 Okay. All right, so good morning to everybody on the online class, as well as a warm welcome to those who've been, who's joined us on the e-learning portal. We hope that this course will bring about a lot of revelation to you, as well as an understanding of how we can walk in our wholeness and emotional wellness. Okay. Let's just start with a word of prayer, and we can get started. Heavenly Father, we thank You, Lord, for Your faithfulness in our lives over the last very many months that You have bought us once again to study something new. Thank You, God, for the way that You've made each one of us, Lord, marvelously made. Thank You, Father, for giving us our personality, giving us inner emotions in which we express ourselves, and we show our love to You and to those around. Lord, as we journey through this course, we pray that You will reveal to us the innermost anxieties, angst of our souls, and You would bring us to a place of wholeness by Your Word and by Your Spirit. Lord, we submit this to You, and we pray that You will bring us to greater revelations of Your truth and Your Word, and we will walk, Lord, in the freedom that You've purchased for us. Thank You, Father. Lord, I pray for every student here, Lord, as we journey through this, Lord, that we would be open to the work of the Spirit in our lives. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. So, welcome again. This course is, you know, I think it's very close to all, and I'm sure that, you know, even as you enrolled into this or part of your part of the course, this is something that would have definitely brought about an interest to you because of, you know, the very fact that we all, we all understand that we are emotional beings. We are emotional people. And there are many things that we go through in life, many problems that we may face in the realm of our inner man or the soul. And as we journey through life, we've seen how there can be emotional problems that we have faced. Now, it could be issues in the way that we emote or deep feelings that we may be having of inadequacy or feelings of insecurity, deep feelings of deep thoughts of lust or being involved in addictions. And the list goes on. So, what we want to do through this course is one identify these problems and what causes these problems. And not just leave it there, but also find ways in how we can reach or we can have our healing and our deliverance and also understand how we can continue to walk in that wholeness and well-being. So, more than looking at this as an academic exercise, you know, I really pray that we open ourselves to receive the healing that God has for us and that we just as much as we receive our healing, that we also stand equipped to help others and to minister wholeness and deliverance to those people who may be hurting around us. Okay. So, in today's section, we're going to be looking at the very first chapter. I hope you've got a copy of the book. It's there. It has been uploaded in the stream for the online students and for the e-learning students. It's there on the e-learning portal as well. So, if you can download it and follow through, that will be great. Okay. All right. So, before we get started, I think I'd just like to open up maybe a question and also hear from as many of us because like I said, this is something that we're looking at this course as connecting what we're learning to our own cells, to our own emotional cells. So, even as I'm opening out this question, maybe I think I'd like to, you know, mention that if you feel it is too personal, you're free enough not to share. But what have you seen around as emotional problems maybe within yourself or within people you've known, within people you've helped? What are some of the concerns or the problems that you've seen people struggle with? So, if you could just unmute and speak, that will help us to, you know, have a base before we go forward. So, either when you've interacted with people or when you've maybe your own issues or own concerns, some things maybe that you've struggled with, you don't have to give, you know, what those details are. But generally to have a fair understanding of what you've noticed as some of the emotional problems or emotional concerns that people may go through. Yeah, I'm leaving it open for some interaction. Yes, Shay, please go on. So, one emotional trouble that one, I would even use myself, for example, heartbreaks. For instance, I was in a relationship that was leading to marriage for four and a half years of courtship. And then, you know, one thing led to the other. I was traveling out of the country. There was fear that, oh, I might just get involved with another person, then she decides to break up, you know. So, that was a bit of a struggle. And the day I heard she was getting married, it was like a dagger going through my heart, you know. So, yeah, so heartbreaks, whether a guy or whether a lady, you know, it's one emotional disturbance or struggle that one could go through, especially if you don't get over the person, it could be tormenting, you know, and all that. So, yeah, that's an example. Thank you. Thank you, Shay. Thank you for opening that up. And I'm sure a lot of us here do relate to that, you know, what Shay said, that example of having heartbreaks, rejections where, you know, where relationships get broken. All right. Yes, Rupa, please kindly unmute yourself and speak. Good morning, ma'am, and good morning. I just wanted to share my struggle, what I went through. We lost our mother when I was very young. It was around six years old that time. She was very close to my heart when our mothers, I know each one have our own place for our mothers. When I lost my mother, I made a vow saying I will not open up myself to anyone else like that in my future. That was a very wrong thing I did in my childhood, making a vow like that which really made me very hardened, not only myself, but the people around me was not able to communicate for many years. It was a very debilitating thing, but