 You have to write all the important points. Okay, good morning everyone. Thank you for all the online students for joining class today and our in-person students are here. Okay, so welcome to everyone. We'll begin class. Can I ask one of our online students to please lead us in prayer? Karen, can you please lead us in prayer? Yes, Pastor. God, every father, we thank you Jesus for this day and thank you for bringing us here together and as we learn from you, Lord, I pray Jesus that you would teach us and speak to us through your servant and help us learn more about your word, more about your faithfulness, more about your goodness. Lead us and guide us throughout this day, Lord. In Jesus' name I ask you, Amen. Sorry, Karen, I couldn't hear you because I just realized that I don't have the access to the audio here from the students because we are connected to something that is an M-audio which just has an output but no input. So sorry about that. Okay, anyways, can I ask one of our in-person students to come up here and lead us in prayer, please? Anyone? Karen, you want to come? Sorry, Vimal, come. You want to lead us in prayer? Okay, this is Vimal and he is from Uttarakhand and he is going to lead us in prayer, yeah. Thank you Lord, thank you Jesus. We lift up your name in this morning. Thank you so much for another day in our lives. Lord Jesus, I pray whatever we learn in this session, Lord Jesus. Lord, help us to receive it, Lord Jesus and Lord, help us to know everything you want us to, Lord Jesus. Help us, Lord Jesus and help every student to grow spiritually in your knowledge and in your wisdom, Lord Jesus. Thank you so much, Lord, you heard my prayer. All glory belongs to your name and your name be lifted high, your name be exalted, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Thank you. Thank you, Vimal. Okay, so today we are going to begin looking at receiving God's guidance for our lives. Okay, so for all the online students, you know, you could, I've already, okay, just give me a second. Okay, for all the online students, I posted the PDF copy of receiving God's guidance on the stream page, so you can go and access the PDF copy of this book, Receiving God's Guidance. If you're not able to access it from the stream page where I, you know, I've posted a link for you to enter class, I've posted the PDF copy of this book. If you're not able to access it, then you can go to, you know, www.apc.wo.org and you can look at, you know, resources and then books, English books and that you will find Receiving God's Guidance for your life and you can follow that from there. But, you know, I've already posted on a stream page where I have posted, I posted a link for our class so you could access the book given from that page. Are you all able to access it? Okay, thank you, Karen. So we will look at chapter one in Receiving God's Guidance for our lives. We need God's guidance in various areas of our life, whether it is small matters or big matters. Okay? Whether we make small decisions or big decisions, we need God's guidance in our lives. Small decisions, you know, are basic everyday decisions, you know, what to say, what to do, how to react, what to do in a situation. Big situations is basically, like if you're a student, then, you know, which course to take, which college to join, you know, after you finish your studies, you know, one minute, there's somebody who wants to... Okay. You know, which college to join, where you, you know, which course to take, and once you finish with your studies, you know, which organization, which company to join, where you're going to live, which church you want to be a part of, fellowship with, you know, who you're going to marry. All of these things, you know, you need guidance with, okay? And, you know, we have the wonderful privilege as believers, as God's children, we have the wonderful privilege to receive God's guidance in every step of the way, okay, in our lives. The Bible does not give us a formula for God's guidance, does not tell us, this is what we need to do. But, you know, the Bible does tell us and help us and how we can receive guidance in our lives. So, we're going to look in this book, we're going to look at 11 different ways, you know, given in the Bible, how God releases his guidance in our lives. So, it is his word, the Holy Spirit, the voice of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, God reveals or guides us through dreams and visions, through prophecies, through angels, through Godly counsel, through renewed mind, the times and seasons that we go to and the circumstances that God divinely orchestrates. And, some of these we've already, most of these we've already looked at in fulfilling God's purpose for our life, okay? But, we look at it in a little more in-depth way in these chapters that we're going to study in this book, receiving God's guidance for your life, okay? Now, God promises to lead us and guide us. This is a wonderful assurance. So, we don't have to go through life, you know, clueless, wondering where