 So we will begin with prayer as always. How about Jeffina? Jeffina would you be able to lead us in prayer today? Okay, not sure about the connectivity. Okay brother Abish, can you lead us? Ma'am, I am riding bike. Okay, no problem. No problem. Yeah, that's okay. Fine, fine, fine. No problem. Okay, I'll just leave it open. I think when I pick names, it's not working somehow. So I'll leave it open. Anyone? Father, we thank you for this time. We humble ourselves before your presence once again. We pray even as we continue to learn in your world. Lord, help us to focus, help us to listen, help us to understand and help us to apply this in our life for God. We pray that you will open the eyes of our understanding that we will be able to see the mysteries of your will. Help us to Nancy to deliver your word and help us to follow it. Lord Jesus, do work. You praise your Lord. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you John. Thank you for praying. So, so far we have touched on praying for our family. And we also saw there can be some special situations where we are persevering. It could be a matter of sickness or it could be a matter of someone going away from God. And in those instances, we provide that or we end your end your and we wait on the Lord. So today we will learn about how to pray for other believers and this is something we see in scripture. So we can use that as a pattern and a model in our prayer times. So in Ephesians 6 verses 18 and 19, we are told that we must pray all kinds of prayers. Shall we read that passage class? I think today we will probably read more scriptures. I want you all to be ready to turn to the passages and read it out aloud because it's good to look at those passages and understand it. So Ephesians 6 verses 18 and 19, one person can please read that. And then after that, Luke 22 verses 31 and 32. So first Ephesians 6 verses 18 and 19. Could someone read that please? Ephesians 6 verses 18 and 19 and pray in the spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord's people. Pray also for me that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel. So clearly we see there that we are told to pray for all the saints. So all kinds of prayers are to be made, also intercession to be made for the people of God. But the important part here is that we must pray for other believers. Prayers are not just for us and our family alone, but we must pray for other believers. And also, Nepal is asking the believers to pray for him because he's also in the kingdom of God, but at the same time he's a minister of the gospel. So, intercessory prayer. That is an opportunity which we have, it's a privilege which we have. And as we pray for people, we see God's protection on their lives. We see God working in their lives. We see the works of Satan cancel in the lives of the people. If you recall yesterday, I talked about Acts chapter 12 where Peter was imprisoned and yet God had a way of bringing him out when the believers gathered together and prayed for him. So it's a weapon. We engage in prayer and God is able to destroy the plans of Satan against other believers. So in all these ways we can actually minister to them. So intercession is very, very important and key and we must never forget to pray for others who are in the body of Christ. And we do understand that others who are in the kingdom of God, here in this passage it says, pray always for all saints. So who are the saints? The saints are those who have been sanctified and justified by God. Every child of God who is born again and in Christ Jesus, they too are positioned as saints. So we are called to pray for them. How often? It says always. So we must make it a point to pray for other believers and we will also touch on praying for ministers of God towards the end of today's session. But we do include ministers of God as well. So let's quickly look at Luke 22 verses 31 and 32 please. So someone else, if you can read Luke 22 verses 31 and 32, that will be good. Simon, the whole Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat. But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And you, when once you have turned the game, strengthen your brothers. Yes, thank you John. So here we see, again going back to the example of Jesus. Jesus himself is praying for the disciples. So he is praying for those who believe in him. So he is praying for the believers. And you know, when he himself is giving us this pattern, we also ought to pray for others. And we have already seen from the previous passage here that we must pray. We must intercede for other believers and that we must pray always for other believers. And one of the reasons and in this case, you know, Jesus, when he prays for Peter, it's a prayer for protection. It's a prayer for re-aligning Peter. And Jesus knew that, you know, Peter is going to go through an adverse situation in his life. You know, obviously, when Peter, along with the other disciples, they saw that Jesus who had promised to, you know, they probably, even though Jesus told them many times that he's going to die, he's going to face a very difficult death. I don't know how much of that they understood because they probably thought that here is the king of the Jews. You know, very soon we will probably have a government established by Jesus. But when things started to move in the direction of Jesus going to the cross, they were disappointed. They