 Yeah, why don't we pray and then get started, right? Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this day. We thank you for this time. We thank you for your presence in our lives, Lord. We thank you for leading us. Father God, we thank you for who you are, Lord, for your in-velling presence, for your comfort, for your guiding us into all truth, for empowering us, Lord. We thank you. Father God, we thank you for the call that each one of us have and for the beautiful and unique plan and purpose that you have for each one of us, Lord. Father, we thank you for the release of your gifts among us, Lord. We thank you that you've given these, released these among us, Lord, so that Lord, we can be edified. We can edify others, edify the body and also God exalt your name, Lord, in all this. And we can be a faithful witness, Lord. I just pray that we'll continue to, Lord, even as we grow in our understanding, Lord, we pray that we will also grow in our experience of it, Lord. And as your word, Lord, and your very nature and character, God gives us a foundation, Lord, for the for the best use of it, Lord. Maybe, Lord, desire the use of these gifts, God, the release of these gifts, God. You know, I just want us to just go ahead and desire. You know, maybe there is desire all, or maybe there's some, you know, one of these gifts that specifically that you, you've been desiring, you've been asking the Lord, you know, just go ahead and just ask the Lord and say, Lord, I just want to see a greater, a greater working of that. Lord, I just want you to work in me in these, in these ways, right? Maybe you've been pursuing that one thing. And yeah, I know that the Holy Spirit comes with all these gifts and he desires to manifest these gifts in and through us. But as a scriptural exhortation instruction is that desire, pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, you know, as much as we pursue love, the character of God, the very nature of God, the love of God, to be expressed in and through us, maybe also desire in equal measure, the, the pursue the spiritual gifts, know that because that is the word of God. And we are praying in line with the will of God, with the desire, with the desire of God. So just go ahead and just talk to the Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. Yes, Lord. Lord, it is your desire that we desire these gifts, God, that we desire the manifestation of the Spirit in our lives. And it is your will. And so Lord, we come in alignment with your will this morning in humility and in faith and expectation. Lord, that as we pursue, Lord, as we, as we do this, Lord, that you will release these gifts among us in us personally. And also there will be a manifestation of the Spirit, Lord, create a manifestation, Lord, of your power, of your presence, Lord, in and through us, Lord, as we, as we seek to serve, as we seek to, Lord, reach out to people, your, your, your flock, oh God. Yes, Master, we thank you. We thank you. We thank you, Lord. We thank you. Let's just spend some time just seeking the Lord and, you know, as we've been learning that God speaks to us and maybe sharpen ourselves in the Spirit and then to perceive, you know, the ways in which he speaks. Maybe it's a quickening of Scripture. Maybe it's something that he shows a picture, something visual. You know, we can, we can expect in faith and say, Lord, you speak. Maybe it's a scripture verse that he's quickening that you can go to and read whatever it is, you know, as we pray in the Spirit for some time and be in the presence of God. Let's, let's expectantly wait for him to speak in faith, knowing he's a God who speaks. Thank you, Father God. We just come at these sessions into your mighty hands. We pray that you'll continue to lead us and guide us into all truth. We thank you. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. Excuse me. Yeah. I hope we've been, you know, spending time spraying in the Spirit, really pressing into more of that, you know, in our quiet times and, you know, really, this is something that we need to really grow in, right, as much as we want to grow in the things of, grow in the knowledge of God, grow in the understanding of God, grow in the Word of God. You know, it's a package. So we grow in prayer, we grow in worship, we grow in our intimacy with God, we grow in the things of the Spirit. And we also, you know, in our walk with God, we also grow in, in being familiar or recognizing the voice of the Spirit, being sensitive to His leading. Yeah. So I just wanted to hear from you. Like any, did you sense anything as you were praying? I know it was a very short time, very brief time, but anything that the Lord put in your heart, any, any scripture, any, anything at all, you could probably share that if it's something too personal, you don't have to. But if it's something that's, you know, something that is comforting, edifying, something, you feel that anything at all. Okay, we'll try and do this every class, you know, maybe at the end of today's session also we'll try and just spend some time, right? Because I mean, these are the lab sessions, right? We, we read about it, we see that this is how God speaks and directs. And it's important that we also put it to practice, right? So