 Morning everyone and Shalom, JMSC, praise the Lord. Welcome to class on the Minister's Foundation. I hope you're enjoying studying this publication fulfilling God's purpose for your life and you're able to understand what God is doing in your life, what season of life you are in and how God is preparing you. Okay, before we continue can one of you please lead us in prayer anyone quickly? Anyone from our online student can lead us in prayer please? Online students anyone can unmute and pray please? Heavenly Father we just wish to thank you for this hour of study Father and we pray Father that you'll minister to us Father as we study your word and be able to apply Lord whatever we've studied in your word and please bless all our teachers Father and bless all the students Father and continue to walk with us in this journey Father as we learn more about your word and apply it in our lives. In Jesus' precious name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much Sanjay. So last Friday we began looking at chapter 3 understanding God preparation process. So when God you know before God launches us into what he wants us to do or before God puts us into what he wants us to do he prepares us okay he prepares us for the task ahead he prepares us to fulfill his plan and purpose. So we looked and we studied the different examples or characters in the Bible we looked at the the life of Moses right? Who else? David and Paul okay and we saw that when God takes us through the preparation process what are the two most important things? Godly, character and he wants us to be mature in all areas of our life okay and then we went on to look at how God prepares us. How does God prepare us to the word of God to the Holy Spirit and through life experiences okay. So the life experiences that we go through are a good learning experiences for all of us for example if you look at Romans chapter 5 verses 3 to 4 can somebody read that please Romans 5 3 to 4 who has the mic? Okay read. And not only that but we also glory in tribulations knowing that tribulation produce preservants and preservants character and character hope. Yes so what is it saying here we need to glory in tribulation what does the meaning of glory in tribulation? It's a verb form here so what does the meaning of glory in tribulation? What is tribulation? Trials, persecutions, hardships, difficulties that you go through. So what does it mean glory in tribulation? Rejoice when you go through hardships, difficulties, praise God, worship Him. Is it easy for us to rejoice when you go through difficult circumstances and situations? No why? It's painful right but here is a glory which means rejoice you know give thanks, praise, be positive. Why? Because you know when you go through tribulations what is it going to produce in your life? Perseverance it's going to produce perseverance or endurance and your endurance is going to bring about character okay so an example is if you're going to run a marathon you know it's a marathon what is a marathon? The race which you don't finish in a few seconds okay it'll take sometimes hours together to finish that you have to run you know many acres or you know area you know a large area of land so when you're preparing to run a marathon can you just keep practicing 100 meters? No you don't just practice 100 meters because you're not just running a 100 meters race okay from here to there to the end just a hundred meters that is that gets done in few seconds but if you want to prepare to run a marathon you have to you know run for a couple of hours okay it takes a lot of endurance and perseverance so also life is like that when we go through tribulations and difficulties you know we we have to endure we just can't give up okay we just can't say that you know I am I I don't want to go through all these problems and difficulties why because when we go through all of the problems and difficulties is going to bring about endurance is going to build our character and you know it's going to give us hope okay look at what James chapter one versus two to four says James chapter one versus two to four can somebody read that my retina count it all joy when you fall into various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produce patience but let patience have its perfect work that you may be perfect and complete laking nothing thank you so here you can pass on the mic to somebody else who wants to read can you pass on the mic to somebody else who likes to read in English who would like to read the other scripture passages okay Nelson you like to read okay okay so here it says count it all joy I think nobody wants to read so no problem I'll read it then okay counted all joy why should you count it all joy when you fall into various trials or problems why should you be joyous when you go through problems and difficulties so that it produces patience it produces endurance okay and your patience will bring you to a place where you are perfect in every good work okay so that you may be perfect complete and lacking nothing so if you're going through any problems and difficulties you know don't cry out to God and say God remove this no why are you taking me through all of these things I don't want to you know give me a happy life give me a comfortable life but when you go through various trials count it joy that means think it is as a joy why because it's going to you know the testing of your faith produces what patience okay and patience will have its perfect work and will make you perfect and complete lacking nothing okay so for example you know when you're cooking potatoes you know you just don't put it in the pressure cooker or you don't put it in the pan in the water and then in two minutes you don't remove it up from the fire right with the potatoes be cooked no if it you even you remove it from the pressure cooker or from the pan you'll have to put it back why because you know the potatoes are not cooked in the same way some of us you know we don't want to go through sufferings and difficulties we run away from difficulties we run away from hard times you know we think okay this is not working for me let me go into somebody something else we jump into something else but you know what happens even there we're going