 Alright, welcome back everyone. We'll continue to discuss regarding praying in the spirit. So there were a few more questions in the chat that we couldn't answer. So Lucy says, sister, when we pray over a person for healing, can we check with them if they are healed to have confirmation? Is it right or wrong to have confirmation from them? So yeah, when we pray for healing, sister Lucy, like from Jesus' ministry, we see that in some situations Jesus said, you know, take up your bed and walk or he gave them an instruction which was really a test. So if they were really healed, they will be able to rise up, take their bed and walk, isn't it? So there were things like that that he asked them to do in order to check. So same thing today. If we feel after we've prayed that we should tell them, let's say if they are telling, I can't, I'm not able to lift my hand up. So after you pray, you can just say, sister, can you try? Can you lift your hand up? And you can do that in some instances, but in all cases, it may not be possible, sister Lucy. In some cases, we may have to just wait. For example, if I pray for someone with, let's say, some power in their eyes and I command healing for their eyes and I strongly feel that they were healed. Okay. Now, I can't tell them, remove your glasses because like if I do that and it actually makes it uncomfortable for them, it's not right. So, okay, I have faith that this person got healed. Now we have to just wait and watch. Maybe when once, obviously if your eyes are healed, you cannot wear power. It'll be uncomfortable, right? You will want to remove it if your eyes are healed. So in that situation, maybe that person should be given some time so that on their own, they remove the specs or they may go to the doctor and the doctor might say your eye, your power is fine now. You don't need the glasses. Please remove it. Got it. So the point is, we can instruct them like check and see, walk and see, stretch your leg and see. We can do that because it's biblical. But in some cases, it may not be the practical thing to do. Some cases after praying, you just have to give them some time and you'll automatically find out whether or not that person was completely healed. So, Sister Lucy, I hope it's fine with you. Alright, now coming to Vicky's question. What does God say about the tongues even though praise and cursing? Okay, what does the word of God say about the tongue? So when you say the tongue, you don't mean tongues, no, Vicky. You're just asking about the words that we speak. So you can go to James chapter 3. James chapter 3 is a passage. You will see there, it talks about the power of the tongue, the power of the words that we speak. And he says that this tongue is such a powerful part of our body. It's like the rudder of the ship. Okay, so the rudder of the ship is a very small part. But when you sort of regulate the ship, just with the rudder, it can change the direction. Or he also uses the analogy of a spark. You light a match and you get a flame. Now, with a little flame or a spark, you can do something productive, like you can cook. Or you can do something destructive. You can go to a dry forest and just put a spark. What will happen? The forest will burn. So he says the tongue is so powerful, like that rudder, like that fire. So it can be used for something that is good. It can direct our life into something that is good. Or it can direct our life into something that is evil. Therefore, we have to be very careful about the words that we speak, the declarations that we say. And he also will compare blessing and cursing. How is it as believers? We speak good things. And at the same time, the same tongue speaks evil things, gossip, slander. So that should not be the case. So he talks about taming the tongue or disciplining the speaking in a believer's life. So all this is there we keep. It's a totally different subject here. So I won't get into it, but I have given you something to look into. So James chapter 3 will be very helpful for you. And of course in Proverbs 1821, it says life and death is in the power of the tongue. So the tongue is very powerful. So whatever we speak, the words we speak, we must be careful about. Okay, coming here. Okay, do you have a different question, Vicky? Did I answer you correctly or did I say something else? Yeah, yeah, it's correct. All right, so any more questions regarding tongues? If there are, let's talk about it. Otherwise, I'll jump to the next chapter here. Okay, overall, I hope that we are convinced that the gift of tongues is very, very crucial in the life of a believer. If you want to study more, I have already shared in the last class, there is an APC publication by the name of the wonderful benefits of speaking in tongues and it examines quite elaborately how a believer can begin to operate in the gifts of the spirit and especially in the area of tongues. And there are also some frequently asked questions which will clarify our common doubts. So that's for your homework. You can go ahead and read that book. You have it even in Hindi. If you want to, you know, get more clarity regarding this matter. So I'll leave it at that. Okay, Nadel has a question. How do we get baptized in the Holy Spirit? So Nadel, what I'll do is I will recommend a book for you as well. And I'll move on to the next chapter