 Good morning, everyone. Thank you, Anita, John, Paul, and Georgia, Hamilton, and Naila to joining class this morning. Can one of you please lead us in prayer, please? Anyone? John, can you please lead us in prayer? Let's pray. Father, we praise you and thank you for this morning. Lord, we ask you to come to your presence to learn from your word. We pray, O God, that you would open the eyes of our understanding and help us to learn and help us to understand the thoughts that you have for your kingdom and let it be deeply rooted in us, God, and we would be able to apply this in our lives. We submit, Pastor Selena, into your mighty hands and declare your grace, your favor upon her life, Lord God, to teach your word, to guide us in your ways, God. In Jesus' name we pray. Thank you, John. Hi, Jepina. Welcome to class. So last Wednesday, we were looking at chapter three in the book, Kingdom Builders, looking at how the Holy Spirit directs us and leads us even as we build God's kingdom, even as we are invited by God. To be partners for workers towards His kingdom, to build His kingdom, to extend His kingdom here on earth, to bring forth His kingdom as it is in heaven, to do His will here, to bring about His kingdom, reign His kingdom, purpose, kingdom activity, and kingdom presence here on earth. So we were looking at how the Holy Spirit is our director, how He leads us and guides us, and we were on page number 23 in the PDF notes. We were looking at how the Holy Spirit, you know, when we pray in the Spirit, how the Holy Spirit helps us to understand the purposes of God. The Holy Spirit reveals the mind of God to us. That means He reveals the plans, the purposes that God has for us, that the Holy Spirit makes it known to us. And we looked at 1 Corinthians chapter 2 verses 9 and 10 and verse 16 and says that because the Holy Spirit instructs us and reveals the plans and the purposes of God to us, hence we have the mind of Christ. So we will continue in the same chapter. We look at how praying in the Spirit aligns our will to God's will. Okay. And when Jesus, when He lived here on the earth, we read in Hebrews chapter 5 verses 7 to 9 that, you know, when He lived here on this earth, the days of His flesh He offered up prayers and supplications with vehement cries and tears, because to Him was able to save Him from death. And we see that even though He was a son, even though He was God, even though His origin is that He is God, but He gave up everything and says even though He became a man, but yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. So Jesus Himself learned obedience by the things He suffered. He learned obedience means He, you know, there was an alignment of His will to the Father's will. That means He was willing to submit to the Father. He was willing to do what the Father wanted Him to do, and hence He aligned His will to His Father's will. This is when He was in the flesh when He came here on this earth. So He learned, Jesus Himself learned obedience, and the phrase learning obedience means He aligned Himself to the Father's will. And one example we see of how He aligned Himself to the Father's will is in Matthew chapter 26 verses 38 to 39 and verse 42 in the Garden of Gethsemane. You know, we know that the time was at hand when Jesus was going to be, you know, arrested and He's going to be crucified, and then He prays, you know, Father, if this cup be taken away from me, you know, let it be, but not as I will, but as you will. It was not that Jesus was, you know, afraid of dying on the cross, but it was because He was sinless, even though He was in the flesh, He had committed no sin when He was sinless. And to take upon the sins of the world was something that is so detestable to God, but Jesus, you know, just prayed and said, God, Father, take away this cup, but if it's not the will, let your will be done. So He was willing to align His will to the Father's will. He was willing to take the cup of suffering, drink the cup of suffering, take upon Himself the sins of the whole world. And so we see that, you know, Jesus prayed three times in the Garden of Gethsemane. We see that He spent long times, long hours in prayer. So we see that prayer changes things. Prayer, when we pray, it helps us to align our will to the Father's will. And in times of prayer, you know, God works in our hearts where He reveals His plans and His purposes. He aligns our will, our desires, our dreams in accordance to His plans, His purposes and His will for our life. If you look at Romans chapter 8 verses 26 to 27, it says that the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness when we do not know what we need to pray for, you know, for certain things or when we're going to struggles, challenges, you know, we do not know what to pray for. The Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. The Holy Spirit makes intercessions for us with groans that cannot be uttered. And it says in verse 27 of Romans chapter 8, He says, He who searches the hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, sorry, He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. Okay, so here this scripture passage, very familiar one, it's a very powerful one, you know, it says the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. The Holy Spirit helps us interceding. It does not mean the Holy