 Welcome everyone. It's so good to be back at the with the mentoring hour this morning and it's really great that each one of you could connect. We will pray and we will get started. I know that some of our other friends are still joining but we can begin with the word of prayer and I'm sure they'll connect shortly. So let me begin with the word of prayer. Let's pray. Heavenly Father we thank you Lord for this time. Lord we thank you that Father God we can look at the scriptures, Lord we can meditate on your word. Father thank you Lord for the blessing that the word is to our hearts and our lives of God. Father even this morning as we in every heart and every life bless this time Father in Jesus we pray. So welcome once again for those who just joined in. This morning we would like to begin with like a short meditation if you like or a short talk on a particular subject and we thought that that will be good for us to think about and ask questions about. However in the mentoring hour as we've shared earlier the questions can be regarding any aspect. So students are welcome to ask questions with regard to Christian life, Christian ministry, something that they're learning here at the Bible college or something beyond their curriculum and syllabus as well. But for the sake of you know if some focus we thought that we could talk about a particular subject and then invite questions on that subject and then move on to other questions. So I hope it's okay with everyone and as we had shared in our communication today we will talk about hearing from God. Hearing from God is so exciting. We have a God who speaks, we have a God who has spoken throughout the ages. He has spoken to people in the Old Testament, he has spoken to people in the New Testament and today he continues to speak to each one of us. God is a God who speaks in the now and he communicates what is on his heart to us who believe. So as we look at the Old Testament we know that there are mighty prophets of God like Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel who have their experiences of receiving a word from God, receiving a message from God to communicate to the people and similarly in the New Testament we do see God working through his men and women. But after the baptism in the Holy Spirit we see that even ordinary believers begin to receive God's communication in the form of dreams, visions, prophetic word and they minister to one another. So hearing from God is seen throughout scripture. Now another term that we could use for hearing from God is simply being prophetic or the ministry associated with hearing God's voice. We also call it the prophetic ministry. Now when we consider hearing from God it's not just about hearing God's voice and conveying a message. It is not limited only to that but hearing from God is just one step and we know that when we hear from God it's life transforming, God gives us instructions, God gives us comfort and encouragement. So there's so much that happens when we really hear from God. We can hear God's word and the next step would be for us to actually do what God is telling us to do and that will reveal what God wants to do in our lives. So we hear from God and we also do what God is telling us to do. And we see examples of this in scripture of people like Daniel who heard from God and as the Lord led him he communicated those messages. He acted on people like Joseph who had the direction of God to lead people in a crisis situation and they acted upon it and there was an incredible deliverance. And people were blessed because of hearing as well as doing the word of God. Now when we consider the prophetic we see progression. I already mentioned that there are believers who can prophesy by the power of the Holy Spirit. But scriptures also talk about an office of the prophet where God calls some men and women to minister in that governmental authority to carry a greater responsibility with regard to the prophetic ministry. They even call out, give the church direction, directives. So there is also the office of a prophet. So in general we know that all believers can prophesy but there is also the office of a prophet. So how is it that God really speaks to us? A couple of ways that we are familiar with based on what scripture tells us is the primary way is through the written word. So the standard of God's word must be upheld. That is the primary way which God speaks to us. We also have the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. Every believer has the Holy Spirit dwelling within them and the Holy Spirit guides us and leads us according to the purposes of God. And of course through the prophetic ministry. So the prophetic ministry is to receive a word from God through the prophetic word or through dreams, visions and various other manners in which God communicates to people. And we see more and more that people are understanding the prophetic and there is a prophetic movement that we see around us. God is really awakening