to face problems and difficulties okay so even if we jump out and we want to run away you know God insures or God make sure that we get back into the same pressure cooker why because all of the problems the difficulties that we're going through is the testing of our faith is going to develop patience and endurance and character and that's when we are going to be perfect and complete okay that's what this word says perfect and complete lacking nothing Hebrews chapter 5 verses 8 and 9 can somebody read that please Hebrews 5 8 and 9 though he was son yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered and having been perfected he became the order of eternal salvation to all who obey him yes so how did you know you know even when Jesus learned all things suffered all things what did he do did Jesus go through suffering and pain yes okay what did he do learn when he went through sufferings obedience right he learned obedience even as he went through suffering so when Jesus had to go through suffering and learn obedience then how you know how can you and I get away from all the problems and difficulties and how other way that we can learn obedience than suffering okay because Jesus himself went through suffering so you know what makes us think that you know we can learn our obedience elsewhere when Jesus himself went through sufferings okay so life experiences will teach us lessons that we cannot learn elsewhere when we go through problems and difficulties all the life experience that we go through you know will teach us lessons that we cannot learn elsewhere some lessons we have to learn you know even as we go through those life experiences and then we cannot deny a man with experience that means those who've gone through difficulties those who've gone through hardships they've come out they've learned you know we cannot deny a man with their experience okay so when we are going through difficult times don't take the escape route don't run away go through it the God will give you the strength God will give you the grace to go through it and God will bring you through it and when he brings you through it you will be you know perfect and complete and ready for every good work that God has in store for you okay now we look at the things to keep in mind even as we go through the preparation process so what are some of the things to keep in mind even as we go through the preparation process the first one is we must learn to cooperate with God okay so even as we go through the preparation process that God has for us we need to cooperate you know we've already spoken about this so I'm not going to you know explain you know we need to listen to what God is saying we need to go through difficulties trials it's taking time learn patience learn what God is telling you to learn change the areas in your life mature you know build up your character and so we need to cooperate with God okay so what you need to do is just sit and you know speak to God and say God what are you trying to accomplish through my life in this season of my life what are the things that you want to build in my life in this season you know show me God where are the areas that you want me to change what are the area the areas of my weakness my character where you want me to change show me God and help me to build a strong character as be a mature person change me in my areas of my weakness so when we when we pray and ask God he shows he reveals and we need to cooperate with God with what he's saying and you know learn to work on those areas in our lives and build on those areas the second thing is your attitude matters okay you've you've heard this before your attitude determines your altitude your attitude determines your altitude that means your attitude what is your attitude means how you look at life how you look at problems how you look at difficulties how you look at change if you're going to be grumbling murmuring complaining you know going to be lazy not doing anything about it you know just take life as it comes that's a wrong attitude but if you have an attitude that is you know God whatever the circumstances is I'm going to learn you know what changes you're going to bring through me God even as I'm going through this difficult situation even as you're molding my character help me God help me to cooperate with you and when we do that when we cooperate with God you know God takes us higher up in life altitude who takes us higher up if we have the wrong attitude we will not move up in life okay we will not progress in life we will not see prosperity we will not see promotion we will not see progress the third one is consistency consistency is where the power is okay first Timothy chapter 4 verse 15 can somebody read that please first Timothy chapter 4 verse 15 meditate on this things give yourself self entirely to them that your progress may be evident to all yes so it says meditate on all of these things give yourself entirely to them that your progress may be evident to all okay so how are you going to progress in life how are you going to progress in life how are you going to move ahead in life what does this verse say how are you going to progress in your life when you give yourself completely or entirely okay so you give yourself give your all to what God is asking you to do where he's taking you what is his plan and purpose for your life okay so consistency is where the power is so you need to be consistent that means not jumping from here to there okay so maybe some of you say have finished you know 12 standard you tried something that was not working out so you said okay I'll come to Bible College now you come to Bible College you're saying hey I didn't think Bible College we had to wake up at five o'clock we had fasting prayer so much of studies so much of things to do so hard I'll go I'll go back and do something else I'll start a business or I'll do this or I'll do that that is not being consistent okay so consistency is where the power is which means that we need to be consistent in what God has called us to and when God tells us to move then we move but when God has placed us somewhere we are there we are learning we are improving we are doing what God has called us to do okay the fourth thing is as you are