 Yes ma'am. Yeah please go ahead. We are praying. Our heavenly Father we want to bless you and thank you this morning. We thank you for the lives of each one of us here. We thank you for the breath. Thank you for the opportunity that you have granted us together here this moment. So that we pray, commit our session into your hands to God, police, to come and lead us, come and take absolute control, direct us, open our understanding in our minds in the name of Jesus. Father we pray, commit our pastor into your care, pray that you grant the head our chances, Father to make clear our chances to us that you understand and in the end you will give you praise and glory. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you Elisha. So once again just quickly starting off with a note on the assignments. Those of us who submitted don't worry too much about it like if you have submitted then there is a private comment which you can send to me. After your submission you'll see that it's a private thing so you can check if you would like to but otherwise if you've hit the submit button I generally get it so I know this is your first semester so you allow me whether your assignments have reached me or not but yeah don't worry too much about it. Okay so success you have a question? Yes good morning everybody good morning house. Yes good morning, good morning success. I'm lacking behind. I'm behind. If not for the WhatsApp group open, I won't have known that you have programmed today. I have not received notification that you have a prayer today prayer lecture. So when did you when did you register success for the course? I registered about it's not too much this year this year. Okay and is this your first class which you are attending? I can check the dates I can check the dates. I'll be attending one as this lecture but not on Friday. Oh so you missed out on the Friday lectures? Yes I've not attended anyone Friday lectures only today is my first day of Friday lecture. I'll be attending one as the lectures all the time. Okay so if you have signed up for prayer in the session there's nothing to worry because this semester we've started recording all our sessions just on the Google classroom if you go on to the stream page there you will see the videos posted. I think I don't know the number of today's video maybe this is the 20th video but for catching up you will have to go over you know go through all the previous videos. Okay so through the website through the website I'll be checking the video and I'll be going through the videos. Okay yeah then that'll help success because you won't miss anything you will get all the points of discussion. Okay all right yeah okay so I just want to alert you the first assignment is already posted and it is due in a in a couple of weeks so please have a look at it note the date you would need to go over the videos and go through your notes before you know the end of the due date because you have to finish your assignment also. Yes I saw the assignment is due date the second of October. Yeah yeah yeah you have sufficient time to catch up. Yeah I've caught up no I will definitely I will catch up. Yeah sure sure yes thank you thank you for bringing it to our notice. Thank you so much. No problem all the best. Yeah right okay Lubega Collins I have not seen the assignments yet. Oh okay Lubega how can I help you? Oh you have it great okay Lubega has it that's fine. Okay so he's just suggesting something to success you can get the Google Classroom app on your phone and that also might help. Okay wonderful all right so we've discussed about the assignments let's get into the class in the last class we were talking about praying for the lost and we said that it involves both prayer as well as spiritual warfare and we were looking at you know the ways in which we can pray for someone who is away from the Lord and we said we will invite the Holy Spirit to come and work because he is the one who does the work of conviction in the hearts of the people then we said that we can pray to the Father and ask that the Father will draw people to himself then we also said that we can pray and ask God to bring about repentance in the heart of the individual okay so they're far away from God they caught up in certain lives in a certain lifestyle and habits that don't glorify God then we can ask God God give the heart of repentance that they leave those things and come back to you and we can also ask God that they will have the knowledge of the truth you know what the reality really is about God and living a sinless life before God so in addition to this we can pray that God will give them wisdom and revelation so that their spiritual eyes will be opened up and they will be ready to receive what he's doing and what he's saying to them then we said that we can pray and ask God for divine connections for laborers to be sent out to need them in their own circumstance and situation and you know they can sow the seed of God's word into the lives of these loved ones and you know they may respond to what God is speaking to their hearts at that point and then we touched upon how God ministers through dreams visions he can also send angels okay to to awakened people to himself and these are all ways in which he does it and we too can pray in line with with all these things and yeah so that's we were at some of us shared you know some testimonies and things like that so that was good I'm just coming back to the chat here sorry for the interruption a Lubega okay through Google Classroom but this time around I didn't get the assignments okay okay all right I would somebody be able to clarify Lubega's question like answers question please yes yeah so brother Lubega so officially the assessment assignment which we have received is one for Holy Spirit and another one for prayer and intercession and as from your message you have completed both of them so you are not missing out on anything else ministry from minister's foundation and all testament survey was not the assessment part of assignments it was just part of the coursework so these two are the ones which would be assessed so you have not missed on anything thank you is that helpful Lubega anything more to clarify okay sure I think that is quite clear now so we'll carry on so we just said that okay we can pray in various ways for people to come to know him even supernatural ways okay and the next section that we are going to look at today is how we exercise our spiritual authority to open prison doors and you know we