 Okay, I would like to ask one of us to please lead in a word of prayer. Then, Siddhu had posted a question and I'll answer that after we get started. So, anyone? Ma'am, Neha? Yes, Rosalind, please. Let's pray. Wonderful heavenly father, thank you Lord. We bless your name, we come before you in the name of Jesus. Daddy God, we thank you for this wonderful session that we are going to have. Lord, we want to thank you for the word that we will be learning here, that we will be studying and meditating upon. God, we ask you, Daddy God, to enlighten our eyes of understanding. We pray, Father, give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation. Lord, that we may grow in your word. Father, that we may not only be the hearers of the word but doers of the word. God, we thank you. Also, pray, Father, for our dear pastor, bless her and moin her this morning as she will be teaching us your word. Speak through her. God, we thank you and we bless you. We also commit all the students into your hands. Father God, may your presence, may your grace come upon us. And that we may do your word. And Jesus mighty name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Rosalind, for that wonderful prayer. We get started with that today. And Sukkino has asked a question in saying, is there any information about the campus opening of ABC Bible College? So as of now, no Sukkino. There is no information. If at all it is opening, you will be told well in advance. At least, I don't know, maybe two months prior. So just wait for that communication to come before you make plans to come to Bangalore. All right. Is that okay, Sukkino? Thank you, ma'am. Yeah, sure. Thank you. All right. Yes. Okay. So I remember telling us that we will address some questions about intercession. Praying for others, ministering to others through prayer. And then we will go to the next chapter, which is about praying for our families. Okay. So any questions, everyone, about ministering through prayer, being an intercessor, being called to intercession. So being an intercessor, we talked about the ministry of intercession. Right. And again, this need not be a very public thing where someone has started out a ministry. It could also be at a personal level, but God is using that person primarily for the sake of intercession. And they are faithfully engaging with God and seeing results from the prayers that they are praying. So it could also be like that. Okay. So, yeah. So do you have, do you have examples? Oh, yeah. Yes, Divya. Please go ahead, Divya. Thank you. Thank you, minister. So my question is in the portion where it talks about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I'm referring to first Corinthians 12, especially. Is it like a complete list of the gifts or are there more? Because in that we do not see because as far as I was listening, I felt that it is a gift of grace, right? So is it like it is not included or is it because it is not a whole list? Okay. Okay. So you're asking more specific to the gifts of the Spirit or, you know, there are other places that are given, right, to people. So are you referring to that also? I am referring to, I think, first Corinthians 12, which is the nine gifts. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Divya. So I'm just looking at that passage, first Corinthians chapter 12, which says, you know, there are diverse from verse four, there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit, there are differences of ministries, but the same Lord, and there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works in all in all. But the manifestation of the spirit is given to each one for the prophet of all, for to one is given, and then the list starts word of wisdom through the spirit to another word of knowledge through the same spirit to another faith by the same spirit to another gifts of healings by same spirit to another, the working of miracles to another prophecy to another discerning of spirits to another different kinds of times to another interpretation of times, but one and the same spirit works all of works all these gifts, these things distributing to each one individually as he wills. Okay. So these are the gifts of the Holy Spirit, Divya. Okay. But if you look at Romans chapter 12, there again, certain ministries are listed, but that is different. We call them, I think kids of grace or something like that. But the manifestation of the spirit is in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But you, we don't see that there are only nine gifts. Nothing in the passage definitely tells us that, you know, Paul wrote this as a full list. Okay. So there can be others, there can be others. Okay. Yeah. But when we count the list which he gave, there are nine. Okay. And till now, a good understanding has been developed on these nine gifts. So you will find, you know, people writing a lot about it, people recognizing the gift, you know, when they use it and how it functions and all of that. But are there more manifestations of the spirit? Yeah. Nothing tells us that there aren't. So we believe that there aren't. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And as like all those, most of those nine gifts, I am not sure if all, but of them comes in prayer, right? Like if it is faith, it is exercised in prayer, word of knowledge, word of wisdom, knowledge, wisdom, I am not sure. Healing is exercised in prayer. So is it like, you know, all these comes together or, you know, all these different gifts are operating in this, in prayer. Okay. In prayer. So Divya, they could be operational in prayer and they could be operational outside of prayer. It works both ways. And how do all the nine gifts, right? Can all the nine gifts be a part of prayer? They could be. However, we would, we generally see that the operation of the gifts. Okay. We call it like gift packs. It happens in a kind of a, like, like a group, grouped way, for example. You know, we could say the prophetic word, prophecy, word of knowledge. You generally might find that it's kind of flowing together. You know, you might release a prophetic word over that person and to get that person's attention, as you're telling them, this is what I see God doing in your life. You know, I see you studying in a particular university and you, you know, you're getting this degree. You know, you're just telling them about the prophet, you're releasing the prophetic word. But to get that person's attention, maybe the word of knowledge will also flow. And you don't know that individual, but you might end up saying things like, you know, already God has worked in your life. Already, you know, God has put the seed for this career in your life when you studied in, and you might actually say the name of the old university from where this person comes from. That is a word of knowledge because there is no way of you knowing where that individual studied prior. So what's happening? Prophecy, word of knowledge. And then the discerning, discerning of spirits. Suddenly you say things like, I see that you are a good person. God is showing me that you have a noble spirit. What is all that? That is discerning of spirits. You're able to tell what is the character, what is the attitude of this individual. So we say that the, what we observe is that yes, they are distinct gifts, but generally they are operational together. It's very hard to tell like what will flow when. But as you're being led by the spirit, you'll find that some common gifts work together for the example that I gave you just now. Or also prophecy, word of knowledge, it can kind of flow together. Or prophecy, tongues, interpretation of tongues that can flow together. So the operation when you observe it, it tends to be like this. Not all nine gifts. You may not find all nine gifts being manifested at one time. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Sure. Sure. Thank you. Yeah. Like the way I, do you, you have seen these gifts in operation or like how, how is it? Are you asking for me? Yes. Yes. Yeah. Not like not in a very explicit way. Yeah. But what to say? Not completely sure of it. Like, yeah, there is, I would say faith and I've never operated in word of knowledge as such. Okay. Yeah. But yeah, not, I cannot, you know, specifically pick something here and there. But yeah. Yeah. Sometimes interpretation of dreams. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, I mean, the reason why I'm asking you is, are you, sorry to put you on the spot, but are you from a place where, or, you know, your, your background where this is encouraged in your gatherings and things like that? I am basically, I grew up in a traditional background. Okay. Okay. But even now, like, as part of a local church also, these are not encouraged. Yeah. Yeah. I missed. Okay. So let me see the, I mean, let me see what other resources, maybe personally, I'll probably email it to you. So, you know, you'll have a better picture of how these gifts operate. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'll send it for some material. Yeah. Thank you. All right. So, yes, everyone, we were saying that we will answer some questions about intersession, and then we will move on to the subject of praying for our family. So, yes, I don't see any additional questions. Anything else? No, ma'am. Okay. So, let me just share, like, I know of this one ministry in our city where women get together and they pray, they get together and they pray. I don't know too much about, you know, what goes on, how it's conducted and all, but they run a, they run a gathering once a year for all the women of the city. So, I've been a part of it, you know, for over a decade. Like, whenever I see the announcement that that program is happening, I would, you know, I'll land up there once a year, just one day for a gathering. But, you know, really, we're talking about intercessors, right? Intercessors, intercession. So, apparently, they put in prayer for the entire year, the entire year for their ministry and especially this one day program. I cannot tell you the kind of impact I have seen, you know, that one gathering. Every time I've gone, it's been so, it's just super anointed. Like, when you hear the message that is being spoken, it's always hit me right, you know, to my heart and whenever I've gone for prayer, the prophetic words that were released over my life, it's all been like life changing one day, just one day of getting that that conference was so impactful, but it's only later that I understood why is it so special because the women who are part of that team, apparently they pray. They pray through the intercede, they prepare for the whole year and towards the end of the session, they have like an anointing time where they have prayed over oil and the team stands and