 Good to hear your voices and so happy that different ones of us we are connecting from so many parts of the world how exciting and once again welcome okay good to know people are doing well people are doing well by God's grace wow wonderful good morning good afternoon good evening whatever is applicable where you are okay so let's get started with the word of prayer today would any of us like to lead in prayer please how about Ruben Ruben would you like to lead in prayer today father I just want to thank you for this opportunity that you have given each and every one of us to learn and to know more about the things that you are going to show us Father God and God I just pray that you give us the spirit of understanding and the spirit of revelation according to the deep edited knowledge of you Lord open the eyes of our understanding and open the eyes of our hearts that we may know the hope of your calling to which you have called us Father God and I pray for your spirit to help us and guide us in Jesus name I pray amen amen and thank you thank you Ruben yeah so let's continue where we stopped in the last class we talked about the fact that you know prayer is communication with God but it's more than that it's communion it's ministry it's warfare and we also looked at the fact that we can release our God given authority through prayer okay this was originally intended by God but due to sin man lost his authority however the Lord Jesus through his work on the cross bought that authority back for us so now as believers and as children of God we can exercise it and one of the ways in which we can exercise it is through prayer and we also saw how God has chosen to depend on our prayers now God is sovereign he can if he wants to do many things but now he has chosen to have us as partners and co-workers so in many cases you know if we do not pray right if we do not pray then you maybe there are some things that we know have been promised over our lives but those things may not actually come to pass because we have not done our part of praying and that's what we talked about in the previous class and today I want to touch upon some of the foundations for prayer now when we use the term foundation a building can stand or fall based on the foundation okay so if you have a good foundation if you have a deep foundation you can build very high and the building can be stable for years decades I don't know some buildings are quite strong for centuries right and they've been made into museums also these days so the foundation is very important we can have the right foundation for prayer or we could also have the wrong foundation for prayer now what is the wrong foundation for prayer it is the wrong understanding of what prayer is so would you like to share with me what some wrong concepts are about prayer you know people people may think prayer is that but actually it's not can I share something yes please yes yes people say prayer is letting God know about our problems but I don't think prayer is that I believe God knows everything it's just acting our faith on it okay okay okay thank you jeffina thank you for sharing your opinion so jeffina says that it's not just about you know letting god know your problems yes yes abu becker please go ahead some people believe prayer is begging and why not it's not begging okay it's a way of expressing so some people believe they are when they are praying they are begging god to do something and that is wrong isn't it yeah so that is not what prayer is yeah thank you for sharing yeah so prayer is not begging what what else any wrong concepts about prayer sometimes yeah okay I heard two voices maybe divya can go first and the next person after that okay thank you so I think sometimes when we pray we just keep on talking and we don't pause to listen what God is speaking so yeah we forget that it is two ways we just think it is one way communal question yeah yeah thank you divya thank you so it's not just one way but it is both ways yes that's right yeah someone else wanted to share yeah okay yes yes joesh yeah so like some people believe like prayer is chanting and some people just praying tongues like it's something which I've observed in churches like Catholic church and any Catholic church so like I don't know whether it's right or wrong but just that will not suffice is what I believe like people have to like pray for their heart is not just okay yeah thank you thank you for sharing joesh so it's not just chanting saying something and your heart is not connected to it what else what else is wrong ma'am I would like this yes yes Rosalind prayer is not asking God when we need something we can also come to God even if we don't need anything we can come to him and just lift him up and just praise him worship him and glorify him without any need yeah yeah yes so true so true because it's a relationship right it's not just like you know you have that concept right like a glee whatever you want you ask you'll get it so if you want something you go to God but that's not what prayer is so thank you for sharing Rosalind and Lubega would you like to share please some people take prayer let Lubega go first please and then after you could follow after that yes thank you okay some some people take prayer to be like a ritual like we have to do it no matter what but I think prayer should be in driven it needs when you hear the spirit of the Lord talking to you I think you should it should be something it's like a life that you person should do it as he feels in himself but not as a racial thank you so much okay okay yeah thank you thank you Lubega thank you for sharing your thoughts so prayer shouldn't be a ritual okay it must you must