we need to do that as well. So I just sensed, you know, I saw something like a tornado of light, like a whirlwind of light. Normally, when we see pictures, I've never seen a, you know, I've never been in a storm or where I've seen a, you know, a tornado, but like I've seen pictures of it. Of course, I've seen some, you know, small dust storms from my hometown, you know, especially in the school where I was studying, I used to look out of the window and then see this swirl, you know, whirl thing just going around in dust. And normally these things are dark, right? So what I saw was a tornado of light and the fact that just like a natural tornado actually reached havoc, like bringing destruction, uprooting trees, uprooting a lot of things, uprooting houses, maybe, and lives are lost, you know. I just sense a lot saying, you know, when he comes in like a whirlwind of light, there is a, there is, there is, there is healing, there is, you know, establishing of righteousness. There is, you know, there's a work of the Lord that is done. And as much as, you know, we see wickedness and growing that the Lord will show himself strong on our behalf. The Lord will, you know, show himself strong as we pray and as we pursue that when he comes in like that tornado of light, there is the establishing of the righteousness of God. Yeah, so, yeah, so I was greatly encouraged to see that. Praise God. Yeah, okay. So any questions based on what we, what we learned last, last class or the class before, session before that, we were looking at spiritual gifts. And I think we stopped at, you know, we studied about the gifts of the spirit, the membership gift, this classification. So we'll continue from where we left off. Okay, let me just project the notes. Okay, here we go. Okay, so we were looking at some of the, some of the things about the gifts of the spirit, particular teaching of particular references about the gifts of the spirit and how all believers can manifest the gifts of the spirit. And we look through all this. And we also looked at the fact that the gifts of the spirit and the spiritual things can be taught, right, just like how we can lead a person to receive Christ, you know, the greatest gift of all, teach, and then lead them, guide them to pray to receive salvation in the same manner, you know, we can teach about the gifts and they can reach out in faith and receive in addition, you know, to the baptism of this spirit, they can receive the gifts of the spirit as well. And we know that faith is involved, the desire, strong desire to manifest the gifts that is involved. And we also saw that, you know, they walk in love, right? So, so we saw that. Okay, today, let's look at, we're in page 89. The gifts of the spirit are no indication of spiritual maturity. Okay, now this is something which really confirms the believer many times. And, you know, we sometimes people think, Okay, you see this, you know, person, you see this, maybe it's a minister of God, right, or, or a believer, right, moving powerfully in the gifts of the spirit, maybe it is prophecy, maybe it is healing, maybe it's, you know, whatever, word of knowledge. So we see that, and, and then we notice something else in their lives, which means, you know, maybe that's, there's a work of the flesh, right? We see that, that person has some, has some failings in character, maybe financial misappropriation or something like that. And then, and then we begin to doubt, you know, maybe what they are moving in is, is not of the spirit, right? So that we come to that conclusion, I mean, you know, in whatever way the minister, maybe they were just, they were not led by the spirit of God, maybe they were led by something else. And then we begin to doubt everything that the person did said, and, and then, you know, we come to such conclusions. But the fact is that there are, there are two, two things that we need to take note of, you know, there is, there is this whole aspect of character, which is spiritual maturity or to be Christ-like in nature, right? And there is the other aspect of being spiritually sensitive and, you know, being open to the work of the spirit and to be manifestation of the spirit and growing in the work of the spirit, right? So, we know that, okay, let me just put it here. So one Corinthians one versus four and seven, four to seven, right? Paul is writing to the Corinthian church and this is a church which is really buzzing, thriving, spiritually. So he says, you know, I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God, which was given to you by Jesus Christ. And how does this grace manifest? He says that you were enriched in everything by him, in all our trends and all knowledge. And his verse seven, he says, so that you come short in no gift eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. You know, and we return the page and go to one Corinthians three and Paul addressing the same audience, he says, and I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people, but as to carnal as to babes in Christ. Okay, so these were people who were spiritually hungry, spiritually manifesting all these gifts. At the same time, there was a lot of carnality, right? There was a lot of works of the flesh. Why he goes on to