 Okay, welcome back after the break. I just have one request. I'm supposed to be recording these classes. You know, sometimes we are, we have so many things now with the camera, with the microphone, with the audio, everything. So in case we forget or miss to record, then we'll have to do another whole session. Again, just, I guess it happened. So it will be nice if you can just remind us, you know, when we begin class recording. So I recorded it, but just in case, you know, it'll be good if you can help the faculty in just reminding them to record it. When we start class, even after break, every class when you begin, like my first class on Wednesday, I had completely forgotten to record my, the class for the third years. And thankfully, there was an online student who said you've not recorded and I just was beginning to teach the class after all the initial introduction. So this is grace of God. Okay, the grace and mercy of God in our own weaknesses and our frailties. Okay, so we are on page number five in fulfilling God's purpose for our life. And we looked at second Timothy chapter one, verse nine. Okay. And we see here that God has called us according to his own purpose. And we are called to partner with God in fulfilling his plan and his purpose for our lives. Isn't that wonderful? You know, we are called to partner with God, partnering with his great, mighty, awesome God. So we're called to partner with God. And we're not living our own purposes, but we are living out his higher and his greater plan and purpose for our life. Okay, now, when God gives us reveals his will plan and purpose, it's not something he'll just say, okay, take this is my plan for the season, do it. It's not that. Okay. He's such a loving God and a gracious and a compassionate and a merciful God that he also gives us the grace that we need to fulfill his purpose. He comes, he's given us the Holy Spirit, the Greek word for Holy Spirit is paraquely tossed, which means somebody who comes alongside us. Okay, so the Holy Spirit is somebody who comes alongside us and he's there to counsel, aid, support, guide, teach, equip. So somebody who comes alongside us. Okay, so when God gives us reveals his plan and his purpose for our life, he also gives us the grace to fulfill it, fulfill it, which means he gives us the divine empowerment, the power we need, the skills we need, the abilities we need. And he accompanies us in his divine calling. They're not alone. Okay, he comes along with us, he aids us, he gives us. And just as an example, you know, when God called me to full time ministry, again, I wanted to work with drug addicts and alcoholics to something that I wanted to work. So I stayed in Kolkata for seven, seven months, worked with street children. I mean, I didn't work with street children, but I wanted to work with drug addicts and alcoholics as writing my PCs in Bible college on drug addiction. But you know, God has different plans and purposes for our lives. I went to minister to the drug addicts and alcoholics. And of course, I did that. But then I stayed with children who they picked up on how our platform also ministered to street children, ministered to children of commercial sex workers, to their children as well. So I just saw God even in Bible college, you know, when I wanted to do, we were put into different ministry teams. I was again with children ministry. And after Bible college, I wanted to go back to this organization in Kolkata. And I wanted to continue ministering with addicts because there was no one working full, no one available to work full time with women addicts, residential women addicts would come, they didn't have homes because they did not have anyone full time. So the boss told me, you know, I was there for internship. He said, come back and we will let you run the, you know, the project for women addicts. But when I went there and I was ready, he just looked at me and I know it's just God speaking to me. He said, I think you're very tired. You need to go back home, take a break and come back. And I didn't go back because God had different plans and purposes. He wanted me to work among children. And you know, when I started way in 2000, that's when I finished my Bible college and started ministry. In 2000, there was not much of children's ministry and material and everything that was available. But I know that, you know, I'm not a very creative person, but we have a creative God who gives us his creativity, who gives us his talents and the abilities. And every time I had to do something, I would receive a download, no download from heaven and say, God, what do I name this project? It'll be a download. What do I do for the, for VBS, for kids conference? There'll be a download. What do I write in this curriculum? There'll be a download. You know, so it's just my experience that when God calls us to a specific task, we might not be skilled and trained in that area. Even in Bible college, we didn't have, we had Christian education, a very scarce kind of material, which was not very good. But, you know, God just, just, I know just God taught me things. He gave me the skills and the abilities. So don't be afraid when God calls you to do something or God sends you to a specific place. So when God is showing you his will, don't think about how am I going to do it? I've never done it. You know, where am I going to go? What am I going to do? You know, just leave everything to God. The important thing you need to do is you just first take the first step. When you take that first step, you know, he does everything that is required. You