 Right welcome back. Let's get into the next point. I'm on page 86 on your notes So with the right with just the right people you can overcome the odds Let's read judges seven and verse seven Bonsai to Gideon. I will use the 300 men who lapped at the screen to save you and give Median into your hand All the rest may go home Is going against 32,000 men came to fight as part of You really believe about them. It was actually very careful He said for you tell me you tell me Show me proof that this you was leading me so already Indian was a little bit neighboring. But 32,000 men came to fight that one of Indian's arm. Out of the 33,000, 28,000 were killed by the plague. Now what about the little Indian? They said, 11 more. So there was any more. Now how many are left? 32,000 minus 22,000. 10,000. Very good. How is the remaining 10,000? God picked up 300. Now how did he choose this 300? But he said, okay, 10,000 people. God is telling Indian, we don't need 10,000 people to defeat the 89,000. Again, it's between more. The more people is better, the less. People get the feeling that they're buying more. Because you don't need 10,000. What do you do? You take them to the ring and make everyone drink water. Those who drink water, using the water that cups hands and they drink, you take them and drink. But those who drink by putting their mouth into the water, they can't do anything. They don't know. So now there are 10,000 people. They all want to go to the ring. Out of the 10,000 people, only 300 people use hands. They take water by hands and drink. God said, the remaining 10,000. What, 10,000 people? No. 9,000 is 7,000. Oh. I don't know. It probably asked them. You can ask them, how did you drink? Or you don't want to drink? You don't want to drink? Who drank water when you asked, please come this way. The 310 people say. The remaining same way, go back home. There is 300. And then there is the 4900. The 4900. I have the 12,000. The 12,000 are afraid to take the 10,000. Now in the 10,000 you said this goes 9,000. 300 people. God said with these 300 people, he will defeat the Midianite army. Right of the three were God's captain and Gideon and his 300 men rooted the past Midianite army and brought peace in the land of Israel for 14 years. So what did he do? Gideon attacked Israel. These 300 men under the leadership of Gideon defeated the Midianite army. They were probably thousands and brought peace in the land of Israel for 14 years. What is the learning that we have from this? You don't necessarily need a large army of people to outdo competition. Sometimes you just need the right character, right people to outdo. Outdo is a competition. With just the right people in place, you can overcome the odds and fulfill the vision. And God is on our side always, right? So it says here that God stepped in and used those 300 people to win the battle. Now, what about, have you ever thought what about those other, you know, the 10,000 who were afraid? They probably would have continued in the army. It's just that they were not part of this vision or this wonderful thing that God did, right? What about the rest 9,700 who were sent home, right? Maybe they also felt bad. But the point is God was saying, Gideon, God was teaching Gideon a lesson. You don't need so many people. You just need sufficient. What if there were 10,000 people and Gideon didn't know how to coordinate everyone? Tell them, you go this side, you go that side. What if there were 10,000, first there was 32,000, then there was 10,000. Now, what if there were thousands of people and Gideon didn't know how to organize them? 300 people, okay, were able to manage them, right? And they were victorious. So even when it comes to organization, when it comes to ministry, have the right team in place, right? And we're not talking about competition in ministry, but with the right amount, number of people in your team, you'll be able to be successful. That's the whole point, right? So we are designed for maximum function and performance. Organizational structure must be designed for maximized function and performance. Now, the structure is not just given for a show. Oh, we have the structure in place, no. The reason for the structure is maximized function, maximized performance. And when you look at ministry also, we want to see our leadership team maximized, right? Our functions, our performance. The way we do things in ministry and APC is something that we always pursue is excellence. We want to get better in what we're doing. Never be satisfied, okay, this is how I will do it, right? The moment we come to that place, you got to change our mindset, right? Design right, meaning the right size, not too big. The right function, doing what is best suited for it, right? The right position placed in the optimal location and the right collaboration with everyone doing their parts, contributing and working together. The right function doing what is what they're best suited for, right? Now, if you get somebody and use, for example, you say, you get a person who's more in the ministry side, right? Who can leadership teach? You tell them, okay, you look after logistics. They may not be able to do it effectively. Yes, over time they can learn, but to be effective, they should also have the right function in place, right? So next point, break it down only to necessary levels, stay lean, stay