 Okay welcome back after the break we were looking at we began looking at the first chapter of the book receiving God's guidance for your life okay we'll we are on page number 11 okay we're looking at the different categories of God's are there different categories of God's will okay we also I mentioned about this when we were studying fulfilling God's purpose for our lives okay when we when we saw that God's will is good pleasing and perfect we said that there are no different there are no three categories of God's will but God's will is good pleasing and perfect okay so let's look at Romans chapter 12 verses 1 and 2 can somebody read that please okay so here we see that some people say that you know God's will is three categories sometimes it's good sometimes pleasing sometimes it's perfect but that's not true God's will at any moment in our life is all good good pleasing and perfect okay so first we must understand that you know you know his will is good pleasing and perfect for example and it's not three different categories it's just one a package okay for example if you take an apple you know we don't say the apple one apple is red one apple is you know flavored one apple smells very sweet no each apple is red you know we have green apples whatever if you're taking a red apple the apple is red all of the apples are red okay red flavorful and sweet smelling all that this contained in that one apple okay so just in the same way you know we can't say that God's will has three different categories okay now the word acceptable God's will is good pleasing and acceptable the word acceptable does not mean it's permittable okay you're permitted to do anything and everything okay the word acceptable just like we learned remember we learned in Ephesians chapter 5 we just looked at Ephesians chapter 5 was was 10 remember that we just read it now find out what is acceptable to the Lord okay so a in Ephesians chapter 5 was 10 and even in Romans chapter 12 verses 1 and 2 we see that you know it when you're talking about acceptable it means fully agreeable or fully or well pleasing to God we already looked at that right agree the word acceptable means fully pleasing or well well pleasing or fully agreeable to God okay so here we see that you know God's will is acceptable which means it's not something that is you know permittable you does not mean you can do anything and everything and God will accept it no it is the full agreeable fully agreeable well pleasing will of God okay what is agreeing with God and what is pleasing with him and not what is permitted by the world or what we think is permittable or what we can do are you able to understand what I'm saying yes okay so here we see that you know there is no three categories of God's will we also see that Paul does not mention about this in any other episodes and the other thing is you know when we look at the life and teaching of Jesus you know we do not find him bringing about these three categories of you know God's will you know how do we know that because when you know when somebody came to Jesus and they were sick he did not what did he do did he pray to the father he said did he say one minute wait I will pray to the father whether it is his good pleasing or perfect will to heal you now what does Jesus do he just healed them you know he says it the Bible says the multitudes came and he healed them all the many scripture passages in the Bible in the in Matthew Mark Luke John says you know the sick came to him and they healed them all okay so he didn't ask God if this is your will to heal this person then the next person connects in line come God is this your will to heal this person no because God knows Jesus knew that it's God's will to heal everyone he just went and healed anyone and everyone but when they came to him in faith he healed anyone and everyone now we can ask about things like you know the fall of man when Adam and Eve ate the you know fruit and they sinned against God you know when the the Hebrew people Israelite people wanted to eat meat in the wilderness and when the Israelites wanted a king okay you know it was all all of these were against God's will yes or no because against God's will for Adam and Eve to eat from the fruit it was against God's will for you know the Israelites to have a king because God said I am their king okay if a king comes they're going to struggle they're going to suffer the king is going to overrule them you know going to treat them as slaves going to make them pay taxes so he says I am their king but you know the people wanted the king and what did God do did he allow Adam and Eve to eat the fruit yes or no it got a lot of Adam and Eve to eat the fruit yes he just allowed them to choose their own free will and their own choice see he let them do what was their will what was their choice because God has given us the gift of volition that means a free will to choose he does not treat us like puppets okay he gives us a free will to choose but does he lead us and guide us what to choose yes he does okay so you know he gives us a freedom to choose and then you know when he when we choose something that is not according to his will but still we see that God works with us he calls us back to him self okay so to accomplish his purpose and to restore us for example you know we know in all of our cities you know the law is we cannot murder anybody is there any city in the world where they allow murder no okay this murder does not is not allowed the government does not allow it's not a permissible law okay but what happens if somebody goes ahead and breaks the law and murders what happens huh they're punished and the government also works towards correcting them one way to put them into prison is to correct them and rehabilitate them and help them to see what they have done is wrong the same way you know God allows us to do