 Welcome back everyone, hope the break was refreshing and your attention like we can have your attention during this particular session. So we are talking about faith and we saw the emphasis that Jesus placed on faith and the teachings that he gave us regarding faith. So we are learning about applying the faith in our lives operating by faith. So some principles we've learned, we said that we must believe if we want to see the glory of God, we said that even when things are difficult, we can believe, we must have a desire and our will must be in line with what God wants us to do and we said that according to our faith, we will receive which is why our faith should be, hopefully should be a big faith. Then it is so pleasing before God. Now let's see what are the other teachings that Jesus gave us. I said that we must speak our faith. When we have faith in our hearts, one way to release that is through the words that we speak. Like even if you look at you know Psalm 91, the Psalmist knew that, we read right, he who dwells in the secret place of the most I will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. But this thought of protection, he's saying if I live in God's presence, I will live in God's protection. All right, but the next verse, he starts declaring. So what does he believe? He believes that when I am in God's presence, I have protection. That is the belief in his heart, inside his heart. But in verse two, he says, so what is in his heart? He declares it. He says, I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge, he is my fortress, the God in whom I trust. So faith in the heart is good, but the faith must become our confession, our declaration. Okay, so we need to speak what we believe. When we speak words of faith, that's when things will take place. Like we said, Mark chapter 11, Jesus spoke to the victory and the victory withered from its root. So we must speak our faith, we must even speak, we could speak to things, we could speak to nature, the way Jesus spoke to the storm. He said, he commanded the storm and he said, be still. It was still. So when we carry faith in our hearts, we must speak. Okay, we must declare, there are so many scriptures, I won't read everything, maybe I will read one. So Matthew 17 and verse 20, Jesus said, because of your unbelief, for assuredly I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move from here to there and it will move and nothing will be impossible for you. So if you have faith as a mustard seed, what will you do? If you have faith as a mustard seed, we have faith in our heart, what should we do? Next step, you will, you can do anything. But if you have faith, what should you do? Next step, just tell me the next step. It's in the verse, you will say, if you have faith, you will say. So sometimes we have faith, but we say something else. We say, I can't do it or we may, you know, say God can't do it. We believe God can do it. But what are we saying? He can't do it. Where is the faith? Because words are not matching the belief in the heart. Going back to the Sunday declaration, so positive, right? I am healed, I am blessed, I am triumphant, I am victorious. But after Sunday service, oh, I am bored, I am poor, I am, you know, I am hopeless, I have no hope. Everyone hates me. So many things we say. But where is the faith? Only 10 30 a.m. to 12 30 a.m. or 12 30 p.m. whatever. Faith is rising, soaring like an eagle. After we leave church, where is the faith of the heart? Because words have changed. But Matthew 17 20, if you have faith as a mustard seed, not too much, little bit. If you have faith as a mustard seed, where do we have faith? What did we learn? Faith is of the heart. So we have faith as a mustard seed in the heart, right? What should we do next step? You will say, what do you believe? The summist, he believed, God is my protection. So he said he who dwells in the secret place of the most I will abide in the shadow of the Almighty, I will say of the Lord. So my declaration is he is my protection. Okay. Now, if I believe the Lord gives me wisdom, say, yes, God will give me the wisdom I need. I will, you know, excel, I will do well. God goes before me. So my confession is matching the faith in my heart. If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say, right? You may look at our future and say, Oh, there's no hope. But what does the Bible say? For he knows the plans that he has for me, plans to prosper me, not to harm me, to give me a hope and a future. So who should I say this for? Myself. I know my God has a good future for me because I have faith in my heart, I say. So to be careful about the words we speak, you know, sometimes we just say so many things, but be very careful. We must speak according to the faith in our heart. If you have faith, say it. Maybe I'm feeling, you know, pain in my body, I'm feeling sick, but faith in my heart says, you know, Jesus is carried to all the sicknesses on the cross. You know, the mighty name of Jesus, God gave Jesus the name above every other name. So no sickness is greater than the name of Jesus. So I speak that. I believe mustard seed faith in my heart. So I will say, God, your name is greater than what I'm going through. God, you've already carried this particular condition. I know I can walk free. I know you can give me, you know, a new lungs or you can give me even a new organ if I need it. You can do everything. So my confession is aligned to what I believe. So what we speak is actually a release of our faith. So what we speak is important. We understanding? Okay, so to release our faith, we must stay. That's what Jesus did when he cursed the victory. What he believed, he just said, when he saw the dead