be led by God okay Afuye please go ahead sorry to have interrupted you earlier okay good morning good morning everybody how are we all doing prayer prayer is meant to be a relationship prayer is meant to be an addicted act but some people take prayer to be money when you're using going to supermarket to make your shopping so they take prayer to be in the replacement of money you go to supermarket you shop whatever you want from the shop from the shop or God then you come back to your home you shop whenever you want to something you go to supermarket you shop and you come back to your home you don't go back to the supermarket to make your shopping if you don't consume the first item you have for example if you are buying a tin of a tin of tea if you don't finish or consume that tin of tea you don't go back to the supermarket to make a shopping it is when you finish that you remember I have to go to supermarket so when they don't consume what they first receive from God through prayer they don't remember to pray again so it's supposed to be an addicted life even in your dream you should be praying thank you thank you thank you Afuye yeah it's quite passionate sharing there appreciate that thank you thank you for sharing Ruben you you want to say something did you want to add to that no okay fine I thought you had unmuted okay all right so thank you everyone for putting across your thoughts yes there are several such wrong concepts about prayer and I will you know go ahead and list out a few some that you've already mentioned and some new ones which prayer is not so the first thing that is common for many of us is the thought that prayer can be like a ritual okay and that probably happens because we come from a background where we have seen prayer being done at certain times and not necessarily involving your heart but you know just doing it because it's supposed to be done even in school teachers have a time they give you a time and they say okay assembly time now you pray now lunchtime you pray so we get into that doing it as per time and doing it as a ritual but of course we are quite clear that prayer is not a ritual prayer is not an obligation or a religious duty okay so God Jesus talked about prayer as being very important in his relationship with the father but he never once made it sound like it was an obligation you know obligation is is like you don't want to do it but you have to do it okay it was never that for Jesus he always enjoyed spending time with the father and it was a delight so prayer should never be an obligation or become something like a duty prayer is also not lip service okay we we some of us mentioned that and said that people pray but they don't really mean it it's not from the heart now when they do that obviously you know God is God and he is omniscient he knows everything he even discerns and understands the hearts of men one of us I think Jeffina you mentioned that that God already knows what is in our hearts so just because we're supposed to pray we mustn't give him some lip service and say okay God you know okay I worship you I will do this for you this this this and we don't mean it there is there is no thought behind it there is no intention behind that so lip service is not what God is looking for so if prayer ends up being just lip service in our lives we must repent of that and turn around so it's not lip service and prayer also does not mean that you know we can twist God's arm now I remember from my own experience there was one point in my journey where you know I was trying to understand what is this prayer thing can I pray about anything that I want and all that and at that time I remember a friend of mine she said hey whatever you want you just fast for 21 days okay you fast you pray for 21 days God and make sure you know you you just like bombard God and at the end of 21 days you'll get it okay but then now when I think of it at that point it sounded great but for me right now it sounds like twisting God's arm right so whatever I want if I if I go to God just to manipulate him and get it that's not what prayer is that's not the right foundation for prayer and that's not why we should be using prayer so don't twist God's arm and prayer is also not a shot in the dark where we say okay I'm going to pray you know how some of us do this yeah I want to be blessed in my work but for example if you're doing a presentation and you're not sure how it's going to go but you just say okay God I'll pray you I you bless me but within our hearts we're thinking if this doesn't go well then I'll do that okay if this happens you know then maybe I'll do that we have our backup plans we are not clear that okay I have worked hard I've prayed I've done the right thing sincere thing God will bless my work we don't have that confidence or that faith but we have all kinds of you know plan B and C because we don't believe that this prayer is effective so prayer is not that just give it a try okay just let God know we'll see if he wants he'll do if he doesn't do okay we have some other backup plan so prayer is not a shot in the dark and prayer is not to prove one's spirituality that we are superior okay again I'm sure some of us can relate to this whenever I used to be asked to pray in public I'll get scared oh no what were people think maybe people will think I'm not spiritual enough I'm not saying the right scriptures I'm not using the right words right but that's not what prayer is meant for not to show your your level of spirituality to show your superiority to use a certain language right sometimes we prefer to pray in the King James version and think that oh God is so impressed people are so impressed but that is in the Bible