us to the importance of the prophetic and also to move in the prophetic. I will just share a little bit about how we as human beings and believers we hear from God and after that I will leave this type open. You may ask questions with regard to the prophetic ministry and then we will move on to other questions. So we know that God is a spirit and in creating us human beings God has created a spirit soul and body. See that in 1st Thessalonians 513 and the part of us that receives the message of God or the communication from God is our spirit man in problems 20 plus 27. See that the spirit of the man is the lamp of the Lord and God lights it up. So God communicates mainly through our spirit man. So that's where we receive God's communication. Now how do we perceive God's communication? We know that our body has 5 senses. We are able to feel, see, hear, taste, smell and these are natural and we understand how the body works. Similarly our spirit man also has at least 5 senses if not more and through these senses we can perceive God's communication. So in our spirit we are able to feel or sense what God wants to speak to us. Good examples are in the book of Acts we find that about Paul it is said that he was stirred in a spirit, he was provoked in a spirit. So in a sense or a feeling in the spirit is one way in which we can perceive what God is saying. The second is to be able to see and we're talking about seeing through the spiritual senses and the spirit eyes. How can we really grasp this? There are examples in scripture where we find the prophets of God like Amos seeing pictures. In Amos 7 he sees a coming judgment. So he sees fire and no casts and in another instance he sees a basket of fruit. So in this way they saw the spirit realm and then they interpreted that and communicated it to the people. Dreams, visions, all of these come under the perception where we are able to see what God is speaking to us. Here in most often we hear God's voice not so much audibly but words can come into our spirit. Words such as blessing or something that God wants to communicate. Maybe I'm just giving an example. Maybe we receive the word water but that word water may actually be referring to the Holy Spirit and the work of the Holy Spirit. After interpreting it we know what God is really trying to speak to us. The other sense is taste where sometimes we are able to taste and scriptures also tell us that like in the Psalms, taste and see that the Lord is good. So the spirit man has a sense of taste and even based on that we can receive God's communication and smell. We say the aroma of Christ. So through these senses we can perceive what the Lord is saying. We would need to interpret it for which we will need to use our soul for the reasoning, the analyzing and then really convey the message that God is communicating. So I just wanted to share briefly about hearing from God and it will be great if there are any questions pertaining to hearing from God. Please feel free to pose those questions. I'm looking at the chat here and then Daniel Oliver has a comment. He says, I noticed my church pastor saying in a church announcement that Holy Spirit told me or Holy Spirit said, but I have noticed many that that ever the pastor says is wrong most of the times. So is it hearing from God or something else? So when it is said that one is hearing, the Holy Spirit told me in Daniel's experience he found that he noticed that it was wrong. So is it really hearing from God or something else? That's his question. So I just want to leave it open for the faculty here. Hi, good morning. Just wanted to say that like what we've been looking at the scriptures that as believers, as the sheep of the great shepherd, we have each one of us, we have the privilege of hearing the voice of the shepherd. We have the privilege of hearing the voice of our Lord and that's how we are created. We are designed as new creations and that is something that we need to understand and esteem and step into. So that's a reality that we see in scripture. We see that the Lord wants to speak. The Lord wants to communicate through his spirit, through his word. Now that aside, we know that the Lord is perfect. His communication is perfect. But we as human beings, we are spirit, soul and body. Our mind needs our soul. Our mind needs to be renewed to the word of God in order to really grasp what the spirit of God is saying. And so we could have prejudices. We could have biases. We could be soul, soul focused or flesh focused. And that we miss out something that is coming from the Holy Spirit. So it's just that, well, to answer Daniel's question, we could be hearing from God. So that's no doubt about it. We are designed to hear from God. But we also, the second part of it is the confirmation or the, sorry, the interpretation. Now the Lord does speak in symbols. The Lord does speak to us certain things in a symbolic manner. So if what is conveyed in a symbolic manner is taken literally, then there would be