 Welcome back after break. Just before we went for our break, we were looking at the primary way that God speaks to us through one is His word. And we saw how God speaks to us through His word. He speaks to us through the instruction in His word, through a quickening in God's word. So the important thing is that, you know, when you are making important decisions in life, any decision, you know, even small decisions can matter, can be very, very important. It's important for us to read God's word, meditate on God's word, dwell on God's word and see what God is telling us, leading us and guiding us to do. Okay. Now there are a couple of personal life examples that Pastor has shared regarding his own, you know, life journey and how he received a quickening word from God. So, since all of you like stories and like to read, I'm sure you would read this, but please don't read it when I'm teaching now, please listen to the lecture. You can always, you know, you have the publication with you, the soft copy or the hard copy, you can always take time to read it. It's just a quick reading. It'll just also help you to know, you know, and discern how God leads us through scripture. So I'm not going to, there are many examples that Pastor Ashish has shared in this book that he's written from his own life story and a live example. I'm not going to share it all because of the lack of time. I will have to finish this book and another huge publication that we have to finish. So I'm not going to look at all the examples and since all of you like to read stories and are very interested about what how God has ministered to various people, their testimonies, I'm sure you will take the time to read. So I'm leaving that to you to read. So we move on. The third way that God speaks to us to scripture is through the word preached. Now, you know, when this is another common way that God speaks to us and guides us to his written word is when his word is being preached. So when you are in a place where God's word is being preached, you can listen to sermon and you can feel that sermon is exactly just speaking to you to your situation and what you're going through in life. And it can also be that there are so many people there in that room, you know, or the hall and, you know, God can be speaking to just that one sermon he can speak to multiple people at the same time and only God can do something like this. So God can use his word, this written word that is preached to bring about counsel in so many different people's lives in so many different matters in areas of their life. Okay, so sometimes even when you hear multiple sermons, different preachers over, you know, a couple of weeks or months, you can say, you know, you can just feel that God is speaking to you through each of that sermon. You know, he's talking about your situation and what he wants you to do. So even as you receive it from God, you know, just believe on it, act on it, God is guiding you, he's leading you, and it's your time to listen, even as you're seeking or listening and then you need to obey what God is asking you to do. I remember that, you know, when I had to go to Bible College, God was asking me to go to Bible College and, you know, in the full time ministry and that was not something I wanted to do. That's something that I actually taught or envisioned for myself, and it was a big question mark and I had a lot of doubts and I was very burdened. And I remember going to church and I was just saying, God, please speak to me. And, you know, that Sunday when the pastor preached, he said, you know, you can't serve two masters, you either serve God or mammon, okay, you serve God or money. And I remember telling God, you know, I like to do something secular, but I can always serve you at the free time that I have. And God was telling me directly, you know, you have to choose, you can't serve two masters at the same time. And that came like a rena word from that preacher. I remember the preacher's name as well. The picture is very, very clear in my mind, you know, and I made a decision that day that God, I would choose, you know, you and I would choose to obey what you are calling me to do. So it was, that's when I made a decision when the word was being preached. So God can use the word that is preached to, you know, minister to us in our situations, but it's our decision and our choice, what we want to do and how we turn around and obey the Lord. The fourth thing is through the inner voice that is a voice of our conscience. Now we are tri-part beings, we are pre-part beings, we are made up of body, soul and spirit. And us, just like our body, you know, can see, hear, speak and feel. The same way our spirit man has these faculties. Our spirit man can also hear, see, speak and feel. So in our spirit we can see, we can feel, we can speak, we can hear from God. And, you know, so our spirit man parallels our outer man because, you know, we can hear, see, feel and speak as well. And our conscience is our spirit speaking to us. Our conscience is the voice of our human spirit. Let's just look at three scripture passes. One is Job chapter 32 verse 8. Can somebody read that please? And someone else can read Psalm 51 verse 6. And someone else can read Proverbs chapter 20 verse 27. Job chapter 32 verse 8, but there is a spirit in man and breath of Almighty gives him understanding. Thank you. So when it's here, it says that, you know, God speaks to the spirit man. He breathes upon the spirit man, breathes means God inspires, he releases, he reveals things there in our spirit man. And when he releases