were so disappointed and confused to the fact that, you know, Jesus was, sorry, the disciples and particularly Peter. Particularly Peter, he denies Jesus and Jesus knows about this. So, when Jesus knows about an adverse situation that Peter is going to go through, what does Jesus do for him? Pray. Okay, now we can look at other believers in our lives and maybe right now they are going through something challenging that is shaking their faith. Or we know that, okay, as they go through the journey, there is going to be something coming up where they will face difficulties and that can rock their boat. We like Jesus. We can cover them in prayer. And here Jesus says, okay, I'm praying for you Peter because, you know, so that your faith will not fail. Meaning, I want you to stay on the track till the end. I want you to finish the race and that is the reason Jesus is praying. So, what does Jesus really use in a sense to help Peter stay on track prayers? Today, as we pray, we pray for other believers, even if they are going through a challenging situation, our prayers will help them. So, pray for the saints, pray always, pray especially when they are going through a tough situation. Let's continue to look at, you know, pray for other believers. So, what are all the aspects which we can cover when we pray for other believers? There are certain things that we can touch upon. So, 2 Corinthians chapter 13 and verse 7. Again, I would like somebody to read that. 2 Corinthians 13 and verse 7. Someone else, please. We'll have to be a little fast. Otherwise, yeah. Yes. Beers all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things. 1 Corinthians 13, 7. 2 Corinthians. You would need to read 2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians. Okay, Yusuf. Yeah. Now I pray that God, that you do no evil. Not that we should appear approved, but that you should do what is honorable, though we may see disqualified. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for that. And what Paul is saying is that, you know, he is, he's saying that the believers, that they should not do evil, that they should continue to stand. Okay. In the midst of, and we know at the time, there was deception, there was, you know, wrong teachings that could draw people into, draw people away from God. So, he wanted them to continue in the faith. Okay. And just the way Jesus prayed for Peter and said, I want you to continue in the faith. Paul is also encouraging the believers that they must continue in the faith. So what is one requirement on the part of the believers to continue in the faith for them to not give up, right? For them to finish the race, the way Paul said, you know, I have fought a good fight. I finished the race. So when we pray for our brothers and sisters, and we pray for those who are in Christ, we can pray and say, Lord, you know, we pray that their faith will stand. We pray that they will not, you know, be moved by any, anything that can deceive them. That Lord, their faith will be firm. Okay. That things like that. So basically that they remain on track and that is one of the prayer requests which we can have for the believers. You know, whenever we see them and they are serving God so beautifully, so well, we are encouraged by that. But when we pray for them, excuse me, we can pray that God will keep them, you know, fervent. God will keep them passionate always and that they will never move from that. So pray that they will not fall. Pray that they will never give into evil or deception. So that is one prayer request which we can pray for them. Now, you can also pray for them that Christ be formed in them. And we've already looked at this scripture earlier, Galatians 419. Paul says, you know, I labor in the birth pans, right? When we talked about travailing, we said that Christ be formed in you. So another prayer point which we can pray is that God let the believer become more and more like Jesus or let Christ's likeness come through in the life of the believer. So that is another prayer which we can pray for the believers, the nature of Christ to be revealed through them. The third one which we will pray is the way Paul prayed for the Ephesian church. In Ephesians chapter 1, he says Ephesians 1 verses 16 through 19, he says that, you know, may the Lord give you that revelation, let him give you a revelation knowledge to know more about God and to know the riches that God has already given to us. So we can pray the same thing for our believers that God, you give everyone Lord this understanding of who you are. What is the love that you have for us? What are the blessings that this love has given us? I think it's a good passage for us to read. So Ephesians 1 verses 16 through 19. And the person, if you can please turn to it and read that passage, it will be helpful. Ephesians 1, 16 through 19. Do not cease to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. The eyes of your understanding being in 19 that you may know. What is the hope of his calling? What are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the sense? Yeah. And what is the exit? Yes. Go ahead. Okay. And what is the accident greatness of his power toward us who believe according to the working of his mighty power, which you work in Christ when he received from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places. Yeah. Thank you. So you see that the prayer which Paul has