a miscommunication. Or if I add my prejudice or bias to what the spirit of God is communicating, the perfect message, then there is again a miscommunication. So this can happen to anyone. This can happen to all believers, pastors, whoever it can happen. But we have the privilege of learning from our mistakes and correcting ourselves and going forward. Now that's why we see Paul giving that instruction, let every prophecy be tested. You prophesy. He doesn't say, don't prophesy. But he says, let it be tested. And the word of the Spirit agree, so you test. And in the same passage, what Pastor Manji said, 1 Thessalonians 5, he talks about hold on to what is good. Don't despise prophecies. But you hold on to what is good. In the sense that we are learning, we are getting sharper and sharper to hear the voice of God and receive. So that's the journey we need to make. So I'll leave it at that. Thank you, Pastor Jai Kumar. So Daniel, does that answer your question or you have a follow-up question to ask? Okay. So Daniel says, got a good reply. Thanks. Thank you, Daniel. Let's continue if there are any other questions with regard to the same subject of hearing from God. Please go ahead and ask them. And as Pastor Jai Kumar was sharing, I was also reminded of the fact that as we hear from God and sort of practice it, if I may use that word, then we can get better at grasping what the Spirit of God is saying to us, interpreting it in the right manner and also conveying the right message. So Daniel, that's another thing that I just want to add to what you said. So maybe the message which one is hearing is authentic, it's genuine. But somewhere in the interpretation, there could be issues because of which you may have noticed that even though one is claiming that those words are from the Holy Spirit, it is not really coming to pass. So one can train themselves in hearing from the Lord better. Even if you have, you know, something to ask apart from today's subject, it's all right. We can discuss on another theme. So Sanjay has posted from scripture and empirical evidence, we know that the human body returns to the earth up to death. So what is the destination of the soul and spirit for both believers and non-believers? Are the soul and spirit inseparable? Do they have a common destination or separate destinations? So a couple of questions in there. So after that the human body returns to the earth. Two questions or three questions. What is the destination of the soul and spirit for both believers and non-believers? Second question, are the soul and spirit inseparable? Third, do they have a common destination or separate destinations? Can I answer that? Yes, please master. Thank you Sanjay for the question. So we know that as human beings we are tripart beings, we are spirit soul body. And so when a person dies, of course the body, we can see it, we know the body is put to the ground, the case is destroyed. But now the spirit which is the eternal part of us. And then there is the soul, the soul connects the spirit and the body. And just to understand it, there is the human side of the soul and there is a spiritual side of the soul. And you said the human side of the soul, it is the expression of the soul that we see visibly. The mind, the will, the emotions which when we interact with the other person, we are interacting with that person's soul as well, the personality, the thoughts, their emotions, etc. So we could call that the human side of the soul. A lot of it is connected to the functions of the brain. Of course all of that seizes, that means we no longer are able to interact, the brain decays and goes wrong. But we can look at the other part which is the spiritual side of the soul which is in one sense the soul also is eternal. So it's connected to the inner man, the eternal part. So there is the spirit which is eternal and there is the spiritual side of the soul which is also eternal. Meaning after a person dies, the body decays, the physical side of the soul is gone. But on the spiritual side, there is the spirit and the spiritual side of the soul which continues to live. Because the person can feel, can think in the spirit as well, spiritual. And then depending on whether they are a believer or non-believer, the spirit is going to go directly to God or going to go to heaven. Examples of this is in Luke chapter 16 when Jesus talks about the rich man and Lazarus. So the rich man goes into hell but he can feel, he can remember things and he's speaking to Abraham. It says, Father Abraham, can you send somebody back to my own people? Or can Lazarus at least dip the tip of his finger in water and come and touch the tip of my tongue? So obviously there is a lot of feeling, there's a lot of emotion. The spirit is in hell but there is that spiritual part of the soul that's also connected so he can still feel, he can still, you know, there's memory, there's all of that. And similarly when we go, when a believer dies, the spirit goes directly to be with