 Good morning everyone. I've just started the recording of this lecture. Thank you for connecting to the class. Welcome everyone. Get to see how this are coming in. Okay. All right. Let's take a moment to pray and then we will get started in this class on Urban Church Planting. I would, yeah, request someone Aaron, can you please pray and then we will start. Sure. Let me pray. Lord Jesus, we thank you for this day. Lord, as we began with our studies, Lord, empower us all which is spirit. And Lord, transform us inside and out into your likeness. So Lord, bless us all. And Lord, I submit the rest of the class into your loving hand. Amen. All right. Thank you. All right. Today, so yesterday, we completed that section on the practical aspects of church planting. We basically made a complete journey starting from how you do the survey. So as you're preparing to go and start a local church or a ministry, doesn't have to be a church. It could be any kind of Christian ministry. Kind of just give all the simple, you know, an overview of the journey that we would make. We talked about how you prepare your, get your core team together. How do you do the survey phase, you know, pre-launch things that you would do before your launch, how you do your survey, the launch of the church, how you would do outreaches, urban missions, urban evangelism, some ideas of different ways that you could plan. And then how you would prepare for the growth of the church as the local church grows or as the ministry grows, it goes through various stages and how you prepare for that. And you prepare for branching and multiplication so that the work continues to grow. And yesterday we talked a little bit about different, you know, different models that we see around in different regions or parts of the world. There is no one set model. There is no, you know, that this is the only way to do church. But it's just nice to look at the way things have happened, especially in more recent years, how churches have or churches are leveraging technology as part of their way of reaching people and serving people. And it's good to know those things. At the same time, we must be aware of the downsides, you know, technology is not something that can cure everything or is not the answer to every problem. There are challenges, there are downsides to it as well and we must be aware of it. And we addressed some of that yesterday. You know, one of the things is that technology gives, I mean, the good side is technology gives a platform and access to lots of, not more people, which is a good thing. But the downside is something like that could also be harmful for certain people, meaning if they don't know how to handle extra visibility, extra prominence, extra influence, then it's a huge downside. And those are some things that we have seen in churches that they just grew rapidly. And but then they couldn't handle the influence that comes through rapid growth, through the use of technology, and then that really resulted in a self-destruction, so to speak, of the ministry. So today, we want to shift now to the next section, which is the spiritual side of church planting. So we focus a lot on the practical side, okay, you know, here are all the different things that you can think about as you are going on to do the church plant, the ministry. But now we also want to talk about the spiritual side of things. Then after that, we will talk about the personal life, how you can personally prepare. And then we want to talk about looking forward, you know, given where things are. So that'll be our last section. When we come to that, given where things are, how do we move forward from here in terms of church planting and so on. So we will spend some time on that later on in the course. So I have released the notes for this section on the spiritual aspects. So I'm going to just go ahead and share that, and then we will go through it. Now, I do want to mention here that we've been talking about spiritual aspects. I'm not going into all the details on, you know, prayer and, you know, we have a separate course on prayer in this session that I think we've done in the first year or second year, I forget, but, you know, it's done earlier. It's a detailed course on prayer. So I'm not going into, you know, a detailed thing on how this is everything that goes into praying and so on. But we don't want to, you know, just remind us and show us, okay, here are things that keep in mind as we deal with church planting, the spiritual side. So that's what we want to do in this course, in this lesson or this section. I'll just remind us of some important things, you know, as we go about planting, doing church planting in urban centers. Now, so I've titled this chapter as the real battle for souls is a spiritual battle. So we understand that, you know, while we are going to plant a church or start a ministry in an urban center, and we, you know, it's good to learn the practical side of things which we have spoken. The real battle for souls, the real battle for the lives of people is a spiritual battle. There is a spiritual battle going on. Satan has influence over or is carrying out his work over cities. God is at work in our cities, but the devil also is doing things in our cities, all kinds of demonic activities also happening. So in the spiritual realm, things are happening. And we cannot, you know, ignore that. We can't pretend that it's all about just natural things. No. So when you look in the Bible, we see spiritual beings or demonic powers influencing leaders. So whether you look at Babylon or the Tire, King Tire, the King over Tire or other cities, you'll find that there are demonic influences affecting the