 Okay So John has a question quite a few times young people ask how do you know that it's not your thoughts? But it's the Holy Spirit, you know, yeah, so how do we give a reply to that, right? So so this is in line with the, you know, what we were looking at How God speaks to us in our spirit so we receive the information in our spirit We hear in our spirit and our mind processes it, right? In our soul We process it, okay. We discern it. We test it, you know Is it righteous? Is it holy? Etc. And it's all happens in, you know, within seconds So but then how do you know that it's not your thoughts, right? But we need to understand that You know when God gives or when God speaks when God emphasizes certain things It is, you know, it is your spirit, right? Where he's speaking and it is definitely when, you know, your mind process, it is your mind, you know, your thought Your mind process is it so it's happening there. It's not happening outside It's happening right here inside so the so the thing is it can seem very very close to The fact that it's maybe it's just me Or maybe it's you know, it's it's just my thoughts or my imagination Maybe I'm just psyching myself up to think on these lines. Maybe it's not God at all, right? So so that definitely is a question maybe for our own You know, we have these questions ourselves and maybe someone asks, you know, so that's a very real possibility that happens, right and and that's why we have to test all things and Hold on to what is good, you know, we need to test all things with the necessary for us to test so So how do we, you know, how do we test it? We test it with the word of God. We test to see whether it's whether it's, you know, it's righteous it's holy whether it's Whether it's exalting Jesus and so on so but having done that, you know, how do we still know whether it's You know, it's it's just our good intentions and not maybe we're praying for someone and then, you know We have those good thoughts about them. You want to bless them, right? You want good things to happen to them and and maybe we are thinking yes, you know, so how do we know that? Well There is no set formula. We know that, you know It is based on our walk with God our relationship with God and our intimacy with him, right? so so the The the answer or the tough answer is that, you know, continue to walk with God Continue to walk with God continue to hear his voice continue to do it Right and we'll grow in relationship with that, you know, one scripture which would be helpful is When you go to Hebrews and Well-known scripture, you know, Hebrews 4 and verse 12, right says for the word of God is living And powerful and sharper than any to its soul piercing even to the division of soul and spirit Okay uh and of joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intense of the heart Okay, so soul spirit thoughts intense of the heart. So the word of God Is the rena word of God is, you know, living powerful. So the word of God is definitely a discerner So, um, that's something that we can latch on to, you know, have Uh, a rich deposit of the word of God Right, you know, not just for information, but to really know the heart of God to, you know We read about this and we get to know about God's heart God's nature And how God responds and what God says and we really know about his compassion We reach, I mean, we have a firm understanding about, uh, you know, his standards his holiness, etc So we have that in our heart and that word We see is a discerner Of the thoughts and intense the discerner is to judge between. Okay. What is just my thoughts Or what is that, you know, much deeper? It's an intent of the heart And it even pierces its division of soul and spirit, you know, what is Of the spirit and what is of the soul Israel? What is of the spirit? What is of the soul? Um, what is in my mind will emotion it is something You know, that is my own imagination or it is something deeper That has been prompted in my spirit. So the word of God is a discerner Okay, so that's why, you know, uh, you know, the importance of Uh us being filled with the word of God importance of learning understanding Knowing the word of God having a you know, all these revelations in our heart. So that's that's uh, that's the thing The second thing is of course, you know relationship walking with God um Yes, uh, we grow in intimacy. We grow In our familiarity in identifying the voice of the spirit And how does that happen? It is when we walk within day to day. Um, so Yeah, so that's the journey because We we actually wish that there was a formula, you know, like one plus one It's two. It's very clear. It's a formula and yes, you know, I have this this and then therefore God has spoken While we do have Uh, the method the principle We need to go You know, have it the principle we need to walk with the presence of God and with both you know, we will be Hearing and doing things successfully, right? And does that help John? Yeah, okay, so so definitely we can teach them the principles, you know Young people we teach them. Okay. This is what happens. This is how you hear um But also we need to undergird with the fact that you walk within, you know And also the the thing that they sometimes we make mistakes Right, uh, and then maybe we can make, you know, we're non-critical mistakes so Yeah, just step out in faith and uh, you know Maybe maybe we make some mistakes and sometimes we we come back. We learn from those mistakes But we the thing is to keep learning keep journeying with God It's just like how I'm sure, you know, john John is married john's wife lads if she