 Okay, today the recording was behaving a little funny. It is asking me a lot of unwanted questions and it's taking time. Okay, it's good to see all of you this morning. Good morning everyone. And also good morning to Vijay Babu, Arilla and Prabhu and Nina John. Thank you for joining class. We'll begin. So can I ask one of our online students to lead us in prayer please this morning? Anyone can unmute their mics and pray? Nobody wants to pray? Can I pray? Can you hear me, Arilla? Can you hear me? I've unmuted. Can you hear me? Okay, thank you Nina. We didn't hear you because I realized that, you know, we're not having headsets so we can't really hear you. But thank you Nina if you pray, thank you. Can I ask Nina here in the in-person class to come and lead us in prayer please? So we had Nina, John from the online class lead us in prayer and now we'll have Nina from our in-person class. Come Nina, you can stand here. So, you know, you all can see me. Okay, can we pray please? Thank you Father God for this new day. Thank you Lord, help us to live according to your will Father God. Lord, open our eyes to see you and worship you throughout the day. Remember you throughout the day Lord. Father, whatever we are learning, help us to understand it and do it, just do it for your glory Lord. Help Lord, in Jesus name we pray. Thank you Nina. So we had two leaders in prayer, one on the online class and the in-person class. Okay, it's good when you come here and pray so that our online students can also see our in-person students. Okay, so we'll continue with fulfilling God's plan and purpose for our lives. Just as a quick recap, we learned that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of us even before we were born, even before the foundations of the earth, God has a plan for us and all the days of our life were written in his book even before anything came about. So none of you here are an accident. I'm just doing a recap. A recap means a review of what we have learned. So none of you are an accident. You're a dream waiting to be fulfilled. And there are places God wants you to go. There are people God wants you to touch. There are lives he wants you to impact. There are things he wants you to accomplish and there are cities that he wants you to shake. Okay, so isn't that a great, big, wonderful dream that our big God has for us and we can think of ourselves so small and little but he's a great big God. Okay, so we need to catch God's dream for our life because he has a big dream, a big plan and purpose for our lives. Okay, and then we went on to learn how do we know God's plan and purpose for our lives? So how do we know God's plan and purpose for our lives? What did we learn? We looked at the, we studied the, how do we know the plans and purposes of God for our lives? Yeah, but what did we study? Anyone in our online class can tell me? How do we know God's plan and purpose for our lives? Yes, he has specific plans for our lives but how do we know that? What did we learn? How can we identify God's plan and purpose for our lives? Thank you, Karen, for the through the nine guide posts. Okay, everybody wake up please, it's time to wake up. Okay, you know which course you're studying, right? Which one? Thank God. Because the last, I think last two, three weeks we've been studying about the nine guide posts. Remember the nine guide posts that we were studying? Yes, no? Thank God. Okay, so how do we know what God wants, what's God's plan and purpose for our lives? How do we know where he wants us to go? What he wants us to do? What he wants us to become is to the nine guide posts. Remember that? Okay, I think it's on page eight of the PDF copy, right? For our online students, if you look at the stream page in the stream page, I have posted, okay, I have posted the welcome note and also posted the PDF copy of the course material. Okay, I think I've posted all the three books or I would have just posted one book which I did on 31st of August, okay? So on 31st of August, I had put the welcome note course introduction and I've also posted the material fulfilling God's purpose for your life. So you don't have to worry, it's there. I think it had gone right down the list because all the videos had come above that but I have put it right on top. So if you just go to the stream page just below the link that I have put for this week is the welcome note course introduction and the PDF copy of fulfilling God's purpose for your life which I posted on 31st of August, okay? We'll continue now. So yeah, so last week we saw that, you know, God, before he release us to fulfill his purpose for our lives, you know, what does God do? For God releases us to fulfill his purpose for our life, what does he do? He prepares us, right? Okay, he prepares us, okay? So we saw how he takes us through the preparation process, okay, and what he does before he releases us to fulfill his purpose. And we saw the lives of David, Paul, Moses, okay? So we stopped at, you know, we were on the same chapter, we were looking at how does God prepare us? He prepares us through his, what does God prepare us? Thank you, Nina, through his written