 Good morning everyone. Welcome to the sixth week of our class. Hope all of you all are doing well. Good to see all of you here once again. We could start with a word of prayer. May I request any one of the students to start with prayer? Shall I pray? Yes, please go ahead. Father God we come to your throne of grace with thanksgiving in our heart this morning father for giving us a new morning and as your word says your mercies are new every morning. We stand in your mercies father and we thank you for this provision that we are learning such beautiful truths that are timeless truth father and as we are learning it father. We ask you to bless us with the wisdom to understand them, accept them, be blessed by them father, be strengthened in them father. We ask you to bless our pastor who is teaching us with patience and love father to be anointed and as you speak through her father we bless her with all the blessings of life father with good health and with joy of the Lord father. And we pray for all the students who are part of this beautiful fellowship to be blessed with wisdom and favor to receive your word in its fullness be growing in it father and be a blessing to the nation father to everyone we meet father and help us to glorify you in everything whatever we may do father continue to lead us by a holy spirit to the entire class we give you glory honor and praise for you you deserve everything father. We ask this prayer in the precious and matchless name of Jesus our savior. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you Avni. Thank you. So welcome and good morning to everyone who joined in. Thank you for being here and taking time to pay attention to listen to God's word to contribute to share to give your testimony to ask questions. Welcome to our learning students as well. Thank you for taking time and the efforts to discipline and go with these classes. So to to start off maybe we could initially get to do is have a recap of what has what has happened in our last class what we learned in our last class last class so that those of you know students who are not able to join us can catch up with what we did. So would someone like to be would like to brave it and talk about what is it that we dealt with last week. Feel free to go through your notes and refresh your memory so that you know you can you can help others also. So yes for a few minutes to the class to talk about and maybe somebody knew you know there are a few of you all who are very faithful and you know they wait for some time patiently. And if nobody is there you know they pitch in and let's be fair to them and give others also an opportunity come on. So maybe those of you who have not really shared earlier or in the last two weeks to look at what is it that we learned. Are you scared or are you still waking up from bed so which of the two is it. Okay so it is in both so what's the third reason. Come on. I don't like calling out names. Okay this is pin drop silence. So come on somebody volunteer even a point is good one one point is is good. You know we will be we went through the basis of our healing and deliverance we looked at two points in week four and we looked at three points in week five. So any of those points that we looked at week five. Thank you Avni. Yes, one of the points that we looked at is our basis of healing and deliverance comes from the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The word the power of God's word and we looked at one more. The authority. Yes, the authority that we have in Christ to cast out demons to cast out evil spirits. Right so we were we saw of our basis for healing and deliverance and we had covered two other points before that. Yes, thank you Anita that we are a new creation and what is the first one. The very most important part of our of the basis of our healing is what is what was provided for us on the cross. Yeah, so because of what was provided for us on the cross. Thank you Prabhakar that we are moved. We are moved from darkness to light from a place of curse to blessing. Okay, yes, so this is what we have learned now these these truths are important for us to know. You know I mentioned this many times earlier is that these are foundational to our receiving. It's only if we have strong foundations, are we able to stand in a place of receiving. So this becomes bedrock to our knowing and our faith and our understanding that healing and deliverance is ours. Because of the provision of the cross of what Christ did for us on the cross of for us being able to move from defeated to victory from darkness to light from curse to blessing and whatever he defeated on the cross, you know, we has become ours. So that's our first basis. The second basis is that we are new creation when we believe in Christ we become new and all things have passed away and the new has come. The third we spoke about was the authority where we have the authority to cast out all the works of the enemy, all the powers of darkness. The fourth one that we looked into was the word where we build ourselves on the power of God's word. We stand on God's word and what his word says of us. So we meditate on his we because his word is living and his word is powerful. And when we feed our souls with God, we experience healing, we experience expectation, a hopeful expectation, we experience strength. We are desires of that which is shaped by God and there is an alignment to his will and to his to his blessing. And the fifth one that we looked into was the anointing of the Holy Spirit, that all believers have been anointed with the Holy