 Let's pray. Father, we, as we come before your presence, we give you glory. Lord, we give you praise. We come with thanksgiving. Lord, we come with a song in our hearts. We come with a song in our lips. Lord, we thank You. We bless Your name. We lift Your name above every other name. Lord, we lift Your name, Father God, above every circumstance, Father God, that we might be facing. God, we lift the truth of Your word. Lord, above every circumstance, above every challenge, above every difficulty. Lord, above every discomfort. Lord, we lift with the truth of what You have declared. Lord, we lift it above God. We thank You. Come Holy Spirit, have a Holy Spirit lead us. Come Holy Spirit. Lord, we pray that You would lead us into all truth. Lord, and even as You lead us into all truth, Lord, let your truth dispel all lies. Let your truth, Lord, give light. Let your truth, Lord, even as it gives revelation of who we are, of who You are, Lord, and the true picture, Lord, of everything that's going around us. Lord, Your truth, Lord, we just want to, yeah, we just want to thank You for that, Lord. Thank You for the truth that You bring, Lord, into our lives, Master. We thank You. We thank You. We bless Your name, Lord. We bless Your name right now. We bless Your name right now. Yes, Lord, dispel all darkness, dispel all lies, and dispel all deceptions. Yes, Father God, I pray for Your Shalom over each and every person, Lord, on the class right now, not every student, Lord, everyone, Your Shalom, O Father God, because You said You will keep them in perfect peace whose eyes are stained on You, God, and so we pray for that Shalom, Shalom, that perfect peace, God. Yes, in every aspect, Lord, Your Shalom. We thank You. We bless Your name. We thank You that this is our portion. We thank You that we are recipients of it, and we just want to thank You that it is our inheritance to walk in this peace. We thank You. Let Your peace rule and reign in our hearts, Lord. You rule and reign in our hearts, Lord, over every choice, over every imagination, Lord, over every desire, Lord, over everything that we want to do, every action, every motive of our heart, Lord. Lord, You rule and You reign, Lord. And to this end, Lord, we commit ourselves, Lord, into Your mighty hands. In Jesus' matchless and precious name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay. Okay, so we'll continue discipleship in small groups, ministry, right? We, I think last class, we looked at preparing the leader, right? We looked at if there is a way to prepare for leading a life group or a small group ministry, a cell group ministry. Now, generally, you know, this would apply for any, any, any leader, any kind of, you know, leadership role it would apply. And specifically for any kind of leadership role in Christian ministry, this was, this would apply. Right? So we looked at some of the things like preparing ourselves, you know, maintaining a strong personal walk, that was the first in the primary thing with the Lord, having a life that is constantly consecrated. And consecration itself, you know, it means that you set yourself apart for God. And we know that it's not just a one time thing, but it's a daily, daily every moment, setting ourselves apart for the Lord. So we looked at that, you know, constant consecration. Then another thing is if there were strongholds in our lives, strongholds in our minds, strongholds, which interfere with, with God's plans with, you know, we might have the best of motives, or we have desire, we want to live for God. But when we, when we step out and when we want to do this, you know, these strongholds pull us back. And so how we can get rid of that patterns in our minds, which prevent us from walking in the path of righteousness, like prevent us from taking a step for God. So these strongholds need to be dealt with, demonic strongholds to be brought down. And then we also looked at some, you know, if there is a, you know, place for any hurt or bitterness, then receiving emotional healing, right from that. Okay. And also knowing and maintaining our priorities, because when it comes to small group ministry, you're having people in home, most of the, you know, most occasions, the meetings would happen in a home. And most often in, who was hosting and leading the cell group, right? So we need to know our priorities. My personal work with God is one family, wife, spouse, children, you know, that's a, that's a priority. So, you know, that cannot be, they can't say, I'm doing ministry, so I make like that, right? That's a responsibility that's God's design. God has given us that responsibility. And so then, maybe if you're working, you know, it's not a full time thing, but then you're working, you have a vocation, you're working in an organization, you know, your responsibility towards the organization, right? So we can't neglect that. So it's going to affect your, you know, if something's going to affect your work, then it's going to affect everything else. So we can't neglect that. Then, of course, the work of ministry, which is the small group ministry, being faithful to it and faithful in it. So we