whatever we want to choose but then he comes along and you know he's willing to call us back to himself and you know he's willing to work in our lives to fulfill his purposes in our lives okay so we cannot you know think about no God's acceptable will is God's permissible will we can do anything and everything and we cannot have a casual approach to doing God's will okay you know we need to see everything the light of his word what he's asking us to do and we need to understand that we need to walk in God's good pleasing and perfect will okay now we've looked at you know God's will that he's willing to lead us guide us that his will is good pleasing and perfect and you know he's he gives us a wisdom and a spiritual understanding gives us a knowledge of his will but there is something that we have to do our responsibility what is our responsibility the first thing is we need to seek God's will okay we need to seek which means we need to seek we also need to listen we also need to obey seek means we need to earnestly desire and ask God to guide us and direct us okay we need to express our desire to know God's will you can say God I have this plan I have this stirring in my heart I have this passion what is your will or you can say God this is what I want to do in my life this is my will this is my plan I'm laying it down before you God I want you to show me you know and I'm willing to obey you listen I'm willing to change I'm willing to accommodate what you have in my life okay so you know we need to express our desire to know God's will and we need to walk in a way that's honoring and pleasing him when we do that God reveals his will to us so you were asking Nimal you were asking how we need to know God's will first thing is you need to seek okay and also you need to live a life that is honoring and pleasing to him okay so God invites us to seek him God invites us to call upon him and to know his will we read in Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 12 and 13 can somebody read that please when will we seek and find God and know his will what does the word of God say when will we seek when will we know God's will when we pray when we call upon him when we seek him you know what is meaning of seek when you when you lose something precious a gold chain a gold earring you just don't look here and I can't find it it's okay but you will look at every nook and corner you'll remove everything you'll you know you know change everything remove the furniture search at the seeking till you find it okay so you know you need to seek you know and in sense here when you search for me with all your heart thank you Nina says when you search for him or seek with all your heart it's not just a mental thing well I need to see God ma'am told me that okay let me just see God what is your will in my life please make it known to me but you know you are deep down in your heart there's a thirst there's a desire there's a longing okay you must seek God with whole heartedness and God you know when we seek God with a whole heart God responds to such heart attitudes can somebody read Jeremiah chapter 33 verse 3 please yes so here you know we must seek him with a whole heart and when we do that he will show us great and mighty things which we do not know okay so if you want to know greater deeper revelations of God's word this truth how to flow in the gifts of the spirit what do you need to do you need to seek God with all your heart desire it okay and when you're seeking God you know when you seek him you know you will find things okay as we earnestly inquire of God we will know his will we'll know his direction in our lives we will come to receive guidance and his leading in our life Matthew chapter 7 verse 7 is a very famous very familiar passenger scripture can somebody read that yes so sometimes you know what we do we just sit back and think God knows our need he has to provide yes God knows you know he'll provide but you know we need to ask it says all those who ask will receive all those who seek will find you know even you're seeking things about God knowing about God and all those who knock the door will be open okay so for us seeking and receiving God's guidance you know it takes on different expressions the first one is seeking his guidance during the normal course of things you know sometimes only when we have to make big decisions in life we go to God but when we go to God for simple things you know simple things like even if you're going to buy a shoe or a you know a t-shirt or you know which color you're very good at choosing you know all of that with shop everything but you know even in those things you can say God lead me to the right shop I've always been going to this shop help me to choose a right shirt help me to choose the right color see you know my father every time he goes out to buy anything whether it's meat or vegetables or you know groceries or he has to go and buy any equipment or for the home or is they're going shopping you know to buy some clothes anything every time he'll be in the prayer room praying asking God for wisdom to take the right shop to buy the right thing you know I've seen him do that every single day my mother says go buy tomato he'll be in the prayer room praying and then he's going to buy the tomatoes you know so for every little thing total depends dependence on God so my his older brother is to make fun of my dad saying you know he's like this um prisoners you know when they come out of jail every one hour they have to go and report to the police station like that your dad will every moment he will be going and asking God but it is total dependence on God so when we are depending on God on simple things in life no you know when it comes to bigger things we can easily with clarity hear God sense God and you know know what he is leading us and guiding us so even the small