things in our spirit man, it gives us understanding. So what we receive in our spirit man is then, you know, sent to our mind. So our mind is basically our processor with processes, everything that we receive from the spirit world in our spirit man and also from the natural world through our body. Okay. Psalm 51 verse 6, please. Can somebody read that? Behold your desired truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part, you will make me to know wisdom. Amen. Thank you, Sonia. So here the hidden part is actually a spirit man. So God desires truth in our spirit man, in our inward part, in our hidden part. And where does he make his wisdom known? He makes his wisdom known. He gives us understanding and wisdom in our inward parts or in our hidden part. And that is the spirit man. Okay. So it's in our spirit that God speaks to us, reveals things to us, gives us wisdom and understanding. Proverbs chapter 20 verse 27. The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord searching all the inner depths of his heart. So, Amen. Thank you. So it says here that the spirit of man is a lamp. Now what does a lamp do? What does a torch light do? A ray of light do? It actually helps us when we are searching for something, when we're looking for something. Light also guides us in the right step, the right path that we need to go. So it says here the spirit of a man actually searches that man and guides that man in what he needs to go or where he or she needs to go. Okay. So our conscience is our own spirit speaking to us. It's the voice of our human spirit of what God is speaking to us in our spirit man. Okay. Our conscience bears witness or speaks aligned to what has been written on our hearts. Okay. Which means, you know, if your conscience or your spirit man is being fed with the things of the word of God, the word of God is written on your heart and your mind, then your spirit man is going to respond to the word of God. So every time you're making a decision, doing something, you're saying, hey, what does the word of God say? And the word of God comes quickly into your mind and hey, the word of God tells me to do this. I have to do this. So the word of God says I need to obey him or I need to follow in the spot. I need to do. So, you know, Hebrews chapter eight was 10 and 11 says that part of the new covenant. God says, I will write my laws. I will write my word upon your heart and your mind and each one will know the Lord. Okay. So our conscience bears witness or speaks aligned to what has been written on our heart and mind. Now, if in our heart and mind, the things of the world has been written, maybe the knowledge of the world, the literature of the world, the logic of the world, the philosophies of the world has been written. Or we're just, you know, living according to the standards of the world, watching a lot of movie, you know, hearing from our friends. That is what is our conscience is going to respond to. Our spirit man is going to respond to when we are making decisions in various stages of our life. But if in our conscience or in our spirit man, the word of God is written on our heart and mind, then we are quick to listen to what and know what the word of God is telling us and we will obey and we will do as is written in the word of God. I hope you're able to understand what I'm saying. Okay. And then when, when we God's word or his law is written on our heart and mind, that is why it says we need to meditate on God's word. Then, you know, our conscience becomes a reliable guide. We can trust our conscience because we know our conscience is speaking aligned to God's word. Because you're feeding your heart and mind with God's word and it's according to what God has written in his word. Okay. But if you're listening to conscience that is not pure, not holy to the things of the world, then your conscience does not become a reliable guide. Okay. So when you know when you're doing something wrong, when your conscience pricks you, you know, this is not what God wants me to do, say or act or this is not what is according to his word. And then you will do what is according to his word and you will do what is right. Okay. The last thing is we need to rightly divide the word of God as we read in 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 15 where Paul is writing to young Timothy and is telling him be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. So how do we handle God's word? We rightly need to divide God's word, which means we need to understand God's word, interpret, you know, God's word in the light of the rest of scripture and what he has mentioned in that specific context. So if we misinterpret God's word, we will misapply God's word in our life and then we will see that everything seems to be going wrong in our life. So that is why it's important for us to have a correct understanding of God's word, which will not lead to misinterpretation or misapplication. But when we have a right interpretation of God's word, it will help us to understand and will also not lead us to strange or wrong doctrines, but will be able to lead us in the right way and we will make the right decisions. And hence it is important for us, like I said in the beginning, to understand the whole counsel of God, which means understand the scripture's entirety in its whole context, know the entire scripture, read the entire scripture. So you know what God is saying. Okay. Before the end of this chapter, an important note is we don't misuse scripture so you don't, you know, you want to make a decision. You just don't say, okay, God, you