need to know our priorities. We need to maintain our priorities. Okay, that's the thing, you know, like we said, constant consecration, maintaining these priorities over a period of time. And now that's, that's the difficult thing. That is something that we need to, that we need to, you know, focus on and pursue, right? Okay. So today, we look at the heart of a leader. Okay, I think we kind of started off on it, that how a leader is called to serve, a leader is called to minister, but it's not self-serving, you know, position. And it's not something that, it's not something that serves our ego. It's not something that results in, you know, which elevates oneself. Okay, so the leadership style or the leadership, you know, pattern that the Lord Jesus said before us is that of a servant, one who serves others, one who has the betterment or the best of others in mind. So with that, one leads, okay, it's not for my best, you know, or what will I get out of it? But it's, how can this benefit the people that I'm leading, the people that I'm serving? How can they be brought to a place of place of advantage or place of benefit? You know, that's the role of a servant leader. I'm just going to share the notes here and we'll look at, okay, here we go. Okay, so it's a new life, a new walk of servanthood. Okay, so avoid an inferiority or a superiority complex. You know, inferiority is like where you say, you know, I am nothing, I'm worthless. And, you know, constantly comparing yourself to others and putting yourself down, right, looking at yourself and saying that, hey, this is nothing, I am nothing, you know, I am inferior. And now that's, that is something which is, which is wrong. Now who you are or who we are in Christ. Now that identity needs to be strong in us. Not to make us arrogant, not to make us proud, but in our humility, you know, it's a, it's a very, it's a very humble or humble posture of the heart because God made us efficient. God raised us up, the Lord Jesus raised us up to a position to be seated with him in the heavenly places. So you see that, you know, it's not something that it has been, it's not something that we performed and earned, but the Lord out of the goodness of his heart, out of his grace, has brought us to that place. So understand that, right, and be strong in it. And so that will actually take out all kinds of inferiority, that we're not worth it, that we're not qualified, that we're not experienced. And these are thoughts that come normally, you know, when we take up a position of leadership, you know, these are, or these are questions that we might have, right, saying, you know, am I good enough? Am I qualified enough? Am I experienced enough? You know, am I skilled enough? All these thoughts, will I do a good job? What if I fail, you know, what if I fail others? What if others are not blessed? All these kinds of things. Avoid that, because knowing that your identity is secure in Christ, you know, it's not education or lack of education. It's not financial position or lack of it. It's not family background or lack of it. It's not experience or lack of it. It's not that the one who qualifies us to be a servant leader is the Lord Jesus. So there's no place for inferiority. The second thing is the other end, the opposite of that, which is superiority, saying, oh, I'm a leader, I've been appointed as a leader, and I must be something someone special, right? I must be someone who is great. I must be someone who's fantastic. So everybody's looking up to me. So that's another danger, right, saying, oh, now you better listen to what I have to say, because I'm a leader. I'm leading you, right? So a place of superiority, when you say superiority, you know, again, it's not the correct way, a posture of the heart, right? It's not the right way of evaluating oneself, right? Where we are not strong in our identity in Christ. And then that's led us to a place of superiority. And so we're saying everybody else, you know, listen to me. Everybody's less than me. And I am, you know, bigger, better, stronger, you know, more experienced, you know, more spiritual, I pray longer, right? All that and saying I am superior, you know, that also has to be avoided, right? We see that John Chapter 13 talks about, you know, the Last Supper and what the Lord Jesus did in washing the disciples feet. And he said that as an example, he said, do unto others, right? The servant is not, I just want to read from the last few verses, right? The Lord Jesus said, for I've given you an example that you should do as I have done to you, that is verse 15. The servant is not greater than his Lord, neither he that is sent greater than he who sends him, knowing these things, happy are you if you do them, right? So it's it's something that the Lord taught and he expects us to follow it, right? To be servantly. It's not an option. That's what I wanted to share, you know, to be a servant leader, to be a leader who serves is not an option for the believer. Option means, okay, I can either choose to do that or not to do that. Okay, so whoever's called or placed in a, you know, in a place of, let's say, spiritual