 Good morning everyone and welcome all our in-person students, our online students, a warm welcome to you as well and to also our e-learning students. How are all of you this morning? Good. Yes. Waiting for the weekend to come. Happy Friday. My audio is really low. Okay, they're saying the audio is very low. I will increase the volume. Can you hear me now? Is it louder? Sam, is it louder now? Hello? It's the same, slightly better, same. How is it fine? Some more madam? Okay, can you increase the volume a little more please? Is this fine? Yes, this. Slightly better. Is this okay now? Yes. Okay, thank you Jairam. Thank you Lucy. Thank you. Thank you everyone for your help. Okay. Okay, let's begin the class. Can I ask one of our online students to please lead us in prayer please? Anyone can lead us in prayer. Online students, can unmute your mics and please pray. Anyone? Nobody wants to pray. Lord, I must out. We give you praise and adoration this morning. We commit today's session into your mighty hand that you take absolute control and lead us in all the things that we will be learning in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you Kofi. This last week we began looking at this APC publication, fulfilling God's purpose for your life. And we saw that God has a, what does God have for us? A plan and a purpose and a dream for each one of us. Okay. So is God's plan and purpose for our life a mystery? Something that we don't know? Or does He reveal it to us? He makes it known to us. His plans are always good. So God has a plan and a purpose but what should we do? God has a plan, a purpose and a dream for our lives but what should we do? You should. You need to ask God. Yes, as simple as that. You need to discover God's plan and purpose for your life. What else should you do? What else should you do? Once you know God's plan and purpose for your life, what should you do? You can say it even if it's wrong, doesn't matter. We need to act on God's word. What should you do? You need to cooperate with God. Thank you. You need to cooperate with God to fulfill His plan and purpose. And when God gives you a plan and a purpose that He just give it to you and say, here, take this is my plan and purpose. What does He do? How does He work with us? What does He do? Starts with a P, the word. What does God do? Well, I'm not reading your course content. Please read your course content and come for a lecture. It will be nice. Okay. It was very simple. We hardly did three or four pages and you had one week you could have read it. We need to partner with God. Okay. But what do we, what does God do when He gives us His plan and purpose? He gives us grace. Good. What does He do? He prepares us, right? He prepares us to fulfill His plan and His purpose. Okay. And even as we go about doing God's plan and purpose for our lives, we will make mistakes. Yes or no? Yes. But God is greater than our mistakes. God can help us overcome our failures and He can help us complete His call. Right? Lucy says He enables us. He empowers us. Yes. Thank you. Okay. So we can make mistakes, but God is greater than our mistakes. He can help us overcome our mistakes. That is what we saw, we studied last week. Okay. And I request all of you, if you come to my class next Friday, please read your notes. It will hardly take you 10 minutes because I have just done four or five pages. And four or five pages is not going to take you five hours. It's just going to take you half an hour. So please take half an hour to read. And those of you who are Hindi speaking students, please take the Hindi copy of version of this book and please read. Okay. Just don't sit here looking blank, please. Please read so it will be more engaging our class and more interactive. Okay. And also request for our online students, please just read through because it's just four or five pages that I did last week. And it's good to refresh yourself and come for the next class. Thank you. Okay. Another important thing to keep in mind, even as we go on this journey of fulfilling God's purpose for our life is that Satan will stop us from fulfilling God's plan and purpose for our lives. Okay. So God, a God given dream or God given purpose will always face demonic opposition. Okay. Satan will try to bring in delay. Satan will try to bring in opposition. He will bring about hindrances. Okay. But we need to know that delays, you know what is delays, right? You know, when the train gets delayed, delayed, right? When the train doesn't come on time, it means it's delayed. Okay. So delays are not always from God. The book of Daniel in chapter 10, you know, we read that Daniel was praying about a certain thing and it took him 21 days to receive the answer for what he was praying. How many days? 21 days. But the moment he prayed about it, the answer was already released in heaven. But why did it take him 21 days? It was not because God did not have emails or it was not because God did not have a mobile to send him an SMS or a WhatsApp message. Okay. It was because there was demonic spirits that were interfering and stopping the angel from coming and giving