 Hey everyone morning. How are you doing? Good. Okay. So you'll look fresh. So it's really good to be in your class and looking forward to, you know, an interesting time and interactive time. Also want to welcome all the online students as well. Thank you for connecting today. And I really hope that you will be enriched by the classes for the online students. Sorry about the audio issue in the last class. I think both for Google Classroom and e-learning, you had some challenges with the audio, but I think today it's corrected. So hopefully it'll be a better experience. All right, so let's pray and we can begin. I usually ask one of the students to pray, but you know, audio like the Google Classroom students can't hear you. You can't hear them. So I think I'll only pray and then we'll get it. Heavenly Father, we thank and praise you Lord for this beautiful time in your presence. Lord, we thank you for your word because this is the water which cleanses our slot. This is the water that prepares us so God to be the kind of bride that you are coming back for. So Father God, thank you for preparing our hearts. Thank you for teaching us Lord your ways, equipping us so God with the things of your kingdom. Father, especially in the area of prayer, we pray that you will enable us Lord to be in sync with your word as well as your spirit and Father God to see your will done here on the earth, Father. We give you praise, we give you thanks. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Okay, so in the last couple of classes, we were able to talk about the meaning of prayer, what prayer is, what prayer is not. Then in the last class, we discussed that there are different kinds of prayers. Though we use the general term prayer, there are many different kinds of prayers that one could pray. So what are the categories, anything you can recall from the last class? Prayer of consecration, prayer of asking and receiving, prayer of supplication, thanksgiving, unburdening, prayer of faith, agreement, excellent. So repentance. Okay, so 100% recall. I'm happy that you're catching all the points. I hope the Google Classroom students as well, you can always keep responding on the chat. Otherwise, you would miss out on interactions. So feel free. I look at the chat every now and then. So, though I'm asking the people seated here, it will be good if you can also respond to my questions. Alright, so we have looked at a couple of types of prayers. So today, there are two more which we will touch upon and then we will continue and try and look in detail about the prayer of asking and receiving. So here in our notes, if you can turn to that, there is something known as prayer of waiting, prayer of waiting. So what is the prayer of waiting? The psalmist seems to know about this kind of prayer. So, you know, he tells himself, wait, I say, on the Lord in Psalm 27, he says, wait on the Lord. And he writes a lot about dwelling in the presence of God, dwelling in the tents of the Lord, dwelling in the sanctuary of God. Now, we might have a question that if you don't have a petition or if you don't have a request, what's the point of being in the presence of God? Right? Because you got what you need. And that's it. Okay, God, bye. See you tomorrow, whatever, 6 a.m. But that's not how prayer works. And I've already shared with us that even worship, praise, adoration is also a form of prayer because that comes under the category of Thanksgiving, prayer of Thanksgiving. Later, we will see the pattern of the Lord's prayer in which Jesus taught us to pray. He begins with our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, hallowed be your name is what? It's worship, right? It's adoration, it's praise, it's Thanksgiving. So, Thanksgiving is very much a part of prayer. So, we can be in the presence of God. And even if we are not asking for something, we could be worshiping, we could be thanking, which is a part of prayer. Now, the prayer of waiting, you could say that it kind of overlaps on adoration, Thanksgiving. Okay, as one waits in the presence of God. Why would you wait otherwise? You're worshiping the Lord, that is one reason. But you also see that in a very deep way, you could be engaging with the presence of God while you are with Him. So, sometimes when we are in prayer, it may not be that I am actively asking something or I am even adoring or giving thanks, it may be none of that. But you're just in the presence of God and you are waiting in the presence of God. Okay? That has a lot of value because we see even in the writings of the Samists, they used to do things like that. Just wait in the presence of God. What happens when we wait in the presence of God? You know, we could study so much about subjects like presence of God, God's glory. Okay? We don't understand. See, we are part of two worlds. Anyone seen a frog? Yeah, all of us have. So, what do we call creatures like frogs and crocodiles? Amphibians, right? Because they live in the water and they also live on the ground. So, they are part of two worlds. Similarly, though we are part of this natural world, we see, we touch, we feel, we sense in our five senses. We are very much alive in this natural world but there is an unseen spiritual world which we are also a part of. Okay? We are alive, scriptures tell us, to this kingdom of light which is of Jesus Christ, you know, the Son of God. So, what happens when we wait in the presence of God? There are a lot of dynamics which we may not understand. For us, in the natural, what am I doing? I'm just waiting in God's presence. So, the natural doesn't make any sense. You know, for us, our generation, waiting is waste of time. Quick, quick, move, next, next, you know. When people ask for things to be done and