 Yes, good morning everyone. I hope you're doing well. Alright, let's begin this time with the word of prayer. So maybe one of us can be even prayer. Justina, Joan, anyone? Yeah, it's great. Robbie, thank you for this morning. We've come before you. We pray that you would speak to us from your word through your man. We pray that you would enrich our hearts with your voice and you would be able to apply this in our life, Scott. Thank you for this time. We pray for all our classmates and they'll be able to join soon. It's your grace be upon us, Scott. In Jesus' name we pray. Thank you, Joan. Alright, so we've been talking about right workplace attitudes. Last week we covered quite a few points. We looked at how our attitude almost always determines our attitudes. So we need to keep a check on our attitude, doing all for the glory of God, being kingdom focused with the kingdom mindset and everything that we do. An important point was always remember there's more to life than just making money. So money is not everything. Building relationships, this sense of accomplishment or a sense of value in the organization that again is very important. Walking in the fear of the Lord and even as we do that, being obedient, being sincere, being willing and being cheerful and again, faithful, loyal to all these aspects are very, very important for us at the workplace. Now we also talked about how there can be office politics, concepts and unfair methods used in the organization. But that should not stop us from walking with these right workplace attitudes. We looked at the example of how Daniel and Joseph, Daniel served under three empires, but in all three empires he was the leader, the governor and he had a good name. It was not like everything was for him. People were trying to bring him down but because he had a spirit of excellence, people recognized it and people saw that and he was greatly used. So our heart, our attitude towards things are very important. So we stopped there. And we also looked at accountability, being accountable to our leaders and the people, again, we are first accountable to God and God has placed leaders under us or above us. So we are to be accountable to our leaders as well. So let's pick up from there. We are at the point, be passionate. So chapter three, the point, be passionate. If your heart is not in it, get in or get out. Let's read Proverbs chapter 11 and verse eight. Here's what it says. Bad work gets paid with a bad check. Good work gets solid pay. Now, even as I just keep explaining these points, feel free, as usual, you can stop me, ask questions or post your questions as well. Now, over time, especially, you know, I've got this wonderful opportunity to talk and we talk to people, we meet with a lot of people. Over time, it's very easy to tell whether a person is doing something out of, you know, just because it's a job or just because they, if their heart is, or whether they're passionate or their heart is in it. And now, most likely, if a person is passionate about it, he can do it for 10 years, 15 years, 20 years. It's a passion, it's a zeal that he wants to do, he or she wants to do. But if you're being forced to do something over time, and it's not going to last for long, I would say maybe one and a half, maybe two years. It's, you know, you can tell, right? But the Bible exhausts us to be passionate about our work, to always give our best, to always go the extra mile, right? Now, here's what is very important, right? Now, if we are not passionate about something, first thing is get passionate about it, right? Now, it could be something very simple, right? Like for me, I was never passionate about reading. You know, man, as a child, I was more of an outdoor person, right? I remember as a kid, always going outside, playing football, playing cricket. Books was only, okay, exams are coming, okay, that's your study. And my parents, you know, they were not like, you know, you have to get 90, only then, you know, they were like, okay, whatever, it's all right. They didn't really force us. So, growing up, I was never into reading. We never had books and owners, you know, to read and all of that. But after I became a believer, I realized that, hey, if I need to be teaching, preaching the Word of God, yes, firstly, I need to read the Bible. I need to read it. I can't say, keep listening to sermons and, you know, depend on that. I need to get into the Word. I have to read. And two, I can't just say, okay, I've read the Word and be happy. There are plenty of resources available, plenty of wonderful authors, wonderful books that are there. And I knew I had to gain knowledge by reading all of this. The problem was I was not a reader. I'm not a reader. It's just not in me. But I realized that if this is a calling, I have to do this. So I pushed myself to be passionate about it. Now, initially it was very difficult. I would read two, three pages, fall asleep. But then I realized, okay, I have to push. I have to learn. I have to do it. So get in 100% or get out. Meaning don't stand on the fence. Don't sit on the fence. Don't say, okay, I'll try to do this. I'll try to do that. You've got to be in fully or nobody likes a half-hearted job. I'm sure you've heard the same. Okay, this was a half-hearted effort that you have put in. So the reason is lack of enthusiasm will cause lack of passion and zeal and we don't do our best. Now, at times you may be passionate about the job, but the environment that you're working in can get you down. Like your boss may say, you know, you haven't done this or your colleagues at this office parties and all of these things happening. Stick to what you're passionate about. Meaning if you can clear the problem, try to go up and