 Okay. Good morning. Good morning everyone. Welcome to class. Thank you for being here and continuing, you know, with your interest in learning more about prayer and intercession. We will pray and get started. So I want to request somebody from class to please lead us in prayer. You can use the mic and pray into the mic. Some are different. I think Rinna has already prayed once. Even Sean has prayed in the class. I remember. Anyone else who hasn't prayed? Come on. Vimal, let's pray. Thank you Jesus. Thank you for your mercy. Thank you for your grace. Thank you for a new day. You gave in our life, Lord Jesus. Lord, I pray for this session, Lord Jesus. Help us to know more about your word, about prayer, about how to spend time with you, Lord Jesus. Help us to grow in faith. Help us to grow in spiritually, Lord Jesus. And Lord Jesus, all glory and honor belongs to your name. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Vimal. So a quick note about the first graded assignment as the online students call it and the midterm exam for the in-person students or the on-campus students. You will have your exam this week on campus and online students, your question paper is already up. So it's a different question paper for the on-campus students. So I think Diana Mann will inform you about the exam. The chapters you can study are from chapter 1 to chapter 9. So for everybody, it's chapter 1 to chapter 9. For everybody for this first exam, it's an open book. You can see a book but you really have to know your subject to answer the questions. Even though it is an open book, so just made it a little easier. You can use your Bibles also, no problem. But I'm really looking at the answers. So if you've not understood, you will not be able to answer. Okay, so that's the thing. All the best. Just go through review. Yes. Okay, so for the online students, it is for 40 marks. For the on-campus students, it is for 75 marks. It's a one hour paper, one hour. Okay, so you've got to be ready to answer. You have to write and hand it back to the BC staff. Alright, sure. So with that good news, we will go further into... Yes, yes. Sorry. Yes, yes, it will. In the class as in not during the lectures. It's a separate time, which they will allot you when you have to sit and write your exam. Yeah, I think most probably it'll be in the afternoon. Yeah, yes. I think that I cannot answer. It depends on each lecturer. So it depends on the question itself. Yeah, but when we set the question paper, we plan it in such a way that you can manage it in one hour. Okay, so how many of our questions you'll be able to manage it? Okay, good. So I hope all your doubts are cleared. Any other doubts? What questions are? What? I didn't get the example. Oh, come on. I'm sure you will be able to handle it. I don't think I'll give you any example, Prince. You will be fine when you look at the questions. Don't worry. Yeah, so I'm just quickly looking at the chat here. Yes, good morning. Good morning everyone. So Krisha, for the online paper, what is the minimum word limit for the first three questions? So since this is an online paper, Krisha, you actually don't have a time limit. So it's really up to you. I would say you look at the sections, like if it's a long answer, then you could write maybe three paragraphs. Or if it is a short answer, you can just write one paragraph. So it's totally up to you. Sometimes students have so much information to put in, they write two pages for one long answer, but it's really up to you. Okay, so online students, there's no, I'm not putting any limit on the words. It's totally a decision. I hope that helps. Yeah, so was there some other question here? I will not be able to give you more details about the paper. It's one hour. It has enough number of questions that you can easily manage. Okay, that's all I'm going to say. This time, it is open book. I don't know about next time because it's your first midterm exam. I thought, okay, let's make it as easy as possible. So yeah, but please study and come. Otherwise, you won't be able to answer. Okay, sure. All right, so let's go into today's topic. This is chapter 10. Yes, mostly after. Yeah. Yes, answers. You mean sitting arrangement? See, I mean, I don't know exactly how it will be, but it will be in such a way that, you know, there will be a distance between students. But then you're in Bible college. I think distance or no distance should actually not matter because you'll be looking at your books. Right. Okay. Fine. So don't worry. Don't worry about the questions, sitting arrangement, all that. Let's, let's get into the chapter here. Okay, chapter 10 persistence in prayer. So, so far we've learned about personal prayer, how to build up our own personal prayer. And in the last session, we talked a little bit about prophetic prayer. You know how hearing from God helps us pray better. Okay, because if you don't know the specific will of God in certain situations, we need the specific will, isn't it? So unless we hear from God as to what God is going to do or, you know, what does God's will for somebody's life. It becomes difficult to pray focused. So God reveals, God reveals, in scripture we've seen that he reveals. We said that if there are things that lay ahead, maybe a warning or, you know, if someone has a certain destiny in God, God may reveal that. You know, way ahead, you may have somebody pray over a person, even a child and say, oh, this child is called for ministry. So how do they know? How do they know that God has a call on a child, child's life and that at some point in their lives, they will be serving