 to do their part of the ministry. So here there's Acts 11-12 given in our notes on page 15 where the spirit told me to go with them, doubting nothing, moreover these six brethren accompanied me and we entered the man's house. This is Peter talking and Peter was instructed by God to go to a gentile person's house. Otherwise he would never have done that because Peter, as we see him, he is a very committed Jew and he would never take a step to go and minister to a gentile person. But directed by the Holy Spirit, the kingdom is extending. So the kingdom is extending from the Jews to the Gentiles and then we know it will move on to every other people group just in line with what Jesus had told his disciples. He said that when the Holy Spirit is poured on you, you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria. So basically it's moving in that direction but when it didn't begin from the Jews to the Gentiles, when Peter, he did the Holy Spirit's instruction and the Holy Spirit told him, there'll be six men accompanying you, you just go with them. Don't ask any questions and he was being directed by the Holy Spirit. So in the same way, whoever we are in every capacity, it's important to be led by the Holy Spirit to do the kingdom work. Now, when we are doing kingdom work, the Holy Spirit will direct us to do the Father's will because that is what matters. We've seen that in Matthew chapter 7, the way people come to God and say that, Lord, Lord, we did this in your name, we did this in your name. But God responds and says, I never knew you. You didn't know me and therefore do my will but you just did something in my name. So we can do a lot of wonderful things in the name of God but what is important in kingdom building is to do what God wants us to do. So that's what we must pick. Otherwise, what we are doing can just be birthed out of our imagination. It can be birthed outside of our relationship with God and that is not necessarily the will of the Father. So we must be careful whether it's a project or a program or ministries that we start, that it comes from our relationship with God. So knowing God is important and when we know God and we are having that walk with the Lord, then the Holy Spirit will direct us to do the works of the Father. And invariably as we do the works of the Father, we know that we will walk in only through righteous ways. We will be able to accomplish it. We will be able to fulfill that work to which God has called us. So it's important for us to do the will of the Father. Now the Holy Spirit is the one who reveals the Father's will to us. While teaching about the Holy Spirit, Jesus said, the spirit of truth has come. He will guide you into all truth. So who will tell us about the Father's will? The Holy Spirit will give us the specifics about moving into the Father's will. So He will hear from God and He will reveal it to us. And what is the additional thing that the Holy Spirit does? The Holy Spirit glorifies Jesus. So Jesus said that in John 16 and verse 14, He will glorify me. So the work of the Holy Spirit is to glorify Jesus. And that is the reason we must not go by our own intentions, but go by what we hear the Holy Spirit tell us. And in that work we can be sure that the Father is pleased and also the name of Jesus is magnified, insulted and glorified. As children of God, we must be led by the Spirit of God and that's what scriptures tell us, Romans 8 and 14. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God. So basically our hearts and our minds as workers in God's kingdom must be directed by the Spirit of God. So we must be led by Him. We cannot do this like a natural exercise. We could come up with something, but at the end of the day, is that the Father's will is only the will of the Father which will please His heart. And that should be our hearts cry. God, I want to find out what you want me to do and I want to do it. And when I do your will, I know that Jesus is glorified because I have been led by the Holy Spirit. Now here's the next thing. I said that the will of the Father we will recognize when we are in right relationship with the Father. And when we are in right relationship with the Father, we are able to birth things from that relationship. We are able to birth the dreams, the visions. We are able to birth the work that God wants to release on the earth. So as kingdom builders and as God's people, we must make sure that we birth the works of the Spirit and not the works of the flesh. Now works of the flesh is another way of saying things that are from our own understanding, from our own desire. We could birth those things and tag it and say, hey, this was God's will. But between the Father and us, we know that this was actually not birthed through the Spirit, but it's a work of our flesh. So knowing that every time it's important for us to be birthing the works of the Spirit. John 3.6 says that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. So only the work of the Spirit is to be released by us. Now if we do something and that is the work of the flesh, it is nearly impossible for the flesh to then be converted into the Spirit. It doesn't happen and that is why God is instructing us in saying that the flesh will only give birth to flesh and the Spirit will give birth to Spirit. So our energy must be directed in giving birth to the works of the Spirit. Now we also see in the Old Testament when God asked for Moses to build the tabernacle and then make different things for worship. He asked Moses to prepare the anointing oil and he gives him certain instructions that it must be prepared in this way and it must be poured out on so and so and all of that. Now the anointing oil, it's a type and a shadow of the anointing of the Holy Spirit. So what instructions did God leave for Moses? This is in Exodus 30 verses 22 to 33. I won't read the passage but I'll just tell you the understanding that we get from there. So this anointing oil was for objects which were used in the worship of God in the temple. So in the same way even today the