by God's grace and God's light, I have attended an inner healing seminar where I recognized and remembered that I made a vow like that which is not from God and I repented over it and I was set free from that. I just wanted to share it. Thank you ma'am. Thank you Rupa. Thank you for sharing that. I know this is, you know, even as you're sharing these things, it's not easy because it's a lot of uncovering that we are doing here, right? When we become vulnerable about what we've gone through, but I'm sure this is going to be of help to somebody. I think Nisha has written in my family, a person has issues with self-esteem that he believes buying many vehicles makes him feel bigger. To also a level that he has several narcissistic traits, he feels and says he is right and everyone is wrong. Okay, so thank you Nisha. So this is a person having an issue with self-esteem, but projecting extreme confidence and love of self, thereby, you know, portraying a sense of superiority as against the other people, but within feeling almost broken and having a very poor self-esteem. Wonderful. Thank you. Kennedy, you've written, this is for the e-learning students. I know that they cannot see the chats. I'm just reading this out. Mood swings due to binding magic power. Okay, mood swings that come about as a result of some kind of an influence, demonic influence. Okay, Nisha, you said your father was a pastor and he's lived with an expectation from the society that he started rebelling. Okay, rebellion. All right. Opening it out for any other student who would like to share about any kind of emotional problems you've noticed. Sure, mine is a bit different for everyone. I think mine is a sense of belonging. My parents divorced when I was I think four and even though they remarried, but I've never really lived with my mother since then. I've only seen her last time I saw her was in 2010 and yeah, only saw her for two weeks. So I think my sense of longing for the mother would, I think that's my biggest emotional problems like this. There's a void that I try to feel somehow. Thank you first. Thank you. Thank you once again, Mangi. Yes, as I think as Mangi said, maybe these are things, childhood experiences that can lead people into having significant emotional issues, whether it starts from, whether it begins at home or any kind of adverse situations that happen to the child. All of that brings about significant emotional struggles and emotional issues. The way people are treated as children are treated in the initial years of life that also could have. So we will be looking a little more in detail through the course of the class if anyone would like to share because you know that it's, it helps us as a community. It helps us to understand that we're not alone that as we've gone through life there have been a significant stressors that have been, maybe there's been rejection, multiple rejections either in through the way of relationships or through the way of opportunities or through the way of maybe resources that have come to you which, which you've not been able to hold on to. There could be a rejection. So taking some time to, to understand this and to really focus and know the roots of this really can be helpful. And I'd encourage you all to, even as we're going through these problems in the latter half of the class, you could probably take notes and identify what could be some things that has, that you've struggled with in your, in, in your inner man or in your inner person. Okay. All right. So to start, I, let's, let's look at I think something that's very important for us to understand is the way God made us as man. So when, when God made us, he made us as a being, a tripartite being that means a three part being. And when he, you know, in Genesis 2 7, it talks of how the Lord formed man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. So when God breathed into man, there was something that was of himself that he gave to man as well. So we see that man is a three part being or a, or a tripartite being. And so we see that every person, all of us have, if we were to classify it, we have the physical part of us and as well as the non physical part of us. And how do we understand this in, in scripture, in 1 Thessalonians 5 23. It says, you know, and, and it makes a mention of this, of these distinctions. It says, now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. And may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved, blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. So this in, in this verse, it clearly suggests that God is desirous to keep us preserved, blameless, not just in our spiritual beings or in our physical beings, but also even in our emotional beings. So it talks about the word, excuse me, the word preserved talks about how to safeguard or to keep away or to protect from harm or any form of an injury or a form of a loss. So to keep whole these three, these three areas. So it, it's something that God is desirous to do, not just what he's given us in our, in our outer bodies or in, in our physical bodies, but in our souls as well as the spirit. Now we will, we will look at this, we can, we'll have a look at the distinctions of this and, but before we go there, just, just to highlight another verse that talks about how it is perfectly right to pray that even just as your body prospers that your soul prospers. And we see that in three John one, two, it says, beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health just as your soul prospers. So it is, it is something, it is perfectly right to pray that we prosper not just in all things and be in health, but also for the way that our souls prosper. If, you know, we need to look at the soul, the, the well-being of our souls as so important because it is our soul that affects the, our bodies and affects the way that we do all things. So it is, it is a very important aspect of our, of our, of our bodies. So I just, I'm, I'll just let me just share a diagram with you so that we can go