 Welcome back after the break. Anusha has a question up for her query. It says, I'm a doctor by profession recently moved to assistant of pediatric cardiology department. I don't know this is God's will or not but every day I'm finding it difficult not about the work but my heart not able to feel satisfied about the work. I'm not able to find out a problem with my what's the problem with my heart or anything else how to seek God's will in this situation. So I don't know why you moved to you know to the pediatric cardiology department. I don't know if it was your choice or you had to you know you just picked it up or you were asked to move into that department. I don't know the reason but you know you can always ask God. He's a God who leads and guides is interested. He delights in your ways. He knows what you're going through. He sees your heart condition. He knows your challenge. He knows your struggle. So maybe the restlessness, the anxiety, the you know the disinterest. Okay it's not your interest. Okay so if it's not your interest then your heart is not there right? So you were forcefully moved. Sad to hear that. So maybe you can just pray and ask God you know what he wants you to do. You're in this situation where you were forcefully moved. What is the next step you need to take? God show me. Which department you want me to go? You know where is your heart? What do you want to do? Just you know like we said you know we have plans and purposes. We can write it down. We can just give it to God, yield and submit it to God and let God move and have his way. So you can tell God. You can tell God what you're going through. He knows but then you can say you've been forcefully moved here. You're not interested and it's an important department cardiology. It's a pediatric cardiology. So you say God you know how life-threatening it be. How important it is for me to have my heart, mind, all my being there even as I'm working. So God you know maybe take a couple of days off you know just just move out. Maybe talk to some people. Have a mentor or a pastor just talk, share. Look at what department you like to move to. Find out about that department and pray about it and ask God what he wants you to do. So maybe the whole thing that the distress, the anxiety, the your heart not being there can also be you know something that you know you need to wait on God and ask God and to see where he wants you to move. I think that's a good thing to do. You know just take a couple of days off. Just relax so that your mind is quiet and down. You can hear what God is telling you because when you're very anxious you know with your own load of thoughts and your brokenness and your struggle you will not be able to hear God clearly. So just good to unwind, leave everything, just stay or to just wait on God and I'm sure you're going to hear from him. Read God's word, meditate. He will also speak to you through his word and then you can take the next step. Okay anyway you are already a doctor. I think it's just your department you need to just move and ask God so nothing to worry about it. Just be praying for you as well Anusha. I hope that helped. Okay I'm sure you know which department you like to move. What is your interest? So pray about it. You can look for opportunities whether you can move and move out from there to in another department and I'm sure there are ample opportunities which you can. You needn't have to be confined to this department alone. There are ample opportunities and I'm sure you can explore and then move out into the department that you like. So sometimes God has given us a mind that we need to use. He's given us wisdom and knowledge and so we need to take those steps and he would guide us and lead us. Okay so we will move on to chapter one of code of conduct. Okay now we need to know that there is no code of conduct, no teaching, no teaching on ethics, no vice counsel or set guidelines to help a Christian minister who does not take his or her personal walk with God seriously. Okay so there's nothing that we can do to help somebody who's not willing to take their own personal walk with God seriously. No book, no code of conduct, no mentor, nobody can help you. Okay so in this book we're basically looking how a minister of God should live, how a minister of God should conduct their lives. Okay so the first thing we're going to be looking at is our own personal lives. Okay now ministry you know is actually an overflow of our intimacy with God. Okay how well you do in ministry, how well you're able to teach, preach, influence, bless, pray for others, minister, healing, deliverance, you know give word of wisdom, knowledge, prophecy, flow in the gifts, how well you're able to teach from God's word the truths, the revelations from God's word all depends on your personal time with God. Okay so the more time you spend with God the more the powerful your ministry is going to be, the more you're going to make an impact in the lives of people. Okay so ministry is really an overflow of what God is doing in your own life personally. Okay so it's very important that in our personal life that we cannot be slack, we need to be diligent, we need to be committed, we need to be sincere in our work with God and we need to keep our standards high you know the standard that God has said for us be holy as I am holy and we also need to be accountable to God. Okay we need to hold ourselves accountable to God. So what are some of the things we need to do in our personal life? We need to you know schedule a daily time with God in the secret place, a time where we meet God, where time when we are spending time in worship, prayer, reading God's word and meditating on God's word and we need to keep a consistent practice of keeping that time that we spend with God. If you're spending time every day