flat. Okay, Exodus 18, 13 to 26, it's a huge passage, but let me just summarize what it is, okay? Moses had a challenge. What is the challenge? There's thousands of people under him, based on the lights. How do I communicate what I want to communicate to the people? There was no mic system, there's no Instagram, there's no Facebook, there's no TV, nothing is there. How do I communicate? And Moses, as a leader, I cannot waste my time handling all these small things. You know, he was supposed to clean the tabernacle he didn't do. Now he's blaming me. Now why should Moses look after that? It's not his problem. Or two of them fought because husband and wife have fought because they didn't cook food. Now why should Moses look after that, right? So he's going through a problem now. He cannot be looking after small things when God has bigger things for him. He has bigger responsibilities. So what did he do? He had to bring down everything that he commands. Whatever God spoke to him, he had to communicate it to about 600,000 people. He had to ensure that disputes were resolved peacefully in accordance to God's standard. So what did Moses do? He brought in organization structure, right? What did he do? He brought a judiciary process. Leaders of thousands, we're here, let me just mark it here. Judiciary process. Over time, leaders of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens, right? So you've got leaders of thousand people, leaders of hundreds, leaders of fifties and leaders of tens. Look at the way so beautifully he just brought in structure there, right? So you have maybe thousand leaders leading thousands, thousand leaders leading hundreds, 500 leading fifties and thousand leading tens. This is an example, right? So now if two people are fighting, he doesn't have to go to Moses. Moses is busy talking to God on the mountain. We can't disturb him. So a judiciary process. They can go to the leader of the tens and say, hey, you know what, this is the problem. This is Manna that fell down. By the time I could cook it, it's, you know, something has happened to it. So now what do I do, right? You don't have to call for Moses for that, right? Find out what's the resolution, finish it. All, you know, one thing I noticed was the tent, the Ark of the Covenant, there are things that are falling out of place or it's not looked after properly. What do we do? Doesn't have to go to Moses, right? 50s leaders or 50s leaders of hundreds get things resolved in that level, right? So even when you look at, like for us, right, when we work as an organization, we work with the hierarchy. Only if it's very important, the email, the senior pastor, everything is done at low level. When it comes to budgeting, when it comes to getting approvals, we send an email, right? Everything else is done here, right? And we work together as teams, get everything done. So just to let you know, on whenever there's a conference, right? Most of it is done by everything here, right? But the senior pastor knows how it's done, right? So for example, CLC, we got everything, everything was done. The preachers, everything was set. There's not much that, you know, they were looking after the ministry side, the pastors were looking after the ministry side, okay, after prepare, after preach, prepare, pray, all of that is there. So now they didn't worry about is the mic working or is the, will the AC work, will the IT, is it live streaming working correctly? They didn't bother about all that and they should not bother about it because that is not their responsibility at that time, right? So the judiciary, these teams put in place must get that work done in the right way. But we are all aware of how the things are being done here. It's not like we are not aware, right? The senior teams are aware of everything that is done in the entire organization. Secondly, there was coordination. Again, as I mentioned, 12 captains, each one over each tribe. There was governance. 70 elders appointed to govern and address the daily needs, address daily needs. 70 leaders, elders appointed. Special task force, again, those 12 captains sent to spy from the land, spy the land of Kenna. Then there were priests responsible for the religious worship and services of the tabernacle. So it's not like the leaders of the thousands and the hundreds, those leaders will come and start leading what is happening in the ministry side. Now this is ministry. The priests and the tabernacle, the arch of the covenant, the feasts, all that is ministry side. So you had priests who were responsible for that worship and all that. Then you had Levites who were assisting the priests. Why were they needed? They were needed because it was not like once a while somebody will come into the tabernacle. There were 600,000 people, right? So people were going on coming. It was constant, right? So this kept things flat. This kept things people were good access, right? If I had a problem, I could just go to the priest and say in the tabernacle, this is what I'm going through. This is a problem I'm going through or in terms of governance. In terms of where I'm staying, this is the problem I'm going through. Easy access, problems resolved easily. Things were kept flat and access to people again was easy. So we come to the end of this chapter, organizational structure and design. Any questions? Even as we are learning this, I