Spirit. And we've read that in scripture in John that those who believe in Christ are the ones who receive the anointing. And we saw even examples of how Jesus was anointed by the Spirit before his ministry. And as believers, we are also anointed and we can go out to declare and to bring about healing and deliverance for ourselves as well as for those around us. So it's the anointing that breaks those bondages and removes that oppression of all kinds. So that's where we ended the last week and today we are going to be looking at this week and the week after. We're going to be looking at how do we receive this healing and deliverance. So knowing is one, standing on those foundational truths is one and also receiving is the next part. So here we're going to be looking at three main aspects of it and then we're going to be looking at some action points or certain aspects of how we can actually receive it. So this week and the next week as we go through some of those points, we're also going to take some time to pray, to minister to one another and apply what we are learning so that we can receive healing and deliverance in the areas of our soul. So each of us have some stage or some place that we are in where there are hurts or struggles or scars that we have in the depth of our souls. And as we go through this lesson, you know, we don't want to keep it to the end, but to be able to go through applying this for our lives here and now and really experience truly the healing and deliverance that God has for us. Okay, so this is like we like I always say, this is not just academic. This is experiential for us. And we are going to demonstrate that right here when as we are all together gathered here through this medium, the Holy Spirit works whatever the medium is and brings about our healing and our deliverance. Okay, so we are, we're going to be, we're going to be doing some of that today. Alright, so looking at receiving healing and deliverance. The first point that brings about is our healing and deliverance comes through our sanctification and consecration. Okay, so, so I'm sure these words are all these terms are things that you have heard off and you've understood. But just for the benefit of clarity and benefit of all of us here together just to understand these meanings the meanings of sanctification. So the generic understanding or meaning of sanctification is to keep aside for the state of a good or a proper functioning. Okay, so to sanctify something or someone is to set that person or that thing apart for a greater use or for a use that is designed by the designer. Okay, so the word sanctification is also related to the word saint. Now both these words have to do with holiness. So to sanctify something is to keep it aside to set it apart for a special use to sanctify a person is to make them holy. So sanctification is the process of being made holy. Okay, the pros being holy. The word consecration means the separation of oneself from things that are unclean, especially things that can defile or contaminate or come in between once a relationship with God. So yes, consecration definitely carries the connotation of sanctification, which would mean of holiness and purity. So as true believers in Christ, this act of consecration involves, what does it involve? It involves, as it says in Romans 12, it involves our lives being a living sacrifice to him. Which means we are separated from the defilement that comes from the world. So each day we are to live out holy lives. Our lives are to be lived as holy and as set apart and as set apart to God for, because now we are God's people. The example that I usually like to take is when you have guests coming home, you have a certain set of cutlery or crockery that you will take out. You may not use your general plates or things that you use on a daily basis. But you have kept something that is set apart to host your guests. So similarly, it is once you are in Christ, you are a believer, we go through a process of sanctification and consecration, where we are setting ourselves apart for the use of God and also to be able to bring about holiness and purity. And consecrating would mean to separate ourselves from anything that brings about defilement. So you consecrate your mouth, you consecrate maybe in a place where you're working, you come to a place of consecration of your words and say that it will bring about only words that uplift and edify and build and not words that you have maybe used prior to knowing Christ that has been obscene or ugly or that has been destructive. So you consecrate yourself and this is something every believer must do. Every believer experiences this sanctification. When we are being made holy to God, we experience this sanctification and deliverance. So through this process of sanctification and consecration, every believer can experience healing and deliverance. It is a normal way that a believer can experience deliverance as you keep growing in this process of setting yourself apart, keeping yourself away from things that can defile you. And it can be in different areas of your life. When you consecrate or when you sanctify yourself unto Christ, healing and deliverance takes place in these areas. So it's an ongoing process. So when we are in Christ and sanctification is progressive, right? There is an instant justification we have and there is a progressive sanctification we have. We are being made holy up until the time we are with the Lord. So every day is a new day where we come to a place of being set apart. So when we set apart our lives and keep these areas