just have to follow. And of course, it's not easy. You have to work hard. You have to do things, but God gives you the grace, the strength and the enabling. Okay. And his call and his purpose is given to us in Jesus Christ. Okay. So remember that, you know, we are here to partner with God in doing that. And we can only know what God's will and plan and purpose for our life is when we align our will, when we position our will and partner with God in carrying out his purposes. So God is not figuring out what to do with your life. Some of us here are figuring out, sorry, some of us are figuring out what we need to do with our lives, but God is not. Okay. He's already figured it out. He's already planned it out even before time began. Okay. And God is fulfilling his plan and purpose in your life. Okay. So let's move on. God's plan for our life is good. How do we know that Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11, can one of you please read that? Can one of the men read it? Jeremiah 29, 11. Thank you. So here we know that God's plan for us is not something that is bad or evil, but it's a plan that gives us hope and a future. So don't be scared. God's plan for your life is, is, can everyone say good? Good. Okay. It will take you to the best places, the better places than where you are now. Okay. And we also see that his thoughts towards us is peace. Now, here is just peace. But if you look at it in the Hebrew word, the Hebrew word for peace is shalom. And shalom is not just peace, but it's a very holistic word. It's a very comprehensive word, which means well-being, prosperity. It means health. It means protection from every kind of harm and danger. It means preservation. So all of this is in that word shalom. So shalom means peace, well-being, wholeness, prosperity, good health, preservation from harm and danger, protection from every work of the enemy. That is the meaning of the word shalom. So God's word, thoughts towards you is towards your well-being, towards your health, towards your prosperity, towards your preservation, towards your protection, because his thoughts towards you is shalom. Okay. Let's look at Romans chapter eight, verse 28. Can somebody read that please? Thank you. So all things work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose. So there's nothing better in your life than following and pursuing God's plan and purpose for your life. Okay. And so we know that God is for us. He's not against us. His plans and purpose for us is good. And it is shalom. His thoughts towards us. And there's nothing better than pursuing God's plan for your life. So God has a plan and purpose for our life, but we need to partner with him. We need to cooperate with him in fulfilling his plan and purpose for our lives. Okay. Yes, there are some people who have never even got into God's plan and purpose for their life. Why? Because they are pursuing their own plan and purpose. Okay. There are some people who have asked God for his will, for his plan and purpose. They know it. They have begun with it, but half somewhere in between because of the troubles and the difficulties they have given up. But there are some people who have taken hold of God's plan and purpose for their life and they have run through with it till the very end. Okay. So yesterday, we looked at the life of two of God's generals, and we saw that both of them, they had God's, they knew God's calling over their life's plan and purpose, but did they pursue it? No. For the first few years of their life, they did not pursue it. They went through a lot of difficulties and hardships, and they came to a place where they said, we better pursue God's will and plan for our lives. Okay. And they ran with it. But then we saw William Brentham in the end, what did he do? You know, he fell out of God's plan and purpose for his life, and we saw how his life was so messed up. Okay. So, you know, it says here that we need to cooperate with God in fulfilling his plan and purpose. Corporate means not just saying, okay, God, I'll do your will and plan and purpose and just sit down. You know, it doesn't happen automatically. We need to work hard. Right. Fulfilling God's plan and purpose for our life is easy to receive because it's not mysterious, but it is something that we need to work hard. Okay. And we see a apostle Paul, an example. Right. He was a very educated man. He studied one of the best scholars in this time. One of the best teachers, Gamaliel, he studied. He was so scholarly in his Old Testament, the Old Testament, and he was so learned. He was so brilliant. We see that in his writings. But we know that life was not easy for him. Right. We read in 1 Corinthians all of the difficulties in one of the chapters, he's listed it out. You know, how many beatings, shipwrecks, how many times he had to face death. So an apostle Paul, who was such a great missionary and a great apostle, he faced so much of difficulties in life. And so also we see the other apostles, Stephen and Peter and all of the other apostles. We even see Jesus. Right. Was it easy for Jesus to fulfill his mission here on earth? No, it wasn't easy. It was very difficult. Every time he had people coming in the crowd, trying to find fault with them, trying to see how they can catch him and, you know, pin him down. Okay. And he knew about it. So life is not going to be easy in fulfilling God's plan and purpose for our lives. We need to endure. We need to run through with it. And we need to work hard. Okay. And that is what Paul says, you know, he says, I finished the race. I've run my race and I