hope you're able to translate this, right? You can translate to anything, ministry or even you may be even working for an organization, right? It's not like you're only for pioneers, you know? Any place you can translate this and apply it, right? Any questions before we go into the next chapter? Yes. Is it a mandatory for every ministry? Is it mandatory for all the ministry? Like in the sense I'm asking like, see, if we see APC. APC is very different when we come back to others. In some of the ministries, there will be only one pastor. He'll be only leading everything and there is no assistant pastor. And what we learn till now, is it a mandatory thing that we have to do or is it comes from a particular calling, like APC have this calling to do the system like this, they should have a system like this or someone should have only one leader. That's a good question. Now, anything done alone, single-handedly, there's no sustainability. It's not going to sustain, right? If one person is handling the entire ministry, right? Logistics, administration and the spiritual aspect, it's not going to sustain. Why? Because even if he's able to sustain it, they're not going to see growth in that organization, right? Number one, two, is God is a God who works in teams. The Lord Jesus Himself set the example. He could have done everything on his own, right? But Jesus didn't do that. He set a team in place, 12 people, and then he said, okay, he chose another 70 and he said, go out on twos. So you see that what we are doing at APC is not our own idea. It's biblical. Jesus had teams. Jesus raised up leaders. Jesus was able to form teams and organize, bring a structure in everything that he did. And so if I am only doing everything on my own, it's like I'm not following or I'm not able to see myself being fruitful. Now, what if this one person, Pastor, gets ill, right? And two weeks, he has viral fever. What's going to happen to the church? Like he's doing everything. What is going to happen to the church? The two weeks, this two weeks, he has viral fever. Everyone prayed over him. Nothing's happened. Two weeks. What's going to happen? Entire ministry comes to a close, like to a stop. Nobody to do Bible study. Nobody to do Friday prayer. Nobody to do life cell group. Nobody to do Sunday services. Nobody for house visits. Disaster. And so it is what we, what we are doing is biblical one. And two, what we're doing is things that we have learned over time. Like what I shared with you about every conference, we work six months ahead. There's a reason we do that. Now I'm not saying another ministry must work six months ahead. Right now in a town or in a village, if you're doing ministry, you can work two months ahead or even one month ahead. People will come. But looking at the culture, looking at the people that we are ministering to, they have their calendar set for the entire year. Right. So the moment I want to call somebody for us, for a, you know, for example, we're having a men's breakfast fellowship. If I want to call somebody, invite somebody to come and share. I remember doing this recently, just last week, I said, why don't you come and share? Immediately he said, while on the call, hold on a minute. Let me open my calendar on the call. I said, can you come May 18th? We have our men's breakfast. Can you come and do a session on the call? You said, let me check my calendar. So that means the entire year. So those are the people that we are catering to. But on the other side, there may be ministries catering to villages and towns. Now they don't know what they're doing in the weekend. That's okay. You can work ahead with them. But when you work ahead, it also, it's like you're setting things in place. Just because, you know, my generation, the earlier generation didn't do it, doesn't mean we don't have to do it. We can set things in place so that the following generation can get better. The ministry will get better. Everything will be organized. So for example, like you're going to, you're looking at your church. If you bring in things in place, it was never in place. Now it's hard for your people to receive it. Why are we doing this three months before they may ask? What do you keep it? Nothing wrong. You're not asking them to do anything. It's just there. Okay, you're announcing three months before. But the more you do it, the more the congregation will get used to it. The pastor will announce this three months before. So then if I'm working, I must know three months before I can, I'll know, okay, this event is there so I can apply for leave. Now we may think they don't work that way, but we are setting standards in place. Right. And when it comes to teams, you have to have teams. Whether you're a village church, you know, recently, I met a friend of mine who came from a village. He's a pastor in a village. And he was telling me, you know, all seven pastors in three villages, we get together and we go out and do ministry. Even village churches have teams. So he was saying, hey, I was telling him, hey, you're here in Bangalore. Who's looking after the church on Sunday? No, no, I have people. They will go and preach village proper village. Right. I'm talking about like, you know, in the middle of a jungle kind of village, empty land, but he's saying, I have people. So it was so good to see that. Right. So he was not worried about Sunday