 Okay, all right. So we were talking about the elements of a Christian counselor. We looked through three points. We said a Christian counselor needs to be spiritually mature. We need to be grounded in the scripture. We need to be prayerful. The next point that we're looking at is we need to be a giver of hope of being able to offer the hope that a lot of people lose. So, you know, majority of people who come into for counseling have given up hope. You will find that, you know, they come in with extremely deep heartaches and many have had very shattering life experiences. It could be either through the death of a loved one. It can be because of a loss of a job. It can be because of a divorce or some or an abuse or something that's happened or maybe over years of time and they've come to that place of hopelessness. You know, others may have failed over and over a period of time and they need that hope. So some may have had their hopes broken down repeatedly and have given up. And that could be the desperate condition by which people come in. So the need of hope and its role in counseling, you know, can never be overemphasized. Because when you look at, you know, the Word of God and, you know, some of the scripture brings about how hope produces confidence. You know, when we have our hope in God, when God is the one who instills in us that hope, it produces confidence. Hope is something that produces joy that even can come even through the most difficult times, the joy that remains even when things are difficult. Or hope is something that helps us to bring about perseverance or hope is something that helps us build greater faith and greater love. Hope is something that helps us to bring about consistency. You know, it helps us, gives us a new lease of life and energy and an enthusiasm, right? So hope is something that builds us, that brings about that stability. And we know our ultimate source of hope. Our ultimate source of hope is the Lord Jesus and what He did for us and what we are going to receive alongside with Him. And if that's something in whatever way we can instill in them the hope that the Lord is the one who leads us through all of this, you know, I think a lot of our interactions with councillors are so much more peaceful and so much more. I'd like to use the word successful because they have a sense of hope. A lot of times with the problems they come with, they feel so hopeless that even talking to a councillor becomes a big issue. But that's what we need to encourage people with to be in a place where they can be built up in that sense of hope. What are additional things? When we are in working with people, listening and hearing is an important part of counselling, okay? It is a very important part of counselling. But that's not enough. They need to be moved to the next stage of taking action, of building themselves up into something as a change. You know, as a counsellor, I need to activate change. There needs to be a catalyst that makes them want to change, okay? So that change does not happen if I'm advising. If I tell Susan as we were talking about Susan, you cannot have second thoughts of your marriage. You need to work on your marriage. If I need to activate change by helping her feel motivated towards that change. Now that's the process and that's what this entire course is about. How are we going to do that? But our outcome always is that when a councillor comes to you in, let's say at A, how can they move from A to B or A to C? That's what we want them to be. Not continue to keep them at the same place that they are in. Maybe their circumstances may not change as much, but the way that they interact with their problem or their circumstances may change. So we need to be that activator of change. And that's an outcome that we look to as we go through counselling. And a lot of this will become clear as we move through the course, okay? Next is to motivate practice of scriptures at problem areas. So helping our councillor to walk alongside with what scripture teaches or being in obedience with what scriptures. Now remember, the word is motivate, not to push down, okay? So there is a very different difference in the way when you motivate and when you put down, put it down somebody's throat. When you put it down somebody's throat, it is going to be seen an absolute rebellion. But when you're motivating them to practice whatever the word says in their areas of problem, alright? And being patient, being patient even as they make those mistakes or take a while to get there being patient. Next one is being compassionate. Now in the ministry of the Lord Jesus, this is one trait or characteristic feature that we see of Jesus that runs through all of his dealings with people, right? You see that he was compassionate to them. He saw them and his heart was filled with compassion, right? So that is the same way we need to be at the position or the posture we need to be at in order to deal with people. So being compassionate, knowing that there are struggles and being compassionate to work with them through that. And of course, to use wisdom, to use the power of the Holy Spirit to bring about that wisdom, okay? We're going to move on to the specific principles of counseling. Now there are seven principles of counseling. When we look at these principles, these are things that we apply in our interaction with the counseling. So remember, like I said, the relationship becomes the medium where there are going to be changes in the person or in the situation of the counseling. And this relationship has certain dynamics to it that help to build a better result for your counseling. It helps them to adjust better. It helps them to bring about change. So these principles are mainly some attitudes of the counselor or some perspectives of the counselor that we need to work through as we are dealing with the counseling, alright? So the relationship between the counselor and the counselor usually is a lot more stronger when a counselor works through some of these principles. And there are seven principles that I want to bring up and we will take each one of them one by one. So I have certain examples for each of them so that we understand exactly what is it these principles mean, okay? So for the first principle, I'll bring about the case and then we could think