you, you know, say, oh, how fast do you want it done? So, there's a term that they use nowadays. Commonly, it's called yesterday. So, when your teacher tells you to finish your assignment and you ask the teacher the question, when do I submit it, ma'am? Teacher will say yesterday. Okay? It simply means good fast. I want it done very, very fast, as fast as you can do. So, that's the kind of world we live in. So, sometimes what happens, waiting in the presence of God may seem very meaningless. Prayer time, I'm just waiting. But it's not so in the spiritual realm. So, we've got to understand that. So, somehow, for the psalmist, they figured it out to wait in the presence of God. You see, even Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 40, there's a scripture here in our notes where he says, they that wait upon the Lord. Isaiah 40, you remember the scripture was 29. Hold on. Yeah, was 31. But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. So, what happened when somebody waited in the presence of God? So, waiting in the presence of God is not zoning out. You know, sometimes we can just sit for one hour and we say, oh, I just prayed. It was a waiting kind of prayer. But maybe we slept. We're not engaging. But that's not the waiting we are talking about. We're talking about it's an active engaging. You are very much in the presence of God. You know, your mind is worshiping. Maybe even your physical body, you will have a posture with which you're expressing your worship. All that is going on. So, you're actively waiting. It's not necessarily a time when you're saying, OK, supplications, petitions, none of that. It's not just in God's presence. God, it's you and me. You're waiting in that way. What does Isaiah say? He says, they that wait upon the Lord shall mount up with wings as eagles. So, we can come to one conclusion based on what we just read. What is that conclusion? When we are waiting in God's presence, his strength is imparted to us. Somehow, when you come out of that time of prayer, you become stronger spiritually. You become stronger maybe in your will, in your emotions. You went in very broken, but you're coming out very strong. So, how does this kind of prayer help? It strengthens us. The prayer of waiting strengthens us. That's how we look at it. There are other passages over here. I'm not going to go through every single passage here. But these passages also encourage us. There's a passage from Isaiah 30 verse 15, where it says in quietness, you know, is your strength. So, it says that in God's presence, when we go to seek Him, that's the place from where we draw our strength. And similarly, here's another passage from Psalm 131 verses 1-3, where the Psalmist gives this picture. He says, if you look at a child, a weaned child, it's the mother scaring the child close to her chest. So, he says, sometimes God, I'm like that. I'm just with you. And that strengthens me. That helps me. So, the Psalmist talks about just being with God, just waiting in His presence. And what do we gain out of that? If you have that question, scriptures are very clearly showing us that you gain strength. You become a stronger person somehow, right? So, it's never wasted time. I know that nowadays you have all these movements around the world where people worship. They have 24 bar 7 worship, intercession. And sometimes you wonder, like, how long can I stretch? You know, just being in God's presence, what are we going to do? So, there are times when there's intercession. So, okay, you understand. Oh, there's intercession. There could be preaching of God's word. Okay, something else is occupying the time. There's worship. But then, you know, when you look at all these movements, there are also extended periods of just waiting upon the Lord, right? You're singing songs which you're receiving in the spirit. You're singing spontaneous songs and you're just waiting in the presence of God. And you wonder, how can people do this? What is the meaning of this? For somebody who's looking at it from outside, what a waste of time. But, biblically, when we look at times like this, when you're waiting in the presence of the Lord, we need to understand there's a realm which we cannot see. And what scriptures are telling us is in that place of quietness, in that place of rest is our strength. So, we are actually drawing from God's strength and we are able to take that into our everyday life. So, from the spiritual to the natural, there's a drawing of the strength of God. So, there are certain ministries that also talk about their experience. How they started all this 24 bar 7 worship prayer, waiting on the Lord. And one particular very famous ministry from the United States, they say they started this kind of 24 bar 7 worship and out of that, God gave them the ability to start so many other practical ministries like feeding the poor, taking care of the orphans, supplying food in certain areas. So, lots of other ministries came out but for something like 30 years, they have this waiting on the Lord, worshipping God, intercession, a combination of things like that. So, simply what I'm trying to tell all of us is it's not a waste of time. When we are waiting in the presence of God, either individually or as a group, never look at it as I'm just filling up my time. No. Something spiritual is happening when we are waiting in the presence of Lord. And another very key thing is waiting is not being absent. Waiting is a very active engagement with God. So, waiting is not being absent. Please understand that. But when you're actively engaging with God, maybe in your spirit, maybe you're not having enough words to say in those moments, even then you're engaging with God and you can expect God's strength to be deposited