the message to Daniel. Okay. So we need to understand that delays are not always from God. Satan also attempts to delay our miracles. Satan also delays the answers that we need to get. Now, why does, you know, he caused delays? Why does delays happen? Delays happen so that it weakens our desire. Okay. It weakens our desire. It weakens our drive. That means, you know, our motivation. It weakens our determination and also Satan brings about these delays so that we can get distracted. Okay. Hey, this is not working. You know, I'll just do something else. So we get distracted. So delays, why does Satan bring about these delays is to weaken our desire to follow God, to pursue God, to wait on God, to do what God wants us to do to weaken our drive, to weaken our determination. And also delays are introduced by Satan to create destruction. Now, why does Satan do this? Satan does this so that he can draw us off our desire to fulfill God's plan and purpose for our lives. We get very fed up. We get mayus ho jaate ham log. You know, we just give up. We don't want to continue. Okay. You wait for one month. You wait for two months. And then you say, God, this is not happening. Let's plan A is not working. So let's go to plan B or let's go to plan Z. Okay. And let's take on another plan because this is taking too long. But what we need to do is we need to be focused on God's goal. We need to be focused on what God is calling us. And these distractions simply break our focus. And you know what happens when we break, when our focus is broken, right? You can get easily distracted. It cuts our speed. It removes our eyes from the goal. And there is no perseverance. There's no endurance. We just feel lost. And we are doing something else. And Satan is very happy about that. Okay. So we need to remain focused on our goal. And, you know, because Satan is very happy about that. Because Satan also knows that when he brings in distractions, it's going to waste our time and our energy. Okay. So when we're distracted, God is telling us, hey, I want you to do this. And you're trying to do it and you are not seeing any fruit. You're not seeing anything that is happening. You know, you're just working hard. You get disappointed. And then you turn your eyes. Maybe you're focusing on your family or your children or some business or something else that, you know, you are getting interested in. And then this gets sidelined. You're calling what God wants you to do is you're taking a backseat and you're not able to continue it. And you're wasting your time and energy on other things. And you're not able to put that time and energy on God. What God wants you to do. Okay. So very important. That's why the Bible tells us to run our race with. What does the Bible say? We need to run our race with. How do we need to run our race? Online students. In-person students. How do we need to run our race? Sorry. With endurance. With perseverance. What is the meaning of endurance and perseverance? You know, a spider. What is it? When you, when a spider spinning a web and you try to pull down, you pull down the web, what happens? What does a spider do? What does a spider do? It makes another one in the same place. You pull that down. What does it do again? It will keep on spinning and spinning and spinning in the same place. Try it. You know, so it'll do it again and again. And again, it never gives up. That is endurance. That is perseverance. So run your race with endurance. That is said, the race that is said before you. And even as you run that race of life, even as you journey on in life, you know, there will be seasons where you will have struggles. There will be challenges. There will be difficulties. But the good thing is that you are going to taste victory or you are going to see victory. Okay. So the guarantee is that even though you face challenges and difficulties, you are going to face, come to a place of victory. So when you come to that place of victory, all of your struggles are gotten because you're tasting victory. Victory is very sweet. You're excited and you're glad that you've arrived at your place of victory. Okay. So here is some encouraging news. You need to run your race with endurance. Why? Because when you run your race with endurance, with perseverance, it demoralizes your enemy. Satan is very demoralized. That means say, Aray, what is this? I'm trying to do everything to hinder this person. But this person is just sticking to God's plan. This person is not quitting, is not giving up. This person is not getting distracted. This person is not running off in another direction. This person is not wasting their time and energy on anything else. And that demoralizes your enemy. He gets very upset. He gets demoralized. And he thinks that, hey, you know, you're sticking with your plan. You're sticking with what God wants you to do. You know, you've got some stickability. And Satan gets demoralized. So your endurance is demoralizing to him. Okay. So you know something God has called you to do. You know that God has called you here to APC Bible College. You know, you might face a lot of challenges. You