man, he told Lazarus, Lazarus, come forth. Did it happen? Yes or no? Yeah, it happened. The dead man came back to life. He operated the faith of his heart by the words that he spoke. Same thing today. Look at the life of Jesus. How did he apply his faith? He commanded, you know, fever, rebuke, demons come out, sickness, rebuke, command, the sickness to leave. Okay, command, the dead man come out. Happened. How faith of the heart is released through the words of the mouth. Who taught us this? Jesus taught us. Okay, so that is why even in the example of the victory, once he cursed it and his disciples were surprised. They said, how did this happen? You know, how did the victory dry up? Just one day and the tree has dried up. That's when Jesus told them, have faith in God. You know, why? Because he was trying to teach them a lesson that I did it through the faith in my heart. I spoke the faith in my heart and it happened. You have faith in your heart and even if you speak to the mountain, it will move. So he is discipling or he is training the disciples because sometimes what teachers do, they'll show you what needs to be done so that you can do the same thing. Right? So he did it in front of them so that they could also do it. If you have faith in your heart, you will stay. So release faith through the words that we speak. Now let's go on to the next part here for us to understand. Faith is exercised in prayer by believing you have received when you pray. So Matthew 21 verse 22, it says, and whatever things you ask in prayer, believing you will receive. Remember in the prayer course, we are learning about praying a believing prayer. So what is the right way to pray? Believe with faith in our hearts. When we pray, we need to pray in faith because if we don't pray in faith, what's happening? It's all like a guesswork. Yeah, something God may do, God may not do. There's no faith attached to it. But what is effective prayer? Powerful prayer, successful prayer, a believing prayer. Even Jesus said that whatever things you ask in prayer, you can ask for so many things in prayer. But what is important? Believing, believing that you receive. Later on in the book of James, we will see James chapter five, where James says, when somebody is sick, the elders of the church should pray a prayer of faith. So a prayer of faith is what is effective. Just praying without faith is not effective. So when we pray, pray with faith in our hearts, believing then what happens? You will receive. If you've prayed, believing, you will receive. Understood. So these are all connected prayer, faith, receiving from God. Now let's move on. One more scripture there. Mark 11 verse 24 says, therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them and you will have them. So when you, whatever things you pray, believe that you receive them and you will have them. So if you focus little more, you know, with a little more attention, what it's saying is there are things you will have, you will have them later. But today what should we do? You pray, believing. So what is the order? First you believe, then you will receive. Sometimes it's easy for us to believe when we receive, right? It's almost in your hand. Then you say, yes God, I believe. God is like, there's no faith in that because you already have it. Remember we talked about Hebrews 11 verse 1, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. So now faith is, but for the things which are yet to come. So that is what Jesus taught with regard to prayer also. So maybe today we are praying and we are trusting God for the fulfilment of his promise upon our lives, but today I got to believe and trust. Yes God, you're going to do it. It will happen. So do we believe like that? That's a question we have to ask ourselves. Otherwise, what's happening is we are only wanting to believe when it happens, but that's far away. There's no faith in that. So in prayer, when we pray, we must believe that we will receive it, then we will have it. So one thing that we can do when we have faith in prayer is say what? What did Abraham do? We talked about it. He prayed in faith, but he did something. He used a certain kind of prayer, a type of prayer, believing prayer. Okay. One more, one more type of prayer, giving thanks unto God. Okay. One mark minus from prayer course for everyone. Okay. So he believed yes, but he also gave thanks because in his heart it was already done. Did you all understand what I'm saying? Okay. Fine. I believe you. Let's go to the next portion over here. So we first believe and we pray that way, then we receive from God. Now moving to the next point, which is point eight, faith must be acted upon. So this is also what Jesus taught us, where he said that if you have faith, you show it. If you have faith, you say it. If you have faith, you show it. I think about Noah. Okay. He was way back in the Old Testament and God called this man Noah. When God wants to do something, he does it through people. Right. So he picked Noah. Noah, can you do this? Can you build an Ark? And when we study about the times that Noah lived in, we understand that it never rained. Rain was something that people did not understand what it was. So God told Noah, look, I am going to destroy the world with a flood. I want you to build an Ark. Okay. Thank God he didn't doubt that God could do that. God, how will there be a flood? How will you wash out the world? Nothing. You want me to build an Ark? Okay. I'll go build an Ark. And he started building the Ark and people were laughing at him. People said, what are you doing? How can, you know, the sea is far away. How can, you know, you take this Ark, such a huge Ark. How are you going to push it to the