things of life even when you're writing assignment God how do I write this assignment you know God when you know I'm choosing this what do I choose you know simple things we can just pray and ask God seek his guidance seek his guidance even during the special times of your life you know big decisions that you're making um you know during those times you know whether which job which career to take whether you have to go from move from one city to another city which you know who to marry and all of those whether to get into ministry which ministry just spend time seeking God just spend time praying you know days on end worshiping God just waiting upon him you know Isaiah 58 says talk 58 verse 8 talks about the chosen fast in in his light breaking forth in our lives chosen fast means sometimes you know even fasting says when we choose to fast what does it it brings about it brings about God's light in our life okay and we know God you know is a lamp to my feet in a light to our part that means he guides us okay he will show us which part to take he will guide us continually Isaiah 58 verse 11 you know God's guidance does not just come once or twice in our life it comes continually can somebody read Isaiah chapter 58 verse 11 please yes so here you know we need to God continually guides us and the third thing is you know there are sometimes there are God moments when God will just speak to us from somebody some counsel some preacher when we're praying God will just put something in our heart it's like when you're reading God's word a rima word will just come and we will just receive God's guidance okay so first thing we need to do for receiving God's will is to seek God's will second thing is to listen okay and it talks about John chapter 10 where you know the sheep here the voice of the shepherd and when the sheep tells them shepherd tells them to come the sheep will follow him okay so that the sheep follow the voice that they know and they recognize they will not follow a voice of a stranger so they're able to follow the shepherd because they know and listen to his voice and the sheep do not follow strangers because they do not recognize the voice of the stranger the same way who is our shepherd Jesus okay we need to tune ourselves to and recognize his voice and his leading because he leads us and guides us and the and those who recognize his voice are the sheep who will walk in the way that he is showing them okay so we need to listen and tune ourselves to listen to God's voice to recognize and to know you know what God is leading us what he's asking us to do okay Psalm chapter 23 verse 3 and 4 can somebody read that please yes so you know you've seen the shepherd always having a stick okay the staff or the rod what is he what does he use the staff and rod for okay to guide them and you know there's one sheep that is going astray then he will just tap it and it will come in line and just you know keep them in line sometimes also if the sheep is going astray he will just you know put the you know that hook around that staff and just put it on the rack and slowly gently lead the things the sheep okay so it's not only for serving as a defense or protecting the sheep or guiding them but you know it's also you know the sheep the shepherd also leads the sheep from the front sometimes you see the shepherd leading from the front and the sheep will follow because they know that part is very familiar okay they can just easily follow but when there is unfamiliar when it's you know they just follow the sheep because they the shepherd because they know his voice and there are times when you know the shepherd would take a you know go back you know walk behind them when it's a familiar path you know and will allow the sheep to walk in front because the sheep knows they're used to this way you know so they they they will go at the back I mean they walk ahead and the shepherd walks behind and the shepherd is able to see if all the sheep are in line but sometimes when it's an unfamiliar place the shepherd will walk in the front and the sheep will just follow and he will just make his you know keep making those voices talking to his sheep and they will just follow through okay so the shepherd's voice his rod his staff are different pictures of God's guidance in our lives okay we are a sheep and God wants to keep us on the right path he wants to guide us and he wants to lead us but we need to be willing to listen to the shepherd okay and we need to be willing to follow the last thing is obeying the you know obeying our the king or our shepherd okay so God guides us when he God when God guides us we need to be obedient to listen and sometimes it is even laying down our own will our own plans our own purposes what we are comfortable doing what we like doing what we think is best for us we need to lay it down just to obey what God is telling us to do can somebody read somebody else can read Proverbs 3 32 admonition yeah so here we see that who does God give his secret counsel to to the upright yes why the upright because the other ones who are willing to obey God they're willing to do seek his will they're willing to listen to his will they're willing they're living a righteous holy life that is honoring God and they're doing things that is right in the eyes of God and they're walking pleasing to him doing things that is pleasing to him fully acceptable agreeable to God and that is the person God is going to give counsel to okay so if you're not receiving God's counsel in your life you need to look at you know what you're doing wrong are you living a life that is holy pleasing a pride in God's sight are you seeking God's will you know seeking it with all your heart not just one time prayer and also are you willing to listen to what God is asking you to do okay so there are times when God leads us and guides us you know we need to