in your spirit. Can I particularly want to encourage those who are on campus, the supernatural hour which you have, it's such a precious time actually. Never think of it as just one hour, what are we doing? No, don't look at it that way because God is doing something in you now. You would, till today we have some students who call us and tell us and they say, ma'am, those times when we used to worship, those times I received a word, this happened, that happened, it continues to strengthen them even until now. So, that's a corporate waiting upon the Lord. But even individually in your personal lives, just make time. You're just waiting upon the Lord. Maybe, how do we do it? You can just play some worship music and then begin to pray and also have some moments where you're just engaging like in the spirit with God. So, that is the prayer of waiting. Next is the prayer of watching. Isaiah 62 verses 6 and 7, it is there in the notes, it says, I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, they shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent and give him no rest till he establishes and till he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. Okay, so here we are told that God has set watchmen on the walls. What is the task of watchmen? Guard, protect, take care, anything else? There's a gate right outside your campus. So, what does the gate do? What does the watchmen who stands there do? Open, close. So, opening the gate for whom? Everybody? Anybody on the road, he'll open the gate. Yeah, who belong to this campus? He opens the gate, others he doesn't open the gate. An intruder comes in, he will never open the gate. He'll be careful enough to say, no, come tomorrow or get permission or something like that. Scriptures tell us, you know who are God's watchmen? We are God's watchmen. Okay, how do we become watchmen? When we are in prayer, because when we pray what happens is our prayers are like opening the gate, closing the gate. So, it's not just prayers, even our declarations, even our taking of authority. So, all those things are like allowing and disallowing. We stop certain things but we allow certain things. What are the things that we stop? In this case, in this scripture, it's like we are told Jerusalem, there are watchmen on your walls or in other words, prayer warriors for the city. Watchmen for Jerusalem. How does it help to have watchmen over a city? So, they guard the city in spiritual matters. So, they will stop things like, you know, anything that Satan might plan, okay, we'll put some sickness on the people, we'll put some crimes, you know, we'll have confusion among the people, strife, poverty. So, so many things Satan wants to put on the people. But when we pray, we are like watchmen. Watchmen, an attitude of watchmen is alertness. No watchman is paid to sleep. In the night, they're there, somebody is there, that means oh, okay, no problem, they are there, somebody is there, they are taking care. In the same way, prayer of watching is a prayer of alertness where we are praying and we're saying, God, I pray for protection. Maybe you want to pray protection over your own life or your own family for different reasons or let's say parents, you pray protection over your children. So, what are these prayers doing? These prayers are acting like you know, guarding them. It's like a fence around them. We'll study more about it a little later in detail. So, prayer of watching are prayers of alertness. So, where we are praying and we are, you know, waiting on the Lord like God you need to do this. You have to do this. We are waiting with you. Let it be done. So, in that manner, even when Jesus was in the garden of Gethsemane, what did he tell his disciples? Yeah, watch, watch and pray. Watch with me one hour. Be alert. What did they do? Opposite. They nicely slept. Jesus like, what to do with you people? I told you to be awake. Even one hour you can't be awake and pray. So, that's the way in which, you know, he instructs them, rebukes them because he wanted somebody to be alert with him in his difficult moments. Right? So, those are the prayers of watching and particularly when we come to, you know, things that are unfolding in the world today. We need to be alert to pray for our city. We need to be alert to pray for our nation. Pray, be alert to pray for different things that are going on in the world. So, the prayer of watching is also a kind of prayer which is not, you know, inconsistent. We need to continuously stand guard because that's how watchmen guard a place. So, continuously till those things are accomplished we keep praying, we keep praying. So, some people ask, you know, what is this every day you have a prayer point to pray for the city? How long you're going to pray for the city? You know, already you pray 20 years you're praying again for the city. Hasn't God already answered prayer of believing? If you believed it, you received it, forget it, you know, get a new prayer list. It doesn't work like that. When it comes to prayer of watching sometimes you're praying the same thing over and over and over again. So, the watchmen on the walls for Jerusalem they would have prayed, they would have asked God every day, God your protection, your guidance, your leading, they were alert for the city. So, some of these prayers of watching, whether they are for personal life or for, you know, corporate needs, they go on repeatedly. So, that is the nature of the prayer of watching. So, I think I will stop with that. So, we've understood now that, you know, we need to be alert in our prayers. So, one more quick addition to the thoughts that I have just shared. Why do you think we must be alert in prayer? Or alert in prayer also means that you don't neglect