Holy Spirit will only anoint our service for God. So when we birth in the Spirit, the Holy Spirit is able to anoint that work. Secondly, whatever was consecrated in the temple through that anointing oil, you know it was set aside. Consecrated means set aside. So that oil was actually setting things aside for the worship of God. So in the same way when there is a work of God, God anoints it and that work is dedicated to him. That's how it's supposed to be. Thirdly, anything which was not meant for worship as instructed by God, Moses was strictly told not to put the oil on other things or even use it for daily use. So what does that tell us? See God does not anoint the things of the flesh. Now we can come up with a lot of things and call it God but will the Holy Spirit anoint those works, those activities that we are calling as the work of God? No, God will not anoint that work that which is born of the flesh. And God does not tolerate any imitation of the anointing because Moses was also instructed and told look this is the way in which you must prepare the anointing oil and he was told don't use this preparation for anything else. This is only for the anointing oil of the temple. So today we can try to have imitations of the anointing. You know something may seem like oh this is the anointing but if it is not the anointing then that's a dangerous position to be in because what are we doing? We are you know it's like you're offending God by imitating the anointing and that's very very dangerous. God will not tolerate it and that's how he instructed Moses. Then what is born of the flesh does not have the life and the presence of God. So it is basically like cut off from the goodness that the anointing brings. The work of the flesh is cut off from the anointing and therefore does not produce what anointing produces. So life will not come out of it, you know blessings will not come out of it. It can look like the anointing but it's a work of the flesh. So we must be careful as kingdom builders to give birth to the work of the spirit because that will be anointed by God. So what would you know I'm sure all of you are thinking about examples and making this very very relevant. So for example let's say you know a service is going on. Initially like couple of services we felt that God was moving in a certain way and we were loud, the preach was loud, the worship was loud, everything was loud and we could also see the spirit working in people's lives. There was different things happening in people's lives. Now after a few services maybe the Holy Spirit is working in a very different way and you know it's more of some stillness. He's ministering in that manner but what if the worship team and the preacher tried to imitate what experience they had a couple of services ago. Just trying to make that up in the flesh. The Holy Spirit is not ministering in that manner but it has changed right now but we can cook up that excitement, we can make it up and hope that the anointing will be upon it and that people will be ministered to in the same way that this happened earlier. However God will distance himself from something like that and say I'm not in this, you're giving birth to the excitement out of what? Out of your flesh, so I'm not obligated to pour my presence on it and this is not going to give birth to the life of the spirit. So I'm just giving you again a very simple example but this can happen in so many ways, we can try to imitate the anointing but that is a very dangerous thing to do we don't have to be led by the spirit, be very very sensitive to how the spirit is leading us what work the spirit is calling us to do and God is only obligated to anoint what he is asking us to do what is birthed of the spirit but if there are things which are birthed of the flesh for example if I feel I want to do this grand project and it's going to bring me a lot of fame across the globe because people want to see someone do a certain project bringing relief to people and all of that now if that was birthed out of the spirit, yes God will bless it and life will flow out of it but if I'm doing it for popularity, if I'm doing it to get the praises of men what is actually happening, I'm birthing the work of the flesh this is how it looks and many times the person or the kingdom builder is the only one who has an idea of what is going on and that is why we started with that first chapter where we said we must be true to God we must be true to ourselves so when we are true to God and ourselves, we know what am I doing, is this really what the Father is asking me to do by the Holy Spirit or not now if I'm clear that the Spirit is leading me in that direction I go ahead and give birth to those things and that project or that activity or that program and it brings a blessing to God but if I'm doing a program as a competition to some other church in the city they are doing that program, so what? even we can do the program, we can do it even better but is it the work of the Spirit? are you birthing it to the Spirit? are you birthing it by the flesh? if it's my flesh that's crying out and saying yeah, yeah, we can handle it God is not obligated to anoint anything like that so the anointing and the presence of God cannot be expected when there is a work of the flesh in fact, what is born of the flesh hinders what God desires to birth of the Spirit and the good example there is that of Abraham God wanted him to birth Isaac but he birthed Ishmael now Ishmael, you know, he referred to as the work like when we talk about the work of the flesh and the work of the Spirit that comparison is made and we know in the case of Abraham the conflict that came about between Isaac and Ishmael now bring that to our spiritual walk with the Lord and kingdom building sometimes we get into trouble not because Satan is after us it's not because of the anointing but it's because the work of the flesh is hindering the work of the Spirit so we have some things of the Spirit going on but we've also got things in the flesh now what is the work of the