obey with we need to trust him we need to you know sometimes you know don't use our logical reasoning but just go in faith and obedience obey him and be patient with what God is revealing to us because he sometimes does not show us the entire way he will just give us step from one step to the next step so we need to be patient but when we are patient and willing to obey God will guide us and everything will go well in our lives okay so that is chapter one anyone has any questions any questions no questions anyone from our online students have any questions okay if there are no questions we look at chapter two David inquires of the Lord how did David inquire of the law of God okay we know that what is God called David as a man after his own heart okay act chapter 13 verse 22 one who is willing to do God says one who will do all my will so you know why was David a man after God's own heart why did God say he's a man after my own my own heart or why does God says he's a man who will do you know all my will okay let's study David's life and then we will know that okay so we see that God says with such confidence that David is a man after his own heart God's own heart and he's a man who will do all that God wills and you know even as we study this we need to come to that place where you know we are saying God I won't come to that place where you are able to look at my life and say you know this person you know whether it's Rin or Sri Radha or Francis or Nina or Nimal you know Charan we have Charan right Chirag Chirag you know you know just you know somebody who is a man or a woman after my own heart and somebody who is going to do you know is willing to do my will okay not their will so let's look at you know act chapter 13 verse 36 as Paul was preaching what he said about David okay can somebody else read who's not read so far yeah so here it says you know he was somebody who served his own generation how by the will of God okay so you we you and I need to serve God in our generation by doing the will of God okay that means he followed God's purposes for his life he fulfilled God's assignment for his life doing God's will means he was somebody who followed God's purposes and fulfill God's assignment for his life and we see that David at different points in his life you know he inquires of God that means he asks God what do I do in this situation we know that David was somebody who was you know who played the harp very well he was very skillful in playing the harp he was also very courageous when taking care of the sheep he killed the lion and the bear he was also very prudent that means he was very very he you know he when he acted he acted showing care and you know giving thought to the future prudent person is that somebody who acts with care and gives thought to the future and we also know he was very handsome and good looking and Samuel the prophet anointed him as the next king of Israel okay so when David killed Goliath it says in first Samuel chapter 18 verses 5 verse 7 verse 12 verses 14 to 16 and 30 it says David behaved wisely okay David behaved wisely was highly favored and regarded in Israel okay and the people knew that the Lord was with him and there's several places where it says you know David behaved wisely so you know when why does the Bible mention this because you know God wants us to behave wisely not foolishly okay he's he's very pleased when we behave wisely okay and we see that you know after David killed Goliath you know Saul was all out to kill David and David was running for his life he was like a vagabond just running here and there you know living in caves for many many years and but God you know gave him a very group of 400 men who are very faithful to David okay they were his soldiers they were like his army very faithful people and we see that later on these people when David became the king went on to be leaders in his kingdom and in his army and so we see here you know these 400 people these 400 men they came to David when he was living in the wilderness in the forest in the caves the mountains they came and they wanted him to be his leader they stayed along with him so David was a leader and we see that David made any decision that he made he actually inquired of God okay before he took any step he asked God you know what was what to do and I think this was a practice for David from a very young age from a very young age he kept inquiring of God okay so there are many incidents that we will look at and there are many more that it's not recorded but we know that David was somebody who kept inquiring of the Lord and he was one who was doing God's will okay first Samuel chapter 23 verses 1 to 5 you know David is told that the Philistines you know the Philistines were constantly coming to fight against the Israelites they told that you know the Philistines were coming to fight against Chilia a place called Chilia and you know they were robbing their trashing flows that means you know the Philistines what they used to do during the time of judges during the harvest time and the harvest was ready the Philistines would come you know and the people at harvest is their grain and the rice and barley and whatever they've grown olives they would come and take off all the harvest and they would just plunder the people of Israel and then you know the people would cry out to God and God would raise up a judge who would fight against the Philistines so here we see they came so the trashing flows you know this trashing flows where they trash wheat you know make it the flour or trash olives to make it oil fresh the grapes to make it wine they came and took away everything that you know the Israelites had worked hard for and what did David do you know it says David inquired of the Lord and he says Scott can I go and attack the Philistines and what does God say go and attack the Philistines and