prayer. You understand, hey, I need to pray there is a good reason why I need to pray. So, why should we be alert in prayer? Give me a reason which I didn't give so far. Okay, because God might want to reveal something to us. Okay, sure, sure. But alertness. So, that is more of, you know, a desire, interest. God, you're going to reveal to me. But I'm saying alertness. Alertness is like you just watch that there be no intruder. Why do you think we should have prayers of watching like that with alertness? Protection, true. Why protection? Why do we need protection? Okay, so I got the right answer on the chat but I'll just wait for... Okay, fight. We have a fight not against flesh and blood. Okay, yes. Okay, so as reverence to God so when we are praying, we need to be alert as honour and reverence to God. Good. The answer yes, not to enter into temptation. Okay. Yeah, so you're all telling me like what it is but why I'm not getting an answer. Wait, hold on. Let me just look at the chat here. I'll come back. I'll give you the answer anyway. Okay, here we have answers like the enemy is working then thief comes to steal kill and destroy. Okay, just one person has written Satan. That is the answer I was looking for. Satan is a roaring lion. So, temptation war, distraction all of that comes from an enemy. There is an enemy that we must not forget. So in this life another reason why prayer becomes so essential is because it's spiritual warfare Ephesians 6, when you read it, there are all these parts of the armour that God tells us to put on and then towards the end you read praying always Ephesians 6, 18 what we read earlier because even prayer is a weapon against the enemy so because there is an enemy what kind of an enemy is he? Scripture tells us that he's like a roaring lion waiting. He's waiting to pounce on anyone that he can get. Anyone he can devour and because of that reason we are asked to be very alert in prayer. 1 Peter 4, 7 it says, but the end of all things is at hand therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers so as the days go by we know that Satan is already defeated. He cannot defeat the believer. That much we all understand. Jesus defeated Satan on the cross. Then why do we in an alert way pray and ask for wisdom, protection, all that against this defeated enemy because he still continues some of his tactics and as you pointed out temptation, confusion accusation, strife, all those things he can just put it upon the people which is why God told us, be alert. If we are not alert, how to be alert? Pray. So somebody in the chat has asked how to watch how to watch. So that is the question how are we supposed to watch? We are supposed to watch through prayer. Krisha so as I am praying, as I am praying for different things that the Holy Spirit puts on my heart, I am actually watching for example, a time of prayer so just I think was it last week or a couple of days ago I was just praying. Generally I have a routine time of prayer but this day I don't know why and moreover I had free some extra time that day. I was praying and I felt don't stop, keep praying. So then I am looking at the clock I was like okay fine, let's go for another thing, let me extend it. So I finished, I kind of did another round to the same extent and I felt like no, don't stop, pray. So I prayed more, very unusually I don't pray that long but I was having some of these impressions on my mind regarding my family that I pray for so and so in your home and this and that. Now nothing was happening, nothing that I can see noticeably but I just went with the leading of the Holy Spirit. So it's my prayer of watching where I am speaking protection, I am standing in the presence of the Lord for what He lays on my heart. So in this case, it was family but maybe there are times when we are praying for the city and you just know Holy Spirit is putting it on your heart and saying pray, pray, pray. You just can't say no you got to keep praying for what the Spirit of God puts on your heart. So how do we watch like that? We have to be very much in sync with the Holy Spirit Krisha. Now maybe some of us might say okay I am not yet in that place where I can clearly hear from the Holy Spirit that you pray for this, pray for that. What should I do? Very simple. About different matters, know what God's word says. For example, city God's word in Jeremiah 297 it says pray for the peace of the city where I have brought you. You can just pray what you know, pray understanding of the word of God when you don't have all these things of Holy Spirit is telling me. If you're not being led in that sense, just pray what you know. Okay, I'm supposed to pray for the peace of the city that is my prayer of watching. I sit, I pray a lot. I pray for peace in the city. I pray against every communal tension. I pray against confusion, quarrels among leaders. So I'm just praying for peace. Even in this way, Krisha, either prompted by the Holy Spirit or just based on the word of God we can pray. So that is how you pray the prayer of watching. Alright, so I think I'll stop here regarding types of prayer. Any more questions, thoughts? Alright, yeah. So can we move forward then? We'll go to the next chapter. Okay so chapter number 5 this is about praying a believing prayer, praying a believing prayer. So among all the prayers that we pray this one like even the young believers understand because the way we look at prayer is, okay ask God, He will give it to you. The prayer of asking and receiving the prayer of asking and receiving is a prayer which is applicable throughout our journey. At any given point maybe when we are young believers we don't know what you know our purposes in life so then we ask God, God show me the purpose that you have