try to resolve the problem that you're facing, then go ahead and do that and work with passion. Whatever it is, I mean, you may be a housewife, just at home, you may be a student, a student going to college or even here in Bible college, be passionate about it. Thank you. Thank you. Today, I'm going to learn something. Today, I want to do this in the right way by just maintaining that passion. Next one is maintain integrity and truthfulness always and in all things. Proverbs 10.9 is what it says. He who walks with integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will become known. Now, what is integrity? Integrity is doing what is right, that is morally, ethically and legally. I'm sure we've used these words many a times. Integrity. At APC, this is something that we stress on. Displaying integrity in everything that we do. It may even be studying sessions on time. Time. It's part of integrity. It can be about how we treat our volunteers, how we treat our co-workers, how we treat our congregation, and how do we... There will be people of different spiritual maturity, different spiritual levels, and how do we treat each one of them? Now, when you look at it and organize it like in the workplace, are we taking the right kind of breaks, the right timings? Are we doing the right things? Are we following the rules in what we are doing? Because here's the thing. Great leaders have fallen, and large organizations have just crumbled down because of lack of integrity. There are plenty of organizations that we can talk about also. I'm talking about in the secular world. What about organizations? Started where they've gone into being a multi-million dollar organization, but they've just crumbled down because there was lack of integrity. And what about in ministry? Plenty. And there are plenty of leaders who have fallen. Why was lack of integrity? Now, it may not... In ministry or even in the workplace, that integrity may not be just money or relationships. It could be legal matters as well. Legally, we've not done the right things, not followed the right process, and it's just fallen down. Let's look at this. Look at a few things about integrity, a few verses here. Put away from you a deceitful mount, and put perverse lips far from you. Proverbs 4-24, put away from you a deceitful mount. Proverbs 12-22, relying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who are truthful are His delight. All of these are from Proverbs. Look at Proverbs 11-3, the integrity of the upright will guide them, but the perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them. Proverbs 11-5, the righteousness of the blameless will direct His way to the right, but the wicked will fall by His own wickedness. Then again, one more last verse. Proverbs 28-20, honest people will lead a full, happy life, but if you're in a hurry to get rich, you're going to be punished. So you look at all these verses. It talks about integrity. It talks about doing things morally, ethically, legally. And in a world that we are in right now, we can do so much illegally. Nowadays, the moral standards of the world has gone really blue. I would say it's nowhere close to... No, because the biblical standards are very high. Now you look at the standards that are happening around us. It's very low and it's easy for us, whether the workplace or ministry, to fall into that trap. Everyone are doing it, so why not? Everyone are following this set of rules. Even if I follow these set of rules, I think I should be fine now. Always look at God's word as the standard of everything that we do. And from these words that we just read, and there are plenty of verses in Proverbs. Isaiah talks a little bit about it. Jeremiah talks about it. And the reason they talk about it is because they were in captivity during that time. There's a lot where he's connecting that he's talking about the Israelites where they were unfaithful, they were not truthful to God, that's why they are in captivity and all of that. But what we want to understand is, in a world that we are in now, with all the new things, new technologies and all of these things, it's very easy to be morally wrong. But these verses help us to know that in terms of integrity, God is very serious about it, being integrity, being through to the organization you're working in, to the leaders, to your coworkers, to your family and to everything. Next point. Work hard. There is no substitute for diligence. No place for laziness. That is problem-stemful. He who has a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich. What is diligence? The first thing that comes to my mind when I think of diligence is the act. It's so diligent. Another verse in Proverbs, it says, look at the act. They don't waste their time. Look at that. They are so diligent in what they do. Diligence means thoroughness, meticulousness, carefulness and attentiveness. I don't know if any of you have seen how bees make a hive. It is a process of diligence. It is thoroughness, very meticulousness, attentiveness. I remember where I stayed. Another apartment which had a balcony, I saw a small black thing. Many things happened both at that time. Over time, I knew it was going to become a bee hive. That ball became a little bigger and it became bigger and bigger and bigger. It became so huge. We can picture those hundreds of bees holding on to each other, gripped on each other, meticulously. What happens if some of them say, hey, I'm going to let go. The inner ones say, I'm going to let go. I don't know if they will fall, but they may not be able to fulfill the task that they came together for. Laziness goes halfway. It does not complete the job. Laziness is also procrastination, delaying things. Of course, there