 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today's session on ministers foundation Last week we studied on fulfilling God's purpose for our life I hope you you would have gone through the last four chapters that I requested y'all to go through as yourself study Did y'all? Did we go through the last three chapters on positioning yourself to fulfill his purpose the prize of the high call of God and Finishing your course did we go through the last three chapters, which was assigned to us as our self-study Yes, ma'am. Yes, thank you. Thank you. So today we are going to We are going to study on the second book of our course notes that is receiving God's guidance Receiving God's guidance. I hope you would have downloaded this note If y'all have any challenge in downloading, please do let me know where I could Uploaded again on the stream Have everyone downloaded the notes Yes, ma'am Thank you so much. Thank you so much. So I will quickly go ahead and share the screen on today's session As some of our friends are joining in Okay, even before we could start we will start our class with a word of prayer Can I request one of us to please lead us in prayer? Yes, please. Mr. Binazir, please go ahead Our heavenly father, we thank you for this wonderful Good morning, God. I Praise you and adore you For this section Please talk to us Make us to understand very clearly We give up your marums into other hands. Please let her go You Understandingly the word of God of God You praise you in Jesus all mighty name. I pray amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. That was a wonderful prayer Thank you So everyone able to see the presentation Yes, ma'am Okay. Thank you. So As we start with this new book Receiving God's guidance we need each of us need God's guidance in various matters in our life Some may have to do with our small Small decisions or the big decisions or sometimes the major decisions in our life Before in those days when the options were less to Make a choice with when we had to choose for our studies after our 10th grade it was very easy There were only three options left art science or commerce but now if we have to make a decision to study after our 10th grade like there are about more than 32 subjects where we can make choice and It becomes harder these days than before Not only in our studies when it comes to our career choosing a life partner being or You know or which part of the world that each of us have to stay in or live in or It can be something you do with our daily life which church who do we go? You know the small petty decisions also sometimes it challenges us and we you know We want to for us to make a Significant or a major decision we all you know We it is so much in me that we had to depend on God We have to depend on God so that we make the right decision in our life So all of his desire that we want somebody to be with us who can guide us help us to make that right decision So how do we journey with God so that we can hear him? We can hear him and yeah, so that you know we are held in Making decisions in our life. Let's see what the Bible tells us how we can journey with God How we can partner with God? How you and I can develop this a relationship with God that he can guide us There are two important ways in which God guides it guides us is through his word the written scripture and by the leading of the Holy Spirit When we meditate on his word when we have been led by the spirit Always always God desires to lead us in the right path One thing we must remember is that there is no such formula in the Bible that That that tells us to follow but then simply just go by the leading of the Holy Spirit Or by his word Today, we are going to look at 11 different ways By which the Bible offers that God releases his guidance into our life But this we will move on to the chapter one in our book God as our guide We need God's guidance in various matters in our life to make the session Psalms 37 Psalms chapter 37 verse 23 to 24 These before we could go move on to this verse We will see what are the different ways that we would be studying today Not not only today in the classes to come there are 11 ways that we would be studying how God can guide us the first is through his word The indwelling spirit The third is gifts of the Holy Spirit the voice of the Holy Spirit dreams and visions Sex this prophecies Seventh is through his angels godly council renewed mind times and seasons and the 11th is Circumstance and divine orchestration First we will move on to a second Corinthians Chapter 13 verse 1 The scripture says by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established By the mouth of two or three witnesses every word shall be established We must build our lives on God's word and the work of a spirit and us personally We don't have to build our life on somebody else Experience or or as we share our personal experience through the classes. It's not that we have to build You know build our life depending on what the other person Shares or says but we need to build our life on the very foundation of God's word God's word should be our foundation. It's good for us to hear the testimony of others how God led them How they made the decision? It is good We should just state the pattern of the modern day went through but then come back to the word Because the word of God is what is needed for you and me to build our foundation We need God's guidance in all kind of matters in our life And God promises to lead us and guide us he desires He desires to lead us and guide us This is what the Psalms Psalmist says in Psalms 37 verse 23 to 24 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord and he delights in his ways Though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholds him with his Hand you see the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord The word order means direct set up made perfect made firm in the Lord God takes pleasure in leading us because we are his children he is much Interested in our life is very much