 Okay good morning and welcome once again everyone. We'll pray and get started with today's class. I want to request someone from the online batch to open this time with prayer. Could you please lead in prayer? Any one of our students? Let us pray. Have any father? We once again thank you for this time of study. We pray Father that as we get into your word Lord that you lead us through your word Father and minister to us Father. We pray that whatever we are going to learn Father we will be able to apply the same in our lives Father. And we also pray for a blessing upon our entire faculty and all the students here in the Bible College. We ask all of this heavenly Father in that precious name, in the precious name of your son Jesus. Amen. Amen. And thank you. We saw how we can exercise authority. We saw some of the terms that are found in the ministry of Jesus. Things like cast out, destroy, what else? Resist. Right? So different ways in which we can stop the enemy from working. We can also uproot his plots and schemes against us. And we saw other powerful ways in which we can be free from oppression, demonic oppression. Things like prayer, agreement in prayer, righteous actions, making restitution. Making restitution means if something has been done wrong. If something has been done wrong in the past, if we take responsibility and we say sorry. I should not have done it. So you make restitution for it. Maybe you did the mistake or somebody else from the previous generation did the mistake. When we make restitution for it, automatically we are setting things right. Then again the enemy cannot interfere. So these are all very practical things. So what happens in our life when let's say there is some situation and we are trying to resolve it. One of course is through prayer, then we take authority if we sense that some demonic opposition is present. Now we may keep doing these things, rebuking, cancelling, destroying. And let's say nothing is changing. What would we do? Suppose nothing is changing. How to go forward now? Same situation, same pattern. So then what should a believer do? You would continue to pray and wait on God. Okay, we will continue to pray. We are already doing that. And you will try to kind of seek God's for a specific verse or ask Him to speak to you. If there is more than asking God of what more should I do? It's better to ask, you know, what is it that you want me to do in accordance to your will, your meaning. Okay, good. So correct. We are doing everything, prayer, cancelling, uprooting, everything we are doing. But still the situation is not changing and we feel like something is missing. So would you just say that, where Jesus says this kind of thing that can be casted out only by prayer and fasting? Okay, fine. So imagine we are praying, we are fasting also. Then what to do? It's not changing. Yes, did someone want to bind and lose? Someone saying bind and lose. What else can we do? We will send out some more prayer requests or reach out to more pastors to agree with you in prayer and ask for them. Correct. Prayer of agreement is already there. We are agreeing, we are praying. Everything we are doing, whatever, okay, we said sorry, we said the situation, everything, full course, whatever we studied, we are doing. Now what to do? Wait. Okay, we need to wait. That's correct. We have to wait some more, little more patience. We need, okay, what else? What else will we do if we are in that situation? Yeah, continue to keep praising God. It's like everything we are applying, right, whatever we learnt. Yeah. So that's good. Keep doing all these things. Keep doing everything. But we have to ask the question, is there something that I should do more of? Right? So maybe, let's say we are praying, we are fasting, we are declaring, we are praising, all that we did. But we did not, we did not uproot the stronghold. Stronghold is still there. Then when we are fasting, praying, declaring, but stronghold is still there. So the thing we missed to do is we didn't uproot the stronghold. We got it. That is not broken. That is not removed. So that's the issue. See, for example, if let's say there is a tree, big tree, okay, very big tree. I cut the tree. Tree is gone. But later I'm seeing some small, you know, like a few leaves and few this ones are coming out. But I already cut the tree, no. What's the problem? Root is still there. Root is still there. So I have to go after the root. And how to now get rid of the root? I have to pray. Like what you said is actually correct. Do everything and ask God, like, you know, what is it that I'm missing, Lord? Where am I? What is it that I'm missing? Maybe that root I never addressed it. Maybe there are issues. Maybe I have to go through, you know, some kind of counseling. Maybe there are more issues. I have to work it out. I have to forgive. There are many other things that I'm still not dealing with. Right? Or maybe God may say you need more wisdom. So I can go talk to somebody who is more spiritually stronger than me. I say, okay, brother, please