 Okay, good morning everyone and I'm so sorry for the delay. We were actually we entered into ministers foundation for the last semester course. I mean that happened last fall. We were wondering why things were not working and then we suddenly realized that we've entered into the fall, the last year's fall semester ministers foundation and so everything was just not working and anyway we finally figured it out. So we're so sorry for the delay. We'll begin class and just give me a minute. Okay, so welcome all our in-person students and our online students as well. I think there's Surya and Prabhu, Viku, Krisha, Gautami, so welcome and welcome to our in-person students as well. Okay, and we're going to be looking at BC 101 ministers foundation. Okay in this ministers foundation we're going to be looking at three APC publication, three APC publication books. The first one is fulfilling God's purpose for your life. The second one we look at God's guidance and the third one we'll be looking at is code of honor. We actually stopped publishing our APC publications but we will be soon resuming that. So all of you in-person students will receive a copy of it but then you can are you have access to the Google classroom? No? Okay then you can go to www.apcwo.org on your mobiles and you can look at the publications there and then you can open to fulfilling God's purpose for your life. Anyone needs help with that? To open it online? For those of you attending in the online classes in the Google classroom on the stream page I've already in the course material I have given you a PDF copy. I've already sent you a PDF copy last week of this book fulfilling God's purpose for your life. So it'll be nice if all of you could open your PDF copy and it would be nice if you could follow it. Okay, everyone's been able to access? Okay, do you need a phone? Okay, one minute. We'll share. Okay, thank you. Okay so before we begin can we just pause for a word of prayer? Let's pray. Heavenly Father we thank you God for another new day. We thank you for the good dreams that we've been able to enjoy these last few weeks and months. We thank you for your goodness and your faithfulness O God in our lives. We thank you that we can awaken, refreshing and strengthen to face another new day. We thank you because you are a God who opposes us with your righteous right hand. You're a God who leads us, a God who goes with us, your presence is with us God and we do not have to fear anything. We thank you for the opportunity that we have to learn from your word. We thank you for all our online students and our in-person students. We thank you for each one of them. We bless each one of them in your name, God even as they have pursued their calling in their life and they are here to equip themselves God for ministry. We pray that you would spirit of God, that you would minister to them, you would quicken their hearts, you would stir their hearts up, your word will come up, will fall upon their hearts and their minds in a very fresh way. They will receive fresh new revelations of your word. They will be equipped so that they can go out and preach and teach and minister your word effectively God. We thank you that you're a God who has a purpose and a plan for each one of us and your purposes and your plan for us are good and pleasing and perfect and we thank you for that God. We thank you that you reveal your plan and your purpose for us and even as we align ourselves, our wills, our heart to you God. We thank you that you're a God who reveals your will to us, your plan, you guide us, you lead us God and we pray that this course will transform our hearts and our minds, our understanding of how we need to be ministers of the word, how we need to live our lives so that we can minister effectively and be your representative here on earth. We thank you for hearing our prayer, we commit the rest of this time and this day into your hands in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Okay, online students if you are not able to follow me or you have any questions please feel free to you know type in in the chat section and I will answer your questions, your queries. If I'm too fast, if I'm too slow you can also you know put that in the chat section and if you did not understand anything please you know you can always ask me and I will you know explain that again. And for our in-person classes students please raise up your hand if you have any queries, any questions, if I'm too fast and you're not following you can you know raise your hand up and I can help okay. So let's look at fulfilling God's purpose for our life. Now from this heading fulfilling God's purpose for your life, what comes to your mind? What do you understand? Or what are your thoughts about what we'll be looking at in this book? Any thoughts you can type it in the chat section for those of you here you can answer. What is your expectation from this course Minister's Foundation? What comes to your mind when you look at this course Minister's Foundation? Finding out God's word for your life will for your life okay okay. What comes to your mind when you think of Minister's Foundation? There's Asha and okay yes. What comes to your mind when you when you when you saw the subject or when you now think of the subject Minister's Foundation? Laying basic biblical foundations and be strong in that so who's laying the biblical foundations? Okay we're learning from this book so who's going to be laying the foundation? The Holy Spirit okay and for whom? For us okay for each one of us thank you okay anyone else? What is your expectation from this course? It's always good to have some expectation you know otherwise just coming and sitting and maybe we'll kind of get very boring for you knowing more about God's truth you said yes okay okay one of our online students says learning how to be a good servant of God and recognizing and fulfilling God's calling on our life thank you Krisha. Surya says we can monitor everything in ministry and we can lead ministry in a great way yes thank you. Actually what is the basics for the Minister's Foundation? We all struggle with that finding God's will right you've come to Bible College now you've enrolled into this course or you're doing your Bible College course and you're wondering what next right which field or area God wants me to minister and