we see Jesus talk about the Pharisees who love to go and pray outside but he tells them to go and pray in secret because prayer is not about displaying our superiority over others and displaying our spirituality okay so that is not the right the right foundation for prayer and prayer without knowing God's instructions on prayer also can be weak okay what do I mean by that see in scripture God says you know whatever you ask in the name of Jesus I will do it for you so when we are praying and we pray with that powerful authoritative name of Jesus in faith that becomes effective now if I don't understand that if I don't understand that okay the name of Jesus means this this and this and so it's powerful and if I don't understand oh faith means this and therefore it makes my prayer powerful what happens I just pray whatever I know whatever my understanding yeah I think prayer is this and I just go about it in that manner I will miss out on many benefits that I can experience provided I know the word of God regarding prayer as you know an important aspect of our lives okay and while praying the wrong thing to do is also to be very conscious about our eloquence very conscious about you know the display aspect of it because ultimately prayer is about connecting with God you know maybe there are times when we didn't say the right words but that is the most effective prayer that you and I may have prayed so don't get too worried about the eloquence of prayer okay all right so now let us look at the right foundations for prayer so so far we took some time to discuss all the things that don't make our prayer life effective okay but what what are the aspects that do make our prayer life very very effective so in our notes here I am doing chapter 2 chapter 3 today which is foundation for prayer and there are seven such aspects that have been listed that will make up prayer life super strong so we will go over each one of them I will first list them out for us the first one is to understand the nature of God the second is to develop intimacy with God the third one is to understand the redemptive heart of God the fourth one is to know the promises of God the fifth one is to partner with the Holy Spirit the sixth one is to know our position in Christ and the seventh one is to live a life of surrender now all seven of these aspects you know if we can grow in our understanding of these aspects incorporating this into our prayer lives then we will find that you know our prayer life is being strengthened our relationship with God is being strengthened and we will see much fruit by engaging in prayer so let's begin with the first foundational truth here which is to understand the nature of God now some of us give examples where we said you know we go to God as if you know we're going to purchase something as if you know we have a shopping list and we just say okay God I want this this and this just give it to me why does that happen why do you think that happens any thoughts I believe it's because we grew up like that like we have seen people who go to God when they need something and when our parents teach us when you need you pray but after we get into the Bible we learn that it's more than that yep thank you thank you jeffina so we gain that understanding from our experiences we've seen people do that and we've been taught that so we follow it but while doing something like that you know just telling God okay I need this x y and z I need it who do you think God is hello everyone in the house hello yes yes yeah well well we do that is because our mentality we have a very shallow understanding we have always believed prayer is just meant for when you need something that's when you go to God like I said before we have turned God to a supermarket where we just go for shopping when you enter supermarkets you buy what you want to buy you go back home you forget about God we have always believed it is only when we need something we pray if you don't need anything it doesn't matter we forget about prayer that is why I said prayer should be addicted it should be a lifestyle not just when you need something it should be a lifestyle even when you are walking on the road you should be communicating and this is it somebody you have no relationship with you can't pray you can't make a request it is when you have a relationship like a father to son a mother to son relationship that is when you communicate better but when you do have a relationship the means of communication will definitely break and there's going to be a gap so our mentality and understanding is prayer is only meant for when you need something thank you very much okay yes thank you thank you Afuye so I see there that you know you made this point as well that we must understand what kind of relationship we have with God if we don't then that makes us you know pray in a very shallow way and Afuye pointed out and he said that like a father and a son relationship or a mother and and a child relationship so the understanding of God you know when we realize that he's not just just the provider up there in heaven who is going to respond to our needs if we have that understanding of God only that understanding of God no we haven't we haven't grasped who God is at all but when we deeply recognize the proper nature of God that's when our response to him also begins to change one small example when Jesus taught his disciples the disciples asked Jesus and they said teaches how to pray okay and then Jesus said okay this is how you must pray yeah sorry about that I think somebody was unmuted so I just muted them apologies I would need to mute if you know there is interruption so please don't mind that okay so I was saying