 Good morning everyone, all set ready? Can we begin? So welcome to each and every one of you. Welcome to our online students as well. So glad each of you is here. Let's pray and let's get into God's Word. Let's pray together. Heavenly Father we thank you for this opportunity to study your Word. Lord we pray that you will help us to get deeper in the truth of your Word O God and Father we pray let the revelation of your Word let it work in our hearts and draw us closer to you O God and help us O God to become more and more like you. Father God we pray for your grace. We pray for your leading. We pray for your wisdom, your understanding upon us O God. Surrender each and every person present here, each and every person who's going to listen to this content. Father we ask for your blessing. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Okay so this class is about prayer and intercession. So we will try and learn what the Bible has to say about prayer. I'm sure that prayer is something that all of us engage in as believers and prayer is something that we may have been doing even before we put our trust in the Lord Jesus. So what is prayer? What is prayer? What do you think? What is your understanding of prayer? Just share some of your thoughts with me. Communication, very good. It's communication. Communication with whom? With God. Communication with God. That's true. What else? Anything else? Yes. Relationship. Okay. Relationship with God. Correct. That's right. Sharing our feelings. Very good. Okay so that's part of communication but maybe you can say like a stronger communication, deeper communication with God. Yes that's correct. What else is prayer to? Connecting to the presence of God. Experiencing the presence of God. Get through. Connecting to the presence of God. Okay. Connecting with the presence of God. That's correct. Sure. Thank you for that. Another answer here. Prayer is talking to God says Daniel Oliver. Thank you Daniel for that. What was this you were saying? Okay. Having an intimacy with God. Fine. So prayer is all these things. Isn't it? We can think about prayer and it's not just us telling God something but it's communication, it's relationship, it's intimacy, it's sharing, it's experiencing the presence of God and as someone shared here talking with God and Andrew Monroe says it's a two-way communication with God where God speaks to us and even we speak to God. So we sort of sum up what prayer is with our understanding but we will look at what the word of God has to say about prayer and how should we really practice prayer in our lives. So as many of you pointed out prayer is communication with God. We can also use a word communion. Communion. Communion is nothing but fellowship. When we spend time with each other, we have a relationship with each other, we build that relationship with each other in a loving and a caring manner. What do we generally term it? Fellowship. So even when we go to church, we meet with other believers, we say I'm going for a fellowship. So fellowship is where you are intentionally building your relationship with them, they are intentionally building their relationship with you. So in the same manner, we look at our relationship with God as a communion. Fellowship, communion, similar words where we are building our relationship. So prayer is communion with God. So in this communion, what happens? All the things that we discussed just now, expressing our hearts. Somebody said sharing. So we can express. Maybe sometimes we are feeling good, sometimes we are not feeling that great, sometimes things are going wonderfully well, sometimes things are challenging. Whatever it is, we can express to God. Such a privilege. Isn't it? Can we express our concerns and our thoughts to anybody? Do we do that? Anybody. You just pick anybody and tell them your problems. Do we do that? We don't do that. It really takes a special person or a special trust and a relationship for us to open up and share and think about this. God is inviting us to share our hearts and he wants to know what we are thinking about, what we are going through, what our concerns are. So it's really beautiful that God gives us an opportunity to express our heart. The way it is, whatever it is, we can go to God. We can express our hearts. That is part of our communion. Our communion with God is also just talking to God. So expression is one thing. Part of that you could say talking to God. Communication is a very important part of strengthening good relationships. Now many of us, we may be away from home when we are working or studying. What do we do? We call our parents. We call our family members. We call the spouse or the children. We talk to them. Why? Because we want to keep the communication. Communication is very important. Isn't it? We want to find out how are they doing and we want them to know how we are doing. So talking to God is to establish that communication. So we don't come to God like, okay God, I will meet you every Sunday, Sunday service. 