for me give me understanding, reveal to me, make a way for me. So prayers are like that maybe let's say God has revealed his plan, he's revealed his purpose to us then we pray prayers like God you know give me a deeper understanding of your word, establish me in your word, show me your ways. So what's happening? Again you're asking. You're asking so that you can receive and God begins to equip us in our lives. We say okay God you know I really desire to serve you, open doors for me to serve you then God puts different visions you know on our hearts and he says okay I want you to do this and that. So then you start praying for those things you say okay God wants me to start you know some kind of revival ministry. Okay I'm going to start praying for that. So when you start praying for that ministry what happens? Again a lot of asking and receiving you need a plan. So you ask God give me the plan. So God tells you okay in five years this is how the ministry is going to look. You're going to start off with an office in this particular place maybe in India or outside. I'm going to take you to this place, plant you there, you'll have an office then you'll be like okay God thank you let me start then God says you need people and you start praying for people. Okay God send people, God send resources. So it's like never ending asking and receiving is part of our journey no matter where we are. So how do we do it right? Now what if we ask for something and we don't receive it? We've already touched on this earlier maybe there have been times where you know we have asked and we've not got it. There can be many reasons why we did not receive those answers. Okay now if we did not receive those answers maybe we have had to face some disappointments and overcome those disappointments but here's the way to look at it. Praying is a learning experience. In our lives if we have not received answers for some prayer don't think that whole episode or that phase of your life is a waste it's not. Just say Holy Spirit what can I learn from that season? Reveal to me what is it that I could have done better? Okay now we'll talk about faith and all that in asking and receiving but it's not to put blame on us that oh I didn't have faith so God didn't do it. It's not like that but to be honest just reflect okay maybe if I had you know asked for counsel or something I would have made a better decision. So you see there's always a lesson to learn even if there are prayers which we did not see answers to okay so we will study about asking and receiving and the good thing about studying this in detail is at least you know the principles and you can use the principles okay now even after having done this if at all something doesn't come through it doesn't mean that the principles are wrong. No because you see God's word never changes. If at all the answers don't come through maybe there's something which we are missing so in your journey always say okay God next time I'll make sure you know I do it like this just learn just learn and get better okay so this is not like oh keys I'm giving you some keys use the keys every time it'll work there's no formula you have to trust God and in your personal understanding the prayer of asking and receiving keep growing in it okay come on now let's see what are the helpful principles in scripture that will enable us to get answers to our prayer first is pray with a clear conscience pray with a clear conscience so Psalm 66 and verse 18 can somebody quickly turn to that and read it I would request the google classroom students to please turn to these scriptures okay wonderful so if I regard iniquity in my heart then God will not forgive me so why is it that some prayers don't get heard or don't get registered in God's mind one key reason is we don't have a clear conscience there is a sinful heart behind the prayer so maybe intention is wrong if let's say I'm praying God bless my ministry prayer sounds very good but if in my heart I have competition then what happens God sees the heart right so with a conscience which is not clear before God it's very difficult for me to pray a believing prayer and receive its answer so there should be no iniquity and the Holy Spirit can convict us of sin or maybe or maybe God is convicting us of sin in some other area ministry we are doing fine but in our personal life there are things that the Holy Spirit is convicting us about and we have not dealt with it in that case can the prayer be answered again doubtful because we don't carry a clear conscience before God so 1 John 3 21 to 22 I want to request somebody to quickly turn to that and in the meantime there was a question did you raise your hand sure so we have a point here where we need to have faith without doubt so that is when you receive your answers to prayer alright so if somebody has that scripture open 1 John 3 21 to 22 okay so Apostle John he says if our heart does not condemn us then we have confidence with God because we do righteous acts of faith we are walking obediently to God so then what is the result of a righteous walk your heart does not condemn you so we all have this experience right I'm not talking about a guilt induced by Satan as an accusation that's not the guilt that I'm talking about I'm talking about the conviction of the Holy Spirit in us you know sometimes for example let's say we are having I'm doing some teamwork and I happen to quarrel with my team number okay and the work is going very good so every day we are working on a project it's going very good and after the day of the quarrel the next day I just don't feel right that person is still there in the team we are working and you know I feel like I'm talking politely to that person but in my heart you know I have all