is that the believer will have the knowledge that this is who God is. This is how God loves and this is what God has done. And this is the kind of overcoming life that I can have. And I can exercise the authority and the dominion that God has given me. So we must pray that God you give this revelation to us and every believer. Even when we prayed for the family, we said that we will pray that our family members will understand who they are and that they will grow spiritually in what God has called them to do. And the same way we are praying for other believers. Okay. We can also pray that the believer will be fruitful and will develop in spiritual strength. There are a couple of passages that we can touch on. But let us look at Colossians 1 verses 3. Can somebody turn to Colossians 1? Verse 3. Yeah. Actually it's kind of long but you just read till verse 8. I think it's sufficient. Yeah. Sorry. Colossians chapter 1 verse 3 onwards. One second. One second John. Yeah. Colossians chapter 1 verses 3 to 8. All right. We give thanks to God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Praying always for you since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and the love which you have for all saints. Because of the hope laid up for you in heaven of which you previously heard in the world of truth the gospel which has come to you. Just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing even as it has been doing for you since also the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth. Just as you learned it from Epaphrys our beloved fellow born servant who is a faithful servant of Christ on our behalf and he also informed us of your love in the spirit. Yeah. Okay. Thank you John. Thank you for that. So basically he's exerting the Colossians a fall when he writes and I told you earlier that Epaphrys was his contact. So he had never actually gone to Colossae to meet the believers but he's saying that you know you're all doing well and you're being fruitful and you know the example of our brother Epaphrys. And then you know he continues to speak to them the same way he told Ephesians that you know you would grow in your knowledge you would grow in your understanding of who God is. I'll quickly read verse 10 over there and he says that you may walk worthy of the Lord fully pleasing him being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Okay. So he wants the Colossian church to continually be knowing God and living a life which is pleasing to God living a life which is fruitful to God and then you know he continues to say that they may be strengthened and all of that. So that's the kind of prayer which Paul has for the Colossians. So he said increase in the knowledge of God have a revelation of you know who God is who we are and you know our overcoming life and also we can add to that and say that the believer be fruitful. The believer have a life which is pleasing to God. The believer be strengthened spiritually. These are additional points that we can continue to pray for the believer. So overall what have we looked at till now? So we are saying you must pray for the believers at all times and especially for protection over the believers in their adverse situations and here are the things we will touch on that they should continue in the journey they should not be deceived. The Christ likeness be seen in them that they will have the knowledge, the revelation of who God is, who they are and also that they be strengthened that they be fruitful in the work which God has called them to do. Okay. Now let's continue. A few more passages in the Bible which help us to pray for other believers. Colossians 412. So yeah. Okay. Anybody can read it even if it's a repetition. If you read once it's okay. Read again. Colossians 412. Epiphras who is one of your members born slave of Jesus Christ sends you these greetings always laboring earnestly to you in his prayers that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God. Yes. Thank you. Thank you John. So you see that what is another point to touch on that the believer may be complete in all the will of God. So whatever God has called us to do a purpose basically it means a purpose that we will fulfill God's purpose for our lives. Okay. That's a prayer which we can pray for our brothers and sisters. And then you know the last point which we can touch upon is as Paul prays for the Thessalonians. He says that whatever is lacking in your faith that that will be made perfected. So these are all things that we could take in general and pray for any believer. Now suppose you know God is reminding you of a certain brother in church or a certain sister in church and you're wondering. Hey, I don't even know this person but what do I pray for them. You can actually pray for all these matters that they will fulfill God's purpose. I know that they will be strong in the faith that they will be fruitful. Right. And all of that you can just pray in general over them. So these are good prayers and these are also prayers which you can kind of I know of people who pull out these passages. Especially the passage here on Ephesians 1 verses 16 through 19. They pray it very regularly. You can even just read through. You can read through that as you pray for people. Or another passage is another verses, Colossians 110. You can pick that verse up. You can read it. Even as you read it, as it says that you be fruitful