word, okay? How else has God prepared us? Holy spirit, thank you Sri Radha. So God prepares us to the word, he prepares us to the Holy Spirit. He also prepares us through other people, okay? So we stopped at that. He also prepares us through life experiences, okay? In life we go through many ups and downs, we go through many good times, difficult times, challenging times, yeah, we go through seasons of difficulties, you know, challenges, tribulations, and all that is not because God hates us, he does not love us, okay? That is incorrect, that is wrong, you know? That's not the truth, but we see that, you know, in Romans chapter five, verses three to four, it says that, you know, what does our tribulation do? You look at Romans chapter five, verses three and four, is that in your notes in the PDF? Please look at it. What does it say? Tribulation, what does tribulation, it means difficulty. When you go through difficulties, what does it produce? What happens when you go through difficulties? It produces what? Perseverance, it produces perseverance, perseverance produces character, character, hope, okay? So what is perseverance? Never giving up, okay? Never giving up, okay? Perseverance is never giving up, even though you're going through difficulties, hardships, no matter what you're facing, you'll never give up, okay? So we need to know that when we go through difficult times, you know, it is because God wants to build our character, okay? God wants to build our character. He wants to make us strong in our spirit man. He wants to remove the things that are not required of us. He molds us and shapes us to be who he wants us to be or to be just like Christ, be Christ like, okay? So we need to understand that our life is not a 100 meters dash. You know, 100 meters, how many of you have run a 100 meters race? Okay, 100 meters race means what? How do you run it? Really fast, from the start to the finish, okay? You can see the finish line, you're focused on that and you just run all out. But life is not a 100 meters race, it's a marathon, right? What is the meaning of a difference between 100 meters race and a marathon? Slow and steady and there's a pace. You keep up the speed, okay? If you run too fast, you'll run out of speed, you know? If you keep up the speed, you know, and you can't see the finish line, but you know there is a finish line, yes or no? You can't see it, but you know it is there and you keep that consistent speed. That means you keep enduring. You might feel tired, you might feel thirsty, you might be sweating, you know, you might be losing strength, but you're still running. And so life is a marathon and we need to endure, we need to persevere, we need to keep at it, even though we go through difficulties because that is going to build your character and character is going to bring hope. Hope means what? That things will change in the future. God has something best for me, things are going to change in the future, okay? James chapter one verses two and four, let's look at verse four. It says, can somebody read that verse four? It's there in your PDF. James chapter two verse four. Yeah, so it says let patience have its perfect work. So when you're running the marathon of your life, you need to have patience, okay? Do we all have patience? We don't have patience. This morning, this morning I was coming in my car and on the right, I was right on the right-hand side of the road and there was a barricade, I mean the road barricade, the divider there. And I slowed down because there was a bump and there was a lady who came in a small car and there was a white car, you know, next to me in the left-hand side and she just came and hit my car in the front and it's all scratched, you know? No patience, you know, no patience to slow down, to speed from the left, to know that there are two cars and she's trying to squeeze in between the two cars. We don't have patience, none of us have patience, right? We are all in a rat race running crazily, you know? So in life, we need to have patience, we need patience, we need to be very, very patient, okay? So when we, for example, if you put potato in the cooker, okay, to boil or you just put it in a pan to boil, you don't have to two minutes expect the, take out, stop the, you know, put off the gas and then open the cooker and expect the potato to be boiled. Would it be boiled? No, you'll have to put it back in the cooker and you'll have to, you know, close it and you'll have to switch on the stove again for it to cook, okay? So, you know, in the preparation, sometimes when God is preparing us, we don't like waiting time. See, we want everything to be quick, fast and instant. So we don't like to wait. Oh, why is God taking so long? You know, he took 30 years for David and all of those things. Why is he taking so long in my life? We don't like to wait, we want to jump. So we want to jump out. And if you jump out, God makes sure that you go back into the cooker, right? God makes sure that you go back into the same pressure cooker because there you are learning things that is going to impact the rest of your life. So don't take the escape route. Be patient