know, open my eyes to the right passage, right? So whichever my eyes, whenever my eyes fall in, when I open, this is my Bible, I'm just opening it and I'm just reading it. Whatever is written there, you know, is the answer for my problem. We can't do this. This is not magic. You know, this is not something that we do as, you know, magicians. God's word, we don't handle that God's word that way. But what we need to do or we don't play with God's word this way, but we need to read scripture, meditate on it the entirety and ask God to reveal and show us what he's asking us to do. The other thing also we don't do is, you know, we don't misinterpret scripture to satisfy our own selfish interests and wants and needs and twist it and turn it so that we can apply to us in our context and we feel very happy. That's when we end up in all wrong doctrines, wrong decisions and we blame God and say, God, you know, you told me from your word, this, this, this. And now, you know, I'm facing all these wrong decisions and we get angry. We go away from God. Well, God is not to be blamed. It's because we didn't look at scripture and interpret it in the right way. It had to be done. Okay. So that is chapter three for us. The primary way that God leads us is to scripture and how he leads us. Anyone has any questions? Chapter three. Okay. If there are no questions in chapter three, we'll move on to chapter four. Okay. I said two primary way God leads us. One is through his word. The second one is through the Holy Spirit. So chapter four is about the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. You know, Jesus, when he was going back to the Father, he told his disciples he will send us another helper and that helper is the Holy Spirit. John chapter 14 verse 16 and the Holy Spirit leads us and guides us. So can somebody please read John chapter 16 verses 13 and 14 please for us. John chapter 16 verses 13 and 14. However, when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth or he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will tell you things to come. He will glorify me for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. Amen. Thank you, Samjay. So notice that Jesus said he will speak. The Holy Spirit will speak to you. So does the Holy Spirit speak? Yes, Jesus says here that he will speak to you. So the Holy Spirit does speak to you and I, but we need to learn to listen to the Holy Spirit. Okay. And Jesus also says in this passage that the Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth. Okay. Guide you means he will lead you. He will show you the way into all truth. Not only the truth concerning the things of God in scripture, but all that concerns God's truth for your life. So how do you live out that truth in your life? He will guide you into all of what you need to live and how you need to live your life. Okay. And this passage of scripture that was read to us, we also see that Jesus says that he will take from him. And, you know, or he'll take what I am speaking and speak it to you. So can you imagine that you and I actually have a hotline to heaven? We have a hotline to heaven, which means, you know, Jesus will take, sorry, the Holy Spirit will take what Jesus is speaking and he will speak it to us. So he will reveal it to us. He will make it known to us. So the Holy Spirit will do that for each one of us. And he will also show us things to come, which means he will show us things that are to come ahead of time. So how wonderful it is for you and I to know that, you know, the Holy Spirit reveals to us things that are going to happen in our life. What is going to happen five years down the line, what is happening 10 years down the line, you know, or two years or one year so that we can prepare ourselves for that. And that is so wonderful. Yes, get through. Do you have your hand, you have your hand up, you have a question? Yes, sister. I just wanted to ask now, because in the Olden Testament, David, he inquired of the Lord. But now in New Testament, do we need to inquire because we have the Holy Spirit given to us? Yes, we still need to inquire. We still need to ask. And when that is why we said that, you know, God is the first chapter, God is willing to guide us. But we need to seek. We need to listen and we need to obey. So God is willing to reveal things, but we need to ask why does God want us to ask why does he now just reveal and just give us a download when we're going through a problem and situation because God has given us the free moral will to choose. Okay, we can choose. We can either choose to listen to man, our own voice, what we can what we think we can do, or we can listen to God. So, you know, God wants us to exercise that moral free moral will that he's given us to choose. And so when we come to him and ask, he does reveal it to us. Yes. Thank you, sister. Yeah. So how wonderful it is that, you know, the Holy Spirit will reveal to us ahead of time what is going to happen in our lives. And Jesus said that the Holy Spirit will show you things to come. He will do that for you. So all we need to do is to open our hearts and say God, or we need to just say Jesus, you know, I want to experience this. I want to experience, you know, how you reveal things, how I can walk in it, how you can reveal things about my future. I just want to experience this. I want to walk in this in my life. You know, just I'm opening my heart and mind to receive it. Look at what first Corinthians chapter two, versus nine to 16 says, can somebody read that please. First Corinthians to 960. But as it is written, I has not