 Hey, welcome back, big one. Jacken has posted a question. So when God is giving us a divine favor to a people, especially he does, but other people think that we are men, so we ought to be even secure about ourselves, for themselves. That gives confidence, so that we will be able to start doing this because people wish we were not going to do anything to prevent this table. Yeah. So Jacken, that's a good question. I would say, what did Daniel do? What did Joseph do? He looked at scripture. When God's favor is upon us, we will definitely see our leaders would be more favorable towards us, not because of what we're doing, but it's God's help, or the fact that we are working out. Always remember that we are not able to control other people's thoughts and emotions. So my responsibility will be to give my best to the humanization that I have. It is their choice to believe whether or not that a leader deserves all leaders. That is their choice. We cannot control their thoughts as well. But what you can do is, you can just take all of that. When the victory came that if you worship any other leader, if you don't bow down to God or any other God, we will put you in the light and stand. You can't even go to his colleagues and say, oh, these are the problems that I'm going to do. No, why did you come up with this thing? He just acted normally. He just said, this is what I will do. There's no comment that he'll argue and fighting causing any problems with his colleagues. He was minding his own business. His colleagues had a problem with that. But I'm sure that would have just been a problem. Same thing with Joe's. It was the favor of the quarter fund initially, the favor of the leaders then. But it was not like Joseph was going to prove people. He just knew. So the Bible says that while he was in the prison, God favored him. So we cannot control what people think. One of the things we can do is, now, we know that God's favor is on us. We should not overspot it. I said, oh, this is how I am. I will say what I want to say God's favor is on us. So we just learn to walk in people with him. But there will be times you just don't have to explain anything to people. As I always say, choose the values you fight. We'll come and say a hundred times. Then you choose the value you want. So in this case, what I would do is I would try to be giving my best for the organization, from a different world, from a different world to know that God is on our side and the favor that I fight for my youth is because God is holding on that favor. And people like me, people like me, I cannot do anything about it. But I'm going to be normal and respect and love them and feel them well as my colleagues. That will not change. That's what I hope that answers your question. OK, we want to use the power of a gentle response We have two more points that we can get in the next chapter. Next one is keep gossip and strife out of your work environment. Proverbs 17 and verse 14. Let's read. The beginning of strife is like releasing water. Therefore, stop contention before it thoroughly starts. Very, very dangerous in an organization. It can literally bring down the morale. The whole organization can crumble into pieces. There's something called as office politics, and we've heard it a lot. I mean, if you worked in a corporate, have you worked in the corporate sector? You have? OK. I'm sure most of many of us online also have. And office politics is common. It's not like devil is targeting you. It is common. It's there everywhere. Office politics is going to be there. But one of the things that you and I can do is when there is things like gossip or strife that is happening. Number one, stay away from it. Stay away from gossip. If five people are talking about something, talking about a leader, talking about why somebody left an organization, stay away from it. You don't need to know it. You don't have to keep talking about it. It's not going to help you in any way. What will we know by gossiping? Nothing we'll know. And at the day, we've spoken so much, and we are tired. No use, right? But keep gossip and strife out of your work environment. When as much as possible, when you see a sign, OK, this is going to be a topic of gossip. Stay away from it. When you see a sign that this is going to cause strife between me and my colleagues, stay away from it. Now, if you're leading an organization, you set the principles initially. If you are working in the organization, then this is something that you have to deal with. Is there going to be strife and gossip in a church? When you're leading a church, there'll be strife. There'll be gossip. Don't say who started the gossip. I want to know who's that person. I want to know. Just leave it. So choose what you have to do. People will gossip. People will cause strife. Choose. But as leaders, there are some places where you will have to resolve matters. But otherwise, stay away from it. Show troublemakers the door. That means tell them that's the door you can please leave. Proverbs 22, 20. Read that. Let's read that. Proverbs 22, 10. Passed out the scoffer and contention will leave. Yes, strife and reproach will cease. Here, there are two categories I reminded of. You can have a person who's not performing, underperforming, right? And after many reviews, many meetings, giving them opportunities, giving them strategies, giving them tools to become better, you see there's no improvement. What do we do? Maybe one, two, three warnings, show them the door. Okay, I don't see improvement. Now the second option, second is you may have a person who's high performing, right? 