 Right. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to your new day session. Let me just start off this session with a word of prayer. So can anyone of us please lead us in prayer? Samu, can you lead us in prayer? Sure, Pastor. Thank you. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time. We thank you for this Providence where we could come together and learn about church history and missions. We could learn from Pastor Paul Emmanuel and we dedicate the pastor into your hands for the Spirit, fill him with your wisdom, with your understanding, with your peace. And every word that comes out of his mouth inspires us, equips us, builds us for your kingdom. We dedicate everyone who is present in this class, may your Spirit, your understanding, your peace be upon us so that we can pay attention, we can learn, we can be inspired and we remain faithful to all these learnings so that we can extend your kingdom, we can be a channel of your blessing and we can bless others who are in need of you. Thank you again, we dedicate this time, this hour, we thank you for everything that you've done for us and the precious name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Samu. Okay, let's just do a little bit of a review of what we did yesterday. Okay, yesterday we saw how God used simple people, people who had nothing with them, no financial backing, people who had no high qualifications, yet God used them so powerfully. We looked at the layman's revival, how God used laymen with a burden in their heart to pray in the afternoons during their work time. And those meetings went up to 10,000s of people that eventually the entire world was following this timing of prayer, where Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Britain, Germany, hundreds of places, people gathered together so there was a move of the Holy Spirit there. And we also looked at revival in England, how God raised up missionaries and evangelists like Charles Spurgeon, D. L. Moody. And we looked at three wonderful women of God who, you know, God so powerfully used. One was Mary Slesser who went into Africa. And again, they were able to do so much with just less facilities, less financial backup. You know, Mary Slesser herself went into Africa, abolished the whole thing of killing of twins, set up orphanages there and set up educational institutions as well in Africa. Then we also looked at Amy Carmichael who came to India as a missionary, volunteered in China, then came to India, came to South India, spent 55 years of her life just serving the poor, serving the, you know, orphaned children. She also began to rescue children and girls and men, boys from temple prostitution. And then she also raised up many orphanages as well. And then the third woman that we looked at was Aida Skada. Aida Skada who did a wonderful work. She was in India. She went to the U.S., studied, came back, started a, you know, medical dispensary in a small way. Later moved to a 200-acre land now known as the CMC, Christian Medical Center Velor. So from all that we've, you know, read and studied, so evident that sometimes God, if God has to use us, he expects us to just step out into the unknown, step out into, out of our comfort zone. Right? So there will be times when God will ask us to step out of our comfort zone. So, you know, especially now during these days, you know, comfort is something that is very easily acquired, right? And during these times, we don't have to struggle and praise God for that. Praise God for the, you know, the equipment and the things that we have that help to live a comfortable life. Praise God for that. But this comfortable life should not stop us or should not be a hindrance from us to, you know, step out into the unknown, step out into what God is calling us to do. You know, yesterday, we were just enduring our family prayer, we were praying and I was reminded of, you know, it's been four years here in Bangalore this April, coming April 2022 will be four years. So I was reminded, you know, I thought, how did we, you know, we left everyone in Bangalore. We are actually from Bangalore. So we moved from Bangalore to a city of, of course it's not a big change. It's not something that, you know, I moved to a different country or, but, you know, I had a one year old boy at that time and we moved to Bangalore. It was not easy, right? A lot of films within the church asked me, Paul, how are you going to manage? There's nobody in Bangalore that you don't know anyone. There's no family. There's no friends. You've got two small kids. How are you going to manage? Yes, when you think of it in the natural, this is very difficult. And, you know, it's always good to be with family and be with people that you know. But when you think of it in the natural, it becomes a difficulty and you feel that, okay, it's better I stay here in my comfort zone. But God is always a God who takes us out of our comfort zone. Right? So when we pray, when we ask God, when he leads us to certain things, prayerfully consider them. Right? So even as we moved to Bangalore, it was very difficult. Very, very difficult, right? We were about 10 people in the church and the weather was different. The people were different and the culture here is different and everything was so different and we had two small children. You know, but when we look back, we're so grateful that we are loved God to help us make this change. Right? Now, the reason I'm