when David comes and tells his men you know we're going to attack the Philistines whether his men are happy to do it no they were very scared they said oh the Philistines how can we go and fight against them we are just a small group of 400 people you know we are no match to them and so then David goes again and inquires of the Lord and God tells him you know arise go down to Calia for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand for Samuel chapter 23 verse 4 and then David takes his men and they go and God gives them a mighty victory and they take away all the livestock plunder the the the Philistines and then we see that you know this was a kind of a confidence booster for the his men his 400 men because they knew that you know when David inquires the Lord whatever God is telling him to do David is doing it and our leader somebody was inquiring of the Lord and that is why we are having victory we're seeing success so also you know when we we are working as a team you know you are a leader of a team or you're the you know as a husband you're the head of the family you know or you're the head of the home you are a leader in the church in a pastor or you oversee some churches you have to make some decisions you know you can ask the Lord he will give you the guidance and sometimes when you come and present it to people they will not be convinced so you can go back and ask God okay God is this really one what do you want me to do and you know even if people are not convinced and you know for sure that this is what God wants you to do you can go ahead and do it and when God when God in his time will show them okay with the success he's giving you in that project or what venture you've taken what God has asked you to do when you know when you do it you know teammates will see the success and they know yes God is with this person okay she's she or he is doing what God has asked them to do okay I remember once you know God told me to do something and when I was in the children's ministry and I shared it with the children they were ready and they really bought it they were excited they just floored in it but the team was not willing to some of the team was not willing to give in so there was only two or three people in the team who were supporting this whole idea and we just went about doing it because we were I was 100% sure this was from God and in the end result God showed me what he wants me to do through this whole activity or through this whole project that he brought about in in those couple of months in the end he showed me what is going to happen and the end you know when when God did it he did something so profound so powerful that everyone saw it and they knew that it was not my idea it was God's idea because God got all the glory because it was very evident we were nothing we couldn't do anything but the way the children did things it was so so powerful they could just sense the see you can sense the anointing and the presence of God and from just you know somebody just enacting or doing a show it was such a powerful presence of the Lord and people knew that it was so God will show people in your team at the right time that this is what is from him and you know when he gives the success for what you have to do okay then another thing we see when we face setbacks in life when we face disappointments in life when we face hopelessness in life what do we do we can learn from David first Samuel chapter 30 verses 1 to 8 now you know David and his men had gone away and they come back to where you know they were living they were living is in a place called Ziklag and they came back and they found that you know their whole detentions and everything was burnt up everything was their animals everything was plundered and all of their wives and children were taken and carried away and what happens the people and David's heart was so broken they were so sad because they lost everything their wives and children were taken away they start crying they start weeping and they start mourning you know and we see that you know the the the 400 men were so angry with David now they had become from 400 to 600 men the 600 men were very angry with David they were planning to stone him see and just imagine David's position he has to handle the 600 men he is a leader so he is wondering who's taken his wife he's not only you know his men have not only lost their wife and children he's lost their his wives and his children and everything and but what does it say very beautifully here it says in verse 6 but David strengthened himself in the Lord his God how did he strengthen himself he must have sang to God weeping and mourning when his broken heart you know he would have played on his harp just sang worship God he would have just prayed to God he would have just poured out his love to God he strengthened himself in the Lord and then David you know asked the thing you know to bring the ephode ephode was a way that people in in the Old Testament times used to know God's will what to do whether it's a yes or no whether they should go ahead and battle and fight yes or no okay so he says bring the ephode and then he inquires of the Lord and he asks God God shall I pursue these people who have come and destroyed and taken our women and children as as slaves shall I overtake them and was this God answer pursue for you shall surely overtake them without fail and you can recover everything so you know David takes the 600 men he pursues those enemy who has come and destroyed everything and taking their wives and children they pursue them and they recover everything okay so his men would have also learned the lesson here again that you know David is inquiring of the Lord and whenever he requires inquires of the Lord God gives him success okay so there is a powerful lesson that we can learn when we face setbacks in life disappointments