calls on the phone if john's in banglore and she's John will identify her voice Yes, john Of course Yeah, and how did that identification, you know, how did that come about, you know, even though You know, you may not it may not be a video call Because you've heard the voice over and over again, right? You've heard the You've heard the angry voice. You've heard the You know the joyful cheerful voice of glad you know all emotions you've heard Right, and it's uh, you're familiar right having Be in with her and walked with her So it's the same with God relationship intimacy with him having heard over and over again right Okay Thanks Okay, so let's so in our so we feel right there's a you know, there is a compelling Feeling in our spirit, right? It's it just won't go away. Maybe um, and paul You know writes about that. I mean, oh, sorry. It's written about paul Let's look at the book of axe A couple of scriptures Paul said sorry act 17 verse 16 talks about how paul is in Athens and he's stirred In is in the spirit. Okay. He's provoked within him Act 17 and verse 16 Yeah, if you're looking at the At the at the picture, maybe I'll just project it Just a minute, please. I hope you can see that Yeah, okay, so we have the spirit soul and body and we see we see that you know, we Draw information From the spirit realm, you know from the physical realm through our natural senses Right, we see both happening. Okay. So if you look at uh, yeah, I'll just play put that here um act 17 and verse 16 says His spirit was provoked within him, right? So There's something that happened in a spirit was stirred up provoked So, you know, so he felt something in his Okay, so he's able to identify Okay, something is happening deep within it's not just his mind, but it's it's his, you know, spirit within um the next chapter ax chapter 18 and verse five Uh, it says that uh paul was compelled by the spirit of course here is referring to the holy spirit But he was compelled. You know, he felt uh, you know, he felt compelled to do this You know, I need to do this and likely most likely it was in his spirit that he felt that compulsion, you know, I need to testify Um, so he was compelled by the spirit says when sylas and timothy had come from macedonia paul compelled by the spirit And testify to the jews that jesus is the christ okay, um, and then we look at um, uh one other verse which is Acts 20 23 Um, yeah 22 and 23 Okay, 22 Um, so here paul is meeting with some of the leaders elders from emphasis the church and emphasis They've come to meet him. This is the last time they're seeing him, etc and so paul Says, you know, I go bound in the spirit, you know, it's like my spirit is tied up I go bound in the spirit To cherish them not knowing the things that will happen to me there except That the holy spirit testifies in every city saying the chains and tribulations are To be uh, awaiting me like await me. So something that is physical like it's going to be a time of imprisonment It's going to be a tough season for paul. Um, so holy spirit testifies that so so he's feeling that in his spirit like in the inner man, um, that this kind of Bound or a binding or a tying up That's uh, that's happening. Okay. Uh, Ezekiel also talks about that. Um, Ezekiel the the prophet. Um, so let's look at a few A couple of verses there Ezekiel 3 and verse 14 Says the so the spirit lifted me up And took me away, you know, we we saw these Scriptures earlier when we were looking at the work of the holy spirit in the old testament We're coming back to this Lifted me up took me away and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit So something that he felt in his spirit Um, and he says the the hand of the lord was strong upon me and so on So you see that in the spirit In our in the realm of the spirit We Feel or we feel compelled and this is one of the Ways by which this the spirit of god Communicates to us and this is the the way he did and And he chooses to do that. Okay So the next one is of course, we have a physical seeing And we similarly the Seeing through the eyes of the spirit in the inner man Okay, now We see a lot of that in the old testament God would talk to the prophets and he would show them certain things and give them explanation of those things right, um, let's look at amos and Maybe you just look at one verse Amos chapter seven. Okay. Amos chapter seven Starts by it starts with this right thus the lord showed me Okay What did he show? Locus swarms at the beginning of the late crop Indeed, it was a late crop after the king's moans So it was when they had finished eating the grass of the land then I said, okay So he's showing him a picture Showing him it was most likely like a moving picture visual. The lord is showing The lord The lord is showing amos. Sorry. So he says the lord showed me again. We see Verse four thus the lord showed me And behold the lord called for conflict by fire and consumed the great deep and devout the territory so it was something that the lord was showing in a picture and You know, it was it was there for amos to Receive and see then thus he showed me behold the lord stood on a wall made with a plumb line with a plumb line in his hand so Here again, we see a picture that was shown to Amos and on and on, you know, we see several differences chapter eight also thus the lord showed me Behold a basket of summer fruit and then goes on to explain Right, so We see this Okay, so it can be pictures that the lord shows us It need not be physical with our physical eyes, but then you know that it's you know, it's something in your mind's eye right in your spirit