we're going, what is happening to our lives, what we need to do. We have this wonderful assurance that, you know, God leads us and guides us. And God is very, very interested in the decisions that we make, the steps that we take. And, because he's very interested in the decisions that we make and the steps that we take, you know, he's promised his guidance. Now, let's look at Psalm 37 verses 23 and 24. Is there in your book, can somebody read that please? Psalm 37, 23 and 24. Yes. So, he says, steps of a good man. So, a good man here means a courageous man, you know, a valiant man, a man who's a warrior, okay? And he says that our steps are ordered. Ordered means what? Directs are steps. He makes our steps perfect. He makes them firm where we can stand and walk properly, that we don't fall down, okay? And so we see that God takes pleasure in the way we are going, okay? The way a person is going. Now, actually the amplified version of, you know, puts it very well. It says God busies himself with every step that we take. God is very busy with every step that we take. Every little step that we take, you know, God is very, very interested. He's busy with what steps that we are taking. So, God is very interested in our lives, he's interested in the steps we take, in the path we choose, in the decisions that we make. And even if this verse says, even if we stumble and fall, even if we fail, even if we make a mistake, you know, we are not doomed for the rest of our lives, okay? God upholds us. It says God upholds us with his righteous right hand. That's what we read in Psalm chapter 37, verse 24. But the amplified Bible says it very nicely. It says, the Lord grasps the hands in support and upholds him. So, a person who's falling, who's facing failure, who's going the wrong way, God upholds us, grasps us. Means when you're falling, you know, when you hold somebody, you hold, take hold of their hand, you grasp their hand, you take hold of their hand, you support them, and you know, God upholds us. You know, the word of God also says, God upholds us with his righteous right hand. He's holding us in his hand, which means, you know, we can not fall down, that he will guide us and lead us every step of the way. Can somebody read Psalm 32, verse 8 and 9? Thank you. So here we have a wonderful assurance of God's guidance, where God says, I will instruct you. Okay, I think it's my phone, it's not on silent. Okay, God says I will instruct you. That means God is, you know, telling us the Hebrew word. If you look at the Hebrew word, it means that God, you know, will make you intelligent, prudent, and wise and give you the skills that you can have good success. Okay, so the word instruct, God says, I will instruct you, means God says, you know, the Hebrew word is, you know, he will make us intelligent, he will make us prudent, he will make us wise. He will give us the skills that we need to have good success in life. Okay, then it also gives us a wonderful promise here. God says, I will teach you. Now the Hebrew word here means, you know, God says, I will point a finger. I will show you exactly what you need to do, where you need to go, show you the exact way. So God is pointing a finger. And actually this Hebrew word has a picture of, you know, a person trying to shoot an arrow and exact target. Okay, so which means that God has the target in mind. That means God knows where you need to go, what you need to do, what you need to study, which career you need to choose. And then he will point a finger towards that direction. He will show you, he will lead you and guide you. And the word guide here in Hebrew means, he will counsel you. Okay, he will give you advice. So the Lord has promised to teach, guide and instruct us. But you know, this verse, you know, promises us that God will instruct us, teachers and guide us. But we need to do something. There needs to be a response from our part. So what is the response? It's saying don't be like the horse or the mule. Mule is what? Donkey. Don't be like the horse and the donkey. You know, that must be harnessed. That means, you know, they must be controlled. Otherwise they will run before you or they will be lazy and walk behind you. Okay. So what it's saying here is we should not, we should avoid these postures. Means we should not run ahead of God. We should not lag behind. Instead, we need to come along with God and work along with him, you know, to do what he has instructed us to do, what he has promised us to do with, sorry, where he's leading us and where he's guiding us. And we need to do it along with God. Okay. Psalm 25 verse 12. Can somebody read that, please? Also look at what we learn about receiving God's guidance from Psalm 25 verse 12. Okay. So here he says we need to walk in reverence towards God. Okay. Only then God will teach us the way we need to go. Now the good news Bible puts it very nicely. Those who have reverence for the Lord will learn from him the part they should follow. Okay. So basically reverence means what? When you are willing to obey