sea? They may have asked him a lot of questions. But man of faith. Faith is in his heart. So how did he show us faith? He did something. He did what God told him to do. What did God tell him? Noah, build an Ark. So he built the Ark. So when we have faith in our hearts, God calls us, you know, at the right time to do something. What can you do to show your faith? Okay. Go by the leading of God. Don't just, you know, try to apply all this very randomly. You know, sometimes God says, if you have faith, you take, we use the term the leap of faith, meaning faith is there, but you got to do something. You know, sometimes we say, I know God is calling me to do ministry, but we never even volunteered in church. Brother, you said God is calling you for ministry. Yeah, like it'll happen. But we're still waiting one year, two years, three years, four years, not even a little bit something, you know, I'll at least greet people or I'll at least put chairs, nothing. But God is calling me to ministry. If God is calling you to ministry, whatever your hand finds to do today, do it. Isn't it? Why? Because you believe in your heart, but you got to put action to what you believe. If we say, Oh, God is going to do many miracles, many signs and wonders through my life. If you find one person today, go pray for them. Why? You're putting faith to action, right? So my faith says God will do miracles through my life. How can God do miracles if we don't engage with him by ministering to people? So pray, take action. We say so many things that God is going to do this. God is going to do. Where is the action? What is the action? And even Jesus, he asked people, stretch forth your hand to the leper. He said, stretch forth your hand. It's only when the leper stretch forth his hand that it became clean. So there is an action required on the part of the person. If they really had faith in their heart, they did what Jesus told them, take up your bed and walk. What if the person never took up their bed and walked? They would have just been lying down there because they did not act on the faith, which is in their hearts. So usually God calls us to do something, demonstrate your faith. If you believe, what can you do to show that you believe? So faith has to be coupled with action and we need to follow the instruction of God. Now going to the next part of what Jesus taught us is, faith is in different measures. Now I know we've already spoken about these things earlier but I'll quickly touch on it. We saw how people had unbelief and Jesus could not do anything in those places, meaning no faith, no faith in the heart and God, even Jesus couldn't do anything, imagine. But there were places where Jesus said, oh you of little faith. So there can be little faith. At times Jesus looked at people and said, oh wow, what great faith like the Centurion, like the woman who came to beg Jesus to deliver her child, great faith. I've never seen such faith in all of Israel. So God can recognize, identify, there is no faith, there is little faith, there is some faith, there is mustard seed faith or there is great faith. So we can improve or increase in the level of our faith. We can make it grow and remember we use that example of exercise because faith is like a muscle when we exercise it more and more. What happens? It becomes stronger and stronger and stronger. Okay, so this is something for us to understand. But how to increase our faith? How do we increase our faith? You have the opportunity to score five points, just like that. How to increase our faith? Prayer, yes, word of God. Okay, what is the, okay, believe. What is the main way to get faith? Main, give me one answer. That's right. So remember we all discussed that scripture, Romans 10 17. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So if I want to increase my faith, I have to take in or consume or internalize the word of God. The more it goes in, what will it produce? Faith. Faith will come by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So that is the main way to get faith. So if I'm lacking faith about any matter in my life, what should I do? Go spend time, take your Bible, take your, you know, scriptures and start to spend time. So I have this one example that took place in the life of someone I know. So just before the exams, okay, and this particular student was a brilliant student, but going through, you know, some depression and mental health issues. So what happened is closer to the exam, she was not able to concentrate, focus and get good marks. So usually before board exams, people have the pre-board exams, right? So in the pre-board exams, she performed very badly. And at that point, you know, their parents call for prayer and they said, please pray for this child, actually a good child, but has gone through a lot in the situation. So one particular pastor gave her a book and basically the book was filled with scriptures on different topics like, you know, confidence, learning, wisdom, understanding, so many verses about each of the topics. And the pastor just told her, you do one thing, whichever, you know, topic you, whatever is relevant for you, you go to that section and start to meditate on the verses, just spend time on those verses. So she mainly meditated on wisdom, because as a student, what do you need for exams? You need wisdom, isn't it? So that's what she did. And in the given period of time, she just, you know, went ahead and read the verses again and again and again, wrote the verses, stuck it on her cupboard, here, there, everywhere. So that faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God. So she should not miss the word. The word should always be in front of my eyes. The word should