church. I have people. Everything is set in place. And so when we come out of that mindset that, okay, it's always done like this. We need to come out of that. You can add new things. Remember, the things are changing. Right. Now if you send a WhatsApp message to all your church members, three months in advance, good. What's wrong? They'll see it. Some of them may ignore it. Some of them will use it, but then they'll know, hey, three months in advance, WhatsApp message is coming to the entire church youth meeting on this day. So then they'll see, oh, there's some structure. It's not like randomly things are happening in church. They are planning. They are thinking. Right. So you can bring those things in place. So when we are talking about the sustainability and successful, like you told us, we should need a team. And then if we, if you see APC, if APC, if we search APC, Pastor Ashish will come, Pastor Jake's will come, Pastor Nancy will come, Pastor Paul will come, Pastor Roshan, all the, all the pastors will come. And then, and I can, I can name some of the ministries, which they alone are there. And, and if you ask me, they are even more successful. So, so the thing is, outside it's their home, but they have teams working. Let me take my example. So life group ministry. Right. So if you see who's the life group coordinator for the manual. But under that, we have so many leaders. So under life group coordinator. Now we have zonal leaders under zonal leaders. We have area coordinators under those area coordinators. We have three life groups under each area coordinator. Now, why are we doing this? We're only 40. Right. So we have life group coordinator zonal leaders, four zonal leaders, not southeast west. Under that zonal leader, they have at least right now, they have one area coordinator. That one area coordinator will look after three life groups. So, over time, 2026, if you become 60, so if we start 10 life groups in 2024, 2025, another 10 life groups, we become 60. I can't look after and sit and call 60 people. I used to do that in 2015. Hello. Yes, brother. How are you? How did life group go? We were 10 people. Now in 2026, we are 60 people. I can't do that. I can't visit all 60 life groups. By the time I reach the life group will be over. Some are in south and all over the place. So for me to look after the health of the life groups, area coordinators are there. So basically what I do is if there's a problem, they email me. And so it's not like if I am not there, the life groups on function, not at all. Example, I'm not there. I go over two months leave. Everything will function properly. Everything, all life groups will function because they know what they have to do. Right? And even if there's a problem in the life group which needs to be resolved, they may email me. And if I'm not able to resolve it, I'll get the senior pastors involved. Very simple. So there is no way that the life group ministry will stop. Impossible. Whether I'm there, whether I'm not there. It is going to grow. Same thing with men's ministry. We have four men's coordinators. Not so these guys. APC men's ministry coordinators. So I say, hey, encourage registrations for men's breakfast. Encourage registration for men's conference. Can you do this? Can you be the MC? Can you look up the registration desk? Can you look up the book table? Can you... You saw last time you were there for the men's conference? You were not there for the men's conference? Okay. So, you know, we had two tables, all of them with their laptops. Right? Because you have to check the registrations. Some of them are new registrations on that day. So four people on registrations. Then we have the welcome team. Now, all of that was done. But it's not like if I'm not there, all that won't be done. It's already set in place. They know men's conference, this has to happen. So there's sustainability. So whatever ministry you see in APC, one person is handling it, meaning overseeing it. But there are people working on that. Otherwise you can't do it. And I can't call 40 life group leaders and find out what's happening. And they're only going to grow. So when there's 60 life group leaders, we have people in place. And it's just that they report to one person. And then maybe once in six months, I meet with pastor and I say, this is the health of the life group ministry. These are the life groups. This is how they meet the why I got everything from the teams, but all the details from them. Right? And there's coordination. So now the senior pastor doesn't have to go and say, okay, what's happening? This life group, this life group, it doesn't have time for all that. That's why I am there coordinator. I have to coordinate. Now I don't have time for all those single things. So I got people under me, right? And we all work as a team. So even if a person moves out, the ministry will continue. That is called sustainability. When some pastors, I mean the senior pastor, the pastor, one who is leading, if somehow he dies and all there are many ministries who came down and is that the reason? I think 90% of the time it's because of that. The other 10% is because of, you know, sexual immorality, money, this thing, using money the wrong way. But leadership, I'll give it in this example. I think you did it in church history. What is his name? Asuza Street Revival. The Asuza Street Revival was