here. So there is an APC publication by the name Holy Spirit Baptism. So you can go and read that. It gives you the entire teaching about the baptism in the Holy Spirit and how a believer can receive it and what happens after that. Yeah, please do read that book. Okay, on that note, let's move to chapter eight here, which is about developing our personal prayer life. So we're talking so much about prayer so that we can develop ourselves in prayer. Prayer is important for each believer. So how is it that I can build up my own prayer life? So we look at some important pointers. So when we say prayer life, there are at least two categories that are relevant to all of us. One is personal prayer life. The other is corporate prayer life. Your personal prayer life is the praying that we do alone. The praying that Jesus said, go into your closet. Okay, shut the door behind you and then you pray. So we pray by ourselves. Only God knows about it. So that is personal prayer. Corporate prayer is when we are with other people and we pray. So it is important to also have a corporate prayer life. Maybe that could be praying as a church congregation or praying as a family, praying in cell group, praying in some meetings, gatherings, things like that. But you can't replace personal prayer with corporate prayer. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say because sometimes what happens, the only time we pray is when we pray in public because we don't have a personal prayer life. And that's the most dangerous, very very dangerous way of living life as a believer. Where only in ministry we pray, from the pulpit we pray, from the stage we pray. But personally, there's no time with the Lord. Now, we must definitely not go on that route and be very careful about developing a personal prayer life. So when we say prayer life, it is going to require discipline. Like every other good thing that we want to develop in our lives, we need discipline. When we say, okay, I want to learn a language, it's going to take focus, plan, hard work. You're going after it systematically. So what is that? There's some discipline to it. Similarly, when we talk about health, we try to be systematic about it. Okay, I must do these things to develop my health. So there is a system, there's a strategy, there is a plan, there is some discipline. Same thing applies when we talk about prayer life. If I want to, by the end of the year, if I want to have whatever, let's say 365 days a year, so at least 365 hours I want to pray, then we need some discipline. Because if you just have a personal goal that, okay, I want to pray 365 hours, that means every day I need to make time at least one hour. Then only I can say that at the end of 365 days, I have 365 hours. I'm just giving an example. You can have any personal goal that you want. But there will need to be some discipline. If I have to develop myself in that way. So when we say discipline, it's like a controlled thing, okay? Or a strictly, we use the word regulated or regimented, which simply means that you're monitoring it properly to ensure that time is going into this particular thing that I want to do. Got it? For example, if I'm a musician, right? And I want to be excellent in my musical skill. What will I do? I'll make sure every week, so many X number of hours I put into my music, then only I can be excellent. So we are so strict and careful about all those matters. What about prayer? See the things that we don't plan generally, we end up spending very little time on that because we never planned. But now we are talking about spending a lot of time in prayer. So if I want to spend a lot of time in prayer, I have to plan it and I have to discipline myself to put in that much of time in order to grow in my prayer life. So the bottom line is we need some discipline. Without discipline, we can't develop a strong prayer life. Okay. In the Bible, we are told that in all matters, as Paul wrote to the Corinthians, in 1 Corinthians chapter 9, verses 24 to 27, over there, he says that we must be temperate in all things. Temperate means self-restraint or we must be able to control ourselves. Self-restraint means that I'm not out of control. I am controlled and I can put in the kind of time and effort that is required. That I just don't do things randomly but I'm quite self-restraint. Okay. So we must be temperate, not like they say like a yo-yo, right? Like you just swing to one extreme and then you swing to another extreme, not like that. Something moderate, something predictable and something that is constant and consistent. So that is what temperate really means. Now, in the Christian life, when we discipline ourselves in our prayer lives, that is the one thing that will bear a lot of fruit throughout our life. So it's important for us to become self-disciplined and at the same time be led by the Holy Spirit to have that discipline. So when it comes to discipline, one thing that we can remind ourselves is from the prayer life of Daniel. So he is one of those people. Of course, Jesus, we've already discussed about Jesus. But Daniel, the Bible says that he was very particular about his prayer times. We all know, right? Like he prayed three times a day and even in his challenging times, he did not skip his prayer. So that's something for us to really wonder about. There is a verse here, Daniel chapter 6 and verse 10. Sabita, can you read it? Daniel chapter 6 and verse 10. Now when Daniel knew that the writer was silent, he went home and in his awkward room with his windows open toward Jerusalem. He knelt down on his nails three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his call. As was his custom since the early days. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Sabita. So we see here that there was something which was being planned against Daniel. In that crisis situation, what does he do? He goes to the upper room and he prays, he kneels, he prays three times. But what I want you to focus on is the last part there. What does it say? It says, as was his custom from when? Since early days. Okay, as was his custom from early days. So there was a practice or a discipline that Daniel had. See for our lives, we could say, oh, from my school days, I always wake up early. I go for a run or we might say things like, oh, from my young days, I've always been singing. I've always been playing a musical instrument. So it's quite easy now in those areas. I've developed myself. But for Daniel, one crucial thing that he had maintained from his younger days is the discipline of prayer. So even when he was in a very difficult situation, what does he do? He just follows his routine. Like how he used to pray earlier. He goes back. He prays as was his custom from early days. And so that teaches us that for Daniel, there was a set time when he prayed. There was a set place where he prayed. Of course, for Daniel, you know, he looked in the direction of the temple and he prayed. But we are all people of the new covenant. We don't have to, you know, look in one direction and all that. That's not required, but we have to worship God. Pray in the spirit, isn't it? So we are people who are part of the new covenant. But some good things that we can take from Daniel are the discipline. How he planned certain parts of the day to pray and a place to pray. So now, why do we not do this? Why don't we have a place to pray and a time to pray because people have all kinds of excuses. So some of the common excuses which maybe, you know, it could be our excuse as well. We say things like, whenever the Holy Spirit leads me, then I will pray. I don't need a time. I'll pray whenever Holy Spirit leads me. Now, when Holy Spirit is going to lead you? Okay. And the funny part is, if you only depend on whenever the Holy Spirit leads me, let's say we have one week time. Okay. And we're only waiting for when the Holy Spirit leads. You may end up praying maybe one hour, two hours in a week. But if you have a set time and a timetable, you may pray seven hours in the week. Are you understanding? So if we are only leaving it to whenever I feel Holy Spirit is leading me, it's not the right approach to prayer. Now, the other excuse for not having a plan or a place or a time, people may say things like, I usually pray the whole day because Holy Spirit is within me, right? And we can speak to God anytime. So I pray throughout the day. I pray when I'm walking, I pray when I'm sitting, I pray. So then what's happening is we've again left it without a plan. What if a certain day is so busy that you do not remember to pray? Or the whole week is so busy that you do not remember to pray? Okay. So when we leave it to chance, then we are not actually investing enough time in prayer. Time just comes and goes. How many of us know that time flies? All of us know. Before we know it, the day is over. But if we are serious about something like I told you, we're serious about studies, we're serious about our skills, our talents, we make time for it. If we are serious about prayer, we have to make time for it. Otherwise, time will just fly away. Okay. So these are the common excuses that people have that I pray whenever through the day as I go about my day or some people may even say, why should I set aside time for prayer? You know, it's a waste of time. Instead of that, I can work. Have you heard some quote? It says, helping hands are better than praying lips. Have you heard that? Yeah, I have heard it. It's not in the Bible, by the way, don't quote a scripture on that. But there are people who say that it's better to work than spend one hour in prayer. You sat for one hour in prayer, such a waste of time. But in the Bible, in the life of Jesus, prayer was never waste of time. If it was a waste of time, he wouldn't pray. If it was a waste of time, a man like Daniel, think about Daniel. Okay. He's not ordinary. He's working in a very influential position in the kingdom. So do you think he's a busy man? Obviously, he's a very busy man. He has his administrative function. He has his executive function. So time would have been tough even for Daniel. But even a man like him, today we say, we are very busy. But what about Daniel? What about Jesus? They were also very busy. But it's all about making time, no matter how busy we are. If that is something intentional, we will make time for it. Okay. So these are all excuses. People say, if I work, that's better. We can work also. If we work efficiently, we can save some time and use it for prayer. So work as much as you need to work. But even in the midst of that, we can carve out some time to sit and pray. Some people may say, I don't have enough time