in every good work. Lord, we pray that our brothers and sisters or every believer in our church, they will be fruitful in every good work. That they be pleasing unto the Lord. Lord, we pray that they be pleasing unto you. So we can just pull out even the word by word in these passages. Beautiful prayers. These are all wonderful prayers. Just pull it out, spend time, declare it over your church family and you can pray. So some general things to cover. Now God may very specifically show certain individuals to us. And so we can pray for them. Even when Paul ministered, we find that he kind of focuses his prayers on some of his coworkers. He prays for Timothy at one point. I pray for you Timothy. He prays for Philemon. So specific individuals. We can pray for the church at large, these common points. Now specifically for certain individuals, God might put a couple of things on our hearts and say, Okay, this brother, why don't you pray for his ministry? Why don't you pray that he will have more of God's grace in his ministry? Then you go ahead and pray more specifically for that particular need. Now there are a lot of people that we know personally in the church and we also know their needs. So we can focus in on those needs as well. Maybe there are young people that we are working with. They still don't know what is God's plan for their lives. So we can pray and say, God, we ask that you would reveal to them which is the area that they must invest in. That you will open the doors for them to move in that direction. We pray for your favor. We pray for the right people to come in contact with them so on and so forth. We are specifically guiding them into the purposes of God for their lives. So depending on the specific needs of the people we can pray. So we have the general prayer and then we have the specific prayers which we will cover and uphold believers. Now we can also consider some of the needs that the believers may have, one is healing. And we are encouraged in God's word. In James chapter 5 we have seen it so often verses 13-16 where we are told that the prayer of faith. So we pray the prayer of faith over the sick person and that heals that individual. So we can pray for healing when they are in need of healing. One John chapter 5 verses 14-16 that talks about a person who is in sin. They have gone astray. So we can pray for such an individual to repent and to come back to God. So when we know of such believers around us it is our responsibility to pray for them. So we pray repentance over them. We pray that say God turned them back, bring them back to yourself. So this is an area of need when believers have wandered away from God. We can pray that they repent. We can also pray for those who have blessed us materially. So somebody who has provided for us, somebody who has given us in our times of need. We can pray that God will bless them back in return. So that's also something that we can do. We can pray for not just individuals but also communities of believers to mature in the Lord, to become complete or they are walking in the purposes of God for their lives. So they would do that and that every need of the believers may be met. So these are all ways in which we could pray for the believers. When we look at the way Paul prayed for the believers, many of these passages are from Paul's writings only. So these were all his concerns, the spiritual maturity of the people, the fruitfulness of the people, them fulfilling God's purpose for their lives, them walking strong with God throughout. So he was passionate about all these things. In fact, his passion was so great and also we must remember that he had an apostolic calling. So he prayed in a very, I don't know what word to use but a strong way for the churches. So in 2 Corinthians chapter 11 verses 28 through 29, Paul he says, Besides the other things, what comes upon me daily, my deep concern for all the churches, who is weak and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble and I do not burn with indignation? So for Paul, as he thought about the believers, as he thought about the churches that he had planted, no, it was not just a matter of, you know, how we're saying, okay, let us pray for the family, let us pray for the other believers, let us pray for the city. It's like picking off a list, but it was much more than that for Paul. He was deeply concerned to the extent where, see how he's saying, he's saying, if somebody is weak, am I not weak? Who is made to stumble and I do not burn with anger or indignation? So he's saying that his concern was such that if anyone was struggling among the believers, he felt it deeply as an apostle. If anyone sinned, he kind of got angry about it. That, you know, how can you go away from the ways of God? So the passion that Paul carried for the believers is seen in these scriptures and no wonder we saw how he has written the things that he's praying for the believers. Very passionately he's praying for various aspects that concern the believers' lives, that concern the believing communities. So what are we saying? We're saying that it must be, when we pray for believers, it must be more than, okay, Ephesians chapter 6 verses 18 and 19, it says, you know, pray for all the saints. That's why I'm praying for the believers. That's all. There's no other reason. But the passion that Paul had, of course, he had an apostolic calling. So he felt