they invite all the people who have come to attend the conference to come forward to just, you know, lay hands on your head and pray. Now again, I'm talking out of experience. You know, I've really seen breakthroughs, you know, whenever they prayed, breakthroughs, one particular year, that was a difficult year for me. I had to make some decisions and I didn't know like what choice to make and I went in there with a great burden, but you know, there was a deliverance. I could really sense that deliverance after spending time in God's presence there. So what is the point I'm making? You see, many of these ladies, I don't know their names and I've seen them often because I've attended the conference. I haven't seen their faces quite familiar. Even though I don't know who they are, I cannot tell you what an impact it has made on my life. I'm sure they've invested in prayer, hours of prayer, I don't know, early morning prayer to touch the women who come for that program. But the power of that prayer, really, I would recommend it to so many people and say, you have half a day you go, don't miss it. Because something about being there, God work, even if you don't work for prayer could just sense the presence of God. So I just felt like sharing this with you and I know that they're primarily an intercession based team that prays for people and it's made an impact in the lives of women and even me. So I just wanted to encourage all of us. And also one more testimony which I heard. Okay, this I'll share with you another person. So let's stop with that about the intercession. Now let's move on to the subject on praying for family. I'm sure all of us do this and we want to pray for the current situation that we may be in and also looking ahead for the future. We really want to see God bless our lives, God bless our family members. So how do we pray for our family? In this chapter, it's mainly talking about, there are some prayers which we will look at but it is more in the context of praying for a spouse. How would you pray for your husband? How would you pray for your wife? How would you pray for your child? So it's in that setting. However, if you are a person, maybe you're not married and you want to pray for your siblings, you want to pray for your parents or whoever are your family members, you can find scriptures pertaining to that and you can pray for them in that manner. So the basis of what we are going to talk about is scripture. So based on what the word of God says, remember we said while praying a believing prayer, how do we become effective? We know that it's God's will and that is why we have confidence in speaking that, declaring that and asking God for it and when we do that by faith, we will see the result. So based on scripture, we are going to talk about a couple of prayers which we can pray in this chapter, mainly for your spouse, your child and all of that but we can find scriptures for other people in our lives, maybe parents. You can find scriptures for parents applicable to that and then based on scriptures, we can pray for our family members. So there is a passage given here from 1 Corinthians 7 verses 10 through 16 where the context is, there is a married couple and they have spiritual influence, they have spiritual influence upon their spouse, their spiritual influence over the children. So that's what this passage is actually saying. How about we read it? It's given in the message translation. Can somebody read it from the notes, please? I am on page 54. Ma'am, may I? Yes, please go ahead. 1 Corinthians 7 verse 10 to 16 and if you are married, stay married. This is the master's command, not mine. If a wife should leave her husband, she must either remain single or else come back and make things right with him and a husband has no right to get rid of his wife. For the rest of you who are in mixed marriages, Christian married to non-Christian, we have no explicit command from the master. So this is what you must do. If you are a man with a wife who is not a believer but who still wants to live with you, hold on to her. If you are a woman with a husband who is not a believer but he wants to live with you, hold on to him. The unbelieving husband shares to an extent in the holiness of his wife and the unbelieving wife is likewise touched by the holiness of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be left out as it is, they also are included in the spiritual purposes of God. On the other hand, if the unbelieving spouse walks out, you've got to let him or her go. You don't have to hold on desperately. God has called us to make the best of it as peacefully as we can. You never know, wife, the way you handle this might bring your husband not only back to you but to God. You never know, husband, the way you handle this might bring your wife not only back to you but to God. Amen. Thank you. So in this passage, we are seeing the instructions of God and particularly when a Christian is married to a non-Christian, he says that the unbelieving husband shares to an extent in the holiness of his wife and the unbelieving wife is likewise touched by the holiness of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be left out as it is, they also are included in the spiritual purposes of God. So the same passage we can read it in other versions but the essence of what it is saying is spiritual influence. Even in a situation