 All right. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to a new week. This is this time with the word of prayer. So any one of us can please lead in prayer before we start our session. Let's go ahead. Anybody can start. Father, God is really good. Jesus, Lord, we come to you. Thank you for this morning, for your goodness and grace, Lord. Thanks for this time, Lord, for this class. As we are learning, Lord, help us to understand and receive. Let eyes of our understanding be opened that we'll know how to do things softly, Lord Jesus. Let everything become easy. God, we surrender to you, Lord Jesus. Amen. Thank you, Siddharth. All right. So just a quick review of what we did last week. Let me just present the notes here also. So lastly, we talk about the sense of becoming a cell church. First thing, we talked about how we have to change our mindset and continuously raise up leaders. So every time, you know, we think of the life group, even if you're starting a life with already part of a life group, our mind should always think of, OK, I need to raise leaders. Then, you know, you have a single task that is to build a cell group and then the essence of a cell church. Relationships, participation, empowering, focuses on Jesus, not on any person. Outreachers, you can do it within your cell groups. You can have two or three cell groups together, which is networking to do any kind of outreach. And then prayer. We talked a little bit about this and how prayer is the foundation of a cell group, being a cell group leader. Prayer should be a priority. Get the Holy Spirit to receive from the Holy Spirit, hear from the Holy Spirit, because a strong cell group is formed through the Holy Spirit. We need the anointing, we need protection, we need to have unity, healings and miracles. Now all of these things are supernatural things. So we cannot get them out of natural methods. Yes, planning and execution, strategy, all that is important. But prayer will help us to, you know, in terms of a cell group or even a church, where the anointing of the Holy Spirit is formed out. God protects the church, protects the people within the community. There's unity, there's salvation, there's miracles, there's healings, there's a work of the Holy Spirit. Now that cannot be achieved through strategy. So prayer is integral. So today we just move on from this. These are just the different types of cell groups. And I'm sure that most of us know about area cell groups, music cell groups, prayer cell groups, men's, women, youths, adults, single moms, so many, so many cell groups. But what I want to get to this today is talk a little bit about cell groups, youth cells, right? Now, the reason I thought we'll just talk about this is because when we see what's happening around us now, a lot of youth have a lot of questions. They have been exposed to the so many things of the world, which are some of which are good, some of which are evil, some of which we as parents or we as leaders must protect and guide our youth. Many a times our youth are lost. They don't know where to go. What should I do in life? Now, so I just thought we'll talk a little bit about youth cells. So what is a youth-led cell group? A youth-led cell group is basically a group of 12 youth from different backgrounds. They come together, meet together for prayer, edification, fellowship, just being there for each other and together doing something for the Lord. Now, why are youth cell groups important? This may not be the notes, but youth cell groups are important because a youth can identify with another youth. So, for example, if there's somebody who's in their late 20s, getting into their early 30s, maybe still not married, they will gel well even if you put them in a family cell group or even if you put them in a men's group or a women's group. They'll be able to manage, but youth is a different story. Because now, youth have different kinds of questions, different problems, and youth nowadays are willing to... They don't hide, like I remember the early 2000s and 2005, 2010, that it was very... the youth wouldn't share much. They would always keep it to themselves. But nowadays, one of the things that I am noticing is that youth are very open. They openly discuss what's happening. They openly share. So, things have changed. So, the way we lead a youth cell group must also change. Overtime, it changes. So, what is the format of a youth-led cell group? A cell group meeting, again, the format can be the same, about 90 minutes. Now, we at ABC, we have a lot of youth cell groups as youth boys, as youth girls. So, one of the things we encourage them is not to be rigid. Because youth, they like to try different things. They like to talk about different things. Now, one of the things that we always focus on, yes, is Sunday sermons must be discussed. But we also give youth, allow for youth energies to spend more time in connecting with each other, relaxing with each other. So, some of the ways is food or snacks is to start off with... Or you can start off with