 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today's session on Ministers Foundation. Yeah, we have many of our friends still joining in the class Okay, before we could begin our class. Can I request one of us to please lead us in prayer? Yes, I can pray Yes, Rupika. Thank you Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Thank you father That you are given as a new day Lord. We praise you and lift your holy name. Hi, Lord Lord many of them pass away from the earth, but your great grace and mercy soured or your children Lord Yes, father, you are great Lord Lord. I pray for this session Lord that we have given With your knowledge and wisdom Lord. Yes, father. You are the Good father Lord that you do many things on your children life. Lord. Yes, Lord We want your holy spirit in this prayer in this essence Lord that your holy spirit guides us Lord. Guide us Lord Jesus Thank you father. Thank you father that you are hearing our prayer Lord Lord You're never given up to your children Lord Jesus father. I lift your name. Hi Lord Jesus father You are the holy Lord. You are the glorified Lord Jesus. We worship your name Lord Jesus We praise your name Lord Jesus father Thank you for hearing our prayer and giving ourself on the heaven Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord I pray in your name Lord Jesus. Amen Lord. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Rebecca Yes, I'm just presenting a screen So last class we studied on angels Godly council the renewed mind the times and seasons so I would like to reiterate on certain things about You know what always been taught and shared in this class are You know our for our understanding the testimonies that we shared from a personal life are our For our understanding and we cannot base our life on the testimony of another person Okay, our life should be determined by What the word of God says we need to place our trust our faith on the word of God and not based on anyone's testimony or how they experienced and Okay, and also I shared about the visitation about the angels and other things so Each person it is different So we should not be praying and calling and asking directly for the angels But then just pray just pray what I meant was you know in Psalms 91 when we claim for protection God as per his word as he said that I will set my angels in charge of you that word is so true This is what I meant to say that God truly, you know keeps his angel to Guard us to guide us to strengthen us even yesterday when we studied on the life of Elijah when he was tired Yes, you know God sent his angel to strengthen it So God does things so it does not mean that we have to pray for angel to come and strengthen us But then we need to pray to God and God does things so we should not be expecting for any angelic Visitation but then just simply pray and ask God to strengthen us and God does things in his own way The way that we need okay, and very important is that we need to rely only on the word of God Not on anyone's testimony or on their personal experience or the idea what they have got them up life Okay, we need to be very clear on that even that they initially at the beginning of the class also We have retreated it I just thought you know on the last class even before we could cover the last point It is good for us to Be clear on this Okay, so the last point today, we would be discussing on the circumstance and divine orchestration Circumstance and divine orchestration you know We see that the final method or the way that we could consider through which God Guides us is by recognizing how God is Orchestrating things for us in our situation in our circumstance in our life Okay, so let's turn to second chronicles chapter 16 verse 9. Can I request one of us to please read the scripture? second chronicles chapter 16 verses 9 for the eyes of the Lord run and to and pro Throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to him Yes The eyes of the Lord runs two and four Throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to him So God is seeking for those people who are loyal to him Who are loyal to him and he applies his power on behalf of them on the areas in which God does this In situations as such, you know he orchestrated divine things for us Through which you know we experience an unusual door of opportunity open up or favor and access to from new people or Many other things God can cause it to happen in our life situation when we Trust on God when we be loyal to him We see these unusual door open and you know sometimes God works to us as he said in in the book of Corinthians in the book of Corinthians saying that In the book of Corinthians saying that you know what eyes have not seen what Years have not heard what people has never imagined in in in such things God you know Helps us in our life and we see in the book of Job And we turn to book of Job 42 verse 2 Can one of us please read the scripture job I know that you can do everything and that no purpose of yours can be with help from you I know that you can do everything That no purpose of yours can be withheld from you. Can we move on to the next scripture revelations chapter 3 verse 7 Yes, can one of us read? Revelation chapter 3 verses 7 And to the angel of the lord infill in philadelphia Write these things say he who is holy He who is true he who has the key of david he who opens and No one shuts and shuts and no one opens Yes, yes, this is very clear when god does things He opens door unusual way and no one can shut that door No one can shut stop that opportunity from we getting and when he opens that no one can shuts And when he shuts no one can open it is very clear So we need to be attentive to this type of divine orchestrating that happens in our life situation And respond to it actively For example, if one of us are trying for a job or looking out for a job We may do the basic preparation like you know You know preparing the resume applying it Applying it online or through different portals or passing a word through your friends the known people And then you start attending the interview And when you attend the interview now Maybe you applied for Three to four jobs and you have