sometimes we can go through this whole three years but we can come to the end of the three years and still wonder where is God leading me what is he wanting me to do that's a big question mark right but we just hope and pray that you know as we go through this course rather than just looking at these publications which is a course that you just have to go through maybe you can spend time asking God God reveal what is the next season or what is the next step in my life where are you leading me what do you want me to do do you want me to do first year only second year third year what is your plan and purpose and God does reveal his plan and purpose for our life Prabhu says knowing God's will thank you okay so let's look at this first book fulfilling God's purpose for our life okay now God is a God of plan purpose and he's a God of design he's a God of objectives okay God does not do anything randomly or arbitrarily that means he does not just think one day okay let me just do this okay or let me bring about this okay it's not that God is a God of plan he's a God of order he's a God who has planned everything even before the foundations of the world okay he's a God of purpose he's a God of design and he's a God of objectives okay God's plan is so profound that even before the foundations of the world you know he already had in mind or you know the word of God says that the Lamb of God was slain even before the foundations of the world which means that when God created everything perfect and when Adam and Eve sinned he did not say oh what do we do what is plan B right but the plan of redemption was already a plan a done completed accomplished thing in the heart and the mind of God that means even before God created the world even before Adam and Eve sinned the plan of redemption was already completed done thing in the mind of God because the Lamb of God was already slain even before the foundations of the world and so we know that our God is a God of order a God of purpose design plan he doesn't do anything arbitrarily okay how do we know this from God's word or if you look around in creation how do we know that God is a God of plan design God of purpose how do we know yes looking at the universe looking at the world looking at creation right there is order after the you know we have summer we have spring we have summer and then we have the monsoons and then we have winter and then back again so God doesn't say okay now you know too much of rains let me just bring about some you know some let me bring about winter no there is a particular sequence a particular order we know that the the sun comes out in the morning and it sets and then we have the moon and the stars so there is order and design in in creation as well so if you look at Psalms chapter 33 verse 11 can somebody read that yes yes yes he did yes he already knew that he's going they're going to do it God already knows who is you know if you look at the book of Romans if you read the book of Romans we see there that you know we kind of think that this whole theory of predestination God already knows or God chooses who will choose him it's not that it's not God is not a partial God okay he already knew before even you were formed in your mother's womb even before you came into this world he already knew what are the choices you're going to make see and so he already knew that Adam and Eve are going to sin and so he already had in mind the plan of redemption how he's going to bring it about and he already saw his son dying on the cross and you know fulfilling the whole plan of redemption it was already completed done thing in the mind of God and that is why he's God so you're saying you're asking why did then God create Adam and Eve when he already knew that his plan is going to go haywire well he already had a plan of redemption he already knew how he's going to save mankind but he is a God who has given us the free will to choose and that's why I said yesterday in our afternoon session that when God created us he created us in his image which means when he created us in his image he's not a partial God to withhold some things and give us some things okay he gave us when he created us in his image and his likeness which means he created us just like him which means that God is without sin he created us without sin God is holy he created us holy God never dies he created us never to die God has a mind he gave us a mind okay and God has a will and he gave us a will free will to choose and that is why he does not treat you and me like puppets you know he already knows some of the the wrong choices I'm going to make but he does not treat me like a puppet he lets me choose but he guides me what to choose but the choice is mine if I choose the wrong thing I suffer and I can't blame God for that okay so let's look at Psalm 33 verse 11 can somebody read that please yeah so here we see that you know God's plan is is something that stands through all generation okay what he has planned even before the foundations of the world is something that he brings about in time in history in the fullness of time in time in history and he works out his plan and we see this in creation act chapter 15 verse 18 can somebody read that yeah so from eternity means eternity past eternity future God knows everything that he is going to be doing he knows ahead of time what he is going to be doing Isaiah 46 10 can somebody read that please yes so here we see that God knows the end from the beginning he knows your destination even before you begin your journey and he knows how you know you can get there okay so God has a purpose for your life and no there is no greater purpose okay there is no greater purpose than living out God's purpose for your life there is no greater satisfaction than fulfilling God's purpose for your life and there is no greater adventure than walking according to his purpose I'll repeat that this is not in your notes I said God has a plan and a purpose for our life there is no greater purpose than to live out God's purpose for our life there is no greater satisfaction than fulfilling God's purpose for our life and there is no greater adventure than to walk according to his purpose okay so if you want to be satisfied in life what do you do you want to be satisfied in life if you want to be happy in life what do you do you fulfill God's purpose