God, when you're willing to do his will, when you're willing to take his instructions, when you're willing to take his instructions seriously, not, you know, take it as a joke or playfully. It says when we have that kind of reverence towards God, it's only then will he be willing to teach us and show us the way that we need to go. Okay. So we'll just look at the revelation of God's will. Okay. So before we look at, you know, various ways God guides us through scripture, let us look at how God reveals his work and will to us and let's, you know, lay some important foundational truths in relationship with God's will and guidance in our lives. The first one is God's will, guidance and leading is always consistent with his nature. God will not tell us to do anything that is against his nature. Okay. So, you know, God is unchanging. He does not change. We read this in Malachi chapter three verse six and James chapter three verse seven says he's a father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. Okay. God's nature is constant. He does not change, you know, whatever his will, his purpose, he wants to do, he will do that and his, you know, his whatever he plans and purposes is according with his nature. Okay. And his will is always according in harmony, in unity, in oneness with his nature. So God will not tell us to do anything that is against his nature. Okay. For example, we can't say God told me to lie, even though it's some, you know, we have white lie and dark lie. Okay. Black lie. White lie is, you know, you tell a lie to save somebody and the people say it's a good lie. It's okay. We have a good lie and a bad lie. Okay. But for God, lie is a lie. Okay. He's a God who hates lies and he, you know, he does not want us to lie. So we can't say, you know, God told me to say this lies to save somebody or to save them from the situation. So God cannot do anything that contradicts his nature. Okay. So, you know, we can't say that, you know, God has asked me not to forgive this person, you know, or to get back to that person. We can't say that because we know that God is a forgiving God and he is a loving God. God is love. First John tells us about that. God is love. So he will always tell us to love somebody and not hate them and not be unforgiving because God is always forgiving. Okay. So God will not do anything against his nature. So if you want to know, is this God's will for my life, you need to see whether it is according to his nature. Then you will know, yeah, this is God's will for my life. The second one is God's will guidance and leading will always be consistent with his word. God will always lead us according to his word. He will never do anything that contradicts. Tell us to do anything that contradicts his word. Now, for example, you know, all of you are young here in this class, but some of them are now online students, maybe already married, but you know, we cannot say, no, God has asked me, I fell in love with this unbeliever. What is asking me to marry this unbeliever and God will change him or her later on. No, what does the word of God say do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. That means the standard is there. You know, don't marry an unbeliever. And when we know this, we cannot go back and ask God, God, is this your will that I married this person? See, it's because no answer will come. God is saying already have written my word. You cannot marry this person. Okay. So there are things that God does not do against what he's already revealed in his word. Okay. So one thing which we sometimes, you know, the devil can trick us. So one thing that we can do is go back and see if this is according to God's nature, consistent with God's nature, consistent with his word. Now, sometimes God may lead us to do things that contradicts our understanding of his word. Okay. Sometimes we understand God's word in a certain way, but God will tell us to do something that will contradict our understanding of God's word. For example, you know, keeping the Sabbath. You know, we know the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Old Testament people, they were very strict in keeping the Sabbath. Okay. But what does Jesus do? On the other hand, we see Jesus healing people on the Sabbath. He was criticized for that. They tried to find fault with him. We also see that his disciples were plucking grain on the Sabbath day. And you know what they were eating, Matthew chapter 12, verses one to eight. And when they said, you know, the Pharisees and Sadducees were very angry. He said, how can you do this on the Sabbath? What did Jesus say? Jesus explained that he was Lord, even of the Sabbath. Okay. So Sabbath was made for man, not man for Sabbath. Yes. There are some, you know, why was Sabbath made for certain things that you just get a day of rest, a day when you just spend time, you know, in God's presence trying to refresh yourself, trying to renew yourself so that you can, you know, you will be charged up. Your battery will be charged up, so to say, to run the rest