 Who would like to pray today? Anyone? Just please unmute yourself and pray. Father, by the power of the Holy Ghost, we will come to pray in Jesus' name. We will come to the presence of the Holy Spirit. We want your guidance, Lord, to lead us in our lives, in our daily lives, Lord. We want this hour, what we are going to spend in your presence, Lord, whatever we are going to learn, Lord, about prayer and the session, Lord. Whatever we are going to continue for our textbooks, our chapters, Lord. Whatever mamma is going to teach us, Lord. Let it be in our heart and let your will be done in us, Lord. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, Lord. We pray that we need your wisdom, Lord, the wisdom you gave to Solomon, Lord. We need your guidance, Lord, the wisdom you gave to all your apostles, Lord, that we will be used more than they were used in their time, Lord. We want to be used. We need to be used as a weapon for your kingdom, Lord. We, Lord, protect us, provide us, Lord. Thank you for all the time you have given us. Thank you for all the blessings you have given us. We pray for APC Bible College. We pray for all of our student body, Lord. Whatever we are going to be learning in this three years, Lord. Let it be used in our lifetime, Lord, so that we can be used as a vessel and we can be made a soldier for your kingdom, Lord. We will be used for your glory, Lord. In Jesus' name, we pray, amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Siddkino, for leading us in prayer today. We will continue without teaching here on Travelling. Okay, so we've been learning about a deeper level of intercession and we saw how the Bible associates or we see Travelling generally associated with the birthing process. When we engage deeply and intensely with God, we are actually, you know, seeing God create things in the spiritual realm and that is released into our lives. So, Travelling has to do with praying honestly. It has to do with intensely praying. Okay, we also see terms like groaning associated with Travelling and agonizing associated with Travelling. So, we've seen that Jesus, in his own prayer life, there were different instances we touched on last week. And Jesus, intensely prayed. Intensely prayed, he travelled, particularly in the Garden of Gethsemane, he travelled before the Lord. So, engaging in prayer in a deep way. Okay, and that is a part of all of our lives. Now, it can be that, you know, we do that when we're going through some phases where we really need the help of the Holy Spirit to engage in prayer. So, you know, it's really hard to explain, but I'm sure you're understanding. It's beyond the normal prayer that we are doing. Okay, so we're trusting God for a breakthrough. We are crying out to God and we come to a place of agonizing. Agonizing or groaning or like deeply seeking God for that breakthrough. Or it can be the next season of our lives or a ministry that God wants to birth through our lives. So, whatever it is, there is a place of engaging deeply in our prayers, which goes beyond our listed kinds of prayer that we talked about. So, Divya asked in the last class, is this only an intercession? Excuse me. Or can this also be something that one uses in their own personal lives? Yeah, one could use this in their personal life as well and this can be applicable as an intercession too. Okay, so we engage in this form of a prayer and Paul talks about how he gives birth to spiritual children and he labors intensely with them. And laboring for spiritual work has to do with engaging in spiritual activity. One such activity is deep prayer or traveling in prayer and Paul says also, I travel, right? I travel so that I can give birth to you in Christ Jesus. So, we must realize that we too can do this with the power of the Spirit and the birthing process in many ways is associated with this kind of traveling. So, I just gave you an example and said how Jesus said that rivers of living water shall flow out of our belly. The belly is also referred to as the womb. So, from where is the power of God going to flow? From the womb. And with the womb is associated the birthing process as well. So, when we travel in prayer, it's like from the depths, from our belly, from our womb, we are able to release the purposes of God. Even on Mount Carmel when Elijah prayed, we note that he trivelled, he deeply trivelled. It was already the promise of God that it is going to rain but he went seven times, he prayed, he waited on the Lord before that small cloud like the hand of a man appeared. So, he engaged in prayer and he was literally battling it out in deep prayer and that is known as trivelle. So, as God's people, when we understand that engaging in this form of prayer will release God's purposes, will bring the fulfillment of the word that God has already promised to us, it's very encouraging. So, we too can begin to make use of this kind of deep prayer. Now, this is again not something that you can say, okay, I'm going to trivelle in prayer and then trivelle. It may not