Jesus taught his disciples to pray in this manner our father who are in heaven so what was Jesus's understanding of God Jesus called God in heaven as father so the nature of God to Jesus was father and that changed the way Jesus prayed but before Jesus the disciples would know how people prayed in the temple how people prayed in the synagogue right in a very ritualistic way but when Jesus brought this understanding our father in heaven the nature of God as a father became clear to the disciples all right so what I'm trying to say is see for us to have the right approach for prayer we need to understand the correct nature of God and where is this nature revealed to us it is revealed to us in the word of God as you study the word of God you begin to recognize oh wow Jesus moved with compassion when he saw people who were sick okay he's compassionate you know you realize that God so loved the world he hung on the cross he died for our sins you know he bore he carried my wounds he carried my my griefs so then you then you realize you know how God loves you the nature of God and then you begin to see so many other things how God dealt with Israel how God dealt with his people and you see oh he is righteous he is a just God you know he he is the God of truth he is the God of mercy he is the God of so in that way you know you begin to build this this image of God based on the word of God and that helps you reach out to God correctly in prayer because if you don't have that understanding of the nature of God then you don't know how to approach him and you don't know how to respond to him as well so through his word we can know the nature of God the nature of God is also revealed through the covenant names of God okay there are some names of God with the Jehovah title Jehovah Shalom Jehovah Rafa Jehovah Jairi Jehovah Siddh Kenu Jehovah so many things Roy so these are known as the covenant names of God because through these names God promised to the children of Israel that he would be their peace he would be their healer he would be their provider you know he would be their protector so on and so forth so through those covenant names also we recognize oh this is who our God is so when when I am disturbed I go to the Lord in prayer because I understand he is Jehovah Shalom he has a covenant of peace with me so the understanding of who God is is very very crucial and similarly the person of the Lord Jesus Christ we must have a good understanding of that once again where are you going to get this understanding from the word of God so we delve deep into the word of God when we study God's word we meditate on it and see ah wow this is what Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life so you meditate on it you begin to paint your picture of the nature of God based on scripture because that is the correct picture that we that we can have and when we have the right picture you know we will also go to God in prayer in the right way so you know we will begin by worshiping him we will begin by adoring him thanking him honoring him first of all for who he is and how faithful he is you know how how powerful he is how glorious he is and then you know because because we know that's who he is but also we know he is our provider so you know go to him and say uh God I am in need this is my situation you have promised in your word that you are my victory banner Jehovah Nisi so in Jesus name I pray for victory in this situation so you see my right understanding of the nature of God puts me in a better place for a right relationship with God right way of relating in prayer right way of you know seeing the fruit of prayer so that is the first foundation if you want to have a strong prayer life we should have a good and a clear understanding a scriptural understanding of who God is so know the nature of God that is the first thing the second thing is develop intimacy with God God as Jesus introduced to us is our father and just think about it you know he could have been introduced in so many other ways like Jesus could have said oh just king who are in heaven hallowed be thy name and that is that is good that is that is okay for us to relate to but he used the term father heavenly father a father who are in heaven now when you use the word father you know all of us can can confirm this and say the relationship is stronger the relationship is deeper somehow right so that intimacy that intimacy is required for us to develop that relationship and friendship with God and then we develop that friendship with God you know our prayer life is is growing you know prayer life is effective now we we see so many passages in the bible that talk about intimacy with God you know John chapter 15 is that classic passage okay John 15 and verse 7 again somebody read it please it is there in your notes and i am on page 9 so the top of that page John 15 and verse 7 John 15 7 if you abide in me and my worst abide in you you will ask what you desire and it shall be done for you yes thank you thank you Zalitoli so we are being invited to abide you know abide is to stay it is to dwell right it is to be with clothes it is to stay put and in that same passage we will understand that we are called to be connected in a very intimate way with God you know Jesus says I am the wine you are the branches obviously the the branches cannot exist without connection with the wine so he's calling us for a deep connection and he's saying as long as you have that deep connection you know my life will flow into you you will bear fruit there will be fruit on you right the branches are the ones parts that bear fruit but why is all this happening because of the connection because of the relationship because