of the week with all the challenges. So one day you just rest, just physically rest, rest in God, you know, just receive from, you know, from his word, receive from his presence so that you will be, you know, equipped and strengthened to face another new day. Let's another new week. Okay. Let's look at another example, you know, Apostle Peter, you know, and the early church, you know, they were not preaching to the Gentiles. They thought the scripture was only for the Jews. Then what happened to Peter? You know, one day he was very hungry. He was up on the terrace and, you know, he was waiting for the meal to be cooked. And then he falls into a trance and he sees a white sheet with all unclean animals. Okay. Do you all know this Acts chapter 9 and 10? Okay. Where all unclean animals were there and what does God tell Peter? Get up, kill and eat. And he says, how can I eat God? See, and then what does God say? Don't call what God has made clean as unclean. And then he gives them instructions that are meant waiting with you. Don't ask any questions. Just go. And so he was led to whose house? Cornelius's house. And Cornelius was a Gentile and already God had spoken to Cornelius that, you know, Peter is going to come. He's arranged a meeting. And, you know, Peter is sharing the gospel with the Gentiles. And, you know, when he's preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, the people were cut in their heart. That means, you know, the people were convinced about their sin. And suddenly Peter is just standing there and preaching and suddenly all these people start speaking in tongues. And Peter and all the Jews who went along with him are shocked. How can all these people speak in tongues? They are not Jews. They are Gentiles. See. And then, you know, that's when Peter realized the trance which God had showed him, you know, and he realized that, you know, the gospel and salvation and the gifts of the spirit is all even available for the Gentiles. Okay. So, you know, this is God. Something that contradicted his understanding of God's word. What was his understanding of God's word? His understanding of God's word is only the scripture for the Jews. But God contradicts that. Went against his understanding. So, sometimes we might have faulty understanding. Okay. That means, you know, on the, on the Sabbath, we shouldn't do any work and all of those things. If you do any work, anyone does their sinners, their sinful people, you know, go to hell. No. Okay. There might be some people who, I know there are many people who are working in hotel industry, who are working in their jobs and they will lose their job if they don't go on Sundays, especially their chefs or, you know, they're working in a hotel. So, you know, and they're working in a parlor or anything. I've seen them, you know, they go to their church service very early 7 o'clock, 7 to 8.39. And then they go, they join their work by 10 o'clock. Okay. And we can't say that, you know, they're sinful people. They're working on a Sabbath. But, you know, we see that they've already gone to church spending time, but, you know, they're off their holidays on some other day and they can't do anything. They can't say, you know, we have to go to church. So, we won't work on a Sunday and they're going to lose their job and how will they support their family because they're just, you know, depending on me gods and they don't have a qualification. So, they're working in a hotel or somewhere they have to go for that. A job. So, you know, sometimes God contradicts our understanding of this word that does not mean that he contradicts his word. He contradicts our understanding of his word. Sometimes we understand God's word in the wrong way and he tries to contradict that and teaches us what is right. Are you able to understand this point? Okay. Then the third one is God promises are a revelation of God's will. Okay. The reason why God has given us promises in his word. You know how many promises are there in God's word? You know God's word has promises. Yes. Okay. How many promises are there that more than 3,000 promises in God's word. Okay. And why has God promises all of these things to us because he wants us to enjoy those promises. Okay. It's not that he's just given us those promises to be in the Bible. He's given us those promises so that we can enjoy his promises in our life. So we can understand God's promises and his promises are an expression of his will in our lives. Okay. So one of his promises is God says in Jeremiah chapter 29. He says, I have plans for you, plans to prosper you or to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future. Okay. So that is a promise and that is something that God builds for our life. He wants us to have a good future and how do we experience God's promise? How those those promises become yes and amen in our life when we believe. Okay. Receive it. Okay. God's promises is an yes and the amen is spoken through us for the glory of his name. So it's not only believing. It's not only trusting but it's also