finished the race. And we need to also be able to say that in our own lives. Okay. God has already a blueprint for our life, which is planned even before the foundations of the world. But he's looking for you and I to bring it about here on or to execute it here on earth. And that is why he created us. That is why he created Adam and Eve as well. Okay. So we must discover and pursue. Pursue means what? What does it mean that we must discover? What does it mean discover God's plan? We need to find our God's plan. And what does it mean to pursue God's plan? I like that word actively go ahead with, you know, doing God's plan and purpose for your life. Okay. So is God willing to reveal his will to you? Yes. Ask and you shall receive. Okay. Yes. He's willing to reveal to all those who seek him. Okay. So you might be wondering and saying, I'm not hearing God's will. Ask him. Okay. And keep pursuing that and he will reveal it. Now, in this book, we are going to look at this nine guide posts. Okay. Or nine ways we can discern God's plan, his will for our lives. Okay. The first thing is recognizing it's on page number seven in the book in the PDF copy. The first one is recognize the general teaching and instruction of God's word. The second one is recognize the seeds in your life. The third one is recognize the steering within. The fourth is recognize the grace of God given to you. The fifth one is recognize the circumstances. Sixth one is recognize the leading of God's spirit. Seventh is recognize Godly counsel and wisdom. Eighth is recognize the times and seasons. The ninth one is recognize God's pattern of working in your life. Okay. I'm not going to be explaining each one in detail because we will be looking at each one of it in detail, but we just listed it out here. Okay. Just a few more points in this chapter. God will prepare us to fulfill his plan and his purpose. And how long does God take us to prepare for his will to be done in our lives? How long? Anyone of our online students would like to answer that question. How long does God take to prepare us for his plan and his purpose in our life? Okay. Viku says it's life long. Yeah. That's true. Until you're ready and equipped. Okay. Yes. Yes. That's one way true. You know, the quicker that you are, you know, receiving or hearing from God and your build your relationship with him is the quicker the process of launching out into doing what God's plan for your life is. Like for Jesus, when did he start his earthly ministry? 30 years. How long did it take? Three years. God is not, you know, a respecter of time. He can do what was not accomplished in 10 years. He can do it in two years. And we saw that yesterday when we looked at God's general Maria Woodward Itta, we saw that, you know, just in a couple of years, God accomplished everything which, you know, for which he had delayed God's call in her life. And we will look at some of the biblical characters later on, how long God took to actually prepare them for their calling and how he fulfilled his calling. So preparation time is not wasted time. But don't be in a hurry and saying, you know, hey, my classmate, he or she studied with me two years, three years in Bible college and look at him now. He's having a big church and he's having 500 members and look at me. I'm not doing anything. You know, don't compare yourself with others. Okay. You just look at the time and season you are in where God is taking you, what he's doing with your life in this time and season and be sensitive to that, follow through with that. And you know, God in his time will do great things and accomplish great things in and through your life. Remember what we said, God has places you have to go. He has lives you have to touch. He has people that you want, he wants you to impact, you know, nations he wants you to shake, and cities he wants you to transform. You can do that. You don't have to run ahead of him. Don't lag behind. Just stay alongside with him. You know, wait when and discern what he's asking you to do if he's getting you to be prepared, prepare yourself. He's saying launch out, launch out, do this, do this. Just do what God is saying and remember that preparation time is never wasted time. Okay. The greater the call, the greater the preparation that is needed. Right. You don't become a doctor in one year. You take four years and then you do one year of internship. So when you do earthly courses, you have such a long time to, you know, prepare. You don't go from grade one to grade 10 in one year. You have to go to grade two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and then you reach grade 10. Even if you don't like schooling, you can't go sit in grade 10 and try to finish schooling. Okay. We also, when we pursue God's call for our life, can we make mistakes? Can we face failures? Yes, we can. You know, but what do we need to do when we face failures, when we go through difficulties, when we mess up, when we make mistakes? What do we do? Yes. Repent. Okay. Do we give up on God's call? Say we're not worthy. We can't do it. We're good for nothing. We'll think about something else. No, we all make mistakes. We all fail, but we go back to God and God is somebody who restores us, he renews us, he refreshes us, and then he puts us back on track and we can continue running our race and fulfilling what God has for our life. So as we journey in fulfilling God's plan for our lives, we will surely make mistakes. And we all have weaknesses in our lives, but if we don't conquer our weaknesses, Satan will use that against us. Okay. So the last four