might face a lot of difficulties. You might not like the food. You might Friday, you'll never fasted in your life. Friday is fasting prayer. You know, so much of studies, so much of work to do. You're not able to do all of this. You're not able to understand English. You're not able to understand what to start. And all this is demoralizing. You just want to leave everything and go. Okay. But, you know, if you know 100% that God has brought you here, then you endure, you persevere, you stick with God's plan. God will give you the strength, the grace and the strength and your endurance is demoralizing to him. Okay. So this is chapter one. Okay. And I want you to please read through this today. Even as you have study time, right? So please read through this. And next week, when you come for class, please on Thursday, make sure that you'll read lesson one, chapter one, and also chapter two, whatever we are completing today and come. Okay. And please take down some notes so that, you know, your mind is not lost because you're just looking at me and your mind can wander. So if you're listening and writing, taking down notes, then it also helps you to concentrate and not fall asleep. Okay. Okay. Fine. Any questions on chapter one? Any questions on chapter one? Any questions? If you have any questions online students as well, you can post it on the chat section. Okay. Thank you, Lucy. No questions. Okay. There are no questions. Then we will move on to chapter two. Yes. Can you please take the mic and speak? Please take the mic. Please give him the mic quickly, Moses. Please pass on the mic quickly to him. Sorry. You have to come up in front, please. No, the online students, excuse me, the online students have to hear you also. So please come quickly up in front. If you don't mind. Thank you. Come this side, please. Hi, everyone. Online students. Can you hear him? Is it on the mic? Online students. Can you just say something? Say hello, hello. Hi. Hello. Yes. Yeah, they can hear you. Yeah. So my question is you told that Daniel. Daniel. He is above Daniel. And he prays for 21 days to get his answer back from the heaven, from God. Okay. Why is it 21 days? I suppose. Second thing is he might be Daniel distract from his goal. Keep your mic closer, please. Yes. Yeah. Might be the Daniel distract from his goal or his focus might be. Okay. So why he is like distract is any there is an illusion. Okay. Second question. And how he get back to his like focus, how he focus on, how he is focused on his like goal again. These three things. Three questions. Thank you. So his first question is, why did, why did it take 21 days for Daniel to receive his answer? I already mentioned the reason I said the first time he prayed. The answer was already released from heaven. But the angel that was, are you listening? The angel that was bringing his answer was talked by demonic forces. Satan Satan's angels demons. They stopped the angel that was bringing the answer to Daniel. Because they didn't want the answer to come to Daniel. They didn't want the truth to be revealed to Daniel. So the angel of God was engaging in a warfare in a fight with the demons. And finally, there was another angel who came and helped him and he was, they were able to overthrow these demonic forces. And then the angel was able to come and give the message to Daniel. Okay. So I already said this, but I'm repeating this for you. The second question is, did Daniel lose his focus? No, Daniel did not lose his focus. How do we know that? Because it was 21 days and he still kept praying and praying and praying and praying and praying. Even if it would take 41 days, 61 days he would have still prayed. Okay. So he was, he did not lose focus. He kept praying because he knew the answer will come and the answer finally came up to 21 days. How did he refocus? He did not have to refocus because he was already focused. Okay. Good questions. Thank you. Anyone else has any questions? No questions? Okay. There are no questions. We look at chapter two. Can you please return to chapter two? Please, everyone. In chapter two, we will discuss, you know, yes, God has a plan and purpose for our lives. God has a dream for our lives. But how do we know? How do we recognize God's plan and purpose for our lives? Okay. How do we find out? So we're going to look at nine guide posts in the coming weeks. And we already saw this and it's mentioned in chapter one. You know, we looked at it in point one point six in chapter one. For me, it's page number seven. I don't know what page it is for y'all. This is the old edition of the book. So there are nine guide posts, nine ways we can know or discover God's plan and purpose for our lives. Page eight. Okay. And here, even in chapter two, it's also mentioned the nine guide posts are also mentioned. Okay. So even as we go through these nine guide posts in the coming week, I want you to even as we go through this, I want you to think seriously. Okay. We're helping you to find out God's plan and purpose for your life. So even as we're going through it, you know, I wanted to write down what you are learning, what you are