confessing. It's already declaring those promises. When we declare those promises and we say, that's when we say and amen to it, we see that happening in our life. So God's promises is not just for us. Take the Bible and keep it on your head and say, okay, let all God's promises flow through my life. No, we have to know what God's promises is and in those situations we speak God's promise. Okay. So like if you're feeling very dull, very tired in the morning, you just speak God's promise. You know, God gives strength to his people. God blesses, gives strength to his people. God blesses his people with the strength. You know, God gives strength to the weary and those who are weak he, you know, empowers them. So you just keep speaking God's promises over strength in your life or whether your mental peace or whether your health or whether your situation, your family, your children, sometimes you want to see things happening in our children's life. Just go to the word of God. Take down all the promises in God's word. Just keep declaring God's promises. Sometimes you think you're just speaking it out in the air, you know, but just keep speaking those promises. You are having a problem with finances, God's provision in your life. There's no unity and oneness. Just take all the promises on promises, declare it over your life. You're worried about your future. What are you going to do? You know, just take God's promises and declare it over your life. Because God has given us those promises because he wants to fulfill it in our lives. God also, the last one, God desires us to know his will. Okay. God wants, you know, for each one of us to know what is his will. We've already seen this. He does not hide his will from us. His will is not a mystery. You know, and he's also made provision for us to know his will. He's made it easy for us to know his will. So let's look at what Colossians chapter one, what the word of God teaches us about God's will from Colossians chapter one versus nine and 10. So can somebody please read Colossians chapter one versus nine and 10 please. Thank you. So there are three important insights or three important things that we can learn from here. First, we see that Paul prayed for the people at the church at Colossae that they might be filled with the knowledge of his will. Fill means what? Fill means that, you know, full. They lack nothing. They don't fall short of anything. Okay. The knowledge of his will. Okay. So as believers, you and I don't have to fall short of knowing God's will for our life. Okay. But what we need to do is just like Paul at the church at Colossae, we also need to pray. Say, God, please fill me with the knowledge of your will. Some of you are struggling. What is God's will for my life in this area and that area? You know, so like Paul, you just pray and say, God, fill me with the knowledge of your will. Okay. So even as we are learning these from these, we'll be learning from these three books. There are many things that you can include in your prayer life. Sometimes, you know, we don't know what to pray for. They're wondering for one hour when I can't even pray for five, ten minutes. Okay. So some of them I mentioned a lot of points, you know, when we were studying, receiving God's, sorry, when we were looking at fulfilling God's promise for your life. Okay. Even now, you can add on to your prayer point. So every day you can pray and say, God, you know, help fill me with the knowledge of your will. Okay. So the knowledge in Greek means something that is more precise or it's a correct knowledge, precise to the point. No, you know, no, no fault, no here and there movement. It's just precise and it's very deep and very clear knowledge. So as believers, each one of us can have full, complete, precise, correct, deep, clear knowledge of God's will. Can we say an amen to that? Amen. Yes. So we can have clear, full, deep, precise understanding of God's will for our lives. Okay. The second thing is, you know, knowing his will comes true. How do we know his will from this verse? How do we know his will from this verse? Wisdom and spiritual understanding. Okay. And where do we receive wisdom and spiritual understanding through the, through the word and through the Holy Spirit. Okay. The word in the Holy Spirit will give us wisdom and spiritual understanding, but we need to grow in the wisdom and spiritual understanding of God. We can't just say, okay, God, give me wisdom and spiritual understanding in this matter. Okay. We need to spend time reading God's word because when we read, the more we read God's word, the more wisdom and the more spiritual understanding we receive. Now, why was Paul able to bring about so many deep revelations in, when he was writing to inspire to him by the Holy Spirit, but also it was his deep desire. Okay. He was, had a deep desire to know the Old Testament laws and hence he was, you know, he studied the Old Testament laws in a very deep way. That is why when he speaks, you know, whatever episodes he writes, he's always connecting it