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock. I have an appointment with God and then Monday to Saturday. Nothing. I know communication. How can we build a relationship with God if we are not communicating with Him constantly? Okay. So this is what communion is. Communion is fellowship. Communion is expressing ourselves. Communion is talking to God. Communicating with God. And also another thing that happens when we are communing with people or fellowshipping with people is we learn from them. Some of their characteristics, right? We understand. We appreciate. We begin to learn good things from them. So in the same way, when we have a communion with God, what happens is the nature of God. We know that God's nature is full of truth, justice, holiness, power, love, grace, compassion, so many wonderful characteristics that we know God has in himself. So what happens when we spend time with Him? We begin to change into the kind of person that God is. His heart, we begin to understand. We begin to recognize, okay, what is important for God? You can understand. Okay, that becomes important for me. So we get to know the heart of the person that we are communing with. And in this case, we are saying prayer. When we are communing with God, spending time with God, we begin to understand what does God want for my life? What does God want for my family? What does God want for my church? It becomes easier and easier to understand. Many of us ask the question, what does God want me to do? What is my purpose? Where does God want me to serve? When we develop a communion with God, as we strengthen it, slowly what will happen? We start understanding the heart of God. Okay, this is what God wants. This is what God is speaking to me. So in this manner, we look at prayer as a communion. All right, Nidale, did you want to ask a question? I can hear you. Is that a question you have, Nidale? Maybe we have that by mistake. Let's move ahead. So prayer is not just a communion with God, but we can look at prayer as a few other truths about prayer that the Bible teaches us about. So what is the next thing? Prayer is partnering with God and I will talk more about it just in some time. Prayer is also partnering with God. So this means that whatever God wants us to do here on the earth, God is working, but he wants us to work with him. So when I pray, it's like business partners, do you know, business partners where you have maybe two people, they've started an organization or started a business. They work together. So one person does one part, maybe they do the planning. The other person helps in the execution or working out the plan, but both of them are working together. But it is only when the two of them are working together that you see the work done in the same way when we pray. What happens? God is working. God is working all the time. But when we pray, we are partnering with God and a work gets done. So we will talk a little bit more about partnering with God shortly. So prayer is also partnering together with God. Prayer is a ministry. What is a ministry? What is it that we call as a ministry? Any idea? What is a ministry we keep saying, right? I want to serve in the ministry. I want to do ministry. What is ministry? System ministry we are calling. Ministry is a calling. Okay. Yeah. Thank you for that. Ministry is a calling. All right. Something more about ministry. What is ministry? Serving. Okay. Serving. So that is like the closest term to explain ministry. So when we say I want to minister, I want to do ministry. What we are saying is I want to give myself in service, service to God, service to people. The Bible teaches us that prayer is a ministry. So if I want to bless others, what can I do for them? One of the things that I can do is I can pray. When I pray for others, I am serving them. I am blessing them. I am doing something in the spiritual realm that is helping them. Something that will impact their life for the better. So prayer is a ministry. If we don't know what ministry am I going to do when I finish my Bible college or when I maybe complete the current assignment that I have, don't worry too much about it. Yes, pray about it. But right now, there is one ministry that all of us can do. What is that ministry? Prayer. So when we pray for others, we are actually serving them. We are helping them. We are blessing them. We will talk more about it as we go ahead. So I've said three things so far. Prayer is communion with God, meaning I'm having a relationship, fellowship with God. Second thing is prayer is partnership. God wants to accomplish his purposes and he wants me to partner with him. So prayer is partnership. And the third one is prayer is a ministry. So when I want to serve somebody, I can pray for them. And you know, in that way, we are blessing to them. Now prayer is also warfare, warfare. We will talk more about it later on as well. We know that there is an enemy, isn't it? Whom we as believers have to battle with every day and that is Satan. So every day, every moment, whether we recognize it or not, we are in battle. The enemy comes against us in so many different ways. So one way in which we can go against the enemy is through prayer. So even when we pray, we can destroy the powers of the enemy that he wants to put on our lives. So prayer is warfare. There is a certain way in which we can pray against the devil, against demons, against demonic strongholds that it actually becomes a war. So if you want to fight with the devil, you can pray. Prayer is also warfare. We can fight it out in prayer. So these are all some of the some of the truths regarding prayer. Now we've understood all these things. One of the I started by saying that prayer is a privilege. Now think about it. God says, Yes, you can speak to me. You can come anytime. You can pour out your heart. It's really a privilege because then God is inviting us to go and share. That's amazing. It's so difficult to get an opportunity to to share with people in general. You have to find the right time. You have to find the right space to go and communicate. But the privilege that God gives us is He says, Come anytime. 