 Alright, so welcome back and we are learning about the Ministry of Intercession, so so far what have you picked up from our discussions about the Ministry of Intercession? Yes, so can we simply say that Ministry of Intercession is important? Yes, it is important. What else did we understand? Okay, yeah this is a selfless ministry, we won't compare because every ministry is rewarding in its own way but definitely this is also a very rewarding ministry, we are satisfied, yes. Okay, great, so ministry is service and for us to be complete and perfect simply means to have the character of Christ and the power of Christ. Okay, great, so that's also something we understood. What else? Anything else about intercessory? There's no boundaries, there's no distance. Okay, we are like prayer warriors, yeah that word makes sense now because there is a struggle and a fight spiritually involved. Okay, that makes sense. Yes, so it's not a burden but we do it with zeal and passion. So here again, someone, Justin says, powerful as any other ministry is good, we have some, you know, good understanding developing about the Ministry of Intercession, yes. Yeah, so we should do it fervently like apathras, so we engage in a consistent, determined way, it's then that we see the results. And, you know, we were saying there's no distance involved, we saw that there are places close to Colosse, like, you know, certain miles away and apathras still prayed for them. But when Paul wrote the letter to the Colossians, Paul was actually in Rome, so it is said that he was some 2,500 kilometers from Rome. So you can imagine, apathras is praying for Colosse from Rome, 2,500 kilometers. So it doesn't matter, distance is never an issue as far as prayer is concerned. That's why, you know, even when you get some messages you hear, or someone's not well or they are in this difficulty, immediately you can just pray because your prayer will touch them. Okay, so in that sense it's a very beautiful ministry. And yeah, few more things about this ministry is whenever we think about praying and interceding. As I began earlier, this is more like a secret place ministry. It's not so much of a pulpit or, you know, in front of people kind of a ministry. You remember what Jesus said on the Sermon on the Mount, Sermon on the Mount, Matthew chapter 5 and 6, you know, when you're reading those passages, there in Matthew 6 verses 5 and 6 he says, And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room and when you have shut your door, pray to your father who is in the secret place. And your father who sees in secret will reward you openly. So intercession, even prayer for that matter. Yes, sometimes it is public. Sometimes, you know, like we have our small group prayer or we have here Bible college prayer, supernatural hour, so many community prayer, you know, programs where we pray in front of people. But that will just be the tip of the iceberg. The rest of our prayer life is all secret place. It's all secret place, because personally, we are spending time in the presence of God, which nobody knows about. And you know, which nobody will, you know, they, and it should be like that also. There's no need to go and make it public and say, Oh, do you know, I pray like this and I, this is how, how much of time I'm spending with the Lord. Maybe sometimes just to teach and inspire others, we may share. Oh, like this. I, this is what my routine is. But beyond that, most of prayer and intercession is very much a secret place, kind of a ministry. And that's what Jesus said. He said, look at the, the, you know, Pharisees, the hypocrites, what do they do? They pray in public places so that they can get recognition through prayer. But you go into your room and when you have shut your door, meaning it's personal. Okay. It's personal. You don't want to publicize it. When you have shut your door into your father, who is in the secret place. So even God, you know, reaches out to us in that personal place of prayer, and your father who sees in secret will reward you openly. So this practice of intercession in the secret will bring reward openly. So, you know, many times we, we read about, again, going back to the revivals. You know, when you study about all these people who experienced revivals in their churches, in their cities, you'll notice that most of them had a very powerful prayer life. And it was not just prayer in front of the people, like there is one person, William J. Seymour, this is 1905 Azusa Street Revival. When you study about that revival, you see that he had learned somewhere about prayer. And he started like dedicating himself to God for prayer and he set aside time in his personal life to pray and he was increasing. Like he started one hour and then two hours, something like that, five hours. And I think at one point he was praying seven hours in a day. And when he began his ministry, revival broke out and a lot of miraculous things took place in his ministry. And you can read many writings about the Azusa Street Revival. But one of the key things that people say about the leader, William J. Seymour is, he was a man of prayer. He would not even speak a word till he felt led by the Holy Spirit. And all the time he would be behind pulpit. Even behind the pulpit he would be praying, praying, praying. So the point I'm making is sometimes we only talk about the results which is open, which is visible, which is evident. But the results usually come after somebody has devoted this kind of personal secret time in prayer. Which they may not talk about. But it's understood even in the life of Jesus, so many miracles, all one step. Stretch forth your hand, the leprosy got healed or come out, any demonic spirit came out. But you also read about the intimate life of Jesus with the Father. He spent hours