a powerful revival. You know what he didn't do? He didn't raise leaders. What happened? From 1000s it became 150 and 200 people or leaders. And there are many ministries like that. So for example, in APC, the entire pastoral team goes, everything will happen the same. Nothing will change. Only thing you may have some volunteers preaching. And they're used to preaching also, our volunteers. And our team leaders, they're used to preach. So all of us pack our bags and go, APC will continue. The same way, the vendors will come set the LED, the hall, the admin team, everything will happen. We are not running the show. It is the entire team. It's a team effort. We are there just serving. Let's go to the next chapter. Let's see how much we can do. It's a small chapter, chapter seven. Innovation and creativity. Innovation and creativity. Now the word innovation, we know it. Innovation is basically coming up with ideas. We need creative, inventing, solving problems. Let me just present the notes. So in the workplace, we will need to be innovative. We need to be creative, whether it's solving problem or coming up with a strategy, a breakthrough idea, ways to innovate, we need ideas. I think one of the best examples is when COVID hit, we always stuck at home. And then suddenly, we thought about what to do with our children. Adults, we can do something. We get in for prayer and Bible studies and Bible college. We can keep doing that. But what about our children? We have about, I would say, 150 to 200 children in church across all locations. So we came up with some online children's church, which was really effective at that time. So we need to be creative. We need to come up with breakthrough ideas. So whether it is ministry, whether it is work, remember that God reveals, instructs and teaches us. So we can always ask Him. God is the source of everything. Let's read Isaiah 28, 23 to 29. Listen to what I'm saying. Pay attention to what I'm telling you. Farmers don't constantly plow their fields and keep getting them ready for planting. Once they have prepared the soil, they plant the seeds of herbs such as dill, cumin. They plant rows of wheat and barley and at the edges of their fields, they plant other grains. They know how to do their work because God has taught them. They never use a heavy club to beat out dill seeds or cumin seeds. Instead, they use light sticks of the proper size. They do not ruin the wheat by threshing it endlessly. And they know how to thresh it by driving a cart over it without bruising the grains. All this wisdom comes from the Lord Almighty. The plans God makes are wise and they always succeed. When you look at the farmer, discovering farming scripture tells us that wisdom comes from God because God taught the farmer what to do. Put the seed in, cover it with soil, water it. As the plant is growing, this is what you must do. It's not like Adam and Eve knew all of that. God taught them how to do it. God knows everything about His creation. He knows the where, He knows the when, and when we pray, He makes those things clear to us. So He gives us the wisdom. And wisdom is the most important thing that we need. Ministry or whether it is building an organization or working in an organization, wisdom. Let's read this, Proverbs 4, 5 through 9. Proverbs 4, 5 through 9. Get wisdom and insight. Do not forget or ignore what I say. Do not abandon wisdom and she will protect you. Love her and she will keep you safe. Getting wisdom is the most important thing you can do. Whatever else you get, get insight. Love wisdom and she will make you great. Embrace her and she will bring you honor. She will be your crowning glory. Wisdom is having insight into the true nature of having insight. What must I do in this situation? Now the situation or the season could be a good season or difficult season or a bad season. What must I do? And wisdom is the ability to have foresight and see what things might be like in the future. And of course we know about King Solomon or all the things that he asked for wisdom. It was wisdom that brought him success, brought him wealth but he did fail in a few areas. Even though being wise that's why in Ecclesiastos he realizes his mistakes. And he says everything in this world is vain. All the pleasures, worldly pleasures, it's all vain. It's nothing. And so we need wisdom. Wisdom can help us take the right course of action at the right time. And of course over time even as we get into ministry or begin to work we pray, we spend time in God's presence in God's word. God uses all of this. He can give us an example from the Bible and he can help us to walk in wisdom. He can give us a word from the scriptures and help us to walk in wisdom. Or he can just give us a dream to make us walk in wisdom. So wisdom is very important. Even as we go about doing what God has called us to do to ask God for wisdom. Welcome the spirit of wisdom to anoint you. Isaiah 11 to the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding. When we have wisdom, when we ask the Holy Spirit to anoint us with wisdom it is very rare that we will make mistakes. Because I'm not saying that will be perfect but we can avoid a lot of mistakes. Just by walking in wisdom. Knowing what to say, knowing what not to say. And sometimes yesterday we were talking about the power of the tongue. Sometimes we can avoid a lot of problems just