the Lord. Second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 1 through 8 says that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Philippians chapter 1 Paul says, you know, for me to die is, for me to live with Christ and to die is game. He says, shall I depart and be with the Lord? So obviously as soon as he dies, he's going to be with the Lord. First of all, this is chapter 4 verse 18 on. It talks about that the Lord Jesus will bring with him the spirits of those who have died in Christ. So that means when a believer dies, the spirit is being with the Lord. I mean, the Lord comes, he brings them with him. So the spirit is with the Lord. There is also the whole aspect of recognition, knowing because you're going to be engaging in worship. You're going to be engaging in, you know, in a lot of things. And again, when we look through the book of Revelation, we see that when people die and they come into the presence of the Lord, there is worship. And their souls have been given, they've been martyred with Christ and so on. So, yeah, so that's what we have known that the question, the spirit and the spiritual side of the soul are together. And wherever the person is going to go, hell or heaven, they're going to go, it's going to go together. They're not separate, they're inseparable in that sense. Is that clear, Sanjay? I hope I can make... If you have a follow-up question, you're welcome. Thank you, Pastor. Sanjay, I hope that answers your question. Pastor, I just wanted to check. Second Corinthians 5, 1 to 8, 1 Thessalonians 4, 18, and I missed the scripture in the Philippines. Oh, so we also looked at Luke chapter 16. We meant to refer to the story of the rich men, the large rich. And we also referred to Philippians chapter 1. It's around verse 21 where Paul says, to live as Christ, to die as gay, and to be present for the Lord. Thank you, Pastor. Share those scriptures. Thank you for clarifying this for Sanjay. Yeah, Sanjay says, thank you, Pastor. I took notes too. Coming to Shiva's question here, she says, one of my friends, she's doing DNA training and she asked to perform on Bollywood songs. She will not get marks if she doesn't dance on that song. So she should do that or not. First, she refused. She told, I don't dance on Bollywood songs. She didn't get marks, so what to do for this? Okay, since it has to do with music, I think I will request Pastor Jay Kumar to please try and answer Shiva's question. So she asks here whether her friend, is it okay for her friend to dance on a Bollywood song? And since her friend refused, she did not get her marks. So that's also something that happened. Pastor, would you have some thoughts? Okay. So I guess it's like the person taking a stand for what they believe in. So it's a good thing to check the song because we know that some of the songs could have words that are very suggestive and vulgar and so on. And some songs need not be. So if it's a question of marks and everything, you can check the lyrics of the songs. And say this is something that's against my principle or against my values. So can I suggest something else? Maybe I can dance to an instrumental and I can do that. So that's another option. So now I guess this is already done. So one thing is even if it's up for discussion, if this person can discuss with the superiors, authorities, whoever is there, and if it's possible for them to change their mind, you could always say, it's not that I'm against dancing, but the words of the song is what. So if there's something instrumental and I don't mind dancing, or if there's, can I suggest another song? And I would like to dance to that. So I think that can solve the problem. Yeah, I hope that helps. Shiba. Thank you. Shiba says, thank you. The question is answered. So really a good set of questions today. So initially we were talking about hearing from God and then Sanjay's question about the spirit and soul and their destiny. Then Shiba's question about taking a stand for the Lord. Sanjay is asking another question or is that a comment? He says, as a music teacher, I refuse to teach a song which is inappropriate and most people obliged with. Okay. Thank you, Sanjay. Thank you for sharing from your experience. And as Pashjekumar shared with us, sometimes we have to take a stand, right? Yeah, and that's how we can honor God and we can honor God's standards. So thank you so much, Sanjay, for sharing that. Yeah. Please keep those questions coming. Okay, Nina. She says, for the believer too, after death, the soul continues to operate. It's faster. It's almost like a follow-up. Yeah, yeah. Yes, Nina. The soul continues to operate. Meaning, when we talk about the soul, we're talking about the ability to think, reason, remember. I'm not sure, in terms of memory, how much of the things of the world. Most likely, we will not remember the things of the world, but the other things. How can we say that? Because in 1 Corinthians 13, Paul writes, he says, and we read about this also in 