able to relate to, you know, and, you know, I wanted to think about it for your own life. And you can say, yes, you know, even as we're going through these guide posts, you can say, yes, I can see this in my life. I can see this in my life. So this is how God is leading me. This is where he's leading me. This is what is my plan and purpose for my life. Okay. So even as we go through these guide posts, you know, it's leading us to God's plan and purpose. It would be good to spend time to think about it, analyze, examine in your own life. And by the time we complete these nine guide posts, you should be in a position, you know, where you're able to basically have a general sense of direction. You know, to know where God is leading you what he's doing with your own life. Okay. So first of all, I want to establish the fact that, you know, we can know God's plan or God's will for our life. God's will or God's plan for our life is not mysterious. Like we said last time, some people think that God's plan and will for our life is mysterious. We don't know anything about it. It's not true. Okay. God works in ways that we can understand, we can see, we can know his will. Okay. So saying that God's will is not, is mysterious. It's not spiritual. It's not biblical because look at Ephesians chapter five versus 15 to verse 17. Okay. Ephesians chapter five versus 15 to 17. Can one of you please read that Ephesians five 15 to 17. Seeing them that you walk circumstances, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand what the will of God is. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, Siddharth for posting the worst on the chat section. Now in verse 17, it says understand what the will of the Lord is. Okay. So let me ask you this question. Can we understand the will of the Lord? Can the will of the Lord be understood? Yes. Okay. We can't sit around and say, Hey, I don't know what God is up to in my life. I don't know what God is doing in my life. Bible tells us in this verse in Ephesians chapter five that we have to understand what the will of the Lord is. That means the will of the Lord can be understood and you can know for sure what God's will is for your life. Okay. So look at Colossians chapter one versus nine to 11. Can somebody please read Colossians chapter one versus nine to 11 please. Any online student can read that Colossians chapter one versus nine to 11. Hi, madam. Yes, go ahead, Lucy. Colossians chapter one, nine to 11. For this reason, we also since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding that you may walk worthy of the Lord. Fully pleasing him being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with all might, according to his glorious path for all patients and long suffering with joy. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Lucy. So here, you know, Paul, even as he's writing to the church at Colossae, he's actually saying a prayer, he's praying. Now when he's praying, does he expect his prayer to be answered? Does he expect his prayer to be answered? Yes or no? Yes. Right. Like when we pray, we expect God to answer our prayer. Okay. So he's saying, what is he praying? He says he wants the church to be filled with what? Look at your Bibles, look at your books. What does he want the church to be filled with? The knowledge, just knowledge, wisdom and knowledge of what? His will. Okay. So he wants them to be filled with the knowledge or wisdom of his will. Okay. So even as Paul prayed this prayer, can we also pray the same prayer? Yes. What can you pray? Knowledge, wisdom, will. What do you pray? God, fill me with knowledge of your will. That means God, give me an understanding of your will. And when you pray that, do you expect God to answer your prayer? Yes. So start praying that. Okay. Pray and say God, I want to be filled with the knowledge or the wisdom of your will. Okay. And he continues and he says, you know, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. So here is the key. What is the key? Okay. The key is we need wisdom and we need spiritual understanding to be filled with the knowledge of his will. Yes. We can pray God, fill me with the knowledge of your will. But it takes wisdom and spiritual understanding to know his will. Is there a difference between wisdom and knowledge? Yes. No. Yes. Some of you say no. Some of you say yes. What is the difference between wisdom and knowledge? Knowledge is something like facts. Okay. Wisdom is from God. Okay. Knowledge is what? Using of knowledge is wisdom. Okay. Knowledge is when you read. Knowledge is information. Yes. Thank you. Knowledge is information. What do you get from the internet? What do you get from books? What do you learn? What are taught? All that is knowledge. What is wisdom? Wisdom is deep insights of God's revelation. Okay. Deep insights of God's revelation. God's revelation. Okay. Thank you. Wisdom is how to apply that knowledge. Okay. Wisdom is how to apply the knowledge, how to use that knowledge in the right way. What is right? What is wrong? How to know what is right and wrong and what to do? So wisdom actually helps you apply the knowledge