in the morning at four o'clock, five o'clock, six o'clock or for some of you it's late nights, we need to be consistent in our practice of our private communion with God because what happens if we are consistent in our personal time with God in the secret place you know whatever we experience in the secret place we receive from God you know what God pulls into our life that we are going to carry along with us everywhere we go. Where is the kingdom of God? What did Jesus say? The kingdom of God is where? Where is the kingdom of God? In heaven? It's within you. Yes. Thank you. That was so loud. Sorry. That came like a shock. Can you please reduce the volume? Can you please reduce the volume? Thank you. There's the kingdom of God is within us. Okay so wherever we go the kingdom of God is manifested or is made known. Okay so wherever we go we carry along with us what we have received from God you know through with us throughout the day and when we meet people we pass on what we are receiving what we are experiencing in our relationship in our walk with God. So it's important to maintain a discipline consistent life of worship, prayer and you know meditating on God's word every day. Okay now it's important for us how can we maintain a consistent time with God every day that consistent practice every day you know what will keep us going? What do you think will keep us going? How can we be consistent in our reading of God's word, meditating, spending time with God every day, having a quiet time every day when we are hungry for more of God. When you're hungry and you're thirsty what happens? You will go and eat, you will go and find something to drink. Okay so we need to keep on in that state of being hungry for more of God. I want more of his word, more of his revelation, more of his power, more of his anointing. Okay the second thing we need to do in our personal lives is as ministers of God we need to strengthen our character. Okay our character is very very important. Okay we you know we have sometimes we think as ministers of God we've come to a level of godliness that's okay we are happy there you know and we also think hey you know I'm a godly, I'm a good character person, I don't drink, I don't smoke, I don't use bad words, I don't fight with people so I'm not like other Christians or like other unbelievers so I'm godly. Okay it's it's not a good place to be in we always need to you know continue to you know get to continue to be more like Christ you know move to new levels of godliness and maturity in our character because if you feel we are happy in a place it's like you know I'm happy here I'm godly and not doing anything bad so very it's not a good place or safe place to be because you know we are not exercising our spiritual godliness or our strengths we're just going with what we have already so suppose you don't exercise your muscle if you don't exercise use one hand or one leg what will happen slowly there will be you know that part of your body will become inactive right you need to use your muscles okay in the same way if you stop exercising your muscles it gradually weakens you know the same way in our spiritual lives and in our character okay we need to keep our check on our character our character is a moral fiber it's a very core of our being who we are okay and it's a level of godliness that we walk in private that means when nobody is watching you okay it's you know your your characters also developed in the secret place when nobody is watching okay so we need to develop our character because character is developed over time and how is our character developed over time as we obey god as we continually submit and yield to god every day okay when we do that our character will mature we become more christlike and we need to keep a careful watch over our character and we need to keep strengthening it every day okay how do we strengthen our character every day we just invite the word of god and the holy spirit to work in our lives and also you know the influence of people godly people mentors who can mentor us people in our lives who can speak into our lives so we need to you know grow in our character mature in our character and how do we do that through his word his spirit and influence of godly people will help us to rise to new levels in our character okay and also we know that when we are believers or we are in christian ministry we will always face temptation there will always be areas in our life where satan will target to bring us down so we need to continually keep a god you know we need to continually keep a god watch our character keep up our defenses you know and we need to keep a god and strengthen our character in all areas look at what Paul says in Philippians chapter three verse 12 he says not that I've already attained or I'm already perfected but I press on that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me okay so we need to strengthen and build our character the third thing we need to do is you know we need to you know just depend weight on god to learn new revelations new truths and you know when we do that we need to you know practice that in our own lives you know first it's important before we teach before we preach that we hear from God we are thought of God we you know we meditate on his word we receive his word we practice what we receive and our lives are aligned to God and what he's teaching us and then we are you know going out and teaching that or ministering that to people okay so sometimes we think as ministers of God you know we can just preach and teach without even practicing it and living it out ourselves well we shouldn't be doing that we need to it's important that we align ourselves we are first walking in God's ways we're aligning our own lives to God's word to his voice the voice of his word the voice