1 John 3, verse 1 and 2. In both these places, you find that Paul writes here in 1 John 13, John says it in 1 John 3. When we see him, we will know him even as we are known. In 1 Corinthians 13, when that which is perfect is come, then that which we know in part will go away. We will know fully. So in both these places, 1 Corinthians 13, 1 John 3, there is the knowing aspect of our spirit being. When you read through the book of Revelation, once again, when John is in the Spirit, of course, he's physically alive, but he's in the Spirit. And then his interactions with the elders, who are the elders? These are people who have lived on the earth, they're now in heaven. One of the elders identifies himself in Revelation 19 as, I am one of the prophets. So that means he is somebody who lived on the earth, but he's dead now. His spirit is in heaven. So what's happening? You can see John interacting with the elder. There is communication. There is talk. And the elder says, I'm one of the prophets. So that means that there is the soul, the soul aspect is still in operation. So when we talk about the soul, we're talking about recognition, feelings, so on. So I just qualify that as a spiritual side of the soul. That means it's the part of the things in the soul that are very connected to the human spirit. So we refer to this as in a man, or we could, you know, it's the expression of the spirit. The spirit is referred to as the hidden man of the heart. You know, this is in 1 Peter chapter 3, verse 5 and 6. The spirit is the hidden person of the heart. So it's like a complete person with this soulless dimension also to it. The aspect of knowing, feeling, emotion. John has a sense of direction. He says, I heard a voice behind me. I heard the sound of, you know, many waters. I see people worshiping and so on. So all of those things which we attribute normally to the soul are also seen connected with the spirit. So the answer to the question is yes. Even for believe them, we see these expressions of what you'd have to do as a soul. But remember, the physical part of the soul is gone. You know, the brain and whatever that. We're not talking about that. We're talking about the inner man. Thank you, Pastor. And Nina, it answers your question. Let us know if there is something more that you would like to ask your character. I'll proceed with the comments and questions here in the chat. Daniel Oliver shares, we have television, social media and house. What all can we watch on TV, social media and what all we should not? Sports, news, cinema, reality show, politics, national job, etc. What is the criteria to see something or deny something? So we can answer this question for Daniel Oliver. Pastor Deepika, could you address this question, please? Yeah, we generally apply the Philippines for it, you know, when it comes to choosing what we watch, what we speak. So the Philippines for it basically says, you know, whatever is honorable and whatever is pure and whatever is of good repute. Those are the things that we should be dwelling upon. So even when it comes to our viewing, we would see whether what we are watching is agreeing with this principle or going against it. And based on that, we can take a decision on whether something is worthy of viewing or not. That is one biblical verse that can be helpful, you know, in making our choices. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor Deepika. Daniel, I think your question has been answered. Yes, all right. Thank you, Daniel, for confirming. Read the question from Lucy. She says, Pastor, when we happen to meet some of our relatives, they were telling me not to be too spiritual, just have a normal life. It was like they felt walking with Christ is not a busy walk. They felt so because the last few weeks, our family went through some stormy weather in case of health. Everything is good now. God has strengthened through his word and kept me in his arms. How do I respond to the elderly people? So Lucy's question here is how do we, in her case, the elderly people who are, you know, telling her not to be too spiritual, but to just have a normal life. So how do we address this question as a believer? Pastor Jaikwad, would it be okay if I ask you to please. Thanks, Sam. So that term too spiritual is a very relative thing, right? For some it could be like, okay, I'm going to pray and eat. It won't be too spiritual for some. So it's a very relative term. So we will never arrive at a place of not being, you know, I mean, people being pleased with our life at any point. So the normal spiritual, the normal Christian life is a spiritual life. So the thing is, I guess what they're referring to, I'm just assuming that, you know, don't be weirdly spiritual. Just be normal like any other person, right? So the thing is, you know, as believers, we want to grow in our walk with the Lord. We want to know Him intimately. We want to discover the call of God. We want to discover the purposes of God. And God also invites us to