happen that way. As you take the help, the aid of the Holy Spirit, remember we said that the Holy Spirit is the spirit of grace and supplication. So, he helps us, he helps us. Maybe at some points in our prayer, we need to engage in this form of intervelling. So, the Holy Spirit will empower us in those phases and we begin to pray, we begin to deeply cry out to God and we begin to ask God. And especially when it comes to the matter of salvation of souls, okay, God can burden people with that need. So, when we study about revivals in church history, you will see that there were a lot of people who engaged in this form of prayer. I told you, I mentioned to you last time, it was not a revival but the ministry of Charles Finney where he had Father Nash going out and praying and he would see results in the ministry. But when you look at revivals in church history, I'm reminded of, what's this person's name? The Welsh revival, just hold on. Yeah, Evan Roberts. Yeah, Evan Roberts. So, Evan Roberts, you know, God puts a burden on his heart to pray for whales and you know, the kind of prayer that he engages in is a form of a deep kind of prayer. And he begins with a prayer of repentance and then he calls out for this movement of prayer and people begin to join him. Actually, it starts with a young girl praying, okay, and from there the spirit of God begins to work in everybody and people all just start crying out to God. They all just, you know, start seeking the Lord in a very intense form of prayer. And Evan Roberts asked God that, you know, he wanted to see, I forget the exact numbers actually, that maybe something like 1 million people or something within a span of time. He wants to see those many people saved and then the revival happened and when the revival happened, hundreds and thousands of people were being drawn into the Kingdom of God in, you know, moments, in days, in weeks, in months, okay. And historians would tell you that whatever target he set before the Lord and said, okay, God, these many thousand people should come to know you. They should be saved in this span of time. It actually happened. But how did the bringing in of souls into the Kingdom of God take place through the prayers, through the prayers of the saints? So the Welsh revival, a lot of people, you know, actually began to pray and engage in deep prayer and the spirit did that work in the hearts of the people. You know, it was not something, you know, man can't create it. You know, I can't say today, okay, come, let's all prevail in prayer. We need the help of the Holy Spirit to burden our hearts in such a way, you know, to give us that, that empowering to engage in deep prayer. And as we engage in deep prayer, there are results, okay, and people are able to see the work of the Holy Spirit. So we can see, especially in the area of souls being saved, intercession in this manner really has been seen to produce fruit. I gave you only one example of Welsh revival. But if you take, and if you study, and in fact, in your notes, there is a line written that for you to go back and refer to the APC publication called Revivals, Visitations and Moves of God. You will find this at apcwo.org forward slash books, go there, PDF version of Revivals, Visitations and Moves of God. You can read about different revivals. You'll notice that prayer and deep prayer was a part of so many revivals, okay, so many revivals. I think we will touch on it later also. So if I'm not wrong, there's one Alexander Akimatis where you had people who were just, he let people only to wait in the presence of God, only to pray like day and night. They, I think they began to be known as people in the caves or something like that because that much of time they would spend in the caves just praying, just seeking after the Lord, just, you know, going after the presence of God. So they were engaging in this form of prayer and then you see the work of God being released upon that land. So especially when we talk about souls being saved, you know, prevailing in prayer is something that we have observed, okay, impacting nations. And today, you know, we know that God has burdened the hearts of many different people. There are prayer movements in our own country. Okay, there are groups of people who engage in deep prayer. Okay, but we trust that, you know, all this, it will only increase as the days go by so that we can see the release of God, what God wants to do in our land. So, prevailing in prayer, especially for souls is very, very important for us to understand. So what really happens, what really happens when we engage with the Holy Spirit in this way, right? So the Holy Spirit burdens our hearts and we are praying, you know, we are calling out to the Lord. And I told you, as God's people, you know, when the church travails, she will give birth. Okay, when the church travails, she will give birth. How is the birth possible? We know that the Holy Spirit is the birthing agent. Now if you recall, in the book of Genesis, in