that you have learned in a profitable and very useful way. So we can ask God to fill us with the knowledge of his will, but it takes wisdom and knowledge to know his will. Okay. So the next several weeks, we're actually going to, even as we study this book, you are going to receive or you're going to be imparted with wisdom and knowledge to understand the will of God. Okay. You're going to receive wisdom and spiritual understanding, even as we study the word of God, so that you can be filled with the knowledge of his will. Okay. Now, once you are filled with the knowledge of his will, what are the things that can happen in your life? Look at worst 10, please, everyone and tell me what would happen when you are, when you're filled with the knowledge of his will. What will happen when you're filled with the knowledge of his will? Come on. You will walk worthy of the Lord. Yes. That's the first thing. Second thing, you may be well pleasing to him. Yes. Third thing, you will be fruitful in every good work. Okay. So if you want to walk worthy of the Lord, if you want to be well pleasing to him, if you want to be fruitful in every good work, it depends on what? What does it depend on? If you want to walk pleasing to the Lord, if you want to be fruitful in every good work, if you want to be fruitful in everything, if you want to be well pleasing to him, what should you do? What is it dependent on? It's dependent on the knowing the knowledge of his will. Okay. How many of you want to be fruitful here? Okay. Some of you don't want to be fruitful. Okay. How many of you want to be pleasing to God? How many of you want to walk worthy of the Lord? Then what do you need to do? What do you need to do? You need to be filled with the knowledge of his will. Okay. So many of us are working and working and working and we see no fruit. Then you're wondering, hey, why is there no fruit? Why is I'm doing so much, but why am I not getting anything? Maybe you need to start at the very beginning and you need to know if this is what God wants you to do, if this is God's will for your life, because when you are in the center of God's will, even though you face difficulties and challenges, you will be fruitful in every good work. Okay. And the fourth thing is what? He says, increase in the knowledge of God. Okay. So it's like a full circle. You know his will. When you know his will, what happens? You will walk worthy of him. You will walk pleasing. You will be well pleasing to him. You will be fruitful in every good work and he will increase in the knowledge of God. It's like a circle. Okay. So when you know the knowledge of his will, you will walk worthy of him. You will walk well pleasing to him. You will be fruitful in every good work. And then you will keep increasing in the knowledge of God. Okay. Look at what first Corinthians chapter 2 verse 10 says. Can one of you please read that please? First Corinthians chapter 2 verses 9 and 10. Can I read it, sister? Yes, please get through. Go ahead. Yeah. First Corinthians chapter 2 verses 9 and 10, but as it is written, I has not seen nor heard nor have entered into the heart of man. The things which God has prepared for those who love him, but God has revealed them to us through his spirit for the spirit such as all things. Yes. The deep things of God. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Get through. Paramita, you have your hands up. You have a question. Do you want to say something? Okay. We all like verse 9 and we all quote verse 9. Right. No, I has seen or your has heard. No has entered in the heart of man. The things that God has planned for our lives. Okay. Yes. God has great good plans for us. But how does he reveal it to us? How does he reveal it to us? Through his spirit. Yes. Through his spirit. He reveals it through his spirit. So you see that, you know, Paul doesn't just stop there, you know, by saying, Hey, you know, God has great big plans for us. He does not just stop there. Like some of us as Christians, we just stopped there, but he continues to say, but we have the mind of Christ. Okay. He says who has known the mind of the Lord and it says nobody can know the mind of God. Nobody can know the thoughts of God. But we are special people. We can know the mind and the thoughts and the plans that God has and the purposes God has for us. How is it possible? How is it possible? How is it possible to know the plans and the thoughts that are in mind in the mind of God? Through his spirit. Yes. Thank you. Get through. Thank you. Moses through his spirit. That is why we have the mind of Christ. Okay. Through his spirit snow just through his spirit spirit is one. Holy spirit is one. Okay. So through his spirit. Okay. So when somebody says, Hey, I wonder what is the mind of God on the heart of God towards me. I don't understand. You can just complete by the sentence for them by saying, Hey, you have the mind of Christ, which means the Holy spirit will reveal the plans and the plans and the purposes of God accurately, correctly and completely to you. Okay. So we don't have to go around life like a blind person, not knowing where