leaders of these regions. And this is only representative. So we could safely assume that, you know, this is happening in many other cities of the world. So what is Satan doing in the cities? How is he working? You know, what must we be aware of? And all of what I'm going to say, I think it's more of a reminder because you would have studied this in the course on prayer and intercession. We know that Satan is blinding the minds of people, right? And I'm quickly just going to mention here, our second Corinthians chapter four was three and four. Paul writes, you know, if a gospel is hid, it is hid to those who are perishing. So if people don't hear the gospel, they are perishing. They're talking about their eternal destiny. And then he says, it was for in whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe lest the light to the glorious gospel of Christ should shine into them. So what is Satan doing? He's blinding the minds of people. He's trying to prevent them, like put a curtain to prevent them from encountering the light of the gospel, experiencing the light of the gospel. So that's part of Satan's work. And how would he go about doing it? He would go about doing it, of course, through, you know, deceptions, wrong ideas and wrong philosophies and wrong, you know, thinking that begins to prevail over the people in that city or that region or that community. So that those wrong ideas, those wrong thoughts act like a curtain, act like a veil on the minds of people. That's an attempt to prevent them from receiving the light of the gospel. It's very interesting in Matthew chapter four, verse 16, it's talking about the land of Zebulun and Naftali, if you turned with me there in Matthew four. Let's just, I just want to point something out there in Matthew chapter four. I think if you read the preceding verse, Matthew four, if you read verse, let's read verses 13 to 16. Somebody could read that for us please. Matthew four, 13 to 16. Could that somebody read that for us? And having Nazareth and living Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea in the region of Zebulun and Naftali, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying the land of Zebulun and land of Naftali by the way of the sea beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. The people who sat in the darkness have seen a great light and upon those who sat in the region and said of death, light has dawned. All right. I want you to notice in verse 13 something interesting. Jesus left Nazareth and came to Capernaum. So he moved cities. So he was growing up in Nazareth all this while. You know, that was his home city or hometown, you could say. And then at the time came for him to start his ministry. After he was baptized, even in the river Jordan, he went 40 days praying in the wilderness, came back and then he relocated. He moved from Nazareth into Capernaum, Capernaum was a little further up north, close by the sea of Genocerate. So he moved up and so he went to that city. And so there's a physical movement. There's a physical movement of Jesus, but in the spiritual something's happening. So verses 15 and 16 is telling us what's happening spiritually. Spiritually saying land of Zebulin and Naftali, that means, so this is the region, right? This is like a district area or region. So Jesus moves to Capernaum, which is in the region of Zebulin and Naftali. And he says, okay, you, the people who are living in darkness have seen great light. Obviously that's spiritual. There's a physical movement, but there's an impact in the spirit. Light comes spiritually, light comes into this place. People are in the region of the shadow of death. Light has dawned. Now that is very interesting. And Jesus spoke about you and me and he said, you are the light of the earth. You are the light of the world. He spoke about you and me as believers. Ephesians 5 also says, you know, be our light. We were once darkness, now be our light in the Lord. So that is of course spiritual. In the natural he moved physically and then something happened. Then in the spiritual light came into that region. So I'm just pointing that out to say that, you know, physically, yeah, there's a relocation, there's a movement, we are doing something. But spiritually we are coming in as light. You and I as believers, we are light and we are coming in. We are bringing the light of the kingdom. We bring the light of the gospel into the regions where we are. So Satan is working, keeping people in darkness, keeping people blinded. But we are people who bring light. And same thing in Acts 26, 14 and 18, God tells Paul at that time he was Saul and his encounter with Jesus says, I'm going to send you as a light to the Gentiles, to bring them from darkness to light, from the power of Satan unto God, to open blind eyes. So spiritually, when we bring the gospel, that's what we're doing. We are opening blind eyes. They're bringing people out of darkness into light, from the power of Satan to God. Revelation 12 and 9 talks about Satan going about to deceive the nations. He's an old serpent, the deceiver. So that's his tactic. He deceives nations. So how is Satan working in the region in our inner city? It's through blinding the minds of people through deception, which could be through ideas, philosophies, thoughts, patterns, could be even sometimes through individuals who exert spiritual influence over people. So that's the first thing to keep in mind. Secondly, what does the enemy do? He holds people in bondage, that is spiritual prison. So we can think about prisons that where people are held captive, but Satan does that spiritually. So these spiritual prisons, we talk about them as strongholds or bondages or