go into my heart. So she meditated, meditated, meditated on those scriptures and not just meditated, but also studied as much as possible. But the testimony is something like, in two really difficult subjects, in like, you know, CBSE board exams, 12th grade, she scored 100 out of 100. And when we like, asked the person, how did you do this, your pre-board exams, your marks are so low, and your board exams and the topper of the school. So her name is written on the board and above 90% in a particular stream, 12th board. It's not a joke that something like this has happened. But her testimony was that, yeah, I tried, I studied, I worked very hard towards the end. But I also trusted in the word of God, because God's word says, he will give me the wisdom. God's word says that his spirit is the spirit of understanding, right? And yeah, so why the power of the word? When we get the word in, what happens? Faith may be no faith, no faith, but it starts to rise. We can build faith for anything in our lives as long as it's in the word of God, right? So even for healing, what do we tell people? Okay, if you're going through a sickness, pull out scriptures that talk about God's healing. Why faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God? Listen to scriptures. You know, sometimes you have those audio, scripture, repetition about healing, about peace, about so many things. When we meditate on the word, faith will start rising up. Okay, so this is the way we can build faith in our hearts. And so faith can increase. So don't worry if, you know, we feel today we don't have much faith, that's okay, we can build it, build it in the area wherever you want faith to increase. Okay, another section here says that great faith is believing what God has spoken. So we agree with that. We just put our faith in what God has spoken. It's like the Centurion, right? He told Jesus, Lord, only say a word. You say one word enough. How did God create the universe, the world by His word, right? How many pages did He have to speak before He created the earth? It's a trick question. How many pages did He have to speak? Yeah, one cent and let there be light. And there was light. So God is demonstrating the release of His power through the words that He spoke because the words carry power and authority. And that is what the Centurion understood. He told Jesus, Jesus, don't even say one sentence. One word is enough. Say one word, Jesus. My servant will be healed. So this is how when we simply put our faith in, so much has been spoken in the word, right? We talk about the logos. Logos is the written word of God. But there's also the reema. The reema word is a quick end word of God. Sometimes when we are reading the Bible, there is a scripture that just comes alive to us. A scripture that we feel like, hey, God is saying that to me right now. Okay, that is the reema word that God speaks. So hold on to the word, whether it is the logos or the reema and don't give up. And don't give up on that word. When we believe like the Centurion, Jesus, only one word I want, then it'll happen. So I can share so many testimonies again from my college days. So I remember that, I think I shared with you all, right? The first year was really difficult to navigate through. But when I was reading the Bible, the story about Jesus and his disciples going to the other side of the lake, he told them, okay, I will see you at the other side. Somehow when I was reading this passage in my quiet time, it felt like God was telling me regarding my exams that you'll be fine. You will clear your exams. You'll be on the other side. So meet you on the other side. Okay. And I really struggled like, how will I clear all these papers? But one word in my mind, which I felt it was like the reema word, but Jesus told his disciples, I will see you on the other side. So I held on to it. I was like, I used to declare it, but Lord, you said you will meet me on the other side. I will be on the other side. Nothing will keep me this side. I will move on to my next year and my next year. It'll happen, right? But what happened at the end of my exams is the results came. But there were two results which were withheld by the university. One was mine. Okay. You can imagine the stress and it's my first year and I don't know what happened, whether I cleared, I didn't clear. Why did this happen? And so I went back to my professors and they said, no, you have to go to the university office. You go check. Maybe you have written some wrong serial number, some number in your paper. So we don't know. Usually when this happens, you have to wait at least two months for the university to clear it. Okay, then you can go to your next year. But unfortunately, you will miss, you know, two, three months. So you will have to repeat this course. And I was really disappointed. I was like, God, but you said, see you on the other side. What is happening? Why is it happening only to me? Okay. So anyway, I just prayed. I prayed the word and I said, Lord, I know you said to me, see you on the other side, but I'm not on the other side, but I believe in your word. It is going to happen. It won't take two months. I know you will do a miracle. So I went to the university office, so many things. We did everything. But the amazing part is for the first time ever, in a couple of days, they released the results again. Okay. And my result came through in a few days. And my professor said, this has never happened in the history of the college that your marks can come in a few days. So the other person with me, I think he had failed, but mine, there was no issue. Something got missed and something and they just cleared it and they said, yeah, everything is