 Welcome back after the break. Before we went for our break, we were looking at chapter 4, the nature of our God-given vision. And we just saw the goal of, I just mentioned to you, what is the goal of this chapter, this goal of the chapter is to understand, you know, how God imparts his vision, how God takes us on a journey to see his vision fulfilled in our lives, and the process that we carry out the purposes of his kingdom. So we'll continue with that and see that our God-given vision is a divine command and the authorization comes from heaven, from God himself who is the king of his kingdom. And we see that God establishes what he wants to be done in his kingdom here on earth and he extends his kingdom here on earth. So, you know, when God gives us a vision or he's revealing his plan and purposes through his vision to us, it's a command that needs to be obeyed. Okay, it's not just the dream or vision that God has given to us about what he wants us to do is not just a heavenly entertainment, but it's a command which we have to obey. It's, you know, we also received the authorization from heaven, which means, you know, God gives us the authority, he gives us the grace, he makes us bold, fearless and confident. And, you know, for every vision that God imparts to us, we can have this assurance that he's, you know, 100% committed to seeing the vision fulfilled like we saw in the Mary Miracle, the points in Mary Miracle. How, you know, he saw, he not only, you know, you know, planned that the Son of God would be conceived in Mary's womb, but he, you know, he, what he envisioned, what he purposed, you know, he is committed to seeing the vision fulfilled. So we don't have to be afraid when God gives us something to carry, to birth, because we know that the king of the kingdom is backing us up. He's 100% committed to seeing the vision fulfilled, he will do everything that is required, but only God can do what is required and he can help us see his vision fulfilled in and through us when he's backing us, is when, you know, when we are willing, when we are submitted, when we are yielded, when we are, you know, obedient, trusting in him, willing to carry that and run and not give up on the way. So, you know, when God gives us the vision, we need to understand that we become the vision bearer. Okay, we are the ones who are bearing the vision, carrying the vision, and God will work in and through us to see the vision fulfilled. But this does not mean that they're going to work in isolation, God will bring other people, like-minded people who he also will stir their hearts up towards what he's birthing in and through us, what he's wanting to do in and through us. Several people will come and, you know, they will work alongside us to see this vision fulfilled. Okay, so we see that usually God raises a person in a certain place who he gives the message, we birth the message in, or he reveals his plan and purposes, and then we see that he stirs up other people. He puts the burden on other people to come alongside us to fulfill God's plan and purpose in our lives. Okay, so we see that God raises a man who he gives the mission to be fulfilled, who he proclaims a message to, and that man or that woman becomes the vision bearer or the vision holder. And, you know, God also gives the person the methods, the means, how to carry out and how to fulfill the divine purpose. For example, we look at Moses' life, we'll not look at the book of Exodus where we look at Acts chapter 7, verses 17 to 36, you know. It says that, you know, when the time of the promise drew near was 17 of Acts 7, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt, till another king arose who did not know Joseph. And this man dealt treacherously with Israelites, oppressed them. And, you know, we see that at that time Moses was born and how Pharaoh ordered all the male babies to be thrown in the River Nile. But we see how, you know, God protects Moses, you know, for three months in his father's house. And then how he is put in the basket in the River Nile and Pharaoh's daughter takes him as his own son. And how he's, you know, trained and brought up in the palace, learning all the wisdom of Egypt, of the Egyptians, you know, learning warfare and learning to be the next Pharaoh of Egypt. And we see that when he was 40 years old in Acts chapter 70, Acts chapter 7, verse 23, we read when Moses was 40 years old, it came in his heart. That means God stirred up his heart to visit his brethren. And we see that two of them, two of the Israelites are fighting with each other. Sorry, the Israelites in Egyptian were fighting with each other. The Egyptian was beating up the Israelites and, you know, Moses steps in and we see he's so angry with the Egyptian that he strikes down the Egyptian and the Egyptian dice. And in verse 25, it's very interesting to read. It says, well, he's supposed that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand. Okay, so he thought, you know, by the age of 40, Moses had come to know what God had purposed for his life. He knew that God had raised him up in the palace to be the next Pharaoh to set his people free. He came to know he was not an Egyptian, but a Hebrew, an Israelite, and God was going to use him to set, deliver his people free from slavery. And, you know, we see that when he steps in to stop the fight between the Egyptian and the Israelite and how he kills the Egyptian. He just, envision, he just thought that, you know, that his, his Israelite brothers would, you know, understand that God has chosen Moses to deliver him from their