of the friendship because of the intimacy okay so intimacy is key in our prayer life without relating to God in in that kind of a close way you know it just becomes it just becomes a practice of some sort and that that's not what the bible teaches us to do but God wants us to relate to him in a close way okay and obviously when we relate to him in that manner we will open up our hearts we will also delight in prayer it will not be you know something that like burden that God has put on us but we would be happy to go into his presence and we worship and pray and honor him so intimacy is extremely important and let us also note in in scripture that God has actually called us to fellowship with the godhead so yes we relate with the father but we also closely relate with the son we also closely you see we are told when you become a believer right you are joined together with Christ you become one spirit with him so that kind of a closeness a believer has with the father with the son and of course the Holy Spirit who is living inside of us right and in 2nd Corinthians 13 and verse 14 Paul says he says the grace of God the love of the father and the sweet communion coenonia of the Holy Spirit coenonia is fellowship and partnership with the Holy Spirit so we can relate deeply and closely with the father we can relate deeply with the son we can relate deeply with the Holy Spirit and we have been invited to a place of close communion and fellowship with the father the son and the Holy Spirit when we look at prayer in this manner it becomes a delight and Jesus you know he had developed this in his walk whenever he related to the father you notice you know he would he would just call out to the father father you know this is what I'm asking you you already know my heart okay and also you we will study about the life of Jesus and his his prayer life but just a few thoughts over here you know he would spend extended times during the night early hours in the morning with the father what was he actually doing he had that intimate relationship with God and that made his prayer life very very effective and that is something we too must look to do for our own selves so develop intimacy with God okay develop that that close connection with God now some of the key things that are necessary for an intimate relationship with God firstly it is communion okay communion means connecting relating you you are spending time with God okay now for example if we join a workplace or for some students here you would relate better to school okay when you start going to school initially you don't know anybody but when you start spending time with people over there you know some of them they're not just your core students anymore but you call them friends and some are termed as best friends even okay similarly at the workplace they're just colleagues but maybe over time you say hey that's my friend how did it happen you spoke to that person you related to that person you spend time with that person right and that fellowship that communion caused the development of that friendship so the same way when we want to develop intimacy with God excuse me we have to spend time with God you know it's great to get information like you're we are attending this class we read some books about on prayer all that's wonderful but at the end of the day it has to be put to practice so you spend time with God you commune with God that personal intimacy personal worship and you will find that you know you your prayer life is becoming stronger transparency is also very very important please excuse me yeah so transparency is important there are two passages that have been referenced here one is from Psalm 139 and Psalm 51 as well and in both these passages we see that you know God wants truth in the innermost parts so when I go to God with pretense you know God might be dealing with me about sinful habit or wrong attitude maybe I'm very proud maybe I'm very arrogant okay and the Holy Spirit is convicting me of these things but when I go to God in prayer and I just you know put it somewhere in the recesses of my mind I forget about it and I say okay I know the steps for prayer the principles of prayer I will pray I will worship I will cry I will do everything and then just come out of prayer but transparency is missing the thing that God is dealing with at that point I'm not willing to accommodate I'm not willing to repent I'm not willing to change right so that transparency also strengthens the relationship see whatever I'm saying is is you can learn that from a human relationship also but we must be truthful and faithful in our relationship with God and that gives us immense strength in our relationship and our prayer then somebody mentioned today listening to him okay so listening to him is also important for us to develop intimacy how do we listen to God of course from logos which is already the revealed word of God which we have in the form of the Bible but we can also receive from God or hear from God hear his voice through the reema or the quickened word of God you know sometimes God impresses certain things on our hearts and we know when that it is in line with scripture and that is the voice of God that is the reema word of God speaking to us but we listen to it okay so we speak but also God speaks back to us and to develop intimacy they can also be the practice of what we call as waiting abiding or soaking in the presence of God by this what we do is we just we just spend time right we just enjoy God's presence now Psalm 42 that's a classic example you know where the Psalmist says that as a dear pants for for waters you know I I pant for you oh God you know I'm so thirsty for you oh God I'm