 on the stream page asking if I've received the assignment. Yes, I have. Once you submit it, once you hit the Submit button and you get a message saying it's submitted, don't worry about it anymore. You don't even have to double check whether you have submitted or not. I would suggest what you do is you can type a private comment. Once you've submitted your assignment, Google Classroom allows you to send a private message. So you can just send a message saying I have submitted. That's good enough for me to know that at this time, on this day, you have submitted your assignment. Even if there is an issue, I'll be able to figure that out. But once you have submitted, you can send me a private message if you are in doubt. But otherwise, you don't really have to check whether it has reached me or not. Because you'll get a confirmation on Google Classroom itself saying it's done. OK, yeah, OK, yeah. I think Zellittoli and one more person had messaged me. Sorry, I didn't respond to that. Was it Ruben? I don't know. Yeah, one of you. So just submit and you can be at peace that it has reached. So anything else about the assignment, everyone? Yeah, that's it. Is it like multiple choice or does it have a combination of all like descriptive? And that's what I understood. Yeah, so I've given a combination, Divya. OK, OK, yeah. OK, so usually for the more descriptive answers, we would attach a Google Word doc for you to write in. But I didn't want confusion. So in the same quiz form, I've given you some spaces where you can write a longer answer. So you don't have to be very lengthy. But if you can answer the question which is being asked briefly and maybe add a small explanation to it, that should be sufficient. You don't have to write a lot. But the form allows you, this quiz form allows you to also write long answers. OK, OK, thank you. Thank you first. Yeah, yeah, sure. So the only thing which you have to be mindful about is hitting the submit button. So before you hit the submit button, you can work on your questions as much as you want. Maybe you have ticked something and then you're like, OK, I'm not sure. Let me study my notes and change it. You're allowed to do all that till you hit the submit button. The moment you hit the submit button, you will not be allowed to make any changes. OK, so whatever comes through comes through at that point. OK, so yeah, just be mindful of that. So best is there a session expiry for Google Forms? No, there's no expiry. But then your answers will not be accepted after the last date. I put a due date, no? That's the limit I have set. So if your answers come up, yeah. So if you don't complete it by then, what I generally do is proportional to the delay that is deduction in your marks. Yeah, what I meant at that time when I'm doing the assignment, is there a session expiry like? No, no, no. No, no, no. No, OK. No, yeah. Thank you. Yeah, sure. OK, so please work on it. And if you suddenly have some new things that you want clarified, then please do check about it and we'll answer those questions. OK, so that's about the assignment. It's a little bit different for the e-learning students if you all are listening. So you don't have to worry about the Google Classroom aspect of things. All right, so with that, let's pray and let's get started with today's session. I would like to request somebody to pray anyone. Yeah, this is the prayer and intercession class. So I just encourage all of us when you join the class, be ready to pray. So it'll be nice if people can just jump in and pray. So yeah, the time is open. Anyone, please go ahead. Yeah, sure. Shosit Kanu. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Father God, we come to the throne of grace. We thank you for the time you have given us. We are going to spend in learning about prayer and intercession. Lord, we pray that this hour should be a valuable Lord. Whatever we will be learning, whatever we will be Lord, we will be reminding Lord, we will be remembering, we will be studying about your kingdom, Lord. Whatever they're learning, whatever we will are going to study about prayer and intercession, Lord, whatever all the topics we are going to cover, Lord, today, let it be a lot remembered in our heart, Lord, a letter we also carry a special place in our mind, Lord. Whatever we are going to learn, Lord, thank you for this time you have given us. Thank you for all the students. Thank you for our teacher, Lord. Thank you for the opportunity you have given us, Lord. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. Amen, amen. Thank you. Thank you, Shosit Kanu, for leading us. We will move on to the next chapter here. So far, we have talked about ministering through prayer and we said that we can pray for our own families and exercise our spiritual influence upon our family. And the next chapter that we touched upon was praying for believers and praying for our local church. And I think I had asked us to come back with some points on how you would like to pray for your own local church. If anybody here has it ready, then you can share. Anyone, do you have those points ready with you? What we said in the last class? Okay, Divya, go ahead, Divya, you can share. Yeah, I just wrote down these regarding yeah, salvation and steadfastness and faith, especially for children, those who are coming to faith in the near future. And for workplace situations, for God to help, especially with a lot of pressure in the workplace. Nowadays, not only professionally, but also culturally. So praying for God's hand and to God to bless in those situations. And also for, especially as families to have like the vision, what is the vision of God? Like what is God's calling in bringing us as a family together maybe, so like for families. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, thank you, thank you, Divya. And I can see that you have picked points that are very relevant to your setting, your church and the believers that you know. So that's exactly what we were talking about. We could pray scriptures through the general ones that were mentioned in the last class, plus additionally, your own things that apply in your context. John also has shared here, John Paul, he says pray for believers for love, for each other to increase, okay, wonderful. Then for intercessors to arise, then for people to exercise faith, wow, wonderful. So those are the three points that John is praying. Anita is sharing unity among believers, spiritual growth, understanding of God's word, okay, great. So you know what? This is the way in which God impresses it on our hearts. Don't take anything lightly. If God is impressing something on our hearts, just be faithful with that and go ahead and pray and say, okay, Lord, this is what, it's not like, oh, we should pray for this, only for revival or this or that, but Holy Spirit is impressing on our hearts. Even the simple promptings, take it up and we say, okay, God, you're showing me this and I'm going to pray through, I'll pray into this point and I believe that you are working, Lord, even as I'm asking you to minister in this area. So that's wonderful class. Please continue in this way and as the Holy Spirit lays different points on your hearts, keep praying for people. Okay, Zillatoli also sharing. She's saying, pray for unity in the church, okay. God's spirit to invade our church. Wow, and to grow and mature in Christ, okay. Three points that she feels will be good for her people. Wonderful, Zillatoli. So let's keep doing this. Today, as we discuss about ministering through prayer, we will come to another very specific situation, okay. And this is about praying for the lost or those who have not yet received the Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, those who are not saved or those who don't yet have salvation. So how do we pray for such people? We are using the term lost, okay. Now, in this lesson, we are going to understand that there is, when we say prayer, there are different kinds of prayers. We've already seen it. No, we can petition God. We can ask that somebody be saved, which is all right. But when it comes to people not seeing the gospel for what it is and receiving it, we study in God's word that there is another aspect, okay. That is Satan trying to keep people away from the truth. So there is a prayer aspect, but there is also the opposition, which we have to deal with, which we are going to term as spiritual warfare. So as we are going to look at this subject, these are the two things that we will talk about. One is prayer in terms of petitioning God and asking God for various things. And the other is to fight against the opposition, which is coming from the enemy. So Satan works very hard on keeping people away from knowing the truth. How Jesus said, the light shines in the darkness, but the darkness did not understand it, even when he was walking the earth. No, people did not recognize. Isn't it sad that the truth is out there, but people are not able to recognize. People are not able to receive it because there is a God of this world again. When we say God, it's not the capital G, it's a small G that the Bible uses. Who is Satan, okay, who is trying to exercise his influence and prevent people from knowing the salvation, the redemption that Jesus has already bought for us on the cross. That is why we call it what, good news. It's such a great news. What no man can do, Christ Jesus, he became the propitiation for our sin, the Bible says. So God himself has done it for us. And now we can be justified because of what God has done. We can become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. This much of truth is there, but people are not able to see it. People are not able to understand it. People are not able to receive it. Why? Because Satan is working hard to keep them away from this reality. So what is Satan doing? No, we see that Satan blinds people. Okay, he blinds people. And that is what we see in scripture. It'll be good for somebody to read 2 Corinthians chapter four, verses three and four, please. I'm on page 63. 2 Corinthians four, verses three and four. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In whose case, the gods of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. Yeah, thank you. Thank you, John. So, you know, we see here that the gospel is veiled. Okay, what is a veil? You put a veil, right? People usually use a veil kind of to cover their face. So the gospel is veiled is what we are being told. And the God of this world, Satan has blinded. So, which again means that there is a barrier. They're unable to see even though the work has already been done and it exists. So it's like a cloud, you know, a dark cloud between the truth and the people. And this is what Satan does. And we've seen that here in this very passage. There are other passages also, which are given here, but they talk about the same thing, how people have been blinded by Satan. So these things have to be broken. That blindness has to be removed. Okay? And that is when people will be able to see the truth. Now, there are instances in scripture where we see that this blindness comes about, you know, for certain reasons. Now, when we look at the book of Acts, okay? In Acts 13, when Paul in