hands. So we see that, you know, the next day when he sees two of these lights fighting, he steps in. And then, you know, one of them says, you know, who made you ruler and judge over us? Do you also want to kill us just like you killed an Egyptian? And so Moses realized that, you know, what he thought he had done and covered up the murder actually was known. And he could not stay in Egypt anymore. And he had to leave that place because, you know, that Pharaoh was allowed to kill him because he had killed an Egyptian. And so we see that he goes to the land of Midian. And we see that after 40 years, you know, 40 years have passed by that Pharaoh who was ruling Egypt who knew Moses died. So the plans and purposes of God was, you know, on hold for 40 years. And we see that God calling Moses at the burning bush and asking him to go to deliver his people out of slavery. And we also see that God did many science miracles and wonders through Moses, you know, when he went to deliver his people. So here we basically see that, you know, God is how God works in Moses' life, you know, just to a summary of how he, you know, gives Moses the purpose for his life, a steering in his heart, how Moses recognizes it, but how he tries to do things in his own way and delays the process by 40 years. But how God, you know, again, uses him to birth his vision, his plan to fulfill what God had planned and purpose for his life. Okay, so that is an example about Moses. We'll see more of the examples from other people's lives. A God given vision is often detected by a simple steering in our hearts. So sometimes it's not through dreams, visions that we see, but it's just a simple steering, you know, something that we see, something that we hear, something that we see in the news that stirs up our heart. Now this steering of our heart that God uses to birth his vision is not just an emotional steering. Now emotional steering is, you know, when you hear about how young girls are sold into prostitution or, you know, how young people are, you know, are into drugs and smoking and drinking and viling away their lives and destroying their lives or, you know, how they get into gangs and, you know, they're murdering people or not just seeing how terrorists are killing people. You know, all of these when we see things like this, we can get emotionally stirred, you know, we can cry, burdens our heart, we just pray, crying out to God, pray. But just that's just an emotional steering which lasts for a day or two and then, you know, it just vanishes out of our minds, our hearts. We don't think about it anymore. But a steering that God steers in our hearts to, you know, to birth his vision is a steering that does not stay still, that does not go away from our hearts and minds. It's something that, you know, we call for our attention with, you know, we would step in, do something about it and we are not at peace, not at rest till we do what God has called us to do. So we see that in the life of Moses, you know, you know, when he was 40 years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel. So, you know, 40 years prior to the burning bush experience got placed in Moses' steering in his heart, which was, you know, less than spectacular than what he had seen at the burning bush. But it was, you know, God speaking to him, telling him what was his plan and purposes, releasing, birthing his plan and purpose in Moses' heart, deliver his people. And God knew, or Moses knew that, you know, he was chosen by God to deliver his people out of slavery. But, you know, he stepped in, he did things in his own flesh and that delayed things. But we see that 40 years after that, you know, before the burning bush encounter, you know, what came as a steering in his heart initially, you know, as a simple desire, a simple knowing in his heart. We see that God is calling him again and, you know, assigning him to fulfill the same plan and purpose in his heart. What started or 40 years before was just a simple knowing in his heart, a simple steering, a simple desire. But because of his, what he did in his own flesh, delayed the process by another 40 years. 40 years later, you know, we see that God calling him to the burning bush when God speaks to him, to his encounter, he calls him back to the purpose that he had given to him 40 years back, just a simple steering in his heart. Okay. A simple steering in a heart. Another example is Nehemiah. We know Nehemiah was a cup bearer to the king, the Persian king. And one day one of his brothers, Hanani came from Judah and, you know, Nehemiah is concerned about his people, how they're doing in Jerusalem. And he hears that the walls of Jerusalem are broken down. Now, what was Nehemiah's response to that, you know, when he hears that the walls are broken down, the gates are burned with fire. We see that he sat down and he wept. Okay. He wept, he mourned. It was not just for one or two days. It was for many days. He wept and fasted and prayed, you know, and, and it was God birthing something in him for him to do. And we see that this initial steering in his heart, which let him to weep and mourn and fast and pray, led him to, you know, write the tell the king, you know, and the king gave him permission. And we also see that when God, you know, calls us when he gives us a mission, he gives us a message, you know, he also gives us the methods how to do it. So God would have put in his heart to write to the king, tell the king. And we see the king giving him not only leave, but also giving him security, the soldiers to take, you know, Nehemiah safely