to pray. Okay. That's not true. If you just maybe surrender your mobile phone to me today, you will change your statement tomorrow. Because a lot of time may be just going on the mobile. Isn't it? So these are the problems of our generation. We are wasting our time in all kinds of things. And if we ever make the statement and say, I don't have enough time to pray, that's a very false statement. Of course we have enough time to pray. Skip lunch. Okay. No, no, no, just joking. Don't skip lunch. Eat also, but you can pray also. So we can carve out time if we really want to. It all depends on what I want to do. If I want to do something, I'll do it. But if I don't want to do it, then I can make all kinds of excuses for it. So for us, if we want to develop our prayer time, it's important to discipline ourselves as far as prayer is concerned. So even in the life of Jesus, we saw earlier that he used to wake up early in the morning and pray. We saw that he used to have extended times of prayer after his ministry. He'll go away quietly, far away so that he can spend time with the father. Sometimes the whole night he used to pray. So it was all part of his plan that he wanted to give priority to time in prayer. And we saw the teaching of Jesus also where he says, you shut yourself in the room. Okay, pray in secret to the father and the father will reward you openly. So from his own life, Jesus taught us these things that show us that a personal prayer time quietly by myself. Nobody needs to know about this, but I can have that time with the father and that will impact every part of who I am. So how do we do this? How do I discipline my prayer life? There are some guidelines which we are going to share. Now this is not like a commandment that you have to do this. This is the way, this is the time you have to get up. There's nothing like that. But make sure that you sort of think of your own time schedule but carve out a substantial amount of time or a good amount of time to spend in prayer. So what are some guidelines that can help us? We can maintain a set time and a place to pray on normal days. So usually our daily rhythm is somewhat the same. We generally wake up at the same time, do the same things, go to work at the same time, come back at the same time. So because we know our routine and rhythm, we can plan a certain time of the day that is suitable for us. I am a morning person and I think a lot of others may say I am an evening person but for me also in scripture we find that early in the morning Jesus rose up and he prayed. So you can pick a part of the day. So for me it will be morning, maybe sometime between 5.30 to 6.00 a.m. So around that time you wake up, just allocate that time for nothing else. Only for prayer. You wake up, you pray or even earlier than that, you just wake up, you pray. So when there is a set time, what happens is you end up spending that time for God, for nothing else. Otherwise what do we do? So many things can happen. We wake up, first thing we see the phone, we waste half an hour on the phone. Instead of doing all, just plan it. First thing in the morning, I am going to spend time in prayer. I am going to spend time in reading the Bible. So do that. On normal days that can be our routine. There are some days when our routine gets disturbed. Maybe we are travelling or maybe we are in a stressful season. Somebody is in the hospital, something else is going on. So those times are understandable, those seasons are understandable. Maybe your prayer timing changes little bit here and there, your duration changes. But once you are back to routine, get back to the schedule and pick that same time. Keep it aside for God and say, this is my time with the Lord. I am going to do this no matter what. Every day I have to spend time with God. So we can pray, we can read the Word, we can fellowship with God. So allocate a particular time of the day to pray. And we could also pick a place. How many of us? We have always thought, I will wake up and then you sit on your bed and you pray. The next thing you know you are sleeping. So what happened? I was praying one minute ago, I was praying and now I am sleeping on the bed. So why do you want to pray on the bed? Get up, walk, maybe drink a cup of tea or drink some water. Find a spot where you can sit. So I have one particular spot, I just generally go sit there, maybe drink some water. And then it's easy for me because I am a little more awake and then I can pray. But even I have tried doing this sitting on the bed and praying, it doesn't work for me. Okay, I don't know about you guys. So think about your own self. How can you engage in prayer? Find a spot. Maybe you know you have a nice location where you can sit outside and you can really focus and pray. Find a place that works for you. Maybe you know your study table, you want to sit there, open up the Bible, sit there and study. But keep the same place because then what happens? Even sort of, you know, mentally, it's easier because you know what you're going to do. As soon as you get up, that's what you're going to do. Go sit there, read your Bible, spend some time in prayer. So set time, set place. If you don't do that, time will just fly again, gone. So allocate some time. That will really help. Second is have a format that you may want to follow. So format, remember