flesh doing to the work of the Spirit? it's trying to suck the energy out of the work of the Spirit so we struggle in our own lives in our own ministries because we have also given birth to the work of the flesh and the work of the flesh is opposing and it is contrary to the work of the Spirit so that is the reason we must be very very careful very very careful in order for us to birth the works of the flesh a simple example would be something like there could be a certain opportunity which you strongly feel you shouldn't take up but maybe that opportunity will give you a bigger platform so you just take it up and you say ok I'll sign up for it and then as you're doing it you realize maybe you're lacking what it takes in terms of the anointing, the knowledge, the preparation and all that and you're really struggling but you're doing it because of recognition and things like that and as you're walking with the Lord even God wants you to step out in other ways and you know God is leading you to do those things so you also got the work of the Spirit while you're working on that what God has led you to do you realize half your energy is going up in the work of the flesh which you already started and you can't stop it so there is a conflict going on there you don't have enough time, you don't have enough energy you don't have enough resources and there's this whole tongue of war going on what God is actually asking you to do and something that you have started off in the flesh so that way we must be careful to only birth the work of the flesh because many times the work of the Spirit because many times the work of the flesh is what will oppose the work of the Spirit in our lives then when something is born off the flesh it will not produce any benefit John 6.63 it is the Spirit who gives life and the flesh profits nothing so when you know something is off the flesh I gave you that whole example of you know in the service just for a feel good experience we do it a certain way but the anointing of God is not on it then you can't expect the benefits that come by the anointing life is being attached people experiencing the supernatural power of God healing state in place, miracle state in place it could look like something that the Spirit had done earlier but it lacks the power so that's when we must be careful the work of the flesh will never give us the benefit of the the Spirit or the blessings that come by what the Spirit has to offer us and you know God will test the work that is done because we are told in scripture that one day whether it is wood, hay, straw our work will be judged and we must make sure that we are building the work of the Spirit and whatever we are putting our lives into that it will stay on and that it will glorify God so as a kingdom builder our desire must be to build the will of the Father and our desire must be to give birth to the work of the Spirit so how to give birth to the work of the Spirit we are able to do this when we walk in the Spirit to walk in the Spirit is to simply live moment by moment led by the Holy Spirit and we completely yielded to Him now we know that the work will the flesh will oppose it but in the last session he said crucify the flesh we have to die to ourselves and when we surrender to the Holy Spirit in that way and we grow in it we will be able to bring forth the things that God wants us to bring forth and talking about yieldedness is also talking about brokenness brokenness simply means depending on God complete dependence on God we come to a place where we realize at the end of the day we are just living in a mess and your Spirit needs to fill us and your anointing has to cover us because if that doesn't happen whatever we do it will not produce the results which only the anointing can produce we can have the appearance of ministry but there will be no fruit so for a kingdom builder to yield to what the Spirit is leading us to do it's crucial and yielding to it means us being submitted and completely dependent only if you lead me can I even go in that direction and I know that if I move in line with what you are showing me you will bless it and your anointing will be glorified but God if you don't do it if you don't go then God you know we cannot move so we have to come to that place in serving God where we are so dependent on God and we are led by God and always check the motives of our hearts ask questions like what is motivating me in the work of the ministry I gave you one example we can get caught up because this is the information generation we have everything out there if a certain kind of worship is happening it's out there the worship teams are using a certain style of music they are doing the videos in a certain way what prevents us from doing the same thing we can also do it so why are you producing a worship album that's the question now if the answer to that is what Galatians 5 says the works of the flesh are hatred, contention, jealousy selfish ambition, dissension, heresy envy and similar things if one of these is the answer to say that hey in competition to this particular church we want to put up a worship album then that's the work of the flesh but if we are led by the spirit and here's a song that the spirit gave us that if you produce this album it will be a blessing to the people in this nation in different countries of the world and then we go ahead and do it you answered that question what motivates you correctly so in that way from time to time we have to ask ourselves why am I doing this what is motivating me to do this okay we go into full time ministry why do I want to do it so we should have the right answer for that and that answer should be in the spirit leading us and us being yielded in a place of brokenness before God but if the answer is the works of the flesh any one from that category it will not produce the result that the spirit will produce so keep asking yourself this question why what motivates me and the answer to be we are motivated by righteousness, peace joy, we are motivated by blessing others