seen no your heart nor have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love him. But God has revealed them to us through his spirit for the spirit searches all things. Yes, the deep things of God. Yeah, you can go ahead. Till was 16. For what man knows the things of man except the spirit of man, which is in him, even so no one knows the things of God, except the spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but to wish the Holy Spirit teacher, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. But he who spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one for who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ. Amen. Thank you sister get through it. So there are these wonderful things that God has prepared for you and me as believers and as also as individuals, and there are wonderful things that God has prepared. It's already planned. He's already planned these things ahead of time. But now, you know, how are you and I going to get to know these things that God has prepared for us. So in verse 10 he says, but God has revealed them to us through his spirit, for the spirit searches all things. He has the deep things of God. So you see, God has prepared these nice things for you and me, and he is not saying, well, I got some nice good things for you, but I'm going to let you know what it is, or I'm not going to let you know what it is. And that, you know, there is no point in that. But he says that he has revealed them to us by his spirit. So the Holy Spirit wants to come and reveal these things to you and me. And, you know, verse 11 he says, you know, for who has known the things of man except the spirit of man, the spirit of God. Now we have not a spirit of the world, but the spirit was that is from God that we might know the things that has been given to us freely by God. So what Paul is saying is, is the Holy Spirit who knows all these things, and the Holy Spirit has been given to us for what purpose is the Holy Spirit has been given to us for a purpose that we can know the things that have been freely given to us by God. So does God want you to know the things he's really given to you and me? Yes, he does. And the Holy Spirit has been given to us so that you and I can know the things that has been freely given to us because God wants us to know. So you don't have to go and ask somebody else. The Holy Spirit is in you. He's going to talk to you. He's going to reveal it to you. He's going to let you know the things that you know has been freely given to you by God. Okay. So what's his 13 and 14 we see that, you know, says when these things, these things we also speak not in words with man's wisdom, teachers, but with the Holy Spirit teachers, comparing spiritual things with spiritual or the natural man does not perceive the things of the spirit of God for their foolishness unto him. Now, can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. So when we talk about these things, the natural man finds it hard to understand. Okay. So what do we learn from it? We don't look at things from the natural mind because it says these things need to be spiritually discerned, which means we require the wisdom and the spiritual understanding to discern these things to understand these things. So we need to look at them with the natural mind. Okay. And then he says in what goes on to talk about versus 15 and 16. He says, but who, but who he was, sorry, versus 15 and 16 says, but he was spiritual judges, all things yet he himself is rightly judged by no one who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ. So in this whole process, because the Holy Spirit is revealing things to you, the end result is that you and I have the mind of Christ. That means we know what God is saying. We know what he is thinking because we receive his mind and his mind has been given to us or revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. So as a believer, you can know the mind of Christ. You know, we can know God's thoughts. We can receive his ideas. We can understand his plans. We can understand his ways. Why? Because we have the mind of Christ. So we need to say this often to ourselves. We can need to reiterate this often to ourselves. We need to tell ourselves, you know, because I have the mind of Christ, I know the thoughts of God. I can receive his ideas. I can understand his plans. I can understand his ways because I have the mind of Christ. So keep saying this to yourself, you know, I know the thoughts of God. I receive his ideas. I understand his plans. I understand his ways because I have the mind of Christ. Okay. Now, when you're about to make a decision, you know, and you need to know what to do. You can go back to God's Word because God's Word is the truth and the Holy Spirit will also reveal the mind of Christ to you and to me. So in this whole process of the Holy Spirit speaking to us, there are several ways in which he would speak to us. So there's several ways in which the Holy Spirit will speak to us. He will speak to us to the inner witness or to the voice of the Holy Spirit. So let's look at the different ways that the Holy Spirit will speak to us. The first one is to the inner witness and the voice of the Holy Spirit. Let's look at Romans chapter 8 verses 14 and 16. So can somebody please read Romans chapter 8 verses 14 and 16, please. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God, for you did not receive the Spirit of bondage again to fear, but you receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father. The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. So it says here as many as are led by the Spirit, they are the sons of God, or you can say it like this, every child of God, every son and daughter of God has the privilege of being led by the Holy Spirit. So you can ask yourself who is leading me, or what is driving me, or what is motivating me. Is it the Holy Spirit who is leading you, who is guiding you, who is motivating you, or it is the world, or it is people who are leading you, guiding you and motivating you. And then in verse 15 he says, you know, we have received the Spirit of adoption. So the Holy Spirit is a spirit of adoption, which means how do we know that we are the children of God. It's because what is mentioned in verse 16, it says the Holy Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. So how do you know that you are a son or daughter of God? How do you know that you're a child of God? You know, did you get a heavenly birth certificate? No, you did not get a heavenly birth certificate. So how do you know that you are a child of God, a son or daughter of God? Because what the verse 16 says, the Holy Spirit bears, which means the Holy Spirit testifies, the Holy Spirit affirms. He's giving us the assurance. He's giving us a confirmation inside us. And, you know, and we read this in the scripture and says, you know, that we are the children of God. So from this passage, we understand that the inner witness of the Holy Spirit confirms and leads us. Or the Holy Spirit by his inner witness confirms and leads us in the way that we need to go. So what is this inner witness? This inner witness is actually an inner conviction. It's an inner knowing. It's an inner assurance that the Holy Spirit places inside of us. It can come through an impression. It can come through feelings. It can come through sensations that the Holy Spirit puts in us. And it's an inner witness, something in your spirit that you sense that comes from the Holy Spirit. You can't explain it, but you just know, you know, you just can sense. You can just feel and you know it is nothing but or no one else but God, the Holy Spirit. So it's, it just comes into a spirit man to the Holy Spirit and he's bearing witness in your spirit. He's giving you that conviction, that confirmation, the assurance by giving you an impression. And you know, and he's giving you the feelings and the sensation in your spirit. So to help us understand the inner witness of the Holy Spirit, there are eight common ways by which you can, you and I can receive the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. So just to help us understand the inner witness, the Holy Spirit, there are eight ways that are listed here. You know, the first one is to the quickening of scripture. The second one is the assurance within. The third one is the desire within. The fourth is the knowing within. The fifth is the prompting within. The sixth is the stirring within. The seventh is the foreknowledge within and the eighth one is the warning within us. So we look at each of these in detail to help us understand how the Holy Spirit bears inner witness in our spirit man. The first one is the quickening of scripture. I'm not going to explain this because I just explained this in the previous lesson just before we went for our break. So, you know, the different ways the Holy Spirit quickens us to scripture. So Reba word passage, a word just leaps out at us to a familiar passage to the, you know, to the word that is preached. You know, so the Holy Spirit can, you know, quicken scripture to us. The second way is it can come through an assurance within. It can come through an assurance within, a desire within, you know, or it's a knowing within or it's a prompting or, you know, different ways that the Holy Spirit can minister to us. And we need to be aware of these things and we need to pay attention, know and also have a sensitive heart. You know, being a heart that is sensitive to the spirit being sensitive to what the Lord is speaking to us, what God is putting in our spirit man. And then when we begin to pick up this inner witness, you know, then we are led by the Holy Spirit. Okay. If we have receiving no witness in our spirit man, that means the Holy Spirit is not speaking to us. Maybe we need to continue with what he's asking us to do or he's revealed to us already till he reveals to us the next step. Okay. So the first way that we know the Holy Spirit bears inner witness is through the quickening of scripture that we already saw. The second one is with the assurance within and this assurance within comes through the peace of God. It's primarily the peace of God. So when you are praying about something, you know, when you sense the peace of God, it's basically God saying, okay, go ahead, you know, take on or engage in that or contact that person or go ahead with that person. You know, so it's just a signal that gives us that we can, you know, we can go ahead. So the peace of God, you know, works in us in several multiple purposes. We see this in Philippians chapter 4 verse 6 and 7. Can somebody read that please? Philippians chapter 4 verses 6 and 7. Amen. Thank you. So here we see that, you know, God's peace protects our hearts and our minds. So once you're going through something, you've released your cares to Lord, the peace of God guards your heart and mind. And so when there are other institutions that will come in and disturb, you know, will try to disturb your heart and mind, the peace of God will guard it and you can walk in peace, which means you know that, you know, God is guarding you, protecting you, he's there with you, he's assuring you, he's