Barnabas, they're traveling on their first missionary journey, they go to a place called Paphos. And in that place, there is an intelligent man. He wants to know about God. But, you know, there is a hindrance. Even if he wants to know, there is a spiritual opposition, okay? Which is created for this man not to receive the gospel. So he is not able to understand, even though Paul wants to minister to this individual, but there is a sorcerer, okay? Somebody who's engaging in black magic and things like that. So he is becoming the hindrance. And he is creating the spiritual influence for this intelligent man not to understand the gospel. Okay, so there you see the hindrance, right? And now we saw how Satan himself is kind of blinding the eyes of the people. But in this particular case, Acts 13, we know that Satan was using an individual to create that blindness in the life of another person. So we can have, you know, such blindness existing for various reasons, okay? Over regions, over territories, over individuals, so on and so forth. So there can be a, there can also be a human, you know, agent, or an empowered, demonically empowered person also, okay? Who's bringing about that kind of an opposition over a group of people, okay? So the point we have to understand is that there is blindness which Satan tries to create and he does not want it to be lifted off. But we know in the case of Acts 13, you know, Paul ministers, Paul recognizes, why is this intelligent man not able to receive? Okay, it's because of the sorcerer elements. So he rebukes the sorcerer and he says, you know, he rebukes and he kind of there's a judgment on that sorcerer, he goes blind. But after that we read when that spiritual influence stops on the intelligent man that he is able to hear what Paul says and also we read that he believed, he actually believed. So Satan brings about blindness. So when we pray for people, we must remember that. Now, the other thing, the way Satan engages is that he likes to keep people in bondage. We read in scripture that God has brought us out of a, you know, like a wrong way of living before we come into, before we come to Christ, that is, you know, the things of the world which we are engaged in, we are lost in those things, we enjoy those things, we desire, you know, the things which exist in the world. But once we come into the Lord Jesus Christ, we are set free from those habits, from those practices, from that evil way of living. And we can continue to live free. Recently Pastor also shared a sermon about in Christ, free in Christ, the liberty which we have in Christ. We can live free to worship the Lord from any form of bondage, but here is the plan that Satan has. He holds people in bondage, okay? Especially those who are lost because he has an influence over them. They are not yet part of the kingdom of light. So what does he do? He keeps them as prisoners, okay? He keeps them as prisoners in what? He keeps them in habits. He creates strong holds in their lives. Maybe, you know, there's some kind of demonic, you know, opposition, domination, oppression over that person's life. And so they are stuck, right? They are stuck in some immoral activities. They are stuck in some deeds. They might be addicted to those things. Now Satan likes to do that as long as he can keep people prisoners. One is blind them. They won't even understand. Even if you share the gospel, they won't even understand because there is a spiritual veil which is standing between that person who's listening and we who are sharing the message. The second is people are caught up in their bondages, okay? In their addictions, in their habits, in their immoral lifestyle, all kinds of things. When he knows how to keep people bound in those things, he knows that they will be stuck. They will not try to come to the light. They'll probably be ashamed or, you know, they will feel guilty. They will not know how to come out of that prison. So they will remain stuck in their own ways. So he loves to do that in the lives of people who are lost. And, you know, he always tries to bring about an opposition. Paul talks about it. He says that, you know, whatever work they set out to do, Satan was always trying to oppose it. So we know that, you know, different, different cities as Paul and his team traveled, there would be individuals who would rise up against the team, you know, kind of instigate mobs against the team, accuse the team, you know, create, make things very difficult for the team to minister. Why? Because they don't want the gospel to be preached. Now, who is doing this work of opposition? Obviously, it's Satan. He's working in the hearts of, you know, individuals and he is kind of fanning the flames and telling them, don't let these people preach the gospel. You know, they're not doing the right thing, so on and so forth. So Satan loves to do all this blindness, keeping people in the prison, opposing the work of the gospel. So when we are wanting to reach out to those who are lost, you know, we must, yes, preach the gospel, but also engage in spiritual warfare, okay? Now, remember, we talked about the example of Charles Finney, okay? And Father Nash, we said how Father Nash, he prevailed in the spirit. In that context, we talked about them. But also, you know, the results which Charles Finney had, it was because of spiritual warfare that Father Nash and team engaged in, right? Because when we read his testimony, he shares how after Father Nash died, he did not have a team that would go out and prepare in a spiritual sense for the ministry. So he would go and preach, but he would not have the kind