95% in everything. But causing trouble, causing strife, causing gossip, starting rumors, or a person who is always talking rudely to the colleagues, to his colleagues, not interested in listening to the managers and leaders. You can have that, he's a performer. What do you do? Give him also one, two, three warnings, show him the door. If there's no improvement. Remember, character also is important. Just because somebody is performing and he has a, if he has a very bad character and you don't see improvement in that character, not right, he has to be, he or she must leave. But you can, and the other side, you know, you can also see people who are not performing, but they're got a very good character, right? And they're willing to learn, keep them, give them more and more opportunities, right? Remember the organization or the team supersedes the individual. That means just because one person is performing very well, doesn't mean you keep him even though his character is bad. No, the team is important because this one person can cause a spark of fire to the entire team. The entire team can get into trouble because of this one person, right? So the organization supersedes the individual at all times, right? So we come to a close in this chapter, time on people, processes, performance and rewards. And even as we, you know, we deal with people and we establish processes. Remember, processes happens over time. When you start an organization, you may have five, 10 people working with you. You may not have a process in place, but over time, processes are established and then performance and rewards are given to employees. Okay, let's get into chapter nine. I was just talking to some of the students here. I think we may need to go a little faster just so that we can complete the portion. So, but feel free to stop me at any time, right? We have questions. Okay, workplace relationships. Now, 40, 50 hours of our life is in the workplace, right? Eight hours into five, okay, nine hours into five, right? 45 hours a week is in the workplace. What are we doing there? Are we robots sitting alone there and working? No, there are people and we work with them. So let's look at a few scriptural truths to help us build good workplace relationships. Now, if I don't have a good relationship with my boss or my colleagues, I wouldn't want to work there. Yes, but if you have a boss who's always troubling you, all you say, oh, Monday, I don't want to go to office. Again, the same story. Yes or no? But if you have a boss who's just encouraging, no, not troubling you every time, okay, Monday, let's go. And so how do we build good workplace relationships? Let's look at a few points. First one, maintain love. The basics of human relationships. Let's read, first Corinthians 13, four through seven. Love is patient and kind. It is not jealous or conceited or proud. Love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable. Love does not keep a record of wrongs. Love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up. And it's faith, hope, and patience never fails. You know, sometimes we get into the office and we forget about the human side of things. We get focused on tasks, deadlines, meetings, all of these things. And we forget that we are dealing with people. And each person has their own story. Each person has their own challenges. Each person have their own, you know, things that they're going through in life. And very important is to walk in love. People may be highly skilled, highly knowledgeable, yet they may be feeling lonely. People may be in the top positions, yet they may be feeling suicidal. Yes? Remember that when you're working in an organization, we have to be kind, we are not to be jealous, we are not to be conceited or proud of the knowledge and skills that we have. Don't keep a record of the things that people are doing against you. Forgive, forget, don't applaud or support anything, anyone who's doing wrong. Never give up on your colleagues. Be supportive, believe God for the best. Never stop loving them. Now the question may come, how can I love them when they did so many, you know, they treated me or they did so many things wrong? The Bible says that God rewards or God is the one who justifies us. So it is our responsibility to walk in love and forgiveness. So in an organization, remember if you see a guy who is in the top management, or you get to a place of high ranking in an organization, don't forget to walk in love. Even when you look at, I remember when I was working in one of these corporate circles, we had this head of global development. So he was head of the global entire world, a certain department. So he is a high ranking guy. And I remember him very well, very, very genuine person. And we were all entry level, maybe entry or level two. But this guy was a very genuine person. He would come to office and he would strike, he would always talk to the lift guys. Those who operate the lift would always talk to them. And he would come to these cafeterias. He will stand in the line and we will all be with these, you know, food trays and he's come here. Why is he come here? But now I understand why he did all of this. And he was not a believer. He loved his job and he loved the people that he worked with. He was just a normal person, but he was head of global development. He's a big guy, big shot, but he just walked in such humility. And he's, he, even now people talk about him and we talk about the augment, we talk about him. Remember he did this? Remember he came for, he would eat in our cafeterias. He would catch the regular cabs. He had the opportunity of, you know, just having a single cab for him dropped home. He would say, no, no, I will go on a regular cab with the regular folks. And that's a powerful example. When we walk in