deeply in that sense as well. But still, you know, as believers, we too can carry a concern and a, you know, if you could say, if you could say passion to see every believer in the body of Christ established, strong, serving God, being fruitful, you know, and thriving in God. So that kind of an attitude when we pray, it is a blessing for other believers. Now, we can also pray for ministers of God. In what we have read in that same passage, we saw how Paul says, pray for me. So is it okay for a minister of God, any capacity to ask for prayer? What do you think? Shouldn't the ministers pray for the believers? How can the ministers ask for prayer? Okay, if he says they need prayers. Yeah, sure. Yeah, how about the others? What are your thoughts on that? Pastors, leaders, should we pray for them? I mean, you know, God has called them as pastors. It should be fine. Okay, Lubega, we should all pray for each other. Okay, we should pray for each other. True. True. Pray for leadership? Okay. Yes, we must. And we've seen passages earlier, isn't it? Where we've been called to pray for leaders. We must bless our leaders. We must pray for our leaders. So yes, we are called to do that. And we must, you know, as people of God, we do remember our pastors and leaders. So what are the prayers that Paul is asking the believers? So he's asking them, oneness in Ephesians 619 he says, and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the Gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains, that in it, I may speak boldly as I ought to speak. So Paul is asking the believers to pray for boldness, to pray for clarity, clarity of thought, so that when he speaks, the mystery of God's kingdom can be understood by the people. So he's asking for prayer for this particular reason. Then in another place, Romans chapter 15, you know, he pray, he asks the believers to pray for his deliverance, verse 31, Romans 15, 31, that I may be delivered from those in Judea who do not believe and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints. So the opposing people that he will escape their hands and that whatever ministry he has to offer, and the saints will be happy to receive it or the believers will be happy to receive it. So those are the points that, you know, you can also pray for pastors and leaders that they will have boldness, they will know how to speak, to bring understanding that they will be protected from opposers, that they will be accepted by God's people wherever God positions them to minister. Now what else does he ask? Okay, again, he asks for deliverance. He, okay, this is in the passage, Philippians chapter 1, verses 19 through 21. So I will read the entire passage. It says, For I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the spirit of Jesus Christ. According to my earnest expectation and hope that in nothing I shall be ashamed. But with all boldness as always, so now also Christ will be magnified in my body whether by life or by death for to me to live as Christ and to die is gain. Okay, so when he's writing the book of the Philippines, we know that, you know, he was imprisoned and he was in a difficult situation. So he is definitely seeking deliverance, but at the same time, you know, whatever be the outcome, he wants God to be magnified, that God will be magnified through his body, whether by life or by death, he says. So he's asking the believers to remember him while he is in prison. So in this manner, you would find, you know, Paul requesting different things from various churches. So you have other passages as well that you can look up where Paul is inviting the believers to pray for him. So today, that's what we've looked at. We've looked at the fact that we can pray for believers. We can pray for believing communities as well as for ministers of God. So we've touched on a couple of things here, but you know, I will leave this time open for us to add to it. What else do you think we can pray either for believers or for pastors? Anything else you want to add to this list or is it already complete? Praying for those who are falling away. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I think we briefly touched on that. After the general prayers, we said maybe some need healing. Some who are bonded away, they need to repent. So yeah, we'll focus on them. Yeah. What else do believers need, together with me, apart from this list? Like the specific needs, right? Yeah. Something that they would be asking for prayers, specifically asking for prayers. Correct. Yeah. Depending on, like when you talk to them, you'll come to know what is that person's particular need and we could pray for that. But like, you know, believers, obviously they need resources. They might be in need of finances, right, or help. Like we've seen now recently the COVID season, there's so many believers. They were, people lost their jobs, people had somebody sick in their families. So they were in dire need, financial need. So that is also something we could pray for. We can declare God's permission over the lives of the people. So in that manner, I'm asking you, what else do you see as needs of believers? Okay. So how about we do this exercise, maybe wherever you are, okay, in your context. In your context, you can take some time and think about the believers that, you know, you are associated with. That could be, you know, the believers in your local church, the