of his spirit and out of that what we experience we share that to others okay so something that we have to maintain a self-discipline in our ministry that we will not teach something that we do not practice first okay now there are times when we there are times when we want we have to teach some things from God's word where you know it's something way into the future you know God is calling us into some things in the future that he is calling us to do he's moving us as a church he's moving us as the people of God when others have not gone so those times you know we have not delivered out ourselves but God is imparting it to us God is impressing it to us so what we need to do is we need to study God's word we need to we can preach it and teach it but also we need to press forward to move in to the higher realms that God is imparting to us or impressing upon our hearts and God where God is promising to move us as a people group as a church in a Bible study group now there are some good times you know as as ministers of God we have to preach and teach some areas in our life where we have not personally experienced now for example you know I work with children and I don't have children myself but I will be counseling parents you know how to you know how to discipline children how to help children out in their problems in their difficulties so at those times I have not been a parent I don't have children but from the experiences that I've gained and from my learning and from the word of God I just basically give practical tips from how I've seen my parents parent me what I sense God is telling me I have to wait and listen to the Holy Spirit and also from the word of God so for example if a man of God is not married of course he can preach and teach what the Bible says about marriage but even though he's not married okay but most of times you know what we need to do is we need to practice before we preach or teach okay now there are sometimes when we preach things which we have failed in the past in our own lives but it's important for us to know that that is dealt with we have dealt it with God God has forgiven us we've overcome it we've learned lessons so we are actually preaching and teaching from how God has ministered help us to overcome and what we have experienced and those messages will be very very powerful okay the next one is be a voice not an echo okay be a voice not an echo now you know it's important for us to you know to desire for God to speak to us instruct us to reveal from his word okay now it look at what Isaiah chapter 50 verses 4 and 5 says can somebody read that please Isaiah chapter 50 verses 4 and 5 it's in italics Isaiah chapter 50 verse 4 and 5 the Lord had the Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is very he awakens me morning by morning he awakens my ear to hear as the learned the Lord God has opened my ear and I was not rebellious nor did I turn away yeah so here it says the Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned okay and I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is very so how do you know what sermon to preach to which people grew what message to give what word what prophecy what advice to give is you know and how can your tongue be of a learned person is somebody who waits on God to hear from God so here the prophet is saying God awakens and wakes him up morning by morning he awakens is here that means a year of his spirit man to hear the things that God wants to impart through him to the people okay so you know if you've heard sermons and they're very very powerful sermons they have powerful truths powerful revelations it's because the man or the woman of God has actually waited on God for God to reveal what is the word to give to the specific people in the time or season that they are in or what to preach to this congregation and the word that comes out is powerful because you can hear this person say I was praying and asking waiting on God and God gave me this word and when the truth comes out the truth is so powerful okay so it's important for us to desire to wait and to hear from God and what he speaks to us in the secret we need to proclaim it out in the public that is why our personal time with God is so so important okay so when we are when we preach and teach the understanding and the revelation we receive from God through our personal time and through our personal listening from God they are very very powerful and that time it becomes the voice of God that means God himself speaking through us and it does not become an echo you know what's an echo when you're hearing your own voice you know the echo is not as clear as your own voice okay but sometimes what we do as people is we listen to other teachers we say oh wow what a powerful revelation what a powerful truth you know and we think we can just take that same borrow that same message and preach it to our congregation and we see the results are not as powerful as when that man or God a woman of God preached it to that congregation why because it was what God wanted that man or woman of God he revealed them to speak to that people group in that specific context in that specific situation but if you are just borrowing that and you're just speaking it to some people and you you feel that revelation is powerful it's not going it may not work why because that is not God's word for the people in your place in your season in that time that he wants them to receive and also because you are just taking that revelation and speaking it without it without that becoming part of your own life without you understanding it without it becoming so much of your own experience and when you're preaching that it just becomes an echo and not the voice of God or it's it's not going to benefit much so even if you hear from other preachers it's important for