we discussed earlier, we said the Lord's Prayer is a good format. So over there we see that we can praise God, we can thank God. That's how we begin. Then we can go on to confessing our sins. We can search our hearts. God, is everything right in my life? Is there anything I have done which has offended you? Anything I have to change about myself? So we can spend some time in reflection, in searching, in confessing our sins. Then we could move on to praying prayers for forgiveness. Then maybe as we're doing that, we can continue with some more praising, thanksgiving to God. We can spend some time waiting on the Lord. Waiting on the Lord is when, of course, we've prayed, right? We've prayed and all, but some moments we just sit quietly. Remember we talked about it. That's also kind of praying. When we are waiting upon the Lord, then God's strength is imparted to us. When we're waiting on the Lord, many times we can hear clearly what God is speaking. So don't just keep talking all the time. For some time just wait and listen. What does God say? As I'm praising Him, as I'm worshipping Him, is there anything that God is pointing out to me today? Make yourself more sensitive to the voice of God. So we can wait upon the Lord. We can start to pray for different things. So remember when we prayed that point, thy kingdom come, thy will be done. I said we can pray for our personal life. We can pray for our spouse. We can pray for our children. So different things which concern us, we can start to pray for all those matters. So after we wait on the Lord, we can spend some time praying for different prayer points. So again, I told us if we have the prayer points written down, it's a little easier. Otherwise every time you have to think which are the points which I have to pray today, right? And that can distract us. So if you want, you can just write down the prayer points and start to pray through each of those points. And after that we could pray for the church. We can pray for maybe some people. You know how generally people say, pray for me. I'm not well. Pray for me. I have this problem, that problem. So maybe we have listed out some people for whom we specifically begin to pray. So you can spend extra time praying for people who may be in some sort of a need. And then we can pray for our personal needs. We can even pray in the spirit. So some part of the prayer time, we can allocate to praying in tongues. Now for certain people, you may feel like when I'm praying in tongues, my mind is still active and I get distracted. Because obviously when we pray in tongues, we can still think. My mouth can be praying in tongues, but my mind can still think. Now what to do? I shouldn't get distracted. So for that, if you feel that way, you can even read the Bible and pray in tongues at the same time. That's possible because we are engaging the mind. The mind is focusing, focusing on the Word of God, whereas the mouth is praying in tongues. You got it? So you can spend some time praying in tongues even while you read the Bible. So that is also something that we can do. Then we can spend some time in declaration. What is declaration? Declaration is when we speak the Word, like my home. God has promised in His Word that His people will dwell in peaceful habitations, in secure dwelling places. My home is a peaceful habitation. My home is a secure dwelling place. The Lord is the fire around my home. The angel of the Lord encamps around my home. What am I doing? I'm just taking scripture. I'm speaking it over my home. You got it? So in that way, maybe some portion of our prayer time can just be declaration. I walk in divine health. I'm healed. Every part of my body is strong. I speak strength to my bones. I speak strength to my eyes. What are you doing? You're just declaring. That can also be a part of our prayer every day. So prayer is not just petitioning. There are all kinds of prayers, thanksgiving, asking God for various things, praying in the spirit, dating on the Lord, a combination of these things. You know, you can pray every day and maybe some portion of the prayer time can be spiritual warfare. We'll come to it. Spiritual warfare. What is spiritual warfare? Where we go against the devil. We go against demons. Okay. So it's like a fight. You get really angry with the devil. Okay. So it's okay to get angry with the devil. So you may want to just spend some whatever, 10 minutes being so angry with the devil and go against all that he's doing. And you say, I'm canceling this. I'm destroying that. I'm commanding this to leave. I bind this in the name of Jesus. Just go after the devil, right? Do your spiritual warfare, pull down those strongholds. Maybe that is what you need to do for your personal life or somebody that you're praying for. So spend some time in spiritual warfare. So in this way, what happens if we have allocated time, space, some set format, then we end up praying more. We end up covering more. You got it? So that is something that we can try to do. Now, I understand it's not so easy because I personally have struggled in this area. But over a period of time, there is some amount of predictability and discipline that has come into my own personal prayer time. So I would encourage you to start, right? I would encourage you to start somewhere and try to regulate your prayer life