areas of demonic domination are prevalent over the city in various forms through immorality and sinful deeds, social evils, prostitution, corruption, trafficking. All of these are expressions of the spirits of disobedience at work. So we know, okay, so there's the other thing that Satan does. He holds people in bondage. He likes to take prisoners, people as prisoners, bondage to fear, bondage to all kinds of things. So that's another activity. Thirdly, Satan would directly attack or directly oppose the proclamation of the gospel through various ways. So that's another part of what the enemy does. He tries to hinder the church, hinder God's people from proclaiming the gospel through either through opposition or through direct attacks or persecution. So that's again part of what Satan does, hindering the proclamation of the gospel in the city. And fourthly, he must also be aware that Satan is not only, you know, blinding the minds of people or trying to hold people as spiritual prisoners or trying to oppose or hinder the preaching of the gospel, but he may even try to infiltrate into the church in the city. So we must be aware of these things, especially, okay, Satan is going to try to actually come into the church. So he's like, you know, he is, this is his offense against, offensive against the church. How do we know this? When we look into Revelation chapters two and three, we find that for at least four of these churches, when the Lord Jesus is speaking to them, he points out specifically to them what Satan is doing in their city. To the church in Smyrna, he says, you know, there's the synagogue of Satan, and the devil Satan is going to cause some of the believers from the church in Smyrna to be put in prison. So Satan's, he's opposing, he's coming against the church with persecution to the point some of them will be put into prison. And the church in Bergamas, the Lord Jesus tells him, you know, I know your city, it's a place where Satan's throne is and where Satan is dwelling. So God, the Lord is very aware that, you know, this church is in a place where there's a lot of demonic activities. The Satan's throne is there. That means he's got, he's well established in his influence over there. Satan himself dwells there. And the Lord also warns the church and he points out there is a doctrine of Balaam that's infiltrating the church, causing people to, you know, go away from God. So he warns them, hey, just like, you know, Balaam, how we taught the people to sin and commit idolatry and immorality. That same kind of doctrine is coming into the church. So you tell the church, be careful in the church in Thyatira. There's a false prophet as Jezebel who's gotten into the church. And she's seducing the people. She's seducing believers, getting them to commit immorality. And the Lord warns the church. And the church in Philadelphia, this is in chapter 3, verse 9, the Lord tells them, look, there's a group that belongs to Satan, the synagogue of Satan. But he tells them, you know, I will cause him to come and bow before the church. That means the church is going to dominate those people, exercise dominion over that people. So the point that we can see in all of these references is the church is in the city, but in the city Satan is also at work. And he's going to try to come against the church. He's going to try to infiltrate the church through false doctrine or come into the church through false prophets or teachers. And Satan may even try to come against the church, but the church can be like the church in Philadelphia, the church can be in a place of dominion. So in the city, understand these four operations. You know, Satan is blinding the minds of people, he's holding people in bondage. He's trying to hinder the proclamation of the gospel. He's trying to weaken the church by infiltrating the church. So what must the church do in the city? Spiritually speaking, well, part of our responsibility is to go on the offensive, to be light in the city, to advance the kingdom of God, to counteract and to spiritually oppose, spiritually dismantle what Satan is doing. So in the church planting work, while we are doing all the natural things that we've spoken about, there must also be this understanding that we are in a spiritual battle and we also have to engage the enemy spiritually through using the authority that God has given to us, using the authority we have in Christ to overthrow the works of the enemy and we must proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ so that people can come out of darkness into the light of God, right? So I've just listed scriptures here that talk about, you know, the fact that, you know, even as we've spoken of Jesus and which is now extended through the church, we are a light to the Gentiles. And Jesus said, you know, we can bind, you know, we want to enter into a strongman's house, we bind the strongman or we overcome the strongman so that we can then spoil his goods. So that's part of what we do, we overcome the strongman. In 1916, 18 to 19 years that I will build my church, I'll give them the keys of the kingdom of heaven and, you know, and we bind and lose on earth. So, and he said, the gates of hell will not prevail against the church. So the church has been already positioned to be in dominion over the works of the enemy. And second Corinthians 10b, no, Paul said, the weapons of our warfare, you know, with those weapons we can pull down strongholds, we can cast down imaginations. So using our spiritual weapons, the word of God, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, the authority of Jesus' name, the power of the blood of Jesus, the prayer intercession, we exert influence over the things