say, you know, because, you know, there's strife when you have strife, when you have division, are you not carnal? Are you not like children or babes in Christ, childish? Right? So, so there is a difference between being sensitive to the work of the spirit being, you know, manifesting the work, the gifts of the spirit. And there's a difference between that and spiritual maturity, Christ likeness. Okay, so the instruction that we see is in one Corinthians 14 and verse one, where Paul says, pursue love and desire, spiritual gifts. So both need to go hand in hand, right? We cannot, we can't leave off one and go off the other, because both are from God, right? Pursue love and desire, spiritual gifts. And it goes on to say, especially that you may prophesy. So, so that is something that we need to understand, right? So we need to grow in our, we're growing our, you know, hunger for the things of the spirit, and, you know, experience of the gifts and so on, but also grow in Christ likeness, in the character, in the very nature of God, and, and, you know, express the love of God, and through to others, believers and unbelievers alike. So that's something that we need to understand. Okay, the other thing is, the gifts of the spirit can be manifested anywhere at any time. So sometimes we think, okay, I need to be in church. I need to be in a time of worship. I need to be in a place where, you know, there's prayer and worship going on. And then only then can I, you know, either pray in tongues or, you know, the gifts of the spirit can be manifest. Well, that's, that's not true, because yes, the church or the gathering, when we gather together as believers, that's, that's, that's a wonderful place to, you know, to, to manifest, to desire and to manifest the gifts of the spirit. But really, we can desire and expect God to move in and through us wherever, in the marketplace, wherever we are at home at, you know, in maybe your shopping, and then, you know, you, you want to share the love of God. And God gives you a word about that person who's a perfect stranger. And, and, and he will do that. Right. So it, so it doesn't have to, we don't have to shut down and say, okay, it can only be in a kind of a religious setting. No, it's in all times everywhere in the marketplace. Right. Of course, the other thing is that minister to all kinds of people, believers and unbelievers are like, Okay, manifestation of the spirit can be for a specific individual or at times it can be relevant for more than one person, it can be collectively for a group, like there could be a word for, it could be, for example, it could be a word for a family that God is, you know, taking that family somewhere, the families, you know, God is taking that family out of one season into another, or it could be for families, you know, where, where we are gathered together as a church and God could, you know, it could be for a, for a particular group, for a, for maybe for a ministry team, maybe for a, for a fellowship for a church. So it could need not always be for the individual, it could be, you know, collectively, and we, and we see the prophets prophets prophesying over nations, right. So we see that it can, you know, it can be collectively for people as well. And as we gather together, you know, this collective expectation and hunger for God, really, you know, it, it results in God releasing more, more of his spirit, more of the gifts, where Paul writes and he says, even so, since you are zealous for special gifts, let it be for edification of the church that you seek to excel. So he's saying, you know, you, you let it, let it, let this be your focus that the gifts be released so that people can be edified. So what happens is, you know, how, how, how does it happen? How can people be zealous for gifts, you know, only when there is a understanding of it, right. All fear, all misconceptions, all biases about that, all those maybe bad experiences, you know, everything is kind of removed and you see it for what it is that it is a manifestation, a tangible display of the hand of God, right, when we see it for what it is, and it is for the, you know, for blessing the body of Christ, for the edification of the church, it is a great way for the, the reason by which we, the reason why we are baptized and how, and the reason for us is to be, to be witnesses and witnesses with power and the way in which this power is displayed is again through the gifts. So when we understand that, then, you know, then there is an increased hunger and zeal and saying, okay, it's something good, it's something from God. And, and so I can desire it and he desires it, he desires it for me. So, so we do that, right. So we look at the truth and then, and another great way is to share testimonies, right, when we share testimonies of this is what God did and people share this is what God did and did through me and in me and, you know, we begin to desire, the others can also begin to desire and, and of course to demonstrate, you know, to step out in faith and demonstrate that, to say, okay, am I seeking God? Okay, what, what would God show me, you know, is there a word for another person and to demonstrate that, to step out in faith and demonstrate that, right, and that would, that