to go, what to do. Okay. Just wondering what God is doing with our lives. We can understand the will of God. We can be filled with the knowledge of his will because we have the Holy spirit who reveals it to us and we have the mind of Christ. Okay. But it's important to know that even as God reveals his plan and purpose to us through his Holy spirit, it's going to be progressive. What is the meaning of progressive? Slowly. Okay. It's not like God is saying, Hey, take this book in this book that are, you know, for 62 pages and each you're going to live 62 days of your life and each day I've written what you have to do. Take it, read it and do it. Take your manual. No, God does not tell that to us. He's not a God who does that. Okay. He reveals his plan and purpose step by season by season. So he brings us here for a season. Maybe you're in a Bible college for a season and in the Bible college, you're here to prepare yourself to learn, you know, to equip yourself and you have another season to get into. So even as you get into your next season, God will prepare you right now for this season in life. Okay. So everyone's book is open. Yes. Please keep your books in front. Some of you are lost in dreaming. Okay. So, you know, it's enough for us to keep, you know, know which season we are in now, what God wants us to do. And also it's important for us to ask God to reveal what is the next season for our life so that we can plan and prepare. Okay. Now, how do we understand this? Look at what Proverbs chapter four was 18 says. Can somebody please read Proverbs chapter four was 18. Proverbs chapter four was 18. But the path of the just is like a shining sun that shines even brighter onto the perfect day. Yes. So it says the path of the just that means the path of a righteous person. All of you here are righteous. Anyone here are unrighteous. Why do we say we are righteous? Because when we are born again, Christ clothes us with his righteousness. Okay. So it says here that, you know, when the sun comes up in the morning, four, four, 30, is it very bright? No, we can see some things, but there is not much of clarity. We can't see much, but as the sun keeps coming up and up and up, you know, things become more clearer. Things become brighter and it reaches midday, you know, the zenith of the day, everything becomes absolutely clear. So that is how God's plan is for our life. He'll tell us, Hey, I want you to do this. You just step out in faith. And then as you keep taking each step, things becomes more clearer and clearer and clearer. Let's look at two examples. One example is in Hebrews chapter 11 was eight. Okay. Can somebody read that please? He grew up to 11 was eight. My faith Abraham obeyed when he called to go out to the place, which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out not knowing where he was going. So here it says, you know, it's giving the great testimony of Abraham. It says by faith Abraham obeyed God when God told him to go to a place and God tell him which place. Did God tell him which place? No, he just told him, go leave your father's household and I will take you to the place which I'm going to give us your inheritance. So if we were going to meet Abraham as he was traveling and say Abraham, where are you going? What would he tell you? I don't know where I am going. We'll be shocked. All I know Abraham will tell you is that I'm going to a place where God is going to show me that place and he's going to give me as my inheritance. Okay. So even as Abraham stepped out, God led him and brought him to the place where he was going to give him an inheritance. Amen. So even as you step out in faith, God is going to take you and show you and that is how we need to walk by faith. Okay. So and God is not going to give you every day of your life and say, Hey, this is what you're going to do every day. Write it down for you. 50 years. This is your book. No, you know, he's going to read you step by step. It's going to be progressive, small progresses, small steps. Okay. Another example, Genesis chapter 24, verse 27. Genesis chapter 24, verse 27. Yes. Get through. Do you have your hand up? You want to read? Yes. Yes. Genesis chapter 24, verse 27. And he said, let's it be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his mercy and his truth towards my master as for me, being on the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master's brethren. Amen. Amen. So here we see that Abraham is giving his servant Eleazar a job to do. He's telling him, go to my father's place and find a wife for my only son, Isaac. Okay. So, you know, look at what Eleazar says. He does not know what to do, how to go about it, but he says, as for me being on the way, the Lord led me to the house of my master's brethren. So he doesn't know, he just going, but he says, even as he is walking God is just leading him step by step. Okay. So, you know, Eleazar would have been like, God, what do I do now? Okay. In those days, they didn't have Shadi.com. They didn't have Christian matrimonial.com. They didn't have newspapers. They didn't have, you know, foranna manzine like we have