God because of the prophetic. Okay, prophetic, we see that prophecy is a gift from God. It's a gift and it reveals, it reveals many things, not just about the future, but it could also be used to turn prophetic generally. For some of the revelation gifts, you know, things like word of knowledge, word of wisdom. These are gifts which are there in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. So broadly, we use prophetic for all of these revelatory gifts. So when we are praying, God may reveal something of the past, which is word of knowledge. Okay, or God may reveal something of the future, we tend to call it prophecy. Okay, many a time we call it prophecy or God might reveal the solution to a problem. That is word of wisdom when we don't know what exactly to do. You know how the disciples went to Jesus when they had to pay taxes and they asked him, Lord, like, we have to pay taxes. And what did Jesus say? You go, you'll find a coin in the fish's mouth. What is that? How did Jesus know? So it's a gift and operation. It's solving the problem in that moment. So we generally call it word of wisdom. Okay, all these come under the category of the prophetic. So God can reveal past, present, future, anything to help us pray more aligned to his will and his purpose. So it's important as people who are praying, yes, we have to be very, you know, it helps to be disciplined. And we talked about that, you know, if you set a time aside, you plan what prayer points you're going to pray for all that. So it's very structured, planned, prepared, organized kind of prayer. But in our prayer, we have to be open to the leading of the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit might see I might be praying with a certain idea in mind, but the Holy Spirit might suddenly reveal something else to me. So that is prophetic. So in a prayer, we have to make space for the prophetic because otherwise there can be some prayers which we are praying, which is not at all aligned to the purpose of God. You understood, we end up becoming very stuck. So we saw all the examples, you know, we saw Amos, how God revealed that there's going to be destruction coming upon the people. And immediately he uses that to pray to God. So when God reveals something that revelation, it can be about a person, it can be about myself, it can be about my family, or it can be about somebody else. Either an individual or let's say a church or let's say a city. So when God reveals something, I also was telling all of us, it is not to go and tell. Okay, so the first thing that we have to do whenever God reveals something is what? What should we do if God reveals something? You have a dream God reveal something what to do? I can't hear you. Pray, pray. Yes, pray. Okay, so that is the default response which we need to have unless God puts it in our hearts and says you have to go and tell this. And prophetic words are generally for an audience. Okay, so we can also find out like who should be listening to this prophetic word? Is it one person? Is it the whole church? Is it, is it, you know, a larger group of people? So whenever a word has to be shared, we have to ask all these questions because if we are not careful, if we don't have wisdom, we will end up, let's say it's a message only for Rin, okay. And what if I tell the whole class? It may not be appropriate. All right. For example, I'll just say Joseph, you remember Joseph, he had a, he had a dream that, you know, when he had all these dreams that what was it? All the planets, something like that, the heavenly bodies were coming and bowing to one particular body. And then similarly, he saw that there were wheat, yeah, the swans, they were all bowing to one particular, you know, wheat crop or sheaf or whatever you call it. So he interpreted that and he said that you will all bow down to me. He told his brothers that that was not appropriate actually. He should have just prayed about it. Did it happen in his life? It happened. But he did a mistake. That was not the right time. And that was, they were not the right audience to reveal God's purpose for his life because what did it create? Jealousy. It created jealousy. So I'm giving you an example. So whenever we receive a word from God, you pray, you pray through, you pray through. One good thing you can do is to write it down. You know, sometimes it helps to just jot down your dreams, you jot down the prophetic word. Maybe when you're praying, you get a word from God, you quickly write it down. Okay, God spoke to me about, you know, about my, my talent that I must use it for him. I got this reference of scripture. Just write it down and you begin to pray in line with that. So that is about prophetic prayer. Okay. So now let's move on to persistence in prayer. There are times when we need to be, you know, that we should not give up in prayer. Yeah. So anyone here had an experience where you prayed for something, you know, it's God's will for your life. But, you know, you've prayed for it for a very long time. Maybe it's not yet happened. It's still not happened. Yes. You want to share? Okay, no problem. Okay, Sean, you have something to share. Please use the mic. Can you hear me? Yeah. It's a bit embarrassing, but I actually prayed for a phone that I wanted to buy for a very long time, which took about, I think two years to get in my price range. So I prayed for that phone and I got it and at the right time I got the right price. So that's what I want to say. Okay. So Sean, I couldn't hear you very well. You prayed for a phone? Yeah, to buy a phone. Okay. Which was a bit costly at the time. So