and also providing him with all the material that is required for building the walls of Jerusalem. So just a simple steering in his heart. When he heard that the walls of Jerusalem were broken down, led to such a great, worthy of such a great mission, a purpose, which led to building the walls of Jerusalem, which, you know, Nehemiah carried out and he did it. And how do we know that it was just a simple thing that God put in his heart. We read this in Nehemiah chapter two, verse 12, when Nehemiah goes to Jerusalem, and he's kind of, you know, taking a tour of the situation of the walls and what needs to be done. He says, then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me, I told no one what God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem. So Nehemiah goes to Jerusalem. It takes a few people in the night to go and to look at the walls of Jerusalem. He doesn't at night because there were a lot of enemies around, but he does not tell them what God had put in his heart. So what that God put in his heart, but it put in his heart to build the walls of Jerusalem. And we also see that, you know, the God given vision does not just begin with a simple staring in our hearts. It also has an appointed time when God wants to initiate it and when God wants to execute it. So I gave you an example in the previous lecture, in our first lecture, where, you know, in Genesis chapter two, where three, where God says, you know, he talks about the seed of the woman, the capital S. He's already, you know, for to his foreknowledge, he's already, you know, revealing that the Messiah will come that, you know, God would come down as man. So, you know, it, but it took 4,000 years. So that 4,000 years when God was preparing the scene for God to become man is called as the Chronos time. So the Chronos time is the duration of time or the number of days when God speaks or births his vision, and it takes that time to, you know, for the fulfillment. So, you know, God spoke in Genesis chapter three that the seed of the woman would come and would destroy the serpent seed. But it took 4,000 years for the right moment when it was going to be executed. So when the time that, you know, the full list of time came, which is called the Kyros time. So God works in the Chronos time and he works in the Kyros time. So the Chronos time is a time when, you know, is a time when God births the vision in us. It can be to a dream or vision as a steering in our heart or he just shows us something, you know, to the Holy Spirit. And it takes a certain amount of time for us to prepare ourselves to engage in organizing and strategizing and initiating the plans. Before we see the, you know, the, the, the, the birthing of it in reality. Okay, which is the Kyros moment. So the Chronos moment is the time when we receive the vision, the time when we are organizing, planning, or strategizing when we are working hard, laboring hard. When the fullness of time comes, it's the Kyros moment, we will see God's vision that has been burdened in us. We see it's fulfillment here on earth. So the fullness of time, when the time is ripe, he has to do, you know, God will bring about things. Okay. And he will fulfill it. So there's both the external factors and the internal factors, you know, for the coming of these two things together, the Chronos moment and the Kyros moment. So we look at that, you know, in the Kyros moment, there is a Kyros moment for the initiation and for the execution of God given vision. So for the Kyros moment to come to take the fullness of time to come into action for us to see God's vision, burden in us, there is the external factors and there are the internal factors. So there's external factors that determine the Kyros time, and there is the internal factors that also determine the Kyros type. That means, you know, both of these factors, when, you know, when we, when we adhere to it, when we are in sync with it, when we are in alignment with it, then we will see the birthing of God's vision or plan or his dream or what he wants to do in and through life. So what is the external factor? The external factor is the people, you know, as I already said that, you know, God births his vision to a person, you know, who becomes a vision bearer, who carries the vision, but also that God brings about other people or other individuals who would carry this along with us, who would encourage us, help us, you know, do their bit in seeing God's vision being birthed or his plan being executed here on earth. So we see God bringing the right people. He was, we will also see God bringing the people that are not needed. Sometimes it can also be that, you know, the previous generation has done their bit, and it's time to make way for the next generation to carry on the plans and purposes of God. So one of the external factors of people, the second one is places God prepares the place, the city, the region, the environment where the work is going to be birthed. It's going to be released. He prepares the place. He also prepares the things that are surrounding the vision bearer, the man or the woman who's carrying the vision in terms of his finances, his family just preparing that. So these are the external factors that determine the kairos time, the fullness of time for the birthing of God's vision. And, you know, there's also the internal factors. The internal factors include, you know, the vision bearer being prepared, being ready to execute the God given vision or God given purpose in their life. So it means having the right heart attitudes, the person should have a right