would also increase faith and also, you know, increase the hunger level of, of the group, collectively, okay. One more thing that we need to see, understand about the gifts of the spirit is, you know, what we, the instruction that we see specifically about word of knowledge, word of wisdom, prophecy is prophecy, which is, you know, of something foretelling in nature. The gifts of the spirit have to be tested. Okay, the instruction we see in 1 Thessalonians 5 and also in 1 Corinthians 14, we see that Paul writing and saying, you know, do not quench the spirit, do not despise prophecies. And then he says, test all things, hold fast to what is good. Okay, test all things. So, so which means that, you know, there is this discerning, there is this judging, there is this testing that needs to take place. Okay, then we might ask the question, why, you know, isn't the, isn't this gift perfect, isn't the word of God perfect, you know, so why should there be a testing? Why should there be some kind of a discerning and judging in order to see if it's right or wrong? You know, but the fact is that we as vessels, we as human vessels, we, we are fallible. Okay, we are fallible. God's word is perfect and the Holy Spirit, God's, God, the Holy Spirit, perfect, the gifts that he releases, good gifts, perfect, but the human vessel is learning, is growing in perfection, is still a work in progress. Therefore, there are chances that well, there could be, you know, the word of God being authentic and real, being mixed with something that is of my own emotions, possible. Therefore, we, we test. Okay, so how do we test? We just, if it's a person who is releasing a prophecy or sharing a word to, to give the recipient, you know, maybe as an individual and collectively to, to take it and see it for what it is. Okay, you give something and you say, okay, now you test it. Okay, you check against the word of God, you check it with the nature, the character of God. And if you see it is good, you hold fast. Okay, so test all things, hold fast to what is good. Okay, and there's nothing wrong. It's not a display of unbelief or doubt. If we need to test a, maybe a prophetic word or, you know, a prophetic an instruction. It's not an act of unbelief. Does it, does it agree with the word of God? Does it gel with the character and the nature of God? Does it contradict any of these things? Does it glorify the Lord? So we put it through the test. And then we, we receive it. Okay, so what could be in 14 also, Paul says the same thing, let two or three prophets speak and let the others charge. Okay. Okay, so that is something that we see. Okay, in the Old Testament, well, if there was an error, the prophet was, you know, stoned to death. But we are in the dispensation of grace. And therefore we test and we, and then we release. And the same thing, you know, when we release it, or when we, let's say when I share it, I test it and then share. Okay, so that's my responsibility. Okay. And the person who's receiving was a recipient also tests and holds fast. So, so that is a thing, a lot of damage, a lot of, you know, a lot of hurt happens because people do not test. We say, oh, that person said, therefore it has to be, you know, it has to be true. Well, there are certain things which are encouraging, you know, like, like 1 Corinthians 14 talks about prophecy, which brings in edification, you know, like a simple gift of prophecy, which should be rich results in edification, comfort, and exhortation. So, which, which really, which is fine, you know, it's a comfort, it could be a scripture, it could circumference, this is the says a lot, you know, this is what the Lord, I sense this is what God is saying, which is fine. But think about some things which are, you know, which are instructional, which are like, you know, there's a date and time involved and which, which, which are instruction in the sense, okay, there is a major decision that is involved. Okay, like, okay, God is calling you to this. Yeah. So, how can we test the prophecy? So, the first one is, of course, we're going to look at that, but the first one is, of course, to see whether, whether it, the prophetic word is in line with the word of God. Does it contradict the word of God in any way? So, when we say, you know, the, the precepts and the principles of the word of God, right, you know, if there is, if there is an instruction, if there is a prophecy saying, okay, go and do this, and that act is not a righteous one. Okay, it's, it seems to be manipulative in nature. It's not a righteous one. Then you know for sure that, that is, that is not from God. Okay. So, that is, that is one test, you know, does it agree with the word of God? Now, there could be something which is, which is fine, you know, which does not contradict the word of God. It could be like, okay, well, the word of God says, you go and start a church or do this ministry. Now, it's, it's in line with the word of God. Okay, so, but is that something which is true? Okay, so, so then there are other, other tests in the sense, you know, what is the parent purpose of God for my life? What has he been leading me to do? You know, if he's been leading me to, to be a software engineer, and then suddenly, you know, in