about how we would work. So this is a case. There is a young couple who has just had a newborn baby and they realize that the child is physically challenged. The husband being physically challenged himself is quite calm and composed and acceptant of the reality of the child being disabled or challenged, physically challenged. Whereas the wife is troubled and very distressed at the thought of a differentially, sorry, at the thought of a differentially able child, okay? How would you, what would you, what would be the first thing that you would tell this young mother? What is it that you will tell her or you would listen to her, you would encourage her? What would you say? Remember interaction, okay? Let's participate so that our learning is much better. So what would you tell this mother? Are you all in the call? Yes, ma'am. Okay, okay, okay, okay. All right, yeah, okay. Okay, so Barsha, she would say God is the creator, okay? Yeah, it's a very difficult situation so I don't think she can be consoled by anything that I can see. Okay, so what would you do? Just be by the person's side, yeah, just be by their side. Okay, just be by them showing your support and understanding, yeah? Okay, all right, wonderful. Anyone else has any other response or thought? I think we can stay by her side and we can also tell her how happy she will be when she gets the child. I mean, obviously it's her child. I'm not very sure about how I can console but we can maybe help her change her perspective. That's something I think. Okay, okay. Yes, Dubeyga, go ahead. Having been an administrator for almost 15 years, I have come across people who have kids like that but one time one of them told me what I thought was the best answer. She told me, number one, we need to show her that this is God's will. There is nothing we can do about it and the rest is to keep quiet about it. We don't advise anything because whatever we speak is really disturbing. Thank you. Yeah, thank you, wonderful. Okay, so the reason why I bought this case up is, here you see the husband is quite calm and composed, very accepting of it whereas the wife finds it troubling. And there may be times that we tend to push somebody to react in a way that, as an example, you're comparing two people and saying, look at the way the husband has reacted. Maybe you should take on that reaction. He's very positively taking it. Look at the way he's doing it and be encouraged by that. And I think that's something we've got to be extremely careful about and that's where this principle comes about. The principle is called individualization. Okay, so what does this principle mean? It is the right that people can be people. They have feelings, they have thoughts, they have thinking, the way that they think about something is they are doing so because they've come with whatever background that they are. So there isn't any judgment placed on them as people. We accept their right to be who they are. Okay, and that's important in counseling because it helps a counselor to not analyze an individual from an aspect. Okay, but knowing and understanding that every individual is different from others and they are extremely unique in the way that they are made. So you recognize and understand that everyone has unique aspects or unique qualities or unique ways of thinking and they can't be compared to anybody else. So when you're dealing with them and you're helping them, your mode of helping must be in accordance to where they are at. Not that you want them to change from this place into another place so then you can work alongside them. So when you're helping them, when you are working alongside them, you accept them for the place and the status that they are in. So you as a counselor, you may need to use different methods to help this person undergo that change. It may not be in accordance to the way that you have maybe learned it or the way that you generally see people. It may not be that. There may be a different way in learning or helping them towards or assisting them towards that change. So each individual person is treated as an entity, as a completely new design and this is so scriptural. God made each one of us in his image and he made all of us very different. He made all of us very unique and the way that God deals with me may not be the way that he deals with you. Of course there are whole truths that are there we're all seen by the same standards but the way that he relates to me is maybe very different from the way that he relates to a friend of mine. So the principle of individualization is to ensure that they are seen as people with uniqueness, with unique strengths, with unique problems, with unique ways of working through. So every person is seen like a new package of different things. So that the principle of individualization is extremely important as we work with them. So it is the right to be treated as a person with personal differences. So that's what the principle of individualization is. We'll go on to the second principle. The second principle there are two scenarios I've written here. So the first scenario is a young wife has lost her husband to sudden death. She comes to you and cannot control her tears and her emotions and is incessantly crying or a man is sharing and says I'm so depressed I can't work, I can't think I just sit there all day. What state of mind do you think these councillors are in? What state of mind do you think these councillors are in? Yes. I don't know how to put it into words. Actually I think the first one she must be very depressed. I think she's lost her mind. And I think the second one is maybe confused about things maybe unstable. Okay. All right. So when you are, okay I think the way you said stuck out of any way to go forward. Okay. So just basically so hopeless and so stuck, right? Now when someone's talking to you in a state like this the tendency often can be that you feel just as bogged down as they are, right? Or maybe to a point that they're so distressed that you feel or you sense that something has to be done immediately when someone is crying or feeling extremely hopeless it's like this when your child has a fall and they're crying you hurt so much that you want them to stop crying and if they stop crying that means everything is okay, right? And this can be the case that we may