heart attitude, right relationship with people, maturity in their walk with God, in their understanding of God's ways, you know, being developed spiritually in several years of their life, putting their personal life in order, their home, their family, you know, possessing a heart of a servant, attitude of a servant, not being a boss, not bossing over people that God brings into their lives to birth their vision, but how they can be examples, how they can have a heart of a servant serve along with the others, how they can encourage and motivate others, and build others up who God assigns to, you know, to fulfill the vision that he's birthing in and through the vision bearer, and also a Christ like character. Okay, so there's nothing that we can do to, you know, speeden the process God takes his time to prepare us. If we delay things and we are not learning, we're not having the right heart attitudes, we are not having a right relationship with people, we're not maturing in our spiritual walk with God, we don't possess a heart of a servant, we are not Christ like in our character then it can delay things that God is doing in our lives, okay. So we can see that, you know, our life is lived in seasons and stages and in phases, we learn this when we're looking at fulfilling God's purpose for the life in the first year. So we see that, you know, there will be several seasons when we can go through this Kronos phases when God is preparing us or when he is building us up or he's preparing us or he's, you know, times when we are strategizing or we are bringing out, contemplating what to do, how to go about things. So there can be different seasons that we can go through in the Kronos moments, but the Kairos moment, you know, that God takes us through, you know, will come at the end of the Kronos moment when he will bring about, you know, what he has envisioned, what he has planned, what he wants to birth in him through us. But we must be like the sons of Issachar who understood the times because 1 Chronicles chapter 13 verse 32 we read that the sons of Issachar understood the times they knew what Israel ought to do. So we need to also recognize the times and seasons God is taking us through as he unfolds his kingdom plans purposes and his visions and his dreams in and through our lives. Okay. A God given vision requires preparation. So, you know, God will not just give us the vision. And then the day to he will just show us what is the strategies and day three will not just put it will not be just a Kairos moment, but he takes us through a preparation time. You know, the preparation time is times when the internal factors that I just mentioned, you know, that God will help us to grow in it, develop in it, develop price like character. You know, and doing the preparation time God will also give us the opportunity to associate with other people who are working or birthing the same kind of vision, how they're going, what they have done, what are the pitfalls to avoid, what we should do, what we shouldn't do. God would also give us dreams, strategies, plans, he'll, he'll associate us with people who can help us, a birth of vision. You know, he will also train us equip us in being efficient in how to, you know, birth his vision and in the plans that he has for us. You know, sometimes God can also give us a vision, but then he can take us and put us into, you know, to work alongside somebody else's vision that he wants that he's birthing in and through somebody else. So you can say, God, I thought you wanted me to be a pastor of a big church. You've given me this vision, this dream, I know for sure. And what am I doing here? You know, I'm here with an, you know, under another pastor, another senior pastor, you know, building his church, doing things in his church, building his ministry, building his vision. So God, what do you really are saying? What are you doing to my life? So, you know, sometimes God can take us to this preparation time where he is taking us into somebody else's, you know, vision, where we are helping them. But as we are doing that, God is preparing us, he's teaching us, hey, this is how things need to be done. Even as you are going to go and birth your own church, you're going to be the pastor, senior pastor of a big church. You know, these observe this man of God, observe the senior pastor, how he's doing things, how he is working things, learn from him, learn how to, you know, church administration, church building, church, how do you execute a church, how to build a church? How do you run a church? So, you know, sometimes we can do things also that, you know, not directly related to the vision that God has put in our hearts. We are compelled to do things. Sometimes it makes no sense. It does not seem relevant to what we're carrying in our hearts. It can be like a disconnected season. But, you know, just be assured that, you know, while you're doing all of this, God is preparing you. You never know God is preparing you and taking you through all of these things which you think is not relevant. But God knows that, you know, later on you will be using all of this in your own ministry. Okay, so he's developing you in the areas of life that are important to fulfill your vision. What will take you through the various seasons of life, which, you know, he's designing for you so that he can bring about specific growth in specific areas. So preparation time is never wasted time. And our focus should be to work with God. We yielded to his working in our lives in each season. I'll just give you an example. For example, Pastor