interest So when we depend on God he leads us he guides us But there are certain season in our life that we do make mistake we do stumble we do fall But remember that's not the end of everything When we repent when we look at God and when we cry or saying Lord Lift me up put me back into the right track. Our God is faithful enough to You know put us back into the right track and lead us He is he is our God. He is our father We are his precious being and he's faithful enough to lift us up The Lord grasps His hand in support and upholds us With this we also go to the next verse Psalms 32 Verse 8 to 9 The word of God says that I will instruct you and teach you in the way You should go and I will guide you with my eyes So very important. I will instruct you a wonderful promise It assures us that our God never gives up on us. He will instruct us He will teach us and he will guide us But are we willing to receive that instruction receive that teaching receive that guidance from God or Are we saying that I know everything I Can lead my life. These are the simple things and why should I inquire with God? I Can make decisions from for myself. I'm a grown-up. These are the words sometimes these days youth tell to the parents Sometimes there are few of us. We also say this to God. These are the small things. I should not be disturbing God with it. I Can decide for my own. I Don't have to inquire God with these things Maybe those are the times that we stumble maybe those are the times we go astray We have a major fall in our life. What was thought simple may be the major fall So here we have been encouraged by the word of God saying that there's nothing called small or big or major or minor When we see God in all our being God desires God desires To guide us to lead us to instruct us to teach us Because the Lord has promised that he will lead us. He will instruct us He will teach us and we will guide us. We see in some 25 verse 12 Who is the man that fears the Lord him shall he teach in the ways he chooses? It is so very important for us to fear the Lord the word fear here is Reverence the respect at the most honor the reverence that we give to the Lord Those who have reverence for the Lord will learn from him the path they should follow It is very important when we give that first place to God he leads us Revelation of God's will The first point here talks about God's will is always consistent with his nature God's will Is always consistent with his nature Our God is a God was unchanging. He does not change He is the holy God Not one day he's holy and the other day he becomes unholy no he is an holy God His nature is consistent. He is the father of lights with whom there's no variation of shadow of turning back God by his nature is constant God the second point here is God's will is always consistent with his word God's will is always consistent with his word God will not lead us to do something that contradicts his own word God's word is truth God's word is truth Consider a few examples like in the Bible we see that, you know, the Bible we see that You know, how how how to keep the Sabbath the Pharisees did not permit anyone To do anything on the Sabbath on the other hand, we see Jesus People and his own disciples were plucking the grains and they were eating on the day of Sabbath So Pharisees were you know, they were upset with Jesus saying that You and your disciples are not keeping the Sabbath and Jesus explains that the he is the Lord of the Sabbath the Sabbath was was Man was not made for Sabbath, but Sabbath for man How important is to do something good? Or to keep the day of Sabbath He explains it So he's not Contradicting his own word, but we need to understand the word in the right way But this will move on to the next point God promises are a revelation of God's will God's promises are a revelation of God's will The reason God promised us something was because he Intended for us to have it so we can understand God's promises are an expression of his will for our life and God desires for us to know his will God truly desires He does not hide something from us, but he reveals it to us before in hand We see the time and again from the generation to generation how God calls people and he reveals his plan to them and Then he fulfills it in their life. Even today you and I as we sit here It's not a surprise that we are here. God called us There's a testimony for each of us that the calling of God in our life He reveals his will to us He reveals his plan to us for some of us it may be step-by-step, but he is revealing it Before hand is unfolding it before hand That's our God. He desires to reveal his will to us to his people to make it known In collusion chapter 1 verse 9 to 10 we read for this reason We also since the day we heard it do not cease to pray for you And to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding that you may walk worthy of the Lord fully pleasing to him being fruitful in every good work and Increasing in the knowledge of God We need to be filled with the knowledge of all his wisdom and spiritual understanding So that we may walk worthy of the Lord that we may be pleasing to the Lord And we will be fruitful in our life because we are filled with his knowledge With his wisdom and with a spiritual understanding So that we are fruitful and we can heal much in whatever we are doing in our life You know the word knowledge means precise The Greek word called Paganosis which means precise correct knowledge So as a believer we may pray and have We may pray to have this kind of knowledge So as each of us here as We desire for this knowledge in our heart Lord help me to have this knowledge We all need his knowledge We all need his wisdom knowledge and understanding So can we declare it over self as we study this book there? We would be making many declarations over our self which can help us grow in his word grow in his spirit So that we may be fruitful to serve in God's kingdom Today can we take this time to declare this knowledge? The knowledge of God over our