leadership, the only way to lead is to serve. Okay, we need to understand it's not an option. It's what the Lord expects. This is how he wants us to lead. Okay, so if we have that heart, okay, and also to serve in the right way, you know, it's not saying that, okay, we need to understand our responsibility as a leader. Okay, what is my responsibility? What is my role? Which means that I can do some things. I should not do certain other things, right? If my place of leadership, you know, requires me to, let's say, you know, prepare, it requires me to be firm, it requires me to be, you know, speaking the truth in love, all that is, you know, the right way, you know, sometimes we think, okay, as a servant leader, that means that I should listen to everything that the people are telling me. I should say yes to all that people are saying, or I should say yes to all that people want me to do. No, that's not servant leader. That's an abuse of leadership, right? So that's not, that's not, you know, or even saying, you know, I'm, yes to everything of people's expectations. That is not servant leadership, right? So we need to have a healthy, wholesome, correct picture of what a servant leader is, and then go ahead and do it. Okay, so the other thing is to, you know, here are some things to avoid, right? Three temptations. Okay, now this is from John Maxwell's book, Million Leaders Mandate. Three temptations to avoid. What is it to be self-sufficient? Okay, self-reliant. Now that's a, it's a strong pull for some of us, saying, okay, you know, I have the skill, I have the ability, so I rely on myself, my resources, my abilities to carry out ministry. Okay, so that's a strong song, sometimes a temptation. The thing is the danger in that is that we do not rely on the Lord. We are not dependent on the Lord. Okay, only when there's a crisis, we go to the Lord. We're not dependent on him. We're not, you know, we're not drawing wisdom from him. We're not, you know, we're not dependent on it. We're not drawing or even, you know, revelation and understanding. We're not receiving from it. We're not receiving anything. It's completely, you know, because we're so self-reliant saying that I can do it. We literally close the door to receive from the Lord. Now that's a danger. Okay, secondly, even with people, with God, with people, the Lord, we know that the Lord has actually placed us in the spiritual body, which means people are also there to, you know, there are others who bring wisdom. There are others who bring help in times of need, whether you're a leader or not. So as a leader, the temptation is, you know, when you're self-reliant, when you're tempted to be self-reliant to really shun the efforts of people, you know. Maybe God brings wisdom through people, we close the door. Maybe God brings the right help that we need through people, but we close the door because we are self-reliant and we don't want to receive anything. Right? Okay, second one, to be spectacular. Now that's a celebrity mentality, meaning whatever I do, it should be spectacular. It should be like full of, you know, how should I say it, you know, lights and smoke and all that. Well, we can be excellent in what we do. We can be good at it, really good at it, but it need not, you know, if the situation calls for it, if the, you know, if the occasion requires it, we can do what needs to be done without drawing attention and focus on ourselves. Because to be spectacular, you know, the, that kind of mentality is that, okay, to elevate oneself, right? The focus is on us. Without doing that, we can still do a good job, right? And the other temptation is to be powerful, to be in charge all the time, right? And it's the opposite of being vulnerable, opposite of being of being humble even, right? Opposite of being in a position of wanting help or receiving help or receiving anything from the Lord, right? To be powerful, to be in charge all the time, to be controlling all the time, right? Okay. So Christ-like servant leaders are motivated by love and they also possess a security. They are secure, which allows them to minister, right? So this, when you say security, you know, that's the thing, that they are secure on the inside with regard to identity, with regard to, you know, their qualification. Why are they qualified? I'm sorry, why are they qualified? It's by the grace of God, nothing else. It's by the empowering of the Holy Spirit. It's by, it's through the word of God, right? So God calls the most, you know, it's surprising, you know, his call is, God calls the most you know, the most inexperienced sometimes, you know, the most, the people that whom we think are not qualified or not, God has a way of surprising us, right? So we need to be secure in ourselves, in Christ, right? So only then can we take up, you know, big things. And when we have the, you know, when we are secure in Christ, in who we are, in who God has called us to be, then we will also, you know, not hesitate to do the small things. So it's not only the big things, maybe we need to do the small things, right? Simple things, the menial things, menial tasks, right? So we will not