um Job 33 talks about how god speaks in dreams Okay, let's let's go to job and I think it's verse 14, right? Yeah Job 33 and verse 14 Um For god may speak in one way or another yet man does not perceive it in a dream in a vision of the night When deep sleep falls upon men While slumbering on their beds Then he opens the years of men and seals their instruction In order to turn man from his deed and conceal pride from man Okay, he keeps back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword So so here's something very important happening here, right and right when Person is sleeping. Okay. There's inactivity physically the person is sleeping um, so god opens the years and Seals the instruction how says in a dream in a vision Okay, two things in a dream in a vision um So god gives this And what is it? It's not just uh, you know a nice dream But it's instruction Okay, he opens the years Seals the instruction And it and the instruction is some You know, it's some pretty serious consequences in the sense it turns the person uh from his deed from his actions and uh, you know to conceal pride To keep back his soul from the pit and his life from perishing by the sword So it's actually life changing. It's life preserving right and that instruction god is Uh communicating through a dream right we see that Even in in the gospels also we see that When god speaks to joseph And gives the instruction that he should take mary Because joseph feels that Okay, you know mary's come and maybe share this Information with him that she is carrying And he he decides to put her away Okay, in the sense, mary the truth and he wants to You know very quietly just Cancel this whole thing And uh and put her away But you see that there is a dream that he has And matthew chapter one and verse 20 Okay While he thought about these things behold an angel of the lord appeared to him in a dream okay, so And and whatever the angel communicated In joseph's dream was a very You know very very serious Piece of information right And what was that joseph's son of david do not be afraid to take to you mary your wife for that Which is conceived in her is of the holy spirit And she will bring for the son and you shall call his name jesus for he will save his people from their sins So all this was done that might be fulfilled what was spoken by the lord through the prophet right So then g then joseph was 24 being aroused from sleep. So he was sleeping. He had this dream What is strange is this he did as the angel of the lord commanded him and took to him his wife so He was he was very clear that god spoken even though it was a dream like he knew that god had spoken and he obeyed so probably joseph was in the you know, he was used to Obeying god and god was used to speaking to him in these ways right and and he was used to obeying god and And so when he receives this communication through a dream He just goes on to obey Right and he does that not just once but he does that does that twice Okay, the first time was this the second time was Verse 13 chapter 2 and verse 13 Okay, now when they had departed we hold an angel of the lord appear to joseph in a dream saying arise Take the young child and his mother flee to egypt and stay there until i bring you word For herod will seek the young child to destroy it Okay At least, you know, it's recorded in in in matthew gospel um Verse 14 when he arose he took the young child and his mother by night and departed for egypt So second time also he you know, it is again an instruction to preserve the life of The baby jesus Right, so he does that he obeys and then again uh, the same chapter Verse 20 So verse 19, sorry Was 19 now when herod was dead behold angel of the lord appeared in a dream to joseph in egypt saying arise Take the young child and his mother and go to the land of israel for those who sought the young child's life are dead Okay, so we see these three scriptures and we and we see that uh, you know god communicated Through his angel Some very pertinent very important life changing life preserving information through a dream Right And there's no reason why he should he should not do that In today's time why you should not speak to us in in dreams and visions And in fact when when we studied Uh, you know when we looked at uh the book of acts and how the holy spirit moved in the book of acts We see that the holy spirit intervened and uh, you know spoke to peter Accepted 10 we read about that and how uh, we spoke to peter in a trance Like the trance like he wasn't he wasn't asleep He was awake, but he had this experience of this whole visual of Uh, you know this big sheet being dropped from heaven And animals in it and he heard the voice and everything happening right, so In the realm of the spirit the holy spirit bringing this information across to peter now Uh, so it is you know, not just a physical sense of seeing but In the spirit that he saw it Right now. Well, we could say Maybe he saw it physically right before him Right, but the thing is it it might have seemed so real But it's in the realm of the spirit right Then hearing okay, so visuals then, uh, also it's uh, it's You know, we know that god Speaks to us we hear in our spirit You know, it could be like an audible voice it could be like an inner voice and we see several times that You know, we see that such instruction being given and acts 21 and verse four Okay acts 21 verse four And finding disciples we three we stayed there seven days. They told paul Through the spirit not to go up to Jerusalem Okay, a prophecy through the spirit of god and You know, we they heard the voice