I wanted to like count on the proper price for me to afford it. Okay. So it took, I think it took about a year and a half. Then it got reduced to the proper price and I got what I wanted. So yeah, I think that's one consistent prayer I can say. Okay, that's nice. So a year and a half is a fairly long time to pray for that one request. But you know, sometimes there are things that you are probably praying for many more years. So it happens to, you know, some of us. So these things can happen. But when we know that something is the will of God, what we want to encourage is we should not give up on it. Okay. We should never give up on it. We have to pray consistently. We have to pray persistently. So I don't know if you've heard the testimonies of so many different pastors. I've not heard it from one pastor, but so many pastors when they started their ministry, they were initial years of struggle and you know, God gave them a vision that they will, the church will be filled with so many people, hundreds of people. But in the initial years, they struggled and they were wondering, hey, I have only five people. I have only 10 people. What is happening? God, you promised, but time is just passing by. But there are testimonies where, you know, they share how after a certain period, you know, like threshold, suddenly the church started growing. It started increasing and it started thriving. What if they had given up? Okay. And especially when it comes to church planting, church planting, you know, you pioneer a work, a ministry work somewhere, it's not easy. Maybe you're the, you're the first person who's going there. You may have to face many challenges. You may have to work very hard. Okay. So when all that is going on and you're praying and trusting God that your ministry will be fruitful. Sometimes we may have the tendency to give up because it's just so hard, so difficult. But God's word encourages us and says, you must pray with persistence. So persistence means don't give up. Don't give up. You remember Hannah, the mother of Samuel, she did not have children. Whereas, you know, her rival, Penina, she had children. And here is Hannah praying. How often is she praying? Every time she went, I mean, obviously she's praying the whole time, but especially when she visited the temple, you know, she prayed, she sought God. She did not give up. Was it a difficult situation for her? Very much. Okay. Was it possible for her at some points to think that maybe God is not going to give me the answer to this prayer? Maybe God has changed his mind. So we end up having all these doubts in our minds. But if there is something which is in the will of God, okay, and we are sure that, hey, the prayer which I'm praying, it's very much aligned to the word of God. It's very much aligned to the will of God, the purpose of God for my life. I will not give up. So if you're very clear, hey, God has put a calling on my life. Let's say a pastoral calling is put a calling on my life. If you call me here to plan this church, it's looking very difficult for three years, five years. But you're very clear. There is a call of God on my life and God has promised me that I am going to minister to whatever hundreds and thousands of people. You don't give up on it just because you don't see anything happening around you. Okay. So that is the point. Never give up. Never give up or persistence, persistence. So let's quickly look at a couple of passages here in scripture that talk about persistence. So there are two passages in the book of Luke one about, you know, about a neighbor. Okay. And the other about like a wicked judge or a ruler. So let's quickly turn to these passages, chapter 11 versus five through eight. I would need one of us to please read it. And then chapter 18 versus one through eight. Another person can read so we can quickly go through both of these passages. Okay. And you can read this is the mic. And he said to them, which of you shall have have a friend and go to him at midnight and say to him. Friend, lend me three loaves for a friend of mine has come to me on his journey. And I have nothing to say before him. And he will answer from within and say, do not trouble me. The door is now shut and my children are with me in bed. I cannot rise and give to you. I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he's his friend. It because of his persistence. He will rise and give him as many as he needs. Okay. So it's a friend. Okay. Approaching another friend. But what time is he approaching this friend at a time when it is uncomfortable? Okay. People are resting. So just hold on. Hold on to it. So one friend is approaching another friend at midnight to get some food for a visit. So it's a very odd time. Right. And what do we see there? That particular person. Okay. He might the one, you know, who is being asked for a favor. Even if he's unwilling or unhappy, you know, because of the timing and the discomfort to him, the Bible says that he would still get up and go and give the friend what he needs because. The other person is persisting or he's not giving up. Right. So sometimes what happens just because a request is repeatedly coming and that individual is not giving up. What do you do? You're like, okay, fine. Just take it. Leave me alone. It's time to sleep. So with that kind of an attitude. This particular friend actually gives what he requires. We have been given this example. Not to say that, you know, we are irritating God or frustrating God with our repeated request. That's not the point. The point is to understand the meaning of persistence. So the friend who needed