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We just present the notes Okay, so we stopped here Give no room to the enemy This shut every door that you feel You know that the enemy is trying to gain entrance close that door Just pray God's word pray for The empowerment of the Holy Spirit to enable us to live that holy life right next point is receive healing for offenses Hurts and wounds Now in life each one of us whether we are leaders whether we are cell group leaders pastors Associate pastors senior pastor Pioneering a ministry whatever it is We will have opportunities where we will be hurt by others offended by those who are near us and those wounds are very hard because You know many times if you you know you confide in somebody and Feel they're like your brother or your sister and they turn their back against you or the You know say wrong things Ridicule or hurt you. It's very difficult to receive healing for those offenses Luke 17 one says then said he unto the disciples it is impossible, but that offenses will come But woe unto him through who they come To be effective ministers of God We cannot carry offenses hurts and wounds not in a beam We cannot carry that baggage everywhere we go Right because this will hinder the work that God wants to release through us right and Are there people who hurt me in in in these many years of ministry? Yes, they are Right, they have been some who have said things that have not been true and things that have you know may have I wish I could clarify But one of the things that I personally learned is to forgive and to let go Because many times when we hold on to these things I Realize that I'm holding on to the past so much that it's not allowing me to move forward These offenses these hurts are so much It could be something very simple many years back, you know, I was leading worship and this Very well-meaning Individual this man came up to me and said, you know, you need to change the way you lead worship songs are The songs that you choose and so I think you should really spend time in God's presence and Choose the right song. I was deeply I took it Very offense. I was very offended by what he said. Why because I should spend many hours You know, I was in God's presence like, you know asking God to minister to me minister to people and Many times people have said, oh Paul you were you know, I was blessed by the worship. It feels nice But now all of a sudden this one came up to me and said, you know, you need to change the way you lead worship I said then I remember, you know, justifying that and saying, you know, what you're talking about because so many people said the worship is good. So many people like my Worship, maybe you should change the way you look at things and my mind was I Was so upset But the reason I thought that way was because that offense I'm talking out of that offense Out of being hurt and I held on to that and from many many I'll say weeks many times that I led worship those thoughts would come up. Am I Am I not an effective worship leader? Should I be leading worship when people think like this? I know, you know You know, maybe my songs the song selection was not right and this is happening during the worship. What happens? I have not received healing for these offenses And I am trying to minister to people And you know bring them You know into the presence of God But there's a hindrance Because I have something in my heart so If there is a hindrance Then God will you know It stops the release of what God wants to do through us Right. So whatever that hindrance it could be something very simple, right? It may not be a big offense something very simple Right Oh Or it could be a big thing as well a big hurt a big wound that is just not being not yet healed As to be effective ministers. We cannot carry that offense. We need to let go of it Acts 24 16 says and herein do I exercise myself to have Always a conscience void of offense towards God and towards men Boyant the word boyant means empty a conscience that has An empty or a void of fence towards God and towards men by towards God sometimes you can have an offended God Why God I'm so much better than this other person, but you're using him More than using me You're giving him or her all the opportunities more than me. What happens our offenses with God this time Right and I love what that parable how Jesus Spoke in that beautiful parable. He said He called three workers. I forget the chapter was but he called these three book Workers and he said go and work And he chose three of them at different hours of the day And he gave all three of them the same amount of money And the other two said hey, we've been working more hours, but Jesus the land owner says what you agreed to this amount Do I not have the right to give what I wish to the people who work in my field? I've agreed to this It's powerful. Now sometimes we say we get offended with God So how can you use him? You know, I ensure I spend more time in God's presence. I've got a You know more of the anointing. He can't win prophesy, but I can Or he cannot You know speak in tongues, but no this other person can we get our offense against God? Paul is saying Empty of offense With you and with men Hebrews 12 14 and 15 says follow peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall she the Lord Looking diligently lest any man fail Of the grace of God lest Any root of bitterness Springing up trouble you and thereby many be defined Strong versus Matthew 5 23 and 24 Therefore if you bring any gift to the altar and there remembers That their brother had ought against the Leave there as I give before the altar and go thy way first be reconciled to the brother Then come and offer the gift with that God will be pleased with that offering mark 11 25 26 And when we stand praying forgive if you have ought any against That your father which also in heaven may forgive your trespasses But if you do