see when someone's come and very upset we are sometimes so uncomfortable that they are expressing such deep sorrowful miserable emotions that often we feel we must just move them forward to a place of getting okay. Do you understand what I mean? Are you with me? Yes. Yeah. Okay. So it's that desire or that feeling that hey someone is so emotionally broken I need to fix their emotions as soon as possible, okay? That's the tendency that we may have. Now this is what the next principle is. It is a purposeful expression of feelings. So what does this mean? It's first and foremost that to help and to recognize and allow the counselling to express their feelings freely. We should be giving them a space where they're given the opportunity to not really hold back but to be able to express anything that they are feeling. So think of this like this. If you have a soda bottle or a Pepsi or a Coke bottle you shake it and you close it. Do you see the fizz that's inside? The minute that you open it, everything wants to come up and sometimes what do we do? We try and close it again so that it doesn't come up. Now that's what as a counsellor we've got to be careful not to do to close the lid on feelings that are being expressed. They need to be able to be in a place where they can express their feelings absolutely freely. So in order for them to do that we as counsellors need to listen purposefully. So it is as they are expressing their feelings we are listening rather than closing the lid on their emotions and not permitting them to talk we allow them to talk so that and our listening facilitates that. So as a counsellor you're not discouraging or condemning any of those expressions like think about Susan. So Susan said, I have second thoughts about this marriage. She would have come up with such courage to tell you a pastor or a Christian leader about what she's going through. And I don't want to be in a place to discourage what she's to make her discuss what she's feeling rather I would like that she discloses that. Now remember all because she is expressing something negatively and we are in a place of listening does not mean that you are accepting of what she is proposing to do. So I think that's what generally becomes a difficulty we feel that if I don't put a stop to this negative feeling of hers then I am allowing her or permitting her to think that I'm okay with what she's saying. But that's not the case. All because you are listening carefully you are acknowledging her feeling of having these thoughts does not mean that you acknowledge her action or acknowledge her behavior. So you as a counsellor need to ensure that you're not condemning or discouraging those thoughts or those feelings. In other words you need to help to stimulate it bring it up in such a way that you help the counsellor to be able to share everything that is there with it and that's effective why? Because the counsellor themselves are able to explore what is really going on within them unless a person gets in tune with what they are feeling unless they are in tune with the negativities of their feelings there isn't going to be a place of understanding so to explore that feeling is important and one way of doing that is to help them to express what they are going through. Is that clear? Can I go on to the next principle? Yes ma'am. Are we clear? Are we all in this with me? I'm not getting too much of a response if everyone is in line or half of us are sleeping is this working? Is this interesting? He gets some yeses. Thank you. We'll move on to the next principle. Let me bring about an example. You have been called to see a man in the hospital before you go in to see him you find out through talking to the doctor that the man is terminally ill you go into the room and the man says to you I want to ask you something am I going to die? Do you know? Can you tell me? Am I going to die? Okay. What would your response be? I know this is a really difficult one to but what would your response be? I'm not putting anybody at the spot it's just getting your thing to yourself to think. We'll ask him to calm down. We'll just ask him to calm down and we'll just say you're going to be all right I mean I think most of the time when I see sick people we say you're going to be all right get well soon. That's the only thing we say. Okay. Alright so Divya says I am I think Divya said someone said tell him he's not going to die Divya says I am happy that I could meet you today okay. Sebastian says no I won't die. Yes. What would you say? I will it's not easy to tell this person that he's going to die but if it were me in those shoes I would say that life and death is in the hands of God so let's pray about it about if you're going to die or not I'm not certain I'm not sure. Okay. Thank you I mean lovely answers I'm so glad that you're putting yourself in that position to think. The point over here is I think I need you to see what is behind those questions he's maybe probably what is he doing these are questions that are reflective questions am I really going to die do you know can you tell me is this going to be the end so when you hear a question like that immediately think about what is the significant emotion that this person is going through maybe the sphere or maybe there is a doubt or whatever the condition is or whatever his situation is maybe there is uncertainty maybe there are so many emotions that are going through so something I would do here is you know I'm sure you really would like to know this and I do see that it can be terrifying to be in a place like you are it's not certain you don't know what's going to happen even if you are fearful even if I were in your place I can't imagine the kind of emotions you are going through so what are we doing here is basically what we are saying is your involvement emotionally with your counselling is controlled now if I were to tell him hey the doctor said this sorry you have only one week I am being very insensitive to the counsellor's feelings or if I were to say no no no you won't die absolutely not take away that thought from your mind whereas inside you are actually wondering oh god you are probably feeling a sense of uncertainty yourself so it's important to be sensitive to what someone is going through maybe yes half the time you won't have any of the