something. He doesn't give up. He goes even if it is 12 midnight. He goes. He has a need, you know, for bread or something to give the visitor. And so he makes sure that he asks for it and he asks for it repeatedly because his intention is I've got to get it to give it to the visitor. So basically what we can take from this is never give up attitude. Even if the situation is very adverse late in the night, unwilling friend. Okay. But I need something to give to the guest. So I don't have an option. I will ask the friend who is able to give me something. So in the same way, we must approach God and God is reminding us. Be persistent. Don't stop till you get what you need. Okay. We'll see other truths later on. So let's now quickly go to chapter 18 versus one through eight. Now he was telling them a parable to show that all at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart. Saying in a certain city, there was a judge who did not fear God and did not respect man. There was a widow in the city and she kept coming to him saying, give me a legal protection from my opponent for a while. He was unwilling. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for that. So in this case, there is an old lady and she approaches the ruler for justice. Now the ruler not because he was good and gracious, you see, if the ruler was good and gracious, he would want to do justice for that lady, but he is going to do justice for her because she's not giving up. So what does Jesus want us to note in both of these, you know, stories or parables? The persistence of the friend, the persistence of the woman. Okay. Of the widow. Yeah. Am I muted? I can't hear what Prince is saying actually. It's muted. It's actually not muted here. Can you hear now? Okay. So it was on. It was on. I don't know why maybe I was not holding it close enough. Okay. Sure. Yeah. I think it's fine now. All right. So what I'm saying is Jesus wanted us to make a note of the persistence of these people in prayer. If you ask for something repeatedly, is it okay or not? Okay. It's okay. Okay. Do you think God will feel nagged? What is this? Always these people come in the same prayer point, prayer list. They bring them. They keep saying God give, give, give or do this, do this. Uh, ma'am, I think when it comes to persistence, it doesn't mean it doesn't mean like people keep on nagging or keep passing the same thing. I think you pray once and you have faith in what you prayed. I think that's the persistence that is, I think that's the person that God's talking about. Not in prayer, not keep on continually praying the same thing over and over. But pray and have faith in what you prayed and to have a strong faith on the, on that matter. That's the persistence you'll, you need to have in prayer. Okay. Sure. So when you pray once, you have faith in it. Okay. You have faith in it. So in both of these examples, we saw two unwilling people who did not want to help, you know, those who approached them. But the contrast or the opposite of these people is what the nature of God is. Do you understand? So God is not an unwilling ruler or an unwilling friend whom you have to go and keep shaking and saying, please do it, do it, do it. We don't have to do that. In fact, what did we study in Matthew chapter six? We studied that he is a heavenly father and he himself said, you know, give us this day a daily bread. You pray, you ask. So when God has asked us to reach out to him, we need to understand that he is willing to do what his word promises us. So that is one difference in these stories and who God is in these parables. The people are unwilling, but our God is willing. Okay. So that is the first difference. Second one is that these people are going on asking repeatedly. Isn't it? Give me justice. Give me bread. Give me something to give my visitor. But as Sean said, in our relationship with God, yes, initially there might be a phase where we are struggling, you know, with doubts and questions and our faith has not come to its correct position. So initially we may be praying the same thing repeatedly and, you know, saying, God, you know, I want to see this breakthrough do this. But once your faith is in action, right, it comes into action from that point onwards, persistence does not mean asking. Okay. So you move from asking to giving thanks. So it's a very confident position that you take in prayer because now you have faith. You are confident. So what are you saying? You're saying, God, I want to thank you. Thank you that, you know, this is going to happen at the right time. You will cause this to happen. Thank you that your word is true. Thank you that, you know, you confess the word. So you are in a place of faith and confidence, even in persistence. Who's a good example of somebody who gave thanks during their waiting time. Yes. Louder. Give it a try. David. Okay. Yeah. David, you could say during his heart times, he gave thanks to God. I will bless the Lord at all times. Okay. Sure. Anyone else waiting for the promise of God? Abraham. Okay. I'm sure you studied in faith, the course faith Romans chapter four. He gave thanks to God. So when it comes to persistence, it's like that initially we, we are in that asking mode, but eventually what happens is we go to a place where we are already confident in our hearts that God is going to do it. So it's more of giving thanks, praising God and speaking and declaring what God is going to make manifest in our lives. Now my next question to us is we are confident that God is going to do it. It's God's will. God has given the promise. He will do it. Why the wait? Why