of our lives in submission to God, we are healed and we are delivered as a result. So the example that's brought about in the notes is, you know, like for example, each of us have garbage at our homes, right? And when you clean out the garbage, all the pests leave, right? The cockroaches or the flies or whatever, they leave, they are not there anymore. And so similarly we, and you do this every day. It's not a one-off thing every day or maybe twice in a day depending on the number of people you have and how much you cook, right? You empty out your garbage so that there isn't a room for flies or for cockroaches. So similarly, we also continuously need to wash out in a person or our souls. We wash it out because we do see that whenever there is, like it's only when there is garbage to flies come in. If there isn't, garbage flies don't accumulate there. So similarly, only there is things that make us unclean. Does it attract the evil one? Does it attract the evil spirit? You don't find that if you are kept holy and kept consecrated. So how do we do that in, you know, as in the sense of, what would that mean? It means that keeping our minds and our emotions in a place of consecration or in a place of sanctification. When the mind has engaged in probable wrong thoughts, what you're doing, you're consecrating and sanctifying yourself, keeping that apart and saying and making that commitment to not indulge or involve yourself in thoughts that can defile your mind. So keeping your mind sanctified. When we must keep in keep an understanding that our healing and deliverance doesn't always have to one coming home and or, you know, someone really casting out demons all the time or, you know, having it in a very aggressive form. Okay, where someone shouting and casting out the demon, it can most often, it happens as a very quiet stage as we walk with God, as we go through this process of sanctification and consecration and that, you know, in itself cuts off every kind of ties and brings out those spirits that have about entrance to us. Okay, so some of the examples that you, you know, and I've heard many examples of this people who've been in addictions and, you know, who come to the Lord and in in the process of sanctification and consecration in the process of keeping themselves away from bad company, keeping themselves away from, you know, indulging in probable triggers that cause them to maybe involve themselves in that particular addiction. Continued speaking of the word, continued fellowship with others who encourage and and are accountable to so all of this together accumulates and builds about that healing and deliverance so much of that happens through the process. So one of the biggest ways we can receive our healing and deliverance is just being in that place of setting ourselves apart for the use of God for the purpose of God, keeping ourselves away from anything that defiles our in man. And also, you know, the things that we learned the last time, you know, with the power of the word just keeping ourselves enriched and strengthened and and built up by the power of God's word, we see that our healing deliverance takes place. Okay, now this is this is something which all of us are in a place of doing, right, that we know that this has to continue that we keep doing this, and we are all called to live that life of holiness and purity. So as we keep walking, and how do we walk in as Ephesians tells us about the armor of God, we walk with that armor of God with walking in that righteousness, we are just protected by what can attack us. So this is something that we all are doing, or we all ought to be doing, or we all are in the process of doing. And as a result, our healing and deliverance comes. The outcome is that there is healing and deliverance. I think one of the biggest examples that we can we can look at is, you know, especially when this is this is outside of the soul I'm looking at a physical healing, you know, some pain or some disease or some ailment that you have. Maybe often, there are times that it doesn't happen instantly. But the more that you speak God's word, you just declare his promises declare his word in time, you know, you will begin to see that the pain goes away, or that you know, whatever the growth was it has shrunk, or what probably has seemed to be dead in a relationship seems to become alive. Just last week I had a young person message me. She was very concerned around three months back that she hadn't conceived, and even after many years of marriage. And so, you know, I just sent her a verse that is 113 verse nine and said, you know, claim this verse just takes take some time every day just hold on to the worst claim it I just got a message from her yesterday saying, you know, in those dark periods she's just claimed that was she's just held on to it and then she just realized that she just, you know, they did a test that they figured that they were, they were expecting a child. So, you know, a lot of this happened in the way that we progress in our spiritual life. So one of the ways that that we have our healing and deliverance is through us sanctification and consecration. Okay, I'm just opening it up for a brief few minutes to hear some testimonies because I know that many of us have been in that place where we've just seen that our healing has come about. Especially when, you know, when it comes to the emotional self, especially when there have been people who've hurt us and then over years we've harbored anger or resentment towards somebody. But as we identify that there are, you know, we have, we