we also said that Satan likes to keep these people in prison so we can declare the finished work of the cross okay over the lives of these people now we know that through the finished work of the cross Satan has been defeated and the powers of darkness no longer have a hold on our lives so through that authority you know we can begin to speak we can begin to declare over the lives of those who are lost now if there are certain prison doors okay prison meaning we know that Satan has kept them in bondage of some sort so it could be an addiction maybe we are praying for a region maybe we are praying for our city and we know that in a particular area there are people who are engaging in alcoholism okay so that is that is an addiction which the people haven't we know that Satan has kept them in bondage in that particular area so while we pray for them we can declare there is freedom through the work of the cross what the Lord Jesus has done that there is freedom we declare that freedom over the lives of those individuals we speak you know the liberty of God we set free in Jesus name so through the finished work of the cross we have God's power which has already been released so basically what we're doing is in spiritual warfare we are applying that and we can we can command it we can decree it we can declare it we can even you know issue commands like come forth come out of that bondage or you know come out of that addiction in the name of Jesus so we can pray in this manner to see people released from darkness and brought into light then more specifically right we can identify the patterns there can be things happening in people's lives you know which are demonically influenced as we pray as we pray God can show us okay they are bound by a spirit of deception they are bound by a spirit of lust or they are bound by a spirit of bitterness they are bound by a spirit of strife right so something God reveals that to us and when we're engaging in spiritual warfare we are specifically going after that stronghold and God's word you know teaches us that we are here to bring down every thought you know tear down every everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God so these strongholds these demonic influences over people's hearts and lives so we can we can pray against them we can tear them down remember we talked about exercising our authority so while doing that we bind we lose we cast out so we're engaging our authority by bring over the people and bring very specifically over those those those you know demonic influences over their lives and you know as we're doing that we can expect you know all these things to break and their hearts to be in a place where they can receive what God is doing so the second thing that we would do first is we would declare the finished work of the crossover the lives of the people second is we can go specifically after the demonic influence okay whatever that that's that is we can go after that then we can you know destroy the works of the spirits that are at work in people now Ephesians chapter 2 it shows us that the the influence of the demonic realm it is working in the people of the world now as believers we have the authority to destroy that we will pray against once again this is kind of in sync with the earlier point that we said we will identify specific influences and pray against it here in point 3 it's more like you know the demonic realm we will pray against those spirits that are holding people captain so it just some pointers actually but there are many ways in which we can engage in spiritual warfare for those who are lost and as we begin to pray what really is happening is you know whatever is holding them back that is being destroyed and at the same time you know our prayers over their lives where we are saying okay God bless them God awaken them to your truth God you know let them let them have a spirit let their spiritual lives be open so God's word is at work God's presence is at work in their lives and whatever is holding them back from the demonic realm those things are being crushed and destroyed so the lost are in the better place to to accept salvation and become children of God so these are all these are the ways in which we can pray for those who are away from God now while doing these things you know whenever we talk about spiritual warfare there is a danger of believers becoming overly conscious about the demonic realm right so that is something we must avoid now how do we engage the demonic realm yes you know we go against it we fight against it but if you look at the passage wait let me pull that out for you there is a scripture yeah the reference is James 4 verse 7 excuse me James 4 verse 7 very familiar for many of us it simply says submit to God resists the devil and he will flee from you so in spiritual warfare our focus ends up in resists the devil and he will flee from you but notice this verse it actually begins with submit to God yeah submit yourself sent to God so what is the key to spiritual warfare yes resist engage in spiritual warfare but before you do that even before you do that submit yourself to God so as much as we are submitted to God you know we have God's authority flowing through us against the enemy so the requirement is that we position ourselves in obedience position ourselves in the truth of God's word to such an extent right or rather that becomes the priority and once we have done that then we resist the devil and he will flee from us so even when we pray for those who are lost we are engaging in spiritual warfare we must not forget that we should not become demon conscious or devil conscious okay otherwise what happens every time we are so busy we are tearing down strongholds we are rebuking you know this demon and that stronghold and you know pulling down something but we forget that our position of worshiping the Lord you know that has to be the main thing so you worship God you exalt God you give time to God's word live in obedience to God's word and from that place engage in spiritual warfare and that will be that will make for very effective spiritual warfare so while we pray for those who are lost you know let's not become overly concerned about what the devil is doing then the next thing here because again you know these are all the pitfalls of spiritual warfare people become overly conscious I talked about you know influences right as the devil can hold people as prisoners in in addictions and you know certain influences so to pray and we are going to look at