worship. Youth like the whole aspect of worship. So, you can start with worship. So, these are just examples you can do it however you'd like. Icebreaker or a game. And then you share your vision statement. And you have the cell topic discussion, which is the Sunday sermon. And then you have some ministry time praying for each other. And now, what is so different about this and the other group, the other cell groups, what we train our youth leaders is we tell them, just go easy. You don't have to, you know, we have to do it. We have to pray for 20 minutes now. So, yes, all of this is important. But it's also, you know, only if somebody is willing to share with me. So, for example, I'm a youth leader. If I don't spend time with the youth, how will they come and share with me? They will not. They will just be like, okay, I'm going to a life group, so they'll go. But eventually, if they're not able to open up, if they're not able to discuss, you know, their concerns or what they're going through in life, then eventually they will stop coming to the life group. So, as a youth leader, it is very important to be sensitive to what is happening around. Some of the things that our youth leaders do, not only cell group leaders, but our youth leaders as well, is on a constant, they always get in touch, meet with each other, go have coffees together, spend time together. We play a lot of games, sports. So, for example, there's badminton, there's basketball. What does it do? It helps build relationships and people begin to share how they're feeling, how things are in their life. And that's when a youth life group, a youth cell group becomes effective. So, what is one of the challenges in the church? One of the main challenges is how to develop and train youth leaders and adult leaders. As you choose youth leaders, eventually as they keep leading, probably they get married, they can continue on to be adult leaders in the church or in any ministry within the church. But if they choose to move on and to do something else, that's up to them. But normally, youth leaders, even after they get married, they begin to serve in the adult church. But how do we develop and train youth leaders? How do we disciple them? Now, here's a few things. These are just a few points and I'll add to it, but I want to begin with this. Be in-depth when you're talking to them. Be vulnerable, be revealing in the sense, let them know that you're not the only one going through problems. Meaning, they are not the only one who are going through problems and challenges. Even we have gone through it as youth using probing questions. Recently, last week, I was talking to a gentleman from a young man from the church and he was saying, I am addicted to smoking and I'm just not able to give it up. I'm not able to and I feel guilty after that. I don't know what to do and I was very sad that he's not able to overcome it. It's very easy to say, what you're not praying, you have to ask the Holy Spirit when he can empower you. That may be the truth, but there's a way to deal with it because he knows he's trying his best and this is a stronghold in his life. So he needs help. Already he's down. Bringing condemnation is not going to help that person right now. So, how can I help him? That should be our attitude. How can I help this person? Some of the things that I just mentioned to him was, there are many of them who go through problems like this. You're also smoking, but there are others who go through, maybe it's media or maybe it is pornography. Some of them it's different things, but we can all overcome it because we all have the Holy Spirit inside us. I just began to talk to him and just getting him to take small steps and just asking questions. When do you feel this urge? Is it usually in the morning or is it in the evenings? And then they become honest. They just begin to share with us. So, as youth leaders, some of the things, the pointers that we always give our youth leaders is, don't bring condemnation, don't mock, don't ridicule people, don't have the attitude of holier than thou, meaning, oh, I'm so holy at such a young age, how can we not be able to do it? That's not what we want, but we're not only depending on our experience, but we also bring in the word. Here's the pointer message. Given the word, maybe share messages, share now with so much available online, share maybe those two-minute messages, five-minute inspirational sermons, a hard-hitting word, and let the word minister to them. And when you're looking at leaders, when we are discipling leaders, we allow them to journey along with us. So we tell them where we have failed. We encourage them to take bold steps to come out of their comfort zones. So these are additional things that we can do in terms of training youth leaders. Now, sometimes youth leaders may not know what to say when it comes to mentoring and people may have queries. Other youth may have things that they're going through, which may be overwhelming. They can always contact their youth pastor or the cell group