where there is a mixed marriage, where one spouse is not a believing person, there is a godly spiritual influence that the believing spouse can have on the unbelieving spouse and also the children, the children are sanctified, it says in another version, they are touched by the spiritual influence of the believing parent. So what are we observing here? We are observing that in a family, when we are believers, we have a spiritual influence. Not just as a believer, but in the context of their family and over here spouse, in the relationship, in the family, over the children, over the spouse, there is a spiritual influence which one can exercise. So we are just encouraging us to exercise that spiritual influence. So every believer in our family setting, we can exercise our spiritual authority at our spiritual influence. Now, before I go any further, this passage was just to help us understand about spiritual influence. It's not to say that it's okay to marry an unbeliever, you still have a spiritual influence over them. That's not the point. In fact, in other passages of scripture, we are encouraged not to do that. Not to do that. When it comes to marriage, we have to be equally yoked with a believer. So just making that clear, and then let's proceed. So now that we understand that there is a spiritual influence which we can exercise, what are all the things that we can pray for, for our family members. So we've said earlier that we can go to God on behalf of our family members. So maybe there are some needs. So we stand in the gap for our family members. We can pray for God's purposes to be fulfilled in their lives. We pray that they grow in God, that they have spiritual maturity in God, that they will identify what God has called them to do, that they will be committed to that purpose, that they will serve in that purpose, and they will walk into the destiny that God has for them. So we can pray for all such things. We also realize that every human being goes through adverse situations and circumstances. So for our family members, maybe they are going through some things which are challenging for them. But we know that we can pray the help of God. We can pray God's wisdom upon their life. So we could pray for things like that to help in their difficult circumstances. We pray that God will strengthen their faith for them to overcome. We can also pray protection, because we know that in the world, the enemy will always try to attack the believer or anybody for that matter. So whether our family member is a believer or not a believer, we have the influence to speak and declare God's protection on our loved ones. So we can engage in what is known as spiritual warfare for our loved ones. So these are all ways in which we can pray for different family members. And we can also look at it this way, that we continue to sow our prayer like sowing seeds. Especially when we are believing God for something over time. Maybe we want our spouse to walk into the purposes of prayer for their lives or the children. We want them to be groomed in line with what God is calling them to do. So we begin praying for them early on. And every time we pray for them, we are sowing and we are trusting that God will lead them in that direction and God will cause them to see and increase. So these are all the areas which we can touch upon in our Google family member. Now there are sections in our notes here which will be specific to a particular kind of a family member. So the first one here is prayer for the spouse. So it is back on the same points, whatever I have said, but a little more in detail. So praying for the spouse. How is it done? And this is written more like a husband praying for the wife. So what are the areas that the husband can pray for the wife? I told you one is growth, spiritual growth. So there are some passages, scriptures that you can base your prayer on Ephesians 1 verses 15 to 21, then Ephesians 3 verses 14 to 21, Colossians 1 verses 9 through 11, that basically talk about us having the spirit of wisdom, revelation to understand who God is and be firmly rooted in God to be firmly rooted, built up in God. So based on these scriptures, one can pray for the spouse and ask God that there will be spiritual growth. How about we read a passage? Maybe we could touch on okay, we can do two passages. Ephesians 1 verses 15 through 21, one person can read and Colossians 1 verses 9 through 11, another person can read. This will be useful no matter who we are praying for. So it's good to listen to the verses. Ephesians 1 verses 15 through 21 and Colossians 1 verses 9 through 11. For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints, I do not see giving thanks for you while making mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and a revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. Amen, you see that. So how Paul is praying for the Ephesians and he's saying that the eyes of their understanding may be open, that they may understand what inheritance they have, what hope they have. So we want to pray this for our family member. One more passage is Colossians 1 verses 9 through 11. One more person could you please read. Thanks John, thank you for reading that first passage. For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will. Though all spiritual wisdom and understanding and we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way. Him