through in understanding this better. Sorry, just give me a minute. Okay. All right. I hope you can see this. Yeah. Okay. So when we look at this, this diagram, I think it's, it's fairly clear about, or, or, you know, I'd like to probably take us through what, what we notice here. So when you say we are a three part whole, we consider ourselves to have a body, to have a soul, and to have a spirit. So just to go through each of this, and this is the way that we view our nature that we have, like I said, we have a physical part or a material part, which is our body and an immaterial part or the non physical part, which is our soul and, and our spirits. Okay. So when we look at the body, it is, it is by the body that we function. So it's like, you know, if you were to give you, if I were to give you an example, let's say, you know, if you have a glove, you know, the glove in itself is, yes, the physical part of it, but it needs maybe a hand to give it life and to give it to function. So it is, it is the body that functions, and it is the body that interacts with the outside world or outside the physical world through our five senses and, you know, our five senses being our vision, our hearing, our taste, our smell, and our touch. This is where we get our information from. So everything that comes to us is picked up by these physical senses through these five senses, and that's what makes the, the body. So if you see in this diagram, you'll see that, you know, the, the body consists not just of our senses, but it consists of everything that is physical. So our brain, our nerves, the cells that we have, every kind of interaction that takes place, our nervous system, all of this is what comprises of the body. So our body consists of things that you, you know, things that if you, if you were to structurally see it, it has the nerves, it has the brains, and this is how we connect to the physical world with our senses. So that's the part of the body. When we look at the soul, yeah, when we look at the soul, the soul is what gives us our inner person or our personality. And it is through the soul that we live out our relationship with others. We live out our relationship with, with God, okay, and yes, and ourselves also. So when we look at the soul, we look at the major components of the soul. And that is the mind, it's the will and the emotions, okay, the mind, the will and the emotions. So when you look at the mind, we can look at it in two parts. It is something that is conscious, and there is a subconscious part of us also. The conscious part of us is what makes us aware about our surroundings, helps us to make decisions, helps us to think, helps us to reason. That's the conscious part of us. And so the mind which has the conscious part is, the conscious mind is, like I said, where we think and where we reason. The subconscious part of us is something that does not surface out always, but these are certain beliefs or attitudes that we hold from within. This is also a place where we have our emotions, our feelings, we retain some of our memories. So these are the two. So although we've divided into mind, emotions, and will, the mind is the more conscious part of it, where you're aware of the surroundings, aware of reasoning, aware of thinking. Whereas the emotional part is the place where it's more subconscious, where it comes as a result of maybe certain beliefs and attitudes that we may have. The will is the place or is the seat which gives us the ability to make choices. So in a very complex way, these, the mind, the will, the emotions are all connected to the body. And especially through our systems, through our nervous or immune systems, that's how you'd see, if you've heard of the word psychosomatic, psychosomatic to mean that whatever psychological concerns or emotional concerns one may have, it manifests in the soma or in the body, soma meaning body, it manifests out in the body. Someone who is very stressed, let's say multiple forms of stress gets manifested in, in certain symptoms in the body. Like, you know, maybe let me give you an example that when, when you are, when you are experiencing stress, let's say at work or, or at any, any, anything specifically, you'll begin to see that it, it, it erupts in your body, you know, you have, you're probably having sweaty palms, you're having, you know, your stomach doesn't feel okay, you want to go to the toilet, you know, you have your heart that's racing and pacing really fast, you begin to get breathless, you get a headache, you feel dizzy. Now this, this is what we mean by that in, in, in a very complex way that the mind, the will and the emotions are connected to the body. So whatever happens in this part of the mind, will and emotions, you will see it being thrown out or bought about in the body. Okay. So yeah, so these, these are the three specific areas and this is going to be the focus of our course of looking at the soul and looking at the problems of the soul and how we can have this part of it emotionally whole. The last part is our spirit. Now it's in our spirit that, at that deepest level is what this, it's a spirit that gives us the meaning and purpose and it is our spirit that enables us to love God and to love one another. It's through the spirit that we have fellowship and communion with God. It is the spirit that gives us that, that intuition of being, you know, gives us that knowing of what is right and knowing what's wrong. So our spiritual health can have a very significant impact on our emotional health, which of course, like we said has a major influence on our physical health. So the connection between the spirit, the soul and the body, yes, is a, is a very complex connection. And this connection is very real, you know, like you would have heard of, you know, testimonies of people who've been, who, who've been touched by the Lord. And so I remember one of the, in Bill Johnson has spoken about this, where he was met by the Lord and he, you know, for that entire time, he wasn't his, his