also leading you and guiding you. Okay. But the peace of God can also serve another very important purpose in our lives. And we read about this in Colossians chapter 3 verse 15. Can somebody read that please? And let peace of God rule in your hearts to which also you were called in one body and be thankful. It says that the peace of God rule in your hearts. The word rule here in Greek means to be an empire. Okay. Basically, it means to decide to determine to direct to control and to govern. So this peace of God in your heart serves to guide you. It serves to, you know, to direct you to control your action. It means if there is a peace of God, it's the peace of God is like an empire. It's like a deciding factor in your heart. So, you know, when you're trying to pray about some situation and asking God to lead you, guide you, show you the way, or it is the right thing for you to do, then you will sense peace in your heart. So when you sense peace in your heart, it's basically the peace of God is like the empire. It's telling you, hey, go ahead, can do it, you know, engage in that, start that, okay, go to that place, speak to that person. But if you don't sense the peace of God in your heart, there's restlessness, there's anxiety that's worried and God is basically telling you, hey, don't go there, you know, don't involve with that person. This is not the right thing. This is not the right door. This is not what I have planned for you. Okay. So the Bible says that peace, joy are the fruits of the spirit. So if there is peace, the Holy Spirit is releasing that peace in your heart, you know, that the presence of peace is like the green signal. You can go ahead, you know, you can do what God is asking you to do. The presence of peace and joy is like the green signal is asking you to go ahead. But if you feel restless, disturbed, uneasy, and there's absence of peace about the thing that you're going to do, then it's like the red signal that's telling you don't do it. Okay. Now the third way that God leads us is through the desire within. Okay. Let's read Psalm chapter 37 verse four, please. Can somebody read Psalm 37 verse four. Delight yourself also in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your art. Amen. Thank you, Lucy. It says the word give here in the Hebrew is very interesting because it's a very broad word and one part of that word, you know, the meaning of that word means, you know, He will put. Okay. Or He will form or He will create in you. So He will put it in you. So when you delight yourself in the Lord, He will put those desires in your heart. And it also means that He will bring it to you. So not only does He put those desires in you, but He will also bring those desires to you. That means He will give you the desires. So the point here, and I want you to understand is that as God's people, when we live in this posture on the way of delighting ourselves in God, then the desires that are created in your heart are actually put there by God. So just like you said, your conscience and you, you know, you feed your conscience with God's word, then your conscience becomes a reliable guide. You know, you don't have to wonder, hey, am I doing the right thing? Is this what God wants me to do? Is it right? You know, you don't... Son, but if you're somebody also who's in that right posture where saying, God, I wanted to delight myself in you, then, you know, the desires that are created in your heart automatically, you know, is being put there by God. Because we looked at this Hebrew word, which, give, which means part of it means that God will put it in you. He'll form it new. He will create in you. It also means that He will bring it to you. Okay. So when you delight yourself in the Lord in the right posture, then, you know, the desires are put there by God. You don't have to be afraid of those desires or what comes up in your spirit. You know, and when I'm talking about desires, I'm not talking about emotions. You know, your emotions could desire some things. You know, your emotions could desire that you, you know, you eat all kinds of food. You know, your emotions can desire for good food, for rich food and all of that. But I'm not talking about that kind of desire, but I'm talking about what is in your spirit, that when you delight yourself in God, the desires that are birthed in your spirit are actually put there by God. Okay. So look at how the scripture in Proverbs chapter 10 verse 24 says, can somebody read that, please? Proverbs chapter 10 verse 24. Word of the vacant will come upon him. Yes, it says that the fear of the wicked will come upon him and the desires of the righteous will be granted. Okay. Why does God tell us so surely that the desires of the righteous will be granted because he knows that you delight yourself in the Lord and those desires in your heart have been put there by God and it will be granted because it has been put there by God himself. Can somebody please read John chapter 15 verse 7, please? If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire and it shall be done for you. Amen. Thank you. So it says, you know, you ask what you desire and be given to you. So here there's a precondition. What is the precondition that your desires would be given to you? Abide in God's word. Yes. You need to abide in him and his words abide in you. When you abide in Christ and his words abide in you, then whatever you desire, you know, and you go for it, you know, God will provide for you. He will, he will grant it to you. So here's the thing. As you and I abide in God, the Holy Spirit birds those