and hours. He took time away, he went to a mountain and he just spent time with the Father. What is all that? Secret place, intercession. So where is all this power coming from? Unless one has that secret place, personal time in prayer, we cannot expect that anointing in the ministry that we do. So it's so important. Now we will also understand, when we talked about prayer we said, actually it's difficult, especially when you are in ministry. Whatever little experience I have, I can tell you, the more ministry you have, you become more busy. And everything has a lot of responsibility. So if I have to teach a class, then I have to prepare so much or have to study so much. That takes up time and so many other things take up time. End of the day you're exhausted, you're tired. You don't even have the energy to spend time in prayer. Sometimes you say, forget it, I'll just do it tomorrow. But you know what? I have learnt in my own life that I can subtract something else from my life, which is so-called interesting, but not skip prayer. Because it is that important. If I don't have the secret place, time with the Lord, all this public ministry, it will not carry, if you want to say, the anointing or making an impact in people's lives unless you've prayed through. What is God saying here? When the Father sees you in the secret will reward you openly. So for that openly experience, we need the secret place experience. So it's a journey for each of us. It's a journey, it's a struggle. So even as time goes by, as life goes by, let me tell all of you, the kind of time you have today, don't expect it later. In fact, you're in a really good place because so many things are taken care of. But as life goes on, you have to take care of your work, bills, cooking, cleaning, everything. So your time is going, your energy is going and you still have to make time for prayer. So we have to still fight for it, that time with the Lord in secret. So when we have the time in the secret place, that's when this passage says openly, you will see the results or the reward of the Father. So this is the kind of intercessory ministry that one needs to develop where most of our time is in private. Sort of a personal hidden setting. It's not in a public setting, but you see the results in the public setting. So especially when you get involved in ministry and all, never replace time in the ministry. Sometimes what people do is they say, oh anyway, I'm praying in the public, like in the group prayer we are having, church prayer we are having, it's okay. I don't have to spend time personal prayer. No, you cannot replace. The two are very different. Okay, so personal prayer is very, very important. Not just that, even personal Bible study. Sometimes we say, oh yeah, I started these notes to teach in the class. It's okay, it's word of God only. No, no, this is different from, you know, the quiet time that I need to have for my own personal spiritual growth. You cannot replace or you cannot mix the two. So all this is very important, very, very important. And, you know, we have to get a grip. So as far as ministry and prayer is concerned, it's more of a secret place, you know, kind of a situation. By that, we don't mean you have to find the secret place. It just means it's not public. You do it, you know, behind the scenes. Okay, so that is something we have to understand. Then, you know, a few more things that we recognize about the intercessory ministry is that there are passages in the Bible in Psalms and Revelation, where we learn that the prayer, which we pray, is like incense, incense. So all of us from the Indian setting, we understand what is incense, right? People use incense before their gods and goddesses. You can see the, yeah, the smoke. Yeah, so the smoke, it just goes up in front. So in the same way, Psalm 141 verse 2, it says, let my prayer be set before you as incense. So you can just picture. We are not saying that prayer is incense. It's a comparison. So when we pray, it's almost like in the presence of God, our prayer is going like a smoke. You can imagine, right? You can imagine. So it goes into the presence of God. The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. Again, Revelation 5, it says, now when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell down before the lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. So the in heaven, you know, you can picture the scene in the presence of God. There are these bowls, which are taken with incense. What are these bowls and what is the incense in it? The explanation is right there. It says, which are the prayers of the saints. So our prayers, you can imagine it like this way also. It's incense in a bowl. It is kept in the presence of God. It is kept in the presence of God. So the encouragement, which we have is when we pray directly, my prayers and your prayers, the prayers of believers. It's directly entering the presence of God. Do we need somebody to push our prayer into the throne room of God? Sometimes we have all these concepts, right? That no, this man of God should pray or this saint should pray or somebody else should pray. Then only it will go directly in God's presence. But do you see here, the prayers of the saints, which is your prayer and my prayer, your prayers are entering, piercing heaven and they are before God direct. So that's such an encouragement. So when we intercede, you can think of all these things. Right now as I pray, my prayers are piercing into heaven and it's like incense before the Lord. So incense is worship. When you look at the tabernacle, the old tabernacle architecture, which God gave Moses, he told him, have incense. Why incense? It was a worship practice. So when we pray, it's like worship before the Lord is going up. It's beautiful in God's presence. So