not forgive forgive neither will your father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses So what is the main? a sense of all these verses Avoid offense avoid living with it By forgive one another Matthew 5 we just read 23 if you have something against your brother and you're coming to the altar Leave that offering there Go be reconciled Whether it is his fault or your fault go be reconciled And then come and offer your offering which will be pleasing at God's eyes We must learn to forgive and forget release people This could be within the family This could be within the church family. This could be between brothers and sisters and christ Um between mentors and disciples whatever We need to Learn to forgive it is a choice that we make To hate someone is to give them too much importance We will renounce all feeling of hate and ill will and resentment Problems 1814 says the spirit of a man will sustain Is infirmity but a wounded spirit who can bear Who can bear wounded spirit? It's very hard. It's very hard to you know sometimes Uh a physical hurt is something that can be we can bear Right, but a hurt in the wound in the spirit or the soul There's no medicine apart from God Right you get a physical hurt. You have all kinds of medicines go to the doctor. They have different options. You Get it, right? I have a fracture or you dislocate your hands or legs It's temporary Right you can go to the doctor. Yes, of course, you may not be People to function as normally as before but you'll be back on your feet But a wounded soul nobody can see it Right it can be inside and at the wound is not dealt to it. It becomes like cancer It can just spread and spread and spread and destroy person's life Right, so if there are things in our lives, just let go of it Let go of it. If you haven't forgiven there are things we haven't people we haven't forgiven for years Years Maybe the Holy Spirit will remind us you say god. I want to be released forgiveness Why because that's what you called me to do and As a leader as a minister of God I want the work of the Holy Spirit to be released more through me and if this is a hindrance I'm willing to let go of it and humble myself and Bring forgiveness to the people who have hurted me right Know and maintain your priorities right know your priorities your ministry your cell group leading your you know your all the planning and preparation With the volunteer teams and everything is very very important But maintain your priorities and life first one your personal work with God maintain it without this personal work with God You know, we can we can work we can do everything but We'll be relying on our own strength Right, we need to rely on the strength of God to family If you're a youth family, right your parents are important. Yes if you have brothers and sisters, they are important to spend time with them family is important because You know as leaders and we've talked about this before as well as leaders many times we get so engaged in the things of ministry that we forget About our wife and about our family Hey, I'm doing God's We're doing God's work, but God has entrusted Your wife or your husband and the children into your hands. It is our responsibility Then we look at a job and our work That God has given us Right, then it's ministry now when you look at these four look at the list Right first is personal work with God second is family Then is the work or whatever we're doing and if you're in full-time ministry, then that's your work Then is ministry so ministry comes forth Interesting, right? Sometimes the ministry is first Ministry is an outflow for personal work with God. What ministry can we do if there is no personal work with God? There's not gonna be not gonna be any fruit Right and fruit is important. Otherwise we keep doing things if you see no fruit Uh, then there's there's no work with no right. So maintain Know and maintain your priorities and as you do this at a young age or maybe even as you're leading cell group or ministering in church Make sure that these priorities are met right Don't ignore your family just because you you know, you want to raise or you want to Be known in the ministry or you're doing God's work doing know the family. Yes, you're doing God's work But God is interested in the family to you So we must look after We must spend time. Oh go on vacations. Go on. Right. There will be times, right? That seasons that we have And just just go along with it. No maintain your priorities It's some things to consider while you Follow these while we follow these four priorities activity does not equal accomplishment We can keep doing something and that something can be keep we can keep doing it for days and weeks and months And eventually it may go on for a year or so, but it does not mean you've accomplished something Work smart not harder Right. It's just the same. Yes. We work smart and harder, right? Organize or agronize evaluate or stagnate Schedule your priorities Right. Again, priorities is coming here Reacting is not leading Say no to little things Right. And how to say no gracefully If a person gives an idea, you know what in the church we must come we must do this Right. Now you know it's something that you don't want to do in the church or you don't want to do in the cell group Say for example somebody in your cell group says, you know what In the cell group, we must pray in tongues for one hour fully entire one hour sort of Is it sinful? No but You as a leader know that okay, this is something that The cell group is for fellowship. We need to talk to each other here from each other build each other up So how do I say no? You're not saying no to the person But you're saying no to the idea Right and say no gracefully Right. There's a way of saying no Many times, you know And also it can come up when you're having discussions in a cell group. Somebody's going on talking and going off topic Can gracefully