believers in your local church and some of the churches in your region. Okay, you know them quite well. What are their current needs? What are their current needs? And is it possible to make a prayer list? Where you write down, okay, I'm praying for point one, you know, for them to increase in the revelation, you know, the knowledge of God and all that. I'm praying for them to be complete in all the will of God. I'm praying for them to be fruitful. Then go on to more specific ones. I'm praying for them to be based on the situation of the believers. Is it possible for you to put down maybe three points, three specific points that are relevant to your own context? Is that possible, everyone? Can you list out three points? Yeah. Okay. Great. Great. Yeah, please do. So just write out three things. See, for example, maybe in your given region, you know that a lot of believers are going through persecution. Now that could be something, you know, the way Paul asked prayers for himself and said, you pray that, you know, I will be delivered from those who are opposing me. We can pray for the believers for God's protection because there is opposition, okay, which they are facing in that manner. So maybe persecution is something that you are observing in your region or you might be observing. On the other hand, you might be observing. You know, apathy or people are very relaxed. They are very, you know, chilled out, not passionate for God. So you might want to pray and say, okay, Lord, we pray that every you will awaken every heart by your spirit. Right. So that could be one of the points in your region. You might find people if they are walking passionately, you know, strongly with God, righteously. You might say, okay, Lord, we pray that they will continue to be strong in you, continue to follow you, continue to, you know, live a righteous life. But on the other hand, if we see that, oh, a lot of believers around us, they are stumbling, you know, there's something seems to be like a common sinful thing that people are getting into. We may want to pray against that. Right. So very specific to your own area. If you could just write down three points for the believers, I think that will be very good for us to sort of strengthen the believers with our prayer. Yeah. So let's do that activity. And you could write down. And how about, you know, we share that in class next class. I think that will be good. Not everyone, whoever is comfortable, a few of you, if you can read it out, I think that will help even the others understand. Okay. Great. Yeah. So anything with regard to praying for believers? Any other additional comments or questions that we can look at? Is this a common practice that you have? Any of you, you are practicing this already, praying for other believers? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, like, would you like to share more, Divya, how you do it? Maybe praying for specific needs, their specific needs, whatever they have shared, you know, the person needs for children. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Such things. Yes. Yeah. So, like, also, sometimes, you know, there would be a lot of people who would have invested in our lives, right, throughout college time. And so, yeah, whenever, you know, God puts that in our hearts, yeah, we do pray for them for the churches that we are part of the ministries or Bible study groups that we are part of. Yeah. We're not really, like, spending long times in those prayers, but yeah, we just pray about those, think about and pray about those things. Sure. Sure, Divya. Yeah. Thank you for sharing. And as I was sharing with us, you know, when we studied about scheduled prayers, how we allocate time, and in that we can use a pattern of prayer where, you know, we spend time in adoring God, worshipping God, then we present our needs to God. So the Lord's pattern or we said acts, that's another pattern that we can follow or be led by the spirit. In our everyday prayer times, we can have, you know, one portion of that time allocated for believers. So we can pray the general prayers. And as Paul prayed, he prayed for a Timothy, he prayed for a Philemon, he prayed for certain people. So we can also have names of people that maybe we are working with them in the church, right? We could be mentoring them and we really want to see God strengthen their hearts and their lives so we can take some time to pray for those individuals. And then as Divya said, regularly there are people who have personal needs, you know, some financial situation, marriage situation, children in some kind of need or whatever. So specific, more specific, we can do that. So every day, you know, I know this one particular auntie in my church who says, okay, this is the timing. She has a particular timing and she says, okay, at that time. So even whenever like I share something and I say, okay, I need prayers for this, she'll be like, okay, at this time, I'll be praying for you because that is her time to pray for believers and she has a list that she follows. And I just wanted to share with us, you know, there are two prayer groups that I engage in on a weekly basis. And on a weekly basis, we have a prayer list. In that prayer list, what we've done is we have written down some of these general prayers. So as far as I am concerned, I think for the last two, yeah, roughly two years. You know, these points which we are