that Satan is doing to blind the minds of people and so on. So this is the church's responsibility on the spiritual side. Okay, so in this first chapter here on the spiritual aspects, I just want to bring our attention to the fact that when we are working in the city, there is the spiritual battle as well that we must engage with. And of course, we'll talk about some practical ways to go about doing it. But we are here in the city, we must, we have the responsibility of countering what the enemy is doing spiritually. Okay, so let me pause here and see if there are any questions so far, any comments so far. It runs with me. Any questions, any comments so far? Okay, so if there are no questions, we will okay, see your responses in the chat. Let's move forward please. We will go, yeah. So how do we pray and exercise authority for spiritual transformation, right? So while we are going about doing all the natural things we spoke about, we must also engage in prayer, in worship, and exercise spiritual authority for the people in our city. Now of course, we know we cannot control people's will or dictate their choices. We cannot manipulate people. Each person has to make their own decision to believe. We can't force people to believe. But through prayer and the exercise spiritual authority, what are we doing? We are facilitating. So this is what we are doing. We are facilitating, making it easier for people to make the decision, right? So we are not saying that we are going to, you know, manipulate people and force them to accept Jesus that we cannot do. But we can diminish Satan's influence. We can diminish the deception. We can diminish demonic influence so that people are free or make it easier for them to respond to the Gospel of Christ, right? So that's what we are doing, okay? We're not manipulating people's will to force them to accept Christ. So how do we do this? When we are interceding for people, we are praying, right? So we are praying and we will talk about, you know, some of the things we will pray for. And this comes more as a reminder. So we are praying for the Lord, to the Lord for His work and He has taught us what to pray for. So we pray. We're also going in an offensive spiritually against the devil. So that means we're going straight against the devil, against his demonic powers operating through presence, through worship and through the exercise of spiritual authority. So remember when we began this course in the very introduction, we said, what is our goal? We want to establish communities of believers that will host the presence of God in that place. You know, so really we want to be a house of, by God well, so the presence of God is established in the community. And spiritually we do this through prayer, through worship and through exercising spiritual authority over what the enemy is doing. So when we pray, what do we pray for? I just listed these things out here that we could use as we lead our congregations in prayer, praying over the city, praying over the region that we are engaged with. We pray and ask God, ask Him for the region as an inheritance, right? So Sam too, and we're saved, he said, ask of me, I will give you the hidden. I'll give you the nations for your inheritance. So he said, ask of me and I'll give you the nations for your inheritance. So he began to ask, Lord, I want the city, I want, you know, this region as an inheritance to bring people to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, be prayed in by the Holy Spirit to bring about conviction of sin, righteousness and judgment. So we know that it's the Holy Spirit to bring conviction. We can pray for His work, we can invite Him to, you know, to do that in our city or our region, wherever we are working. We ask God to draw people to Himself. Jesus said, you know, no one can come to me unless the Father draw Him. So we say, Lord, draw people in my city to the Lord Jesus Christ, but people feel the pull of God on their hearts, drawing them to Jesus. Well, what can we do? Number four, we can pray that God will bring people to repentance and to the knowledge of the truth, right? So this is in line with 2 Timothy 2, 25 and 26. We are praying that people will come to their senses and they will escape the trap of the evil one. We can also pray for the Spirit of Wisdom revelation, so the spiritual eyes can be enlightened for them to know the Lord, to know His purpose, to know His power. We can also pray for God to send laborers who will share Jesus and influence them toward the Lord for His purposes. And we can pray for signs and wonders just like how people in Acts 4 pray, because, Lord, we want to see more signs, more wonders taking place in our city, you know. So these are some things we can pray for as we engage in intercession for the city, right? Just keep these things in mind. Let it, of course, when you're in times of prayer, let it come spontaneously as the Holy Spirit leads. When you get people together as a community, you say, hey, let's pray for these things, for our city, pray that God will give the city as an inheritance, pray for conviction to come, pray for the Father to draw them, pray that God will bring people to repentance, pray that the Spirit of God will open their eyes so that they know Jesus, pray that there be more laborers who are sent in to the harvest fields, pray that there will be mighty signs and wonders demonstrated in our city so that people will come to know Jesus Christ. So all of these things have given references, so it's based on those scriptures, right? Then we also engage in spiritual warfare, right? That means we are going to go against what Satan is doing. So we talked about being praying, talking to God