hopeless situations you know which puts us down in like a pit or you know puts us in a corner where nothing we can do in life this doesn't seem any possibilities you know how we just pushed against the wall there's no way we can do anything you know we can do what David did the first thing what David did was strengthen himself in the Lord pray worship you know pour out your love to God the second thing is ask God for his guidance and direction on how you must handle the situation and what action you must take okay and another situation was you know when there is a transition in your life and you're moving from one thing to another maybe from school to college or from college to doing your you know studying whatever you want to do as your carrier or you finish your studies you want to go for your job and for your job you know you want to get married you want to have a family when having all these you know this transition in life you know what happened so let's look at an example in David's life uh in 2 Samuel chapter 2 verses 1 2 4 you know now King Saul is dead so David receives the news that King Saul is dead and so you know David knows is the right time for him to go and become the king because he's already anointed as king okay so what does David do he does not say hey man I'm already anointed as king Prophet Samuel told me I'm already king God is already you know assured that so let me go to the city and let me tell everybody I'm already anointed as king by Prophet Samuel you know you have to accept me as king he does not take you know uh you know he does not do what is the permittable will for God of God but what does he do here he inquires of God you know he asks God God can I go up to any of the cities of shall I go up to any of the cities of Judah and God says go up and then David says which city should I go and God says go to Hebron okay so he goes to Hebron when he goes to Hebron people of the tribe of Judah accept him as king and then he's there as king for seven and a half years and after seven and a half years we see that the people of Israel they come to him and they ask him to be king over entire is Israel okay so this is an important lesson that we can learn to receive guidance when we are you know when we are moving on in life when we are journeying through life when we're making transitions you know God we are when we you know we when we listen to God's will when we obey God's will we're under his guidance he will position us and take us closer to fulfilling his plan and purpose for our life so David inquired of God God fulfilled his plan and purpose made him as king over Judah and then you know after seven and a half years he became the king over Israel as well okay so when we face our enemy who's our enemy satan okay what do we do what is what is the will of God what is the strategies that we use okay so let's look at an example from 2 Samuel chapter 5 verses 17 to 25 looking at again David's life okay now we see that you know the Philistines heard that David was anointed as king and David had actually captured a fortress called Zion okay and he he built the city of David around it to build a city made himself very strong a fortified city he was very strong and when the Philistines heard about it you know they marched against David they came to the valley of uh Riffaim okay and when they came there and they were ready to fight against David what does David do David inquires of the lord you know David says God shall I go up against the Philistines he does not say okay you know the Philistines have come to battle it's obvious I have to go in fight against them I can't be sitting in my palace so there's no point in inquiring of God see but what do he what does he do and he's already had you know he's had prior experiences where he has won the battle against the Philistines okay he could have said okay I'm I can win this time but he still inquires of the lord he inquires the lord and says shall I go up against the Philistines it's like a stupid question you know like a child asking the mother when the mother kept the food on the table should I eat this food you know when the army comes against you you need to fight okay but he says shall I go up against the Philistines will you deliver them into my hands and what does the Lord say go up because you can without any doubt you will deliver the Philistines into your hands so we see that David goes marches against the Philistines and what happens David is defeated no he wins the battle he defeats them and he says it's no God has brought a breakthrough okay God has brought a breakthrough like you know water breaking through okay so God has brought a breakthrough okay and then we see that you know the David and his men carry everything whatever they have plundered and again the Philistines come to fight against David okay the Philistines come to fight against David and this time what does he do he does not fall back on the previous will of God okay the permissive will of God doesn't say okay God permitted me last time this time again they've come to the same place it's obvious that I have to go and fight against them but what does David do again he inquires of the Lord and what does God do this time he gives him a different strategy he says you shall not go up but circle around behind them and come upon them in the front of the mulberry trees and he says when you hear the sound of marching of the troops the mulberry trees you shall advance quickly for then the Lord will go out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines so how can people be marching on top of the mulberry trees can anyone be marching on top of a tree so what is it talking about it's talking about the heavenly angelic hosts that are going to come and fight this battle for David the previous battle was easy okay so God said you can go and fight I will surely give you