because when you're patient, what does the word of God says? You may be perfect and complete lacking nothing, okay? So why is God taking you through all of these things in life to be patient so that you may be perfect and complete lacking nothing, okay? Even Jesus learned obedience by the things which he suffered. Did Jesus go through suffering? No? Yes, no. Yes, he went through suffering. Sorry. He went through suffering and he learned in Hebrews chapter five was eight says, though he was a son, yet he learned obedience by the things which he suffered. Even though he was God or became man, he learned obedience. For God, what is important? Yes, obedience. Obedience to authority, obedience to him, obedience to his word, obedience to what the laws of the land, the rules of the land, whatever it is, God requires obedience. Obedience is better than sacrifice. So our gifts, our talents, nothing is nothing before God. What we accomplish is nothing before God, but for him, obedience is everything, okay? So even Jesus learned obedience to the things he suffered. So if Jesus had to learn obedience to the things he suffered, how much more should you and I, okay? So that is talking about, these are a few things that helps us know how God prepares us. His word, Holy Spirit, other people, life experiences and, you know, oh yeah, the life experiences. We'll move on, things to keep in mind as you go through the preparation process. So what do you keep in mind when God is preparing you, okay? For the season, next season or for this season, what easy, what you need to keep in mind. First thing we need to keep in mind is we need to cooperate with God, okay? We need to cooperate with God in the preparation process, okay? First Corinthians 39 says we are God's fellow workers, you are God's field and you are God's building, okay? So, you know, even as you're going through life, you can say, God, you know, what are you trying to accomplish to my life in this season? What are the things that you want to build in my life in this season? Right now is your preparation time. So each season is a preparation for the next season of your life. So you can say, God, what are you preparing me in this season right now? What are you preparing me? What are you showing me? What are you telling me? Is there anything in my life, ideas in my life that I need to set right? Show me God so that I can do it. And as God, and you know, as God wants to build you, you need to cooperate with Him, okay? So when God says these are the things that I want to change in your life, I want to reconstruct, you know, I want to remove then, you know, so that you can be Christ-like, and we need to cooperate with God. When I say God, I am willing for and allowing you to let you build these things in my life, okay? So we need to make a conscious effort. I hope you're listening. You know, we need to make a conscious effort to ask God. Otherwise you will never know what season you are in, what's the next season, what you have to do in this season, what God is teaching you in this season. You just go through life, you know, and it'll just become, sometimes it'll be just boring. But if you ask God, what are you teaching me now? What are you telling me? What are you showing me? How are you preparing me for this season? How are you preparing for me for the next season? Show me areas in my life where you want me to correct myself, to check myself. Is there any area in my life that I'm not being obedient to you? Show me God. You know, it's important for us to ask God and He shows it to us. When He shows it to us, we must be willing to say God, I'm willing and allowing you to build me up and change my life, okay? So the second thing to keep in mind as we go through the preparation process is your attitude matters. Attitude is very, very important, okay? Your altitude, the heights that you go through in life is all dependent on your attitude, okay? If you, you know, you can climb up the ladder of success, but if you have a wrong attitude, you have a nasty attitude that's not going to keep you therefore too long. So we need to maintain a good attitude. The next thing you need to keep in mind is consistency is where the power is. As I said, life is a marathon, right? And somebody said, you need to keep steady pace, speed, keep the speed steadily when you're running a marathon. So you need to be having that consistent speed. What does it mean you're consistent? Same, you know, not changing, but we don't be consistent in our walk with God. Okay, we have to grow in the things of God. We don't stay and say, okay, I've accepted Christ Jesus as my Lord and Savior, I'm born again. I'm in Bible college. I've also been baptized in the Holy Spirit. Amen, hallelujah, and you know, leave it there, but you need to keep growing more in the things of God because there are more revelations that God has to reveal to us through His Word. More things of God that you can grow in very, very spiritually or you can flow in the gifts of the Spirit. But you need to be consistent in your walk with God. Not sometimes saying, okay, I'm going through a hard season. God does not love me, does not