this later on in our course actually there is a pattern which is used for prayer it's called as spiritual mapping a lot of people use that to identify what influences are there over a region so they'll identify they'll say okay there's a lot of violence in this particular region or there is alcohol addiction or there is corruption that there is unfaithfulness and marriage so they'll identify certain demonic influences over regions and when people come together for prayer what they'll do is they'll specifically pray against that now it has also happened that people get very caught up in this right so they're only concerned about okay this place what are the demonic strongholds here which is the temple which is over here in this place which is the goddess okay this goddess will influence in this way so again it's an unhealthy interest in spiritual mapping whether it is what Satan is doing the demons are doing or you know spiritual mapping the only warning whenever we are engaging in spiritual warfare is don't become demon conscious because that's not the point at all we are already in a place of authority and in the last class I talked about what Jesus has done right how he has destroyed the devil disarm the devil he has made a public spectacle of the enemy so we are already winners and we have to fight from a place of victory and yes by the way we are resisting the devil and doing all those things but that's not our focus when we talk about spiritual warfare so for those who are lost we can pray for them and we can also engage in spiritual warfare and always remember that you know God is a God who sets people free God is a God who is a redeemer he's a restorer who are we to say what God can do in someone's life and one of you was it in this class or another class we talked about Apostle Paul how a murderer became an Apostle and God is able to do that you know in the lives of his people so he can set free prisoners and he can cause them to to rule and reign in the in the experience of Caleb there is a short note in our book here basically it talks about a place called Kirijat Arba which was a stronghold of giants so Anakin giants they lived there however you know Caleb asked for a mountain to be given to him and you know the mountain was given to him but you know later on later on once he took over it became a place of refuge it became a place where where those who were guilty right they would be sent over to that place and you know they they would stay there and kind of you know their lives will be protected their lives will be preserved so we are talking about this in the in the context that this is what God does in the lives of sinners you know we might look at sinners and say you are only worthy for punishment you are worthy for the consequences of what we have done and nothing good can happen in your life but you know we see that God is a God who can turn around a stronghold of giants into a place of refuge okay and can he not do that today as we pray as we lift up people if you recall we talked about the son of Billy Graham when we prayed when we talked about praying for for families so God turned his life around right Franklin Graham and how he is today one of the Christian leaders who we look up to so God can change lives God can bring back the lost and even if we are talking in terms of regions and communities of people and wondering how can this community how can the set of people ever come to know God how can they even serve God you know they have a very sinful lifestyle God is able God is he is strong enough right to do that work in their lives I mean already know that the cross is the finished work is already completed the work and the cleansing comes from there and any community any individual can be saved but we must continue to engage in prayer continue to keep praying for the people who are lost so at this point I'm just gonna pause to leave this time open for us to share okay so if you have a testimony where a loved one who was away from God and please keep it brief maybe within 30s I don't know maybe a minute a maximum of a minute if you would like to share of how you prayed and you saw loved one come back to God you could do that now anyone just feel comfortable if you don't mind sharing the testimony then yes you know you can share it with the class here okay no one has a testimony then not a problem maybe yeah yes yes and it only go ahead okay you know like I just want to share a short testimony of how God delivered my dad from the bondage of alcohol he was an alcoholic for more than 35 years and it was very tough growing up and we used to pray for him you know all the time and you know God really work and God relancer the prayers and by the grace of God now he's totally free from alcohol and also there was a time when like God save him from their dead experience he had a stroke for two times but God's supernaturally you know heal him and delivered him and we're so thankful to God for delivering him and saving him thank God and praise God for that praise God thank you thank you Zillitoly for sharing that from your life and if I may ask you how did you pray for your father all those years when you were trusting God for his salvation and for his deliverance would you are you able to recall how did you pray for him yes ma'am like we used to come against the spirit of alcoholism and every spiritual blindness which is blinding his eyes you know we used to pray that God will open his eyes of understanding so that he can see things in the spirit and he will repent and come back to Jesus wow okay so thank you thank you again for sharing that so we see that you know you were praying for him but at the same time that there's also that spiritual warfare aspect right that's spirit of alcohol yes yes yeah okay all right all right thank you thank you Zillitoly that's very very helpful okay and Rebecca has put on a comment here she says mark 918 we see in that place one boy was in bondage with mute demonic spirit his father takes him to disciple but they are unable to cast out that demon demonic boy okay so after that isn't that the place where Jesus says this kind shall not okay let me get that verse for you first to Rebecca once again okay yeah yeah so verse 28 Rebecca of that same passage after Jesus rebukes the spirit he cast out the the deaf and mute spirit from that boy we see here he says okay I'll read the verse verse 28 after Jesus had gone indoors his disciples asked him privately why couldn't we drive it out he replied this kind can come out