pastor or the senior pastor and just share their thoughts and all of that. But raising up youth leaders, developing them, training them is very, very important. And one of the things we always emphasize is being an example. I cannot say something and do something else because youth are very, very smart. They learn. They watch and they learn. They seek. And every time they see if we are saying something and we're doing something else, very freely, they will call it out. But as youth leaders and as pastors, always develop and train youth leaders, look out for them. Sometimes they'll be youth leaders who are, there will be people, youth who just come to church, they're serving every Sunday, but they never saw themselves as youth cell leaders, but they're serving every Sunday in church. Give them opportunities, see if they're capable. And it's okay. Allow them to make mistakes, correct them when they make mistakes. Making mistakes is alright. They look at the Lord Jesus when he chose the 12, almost all of them made some mistake or the other. I'm sure they all did, but Jesus encouraged them through them. And another way, another aspect that we have just started in youth cell groups is where we encouraged them to ask questions. In the sense they were through, it could be work questions, it could be questions in their personal life, questions of the Bible, some things that they don't understand, you know. And remember, no question is a silly question. Two Sundays back, the youth came up to me and said, he's been with our church for a long time, and he said to me, I'm still finding it very difficult to comprehend this whole Trinity thing. He's been part of church for many years, but it's alright. And he's been serving in church. It's not like, oh, you've been in church for so long, how can you not understand this now? That's something that he's going through and we must have the passion to reach out for them, care for them. One of the important things that we must remember is if we don't raise up youth leaders, we will not have enough adult leaders because 90% of youth leaders tend to become adult leaders. And so even now in our church, a lot of our youth life group leaders were from our children's church. They finished children's church, they've gone into the youth team church. We didn't have the church, we just started it, but they finished children's church. They started serving in the church and then slowly after serving, they're all youth leaders and youth side group leaders. So strategize, start training them when they're probably 12, 15 years old. Begin to train them, begin to give them opportunities and eventually we will see them becoming good adult side group leaders. But one thing that we really like to emphasize in APC is to ensure that our youth are able to reach out to any one of us. They can reach out to any one of us from the past total team. They can reach out to life group leaders. They can request for counseling or just being open and we are doing our best so that we can reach out to the youth that are going through so much right now. And of course not all of them are. Some youth are just fine. They just go to college, finish, come. Some of them are just working. It's all right. Nothing that's major going on in their life, but many of them have a lot of questions. And so we must be willing as leaders to help them out. Again, here's the cell health assessment tool, the upward model, the model that we saw. So maybe you can take a printout of this and if you'd like, you can add things to it. And just do a survey and what your, if you have a cell group, if you're planning to start one, you can start and see if this will help you to see where your cell group is at and how you can improve in the future. So feel free to ask, add questions into that health assessment too. Okay, let's go to the next section of this study. We'll talk about, sorry, yeah, preparing to become a cell leader. Some of the points may be repeated, but we'll just talk, go a little bit deeper into the points that we have talked about. Preparing to become a cell group leader now, even as I continue teaching, feel free to stop and ask questions. And you can also post your questions. You can also raise your hands and then we can ask you, unmute and ask you questions. Right, preparing to become a cell group leader. First thing, the cell leader's personal spiritual life. Now, this is the first thing, maintain a strong personal walk with God. This is something that we have to do. Right, let's read Isaiah, sorry, Matthew chapter five and verse 19. Matthew five, 19. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. So Matthew, so Jesus is saying this, and he's saying, whosoever therefore shall break one of the least of the commandments and shall teach men so he shall be called the least in the kingdom of God. So basically, the whole essence of this verse is we have to do before we can teach. We have to live it before we can teach it. Now, I cannot tell the cell group leaders, you must have a personal time with God, always spend time in this presence, read his word, meditate on his word, ask the Holy Spirit to minister to you, begin to flow in the gifts of the Spirit. I cannot tell others if I myself have not done it. I mean, I can, but it's not going to be effective. I have to live it first and then I can teach it to others because it becomes real. Otherwise, it'll just be knowledge for the others here. I especially imagine I'm talking to you that I'm saying, you know what, you guys must have a good prayer of life. I try to spend time in God's presence. You are youth leaders. You need to hear from God and God can minister to you, begin to read trust in God's word. There will be challenges. I'm sharing all this, but what if I don't do and I teach it? They can say, hey, are you doing it? Are you praying? Are you teaching? Are you spending time in God's presence? Are you reading the Word of God? Are you meditating on God's word? Now, we have to live it to teach it. Always remember, now this is not only for settled groups. This can be applied to pastors, to leaders, to anyone in ministry or even in the workplace. You have to do before we teach. Jesus was the perfect example. He said, he did. Then he said, go and teach what I told you to do. He healed the sick. The blind saw the deaf. He heard the mute spoke. The lame walked. The lepers were healed. Then he chose seven to two others and he said, go and do what you see me do. Go and teach what you see me teach. What you heard me teach. Go and live the way I am living right now. Teach others to do that. I'm going to wash my, the disciple's feet. He's washing the disciple's feet. Probably he's saying, now I've lived it in front of you. I'll go and teach it to others. That's what Jesus says about the Pharisees, Matthew chapter 15 and verse 14. Let them alone. They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, go and shall fall into a ditch. Look at these pointers. These are so important. You cannot teach something you haven't learned and experienced yourself. You and I cannot teach others about, you know, for example, let's take prayer or worship. You're going to teach others, hey, you know, we can, these are the things we can receive when we pray and worship the Lord. If we haven't experienced it or we haven't learned it and we haven't tasted the goodness of God in that area of our lives, we will not be, you know, we cannot teach it to others. If you've not learned and experienced it ourselves. If I haven't gone through challenges and difficulties and seeing God, you know, just working in those difficult times and my times of weakness, I cannot teach it to others. I can just say, hey, you know, God is there. God will stand to me. Yes, those can be encouraging. But if I've gone through it, I will really be able to share it with others. You know, you cannot lead people where you yourself have not gone as God. Right? Don't lead people where you have not gone yourself. If I haven't gone into the prayer room, spending time in the Lord, with the Lord, hearing from God, hearing from the Holy Spirit, I cannot lead people there. If I haven't seen God moving, the Holy Spirit moving in my life groups and the church and my ministry, how can I let people move people to experience it? I've got to, I've got to see it myself. I've got to taste it myself. And then when I minister to others, it'll, it's like you're drawing them to God's presence. The best example is that of a worship leader, right? You look at a worship leader. It's not about the worship leader just being, oh, I'm the worship leader. You learn more in worship ministry as well. It's not about just being the worship leader. I've chosen to worship leader, so I'm going to select five songs and sing. Yes, that's the practical thing. But how can I lead people to God's presence when I myself have not been in God's presence? Right? I hope you're getting what I'm trying to say. So the whole aspect of choosing the song list, you know, the keys of the song, the structure of the song, the dynamics, all of that is practical. But as worship leaders, our main responsibility is to bring people, lead people into the presence of God. So for that, I should be in the presence of God. I should have spent at least a couple of hours in prayer. I should have read the Word, meditated on that Word, asked the Holy Spirit to minister to bring signs, wonders and miracles to, you know, just bring healing upon people. People are coming with a lot of bondages to break off bondages, to bring down walls during the time of worship. Only if I spend time in the presence of God, and my personal technique will reflect in the public ministry. Right? So remember this. We cannot lead people where we ourselves have not gone. I cannot lead people, you know, in a life loop, if I haven't spent time in God's presence. I mean, I can lead them in a practical way. But if you want to see lives changed, being ministered to, I need to be standing up in God's presence. Right? Look at this. We cannot give something we do not have. Right? Now, for example, this is