faithful in little things God will promote you to the next okay Matthew chapter 25 verse 23 his Lord said to him well done good and faithful servant you have been faithful over a few things I'll make you ruler over many things enter into the joy of your Lord amen so here this is the parable of the talents okay where the man was given five talents what did he do what did the man with the five talents do when his master came back what did he do remember the parable of the talents no he multiplied it and he earned five more so he worked hard he multiplied it and he got five more and what what does the master say you have been well done good and faithful servant you have been faithful over a few things I will make you ruler over many things so the master saw that this man who he had given five talents maybe five thousand rupees so when the master gave him five thousand rupees the master went away on a journey and he came back and then when he came back he takes into account what he's given his workers so the one who had five thousand rupees multiplied it and got ten thousand he worked hard he got ten thousand so what does the master say you have been faithful in little things but now I will make you ruler of bigger things okay so you know if you're faithful in the little things that God has given you he will promote you to the next and this is the law of progression in the kingdom of God so in the kingdom of God if you want to progress if you want God to promote you take you higher make you someone of importance of influence it means that you need to be faithful in little things which means now as a student you need to be faithful in you know what God is interesting you with he's interesting you with the time to study his word truths revelations molding your character learning skills for ministry so you know God is going is looking at you how faithful you are see how faithful you are with the time with the opportunities with the talents with the gifts that he has given you that the opportunity to even study to learn his word and if you're faithful what is he going to do after you finish your studies and you start your ministry he's going to make you ruler over greater things that means he's saying hey here is a person who I can entrust something big why because I know he or she is going to be faithful but if you've not been faithful with the time that God has given you here you know in the Bible College or you know if you've not been faithful with what God has given you in your life so far you know you just come eat sleep you just enjoy yourself you know God is looking at you as someone who is that you know that person who got one talent thousand rupees so to say and what did he do he didn't do anything with it he took it and buried it in the ground and when his master came he's just giving back the thousand rupees so what does the master do he's so angry with him he takes away that money gives it to those who have multiplied it and then he says he throws him into the darkness where there's weeping or gnashing of teeth that means you know into eternal so God is a God who looks for fruits in our life he's looking for fruits he's looking for rewards he's not just given you know everything blessings and he's not just bestowed upon us his gifts and his grace but he's looking for rewards he's looking for fruits so remember the fig tree when Jesus was hungry yes he saw the fig tree and the fig tree had leaves in it which means it was time for it to bear fruit okay so if the fig tree has leaves that means it is time for it to bear fruit and it did not have any fruit and what has God what does Jesus do curses it right and it dies so when sometimes we can pretend that hey we are doing everything we're good but you know there is no fruit and that time God is going to you know take away even the little that he has given to us so some of you you know want to become big pastors big evangelists mysteries do great things for the kingdom of God it's important that you are faithful in small things and that is a law of progression in the kingdom of God okay so the fifth one is beware of complacency which means what is the meaning of complacency don't be complacent what's the meaning of complacency let's take okay sometimes we are just very satisfied hallelujah praise the Lord I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and baptism the Holy Spirit I can speak in tongues I'm going to heaven okay our arms a sit down comfortably sit down enjoy your life okay and we say okay when God wants to tell me his plan and purpose let him tell me I will just but I'm see what I can do okay so we need to be careful of being in that place we need to allow God to stretch us no sometimes when God gives us things to do it it does not mean we just sit back and sleep it's going to be easy it's going to be hard we have to labor we have to work hard okay and so sometimes when we go through the preparation process we are tempted to take things very very easily okay and you will say hey anyway God has not started his plan and purpose for my life he's just preparing me let me take it easy I'll just go through this okay but we need to understand that if we are complacent things will not happen in our lives we will be forever amen in the preparation process okay God cannot launch us into the plans and purposes that he has for us and the changes that God wants to bring in our lives cannot be brought about because we are complacent okay so allow God to stretch you right you know when a woman is having a carrying a baby in in in their womb what happens a stomach stretches right the stomach stretches to accommodate the baby for the baby to grow and the right time the baby is born what if the woman says hey I don't want my stomach to stretch you know I don't want this to happen you know the woman cannot have a baby okay so the woman is willing to accommodate all of these changes so we also need to allow God to stretch and we need to stretch ourselves and also go beyond our cells okay so God's calling for our lives is a higher call a greater price and something that we need to really pay a greater price for so you know do things that God has asked you to do in the season and even as he's preparing you for the next season you know work