help me. I don't know what to do. I'm doing everything, but I'm stuck. Then you can pray together and God will show. God will show. Okay, you should do this. Maybe you try doing that. So the point is, even when we have done everything and we are not seeing a change, maybe there is something somewhere. We are not focusing on that. We have missed it. You know, something like that. So we have to figure out what I'm missing. And only God's spirit can help us in that. So that's the way to go forward. Okay, so only like if we say, okay, I'm praying. I'm praying. I'm praying, praying, praying a lot. But there is something more, something else which may have been missed out. So the problem is not with God. Why is my thing not changing? Why is, you know, this problem still persisting? God is not doing anything. We should not say that. It's not like God is not doing anything. God is doing. He only, usually how God works is he'll show the way. Right? He'll give the instruction. Then when we act on it, then change will come. All right? So these are all things like not just in deliverance, but even like in general like faith in our lives. There are times when we feel, I'm doing everything. Still, why it's not changing? One is time what Deeksha said, sometimes we have done, we have to wait. But maybe there is something which we are not focusing on. We are missing that. So pray and ask God, God, what am I missing, Lord? Why is it still in that same situation? Something is not happening. Right? Then God will show, okay, apply wisdom or, you know, resolve this, resolve that, forgive this person, forgive. Then when we do that, suddenly we'll see there'll be a freedom. There'll be a liberty. Right? There'll be victory in our lives. Okay. There are some more answers here on the chat. Thank you for the answers. Okay. Andrew says, leading of the Holy Spirit. We need the leading of the Holy Spirit. That's true. Yeah. And Shani is saying angelic assistance. Yeah. If that is the requirement, then yes, angelic assistance. So exercising authority in different spheres, let's come to this. These are all like simple chapters where we've already spoken many things earlier. So it'll be easy for us to cover this. So whatever we learn till now, we need to apply. We need to apply. So first and foremost, we have to apply in our own personal lives. Okay. So how to be free? How to be free of demonic oppression? How to be free of, you know, or rather how to overcome the works of the evil one in our own personal lives? That's the question. So what we can do is we can recognize the strategies of Satan. Okay. So we said that Satan generally uses his tactics of accusing people, deceiving people, tempting people, or, you know, maybe opposing them or oppressing them, bringing some form of obstruction. So the first thing in our personal lives is we have to identify what is Satan? What is Satan? See, we do go through a lot of challenges. Not everything is Satan. Isn't it? We've already said that. We can't blame the devil for everything. Okay. He'll feel very upset. He's like, you people are doing it and simply are blaming me. Okay. Okay. But so what is Satan? That's the first thing we have to identify. If something is because of Satan, then you address it in the way that we have discussed so far. Right. Rebuke him and casting him out and all. But if the issue is not Satan, then we should not simply say that the devil is doing it. Maybe we ourselves have kept a door open. Right. And that is why things are happening. So the first thing in our personal lives is identify if something is the devil or not. If it is the devil, then you deal with it. You deal with that oppression. All right. So identifying is the first thing. So now let's imagine we identified and we are constantly feeling accused. What to do? Like Satan is telling us, oh, you're not good enough. You will never serve God. You will never, you know, your life will never change. So what to do now? Let's say it's not just me. I identified. This is not normal. I am coming under the oppression of demons. Now what to do? Rebuke. Okay. Rebuke. Good. Good answer. Anything else we can do? Use the word. Okay. So in these moments, what helps us? Yes, take authority. You rebuke the devil. You bind the voices in your head and strengthen yourself in the word who we are in Christ. Okay. So I need to go back to that and I need to make myself strong in it. So that is the way to exercise my authority in that situation. So in each situation, we need to do what is needed, identify and then do whatever is necessary. And in that way, we'll keep coming out of it. Now, is it possible that, you know, once we are born again, we are already victorious, right? Every Sunday we take the Bible and we say we are victorious. So if we are victorious, then will Satan trouble us? Will we still have problems with the devil? Okay. Great. What if we become, you know, very mature? Will we still have problems with the devil? Yes. Even if, you know, like we are in the ministry or whatever. See, this will not change. The