edifying others people should be built up and God's name must be glorified we can also ask the question who is glorified in this now what if you do what God is calling you to do and you never get recognized for it are you okay to do it if the answer is yes seek the glory of God and so you just go ahead and do that because that's the work of the spirit so be led by the spirit and always give birth to the works of the spirit so how does the Holy Spirit guide us and lead us to do his work we will look at the book of Acts to learn a little bit about this and it's really interesting because the Holy Spirit the way he directed people believe us then sometimes he never gave them details for example in Acts 829 the Holy Spirit tells Philip go near and overtake this chariot so we all know there was an Ethiopian eunuch in the chariot and Philip was only told to overtake the chariot you know it's like saying here in our city we have autos, auto rickshaws I don't know how many of your countries have auto rickshaws but you know we have auto rickshaws which is going in an auto rickshaw and then you feel like ok maybe we should go a little faster and kind of catch up with that next auto rickshaw and the Holy Spirit is just telling you that much and you don't know anything more than that but you follow that instruction which is catch up with that next auto rickshaw so in that manner you know Philip is being directed go and overtake this chariot and that's all the instruction you know we talk till now about being led by the spirit yielding or surrendering submitting to what the spirit is saying Philip did that and little did he know that he will get an opportunity to minister to somebody who is reading the book of Isaiah and not understanding about the messiah so he explained it and this person accepted Christ and Philip also baptised this Ethiopian eunuch but we know that the Ethiopian eunuch was the connection of the revival that was taking place in the book of Acts to the continent of Africa now Philip didn't have the background for what God was doing but he followed the simple instruction go overtake the chariot so in this way you see so many instructions in God's word and right here in Acts Peter I told us about how he was sent to Cornelius's house he was told there will be three men seeking you arise therefore go down go with them doubting nothing for I have sent them and Peter didn't understand that the gospel is moving into the lives of the Gentiles for the first time and Peter was he was a very very proud Jew and he is the last person you would imagine to preach to the Gentiles but he followed the instruction of the Holy Spirit and so this chapter says Holy Spirit the director so if you are looking at this from a higher level we follow these small instructions but the Holy Spirit is directing the kingdom work of God ok and in this case Philip because of him the gospel went to Africa Peter followed what the Holy Spirit was saying and the gospel went to the Gentiles right so all these amazing things happened because people were ready to yield to the instructions sometimes very short instructions earlier it was just go overtake the chariot but in the case of Peter it was slightly longer there will be men waiting for you go over doubting nothing so a longer instruction the key is to listen to the instruction whether it's a short or a long instruction and you find that the Holy Spirit directed the ministers of God the apostles to take the gospel outside of Jerusalem so in Acts 13 you have the Holy Spirit instructed the people to set aside so in verse 2 when they were fasting they were ministering praying setting time aside for the Lord the Holy Spirit said now separate to me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them so who is giving the instruction the Holy Spirit is directing the work so what's going to happen from now that Acts 1 in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria the ends of the earth now the gospel is actually beginning to move in that direction or to the ends of the earth because Paul and Barnabas are being called out by the Holy Spirit on a mission work so the Holy Spirit has that plan with him and he knows where to direct people who to instruct when to direct them so we have to depend on the direction of the Holy Spirit and all of us we belong to the kingdom and we are all in different parts of the world right now different parts of this country but then we are all part of the kingdom as we are following the instructions of the Holy Spirit it's like a grand design and the kingdom work somehow in synchrony in harmony in an amazing way it's going on and who is doing that work of extending the kingdom through us is the work of the Holy Spirit and we are just yielding to the instructions of the Holy Spirit so you see here in the book of Acts how beautifully the Holy Spirit is directing his people and churches are planted many many fellow workers are raised up by Paul by Barnabas by the other apostles and the work of the kingdom is being done in a powerful way and the Holy Spirit takes complete charge telling them all the details when to go, where to go, who to talk to when to release people into the work of the ministry and it's just beautiful to see the way things are orchestrated now even while Paul and team are traveling you notice that the Holy Spirit has a way of saying go and also telling us don't go, it's not yet time so in Acts 16 you find Paul is passionate, he wants the gospel to go all over the place and he in fact wanted to take it to Asia and he's ready to go to Asia but the Holy Spirit prevents him so Acts 16 verse 6 it says now when they had gone through Fragia and the region of Galatia they were forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia so based on this can we say that God did not want the word to go out to Asia not at all because the great commission is about taking the gospel to the ends of the earth but the timing the timing was not as God wanted it and that is the reason the Holy Spirit prevented Paul from going into the region