are harboring unforgiveness in our heart and we bring that to God. You know, we begin to see that in time that forgiveness has come by, okay, or that we are able to meet the person I to I we are able to talk to them or express our love to them. And so that in itself is a journey that we see. So I just want to open it up for around two, three minutes to hear some testimonies or some, you know, where this has been real in your life because this will encourage somebody else. Or, you know, what your testimony will definitely speak to someone or bring about their journey of healing. So opening this up for some testimony. And please feel free and open to discuss or to share this. Yes, Avni, go ahead. With due permission, ma'am. Thank you. This is a few years back when I was in Delhi, and we had this, I had this severe knee pain. My knees were almost like not being able to walk in that condition. I was struggling to even walk. So I start I went to the doctor, and he went through the tests and everything. And that time I was felicitating with within my housing society, we had a small fellowship group and the place we used to go was for four floors. And they were only staircase there. No lifts, nothing. So doctors strictly, you know, had advice that you will not be going up the stairs. And twice a week, we had to go to these four floors to worship and fellowship. And it was such a joyful time. And, you know, once the doctor says, so we start believing, okay, now stop going. But I was not, you know, feeling comfortable about it. So one day, I just, we were praying for it. And meanwhile, we went to the doctor and he did a ECG test for me or something. And he, with the report when I went to him, he said, Are you an athlete? So I said, Doctor, I don't even walk fast, forget running. He said your ECG shows that that you were in some kind of athletics and, you know, something he explained, I don't know the medical understanding of it, but I said, No, no, I'm not an athlete or something. I just simply I'm all the time home. I'm not even walking around going out. But he said, No, no, your report shows that and this. So I just came back. I was wondering, why, why did he say such a thing, a doctor, you know, and then next morning, when I was reading the word I found Habakkuk 319. And that word quickened to me and God said, I will make your feet like the feet of the hind and you will run and and I claim that worse immediately. I said, Lord, thank you. Yesterday, doctor said it, somebody said it, and today I'm claiming I will be like that. And I just said, I will not stop going up the stairs just because doctors said because that is the place where, you know, I enjoy worshipping with you fellow shipping with my other sisters and we were rejoicing there. And I just continued to go and with the and that word still is with me anytime I feel that pain in my knee. I just claim that word as Lord, you have given me that promise. I don't know. I will not take any medicine or something, you know, but it's been more than four, five years, mom. God has been faithful and the word has helped me overcome and I've been able to do my daily work and work on everything. How Lord has led me through that word. So that word became a life for me and has been a blessing to me. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. That's, that's wonderful. Anybody else would like to share. Okay, so I think I'll, I'll just share something very briefly. And I'm sure a lot of us can, can relate to what I'm saying is that, you know, in, in, in your growing up years, you, you face different things that make you question about your identity, or your capacity, your ability. And generally as adolescents, this is a common feature that you see, you know, and if it is not caught early, or if it is not dealt with early, it walks itself into adult life also. And so, you know, there are many little, little circumstances that happen in your life that kind of makes you reiterate some negative feelings about yourself. And, and, you know, we've all of us have gone through in, as we have grown up. But there were, there were these some, these thoughts that have been extremely negative that, you know, I used to engage in. And the more that you think about the thoughts, the more it becomes manifested in your behavior and in your circumstance, right, and that again reiterates those negative thoughts. But it was, it's, you know, often you don't even realize that your mind is engaged in these thoughts, and that itself plays such places such a burden on your soul. And, you know, as growing up, you don't even see the relation, it's almost like, you know, I'm just saying something and it doesn't know why would it need to make meaning, you know, you, you kind of always debate that. But as you, as you mature, as you learn from the word, as you read more, that's when you understand that whatever you harbor in your heart becomes very deep seated inside you. You know, it's almost like you're planting some of those negative seeds inside of you. And that begins to manifest in different ways, you know, it can either manifest in your behavior, it can manifest in your health, it can manifest in your relationships, it can manifest in your diligence at work. These, these little, the rabbits of bitterness or, or self defeat or self loathing, self hate, anger, frustration, self pity, all of that has the potential to just get soared into the, to the soil of our hearts, and then it manifests in very different ways. And I didn't realize all of this, you know, as a new believer, I mean, these didn't connect very much up