of god prophecy is hearing the inspired of the The word quickened by the holy spirit, right? So they heard the voice of god they heard the word of god and They spoke the word of god. They conveyed that word to paul right So we see that So it could be an audible voice. It could be an inner voice. It could be like an inner witness It could be a word Right just one word. It could be a sense of knowing it could be a flash of information Um, suddenly, you know, you you you've been praying about the praying for this person And there is the sense of knowing that this person very specifically has had this problem Okay information it's It's what, uh, you know Scripps talks about the word of knowledge information about this Person that they had something about their past something they've had this kind of a, you know, struggle or a problem Or maybe at present they are going through Okay Now it's not naturally that you learned or you know studied or you you check there You know some email or somebody sent no It is the holy spirit bringing that information to your spirit So you hear it in your spirit So there could also be taste and smell and uh, the Right because those are the other two physical senses um Well, there are there are scriptures we talk about that also like God gives John the scroll to eat and then he eats it and then when he eats it it tastes like honey, but then in In his Belly it becomes bitter right John revelation chapter 10 And verse 10 Okay, then I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it right Revelation starts by Starts with this You know It says that um, John who bore witness And it it talks about what happened And what he saw right it says, uh He's in the island of batmos Verse nine verse 10 I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and I heard behind me a loud voice as of a As of a trumpet so It talks about uh him being led by the spirit into a Supernatural realm I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and then it goes on to write all this So chapter 10 and verse 10 also something that is he's having the spiritual encounter He says I took the little book out of the angel's hand And ate it and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth Okay But when I had eaten it my stomach became bitter so sweetness Bitterness something that is experiencing in the spirit because he was in the spirit on the Lord's day And he experiences this like and and sense of smell also, you know people have testified Fragrance And of course we we see the reference that we are the aroma of christ And that talks about Not the literal aroma. It talks about how we We you know bring in an influence bring in a change in the environment But also the the sense of smell just like all these, you know Also could be there as well, right? So we see that Well This whole realm in the spirit And god speaking to us bringing this information to us in the spirit and we need to discern, of course Okay, I'll just stop sharing this Right Okay, so we need to be discerning Because not every dream Is from god Like we could have our own dream and like the question that paul asked the john asked You know, it would be our own imagination our own thoughts as well. And that is why we need to test In one testimony and we see Paul writing and saying test all things. Okay, the word in the spirit agree test all things Right. So what has happened is that The cause of counterfeits We know there are counterfeits. Okay counterfeit is something that is As close to the real as possible Okay, because the real as great value Okay, we need to understand that Okay, because when you and somebody makes counterfeit currency it is it is not They don't make counterfeit of tens and 20s and 50s right the counterfeit isn't in in a In a it's like 500 or 2000. I don't know if 2000 is still there, but you know big denominations of currency Why Because it's something of great value Okay, so There is a counterfeit That is there that is made something that is as close to the real as possible, but it's not the real thing. Okay now The question is because there are counterfeits Do we reject the bill? You know, there could be counterfeit currency But does that mean that you don't you know, you don't receive or take the real one you don't use the authentic right The answer is no, obviously Well And you know, how do we deal with it? We just need to know the real And we need to immerse ourselves in the real Then we will know Counterfeit Right and that is what people do Like even in the banks and those who are you know trained to train to You know find out identify what is the counterfeit currency? They they don't They don't necessarily you know deal with the counterfeit, but they deal with the real thing They deal with the real thing. What does the real note look like real currency not look like What are the features of it? How does it feel like how much does it weigh and what are those Special details that are there because the hologram that is there you lift it against the light. What is this so they became in they become intimate and well acquainted So that when there's a counterfeit You know that it is a counterfeit. It's not the real thing. Okay, so for us We need to Get acquainted with the real Not fear the counterfeit Not reject the real because there's a counterfeit And and many times we you know, it has happened, you know, sadly in christian circles and the new age We know it's a counterfeit. We know the sources of the enemy But we we just put everything away, you know God speaking god inspiring certain things in our heart and we just put it all away You