the second year or a third year, there is a, you know, just a 180 degree turn, then I need to be careful. Right? And what, what can I do in that case? You know, okay, I tested against the word. I know it's, it's perfect. Yes, this is something that God would speak. It is something in the line in nature and character of God. Yes. But is that his plan for my life? Okay. So, then what I can do, I can pause and ask God to confirm it. Lord, you confirm it to, you know, other, other means, you know, you confirm it to me. Yes, you've, you brought this word through this person. I, I honor it. I receive it, but Lord, you confirm it. And maybe the Lord will confirm, the Lord will confirm to you specifically, personally, and the Lord will confirm through other sources also. Right? And, and so that is another thing, you know, wait for confirmation of that word, maybe something that is repeated over and over again. And yeah, so that would be, we're going to look at other things also in addition, but then these are two major things that we can look at. No one is the Word of God. Does it go against the character nature of God? And which, of course, the word will also reveal. But if there's nothing specific in the word, you know, it's a good thing, then, then we wait for confirmation. Okay. Right. Okay. So, there are a couple of other things, you know, where Paul says, I show you a more excellent way. Okay. So he's talking about all these gifts, one contains 12. And then he goes on to say, I show you a more excellent way. Desire, you know, that's how it ends, right? Chapter 12. Honestly, desire the best gifts. And we, we saw what is this best gifts? You know, why should we desire that? And he says, and yet I show you a more excellent way. Okay. And that more excellent way is about love, is about agape, the love or the God kind of love. And he goes on to explain in chapter 13, the, the love of God, the God kind of love. And, and he goes on to say, if I have this gift, but if I don't have love, then it is a, it is something that is empty. It's something that makes noise. It's something that is, that is not of any use. So what is Paul teaching that Paul is teaching that the gifts, the motivation for the gifts, the, it, it must be love. And the way in which the gifts are ministered to people, it must be out of love and in love. Okay. And it, it should be with this kind of love, which is the God kind of love. So that is what this holds, you know, the chapter is about. I know, you know, we many times, we use it in, you know, in weddings and nothing wrong in that because it talks about the love of God, the, the, the characteristic of the love of God, that the love of God is patient and kind and so on. But really the context is in the use of the gifts. So which means if, let's say, you know, there's a prophetic word and I minister to people, let it be out of love. You know, it is patient. Love is kind. Love does not parade itself. So we learn a lot. Okay. You know, there is God speaking in me and through me. So when I serve, let me first understand that I'm serving the person, you know, with this gift. Okay. So there is no, I'm not putting myself on a pedestal. I'm serving. The second thing we understand is, you know, when we go through the list, it says that, yeah, love is, is not boastful or it's not, it's not proud. It's not puffed up. So in the ministry of the gift, you know, I need to be careful that I'm actually not putting myself up or I'm not boasting in myself or I'm not displaying myself, exalting myself because love is not proud. So it has to be tempered with love. Okay. It's not, does not parade itself, does not behave rudely. Verse 5, 1 Corinthians 13 verse 5, does not behave rudely. So in the remember that we, this is, you know, this is the display of the Holy Spirit. So, you know, whether it's healing or whether it's, you know, whether it's a word of knowledge, there's no need for rudeness. There's no need to be rude. Okay. Maybe temperamentally, you know, one can be, you know, not a person of many words, you know, like, okay, very short, you know, what do you call? You speak in short sentences and you speak authoritatively. That's fine. But there's no reason to act rudely. Right. There's no reason to minister in a rude manner. So you see all that. Okay. So I'd like to come back to this, you know, after we go through the list of the gifts of the spirits, you know, after we study the nine gifts of the spirit that are listed, we'll come back to it and then it will make even more sense. Okay. So just remember that the chapter 13 is there so that we understand that we need to minister out of love. Our motive is love. Okay. Okay. So let's continue. Let's, okay. So that's chapter five. Let's go on to, you know, chapter six in the note and in this book is about the release of the gifts and a little bit of what we learned about the five spirit senses is, you know, there's a repetition of that and I won't go into that. But let's just move on to, yeah, sorry. Yeah, just move on to, you know, training our spiritual senses. Okay. So we need to understand, I think this is very important, very, you know, it's key to really settling all the, all the confusions on page 115 and distinguish the voice of the spirit