Spirit, you know, as it's normally said, the Holy Spirit intercedes on behalf of us, but here it's the Holy Spirit actually intercedes along with us. It's not that, you know, when we do not know what to pray for or we are just totally, you know, broken about something, we're facing some challenges, we just don't know what to pray, words don't come out of our mouth. It's not that the Holy Spirit, and we're praying and we still, you know, we're not able to articulate the right kind of words. It's not that the Holy Spirit goes off somewhere else and, you know, He's interceding on behalf of us. Here the Greek word for the word help likewise the Spirit also helps us in our weakness. The word, the Greek word for help when translated, it means that, you know, the Holy Spirit along with us, together with us, you know, so the Holy Spirit along with us, together with us, you know, is helping us. It's the Holy Spirit who is, you know, helping us to intercede, but it's the Holy Spirit that puts the prayer into our, or the words into our hearts. It's not the Holy Spirit going away somewhere else and praying separately, but it's the Holy Spirit who actually is giving us the right words. The Holy Spirit alongside with us, together with us, you know, takes hold off. Okay, so it's taking hold of our weaknesses along with us. It's the Holy Spirit is helping us to pray. So who is having the weakness? It's the saints that is the people of God who, you know, times of difficulties and we do not know what to pray. Who is helping us in prayer? It's the Holy Spirit who's helping us to pray. And how is he helping us to pray by making intercession? So who is making the intercession? It's the believer who's making the intercession along with the Holy Spirit or with the help of the Holy Spirit. And so where is the intercession coming from? It's not coming from, you know, the Holy Spirit is not praying somewhere else, but the intercession is coming from the heart of the believer. Okay. And who is listening to the prayer? It is God. So the Holy Spirit, you know, is helping us to pray. He is putting the words or the groans or, you know, we can also pray in the spirit. It's the prayer is being expressed in inarticulate speech. So it's not something that the believer thinks or, you know, knows what they're speaking. It can just be groans that are expressed in in tongues or you're just crying or weeping, whatever fashion. It's the Holy Spirit who puts the prayer in the heart of the believer and it is, you know, and God is listening to our prayer. So how do we know that? Because it says that, you know, he who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the spirit is because he makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God. So here we see that God is looking into the heart of the believer. He knows what the Holy Spirit is saying because God knows the mind of the spirit and he also knows that, you know, this intercession is made according to the will of God. So which means the believer does not know what to pray for, but the Holy Spirit is helping him to pray according to the will of God. And it's not coming out, it's coming out as groaning, meaning it's a prayer that is coming from the Holy Spirit but is being expressed in inarticulate speech. And it's groaning that can be expressed in tongues, crying, weeping, whatever fashion. But it results in prayer that is according to the will of God. And it results in helping the saints in our weakness. Okay, so this is what the Holy Spirit does for us. He intercedes on, you know, helps us in intercession. He's the one who puts the right prayers that is accordance with God's will into our hearts and we are able to pray. Okay, so that is what it means that the Holy Spirit also helps us in our weaknesses. It does not mean the Holy Spirit is interceding for us, but it is the Holy Spirit alongside with us together, with us taking hold of our weaknesses, putting the prayer in our hearts. And the prayer that is coming out of the saint is in accordance with the will of God because it is revealed to us or it's put in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. And because the Holy Spirit reveals the mind of God to us. Okay, so all that we saw in this chapter three so far is how the Holy Spirit helps us, directs us, leads us even as we build God's kingdom. Okay, we will look at how the Holy Spirit gives birth to the things of God in each person. And we will just look at it from the life of Mary when the angel came and God chose her to bear the Son of God and the events that took place around Jesus from the time that he was conceived. By the part of the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb to the time that he was born here on this earth. So we look at the work of the Holy Spirit and we will just look at how the Holy Spirit works, but we will look at it in the context of how the Holy Spirit gives birth to the things of God. And the principles that we can learn of how the Holy Spirit enables us to give birth to the plans and the purposes of God here on the earth that we can be efficient kingdom builders so we can be mindful of how God works, how the Holy Spirit leads us and guides us. So we're going to look at, it's called the Mary Miracle, which teaches us several things about how God releases the work of the Spirit through human