with God it requires a lot of hard work okay so the sixth one is preparation time is not wasted time the greater the calling the greater the preparation you know we saw that you know in the life of Moses in the life of David in the life of Paul okay for Moses how many years was the preparation time 40 years for a David 23 years okay from he was 17 when he was appointed as king he became king at the age of 30 so 13 years sorry 13 years yeah and Saul how many years very good 17 years 33 years when God you know called Saul and had an encounter the road to Damascus and he was 50 years when he began his first missionary journey so how many years did it take for Jesus 30 years so don't be in a hurry okay a greater the calling greater the preparation so don't say hey God I've you know finished one year Bible college two years three years Bible college you're not doing anything with my life you know I want to be this big evangelist big pastor I won't I'm thinking and dreaming all of these things hold on you know be patient God is going to bring you there but greater the calling greater the preparation the seventh one is you know another example we can take for this point six is if you want to be an MBBS doctor how many years you have to study five and a half years right okay but if you want to become a surgeon or you want to do an MD maybe seven and a half years okay so greater the calling greater the preparation okay so be patient with God seventh one is don't be hasty let the preparation season run its full course okay can somebody read a proverb chapter 21 was five please can I read yes please sister get through you can go ahead yeah Proverbs 215 the plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty but those of everyone who is hasty surely to poverty yes amen so here it says that those who are hasty hasty means what those who are very quick jaldi-jaldi you know her past fast everything you know you want it very quick what will what will happen you will end up in poverty you become poor okay poor not just in the terms of finances your money but in every area of your life okay so for example if you're going to difficult situation you want to come out of it quick you want to you know God to get you out of all of those difficult situations quick and end those difficult situations hey God has a timing and a plan and he's taking you through it just be patient endure God will give you the strength and he will take you and he will bring you out perfect and complete okay so let each preparation process run its full course okay that means go through the full preparation process and the last one point eight is the things that we need to keep in mind as we go through the preparation process is stay within your calling and your gifting don't try to become something that you are not designed to be okay don't try to become something whom God has not called you to be okay so here we see in Bible college everyone likes to worship okay so all of you who are also never been in your worship team in your church and son you want to be part of the worship because worship is such a integral part of Bible college everyone loves to worship you know everyone is learning instruments they want to lead worship which is good but that doesn't mean that because somebody else has an anointing and a calling to lead worship you know that you also should become a worship leader okay it doesn't mean that you know when you look at you know Pastor Ashish and you see oh what a big church he has and what good ministry beautiful wonderful ministry is doing and all of I also want to become a pastor okay it's good to desire but you need to know what God has called you to be what he has designed you to be and whatever he's designed you to be stay within that calling and that gifting okay don't jump out okay so for me you know my calling and gifting is to be among children and also my calling and gifting is to teach so I teach and I also minister among children I can't say okay I'm ministering to children nobody is seeing me I'm not on stage so I want to become a pastor so that I can be on stage everyone can see me I can come on TV I can you know everyone knows I can become famous hey I'll be at the wrong place doing the wrong thing and I will not receive the grace of God I will not receive the anointing that is needed for that and I will also not be able to bear fruit I'll be fooling myself and I will also be fooling people so stay within your gifting and your anointing it might not be glamorous you know you might just be an evangelist nobody will know you you might just be a missionary nobody will know you okay it's not important but it's important for you that God knows where you are and that you are in the right place in the right time doing what he wants you to do are you able to understand amen okay so don't look at others and you know think that is your gifting and calling you need to you know wait on God and do what is the right thing that he's asked you to do now in every season of your life there are two things that you need to keep in mind in every season there is you will find execution and you will find preparation okay that means in this what season of life are you in-person students all of you are in you are a you are a student right this is the season of your life that you are a student you are studying so you are in a season where you have to execute what do you execute what's the meaning of execute which means you have to study okay you have to learn things you have to grow in things you have to prepare yourself for the ministry okay so sorry you're learning things you are a student you are studying you are you know going through the discipline of a student you know timing and everything so you are executing what you need to do in this season also in the season as a student you are also preparing yourself for the next season of life okay you're preparing for the next season of life so for an example for example if you know husband and wife are you know two people a man and woman are going to get married so they are in the season where you know they're preparing themselves for marriage so they're getting to know their their partner they're getting to go through you know counseling marriage counseling courses they're