days you've been studying about laying the ax, the root of various things in your life. Okay. And those are weaknesses. And if you don't take the step and the measure to those things in your life, to totally shut those doors, to stop doing those things, you know, Satan can use that against you. And don't allow your mistakes, don't allow your failures to become a dead end in your life. That means don't say, you know, I made a mistake and you like reach this end, this is the end of your life, the dead end, the wall, there's nothing more I can do. I've messed up. I can't go further. Don't say that, you know, you need to conquer your weaknesses. If you don't conquer your weaknesses, it'll become a tragedy in your life. Okay. And God is there to help us even in the greatest mistakes or failures that we make in our life. So your enemy is not outside of you, your enemy is actually inside. So who is the enemy inside? It's your own weaknesses. Remember yesterday we read James talking about temptation. What is temptation? Temptation is when you're led astray by your own desires because of your own lusts. So it's our own selfish, earthly, evil desires that lead us a way that causes us, that can be a hindrance, a weakness from pursuing God's plan for our life. So we need to overcome that. So our greatest obstacle is usually birth out of our own doing, our own desire and not Satan. Okay. Sometimes we can blame Satan. But what we need to do is, you know, we need to realize that our greatest weaknesses, our obstacles is birth out of our own wrong thinking, our own evil selfish desires. We are feeding our own sinful nature, our fleshly, carnal nature. And we are not feeding our spiritual nature. And that is what we need to do. Okay. Let's look at 2 Timothy chapter 4 verses 6 to 8. Can somebody read that please? 2 Timothy chapter 4 verses 6 to 8. Thank you. So who's writing this? And who is talking about himself here? Okay. So Paul came to, you know, he received salvation at the age of 35. Okay. So 35 years of his life was just passed in following Judaism. Okay. And now he's become a believer. But he says, you know, when he's writing this letter, the second letter to Timothy is when he was in Roman imprisonment and he knows that that is impending upon him, which means he knows he's going to be dying soon. Okay. He's not going to come out free from this Roman imprisonment like he came out from the first Roman imprisonment. He knows he's going to die soon. And so he's saying that, you know, I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. So he started out at the age of 35. And yet he was able to do everything which he felt, you know, God had plan and purpose for him. So what do we understand from this that, you know, age is not an hindrance for God to fulfill his plan and purpose in our life. Okay. And we look at 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 9. Can somebody read that please? 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 9. Yeah. So here it says that we are saved according to, you know, it was Christ who saved us and we're not saved according to our own works, not because of our good works. There's nothing good in us, nothing that we do can be, we can say is good that, you know, has brought about salvation in our lives that has saved us. But, you know, we are called according to God's purpose and his grace. Okay. So what do we learn from this verse that God is not looking for perfect vessels? Okay. We don't have to be perfect in the way we speak, in the way we, you know, we feel we're not too talented, we're not too brilliant, we feel we're not too smart. You know, God is not looking for perfect vessels. He's just looking for vessels who are submitted to him, willing to obey him, vessels that are obedient to him. So God chooses us not because of our abilities, our skills, our talents, our education, the amount of gray matter that we have, you know, that we can remember things so well. God is looking for our willingness. He's looking for our availability. He's looking for how faithful we are going to be in what he has will be entrusting to us. Okay. So he's looking for submitted vessels. Okay. For people who yield themselves to him, submit in obedience. And that is what he is looking in each one of us. And whatever is lacking, his grace will be sufficient for us. His power will be made perfect in our weaknesses. His power will be able to enable us to fulfill everything he has for us. That's the read second quarantine chapter four verse seven. So what does it mean here? What does this verse mean? Treasure in earthen vessels? What is earthen vessels? When you think about earthen vessels in, you know, when we look at vessels, what is earthen vessels? The very normal perishable mundane thing is actually made up of clay. You know, mud clay, clay pots, earthen vessels. They can also be vessels of gold and silver. Okay, that we use it for very special occasions, special crockery and all of those things. But all of these earthen vessels is simple everyday use. So what is it saying there is, you know, we are like these earthen vessels. There's nothing so great about us. Okay, we are very simple, fragile, you know, made out of dust. But we have this treasure that God has put his treasure, his will, his plan and purpose in our lives. And he has given us the power to enable us to do what he wants us to do. Okay, so anytime you think that you are not fit for God's calling, remember that it's not about you, but it's about God's power that's going to be manifest in your life. Okay, so we all make mistakes in our lives. There