Ashish, you know, when he was in his 10th grade. After his 10th grade, he did not want to study further. He just wanted to go ahead and, you know, he wanted to full-time ministry. He just wanted to go out and share God's word. But his father said, no, you have to study. And he was not willing. He was adamant to go and preach God's word. And so his father took him to two pastors. And both of them, you know, he met them separately. Both of them said, what is the hurry? Even Jesus waited 30 years, you know, before he launched out into ministry. And in three years, God did everything what he wanted to do. So, you know, that made a broad sense to his mind and in his heart. And he went and studied. He studied engineering, you know, he, you know, he studied engineering computers and, you know, he started his own company. He also studied, you know, engineering in the science field. So we see that, you know, all of what he had studied, engineering the computer field, you know, is helping him now as a senior pastor of a church where he is able to, you know, do this e-learning, build up his e-learning platforms for students, online courses, you know, build up the website, do so many things to, you know, to technology to reach out to millions of people around the world. You know, and how does he have all of these ideas and strategies is because he studied computer science, he knows everything. And that makes him so much more, gives him an upper hand, so much more efficient to bring in technology into the kingdom of God and to, you know, how to release material and to reach out to thousands and millions of people around the globe. Now, just imagine if he had not studied computer science, he would be so limited in his knowledge, his understanding of what can be done. But just see, you know, we might think that those four years of engineering and what he did is MS degree, all this, you know, might be something that is irrelevant, disconnected seasons where he feels a steering in his heart to go and preach and teach about God. But we see that, you know, how God was designing every season of his life, you know, and bringing growth in specific areas to build his kingdom. So sometimes we can go to disconnected seasons, but don't be discouraged, God is just basically teaching you, building you up those areas so that you can, when he launches you out to birth your own vision, your plan and purposes, all of these things which you have learned will come, you know, with health, would be purposeful, will be meaningful. Okay, let's take an example about Joseph. Joseph, we see that Joseph had a dream when he early in his life. God where God birthed his plan and purpose. But we see that, you know, things in Joseph's life took unexpected turns he was sold away as a slave by his brothers, he was in the foreign land in Egypt. He was a slave to Potiphar and then he becomes a manager. And for no fault of his he was thrown into prison. But from there, you know, he rises up to be the prime minister or the second in command to a federal in Egypt. So we see that even though God birthed his plan and purpose, he received dreams and visions about his future as a young boy as a very young boy but it took so many years of his life before he could see you know God's purpose being fulfilled or the kairos moment to come into place. And to the Kronos events of his life, the different seasons, he went through different challenges. He might have wondered, he might have questioned God, he might have doubted, but we see, you know, Joseph walked in the fulfillment of his God given dreams. So that's the timeline. Let's look at how, you know, God works through the Kronos moments how he takes us to the Kronos moments of different seasons in life, and brings us finally to the kairos moment if we are, you know, willing to submit and surrender and work those internal and external factors, how he brings us to the different seasons into the kairos moment. So that's Joseph's life. And now Joseph was 17 years old when he was sold as a slave into Egypt. He was 30 years old when he was brought out of prison, which means it took a total of 13 years, you know, when he was sold as a slave and he was in prison, he was in Potiphar's house, then in prison before he became the prime minister of Egypt. So, you know, 11 years in Potiphar's house, two years in prison. So 13 years before he saw, you know, 13 kairos, sorry, Kronos, seasons of life before he could see the kairos moment. So we see that, you know, after serving faithfully for another nine years, when Joseph was 39 years old, he got to see his brothers when they came first time to Egypt and it was 41 years when he saw them. The second time with their father, Jacob, when Joseph's dream was fulfilled. So we see that approximately 30 years of the time he had the dream, the time that the dream was fulfilled. So 30 years of Kronos, seasons, Kronos moments to seeing the fulfillment of, you know, the kairos moment when his dream was fulfilled. And we see the rest remaining 70 years, you know, what God was doing, what God wanted him to do, you know, he does touch the next 70 years and he dies when he is 110 years old. So for Joseph, you know, it happened when he was 40 years old, but continuing that vision is equally important. So Joseph walked in it for possibly another 70 years time when he fulfilled God given vision for his life. Okay, but we see that it took approximately 30 years for the time he had the dream, the time the dream was fulfilled. Let's look at Moses, you know, you know, Moses was trained in Kairos palace, where