been selected from one company you receive a offer letter From or a job offer from one of the company And it's a great opportunity something that you were looking for And it it suits your skills your capabilities and here you apply for it But then uh at the same time you're not accepting the offer, but then you're checking Is this god's well? Is this what god what did you to do in this season? Is this god? What did you to accept this offer and join the company? There are some reasons we can ask to us and why am I joining this company? Is it the skills that I have I've been applied here Or uh, is this the place that I love to work with or I'm having peace in my inner being Opting up for this We need to ask ourselves is our motives right to join this company And is this the opportunity that god has placed before us to guide And then you can take it up But if you have uh at the same time if you have two or three companies Then you know you can also pray about it pray and ask do you have this inner peace? Do you have a word from god? Do you have this inner peace? Now you've been led by the holy spirit And why are you choosing this company for what reason is your motives right? You know you can look for different reason before you could make a decision And then you can proceed with the job offer So god orders things step by step in our circumstances in our situation and he guides us through there are times you know When we travel over the mountaintop or to some uh region you see the mist is covered Because the mist is covered sometimes we don't get to see the uh the length of the road to certain area You know but as you keep moving it it unveils it unveils Slowly the mist Uncovers and you are able to see the road and go through the path But if you stand you cannot see you feel like there is no road ahead There's no way ahead But then as you move it is only when we move we see the um the the road It uncovers the road in the same way only when we move we see god unveiling the situations to us step by step and you know We see that god You know god stays mindful of other factors at work in life situation We had to speak to the storms to calm them to the mountains to move Uh It is like uh not every situation or every circumstance that we face in our life is from god But then it is also we should know that there is also an enemy who works at the same time So we can't consider everything that happens in our life saying okay god is in control If it is god's will to happen let it happen if now that's okay No, that is not what god is expecting us to say Yes, god is in control he is control of the situation But then as believers as the children of god, we should know what is happening in our life Is god asking us to wait or Is it an obstacle is it an opposition uh from the enemy to stop god's work in our life? We need to say we need to see that and speak to the storms to come And speak to the mountains to move when we speak the devil flees He flees away they must uh We need to speak in faith so that we see the storms come and the mountains move in our life But there are some times We face a situation or circumstance due to our own um Own uh mistakes are the wrong choice that we make we should remember that what we reap is what we so We need to be very careful to face such situations And uh, even when we uh, when we step into any wrong situation in our life But remember god is a god of forgiveness. He forgives us. He overcomes. He helps us to overcome our mistake When we ask god to forgive us and uh, I've got to lead us. Uh, he is uh, he is uh, he is all powerful god Who can forgive us our sins and you know, he can put us back to the track so that we can lead us We can move ahead But we are aware that uh god doesn't work in our life in our situation We must also discern and act with wisdom And accept what is from god and confront and overcome what is of the enemy We should uh discern we need to ask god god give us this wisdom to discern the things the situations in our life to know to know and act accordingly And uh, there are some times um Like we also uh, when we covered the old testament survey We also read about the life of gideon How he tested god three times to make sure that this is what god is asking him to do Yes, that was there. It was those days at the old testament but not in the new testament As a new testament believer, we need to trust god We need to know god Because it's no more like god is speaking to us from out But god has given us his holy spirit who abides in us They didn't have the word those days, but we have the word of god with us We need to see what the word of god is speaking to us We need to listen to the inner voice to the inner witness of the holy spirit What he is ministering to us in our life And then be led By the inner witness of the holy spirit Because god has instructed us to lead our life by his word and by his spirit Even in the new testament we see in the book of acts initially in chapter one We see how the disciples cast lots to find uh To replace the place of judas and then the lord fell on matthew is and they numbered him as the 11th apostle However, this was done even before the pentecost even before the holy spirit can descend on each one of them But after the day of pentecost we see in the same book of acts later part in acts 13 We see that they ministered to the lord and fasted and prayed the holy spirit said now separate to me Partners and soul for the work to which i've called them So we need to lead ourselves by what the holy spirit is saying And not by casting lords or testing god And doing that We will because we will move on to the next point Not every closed door is a no Not every closed door is a no some uh some uh doors that are closed because we have not logged on them We have not knocked on them matthew seven Can one of his turn to matthew chapter seven verse seven to eight Matthew chapter seven worship seven Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find Knock and the door will be open to you Eight for everyone who asks receive he who seeks finds and to him who knocks the door will be opened Yes Not every objection that we face in our life Is a no is a no from god