us to listen to the revelation understand it experience it for ourselves and then preach it when God wants us or if God wants us to reveal that to the people group that we are ministering to or speaking to okay did you all understand what I'm saying be a voice not an echo yes so it's important for us to hear from God so even if you Bible college students are preaching every you have your roster right who is preaching which they you know just don't take something that you want to and speak but say God what is the need of the students in our Bible college what do you want me to speak show me and God will lead you to the passage and God will also give you the revelations and then the truths just don't hear from God and Google a message or Google the contents and then come and preach it okay but you know read Lord's word meditate and say God I want you to give me the message the points what are the truths you want me to speak okay the next thing is as ministers of God we need to keep our lifestyle very very simple okay keep a lifestyle simple don't put on a show don't be somebody you know some preachers some man or woman of God copying their style copying their way of dressing and all of those things um our life is not a show to be put on you know God designed you to be who you are don't be somebody else okay and also don't get entangled with the affairs and the influence of this world okay look at what Paul says in 2 Timothy 2 verse 4 to Timothy says you know no one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who's enlisted himself as a soldier so we are not here to please people around us okay so don't put on a show there's no need for us to pursue a bigger house a bigger car with the latest gadgets lavish living lifestyle like some pastors men and women of God you know uh it's just keep your life simple if you need a bigger house because your family is growing there's you know God is not going to be told that from you if you need a bigger car to take more people in your congregation you know it's it's okay but just keep your lifestyle very very simple you know um don't do things for the sake of showing people because those who have done it have fallen to a trap um and um and you know have have been led astray from God they've gone away from their ministry learn to be content with God what God has blessed you with you know Paul again writing to Timothy in 1st Timothy chapter 6 verses 6 to 8 he says godliness with contentment is great gain okay so we need to be um we need to live with a holy discontent that means the things of God we shouldn't be content we need more and more more of revelations more of truth more of his word more of the move of God more of the anointing of God more of science miracles and wonders but when it comes to our relationship or the things of this world you know we need to be godliness with contentment is great um gain okay um you know and and it's not wrong for us if you are a business people or you know we are in a in a corporate firm in a big firm uh to move up the ladder of success to do well in our business to earn more money that's nothing wrong in earning more money there's nothing wrong in enhancing our business enlarging our business but we need to know that you know the the even as God blesses us with our finances more wealth um more income more salary you know we need to know that it should be used that what God is blessing us we can use it for the enhancement or the furtherance of the building of his kingdom okay to further the cause of his kingdom not to buy more land more property build more things like the rich man but you know to give into the kingdom of God to give into mission work so that the work of God the kingdom of God can further can pursue and can reach the parts of this world okay and Colossians chapter three verse two says set our minds on things above and not things of the earth okay now another thing that we need to also keep in mind as ministers of God is if you're not intellectual don't pretend to be intellectual you know some of us pretend to be very smart we know everything you know very intelligent if you're not wealthy don't pretend to be wealthy okay don't take pride in just moving with the rich people you know some of us we want to move with the rich people we want to have contacts with all rich people um uh you know but um you know so that people will look up to us and you know it will be a statement that we make a style statement a status that we have my uncle who was a pastor he always says I'm a friend of the rich to help the world okay this is say I'm a friend of the rich to help the poor so he's a friend of the rich to you know help them to use their resources that the wealth that God has given them to help the poor people okay um but it's important for us to connect with relate with all kinds of people um like it says in Romans chapter 12 verse 16 be of the same mind towards one and other connect with all kinds of people whether it's rich people medium class poor people relate with everyone bless everyone minister to everyone just don't do things because you're going to get benefited from one people group and avoid the other people group because we are not going to receive anything from them so the important thing is to watch our life to keep our life very very simple and not to get into the rut of this world where we want more and more where we are trying to make a statement for ourselves a style statement a status symbol and all of those things because when we get caught in that we will lose our focus on what God has called and purpose us to do okay the next thing is to keep our heart and to guard pure and to guard our motives okay now the biggest challenge as a believer and in Christian ministry is to maintain a pure and a clean heart okay sometimes when we look at people on the outside