say and maybe god is giving some, you know something in the You know visually is giving a dream is just don't consider it at all, right? But the fact is that god Wants to Well, why can't why does he do do all these things? You know Well, we don't know. It's just god just chooses to right And so Yeah, uh, there's a question divya if there is a phrase impressed in our spirit Um, may not be something found in the word. Yeah, how do we confirm if the source is the is the holy spirit, right? Let's say Okay, let's say there's a phrase and uh, or you know, we were talking about a word, right? So the holy spirit brings a word or a phrase or some information Confirm that spirit. Yeah, is it's true that it may not be there verbatim in the word of god in the sense you may not find a scripture there in the word of god But but the fact is the You know, is Is that phrase, you know, is is it righteous? Is it unrighteous? Okay, it uh knowing the nature and the character of god that phrase, you know, is it is it something which is Which is in line with godliness You know, what is that phrase because you know a phrase could be a warning as well You know, or the phrase could be a word of knowledge, like let's say you're getting a word like murderer Well, it definitely is there in the word but the context is you know murderers and I think god They will not enter the kingdom of god, right? So you you're getting a word murderer or murder Um, so the thing is to to wait on god ask the god ask lord lord what more Do I do I pray? Against this, you know, is this per has this person that i'm praying for maybe Indulged in it You know in the past or lord, you know, do you want me to pray? Maybe he has an anger issue and it's a warning that that could lead to this act if he's not careful So what do I do lord? You know first thing is to engage with the spirit of god Right and say god, you know, what is it what more? And and believe me the lord will lead because he's a god who speaks and he will lead and say, okay Maybe you just you just feel impressed in your heart to pray like pray strong and pray on those lines Yeah, so the thing is to engage with the spirit of god And and test and say god, what do you want me to do? Right So how do we yeah, so how do we confirm if the source is spirit? Yeah, so the same way It may not be so Confirmation is you know As you're praying, you know, you you feel that okay I can I can just put it on the shelf, you know, maybe it's there's that that weight of god's Impression is not there Right, so we can we can just put it aside Nothing wrong can just put it aside And if you know, even if we make a mistake in the sense, you know, sometimes what happens is You know, maybe we are emotionally stirred up, right? We are maybe we are tired in our spirit You know, we are tired in our minds. We've had a long day And we don't catch these things, you know, this thing comes but then we put it away or maybe You know, we we make a genuine mistake saying that can't be god But as we pray as we ask the lord the lord can bring this back to us Right remember the pharaoh had the dream. He had two dreams same message so God spoke to him twice actually he gave a dream to him twice two dreams So god can actually bring that back In another way or maybe the same way Bring it back back to our remembrance. You can't shake it off and you need to You know do something about it, right? So So so so the thing is the beauty is that you know, we're not doing it in isolation But we're doing it with With god with him so we can always, you know, ask him lord. What is it? What do you want me to do lord? I'm you know, I'm available I'm I'm willing and And submit it to you your lordship your word. You know, that's my foundation not what more You see, you know, all those safety measures are there And and also the posture of our heart. It's one of humility And wanting to you know, uh, do carry out his instruction and and we're engaging with him. We're walking with him So Well, the lord will lead or maybe the lord will just say you know, you know that it's it's not from god fine, no problem Right. So the thing is for us to really engage with god in this way Right. Walk with him in this manner Talk to him commune with him Right because uh, and and not just You know compartmentalize Our speaking to him our worship of him Um to day in and day out that we continue to you know, we take those moments Um who commune with him, you know, uh, paul writes and he says, you know, pray, um Pray without seizing Right and use of the word Adeleptus in the Greek pray without seizing. So the thing is that it's not When we say Adeleptus apparently it is used for the person who's coughing. You know, we say Pray without seizing a person who's coughing, you know, has his bouts of coughing and You know, we say this guy is coughing, you know, go drink something or take some medicine. You're coughing continuously Well, actually if you look at it, he's not coughing continuously Right. He has these bouts of cough and then maybe there's times when he doesn't have a cough But then he goes into this bouts of cough again Um because of various whatever condition So, you know, he's coughing Adeleptus Right. So that is what we're called to do pray without seizing pray Adeleptus meaning there could be this You know, there will be those pauses in between as we take care of, you know, things in the natural, maybe Yeah, but then we go back to Engaging with God, we're walking there just singing a praise to him talking to him, right? So um, so as we do that then We need to really engage with God in this manner be aware of what