hesitate to do that. Okay. Well, the ones who are servant leaders, Christ-like leaders, they instill or initiate the same kind of ministry to others, receive servant ministry, they teach servanthood, right? Okay. So here's something helpful to help us keep, examine our heart attitude. Okay. To examine our heart attitude. Let's look at a few of them. Our attitude, as we begin a task, will affect its outcome more than anything else. Our attitude towards a, let's say, towards a task, towards a project, towards a, towards an outreach, towards a meeting, right? You know, if we, if we start by saying, okay, oh, another cell group meeting, what is going to happen? All these people are coming and taking my time away. I wish I could relax. And if that is how our attitude is going to be, then it will affect the way we minister, it'll affect the way we, you know, where the whole meeting goes. Like, on the other hand, if you're going to say, Hey, yes, a wonderful opportunity. Yes, I'm tired. But I'm going to ask the Lord to refresh me, to strengthen me. I'm going to show up. I'm going to be consistent. And I'm going to, you know, I'm going to go with the expectation that God will move the hearts of people. Well, I sometimes I may not see it immediately, but I know I'm standing in faith and the Lord will move in the hearts of people. I move in my heart. And, you know, that it's going to be a glorious time in the purpose and the will of God. Doing this call to do this. I'm doing this. Right. So that's different attitude. It's a faithful attitude. Right. So it's going to change the very outcome of that meeting. It's going to be, it's going to be very, very different. Right. Okay. Then attitude towards others. Very important. And first, first of all, we looked at, you know, our attitude towards the task. But what about our attitude towards other people? Now that will determine their attitude towards me as well. Right. If I have the right attitude, if I, if I look at them as, you know, as people created in the image of God. And if I see them as people who are, you know, who are precious to God, who are actually the flock of God, I need to be accountable to God for their, you know, for their lives, what I do with them, what I teach them. Then my attitude towards the people will be different. But if I'm just going to look at them as, you know, people who come as, okay, yet another, you know, here's another statistic, okay, as another number, as another, you know, something that feeds my ego, okay, so many people attended, so many people, you know, if I'm going to look at it only as, as that as people as commodities, people as, you know, very different from people being someone precious to God, then their attitude towards me also is going to be different. Okay. So people who understand that, hey, they're not being valued, they're not being treated right. Okay. So that their attitude changes. Okay. And attitude is the major difference between success and failure. So we know that attitude can turn our problems into blessings. Now, when we have challenges, when we have problems, our attitude as to how we face those mountains, and how we face those problems, you know, do we face it as, you know, face them as something to be overcome, right? The problems do we face them as, okay, here's something that I need to solve. Right. And, well, I have the wisdom of God, infinite wisdom, which is in God. And because I'm, I'm one spirit with him, I have, you know, the ability to receive. Now that attitude will actually turn that problem itself, that challenge itself into a, into a blessing, into maybe opportunities to serve, right? Especially, you know, people who are problematic, right? People who create problems now. And how do you face that? How do you face that situation? How do you face them? Right. So all that our attitude will determine whether it can turn out to be a blessing or continue to be a problem. Okay. Uncommon perspective on life attitude can be our best friend or our worst enemy attitude will, you know, give us, bring us to a place of happiness and contentment and not our success. You know, we can be very successful, we can do the things, we can achieve a lot of things and still not be happy, still not be content, right? Whereas our attitude in the midst of circumstances and problems and challenges, our attitude will actually bring us or keep us in a place of peace, a place of being happy, a place of being content, right? Our attitude would need adjustment and alignment. And this is again, something that's continual, something that we need to check, check our heart and say, okay, what is my attitude towards this people? What is my attitude today? You know, what is my motive today? If it's not right, we need to adjust. We need to make that correction. It will help us. It will go a long way because it is very, very impactful. Okay. And our attitude is contagious. What does contagious mean? It means it spreads. If we are cheerful and energetic and, you know, and you are so positive, full of faith, that will spread in the sense the other person or the people with whom we are interacting will also want to be