to the Old Testament laws, Old Testament ways. You know, he's bringing Abraham, he's talking about David and all of the patriarchs and he explains it and why, because he has such a profound understanding of the Old Testament laws. So, that is why we see such profound wisdom and spiritual understanding when we read the episodes that Paul has written. Some of them we can't even understand. Right. Why? Because it's not because he was a super intelligent being, but it was because he had a desire to study God's word. The more you have a desire to study God's word, the more you will grow in wisdom and spiritual understanding. Okay. The third thing is what is the outcome? What is the outcome if you are filled with the knowledge of God's will? What is the outcome if you're growing in wisdom and spiritual understanding? This verse tells us what is the outcome? What is the first outcome? Before that, we were, we walk worthy of the Lord. Okay. So it's good to look at your Bibles, you know, because even as we are looking at, you know, reading God's word, the word of God will just, you know, bring in something alive to you. Okay. Because it's God's word. It's alive. It's active. So I like you to open your Bibles and just look at those verses so that, you know, next time when you know something, you can just quickly go to this verse and when you look at it, we walk worthy of the Lord. That means what? We live a life that is honoring in God's sight. Okay. The second one is we live fully pleasing to him. That means we live a life that pleases him. Not a life that is pleasing us, pleasing the world, but we live a life that is pleasing him. The third thing is what? We will be fruitful in everything that we do. We will bear fruit in all of us to do. The fruit of the spirit, the, you know, we will be so successful, we'll be so blessed, people will see and say, wow, how can this person be so blessed and so successful? It's because they have a knowledge, you know, an understanding of God's will. Okay. They have wisdom and spiritual understanding as well. Okay. And what is the last thing? Increase in the knowledge of him. Okay. So we we will increase in our knowledge of him. So all these are wonderful things, you know, as the outcomes, what, when we, how, what are the outcomes, you know, when we have a knowledge of his will and the second thing is when we grow in spiritual wisdom and understanding, we have all of these outcomes. We walk worthy of the Lord. We live a life that's pleasing to him. What the word of God says in Ephesians, Ephesians chapter 5 verses 8 to 10 and verse 17. So can somebody please read Ephesians chapter 5 verses 8 to 10 and verse 17, please. Read, read. 17 also. Thank you. So here we see that, you know, we are people who are in the light because we are believers. We have been brought out from darkness into God's light and once we are in the light, we, you know, we not only walk as children of the light, that means we not only live as, you know, people who belong to the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, but we also display the fruit of the spirit in our lives. But he says here, we need to find out, okay, find out what, find out means test, examine, prove, discern, figure out, okay. What do we need to find out? What is acceptable to the Lord? Now in English, the word acceptable means okay. You know, in Hindi, it means chalta hai. You know, okay or chalta hai or something that is more satisfactory. But if you look at it in the Greek, you know, it has a very deep meaning. In the Greek, what is fully agreeable or what is well, pleasing to the Lord. So as believers, you know, we are encouraged to pursue God's will for our lives and what is full, agreeable and well pleasing to God. So we are supposed to find out God, what is your fully, what are you fully agreeable in this case in my life? Okay, what is well pleasing for you, that you want me to do? So we need to find out, we need to discover, that's why it says finding out verse 10, discovering what is God's will, what is fully agreeable, what is fully pleasing to God, okay. And then he says in verse 17, you know, Paul is instructing the church at Ephesus and also us, he's saying, do not be unbiased, okay. The Greek word for unwise is without reason, senseless, foolish, stupid, you know, without intelligence, being very rash. You know, some of us are very rash in making decisions. We don't think twice. We just go ahead, we do something. You know, that is being unwise. You know, so he's saying, don't be senseless, don't be foolish, don't be stupid, don't be rash. But he says, you know, instead, we need to understand what's God's will. Okay. Now the word for the Greek word for understand is to put together. Okay. Put together, join together, you know, you know, bringing two things together, two opposing ideas together. What does it mean? It means that sometimes when God tells us to do something, you know, we have our own mindset. We are thinking some way. God is saying, do it this way. No, we have, we want to do it this way, but