vessels. Okay, so the first thing we know is that, you know, when the Holy Spirit releases the plan of God in our lives or he wants to birth the plans and purposes of God in our lives. We see that, you know, there is an appointed time when he does it. There is a Kairos moment. We look at the Kronos time and the Kairos moment, okay, in a bit. But here we just look at, you know, the work of the Spirit is released into the earth at the appointed time. So in Genesis chapter 3 verse 15, we see when Adam and Eve sinned that, you know, God said, you know, when he was, you know, punishing them or he was pronouncing the judgment. He said that, you know, I would put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. So if you look at Genesis chapter 3 verse 15, or if you are following the PDF, you know, version, it's on page number 24. Okay, we're on page number 24, or if you're looking at your Bibles, it's Genesis chapter 3 verse 15. Here it says between your seed and her seed. So the S, there are two seeds here that is mentioned to word called seed. And the first seed that is mentioned in this verse is a small S. And the other seed is a capitalist, which is referring to Jesus's birth here on this earth. And it says that, you know, I'll put enmity between your seed and her seed. And, you know, this is talking about, you know, Jesus is coming into this world when he will be born here in this world. So the, you know, Jesus's coming was foretold right there in the Garden of Eden. And it was, it took 400 years later from when God, you know, foretold that there would be the Messiah who would come. There was a gap of 4,000 years from when it was spoken of. It was foretold and it's time of fulfillment when Jesus was born here on this earth. And in the relationship to 4, verse 4, we read that, When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the law. So in the fullness of time, that means in the right time. Yes, God foretold this 4,000 years back. But in the fullness of time, in the Chairos moment, in the right time, you know, Jesus came. God became man. He came here on this earth. And, you know, so here we see that when God speaks to us about the work he wants us to do, he's calling us to do. And when he reveals it to us through the Holy Spirit ahead of time, you know, there might be many years that there is a preparation time that he's preparing us before he releases his work in and through us in the right appointed time, in the Chairos moment. So the first thing is, we see this medical is, you know, the Holy Spirit releases things into this earth at the appointed time, though it can be foretold much ahead of time. It's just for us to prepare ourselves even as God is releasing or birthing his plan and purposes in our lives. The second one is the work of the Spirit is released through ordinary people. We see that, you know, God chose a very ordinary virgin, you know, to conceive or to bear a son. And it was already prophesied in the Old Testament, Isaiah chapter 7 was 14. We see that, you know, behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son and you shall call his name Emmanuel. So we see that, you know, God does not, did not choose, you know, somebody who is a very highly educated woman or somebody who was a prince, a princess, you know, of the royal family, but he just chose somebody who was very insignificant and inexperienced virgin named Mary. Now, you know, there could be questions. You know, why did God choose an inexperienced virgin like Mary? You know, what if, you know, if she had a miscarriage, what if she did not take care of herself during her pregnancy? What if she was not able to handle this whole thing that God is birthing in and through her because she's a virgin? You know, what people would say, people would talk, the stress and everything. But we see that when God wants to birth some things in our life, you know, the whole thing is dependent on God. The outcome is also dependent on God and not on us. All he wants us to do is to be available. He wants us to be obedient, to just be obedient to do what he is asking us to do and just trust in him. Just abandon ourselves in him and just trust in him. And that's what we see Mary doing, you know, when the angel came to her and reveals what she's going to birth, the plans and purposes of God. She just makes herself available to God. She says we read in Luke chapter one was 38. Behold, the maidservant of the Lord, let it be to me according to your word. So we see that she was just willing, obedient and we know that, you know, the outcome was what God took care of. Everything God took care of and Jesus was born on this earth. So we see that God is not afraid of birthing his plans, his great big plans and purposes through simple, ordinary people. But even as he chooses us to birth his, you know, his big divine plans, his mission here on earth, he gives us how to fulfill his mission mandate here on the earth. You know, all he looks at is, you know, how he does not look at how educated we are, skilled, talented, confident that we are, but he just chooses ordinary people for the work of his eternal kingdom. And he's just looking for our availability, our obedience and our, you know, complete trust in him. The third thing is that the work of the spirit must be unadulterated. It must be born purely of the spirit. We see that