for your life okay if you want life to be adventurous that means exciting not boring mundane the same thing day in and day out if you want life to be an adventure exciting breathtaking extra you know things that you can explore what do you do you walk according to God's purpose right if you want to see the beauty of creation okay you walk your journey you go you see and you just are all with God's creation it's like a wonderful adventure you just enjoy it the same way you want to enjoy life each and every day the best thing to do is to walk according to God's plan and his purpose for your life now God has a master plan or a general purpose for all of us okay he has a general purpose and he has a specific purpose for each one of us so general purpose or a master plan you know what is that general purpose means which is inclusive of all of us all of mankind so God has a master plan or a general purpose which is inclusive for for all the whole world and also he has a specific plan and a purpose for each one of us so what is God's general purpose or what is his master plan what do you think is God's plan and purpose for mankind to be holy okay to love the Lord your God with all your heart soul mind and strength to abide in him okay thank you for the answers to live for him forever krisha says thank you krisha to know him okay you're close to worship him okay close to partake in his nature okay to have a relationship with God close okay very good to know that he died on the cross okay thank you for all your answers Surya says to be his son and daughter okay God's general purpose or his master plan is that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ okay so let's look at Ephesians chapter one verses nine to 12 Ephesians chapter one verses nine to 12 okay can somebody read that please okay thank you amen to that yes so there are a few things that we can important things that we can learn from this verse the first one is that God's will is not a God's will is not a mystery yes what's the meaning of mystery something that you have to find out something that is a mystery can also not just be something that you find out easily right it's a something that is very difficult and you'll have to follow through with clues and use your brain and and all of those things okay so God's will is not mysterious okay some people think that God does not reveal his will we don't know his will his will is mysterious no that's not right God's will is not mysterious he reveals his will okay and his will is according to his good pleasure okay that means God's will is good it is and happy will and it's something that he has purposed in himself he did not go and ask anyone else okay he purposed in himself what is the will that he wants to establish and that is one of the the natures of the or the attributes of God one of the natures of the attributes that makes God God is that he is sovereign okay that he has a will of course he's omnipotent what is omnipotent all powerful omniscient all knowing and omnipresent he's present everywhere but another characteristic that makes God God is that he is eternal and that he is sovereign sovereign means that he has a will and that he does what he has planned and purposed so he does not ask his plan and will to anyone else he does not go to anyone else but it is something that he purposes in his heart and it is something that God's will is something that he brings about in the fullness of time okay you can look at verse 10 it says he brings it about in the fullness of time fullness of time means what at the right time okay at the right time he brings it about and then we see that you know and he his plan is for everyone okay both which are in heaven and which are on earth that means his will his plan is for everyone and we also know from verse 11 that he has a purpose okay so God has a purpose so these are some of the few things that we can insights that we can gather from this verse and Ephesians chapter 3 verse 11 can somebody read that please thank you so God's plan and purpose is eternal what does it mean it's eternal everlasting and it's also it has no beginning has no end that means even before time began God already has had a plan and a purpose and he's unfolding his plan and purpose in history in time he's executing it here on earth okay so what is God's master plan or his general purpose 1st Timothy chapter 2 verses 3 and 4 can somebody read that please thank you so God's master plan or his general purpose is that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth okay so that is God's general plan or his purpose or his master plan now God also has a specific plan and a specific purpose and that specific plan and purpose is for each one of us okay look at Psalm 139 verse 16 we can gather something from Psalm 139 verse 16 so can somebody read that from the NKJV version and the message bible so there are two versions given there in in the publication one is from the NKJV the other one is from the message bible so can somebody read that please okay thank you so what do we gather from this same can somebody read from the message bible it's there in your in the web in the publication PDF so what do we gather from this what do we learn from this verse okay God knew you even before you were formed in your mother's womb even before you were born in this world even before you even took the first breath God knows you okay what does he know also about you what has he planned about even before you were created in your mother's womb okay even before you were formed in your mother's womb even before you came into this world you took your first breath God had plans for you that means even before the foundations of the world was laid even before Adam and Eve were created even before he separated light and darkness he had a specific plan and purpose for each one of you and all your days of your life were already before him he's seen everything that he would be doing even before you lived out those days isn't that exciting is it that wonderful okay just to know that even before we were formed God already had a plan and purpose for our life even before we took our first breath God has a plan and purpose for our life so what does it tell us about God all knowing okay he has an order he has a plan he's got a purpose plan design order okay what else does it tell you about this God yes