can be failures, okay, but God can recover everything. God is greater than the time. Okay, God is greater than our mistakes that we make. Okay, whatever years that have gone away, God can, you know, bring it back. He can use it to fulfill his plan and purpose for our life. Okay, and Satan will also try to stop us from pursuing God's plan and purpose for our life. We can face demonic oppression, but you know, those delays are not from God. And an example given here is from Daniel chapter 10, verses 2 to 14. Actually, Daniel was praying and was looking for an answer from God. But as soon as he prayed, God sent forth the answer, but he received the answer after 21 days. Do you know why? Yeah, the king of Persia, which means a demonic spirits were actually stopping the angel from bringing the message to Daniel. And this angel was fighting these demonic spirits for 21 days. So when it became 21 days, then finally, the archangel Michael comes and he fights and then they're able to bring the message to Daniel and tell Daniel that, you know, the answer was delayed because not because God sent it late, but because, you know, these demonic spirits had stopped them from bringing the answer to Daniel. Okay, so Satan can stop us from fulfilling God's plan and purpose for our lives. So, you know, and he attempts to delay your miracle. He attempts to weaken your desire. He attempts to weaken our drive for God. He attempts to weaken our determination from God. But what we need to do is we need to be, you know, vigilant, we need to be sharp, sensitive, and we need to understand. And then we need to, you know, fight our battle and God has given us every weapon we need to fight against the evil one. And we have the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. So we speak the word of God, and we continue running our race. Okay, and we must remain focused to God's call. Okay, I like what Paul says, you know, I continue running my race, fixing my eyes on Jesus, the author, the protector, and the finisher of my race. Okay, so it's important that, you know, we know that the Satan can bring delays and distractions. Okay, but like for we looked at Maria Woodward yesterday, what was her distraction from pursuing God's call for her life? Her family, she actually wanted to marry a mystery, but she ended up falling in love with a soldier and marrying him and having six children. And then she found herself in just being a wife and a mother and taking care of those responsibilities. It's only when God took away, I mean, not God, but it's only when she lost her five children and she's looking for answers, she realizes it's better to come back and align herself to God's call and purpose in her life. So sometimes, you know, Satan can bring in distractions in our life, which can waste our time and energy. You know, what can be some of the distractions that Satan can bring when we are in ministry? One thing is this, you know, like family, you know, your children can be sick, husband can be sick, or, you know, you have as a mother, you have to take care of the family or as a man in ministry, you know, you're not able to receive much funds, you have to take care of your family. So you think, okay, I'll do business or I'll work in a corporate or work in the secular and also, you know, do ministry can kind of detract you and waste your time and energy. What else can be those subtle eaters of our time and energy in ministry when we're serving God to fulfill his plan and purpose? Money, okay? You can also be people, right? When we are ministering, there always be people who are backbiting, jealous, who are doing things that are against you, you know, and it's difficult, you know. Being in ministry now for the last 22 years, you know, I've had all these kind of things come in like eaters and I always tell God, God, I have no time and energy to fight people, okay? You take care of them. I'm just going to continue doing the ministry and I just leave it and I've seen how God wonderfully just, you know, removes them away or he deals with them or he handles them in his own way, okay? So we are not here to fight flesh and blood. We can't because our fight is against powers, conspiracies in the heavenly realms, okay? So people can also beat those time wasters, energy. Sometimes it can be even our parents, you know, saying, okay, this is not what you should be doing. You should be doing this, this, this, something professional in life. What is ministry going to give you? You can always be doing something secular, something and also serve God, okay? What will you get in ministry? Nothing. There's no future, okay? So you can be tracked and go away and that can be a time waster and also waste your energy, okay? So don't, you know, turn right or left. Like Paul, continue running your race with endurance, fixing your eyes on Jesus, okay? So fulfilling God's plan for our life is not a 100 meter dash, okay? It's not like, okay, I got it. Let me go and, you know, you're running and doing everything, you know, that is also tiring, tiring you off. You know, many people are so excited about God's plan and purpose for their life. First five years, they work night and day and then the next five years, 10 years, the health is down and out and they're not able to do anything much to serve God. We need to be wise in what we can take up, what we can do. We need the discernment of God for that God to show us, okay? So it's not a 100 meter dash where you sprint fast but it's a marathon. Marathon is slow, steady, keeping that steady pace, steady speed. If you increase your speed, you'll