care for me. I'll just forget about Him. I'll just do what I want, see? Or, you know, I'm in love with this person and I know if he's not a believer or she's not a believer and I needn't ask God about this. I can just do what I want. I can marry this person. So we're just walking out of God's will, okay? So we need to be consistent in our walk with God means, you know, in our attitudes, in the areas of our obedience, in the way we see people, our view people, we relate to people, all should be very, very consistent, okay? Then we need to be faithful in the little things then God will promote you to the next, okay? We need to be faithful, all of you. Remember here it says in Matthew chapter 25, the parable of the goods towards, you know, Jesus said, well done, good and faithful servant, you have been faithful over few things, I will make you, you know, ruler over many things, okay? And we also see a parable in, similar parable of the, in Luke chapter 19, verses 11 to 27, it's not there in your notes. Luke chapter 19 was 11 to 27, you know, the king went off to a far off country and he gives a one, one mina, that is just say one, one coin to each of his 10 servants. And when he comes back, the first servant says, you know, I, I multiplied, I put it into use and I earn for you 10 more minas. So what did he says? He says, you know, you have been faithful, you know, I will give you to reign over 10 cities, okay? And the next one came and he said, okay, I have, you gave me one mina, but I made it into five minas and he said, well done, you know, you also will be in charge over five cities. And then the person with another person came with that one mina he says, no, I didn't do anything about it. So they say, take away that one mina from him and give it to the one that has 10 and, you know, and throw this man, you know, whether it's sweeping and mashing off a thief. And then it says, verse 26 of Luke chapter 19, it says, for I say to you that to everyone who has will be given and from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. Okay, so God has given each one of you talents, he's given each one of us talents, but if you don't use your talents, what is he going to do? He will take it away and give it to the one who's used the talents and multiplied it. So you see the importance of, you know, being productive, you know, in, you know, God is not just looking at keeping our talents to ourselves, but God is actually, you know, like a boss, you know, he's like a master, he's looking for productivity, just like the worldly bosses, he's looking for productivity. What have you earned? You know, how have you doubled it? How have, what have you done with the resources that I have given you? So if you're faithful in small things, God will make you faithful in bigger things. So even now, you know, if you're faithful even in small things, like even doing your duties, you know, God will make you see your attitude and he will make you, you know, raise you up to a greater level. Look at Joseph. You know, Joseph, when he was in Potiphar's house, he did not say, hey, man, I'm a rich man's son. I've never swept, I've never swabbed, I've never washed toilets and, and I've never watered the plants and everything. I've never done any work. My father has treated me like a king, like a prince, you know, and I'm not slave material. I'm not going to do it. But only when Pharaoh comes to the house, maybe he would take a cloth and just wipe, but no, you know, the Bible, of course, does not say it, but you know, God saw Joseph. Okay, that means he basically sees his attitude. How is his attitude in the situation where he was unjustly treated, thrown as a slave? How is his attitude? You know, he doesn't throw up his air. He doesn't throw up who he is. He's humble enough and he does his chores. He does his work. And what does God gives him favor in the eyes of Potiphar? Now how many servants Potiphar has? Why does all people, why does he have to see Joseph? Why does he have to make him from a slave to a manager in charge of his entire household? See, and not only that, Potiphar is able to see that because of Joseph, his, you know, he's becoming more rich. There's more productivity in his grains and livestock and everything. That is how God blesses us when we are faithful in little things. So we need to be faithful in little things. Then God can entrust you with bigger things. So God doesn't immediately give you big things to do. He gives you small things. He sees how faithful you are. When he sees how faithful and committed you are, give you bigger things. But sometimes in that time, that course, nobody will see you, nobody will admire you. Nobody will clap hands, applause, nothing, but God is seeing and the reward will come, okay? And the next one is beware of complacency. You know, don't go through life just thinking, oh, you know, God has a plan and purpose for life. I'll take it easy. I'll just sit back. You know, just go through seasons of life. Some of us are just going through the seasons of life and you know, you say, okay, I'll wait till God takes me and what he wants to do with me. You know, when you're complacent, things will not happen in your life, okay? And the changes that God wants to bring in your life will not be brought about because you're complacent, okay? Go beyond yourself. Do things that God has said before you in each season, okay? And the preparation time is never wasted time, okay? That means how long was Paul and David and everybody? Moses, how long it took for preparation? 