sharing this is because sometimes we get comfortable in our place. Right? Of course, we all have a calling, we all have our gifts, but God expects us. Right? And we look at these wonderful men, women of God, they came out of their comfort zone. Even as we looked from the first century, we saw how even through the Roman Catholic oppression, it did not deter them. People came out of their comfort zone. People were willing to do something and leave a mark for the sake of the gospel. And we see here also such wonderful men and women of God letting go of all the comforts that they were in. They were in developed countries, but they were willing to go into smaller cities and towns, smaller countries, underdeveloped countries, and minister of the gospel. And because of these people, we have a greater way of reaching out to people. We have the gospel being spread in these countries here, in our nation as well, in India. So it's such a joy. Actually, if you study about Aida Skadar, who started the CMC, she was so upset with her parents because she used to tell her parents, why did you come to India? What made you all to come to India? Couldn't you have chosen a different country? Because when she was young as a small girl, she saw girls being ill-treated. She saw girls being kidnapped and sexually assaulted and all these things. She has seen it when she was in India. So she used to tell her, why did you come to India? Can we go from here? But her parents were like, no, we have come here. We will live here. We will die here itself. And so when she went to America to study, she was very happy. She said, I'm never going to step foot into India again. But God had different plans. God just touched her heart. She came back to India. And even now, Christian Medical Center is one of the largest hospitals in our nation and even in Asia. They boast of the best equipment, best highest rate of recoveries as well. So it's really encouraging to study these. Let's move on. Let's look at a few more missionaries and few more revivals. And after that, maybe next class, we will look at some of the key observations. So we've done all these. We've completed from the first century church to date. So what are the key observations? Maybe that we'll look into at the next class. So let's pick up from where we stop, page 52. And we're going to start with Smith Wigglesworth. Now, Smith Wigglesworth is in the early mid-1800s. Now, God called him as an apostle of faith and he was used by God to heal the sick, cast out demons, raise the dead. So Smith Wigglesworth was a shot man, very dynamic in his speech. It is said that he had microphones in his vocal cords. He was so valiant in his work. It is said that he would stay up day and night just praying for the sick. And many times people did not receive healing. Many times people received healing. And so he would not give up on them. He would continue to pray and pray and pray. And God used him in that way. One of the, you know, an event that happened written by his colleague, missionary colleague of his, they were going into some town in England. And when he went there, the meetings were for about three, four days, conventions and meetings. So they expected crowds of 10,000, 15,000 people at one time. So this one night, one evening, the whole day they were preaching, and Smith Wigglesworth was tired. And he came back home to the hotel room that they had for him and his companion. And during the night, this is written by his companion who stayed with him at that time. During the night, there was a, you know, sound and, you know, apparently demons were making so much sound, the tables were all shaking, the chairs were shaking, the bed was shaking. And his, this companion of his could not sleep and he was trembling in fear. But Smith Wigglesworth was fast asleep because he was very tired. And so his friend and companion woke up Smith Wigglesworth and said, look what's happening. You know, demons are trying to disturb us and shaking the table. All the things from the tables are falling off and Smith Wigglesworth woke up. He looked at it, he looked at what's happening and he said, okay, it's only you. I'll see you tomorrow. And he went back to sleep. So basically, you know, trying to show that, you know, I don't have time for you devil. It's you, it's somebody who's already been defeated. So I'll see you tomorrow. So that event really shook up this, you know, this companion, but it shook him in such a way that he decided to go back home. But Smith Wigglesworth was known for that. He would pray and demons will flee. Sick people were made free also. Then we look at John G. Lake, another young man. He gave up a successful newspaper in real estate business and he began to minister healing. Now John G. Lake's ministry is a powerful ministry. There are plenty of books on it. Many of them have written about his revival, the outpouring that happened during his time. He spent a lot of time in South Africa and after about five years in South Africa, John G. Lake saw 10 lakh people who converted and gave their lives to Christ. Planted hundreds of churches, raised up about 1000 local ministries. And then after spending this, all this happened in five years. 