of Asia at this point later on the gospel did go to Asia but instead of Asia Paul had a dream he saw this Macedonian man who stood and pleaded for Paul to come and he followed that dream so who gave him the dream we say sometimes it said that dreams and visions are the language of the Holy Spirit so the Holy Spirit was speaking ministry to Paul and he responded to that call and he was directed to Macedonia and the work of God was established in Macedonia so being directed by the Holy Spirit being led by the Holy Spirit being instructed by the Holy Spirit that is something that we see here in the book of Acts and in this manner God's kingdom was established so just want to encourage us that we also must be led by the Holy Spirit and given to the direction of the Holy Spirit for kingdom building and he will lead us in Romans 8 16 it says the Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God so the Holy Spirit is prompting us telling us what we must do and how we must do it so we can be led by him so thank you there are some questions here on the chat about the page numbers but thank you of me and Samuel for posting that so how does the Holy Spirit speak well this is actually more about how to hear from God so we know that the Holy Spirit may quicken a word from scripture or we could have an impression in our spirit that this is what we need to do or there could be a flash of information in our spirit something that we suddenly know that knowledge comes into our spirit and also a deep sense of peace that this is what God wants us to do we could also get pictures pictures or ideas that God gives us and that way here from the Holy Spirit it could be through prophecy, dreams, visions it could be a physical manifestation in other ways so this is more for your understanding the prophetic class but then it's fine to know the various ways in which the Holy Spirit speaks to us now in what we talked about till now there was a sentence that came into the Holy Spirit go overtake the chariot and he followed that there were a couple of sentences that Peter received go doubting nothing there will be these men waiting for you to go ahead but Paul had a dream he had a dream he had a vision where the Macedonian man was calling him and he yielded to that dream so these are the different ways in which the Holy Spirit speaks to us so what we're basically saying is hear what the Spirit is saying pick it up and move in that direction that will lead you in the will of the Father what God really wants us to do and how to receive from the Holy Spirit of course we must maintain a relationship with the Holy Spirit have that unbroken connection with the Holy Spirit the way Dr. Cho talks about it right so Koinonia fellowship with the Holy Spirit and that's when the Holy Spirit is able to birth these things in our spirit and couple of practical things for us to hear from the Holy Spirit it's good to be strong in the Word meditate in the Word sometimes the instructions of the Holy Spirit come to us from the Word of God as we're reading the Word of God something really hits you and you know that this is what God is asking us to do just a moment okay so Luke 21 and verse 15 okay so this is one scripture so this was the first time ever that like Pastor said can you preach I had never preached I never preached but I came back home and I was thinking okay God do you really want me to preach okay and I don't recommend you know just flipping the Bible open and all but for whatever reason on that evening I was desperate and I was like God I really want you to speak to me and then one of the scriptures that you know caught my eye is Luke 21 15 which says for I will give you the speech and the wisdom that none have that your adversaries they will not be able to stand before you it's in a different context but still somehow that scripture hit me that day and gave me the courage that along with a couple of other scriptures of course when I meditated later in a correct way but directed me through the word of God so you know the word of God is key for us when we spend time in the word of God through that the Holy Spirit will speak to us the other important thing for us to maintain is a sense of calmness calmness or we would say to come to an undisturbed place in the presence of God and this is something that we can practice because when we want to hear from the Holy Spirit or when we want to move in the gifts of the spirit it's very very important for us to be in a place where we are sensitive to what the Holy Spirit is saying or what the Holy Spirit is doing so if we are all you know it's like a if it's like a storm within us we are not able to come to a place of calmness even if the Holy Spirit is saying something to us we may actually miss it so maintaining in Quinoa fellowship with the Holy Spirit these are the things that help so I am just giving us some keys one is depend on the word of God and through the word of God we will instruct you, we will tell you this is what I want you to do maintain a sense of peace and calmness because in that way walking in peace you will be able to hear the voice of the Spirit more clearly and to walk with the heart of purity because scriptures say that those who are pure in heart will see God so the revelation that God has for us when we maintain that clear conscience we maintain that pure heart we are able to receive God's revelation and we are able to step out and do things for the Kingdom of God and walking in love walking in love is another key that helps us to hear from God and step out with the instructions of God and as we are talking about Kingdom building and being directed by the Holy Spirit we must also keep in mind that sometimes God can tell us things way ahead of and that is actually going to happen through a prophetic word it could happen through a prophetic word or it could happen through a dream and you already know that in a couple of years you will be in a certain place doing ministry like this but we depend on the Spirit again to discern the right timing and whenever that