in this way. And that will really help you. Then, of course, we can also pray at any time. So the prayer that I talked about earlier was a scheduled prayer. So you have a set time for this prayer and you pray. But there are times when we've got to pray without any schedule. Meaning, let's say in some time, I just feel led by the Holy Spirit to pray more. I may just take time out and say, okay, I'm going to sit and I'm going to pray now. So there can be times which are spontaneous, meaning it's not part of the plan. But you just want to pray. So you go and pray. We need both scheduled and scheduled, both kinds of times. And extra, apart from daily prayer, there are certain days that we can take to pray. So I remember when I was working, okay? So it's only maybe about few years ago that I joined full-time with the APC. But before that, I was working and I was serving as a volunteer minister. At that time, it was really difficult to find time to pray like extended hours of time because Monday to Saturday, you're working very hard. You have to be responsible, accountable at your workplace. So by the end of the day, you're tired. Okay, morning, something you pray and you go. But you don't feel satisfied because it feels very rushed. So in those times, what I used to do is maybe the weekends, right? Weekends when you come back home, you finish some of your chores for the next week. Evening times. So just keep aside extra time to just pray, to listen to worship music, to make declarations, pray in tongues, extra time. So maybe holidays, you get some holidays. You know, we all plan for vacation, go with family. But we can plan prayer days where we can say, okay, I have this free day. Full day I'm just going to pray. Nothing else. So we can have those special days or maybe some three days you set aside for yourself when there's no work or when I have vacation, I do that. If I have leaves, just take three days, you know, or maybe even a week fast and pray because at that time we can do it. We don't have so many, you know, responsibilities. You don't have to keep schedule the way we are keeping now. So extra time to set aside for prayer days and prayer sessions that can be a particular season where you sort of immerse yourself in just seeking the Lord. So this is all very helpful and it enables you to spend a lot of time with God. So I'm coming to the chat here where a blessing is asking everyone will say that when you wake up early in the morning and pray around three, four or five o'clock, God listens. Why the line is clear? Is it blessing? Okay. God listens then to our prayers and you will get a quick response from God. My question is there any particular time for prayer to get a quick reply from God? So I think God always responds immediately. Let's see. He hears. See, because he's outside of time. All this quick, late, that's all in our zone. For him, a prayer of faith or the right kind of prayer. Remember, we talked about the right foundations. As long as a prayer has the right foundation, he hears it. As long as the prayer is in his will, he hears it. So my point is time doesn't matter. I know what you mean. A lot of people say that, right? If you want to get answer, you should get up early in the morning and pray. I mean, I understand maybe it's a good thought that somebody came up with, but there's no particular scripture to back it up. Okay. There's nothing that says that spiritual atmosphere is clear early in the morning. Some people even say demons are very active this time to this time. How do we know? They're active all the time only, right? So there's no biblical basis for all this. We just have to be alert all the time. That's all. So I hope it answers your question. Okay. Fine. Okay. Is there any other question? No. Okay. Paramita is asking, is it necessary to pray for others first? Hmm. Necessary to pray for others first. I don't, I mean, unless God is bringing it to your heart, Paramita, that there is a, let's say you start to pray and the Holy Spirit reminds you maybe there's a person you've not forgiven or there's an issue that is not resolved. So in that situation, maybe you have to pray for that person first and then you can continue with the rest of the prayer. But otherwise it's okay to pray for yourself first also. There's no issue. Okay. Yeah. Any other, any other questions, practical questions, how long to pray? Nobody's asked that question. How long to pray? How long? Let me quiz you. So how long is the right duration? There's no... Okay. Sure. Yeah. There's no recommended right and right duration to pray. Okay. Bless. He says as the Spirit leads and Gertrude says one hour. So sister Gertrude that one hour we get when Jesus was telling his disciples, right, that you couldn't even wait one hour. He says that. So then from there we get the picture that, okay, maybe his expectation was that at least one hour the disciples will pray. Okay. But yeah, you're right. We can't really put a time to it but we can still allocate, you know, some time. For me, it's something like 45 minutes to one hour, something like that. But you see, even if you end up, let's say on certain days you pray a little less or you are able to pray more, it's still sort of fine. But I'll tell you, when we make it very short, right, for example, if I say, okay, because there's no recommended