pursue the power of God, the love, you know, pursue love and desire spiritual gifts. And all these are open for us. And the thing is that open and available for us. And we pursue it with all our hearts, right? So when you're saying here, a normal life, a normal life is, you know, is all this put together, right? So the only thing is, I think sometimes when we interact with people, maybe, you know, for every second and third line, if you are going to be quoting scripture, if you are going to be, you know, doing that, maybe they are put off, you know, by that. So I think just relating to people normally and also, you know, testifying to them about what God has done and in a very, you know, normal conversational way, you know, that would be fine, I think. And you said that you've gone through some difficult times, you know, and maybe, you know, it's an opportunity to say that, you know, God is there to guide us through the storms, you know, he is the peace, he's the anchor through the storms. And he's not the one who is, you know, causing all the, all these circumstances and everything. So we can say that, you know, God is with us, he's with me to take me through and bring me through. So, you know, so that's the greatest assurance, that's the greatest peace. So, yeah, so maybe it's an opportunity to even testify to the relatives. And it's an opportunity to go, you know, have some conversations, real heart to heart conversations to say, you know, what do you mean by it's too spiritual? You know, what is it that is bothering? What is it that is troubling? And then it's an opportunity to share. I hope that helps. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you for sharing your perspective. Lucy, does that address your question? Please let us know in the chat if it does. Let me just add a thought to what you said. Yeah, I think what has helped me personally is also to, you know, kind of be firmly resolved in our own minds about how we want to live, right? So, like, your resolve that you are going to follow God, you're going to pursue God, no matter what people say. So people make comments like this, you know, hey, don't be so spiritual and all of that. But in your heart, your resolve is I want to do what pleases God. And that's it. So, you know, some scriptures that come to mind is what Paul wrote in Galatians 1 verse 10. He said, if I still pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ. In other words, I made up my mind I'm going to be a servant of Christ. So pleasing men is not my priority. And so, like, you know, Pastor Zikma said, some will get happy and some will not be happy. But that's not the issue. I'm here to please God. Another thing would be in John 12, talking about these Pharisees are some of the Jewish people who believe. It says they love the praises of men more than the praises of God. So, you know, again, they wanted to follow the Lord, but they were afraid to come out openly in public. Why? Because they love the praises of men more than the praises of God. So they had misplaced priorities. It should be the other way. I want the honor of what comes from God rather than the honor that comes from Him. And if that is very clear, then, you know, it doesn't matter what people say, they will make fun of me, et cetera, et cetera. But hey, I'm going to be spiritual. I'm going to, you know, love God passionately. I'm going to read His Word. I'm going to pray. I'm going to push you God. I'm going to live with Godly standards. That's it. Just that's going to help me personally in my journey. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you for sharing. Lucy has mentioned here, and she says, because I hinder them from enjoying carnal activity, like drinks, et cetera. So, Lucy, just want to add here to what a pastor shared, that, you know, we have to make up our minds and have this resolve to live for God and live that righteous, Godly life with four people. Sometimes when people are engaging in, you know, carnal activities like this, we can tell them, but then if they keep continuing, you know, in the same activities to repeatedly tell them we may not help that much, so we could pray for them and continue to live our Godly life before them and trust that, you know, God will impact them through our life and God will also, you know, impact them through the words that we are speaking. So just want to add that, and I hope that addresses, you know, this question online that you mentioned in the chat. And please feel free to let us know. I'll move ahead with the other questions because we have seven minutes here and we have two more questions right now. So Susi says in the scriptures, there's a mention of a thousand years in one day, it is one day for the Lord. How do we relate this to the number of days God took to create everything? So, Pastashish, I'd like to request you to address this question, please. Yeah, Susi, I'll give you a short answer. But we do have a course in the second year. We see 212 on Christian