the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, you also had the Spirit of God brooding over or hovering over the waters. So what is this term hovering? You know, hovering is a reproductive term where, like, basically it hen hovers over her eggs and then you find that the chicks sort of come out. So hovering is a reproductive term. So when we engage with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is the birthing agent, right? And he puts the burden in our hearts. He puts the impression in our hearts. He calls us to pray for, you know, something, the birthing of a ministry or the winning of souls in our land or, you know, something else. God opening up new doors for us in our lives. When we engage with the Holy Spirit, you know, as he puts these things into our hearts, what's happening? We are cooperating with that birthing process, okay? We are cooperating with the birthing process. And as God's people, you know, we're also, the church can also be looked at as the womb of God where the Holy Spirit comes, he hovers, he puts his impressions. You know, he burdens us with the things that we must be praying for. And as we do that, you know, the church is engaging, the Holy Spirit is engaging and then you see the birth process happening, right? The results, the breakthroughs, the people coming into the kingdom or whatever, whatever we have been praying for, all those things start to happen. So it's a really beautiful form of prayer that we can engage in but it has to be through the power of the Holy Spirit, okay? Now, since we have been saying constantly that travailing is seeking God intensely, groaning, you know, agonizing, weeping before the Lord, does it mean that travailing is always a very loud process? Not necessarily. No, we might be praying, we might be praying sort of quietly, right, under our breath but it's about a spiritual grip. It's about a spiritual intensity which we have, right? So we are going after God with a spiritual intensity. It need not necessarily be loudly, you know, praying, putting out our voice in such a way that others can hear us. Now, it's possible that we pray loudly, we pray with weeping, okay? We pray agonizing but it's not travailing, okay? However, the opposite is also true. We are not being loud and yet in the spirit we are experiencing an intensity in prayer. So let me just pause here for a bit, okay? I don't know whether this is very new to all of us but I just want to know if anyone has engaged in intense prayer of this kind and seen something happen in your lives. So if you could share that, I think that will be good. We can proceed from there. Just feel comfortable, you can share your experience. Okay, no one? Can I share something? Yes, yes Isaac, please go ahead. Okay, it's not me that was engaged in the intense prayer like you are talking, right? First and foremost I grew up in a Catholic background. So I was told to pray so much. But at present, like I always say, my wife has a ministry and she's a very good prayer warrior I can call her. Some years back, she was building a new church which we now occupy. It's a big church. According to our own standard, it's like 40 feet by 70 feet. And then the church went up to all heights and there came a time for us as a church to roof the church. And we need zinc, CI sheet, we call it the corrugated iron sheet. But the cost of the zinc, we as a church, we are not able to provide that money at that time because the ministry do not have that sort of money even in our account. But my wife being a prayer warrior and believing in prayer always said, God will provide. And it went on, went on to put long matter shots. There came a time, she had a relationship with a ministry in America. One of our member in the church has a brother who is serving in a ministry in America. And as God will have it, they provided the fund for us to buy all the aluminum things about 11 or 12 bundles. So I give the grace to God. I think God answers prayer and that I saw with my own eyes because we all as a church were not able to provide our money at that time to roof the church. But she believed and she continued to pray. And with all of us, I think God answered our prayer. God bless you. God bless also. Yes, yes. Thank you. Thank you, Isaac. Thank you for sharing that. So that's an example of receiving an answer to a believing prayer and also intercession that Isaac's wife engaged in and God made things happen. So thank you. Thank you, Isaac. Now, even as you listen to the testimonies of various people and especially ministers of God, as I think there are so many pastors who have shared how they prayed so intensely and generally before the launch of the work of God, maybe the planting of the church individually or as a team. Usually church planting, there's a team, they go out with the team and they all begin to pray, they all begin to seek the Lord and there is a season of that, of engaging in prayer. Engaging in intense prayer. I've heard so many such testimonies. After that, they begin to see the work of God unfold because