waiting on you Psalm 63 is another good example where you know the where David writes and he says that Lord I'm looking for you you know including my flesh my soul my flesh every part of me is actually looking for you waiting for you I'm longing for you so to develop intimacy we can also make time to just wait on the Lord just spend time in his presence and in this way you know we are strengthening our relationship with him and whenever we strengthen our relationship with him you know whenever you have somebody who's very close what ends up happening you know they are comfortable to open up to you they are comfortable to reveal maybe some of the secret things as well okay and the same thing can be expected when we draw closer and closer to God we find that not only will we get to know his nature very well not only will we understand his plans clearly his purposes in a clearer way but also some of the secrets of his heart okay we would be able to receive by this I don't mean you know some kind of an additional weird revelation outside of his word no that's not what I mean but from the word of God in line with the word of God in line with the work of the Holy Spirit you know God can give us new revelation and we can receive that so that becomes an overflow of intimacy with God we also might have times where we feel that hey I'm encountering God in a special way I'm encountering God in a in a new and powerful way okay and this overflow of intimacy could also demonstrate itself in us doing the works that God wants done you know when we don't have a strong relationship with you know like let's say a family member for example if I use this a husband and wife right like they they got married before they got married things were different but once they got married you would find that they do things as per their decision together okay so let's say the wife is used to purchasing a certain kind of vegetables all the time when she was alone that's what she would do when she was unmarried but now that they are married they together they have a preference okay these are the kind of vegetables we will use in our cooking so she does those works because there is that relationship there is that strong relationship between the two of them and it manifests in the things that she does for the couple for the family and in the same way when we grow close to God and intimate with God the kind of life that we live the kind of heart that we develop for the ministry that the kind of you know passion we develop for the purposes of God you know we begin to manifest the works of God and and not just you know in preaching and teaching but also the release of the power of the Holy Spirit in signs wonders miracles healings deliverances all that begins to happen through us and that can only come from a place of intimacy and definitely you know fruitfulness in every area of our lives so in this manner we can develop intimacy and see the results of intimacy now there can be some barriers to intimacy okay and what are some of these barriers the first one is sin consciousness you know if we do not have a proper understanding of who Jesus is what he has done for us on the cross who we are in Christ Jesus when we come to God in prayer we might come with a sense of guilt right and when there's a sense of guilt weighing you down what happens you don't feel like opening up you want to hide things okay and you feel that God is actually not listening but is that the truth not at all scripturally God has already done what it takes to forgive our sin it is us who have not received it completely and had the revelation that God has forgiven us so that sin consciousness will prevent us from having a strong and a deep relationship with God so that is something we can overcome by renewing our minds to who we have now become in Christ Jesus here's the second thing that can be a hindrance a lack of discipline what happens we never really make time for prayer okay we we're saying that communion it's built you know like the relationship is built over time fellowship communion how can that happen without time so if we are just going about our lives thinking okay if I have time then I'll pray we don't with we are missing out okay so if we plan for it and say hey wow prayer is I need to spend time in prayer so I'm setting aside this time for prayer you are actually disciplining yourself and you are putting in that kind of effort in your relationship with God and that relationship is being strengthened and intimacy is being developed the next thing here that can hinder intimacy is business okay Martha and Mary you are familiar with that when you know we just want to do things for God but never really spend time with God you know that is very dangerous we could also end up doing this in the ministry where we are serving God and serving God and serving God but are at the cost of our you know personal walk with the Lord our personal relationship with the Lord what might end up happening if we do that sooner or later we will be burnt out okay so yeah so we must be careful to not let business take over our lives even in the area of ministry now I know many of us we are busy with all the right things but please don't let that hinder making time for God okay the next thing that can be a hindrance is incorrect heart condition so that refers to attitudes we can have bitterness in our hearts unforgiveness in our hearts or strife competition and go to God with all these things within us what happens even if God wants to minister to us we are unable to receive because our heart is not kept pure before the Lord so these things will really interfere with our intimacy then there is the spirit of heaviness okay spirit of