okay. You've scored very well. It's fine. Right. So everyday issues, everyday matters. Just put your faith in the Lord. There's a word. Maybe God has spoken a word to your heart. Hold on to it. One word. You don't need a sentence. You don't need an entire sermon. Even when we are listening to sermons, what is God speaking to my heart? If you hear from God, don't leave it. Catch it. Catch it. Hold on to it. Don't let go. Say, God, you said, your word is true. I believe you will do it. So this whole other side, it's always in my mind because it happened in my first year of college. God is able as long as we trust that even one word, one sentence, it carries the power of God. He will do what he has spoken. So put your faith in the word of God. Put your faith in the logos that we've already been talking about. Pull out all the scriptures, meditate on it. But maybe a Reema word. Reema word is when a scripture comes alive or a word is spoken to you. Just hold on to it. Now the next important thing is great faith is persistent. Persistent means don't give up. It don't give up. You remember the lady who went to Jesus who was outside the covenant and she asked for a miracle and Jesus said, oh the bread belongs only to the children. You know, we can't give it to the dogs. So Jesus was calling her a dog. What did she say? It's okay God, even the dogs have the crumbs. So she didn't leave Jesus she just didn't leave Jesus. He would have thought, ah, she'll get discouraged, she'll go away. Leave it. She never, she never gave up. She stayed where she was and she said, God, even the dogs get the crumbs. Meaning give me, I want, you can give me. I may not be eligible but I understand that there could be some eligibility. So give me. So great faith is like that which says, I won't leave you God. You've got to do this for me because you said it. You said it in your word. Right. So to be persistent, persistent means don't give up. Don't let go. Okay. Trust in the promise that God has given us. So we could even, you know, talk about Abraham because he is, he is an example of persistent faith. What a story, right? When things were so against them, the Bible teaches us that ages were so not, you know, logical for them to have children and yet what did the word of God say that they will bear children? He didn't let go of it. Okay. Till the end, he didn't let go of it. And so finally he received what God had spoken. So in our journey, there will be times when, you know, we will feel like giving up because we don't see the results or it's too difficult or, you know, it's gone opposite. We thought it will go a certain direction but it's gone opposite. But in those times, what should we do? Be persistent. If you have faith in your heart, you say, God, I won't leave you. This is what your word says. This is what you told me. I'm not going home. I will sit here till I see you do what you said you would do in my life. I won't move. And you know something? It's not really stubbornness. As long as you're coming from a place of, you know, God's word is your anchor and God actually likes that. He appreciates that. When we say, oh, you don't want to do it. Okay, fine. And you go. God may not be so impressed because that shows very weak faith. We changed our plan as soon as it's convenient. But when we have strong faith, faith says, it feels like nothing is happening but I won't give up. I will keep praying. I will keep trusting. I will keep declaring. I will keep confessing. I will keep doing what I'm supposed to do. I know God that you will come through for me. You know, it's like a spiritual strength that we carry within ourselves. Never give up. Okay? So persistence in faith is very, very important and we have to develop that in all the right things that God is calling us to do. Now let's go to the next section here where very few doubt negate faith. Right? So that also we have talked about earlier in the ministry of Jesus where we said that when people did not believe, he could not do anything. When people worried, what is worry? What is worry? We think about the problems. We think about the, you know, the possibilities of the things that could go wrong and we are spending our mental energy, our emotional energy worrying. It's not happened but it's in the mind. We are thinking how this might happen. That might happen. They might say this. She might say this. He might say this. That is worry but Jesus did not encourage worry. Worry will actually, you know, make our faith ineffective. Okay? So look at the scripture. Matthew 6 verses 30 and 31. I'll read both. Now if God so cloths the grass of the field which today is and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more cloth you or you of little faith? Therefore, do not worry saying, what shall we eat? What shall we drink? What shall we wear? We worry about so many things but God is saying, why can't you trust me? Have faith in God. Trust God. This doesn't mean that we should not be wise. We can plan for our life. We can plan our finances. We can plan our time, plan our future but at the same time don't worry about these things meaning spend your mental, emotional energy on these negative meditations because what will worry do? It will Jesus is calling little faith. Oh, you're little faith. You're so scared. What is this? Why do you worry? Don't worry. So worry and faith don't go together. Next. Fear in Matthew 826. Again, when the disciples thought that they're going to sink, right? He says, why are you fearful? Oh, you're little faith. Fear. Sometimes fear is acting opposite to faith. So worry is acting opposite to faith. Fear is acting opposite to faith. And what else? In Matthew 14, when this is Peter, when he sees