from the voice of the soul. Okay. So which, so I'm sure you learned about spirit, soul, and body once this one is five verse 23 talks about the spirit of the soul and the body. We know what is from the spirit of God, which is deposited in our spirit. And we know what can be from the voice of the soul, which means it can be our mind, our will, our will, our emotions, et cetera. Right. So we really need to, you know, grow in distinguishing this. Okay. Now let's say, you know, even when I'm praying, I pray so much out of love and I want something good for that person to happen. So, so in that sense, you know, what can sometimes happen is that because of me wanting or desiring the good thing to happen, wanting or desiring that God should, you know, touch and bless this person, you know, maybe it's my own imagination sometimes that I share, you know, certain things and say, okay, God will do this. Whereas it could be, it could be my own imagination. So we need to distinguish, we need to discern, okay, is it something that, is this information that I wish to communicate or communicating? Is it something that the spirit of God has dropped into my heart? Okay, is it something that the spirit of God is leading me or that he's communicating to me? Okay. So the way to do it is actually to start doing it. Okay. Many times, yeah, we can, we can study about it and, you know, we can say, okay, I need to know the word, I need to know God more, etc. Yes. But the actual way to do it is to really start doing it. Right. So, well, will we make mistakes? Yes, we will. But we will grow in our intimacy with God. We will grow as we grow in our intimacy with God, as we grow familiar with the voice of the spirit and the way he leads us, you know, and as we learn from our mistakes, and as we, you know, come back to God at first year, you know, we'll see that we will walk in accuracy. But the fact is this, you know, the fact is that we will be so surprised that the spirit of God speaks so clearly to us. And, you know, 99% of the time when we share, it is accurate, it is correct. So, like it could be simple words of like edification, exhortation, comfort that we receive from the spirit of God, we see from God, and we share it with another person, right. And we see that 99% or maybe 99.9% of the time, it is accurate. Okay. So, all that we need to do is understand and not just move in fear, but really move in faith and hear the voice of God. And you realize that God has been speaking all the while. It is not, you know, God has not been holding back from communicating to us. It is we that we have not been expecting. It is we that have not been sensitive. Okay. So, let's look at a few instructions when it comes to growing in our, you know, training our spirit. Okay. The first one is this, that quite in our soul. So, when we say quite in our soul, what does it mean? It means that we quiet in our kind of still our emotions. Sometimes we are very agitated. We put ourselves under pressure. Oh, I need to give a word. You know, somebody's there praying, oh, I need to, I need to do this. So, we are getting stirred up. Right. I remember, you know, the first time, or the first few times that I was actually in a church camp that we way back many years ago, one of the church camp where we had this teaching about the gift service with those very, very new to all of us, right? The pastor was teaching about the gifts of the spirit about the simple gift of prophecy and so on and hearing the voice of the spirit. And it was all extremely, you know, fresh and new. And yeah, so anyway, so we had these sessions where we could, you know, pray for the other person and share what God is putting in our hearts with the other person and test it out and so on. And I'm so glad that we could, you know, do that, make mistakes, get confirmation from the other person. And this is off. This is because I remember soon after that, traveling with pastor and going to going to pass some some conference, I think this was in North India, North Pole, I guess. And I remember in the prayer line, you know, we finished the, we finished the meeting and then there was a prayer time. And in the prayer line, there was a senior pastor of this church and he was in my line. And I was really sweating, you know, so I had to remember all that, all that, all the teaching, all that we received and say, okay, just calm down. I can't do anything. You know, I can't just manufacture stuff. I can't give this stuff. If God speaks, you speak, if you don't get anything, that's fine as well. Just pray and, you know, pray and bless the person. So, so it was amazing, the sum of the things and he said, you know, what you're saying is correct. And it was very encouraging. So after the prayer time, and he said, you know, these things that you share, these things, it was, yeah, it's so true. A lot of other people have told the same thing. So for me, it was a great encouragement. Oh, God speaks. And the thing is, God speaks through me so excited, even through me, you know, those kind of things, right? So, so the thing is that we quieten us all this pressure, external pressure, unnecessary, we don't need it. And so we just quieten ourselves and say, okay, God, you speak, right? I know I'm loved by