answers but being controlled in your involvement emotionally is not going to help him in any way if you are going to sit down with him and cry with him it's not going to help or you are going to say forget about all of this let's just laugh a little bit that's not going to help either right now he is in a place of confusion he is in a place of fear he is in a place of absolute frustration and knowing that and being able to reflect it so it's important to be sensitive and make an effort to understand what they are trying to say rather than getting involved in that emotional rut with them right like for example some counsellors when they are talking to you can really express their anger to you that even you feel so angry you are right let's go to the police and let's go give a complaint you kind of get involved in that with them and that's what as a counsellor you've got to be careful about not being overly controlled by your own emotions because of what your counsellor is going through so you are being purposeful and using those emotions appropriately now you are appropriately responding to the emotions of your counsellor because let's say when someone is really agitated you get even more agitated alongside with them you are not helping them to rationalize and think about a solution what you need to do is to engage with them in their emotions bring them to a place of reasoning and as a counsellor we need to ensure that we are controlled in the way and we look at the problem of the counsellor with objectivity as if how are they looking at it and being able to respond in a way that controls your involvement in that entire process now this happens this control emotional involvement what you are doing is you are seeing them as a person more than getting into their problems and helping them work through it in a way that's more controlled so you are actually being an example in the way of how you deal with that so sometimes it's a reality like we were talking about in this example maybe there is a lot of fear so stating them back yes it appears like a very uncertain, fearful thing to not know what is going to happen isn't it and I say yes I feel I feel very broken I didn't expect you will hear them begin to bring about that and that's what you are looking for for them to be able to release what is happening over them emotionally I hope that makes sense can I move on yes ma'am alright the next principle let's look at an example a young woman comes to talk to you about God and his existence she feels that she can't break away her allegiance to her God but yet would also like to treat Jesus as one of the many gods now this is an example you will hear everywhere so as a counsellor this is my stand and here's the principle this principle is called a self-determination what is this name that is every individual has the right to make their own choices and decisions they have the freedom to make their own choices and decisions so what you are doing what you understand is the counsellor may be in a certain position and they need to have the freedom or given the choice to make their decisions and choices why is this so important in counselling is because tomorrow they will turn around and say I did this because you told me to and that's something I don't think we need to hear or we need to be in a position or a place to be in that I have taken the decision for my counselling to make whatever choice that they have so what are you doing you are actually respecting their right to make the choice if you look at the way Jesus has treated in his ministry there was always a choice that people had if you look at the rich ruler he made his choice did Jesus no no you have to do no he was given the respect and the right to choose their own decision so that means as a counsellor I am going to keep away from any form of interference in the choices that they make yes it is up to me as a counsellor to help my counsellor think about the choices they are making about the pros and cons of the choices they are making I give them the complete freedom to do so I give them the complete freedom to make the choice so that is what self determination means the ability and the right and the freedom that you give to the counsellor to make their own choices and decisions ok the next one is this is an example I mean this is a case again a husband is talking to you and says you know you got all this guilt every time I sleep with this other woman I feel so guilty what can I do about it so this is a husband who has been properly having an extra marital affair comes to you and is you know talking about being in sin feeling guilty but saying what he doesn't know what he can do about it this is a very simple answer right for a believer ok you are guilty you know you are in sin get away that is it don't do this this is wrong get away ok here is the principle this is the principle of acceptance what is the principle of acceptance it is the recognition that every person is one worth dignity one worth value ok regardless of their problem regardless of their personal qualities regardless of their environment or the things that they are doing we accept the person as they are we accept the individual or the person we love and have compassion for the individual as they are and make no forms of judgment on that so it acceptance does not mean that you are approving of their behavior but this case it does not mean that you have approved of what he is doing or approved of his standards or whatever he is up to it doesn't mean that this acceptance the principle of acceptance is regardless of whatever they are coming to you you accept them as a person you accept them as one made in the Lord's image the one who the Lord loves the one who is inherently beautiful and fearfully made by God I treat them and accept them as people and not with regard to their behavior or their actions ok now acceptance also includes thought and feeling elements and so what does that mean the way that I think about somebody will definitely manifest in the way that I treat them if I think about him he is a sinner he is somebody who has been unfaithful to his wife so if I continue to make judgments in my mind about the person it will be expressed that way but if I were to look at him and say ok he has come with a problem but nevertheless he is a man who