desires inside you and you just go with it. Okay. So that is about desires. I'll just give you an example. You know, for my own life, you know, when I was very young, I didn't know I'll be in full time ministry, but you know, I love teaching. So even when I was in school during summer holidays, you know, I like to conduct VBS at home for my other two siblings, you know, my older sister and my younger sister. So I would invite them for VBS that I would conduct for them at home. We had one at church, but this is what I would like to do at home. So I would, you know, get a room cleaned up and I would arrange everything. I would tell them I would give them good snacks to eat. And I also go to the pastor and I would, you know, get the scripture references on on those topics and I would prepare those topics and I would ask them to come and teach. And I would do all of these things with great enthusiasm, just as a child. And I never realized that, you know, for the rest of my life, this is what I will be doing in children's ministry, you know, conducting VBS and programs and, you know, writing curriculums for children. And so you see, this is a desire that was there within. It was birthed by God and I can just, you know, see God doing that, you know, so many years later of my life and pastor has also given a couple of examples. So, you know, you can read that and you can understand how to know the desires within. So I want to encourage, you know, us as believers that desires that are birthed in you, you know, that are birthed by the Holy Spirit, by God to do things for the kingdom of God and for the purpose of God and for the glory of God. And they are put there by the Holy Spirit to stir up those desires in your heart that are there, you know, that are in you to do things for the kingdom of God for his purpose and for his glory. That has been put there by the Holy Spirit. So it's the inner witness of the Holy Spirit that is leading you by creating those desires in your heart. Okay. So the next way that we can receive the inner witness, the Holy Spirit, the fourth way is a knowing within. Okay. You just know within your heart. Can somebody read Acts chapter seven versus 23 and 24, please. Now, when he was 40 years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel, and seeing one of them suffer wrong. He defended and avenged him who was oppressed and stuck down the Egyptian for he supports that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand. Amen. Thank you. So here is something that, you know, we can recognize 40 years before Moses saw the burning bush, he had already understood the call of God on his life. So many of many people think that Moses received the call when he was, you know, standing there the burning bush. That's not true. But it says in scripture that 40 years before the burning bush, Moses understood the call of God. How did he understand the call of God? It says very plainly here that was read to us. It came into his heart. It just came into his heart and he understood that God was going to raise him up to deliver the people. So he understood his calling. How did he understood his calling? It just came into his heart. It was a knowing inside him. So the burning bush was just a wake up for him. It was that God telling him, Hey, Moses, I told you 40 years ago, you've forgotten. So, you know, the Holy Spirit to the inner witness creates a knowing inside you. You just know and it comes into your heart by the inner witness, the Holy Spirit of the plans, the purposes, the directions that God wants you to take. Okay. So I see something as significant as Moses, you know, how his life assignment first came through him, not through angels, not through prophetic word, not through dreams, not even to the burning bush. It just simply came by a knowing inside. And that is how the Holy Spirit creates that in you and me. Okay. So if you want to know more about a knowing within, you know, you can just read a couple of two of pastors examples that he's given. Even for me, how did I know that God wanted me to go to Bible college is, you know, when I was praying, God called me and I just knew that this is God's voice. This is, I just knew clearly, I had no doubts, no questions, whether it's God speaking to me. And I just knew in my heart that God, yes, God wants me to go to Bible college. He is leading me to Bible college. And that is what, you know, a stand that I took for myself in life also knowing within, you know, I wanted to work with drug addicts and alcoholics, you know, counseling them. But God led me in various stages of my life to do children's ministry. And I just suddenly knew inside me that it is not working with drug addicts and alcoholics. It's not counseling them, but it is working with children. So through different, of course, different events that God orchestrated, I just, you know, had this knowing inside. And I just followed what God was asking me to do. Okay, we'll stop here. We'll continue with the rest of them in the next class. Anyone has any questions? If you read pastors examples, life examples, they're more elaborate will help you to it. Understand. We look at 5678 next class and you'll be able to understand how the Holy Spirit best witness in our spirit man. Any questions? Anyone please? No questions. Okay, if there are no questions, we'll end class. Thank you everyone for joining class today. I hope you learned something. Please put into practice what we've been learning. Even as we study this publications have a wonderful restful refreshing weekend and I will see you next week. Thank you everyone.