no We need to keep moving ahead some doors are closed simply to redirect us to the correct door That will open up in the right time So we need to continue in the way that god is leading us and do not stop For example, Joseph and Mary when they went to Bethlehem, they did not find a room in the end But that does not mean that uh, what uh, uh, uh, uh, mother Mary was carrying Was not the uh was not the uh, uh, Jesus the son of god It was uh, she never doubted on it was not conceived by the power of the holy spirit If it was so then the in should be ready everything should have worked smooth but then They were led to the manger Where the child was been birthed? So till the right door they had to keep knocking till they reached the right place in the right door They never thought it was not revealed to them The child needs to be birthed in the manger, but then they kept knocking they went step by step The same way maybe the complete things are not revealed to us But when we face any closed doors, let's not stop in that by saying this is not god's will But then move ahead till the door opens. That's the reason in uh, Matthew chapter seven We read that ask and it will be given to you Seek and it shall be you you you will find Knock and it will be open to you. That means what we need to ask We need to pray we need to seek we need to knock till we reach the right door Till things happen in our life till the circumstance change till the situations are fine We need to keep doing what we are doing We should not stop. We should it shouldn't be like, okay I prayed and god didn't answer. So I gave up thinking it is not god's will I knocked I did my best I gave my best. I think god God's god decided not to open up this particular door for me How long did we seek? How long did we ask? How long did we knock? We need to do it Even if you see in the very verse the first letter of ask is a Seek is s and knock is k simply put us ask ask till something happens Till your circumstance change till your situation change till the right door opens to you. Let's continue Going ahead Not every delay is denial Some closed doors are there because we are supposed to knock on them and some doors are closed simply to redirect us to the right way We may have faced such doors in our life as well We may face How did we react in such situations? Did we give up? Or did we continue? Did we think that it is a denial from god? Or there are certain situation in our life. There are certain dreams in our life Still may not have been fulfilled But have we given up on those dreams or are we waiting on the lord? Are we asking seeking and knocking? Or are we given up when we don't give up and hold on to god suddenly things change It starts working on our behalf But god starts unfolding his plan into our life in the right time in the right season Just the way god orchestrated for Mary and Joseph but for that we need to continue We should not give up. We need to trust on god and move ahead in our life Can one of us read Psalms 105 verse 17 to 22 Psalms 105 verse 17 onwards He sent a man before them joseph who was sold as a slave They afflicted his feet with fetters He himself was laid in ions Until the time that his word came to pass the word of the lord tested him The king sent and released him the ruler of peoples he answered him free He made him lord of his house and ruler over all his possessions To imprison his princess at will that he might teach his elders wisdom Yes, here we see the life of joseph What happened in life of joseph? We see you know at a very young age he gets a dream Gets a dream and he also shares that dream with his parents and with his siblings And that made his brothers to be very uncomfortable with him and they were jealous of him and what happened Many things in his life didn't go very well They just sold him they just sold him As a slave to egypt And even in egypt we see that he was as a slave. He was working in potifers house and there you see he was he was Because of his Potifers wife He was put into jail for the mystic that he did not come it And throughout the season you see Yes, david went through through hard time through many trials, but then He trusted god that god will change his situation He never thought you know, uh, that dream was just a dream He trusted on god he never we the scripture does not say that he cribbed He complained He trusted god and scripture clearly says that god was with david and david did not send Even when potifers wife had to misbehave with him he ran away from her But during this time of trial He waited and he trusted on god though. He encountered many closed doors Though his situation was so much so like you know, he had to give up on his dream thinking everything is over in his life Everything is over in his life But then he trusted on god that god is guiding me god will bring me through this He can make things work in my life, but it was in the prison when he was put in prison It was in the prison that uh, uh, the gift of interpreting dreams was activated To david. Sorry to joseph We may be going through our own season of trial But even this season is when god will activate certain skills in our life that is needed For him to bring out his plan out in our life So we need to see the hand of god is at work in our situation. We may not know the complete picture We may not know the complete picture. For example, uh, there was a story a very beautiful story saying that a woman visited uh uh Exhibition and there she saw a old man weaving a beautiful car weaving a carpet Okay, weaving a carpet and you see only the threads and knots different colors of threads and knots there And you know, she saw the focus of this elderly, uh, Man that he put in and so gently he was doing But she didn't understand what he was doing because she could not make out the design. She could only see the uh, uh, the threads the knots But after sometime when she passed through when the When the gentleman finished weaving he turned the carpet out and she saw a beautiful design of a bunch of flower on flowers on the carpet So what she didn't get to see before she sees it now and she admires at the whole work Similarly in the same way when