God is speaking Adeleptus I don't know the spelling. Let me just I'll give you the reference It's Adeleptus. Okay I'll I'll just give the reference I'll put it on the stream. Yeah Okay, so, uh, so that's the thing. So just want to encourage us for those of us who maybe had You know, had a bad experience. It is possible, right? They had a bad experience Um With with this whole thing of being led by the spirit of the prophetic and because of abuse You know misuse in the church abuse in the church That's no reason for us Throw away the authentic Right. I remember once having a conversation with the person once, you know, we in church Uh, I'll be to search. We have, uh, alternate months. We take time to talk about Okay Yeah, uninterruptedly without the mission. Thank you. Thanks, John Super Um Okay, so, uh, the thing is, uh, yeah, so alternate sun alternate months Sir on one Sunday of the month we take time to Talk about, you know, the baptism of the Holy Spirit pray Teach about, you know, the baptism of the Holy Spirit and and how it's for every believer and pray Right and pray with that person to be filled with the spirit And, you know, we've seen many just, you know, at the time just praying in tongues or later Start to pray in tongues and we also have had, you know, like a prophetic Like a vision and so on, right? So so we do that So once I was talking to this gentleman and saying, you know, we have this time So would you like to stay back? Then he said, you know, I, you know, I'm just I'm just satisfied with the character of God You know, I it's all about love. It's all about character Of God, I don't want to I don't want to get into this, you know, gifts of all the power of God and just character for me. That's enough Right, um, but we, you know, then I just Asking him what and all that and I just came to know that Well, he's not had a Good experience with that who was teaching who was Modeling it. So we just Said, okay, I don't want anything of that. Okay, but we need to understand that All this comes from him And all this is for his children Right For the sons and daughters of God and all this is for a purpose Which is to benefit the believer And not to destroy the believer Right to build the church and as we saw to minister In these ways, right to further the kingdom of God to bring the gospel Right, so so we need to we will we make mistakes, you know, does a child Just begin to run and you know skateboard and ride No, the child learns Right that the child stopped Walking because he or she has fallen down a few times No, did you stop, you know riding the bike just because you fell down a couple of times turning a corner No, you got up and you rode again Right. So we learned that. Oh, okay. I should not turn Like that, you know in in a in a when I'm taking a turn I should not turn sharply. I should just be careful balance and turn So so also, you know, uh, when it comes to the truth of God's word, maybe there's abuse. Maybe there's, you know Things that have happened. Uh, don't reject the truth Raise the truth because it's it comes from him who is the truth itself All right, uh, and many many of us could have different backgrounds right different church backgrounds like I come from a you know, typically csi church of south india liturgical background so where where Of course now things are different, but when you know, when I was growing up we we never Like we we sang of course from the book. We sang the hymns. We we read the prayers. We said the prayers everything was read um, they're very um orderly liturgical and everything so Well, did we lift hands as we were singing? No, we held we're holding the books Right, uh, there's no question of lifting hands in worship and you know, uh, gospel was shared altar calls were given Only certain times when there was a guest speaker you you would never hear the gospel being preached In clarity from the pulpit. Well, that was that's a background So there's no teaching on the holy spirit. There's no teaching that this is for the believer So this came much much much later um, so Once I heard the truth. I said, okay, this is I want whatever is from god. I wanted right um, so church background So that could be one of the things why why we are holding back while we are Why we are but we don't want to move into it. So so that could be one of the reasons or just fear Right, I don't remember. There was one person who said One of our friends She she actually received the the gift of tongues and she started praying in tongues When you know, you know, none of us were praying in tongues, but but she stopped and And the reason was this she felt she was afraid that you know, what if it is not from the holy spirit What if it's from, you know, some mother's spirit And see she just stopped right But the fact is, you know, whom did she ask? Right those are questions. Who did she ask and was she living a life as a Person dabbling in witchcraft and calling on evil spirits? No a well-meaning sincere dedicated believer so, uh, you know wanting to Exalt jesus wanting to walk in his ways And whom did she pray to to the lord jesus, right? So so the thing is the lord says if As you know, if a son earthly You know about the earthly relationship, right if a son asks for a bread will the earthly father give a stone? Obviously answer is no will the will the if the son asks for a fish will he give him a snake? right or ascorpion no so So also our heavenly father No, he even more he's he's thousand times or n times Better Than our earthly father. So if you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more you're heavenly