he understood God's calling for his life. Like I mentioned in Acts chapter seven was 22. And, you know, those years of his life where the initial training preparation and positioning him to be the next pharaohs that he can deliver his people out of Egypt. So at the age of 40, he basically understood in his heart what God has called him to do what his purpose that was to try, you know, to set his people free, but he tried to accomplish his own methods, and it delayed the process by another 40 years. So he had to spend 40 years in the wilderness in Midian. And, you know, we see that he had to wait, God had to wait till the pharaoh died. And then at the age of 80, you know, God calls him when he has that burning bush encounter again reminds him of his divine mission. And for the next 40 years of his life, we see Moses goes about fulfilling his plan and purpose for his life. But even as he goes about fulfilling God's plan and purpose for his life for the next 40 years, we see that he makes a mistake, you know, a serious mistake where instead of speaking to the rock he strikes the rock, and he was not allowed to enter the promised land but he was only able to see the promised land from afar. David, we know that David was anointed to be the king when he was a teenager, maybe at the age of 18. But the next few years of his life is basically a shepherd taking care of the sheep, you know, protecting the sheep from the lion and bear. And also, you know, he's a skillful musician, so he plays the music for Saul whenever needed. And when he was 15 or 17 years old, he kills Goliath. And then after that he becomes a hero, but, you know, Saul feels threatened by his presence. So he makes him a commander of a thousand soldiers, and he puts him in the sense into battle thinking that, you know, he will die and he'll be done away with so that his son can become the next king. But we see that, you know, David does not die, God gives him victory, he's seen as a national hero, and, you know, Saul is jealous of him and is, you know, this even desire to kill David. So we see that David is running like a vagabond for the next few years of his life, he's spending his life in the wilderness, in the caves. But during this time, you know, God sends 400 men later on, they become 600 men, 400 to 600 men, you know, who become his men very close to him, who goes and do great exploits and fight battles. And these men become, you know, when David becomes king, becomes his generals, his army, you know, committed men. So we see that, you know, God brings 400 men into his life, they come, join him, they stay with David, they fight his battles along with him. And at the age of 23, when Saul dies, we see that, you know, David becomes king, but he becomes king only over one tribe, that is Judah, he rules over them for the next seven years and six months. And when David was 30 years old, he finally becomes the king over all of Israel and Judah, and he reigns over them for the next 40 years. So David must have been around 70 to 75 years when he died, but we see that it took 17 years of preparation time. For Moses it took 40 years, for David it took 17 years of preparation time from the Kronos moment, you know, when he was called to the time when he stepped into his calling to be king over Israel at the age of 30. To see the Kairos moment, to see, you know, what God has called him to do, to see that in reality. Okay, we look at two more examples. The other one is Paul and then is Jeremiah. You know, Paul at the age of 30, he has his encounter with God on the road to Damascus. And we see that, you know, the next 17 years of Paul's life is called the silent years in Paul's life. We do not know much what he is, what he did, but we know that, you know, people try to kill him in, he spent three years in Damascus, people and in Arabia, people try to kill him in Damascus, so he fled to Arabia and that's where he received much of his revelations, which he writes in his episodes, which he preaches about. And then we see that he spent about 13 years preaching and teaching in the regions of Sicily, Syria and Tarsus. And, you know, it was, you know, after 17 years, when Paul was almost about 50 years old, that he begins his first missionary journey. Okay, so the 17 years of Paul's life from his time of his encounter on the road to Damascus is called as the silent years of Paul's life. Nothing much is recorded other than that he just preached a few places, but you know, during this time he was basically being trained and he received much of his revelations that each we read about in his episodes. Okay. And we see that after 17 years, you know, he steps in to do his first missionary journey. But we see 17 years, years of preparation and training for a possible Paul. So what we come to know is God is not in a hurry. You know, he takes 40 years, it takes 17 years for Jesus was 30 years of his life. But then, you know, the few years that God executes the Kairos moments, when he brings about births about this plan and purpose into our lives. He can just do it in a year and in two years and three years, God can do it. He's not, you know, he's, he lives about time and space. The last example is Jeremiah. Jeremiah was, you know, given a prophetic call even before he was spawned, you know, and God told him not to allow people to tell him that he was too young when he starts out this ministry, but it took at least 16 years from the time that he had his first visitation from God. To, you know, chapter one, where he releases his first prophetic utterances where he receives from God. So 16 