can't God just do it right now? Why should we wait? Preparation. Okay. Nice. That's true. Preparation is one of the reasons. Yes. In his time. Okay. God's timing. God's. Yes. To develop a character. Okay. Good. So can I put that in preparation? Developer character timing. Yes. I think it's to see like how willing you are and what you're asking for. How? I think I want to see how willing you are and what you're asking for. How willing you are. Yeah. Okay. More like a test. Yeah, maybe because. Okay. I mean, if you can take like Abrams, Abrams example, when God came and talked to Abraham, he didn't come the next day and speak to him. He had like a huge like, you know, a gap between his conversation with God. I mean, that's one thing because on all those years, Abraham had to like, you know, have faith in God's promise. You know, God will just come like once and speak to him. Maybe he'll just speak to him after like 10 years or so. So I think that's a good example to see about his faith in God's promise. I mean, he didn't, I mean, after his, when you said, I think 80 or 80 or something is when he had Isaac and very, it's too old to have a child at that time, but it was made possible. Okay. Sure. And that child, and he was told to sacrifice the child and he had complete faith on God. Even though he hasn't yet fulfilled his promise that he has told in the first place, the first promise. Okay. So I get where you're coming from. So it's more like a test of character, test of your, you know, the preparation of your heart. Okay, fine. That's, that's another reason. So if God is so willing, I told you that in the parables, there were unwilling people, but God is willing and God is the one who's promising. So why the wait? Your answers are preparation, building character, timing, what else, what else? Sorry. Great things need time. Okay. Okay. Great things take time. So thanks for that quote. Another reason why things take time is it may not be like if God has to do with me because on your side also, because if you're praying on something, you shouldn't have doubt on what you pray. Because once you have doubt, doubt is set in there and immediately that water you pray for will go away. If you have, suppose you pray that I want a guitar or something and you have faith in what you pray in. But later on you think, can I afford the guitar? Will I be able to buy a guitar? You know, due to what I get this payment, I get this, will I be able to afford the guitar? And you have the step of doubts, you won't get the guitar in the end and the prayer won't be answered. Yeah. So we've not come to that place of faith and that's not God's fault, right? Like when we have faith, then we know we can receive. If you don't doubt in your heart and you believe the word of God says, you will ask and you will receive that. But if we are taking a long time to come to that place of faith, it's not God's fault that we still don't have faith, right? So then the delay happens because we have not come to a place of faith. That's true. Yeah, that's another reason. Any other lot of discussion going on there? So any research outcomes? Yeah. Sure. Yeah, Vinay, tell me. Your praying about the unwilling God is not unwilling about that matter. Yeah. Tell me Vinay once again. I couldn't hear you. It's unwilling what you are praying for. Should God, like if you ask more times, should God provide that? Okay. So I'm still not able to hear you. You're asking for things which God is not willing to give us. But if you pray on and on persistently, if God is, will change this mind. Okay. Okay. I got that question. So what if we are praying for the things which are not in God's will for us? So then also there is a delay, right? We don't get it. And there was a question along with it, will God give it to us? Okay. Will God give it to us? So you see the context of what we are talking about today is prayers which are being prayed in the will of God. So when we pray in the will of God, there are delays. So that's the context. But to just answer Vinay's question, obviously if you are praying for the wrong thing and God is not doing, there's a big delay because it's like Jonah. You don't go there. You go there. You're wasting your time. But then will God allow you to do that? Yeah. I think it completely depends. Okay. And it's hard to say because in a situation like Jonas, we know that God had to intervene and say, no, you cannot. I'm sending you to a particular place. You have to go there. But if you look at, you know, certain instances, it happened like Saul, God called Saul, God anointed Saul and God's plan for Saul was that he would be the ruler. He would rule and reign. But he was disobedient to God. And this could just tell us that God was so unhappy. He was sad that he picked Saul to be the king and he had to take David. So what happened? God allowed Saul to, I mean, I'm just saying allowed, but it was more of Saul's decision to go his own way. So I think in certain instances, though you're like you're headed in the wrong path, God intervenes, but then some situations. Yeah. If I believe, you know, there's like a thin line. If you cross that line, you know, if you're very hard hearted, and even God cannot miss, like we're not listening to God, then what can God do? He'll just let us have our choice. Yeah, sure. Yes. I think another reason why like God doesn't intervene as much is because I think that God has given us free will. You know, from the beginning when he created us, he gave us free will. So if he kept intervening in our lives, whenever we make a decision or so, then it would totally negate the