for the people, but now we're going to spiritual warfare, that means we're going against Satan on behalf of the people. Now when we talk about spiritual warfare, we must understand that Satan is a defeated enemy. So Satan is not as big as he pretends to be, right? We know the scripture, he comes like a roaring lion, so he wants to pretend to be so big, so powerful, oh, don't trouble me, I'm very big, I'm bigger than you. No, he's just pretending. The Bible says that Satan has been crushed, he's actually been expelled, that means he's been sent out, and he's condemned, he's disarmed, he's destroyed, and he's powerless, and these are all scriptures. He's been crushed, he's been expelled, he's been condemned, that means he's judged already, he's been disarmed, he's been destroyed, and he is powerless. So that's how we must look at Satan. So we talked about spiritual warfare, we're going against an enemy whom Jesus already defeated. Secondly, we have complete mastery and dominion over the enemy, so we are not in any way afraid. Jesus given us authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and we are the ones who are seated at the right hand of the Father in Christ. So we have complete mastery and dominion over the enemy, and when we talk about spiritual warfare, we're just going to enforce the victory Christ has already obtained for us, so we are not the ones who are contending for victory, Christ already obtained it for us, so we're just enforcing the victory that has been provided to us through Jesus Christ. So we keep that in mind as we contend, and number four, we understand that we are protected by God, but we also must keep all entry points closed, so that means we are not keeping Satan any foothold, we're not keeping any doors open in our lives, or in the life of us as a church, as we go against Satan and his demons. So basically we guard against strife and division, and those kinds of things, because strife, division will give opportunity, even give an open door for the enemy to come in, so we protect ourselves. And number five, we know that we must speak our authority, so words are important in the spiritual realm, so how do we engage with the enemy by speaking words and by releasing the word of God over our city or our nation, so words become important. Okay, let me pause here. Everyone's with me so far? Okay, let's see your comments in the chat. All right, so I'm going over this in a very quick way, because I think most of us know these things, and you've studied them in depth in the course on prayer, on prayer and intercession also in believers authority. Okay, so I see Kiran's question, right? So lion, you're asking the lion is symbolic of who? So in scripture we find that the lion represents is used for both the Lord Jesus and Satan, but different attributes of the lion are ascribed to each, right? So for Jesus, he's the lion of the tribe of Judah, that means he's talking about the lion as a, you know, all conquering the king of the jungle kind of thing, so Jesus has all authority, all dominion. Satan is like a roaring lion, so he's talking more about how the lion comes very stealthily, he seeks whom he may devour, and he goes about like a roaring lion, it makes noise like that. So the same symbol is used both for Jesus and Satan, but different attributes of that symbol are ascribed, one is kingship, one is dominion, one is authority, that's Jesus, the other one is about stealth and about intimidation that the enemy uses as his tactic. Okay, okay, all right, so let's do a little bit more, and then we'll pause here for today, pause for today, so I'll just do five, maybe just one or two, right? So how do we exercise spiritual authority over the city? And our goal, of course, is to counteract what Satan is doing, and as we began earlier, we said, you know, Satan likes to take people, prisoners, captives, but holds them in bondage, so how do we basically enter the strong man's house and bind the strong man and release the prisoners? You know, the spoil is good, well here are some things we can do, number one, is to establish God's presence through praise and worship, so when we praise God, when we exalt him. So praise is not only a way to establish, you know, the presence of God, that means we say the Bible says God inhabits the praises of his people, so we are actually establishing his presence among the community, but it's also a way the Bible tells us that it's a weapon against the enemy. Psalm 8 and verse 2, which is also quoted in Matthew 21 verse 16, Jesus says that out of the mouth, Jesus quotes it, he says, out of the mouth of infants, you ordain praise that you might stop the enemy, so praise, us proclaiming praise stops the enemy, and Psalm 149 verse 6 to 9, you talk about how the high praises of God are like a double-edged sword in our hand and we execute vengeance on the enemy, so as we get the community together and praise and worship, that's a way to establish God's presence, that's a way to stop the enemy, that's a way to execute judgment on the enemy, so our praising God, our worship of God is actually causing this to happen to the enemy, the enemy is being put to stop, the enemy is being bound up and pushed back, so what we are doing is praising, exalting, glorifying our God, and that's what, that's the effect the enemy is experiencing as the body of believers worship and praise God, so that's a key, we know it from scripture, so that's a key to going against the works of darkness, just praise, presence, and worship. Okay, secondly we declare Christ's finished work for the salvation of souls, that means we announce, we come as messengers, so we announce over the city that the blood of Jesus Christ has