we are passing through the situation and through the difficult Circumstances, we may not understand god's hand god's plan in our life But when we wait When we wait and when we go through it, we see how beautifully lord has led us Even during the trial times god's hand was upon us much more than what he was at the other time God is faithful God leads us and he guides us As per his word, he says that I will never leave you nor forsake you we can trust on him That he is with us Even when we face the closed doors It is just that he's leading us to the right door That we can go until the time we need to wait on god Just like how joseph waited one night changed joseph's situation He could interpret ferrus dream from being a slave Joseph You know was changed his situation was changed to become the prime minister the head of hejab The power was given to him He headed the he headed this Country he headed this nation one who was slave One who was slave in the In the prison and now god changed the situation and uh, you know brought him out To head the nation Everything changed for joseph When we continue to trust on god When we trust on god, we see the closed door open to us The night he went to bed as a slave with the prisoners clothing and next day you see The situation has been changed the power has been handed over to joseph Things changed in his life in the same way things can change in our life But we need to wait on god. We need to keep asking Seeking and knocking So that the things can change circumstance can change situation can change god can move on our behalf Because he's a god of all powerful. He can do things Much greater much powerful Even what our eyes have not seen A mind has not imagined nor it has not been conceived in our thoughts or in our heart We need to trust god when we trust god we see closed doors open And uh, you know god is above the time season He can restore it for us We need to discern when god is orchestrating something in our life Is it he Or it is not when it is not from god We need to speak to the stop we need to speak to the mountain and command it to move from our life And walk into what god is doing in our life what god is orchestrating in our life One thing we need to remember friends that god does things Revealing to his children God does not do things arbitrarily He reveals things before in hand So that all we have to do is yes This is what the lord wanted us to do and we can step into that season just the way he did for joseph God revealed things to joseph much before in hand. So when things were getting unfolded in joseph's life He knew this is what god has planned for him. This is what the dream that he had before in his father's house is getting Fulfilled now In the same way god speaks to us he can speak to us through his word through the inner witness of his holy spirit or through others When god speaks hold on to his promise trust god for the right time And when we wait on him you see the closed door open You see the way that you did not see before you get to see now the opportunities come Your way seeking you searching you and you know you will definitely know This is what god has done in your life. And it is for sure. It's god's hand in our life He confirms us priest god how the way god works and there are certain examples in our In our book how god opened up the church in mangrove how initially it started By one doctor called dr. Ranjit peter he visited Bangalore and shared his desire Of starting a church location in a place called Darlakatti, which is outside mangrove outskirts of mangrove Then pastor took up that opportunity And they first uh conducted a concert there and they saw 20 people turn up to that concert and later next day they They invited them to church and people didn't turn up for church as well And then we see how we started the napali church They were about 10 napali people approached pastor to teach them to teach the word every tuesday And then that's how the group started growing and they launched apc napali church and later as the church grew in many number You know, uh, they released this church to uh, you know established their own platform And later we see how the catalyst ministry was birthed in apc church catalyst ministry is Where we carry the word of god to the schools To the school children The first it started with the invitation from one of the school asking. Can you please teach the scripture classes? scripture class in our school and then To to teach that they had the right time they received pastor selena as one of our pastor who was Also a faculty of a bible college. She joined the team and she Thought she started this project in one school and later launched in many other schools in in the city of bangalore and later we also Started god tv and the short term bible college in a similar way God just gave us an idea gave us one opportunity and later it opened up in other places as well and it's It's growing We see how god is leading us in the right way This similarly even in our own life god may have opened a small opportunity. We may think it is just a step For time being but then that became our skill that became our job I remember I remember a friend of us You know, she came all the way from Uganda To bangalore to study on a beautician course When she came here she joined our church. She was very regular in attending the church She was good in leading worship. We saw that skill of you know She she was good in singing. So we asked her to be part of our worship team And as she was part of our worship team, we saw she was growing in the skill and she was also had the skill to lead worship So we gave her the opportunity to lead worship And she started leading in a very beautiful way And slowly we opened up an opportunity to a why uh, the time that you are here in bangalore As you're doing a beautician course. Would you like to join a bible college and study the word? She was opened enough Immediately she took that opportunity But in the same time god was also ministering to her in a heart Preparing her to do something like this So when the opportunity came away, she grabbed it She joined the bible college Initially it was difficult for her but