by knowing what not to say. Because sometimes we say things we get into a lot of problems. So that's again wisdom. There is an anointing for artistic and creative skills. This is very important. Let's read this passage. How Moses, how the Lord spoke to Moses in Exodus 31 1 through 6. The Lord spoke to Moses saying, See, I have called by name Bezalim, the son of Uri, the son of the tribe of Judah. And I have filled him with the spirit of God in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge and in all manner of walkmanship. To design artistic work, works to work in gold, in silver, in bronze. In cutting jewels for setting, in carving wood and to work in all manner of walkmanship. And I needed, I have appointed with him Aholia, the son of Akisamaik, Akisamaik of the tribe of Dan. And I have put wisdom in the heart of all the gifted artisans that they may make all the, all that I have commanded you. God is telling Moses, okay, Moses, you have a lot of work to do. One is the Tabernacle, the Ark of the Covenant, then you have the High Priest. Now we want to distinguish them. So we want to make it look good, right? So God says, I put my spirit of wisdom upon these people and they will use their skills in cutting jewels, carving wood and all kinds of workmanship. So whatever they do, they will use their skills, right? And I've put the wisdom upon them and everything that they do will be anointed of God. So it's my wisdom that I'm giving them, right? So all the craft, how, what kind of shape, what kind of wood, how to shape the wood, what kind of jewels to use, how to cut those, everything. I have given them the wisdom. But here's the very important point. They have the wisdom, but they had to, you know, use their effort, right? To do what God wanted them to do. It was not like they had the wisdom and they just kept it to themselves. They kept their hands to the work, right? Meaning, after receiving the endowment of the Holy Spirit, they had to follow it up with hard work, right? Actually doing the work of craft, art and craft, right? So sometimes we think wisdom is only God telling us, you know, from the scriptures. No, look at this. God is telling Moses, I've put the anointing, the wisdom upon these two people. They will come up with all this craft. So if you want wisdom on how to be a better graphic designer, who can give you the wisdom? If you want to be a better person in media and IT, who can give you the wisdom? But even as God gives you the wisdom, we may have to go through courses that are available, learn, put our hands, work hard. God gives the wisdom on how to do it. Yes, right? Let's go to the next point. Don't just identify the problem, bring the solution. Okay, let's read this passage. It's Genesis 41, 29 to 40. Talking about Joseph. There will be seven years of great plenty in all the land of Egypt. After that, there will be seven years of famine and all the good years will be forgotten because the famine will drill in the country. The time of plenty will be entirely forgotten because the famine, which follows, will be so terrible. The repetition of your dream means that the matter is fixed by God and that He will make it happen in the near future. Now you should choose some man with wisdom and insight and put him in charge of the country. You must also appoint other officials and take effect of the crops during the seven years of plenty. Order them to collect all the food during the good years that are coming and give them authority to store up grain in the cities and guard it. The food will be a reserve supply for the country during the several years of famine, which are going to come on Egypt. In this way, the people will not step. The king and his officials approved this plan and he said to them, we will never find a better man than Joseph, a man who has God's spirit in him. The king said to Joseph, God has shown you all these, it is obvious that you have greater wisdom and insight than anyone else. I will put you in charge of my country and all my people will obey your orders. Your authority will be second only to mine. Pharaoh has a dream and now nobody is there to interpret the dream. We call Joseph, Joseph comes. He begins to interpret the dream. He says, what, 14 years. I know what's going to happen in the next 14 years. First seven years is going to be years of abundance. But the next seven years, the fattened calf is the seven years of abundance. But the seven next seven years is going to be years of dryness, famine in the land. So what did Joseph do? With God's wisdom, God spoke to him. He was able to interpret the dream. Now, after interpreting the dream, he didn't just say, okay, should I go back? I was just doing something in the prison. No, he interpreted it and he came up with a solution. He says, okay, so now that we identified the problem, how do we solve it? Seven years just store up so that for the next seven years, you'll have plenty to eat and the entire nation of Egypt can be saved. See, Joseph acted in wisdom. He didn't say Egypt, no, good. Seven years, your lead, next seven years, famine, then you don't, you know, then you'll all suffer and die good. No. Now he was in prison. He could have wished bad for them, but he came up with a solution. And because of that, he became second in command in Egypt. We know the story, right? So don't just identify the problem, try to resolve