only by prayer and we have you know the some of the other gospels they say that Jesus said this kind will only come out through prayer and fasting so the conclusion the conclusion that we draw is he whenever we move in the the works of God whenever we move in the supernatural you know what is needed for that faith we need faith without faith we cannot engage in this case it was the casting out of a demon so what Jesus was saying is he was saying that looks like the disciples did not have the faith that was required for the casting out of the demons so that's why he tells them this kind will not come out except through prayer and fasting what to prayer and fasting do for us prayer and fasting are helpful in strengthening our faith okay so the answer to your question is why were the disciples not able to cast the demon out it was a faith issue and so Jesus gave them the solution also he said okay come on you know pray more get into fasting because that will develop your faith and you will be in a position where you will be able to cast out demons so does that answer your question okay we'll give it because some time in the meantime I will read sit can who's comment here he says not when we are person who has a demon possession then when there is a counter attack the person who is praying for that person with possession please can you tell me any scripture or any way to fight okay just a moment sit can let me get something for you okay so Luke 10 19 is a good scripture which you can meditate on so this is when Jesus sends 72 people to go and do the work of the ministry okay so they go they cast out demons and all that and you see he tells them I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy nothing will harm you if you read some other translations it says nothing by any means shall harm you and he told this before he went to the cross so you can imagine after he destroyed the devil how much authority we have isn't it so it can so yeah so this is one scripture you can hold on to another scripture I'll give you yeah this is one John 5 18 this one says we know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin and the one who was born of God keeps them safe and the evil one cannot harm them and some other translations say the evil one cannot touch them okay and of course you know there is some 91 which you could declare so you know what happens it can you I am not sure from where we get this understanding that Satan is powerful and if we go against him he will retaliate now it is a given fact that Satan whether we like it or not he will attack every human being whether you are a believer or you're not a believer because he's against the creation of God now when we are believers okay and we are committed believers we want to grow in the Lord all the more he will like he would want to disturb us yes or no yeah he will isn't it so he will go about doing this by default now whether I cast out a demon or I don't cast out a demon Satan is interested in disturbing me in one way or the other so the point is we should not make it a big deal in our minds when we make it a big deal in our minds that's when it starts affecting us because I remember this was the maybe one of the first times when I cast out a demon and then I was so scared I I came back home and I thought what's gonna happen now now that I have been able to cast out this demon will is will it attack my family and because I was so concerned about it there are a couple of things that happened at home which made me feel like there is a backlash or there is a retaliation but actually scripturally if you look at it when Jesus is sending the 72 he's saying you know what nothing of the enemy nothing by any means shall harm you so even in Jesus's concept it's like don't bother don't worry about any retaliation whether you cast out a demon or you didn't cast out a demon will Satan try to trouble you he will okay so that's it so don't don't be overly conscious of a retaliation that's when you know whatever we believe it starts happening to us so it's it's all over here in the mind we are giving priority to this thing of Satan will retaliate he will attack me back and all but there is no such thing we already have God's protection in so many scriptures he has told us that Satan cannot touch us nothing by any means shall harm us no we we dwell in God's presence and we are protected so just claim all these things and keep doing the works of God because mark 16 right mark 16 let me post that scripture also for you yeah 16 verses 17 and 18 so this is talking about the normal normal lifestyle of a believer lifestyle okay all of us so what will we do these signs will accompany those who believe if you believe these signs will accompany you in my name they will drive out demons it's normal so we don't have to keep worrying okay they will speak in new tongues they will pick up snakes with their hands and you know they will drink deadly poison it will not hurt them at all they will place their hands on sick people and they will get well so these things are supposed to happen through the life of every believer and so we just go about doing these things and not worrying as to how Satan is going to react or respond to us yeah so does does that help in some way said you know yes ma'am it helped me in very much okay that's great yeah good to know yeah praise God wonderful yes any anything else about this matter about praying for a loved one praying for the lost spiritual warfare okay so I just want to encourage you in that case to keep praying for those who are lost in you know in your circle in your life in your family which is very very important but at the same time no we will go on in fact the the next few sections are about praying for the city praying for the regions so when when we do that you know we can use this in the larger context and begin to pray for for communities of people you know to come to know God and you know there are again stories when you when you read about the revivals in Christian history you will see that when people prayed like this I am not okay it's called the layman's revival okay layman's revival you you can look it up in that revival no they they just they just began praying they just began praying during the lunch breaks and as they started praying you know God's presence took over in such a marvelous way that one of the the results of people engaging in prayer was that even without saying a word people were giving their lives to Christ so I don't know the number but you know hundreds and