just an example, right? If I have, you know, if anyone of us, say a life group leader, has tasted the goodness of God in terms of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, he has tasted, he's seen the benefits of speaking in tongues. Or he has seen the power of, you know, just spending time in God's presence. When I'm ministering to people in my cell group, I can tell them, hey, you know, maybe some of them has come and say, I still know, I still cannot speak in tongues. So then you can teach them, you can tell them, hey, this is what happens. You know, it's not about us. It's not about, you know, it is God who baptises us, continue to look to God, continue to trust God. And here's what happens when we pray in tongues. This God, it's, you know, it's just bringing out the scripture. You're saying, this is what God does. Our natural mind may be unfruitful, but our spirit is communing with the Father. And there is a unity there. We are being built up when we pray in tongues. So I encourage you, don't give up. Continue to look to God and ask God to pour out the gifts of the Holy Spirit on you. Then you say, you know, you can do that for all the gifts of the Spirit, but you cannot give it unless you haven't tasted it, right? So we must, it calls for a sacrifice. You cannot administer deliverance in areas where you yourself are bound. This is powerful, right? Imagine this. Say, for example, there's a youth leader, a cell group leader. This cell group leader is addicted to social media. This is just an example. And the moment he or she wakes up in the morning, searches for the phone, goes into Facebook, Instagram, it's how many likes of this checks others, you know, YouTube story or Instagram. So whatever, it's been about an hour on that. Right? And slowly it's every day. It's one hour, but slowly it becomes two hours a day. Right? Now you're a cell group leader just because you're on Instagram and Facebook doesn't mean God will say now we are no more a youth leader. God will continue to have grace on us. But in your youth, the cell group, somebody may come and say, I have a problem. What is the problem? I'm addicted to social media. I cannot stay without Instagram. When people don't like my pictures, I get offended or I, my day depends on how many likes are there on my photo or my pics that I have posted. And I need to look at Facebook, Instagram, at least 10 to 15 times a day. I'm not able to break it out. I don't like it. I don't want it. I'm listening to all kinds of things. I'm seeing things that are vulgar. I want to break off this habit. Please help me. As a youth leader, as a cell group leader, we cannot administer deliverance in that area because we ourselves are bound in that. So what was he doing? He must first, you know, if this happens to any of us, we can just leave them say, hey, I think it'll be good if you can speak to the cell pastor or the senior pastor, or you can get some counseling on this. I may not be equipped enough to help you in this area because being honest with them is even better. You can just say, you know, this is something that even I've been struggling with. So maybe you can talk to somebody else, but here's the thing. I don't mind coming and getting help to, you know, in this area of my life. I cannot administer deliverance in areas where I myself am bound. That needs to, you know, we must remember this. Now, many times there are many that are youth, not necessarily from our church, but there are many youth who I know of who are leaders in the church. And I asked them, hey, what are you studying? What are you reading from the word? What is God speaking to you? He said, yeah, God is speaking to me as usual through the scriptures. So what do you do throughout the week? Have you seen this series that's coming in Netflix? And they're watching all kinds of series, like they may not be well-guaranteed, but they watch series. So that's like 10, 12 episodes in one series. And that probably has like three, four series. And I thought to myself, these are leaders in the church. It's done so much time. Each episode will be probably 40, 45 minutes. Now, I'm not being legalistic by saying, don't watch. But as leaders, it's a call to sacrifice. We have to keep progressing into maturity, into Christlikeness. That's what our goal must be. Yes, there will be times you may want to watch a movie. Or you may want to watch a couple of episodes. It's all right, but make sure it's not vulgar. Make sure it doesn't affect your spiritual life. But your primary focus as leaders must be, hey, I need to grow in maturity too. I need to be Christliked. Is this helping me to become mature in Christ? Many times, many, many times, both of our students and youth in church, they come up to me personally and they ask me, do you watch movies? Do you watch CDs or things on Netflix and Amazon Prime? All of these. Firstly, I don't have a Netflix account or Amazon. I don't know. I don't have it. But my answer to them was an occasional, sometimes, I sit with my kids and watch these cartoon