saying, right, pray for spiritual maturity, pray for spiritual growth. Regularly we are praying, same point we are praying. You know, now for two years at least I'm praying these points for my local church, for the believers that I know God, that they must grow in you, that they must mature in the things of God, they must be fully equipped, they must be fruitful, they must be well pleasing. So, you know, these are things that we are praying and it's there in our points. So there are the general points and then there are the more specific points where we pray for our church. We have written down these things. We want to see God move, we want to see God minister in this way and more specific points. In fact, that list has become very long because we've broken it down with regard to children. Okay, three or four points are there. Children, we pray for them to grow in the Lord, for them to desire God in the days of their youth, for them to, you know, not go astray and then we have put, specifically we have put certain things that, you know, they should not get addicted to gaming, they should not get addicted to this and that, they should make the right career choices. So we've broken it down. Marriage, you know, we pray for couples, we pray for couples who are seeking God for a child. We pray for couples. So it's all broken down into many such small things, people in financial need. So we kind of pray over this list regularly. We are praying and also both the groups, both the groups that I'm a part of, we've written it down. We've written it down and then we've broken down the points and every, in fact today, Friday, so we have a prayer chain. One prayer chain happens through the night. The other prayer chain is just in the evening time. You know, we take slots, so something like, okay, 8 o'clock to 8.30 and it's on WhatsApp because we can't meet in church, right, because of COVID. So it's on a WhatsApp group. So we kind of post there and we say, okay, take up whoever can sign up for each slot. Let us know. So then people sign up, something like 8 to 8.30, Divya, 8.30 to 9, John, 9 to 9.30, Nancy, 9.30 to 10, Isaac. So people sign up for it, okay. And we know who's praying, for which slot and for how long and the prayer list. So one person makes the prayer list and we send it. And that prayer list is prayed over week after week. And this isn't corporate prayer. I'm giving you an example of corporate prayer. But we could also have a list like this for our personal prayer. And it is really helpful where we are declaring your praying over other believers. We could also be praying over ministers of God. So as God puts different ministers, we write it down. Just bless them, okay. Life and death is in the power of our tongues. And as believers, we can bless. So even when you just say, Lord, I bless the believers in my church. I bless my pastor. I bless. What are you doing? You're releasing that spirit and life. Just releasing God's power over people's lives. And as who said that? Somebody said here, Lupega. Lupega said, we should all pray for each other. God has called us to pray for each other. And as believers, pray always for all the saints. So remember the saints. Carry them in your heart and keep blessing them. Pray for them. Pray for them as the Holy Spirit leads you. Okay. Isaac says, in this time of COVID-19, the love of God is growing cold in believers in our church. Some even stop coming to church. They're concerned or worried about finding money or material needs. Yeah. True. Isaac, yeah, challenging times. So one way in which you and I can minister is you pray for them. Okay. You can pray for them. That the way Jesus prayed, right? That your faith should not fail. And we can strengthen them through our prayers. And let's do that. So next class, let's begin by sharing our points, which we have written down for our own people. And then we'll continue into the rest of the class. Okay. All right, everyone. Let's close with this then. I'd just like to request one person to pray. Brother Abdesh, can you pray now? I thought you have stopped riding your bike. Yeah, yeah. I can pray. Okay. Yeah. You pray now. Lord Jesus, I came to you, Father. You are king of king. You are Lord of Lord. You are the Father and God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You are with the Paul. You are with the job. You are with the David and Solomon Lord. Lord Jesus, we are learning about the prayer and intercession, Lord. And Lord Jesus, you teach us how to pray to your disciple, Lord. That is why, Lord, we are coming to you, Father. How we pray and what about we can pray, Lord? Many scriptures are there in the Bible, Lord. In the John chapter 17, you pray for yourself and you pray for your disciple and you pray for all the billboards, Lord. Lord Jesus, I'm praying in this prayer and intercession class, Lord. What we learn, Lord, and what we are going to plan and what type of prayer we are going to pray, Lord. Please bless us and teach us, Lord, and help us to apply all the lecture and all the teaching we can apply in our life, Lord. Thank you for your blessing and thank you for your love, Lord. Thank you. Jesus, I'm praying this prayer in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, brother. Thank you, everybody. Thank you for joining the class today. Have a blessed weekend. We'll meet again next week. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Bye.