right time in that right time we step out but why does the Holy Spirit reveal way ahead of time to us so that we have space for preparation preparation in terms of skills preparation in terms of our heart preparation in terms of our spiritual work with the Lord so God allows for all that by letting us know well ahead of time that something is coming up and what I will do is I won't rush through because there is some more stuff here in our notes but let's just come back here to the chat section and see if there are any questions Rose says, does being born out from the Spirit includes that God shows in visions and dreams or impressions through His Word birthed out of the secret place of God so yes Rose that's what we are saying anyone who is born again we can receive the impressions from God but of course we know that when we are baptized in the Holy Spirit when we are baptized in the Holy Spirit that opens up for us the work of the Spirit in a mighty way from there the gifts of the Spirit begin to manifest through our lives and dreams visions at another level all together yes to some extent we can be led by the Spirit but we are empowered by the Spirit when we are baptized in the Holy Spirit so that is necessary that is necessary for us to move powerfully with God so any other questions or comments before we close today with regard to the Holy Spirit directing us okay so yeah I think it would be good for us to just kind of go back to what we have discussed today and also possible the other sections here and then to have any questions we can discuss that in the next class and take it from there oh okay Anita has a question how to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit's voice so Anita this is about our communion with the Holy Spirit again and I have already mentioned we can maintain that communion in many ways one thing that we discuss is being in the Word of God okay so when we spend time in the Word of God we kind of become familiar with the voice of the Spirit because the Holy Spirit will not tell us to do something which is not in agreement with Jesus who is the Word because the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit are all in agreement so we can spend time in the Word that will make us sensitive to the Holy Spirit we can take time to pray in the Spirit in fact that is what is there in the next section here in chapter 3 when we pray in the Holy Spirit when we pray in tongues that also brings revelation to our spirit so that is something you and I can practice a lot and that will also make it easier for us to pick up what the Holy Spirit is saying and the third thing I think is that sense of peace or calmness and I know that all of us are busy life is so busy there is work there is family there are so many things that are happening at the same time however to carving out time to just settle your heart in the presence of God and say God what are you saying what do you want me to do it is very very important so setting that time aside for God will also help you become more sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit now in addition to that personal time with God throughout the day throughout the day we can still be hearing and saying God what are you saying what would you want me to do what would you want me to share maybe you have an opportunity to minister God's word which scripture do you want me to speak from so basically you are constantly hearing the Holy Spirit and what are you doing that way you are training yourself you are training your spirit man to hear from God because the communication of the Holy Spirit comes to our spirit we say deep cries out to deep so the spirit to spirit communication is what takes place between the Holy Spirit and our spirit so our spirit can be in a sense trained to pick up the voice of the Holy Spirit so it doesn't help just a few pointers there but there is so much more okay great thank you and Rose says also being faithful to finding time for God consistently and just coming with Him He rewards our faithfulness and He will reveal Himself true Rose having that consistent time with God also really helps us yes alright so yes we will stop at this and pick up from where we stopped in the next class would just like to request someone to pray and close for today are you okay to pray yes faster most gracious and loving you my dear father father we want to thank you at this time father for this time of learning about your kingdom Lord has you spoke Jesus about Martha and Mary Lord Lord I just pray the focus that you were talking about in that incident Lord ask that telling that Mary was the one who seated at your feet and learning O God we just pray that we will be able to take that posture O God at this time to learn a lot of the things that you are teaching us Lord and we just pray at this time Lord that this is all about our focus Lord where we are taking our eyes off ourselves and things that we want to accomplish in our own flesh and the things that we want to do Lord but Lord we just pray let it everything O God that you want Lord to be done in us and through us be done Lord let it be the work of your spirit let it be birth O God from your spirit alone O God help us also to discern at this point of time O God Lord what is of the flesh and what is coming from the spirit O God and help us to lead a life of surrender Lord and total commitment Lord being loyal to you being submissive Lord God to the spirit of the Lord and to the lordship of Jesus and to be able to accomplish all that you have planned and purposed for each one of us so we thank you Lord we commit ourselves into your hands into this time of learning O God so we will be able to learn and be able to fulfill all that you have in store for us thank you Father in the name of your Son the Lord Jesus Christ we pray Amen Thank you Bula and thank you everyone for being part of the class thank you God bless you and see you next week in this course but this week for another course okay so bye for now bye Amen God bless Thank you ma'am Thank you thank you bye