we can think okay what a holy person what a you know great man woman of God you know not doing anything wrong just very good all that is sometimes an outward show we you know we can we can also deceive ourselves and saying hey I don't drink I don't smoke I don't you know go to pubs I don't use bad language I don't I'm not like the world I'm very simple and all of those things but there can be subtle things in our lives which opens the door to the enemy which we can fool other people around us but you know we can't fool God because God is interested in our character he looks at our attitudes our desires our motives and the intents of our heart so what do I mean you know sometimes you know we can be doing ministry we can do the right ministry but we can do it with a totally different motive a desire a passion or an agenda a passion desire agenda motive can be to seek our own glory our own fame our own recognition and rather than seeking God's glory or seeking God you know God be glorified God be you know known to people it is all about I me myself okay so that comes in very very subtly and we need to watch that because some people think hey that's not wrong wrong drinking is wrong smoking is wrong adultery is wrong I'm not doing all of those things you know but even this seeking our own glory you know can bring our downfall because you know how Satan fell when he was seeking his own glory he thought he was powerful enough and he can also be worshipped as God pride okay the other thing is our thoughts lustful thoughts nobody can see our thoughts read our thoughts okay but we can hide our thoughts in you know the front of people nobody will know that we're having lustful thoughts we can appear holy to people but God knows our thoughts okay and you know when we have these lustful thoughts and we are watching lustful things things that are not right not pleasing to God's sight you know he knows about it okay sometimes we can also be filled with envy and jealousy when we look at other ministers of God you know when God is using them greatly they have greater opportunities you know we are filled with envy jealousy hatred and we do everything to you know assassinate their character talk bad about them pull them down you know or we compete with them how we can be better than them or how we can do better than them in their ministry okay that is why it's important for us to look at all of these heart attitudes always be open before God and say God you know when we pray when every day we need to be open and say God look at my heart look into my heart is there anything that's displeasing anything that has come in you know any pride any lust any jealousy hatred bitterness God show me play your finger on it so that I can repent I can ask you for forgiveness and I can overcome that okay another thing that we need to guard our hearts and keep our motors pure is from being insecure sometimes when others do better than us preach better than us you know or sometimes people from our congregation go to other churches go to other prayer meetings or we are having a Bible study they go to other churches go for other Bible studies other prayer meetings you know we become very very insecure as pastors right we don't want them to go so we are behind them why didn't you come you should be here why did you go there whose church you went and then they say we went to this church you say you know that pastor that pastor this is this this pastor is teaching all these wrong things you should not go there so you know don't be afraid you know let people go let people receive from other men and women of God if they really belong to you to your family you know they will come back but don't be controlling and don't become insecure okay now all of us will struggle in some of these areas but we need to be open before God you know and what do we do okay we need to go before God and we need to ask God to judge our motives to judge our thoughts our feelings our motives our desires saying God judge me in all of these areas see there's any wicked way in me show me if there's anything that is wrong and invite God to help us you know in our thoughts in our intents in our motives you can pray what the psalmist prays in Psalm 139 verse 23 and 24 he says search me oh God and know my heart try me and know my anxious thoughts see there's any wicked way in me and lead me in the way everlasting okay so ask the Lord to cleanse you purify you he's a refiner's fire ask him to you know pour out his fire and to burn up all the filth all the unnecessary things that are in you let this word of God and the spirit of God cleanse and wash your hearts and your minds okay now some things when we pray and ask God you know the immediate cleansing happens but some areas where the the sin is very powerful you know and the strongholds are there we need more time so at those times what we can do is take scripture passages on those specific sins meditate on it spend more time fasting and praying and you know important for us to guard and keep our motives and our hearts pure and our thoughts and our desires within the will and the plan and purpose of God but we do not you know the half the battle has been one and we continue to you know pursue the things of God pursue holiness righteousness and you know what God requires of us okay the other thing that we need to do as ministers of God in our personal lives is not to kill our conscience okay now what is our conscience the inner voice of our spirit conscience is God given it tells us what is right and what is wrong okay your conscience also bears witness with the Holy Spirit remember we learned that you know the inner voice the Holy Spirit we learned that our conscience also bears witness with the Holy Spirit okay which means we need to keep our conscience pure because the Holy Spirit bears