say no right Hey, you know If you don't mind can we Go back to our discussion because this is going Of our main topic or there will be times when you know We have to say no And we put our foot down right as leaders. So there's nothing wrong with it like Because sometimes we say no and then we look at the reaction of the person And maybe they don't come back to the cell group and say, okay, you come we'll try it No, if you know, it's not helping those that It's all right Come up with alternatives Uh respond in terms that is in best interest for the person asking Right. So as leaders each one of us, right, it's okay to say no Yeah, because you're not saying no to the person. You're saying no to your idea Right. It's okay to say hey, I'm unavailable as of now You know, we don't take on the position of God. It's it's not like if I say I'm unavailable. Oh god will get so upset with us It's all right If you're if you're on a holiday or you're on leave in your family in at a vacation maybe Just in a different city somebody from church calls you if it's something important you handle it you try to handle it But it's not important. You say, hey, can I just call you back once I'm back in town? We can discuss more of this Once I'm back Nothing wrong. They may take it in a different way. Let me say he's not You know, he's not talking. I mean, he's not Discussing this important issue that we have right now. It may be important But right now what is important to for your family is not for you to be on the phone The whole time you're in on vacation because family is also important Right. It's just priority Right. Next point being an example First Timothy chapter 4 and verse 12 right now, this is the most difficult part Let no man despise thy youth But be thou an example of the believers In word and conversation Majority and spirit in faith and a priority The greatest example that we can preach is the life that we live Right all of us can you know Stand by that, right? This is the greatest example the life we live We can speak or preach a thousand messages But our life speaks stronger than that A genuine leader is consistent with what he says and what he does Right as a sign of a genuine leader if he says he's doing it He should be able to do it If he's not been not doing it for some reason he must inform his team Whoever he's working with The reasons as to why he's not able to do it and probably get more time and Ask for you know more time or whatever the reasons could be Right, but a genuine leader is consistent with what he says and what he does Your character is a foundation on which your ministry stands Right Always remember we reproduce our own kind Right We're brave, bold, godly, passionate, strong leaders will raise up the same kind of leaders Leaders who are insecure Always late Always procrastinating Leaders who are always grumbling about things Or they don't want to take risky calls Or leaders who are lazy Raise up leaders that use the same kind of leaders So be an example Be an example If if you are a cell group leader start now, you don't have to wait till you become a pastor You don't have to wait till you're leading 100 200 500 people God gives you the opportunity wonderful but start off With the small so that when you get them big you know your priorities are set Right, so the greatest message you can ever preach is the life you live Right any questions any thoughts? Seems very quiet today any questions Everyone are able to track along. Uh, please let me know if I'm going too fast in any way Should we continue Thumbs up Okay All right, so let's continue Okay, thank you so much. Thank you Okay, let's continue Let's look at the heart Of a leader Right the heart of a leader every one of us Are called to some kind of leadership and We can just be a volunteer team leader in the church these are certain priorities and certain responsibilities That we must have right Being a leader in god's kingdom is not an easy thing Leadership brings great responsibilities. It's very true, right? I'm sure all of us have Tasted leadership and tasted that it comes with responsibilities Right. Let's read this verse first point Leadership involves a new life of servanthood Avoid both the inferiority complex and the superiority complex Because both are Not good for a leader. Now. I remember when I joined In the ministry Very clearly I remember right because I always thought that was Not qualified enough or You know, I always thought of a very shy boy So will I be able to do this? And you know people who are so much better than me And that inferiority complex which I had from from the time I was a little boy It was not something new to me right and everything I had an inferiority complex But even when I joined ministry, I knew I was a believer I knew that god is working in my life, but that Because I have that inferiority complex from the devil's hall I began to work with these, you know, wonderful men and women of god and They were so learned and I always thought oh, why am I good enough? You know, so for for quite a few months initially I was You know, as you say, you know, whatever, you know, we shall do it this way Or whatever you say we'll do I didn't take on the responsibility of being a leader. I was a leader You know leading the cell groups, but I didn't take on the responsibility. I always thought, okay They're all much better than me. They can lead it better themselves So that inferiority complex now I Thank god for granting us granting me the grace to help me to shed off That inferiority complex Let's read john 13 was 3 to 17. Yes. Can any one of us read it? It's here on your I can just zoom it a little bit. I hope you can see it. Yeah Can any one of us read it? John 13 3 to 17 Jesus knowing that the father had given All things into his friend and that he was from god and went to god he he raised it from supper and later set his garment and took the towel and girded himself