body didn't function. He couldn't move his body. It was almost as if it was, you know, it was as, as good as did. So, so we see that there is this complex connection and understand that, you know, and, and I think that's, that's why that, that John was inspired to write that in Three John one, two, may your soul, may you prosper in all things and be in health just as your soul prosperous. So this is an indication to us that it is important to attend to the matters of the soul. And because it relates to being healthy, it relates to being whole. So the, when we're looking at the interaction between the spirit, the soul and the body, like, like I said, you know, many of us are affected by how we sometimes handle difficulties or stress. So if there is chronic stress or chronic issues that go unchecked over a period of time, our bodies take a definite toll. But a spiritual standing or maturity of faith can help us to cope with the stress that we experience. And, and that becomes less, you know, may not be that significant, the stress that we face may not be significant. So without that strong faith, what happens is you're resorting to your own resources to cope with the stress that is there in your life. So you're actually resorting to your emotional part of it, your, sorry, your soul part of it. And that's, that's when you see, you know, when there is a difficulty to cope and the coping happens maybe through other methods of escape, maybe an addiction, or maybe a wrong sense of wrong relationships. So this, the, this behavior often will further the stress that is there in our physical health. So the beliefs and our attitudes that we hold play also a major role in our thinking patterns. So how we think on a day to day basis have an effect on the way we emote and the way we feel. And you know that the emotions have a major impact on our behaviors. So I think I'd like to bring about a very simple principle here. So I think there are some questions I will, I'll definitely answer, answer those. Okay. Yeah. So we, so what I was saying, what I was talking about was the different, the, the, the thinking causes issues in our emotions and thereby in our behavior. So, so this is, this is a, this is a principle that you do, that you learn in counseling. And those of us who are in the counseling class will come through this principle that every situation that we go through or every kind of a life event that we go through has the potential to bring about certain thoughts in our minds. Okay. Like for example, like, you know, let's say the situation of illness, someone, someone has fallen ill. Now, we have a certain attitude and belief about illness, which is in the subconscious mind, and that begins to play on our conscious mind. And that's what we think. All right. So for example, let's say the belief or the attitude that you have about sickness about, you know, really, let's say a terminal or a strong condition is that, you know, it's hard to be healed of this condition. So that's the attitude or the belief that is playing on the subconscious mind. And that comes to your conscious mind. And that's how you begin to think. So when you think about an illness as you can't recover, it takes a really long time to recover. It plays on your emotions. It there begins to come fear, it begins to happen, have anxiety, worry, all of that. Right. And this in turn affects your behavior. Probably, you know, we don't do what we're supposed to do. Maybe, you know, speaking the word of God over ourselves or getting ourselves to doing things in the natural by getting medical help or, you know, speaking out our fates. We don't do that because whatever happens in our thinking is what really affects our emotions. And that's what affects our behavior. Okay. So to be conscious and to understand that they all play a very major impact, our thought patterns play a significant role in the way that we we emote and the way that we hold, the way that we have our physical health. Okay. All right. I'm just going to address some questions that are here. What is CHO? Okay. CHO is just carbon, hydrogen, oxygen in the body. Okay. It's just that's what the cells are. The gaseous the gaseous matter in the body is carbon, hydrogen, oxygen. That's what the CHO in that in that diagram was. Okay. Beth, you had asked, sorry, I can't see this. Can you explain spirit? Is that what you said? Yeah. Can you explain spirit again? Okay. And Maggie, you said, what is the difference between mind and heart? Yes, we're going to, we'll be coming to, to that. What is the difference between mind and heart? Okay. So the spirit, okay, it's that that is the part of us that enables us to know God intimately through that relationship with God. So the human spirit is what connects us with God. So in order to be connected to God, we need to be alive spiritually. And if you're not, if you're disconnected to God, it means you're dead spiritually. So it is, it's the human spirit is the element through which the spirit of God dwells in us after being, after having salvation. So the human spirit is alive only in communion with God. So the spiritual fruits or spiritual discernment comes through the human spirit because of the anointing of the Holy Spirit. So the human, the human spirit, if we, you know, it is symbolic to life. Like, like for example, I'm trying to get an example. So it is, it's that which, which brings about our connection with God. And that's, that's why, and the spirit is the one I think I, like I mentioned earlier, it's a spirit that gives us meaning and purpose in life. The deeper level of having purpose and this, and the spirit is that which enables us to, to be in connection with God. It is through that spirit. We have communion and fellowship with God. It is also through the spirit that we have our understanding of right and wrong. And this, the spiritual part of us also, just as the others have connections to each other, the spiritual, our spiritual part of us also has a significant impact on our emotional