10 lakh believers, hundreds of churches, thousands of ministries, local ministries were started. After returning back to the U.S., he started something called as the healing room. Even now, when in some churches, plenty of churches have something called as a healing room where they would take people who are sick or people who are sick can go into the healing room and you have leaders and pastors, leaders praying over them for healing. He started something called as the healing rooms and over 100,000 people reported healing during this time. It was in this phase where Washington was pronounced as the healthiest city in the United States because of this ministry of John G. Lake. There's so much more that John G. Lake went through. Even in his younger days, people ridiculed him. People were unaware. They were not comfortable in the way he would minister. There were a lot of difficulties that he went through. That's why he didn't want to get into ministry. He always wanted to do some kind of a business. He became a successful businessman, but later on, God called him to full-time ministry. This ministry of John G. Lake impacted hundreds and thousands of lives. Lives were touched so powerfully. Healings had become a normalcy. We must understand now this is almost the early 1900s. During this time, there was a lot of... On the flip side of the coin, we've been studying revivals and all of that, but on the flip side, on the other side, there was a lot of influence of the Greek influence that was moving across the world. That was more of worship of pagan gods, calling on spiritualism, like praying to the stars, praying to the moon, all kinds of other new kind of doctrines had started up. We must remember where the work of the Holy Spirit is. The enemy is also trying his best to stop it. It's not like revival is happening and everything is alright. There are places where the work of the enemy was very prevalent. A lot of these who were revivalists were later... Even when we look at key observations, we would look at some of their failures, how they fell to sin. Of course, God used them to do powerful works, but even through all of that, the enemy was able to cause them to sin, cause them to fall, which also had an effect on the body of Christ. Even as we look at this century as well, God has used many powerful leaders, many powerful prophets and evangelists, but many of them have also fallen. It's very important that if God is using us to also remember that there's an enemy trying to stop the work of God. It's reminded of what Peter writes. He says the enemy is like a roaring lion trying to devour his people. Yes, there was a work of God, but the enemy was also doing his work. It could not be as strong as the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit was just moving so powerfully. I was reading this book which said that if the enemy wants to destroy or stop a ministry, he's going to start from top and then come down. Even us as leaders, we may be leading in the church, we may be pastors, some of us, we are to be doubly careful in our lives. We need to keep, protect our lives from every angle, every sight. We say, God, you have called me for this, help me to be faithful, cover me, and then we continue to live out our life day after day in the presence of God. But remember that the enemy starts off from top. If he wants to destroy a work, he starts from the top and then goes down. So, yes, there were many challenges that people went through during these times as well. Amy Simphle McPherson was an evangelist, a healing evangelist, and she started something called as the Four Square Churches. That was the name of her ministry, the Four Square Gospel, and she planted plenty of churches, about 1,700 churches in the US, and there were about 66,000 meeting places around the world. So, this comes to an end of the 19th century. We come into the 20th and the 21st century, so a time when maybe most of us may have heard of ministries during these times. So, this is more recent to what we have been studying. So, let's look at a few of them. Charles Fox Parham. Now, on page 52, Charles Fox Parham was a young man, an itinerant evangelist, and he was longing for an outpouring of God. He would pray every day. He would seek the word. He said that he would pray saying that, God, you have done all of this in the past. These revivals. You should do it even now. So, he was burdened in his heart to see revival. He spent many a days, many a nights, praying and what he did was, he started a small Bible school with about 40 students and he said, okay, we're going to study the book of Acts. We're going to study how in the book of Acts the Holy Spirit was poured out upon people and what happened after that. And so, all the students began to study when Charles Fox began to study about the book of Acts and after a period of studying, they came to this conclusion. Now, if we have to see revival, we have to do two things. One, humble ourselves to pray. Prayer, humble ourselves and pray. And the more we do that, the more the outpouring of the Holy Spirit is going to come. And then they said, okay, how do we know that the outpouring has happened? One of the best signs is speaking in tongues. And so, Charles Fox with his 40 students, they would spend days and nights continually praying for a revival. Then there came a time when they started having small meetings in different places and hundreds and people started coming. Thousands of people started coming and then they realized, okay, we need to stop doing all the other what we call normal activities and we need to dedicate our time to prayer and reading of the Word of God. So what happened was