he loves us so much he's so involved in our lives and we are so precious to him we are the VVVVVVVIPs you can say of this most high God that he's even thought about us even before we are born in this world you know sometimes we think when we go through life situations when it's very very difficult very very challenging we think where is God right we wonder if God really cares if God really sees if God really knows if God really understands but we need to know that he's already seen us going through this he already knows we are going through this he's already watched it and he's not somebody who stands there and you know he's saying okay suffer because you've not chosen my will or plan or purpose but he cries along with us his heart breaks you know and if you look at the word of God we see that you know God's heart is green his heart is sorrowful his heart is broken when he sees man and he's if you look at in the Old Testament he was wooing business lights back to himself like a mad lover running behind these adulterous stiff-necked rebellious people and that is God's love so anytime you think that you know nobody loves you cares for you and what's happening in my life everything seems to be going haywire you need to know that God has seen everything and he loves you he cares for you so precious that he has plans for you plans to prosper you plans with a hope and a future you know something that's good but we need to align ourselves to God's will and to his plan and then we can just receive his blessing and everything that flows out of it okay so even before you took your very first bread God has a blueprint he has a blueprint for your life you know what's a blueprint copy of your original actually the blueprint is what it's kind of the original it is the original like when you're building this building you know you have a blueprint where everything is shown there the windows will be the door will be the exit will be the stairs everything okay so it God has a blueprint for each one of your life and he has a dream for your life okay you might be having dreams for your life but this great wonderful God with millions of people living on this earth has a dream for your life I mean that really should blow your mind that should that you should really say an amen too right can you say amen to that amen okay so he created us for the purpose and he designed us to be able to fulfill not just our specific plan but through the specific plan that he has for each one of us God is actually accomplishing his master plan okay his greater purpose that he has which is that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ let's read Philippians chapter 3 verse 12 can we read Philippians 3 verse 12 anyone who is writing this Paul and who is who is he referring to here to the okay he's writing the church at yeah Philippi but who is he actually referring to talking to about here he's talking about himself right he's saying not that I've already attained or already perfected okay so what does it tell us what does this verse tell us God is not finished with what he is okay you're not finished with God's will for your life okay what do we understand from this not that I've already attained or already perfected we don't have to be perfect to do God's will God is not looking for perfect vessels right he knows our weaknesses he knows our challenges okay so we don't say okay let me become perfect and then I'll do God's will no you can never come to perfection because none of us can be perfect but so Paul is saying not that I've already attained perfection or not that I've already been made perfect but he says I lay hold of that means I take hold of of what Jesus Christ has called me to what he has planned what he has purposed what he has willed in my life so that is what we need to do okay even as we're running our race on this earth we need to take hold of what Christ Jesus has taken hold of us that means we need to understand and know what his will is we need to take hold of that and we need to do that we continue running our race let's look at Ephesians chapter 2 verse 10 let's look at what we can learn from this verse can somebody read that please okay thank you so here we see that we are God's workmanship what is the meaning of that we are God's workmanship means what is creation okay is masterpiece okay that's a nice way of looking at it are we having only the ladies in the class or we having some I can see some gentlemen here as well can we hear some voices of the gentlemen please okay so what do we understand from this verse we are God's workmanship yes we are his hand work okay if you don't feel comfortable in speaking in here in English you can try Hindi and English I can understand both I can translate that for you workmanship means what God is still working on us we are not completed they're not perfected okay so we are God's workmanship that means that something God is doing he's still working out in our lives okay and what are we created to do to do good works and what are these when did God plan these good works beforehand even before the foundations of the world so God is saying okay man this plan A is not working for your name is Sri Radha yes God's my plan is not working for Sri Radha so let me go with some other plan let me think of an alternate plan no God does not do that you know his plans are perfect he does not change his plans he does not change his purposes then you can ask you know when we read in the Bible why does God change his his mind he why does he change his mind he really does not change his mind is and he does not change his purposes but he lets people do whatever they want they will then uh their choice okay but his plan and purpose is always according to what he has purposed and also according to what is written in his word okay so his plan for us is the good works which God has pre-planned even before the foundations of the earth so there are places God wants you to go okay there are lives of people that he wants you to touch there are lives that he wants you to impact there are things that he wants you to accomplish there are cities and nations that he wants you to transform and he wants you to shake the nations that is God's heart for you that is God's dream for you and that is God's plan for your life i'm going to say this again because God's plan and purpose for our life is