in every way bearing fruits in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God. 11, being strengthened with all power according to His glories might so that you may have great endurance and patience and joyfully. Thank you, thank you. So we see that how we Paul prays for the Colossians and he says that you may know the will of God that you know you might have a walk worthy or you know God's calling that you might produce fruit. So all these prayers pertain to spiritual maturity based on each one of this. We could just meditate on it for yourself or you could also meditate on this for any family member over here. It's been prayed for a spouse. So we are just praying that you know the spouse would grow in the Lord that they would know God in a deeper way they would be strengthened in God they would mature in God. So that is the first thing that we are praying for. Then moving on, we can pray for their purpose we can pray that God will give them the understanding of what gifts they have put in them what calling is upon their life and the anointing that God has given them and we can also ask God that they will continue to walk in the purpose of God for their lives we can pray and we can ask God that they will fulfill God's purpose for their lives that every good thing could just tell us that God has prepared good works for us to walk in so that our spouse would walk into all those good purposes that God has for them they will serve God they will also enjoy serving God in all these ways So one is to pray that they mature in God second we are saying that we can pray that they will serve the purposes of God through their lives then we can continue to declare other things Now for a wife there are so many scriptures that you could use some have been listed here but you can make your list longer if you want so I will just share what is given to declare God's word over the wife and say that she is a wise woman she builds up her home according to Proverbs 14 and verse 1 can also pray that she is a prudent woman and she is the pride and joy of the husband according to Proverbs 19-14 Proverbs 12-4 could pray that she is a fruitful wine in the home bringing a blessing, joy and protection to the family according to Psalm 128 and verse 3 that she is a virtuous woman and her price is far more than rubies she is blessed in all that she does and that your heart trusts safely in her you and the children arise and call her blessed she opens her mouth with wisdom and her tongue has gentleness on it and that her own work brings her honor and respect in the city all this is based on Proverbs 31 verses 2-31 so you know what are we saying? see basically what we are saying is there are many scriptures that tell us what kind of blessing God would give to a wife or what kind of like a character a good wife has so as a declaration in prayer you can just declare it over your spouse and pray this through for them when God's word would begin to work in their lives now if this is a wife praying for your husband there are also passages that say that in Proverbs 31 that the husband is respected he sits at the city gates and he is respected so you could pray a prayer like that and say okay God thank you that he is an honorable man that he is well respected the way he carries about himself and the things that he does Psalm 112 is a wonderful passage that you can look at so let me just share some scriptures from there for us so we could pray then okay we could pray things like thank you God that you know he fears the Lord he delights in your commandments thank you that his descendants it says there will be mighty on the earth that his generation will be after his generation will be blessed that wealth and riches are in his home and his righteousness endures forever so basically what are we doing you just pull out passages of scripture and you pray it over your spouse so let me also read some verses from Psalm 128 okay so it says like blessed is the one who fears the Lord so you could say thank you God for my husband fears the Lord he walks in your ways and then it says that you shall eat the labour of your hands so he will eat the labour of his hands he shall be happy he shall be well with him and then yeah the Lord will bless him out on Zion so some of these scriptures you kind of you pull it out to make a list of them and in the prayer time we can pray for some of the common things like spiritual maturity then that they would fulfil God's purpose for their lives and then something more specific if you are praying for the wife then pull out scriptures about the wife and then pray them through you pray for your husband you could pull out scriptures and pray for them now what about people who are not married you see according to God's will there is nothing wrong in praying for your future mate so these same good scriptures you could pray it through you may not have come to the stage in your life where you are going to get married maybe you are not even going to get married in the next one year or two years maybe it is going to take you another 8 to 10 years to get married but we can always invest in prayer what are we doing we are we are sowing seeds so you can sow the seed of prayer so you can ask the Holy Spirit to inspire your heart and then God puts it on your heart pray that he will be well respected in the city case fine pray that he will be committed to