movies. That's the maximum I watch. And even if it's cartoon movies, I can't watch the whole thing because I'm not wired that way. It's just me. I cannot sit for one and a half hours, one hour for an entire movie. It's very difficult for me. Many times, I've been watching these animated movies with my kids and I just fall asleep because it just doesn't interest me. Many times, I think to myself, hey, is this going to help me grow to become more Christ-like? Is it going to help me in any way? So that is the answer I gave many of them. Is it going to help me become more Christ-like? The answer is no. So I don't want to waste my time on this. So maintain spiritual disciplines, discipline of prayer, discipline of worship, discipline of word, word confession, fasting, fellowship. Now, there are times, right? And I remember when we had a small little one, my first son was born and it was really challenging because we got to get up, look after the kid. A lot of time went into that. So those seasons are okay. You just hold fast to what God is teaching you at the moment. You spend as much time as you can in God's word and prayer. It may not be as much as you'd like it to be, but maintain a consecrated life before God. So you don't have to feel guilty, oh, I didn't spend one hour in prayer. It's all right because we have kids, we have things to do. But as they grow up, our responsibilities get less minimized and we tend to have more time, right? Second one, maintain a life that is constantly consecrated to God, right? Maybe one of us can read Ephesians 4.27. It's a wonderful verse. Ephesians 4.27. Anyone of us can read. We have your Bibles with you. Please go ahead and read Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 27. Yes. Anyone have the Bibles with you? Ephesians 4.27. Please go ahead and read it. Nor give place to the devil. Nor give place to the devil. Literally the next verse as well. Let him who stole steam no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hand what is good, that he may have something to give him who has made him. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Now it says there, give no place to the devil in your life. Look at what 1 Peter says. Always be on your guard. 1 Peter 5 and verse 8. Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary, the devil, is a rolling lion walking about thinking whom he may devour. So Peter is writing to the believers and he's saying always be on your guard. Be aware. Be sober minded. I like that verse. Think straight. Don't just do things in the spur of the moment. Don't just do things just because based on our emotions, we'll be angry if we just do something and then later regret it. Be sober. Be vigilant. Be sober minded. Think about what you're doing. Think about why you're doing it. Be vigilant because the enemy, the devil, is like a rolling lion seeking whom he may devour. And it can all start off with just a small room that we give the enemy. Right? I like those four stages and we learned it in the series on my mind at the four stages. Remember that? First it's a thought the enemy brings. Then that thought becomes an argument and a reasoning. We begin to argue and we begin to reason with it. It's alright. It's just once in three months, once in six months. It's alright. Nothing wrong. Everyone are doing this so I can do it. It's alright. Then that thought, if it's not dealt with, argument, that reasoning, it's not dealt with. It becomes an imagination. But imagination is as if you're participating in that sin. It's as real. It's as if in a live session you feel that you're already participating in that sin. And then for it becomes a strong hold in a person's life. So it all starts off with a thought. How do you think people get suicidal tendencies? It's all a thought. You're no good. Why don't you end your life so that your parents will be happy? Everyone else will be happy. You don't have to live in this way. So that's a thought. Then that thought gets into an argument and reasoning so a person can say, oh no. I should not end my life. I need to live. I want to live. I have a good family. Then the other side of the argument but what are you doing for your family? You're not doing anything. Nothing's going right in your life. Oh yes, nothing's going right. Now third one, if it's not dealt with, it becomes an imagination. So how do I do this? Should I jump off a building? Should I take? Should I try this way? Should I try that way? Should I cut myself? And these are all the thoughts. It becomes an imagination. It's like real. And if that's not dealt with, it becomes a strong hold. That strong hold keeps on coming every now and then. But you and I, the Bible says, as believers, creator is he who's in us than he does in the world. Get rid of demonic strongholds in your life. Be aware there's a reality of a spiritual enemy. There are strongholds. There can be strongholds in believers' lives, areas in the soul that are controlled and occupied by demonic spirits. Right? So, you must be aware of it. Get rid of it. A mind