heaviness or confusion what happens is we we don't feel free in God's presence but there's always maybe something from the past or something from you know the way we are thinking and processing things something from you know so many things right like that that really way heavy on you so that spirit of heaviness will also prevent you from enjoying the presence of God so I've just touched on two topics today because it's it's very very important but we will pick up this as we go forward but I want you to think about all these right foundations one is the nature of God so when I develop the right image of who God is based on his word then it is easier for me to relate to him in the right way secondly you know we said that okay intimacy with God not doing prayer as a ritual instead we are close to God and thereby you know our prayer life is fruitful so these are the first two foundations we will look at the other five in the next section I know we have run out of time okay okay I can see Sid Kenu's comment here okay sure Sid Kenu yeah you you can go ahead please yeah any thoughts any thoughts questions comments before we wrap up today's class just a few more minutes if you don't mind yeah yeah thank you very much for the for the opportunity God bless you pastor thank you thank you really appreciate you thank you brother thank you yes one thing one thing I wanted to in is this uh I am I am a assembly pastor in my church and through counseling we we see a lot of things and we hear a lot of things I have one sat one on one with a particular woman who was taking category candidates if God did not answer our prayer in the next two months she's going to burn a Bible down she's going to put fire on a Bible and stop coming to church you can imagine say the kind of statement say the kind of shallow understanding so I told her if you are putting fire on your Bible you are only burning your Bible you are not burning my own Bible hmm it doesn't it doesn't change my my stand with God it's only change your own stand with God so that is why we I usually tell people understand the in depthment of the word of God number one half the word of God in you when you have the word of God in you when you have the understanding of the word of God when you have an intimacy with God every other thing comes easy like we have been promoted intimacy relationship when you have when you have a very cordial relationship you understand the person you are dealing with even if you're praying for a particular thing and God is not releasing that thing for you you should have an understanding that God is not releasing to you at that particular time because there might be danger ahead so you should understand the person you are dealing with when you understand God very well when you have a cordial relationship with him you will understand praying is good praying should be praying should be an habit praying is what you do what is comfortable when it is comfortable for you when it is not comfortable for you even when you are working on the road you should be praying you should be laughing which you will be gistening when us band our wife are talking they are gistening there is a lot of laugh that is how it should be with God it should be with God thank you thank you thank you thank you yeah so uh the um thank you for sharing that and what if we were saying is a good relationship right a good and intimate relationship uh just like our human relationships is uh what we need with God and that needs to be developed okay so uh any any uh other questions if at all okay yes yeah i have a question you can maybe you can take it up next uh class uh as well i was just wondering like we continue to pray for certain things for which we have not received an answer yet so when we are like uh you know continuously praying for it does it mean that uh we have not laid it uh it God's feet uh we are just you know simply just praying uh if at all it happens let it happen that kind of an attitude so what should be our course of action in such prayer requests uh yes thanks Sivya uh we will look at it in depth later but this comes under the category of persistent prayer okay and Jesus in his teachings he taught about how men should not lose heart but they should pray and he also gave the example of this uh uh you know this poor widow who goes to an unjust king uh many times and finally what happens he grants a request because she's bothering him okay but Jesus shared this uh to let us know that if an unjust king could respond okay to persistent petitioning in this manner how much quicker our heavenly father so there is nothing wrong with bringing a prayer request to God often uh and even repeating it because uh you're not doing it as a ritual you're doing it sincerely from your heart you're praying about that matter till you see a big through in that matter and there is nothing wrong with that okay okay thank you thank you yes thank you all right okay so uh class uh what we will do is we will uh we will close the session however uh if you have questions I encourage you to post it on the stream page for the google meet students you please post it on the stream page and I can uh post answers to it right there and even the other students can see and learn from it all right so we will uh wrap up and thank you once again for uh being a part of this class and I hope you enjoyed it you learned something and you're growing in your prayer life okay so God bless you and uh bye for now have a wonderful weekend thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you god bless bye bye thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you yeah long go bye bye god bless okay thank you thank you brother of this bye god bless