been shed for the salvation of every person and therefore we are charging the powers of darkness to take their hands off of people, to release the people from darkness, so we are enforcing the finished work of Christ, of Christ on the cross for people in the city, we're enforcing it by announcing it, by declaring it, you know, so in our times of intercession, our times of prayer, we declare over the city, we declare in Jesus name, the blood of Jesus has been shed for every person in our city, so powers of darkness, release them, take your hands over them, and we speak redemption, we speak release for every person in the city, we speak release, we speak the shed blood of Jesus over the city, and we claim the salvation of lost souls in the city, right, so we're declaring over the city that Jesus Christ has shed his blood for them and therefore we want to, you know, we want to see people set free from whatever the enemy is holding them in the city, okay, so I will, I will stop here, we will pick pick up from here and we have still have 10 minutes to go, but I think I've given you a lot of, a lot of information and I've covered it very quickly because I'm kind of familiar with it, but what I do want to impress here is that as part of our church planning work, we must engage spiritually, right, and we must get the people to engage, so it's not just you and me praying by ourselves, of course we do that, that's important, but we get people to engage, the community comes together to pray and we understand the spiritual dynamics over the city and we understand how we can intentionally affect the spiritual dynamics over the city through our praise, through our worship, and through our prayer and the exercise of authority, right, so we must facilitate that, we must encourage believers to engage in that, to bring about a spiritual change over the city, okay, any questions on that? There's a question Kiran's asking is, is it possible when we are casting demons out, they can attack us? Well, they may, okay, let's say this, one, the demons cannot harm us, okay, and I like first John chapter five, I'll just put this out in the chat, John chapter five verse 18, it says, whoever is born of God keeps himself and that wicked one cannot touch him, so who is born of God? So we have to guard ourselves, of course, but that wicked one cannot touch us or the scripture that, you know, Jesus gave and looked at 19, the worst what Jesus said, he said, and bring your authority to draw down serpents and scorpions over all the power of the enemy and nothing will by any means hurt you, nothing will by any means hurt you, so that's the confidence with which we operate, that the wicked one cannot touch us, nothing will by any means harm us, Satan cannot. Now, will the enemy try to attack or retaliate? He may try, but he can't prevail, the one thing that gives, one thing that gives enemy access is fear, so the thing is this, you know, many believers are in fear and they have this presupposition that, oh, if I engage in spiritual warfare, the enemy is going to attack and I will suffer, no, you don't have to have any fear, right, that, you know, you serve God wholly and don't be afraid of any attack of the enemy, if he wants to retaliate, he's going to, he'll try and retaliate, in that case, I mean, he'll try to attack anytime, whether you are attacking or not, he's going to try to attack, he's going to try to attempt, he's going to try to do whatever, that's his job, but the Bible says he cannot touch us, the Bible says, nothing will by any means harm us, so we are confident in that, the enemy wants to try, that's up to him, he's going to try anytime, but he's not going to prevail, no weapon formed against me will prevail, so that's the confidence we have, so we are, we don't have to be afraid, the enemy is going to attack the individual or attack the church or attack that movement, we don't have to be afraid, is he going to try, yeah, he'll try, whether you do anything or not, he's going to try, if you're a child of God, or if you're a church of Jesus, he's going to try, but we stand with this confidence that he will not prevail, but we do have one responsibility that is to be on guard, right, that's what the scriptures teach us, you know, we have to resist him being firm in the faith, or we have to be on guard, or Ephesians says, don't give any place to the devil, right, so that's our responsibility, and we don't have to be fearful, okay, good, all right, yeah, I think that's it, any other questions on the chat, okay, so let's pause here, I've covered a lot of ground, but I want you to think about these things and see how you can get your congregations, people in your city or area, you know, engaged spiritually, right, and as much as we talk about all the natural things, the practical things, spiritually also, we must be active, here through prayer, intercession of worship, we need to engage and see transformation happening, okay, think about these things, see how you can use them in the areas where you are serving, be it close in prayer, I just request one of us to just pray and dismiss, maybe Dave, do you want to pray and dismiss us, please? Sure, first of all, thank you, Heavenly Father, I come back here, and we thank you for this class, we've learned today Lord Jesus, we thank you, we are so blessed, we have learned from such a wonderful man of God, this one of us, as we move ahead and give each one of us a vision and your burden to our own cities, and so that we can follow whatever we've learned today into our life. Amen, all right, thank you everyone, we'll pick this up next week, God bless you, I'll see you again tomorrow, bye now, thank you, thank you, God bless.