in Mary's life as well. You know, Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of God was born through a virgin. And, you know, and hence we see that he was born without sin. So every work of God that is released in and through us must be born purely of his spirit. That means it should not have anything of the flesh. And that is why we said that, you know, from the time that God reveals his plan and purposes that he wants to birth in our lives, there can be a preparation time. We look at it in the next chapter, you know, how it took so many years for Moses and Paul, Paul's 17 years, you know, or Moses 40 years, the preparation time for them to actually birth the plans and the purposes of God that he had on their lives. Why? Because, you know, whatever God wants to be birthed here in his kingdom, to extend his kingdom here on earth, he wants it to be pure. And he does not want anything of it should be unadulterated, born purely of the spirit. So, you know, he brings us to a place where we are not feeding our condom nature of the desires of flesh, but we are actually doing what the spirit wants us to do. We are totally yielded and submitted to the Holy Spirit. The fourth thing is that the work of the spirit might be a cause for embarrassment. You know that, you know, when God chose a virgin, he knew that, you know, she would feel embarrassed, he would go through embarrassment. But we see that, you know, God worked out things. He gave, he spoke to Mary, he gave her the confirmation, he also spoke to Joseph in a vision. He came and spoke to Joseph and said, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife because what is conceived of her is of the Holy Spirit. He also reveals it to the important people that mattered in Mary's life. The Holy Spirit also testified to Elizabeth who was Mary's relative. And so here we see that, you know, although Mary carried in her womb the son of God, you know, this was going to bring her embarrassed. How is she going to explain her pregnancy to her family, to her neighbors, the people and, you know, to Joseph who she's going to be married to. But we see that the Holy Spirit, God to the Holy Spirit reveals it to Joseph and also to Elizabeth. So there are times when, you know, when we are doing the work of God, people may not understand it. People may misunderstand. This does not mean that, you know, we are not carrying going to birth God's purposes. And it's not that the work of the Holy Spirit is not genuine or what the Holy Spirit is revealed to you is not genuine. No people around us may not understand. But yet in the midst of, you know, the embarrassment, you know, God would reveal his plans to the people. To the people who are the most important in your group, you know, who can support you, who can stand alongside with you, who will, you know, carry this. This is God given vision that he's birthing in you. They will carry it along with them. They will stay around with you. They will help you, encourage you. And, you know, you can press forward to work or the vision that God wants to release in and through a birth in and through you. So there'll be times when people will not understand. Don't be upset with them. Don't be angry with them. But just know that, you know, they are not aligned to the things of God. They are not going to go alongside with you. They can become more of a burden than an encouragement. But just be assured that, you know, if God is birthing this in your life, if this is what God's plan, he will reveal it to the most important people that would take this, buy this from you and will run along with it. I remember, you know, when, when I was ministering in a group and I was leading this group, you know, a group of children, God had birthed something, birthed something, something very great, something meaningful, something purposeful. And he gave me that vision. He gave me, he showed me what is the end result, what is going to happen to a dream, to a vision. I was quite excited. And when I came and shared it with, you know, the children, they just bought it. They just took it. They just took hold of it. So, you know, I was, I knew that this is what God has given it to me or he wants to fulfill in the life of these children because the children bought it. The children took hold of it. So, they were the primary, you know, the group that we were going to be working with. And if they were not going to buy it, then, you know, it would be difficult. So, it's just so amazed to see how God birthed this purpose, this plan in my heart. And when I shared it with the children, they just bought it. But, you know, those who were ministering along with me, there were a couple of them who did not buy it. They were not interested. So, I just let them be because, you know, we can't force them. We can't judge them. But they would just come and do the other bits that was there. But this specific project that God laid on my heart, he showed me, was not something they were involved in. They did not take it on. I just let them be. But there were two or three people who stood, you know, beside me who helped and encouraged. And, you know, the end result of what God did in and through this whole project that he had shown me and he had brought it to light. And, you know, he had just given it in my heart. He had entrusted to me, you know, the