father So, you know, if there are those kinds of fears We can put it away knowing that Well, the lord jesus He gives the best right, so so Maybe, you know, this thing has been misrepresented like other truths, right? But we don't have to fear right and we can hear from him enjoy our fellowship with him and and minister out of that overflow right okay, so So we have about five more minutes. So I just want us to just pray and talk to the lord It's time. I just pray to the lord next session actually, we'll go into Next week when we meet we'll talk about the baptism and the holy spirit and Then also we will take some time to pray in the end. But today Yeah, just take some time to pray and say a lot You know, I I eat myself to you Right and and specifically let's just ask, you know, the things that we saw The scriptures that we saw and the ways that he speaks. Let's ask the lord Lord, you speak to me Right. I want to receive in my spirit Right revelation in my spirit. I want to you know I want to be able to discern when you when you put certain things in my spirit when you you know When you weigh on my spirit when you compel things in my spirit I want to I want to discern I want to know that And when you when you give me some pictures when you give me some some visions I want to be able to discern that that it's not just my Own imagination, but it's you who's speaking When I hear when I hear this phrase when I hear this word when I hear this, you know, maybe this the scripture maybe maybe this reference But lord, I I want to Like I want to discern and I want to I want to grow in that Okay, maybe it's a it's a thing of taste. It's a thing of whatever lord, you know, all these You know ways by which you put things bring in information in my spirit communicate to my spirit I want to know I want to know I want to be able to discern and let my mind my mind my will my imagination my Everything let it be pure and holy. Let it be renewed by the truth So that when you put things in my spirit, my mind will be quick to catch it Right quick to catch it quick to hold on to it latch on to it because it's renewed to the truth as well It's renewed to the word as well the word And whatever is put in my spirit by the holy spirit. There's an agreement. Like there'll be a quickening. There'll be an agreement. I'll know For sure that But you have spoken that I will there's no step out in faith and do it Okay, so let's just pray. Uh, we'll take a couple of minutes to pray Maybe you want you can just pray in the spirit. You can pray in tongues but uh, yeah, let's just pray out and you know This is let it be a hunger Deep within okay, thank god you speak Just like sam will said Pray the prayer lord here. I am god Speak to me your servant listen. It's just like Like just like is there like here. I am About your instruction. I received here. I am sending Father god be we thank you and here we are Lord opening up our hearts to you oh god To what the one who is the way the truth and the life The one who cares for us lord we come and We thank you that lord you speak to us and I just pray right now lord for each one of us that whatever is blocking Our hearing lord may it be removed oh god May it be removed oh god father. We thank you that you said lord My sheep hear my voice You are the good shepherd and we are your sheep And lord you said my sheep hear my voice. They know me and they follow me lord I pray that you will increase our hearing lord Not increase our spiritual ability to hear oh god Yes, lord like you see mark chapter four We come with a big measure and the bit the measure that we use it will be measured back to us And so we come with that big measure we come with that hunger and we say lord you fill us You fill us today lord you speak to us today. Oh god Yes, lord pour out your spirit upon us or father god Pour out your spirit upon us god. Thank you lord Thank you lord thank you lord you called us to Yes, lord you called us to really let move oh father god move forward oh god and Yes, lord to to be path breaking Lord in our in our ministry father god We thank you that you called some of us to be like that um to to Where there seems to be No well paved paths Or roads to make that road to be apostolic to be pioneers You've called some of us to be like that And I thank you lord That you're moving us in that direction and it would require hearing you On a continual basis to be path Makers or path breakers And I just believe the lord is just putting that you know in your heart to You know the lord has called you to be a pioneer to be apostolic and to You know start to work maybe In terms of ministry to go where no person has gone before and and do something new But it would require walking in step with god it would require hearing from him. So The lord is emphasizing that you know to walk in fellowship them and to put these things in practice right to hear him to grow in that ability Right to hear the voice of god Yes to test And to put to practice When you know that it is authentic and real and true To follow the instruction follow through the instruction Hallelujah. Thank you lord Farad we thank you for this time. I just pray for each one of us. Oh god that we will That we will walk in this privilege that you've called us To be hearers of your voice And we will not just be lord just accomplice and hearers of your voice But we will do do us. Oh god of your will of your word We thank you. We give you all the praise and glory in jesus matchless name. We pray Amen Okay Hey, thank you so much. God bless. Have a great week. We'll catch up again Next class. Okay. Bye. Bye