love, we, we let our guards down. We say, okay, I may know, you know, things which are very high or very big, but all that goes out the door because I'm walking in love. Very simple, right? And you and I must develop this ability. Second point, when you have the opportunity to bless someone, do it. With random acts of kindness, it may be something very simple, learn to help people, right? When you have the opportunity to bless them, bless them. Next one, be sensitive to people's feelings. You know, emotional intelligence matters. There's something called as EQ, which is emotional intelligence. That is to recognize and manage your own emotions and react and respond correctly to the emotions of others, right? Emotional intelligence. Imagine you're a manager. Somebody comes and tells you, you know, I lost my loved one last week and you're a manager, right? And the manager says, oh, I'm very sorry to hear. When can you finish the report? What will you say? What will you say? You'll say this person has zero EQ, right? No, you wouldn't do that. Okay, you'll say this person has zero EQ, right? Now the person, this employee is going through a hurt, an emotional hurt. It doesn't matter to the manager, but as a manager, he must be able to simple empathize with the person, right? Not ask, when will you finish the report? So are you working today? When will you finish the report? No, right? Your EQ affects your interactions with your people, with your colleagues, right? Your performance, your leadership skills, your EQ is to be sensitive to people's feelings. There will come a time when people in your organization come and tell you, you know, you're managing a team. They'll come and say, hey, I don't feel like working today. I got up from the wrong side of the bed. Very upset today, angry at everything. It's too hot, breakfast is cold, lunch is not good, tea is cold, everything is going wrong in the morning. You come to office also angry, right? As a manager, this person may come and say, hey, I don't want to work, getting so upset here. So as a manager, what will you say? You better work. You want salary work? We shouldn't be that way, right? We need to empathize with it. Okay, I know you may be going through a rough day. I've gone through those rough days also. Just start working, you'll get used to it. In two hours, you'll feel better. We'll go have a coffee after some time. That is better. I'm saying you want salary work, right? So EQ, emotional intelligence is very, very important. Right? Be sensitive to the people around you. Here's somebody up, especially when people need an encouraging word. Words make a lot of difference. We talked about this. Yes, our words can really impact people. It can impact situations. It can impact the things that we are going through. So use good words, right? Cheer somebody up. Sometimes your colleagues may be going through a very difficult time. They're going through challenges. They're going through, I remember this one colleague who had, you know, he was always upset, always sad. And after a long time of just being with him, I got to know what was the reason. The doctor said that he will not have a son and not have a child. And so he was devastated with that news. So he was always very sad and very, either he's very sad. He'd be quiet or he'd be very angry. But no one bothered to find out what was his problem. Our managers didn't bother to find out. But I was spending time with him and he opened up with me. And I remember I was too young to understand few things, but I didn't have a good solution for him. But what I did say is, hey, don't worry. I know that this is a difficult time. But it was somebody that he could relate to. And so whenever I saw him, I knew why he was sad. But people didn't understand. People call him grumpy, angry. I knew it was something personal in his life that was affecting his work also. And it's a big deal. Narad unable to have a child. And, you know, so good words can, are sweetness to the lips. We talked about that, right? Please don't forget to say, don't forget to say, please. Thank you and sorry. You know, these are the golden words, right? That we always say, please. Thank you and sorry. Now we teach our children this, right? Every time I give something to my kids, I say, what must you say? Thank you. And when they, they're walking by, they, by mistake, they kick any of our leg or they trip and what must you say? Sorry, right? Then they say, can I get dinner? You give them dinner. What do you want to say? Thank you. Not sorry. Thank you. Okay. So why do we do that? That's simple, basic etiquette, right? That we must have. And sometimes when we get into the office, we forget all that. No, thank you. No, please. No, sorry. You have to do it. No, right? Learn to be kind, demonstrate kindness. Be an encourager even of those you don't like. Oh, this is the tough part. While most people tend to compete and outdo and perform when you step in, be an encourager, right? Be an encourager. The first thing that came to my mind was, I remember I told you we had, when I was in the call center, we had these contests that would happen, right? And so there was this one guy, he was brilliant on calls, right? So what I would do is in my break, I would go and sit next to him. I would say, don't come here, don't come here. Because he had his own way of getting all the leads. And so I wanted to learn from him, but I would go and sit next to him. He said, hey, don't come here. Because he was the best. I was maybe third, right? There was another guy who was there. This guy was top, right? He would come and he would put that headset. You can't hear what he's saying. And he'll do something on the computer. It's a