are times we will have to do things and we may have to postpone things. But procrastination simply means if there's something that you can do now, but you just don't want to do it, there's no reason. So you just move it to another day. That is called laziness. And look at this verse, Proverbs 6, 9, 3, 11. How long is the lazy man going to lie around? When is he ever going to get up? The short nap he says, I fold my hands and rest a little. All the people attack him like an armed robber. Always remember, laziness opts for what is the easiest. What's the most convenient? What's the most comfortable? What is it where I don't have to do any physical labor or people don't put in the extra effort? Whatever is convenient. And the verse that we read says, laziness attracts poverty. And when you look at poverty, not only talking about money, but also poverty could be lack of growth, just being in the same place. No growth in life, no growth in work, in ministry or personal life, nothing. It's there. Many, many young people that I have met. And this normally happens when young people say, I want to join ministry. When they say, hey, I want to join ministry, so they could join. And probably one week, one month, they're praying. Fervently praying the whole day. Just praying, praying. Now it's good. But after a month, that passion or that zeal slowly dies down. Then from 10 hours of praying, it becomes 8 hours. Then the next month it becomes 5 hours. Then it becomes 4 hours. Then it becomes 1 hour. Then we start justifying. Anyways, I prayed. When I started off, I prayed 10 hours. So those prayers still hold for me. No. Many a times I've told people, especially parents, they come and they share. They say, my son or my daughter is saying he wants to do this or wants to do that. The first thing I say is, they're going to go work and put your hands to the plumb. You've got to get your hands hard and you've got to work. You've got to put your hands to the plumb. There will be times when God will just make things easy, like transition. So for example, you're working in a place. You may just transition very smoothly or you're working and God wants you to come into full time ministry. The transition may be very smooth. You can do much of a hard work. But that's very rare. Because when God is calling somebody, he makes sure that person is not a lazy person because God cannot use lazy people. He cannot use lazy people. So these are things that go under my head at a very, very early age and I thank God for it. Some of the things are not true. Just to encourage each one of us. There are other times, I'll push myself. I want to do it. How it gets done, I just need to do it. It may involve physical work. It will involve this lack of sacrificing on sleep, sacrificing on friends, or sacrificing going out to places. Just for the sake of this growing and the things that come. So I want to encourage each one of you. You may be already serving in the church or you're planning to serve in the church. You plan to start your ministry already in ministry. You're in the workplace. Hard work is something that God will always reward. He will reward it over time. I never feel that nobody knows how hard I worked but nobody is appreciating me for the hard work. It's alright. Continue strong. Your Father in heaven sees you in private. He knows what's going on in your life. He knows whether you're doing things if you have been faithful, if you've worked hard. Remember when I joined as staff and if you see many, many years back, one of my main rules was, I joined as a life group coordinator as my group life group but then the remaining hours I was asked to go out on outreaches. So about four or five hours I'll be out giving out tracks, inviting people to church and we have those tracks. Love people then love itself. What can wash away our sins? I remember we always carry those, always carry them in my backpack and go all across the city just giving out these invites and inviting people to church, inviting people to our meetings and conference. Many times I felt, I can just go home and sit but I thank God for the way he has led. Thank God for faithfulness. Thank God for hard work. So when I look back, was it good? Was it hard work? Was it difficult standing on the roads giving out tracks? Yeah, it was very difficult but I enjoyed it. So that is why we must be also passionate and passionate about it. It's not going to look like a job that you have to do and it could be anything. I'm just talking in terms of ministry in the workplace also. Laziness attracts people. If you feel that you're in that place I need to do something, get up, push yourself, go ahead, be wise when I say push yourself but be wise and don't let laziness creep in and do the things that God has called you to do. Don't just be busy, be productive because even God wants that. Let's look at this verse, John 15.1 and 2. I'm the real wine and Father is the gardener. He breaks off every branch of me that does not bear fruit and He prunes every branch that does bear fruit so that it will be clean and bear more fruit. Verse 8, my Father's glory is shown by your bearing much fruit and in this way you become my disciples. Now, this verse is so wonderful, right? I'm the wine, you are the branches. Jesus didn't end at that. Even though I am attached to Jesus, even though Jesus is the wine, I'm the branches but Jesus is saying bear fruit. If we don't bear fruit He's going to cut it off. This is not bearing fruit. There's no point of that branch being attached to me when it's not bearing fruit. If we are being productive, what He does is He wants us to increase our productivity. What we do at work is important to God as we do in church all in the prayer closet