many of them experienced the outpouring and the name of the college was Bethel Bible College in Kansas and many of them experienced the move of the Holy Spirit. Great outpouring. People from different countries started to come and they wanted to attend Bethel Bible College in Kansas and he opened later on Parham, Charles Fox, he opened up a new Bible college or Bible school in Houston and when he was there, a great man named William J. Seymour, we'll talk about him later on. His name is maybe, you know, familiar. He started the Azusa Street Revival. William J. Seymour came to attend this school. He was again baptized by the Holy Spirit and God used William J. Seymour to do a great revival in England. So Charles Fox started with what he had. It is said that his Bible school didn't have facilities. He started in a, you know, in a house which he had rented out for a while and then later on, we don't know how they managed with hundreds and thousands of people but God provided. If God is, you know, making a move or if there is an outpouring, God will provide the means as well, right? So hundreds and thousands of people graduated out of this Bible college which started with 40 people, right? 40 people. Simple, small beginnings. Out of the 40, it is said that most of them were girls and he was a little bit worried, okay, we wanted to, you know, we wanted also people, men who can, you know, it should be a combined effort of men and women but most of them were girls but we see that God used them. God used them so powerfully that the message of the gospel went through different parts. People came from different parts of the world to encounter what is happening in this better Bible college. Then we look at John Hyde in the early 1900s, John Hyde and he's an American Presbyterian missionary, John Nelson Hyde. He was known as the praying Hyde. Now, he was a man of prayer, right? When we say prayer, he would pray for hours. There are times that, you know, John Hyde came to India, right? He came to a place in Punjab called Sailcoat and when he came to Punjab, he began to pray for revival in Punjab. He said, God, make a move in this place. Hyde began prayer meetings, which started with about 10 people. He would pray from 10 a.m., 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., right? He would wake up, he would go drink some tea or drink some water. He would kneel and he would pray, right? That's why he was called the praying Hyde. He would pray and pray and pray nights after nights. There were times when his church people would say, you need to rest. You can't do this. You need to eat. You need to rest. You need to eat. You need to rest to help you do ministry. But he said, no, until I see revival, until I see an outpouring, I will not rest. And he prayed and prayed and prayed. He said that when he died, you know, he had like camel hooves on his knees, right? Camel hooves. You've seen that, you know, his knees were bent in because of the times of praying on his knees. And also in his, you know, prayer room, his study room in his, in Punjab, a sale quote. I don't know if it's still a site of remembrance or a place where people have kept that open. But it is said that next to his bed, there were two small holes on the ground. The ground itself had two small holes. And then somebody asked him, what are those two holes on the ground? And they said that that is John Hyde's knees that he would spend hours on his knees praying. So what happened was he felt a strong urge that India can be saved only through prayer. And so he started this prayer movement. The Holy Spirit moved. There was a move of God. People were filled with the Holy Spirit. There was a Punjab prayer union. There was a great revival in Punjab. Many prayer rooms were open. Churches were packed. People began to search for places to sit. People came, or came in for hopeful nights of prayers. Imagine, so you're talking about a nation like India and that too in Punjab. And people came for entire night prayers. I don't think anybody will do it now. Even with our AC halls and comforts and fans and all of those things, we won't be able to do an entire night of prayer. But they did nights of prayer, entire night praying for the nation, praying for people. And then because of that, there was an outpouring in Punjab. Many people, many Sikhs accepted Christ. But later on it said that, you know, many of them did not get rid of their turbans and all of that. They kept it and they began to testify about Jesus. Many people were killed during this time. Many people were martyred for the sake of the gospel. Those who came out of their religion, who accepted Christ were rejected, were scorned upon for the choices that they had made. But the work was already done. The move of the Holy Spirit began to empower people. Punjab began to see an outpouring of God. Missionaries, new ministries were birthed, new pastors, new local churches were formed. Churches began to thrive. Missionaries came in from different parts of the world to India to continue this, you know, outpouring that had already started. So John Hyde, one of his most famous saying was, Lord, give me souls or I die. That was his prayer, give me souls or I'll die. And so he was a man of fervent, fervent prayer. It is said that he was on a sick bed or almost on his death bed. So he had a servant and he would tell his servant, please come at this time, carry me and put me on my knees next to my bed