after that he He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples feet And to wipe them with a towel wherewith he was girded Then come it he to simon peter and simon said into him lord Do is thou wash my feet? Um Jesus answered and said to him um What do I what do sorry what I do? No, it's not now, but thou shall know it hereafter Peter said up to him Thou shall never wash my feet Jesus answered and answered him if if I wash That now Thou has it no part with me Simon peter Simon peter said unto him lord not my feet only but also my hands and my head Jesus said to him Uh He bet his watch and even not Save to wash his feet, but but his clean Every width and he are clean but not all for he knew who would betray him Therefore said he Ye are not all clean. So after he washed Their feet and had taken his garment and And was set down again, and he said unto them No, ye what I have done to you He uh, you call me master and lord and he uh, say well for I for so I am For if I then your lord and master have not washed your feet He also ought to wash another's feet for I have given you an example That you you should do as I have done to you very very I say unto you the servant is no greater than his lord Neither is he that is sent to greater than he sent him If you know these things happy are you if you do them? Right. Thank you. Right. So this whole example here Lord Jesus Is talking about how he washed the disciples feet and he's telling them He set the example and he says now you people call me master and lord Now being master and lord I have washed your feet Right. Now you also go and wash other's feet again. What is the principle? Right. The principle is be humble be willing to serve have a servant attitude No matter how big how strong how great you become as a leader Be servant like Like three temptations here to avoid to be self sufficient. Oh you know, especially when we are You know very good in our work. It's very easy to be self sufficient Okay, so for example, you know We've been leading worship for many years and I've used this example before like many years. We've led worship many many places So one hour of worship no problem. I just choose four five songs We can do it. It's not a big deal. Right. We've done it before we can do anytime Bar the temptation is to be self sufficient Self-reliant. Okay. I've done it before I can do it now. Yes. We thank God for the grace for the gift and the talents but I need to depend on the Holy Spirit. I need to depend on God I cannot be Self-sufficient. I cannot say, okay, this is something that I can do on my own No In every area be self-sufficient. It would be even preparing a sermon Preparing for your life group preparing for seven groups raising up leaders. So now you see it's it's something that it's It's my forte It's the word that they use it's something that God has gifted me and I can just do it but remember Don't be self-sufficient to lie on the on the Holy Spirit to Temptation to avoid is to be spectacular Right. Oh, I can do this, you know, just Making up things sometimes, you know, just a spectacular You know, sometimes just giving out a word which is not even, you know, relevant Or, you know, just making this whole feeling that you're spectacular Celebrity mentality It comes on the issue. Of course, none of us are like that Uh, but it is sadly happening around us and I'm sure all of us can Uh, you know, give us examples, but there is so much that's happening. This whole celebrity mentality So it's it's not from God God says be self-sufficient. Now doesn't mean that we don't enjoy the things of this world You want to buy we need to buy a house buy the house buy a car. You need the car Right, but we are not Being spectacular big celebrities Buy things Thank God for the blessings that he has blessed us with Right and third one a temptation to avoid is to be powerful to be in charge That is why we focused earlier on on teams Right the moment you build teams You know that it's a teamwork So for example, there's a church with hundred people And you are this leader of the church Right now it's not like it's the law in charge of the church. Yes, you may be making the decisions But without those volunteer teams without this sound and setup team the well media team the You know the ushering team the creators team you can't do all of it You're gonna be doing as a you know, the The pastor may not even know anything about Speakers and how they set up the mixer everything No, there's just the feeling of Being powerful Or being in charge of everything should go we must come to a place of saying You know, hey take on the steam do this do that right and Encourage others even as they do that right servant Christ like Servant leaders Are motivated To by love to serve others They possess a security that allows them to minister to others and Now security is the brief requisite to grade under day now. That's why we You know always emphasize right who we are in Christ is who we really are And we were talking about this in the mentoring hour last week where You know, what about all of these titles that people have you know reverend reverend doctor pastor apostle prophet and all of these titles? Are they important? One of the students asked us and and the point is if we are putting our if you know our Everything that we are on that title If we are walking based on that title Then one day when the title goes we will fall But if we are walking out of our Knowing who we are in Christ are standing as sons and daughters of Christ Whether there is a title or there's no title It won't matter You will be willing to do anything Everything that God has for you. It could be a smallest task to be willing to do They'll say, oh, I'm the pastor. So I will not set the chairs It's the odd church. You have to do it Or I'm the cell group leader and leading all these cell group pastor leading all these circles So I will not call up this calling up is