end result was so powerful, was so beautiful that it really, I didn't have to speak, but it just spoke for itself to people who kind of mocked it, who were not interested in it. They were just amazed and, you know, to see how God just worked so beautifully. And the end result was just God, you know. People could easily say that it was God. It was not any human being that could have done, could have brought about everything that people witnessed through how powerfully the children ministered. So, you know, when God births things in your life, there are times when people will not stand along with you, will not take it, will not buy it, but the most important people. Like here we see the Mary miracle. It was Joseph who had to stand beside Mary. So God revealed it to Joseph and it was Mary's relative, Elizabeth. I think she was very close to Elizabeth because as soon as she hears the angel, what the angel had to birth through Mary, we see that Mary going to Elizabeth's house, to share it with her. So maybe she was very, very close to her and we see that the Holy Spirit testified through Elizabeth what God had purpose for in Mary's life was the divine plan and purpose of God. So God will reveal it to the important people and you can just carry on with what God is birthing in and through your life. And the work of the Spirit, the fifth one is released through the normal, natural process. So we see that, you know, God did not have, you know, day one did not tell Mary, okay, Mary, you're going to have a virgin, but you're going to conceive the Son of God and, you know, day two was, you know, not the full term pregnancy and day three was not the delivery when the child was born just in three days. But we see that, you know, things happen in the natural process, you know, even though the conception was supernatural, but we see that the work of the Holy Spirit and what God envisioned for the Son of God to be born here on this earth, we see that it took the natural process of pregnancy, the full term of pregnancy and then the delivery that happened. Okay, so similarly we see that when God initiates his work in building his kingdom in and through us, what kingdom builders, you know, we need to co-labor with God. Okay, God gives us his strength, he gives us his grace, he gives us the vision, he gives us the people, he gives us the strategies, he gives us the strength to run with it, the supernatural strength to run with it. He gives us, he just encourages us, he opens doors for us, he shuts the wrong doors for us. But, you know, things are burdened in the natural, so it takes the normal, natural things of everyday life to release, to birth the plans and purposes of God in our life. So what does it mean? It means that, you know, things will not just, God will not just tell you day one that, okay, this is what I want you to birth. Day two is not, you know, when you execute a day three is not when you see the full envision the whole reality or see it happening in the natural. But it's a process, you know, it needs sacrifice, it needs hard work, you need to persevere, you need to plan, organize, manage things, you'll have to give up a lot of your own personal time. You know, your personal preferences, you'll have to keep at it, you will have to work at it, run with it. There'll be, sometimes you'll have to work long hours, you know, sometimes you have to just, you know, carry in prayer, you need to just engage in spiritual warfare, and it requires that. So it's not that, you know, when God births something supernatural, it's everything is just going to happen automatically, no. It takes a normal process of things in the natural world, how we labor hard, we work hard, and that is why, you know, Paul says in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, verse 10, he says, you know, the grace of God is available with me, you know, and his grace towards me is not in vain, but he says, but I labored, you know, the word labored is hard work, you know. I labored more abundantly than all of them. He's talking about his co-workers, that he labored more than all of his co-workers, but he says it's not just me, but it's the grace of God that enabled me to labor hard. So when we birth God's purposes, yes, it's supernatural, we receive it, the Holy Spirit reveals the mind of God to us, but it all happens in the natural. We have to make the sacrifices work hard, organize, plan, run with it. You know, it takes time, energy, a lot of effort, and a lot of hard work, okay. The sixth thing is we might encounter closed doors until we reach God's appointed place. So we see that, you know, Mary had the supernatural encounter with the angel and the supernatural childbirth, and she thought, you know, may have thought along with Joseph that everything would go easy, you know, because the Son of God doesn't take care of everything, you know, will plan everything, will execute everything. All they need to do is just carry things, be obedient. But here we see that it was not so, right, when they had to travel all the way to Bethlehem, you know, they would have thought, okay, you know, there will be an inn for them, there will be a nice good place, you know, an excellent place, maybe a five-star accommodation for them to stay, but we see that, you know, there was, they could have gone through shock, you