we think of all these things and it energizes us to engage in prayer, to engage in intercession. So we can continue to minister and offer our time, offer our energy, our effort to pray. And also to pray for others. That is what ministry is, serve others through our prayer. So a few things which we would say is when we pray for others and also if we have a ministry of prayer, here are some guidelines. Keep this in mind. One is to not, you know, promote ourselves for our prayer ministry. Sometimes it happens, you know, that we end up saying, no, but I'm praying, I'm praying for everything. We want to say, oh, whoever won the elections, you know, I prayed. We like to promote ourselves and say, I'm doing my praying successfully, efficiently, or God is answering because of my prayers. So there's a tendency to, you know, promote oneself and our prayer ministry. Actually speaking, it should be a very quiet thing because that's what we see here. You go to the secret place, you pray to the Father, the Father who hears you in the secret will reward you openly. So trying to promote oneself and our ministry of intercession should not be, you know, a practice. Okay. For that matter, any ministry we read about this, I think in your Code of Honor, you will study this particular point where we say, we don't really have to promote ourselves. You know, if there is the ministry for which God has called us, if there's an anointing in that ministry, God will make the way, He will open the doors. You know, we don't have to get people's attention to make things work. So just keep it before the Lord and He will open the doors. Yeah. Here too in Matthew 6 verse 2, he says that he talks about teaching about charity. So when you give something to an angel, you should not make a big show of it as the hypocrites do in the house of worship around the streets. They do it so that people praise them. I show you, they've already been paid in full. So you can take that example for prayer also. Yeah, yeah, in everything. Yeah. Yeah. So whatever ministry we do, basically don't make a big show about it. That's the point we learn. So especially in prayer ministry, not to do that. And yeah, so I mean, there are some points which are mentioned here that again, bragging about oneself as an intercessor because these are all things that tend to happen. And so we avoid it. It's more like a service which is done in humility. All right. And when we are praying for others, you know, God is so good that when you are praying for yourself, you read blessings out of it. But even when you're praying for others, the Bible says that God extends his blessings on those who pray for others. Okay. So God still adds to our blessings when we are ministering to others. So there is a scripture in the book of Job, Job 42 and verse 10 where, you know, Job, he prays for his friends. And we know that his friends were not encouraging people or they were not, you know, empathetic, supportive people. But still Job prays for his friends. So Job 42 and verse 10 and the Lord restored Job's losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed, the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. So when he prays for others, his life is affected positively. So here is another reason why you and I can be encouraged when we pray for others. God will bless us also. Okay. So there is a blessing connected to praying for others. I think we have touched on most of the points or nearly all the points here in our notes. If you have any additional comments, thoughts, we can talk about it and then we jump to the next topic here. Okay. Some comments here in the chat. Justin says, it may not be seen or applauded by others, but passionate prayer warriors is kingdom service known to the Lord fully what we do. Okay. Great. And Prabhu says prayer is pleasing to God. All right. Yeah. Prayer intercession is done before the Lord recognized and applauded by God. Okay. Any other questions about the ministry of intercession, ministry of intercession? Okay. People who travail is it? People who travail. I think Paul, he already wrote about it. I labor for. Okay. So we saw that passage where Jesus before the resurrection of Lazarus, there is one place where Jesus, it says like keep travail before the tomb. So that is one example. And someone pointed out, would it be possible to say that, you know, people like Hannah would have travail. I believe yes, because that was a personal prayer request, but she, she labored in prayer. You can see that when she's going and crying and praying. It's an earnest prayer, but I think there must have been an element of travail which was involved in that. Even personal prayers and you know, receiving answers to personal prayers is something that God is happy about. Example, Abraham. So in the kingdom of God, even when you see the fulfillment of a personal promise, it is beneficial for the whole kingdom. So God is happy about that. So you can labor even for personal things. Okay. So, yeah, so there's a comment here. There's a suggestion. He says, Epiphras prayed to the Lord for God's people. Are we called to pray for specific people to rise up for God, fervently doing His will? Or is this common prayer for all people of God? Okay. Good. Very nice question, Justin. So who do we pray for? I understand that one must labor in prayer, but who do we pray for? Should we just pray general prayers or should it be more specific? So the answer to that is, you know, we would, we would, you know, wait on the Lord to receive. We generally use the word burden. To receive a burden from God, to pray for, you may start out in a general way, but you will receive a burden or a prompting from God to go more specific on it. Okay. So at that point, you can shift from general prayers to a more specific prayer. So when I told