it. In ministry, in the workplace, we will have problems, right? We will have, you know, for example, you have a conference or you have a meeting, there may be a problem. We've identified the problem, but how do I resolve it? Come up with a solution, right? Put your hands together. You've got teams in place. All of them come, brainstorm ideas. See, what's the best idea? Try to resolve the problem. Don't just be a person who identifies the problem, but step into resolve it, right? Step out and to think and act in familiar territory. First Chronicles 20, 10, 12 and 19. First Chronicles chapter 24 was 10, 28, who was 10? Just go ahead and read. Look sharp now. God has chosen you to build his holy house. Be brave, determined and do it. Then David presented his son, Solomon with the plans for the temple complex. First store rooms, meeting rooms and place for anointing sacrifice, atoning sacrifice. He turned over the plans for everything that God's spirit had brought to his mind. The design of the courtyard, the arrangements of rooms and the closets of, for storing all the holy things. Here are the blueprints for the whole project as God gave me to understand it. David said, What are the stoppers from becoming because we get into uncharted territory? Meaning, I may not know it. Right? And so I may not be good at it. But look at David. David, he became, from a shepherd boy, God brought him to leadership. He became the king of Israel. And now, he knows about military. He knows about administration. Now he's telling Solomon, Solomon, Solomon, I cannot build a temple. So now you have to build a temple. Take the blueprints. This is something that came in my mind. This is some design. Now he's not done any course in architecture. David, he knew about, armies and administration. But architecture is not something that we don't see him, you know, involving in that as a king. But here he's saying, you know, the blueprints of the whole project that God gave me. So now I'm giving you this. You can apply this, make it better and build a temple for God. So David was not only, now he's almost going to die. He was not saying, Solomon, go do it. But he was willing to take that extra step of stepping out of comfort zone to territory that he was not used to. And he said, Solomon, this is something that God has given me. Take it, use it. So sometimes God can ask us to walk in that uncharted territory. Places where we may not be comfortable or may not be well versed with. May not be skilled at. Right. But then step out. If God is directing your parts, do it. Right. Because he is the source of all wisdom. Now, even as we step out. So for example, I want to become a graphics. I want to learn graphics. Right. I'm not much into graphics. But if I want to learn it. There's nothing wrong. Right. I go learn a few courses. Okay, then I talk to some graphic designers, get their ideas, get their inputs and work on it. Right. So what am I doing? I'm actually going to territory that I'm not very familiar with. But God can give me ideas on how to get things done. Right. So be willing to do that. Then enhance your knowledge, understanding and skill. We look at Daniel 117. As for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and skill in all literature and wisdom. And Daniel had the understanding in all visions and dreams. We know the story of Daniel. Daniel and his friends are in Babylon in a foreign land. They've been selected to look after things in the palace. God stepped in. Even as they began to learn and grow in the culture and the administration of the entire, you know, we can say it was the office. Right. So there was a temple. There was an office. Daniel is in the office, literature, learning, all that he was doing there. And God stepped in, empowered these young men as they worked by acquiring knowledge, understanding and skill. Enhance your knowledge, understanding and skill. So that's what I always tell young people, right? Don't waste time. Go back. Now we have everything on the phone. You know, read things. Read and learn. You know, I've been studying on an entire series and on, you know, how to speak. What's that called? Public speaking. Right. On public speaking. So I've been listening to this whole series. It's powerful. A lot of insights, a lot of understanding, right? You know, on how to speak, how to speak well and actions. You know, there are so many things involved. Right. Sentence construction, English, grammatical words to use, how to make a big sentence by just using a few words, so many things. Enhance your skills, whatever skill you have, enhance it. Right. Enhance your understanding as well. Finally, use your imagination and train your memory. For 2 Timothy 1, God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, love and sound mind. So our mind is our imagining, our reasoning, our memory. That means train and develop our mental faculties. Right. Use your imagination, train your memory. And even as we do all of this, God begins to bring innovation into our spirit, into our soul. God begins to bring creativity into us. And thus, we will continue to glorify God in our lives. Right. So we'll stop here. We'll pick up from next class from chapter 8, which is very interesting people, processes, formats and rewards. Alright. Thank you so much. Have a great week ahead. I'll see you next Monday. Thank you everyone online. God bless.