these like what kind of a person you know what is this how can they do this so I'm still carrying all of that bitterness against that person and as I'm working what's happening my conscience right it's it's just not clear it's not clear so if your heart does not condemn in this situation what's happening my own heart is why can't you just say sorry to that person and I'm saying no I don't want to say sorry then what happens my heart is condemning me see you know what is right but you're not doing it so when I go to pray you know I sit in my prayer time same thing comes back you know sometimes it just doesn't leave you just like reminder again and again and again why are you not dealing with that you know team member of yours you need to say sorry heart is condemning me I can't pray a believing prayer because there's so much of you see disturbance right disturbance and confusion sometimes there can be things in our lives which are not incident based maybe this is just like maybe some wrong relationship or wrong something but we're still worshipping the Lord we're still doing everything but as we're coming to worship God our heart is condemning us and saying you're not on the right track this is not correct before God so what happens it's very difficult to pray a prayer of you know believing with like you know your conscience your heart is divided like that so that's why you need that undivided heart where my your heart doesn't condemn you at least when you come in the presence of God you know out of you know your own ability to the best of your knowledge to the best of your ability you have done everything that the Holy Spirit told you to do now are we perfect we are not nobody is perfect but when the Holy Spirit convicts us of something according to the word of God we need to be obedient what did what does scripture say God desires obedience and not sacrifice so these small little things in our relationship with God matter so always maintain a clear conscience you know check your own life check my own life okay is there anything that my heart is condemning me about the words I spoke my behavior my relationships my finances my ministry so make sure everything is clear with such a clear conscience when I pray what is the other part in that passage we have confidence before God if our heart does not condemn us we have confidence before God so that's the way to pray we need to come before God with a clear conscience and you know 1 Peter 3 it says that God's ears are turned to the prayers of the righteous so when you can look at it this way when we walk in the path of righteousness our prayers will get God because God is attentive to the prayers of the righteous okay so a right walk with God is essential to walk regularly in answered prayer answered prayer answered prayer if we are walking with the Lord in righteousness carry a clear conscience that's our responsibility okay so next point here I'll do this next point then you know we'll take a 10 minute break Jesus taught us to pray using his name so let's read the passage John 14 verses 13 and 14 somebody can you please read it so Jesus has told us to ask in his name and what did he say if you ask anything in my name I will do it for you so praying in the name of Jesus is something that we've been taught to do by Jesus himself there's one more passage we'll quickly see it John 16 23 and 24 okay great so you see here about asking and receiving how to ask you've not asked anything in my name ask the father in my name and he will give you so how do we ask God Jesus told us when you ask God ask in the name of Jesus ask in the name of Jesus how does it help to ask in the name of Jesus I have shared this earlier the name of Jesus carries authority so when I ask in Jesus name there is an authority you know which moves the heart of the father which you know supplies releases the supplies of heaven so we don't understand but there is an authority in the name of Jesus just for example you know here in college let's say you go to ask some notes from the person in charge at the office and they say I can't give it to you you show me a letter or something so you take a letter from the administrator of the college and say see I got a letter from the administrator can you please give me the notes will immediately respond because you're asking in the name of the administrator you got it so it carries authority and Jesus knew that when it comes to the spiritual realm when it comes to the kingdom of God there is an authority in the name of Jesus so when we ask he said you ask the father in the name of Jesus he will do it for you so that's the way in which we pray a believing prayer so with that I am going to stop we can come back and pick up from here I will quickly look at a question at times even if we spend time in his presence praying and seeking God a flesh old man comes out either in our reaction or words due to difficult situations people how to be an overcomer always okay good question justin I would say overcoming the flesh for overcoming the flesh two things we need the work of the word and that's what Paul wrote in the book of Romans be renewed be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that is one thing we need to have a renewed mind and that's going to take some time so that's how you overcome the flesh second is through the Holy Spirit so the way we crucify our flesh is by the work of the Holy Spirit so we have to allow the Holy Spirit to work in us so these are the two ways in which we can our theme is not the right thing to do with the flesh you have to crucify the flesh okay so that's the short answer but hopefully you will get much more from you know all the APC Bible college courses okay thank you and we will meet in 10 minutes