you last time about John Hyde, I think I mentioned, you know, John Hyde, Sialkot Revival India. So he was a foreigner who came to India, but his heart was for India. So like that, you read about many, you know, many people in the word of God who went to other nations. They carried a burden for that particular nation. Like you read about what is that? Inland China Mission, Hudson Taylor, he went to China. Okay, William Carey, he came to India. So then you wonder, hey, how can these people who have, who are from another country come to, you know, some other nation? About Amy Carmichael, she came to South of India and she set up Graham Stains. Okay, Graham Stains. So it depends on the burden that God gives you. Maybe some of you here are pastors, okay, by calling and you might have a burden for a place specifically. Like you might have a place like, okay, South of, I'm just saying, you know, South of Calcutta or something like that. So in the heart, it's burning. You're only thinking about South of Calcutta. Why people are not there everywhere else or what? They are there, but somehow there is a burden in my heart for that place. So then if I know that I have the prompting, I have to pray in line with that prompting. It works like that. Yeah. Yes, Anand. That's what I'm saying. Like Epiphras, what is his ministry? Prime ministry. So there is a particular calling. Some people will be intercessors. Yeah. We generally don't see many, maybe because many of them are praying quietly also. So we don't know. Yes. Okay. Okay. So Sean's question is instead of calling, calling into a particular ministry or an office, like when you read Ephesians chapter four, you have the five-fold ministry offices, apostle, prophet, teacher, evangelist, pastor. So there are five. So you're asking instead of being called into one of these or some other, you know, grace, like maybe a teaching gift or a praying gift or something. Is it possible that one grows into it? Right. Okay. So actually these are two different things, Sean. One is maturing in God. Okay. Maturing in God, it's a journey which every believer needs to make. The other thing is calling. Now, callings differ for each individual and everyone must fulfill their calling in God. Now, not all are called into five-fold ministry offices or even certain ministries that, you know, we are discussing right here, but whatever the call for their life, they need to fulfill. So, you know, these are not actually interchangeable. So all have to mature also, all have to identify their call and fulfill it also. Now, here is the thing though for some people from the beginning, they can know their call. For example, like, you know, apostle Paul on the road to Damascus. So, when he encounters God, you later have Ananias. He comes and he prays for Saul when he cannot see. But God reveals to Ananias, this man, you know, he's supposed to, like he's an apostle to the Gentiles and he will stand before kings. So, Paul is not even able to see. He has not even started his ministry for Christ. In the beginning itself, he knows John the Baptist. You know, Zacharias, he is there in the temple and it's revealed to him. You shall call his name John, listen to that and Zacharias comes. He prophesies over his newborn in the beginning itself. So many things he says about John the Baptist. So, call is there on everyone's life. Somebody, some people know it from the beginning. Some people figure it out as the journey of life takes place. That's the only difference, that's the only difference. Yeah, yeah, because see we usually use the word grace. Grace means God's empowering. So, if God calls somebody for something, there will be the empowering of God. If I don't have the grace to, I'm just saying, you know, to lead worship, I can try all my life, it won't work. I'm just trying to move into an area where I don't have the gift. So, important thing is, all of us must discern where is my gift. Where is, you know, the place where God has strengthened me. When you start moving in that direction, you will see fruit. Yeah, so, okay, okay. Yeah, no, I have also heard all these, you know, stories where people say that there was a need for somebody to do ministry. So, nobody was available, so God picked. So, and so who was willing? Who was willing? I agree with that, but I'm sure the person who was willing, you know, who had the burden to respond, also had certain graces in their life, which made it possible for them to serve. Okay, so see, one can be willing, but if you don't have the grace, no, it's not going to work out. It won't work out. Okay, it's a very controversial question. Okay, so the question is that, you know, sometimes families, they tend to push the children to continue the ministry work, even if they seemingly don't have the call of God. So, what I said earlier stands true for this also. If there is no calling, if there is no grace, it will not work out. Okay, so it's best not to force people like only if they have the call will they be able to take the work forward. Otherwise, it's best to have a person who has the call, even if they're not part of the family. You understand? So, I think you will study about this in Code of Honor, House of God. There are many subjects in which we talk about this. So, yeah, yes. Okay, see, the first part is you said we should pray for a specific place. Okay, when do we know when to stop praying? So, the scripture which we learned earlier, okay, this is Romans 8.16. It says, the spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the sons of God. So, with this, we understand that the Holy Spirit, you know, he has a way of letting our spirit know something. In this case, the Holy Spirit lets us know that we are the sons of God. So, when we come in the presence of God, we are worshipping, you know, we might