health, which again, like I said, it also has a connection towards our physical health. Okay. So the spirit part is the one that keeps us alive in with God. Okay. I hope I answered that. Yeah. So like I was saying, the focus is a lot more on, the focus is a lot more on, on the soul through the lesson. This is what we will be looking at is, is on, on the soul. So non-believers are two parts beings if their spirit is dead. So the spirit is still there, but it is, it is not an active element of a non-believer. It doesn't mean that it is, it's not there. But yes, unless and until they come to a place of a fellowship with God, it is in, they are a three part being, but the spirit part of them, like you said, yes, is dead. Okay. Okay. I think Beth, you had asked another question. Only when we know God do we become tri-part, non-believers also have understanding of right and wrong. Okay. So scripture does mention that, that, you know, that, that people are given conscience to understand right and wrong, but to follow the will and the, the, the word of God requires a regeneration of the spirit. Okay. So yes, there are non-believers who understand because you're also given an intuition to, to know, but to follow it, to be in connection with God requires a regeneration. Okay. What about non-believers who are actively involved with evil, magic, etc. Are their spirits alive? Their spirits are alive to the, to demonic influences, not to the influences of God. Okay. This drawing is not included in your PDF. Okay. All right. So do unbelievers have a spirit? Okay. So I think we've mentioned that. Yes, they do, but then it is, it is dead because, because they do, they are not born again and not saved within, within the spirit. That's what sin did. It deadened the spirit and it is only through salvation that we have our, our spirits that are alive and open to the, to the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. The spirit is, is also alive to the work of demonic spirits. So, so either you are, you know, the spirit either has an influence from something or from some spirit. So it is the Holy Spirit or it is a demonic, demonic work or not that all. So this doesn't mean that unbelievers have a demonic spirit in them, but it is open. It is open to the influence of the demonic spirit. And so also our believers, believers open to that, to that. So depending on where we are regenerated and where we are at, so that, that is a possibility. Believers can be oppressed by, by the, by the demonic forces, not possessed, but they can be oppressed. We will be looking into this a lot more in detail as we go on. Okay. Moving ahead, moving ahead, I think, Mangi, I'd like to discuss what you said. What does it mean? What, what does the word mind and heart mean? So here, when we look at the terminologies, there may be certain terms that are used interchangeably. Like for example, when, when, when there is the references sometimes that's made to the inner man, it refers to both the spirit as well as the soul. Or when you refer to the heart, it's, in some places it's used to refer to the spirit of man, but there are places in the Old Testament where it makes a reference to both the spirit and the soul together. So depending on the references, you know, when you look up the, the actual, the meaning of it, you understand what exactly is it that it's being referred to. So heart in some places refers to the spirit, heart in some places refers to both the spirit and the soul together. Okay. Like, and it's in your notes in Genesis six, Genesis six, five, it talks about how God sees the wickedness of man and that every imagination of the thought was only evil continually. So here we see that there are functions of imagination and thought which gets associated with the mind. So when we look at the soul, we understand that the soul is one that comprises of who you are. You, you are represented by your soul. The uniqueness of who you are comes from the, from the soul, as it says in Proverbs 27 19, as in water face reflects face. So a man's heart reveals the man over here, referring to, you know, usually referring to the inner person, which means the soul as well as the spirit, the Greek word that is used here, it refers to both the spirit and the soul. So what a man's heart is what reveals the, the actual man. Just a quick description, a quick description of what flesh means. Here again, it's that they're in the notes. When we're looking at flesh, we read about a lot in the about the flesh in different parts of scripture and the references that are made here is in Galatians 5 19 to 21, where the flesh is something that refers to the desires of the body and of the soul. So, you know, I'm just going to read out Galatians 5 19 to 21. It says now the works of the flesh are evident, which so it talks, it talks about the works of the flesh. Okay, the product of those wrong desires or those evil desires is adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambition, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries and the like, of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time. So we see that there are wrong deeds as well as emotions that comprise of the flesh here. And some of them, you know, as we look at our more wrong emotions, like jealousy, anger, envy, the ambitions that are there, outbursts of wrath, quarrelsome. So these are all talking about the flesh part of it. Okay. All right, I'm just going to pause here for a couple of minutes to just check if there are any further questions. Any questions or any thoughts? Okay. All right. Let's do one thing. Let's close for a short break and come back so that, you know, we can have continuity into moving on to the next part of it, where we're going to be looking at, the first part, just looking at the difference between what the brain and the soul is. And then we will just delve a little detail into what are some problems that are related to the soul. Okay. So on my clock, it's 1049. Let's meet at 11, 11 o'clock after our break.