attacks will not change. How we deal with it is what is important. At every stage, we have to learn to deal with it. Don't be surprised. Like, oh, I'm so, I'm growing in the Lord. Why am I facing all this? No, whether you're growing, not growing, everyone Satan will attack. That's his job. He will do it. So don't be surprised at any point in life if we are coming under an attack. It's normal. Right? But the thing is, we have to live in such a way that Satan has no opportunity. So live in such a way that we don't give Satan any opportunity. So we have talked about open doors, isn't it? What are open doors? What do open doors come from? Sin. If there is sin in my life, then constantly he can attack. And then I should not wonder, how come he's attacking? Because I am not overcoming sin. Right? Let's say there is unforgiveness, unforgiveness, bitterness in our hearts. That's an open door. Satan can keep attacking. And then we are wondering why is this happening? I don't have forgiveness. What else? We said that words, the words that we speak. So if we speak words where, you know, it's not aligned to the word of God. You know, anything, some people, some Christians have heard people say, oh, I'm cursed. Have you ever heard that? I don't know. But I have heard, in fact, I heard a believer say that I think we are cursed. My family is cursed. But how can you say that with your mouth as a believer? You should never say things like that. So when we say things like that, we are coming under agreement with the devil. Then a lot of things are happening in the family. It's not God's mistake. We made an agreement with our tongue. So the words which we are speaking, if we are speaking faithless words, words of doubt, unbelief. Then it's an open door. He can easily come. He can attack. Okay, so these are all things that we should check. Okay, am I giving place to the devil in any of these ways? If I am, then, you know, my rebuking, my doing other things is of no consequence. First of all, I should make sure that these issues are not there. When I'm submitted to God, do you remember, we said that the more we are submitted to God, the greater is the Lordship of Christ on our lives. So in that way, in the personal life, we can overcome. So submission is the first thing. When we submit ourselves to God, we can overcome the devil. So now let's imagine that we have done everything. Okay, and now we are free also. Some issue was there, some oppression was there. Let's take for example fear. We had fear and we have overcome fear and we are completely free. Now what will we do if we face fear again? If again fear comes, what to do? Okay, yeah, yeah, so the same thing and hopefully we are stronger right this time. So let's imagine we are stronger and we continue to do the right things, but again fear is coming. So then is there a problem with what we are doing? Because first time it worked, second time it feels like fear has come back. So are we failing? Why is it like coming back? Why is it resurfacing? The symptoms are resurfacing. I think we have to ask ourselves where we went wrong. Okay, so we have to ask ourselves where we went wrong. Okay, let's imagine we asked ourselves where we went wrong and we found out that we didn't go wrong. Okay, nothing is wrong. Everything is okay. But fear is back. Now what to do? Just to uproot the fear. Okay, uproot the fear. Fine, done. But fear is still there. What to do? Cast it out, uproot it. If the fear keeps resurfacing and it keeps coming back and you have done what you have done in the past and it is still not gone. So just continue to strengthen yourself more in the world. If that has gone to a different level, we also need to increase our potential in our level. Because my mindset and thought process is like the moment we keep thinking about what I did wrong, where I went wrong, then we are kind of pushing ourselves into more of a sin consciousness or thing. So it's not about allowing God to work freely. We ourselves are creating that hindrance and that barricade that maybe something is nothing. So it can't be that I need a deliverance from anything from God. So if I'm only depending on what I do, so it's like I'm trying to keep God away. Yeah, no, it's fine. Like what you're saying is we have to become right and we have to become strong. I'm accepting everything and my point is we have done everything. We have done better also. We have done right also. On our side everything is correct, but fear is still back. Then how to deal with it? You're sure that there is no open door. You're fully submitted to God, you're victorious and it went away. We already conquered it, but now you're experiencing it again. Like how do you understand that situation? When everything is right, there's nothing more to do. Everything is done. In your heart you're clear. I'm already delivered. You're clear, maybe people have prayed for you, you're pastor, leader. Everyone is clear, you're fully free. People are sure, but it has again come back. You cast the entire thing to God and say like