24 bar 7. Just come. And the book of Hebrews tells us that we can enter into the throne room boldly. Meaning into God's office if you want to look at it that way. Anytime. When I begin to pray, what's happening? I'm entering into the headquarters. The very place where God's throne is. I can go. I can approach him directly. I don't need to go through any of the people who are standing outside and sitting around directly. All of us as believers, we can enter into the presence of God and we can communicate with Him. We can fellowship with Him. There's a beautiful scripture in Psalm 65 and verse 2. It says about God. It says, You who hear prayer, to you all flesh will come. So God is a prayer answering God. Sometimes we wonder, I break all these things. Is God even listening to me? Well, the Bible says He listens. He hears. He's observing. Now, I don't know if this has happened in your life, but it has happened in my life. Sometimes I've prayed some prayers, which I wasn't very sure that I really want that to happen. But as I've seen my life, even some simple prayers that I prayed and I said, Lord, I would really like to learn this or I would really like to meet this person. I would really like to go to this place. Those things have also happened. It's amazing. When I look back, I think, wow, I didn't take it seriously. I didn't even write it down after I prayed those prayers. But here is God who hears our prayers, who knows our heart. And the Bible says that the God who hears prayer. So when we pray, here is our confidence. God is listening. God is listening. Always remember that when we pray, God is listening. He hears our prayer. That is why we pray to Him. Now, in the book of 1 Peter, Peter writes, 1 Peter chapter 3 and verse 12. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are open to their prayers. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. So when we are righteous, how do we become righteous? How do we become righteous to begin with? How do we become righteous? By grace of Jesus Christ. Yes, thank you. Thank you, Gettut. So by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the book of Romans tells us, we are now the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. So we have already been made righteous. We will study about this in our identity. Who we are in Christ? We are already made righteous in Christ Jesus. He shed His blood to wash our sins away to justify us. And who are we now? We are righteous positionally in Christ Jesus. But the Bible also talks about how we must live out what has happened in the spiritual realm. Yes, I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, but I must also lead a righteous life. Then what happens? Scriptures tell us God is his ears are open to their prayers. It's something like, you know, when you want to listen closely, when somebody is talking, maybe, you know, let's say someone is feeling very sad. Okay, maybe we are counseling them and they're feeling very sad and they're just not able to express themselves and they're not even able to communicate loudly. What happens as a counselor or as a person who is listening to their problems? We may lean forward. We may say, okay, don't worry, tell us what's happening. How can we help you? So you kind of lean forward because you're interested to know what is that person going through? How can we help that person? So in the same way, and the scriptures are telling us that his ears are open to the prayers of the righteous, it means that God is leaning forward. He's interested. He wants to know. He wants to find out. He wants to hear the prayers that we are making. So this is very important for us. Otherwise, what happens? We think that God wants us to pray to be all praying from here and he's switched off. You know, he's in his own world and you know, something like God is saying, I'm so busy taking care of the universe. I don't have time for all these prayers. It doesn't work like that. The Bible tells us that God is listening. God is hearing, especially his children. When we pray, God receives our prayers and that is an encouraging thought for all of us. So let's move on. Let's come to the purpose of prayer. But regarding what we have discussed so far, would you like to say something or share some thoughts? Please feel free. Discussion is always good. Okay, so let's have a question. Yes, yes, get through. Yeah, many times we pray for a particular request and a request is not answered. So is it a no? Should we take it as no? Okay. So the answer to this question is in the entire course. So you'll have to attend all the classes to find out the answer. But in the shortest way, what I can say is there could be two reasons why we are not seeing the answer to the prayer. One is it may not be aligned to the word of God or the nature of God, which is why it's not happening because it's not aligned to the purpose of God. The second reason could be that it is aligned. However, we must persevere and the Lord. Yeah, persevere or be persistent. Keep praying because maybe the timing is not right or something more is still to happen or we need to press into the opposition that's coming from the demonic realm. So there are many reasons why delays happen. The first one is that the prayer may not be aligned to the purpose of God. The second is it's aligned, but you we need persistence. Okay, so does that answer your question? Yeah. Thank you, sister. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for that. All right. Fine. So Sanjay is sharing in my early days as a believer, I teach it God like an ATM in my prayer time. Over the years, I've realized that God seeks a deeper and a more meaningful relationship with us. Thank you, Sanjay, for sharing that. So what he means is when you want something, we go and pray only when we want something. Some children do that right to the parents only when they want something. I need a watch. I need clothes. I need a computer. I need a phone. Go to the parents, but prayer is not just that. You know, God is not just there to give us whatever we need. There's much more to pray. So yeah, thank you for that. Okay, let's move ahead. We'll move to this chapter on the purpose of prayer. I told us that prayer is more than talking to God. Now, when we look at the way that God created Adam and Eve, go back to the beginning in the beginning, the worlds that made everything was positioned. And then what did God do? He did something very special. He created man and woman in his own image. He created them in God's image. And what did he do? He blessed them and told them, I have given you this garden. Now, what I want you to do is to take charge, take care of the garden. And also this world that God gave us, he wanted us to have authority over that, over the world, the creation. So let's quickly read Genesis chapter one, verses 26 and 27. I guess somebody here can read. Okay, we'll have somebody here read it. Genesis chapter one, verse 26 and 27. Then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness, let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Okay, so what do you see there? What did God say? Let them have dominion. Dominion over what? Can you please read it again, Krishna? Then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness, let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Okay, so everything that is on the earth, isn't it? The creatures which are in the sea, the creatures which are on land, the creatures that are in the air, what has God saying? I'm giving you authority. I'm giving you dominion, meaning you are responsible to take care of all these things. So God has given us dominion and authority. That is the original plan which God had. So we can imagine, just think with me, suppose Adam and Eve never sinned. How would the world look like in its original design? What is the original design? God created a beautiful world and gave them authority. It's like sometimes you watch all these movies where, you know, like Narnia, where you're the king and the queen and the prince and the princess, that's the original design. That is God's original design. When he created the world, he said, you have dominion. I want you to rule and reign. Human beings, mankind, I want you to rule and reign. Okay, and have dominion over all the creation that has been mentioned here in this list. And there is another scripture in Psalm 8 verses 5 and 6. Again, we can read it with another person like to read. We can all share the responsibility. Psalm chapter 8 verses 5 and 6. You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. You made them rulers over the works of your hands and you put everything under their feet. Okay, thank you. So we can see there that God made man and put everything under his authority. Okay, Psalm chapter 8 says that, isn't it? Human beings, God put everything under our authority here on the earth. Now, if you look at another passage, Psalm 115 and verse 16, if you want to read it, you can. It's always good when we read the scripture because it will register in our hearts. Yeah, Psalm 115 verse 16. The heavens, even the heavens are the Lord's but the earth has given to the children of men. Okay, so clear. The heavens are the Lord's and the earth is given to the children of men. So think with me. God has given the earth to human beings, man and woman. Now, if we take a situation where the parents, maybe they have teenage children and they have to go out for a few days on work. So what do the parents do? They tell the children, we know that you can take care of yourself. We have kept enough food and all that. Just take care of yourself. In five days, we will come back. This house is your responsibility. So once they go on work and then they come back, whom will they ask about the cleanliness of the house? The children, right? Yeah, they were given the responsibility. What did the parents say? You are in charge. Okay, five days, you are in charge. So when they come back, they'll ask the children about the cleanliness. Will they ask the children about how they spent the money, which was given? Yes, they will definitely ask, how did you spend the money? Okay, anything else? How did you manage the garden? How did you manage this? How did you manage that? So all the questions will come to the children because who was responsible for the house? The children, isn't it? So the house is the parents, but they gave it to the children for those days, somewhat similar. It's not exact, but it's somewhat similar. In this case, what God is saying is, man, woman, I am giving you the responsibility. This world is under your dominion. You are responsible. I am giving you the authority. So, so clear. In Psalm 115 verse 16, the heavens belong to the Lord, but who does the earth belong to? Man. And then we keep complaining, right? God, this is not happening. God says it's yours. I gave it to you. You have to take care of the earth. You have to take care of the world. But as we know, originally God made us, created us in such a way that we should rule and reign on the earth, but Adam and