lag behind. If you keep that constant speed and continue running your race is running with, you need to run with endurance, okay? And also knowing God's plan for your life, you also have to stick with it, okay? You need to take hold of it like Paul did, like others did and you need to continue running your race, okay? So that is chapter one. Any questions from our online students? Anything you want me to explain again online students? You've been very quiet. You can unmute your mics, you can unmute your videos so I can even see y'all and if you have any questions you'd like to ask? Good morning, can you hear me? Any of you in-person students have any questions? Oh yeah, I got it, sorry. Krisha, should we cut off from the secular things? Yeah, okay. Good question, Krisha, should we cut off from secular things? What do you think? Yes? Okay, so one of our in-person students says yes. Why do you say yes? Okay, it reduces your fire for God. It can be a distraction, yes, very true. It can also waste your time and energy. Imagine you just want to say, okay, let me check Facebook but it goes, you never realize it goes on to one hour and one and a half hours, right? Or you're just watching a movie for entertainment but you could have used that even more in a meaningful, in a purposeful way in reading some good material which will help you enhance your relationship, your growth with God, okay? Or if somebody was just sitting around and chatting, you can use that time to, okay, I'm not saying don't chat, I'm not saying don't read, I'm not saying don't read the newspaper and all of those things but I'm saying don't give so much of time and just wasting your time and just sitting and chatting for one hour, two hours every day when you can use that time praying for the nation, praying for people with that person as well, talk but also engage in some good in activities. So yes, to be a good minister you would realize that you would actually have no time for secular things, yes. By the time you run through your day you won't even have so much of time to read God's word and pray, read and leave alone just scanning through the newspaper or just looking at your WhatsApp messages and all of those things you just don't have the time for it, right? Sometimes we're so caught up in ministry that we don't even have time to go for family gatherings because you have, but yes, we need to balance God's family and your personal time when we are, when we give the first place to God in our life and we spend the first few hours of the day with God, he orchestrates the whole day for us. So yes, we can be engaged in secular things, we can go shopping, we can take a vacation, we can meet up with friends, go out for dinner, but what we're saying is in secular things and indulging in a lot of those things like constantly watching movies or spending time in YouTube videos or reading just books or some of us can spend so much of time in just household chores, cooking. You know, I know a friend who says, you know, you shouldn't be spending too much of time cooking, you should just do it like this because you need to spend the time engaging meaningfully and things of God just don't spend time in doing elaborate cooking, okay? So things like that, yes. Yeah, and yes, we do have to deal with it, but what we're saying is we need to know how to use our time very wisely and God will give us the wisdom and the discernment how to use our time wisely, how to cut off the unnecessary things. I'll just give you an example about Pastor Ashish, I mean, he handles so many things, but I'm amazed, we are all amazed that, you know, he runs a church, he also runs a software company, he writes books, he preaches, he teaches, he also goes home and cooks. He also used to spend time playing football with his son or doing something what excites his daughter. Now, how does he manage all of these things? He has his specific things, you know, if somebody wants to meet him, he does not go to their house, he asks them to come to office so that, you know, that there's no time wasted in his travel, what he's able to do in that one hour traveling from this person to that person's house, he's able to engage in meaningful ministry work, and he can at least meet two people in that one hour. So he asks people to come to the office to meet him, and then he doesn't, you know, do a lot of house visits because that's time draining, it's energy draining, it's also causing a lot of excessive fat and the sun. So I mean, these are some of the things that he thinks can be done without, you know, disturbing the important things that has to be done in ministry. And he also in the year plans when he's going to take a vacation with his family, so everything is planned and ordered, and so it's important for us to even do that. Okay. So our online students have some questions. Did that help, Krisha? Did that help? Okay, our teaching assistant one has a question. Okay. Okay, Surya says, can we minister according to God's will or our will? According to our own thoughts while ministering, can we minister according to God's will? Yeah, we need to, when we are, when in life, we need to ask God what is his plan and his will, and we need to pursue his plan and his will. And yes, we can come into ministry and we can say I'm in ministry because it's God's will, but we can go off in a different tangent doing what we want to do. For example, if God has called me to work among children and I continue working among drug addicts and alcoholics, because I like it, I might be in God's will doing, you know, I say, I can say I'm