God, you know you've commanded in your word not to worry or not to fear. Sure, sure. You go back to God and you trust God. Yes, Brother Kofi. We can also ask for God's direction. Maybe sometimes we have to make a special offering to God. Special offering. Okay, so Brother Kofi, the point I'm making is when all is right, you've done it all. You've made that special offering. Everything is done. Still you're experiencing it. Then how do we understand that? So I am seeing different answers here. Okay, because we spoke about fear. Brother Sanjay is saying, don't focus on fear. Focus on God's love for God's perfect love drives out fear. Lucy, speak the written word of God and renounce the enemy. Yes. And Shani? Well, I was going to say that you were saying that you did all those things and it came back. I was just saying that's just the devil trying to make you think that you haven't, I guess kind of like when you're sick and you're healed from something, you get symptoms. That's just the devil trying to put symptoms on you to make you think that you're not healed. You really are kind of the same way with fear. That's what I was going to say. Yeah, good. So Shani's answer is correct. Okay, so what Shani is saying is, all of you are correct, but this is the answer I was looking for. So the thing about Satan is that what he'll do is he'll try to test the waters to check whether you fully believe whether you are healed, whether you are fully delivered, whether your situation is fully set right or not. So after everything is resolved, some people like to call it false symptoms. False symptoms. So what he does is, he'll give some situation to make you feel like oh, nothing has changed. I'm still sick. I'm still under operation. But in those moments, we have to recognize, hey, this is false. I'm already free of this. I'm not going to accept it. So it's a very deceptive thing that Satan does. So when you get these, even after you're fully healed, we're getting these symptoms. We just have to rebuke and say, no, this is false. I'm not accepting it. I'm already healed. Satan, you cannot deceive me. You cannot deceive me. So that is something that Satan generally does and we must be aware of it. Even in the case of deliverance, we are fully free. But a situation may come where it's as if nothing has changed. But then it's false. It's just a trick of the devil. And so we can be assured. Don't take it as if, oh, I conquered again Satan is conquering. No, no, he's not conquering. You have done everything right. Then how can there be no victory? There is victory. Don't take it as redominance. Again, Satan has come back. If we believe it, yes, again, everything will start all over again. But it's just a deception. Okay, so we must not give into it. Yeah, few things we are seeing changing. You say, no, I'm not accepting. I'm already free. This cannot come back. I shut the door on you once again, Satan, in Jesus' name. Right? Yes. Fine to just say that, you know, or believe it's already done in the spiritual room. I can't see it in the natural room, but it's already done in the spiritual room. And you just ignore and choose not to react. Yes. Is it ignorance? We can't ignore it. But I'm saying we need to accept that, yes, Satan is doing this or recognizes a better word. Recognize that he's doing it. And then you can rebuke. You can, you know, keep doing the other things, but don't ever accept that there is a re-entry. Got it. So this is a trick of the devil where he pretends like he is regaining access. So we should be aware of this and never accept it. So that's also something important in our personal lives. If you've already gained victory, you say, no devil, you have, you, you have not entered. I know that and you have no place. First of all, there's no place for you to enter. And I, I just, you know, I resist these false symptoms and I will not accept it. I will not accept it. Right? So the thing about Satan is like when we go to deliverance, shortly we'll go to steps of deliverance. There's a little bit of stubbornness, stubborn because yes, he goes out, but he'll try again and again and again. So that stubbornness is there and we should recognize it, which is why us being careful after deliverance is very important, very, very important. It's not over. Once you cast out a demon, it's not over. So much work is there to do after that. Okay? Fine. So this is a little bit of practical things in our own personal lives. Yeah. If one does not sin and lives a life of prayer to God with faith, does Satan still operate in one's life? Okay. I couldn't hear very clearly. Could you, could you repeat it or maybe? He's asking a person who is living a righteous life, still why the Satan is oppressing him. Yeah. So, see, we can never escape it. That's what I'm trying to say. As long as we are alive in the world, oppression, Satan will try to attack every believer. We can never escape it. We just have to learn to fight it. Okay. I don't know whether he got, you got the answer. Okay. Great. Yeah. So, so that is the way we