because everything we do, we do it for Him. Sometimes we try to be busy with the work that we have. It's not about just being busy. It's about being productive. For example, I'm getting only examples of ministry but let me try and give you an example from the work. Just picture this, somebody, a young man he's worked in the corporate sector and now God has called him. He's clearly heard from God to start his own business. He moves out. He's planned. He's prepared everything. He's financially ready. He's done everything. He starts the business. He starts the business and the first year things are going okay but he's very busy. I have to do this, I have to do this, I have to do this. There's so many things to do. After five years, maybe for example, he started off with five employees. After five years, if he has five employees doing the same thing, then he's just been busy. There's no productivity. I hope this example makes sense. What I'm trying to get at is there should be growth as we grow in our business, as we grow in our workplace and in the ministry and everything. There must be growth. If you look at it in ministry, if you are in charge of any, maybe several groups, if you're in charge of several groups, you start off with two people or three people in a certain group. Now three years down the line, if you're in a group, still two people and you've been busy, but there's no growth. What we want to see is productivity and productivity will bring results, get things done. In the corporate sector, they say the numbers talk. We can give a lot of explanation. I did this, I did this, I did this, and then after that, I did at home, I didn't stop at that, I began to work from home. My boss says, but you did all of that, but the numbers are still the same. Whether you work eight hours here or whether you work 12 hours at home, the numbers are the same and people are going to look at the results. Shall be known by a fruit. My father's glory is shown by your bearing fruit. So if a bear fruit is well, I can see productivity. So very important. When we are working in ministry, make sure there's growth. It could be even in the volunteer teams. In church, if you're in charge of one of the volunteer teams, don't be satisfied with 10 people. Okay, come on. I need to increase this. I need to build this team. I need to make them stronger. I need to make it more effective. I need to make it in a way that everyone can be productive or start their own teams within the church. So just looking at growth. What do you do with your time? It's up to you. Don't waste it. Always, this saying always caught my attention. Time flies. But you're the pilot. It really struck gold for me. Time flies. And we use this now. Hey, how old are your kids? Oh, man, time flies. It's true. Time really goes fast. Look at 2022. You know, to me, it went really fast. Years are over. And January is over. 23. 11 months left. 23 months is going to go really quick. Time flies. But you are the pilot. Meaning you must know how you and I must know how to use this time. From 28, 8, 19, a hardworking farmer has plenty to eat. People who waste time will be poor, plain and simple. People who waste time will be poor. No, I'm not talking only about financially, but everything. And skills. We need to improve our skills. We need to improve our time management. We need to improve our efficiency, our productivity. So we have to use time wisely. Discard unnecessary tasks. Sometimes, you know, of course now in a world that we're living in, technology is just going, so everything is there on the phone. So let's pose this cause. So we can end up being on Facebook. Let me just see what's on Facebook and we open Facebook. And it's five minutes, let me see. And then suddenly you realize it's been one and a half hours or two hours. What was I doing? Just looking at everyone's, these are old friends, looking at their pictures or nothing wrong in it. What is it productive? And now with Instagram, people are just, I don't have a Facebook. I don't know if I have one or I don't have Instagram. But these are good. If you have a good Instagram, nothing good. But I just prefer not to have because it's a waste of time for me. I don't want to waste my time. Even YouTube, I always make sure that I don't spend too much time on it. The maximum I'm going to do is listen to one sermon. I would choose a sermon. It's just 40, 45 minutes from when I listen to it, make pointers and build on that. So there are things that can take our time. It can just eat up our time. Sometimes it could be just those lunch breaks. All of us, more than going with friends and colleagues and going to the world. Lunch break and we're going to order the food. It comes in, we have one outbreak. By the time we get the food, we talk, we talk, we eat. Okay, where is this from? Where is that from? And then it becomes two hours. We realize here, I've taken a two hour lunch break. And the reason I'm sharing this is because when I was in the work, it happened to me and God connected me. He said, you wasted about an hour. Just doing nothing. Now it's not like every time the Lord reminds me, but I just knew that it was not right what I did. I took this card, this card, unnecessary tasks when we feed is not required. Don't spend too much time on it. And this is something I'm also trying to teach my children and sometimes they say, can I use the phone? I want to play, I want to watch this game or I want to watch this video. Whether it's Christian or whether it's not Christian, I always said that, okay, 15 minutes. Not more than that. So I put a timer for 10 minutes. So once the timer beeps, so they know, okay, it's time to give the phone. I'm trying not to give them that extra time because I