self can we say that Lord I have your wisdom knowledge and understanding I declare the knowledge of God which is full Complete precise Correct deep and a clear knowledge of your will upon me in the name of Jesus Amen Very Important very important that we increase even Jesus when he was born in this world Naturally, the scripture says that Jesus increased in wisdom knowledge and understand We also as we grow as we study his word as we grow in spirit We should also increase in this wisdom in this knowledge and spiritual understanding Ephesians chapter 5 verse 8 to 10 17 says for you way once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord Walk as children of light for the fruit of the spirit is an all goodness righteousness and truth Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord therefore do not be unwise but understanding What the will of the Lord is very important scripture? Very important scripture for us to find out and the Lord So that we won't be unwise in understanding what the will of the Lord is So that we are the children of light and we walk in the light and there is no darkness in us When we take God's guidance when we receive his guidance We are the children of light and we walk in that light fully pleasing well pleasing unto the Lord Sometimes in some situations When it comes to decision-making We need to be wise God has given us this wisdom this knowledge and this understanding to make a wise Decision it is through our common sense But certain times we say no the scripture says this let's do it. No Just like how when Jesus was tempted in the wilderness make the stone into bread Jesus never heeded those voices and converted those stones to bread We need to make wise decisions. We need to we need to you know receive Sometimes we need to make the good the practical Some decisions to we should be made with the common sense So we need God's wisdom knowledge and understanding that we may Be wise enough to make our daily decisions in our life The fifth is the thing that remains unknown the things that remain unknown Deuteronomy 29 chapter 29 verse 29 We read that the secret things belong to the Lord our God But those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever That we may do all the words of his law There are few secret things that belongs to Lord and we need to or know that we need to or know that and And have no other answers or be comfortable in not knowing what it is because for every everything there is a reason or every season that God has kept certain things pertaining to You know certain well you would have kept it secret like the coming of the Lord We can live at peace with the unknown unanswered because we have the peace that is beyond our understanding So we need to just stay in peace when it comes to certain things Now are they different categories of God's will are they different categories of God's will? Romans chapter 12 verse 1 to 2 says I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your body's living sacrifice which is only Acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service Now What does this verse say is it giving us three categories? For God's will or it's just one. I think it's one Yes Yes As some of us are from different Denomination background or we would have heard different messages saying that you know the scripture gives us three different categories So God's will is holy. Sometimes it is acceptable, which means Tolerable or you know, it can be lenient and it is reasonable service No, this verse is not talking about that When this was scripture says that it's holy and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service when it says acceptable Means it is holy and it is equal to holy nothing lesser God has a standard and it is holy and he's expecting that from us For an example if I have an apple and I say this apple is Red in color and it tastes sweet and it smells good. So does that mean I have three different apple or one apple? One apple Same way, we are just describing as character, but then it's one Yes, thank you So it is one one category of God's will there's no other category. There's only one which is holy God is a holy God Roman 12 1 to 2 says do not be conformed to this world But be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and Perfect will of God a God is a God of light and there is no darkness in him Neither there's any gray areas in him. Our goal is to understand that Walk in what is good acceptable and perfect will of God as what the word says We should not be conformed to the world, but be transformed how by renewing of our mind That we may prove what is good and acceptable and the perfect will of God. It's very important To walk in that way to be in what someone calls the permissive will of God is really to be out of the will of God again To be in the permissive will of God is really to be out of the will of God So it is always one category holy We need to be acceptable the sight of God So in receiving God guidance, we have a responsibility to play with to do our part In fulfilling that to in fulfilling or to receive God's guidance. What are they? There are three our responsibility is in three areas. That is by seeking listening and obeying We must seek listen and obey What are our responsibilities? Can anyone say? seeking listening and obeying Thank you seeking listening and obeying as we seek God Let's turn to Jeremiah chapter 29 verse 12 to 13 Can one of us read this please? Jeremiah 29 Then you will call upon me and go and pray to me and I will listen to you And you seek me and I find me when you shouts for me with all your heart The God is inviting us to seek him to call upon him to receive his revelation of Things that we do not know as we seek God with whole heart. God responds to such a heart attitude We also see in Jeremiah 333 call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things which you do not know as We seek God leads us to find It is so very important our God is a God who answers our prayer when we call him he listens He answers to