something very media. They should call me up No right only Insecure insecurity will cause us to you know to fail so Be be willing right initiate servant ministry to others receive servant ministry from others teach people about servanthood People do what you see and there are plenty of examples, right people do what we see second aspect to look at is Keep a constant examination on your heart attitudes And we talked about heart attitudes, right? Leadership begins with an attitude. Why I'm doing what I'm doing My attitude here are a few biblical principles about attitude Second My attitude Is as I begin a task will affect its outcome more than anything else. So imagine I'm I'm given a task If my attitude to us this is oh, man, this is not going to be Something that's going to be easy Oh, I wish I didn't have to do this now or all the times right So for example the pastor comes and says, okay, you be in charge of You know, we're going to have a youth concert Christmas or Easter is coming up We're going to have a Easter program Easter concert. So you'll be in charge Two ways to look at it first one. Oh, thank you God for the opportunity. Thank you pastor for the opportunity. I do my best Can you help me? What should I do? I should form teams do this do this Or the second option is Oh, Easter Easter is too close now. It's too late. Uh, how will we form the teams? How will we do this? Can we do it next year? Let me skip it this year or Who will come for the Christmas for the Easter program already this whole Anti-conversion to start and we can look at things So negatively it will affect the outcome of our work So our attitude matters My attitude towards others determine the attitude Determines their attitudes towards me If I think this person is able to do something and you spur them on and you encourage them to do it They will be able to do it. They will give their hundred percent Right, whether they achieve it or not, they will give their hundred percent But if on the flip side if we have an attitude or this guy can't do it Uh, this person cannot do this. It's it's too much of a task for him then That attitude will rub off and maybe if they notice it and they see it That's what's going to happen. My attitude is the major Difference between success and failure My attitude can turn problems into blessings My attitude can give me an uncommon perspective of on life Right, my attitude is either my best friend or my worst enemy My attitude and not my achievement will give me success or happiness So important, right My attitude and not my achievement right achievements are good. It's wonderful right, uh, but the right attitude to you know to Reach those achievements. That is what gives will give us more success more happiness right My attitude will change when I choose to change it Right, I may think of a certain thing or a certain ministry or certain people in us in in a particular way but My attitude will change only when I change to choose it I look at people and think okay, this person cannot do something or he's not capable enough and I keep thinking that I You know, I I may lose out on a good leader in the future I need to make the choice and say okay, go on You know, I need to change my attitude about this person. You may have you know Failed the first time but doesn't mean you'll fail again. Maybe he can do better. Maybe he can You know, just build this ministry much better than what I've been doing Right It's a change that we must make my attitude needs continual adjustment And remember our attitude is contagious How we feel how we express our thoughts our words our emotions is contagious Let's picture this, you know, you get into office on Monday morning and you're So, you know, you're not talking to anyone. You're just throwing the things around in your table You know, you have your bottle. You're just Bang the bottle on the table and you just Grumpily sit on the chair and you complain about the chair that's making noise And you sit there and said oh man, you're not saying anything but people are watching it Now what happens a lot of you know a man Sunday one day morning is the other week of work It's contagious. We need to change our attitude right so Have biblical principles Even as you Well, you know continuing ministry check on your heart Always ask the question Lord. Is this right in your presence? Is this right what I'm doing? You know that last Sunday we were talking about this WW JD What would Jesus do? What I'm doing. Is it pleasing in your eyes? Is it right? Does your word say is it right? Am I obedient to God's word? Am I obedient to the Holy Spirit? Am I doing what is pleasing in your eyes? Is this something that please you? Stop ask questions check your heart motive check your attitude And then carry on Right and even as you do this be a dreamer right God does not give dreams and visions to entertain us a god-given Dream begins a god-given task that we must accomplish And a god-given vision Birds a god-given purpose that we must pursue right so of course put a vision in your heart Go ahead. You know just dream dream big dream Bigger things for God if you have a church, which is maybe 100 people dream big things say God In two years. I want to see you know 200 people in the church Think wrong with that. I want to see the ministry teams growing I want to see volunteer teams growing and see hundreds of people sitting here and being ministered to But there's a part that we must do Right, there's a task that we must accomplish. There's a purpose here to pursue it because it's a vision and god-given dreams and visions are usually several times greater than ourselves Because God does not look at our capabilities to accomplish them But what he's doing is he's just looking for yielded vessels Like he's just looking for people who are available. Are you available if you're available? I'll use you but God. I don't have the skills. I didn't ask you about that. I will