the purposes of God fine so even if we are not married we can pray for the future husband or future wife so we pray on all these subjects we can also pray for them we can declare God's wisdom upon their lives we can declare success blessing over their work their ministry and you know we could just continue to pray with anything else maybe the spouse is going to a very specific situation you could address that in prayer and declare God's intervention and invite the Holy Spirit to come and minister so this is the manner in which one can pray for their spouse now moving on prayer for children see something on the chair no so Divya you want your husband to pray you are not planning to pray for him that's a tricky question yeah hopefully both of you will pray yeah good good good I'm glad it's inspiring you to pray for one another so moving on praying for children we can touch on the same topics because it's common to all spiritual growth, spiritual maturity God's purpose on their lives but in addition to that we can also pray that as a parent you carry spiritual authority enough to sanctify, dedicate consecrate their gifts whatever God has blessed them with you can say Lord I am dedicating this child I am dedicating the gifts of this child the skills that this child has the capabilities of this child Father God I am dedicating everything for you and I pray that this child will grow in the knowledge of God and fulfill God's purpose for his or her life so as a parent yes as a spouse we pray and we exercise our spiritual authority but as parents in some way you can say that there is that greater influence parents have so continue to declare about your children continue to get the heart of God over the child and release it so cover all these points pray for the spiritual maturity that they will early on in their life they will discover the purpose and they will walk into that purpose you can pray the promises of God's word upon that child I am reminded of Zechariah however you want to pronounce Zecharius or Zechariah he prays over John the Baptist his son he prays and he speaks the destiny new child will be and then he declares the prophetic word on his very son then the child is born so as a father what is he doing exercising that spiritual authority and saying God is going to release you into the purpose of his purposes for your life so I am blessing you in the name of Jesus so we can exercise our spiritual authority to the full in prayer over them so continue to declare continue to declare the word of God maybe God has put some promises when we ask tell me what was God speaking to you about this child when the child was in the womb he will tell you God said this God said that I got this scripture I was prompted to name this child like this because God is going to pray that through don't stop praying it continue to declare it continue to say thank you Lord you will pour out your spirit on my child I speak it in Jesus name I pray that will fill this child with your spirit at a very young age and God let the power of the spirit be seen on the life of this child so as a parent whatever God has impressed on your heart don't stop praying it and this is the manner in which you can exercise your spiritual authority and influence and call forth the prophetic destiny sometimes God can give the impression so this child is going to be a very compassionate child there is healing in the hands of this child so you know ok maybe they are going to go into more of a medical profession or I don't know you have an inclination within you the prophetic destiny of that child so based on how the Lord is leading moving upon your heart continue to speak that declare it over your child so as a parent also there is power in the tongue and we have to bless we understand that when we study about the power of the tongue the power of the word the power of the declaration of our mouth there is an influence which we can exercise so bless the child we could pray something like Lord I bless the present of the child and I bless the future of the child so currently what is the present of the child I could pray and say Lord I bless my child's education I bless every opportunity that you have given this child Lord I bless my son or my daughter with let them have wisdom let them have discernment Lord I bless them with godly character let them have godly character let them be someone who does not compromise so basically you completely speak blessings upon their life upon their choices upon their academies upon their health everything that concerns them and even their future you could continue to declare blessings from right now and say God thank you that their professional journey is blessed their career is blessed God their future spouse we bless in the name of Jesus Lord we bless their destiny let it be successful favorable and Lord we thank you for that ministry whatever you have chosen for them that it's going to be blessed so build up speak blessings upon the children instead of speaking negative things and fear over the future of the child so speak blessings and there is also an element of spiritual warfare that one may want to engage in for the child like you may want to pray for protection you may want to if you're observing that there is some kind of an influence of the enemy over that child's life so you may want to engage in things like binding like you bind the spirit