have all these doubts. No, you are a sinner, you didn't pray now, this and that. But what is Holy Spirit bearing witness with our spirit? You know, we are aware that God is saying, I am his son, I am his daughter. So, I'm just going to worship. These are all doubts. I'm removing them from my mind. So, there is a witness to your spirit. You go with that witness. In the first place, you know, when we say that I have a burden for this place, how did you know you have a burden? Because Holy Spirit gave witness to my spirit that this is the place you should pray for. In the same way, when do I stop praying? Holy Spirit will give witness to my spirit and say, okay, you prayed like this, now you switch to this or something else. Okay, so you will be able to discern. You will be able to discern. Wouldn't it be a waste of time if you prayed for a person and... So, I mean, as far as I'm concerned, praying as led by the Holy Spirit is never a wasted time. Okay, it's never a wasted time. Now, some prayers give you the results which you have prayed for. Some don't. Whether it is salvation or sometimes even healing. Pray, pray, pray, pray. That person actually didn't get healed. These things happen. There are many reasons why, you know, that may not have taken place. Okay, but was it a waste of time that, you know, I prayed for this to happen? No, so many years I prayed. There's no use. No, I don't think so. I think when we are obedient to the leading of God, God takes notice of it. Now, even if you don't get the result in the process of prayer, many things take place. Okay, these are all spiritual things. So, we can't, you know, explain it or give you evidence. All this has happened, but it has happened. By faith, we believe that these things have happened. So, many things have happened, but that specific result didn't come forth. I would say that's okay. At least you obeyed and you prayed. So, it's useful. Yeah. Okay, so, yeah. Even if we don't see answers, I think the fact that we engaged in prayer is more important. Okay, so good. We have spent a lot of time here as far as the ministry of intercession is concerned. And so, you know, just trust God. I think all of you would have heard of ministries like International House of Prayer. You've heard? Kansas City. So, they have prayer rooms that run 24 bar 7 and some of those prayers, they even live stream. So, even if you're here in India, you can actually connect and you can be part of the intercessory and prayer ministry. So, around the world, as we see days go closer to the return of Christ, we are going to see intercession increasing in various communities. Worship. When you study about worship, even in that, you would learn about all these things that it is going on. It is increasing. These movements, prayer movement, worship movement, it will go to another level because that's what God is doing. He's pouring out a spirit here upon the earth. So, we just have to be open and receive that burden, so to speak for prayer. And it will be a blessing. It will be a blessing to us. It will be a blessing to others. The next chapter here is about praying for our family. So, we talked about intercession and the ministry of intercession. Now, we are coming to pray for the family. So, there is a passage here from 1 Corinthians 7 verses 10 through 16. And the version given in our notes is the message version. So, yeah, would somebody like to read it quickly? But you will have to use the mic. Page 58. And if you are married, stay married. This is the master's command, not mine. If a wife should leave her husband, she must either remain single or else come back and make things right with him. And a husband has no right to get rid of his wife. For the rest of you who are in mixed marriages, Christian married to non-Christian, we have no explicit command from the master. So, this is what you must do. If you are a man with a wife who is not explicit command, sorry, who is not a believer, but who still wants to live with you, hold on to her. If you are a woman with a husband who is not a believer, but he wants to live with you, hold on to him. The unbelieving husband shares to an extent in the holiness of his wife. And the unbelieving wife is likewise touched by the holiness of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be left out as it is. They also are included in the spiritual purposes of God. On the other hand, if the unbelieving spouse walks out, you have God to let him on her go. You don't have to hold on desperately. God has called us to make the best of it as peacefully as we can. You never know, wife, the way you handle this might bring your husband not only back to you, but to God. You never know, husband, the way you handle this might bring your wife not only back to you, but to God. Thank you for reading this passage. So verse 14 here, it says, the unbelieving husband shares to an extent in the holiness of his wife and the unbelieving wife is likewise touched by the holiness of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be left out as it is. They also are included in the spiritual purposes of God. So there is a point which we are trying to make from this passage and that point is even in the case of a mixed marriage like an unbeliever is married to a believer. What Paul is saying is, the believer has spiritual influence on the unbelieving spouse and the unbelieving children. Maybe your children are unbelieving initially and they start believing but children who are a product of the mixed marriage what does it say? It says they are included in the spiritual purposes of God. So the point is in a family in a family when one is a believer in this case, let's say a husband is a believer or a wife is a believer others are not. The other spouse is not children are also not. The believing person