reason that he gave free will. Correct. Correct. Yeah. In the end, it's up to us as to what choices to make. And if we really need like God's help to make a decision, then we can just pray to God and ask for God's guidance for it. Or let's say that God has to intervene every single time. Correct. So God won't do that. He won't keep interfering because as Sean is saying, we all have free will. So he expects us to take charge of our own lives. So now let's look at some of the key reasons why we need to be persistent or persevere in prayer. All the reasons that you all shared are very valid. But here are three very important reasons. One of course is timing. Okay. God's timing. We think that, you know, we have to be doing something right away, but there is a certain time to that. For example, when God's people went into Babylonian captivity, so there was a prophecy by Jeremiah. He said 70 years in Babylon after that they will come out. So even if they tried to come out, it may not happen because that prophetic word had already gone forth that 70 years, they will be under captivity. So that timing had to be fulfilled and we will read later on that Daniel was somebody. He read the scriptures and he was aware of the timings of God. So he was aware that those 70 years are coming to a completion. And so he begins to pray and ask God for the freedom of the people. So that way for a nation, for a region, for individuals, families, there is God's timing. You know, we cannot work outside of God's timing. Second, demonic interception, demonic interception. So can somebody quickly read Daniel 10, 12 and 13? Mike, please. Yeah. Do not fear Daniel 4 from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before your God. Your words were here and I have come because of your words. But the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia, which stood me 21 days and behold Michael on of the ship. Prince came to help me for I had been left alone there with the Kings of Persia. Okay. So this is an incident where Daniel was praying about something. Okay. And sorry about that. Yeah. Daniel was praying about something and he was seeking God's answer. But at that time, no, he had an angel come to him. So this is Daniel chapter 10 versus 12 and 13 where the angel comes to him and tells him that the moment you started praying. Okay. So the moment you started praying, your prayer was heard before your God, your words were heard and I have come because of your words. So the moment the prayer went up. Was that an answer? Yes, there was an answer. But there was interference. So there are there is a mention of names such as chief princes. No, no kingdom of Persia with the Prince of the Kingdom of Persia which stood me 21 days. So what is happening? So when we study about believers authority, we will also talk about Satan and the way Satan works. And Satan also has a kingdom of his own where he has, you know, the rulers he has, you know, spirits of wickedness. So he has all these demonic spirits that work along with him. So what's happening here when Daniel prayed God answered the prayer immediately but one of the demonic authorities named as Prince of Persia. Okay. Prince of Persia in the, you could say like the unseen realm in the unseen realm, the demonic forces coming against the answered prayer. So the prayer has to come down to Daniel. You can imagine that you know the prayer answer has to come down to Daniel, but the Prince of Persia is stopping it. But the good thing is Daniel continued to pray. That is what we call as persistent prayer. He didn't give up in prayer. So when he was continuing to pray what happened? Angels were released. So that's what you'll see here. You have some of the mighty angels who are released and they fight the Prince of Persia. And finally the answer comes to Daniel. How long after how long? 21 days, 21 days. But Daniel had to pray for those 21 days. What if he gave up and said God is not answering my prayer? So sometimes there is an answer. There is a delay in the answer because demons are interfering. Okay. In the spiritual realm from the answer to getting for it to get to us. You understood what I'm saying. So that is why we must not give up. We must keep praying. We must keep declaring. You got it? We must stand on the word and the promise and say, no, God said it. It will happen. God said it. This is God's word. He will pour out his spirit. So what do we do? We stand on the word and we don't give up. So when we are doing that, it's like saying that, you know, there is this whole spiritual dynamics going on in heaven where angels are released. They are fighting with the demon hindrances and slowly the answer will come to us. Yes. Francis question. Yeah. This one only Daniel 10 12 to 13. Yeah. Can just go through that again. How do you know that it's demonic force? So in this case, God reveals it. Okay. So the angel comes. No. In verse 13, but the prince of the kingdom of Persia, which stood me 21 days and we hold Michael, one of the chief, chief princess came to help me. So one of the angels is stalking. Michael Michael is also another angel. So the angels fought against the demonic princess. So that is revealed to Daniel. So he came to know there was a hindrance. Now, in our situation, I would say that the Holy Spirit, because Romans 8 16, it says the spirit bears witness with our spirit. So we might not know the reason for the delay, but sometimes, sometimes we would know because the Holy Spirit dances that. Okay. So that way, can we take a break because it's 950. We'll all get a break and then we will come back and go ahead. Thank you.