they have engaged with the leading of the Holy Spirit. Yes, there is an element of spiritual warfare in it, but there's also this element of deep intercession for souls. There's a deep groaning or seeking after God for his purposes to be released, for the doors to be opened. So that again, yes, Isaac shared how when his wife engaged in prayer, God released the provision which they required. We also see, particularly in the instance of church planting, a lot of such examples where people engaged in deep prayer, prevailing and then, lo and behold, the ministry starts to flourish. And for us as onlookers, we think, wow, hey, these guys have done a great job, but what has happened in the background? People have engaged in the spiritual realm. Now, when we study church history also, interestingly, in the last class, we had some question about civil disobedience and civil rights and all. So we went back to the times of Martin Luther King, where there was that whole movement about justice and equality for people of all races. When you dig back in history, I have seen some documentaries where, yes, the civil rights movement and all happened, but there was the angle somebody shared from a Christian perspective and they shared about how many mothers and grandmothers and so many women were actually engaging in intense prayer. They were engaging in going after God and saying, God, we want to see justice. We want to see better opportunities for our children. So I mean, there are stories like in a deep way, in an intense way, they were all praying, they were all praying and then, yeah, God brought a reformation in the system, the social system in that land, but these are all kind of the underlying things that cause change to take place. So, yes, there is the preaching of God's word which can bring about a change, reformation, city transformation, but there is a role that prevailing in prayer has which cannot be replaced. So it's very valuable individually, even individually, if you want to take time to just pray, pray for ourselves, for our ministry, for our land and say, God, you burden us, Holy Spirit, you hover, you come, you move, you brood over my spirit, you put things in my spirit, I'll catch those things, I will pray and I will see your purposes released. We too can engage in this kind of a prevailing prayer and there are many, many revivals, many social transformations, many things that have happened in history that people, church planting, you know, church launches, ministries, that if you just research a little bit, you will figure out that somebody was praying, somebody was engaging with the Holy Spirit in a deep and intense way and God caused things to shift, God caused things to move. So that is the power of this prevailing prayer and be open to the way in which God leads us in our time of prayer and in our time of intercession. So here in our notes, we have the last section here about the life of Jacob. So Jacob, we know that when he was returning back to meet his family, he was going to meet his brother Esau, he was very fearful because he had deceived his brother and he had taken his blessing and he ran away. So he thought that when he meets his brother, he's going to lose his life and face consequences for what he has done. So he was really, really scared. But as he was preparing on this journey to meet his brother, there was once that he was alone. He had sent, you know, his family and livestock, servants, everybody, I had of him and he was alone. In Genesis 32, we see that there is an incident that took place and in that incident, he was wrestling with a heavenly being, wrestling with God and during that wrestle, you know, Jacob does something. He says, he gets a hold on God and he says, I will not leave you till you bless me. So he gets a very strong hold on God and he demands, he demands for a blessing. So even when the heavenly being, like God is wanting to let go of Jacob, he is not letting go of God. And then, yes, God responds to that and he leaves behind a blessing for Jacob. So what do we see here? What do we see here from this wrestling incident? You know, there are passages in the Bible that bless Jacob, that talk about what he ended up receiving because of this attitude that he carried. In Hosea 12 verses 3 to 6, I will read it for you. It says, he took his brother by the heel of the womb and in his strength, he struggled with God. Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed. He wept and sought favor from him. He found him in Bethel and there he spoke to us. That is the Lord God of Hose. The Lord is his memorable name. So you, by the help of your God, return, observe mercy and justice and wait on your God continually. So this is what Jacob did. So he wept, he sought favor from God. Now Obadiah 117. This is all in your notes, page 50. Obadiah 117 it says, But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance and there shall be holiness. The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. So God is talking about blessings. He's talking about deliverance. He's talking about holiness. And where is this going to be? He says, excuse me, the house of Jacob. God could have used any other person's name, right? From one of the descendants of Abraham. He could have picked anybody and said there will be deliverance. There will be holiness. The house of Abraham. Or the house of someone else. But in Obadiah it says, The house of Jacob will possess their possessions. So the blessings of God will be given to Jacob because, excuse me, he sought for it. Just a moment, please excuse me. He sought for it. He asked God for it. What did he do? We just said, he struggled with God with his strength. Whatever strength he had, he struggled with God. What kind of struggle is this? Getting a grip on God and saying, I'm not going to let you go. Is it possible any human being, you get a grip on God and you say, I won't let you go, will it work? God is definitely stronger but we are not talking about physical strength here. We are talking about getting a spiritual grip on God which Jacob got. That is what impressed God. And that is why in Obadiah we are told that Jacob will possess his possessions because the others in comparison to Jacob during that time, they let things pass by easily. Like Esau, his spiritual blessing, his spiritual birthright. Very easily he let it go. He said, okay, I don't want it. You give me lentil soup, no problem. But God was not happy with that kind of an attitude. But Jacob had an attitude which said, give me my spiritual blessing. I won't leave you. God, till you bless me, I will not leave you. It's a spiritual grip. So spiritual blessing has to do with whatever the cross has to offer it's in the word, it's in the cross. I want it a lot in my life. Spiritual blessing has to do with purpose. It has to do with destiny. It has to do with anointing. It has to do with grace. It has to do with empowering. So many things. So basically what Jacob was saying is whatever is there, God, that I can get as a blessing, you please bless me. I'm not going to leave you. My spiritual blessing, I want it. So he wept, we see in Hosea, he wept with whatever strength he had, he struggled with God and he prevailed. He sought favor from God. And God was very impressed with this kind of an attitude and a desire where for Jacob, God was everything and God's blessing was everything. And we are told that Jacob is the one who receives, he will possess the possessions. And also, you know, we have, yeah, scriptures also say that Jacob, excuse me, was named later as Israel. So Israel, what is the meaning of that? Israel means a prince, a prince with God. Jacob is deceiver. But because of his grip on God, that deep intense grip on God, what is God doing? God is giving him stature or God is positioning him higher. You're not a deceiver anymore. Jacob, you are a prince. Before my eyes, you are a prince. So a better stature, a better position with God. But how did Jacob manage this to get God's favor? Blessings, possessions, deliverance, holiness, stature, where God is looking favorably upon Jacob. It's because of his intensity, his spiritual intensity and his spiritual grip on God. So as we're talking about prevailing, you know, this goes together. When we pray, when we weep like Jacob, when we agonize before God like Jacob, for the spiritual things, which God himself has said, yes, I'm going to do these things. Elijah, what did he pray for? God had already told him it's going to rain. He said, God, let it rain. And he kept telling his servant, you go look, you go look. So based on the word of God, we get a grip on God and we say, God, I will not leave you till you bless me. And from the life of Jacob, it's very clear. God was very impressed. And God even later on, the prophet Hosea mentions it's Jacob who receives the possessions. So that's a little bit more about prevailing and about spiritual grip and spiritual intensity. Any thoughts, any comments before we proceed on to the next chapter? Yeah, does it make some sense for many of us, it's new this old prevailing thing, but does it make any sense now? Yeah, great, great. Wonderful, wonderful. So, yeah, just begin to seek the Lord and begin to ask him to lay burdens on your heart, right, to put impressions on your heart and then you can engage in deep prayer. I'm reminded, you know, so many things are coming to my mind now. There is something called as a prayer mountain in Seoul, Korea. Okay, this is through the ministry of Pastor David Yongecho. And on this mountain you know, people say that even as they pass by the mountain, they will only hear like cries and people calling out people weeping and all. So, basically a prayer like a prayer schedule has been established on that mountain. So people go there only for prayer and for many, many years prayer is going on. For what reason? One of the primary reasons is for like spiritual breakthrough in the land, in the city, in the country. And people go there they dedicate hours of their time, days of their time I don't know, even weeks they just