here in Bangalore where we get all matrimonial things, you know, but he just goes on his way trusting God to lead him. And he says, even as he was journeying God led him. Okay. So maybe sometimes God would just say, leave, go. God would just say, hey, leave your house, go to the APC Bible college. That's all. Okay. And then you go further instructions. You just come and you said, God, I never knew this is happening here. This is this. That is this. You never told me this. If you told me, I would never have come. You should have told me God. God never reveals all of those things. He just says, go to APC Bible college. You've come, you know, God will lead you in the next step. Okay. So we need to just move on by eight. Okay. So we're going to look at, even as we've laid this foundation, we're going to look at how we can know God's plan and purpose for our lives. And I said, we're going to be looking at nine guide posts. Okay. What's the first one? Recognize the general teaching and instruction in God's word. Okay. So today we look at maybe one and the second one is recognize the seeds in your life. Okay. So the very first thing, the very foundational guide post or indicator of how God wants us or the God wants to reveal his plan and purpose for our life or to help us know which season of life we are in. What is the next season? What is the first way he will guide us and lead us through? How will he lead us and guide us? How will we know God's will? God's word. Sorry. God's word. God's word. Yes. God's word. Lift up your Bibles please. Yes. And say, you know, I can know God's will through his word. Okay. So, you know, God can never lead us or God will never lead us contrary to his written word. Okay. He will never lead us in a way that contradicts his written scripture. If you want to know anything about your life, don't run to XYZ. Don't run to people. Just open God's word. God's word will lead you and guide you in every area of your life. You will be shocked and amazed to see how God is teaching you, correcting you, training you, leading you where you need to go. Okay. Look at what second Timothy chapter 3 was 16 and 17 says. Can somebody read that please? Second Timothy chapter 3, 16, 17. All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. Amen. Amen. So here it says all scripture, not only New Testament, but also Old Testament. Okay. Not only the passages where we read about Jesus, but also genealogy. Some of us don't read genealogy. It says all scripture is given by the inspiration of God. What's the meaning of inspiration? It means it's the very breath of God. God's knowledge is revelation. Okay. And it's useful for what? It's useful for? Look at your books or your Bible. It's useful for teaching, for reproof, for giving proof, for verification, for correction, for instruction and righteousness. Why is scripture given to us? Why is scripture given to us? Look at your Bibles. Okay. Why is it all given for us? For correction, reproof, instruction, righteousness. So that what? So that? Look at your Bibles and tell me. Yes. So that we may be complete. What else? Thoroughly equipped for every good work. If you want to be complete, what should you do? Read scripture. Okay. If you want to be equipped in every good work, what should you do? Read scripture. If you want to preach, you want to become missionary, you want to become a pastor, you want to become a youth pastor, worship leader, what should you do? Read scripture. Yes. We need to read scripture because it thoroughly equips you for every good work. Okay. And God instructs us through his word. Okay. So how does God instruct us? Firstly, how do we know God's will and plan and purpose for our life? How God instructs us? Through his word. Thank you. Yeah. Yes. And he leads us in the way of righteousness. Okay. So this is a starting point. If you want to know anything about your life, how to go, what decision you'll need to start looking at God's word. Look at Romans chapter 12 verse two. What does it say? Romans 12 verse two. Anyone can unmute your mics and read. Go ahead. Just unmute your mics and read, please. Romans 12 verse two. And do not be conformed to this word, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Amen. So if you want to know the good, acceptable and pleasing will of God, what should you do? You need to renew your mind. When you renew your mind is renewed, you'll be able to know what is the good acceptable and the perfect will of God. So in this verse, the very short verse, but there are so many things that we can learn from this verse. The first thing is this word prove. You know, it says so that you may prove the Greek word means test. So it's often used for testing metal through fire. So when you put metal through fire, you can test how strong that metal is, how good that metal is. So it basically means to explore, to investigate, to examine. So God is telling us that we need to prove, which means we need to examine. We need to test what is the good acceptable and the perfect will of God. So we will go for a break and we'll come back and we'll continue after the break. Thank you everyone.