that this attitude will impact them, influence them to have the same thing. So if you look at the other side, you know, if it's a negative attitude, that is also contagious. Now that's the danger, right? So, so check yourself. Like somebody said, no, check yourself before you wreck, wreck yourself. Wreck means totally destroy. So check it before you wreck it. So check your attitude before you destruct or self-destruct. Okay. So here, you know, we're looking at things that as leaders, we need to prepare ourselves. We need to watch out. Okay. The next thing is that be a dreamer in the sense, you know, when we say dream or vision, we know that it can be a supernatural thing where God gives us, by the, by his spirit, he gives us a dream. He gives us a vision. But when we say be a dreamer, we're also talking about, you know, think big, right? Think of carrying out things that are possible, right? Possibilities. Think about finishing well. Think about, you know, accomplishing the purposes of God. Right? So that is what we say when we say be a dreamer, you know, don't restrict yourself, don't limit yourself. You know, many times we limit our dreams or limit our visions because, because of what we see in the present, right? Today, how are things? Today, where am I living? Today, what are the resources? And we say, okay, maybe I can't think. I should not think big because this is what I have. And this is where I am. Like these are, I see are as my restrictions as my limitations, right? So we restrict our lives, our actions, or what we need to do based on whatever we see here and now. But what if we put that aside and say, okay, God, in you, I'm, I can do because you can do exceedingly abundantly above all that I ask or think in me, well, I can do, I can be all that you want me to be. I can do exceedingly abundantly because great is the work of your spirit, the great is your power that is at work in me. And then we begin to think like the Lord would think, look at, you know, situations, look at opportunities, the way God would see, the way the Lord would see and, and then step forward into it, right? Okay, so be a dreamer. You know, these are some gentle things to be totally committed. Okay, to be committed, do it, doing it with all our hearts. Colossians 3 talks about, you know, whatever you want to do, do it as unto the Lord. Okay. And Ephesians also, we see that, that we should not be eye-pleasers or men-pleasers, not just eye-service, but, you know, be committed and commitment, be wholehearted in doing things, right? It could be small things, you know, especially, you know, these small things really test our commitment, right? So be fully committed, even those small things and, and then we will see the outcome of it, right? Be positive, which means that you think of possibilities, you think of, you know, being positive means that you're a person of faith, you're being positive about things, you're saying that, okay, these things will happen because God has said so, right? And so therefore I'm going to live because live and act and move in line with that. I'm not going to be a negative person. A negative person would always say, you know, it cannot be done or I cannot do it and think of maybe 10 ways why it cannot be done, whereas a positive person would look at the same situation, right? The same problem and look at maybe 10 and come up with 10 things and things why it can be done. So now being positive does not mean that you are not realistic. Sometimes people have that idea, you know, to be positive means I should not be realistic. No, we should be realistic, we should see that, okay, this is, you know, there are limitations, there are problems, there are challenges, okay, but being positive is looking beyond that and saying what are the solutions, right? What are the resources, what are the solutions, you know, how can I overcome? That is being positive, right? Okay, like we see in 1 Samuel 30 in verse 6, David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. Actually it says, but David, okay, which means that before that word, no, before that word, but it talks about a situation which is, which is bad, okay? Verse 3, if you see, they come to the city, it is burnt with fire. All the family members are taken as captives, right? So they literally, they saw that and then they cried and it says in verse 4 that until they had no more power to weep, you know, they are so weak that they could not even cry, completely drained physically, emotionally. So everybody has been taken captive, family has been taken captive and they're all grieved, but it says in verse 6, but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. He says, but David encouraged himself in all that. Now that's the thing. So reality is this, reality of the circumstances is this, but David encouraged himself. Now that's a positive person, right? That's a person who is looking at possibilities. That's a person looking at, looking through eyes of faith, okay? It's not an escapist, right? Not someone with an escapist mentality, but someone who's real, someone who's realistic, but David encouraged himself in the Lord, okay? Okay, okay. So