until the time that I was taught and began to learn that what you saw in is something that you will reap. And this sanctification, this consecration happened, it's still happening, but it happened over years of being able to renew to change the mind of what you have thought of yourself. And that came, and I keep one of my favorite verses is Romans 8 one, which says there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Now that's the verse that turned my understanding about how much self talk, negative self talk can mean to you and your life. And it didn't go away for as an instant for me. But then the more that I read God's word, I began to almost, you know, parallely look at what I've been saying to myself over many years, and look at what God's word says and it was such a stark contrast, you know, it's like white and black. That's how contrasting it was. And it was so clear that the more that you get sucked in to darkness or to the deep blackness of things, there is a lot more of destruction and a lot more of loss and you lose your soul. And this is all you're doing. Remember, this is all you're doing. And Satan has opened just, you know, just wants that in order to enter in and say, okay, you know, she's doing all that she wants. Let me just add on to the drama. But to recognize that and be able to keep consecrating yourself and say what I'm thinking of is defiling. It is sin to God. If I am going to engage in negative self talk, it is sin in God, I don't view myself in the way that I that God has viewed me. I'm seeing myself through my own lens or my glass right. And that in itself, I have seen has bought about physical healing and emotional healing. I'm still on that journey, definitely not reached there. And it is a pro process, but it is a progress. Right. So you will see that happening. And, you know, so even as we're talking about this, think about any area of your soul that is deeply burdened or hurt, it could be what somebody said, what somebody did. It can be thoughts that you're thinking about yourself. It's doors that you've opened. It could be the sin that you're, you may be still engaging in any of this. You know, to be able to recognize and say, you know, I that there has to be, I need to set this part of my life apart, this part of my life aside. And the more that you do it, you will, you will begin to see naturally that healing and deliverance. Okay. So let's move to the next point of our second point is I'm on page 20. For those of you who would like to follow the second point that we're looking at is the healing and deliverance that comes through the presence of God and through his anointing, his anointing spirit. Okay. So we all know that God heals is he is a healing God. And it is the very presence of the Holy Spirit that brings hope for our healing, our delivery, deliverance, our wholeness and our restoration. So we see God's presence is a real, it's full of love. And in his presence, there is complete transformation. So God's presence takes what is broken. And it brings about healing. It takes what has been lost. And brings us to the right place with the Father. It satisfies those who are hungry, who are thirsty, who are weary. It's his presence that brings that light to the darkness. It is God's presence that is presence and love that is being poured out to us on the driest and the deepest part of our soul. And we may, we can identify that there are those dry parts in our soul that can only be fulfilled by the presence and the fellowship that we have with God. So we see that, you know, there are times that people just feel a sense of release during a time of worship or a time of ministry or a time of prayer. But there is something that just gets lifted off from them, you know, those heavy burdens or that sense of darkness or that oppression that people may feel gets lifted off just being in the presence of God, just enjoying the presence of the Holy Spirit. And it is his presence and the anointing of the Spirit that releases the healing and brings and sets people free. So if when we look at, you know, the fruit of the Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. The more that we stand in his presence, the more that we seek after God, we enjoy the presence that the more of the gift, the fruit of the Spirit flows through us. And whatever that's there, that is contrary hate, anger, bitterness, a desire to sin, all of that, you know, gets transformed because of the fruit of the Spirit that is operational in us. So just by the presence of God and the presence of the Holy Spirit is what brings us to our healing and deliverance. Would anybody like to, you know, again over here, is there something that y'all see has taken place because of what you've been, what has taken place in the presence of the Lord? Anyone would like to share or any testimony that y'all may have? There are times that, you know, if you've noticed, I mean, I've had that many times that you're just sitting in the presence of the Lord and you're weeping. You don't know why you are weeping, but you are weeping. And once, you know, you finish that weeping, it's almost as if just like all your tears have come out, a lot of the burden and the weariness that's been there that's stuck inside is also out because it's just the presence of the Lord that just creates that sense of a washing out. You know, it's like, it's like you're being thrown into a washing machine and, you know, you come out as if all cleansed because of the, of that, of what you've been able to release outside. Yeah, I think, yeah, I think there have been, Anita has said that her husband has had severe back pain for almost two years. On the 30th night, we were in God's presence worshipping and he was healed totally. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So you have, you've seen those, those testimonies just after a period of worship. You kind of sense that, that dark spirit or the dark feeling of sadness just completely lifts. You know, it's, it's almost as if something has just been pushed out, out from you. Yeah. So the healing, healing and deliverance takes place just in the presence of God. And that's something that, you know, we need to encourage ourselves that going back to the presence of God. Just sitting at his feet. I think very many times when we are discouraged, just being in the presence of the Lord is a form of encouragement. You know, there is this verse in scripture that I, you know, that I often bring back. I'll just read that it's in Psalm 55 verse six, six, seven and eight. You know, at times you may be going through severe emotions, maybe your fear or if you look at verse five, I'll read it from verse four onwards, Psalm 55 verse four onwards. It is my heart is severely pained within me and the terrors of death have fallen upon me. Fearfulness and trembling have come upon me and horror has overwhelmed me. And I said, oh, that I had wings like a dove for then I would fly away and be at rest. Indeed, I would wander far off and remain in the wilderness. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and the tempest. And if you look later at verse 20, sorry, verse as 18, it says, he has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle which was against me. Okay. So all of that, that, that builds up that that comes to a place of overwhelm. You know, when, like the Psalmist said, he was looking for a place of release. He was looking for a place of rest and a place of comfort. And he's finds that in the presence of the Lord, because it says, you know, it says I will call upon the Lord verse 16 says I will call upon the Lord and the Lord shall save me. And verse 18 says he has redeemed my soul in peace from the battle which was against me. Okay. So just being in the presence of God is in itself creates that emotional wholeness. Okay. I think Susan also said, has given an, given I underwent this experience of weeping in his presence and feeling his anointing. Yeah. So I'm sure this is something where a lot of us have received our wholeness or our emotional healing just by being in the presence of the Lord. Being in a time of prayer, being in a time of worship, we do receive that healing. Okay. All right. Moving on. Okay. Are there any questions up until now, or can can we move on to the third point? Any questions? Okay. All right. So when we look at the third point, we'll just begin with this and we'll take it on again a little further in our next class in our next hour. So our healing and deliverance also comes through our active resistance through our active resistance. So there is, there are certain action points that we may, we do need to take in order to be in a place where we can receive our healing and deliverance. And what are these action steps? So let's look at the two verses that's there. One is James 4 7 and first Peter 1 13. Could somebody please read those verses out? James 4 7. James chapter 4 verse 7 and first Peter 1 verse 13. Can I read, master? Go ahead. Go ahead, Christopher. Yeah. James 4 7. Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. And one Peter 1 13. Therefore, gird up the loins of your mind. Peace over and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Thank you. Thank you, Christopher. So when we look at this year, these action steps, like I said, our healing and deliverance comes through some action steps that we need to take up certain resistance. Some steps that show us as a resistance. So the first one, as we see in James 4 7 is to resist the devil. Okay. To, to not even, to not come to, to not be in submission to the devil. So the scripture, I mean the verse before that says therefore submit to God. So when you submit to God, what are you doing? You're automatically resisting the devil. When you submit your will, your thoughts, your words, your actions, everything to God, your decisions, you are resisting the devil. Okay. So if you're doing one, the other takes place. Now if you submit to the devil, you're resisting his, his power and God's power and authority over you. So submitting to God helps you to resist the devil. And when you resist the devil, he will flee from you. When the enemy knows that you are his, he has no business to touch you. Okay. And when you walk in obedience to God's word and to what to the will of God, the enemy has no place to, to get you. So as you keep yourself clean now, submission to God, think of it. You know, as, as we spoke about it in the first verse, submitting to God is also to be able to walk in holiness, to walk in purity, to consecrate yourself. When you do that, when you're cleaning out your garbage every day by submitting to God, the devil has no place there. He will flee from you. He doesn't like clean places. He likes muck. He likes dirt. He's attracted to dirt and muck. And so he will not be there. He will flee. So it is resisting the devil. And that is an action point that we need to take in order to receive that healing and deliverance. Okay. We'll come back with the second point after we close for a break. My, my clock shows 1050. So let's return back at 11. You can grab a cup of coffee and some biscuits or some dinner for those of you who's night and meet you soon.