40 years. David, yeah, he was, he was one as king at when he was 17, but he became king at 30 and Saul, 33, and he started his son at the age of 15, okay? So you can see the age difference that is there, the preparation time and that God takes. So don't be hasty, you know, don't run ahead of God, be patient, endure, go through things and let each preparation, sorry, each season run its course, okay? Are you following with me? Just looking like that, I hope you're following. Okay, okay, anyone has any questions? Any questions? Okay, any questions from our online students in this lesson God's preparation process? Okay, we'll move on to positioning ourselves to fulfill his purpose, okay? So if you wanna fulfill God's purpose for your life, it's important for you to position yourself. You know what's the meaning of position? Position is basically standing in the right place at the right time, you know, so that you can receive God's favor over your life, okay? So part of God's preparation process or part of fulfilling God's will for our lives, it's important to position ourselves, okay? For example, if the bus stop is right outside our gate, you know, I don't go and stand, I don't go and stand near the bakery there, right? I will stand near the gate, but if the bus stop is near the bakery, then I'll have to walk up to the bakery and stand there to get a bus, okay? So you have to stand at the right time, the right place and position yourself, right? So that you can fulfill God's purpose for your life, you can receive His favor and His grace. So positioning simply means to be sensitive to God, being sensitive to God, being sensitive to the Holy Spirit and learning to be in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing. So what is positioning is basically being sensitive to God. What's the meaning of sensitive? Means constantly listening to God, constantly listening to the Holy Spirit and also learning to be at the right place at the right time, doing the right thing, okay? So we look at the first thing, we need to position ourselves to fulfill His purpose, okay? And the narrative given here is Esther chapter four verses 12 to 14, we looked at it, I think two weeks back, okay? And we know that Esther is a Jew, okay, was a Jew. But she married a pagan king, right? Yes, and it was not, the Jews don't marry outside the Gentiles, but they marry within their own culture. But here was a Jewish young beautiful girl who married somebody who was a pagan king. And what we know, why God took her there in that palace, right? And we know that Esther was brought up by her uncle, Mordecai, because she was an orphan. And ever since Esther was in the became a queen, you know, Mordecai was to sit near the king's gate always to inquire about Esther, how she is doing, okay? And so, you know, the wicked Haman, he gets the king to pass a rule saying all Jews should be annihilated, killed on such and such a day. And then Mordecai, you know, his weeping mourning and tells Esther, you know, go to the king and tell him and save your people, okay? And says, and then, you know, Mordecai says, the king has not called me. So worse, look at your notes, please. Esther chapter four was 13. And Mordecai told them to answer Esther, do you think in your heart that you will escape the king's palace anymore than all of the other Jews? Okay? Says, if you remain, it's there in your notes. Says, if you remain silent at this time, deliverance and relief will arise for the Jews from another place, okay? But if you and your father's house will perish, yet know that, you know, you have, who knows that you've come to this kingdom for such a time as this, okay? So Mordecai is telling Esther, if you don't, you know, get help for the Jews, you know, there will be help from someone else, from somewhere else, God will deliver his people. But who knows that you, God has brought you in this position for such a time as this. That means there's such a time as this to help his people. So it's like telling Esther, see beyond what meets thee. Aye, sometimes, you know, we need to, in God's world, when we are relating with God, we need to see beyond what God is seeing, than just what we see in our physical eyes. So we need to see beyond what meets thee. Aye, see, like it's telling Esther, see that you've been placed here for the deliverance of the people. Don't just think you're a queen here. You know, just see beyond that. Beyond, see what beyond meets the eye. That means see beyond is, you know, see that God has brought you for such a time as this to deliver his people, and that is why he's brought you into this position. So you have been positioned, you know, what I say you've been positioned strategically to do something of significance for God's kingdom. Okay? So also in