lead. And we'll be struggling for one lead. Ten minutes we're talking. No, sir, no worries. You'll get it. Don't worry. This guy, he gets it so easily. So I used to go sit next to him. Initially he would say, go, hey, don't sit here. So I went away, but then after a few days, whenever I would go to him, he would say, OK, go and sit. So he'd make me sit and he'll, you know, especially the lunch break. He'll tell me, I'm going for lunch at one o'clock. So he'll come back by two, right? So then I'll make sure that I do finish my lunch before or after so that I can go and sit with him. So I would go, right? And then I'll sit with him and watch him. He's taking the calls and he would work and watch and learn. And he began to show me some ideas. So you do like this when they say, I don't want to give credit card information. You say this, they'll give it to you. And I tried it. Next thing I know, I'm getting the leads. I started becoming the second best. Now this guy is still making 70, 80 leads in a day. We are at 4550. Second best is 4550. The best is 70, 80. So I'll go and sit next to him again. Tell me, you're doing something else. What is it you're doing? Right? And so I began to learn and he began to share everything with me. Right? And they came upon, we were doing 75, 80 leads in a day. There were months where, you know, me and another friend, we beat him. And some of the months that I was able to beat him and he was a good competition, healthy competition. But you know what he would always tell me? He would always say, I knew that you'll do well. Very sweet guy. He's not a Christian. He's not a Christian. You would come, he would start, you know, doing all that in front of you. He had some 45 gods on his table and but a very sweet guy. And he would very genuinely encourage me. And I remember as he was exiting out, he said, I think I should give this best reward to, you know, Paul from the other team. And I was so humbled because he was, he was brilliant in his work. Right? And, you know, when we be an encourager, we begin to, you know, take people from one place to a higher place. And I can share so many stories at ABC that people have encouraged and, you know, it's enabled us to be better in what we do. Right? So, you know, you and I, most of you students, you can start off here. Don't wait to get into an organization. Then start being an encourager here. Somebody leads worship. Pastor Francis is leading worship. Encourager, right? People who are, you know, probably praying well. Say, I feel that you are, you have this wonderful gift of praying. Continue to build on that. Or I see that you have good communication skills. Continue to build on that. You're encouraging them, right? Remember, even enemies can be turned around. Proverbs 16-7, when a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Stay positive, stay calm, stay, especially in difficult situations when your opponents, when people are against you, stay positive, stay calm. Those enemies also will turn. Right? Be careful who influences you. Proverbs 27-17, please read that. Verse 27-17, yes, iron, serpents, iron. So, a man serpents the countenance of his friends. Friend. 1 Corinthians 15-13, don't walk the fool, bad companions ruin good character. This is, these are two verses that I always make my kids read. Say, read it. So, they open the Bible, Proverbs 27-17, as iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friends. Don't be fooled, bad companions ruin good character. So, I tell my kids, choose the right friends. If you choose bad friends, you'll end up doing bad things. You choose the right friends, you'll end up doing good things. Iron sharpens iron, right? In the workplace, this is applicable not only for children, but even for adults. In the workplace, keep a healthy professional distance from those who have negative influences. Have you seen people? Everything is going well, but they'll find something negative. There are experts in that, right? To find something negative. Hey, the food is, what a spread, you know, you have biryani, you have kabab, you have everything here. But one person will say, but the sweet was little watery. Everything else is good. Yeah, people will find the negative in the best of things. Number one rule, stay away from them. Say, okay, I know this person says something. So, better move away. And so, there are many times that I've walked out of conversations from people who are negative many times. Just walked out. I said, where's Paul? He's not there. Why? Because I don't want to waste my time. Take time to be with people who can challenge you professionally, who can have meaningful interactions with you. Because iron sharpens iron. If you have somebody who's only talking negative, you will feel negative. You will keep doing what is the instruction. Everything will be effective. But if you take time being with people who can challenge you and feel you are iron sharpens, you will get better. Whatever it is. Next one. All your long ranges incorporate exposureizing problems like 18 to 22. Let's read that. Roach, I was 18 to 22. So, be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married. Pretty and graceful as a deer. Let her charms keep you happy. Let her surround you with her love. Son, why should you give your love to another woman? Why should you prefer the charms of another man's wife? The Lord sees everything you do. Wherever you go, He is watching. The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in net of their own sins. Remember, we talked about religion. In an office, there will be male and female. You cannot say I want to stay away from sins. So I will join an all male organization or all female organization. That