know, disappointment, discouragement, just seeing that there was no inn available anywhere, and Mary would have thought, am I carrying the child of God in my room, and is God going, you know, had this divine supernatural plan, what he's going to execute. And finally, where was the Son of God born? Not in a five-star accommodation, but in a cattle shed, in a cattle trough, he was placed. And so we see that, you know, sometimes when we give birth to God's plans and purposes in our lives that he wants to be birthed for the extension of his kingdom, we can face discouragement, everything will not go easy, will not be smooth, there will be closed doors, but, you know, those closed doors are actually that God is directing us to the right place, the right time where he wants to position ourselves rightly so he can birth his divine plans and purposes. And we need to keep moving, even though there are many closed doors, it doesn't mean we doubt, we trust God, we keep moving, we reach the place where he wants us to be positioned rightly so we can receive his divine provision, his divine grace, his divine favor, divine promotion, and it's the right place for us to birth his divine plan and will. The seventh thing is that the work of the Holy Spirit often has a simple humble beginning, so we see that Jesus was born in, not to a princess, he was not born to a prince, he was not born in a rich home, he was not given a palace to be born in or the best in in Bethlehem, but it was, you know, just a very, you know, ordinary virgin, a carpenter like Joseph, a cattle stall, a cattle shed where God released his divine plan and purpose that he has, he had even foreordained before the foundations of the world. So God releases his work in small ways, but these small beginnings are still the work of God and, you know, they can impact the whole world, you see the impact that Christ's life and what he did on the cross, how it impacted the whole world, how it still impacts and will impact the rest of the world. So, you know, even though God births his plans and purposes to ordinary people in simple ways, simple beginnings, we know that it's not by might or by power but by his spirit. Zechariah chapter 4 was 6 and also we read in that same chapter of Zechariah chapter 4, in the verse 10 we read that, you know, who has despised the day of small things. So don't despise the day of small beginnings, the day of small or humble beginnings. Sometimes we think, you know, when God has given us a plan and a purpose as birthing something in our life, something very exciting, something very great, you know, it can begin very small, it can begin very insignificant. There can be struggles, there can be challenges, things will not go very smoothly, but, you know, if you look at the end result, you know, it will be something great that God is birthing in and through us. But the process through which he takes us through is kind of challenging, can be difficult, but we can still experience God's grace, His provision, and to come to a place where we can position ourselves, right, to experience the supernatural favour of God. The eighth thing is the work of the Spirit has to be protected and nurtured, which is the last thing we see that, you know, after the baby Jesus was born, you know, we see that the baby had to be fed and cleaned and taken care of. So, you know, Mary could have thought, OK, this is the Son of God, you know, the angels will come and minister to Him and take care of Him. You know, if Joseph and Mary would have done that, just abandon the Son of God, that would have been foolish on their part, but they will still be there, they still trusted God. They still did what, you know, what God wanted them to do in terms of taking care of the baby, nurturing the baby, protecting the baby from every harm and danger. And we see how God reveals ahead of time, you know, to Joseph in a dream, saying, flee to Egypt, stay there till the one who wants to destroy the child is no more. And then we see that, you know, at the right time God tells Joseph to go back and chose to go back to Galilee and they go back to Nazareth. So we see that, you know, Mary and Joseph nurtured the child and they also protected Him. And we read in Luke chapter 2 verse 40 that the child grew and became strong and Spirit was filled with wisdom and the grace of God was upon Him. So, you know, the work of the Spirit has to be protected and nurtured. It protected means it has to be protected from people who, you know, bring in their own agendas, their own schemes, their own plans, people not with the right motives, people who, you know, are causing this unity, this harmony, are kind of being a discouragement to you, you can't fight them. So it's better to just, you know, protect what God is birthing in and through you, just lead them aside, just lead them to God, God will take care of them. And also we need to work hard, we need to plan, we need to organize, we need to, you know, wrestle in prayer, ask God what He wants us to do, each step, show us the next step, guide us and lead us, bring the right people. And we need to nurture the work of God, the plans and the purposes of God and what He wants to birth in and through our lives. So that is very beautifully portrayed to us through this birth here on this earth, through Mary and Joseph and looking at how, you