thinking about what to do planning at the same time they're not just sitting back and thinking only of marriage right or only preparing for their marriage what are what are they also doing they're doing their jobs right they have their own jobs what is they're calling what is they're giving they're working they are also doing their everyday routine so there is execution that they're doing that season but they're also planning for the next season of that life which is marriage okay so in every season there is two things there is execution and there is preparation for the next season so God also prepares you for the next season of life okay you know so when God is preparing you you know why is he preparing you for the next season of life so that he can you know prepare certain aspects of your character so for example your single now your you know you're working you're planning to get married but God is preparing you for marriage in marriage there's a lot of things that we have to give up you have to you know you have to become you have to take on so God is going to mold your character certain aspects of your character is also going to mold certain aspects of your attitude okay so allow God to do those things even as he's preparing you for the next season of your life be faithful and cooperate with God because God wants to build in you for the next season of your life you know Godly character he wants you to bring bring your life to a place of maturity because for God your character is important your maturity is important before he releases you to the next season of your life so if if marriage is taking a long time in your life you can ask God God what you know character attitude in my life that I have you know have to change my weaknesses that you want me to change that you can prepare me for my next season of my life so if something is you know is not happening in your life we need to go back and ask God God am I doing what is right in this season is there something that I'm not doing right show me God even as you have a plan for me for the next season is there some character some attitude some things that I've not aligned myself to your will help me God show me and when God shows you you change and then you see he will open up the next season of your life are you able to understand okay so this is what we need to do even as God takes us through the preparation process okay so any questions any questions on this chapter we go on to the next chapter chapter 4 online students you have any questions there are no questions we'll move on to chapter 4 another thing that we need to do even as we fulfill God's plan and purpose for our lives is positioning ourselves what is the meaning of positioning ourself simply means that we need to be at the right place the right time doing the right thing three things okay if you want to fulfill God's plan and purpose for your life there are three things that you need to do you need for positioning yourself you need to be at the right right place okay right time and doing the right thing okay can we say that again right place right time and doing the right thing okay so look at the example of Esther Esther chapter 4 verses 12 to 14 you know we know that Esther what was the seed in Esther's life a beauty yes good so it was a beauty and you know we know that Esther was a Jew but because of her beauty she was brought to the palace and the the pagan king King Hasurus you know took her as his wife okay so we can say how can God you know when God told the Jews that you cannot marry pagans or Gentiles how did God allow this so God had a plan and a purpose and Esther had to position herself at the right place the right time doing the right thing so after Esther became the queen the wicked modham on you know he told the king to write a law where all the Jews will be killed on a certain day okay and Esther's uncle hears about this law this rule and he's mourning and he's you know in ash put ash on his head and sackcloth and he's sitting and when Queen Esther sees from a window she's wondering what happened to her uncle why is he mourning so he she comes to know that this is the law that the king has passed and you know her uncle sends her you know you know a request telling her that she has to go before the king and she has to tell the king what is you know what the wicked Haman's plot is and how she should bring about deliverance for her people okay and you know Esther is saying you know I haven't gone into king's presence for three months the king hasn't called me and I can't just go into his presence if I go into his presence he's going to kill me okay we the queen even cannot go into the king's presence without his permission so what does her uncle send back you know the message saying that you know who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this okay who knows that God has bought you to this place or this position as a queen for such a time as this so that you can help delivering your people okay so we see that you know as the position her so she she and the people fasted and prayed and she went into the king's presence the king you know gave her permission and she was able to save her people okay so we see that Esther you know at the right she was at the right place at the right time doing the right thing and she was able to save her people okay so positioning ourselves is very very important why is it important because if you position yourself right you will receive the provision of God sometimes we are in the wrong place doing the wrong things and we're wondering why God is not blessing us why there is no fruit why there is no prosperity there is just property there's just pain sorrow there is no breakthrough no joy nothing but we need to know that the kingdom of God is righteousness what is the kingdom of God the characteristic of the kingdom of God is righteousness peace and joy okay that is a characteristic of the kingdom of God so if you're in a place where you are not experiencing peace and joy and this things are not going right then you know that you are in the wrong place in the wrong things at the wrong time okay so if we want the provision of God we have to position ourselves right so if you're not experiencing the provision of God God