god gave her the grace to study the word And she stood out. She was excellent in what she was doing She studied two years. She completed her diploma in Be a diploma in theology in bangalore She never thought that she would study theology in bangalore But she the main reason that she came to bangalore was to do a beautician course And then now she goes back to her home to Uganda What happens there? All she desired to open up a parlor and start a beautician But then the opportunity opened in our own local church to serve there as a ministry leader Because she graduated from a bible college And she started serving there She served one year faithfully there She saw god opening new doors And and in the meanwhile due to the pandemic we also launched our online bible college And she was overwhelmed with that news. She said I want to complete my third year She joined third year through online and you know last year she could complete The third year and now she's a bt edge She graduated bachelor's in theology and she continues to serve as a ministry leader in her church She heads worship team and she also serves very actively in the church ministering to people See how god changed her life She came for a different reason to India But when she went back she went back as a servant of god And she's serving there as a servant of god God can change things even in our life in an even in a life situation in a similar way I open up to the class now If you would like to share how god worked and changed your circumstances Your situation when you allowed god to work in your life Just like how joseph did is that anyone in our class would like to share Please go ahead. Are you experiencing any closed doors and You know god opened that door for you. Is there anyone in the class? This will only encourage us build us in faith and Give us more confidence to wait on lord to have that faith on god anyone in the class Brother lubega you would like to share Brother isik Yes Can I share Yes, please Okay, god bless you In my life what happened When I finished high school I came to the capital of our country that because i'm in syria leon I came to the capital free town because in the provinces Job opportunities are very Slow or low But um when I was coming to free town my desire was to work in broadcasting Yeah, so I wanted to do broadcasting and journalism And indeed I applied to the national station For seven eight nine months Like you are saying the doors were closed And seemed like nothing was happening But still apart from broadcasting I wanted to work because I just left school And then what happened A schoolmate of mine Who all attended sixth form Came to free town he started working for the airline industry And whenever I come from seeking job sometimes I pass through him He talked and sometimes he gave me pocket money And in the acne time he told me look Isaac, you know when we were in school You were interested in broadcasting But it's a government job. It's not coming on easily And we advise that You apply To our company which is an airline company So the personal manager Is very straightforward And godfaring And indeed from that time I applied And after Nine months also again after the two interviews The job was not coming. On the third interview I got the job My special grace of God And I was so happy And I have done with them all throughout my life And now I retired airline and airport worker So Like it's a constant experience I came for broadcasting and journalism I ended up in the airline industry, transportation industry God bless us all Praise God. That's a wonderful testimony. Thank you brother for sharing Anyone else would like to share How God changed your situation circumstances or you experienced any closed doors and God opened it for you Brother Enoch Brother Praise the Lord That's nice Sorry, I joined late Because I did it all night So but thank God that I was able to meet up Praise God God is awesome God When he loves you he will teach you a lesson Yeah Mine was a lesson And I'm grateful to God today Praise God I said something the other time that after my wedding God said go and serve me a week after my wedding Um I bench went to where I I obeyed Almighty God. I went to Bible school That's why that my degree is a religious studies Yeah, and so I want to know more of God I obeyed At the point my wife lost her job No job for me Everywhere we are close Really close doors Baby childrens are there. Oh God. What do I do? I started asking God. What is the matter? Every door we are close Ah to feed on is become a problem. So we back on God started asking And God if you what I have done that make the door to be closed That you refuse to do one so so and so work You refuse to pray for so so and so And the person eventually Gone for that When I sent you Now we started asking God for mercy Then I told God if you are for literally forgive me. I want to job without an interview and After three days later somebody called me Can you do a research for us? Can you write a proposal for us? It's an NGO I mean before I come I'll be working with Nigeria Red Cross As a staff and under NGO to be writing proposal so I said there's no problem. It's okay. Come to my office. And that was how the job came The open door surface again without an interview without anything I said to this is God because when God send you and you review this obey It will automatically close the door For you to learn So I that was my experience and I thank God the door truly open because we seek God Hallelujah Praise God brother. You know, thank you so much for sharing and that's so encouraging each one of us here. I'm sure many of us here These two testimonies would be a blessing and are encouraging to each one of us that we need to respond to God when the opportunity comes our way It is not by accident. It happens Right. God is preparing us And then he unfolds things for us to take for us to receive it Okay. Thank you so much. What we'll do is we will take a quick 10 minute break and we will be back. So Okay. Thank you so much. See you all soon after a short break God bless Oh, thank you Thank you I want to write to you. How do I write to you personally privately, please?