that is at work maybe a spirit of deception is at work in that child's life or a spirit of rebellion okay so we go against the schemes of the enemy against our child's life so these are all ways in which we can pray for the children now having talked about spiritual warfare now just one point that I want to make is see everything is not spiritual attack okay so sometimes maybe while growing up the child is still trying to learn obedience so if there is a very little child let's say a 3 year old or something child keeps saying no no to whatever we are saying it doesn't mean oh there is a demonic influence of a spirit of rebellion every 3 year old child would be like that right so we must not become spooky spiritual okay meaning making everything spiritual is not required but if we discern this is not normal there seems to be something demonic at work that's when we go into the spiritual warfare mode from binding and losing and you know all of that so this is the manner in which one can pray for their children so I'll pause here with regard to praying for the spouse and with regard to praying for the children any additional thoughts or anything else that you want to say and then in the next class we can move on to the other sections I just had this can be a little specific especially regarding you know your child's friendships so how do we one is we can pray about it plus how do we discern that you know in a practical way as well as you said that we should not be spooky spiritual but yeah in a practical way also right so these influences are better they are good like some major decisions for children right yeah yeah yeah so yeah I think in matters like this prayer is one thing so we pray for the children to make the right choices but at the same time I think wisdom so being in that place where you're able to talk to the child and you know give them wisdom and they are in a place to receive I think that also is equally important because we can't just say oh I'm praying and praying and the child will end up making good decisions because we have to nurture them and provide inputs in an all round way isn't it there is a need for them to learn what kind of friendships to have and what will happen if you know they are keeping the wrong company so that wisdom and that relationship to input the wisdom is also crucial when it comes to parenting and another thought that I have heard is that habits are habits are caught and not so much taught when it comes to parenting so we can tell them what to do we can give them the wisdom but apparently children go by what they see more than what they are told so setting the example also comes into the picture so a few additional things including prayer wisdom, example all these things matter and if the child is not willing to listen to us for whatever reason you can seek external help maybe some counseling if the issue warrants that yes first thank you the available inputs thank you so one last thing that I will say before we close for today so we are talking about spiritual influence and when we talked about prayer earlier we said there are boundaries there are boundaries and God will never override the will of a human being and that is applicable even here now in the family setting spouse can exercise spiritual influence on your spouse a parent can exercise incredible spiritual influence on the children but it is not to override self will again because whenever we talk about overriding one's will that goes to the area of manipulation ok so that's why we can pray we can influence through prayer to an extent however things like communication things like wisdom talking to the person all these things are also important there are no shortcuts to exercising positive influence so we must keep that in mind so only prayer and speaking these things declaring these things over our loved ones only that is not the complete picture but we have to engage in all the other necessary things as well ok so just that additional point there and at this point let's close off I just want to request somebody to pray so please we pray unmute your mic and pray please anyone that's great dear heavenly father we thank you for this time of learning we thank you for an evening of your work regarding the session and praying for a family we pray that you will be able to apply this in our work with you and also we pray that we will be able to pray especially as we learn today from our family and our children we pray that all of the things that we are learning help us to apply it in our life and help us to see the results of our Jesus thank you for all of us thank you for enabling us this morning to study from your work and praise your name thank you thank you John thank you for praying God bless you everybody take care continue praying so continue in prayer and we will keep learning more about it too so bye for now have a good weekend God bless you yes Siddhkino you want to ask something ma'am when are we getting about assignments oh yeah correct so the delays from my side Siddhkino and yeah I am really sorry about it because I really couldn't cope with posting it so what I will do is I must have 3 assignments but I am going to change it and I am going to probably give you 2 assignments so the first assignment will be 40 marks and it should be out shortly thank you ma'am thank you ma'am yeah thank you thank you brother Ravesh thank you ma'am