thousands of people gave their lives to to Christ through that movement the layman's revival so you can look it up but as we engage in prayer not just one person being saved you know you're in there that that's not the only thing we're looking for but God can can bring in right mighty harvest of souls and we can engage both in prayer and spiritual warfare for the lost population okay so just want to encourage us maybe so far you've never thought about it you've never had a burden for for praying for the lost right in our city or in a nation and all but ask God to burden our hearts and as we start focusing on that we will surely as we invest in prayer as we engage in spiritual warfare we will see a turning around we will see souls saved and souls coming into the kingdom of God yeah you have you have something to ask yes yes Pesta thank you so my question is regarding what about those people who are brought up in a Christian background but would have had you know some tragedies in life and they turned away from faith like or even earlier on it was not like a personal relationship but just in a Christian background they are brought up so and if if they just become like APS right just thinking over in our dire need a life situation I did not receive help from God so they are just thinking like oh there is no God so to such people right how what how can we you know evangelize them or how can we brought in even the topic of God yeah thank you yeah yeah thank you Divya that's a really good question see one thing we have to always bear in mind okay that there are only two categories one is those who are born again and those who are not born again see John chapter 3 and verse 3 right that's what Jesus said posting here in our chats yeah Jesus replied very very I tell you no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again so there's only two category those who are born again those who are not born again now they can be from a Christian background but you know as they say have my one of my youth leaders she is to put it this way she's like if you are born in McDonald's you can't become a burger okay if you're born in the whatever in some showroom Ferrari showroom it doesn't make you a Ferrari so it's like you can be born in a Christian household but it cannot make you bought it cannot make you a Christian unless what Jesus said you must be born again so even if someone's coming from a Christian background we're just looking at two categories your believer unbeliever that person isn't unbeliever and like you know others who have not yet come to that place of decision they we will continue to pray for them now yes you know whatever we said right they were like through life experiences and the trauma you specifically mentioned trauma they've gone through some trauma in their life and they have a mindset a pattern of thinking so we'll really have to engage in spiritual warfare for that person so you know by as the Holy Spirit leads you you have to tear down like you have to pull down those strongholds you have to do the the work of binding losing declaring God's word over that person but these are all the the spiritual activities that you will engage in but when it comes to ministering to that individual this is what I would say I would say just be a reflection of God in their lives which means to show the love of God okay to them so if they can see God's love through you I'm sure that you know they will be on the path to salvation a lot quicker and that's where I think where believers kind of struggle you see we know to pray we know to do spiritual warfare but when it comes to interacting with the unsafe person we judge them we condemn them we put them down you know we show them our anger and our displeasure all these things totally put them off they're like okay if this is how Jesus is why would I need Jesus you know they come to that place so basically love on them pray for them but be that example of the love of God over their lives so that's what I would like to say yeah thank you that's a beautiful answer thank you thank you yeah yeah no problem yeah no problem yeah and I do know that having done all this sometimes quickly we see people coming to Christ but I still have loved ones right I told you I am praying for some of my relatives and it is a prayer of persistence where we keep trusting keep declaring keep loving on them till they come to that point of decision okay yeah so right and yeah I see Rebecca's comment also here she says a believer needs strong faith prayer and fasting in holiness to cast out the demon spirit well prayer and fasting help with faith Rebecca so what does a believer need to cast out a demon spirit to believe these science shall follow those who believe so if you have faith we can cast out yeah so alright good I think that's good we've got some you know handle on things of spiritual warfare that's helpful because we will talk a little more about spiritual warfare later as well we've touched on some of those points so it's it's not a digression of any sort so let's pray and close we will come to the section on praying for the cities in the next class okay next week we will take that up so would like to request somebody to please pray how about success success since you've joined us this Friday could you please pray as we close the class all right thank you thank you yeah that we want to say thank you the king of kings and the Lord of all so you want to say thank you thank you for all you have been doing for us thank you for the past thank you for the present and thank you for the future thank you for our future thanks for letting some participating in this cost father we say thank you we receive all the glory in the name of Jesus Christ and my father my God I pray that oh God give us the grace to meet up with your standard in the name of Jesus Christ and I pray all as we are going all what you have learned today may we put it in the practice in the name of Jesus Christ thank you Lord father we pray for our lecturer our teacher the management all my people you will click them with your strength in the name of Jesus Christ and thereby close the class of today in the name of God and father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit in Jesus name we pray amen amen thank you so much success for graciously leading us in prayer God bless you and God bless each one of you have a great weekend everyone yeah thank you thank you everybody thank you Nikki also for that comment thank you everyone God bless you yeah take care yeah bye