our lives, God positions us at the right time in the right place to fulfill something that we need to see beyond just what meets thee. Aye, okay? Sometimes we just want to see what we think and what we want to see, but God is seeing beyond. He's telling us, look beyond what I have planned for you. What I have, son, it's big. It's something great, you know, see beyond. And when we're able to see beyond to the eyes of faith and what God is seeing, then, you know, God is saying, you know, beyond, there is something that is of significance, something that is strategic that God is doing, and that God wants to do in your life and where God is placed to, he wants you to do something more significant and something more strategic. Okay, so we need to learn to position ourselves to fulfill God's purpose. So you need to understand why of all people God has called me to Bible college. You know, why of all people God has put me in this office? You know, for those of you online who are working, why of all people, why am I born in this geographical area? You know, what is your purpose God for putting me in this geographical area? Whichever state, whichever place, or if God moves you from one place to another place, ask God, you know, there is a purpose, say God, maybe I move to the city to, you know, study in a Bible college, but you see beyond, help me to see beyond. What are you doing here right at this time, this place for me, show me strategically and what is the significance of me coming here? Show it to me. So when you understand the whole truth about positioning, you know, then things will fall into place. So when you plan to study, it will not just be to get a degree, but it will be something more bigger. Okay, so you, when you're studying, you will just say, God, I'm not just here to get a degree, but I'm, you know, I'm here, you know, to do something significant for your kingdom. You know, to learning here, I'm studying here so that I can do something of significance or value for the kingdom of God. So even as you are in the Bible college, you know, just let it not be that you want to get a degree, but you're saying God, there's something bigger than this, the degree that I'm going to get. Even as I study in this Bible college and get a degree, it is to do something significant for your kingdom, to do something significant for the kingdom of God. And so say God, I want to be the right time, the right place and what you're doing in my life. And, you know, you brought me here and this is helping me to get to where you want me to be. Okay, so similarly for those of us who are working, you know, our jobs can be something that we just look at it as our bread and butter, just to earn money to eat and our, you know, and to care for our personal needs, but our job becomes something very strategic when we say God, you know, I want to be in the right place doing the right job so that I can do something significant for your kingdom. So wherever we are, whether Bible college, politics, business, you know, education field, wherever, we're just looking at it beyond what meets the eye. They're saying, God, you put me here in this place for to do something significant to build your kingdom, show me and I want to do it. And I want my job or, you know, if you're a housewife or if you're a parent, you know, I want, you made me a housewife or you made me a parent or you made me in this position. God, I want to do something that this, you've strategically placed me here so that I can do something significant for the kingdom of God, okay? So we must be positioned properly to fulfill God's purpose for our lives, okay? The second thing is we need to position ourselves to receive His provision, okay? What's the meaning of provision? Provision, your needs, okay? Provision is you want needs, you have needs in your life, things that you want for, you know, clothing, water, whatever shelter, emotional needs, everything, you know? So even that, you know, when, you know, God provides for us when we are positioned correctly, okay? Even in the provision of God is connected to our positioning. So if you are not receiving anything from God and you're asking Him, God, I'm not receiving this, why are not giving it to me? Why is there lack in this area? Then you need to know that you're not positioning yourself, right? Sometimes we can miss out on God's provision if we are not positioned correctly, okay? It's not that God does not want to provide for us. It's just that we are not at the right place at the right time, okay? Let me give you an example. First, first Kings chapter 17, it's there in your notes. You can look at your notes, you know? If you can follow through in your notes, then you won't dream, you won't be lost, then you won't feel sleepy. So it's good to listen and to follow through, okay? So first Kings chapter 17 verses one to nine, okay? We see Elijah's story here. Elijah goes and tells King Ahab that there's not going to be rain in the land because he's been very wicked, okay? And what does God say after that? Elijah is running away from the King, right? Why is Elijah running away from the King? Because he knows he's