in God's will because he called me to ministry, I'm in ministry, but being in ministry, I am not pursuing God's will. God wants me to work among children, but I am doing what I want or what I like. I want to, you know, work among drug addicts and alcoholics. So suppose God tells you, you know, I want you to go to Orissa and work, you know, Orissa is, you know, you don't know the language and everything, and you're saying, oh, I want to be in Bangalore city, there are many big churches, mega churches, life is easy here, I want to do things here. So you can say, okay, I pursue God's will, I'm in ministry, but in ministry, you are not actually doing what God is specifically asking you to do, and you can be a hindrance wherever you are, and you cannot be fruitful, and you cannot experience the power and the anointing of God to flow through you, because you're not in the right place in the right time doing the right thing. So can we minister according to our own thoughts while ministering? Yes, we can, we can do whatever we want, we can say whatever we want. Like for example, yesterday, when we were looking at this great man of God, William Brunham, he was called into doing healing ministry, God said, he would be such a powerful healer, and people will be healed, and we, you know, he healed thousands of people, even healed people with cancer, the, he raised dead people back to life, those who could not see, he gave them, they got back their sight, and those who could not walk, could walk, but in the, when the revival fire of healing ministry died down, you know, he did not ask God what was God's next plan for his life, and he ventured into preaching and teaching, which was not his, what he was good at, he was not a good speaker, he was not learned in the Bible, he could not read the Bible, but he went into an area which was not his calling, and because he was in the wrong place in the wrong time, in the wrong season, he brought about such wrong doctrines, which was very sad, which led many of the believers away from God because of the wrong teachings and the wrong doctrines that he had. So yes, we can minister on our own thoughts, but you know, like Paul says, you know, he receives revelation from God, the scripture is inspired by God, but you know, God uses, you know, because he gives us the message, but he uses the person with their own style, their own skills, their own abilities to write, to preach, to teach, so we can receive revelations from God, but we can use our own style of teaching, teaching, the way we bring it about and minister to people, okay. Jethro says, what becomes of people that don't fulfill God's purpose for their life, they keep running around in circles, they are frustrated, they are, they don't, they're not bearing fruit, anything, anything they put their hand to, they see that it's not coming through, it's not working, they're totally dissatisfied in life, and then some of them realize it's better to go back and do what God's plan and purpose for their life, and they come back and they do it and they find great satisfaction and purpose in life, okay. Vishal says, would it be wrong to serve God along with having a professional career? No, it's not wrong, you can still serve God, you know, he's called in a professional career, you can still pursue the professional career, and you can also, you know, pursue God's call for your life, you can serve God, because you're very sure that, you know, this is what God, this is a career God has called you to do, you'll be there, you can fulfill God's specific plan for your life, and through that specific plan for your life, God will pursue his greater plan, his eternal plan, his greater purpose, which is, you know, that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, okay. Okay, so I hope I answered all of the questions that our online students had, thank you for your questions, good questions, we have one student here in person who has a question, yes. Okay, he wants a reference where he wants, you want to give a reference, okay, he wants to help us, he wants to give us a reference where it says in God's word that we can do ministry and fulfill God's call for our life. Second Thessalonians chapter 3 verse 6, yes, okay, 6 to 10, okay, thank you so much for sharing that insight, so he's saying this is second Thessalonians chapter 3 verses 6 to 10 where Paul is writing and saying, you know, don't be a burden to others, you know, if you're serving God and you need money, don't be a burden to others, go and work and you know, in that way you can satisfy your own needs and wants and not be a burden to others as well. Yes, he writes this even to the church at, when he's writing to Timothy, he's writing to the church at Ephesus, he says, you know, don't, if widows in the church, the widows, if their family is able to take care of them, let the family take care of them, their children take care of them, but if their children are not able to take care of them, then the church will be able to take care of them, so he says, you know, don't be lazy, be diligent, work with your hands and we also know that Paul was a tent maker, okay, he had his own business, he was not dependent on the churches that he established or the people that he was ministering to, he was, he helped himself, he earned his, through his tent making business, but also he was a mighty apostle, he did mighty works for God, okay. Okay, thank you so much for joining class today, thank you online students, have a blessed day ahead and blessed and a refreshing weekend, all of you and see you next week, bye-bye.