and because I need to pray. So his servants would say, you don't have to do this. You can pray on your bed. But he said, no, you come. So they would carry him. They would place him on his knees next to his bed and he would say, come back after four or five hours and he would spend those four, five hours just praying. History says that he also passed away in that position as he was kneeling and praying on his bed. He also breathed his last on his knees and what a sacrifice, what a sacrifice coming from America, coming into our nation, coming into Punjab, starting over, touching many lives and starting many ministries that are even continuing to this day. Thousands of people brought to Christ through this ministry. And we look at another woman named Pandit Ramabai and she started the Mukti Mission Revival. Pandit Ramabai was a Brahmin, born a Brahmin family but she became a believer in Christ. Now the moment she became a believer a few years later she started something called as the Sharda Sadan which is a house of learning. Basically this was in Bombay for people who were, the Brahmins, what they would do is the young girls would be married off to older Brahmin men maybe because of their culture and also because they were Brahmins and also because of financial, they have a lot of things set for the family, material things, everything was set. So what they would do was they would marry off these young girls to elderly Brahmin men and so those men would die and then these girls would be about very young, 20, 21 years old. So what she would do, Pandit Ramabai, she would take these Brahmin girls who were widows and she would keep them in their home and teach them the word of God and slowly this Mukti Mission had about 2,000 girls in the school but one of the things that Pandit Ramabai, she always prayed for was revival. So she had read about the revivals that happened in Wales so what she said was okay, they prayed. So we need to do the same thing. So she formed prayer teams, prayer groups within the girls and they prayed earnestly for revival. Now the moment they began to pray about six months later there was a powerful outpouring of God. All the 2,000 girls accepted Christ. These 2,000 girls said we want to go out on missions and we want to teach other people and so this whole thing of the Mukti Mission revival it was like a chain reaction. Every time people would come into this home they would experience or encounter the Lord Jesus and they would go out wanting to do ministry and to spread the gospel of Christ. So Pandit Ramabai even though she herself did not go out and do any missions, she stayed in her hometown itself but she was able to experience the move of God with thousands of girls, thousands of people accepted Christ in the city of Bombay. Bombay was known for its prostitution. It was something in the open and she was very instrumental in saving these girls who went out on prostitution. She also saved them. She brought them into these homes, provided them education and they encountered the love of Christ who went out and began to share the gospel. So the same way another person we talk about is the Azusa street revival. Now Azusa street revival was started off by William J. Seymour. Now most of us may know him or we may have heard of William J. Seymour or the Azusa street revival. Now here's what happened. The Azusa street is a narrow street at a commercial complex. So it's just like a T-intersection and at the corner of that intersection was a small like a go down, right? And there were about 50 people in the church. So that street was called the Azusa street. And so William J. Seymour was a young man. I remember he went to Bethel Bible School and he said, okay, he was chosen as a pastor in this church and it was a Pentecost church. So the Azusa street in that place, he began to pray. He said, God pour out your revival like never before because there were times he would go to church. He would open the church and there would be 30 people in the church, 20 people in the church. And so he would be so burdened. He said, why is it we are in a good location? The church is in a good location. Why is it that people are so complacent? Why are they not able to come to church? So he was very burdened on that. So he decided, he tried to do a lot of things. It is said that William J. Seymour was very good. He had very good oratory skills. So he said he thought to himself that he will have these meetings in that meeting, but nobody turned up in those meetings. And there was a time he realized that he has to pray for revival. He began to read books or read articles on how revival happened in the early churches and he was burdened in his heart. He began to form a small prayer group in his house and people's homes. And for three years, they continually prayed for revival. Now, after three years, what happened was there was a massive outpouring. All of a sudden, one Sunday, he opens the church. There are 200 people. What was 30, 40 people? Now there's 200. Then there was 500. All happening in a few weeks. By the end of two months, there were 3,000 people in the church. And so he didn't know what to do. There was no place. People would come with umbrellas and initially where nobody would come to church. He used to open the church and he used to do everything. Now, when he would come to church, the line would go all till the end of the street. People holding umbrellas. So he started new services, 