that considers evil good and good as evil, a mind given to worldliness is Satan's foothold in a believer's life. Can we believe this? Right? The areas of our thought life which we keep in darkness instead of bringing into life, we embrace lies instead of submitting to the word truth of God's word, these are areas Satan has us bound in. Sometimes we feel, oh, I am, there are people that I speak to, they say, I'm out of help right now. That is a life of the devil because there is no way that God cannot restore all the heat. The scriptures teach us so much about it. He is willing to save to the uttermost. Our strongholds are thought patterns in our mind where we have become tolerant to sin. We become tolerant. It's alright to watch pornography. It's alright to think of lustful things as just in my mind. It's alright to say a couple of bad words while I speak. We have compromised. It's where we have compromised and replaced the truth with a lie giving Satan a place of influence and a place of defense within our minds. So in our mind it becomes a stronghold. Now, just a little bit of information a little bit of sidetrack but it's important for us as believers to understand this. A Christian cannot be possessed by demons because the Holy Spirit dwells in our spirit. In the book of John Jesus blew on them and they receive the Holy Spirit the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Once you and I as believers we accept the Lord Jesus. The Holy Spirit comes and resides inside us. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he's a new creation. All things have passed away. All things become new. So the spirit man is new but however a Christian can be in bondage. He can be oppressed. He can be harassed in areas in the mind areas in the body occupied with demonic spirits of oppression. Right? Because whose fault is that? We have given entrance of these spirits to the enemy. We have given ground to the enemy. We have not been sober-minded. We have not been diligent not been careful knowing that there is an enemy that is working. Right? Now depending on the entrance to them through his consistent thought and behavior the person his mind, his body comes oppressed habitual sin controllable lust compulsive behavior you know another area could be you know anger not sure but I've heard of people who believe us. They get angry that they are able to carry these things that are so heavy that normally they won't be able to carry it able to carry it and throw them but in the Bible this may not be the right example but when you're demonically energized you know remember that boy they tied him up you just break those chains in a way that even possessed boy so when areas not only physical but in our emotion, our soul are demonically energized what happens in Satan stronghold you know it becomes like saying stronghold in a believer's life and a person will remain at bondage until he or she makes a decision and says hey I must not give into this anymore now some of it comes through counseling some of them of course counseling, prayer, both together but some cases God can just work or can just break off the demonic spirits that habitual sin but you and I as believers must you know must always protect ourselves protect ourselves we are attempting to condone ourselves or blame the devil for our sinful behavior but we must understand that it is our responsibility to keep all those shut for the enemy all those shut now we also understand that we are human beings we go through different challenges we go through ups and downs and there are emotions that we have emotions like fear, doubt all of that will come but at that moment we can take authority I am not saying we can be stoic we don't have any emotions no when we lose a loved one there is emotions there is bereavement it is hurt yes but we also take courage it says don't lose hope be absent in the body be present with the Lord so if we see things ahead there is fear right now few of our there are a lot of you who are going through very difficult time because of the recession the global recession that is predicted say oh what if I lose my job I just shared I told them this minister to them said hey when I was talking with you even in the famine you will prosper just encouraging them fear doubt all of these things will be there but we counter it with God's word counter it with what God is doing and give no place for the devil understand that satan uses strongholds to keep believers from the effect in the ministry uses these strongholds. It could be money, women, men, the things of this world, luxuries of this world. Here's what Mike Murdoch says, an unconquered weakness always births a tragedy. So we must shut the enemy, we must close the enemy. So one of the books that I can probably think of reading is Laying the Acts to the Root, by Pastor Ashish. You can probably download it off the website of you. And just read it. Sure, it'll be a good treat here. All right, let's take a break. We'll come back in 10 minutes, and we'll continue that class. Thank you.