apologetics where we deal with this as one of many topics that we address. But I'll give you a short answer. So what we believe is that the six days of Genesis were six literal earth days. That means there are 24 hour periods. And there are many ways you can look at it because God had said all this in place. Now, we do not. So when the Psalm is Psalm 90 and also in Second Peter chapter three in both these places, when we have a reference where it says one day is like a thousand years, in a thousand years is like one day. We do not apply that to Genesis chapter one. We don't do that. So Psalm 90 and Second Peter three referring to one day as a thousand years. There is a trigger of speech saying that time is immaterial to God. God lives out of time. So time means nothing to God, right? God is infinite in time. He's from everlasting to everlasting. He lives in the eternal now. For God, everything is now. That means that's why he's a great I am. For God, there is no past or future. He's in the now. The past and the future are the now for God. So that's how we understand Psalm 90 and Second Peter three. We do not apply to Genesis one for one. I mean, there are many reasons. I'll just give you one quick reason. If as some Bible scholars do apply, I'm not saying they don't do it. They do apply, but we believe they are wrong to do that. Why? Because if we say that every day mentioned in Genesis chapter one is a thousand years, then on day six, when God created animals and when he created animals, when he created Adam, then the implication is God took 1000 years to create Adam. And that would be observed, right? No, Adam was found on the dust of the earth. The explanation is given to us in Genesis chapter two, how it actually happened. God formed on the dust of the earth. He breathed and he became a living being. That didn't take 1000 years. That took an instant, right? So I just want response to that. That is, if we apply that one day is 1000 years in Genesis chapter one, and you make that equal into 6000 years, then if you break it down, just look at some of the details. It implies God took 1000 years to make Adam and that is observed, right? But we learn a lot more detail in our Christian Apologetics course on how to respond to that. Thank you, bastard. Suzy, I hope that answers your question. She says, thank you, master. All right, so go back to the chat here and Daniel says, in the past two weeks after joining APC, I have noticed that God has answered many questions of my personal life whose answers I was thinking were terminated. Really praise God for that. Wow. That's a wonderful praise report. We are so glad Daniel and trusting that many more questions will be answered as you journey with us through your courses. I'll just continue here in the chat. All right, so then is any other questions, maybe we can accommodate one question if you'd like to ask, if anyone would like to ask. So if there are no more questions for today, we can pray and close, then proceed to our classes. Okay, get through this. I'm asking a question says, how do you pray in the spirit? So praying in the spirit is to pray empowered by the Holy Spirit. And then we use this term, praying the spirit for praying in tongues because Paul makes a distinction. He says, I pray in the spirit and I also pray with my understanding. This is in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verses 14 and 15. So he makes a distinction there. And therefore we understand praying the spirit as praying in tongues. How do we pray in tongues? Praying in tongues is a gift which manifests after the baptism in the Holy Spirit. It's a prayer language that God gives us. We speak mysteries unto God. We don't understand this language, but we practice it like any other language. So the more you use that language, it increases. And so the key to praying in the spirit is to pray more in the spirit and that way you will develop yourself in praying the spirit. And we have a link here, APC books kindly look it up. We do have a book on the wonderful benefits of praying in tongues. It will answer many more questions that you may have. Thank you everyone. Thank you so much for making the time. Let's keep this going. It's really exciting to discuss together in this way. I'll just wrap up with the word of prayer. Heavenly Father, we thank you for your presence in our midst. Lord, we thank you that Lord, by your Holy Spirit, God, that Lord, you're speaking to each one of us. And Father God, we pray that we will continue to hear your voice. So God, make us more sensitive to hear your voice, Father. Lord, we surrender the rest of the day into your hands. And Father, we seek your blessing upon everything that we do in Jesus. May we pray. Amen. God bless you, everyone. Have a really great day. Have lovely classes. Enjoy your classes. Bye for now. We will meet again next Thursday at 8 a.m. and please do connect to the call once again. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Bye. Thank you. Thank you.