6 a.m. service, 8 a.m. service, 10 a.m. service. So he started different services. All the services were packed. Then he said, okay, we need to move to a bigger place. So they've got a bigger place. And by the end of the revival, there were about 10,000 or people added into the church, his church. And then that movement went in and touched different parts of the world. Iceland, Tanzania, America, Europe, Asia. So that revival began to spread out. What started off in a small prayer group of 50 people, 30 to 50 people, turned out to be 10,000s of people. And William J. Seymour was invited to preach in different countries wherever he went. Later on, those churches or those ministries also experienced an outpouring of God. The Azusa Street revival is known as the most impactful revival because it was a time when England was a completely dry nation. The word was there, the Bibles were there, ministries were there, missions were there, all of it was there. But somewhere down the line, that spiritual fervor had come down. But God used this man, William J. Seymour, to revive what was almost dying. The whole thing, in three years, God powerfully, the outpouring spread like fire. This picture, this main street, you've got a small church of 50 people, nobody even knows about that. Three years later, you've got thousands of people standing outside with umbrellas in the rain to get to place in the church. What was that change? What happened in those three years? Those three years was a year of prayer and dedication and calling out the name of God. God was faithful to answer it. Then the last person that we'll talk about today is Sado Sundar Singh. Now, most of us Indians may have heard and even others may have heard of this man named Sado Sundar Singh, a powerful, powerful man born in a Sikh family in Punjab. He was very hostile towards the Christians. But Sado Sundar Singh came to know Christ through the sale court revival that happened through John Hyde. On his 16th birthday, he accepted the Lord and was baptized on his 16th birthday. Now, as a teenager, he dedicated his life to Christ. He said, this is what I want to do. I want to travel and I want to preach the gospel to places. So he went to Punjab, Kashmir, Afghanistan, parts of Pakistan, spent most of his life as a nomad living in mountainous areas, living among tribes, living among the animals, the dangerous animals. And there are plenty of books and encounters that Sado Sundar Singh had during his walk with God. It is said that when Sado Sundar Singh walked in the streets, people in their homes who were possessed by demons would begin to manifest. He would not even pray for them. He would just be walking down the street. And so they would carry these people. It was a picture of Jesus himself that they would carry these demon-possessed people, sick people. So that's what they did. And Sado Sundar Singh dedicated his entire life just praying and moving from place to place, sharing the gospel. There was this one time when one of the other missionaries wanted to write about Sado Sundar Singh. And as he came for that interview, it is said that they could not take his interview because the person who was taking the interview was convicted of sin. And he was fallen on the ground crying. And so they had to call somebody else to come and take the interview. That man said, I cannot look at his face because the glory of God is upon his face. So we need to postpone this interview. So this is just an example. It didn't happen all the time, it was just an example of how Sado Sundar Singh was. He was a very, very gentle person, very patient. It is said that in another instance, they had called him to do an interview and to talk about what ministry is and how they came to know about Christ. They said that as they were doing the interview, they saw the image of Christ on his face. Meaning like Christ would have been this way because he is so gentle, so tender, so loving, yet so powerful in words and deeds and actions. Sado Sundar Singh was a man of faith. He touched many lives. And again, he also gave his life for the sake of the Gospel. It is said that when he entered nations like Pakistan and Afghanistan, they had plotted to kill him. So I think it was Pakistan, not sure if it's Pakistan or Afghanistan, but one of these two places they plotted, they knew that he was going to come. They were waiting to kill him and these people went trying to kill him. But when they went there, they saw his face and the glory of God around him. They said that we cannot go near this man because there are some kind of big angels, big bodyguards around him who protect him. So we cannot attack this man, we cannot kill him. And so all these instances happened in Sado Sundar Singh's life and he again was impactful in reaching to many lives across our nation. All right, so we'll stop here. We have about five minutes more. Any of you have any questions, anything that you want to share, any thoughts that you have, you can feel free to share just five minutes and then we can close. What do you think, maybe some of you can share, what do you think, you know, can we see revival now? What is the things that you feel that we are lacking? All of us, as a body of Christ and even as individuals, what is it that you think that we are lacking? Do you feel that we should, you know, improve on any thoughts on that? Yes, go ahead, Samuel. Listening to these stories, these seem like