but here he's saying that you know God is saying you know he is actually having the angelic hosts okay to come and you know to fight against the heavenly armies is going to come and fight that's why he's saying when you hear the sound of marching on the tops of the mulberry trees a lot of mulberry trees you hear the sound of marching how can people march on top of trees nobody can march so he's talking about the heavenly armies that are going to come and they're going to make the noise of marching and then he says when you hear that then only you should advance to fight okay so we see that you know uh David was this time backed up by the heavenly armies what do you think if David would have not inquired of the Lord and he would have gone to fight the Philistines would he have won or lost the battle he would have lost because this time if they would have come more powerfully they would have come with a lot of things and so that is why God is sending the heavenly armies okay so there's an important lesson for us to learn here yes God has given us the authority and he has given us the victory over Satan on the cross Jesus defeated our enemy he defeated Satan he's given us he shares the victory with us he's also given us the weapons we need for our warfare efficiency you know the the armor of God okay he's given us everything we need to a place to fight against our enemy and our enemy is where there is your enemy underneath your feet there is your enemy underneath your feet not because you have the authority not because you're powerful because Jesus won the enemy on the cross he's already defeated but sometimes we think the enemy is above us we are afraid of him right but he's underneath our feet so you know God has given us all the authority all the weapons that we need to overcome our battle against the enemy but sometimes when the enemy comes in very forcefully okay we need to resist him we need to nullify him but also you know we need to also ask God God what do I do show me okay and God will give us the strategies at that time of course he's given us every weapon but he'll give us the strategies we need to stand firm and we need to walk in a dominion over the defeated force okay so when things are going wrong for no apparent reasons okay sometimes you find in your life that things are going wrong and you're not able to find why one sickness after the other sickness one problem of the other problem it never seems to end you're wondering why and we look and learn from David's life David in we read in 2 Samuel chapter 21 verse 1 there was a famine for how many years there was a famine three years and David must be wondering how can there be a famine in God's land among God's people God's chosen people so you know God David inquires of the Lord Lord why is this famine why is it happening what does God say is because of the sins of Saul because he killed the gibbonites okay the gibbonites had basically you know had helped the Israelites and you know the Israel Israelites had promised to protect the gibbonites but we see King Saul attacked the gibbonites and so God was very angry and God was punishing them for their sins and what does David do he just does not take listen to God and say oh this is what happened with King Saul there's nothing I can do what does he do you know he repents he asks God for forgiveness he restores things with the people of gibbon and what happens the famine stops so sometimes when you see in your family there's poverty people are dying very young there's sickness one after the other there's one after the other accidents happening mishaps happening so don't take it as just a thing that is happening generally or there is some curse because once you're in Christ Jesus no curse holds but there can be some sin that is hindering okay and then you can go to the Lord and ask in prayer and you can check I also did that once you know there was something that's happening in our family you know extended all my dads my dad's side all of his brothers all of my cousins was wondering why once I went into the prayer room and just seeking God and praying and you know God is showing me all the different situations in my family's life in my father's side my brother my dad's brothers my dad all the things that he did and I was just weeping and mourning and crying so loudly as if somebody's dead in my house because the sin was so great and God is showing me the sin and you know I was just standing in the gap and repenting and asking for forgiveness and after that we did see breakthroughs okay so it's important for us to ask God what is the reason listen to God you know what he's telling us receive this counsel and then we can take action and when we take the action you know we can change so today we just basically saw you know different ways of enquiring of the Lord you know why was David called a man after God's own heart because David did the will of God with all his heart he sought God he received God's guidance throughout every season in his life okay so David could have received it by a dream visions to the Holy Spirit to the Eurom the Turim to the prophets but whatever you know he just received God's guidance and he was able to you know go ahead in life and that's why he was known as a man after God's own heart and he was able to do God's will in every area of his life okay we'll end class here if you have any questions we will take it up when we begin next class okay so anyone has any questions we can take it up especially online students you can hold on to your questions and you can type it out and next week when we begin class we can start off that but some of you in the in-person classes in-person students you know after my third class with the third years I'm free then I can answer your question okay so thank you everyone for joining class have a blessed weekend I'll see you next week thank you