you. So that's why, you know, this, when it comes to quietening us, I just want to mention, you know, the voice of the soul, the voice of accusation, the voice of, let's say, unworthiness, the voice of, you know, I'm not skilled enough, I'm not experienced enough. It's so loud at times. It's so loud. The voice of, you know, the fact that you haven't lived consistently good life before God. So this voice can be very, very loud at times. And that is why this message on our identity in Christ, who we are to God, who is He to us is so very important, right? When we get rooted in the truth of who we are to Him, how God sees us, how God looks at us, right? And the fact that we need to look at ourselves the same way, that will just bring a quietness to most of the storms, emotional storms, helping just, you know, because that'll just bring a stillness, right? Why? Because why should I unnecessarily worry in this manner? Because this is how He sees me. And it is going to be a sense of pride if I don't see myself the same way He sees me, right? That brings a sense of calm that brings a sense of peace. So, and it happens every time you step up to, you know, minister every time, you know, all the, all the regrets, all the, everything sometimes comes like an avalanche and says, oh, you're not good enough. How can you do this? Satan is so active and Satan, you know, does that. But we need to rise up and say, no, no, this is who I am. This is who I am. I'm a new creation. I am born again. I'm no more living in condemnation. I'm living in the ways of God. I'm pursuing God. Well, I've fallen, I might have fallen down, but I'm rising up and I'm pursuing God. I'm clothed with the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. I am the righteousness of God, Christ Jesus. You know, that's a, that's such a powerful statement, right? Sin cannot have, you know, over me and all these truths, right? You to be rooted in that, you go back to the simple reminder, right? When you, when we remind ourselves, that brings quietness, you know, so we, we quiet our emotions and we are not intimidated by, by the circumstance or whom we have to minister to. It doesn't depend. It just doesn't matter at all. Like many times, you know, initial days of ministry, I was just literally thrown in the deep end. In fact, the first time I really got to speak publicly in a meeting was, was a meeting for ministers, you know, like, like a pastor's meeting or something. And, and I had just barely just joined the church and I was doing administrative work and leading worship and so on. So, so it was really the deep end. Right? But just to remind myself that, you know, I don't have to be intimidated by who or how many are there or all this is immaterial. You know, as long as God speaks, I will deliver. And, you know, if he doesn't speak, there's nothing, there's no, you know, prophetic word or trends to deliver. Just, yeah. So, you know, so the thing is to quieten soul and then listen to the Holy Spirit. Because if we do not quieten, they're like, yeah, everything else seems to be louder than the voice of the spirit. Right? Okay. Secondly, the first voice is God's voice. You know, see, we believe, we believe that God is a speaking God. We know that he will speak and we pray and we are expectant and we are waiting on him and God put something in our spirit. You know, it comes like, like sometimes it's just a flash of information. It is a scripture that he quickens is, you know, a phase of someone you know, whom you should pray for whatever. So, we receive that. Okay, this happens. It goes through our mind. This is, you know, we receive it in our spirit. But what most times what happens is that we cancel it out, we begin reasoning. Okay, we begin reasoning. Reasoning, well, if it's reasoning with our renewed mind, then it's great. But we begin reasoning, you know, sometimes with our unrenewed thinking. Okay. It's a reasoning of no, it cannot be, or it's a reasoning of out of, born out of fear. It's a reasoning born out of whatever unworthiness, etc. So, we reason it out and we cancel it out. Okay. So, then what we begin to doubt, we begin to say, okay, maybe that's not God, maybe it's just me. Okay. So, you know, in the initial days, you know, we just need to probably just write down and and even check with the person, you know, maybe you're praying with someone and you feel that this is what God is telling you about this person, someone, there's no harm in just checking it, you know, I just felt that God say this X, Y, Z. I just wanted to share this with you. If it's, you know, if you feel that this is true and this thing, maybe it's something, you know, maybe you need to do this. It's something like an instruction, but you can always say the prefaces by saying, you know, I just sense this God speaking to me on these terms, on these lines, but you test and see and you do what you need to do. Right. So, the thing is, we can always do that. Right. So, don't cancel it out with our, many times we cancel it out. So, we should avoid doing that. Avoid cancelling out the word that the Lord gives us or the instruction that the Lord gives us. Don't cancel it out. Okay. Okay. I think we'll stop here and we'll take a break and get back. Okay. Thank you.