stay on the mountain and they engage in prayer, deep prayer, deep prayer for their land. Okay, and I told you earlier when we talked about Cho how he said that you know through prayer he built the ministry and he also says through prayer he has seen the gospel spreading so fast across his own city and he says without prayer that would not have been possible there are people, teams of people communities of people engaging in intense prayer for the land and at the same time if you read some of his books he also says how he himself spends many, many hours in prayer every day. Okay, so engaging with God engaging not just superficially but in a deep way and when the Lord begins to burden you with things to do with salvation of souls our destiny our ministry, open doors you get a grip on God you say God till I see what you have told me I am not leaving you right, so then comes that place like how we said Jacob wrestled so you are getting into prayer but you are there, you are wrestling right in the spirit you are just engaging engaging, engaging with God and then you see the release of the birthing of what God had promised okay, so that's how this whole revealing thing works and for us to understand more I think you can refer to that book, Revivals and it will be really beneficial you will get a hold of this new concept for us. Is that okay class are you fine with that Yes, ma'am Yeah, great, great okay, excellent, excellent so if there are no more questions we can move on I will just pause for a moment in case somebody wants to say something or ask something okay, alright so yeah, do refer to stories from history and that will clarify revealing for us much more now moving on to the next chapter here which is ministering through prayer ministering through prayer is primarily intercession because you are praying, you are going to God on behalf of somebody, so how do we do that and what is it that we see in the Bible about praying so in the time when Paul was engaged in his missionary journeys we know that he went through certain regions and for three years he spent time in Ephesus and Ephesus was a place where he was able to connect with people from different parts or different regions so a lot of people came there to be trained by Paul because three years he spent a lot of time imparting the word of God to the people and at that time there were some young men who came and trained under him so there was Philemon and there was also a person called Epaphrys Epaphrys was basically from Colosse Colosse which is 100 miles east of Ephesus when Epaphrys went back to Colosse after the equipping time he went and established the church in Colosse so it was not Paul like Paul never really went there to plant this church but the church was planted by Epaphrys so about this person called Epaphrys you know Paul gives a really like he writes to the Colossean church he greets and he kind of gives him a good what do you call it like a good recommendation or he credits him or comments him he just says that wow this person he is a good person and he is labored for you so he comments him in his epistle so Paul writes his epistle to the Colossean church when he is imprisoned in Rome towards the end of his life so some passages here from Colosseans Colosseans 4 verses 12 and 13 he talks about Epaphrys and he says Epaphrys who is one of you a born servant of Christ greets you always laboring fervently for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God so at this point Epaphrys had come to stay with Paul when he was imprisoned in Rome so Epaphrys also joined him that's why he says born servant of Christ and he also refers to him as like a fellow prisoner fellow servant because Epaphrys was with him when Paul was in Rome so he describes Epaphrys in this way and he says for I bear him witness that he has a great zeal for you and those who are in Laudacea and those in Herapolis and let's also read one more scripture here this is from Colossians 1 7 where he says as you also learn from Epaphrys our dear fellow servant who is faithful minister of Christ on your behalf so what was the kind of ministry in which Epaphrys was engaged you know we learn that the primary thing that Epaphrys did for the Colossian church and also he says you know Herapolis and Laudacea there are sort of about 10 to 12 miles away from Colossia you have these other places but this gentleman he would pray he would engage in prayer ministry for Colossia as well as for Herapolis and Laudacea and what does Paul you know say about Epaphrys you know he calls him a bond servant of Christ usually when you read the epistles you have this term bond servant for apostles but Paul is using that term for an intercessor okay so he is really valuing the ministry of Epaphrys which is the ministry of intercession so is intercession a ministry which you know okay fine you can't you can't lead worship or you can't lead you can't share the word of God okay come on you do intercession does it work like that no you look at the value that Paul places