know, the Holy Spirit works and births the things in our lives even as we go about building God's kingdom. Okay, so any questions anyone has about chapter 3? Any questions? I hope you found that Mary, Miracle, you know, the points that we learned interesting, you know, really uplifting, encouraging and gives us so much of, you know, in-depth, you know, points and how we can birth God's plans and purposes here on earth. Okay, there's no questions, okay. So what we are learning, I hope is meaningful, is purposeful and also when, you know, some of you might also be in a place where God has already revealed to you what He wants to birth in and through your life to build His kingdom. Some of you are already, you know, working on it, building on it. But, you know, I hope these some of these insights can help you to understand how God works, okay. Okay, there's a song here about the all over the world, the Spirit is moving. Anyone knows that this song all over the world? Anyone knows it? Very old chorus. Anyone knows, okay, it's very simple, it says, All over the world, the Spirit is moving All over the world, as the prophet said it would be Hallelujah, all over the world There's a mighty revelation of the glory of the Lord As the waters cover the sea All over His church, God's Spirit is moving All over His church, as the prophet said it would be Hallelujah, all over His church There's a mighty revelation of the glory of the Lord As the waters cover the sea Right here in this place, the Spirit is moving Right here in this place, as the prophet said it would be Hallelujah, right here in this place There's a mighty revelation of the glory of the Lord As the waters cover the sea So God's Spirit is moving and with mighty revelations So if you want to choose to be a kingdom builder, you desire to be a kingdom builder God's Spirit, even as He's moving, looking for those who are willing to stand in the gap Those who are willing to build God's kingdom, God will reveal His plans and purposes Will birth His supernatural plans and purposes And we can be assured that God will take care of the outcome And the process is going to be challenging at times But it will be exciting, it will just be wonderful to see how God works and moves So if there's no questions, we'll move on to chapter 4 The nature of a God-given vision So we know that the Holy Spirit reveals the mind of God to us He reveals the plans and the purposes of God, He gives us the vision But how is God's vision given to us? How does God go about it? It's the nature of how He gives us His vision We know that we are in the end times The prophecy in Joel, which we also see in Acts chapter 2 verses 17 and 18 God says, in the last days, I will put out my spirit upon all flesh Your sons and daughters shall prophecy, your young men shall see visions, your old men shall dream dreams And He says that on everyone I will put out my spirit and they shall prophesy So we know that we are in the end times It's the times when there's going to be a greater revelation of God's plans and purposes True visions and dreams through which He's going to birth His ideas, plans, purposes and goals His strategies And the way the Holy Spirit is going to birth it is through dreams and visions Where He gives us an idea, He gives us a thought or just a picture that we see Or He just tells us in our hearts He makes us passionate about something And all of these things we refer to as a God-given vision He shows it to us, gives us an idea, He gives us a thought or picture Steals our hearts up to something and our heart is stirred up And that's not stopped till we take hold of what God is taking hold of us Doing what God is taking hold of us So the Spirit of God communicates the plans and the purposes of God to us And how does He do it? It's through the inner witness, the inner witness comes through the impression that is in our hearts The Holy Spirit can, God can birth His plans and purposes through His Word God can birth His plan and purposes through the voice of the Holy Spirit Which comes to us through the inner spiritual voice that comes through words We can just sense God speaking to us, the Holy Spirit speaking to us It can also come through dreams and visions Now all of these things you've already studied in your first year When you studied the book Receiving God's Guidance You looked at all of these things So just basically reiterating a few points here So we see that the Spirit of God communicates God's plans, purposes, His ideas, His strategies Through dreams and visions, and in two dreams and visions He reveals it to us through ideas, through thoughts, through pictures Which He instills in us So some of the dreams and visions that God gives us is not just heavenly entertainment But it is something that through which God is directing us or leading us in His plans and purposes Or something that He's revealing to us to execute here on And God wants us and is waiting for us to fulfill what He is showing us through dreams and visions So our goal in this whole chapter is to understand how God infarts His vision How God takes us on His journey to see His vision fulfilled in our lives And in the process, how to carry out the purposes of His kingdom We'll stop here, we'll come back and continue, we'll go for our break and I'll see you after our break Thank you everyone