Eve sinned. So what happened after sin? Something shifted. God gave man the authority, but when man sinned, the authority shifted. So now we have interference. We are not able to only be the sole person to make the decision because Satan and his kingdom is interfering in the matters or the affairs of the world. We see in Luke chapter 4, this is the passage. You don't have to read it. I'll just summarize it for us. Luke chapter 4, Jesus goes too fast for 40 days. I'm sure this is familiar for all of us. So Jesus goes, he fasts and when he is fasting, he is tempted by Satan. One of the things that Satan tells Jesus is, do you look at all the kingdoms of the world? They are mine. If you bow down and if you worship me, I will give you the kingdoms of the world, but just think with me for a moment. This world was given to whom in the Garden of Eden? Whom does the world belong to? Man, how come Satan is saying, is telling Jesus, these kingdoms belong to me? If you worship me, I will give it to you. That is not supposed to happen because it belongs to man. How can Satan say that it belongs to him and try to give it back to us? I told you, when sin came into the world, the authority shifted. So no longer do you find that man has complete authority. Yes, we still carry some authority. We still work out of a place of authority even when we are not believers because as mankind, God originally put us in charge of the world. However, after sin, the authority has shifted to the devil. So he takes charge and he interferes in the lives of people. He interferes in the affairs of the world. So there are many things that take place in the world for which Satan is responsible, calamity, disaster, destruction, because it's no longer just us, we have interference from Satan. So we notice in Luke chapter 4 that Satan is talking about the authority that he is carrying on the earth as well. So what do we do now? What do we do? We need to recognize as believers that God's original plan was such that God put us in charge, God gave us authority, God gave us dominion. So we must take that authority. Yes, Satan could be interfering but we can take back that authority and say, I am in Christ Jesus. I'm already redeemed. Satan, you have no place in my life and I am taking full charge of everything that God has entrusted to me. So why are we talking about this authority as far as prayer is concerned? The reason is when we pray, one of the things that we are exercising is the release of authority. So when I pray and I say God, I pray that, I'm just using some example, that the children who don't have food, that they will have food, what am I doing? I'm exercising my authority. Originally, everyone should be blessed. So how come Satan is doing this in the lives of people? So I am going to pray. When I pray, God works. You understand? So prayer is a way through which I can exercise my God given authority to see the purposes of God accomplished. So prayer is very, very powerful because I'm able to walk in the dominion that has been originally given to me. So there are some quotes from godly men that I want to share with us, maybe just one. It says John Wesley, we know that he was the sort of the initiator or the leader of the Wesleyan movement. He said this statement. He said, God does nothing on the earth save in answer to believing prayer. So God does nothing on the earth save in answer to believing prayer. What did he mean? He simply meant that because we are in charge of the world, there may be circumstances and situations where we want God to intervene. But without our prayer, it's a little challenging for us to accept. Without our prayer, what the Bible says is God won't do anything. Are you getting it? So if we don't pray, nothing will happen because whose responsibility is it? It's our responsibility. So when God put us in charge, he expects from us. We need to be accountable to God. And how do we become accountable to God through prayer? Through prayer. We can exercise our authority. We can speak into the purposes of God and it begins to take place. So prayer, remember I told us prayer is partnership. Does God want people to be saved? Answer is yes. But what does the Bible say? Pray for the salvation. Pray that people will be saved. So God wants people to be saved, but he wants us to use our dominion and release our authority through partnering in prayer. So as believers, when we pray, we're actually working. We are working with God and things begin to happen. If we don't pray, then nothing will happen. That's what John Wesley is saying. He's saying God does nothing on the earth, save in answer to believing prayer. So God wants someone to pray. It's a little difficult to understand this concept. God is great. He can do whatever he wants, isn't it? Why does he want a human being to pray? But remember the way God has created the world. He has given us authority and he wants us to partner with him and without us partnering with him. It's like he wants to do it, but he won't do it. Okay, so we'll talk more about this. I'm sure you have questions regarding this matter, but we'll talk more about this very soon. So the purpose of prayer is to partner with God. Now let's consider some examples in the Bible. Elijah is known as a mighty prophet of God, but one incredible incident in his life is also very well known. The time when there was a drought in the land and they really needed rain. So what happens? You find that Elijah gets a word from the Lord. He's a prophet. He can hear what God is saying. So God spoke to Elijah and said, I