overcome our authority, right? We, we overcome the devil in our personal lives. Now, let's talk about overcoming the enemy or exercising authority over our families. So what can we do for our families? Today, I'll only ask questions. Okay. I'll listen. How to exercise authority over our families? Okay. Declare God's word. Family prayer. We want to protect our family from Satan. What, what to do? Proclaim what the blood of Jesus has done. That's correct. We can do that. What else? What else? Good revelation. I got when Pastor Ashish preached on Good Friday service. Yeah. Because somewhere subconsciously or what I used to always utter the word, I plead the blood of Jesus. And the insight that he shared about wrong, you need not plead anymore because it's already done and you can proclaim. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. We don't have to plead the blood. The blood is already shed for us. We just have to proclaim the power of the blood of Jesus. Yes. Pray, declare the word, declare what the blood of Jesus has done for us. Anything else we do for our families? Whose prayers are powerful in the family together? Okay. Then? An agreement. That would be a much more powerful compared to just one person. Yes. So prayer of agreement. Agreed. Okay. And now what else? Who else? Whose prayers are powerful in a family setting? Head of the family. Very good. Authority structures. Remember we said the husband, the parent, the mother, the father. So the prayers are very, very powerful. So if we are in that position, then we should pray and we can cover our family members and there will be a greater protection over their lives. So this is the way in which we exercise authority. Now just a quick question. Despite doing all of this there are attacks that happen. Despite doing all of this there are attacks. Yes. In a scenario like you know husband is also praying, wife is also praying. Yes. I'm just taking my own example. Yeah. So in that scenario, it's like still have a year. Yeah. So that's the thing. Okay. I'm saying when we do everything, maybe there is something which we have not, like we've not understood maybe there's one point or one step which is missing. You got it. I'm not saying that you know we don't have enough faith or we are making a mistake. It's not like that. But think very objectively. Maybe there is something which has not been dealt with, which is why I'm saying we need to pray and ask the Holy Spirit. Please show us what are we missing and then deal with that situation. That would help. That would help. Yeah. Okay. Great. All right. So yeah. This is how we are going to exercise authority in our family. So imagine you can see you can feel Satan entering. What would you do? He's entering. Right. And he's creating whatever quarrels and all what would you do in your family? Immediately what would you do? You're sensing Satan is trying to attack. Yes. Okay. I don't know if what I did was right, but when I felt like you know these kind of attacks were not of the person, but it could be it's more about, you don't, it's not the flesh and blood. It's about the spiritual warfare. So I don't know if what I did was right, but I chose not to react and I chose not to respond. Okay. And it didn't help. It kind of, you know, it just took matters in a different span over a period of time. Okay. But I just continue to pray. I just knew it was not in my room too. Yeah. I think. Sure. Okay. I see your standard because you're strong in the faith. You're saying, okay, I'm not going to react. I understand that. But one thing we can do is in, because we are discussing exercising authority, right? We did everything prayer, fasting, declaring everything we did. One more thing what we can do is you can use the authority through those words. Remember, rebuke, bind, lose. So I do that. Like if I sense like, okay, I'm sensing something coming in. Immediately I'll speak it out. I rebuke you. You spirit of this, that I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. I bind you in the name of Jesus. I don't give you any place in the name of Jesus. So we need to do that because we are, we are stopping the devil. It's like, you know, we remember we said bind is what like handcuff, isn't it? So we have to do that. And I remember once we had prayer here, I think the last batch was here last year. No, not your batch. Correct. The other batch. So when we were doing the month of prayer towards the end, pastor was guiding us and then he said, okay, let's take authority and let's pray against the devil. Let's exercise our authority against the devil. And at that time, some of us we were praying like father, we pray that you will, you will stop the enemy. We pray that he will be bound, things like that. So he just stopped us. He said, no, don't pray to the father. Speak directly to the devil. Speak directly to the demons. So then we changed how we were praying. Instead of saying, you know, heavenly father, father, don't pray to God. Just speak to the demons. Just speak to them, identify them. And we have