know that they can do something better with that time. And as adults, we must learn how to manage our time. Have a passion for excellence even as you work. Proves 22, 29. Observe people who are good at their work. Skilled workers are always in the bar and admire. They don't take a backseat to anyone. So develop a passion for excellence in your work. And excellence takes skill and hard work. Now, we must remember, as girls and children, everyone not only goes, as human beings, we have talents that God gives us, gifts and talents he places in us. Singing is a God-given gift. So if you can hold a note, you can sing and tune. It's a God-given gift, it's a gift that's in you. Now, if you want to become, if you feel, okay, I can sing, so I want to become a singer when I grow up. I want to also sing professionally and maybe in the worship team or just be a professional singer and glorify all of my occupation. Now, if I know that, no, I can't say, okay, I can say, I have to improve my skills. I need to learn, okay, different things and different attributes in singing. There's sopranos, there's octaves, there's melody, there's singing melodies, there's singing parts, there's voice alternations and all kinds of things that are there. And so I need to develop that passionate about it. I can pursue it. Same thing with instruments. I don't think there's any instrument that said I learned everything. Any musician who said I learned everything. I always pursue it because you're passionate about it. Same thing with work. Whatever your work is, pursue excellence. You might say, Pastor, but my work is just moving one file. I need to just forward files from one account to another or I just need to email this. What's your do to excellence? Over time, people will recognize it. There's a joy in completing a task while knowing that you have given your best. Really, there's a joy in that. You've done your best and you know you're leaving the results up to go. That's such a joy there. Work in excellence and when you do that, people will want to be part of your team. People will recognize you. People will appreciate your work. You will be admired. Eventually, those promotions, God will raise you. God is the one who gives you promotion. It is, you know, God will speak to your leaders to give you the promotion. God spoke to those three kings of those three empires. All of them were unbelievers and they didn't believe in the God of Israel. I spoke to them and said, let Daniel be there. Let Daniel be the leader and look at Joseph. God told, you know, in that one instance, God would have said, you know, maybe Pharaoh didn't know, but it was God who said, okay, since you've come up, you've told me the dream. Seven years of famine, seven years of abundance. So there's no one better who can handle this whole situation. Joshua, the second and commanding agent. Sorry, Joseph, the second and commanding agent. From nowhere. When we do things that are passionate about it, God will give us the promotion. Never stop learning. If wise man will pose one fight, wise man will cure and increase learning and man of understanding will attain wise counsel. When you and I get a job or get into ministry, whatever we're doing, your learning happens on the job every day and then your learning continues to grow. You acquire new skills. You listen to people, you watch people, read cultural trainings that are available. Right now, I'm watching this series of videos where it talks about how to improve your speaking skills in front of stage speaking skills. There's nothing biblical about it. It's not about Christianity, nothing. It's just skilled people who are excellent in this. I feel that by watching them, I will learn something and apply it because I know that this is something that I have to do every Sunday going forward, preaching. So I have to improve my vocabulary, sentence construction. There are so many things that this person was saying and I never really thought about it. You said, make sure you dress up you're comfortable with the dress that you wear, the clothes that you wear, you're comfortable and confident because when you're comfortable and confident in the clothes that you wear, it will show on the stage and your teaching. Make sure that you can also practice handling. For me, it's just a habit. But I was surprised. There are certain ways of hand movements that apparently they communicate certain things, hand movements. They are things that I didn't know. And so these are things we're learning. And eye contact with the people who are sitting with the audience and how those eye contact should be done. So there's so many things, talking skills, how to, you know, those great of speech and so many things. Never stop learning. You know people who are better than you. We must not say, oh man, you know, he's better than me. What is this? We go there, we learn from that person so that we can improve ourselves. So ask a lot of questions. Listen attentively. Asking questions is wonderful. One of the things, we had a mentoring hour. When we were in Bible college, we didn't have these things. I remember in Bible college when I was there, oh man, I would write down questions because I didn't want to disturb the class. So write down about 20 or questions each week. They would be the most silly questions. And sometimes we'd be like, am I even writing this question? I would write them at least 20 questions each week. And I thought that all our leaders, all our teachers, all of us would ask them those questions. Tell me about this, tell me about this. And thank God for our wonderful team. They patiently answered them. But it helped us. It helped me personally. And I still write a lot of questions. I still mean to them. I still