has a spiritual influence on the unbelieving spouse and the children. Do you get what I am trying to say? It's quite clear, isn't it? So the simple point is in a family even in a situation where there is only one believing spouse there is spiritual influence. You can imagine about the spiritual influence if two people are believers. Husband, wife, both are believers. Will there be a spiritual influence which they have on each other, on the children upon the family? Yes or no? Yes. There will definitely be a stronger spiritual influence. So, see based on the family relationships what God does is, he gives us spiritual influence. That means to say that there are certain prayers which family members can pray which outsiders cannot pray. See somebody from outside they may come and they may pray. But they will not have that spiritual influence which we are talking about here. God has given a special spiritual influence between husbands and wives, between parents and children maybe even between siblings, we could say that. So we have to exercise that spiritual influence and how will we do it through prayer? When we pray something is accomplished when a family member prays for a family member. Now just because this passage is there and we understood there is some spiritual influence even if you marry an unbeliever, please don't consider that point. Because the Bible is very clear that we should not be unequally yoked with an unbeliever. Because it's not just about beliefs term and all but spiritually there are many implications when a believer is married to an unbeliever it's a very crazy thing to do. So the Bible never recommends for a believer to marry an unbeliever. That's clear cut that is established. Now for our sake of understanding spiritual influence we went to this passage. As we look at the rest of this chapter now that we have understood there is a spiritual influence there are certain points which we take and pray for our family members. So they are all listed here. In praying for a spouse how can one do that? So here is the husband's prayer prayer points which are listed. So a husband could pray for the spiritual growth of his wife so they could pray that the wife know the truth of God's word. There are some passages of the Bible here which we maybe I'll just read these passages and explain the prayer points next week because we only 3 minutes I don't want to rush. So we will stop here. If there are any questions let's take it up otherwise we will pray and we will close the class. Yes. In the scenario which Paul writes it is like maybe two people who got married both were unbelievers. Along the journey one of them has become a believer. So in that situation he is saying if the unbelieving spouse wants to continue to stay with you it's okay that is the context. Now if the unbelieving spouse says okay I am going you can't do anything about it you let them go that's the context. Now I don't think in this situation how can you call it a sin because both were unbelievers and one suddenly accepted Christ. In the context if somebody chooses to marry an unbeliever see first of all I don't think the spirit of God will lead you to marry an unbeliever for sure 100%. So that means we are going in a different direction. So I don't know what yeah possible sometimes there is pressure and other issues. See one good thing is our God is a Redeemer Restorer. So even if that decision is made I think one should not sulk and say oh it's a sin I made a mistake God can still redeem from that point onwards. Okay so look at it with the redeeming perspective is what I am saying to continue. You know this somebody like this okay so in this situation where one has married an unbeliever and the husband remains an unbeliever his entire life but the wife is very pious I think the lady is doing her best so God's blessings will be there. You can't do anything else. Ma'am what if you apply the same situation as the children side instead of this house. Like suppose like like you said they are both the unbelievers both the husband and wife but the children also are unbelievers now it's now is it the duty of the person who is a believer to spread on the word of God to the children or not since the husband or the wife is unbeliever will that be possible or not is my question. So see it is the it is you know you are using the term responsibility I think so because it's a responsibility of a believer to bring anyone to Christ so how much more their own spouse and their own children so it is a responsibility so one needs to pray in line with that and live their life in such a way that the spouse and the children also commit their lives to Christ okay fine so we'll close off here because we are out of time and then we will pick it up in the next class Francis can you please pray this opportunity for the sessions thank you for understanding personal prayer and pray for family God whatever we study being useful to our daily life please bless us in the neighbor Jesus we pray thank you Francis thank you everyone so we close off for today and we shall connect next week okay so there's a question by Christian at the unbelieving spouse decide to go what should believer do from that point onwards marry someone else or stay as they are so Christian one could try to you know work it out as you know Paul has pointed out here but at some stage you know if the unbelieving spouse has made up their mind and they want to leave there's no more you know opportunity for reconciliation I think from that point you know that marriage won't stand okay so it is left to the person it's their personal choice they move on from that marriage and they decide whether they want to remain single or they want to remarry so it's up to them I hope that answers your question let's close off today's class thank you