something not small it's not something that is very little it's not something that is meager but it's something great and big okay so God's plan for us is that he wants us to go to places he wants people's lives to be touched through you okay he wants uh your life to impact the lives of thousands he wants things he wants to accomplish things through your life he wants to use you to transform cities and to shake nations can we see an amen to that amen so whenever you think about God's will and plan for my life you know go back to this these three lines and this is what God has for in store for you so living life is um is simple it's just finding out what God has planned for you and just doing it or just walking in his plan and in his purpose let's look at second Timothy chapter one verse nine can somebody read that please so here we amen yes thank you so here we see that you know God has called us according to his own purpose and it's not according to our works okay but it's according to his own plan and his purpose for our lives do we have uh dreams for our life yes do we have a plan and a purpose for our life some of us yes some of us no okay uh we just maybe we're just going through the uh the days okay but really doesn't matter you will soon find out your plan and purpose uh when you understand what's God's plan and purpose for your um life okay so we see that it's not something God's plan for our life is not that you will be born again that all men know him and be saved and receive salvation and just say you know hallelujah amen i'm going to heaven i have a seat book there a place book there i'm happy i just live my life here on earth it's not that life is simple okay but it's not as simple as this okay when uh we have a privilege of you know knowing Jesus Christ as our personal savior we have the privilege of receiving salvation but along with that privilege comes the responsibility okay so it's a privilege added with a responsibility and what is that responsibility is not just living our lives holy and pleasing but also working out God's specific plan for our life and also through that fulfilling God's greater plan and purpose for our um life okay so we are living not for our own purposes okay sometimes we have to do away with our own plan and our own purpose for our life and it's important to pursue God's plan and purpose for your life has there been a time in your life when you wanted to do something and you sense God is telling me to do something else anyone's like like to share okay yeah go ahead okay so she wanted to be a charted account in the CA and uh got called her to food time ministry to come to bible college and here she's pursuing God's call yes anyone else likes to share any other okay yes okay thank you uh any of our um uh online students would like to share um you know how you had a specific dream plan for your life and uh you know God revealed something else and you struggle through maybe you're not doing it you're doing it whatever anyone likes to share our online students you can unmute your mics and speak are you all there yeah I don't think anyone wants to share it okay I'll just share my life I mean um when I was in grade 12 our um uh Sunday school teachers taught us that you know uh whenever you're in a specific stage in your life you want to know what's next um ask God um you know um what is this plan for your life so I had this whole plan of being a cardiologist and not being a cardiologist and then um I put I took science in my 12th grade but I realized that um uh I will not be a good cardiologist I'll cut everyone's arteries and veins because uh every time we had our uh practicals you know when you're assigned students you have when your practicals they'll give you fish and cockroach and and all of those things to dissect I would mess up with everything and finally the lab attender will say sorry ma'am you use four or five specimens I cannot give you any more and then I realized that I'm not too good with my hands which I'm not too you know I can't even draw a straight line and so I was thinking whether I really should be a cardiologist and I spoke to a cardiologist who comes to our church and she was telling me all the things that a cardiologist should do and I was like no this is not uh where I should be or this is not uh this is not where I think I would fit in and I was praying and then God called me for full-time ministry and I was like no way God you know I don't fit up this role uh I don't see myself being in ministry uh I want to do something professional of course you know even in I'm in 12th grade I'm teaching in Sunday school I'll continue teaching in Sunday school and for one week every time I prayed God was you know his plan and his purpose he never changes right and he stuck to his and I stuck to mine and be kind of juggling between the two and finally at the end of it just to end the discussion or so-called argument with God I said okay God but it was not an okay in my mind person I knew I'm not going to do that I'm not going to go to Bible college and I completely forgot about it when I was in 12th grade I got my uh marks and I applied in this college where my sister's studying the best college in Bangor city and she's a topper she's an excellent student so everyone knows her and the first this came second third my name was not there anywhere on the list and then she said okay I won't speak to the principal because the principal knows her very well it's a very good student he said sorry it's too late and it was too late and my father tried all his influences he couldn't get me and they're all wondering why is it happening in my life and I remember going to the restroom closing the door and crying and said why God why are you doing this to uh to me and then God is saying remember you said you'll go to Bible college and I was way too shocked because I'd completely forgotten about it it was not in my mind it was not something I had I wanted to do and then I realized that it's no way running away from God's will and plan for purpose it was going to totally frustrate my life it's going to I'm going to be living in frustration uh and it's not going to help me so let me just do God's will and plan and I pursued that and I'm very happy doing that okay so we'll take a break now and sorry we'll take a break now and we'll come back after the break okay