God is saying, do it this way. So what we need to do is we need to bring those two ideas together and we need to ask God and see what God is telling us and leading us and what is best we need to do that. Okay. So, you know, so this verse is also teaching us that when we pursue God's will for our lives, our minds. You know, some people become overspiritual. They leave their minds out and they only look for what the spirit of God is saying. Some people are the other extreme. You know, I already explained to you last week. You know, we use only our mind and we don't go with what the spirit is saying. That means we follow what our logical reasoning is. It says, oh, the logical reasoning is this can't happen. The doctors told me I'll heal you. You know, and you know, don't take any treatment, but we go with our logical reasoning. I'm not telling in all instances you need to do this, but in one of instances, the Holy Spirit can lead you to do these things. And then that time, you know, you need to leave what your mind is saying and just follow the Holy Spirit and do what, you know, it's what God is asking you to do super naturally. Okay. So, you know, but most of the time God uses our minds, even though he reveals his will, he guides us, he leads us, you know, he gives us his, gives us, you know, he uses our mind. Now, sometimes, you know, when we are counseling people, when people come to pray, ask us to pray, you know, they want to hear what the Holy Spirit is telling them to do. But sometimes, you know, when we are counseling people, the Holy Spirit is telling us, you know, just be practical. Some of the problems that people go through is, you can just give them very practical instructions. Like, for example, I've noticed when I go to North India, many people come, you know, with any older people come with joint pains, knee pain, joint pains and all of that. And I know being a Gujarati, I know that, you know, our Gujaratis, they make dal or they make sambar, they will put potato in it. In everything, they'll be putting potato. They know that this potato is causing that the knee pain and the joint pain because of their age as well. Okay. So, but, you know, they will know that, but they will say, please pray for my joint pain, for my knee pain and for my health, but they will not want to give up eating potato. Okay. Everything, every vegetable, everything has to have potato. Even if they may they will put potato in that. Okay. So, when I went to North India, I know many people when I was ministering in Gujarat, many people came with joint pain and I was just praying and then suddenly, I just felt the Holy Spirit saying, be practical. You know, it's because they're eating a lot of potato in every meal. So, when I asked them, they say, they say, yes, we are eating potato. I asked them, how many meals do you eat? Sometimes they say three meals. I said, you know, it's not good for your health. So, sometimes you have advice. But sometimes people don't want to take those practical advice. They say, oh, this person doesn't have your annoying thing, doesn't have the leading of the Holy Spirit. That is why they're giving us some practical, you know, knowledge and they just go and they continue doing it and they get into a bigger mess. Okay. And they are just getting themselves into a mess and, you know, they're not being useful for the kingdom of God. So, sometimes we give them advice. It's very important. Sometimes even in ministry, we are so zealous to do things for God. You know, pastor is going, house visiting and all the congregation members want to feed, you know, nicely pastor, biryani, chicken, this, that and the pastor gets cholesterol or high BP here. You know, and the practical solution is what? You have to cut down on all the fatty food that you're eating. So, you need to just come in for house visit. No snacks, no cake, no samosas, no biryani, no this and you have to take that. You can't say, you know, you can't just leave those practical instructions. I'll give you one example. There was this great man of God who was flowing in all the gifts of the spirit and he went to meet a pastor, you know, because his pastor constructed a whole big, like an auditorium as per his church. So, he called and said, come and see him and this pastor move mightily in all the gifts of the spirit. So, when he was leaving, you know, you need to be careful. There is a blanket worm just on that wall behind you. If it gets in your clothes, it can, you know, you can get itchy. So, you can just take your shoes or something and just kill it. A blanket worm on that wall. Otherwise, don't put it on the wall. So, you know, I saw everything he was getting ready to go. He went to the car park, getting ready to go into his car and you know what God tells him, tells him, go tell this pastor two things he needs to do. First thing is he needs to respect and honour all those who are under him. All the junior pastors who are working under him needs to respect and honour what he is eating. A lot of fatty food. If he is not going