given a bad news to the King and the King is going to kill him. Yes, thank you. Okay, he's going to kill him. So what does he do? He runs and when he runs, God tells him, go to the brook of chariot, okay? Brook is a small stream. Go to the brook, it's in a place called chariot and you stay there and I'm going to send you food by Danzo, okay? And the ravens are the Danzo in those days. God used the ravens as Danzo to Danzo food for Elijah, okay? And they bought food for him morning and evening, okay? And we see that the stream dried up because there was no rain, okay? There was famine and God told Elijah, go to the town of Zeraphic and there you will find a widow and she will prove and just that you will find a widow, okay? Now what if, you know, Elijah would have said, God, I don't want to go to Zeraphic. So Zeraphic is actually the place of the wicked queen Jezebel and they're all looking for me and they will search for me in the cities and if they find me in Zeraphic, then I will surely be killed. I'm safer here in this wilderness, near this, you know, brook of water. What if Elijah would have said that, you know, he would have lost out on God's provision for his life because the provision here at brook of chariot was over, the season was over, God is moving him to another season where he's going to provide him through other means. And what if Elijah was saying, no God, I don't want to go, I want to be here, then, you know, he would have starved to death. He may have starved to death. No, sometimes we are like that. We don't want to move. You know, God is telling us move from chariot to Zeraphic and we don't want to move in life. We say, no God, I'm happy here. I'm happy what I'm doing. I don't want to move because move, you know, every move is going to be very, very difficult, okay? So you don't want to move and, you know, and we expect God to provide for us to take care of us and we don't expect, when we don't receive from God, we don't receive favor, we don't receive God's provision, whether it's finances, emotionally, what he's doing, blessing us in our job, in our business, whatever we are doing, we're wondering, you know, has God angry with us? He hates us. He does not love us, which is all lies because God cannot hate, okay? God is love. He always loves us. And how do we know we always love us? We look at the cross, you know, it shows the extent of his love for us. His love for us never changes. And God loves us the same way he loves his son, okay? So, you know, all the lies that we believe and it takes us away from God. So we can't blame God if we fail to receive the provision. We need to blame ourselves because we are not in the right place at the right time, doing what God wants us to do. When we're in the right place in the right time, we will just supernaturally just provide everything, okay? And I'm acting experienced that in my entire life, you know, from the time I went to Bible college, I told you, I don't know who's going to pay my fees. My fees was paid of almost 80,000. That is way back in the 90s. There's quite a lot of money, almost 90,000. My toiletries, my train fare up and down home, everything was just, of course I had to work for that, taking care. But, you know, never got in these, you know, I went to Bible college, I think in 1993, I think. You know, 1994. But never, you know, from that time, God has let me stretch my hand out to anyone. I've always given to people, but I've never borrowed from anyone. So in the, you know, in the final year, after studying six years with all my classmates, when I shared with them my testimony about how, I don't know who's going to pay my fees in Bible college and everything, they were shocked. They could not believe me because they used to come and borrow money from me and I used to lend it to them because, you know, in those days, we didn't have ATMs and the sunbanks and all that. And we was on right on top of a hill. We had to wait for money order by post and it takes a long time, especially when it comes from the northeast and all that. So they used to borrow from me and they just couldn't believe that what I'm saying, you know, and that is how God, how faithful God is. But we need to position ourselves in the right place at the right time. And we will just see God's provision. We will just see things miraculously taking care of and he has just given me exceedingly and abundantly more than even I can ask, think, or imagine, okay? And that is how faithful God is, okay? So we need to position ourselves, right? If you want to receive God's provision, okay? The next thing is we need to position ourselves, right? To be protected, okay? Psalm 91, I'm sure you all know Psalm 91, right? It's a very wonderful Psalm. Can somebody read verses one and two, please? Can you share your thoughts on this? I'm just saying, okay, I will read. Thank you. So what does it say here? When can we be under the shadow of the Almighty? Yes. When you dwell in the secret place of the Most High, that's when you are under the shadow of the Almighty. What's the meaning of shadow of the Almighty? Under His covering, under His protection, okay? When you're under God's