witness in our conscience so we know whether it's a Holy Spirit speaking to us or when the Holy Spirit is telling us what to do okay so as Christian ministers we are to couple our ministry with a pure conscience okay and a clear and a pure conscience is necessary for us to walk in reverence towards God it's also important to control our tongue some of us are not able to control our tongue we just speak whatever we want to speak you know whether it is filthy words or whether it is words that are you know always condemning putting down others putting down ourselves speaking words that are negative you know it's because our conscience is not pure okay so when our conscience is pure it helps us to walk in reverence with God it keeps helps us to keep our tongues in control to also keeps our appetites that means our sexual appetites our sexual desires are our own appetites our own carnal fleshly desires our appetites free from every kind of you know love of money love you know the flesh and the pride of life okay but if you don't listen to our conscience we suppress our conscience you know we will kill the voice of our conscience and we will also sear our conscience okay sear means is like an iron box when you keep a hot iron box on on your shirt or your trouser or your dress that you're wearing and it's very hot it what will happen it will catch right it's it's it actually sears your conscience that means your conscience becomes so dead right suppose you take hot iron and keep it on your skin your nerve endings in that part will become good as dead okay so it's important not to let our conscience die what happens if our conscience dies then even when we are doing wrong we can justify our actions you know you have seen people who have been in ministry men and women of God who are just you know believers born again you know they say they're born again but they are living immoral lives or they're you know committing adultery or they're doing you know they you know that you know what they're doing is not right and you can say how can they do it it's because and they can justify their actions they can actually even pull out chapter and verse to prove what they're doing is right they can give you excuses they can give you theological approves and you know why is because their conscience is so dead to that so don't come to a place where your conscience is dead you know I work with drug addicts and alcoholics and they come to the clinic and when they put their you know pull up their genes just below their knees to treat their wounds their legs is like elephant legs you know elephants legs how big it is it's because their legs have got gangrene you know what is gangrene you know when they keep injecting these drugs into the sun there's pus that is formed and it's not cleaned up and all that it becomes gangrene it can move up and it can even kill the person and they're no day going to die but they'll come to the clinic and they will just get their wound cleaned up they will listen to all the therapy sessions but they will go back and they will inject in the same place they will take drugs in the same you know injected in the same place why because their conscience is so dead to what they are doing now terrorists the first time you take a gun and kill somebody you're not able to sleep for one week two weeks right but then you see after a couple of months that terrorists can take a gun and can shoot anywhere they won't see whether it's a child a baby if it is a pregnant lady they will just go randomly and shoot anyone and everyone because why their conscience is so dead so don't let your conscience die it's important for us not to let it die not to suppress our conscience not to kill the voice of your own conscience because that is a dangerous place to be and that is why many christian ministers or those people in ministry leading prayer groups or whatever have fallen into serious sins so important to keep our conscience clear and not to suppress our conscience okay keep listening to your conscience when it tells you hey what you're saying is wrong what you're watching is wrong what you're doing is wrong what you're saying is wrong you're copying you're stealing you're doing things that is wrong you're saying things you know immediately stop and listen to your conscience it makes a huge difference the next one is fire up your passion for purity okay i'm not reading up all the references because of the lack of time i like y'all to go back and retake time to read those references okay look at what it says in second timothy chapter two the last okay somebody can read that please second timothy chapter two versus 19 to 22 second timothy chapter two was 1922 nevertheless the solid foundation of god stands having this seal the lord knows those who are his and let everyone who names the name of christ depart from iniquity but in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay some for honor and some for dishonor therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the from the letter he will be a vessel for honor sanctified and useful for the master prepared for every good work flee also youth who lusts but pursue righteousness faith love peace with those who call on the lord out of a pure heart i mean yeah so here it says you know pursue a free youthful last pursue righteousness faith love peace with those who are calling the lord pure heart okay so it's important for us to maintain personal purity we need to cleanse ourselves of whatever is impure and we need to be vessels of honor you know sanctified set apart for god's use okay so sometimes if you're looking at people who god is using greatly and you're wondering hey i'm in the same ministry i'm also doing ministry and god is not using me as greatly as that man or woman it's it may be because that man or woman has you