does not want us to live in poverty you know struggling and you know no food to eat close to where you know he wants us as a student to enjoy every blessing but if we are not then we need to ask ourselves hey am I in the right place doing the right thing you know at the right time so if you want to receive the provision of God we have to be in the right place okay now look at Elijah Elijah in chapter 17 Elijah had to go and tell King Ahab that there is not going to be any rain in the land now Elijah goes to King's presence without his permission and he gives a bad news to the King and surely he's going to be killed so you know even though God tells him to do something hard and difficult he does not question God he just obeys so he goes to the King's presence he tells King the message and God and he just runs for his life because he knows the King will catch him and you know put him to death and as he is running God tells him go to the brook of chariot that means go to the stream you know stream a small stream water running okay in the forest in the wilderness go and stay there and I will send the ravens to feed you that means ravens are black crows they will bring you food to eat now what if Elijah would have said God how can I go here to the wilderness you know the soldiers would be looking for me why don't you send me to some cave some mountain to hide in the in the open area near a stream anyone can catch me and God how can you send food to the ravens they are unclean birds and we can't eat anything from unclean you know mouths or unclean animals so how can you send ravens but we see that you know Elijah obeyed God he went to the brook of chariot he stayed there and because he stayed there God protected him and God provided for him the soldiers were not able to find him and he was given food to eat every day and he also had water to drink when the people around us suffering because of famine there was no food to eat there was no water to drink are you all with me okay I'm telling you a nice story so you all don't fall off asleep okay so then once the that stream dries okay God tells him go to Zeraphith and there you will find a widow okay and the widow will give you food to eat so if what if Elijah would have said God how can I go to Zeraphith that is a wicked queen Jezebel's place they will come looking for me in every village in every town okay and how can I stay with a widow you know without any husband and I'm an unmarried man and how can this poor widow feed me but we see that no questions asked he just goes to Zeraphith he sits down there he sees a poor lady collecting sticks he knows she's going to make some food to eat and has a son and he knows that this is the widow lady and he tells her to give him food and this lady also obeys and so we see that even though people in that same village or town did not have food to eat and wanted to drink God provided for Elijah and this widow why because there were the right place the right time you know doing the right thing what God wanted them to do okay so so also in our lives you know you know even as we are we need to position ourselves right so if you're saying God you know I'm studying in this Bible college so you should look at what you are doing whether you're studying whether you're working your marriage and you're living everything we must see it as something of significance something very very strategic something that God is doing in your life to further kingdom of God so if you're studying in a college you know it's not just to get a degree but you're saying God I'm studying in this college not just to do or get a degree but I'm studying in this college you know to equip myself to do something of significance in the kingdom of God if you are in a job you know you're not just saying God I'm in this job just to earn some money for my bread and butter you know so that I can live a happy life so that I can buy what I want and live how I want and have all the comforts that's important yes but also saying God I'm looking at this job as something of significance something very strategic that you have placed me for the furtherance of your kingdom so also with marriage so also the place that you live you know everything that we see in life we look we need to see it as connected to you know being at the right place the right time doing the right thing so that you are building the kingdom of God you are fulfilling the purpose of God here in your life you have a divine mission okay and it's also a place of influence for the kingdom of God even in the house where you are living you're saying God you put me in this house here you have a divine mission you have a divine purpose I'm here for an in to be an influence to my neighbors around you put me in this job you know strategically you placed me here I want to be of significance I want to build your kingdom here I want to have influence for the kingdom of God in the place that you have put me so everything that we see in life we need to look at it as something of significance and something of importance okay the third thing is we need to be positioned to be protected okay Sam 91 says that he who dwells in the secret place of the most high will abide under the under his shadow look at what was nine of Sam 91 says says because you have made the Lord who is your God you know he would be your refuge verse nine says let me read that because you made the Lord who is my refuge even the most high your dwelling place no evil shall befall you okay so our protection in life is connected to the fact that we are in the most in the in the dwelling place of the most high okay so if we are in the right place in the dwelling place under God's covering in his will in his purpose and plan we receive the protection and the promise that God has made here in verse nine poles good that no evil can befall us so as long as the most high is my dwelling place and as long as I'm dependent on the Lord the word of God says that as long as under the shadow of his wings I receive protection and what is the secret for our protection is that we are positioned right we are in the dwelling place of God we are in the under the shadow of his wings we are totally dependent on him okay we stop here and we'll come back after the break