us He is a prayer answering God Matthew 7 7 to 8 says ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find Knock and it will be open to you. So when we seek and we receive God's guidance Fixes into different expressions seeking his guidance during the normal crow normal Through the normal course of things Can be in our daily life the small things But when we seek him he desires even to lead us in the smallest of the decisions in our life How do we seek God in these small decisions some of us may think why should we disturb God? Small things I can handle it and God is saying there's nothing called small or major I am a God who desires to talk to you To help you make even the smallest of the decisions. He leads us. He's a faithful God Second point here we see is seeking his guidance during special times of Seeking when it comes to special times some of us would seek God to make some major Decisions in our life that would mean take up the extra time and extra week Set that time aside seek God for his direction in our life When we seek God like how Isaiah 58 eight say sometimes we need to fast and pray and Ask God it can be any area. It can be a breakthrough It can be a decision in your carrier in the choosing your life partner or going abroad It can be anything but when we seek God earnestly Depending completely on as well our God is a God who reveals things to us because of the Relationship that we have because wholeheartedly we are seeking God and as per his word He says when you seek I will answer I will lead you and the third point of our Third point in seeking is guidance through unexpected God moments Sometimes we don't have to seek too much and When you know it is an emergency it is an immediate when we just say Lord help When we call upon the name of the Lord he answers he saves us He just breaks through the situation and comes in and he guides us we see supernatural things Happen as though it was normal Just God breaks into the situation and he speaks to us he leads us he guides us and All this can happen when we have a Relationship with God when we have surrendered our self completely and invited God to move in our life in every area Holy Spirit takes control and he just leads us This we will move on to the second one After seeking here. We have come to listening John chapter 10 verse 1 to 5 and 27 can anyone anyone read this any of us read this please John chapter 10 verses 1 1 to 5 Most assuredly I say to you he who does not enter the ship pulled by the door, but climbed by some other way The same is a thief and a robber, but he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep To him the door the doorkeeper opens and the sheep faces voice and he calls his own chief by name and Leads them out and then he brings out his own sheep He's go he goes before them and the she follow him for they know his voice yet Yes, and yet Yet they will bring They will be by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him for they do not know the voice of the strangers My sheep hear my voice and I know Them and they follow me Thank you. Thank you so much. So what did we understand from this scripture? The second important component about receiving God's guidance is Listening through his voice the sheep hear his voice. They are listening and for the shepherd's voice We also saw a WhatsApp video that was released released saying that there was they were heard of sheeps and you know many people Who visited that farm tries to call that sheep for different sounds? The different sounds they try to call the sheep, but the sheeps are not responding to the sounds of Anyone any of the visitors there? But the minute when the shepherd came and he just gave one sound he released one sound in the form of a whistle All the sheep no matter how far they were no matter how busy they were in gracing the grass Immediately they left everything turned to the shepherd towards the direction where he was and they all ran to him You see they say the sheeps are the dumb bean, but if they can hear his voice How much you and I should hear the voice of God? If the sheep can hear the voice of a shepherd They have trained themselves they inclined themselves to hear his voice How much more you and I should develop this Relationship with our God to hear the voice of his The small still voice of the Holy Spirit speaks into us is very important We need to hear his voice It's not that God is not loud enough that we can't hear but then the relationship that we develop in our daily life He opens our ears. He opens our heart. He opens our mind that we could hear we could communicate to him And we could hear him speak back to us because our God is a God who speaks to us as he listens He speaks to us. He guides us in the right way Proverbs chapter 3 verse 32 As we seek as we listen the very important is that we need to obey Obey the Lord obeying is very important Because God guides us and he wants us to obey him when we in obedience comes, you know the reward There's a reward in every obedience Proverbs 3 32 says for the perverse person is an abomination to the Lord But the secret counsel is with the upright It is very important for us to heed the counsel of God. God reveals a secret counsel to his children Why the only the upright the answer is because they desire to do what is right in the eyes of God God speaks to us that we can obey him and we and walk in the way that pleases him God guides us and we must follow him by faith with obedience and patience Sometimes obeying can be painful But then when we obey with all humility We see the result of God we see the reward of God we see the hand of God upon our life That's what some 3731 says the law Sorry, sorry Sorry Sam's 37 37 says mark The blameless man and observe the upright for the future of the man of that man is peace man So with this we we will take a break of 10 minutes and we will come back After that and we will start with chapter 2 Okay, so we'll be back by 10 minutes. Is that okay? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good bless