God has created or he is someone God loves and so you will see the manifest result to be similar so acceptance not just includes the way that you talk to them but even in the way that you think about them the way that you feel about the person that is what acceptance also encompasses ok we will move on to the last two here is an example for the next principle a wife in counseling says I just separated from my husband I am emotionally involved with another man I am not sure that my husband and I can work it out I know what my beliefs are but I am not sure what to do ok here we have come to the place of the principle of a non-judgmental attitude now this is based on the very aspect that every counseling process should not have assigning guilt or innocence we have got to be very careful that we do not assign guilt to somebody or we do not assign innocence to somebody you have done the right thing you have done the wrong thing that is something that we need to be careful being careful not to judge others and what does that include judging includes making statements about their attitudes their actions or their standards being careful not to be in that position of being of making those statements like as Jesus has written first look at the log in your eye before you can take out the spec in the other person's eye so being careful to meet with them with a non-judgmental attitude with an attitude of acceptance next one a teenager comes in to see you he sits down and says I hate my parents they stink and I don't care what happens to them okay alright now often when something like this happens with a teenager and you are meeting with the parents sometimes you may go and say your teenager doesn't really like you okay they don't care for you so remember in conversation with your councillors there are going to be times there are a lot of information that can be private that can be one that they are confiding in you and that's where the principle of confidentiality comes about it is you are protecting private or secret information that is being closed in your relationship with them now that I think especially as Christian leaders we have got to be very very very very careful about because we are dealing with the lives of people when someone comes in now this I don't think just it's a principle we need to look at when we are councillors but even in our ministry there may be many people who come to you to share something that's really personal and they are doing that because they trust you right and the minute we may use that against them or use an example of that or over the pulpit or bring about it in some other context maybe in a meeting that is a breach of confidentiality one of the core standpoints of counselling is the principle of confidentiality and that is it is a right of the person who is coming to you because they are coming sharing that which is so personal as a counsellor that is a principle we need to stick by it is an obligation it is actually an ethical obligation of a counsellor to do that okay and only if we are able to hold on to this principle does it become necessary for helping people need to feel feel safe feel secure in the relationship and in order for us to have them in order to get more information we have to ensure that there is this confidentiality that is there now however this right is not absolute so what does this mean there are two things that may especially when you are looking at in a more professional or a setting where there are a team of people working the information can be shared with other professional people now suppose like for example there is something that the person is going through and you know maybe I feel stuck here so I need to discuss this with maybe another counsellor to get more help and that is something we tell the counsellor that you know this will be discussed among a small group of professional people in order to help another time that it is not absolute is if there is any form of harm you know if you would see a traces of self harm or attempts of suicide or harming oneself or harming somebody else that is when confidentiality is not absolute because there is a risk of somebody else's life that is inquested and that is when we take the written permission of the individual to divulge some information to people that are necessary it is not that we tell the whole world to find the few people that are important in the help of the counselling so these are the seven principles I will just bring that once more for you it is individualization the purposeful expression of feelings, controlled emotional involvement self-determination acceptance non-judgmental attitude and the principle of confidentiality okay we are almost done with two minutes before we close in prayer is there any question I think there is a question here I think I will just look into that if the counsellor thinks that the counsellor is an approval of his action will it not have a negative impact so this really matters that like I said I think your question comes from the standpoint of if they are talking about something about their feelings remember we are acknowledging their feeling not their action you are not acknowledging their action you are not saying hey you are doing a right thing like for example the Susan we were talking about right so she is saying I have second thoughts of my marriage my response is not oh okay your second thoughts of your marriage that is good no that is not my response my response is Susan you seem extremely confused on what you need to do you feel a lot of chaos going inside of you trying to make the right decision I have not acknowledged her action or her desire I have acknowledged her confusion I have acknowledged the uncertainty that she is feeling or the frustration that she is feeling because once she is able to voice out that emotional aspect of it she will be in a better place to understand now if I were to take every statement she makes as serious and say you cannot have second thoughts of your marriage you cannot divorce your husband I have jumped 20 steps ahead of her because I fear that she is going to do something but if I can help to acknowledge that it is your emotions and your feelings that is making you think like this maybe you need to settle down in your emotions think a little bit more clearly after your