to like, you know how you scold, right? You may scold maybe a pet or something. You need to be like that. Demons, we take authority over you in the name of Jesus. We bind you in the name of Jesus. You spirit of strife, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. So you have to speak to the spirits like that. That is what rebuke is. Rebuke is not like, dear God, I rebuke the demon. Not like that. Take authority. See, because ignoring will not actually help. Because somebody has to do the work of going against the devil. So take a moment. Just go against the devil. So use spirits. I will not let you do this. Like you got to get a little angry, right? Got to get angry and say, you can't do this. God has already done good things in my life. You cannot stop it. Like you've got to get a little angry with the demons and rebuke them, bind them, cast them out. So that's the way we deal with it. Right? We may be even doing it in our prayer time, but do it. So I will not allow you. You can't come inside. So these are the kind of prayers that one has to pray. Then we are exercising, you know, authority. Okay? Got it? I hope it's helpful. I'm just trying to be practical. Okay, fine. Yeah, thank you everyone. Thank you for the answers in the chat as well. Let's move on. So now we understood regarding the family. How to exercise authority over when we are doing ministry. When we are, you know, praying for healing, praying for other things and ministering in people's lives. So there are different ways. There are different ways. The main way is build them up in the word of God. That is very helpful. Remember we said sometimes we are preaching the word and the word itself carries anointing. The word itself carries God's life. So when we preach the word, people are automatically set free. Isn't it? Those strongholds are broken. Demons are leaving. All that is happening when the word itself is being preached. When the faith is being built up. So that is the first thing in ministry to proclaim the word. The truth of God's word. Establish people in the truth of God's word. Then of course comes to minister with the anointing. One is word. One is anointing. Anointing is what? Anointing is the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit. So when we are ministering with anointing, we saw Isaiah 10, 27. The yoke will be broken. The work of the devil will be broken over their lives. Suddenly they will be set free. So that is the way to do it. The power of the spirit. Minister with the power of the spirit. And then what we can also do is, sometimes when we are praying with people, we may recognize that there are certain dedications. Remember earlier we said, how does Satan work? How does the invisible world affect the visible world? Through practices. We see that around us. Like in our culture we know what that means. People have religious practices. People have vows. They have dedications. They have certain rituals. Now through all those things, maybe a stronghold is established. So when we are praying for that person, we may feel that there is such a dedication or there is such a contract that has been built with the devil. So while doing ministry, we have to break it. We have to break it. One of the ways to break it is, of course, you know, you pray, you fast. Then you can command. Because authority comes from our words, isn't it? So we can just command it and say something like, I break this curse in the name of Jesus. No longer will this curse affect the family. I break this vow. I break this dedication in the name of Jesus. So these are all prayers which we can make over others. And when we first break, do you remember the tree and the root? So you can cut the tree for some time. You can't see the tree. But if root is there after some time, again we'll come back. So when we are breaking the vow, the dedication, the curse, then what are we actually doing? We are saying from the root, remove the whole root. Now if I take the root and I destroy it, can the tree grow again? It can never grow, isn't it? So that's the point. We have to go for the root. So whenever we see issues of deliverance, always ask the question, is there a root? Because if we address the symptoms, today's symptoms will go. Tomorrow it will come back. But if we go for the root, is there a dedication? Okay, break it. Is there a stronghold? Okay, destroy it. Then the tree will never grow back again. So while doing ministry, these are questions we have to ask. And yes, pray over them. And some practical, other practical things we can do is, we can maybe, you know, maybe they have gone through some terrible time in their childhood or growing up years. They may need someone to counsel them. So even these things help. So when, one deals with the trauma of a difficult situation, that will also bring healing to their hearts. Then if the heart is healed, Satan and demons cannot come and create trouble. Those are the practical aspects. You break the curse and all. And then if they have to undergo some form of counseling or instructions, then