covering and protection, no harm can befall you. That's what we read in the upcoming verses, okay? It says, because you have made the Lord as my refuge, even the Most High, your dwelling place, no evil shall befall you, verse 10. No plague shall come near your dwelling. So when will no evil befall you and no plague come near your tent when you are in the secret place of the Most High? What's the meaning of secret place? Is there a secret place that we have to go and hide to find God? What's a secret place? Yeah, it's basically not just a place where you have a personal time. It's you are constantly an intimate fellowship with God. You're just connected to Him. You're just tuned in. You're abiding in the wine. That's when you can bear fruit, okay? So you're totally connected. You are there under, you know, in His presence, constantly living in His presence. When do you constantly live in His presence? Sorry, when you're constantly mindful of every little thing that you're doing is, God, what do I do? How do I react? This is not what should I have said. This is not how I should have reacted, okay? So it's constantly being mindful that God is there with you, okay? The Holy Spirit is there with you. So when we are in the secret place of the Most High God, then we are under His shadow, which means we're under His protection, He's under His covering. Yeah, I'll just take your question, okay? And what happens when under His protection, there is no evil that will befall us, no plague that will come near our tent, okay? Yes, Sean, your question. Okay, Sean's question is, you know, he's referring to Matthew chapter five verse. Matthew chapter six verse five, it says you have to go into a room and lock yourself up and pray. Is that the secret place? No, that's, that is a secret place. Yeah, you're meeting with God, but the secret place is basically you are in constant, you know, fellowship with God, intimacy with God, okay? It's not just a one-off thing that you do once in a, you know, I can just go to my secret place, a room, we have a prayer room at home, we can just go to the prayer room at home and pray and then the rest of the day, I can do what I want. Then I'm not under the shadow of his wings under his protection because I'm just doing a ritual of just reading God's word and praying and the rest of the day, I'm just living my life like any worldly person, okay? So it is only when we are in constant tune and intimacy with God doing every step of the way, every minute we're obeying God, doing what honors him, then, you know, we are in the secret place, we're totally in intimacy with him. Then we are under his, the shadow of his wings. So your protection is connected to the fact that you have made the most high your dwelling place, okay? If you don't make the most high your dwelling place, then evil can befall you, okay? So as long as the most high is your dwelling place, is my dwelling place, your dwelling place and I'm there, I'm not moving out, I'm not jumping in and out, see? I'm not saying, God, you know, these areas I'll follow you, these areas I'll jump out, I'll do what I want, I'll come back when I need your help. No, we are consistently there in that place, in the center of his will, fully dependent on him, okay? Doing what his word tells us to do, abiding under the shadow of things, then we experience the protection in the secret place from God most high, okay? So if you want to be protected from the evils of this world, sickness, disease, you know where you need to be. You're constantly in tune and intimacy with God. Okay, before we go for a break, Jaichun Joel has a question. During a particular season when I don't do or obey what the Lord wants me to do, does that delay or take away God's purpose in my life? What's the lesson or corrective step from here? Okay, good question, thank you, Jaichun. So here we see that, you know, in a particular season when you don't obey what God wants you to do, it, yes, it delays, you know, example of Moses, you know, Moses, God, he recognized that God was raising him up in the palace to be the deliverer of the Israelites, the Hebrew people, but he took matters into his hands and that delayed the whole process by another 40 years. Okay, but did it take away God's purpose for his life? No, he's God still, you know, called him back as a leader, sent him as a leader to deliver his people out of Egypt. And what's the lesson or corrective step from here is the lesson to learn from all of these people like Moses and the others is, you know, when we go back to God, he's willing to forgive us and take us back and put us back on track, you know, help us, we learn that, you know, he's willing to change us and then he's willing to again, get us back on track to fulfill his purpose for our lives, okay? The corrective steps is, you know, read God's word, repent, confess, don't do the same things again, ask the Holy Spirit to lead you and guide you, build your intimacy in your relationship with God. I hope that answers your question, Jaichun. Okay, okay, we'll go for a break. I hope there's some tea here. We'll go for a break and then we'll come back after the break.