts faith and you just minister to that person in faith. You declare the word to him and say, we got the Lord Jesus Christ heals, you rise up and walk. That's a momentary impartation of faith in your heart to minister that way to that person. It comes to you and you just release a word to them saying, you know, I say in, you know, within 24 hours, this is going to happen and this will change in your life. You're not speaking from the top of your head. You're releasing faith and you're speaking that because there was a gift of faith given to you and you speak it. And it causes that thing to take place in their lives. So that's the difference. One is momentary. One is something you have all the time. Right. One last question is faith, a gift of God or a fruit of God. So a faith is something that God puts in our hearts, but we develop that we grow in it. God sort of Romans 12 3 God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. So God gives it to us, but then we grow in that we develop that faith. Right. So God gives it. You're saved by grace through faith, which God has given to us, but we develop our faith in God. We grow in God. Okay. We'll talk more about that. Rebecca. Okay. All right. So let's take a 10 minute break and we'll come back right after a break and continue this. And we'll take up more questions. There are more questions. Okay. God bless. Thanks.