superhuman, I mean, I don't think it's humanly possible. I don't think that there's anything that I can do from my end to reach any such stature. I mean, the only reasonable answer that I can come up with is, I think these people were 100% surrendered to God. Like they were not like, you know, I'm going to go out and influence people today, but they were more like God used me and whatever you do, whatever you ask me to do, I'll do. And I think that gave me, so it's, I think, very fundamental, but at the same time, it's so hard. Like, because as human beings, we tend to naturally depend on our ability to speak or to think or to do and to give up on that dependency and to rely on God 100%. I think that's what I'm thinking would be needed. Yeah. And thank you, Samuel. Yeah, that's good. That's good thoughts, but I like what you said. They were 100% all out for the sake of the gospel. So that is very true, but Samuel, we all can press on for that. Like you said, you mentioned that, you know, I don't think I would be able to, but we can, you know. Now, just because now, even as we studied, you know, these revivalists, now they did make mistakes. Now they went all out for God, but then they didn't look after their family, right? We studied about, you know, even William Carey, he lost his wife, he lost his kids, his children at a very young age. So now it's important that, yes, God has called us to, you know, call for an outpouring to pray for a revival, but God has also given us the responsibility to look after our family. Now we can't say, okay, no, for example, we have a wife and two small kids, or a small child, right? We can't say, okay, God, I'm all out for the gospel. So leave the wife and children, let them figure out what to do, and you know, that is wrong because, you know, God has, you know, Paul writes to Timothy we don't know how to look after our family, how will we look after the body of Christ, right? Yes, 100% is required, but there's also the aspect of looking after, and later on we also saw that a lot of revivalists, these missionaries, were so, you know, focused on the missions that they also forget their health. A lot of them died at a young age, right? Even now, I forget his name, but he went on the horse back to Africa, to, sorry, to the Native Americans. I don't read on Judson, he died at 27 because of tuberculosis. If he had spent some time, you know, maybe just getting his health treated, he would have been able to do much more than what he was doing. So yes, Samuel, I feel that we can press for that, but also be responsible to look after things that God has put in our place. Yeah. Rose says, we lack commitment and prayer, and we are inconsistent in asking from God. Very true, very true. I believe in that inconsistent is true, because sometimes we ask, then after a couple of months say, okay, God, maybe you don't want it, or maybe God, you want to do it through somebody else. So yes, we don't wait long enough to allow God to move. True, that is true, especially during this time and age when everything is instant. Waiting is something that we don't want to do, but so that's a good learning. Isaiah, you know, through the prophet Isaiah, God speaks to his children, he says, those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. So it's very important to wait on God. And I think, yes, I think this waiting time is the most difficult time because nothing's happening. God, what are you doing? Can you please tell me, is it one year? Is it five years? So that I'd be prepared, and especially when God is not, you know, speaking the way, no dreams, no word of knowledge, nothing. It gets hard, but we need to be consistent in our prayer and asking God, yes. Kennedy says, lukewarmness and lack of prayer life is the current problem and too much comfort today, unlike the earlier brothers, yes. Too much comfort, true. We don't want to step out of our comfort zone. But yes, God, you know, it's not that God wants us to struggle and do ministry. No, ministry should be a joy, there's comfort, but the comfort should not stop us from, you know, what God has for us. So God is, you know, saying, okay, I want you to go to this place. It's not going to be as comfortable as you want it to be. But then, you know, I'm going to be, my grace is sufficient for you. The moment we look at it that way, yes, we'll be able to overcome. Yes, but too much comfort is definitely one of the reasons why we don't see an outpouring of God. Christopher, no, Christopher, we still didn't do the Welsh revival and even robots. The reason I didn't cover it here is because in the following chapter, we are going to do it more, you know, here it's very, very, it's a small portion, but then we want to discuss more on the Welsh revival in the coming chapter. So we'll do it in the next chapter as well. So, all right. So we've passed that time. Anybody would like to close in prayer? Felix, can you close in prayer, please? Good. Father in the name of Jesus, we thank you for today's class. We thank you for everything that we've learned. We thank you for everything that we've learned and the new things. We pray, help us, apply them. We pray, commit to the next class in two hands, help us in everything that is we are asking Jesus. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Felix. Thank you, everybody. We'll catch up next Monday. Have a blessed week ahead. God bless. Thank you, sir. Thank you, pastor. God bless you.