as a leader, what are some areas that I can grow as a leader in leadership? What are some areas that I can grow in? It's very important, right? So one area is competence, okay? It's actually foresees of competence, confidence, compassion, collaboration. It's again, you know, adapted and taken from the million leaders by John C. Maxwell. Okay, so let's look at that. So what is the first one? Competence, competence, which means ability, or skill, or ability. So as a leader, so it is our responsibility to continually grow, to continually improve, okay? No one can do it for us, but we need to do it ourselves, you know? So there's no place where we come and we come to a, you know, we come to a stage where we are, where we say, okay, I'll stop growing or I'll stop learning, okay? Now that's a big mistake, right? Then we stop being people of influence, actually. And we come to that place. So we don't, you know, we don't come to that place of stopping or, you know, in our learning, in our growing. There's always, we're always growing. So what are some areas to grow in? What are some areas to continually develop in? Okay, first one is competence. Competence is, you know, we can look at knowledge, okay, what we learn, okay? Maybe, you know, if it's a church ministry, again, learning, okay? How can, and learning can be, you know, several areas, right? We learn, okay, from the word of God, and we learn about the Lord, we learn what the Lord has to say, we learn, okay? We grow in our knowledge and, and scripture exalts us, you know, continually grow, grow, grow in the knowledge of the Lord. Don't stay in that same place. Let me just look at the scripture. Yeah, if you look at 2nd Peter and chapter 3, okay? 2nd Peter chapter 3, verse 18, the last verse, okay? Second, last verse in 2nd Peter, actually, 2nd Peter chapter 3, it says, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to Him be the glory both now and forever. So growing in knowledge, knowing, growing in knowledge of our Lord and Savior, okay? So which means everything, you know? He is the eternal word, so growing in knowledge of the word, growing in our understanding of it, right? Growing in knowledge of what we are supposed to do, knowledge of ministry, how to minister, how to, you know, so you're continually growing in that, how can I be even more effective, you know, knowledge of other things as well. Here specifically, of course, Peter is exorting the believer to grow in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus, in the grace of the Lord Jesus. So growing in knowledge, it is scriptural to grow, okay? So what do you learn? Skill is what you can do, you know? Skill, being skillful, maybe, you know, we, maybe it's a skill that it's something that you do, right? Some new skill that you learn to do certain things, right? To be able to, you know, like even simple things, right? Like for example, I just always look back and when I, when I joined this company, the company that I worked with, the first company that I worked with, organization that I worked with, then, you know, even simple things like I didn't know how to send, no, those days we had this fax machine, right? You had to put in a pay, you know, a printed sheet and then you send it. These were, I mean, email was of course there, but it was, it was not very common, right? None of us used email. We actually wrote down stuff and we send it by courier. So it'll reach the next day, the other office. Of course, we used phones. But, you know, this fax, if you need to send an important document, so you put it in the fax machine and then it comes out in the fax machine and it's like a photocopy of it, but then, you know, it's there, right? It's again a hard copy. So, you know, I didn't know how to send it, right, before I joined the organization. So in the organization, I had to learn to send it, learn to use the phone, learn to use the, you know, the the telephone, learn to use to how, how can I pass on this, the call lands you pass it on. So these are all skills, right? Learning to use the, you know, your computer, learning to use, you know, how do I make a PowerPoint presentation? How do I use a spreadsheet? Like, these are skills. And these are skills that all of us, we can learn. And these are skills, you know, these are some of this. I'm just using it as an example, but the skill to lead a cell group, specifically we are talking about cell group ministry, right? And as a leader, you know, how can I lead a cell group? You know, how can I lead the skill to facilitate? I'm tempted to talk all the time. I'm tempted to preach. But how can I facilitate a discussion? These are skills. So these are things that we can learn so we can grow in. So when we say competence, we talk about knowledge, we talk about skill. And thirdly, thirdly, also about experience. Our experience, so when we, when we do something, what we learn from that, that's our experience. So we can either evaluate that experience, reflect on that experience, and continue to learn and continue to grow in that learning. Because all of us have experiences, you know, experience, it's like one river which