years of Kronos moments seasons to, to the Kairos moment, it took 16 years of his time. So we see that, you know, every God given vision that God has appointed has an appointed time for its initiation execution and for his fulfillment. And before the fulfillment, God takes us through the preparation time. Okay. And during the preparation time, you know, you know, is a waiting time when we're waiting to see what God is putting into us. It does not mean that we are going to be idle, but during that preparation time, you know, God is actually involved with what God has assigned us to do. During this waiting period, we see that Joseph served with excellence in Potiphar's house and later in prison. During the waiting period, we see Moses got married, he had children, he took care of his father and lost sheep. During the waiting period, we see that David took care of his father's sheep. He fought the lion and the bear. You know, he became a skillful musician. He sang songs to God. He had a deep intimate relationship with God, which built him up to engage in the battles in the future and to trust and wait and depend on God for his victories. And during his waiting period, we see that Paul received abundance of revelations, which he eventually preached and taught and ruled about. So each season is really a preparation for the next season of life. Each phase that God takes us or each season of preparation that he takes us is to prepare us for the next step of the journey to prepare us for the next phase for the things that are coming up in the future. So we must endure, we must persevere, we must be in a state of constant learning, growing and maturing with God. And the unfolding of a God-given vision may differ from our expectation. You know, sometimes we misunderstand how God is going to go about fulfilling his vision that is given to us like we saw in the example of Mary. It was through a vision. God spoke to Joseph in a dream. And then, you know, they had to go to Bethlehem where they could not find a suitable in. It was in a stable. But we see that, you know, we must, we think God would work in a certain way, but we might be open to whatever, you know, which of a God, which of a God causes his dreams to become a reality. For example, Joseph would never have thought that he would be sold off as a slave and, you know, end up to be a prisoner. Moses would never have thought that he had to run away from palace, from his own people, you know, from being the next Pharaoh of Egypt to living in the wilderness for the next 40 years of his life. David was anointed as king, never thought he would have to run like a vagabond, you know, from place to place, hiding in caves in the wilderness, even though he was anointed by Prophet Samuel to become the next king of Israel. So when God imparts dreams and gives us our divine destinies, our birth's vision to us, and the spirit, you know, reveals it to us. You know, the journey towards that fulfillment of these dreams and visions can be difficult. You know, it can be longer than expected. We would not envision those, these things can happen. But, you know, we need to hold on, we need to endure, we need to persevere. Okay, because when we persevere, when we stay on course, you know, God will reveal his glory in and through us, who people considered as foolish, weak, you know, as unknown, as despised and as nothing. Who would know that a slave would become the next prime minister of Egypt? Who would know that a man who was persecuting Christians would himself become a man who was preaching and teaching and you know, raising up churches and being an apostle who would know that, you know, a man who killed somebody would actually be the deliverer of people and set people free out of a nation. So, you know, God chooses people who the world considered as foolish, weak, unknown and despised and nothing, but God works in and through them. We also see from this examples in Moses' life that, you know, that the kairos moment for God given vision can get delayed when we try to do things in our own flesh. You know, the flesh can always come and stand and be a hindrance from birthing God's vision, which is given to us or which is revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. So we need to be very careful of that. You know, sometimes we can't just sit back and say it is the enemy or it's God's preparing me, but sometimes it can be our own foolishness. It can be our own flesh that comes in a way and delays the kairos moment like we see in the life of Moses. But in spite of the mistakes that we make, you know, God can cause the delays and disappointments, discouragements. He can, you know, when we turn around, when we ask for forgiveness and we re-align our wills to God will, God's will, you know, God is greater than our mistakes. No situation is too complex that he can't resolve. You know, God can work things on our behalf. Like, you know, we will see in the next class, we will look at the few passages where we see how God can restore us from our fallen nature, from the mistakes that we have made to how he can restore us to continue birthing his plan and his vision for our lives. Okay, we'll stop here. We'll continue in our next class. Anyone has any questions? Any questions? Anything that you want to clarify? Anything that you want to ask? Okay. No questions with end class. Tomorrow is your second assessment. I will post it by 5pm IST and you can submit it on Friday for some of you can be Saturday evening at 5pm IST. Okay. Thank you, everyone. Have a good day and a good week ahead. God bless you.