am going to send rain on the land. Now Elijah being a prophet, he's very confident about what God said and he goes and tells the king, king, it's going to rain. But after he tells the king that it's going to rain, we see Elijah doing something. What did he do? The Bible tells us in 1st Kings chapter 18 verses 39 to 46, you can read it later. Elijah goes and he starts praying. Have you heard that incident? Yeah, so Elijah goes and starts praying. He prays and he tells his servant, go look, is there a cloud? And the servant says, no, there's no cloud. Elijah prays some more. Now the Bible says he put his head between his knees and he prayed. Then he told his servant, go look, is there a cloud? And the servant says, no, nothing. There's no cloud. So like this, Elijah prays seven times. Now we can ask the question. Elijah, you're a mighty man of God. God already told you it's going to rain. Why are you praying? You don't have to pray. God already told, right? So if God already spoke, it will happen. But the point is that Elijah knew a spiritual truth or a spiritual principle. What is that principle? God's will is there. But God wants a man to pray because when a man prays, authority is being released. When a man prays, partnership is being established. So Elijah, though God had already said it's going to happen, what did he do? He prayed seven times. Only after that, his servant goes and he sees a small cloud, you know, like the fist of a man is starting to appear. And at that point, Elijah is clear. Okay, I've done my job of praying. Now we can leave this place because it is going to pour heavily. So even Elijah knew that God wanted man to pray. God's will is there, but prayer is required as a partnership. Another example is Daniel. Now we all know Daniel, wise man, righteous man, prayerful man. So when we read about Daniel, we find that Daniel prayed to God. He prayed in Daniel chapter 9 regarding one matter. What was that matter? You know, Daniel was a captive, like he was in Babylon. He and his people, they were not in freedom. They were in captivity in Babylon. But Daniel knew that the prophet Jeremiah had prophesied saying after 70 years, there will be a release of the captives. Now think with me again. Jeremiah, the mighty prophet said after 70 years, you will be free, isn't it? So Daniel could have just relaxed. Anyway, God said it's going to happen. I don't have to do anything, but we find that Daniel prayed and he said, God, you said that you will release the people. You will restore after 70 years. The time is coming closer. You have to do it. It has to happen. So there is a place for us to take the promises of God and start praying about it because that is the way the answer to prayer will come. Is God willing? God is willing. He already said, I'm going to do it, but God wants a man. God wants us to partner with him in prayer. And when we partner with him, it's like he's doing his part. We are doing our part and the answer will come. So even people like Elijah and Daniel prayed for the purpose of God to be fulfilled. Now, we may ask the question, why are we talking about this? It's just to remind us that we now are the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, isn't it? We each believer, we are the church. We are the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the Bible tells us that Jesus gave authority to whom? He gave it to his disciples. He gave it to the believers. So in Matthew chapter 16 verses 16 through 18, there is a very, you know, wonderful passage where Jesus talks about the authority of the kingdom. And in verses 18 and 19, he says that the keys of the kingdom, I give you the keys of the kingdom to lose and to find. So what does it mean? The keys of the kingdom simply means that he's giving us authority as his body to do the will of God. So we all carry a responsibility. We know the word of God, we know the heart of God, we know the desire of God, but God is waking us up and he's saying, look, I will do my part, I intend to do what is on my heart, but I want you to pray because that is part meaning. I've given you the authority. I've given you the keys. What does keys represent? Authority. If I have the keys to this building, it means, you know, I am responsible for this building. I have been given the authority in the same way Jesus is saying, I give you the keys of the kingdom, meaning all of you have authority, responsibility. You can do this and you need to partner together with God. Amen. You had something to say? Matthew 16, 18 and 19. Yeah, sure. All right. So let me just pause here. Are there any comments at this point? All right. I think we got the picture that, you know, God wants us as the church to be engaged with what he wants to do. So as believers, it's not like, you know, sometimes we look at it this way. When once you're saved, now you will not, you are saved from the lake of fire. So life is good. Just go to heaven. Right? Now I'm saved. I'm born again. I have accepted the redeeming work of Jesus and that's all. But it's actually not that's all. There's so much more that God wants us to do as believers. There is a reason why we're all here and we are being reminded that God has called each of us. He has given us authority. He wants us to work together with him to see his purposes fulfilled. One way in which we can do it is through prayer. So when we pray, we are releasing the authority that God has given us. So let's take a break now and let's come back in 10 minutes. We'll continue on the same subject. Thank you everyone. Thank you.