pioneer will say, you please start your own organization, which is all male, all female. There are males, there are females. Now, especially in the corporate, we have corporate outings, corporate picnics, corporate gatherings, corporate parties. Now, it's very easy to move from a place of workplace relationship to having emotional intimacy. Now, especially if you are married, when you're married, and you're, see, there's two things. One is adultery, one is fornication. Adultery is when you're married and you commit sin with another woman. Fornication is when you know that you're indulging in sexual immorality, that is fornication. Now, when you're married, know your boundaries, set boundaries. These are the things I will not do. It is set, right? So, for example, if you're married and you're working in an organization, say, I will have people in my team. They may be, if you're a male, I will have girls, females in my team. But maximum will be a shake hand. Maximum conversation will be at the office surrounding people, right? Not in private. Now, if I'm married, I will not take my colleague alone for lunch. Why? Because I'm married. I must remember that I have a wife, I have children in my home, and I must maintain my integrity, right? It says here, know your boundaries, stand by your priorities, and hold on to your Godly standards. Some of us may feel, okay, it's 2024, people will understand. People will understand. God also will understand, okay? But the enemy will make us over-understand. Meaning, he'll keep saying, that's okay, that's okay, go, that's okay. You never know what you'll get into, right? So for example, I may be driving, and I may see somebody, right, who I know. And I know, okay, they're going to office or they're going to a certain place. I will not bother. Why? It's not my responsibility. What about God's love? God loves me still. That doesn't change. I'm protecting myself. I'm protecting myself, right? Now, this is important because we got to know your boundaries. I understand what you're saying. I have to help, but not at the cost of my family. I may have right intentions, but the devil doesn't have right intentions. He may have wrong intentions. What you felt was, okay, let me just drop them there. The devil can turn it into something else. So you and I need to be wise on what we do, know your boundaries. Especially now, I'm talking, this is, if you're seeing, this is a church setting. But look at in the corporate sector, you got to stay away, right? The moment I became a believer, I told myself, I will know this is all too much. Okay, but you have the choice, but this is some things that I did. From the time I became a believer, I worked in the corporate. I went for parties. I went for, you know, picnics, right? Two things I never did. Number one, I told God, God, I will never indulge in drinking or any of the things that they are doing. I will never indulge in it because you brought me out of it. I'm your child. I know that you are watching me. So I've never indulged. Let them drink, let them fall on the road. That's their wish. I will not do it. So I went for parties as a leader. I had to go. So I went, I would see them drinking. I would see them smoking and all of it, but it never affected me at all because I knew God is watching. Did they come and give me a ball? Take ya. Take. Nobody is there. It's okay. Nobody is there, but take. Why are you worried? You're not even married. What do you do with your salary? What do you do? It's okay. Nothing wrong. It's just one bottle. You can have it. It's okay. You're not married. We are married with children. No, it's okay. God is watching. I have to honor God. That's one. Two is I will never indulge with a woman other than my wife when I get married. When I get married and only then I will indulge. It was decided in my heart. It was something that was set. So whether women around in offices, yes. Whether opportunities, yes. But I decided in my heart I will not. And so these are things that you must do. Many times in the workplace, this is before marriage, there are people who have come and said, can you drop me? I said no. I said no. I can't. You catch a bus, you have to do what you have to do, you do. There's a reason for it. Maybe old school, but there's a reason. I had decided that nowadays generation is very different. I'm not like I'm very old, but you know, it's very casual. When it's very casual, God can take it and turn it into something else. Sorry. And the devil can take it into turn it into something else. And so you've got to be very careful. What does the Bible say? Watch out. The devil is like a rolling line trying to deceive you. So know your boundaries. Recently I was talking to one girl and she was part of our church. And we were talking and she said, she's married. I know that she's married and all that. She said, you know, we're all going to meet for a coffee. I said, yeah, please carry on. I think somewhere five or six in the evening, we finished Life Group. And so we're all going for coffee. No, no, it was not a life group, but it was just they were all meeting. So we're all going for coffee. And I saw there were only guys. And I said to you, said to the girl, you're going with all these guys for coffee. That's okay. I said, please carry on. So I want to ask her, what about your husband? He knows, he understands church people, you know, but it's wrong. It's not something, of course, I know this generation is, you know, see the devil doesn't change through generations. He's the same. What he did, how he tempted Jesus, he'll tempt him right now. So you and I must be careful. Know your boundaries. Okay. I won't spend too much time there. Honor your boss. 10 