on the life of this minister Epaphrys he says he is a bond servant of Christ similar to what apostles do preaching the word teaching the word right there are notable things he equates somebody who is in intercessory ministry with the apostle so are intercessors valuable is their ministry valuable yes very very valuable okay we saw that Paul said he is laboring fervently you know this laboring in ministry again somebody who is the teaching ministry or preaching ministry we might only say that they are laboring why do we labor Paul said you know I labor fervently so that Christ may be formed in you and now he is saying a man who is praying is also laboring fervently so can Christ be formed in someone through the intercession offered by an individual of course that's the reason Paul says about Epaphrys he says he is laboring fervently so similar to what people in other offices do here is the intercessory minister or an intercessor of God their prayers matter and through the prayers of an intercessor what is God doing God is extending his work God is completing his work in the lives of believers and in the church of the Lord Jesus Christ so basically I am just trying to make the point that intercession it's not a secondary ministry it's not you know like peripheral thing ok yeah intercession good no problem it's not like that it is very much one of the central ministries that anyone could be engaged in and Paul really values this individual called Epaphrys so what we will do is we will stop right now and we will continue we will learn little more about Epaphrys in the next class and also try to understand what how to engage in the right way in intercessory ministry now we will specifically touch on those who are called for intercession now can everybody intercede yes we all can intercede but there are some people like Epaphrys who are graced additionally you know with that ability to intercede for others so we are calling them as intercessors so how to be an effective intercessor ok or how to do intercession intercession in the right way we will talk about all those things in the next class alright so yeah time is already up and I am just quickly looking at the question here by Ribbika in the chat she says Daniel doing a prayer 3 times a day so we see in Daniel 1013 that Prince of the Kingdom of Persia which stood me 21 days what does it mean ma'am please explain this so Ribbika this this means that there is spiritual hindrance ok so even when God answered Daniel's prayer and we very clearly in like this passage we see that the answer was given immediately for Daniel's prayer but because of the interference of demonic forces it was not released into the natural realm ok so the Prince of Persia these are all principalities we will talk about it later over territories over regions over nations when you look at the Kingdom of Darkness or Satan and his demons generally you have principalities which are kind of taking charge over a in this case Persia over Persia there was a demon principality that demon principality did not allow the answer to Daniel's prayer to come through but what released the prayer fervent and earnest prayer that Daniel engaged for 21 days so that is why in the last chapter which we did persistence in prayer we said sometimes we may not see the results but we should keep praying why because it's spiritual warfare our prayer is working for us maybe there is some hindrance like this from the demonic realm but there will be a breakthrough there will be a release and we will see the answers to that prayer ok so Rebecca does it help you that explanation thank you ma'am alright ma'am it's clear yes yes ma'am alright alright ma'am ok ok sure sure ok alright yes thank you thank you so much Rebecca thank you for that ok so we are going to close off today and I will request somebody to please pray again Ruben haven't heard your voice in a while are you ok to pray Ruben can you hear me ok not sure so who else is comfortable ok I think I will just leave it open to anybody who wants to pray yes John ok yes John please father thank you for teaching us today from your word regarding intercession specifically Lord we pray that we would be able to cultivate this habit in our personal work with you and we pray our God to be able to intercede and ask you for mighty things to happen in our city in our locality in our community in our church in our personal life Lord Jesus Lord we pray that you would give that spirit of supplication you would give that spirit of your prayer to be with us to lead us in the light direction of God help each one of us to to obtain your mercies and your from your kingdom of God we thank you for personality helping us to share the word and enriching us with your word Lord till the time we meet again let your presence be with us God in Jesus most precious name we pray amen amen thank you thank you John and thank you each one I pray that you have a really blessed weekend ok and we will connect once again next week so take care God bless you bye bye for now