ask questions. Just because we are 10 years now, 12 years down, it doesn't mean I don't have questions. I still have questions. I still ask, learn, experiment, be quick to learn from mistakes. Watch others, learn from what others are doing. Don't just be somebody who's like, okay, I'm doing what I'm doing. Whether they like it or not, it's okay. I'm just doing it. No, we want to improve. We want to never stop learning. I just keep growing in everything. And there is so much available to learn from. If you go into Google, and you type in David Guzik, and this is just an example of this. I keep doing this. David Guzik, and you have these commentaries. And he's done a commentary in the entire Bible. And then after that, there are so many people who can do such wonderful explanations from the Bible. And now we have all these websites, whether they're Saloncentralpreacher.com, but they give you these wonderful topics and how to make a sermon out like, did I learn it in Bible quality? Yes. There are homiletics. But is it something that I have to learn now? Yes. We never stop learning. Last point, I'm going to close. Stay calm. Stay focused when the unexpected happens. Not only worse, probably the three, 25 and 26, don't need to panic over alarms or surprises or predictions that doom stays just around the corner because God will be right there with you. He'll keep you safe and sound. Now the alarms, the surprises, the bad news can come anytime, anywhere. And in every situation, we must remember that God is with us. He will see us through this moment. And it's very alarming. Suddenly a company may say, we are laying off a thousand employees. So I'm coming. Unexpected. You're just doing your work. You're excited about what you're going to do. You like your job. You like everything about it. But this news comes on. It's a news that shakes you. Stay calm. Stay calm. Ankle yourself in God in the face of bad news. And we all will face bad news. Maybe family, workplace, personal lives. We may face bad news. We may go through the unexpected. Right? That's where your relationship with God will come in handy. You know, you anchor yourself in God. You anchor yourself in God's word. God, these are the problems. These are the situations. The unexpected has come. But I know, Lord, that you are there with me. I trust your word. I trust your promises. I trust that I'm not going to be alone during this season. And the Lord will see us through. Stay calm. Stay positive. Stay God focused. I'll close with this verse. Jeremiah 17 and 7 and 8. Jeremiah is talking in a time when the Syrians have already come and destroyed Jerusalem. So that's what he says. Jeremiah 17 and 7 and 8. Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose hope is in the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters that spread out its roots by the river and will not fear when heat comes. But its leaf will be green and will not be anxious in the year of drought nor will seas from healing fruit. What an encouragement Jeremiah is giving. Jeremiah is giving this encouragement during a time where Israel is falling. It's almost, it's on the verge of falling and he's saying the encouragement is Israel you shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water you shall bear fruit. Imagine I can just picture the people saying what are you talking about Jeremiah? Don't you see what's happening around? Don't you see that we are going to be destroyed by the Syrians? We hold no chance. We're going to be wiped out. But here's what Jeremiah is saying. You shall be like a tree. Even when the drought comes, you will be fruitful. So you and I in those seasons or those times when the unexpected come anchor yourself in God's presence in God's word. Stay positive, stay calm. It's very easy to get angry, get upset. But these are things that we can do with the assurance that God is always with us. Amen, so wonderful. Any questions before we close? Any thoughts? Any of you have any questions? We've completed this chapter. So we'll go to section 2 next week. We're going to talk about corporate vision and what it's all about. Yes, any questions? Are everybody able to track along? Please let me know if I'm too fast or is it okay? Okay. Thank you. Anyways, it's good. Let's begin to apply these things in our life, in our work, our studies, everything that we're doing, families. We trust God will continue to use us. Let's pray and close. Maybe one of us can pray. Anyone of us? Isaac, Jafina, anybody can close in prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, we hope you're under the name of Jesus. We thank you for this beautiful day and for the beautiful class that we have. God, we thank you for everything that we learned through Pastor Paul today. God, we pray that you build us in such a way that we can glorify you wherever we go. We can preach your possible wherever we go, wherever we work, like in every single place, we will declare that Jesus is God. There's a living God who loves these people. Help us to have that bonus, that courage, help us to stay committed towards the commission that you have given us, Lord. Be with us and guide us as we learn many new things through this class. Help us to put it into action. God, help us to not just have faith, but put our faith in action so that our faith will be completed. Help us to, whether we eat or drink, help us to do everything for your glory. Be with us and guide us. We thank you for Pastor Paul. We bless him, we bless his family. We pray that you give him a good health and all my classmates who all are listening, we thank you and we love you. In Jesus' name, Amen. Thank you, Justina. Thank you, everyone. Have a wonderful week ahead. I'll see you on Monday. God bless.