put them on to a person and they'll be free. Now coming to exercising authority in an organization. Let's say we are working for someone and in that organization, people are involved in some kind of unrighteousness by demonic spirits. We feel like that. If we go to that organization, maybe there are some dedications and people are involved in rituals. So the workplace has these unrighteous things going on. With its origin from demonic spirits. How to deal with it? Same thing. We just pray over ourselves. We declare the power of the blood of Jesus over our lives. And don't be afraid. Don't be afraid that anything will touch us. We can also just pray a blessing on our office, on our colleagues and over the space if you want, you can pray something like, okay, I sanctify this space in the name of Jesus. If you feel like there can be some demonic presence. Don't worry. Just pray a sanctification prayer over that seat, over that table, over those instruments. Just carry on with your work and if we specifically sense that there is a certain demonic spirit operating maybe something to do with corruption in money or something to do with people's bad behavior, wrong relationships. All this we are observing. You can just speak protection over yourself. These things will not affect me and be cautious. Don't get involved. Stay away from all these unnecessary interactions. Just do your work and come back home. In that way, we will still stay protected. Remember because we said that demons can occupy spaces. So as a believer wherever we go, if you feel like okay, you know you're traveling. It happens. We're traveling we go somewhere, we're occupying a room and you're not feeling very comfortable. You feel like okay, something may have maybe there's another presence here. Nothing to worry. Just pray in the name of Jesus. Sanctify that place. Command every demonic spirit to leave in the name of Jesus. Invite the Holy Spirit to come fill that place and you carry on with the things that you need to do. So that's how it works. See, these are the ways in which we can actually exercise our authority in different spheres. So with this, we will move on to the next topic which is more about deliverance. So we look at that in the next session. If there are any questions we can discuss if it's not, then we can stop. Past experience when I was with ICICI it was a corporate exposure. Okay. So they had this thing at every financial year. Now that we are in a new financial year. So they are a new brands that is open. They have something called as Homa and the thing that they do in the morning. So they ask all of us to be there. So what could have probably been the wise thing to do for me to say I don't want to be a part of it or for me to go be there and then just pray not only for myself but also for the place and then come back. Yeah. If it's possible to not be around that might be better. So you can always try for that but I understand I mean even when we were studying in college they would have the ceremony of dedicating all our instruments. So the teachers would insist all the students have to be there. So yeah it's little tough in our settings. But if possible that you don't want to be there, you just escape. Like you tell them beforehand if it's possible that hey I won't be able to stay and then just leave. But it's not possible if they're insisting maybe you just hang around in one corner and quickly leave. Don't involve. Don't engage. Don't engage in the ceremony. What about food? Food. Yeah. So see the answer for food is quite straight forward actually. It is there and we already discussed earlier. Yes. But the tricky part is you know see for example it so happened that I was just taking a friend of mine they had purchased a new car. So this happened last week. So it was what temple there was someone Iskwant temple. So what was back of my mind is there to ask them to come to church for Good Friday or Easter. So they asked me at the car parking lot would you want to come to the temple upfront I said no. So then back of my mind it will be like when I asked them to church that was one. So similar like what Sagar has told about the food the prasada. So we say no. But when I just go and give a Christmas cake then it is the Yeah. Yeah. Correct. Yes. So see first Corinthians chapter 10 verse 27 it straight forward it says if an unbeliever invites you to a meal and you want to go eat whatever is put before you without raising questions of conscience. Okay. So if they call you to a meal and just don't ask any questions whether it's dedicated non dedicated you can eat but if they tell you that it is dedicated then refuse then refuse that's what this section says. So first Corinthians 10 from verse 27 verse 28 but if someone says to you this has been offered in sacrifice then do not eat it both for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience. So the Bible itself is giving us what to do in such a situation. Alright. So let's take a break. We'll come back and we will discuss the next chapter. Thank you.