to eat, you know, cut down in a few months time he is going to die. So, this pastor practical, right? He just goes back and tells this is what I receive in my spirit. I like to share this with you. You know, the pastor, this pastor did not receive the practical instruction and in a couple of months, the pastor died. So, there's no use, when you give people practical advice, they don't want it. Only if you say, thus says the Lord, thou shall not eat, you know, red meat. You know, then they'll think that it's from God's word. They'll say, show me pastor from God's word where it says. Okay. So, you know, so it's important that, you know, people are willing to take practical advice. Then there are some things that remain unknown to us. There's not some things that, you know, God will not reveal to us. Deutronomy chapter 29 verse 29. Can somebody read that please? Deutronomy 29 29. Thank you. So, there are things that God keeps reserved only for himself, but we must be comfortable when we don't receive answers to all our questions. You know, we can just, we'll experience God's peace. That should be more than enough. That is the answer to our question. Why did this happen, God? Why did you take away my child so early? Why did this divorce happen? Why did this son happen in my marriage? Why this problem? We won't receive answers to all our questions, but sometimes it's, you know, some of the answers are very practical. Okay. But sometimes God does not give us answers to the why and how and all of those questions, chapter 4 verses 6 to 7, the peace of God that passes all understanding, says, do not be anxious about anything, but in everything with prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make no new request to God and the peace of God that transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ, Jesus. And, you know, when we have this peace, we just release God wants us to be filled with the knowledge of His will and hence as far as, you know, receiving God's guidance for our life, according to His promise, you know, God will not hold back anything from His and if they're not able to receive, there's a problem from our end. We need to check out, but in His end, God will reveal things to us. He will make known His will too. Okay. And we'll continue after the break. Anyone has any questions? No. How can you know God's will? That's what to the word, the leading of the Holy Spirit, we look at 11, the 11 ways God guides us to know His will. Okay. We already learned, right, how to know God's will from fulfilling God's purpose for your life. Yes. Would it be wrong to rebel against parents in order to fulfill God's will? Yes. Sometimes we need to go against the will of our parents. The question here by Krishna, Krishna is, would it be wrong to rebel against parents in order to fulfill God's will? What do you think? Yes. I think it happened in my life so I can give an example for my own life when I was, you know, you know, asking God when I was in 12th standard, you know, come into full-time ministry and then I told you, right, I didn't get admission in colleges and finally when I asked God what is happening in my life, he said, remember, you said you'll go to Bible college. And then I told my dad, he was very upset. You know, my dad is a very professional minded person. All my sisters are highly very qualified. You know, they've done their PhDs, double MS and everything. You know, my father's very highly intellectual, very highly qualified. He wanted someone who was like the black sheep in the family, very playful, very naughty. You know, so he thought I'm taking the easy way out. In those days, in my days, you know, when I'm talking about 1990s, you know, when I finish my schooling, you know, that time, when you're going, those who go to ministry or Bible college are only those people who cannot study anything else in life. Their failures or dropouts, you know, so they'll go into the sun. And my father thought in Bible college, he said, you can serve God, but I wanted to do some degree. I wanted to do B.S.C. M.S.C. and, you know, study and all that. But then when I wanted to go into full-time ministry, I told him, he was very upset and angry. He did not support me. See. And it was very difficult for me, you know, but he didn't support, but I had to go against his will. He didn't speak to me for a couple of years and all of that. He didn't support me, but I just prayed and said, God, you show him. But when he came to me, that's when he realized that Bible college is not just simply where you go and, you know, just do something, but you learn a lot. You do things. And now he supports me more than anyone else in ministry. So I didn't fight against him. I didn't argue with him. Of course, I did what God wanted me to do. I went against his will, but now he knows that this was not what I chose, what God wanted me and he supports me more than anyone else today. Okay. We'll go for a break and I hope I answered your question, okay. Okay. We'll go for a break and then we'll come back. Thank you.