calm down I am walking in step with her and walking in pace with her so it is not an approval of her action it is an approval of her emotion that I can see that you are distressed I can see that you are confused I can see that you are in a difficult position right now I hope I answered that question Yes ma'am I was just asking in the context of the principle of acceptance where you brought in an example of a husband like having an extramarital affair in that scenario so if the council thinks that I am approved I am not saying anything against because probably everyone would have said negative about it right and when the councillor is talking to that person and he is not telling anything negative or positive about it so there is a chance that the person is thinking oh maybe it is nothing wrong so remember the conversation does not stop here when you are having a conversation so right now what we are talking about is just acceptance so let's say in sessions this is a question I may ask him alright so what do I want him to think so once I acknowledge his feelings and wherever he is at the question I would ask him how do you think about this affair is either helping you or not helping you so what am I doing is making the person think I want him to think about his choices I want him to come to a place of thinking about how is this extramarital helping me how is it not helping me I want to draw it out from him rather than giving him a verdict of what I think is right or wrong okay or maybe my next question is maybe let's say this person is a believer as a believer how do you see your stand or your choice helping you or not helping you now my questions are going to help him to think it's not going to bring about a judgment or it's not going to bring about something that it's a right or wrong that's not my position to do my position is to bring him into a place of realization of learning to understand where he's at and thus making a choice because he can make a choice better if he realizes that he's in a mess then he's going to make a better choice rather than all the people around him telling him this is not a good thing saying okay this is not a good thing I haven't said anything different so why would he want to understand or take away anything from me but rather I want him to come to a place of realization and say okay when I've thought about this this is what is helpful this is what is not helpful maybe I'll ask him what do you think are the long term effects of this arrangement you've made and I'm helping him think I'm helping him look at a way of how he needs to divide his problem better so that he can work through a solution and I will pick on certain things I will pick like maybe he will say you know maybe my wife will get to know so I'll say how do you think that's going to affect you and your future or your children or your family so that's what probing is now in counseling there's a whole lot of things that are needed which is probing being able to probe in such a way that the individual begins to think and comes with a place of realization so that they can work into a place of action okay yeah so helping them to see in a through a different lens altogether yes yes that's my job that's my job I'm not here as a moral a standard telling them this is right this is wrong what I want to do is especially if their believers open their eyes to scripture and what they do is one of the word things that I ask is how do you think what you're doing is in line with what scripture teaches you or what how do you think you fall in alignment with what God wants you to do right and that makes them think they'll say yeah maybe it is okay so if you realize that what change do you want to see in that what do you want to do differently and that's what I'm helping them to do rather than saying okay ABC these are things you shouldn't do this you shouldn't do this you shouldn't do because it's not going to help that's exactly what they're hearing from their family or they're hearing from a friend but they need to come to a place of self-realization and understanding so change is more internal than it is more externally driven the change has to come from internal than being external okay that helps I hope that helps okay great good we all don't have any question let's just pray and we can close any other question okay all right I hope you will come back with some questions the next time all right I hope this was I mean I always love teaching counseling because it's so close to my heart and I hope you really got some you know some truths in the way of how you can actually deal with people this is not more about you know just about learning how to counsel but even in the way that you deal with people some of these principles are so beautiful that you know if we can inculcate them you will be such a blessing to the Lord okay let's just pray together Heavenly Father we just thank you for each one of us on this call as well as on the e-learning portal thank you Father that you've given us years and a heart to understand Father thank you for the way that you've made every individual Lord even as you have called us into ministry such as helping people we pray Master God that you will give us wisdom you will give us the right understanding Holy Spirit we draw from you you are Lord the Lord of every person God and you know exactly how you would want us to work with others give us Lord a glimpse and an understanding of it we draw from your power we draw from your strength I bless every student here on this call I thank you Lord for the places that they are and I pray for great breakthroughs in their lives as as the next week follows I pray Father that you would bring about the shift in their understanding in their in their life Lord in there in the way that they see you God may it be in line with what your word says thank you for your goodness over our lives still we meet again Father we just pray that you that you go ahead of us in Jesus name we pray amen just just an announcement we don't have class next Thursday 26th is not it's going to be a holiday so we will meet two weeks from now and that is the second of February okay so 26 we do not have a class I look forward to meeting all of you on the second of February alright God bless and thank you all bye bye thank you thank you thank you