that the winds are so powerful, he gets scared and Jesus tells him, oh you're little faith. Why did you doubt? Doubt. Worry, fear, doubt. These three things will try and make our faith ineffective. So don't give place to these things. How to overcome worry? How to overcome faith? How to overcome doubt? Don't give place to them. But how to overcome it? Sister, not to worry, not to be fearful and not to doubt. Yes. So not to be fearful, not to doubt. So what are some helpful things that will, you know, which will help us do these things? Okay, by the word of God, somebody says, okay, how about meditating in the word of God? That's helpful. Believe in faith. Okay, believe in faith. Fine. What else can you do to overcome worry? You don't want to worry. You don't want to be fearful. You don't want to have doubt. Increase our faith. By prayer. Increase our faith. By? By prayer. Increase our faith. But by prayer. Okay. Okay. So most of you are saying two things, word of God and prayer. That's true. Because in Romans chapter 12, the Bible teaches us about renew your mind or get a new thinking, a new pattern of thinking. So when we renew our mind with the word of God, we are replacing our old thoughts with a new way of God's thoughts. Okay. Then what happens? The worry, the doubt, the confusion, the fear starts to leave. Second important thing, as all of us all have pointed out is prayer. Because in Philippians chapter four, Paul writes, whatever requests you have, whatever petitions you have, you submit it to God with thanksgiving and the peace of God that passes all understanding, you know, will guard your hearts. Okay. So if I want to overcome worry, fear, doubt, spend a lot of time in the word, but at the same time, prayer, when we pray, what will happen? God will remove that fear or the fear will leave and the peace of God will start filling our hearts. Okay. So that is why times in the presence of God are so, so important. Sometimes we don't, we cannot grasp the spiritual things that are taking place, but all this is happening. God is working in our hearts for us. We are just singing a song, we are just worshiping, we are just listening to the word, we are just praying, we're just waiting in the presence of God, but internally, spiritually, so much is happening. God is helping us overcome, you know, all these negative, negative things in our minds, in our hearts, in our lives. So we need to, we need to sort of put ourselves into the place where the word is, into the place where the presence of God is, right? So that can be our personal times at home, when we take time to read the Bible, pray, listen to worship, music, sing with the music, or it can be corporate times in the church or here at Bible college, but make use of every time and know that there is something that is taking place in the spiritual realm, which is affecting me through all that I am doing. So these are ways in which we can get rid of these aspects, but there is one additional thing and that is sometimes there can be a stronghold, stronghold of worry, fear, doubt, which is demonic in origin. So that goes into spiritual warfare. Normally through prayer, through worship, we can overcome all these things through the word, but there are times when there are spirits associated with this, because you know, Paul wrote to Timothy, he said, God has not given us a spirit of fear because the Holy Spirit is a spirit of boldness. But who is the spirit of fear? There are demonic spirits that can bring fear, doubt, worry. So there are sometimes what we must do is just rebuke. So maybe I don't have worry, suddenly worry is coming to me and I sense it's not from God. I can just say, I rebuke you in the name of Jesus. Satan, I rebuke you in Jesus' name. I reject this in the name of Jesus. So when something is demonic in origin, we can rebuke, we can push against it and say, no, you can't touch me. So we go into the space of spiritual warfare at some times. So these are all things to bear in mind, some of the teachings of Jesus. Now the next section will be about people in the Old Testament who walk by faith. And we will come to the powerful life of Abraham. So I hope to complete these two in the next class. As of now, we will wrap up with a word of prayer. But are there any comments? Are there any questions? Anything to talk about? Yeah, if there's anything you can ask, just feel free to ask. All right, let's close then. We will pray. I want to request somebody from the online batch to lead us in prayer. So please unmute and pray aloud. Anyone from online? Father God, we just want to thank you for this hour of study, Lord, and the things that you have taught us, Lord. We just pray a lot that everything that we have read from your word and everything that we have studied in the lesson, Lord, it will take shape in our lives, Father. And we pray that as we continue to study your word, Lord, and walk in faith, Lord, you will strengthen us, Lord, and help us live lives in accordance with thy will and thy word, Lord. We pray for blessing upon all the teachers, Lord, and all the students, Lord, in this journey. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Brother Sanjay, for that prayer. And I see your comment in the chat. You say any book that will help us. I think just reading the incidents in the life of Jesus would be helpful. So you can go to the Gospels and study them, but also reading the life stories of men and women of God. There are many, many books. So I wouldn't name any of them, but there are many books that you can actually go ahead and read that will help you build your faith. Okay. So we'll stop with that. And thank you, everyone. Live by faith. Okay. And bye for now. Thank you.