point, right? Proverbs 27, 18. If you care for your orchid, you'll enjoy its fruit. If you honor your boss, you'll be honored. Honor your boss. And the next point says, even the one who is harsh, you may have a good boss. It's easy to honor them. What about the harsh boss? I've honored them also. It's even harder, right? But let God, you know, be the vindicator. Meaning if a boss is ill-treating you or is harsh to you for no reason, pray and ask God to intervene. And God can move upon this person's heart, right? Psalms 103 verse 6. The Lord judges in favor of the oppressed and gives them their right. So honor your boss, even the one who's harsh. Next point, develop workplace etiquette and cultural sensitivity. Okay, we'll do this and we'll stop. Proverbs 23, 1-2-3. When you sit down to eat with someone important, keep in mind who he is. If you have a big appetite, restrain yourself. Don't be greedy for the fine food he serves. He may be tricking you, right? Proverbs is really interesting, right? Good workplace etiquette is important, right? It makes people easy to relate to you, right? Using those, please thank you, sorry, very important. You know, when, so for example, when somebody is introducing you, you stand up. When somebody is talking to you, don't be looking here and there. That's basic etiquette, right? You're talking to somebody in the workplace, you know, you're standing in line for probably to get into the lift. Don't just come and just go into the lift like that without standing in line. Have you seen that happening? They'll come, they'll come and go inside. So what am I standing here for? So that's basic etiquette, right? And then simple things, right? You cough, you know, you discover your mouth and these are basic workplace etiquettes and cultural sensitivity, right? So you may have people who in terms of, you know, culture, you know, they may want to, you know, different cultures, right? I know of people who wanted to remove their shoes and work was to honor them. I don't say why are you removing your shoes? It's not like you'll become best performer, right? So learn to apologize when you make a mistake. What may be accepted in one culture may not go down. In another culture, avoid religious, being religiously offensive to people, right? In an organization, you may have people from different, you know, religions who never offend their religion or their culture, right? It's their beliefs, their systems. You and I are called to minister, share the gospel, but not to offend them, right? So when you're meeting with senior leaders, walk with wisdom, do your best to take your rightful place. Don't try to put yourself in the spotlight or to promote yourself. Let others promote you. Let others put you up, right? Let's do, we may put the shame then, otherwise, right? Okay, we'll stop. I don't know. So what we do is, we become your next class, and then we get into chapter 10. Okay, any questions? Sometimes we are talking about not involving worships or don't sit there or don't hang out more with people who have negative. And sometimes walking away also makes it strife. Walking away, like from that group or when we are in, when we are part of discussion and when it's going in another way, walking away makes it strife, it makes us in the spotlight. So how to deal and how to, like, come out from the gospels and all, how to walk out in a wisely way. So the principle, you have to see what scenario it is. Now, let's take two scenarios. First scenario, Bible college, right? Now you're in Bible college, all of you all are, you know, there together. And you feel that example, okay, this is just an example. Or just say college, right? There's one person who's always, you know, negative, always talking negative. You can just tell the person, hey, why are you always negative? Don't do that. Because you're in a certain level of understanding between each other. And if there's no change, you can just tell them, hey, excuse me, I need to go. And you just walk out. It's all right. Because one is what your attitude and your, what you are doing matters more than what he thinks, he or she thinks, right? So you can excuse yourself and just go. And normally when you excuse yourself, nothing is going to happen, right? Now, if you're in a place of leadership and you see it happening, right? Where you see that, okay, this is a problem that's happening where, you know, people are, you know, there's this whole thing. What you can do is you tell them, okay, see, avoid this. Avoid being negative always, because what you're doing is affecting the others, right? But I would say in the corporate, what I have done is I've excused myself. So we were all having tea. Suddenly the topic comes up on, hey, remember what she said in the meeting? And then they keep talking. I said, hey, I finished my tea. I'll carry on. That's it. Very simple, right? Or, hey, I think I got to make a call. This move off, right? That way you're protecting yourself, right? From negative influence. They may have many things. They may feel bad in all of it. You can't control that. Your priority is to control your thoughts and the people that you are with. So, yeah. I know these things are hard. But as leaders, I learned some things very, very hard way. And I decided that you cannot please everyone. You cannot please everyone all the time. You cannot please people, whether in ministry, whether in... You can do your best, but not everyone will be pleased with that. So our responsibility is to do our best and give it up to God and let God do his work. Right? Okay. So we'll stop here. We will continue from next class. Thank you, everyone. Have a good week ahead. God bless. See you next time. Next Monday.