time, just praying 10 minutes or 5 minutes. Some people 2 minutes, right? Yeah, I prayed. I woke up early in the morning, I prayed. How long did you pray? 2 minutes because there's no recommended time. But you see, there's a problem with that. There are certain things that God can speak and do when we sit in his presence, which cannot happen if we are so quick. You got it? So if we rush like 2 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, that's it. Get up and go. Then we miss out on what God can do in those moments of prayer. So extended period of time, let's say at least one hour, it is required because we need that kind of time to just calm ourselves and to pray all the points and then also listen from God, pray in the spirit, make our declaration. It takes so much time. You got it? So it's nice. It's not there anywhere. It doesn't say you pray for one hour. But it's my personal view that let's say a minimum of about, you know, 45 minutes to one hour is helpful to kind of be in God's presence. But there are times when we have to sit longer, as Blessie said, as the spirit leads. So sometimes we don't feel that satisfaction. Maybe on that day you have extra time. So you sit 2 hours, 3 hours, you may even sit 5 hours, but it may be necessary on those days. So we should be willing to stretch more than the minimum of let's say one hour. Okay. So I hope that is helpful. Okay. Okay. Minuti is asking, is it necessary to confess our sin before prayer every time? Yes, I would say yes, because it is part of the pattern that Jesus taught us over there. He taught us forgive us our sins as we forgive like forgiveness and sort of clearing everything with God. So yeah, it's important before we go into deeper prayer. We need to confess our sins and clear matters with God. Is that okay? Okay. Vicky, people have such desire and it will take a while to express that. So why we need more time to prayer? It will take a while to express that. Okay. So Vicky, I am trying to understand your question correctly. You're saying that we know what we want and we can express that quickly in prayer. So why do we need long time to pray? Right. Is that what you're asking? Okay. That's correct. Yeah. I get it. But you see again, prayer is not shopping list, right? Where you know what you want and it just takes 2 minutes to tell God what you want. It's already on my list. I just check it off. Yeah. I told God everything because when we treat prayer like that, then yes, why should I spend 1 hour, 5 hours in prayer? But prayer is relationship Vicky. That's what we are trying to say. We need to be in God's presence. We need to communicate with God, speak to him, allow him to speak to us, allow him to do something inside us. So that's the whole process. So it's not just about telling God, I need this. I need that. That's why you need a good amount of time. I hope that answers your question and Lucy at times spirit is willing to pray and our body doesn't support us. Okay. How do we fight the situation and kneel down to pray? Okay. So it's not at times sister. It's all the time, right? Whenever we want to pray, there'll be something or the other that we feel like, Oh, I didn't finish that work or this is urgent or your body feels tired. I'll pray later all the time because it's a matter of discipline. That's why I said discipline. You know what discipline is? Discipline is whether you like it or you don't like it. You got to do it. Okay. So don't go by that. Every day the body will say, I'm tired. Can we pray later? You say no. This is the time for prayer. You have to pray. Okay. So you got to push yourself and you got to discipline yourself. So don't listen to your body. Just listen to your spirit and go with it. Okay. I suppose last question. Parimita says does posture matter for praying? Can I pray in any position? Okay. Yeah. See prayer is a matter of the heart and the spirit. So posture doesn't matter also. However, in scripture, we do see certain postures like, you know, people kneeling down, raising hands, falling flat on the floor. So maybe at times you sense that you need to take a certain posture. In those times, it's better to be in that posture and pray. So it will matter when you're being led by the spirit or you just want to express yourself in that way to take a certain posture. Okay. It it's everything doesn't depend on the posture, but sometimes posture can be helpful to pray effectively. So that's that's the thing. Okay. Great. So we've run out of time. Let's stop here. And there are a few more key points about a discipline prayer life, which we will take up in the next class. Let's pray and close. I will request somebody from our on-campus batch to pray. Who would like to pray to close? Okay. The mic is here. You can take it and pray, please. Heavenly Father, thank you for this day. Thank you for this time. Thank you for teaching us about how to pray in tongue, how to receive your spirit. My Lord, my God, I'm again one more subject. How to develop our prayers in our lives to teach how to pray the life of Daniel of God and of some more guidelines. God, we have built us in this both ways. We have to be on friends on you. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you and thank you everyone. God bless you. Have a good day. We shall connect in the next class. Thank you so much. Bye for now.