of results he had when Father Nash and team used to go and pray. So what is the, you know, like our conclusion? It's likely that the intercession that Father Nash and team engaged in, they were engaging in spiritual warfare. So what Satan is trying to do, you know, keeping people blind, keeping them, keeping people in their own ways, all that was being dismantled through prayer, through intercession. And even now, you know, when we talk about church planting, you know, this course, you'll probably have it in your future semesters. We say how it's important, like when we are a church planter, we are going to a particular place, the first few months, okay, or the initial time, it's important to just, you know, engage in worship, engage in praise because all this is spiritual warfare, okay, engage in prayer, engage in tearing down, you know, the works that the enemy is doing. So as we're engaging in spiritual warfare, the spiritual atmosphere is being prepared in that place. Okay, usually, that's what generally church planters do. They take up whatever time God shows them. Some people take six months, some people even take a year. Only thing they do is pray, worship, just, you know, go after the presence of God. And even as God's presence breaks through, all the, you know, the works of these demonic powers over the region, we will talk about, you know, territorial spirits and things like that. When we study about believers' authority, you know, what happens is that we see the victory over the demonic works, okay. And spiritual warfare is something that we engage in. And after that, when we start doing the preaching, you're reaching out to people, there is a greater openness because what have we just done? We have broken the strongholds of the enemy, okay. So spiritual warfare has a very important role to play, particularly when we are praying for those who are lost, okay. So the church has this responsibility, first of all, it's our responsibility, okay, to shine the light of the gospel. We have the great commission. Is it a great suggestion? No, it is a great commission. So should every believer shine the light of the gospel, talk about, you know, the blessings that we have received through the cross, the freedom that we have received through the cross. Yes, every believer has a responsibility to go ahead and share this with others who don't know it. And at the same time, you know, we said that there are prisons in which Satan is holding people. The church is called as, you know, the entity that will set the prisoners free, okay. So God has called us with this kind of a responsibility. You know, we can look up, there are some passages of scripture that have been given here in our notes. You could look it up. But, you know, ultimately what they're saying is that, you know, we have to arise shine for our light has come and we have to go and we have to set the prisoners free. We have to do the work of God. So the church is vested with authority. We are already given the authority to do this work. We can overthrow the works of the devil, right. And, you know, we've seen this, that God has given us the keys of the kingdom to whom has he given the church is given the keys of the kingdom. In other words, authority and dominion to overthrow the gates of hell shall not prevail. So overthrow the powers of darkness. Whatever the powers of darkness are doing, it's not a matter of worry for the church, okay. Obviously, Satan will try to do his best, but we are coming from a place of victory. We are coming from a place of dominion. So we don't have to be scared. Oh, Satan is doing this. These spirits are doing that. We should not be worried about that. Instead, we must use our authority and we must exercise it. How do we exercise it? One of the ways we said this, prayer itself. When we pray, we are exercising our authority. You're on earth. We can also declare God's word, right. We can speak over the people. And, you know, we can say that, you know, your light has come, God is shining on you. Come on, arise. There are many declarations that we can make over the lives of the people. We can, you know, engage. We can engage in spiritual warfare. And in spiritual warfare, we have the authority to bind and lose. You know, we have talked about that, right? So basically, we are restricting the enemy from working. So when we say, I bind you, Satan. You know, you will no longer keep this person in prison in this immoral habit. We are exercising our authority to restrict, okay. So we can bind. We can lose. We can lose the power of God. Remember when Jesus, he cast out a demon in Matthew chapter 12. He said, the kingdom of God has come upon you because when he cast out the demon, like he lose the kingdom of God on that individual. So we can lose the kingdom of God over people. We can cast out. And Jesus did that. You know, he delivered people from demonic possession. So we too can do that as believers. So in all these ways, what are we doing? We're overthrowing. Okay, Satan, is this what you're going to do? Doesn't matter. We have the authority and we are going to take you head on and we are going to exercise our authority. So in all these ways, the church is called to minister. So we're not here to run away, you know, to identify, ah, okay, devil is doing all these things. Let's pack our bags. It's too scary. Let's, you know, scoot from here. No, we already have the authority. We can engage. We can go against the devil. Who should be afraid? Satan should be afraid of us. Okay, and we are also told in God's word in second Corinthians 10 verses three to six, how every, you know, everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, we are able to bring it down. Okay, so we can use our spiritual weapons for warfare and we can shout the victory of God. One more thing which when we talk about believers authority, we emphasize on it a lot. That is the finished work of the cross. Okay, again, there are so many scriptures. We can look upon this, how the Lord Jesus, you know, he has expelled the enemy, how he has defeated the enemy, right? How he has destroyed the devil. So how he has gained victory on the cross and he has made a public spectacle of the evil one. So when we read about these passages about what the Lord Jesus has done on the cross of Calvary, you know, we recognize that we are fighting from a place of victory. We no longer have to gain the victory. Victory has already been gained by Jesus. Some scriptures that you can look up is Colossians two verses 14 and 15, Hebrews two and verse 14. How about we read it? I think it'll be good to read these verses. Colossians two verses 14 and 15, one person could please read it and then another person Hebrews two and verse 14, please. Anyone just feel free, unmute and read it. All right, Hebrews two 14. Therefore since the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise also partook of the same that through death, he might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is the devil. Yeah, thank you, John. Thank you. So it's so clear, right? So what has he done to Satan, render powerless? So then who is the enemy? He's a defeated enemy. He is powerless. So who are we fighting? We have to always remember that as we fight the devil, we recognize he's nowhere equal to God. First of all, he's a created being. God is the self-existent, almighty God. And Satan is a created being who is opposing God. So that in itself is no equality. Beyond that, what do we see? The Lord Jesus has defeated the devil, render powerless. Who has the authority? Jesus has all authority. He gave it to the church now. And what about the devil? He's powerless. That's what we read in scripture. Okay, Colossians 2. Yeah, Divya has posted it here on the chat. Divya, would you also like to read it please? Yeah, sure. Yeah. Colossians 2, 14 to 15. Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was called to read to us. And he has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross, having disarmed principalities and powers. He made a public spectacle of them, trying to bring over them in it. Yes, wonderful. Thank you, Divya. So we notice here, having disarmed principalities and powers, principalities and powers, these are like ranks, hierarchy in the demonic realm. So principalities, powers, then he made a public spectacle of them. You know, public spectacle those days when conquerors took on a region. They would, how do you say? Put the defeated person to shame. Public spectacle. Publicly put the defeated king or the defeated king and his ministers and all the people. They'll put them to shame. So that is what Jesus has done. We are being told that he is the reigning ruling king who has defeated the devil such that he made a public spectacle of them. And then again, another word that triumphing over them in it, meaning on the cross, he has triumphed over Satan. He has triumphed over every principality, power, you know, every spirit of wickedness. Anything that you can list out as demons or dark powers. So the clear, a clear point that I want us to have in our minds is we are victorious. Jesus has already done the work. So think about this, even before the cross, at one point in Luke 10, Jesus sends out some disciples and he tells them, okay, you go, you do the ministry. Now, when he gives them the authority to do that ministry, he says, look, nothing shall by any means harm you, okay? Even before the cross, he encourages them and says, don't worry, don't worry about anything. I've given you the authority. You go against the works of the devil and nothing shall by any means harm you. So how much more after the cross? You know, we are protected in that sense. So that is why I just want to make it clear because sometimes when we talk about spiritual warfare, believers get scared. They'll say, oh, no, it's only for pastors or apostles or, you know, prophets. Don't ask, I'm just a believer. You know what? Every believer has been vested with incredible authority. No, there's no gradation of authority that Jesus gives us, isn't it? We are given the authority. The church is given the authority, all authority which Jesus had, he gave it to the church and we have seen scriptures now that say that the enemy is disarmed, right? Made a public spectacle, Jesus has triumphed over him. So we keep all this in mind and we engage in spiritual warfare. So who should be afraid? It's Satan who must be afraid. So when praying for people who are lost, we must pray. So we can pray things like God bless their lives, God protect them so that they will not fall away or fall into wrong things. Set them free from their addictions. We can pray all these prayers, Lord. We continue to speak and declare the destiny of God over their lives. But at the same time, what we are saying is we can take spiritual authority. So we can pray things like, okay, I bind that spirit of deception which is working in that person's mind. Maybe you know specifically, you know, what is that deception that this individual has in their minds? You pray against that in Jesus' mighty name. Now, you can take, you may want to cast out a demon, you know, out of their lives or you know, you are just continuing to declare and say that you're fighting basically. Every