know set them as their lives apart as a vessel of honor sanctified for the master's use so that no more of god's anointing and power is flowing through their lives if you want god to use you mightily in the mighty anointing and power yes it's important to read god's word and pray but also important for us to you know have a pure heart and pure motives that is very very important because god will not waste his anointing and pouring out his anointing and a vessel that is not fit and we know that will waste that anointing okay so we need to keep our vessels our vessels are the bodies our bodies the temple of the living god and we need to ask god to sanctify us the sanctifying work is the work of the holy spirit the holy spirit sanctifies us it does not mean that the as soon as we are born again the holy spirit stands begins a sanctifying work the holy spirit will sanctify us to the extent that we yield ourselves and we submit our cells to the extent you willing you're willing to yield and submit to that extent the holy spirit will work in your life the holy spirit is a perfect gentleman he will not push you and force you if you are open the holy spirit will sanctify you so you're you might be wondering you know even though i am born again why do i have so many shortcomings or weaknesses in my body why am i not able to overcome it is the holy spirit not working in me no the holy spirit is working in you it's because you are not yielded and surrendered your life completely to in every area for the sanctifying work of the holy spirit that is why it's important to know that's when we accept Jesus as our lord and where Jesus as our savior some people just accept him as their savior but not as their lord which means i want him to be my savior so that i can go to heaven but i'm going to be the lord of my life i am still going to you know drive my own life and do what i want to do but but yielding to god accepting Jesus as our savior is not just savior but also as our lord and as our savior okay so it's important for us to yield and submit and to you know keep up that passion of purity always so sometimes we can get so caught up in ministry we can get caught up in doing god's word preaching god's word you know attracting crowds doing great programs in our church but if we are not looking at our own lives our character you know keeping ourselves open before god maintaining a right right heart attitude we can compromise we can adjust we can adapt to sins which we will you know will dominate our lives at one point of time we cannot tolerate or control these sins and these sins will control us and that will be our end of our ministry the only way we can guard ourselves is to keep our passions pure and fire up all the time okay the next thing we need to do is we need to set moral personal moral boundaries okay so it's good as men and women to set up some personal boundaries for me as what are some of the personal boundaries I set up is you know I don't personally counsel a man okay or even somebody who is a teen you know I don't counsel I don't go alone with somebody as you know in a closed room with a man or a woman I'm sorry man or a young person youth you know counseling them I if there's any counseling that need is there I always will refer them to another male figure you know when I also don't hug or hold or hands or you know men or women I keep my personal distance even in the teams that I handle I don't speak too much talk too much what sense lot of WhatsApp messages you know or email too much call up the male core team members only minimal things what I need to do I do I really relate to them on a very minimal you know on a very ministry level basis not getting into any personal details also don't handshake you know with men or give them a hug or hold them close and all of those things those are some personal boundaries that I maintain and it's good for all of us to maintain some personal boundaries as well okay we just have two more minutes we will stop here we just have few more points in this lesson before we move on any questions so far okay this is all about being more practical in our own lives so even as we looked at some of these things it's important for us to look into our own lives see where we need to work on these things you know maintain our own personal boundaries with people also you know spend more time in God in the secret place because from there we receive the power and the anointing and the revelations of truth that God wants us to minister to others and also you know keep a pure heart and a pure motive before God and ask God to cleanse us at all times any questions before we end class we've not I'm not gonna look at the references so request you to please read through okay we just gone through a little few pages important for you to read okay we finished this book on receiving God's guidance so we'll fix the date for the assessment and maybe post the dates when we can have the next assessment on this book receiving God's guidance but today the in-person students will be doing their assessment on fulfilling God's purpose for our lives and also I think there's one online student Divya will be doing yes great truth you have a question yes sister you know the assessment I didn't get much time to go through it because it was I had problem opening it you know so I feel I I mean we should get little more time you know to answer those questions yeah I think I gave you two whole days so maybe yeah but yeah I know I couldn't open it you know because I apologize for the inconvenience and next time I'll ensure that it's it will as soon as I release it but by default it does not go to um preventing you from opening it but you can open it yeah okay thank you thank you get rude okay thank you everyone for joining class today have a blessed weekend see you next week