just flows every day. There are multiple things that we are experiencing right from sunrise to sundown. A lot of things we go through, we meet people, we experience just happens. But when we evaluate and reflect on what has happened or what is happening, then we learn from it. Then we grow in it. So growing in competence, very important. So we look at these three elements in competence, knowledge and skill and experience, and what we can actually take out of it and grow in it. The second thing is confidence. So when we say confidence, it means, let me just pull out the word for it one second. Confidence, when we, sometimes we think it's a very unspiritual thing. Sometimes it's been wrongly understood as arrogance or pride. But actually, if you look at the meaning of confidence, one way to, let me just put it in the chat. It means feeling or belief that one can have faith in or rely on someone or something. I have confidence in you, I have confidence in this, I have confidence in myself that I can do this. So this confidence in ourselves is sometimes misinterpreted as self-reliance or arrogance. It is not. It is actually simply, if you are a person of faith, you need to have confidence. And this confidence is who God has made you to be, what he has given you, the abilities that you've given you, to be confident in that. Who you are in Christ, what you have received because of who you are in Christ, what you have, you and I have become because of who we are in Christ. That should give us confidence to face things boldly. When we have faith in God, when we have faith in His Word, that should give us confidence. So that's the thing. So it's like reliance. It's having faith and trust in something. So it means its confidence brings us to a place of courage. So you're not afraid. You're not afraid of the outcome, whether it's, even if it's failure, you're not afraid. So the thing is when we don't have confidence, we won't, we'll fear the outcome. What if this happens? So I will not do it. What if no one comes? So I will not do it. I will not have this meeting. I will not venture into this. What if this happens? Therefore, I will not step into it. So because of lack of confidence, we miss out on so many opportunities. It's the opposite of being courageous, being fearful even. Right? So confidence is very, very important for a leader. And we need to, we can be confident despite all these emotions of fear and so on, which sometimes happens, right? We need to do certain things. Okay, despite this, I'm feeling a little bit, I'm feeling all these emotions of fear, but I'm going to go ahead and do this. So that will help us to build confidence. That will help us to overcome lack of courage and all. Okay, so confidence comes from positive experiences. So that is true when we have some victories, when we've done certain things despite our fears, and then we realize, hey, it wasn't so bad. It wasn't as bad as I expected, and I thought it would be. I remember once when our daughter was very small, we took her to get a shot, no injection. I forget which one, but it was I think one of the last of those injections that you normally give children, those booster doses and those initial vaccinations and all that. So it was the last of that. So I don't wish it was quite, you know, she was quite, she was not, you know, she's not really grown up, but then she was, she was not a teenager or anything, but she was still, you know, maybe five, four, five. But the thing is that she was so scared about the, about the injection. She thought it'll be very painful. She saw the syringe and the medical person just bringing the syringe and placing it. She thought, oh, sorry, this was not a vaccination. This was a blood test. We had to get a blood test for school. School said, okay, we need to get this done. So it was a blood test. So the injection and, you know, the syringe and the blood need to be taken. And she was like, so, so afraid. And so she started, she, even before the injection could touch her skin, she was, you know, the needle could touch us. She was, she was crying loudly. When, when, when the needle actually poked, and then she realized, hey, it's not that painful, actually. She stopped crying. She was crying before. But then when, when it actually happened, she thought, oh, that's not so bad. That's not as painful as I thought. You know, many times, that's the thing, right? With regard to our confidence, lack of confidence. You know, we fear something and then we, and then we don't, you know, we, we hesitate, then we realize, okay, let me do it. And then we, you know, after going ahead in confidence, we realize, oh, that was not so bad as I thought. So these experiences, these small victories build our confidence, right? When we, and to go over and do it, it requires courage. And when we, when we do that, despite all kinds of fear and all kinds of, you know, challenges when we do it, that those small victories or those positive outcomes build our confidence. Okay. Okay, so let's, what we'll do is we'll, we'll take a break now. It's on 950. Yeah, we'll take a break. We'll come back and we'll continue. Thank you.