darkness that's surrounding them, you know, you're coming against it and you're saying, no, I speak the light of God over your life, you know, and you will see the truth. So you're going against that blindness. You could pray prayers like God. You remove the blindness. I come against that blindness which is stopping this person from understanding your love for them. So in all these ways, one is we are praying, okay, petitioning God and all of that. But the other is that we're engaging using our authority, spiritual authority. We are praying against what Satan is doing in the lives of the people. We can also destroy. God may show us, hey, this is the root cause. You can pray, I cancel. I cancel this in the name of Jesus. I destroy the work of the enemy in the name of Jesus. You know, I destroy that oppression which this brother is facing in the name of Jesus. So whatever authority we have, we apply it as per the situation as led by the Holy Spirit. So as we are praying, as we're engaging in spiritual warfare, what's happening on one side? Yes, God is working. God's word is working and all of that. But the enemy is retreating. The powers of darkness are being rendered, completely useless in the life of that person. So it becomes easier and easier for that person to understand the gospel, to receive the gospel and to come to the Lord. We must keep engaging in both of these ways for the lost people. So in our notes here, certain things have been listed in terms of prayer. What are the prayers which we can pray for the lost people? More specifically for them to come to know Christ, we can pray and say that we invite the Holy Spirit to work in their lives. Now, what will the Holy Spirit do? We are told in John chapter 16 verses 7 through 11 that he is the Spirit who brings conviction. Or he lets people know what sin is, what righteousness is and about judgment. So even if we are speaking, right, we may not be able to bring that person to a place of conviction, but it is the work of the Holy Spirit. So when we are praying for somebody who's not a believer, we can say, Holy Spirit, we welcome you. Holy Spirit, you come. You work in the life of this person or these people. Let them know you. Let them know the sin that they are engaging in. And basically you invite the Holy Spirit to come and work. We can also pray that God will draw the people to himself because we see that in the book of John. Jesus says that the Father will draw, the Father draws people to himself. So because scripture says that God plays a part in drawing people to himself, we can ask and say God, you know, so and so. We pray, heavenly Father, that you will draw them to yourself, oh God. So that is another prayer which we can pray. Now, we can also pray that God will bring this person that we are praying for to a place of repentance, okay, and to a place where they will have the knowledge of the truth because we see in scripture that the enemy, okay, he entraps people. And, you know, he does not let them understand or have the sense of what the truth is. But when we pray and we say, God, you know, you work in this person's life, Lord, you bring them to a place of repentance, you give them the knowledge, Lord, of what the truth is, we can expect God to work in their hearts and in their lives. We can also pray and ask God for his spirit of wisdom, his spirit of revelation to work in the hearts and lives of the people. You know, we've seen passages where, you know, Paul prays, let your spiritual eyes be opened. So nothing wrong in praying that even an unbeliever, yeah, correct, they're spiritually, they're dead. But still we can pray and we can say, God, open their spiritual eyes. They're not seeing you right now. They're not seeing the truth right now, you know. So you please work on their lives and on their hearts and open up their spiritual eyes. So what happens when their spiritual eyes are open, they will be able to perceive the reality of who this Jesus is, how he has redeemed their lives and what kind of a life they can have, right? Because of the salvation which God has offered. So we pray in this manner. We can also pray, you know, that God said, right? Jesus said that the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. So we can pray and we can say, Lord, send more laborers. Send some laborer, Lord, you know, let somebody go and speak to that person. So bring people into their lives, bring Godly people into their lives, who will sow the word of God into their hearts, who will live the life of an example before them, okay? So when we pray things like this, God is faithful. You know, he will send people to influence them according to his purpose, according to his plan for their lives and you know, God will begin to work in their hearts. We can also pray for supernatural encounters. So supernatural encounters has to do with things like God, giving them a dream or God, visiting them. You know, you recall Saul on the road to Damascus, he had an encounter with God and he was a persecutor before that, but once he had an encounter with God and God spoke to him, God called him to himself. Now you see that he was a completely different person, but how did it happen? We know, even at that time we know that the early church was a praying church. They used to pray, they were praying for boldness, they were praying that, you know, God would work, right? So much of persecution was going on. So it's likely that the church had prayed. So God can encounter people, any type of person, they could be very far away from God and we may wonder how is this person, you know, in the whole world, how this person can