anoint you Look at Peter. I'm sure Peter would have thought that right? Fishing in the sea of Galilee Like God says the Lord Jesus chooses him that time only he says why are you choosing me? I'm just a fisherman Then he's with Jesus all of a sudden he feels he's the greatest Then he denies Jesus. He goes back to fishing And then Jesus says to him hey Peter Take care of my church You know, look at that Yeah, Peter says I sure Lord And then he agrees to it Peter was not you know, we know from if you see later on in the book of Acts you see isn't this man unschooled Where did he get all this learning from he's a fisherman? He's not talking about the waves and the seas and the different kinds of fish He's talking about the book of Joel and all these Prophecies all these prophets of the Old Testament and he's Comparing that and he's talking so much of wisdom and authority. Which school did he go to? No, I'm schooled fisherman God used them so powerfully And if you look at history, there are so many of them like Not not really great in terms of Anything any capabilities, but they were willing To do something look at the missionaries who went into Africa went into India came into India They may not have been great minds with great intellects, but Just ill at vessels and God used them that will you carry Started all these universities came to India You know the in those years they didn't have Transportation they didn't have trains and you know where they could just travel to one one place to another call each other up Hey, how is the work there? Nothing was there Towns and villages of India came here You know left the luxuries of the other You know of the well developed countries came into India with a vision Started these Bible college centers and this did such an amazing work Amazing work patience 320 powerful powerful was another him Who's able to do exceedingly and abundantly more Above all that we can ask think or imagine according to his power that's working with us. So be a dreamer Think big have a big vision work towards it right Be totally committed Be fully in Right be positive. God has never failed an optimistic attitude energizes and transformed us. Look at this Uh, this is a wonderful passage here and you know in first time in 33 and 8 Let me just give take you know just quickly say what happened, you know David Was camping in a certain place with all his family and the armies of israel Uh, the enemies came they took david's wife his children everyone destroyed the place And and david when he came he and he saw that he was greatly distressed was six years here for seven 36 says and david was greatly distressed for the For the people spoke of stoning him because The others lost their lives lost the sorry not lost the Uh, their family right their sons and daughters Everyone who were trying to kill david david you told us to camp here the enemies have come taken everything They burned all our of this entire place they've taken our family and our children We're going to kill you now. But what did david do run away? No part He encouraged himself Right, he encouraged himself and the lord his god and david did something after he didn't just encourage himself and You know sit there in that place Say waiting for god. No He maintained a positive attitude. He said, okay, we're going to get back. What have we have lost? So he says verse seven and eight and david said to uh Abithya the priest abhimanyak son i pray they bring me hither the effort and uh abitha brought The effort to david and david inquired of the lord saying shall i purse you after the troop Shall i overtake them and he answered him Pursue for thou shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all so to end the story david inquires of the lord god says go You know, he's He was distressed but now his attitude has completely changed Enquires of the lord god says go you will you will recover all of them. So he goes End of the story is he brings all of them back and not when one person had lost their lives He recovered everyone From the from the easter light camp everyone came back Right You and I overcome evil with good. We overcome fear with fate We overcome adversity with tenacity We overcome negativism by being positive Right. Look at what david did. It's a wonderful example for us Always maintain a strong positive spirit Declare what god is saying God has always said he will cause us to triumph There will be seasons of ups and downs failures. We will fall down We will be weak. We will be weary, but he will lift us up He will cause us to trial Now if we allow Things that were designed to harm us You know God Can perfect that right? Satan will remain defeated before us. He's able to take things what the enemy meant for evil He's able to take it and turn it for good Right. So this one this is a wonderful encouragement for us as leaders Even as we are leading teams leading churches leading ministries Our hard attitude counts Our personal life our character all of this really speaks Right So let's stop here We just close in prayer Any thoughts any questions? All right, we can close All right All right, let's let's close in prayer father. We want to thank you For this time. We thank you for your word. We thank you for teaching us lord and even as we continue to lead ministries that we've been assigned and Leading our family leading in the workplace, whatever we are ago help us to Walk with servant like attitudes help us to We walk with the anointing of the holy spirit of god Thank you for all that you've done for each one of us. Bless each and every student Pray god that you will empower strength in an evening and be with each one of them Oh god Even as they learn that the words Word of god be a seed in good ground The bare fruit in each of their lives a god we thank you and praise you in jesus name. We pray amen Amen, thank you everyone. Have a wonderful week ahead. I'll see you next week. God bless