be saved? Maybe people thought like that about Paul, you know, Paul, when you read about him, it's quite scary. He dragged, it says that he dragged men and women. So even during those times, you know, they wouldn't like drag women and all that, show a little more softness towards women, but he was so zealous for the righteousness that he believed was, you know, off the Jews and he wanted to uphold it, right? In his zeal, he did what he did. He was thinking he was doing the right thing. Okay, but you see that God encountered a man like that and his life turned around. So we can pray today and say, God, you encounter, you encounter this person, Lord, or you could also say, God dreams, give them dreams, give them visions, you know, Cornelius in the book of Acts, he has a vision, God tells him, you know, that this man called Peter, he will come, you know, you send people, bring that man here because there is something he has to tell you. So this man is a Gentile. He has no clue about the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, nothing, but what happens? There is a vision, God tells him, God ministers to his heart. So today we could do that. Who knows how God would, you know, talk to somebody, give them a vision and say, you should go here or do this and you will hear, okay, the gospel or angels, God can send angels, God can give dreams. So I know of a particular friend who was very far away from God and you know, she, her whole family accepted Christ, except her and they were all praying for her and but she was like a rebel. She never wanted to listen. She would even come to our Bible studies, but you know, she would just kind of come and go away. She was not at all keen. But once what happened is apparently forced by her family, she went for some retreat or camp and in that camp, she had a dream. She had a dream that she was walking on a beach and Jesus was walking with her and it was as if Jesus was asking her for reasons, why is it that you don't believe in me? You know, so she had a dream like that and some in that dream, she sensed that what she was doing was not correct. Why am I not believing in God? I must put my trust in the Lord Jesus. So through that dream, she gave her life to Christ, okay? And today she and her husband are pastors, okay? They are pastors with, it's amazing. They're not in India, but in another country, but they're serving the Lord beautifully, okay? So God encounters, I'm just giving you some examples, but you know, how God ministers to people, how God draws people to himself. So these are all prayers which we can pray and we must not give up on people who are right now far away from God because God wants us to be those who stand in the gap. You know, that's what we're learning, right? In prayer and intercession, intercession, what is intercession? Go to God on behalf of the people and God has called us to pray for those who are lost. So today we might be able to list out some people, individuals in our own lives and say, oh, these people really need God or God may put a region on our hearts and say pray for Bangalore or pray for India, pray for Uganda, pray for, you know, I don't know, different places, but just heed the call of God and these are all ways in which we can engage in praying for the lost. So because of the time I'm gonna stop here, but I would, maybe we can briefly look at some of the questions or, you know, comments that you all have. Few minutes, we'll look at that, but we'll come back again tomorrow, delve into the same subject and study some more. So any thoughts as of now? Any, anything you want to share? Okay, so maybe you just wanna think about it some more. Okay, and let's come back, let's come back tomorrow and we'll pick up from where we have stopped. So we're talking about praying for those who are lost, okay? Yeah, and I think it's very, very important. So even as we wrap up today's class, I would like to request somebody to please lead with a word of prayer. Anyone, please go ahead. Okay, yeah, Siddhi Khidoo. Yeah, go ahead. Father, we come to the throne of grace. Lord, thank you for the time with the Lord. Thank you for what we have learned today, Lord. We learned about praying for the lost Lord. We pray all the people, all the lambs, Lord, all the sheeps of your, which are going astray, Lord. All the people who are Lord, who wanted to hear about you, what the word, the gospel is not reaching to them, Lord. We pray, Lord, Lord, give us the charge. Prepare us so that we can go to the sheeps, Lord. We can go to this lost lambs, Lord, so that we can bring back to you for them, Lord. We can bring back them to your kingdom, Lord. We thank you for whatever we have learned and praying for the lost Lord. We thank you for this session. We thank you for all the students, Lord. We thank you for the ma'am, Lord. Thank you for this opportunity. Thank you for the day you have given us, Lord. Many are no more today to see this day, Lord, but you have made us available to see this day, Lord. Thank you for all the places. Thank you for all your goodness, Lord. You have shown to us in Jesus' name, pray, amen. Amen, amen. Thank you. Thank you, Siddhi Khidoo. Yeah, so yes, class, do continue to think about this subject and let's come back tomorrow. We'll complete it. And yeah, I'm sure God will work through us, right? Even as I'm talking to you, I'm just thinking of some of my relatives for whom I've been praying and it's taking so long, but let's encourage ourselves and keep pressing on, okay? Right, okay. God bless you. Have a good day. We shall meet again tomorrow. Bye for now. Thank you. Thank you, everyone.