 the recording has started. So would someone like to lead a prayer? And then we will go into, yeah sure Siddh can you please go ahead. Father we come to the throne of grace we thank you for all the time you have given us we thank you for the prayer and intercession Lord we are going to study about Lord we thank you for all the time you have given us the blessing you are giving us a lot the day you have given us we thank you for whatever the way you bless us Lord we and whatever the way we are studying Lord whatever we are going to study Lord let it should be used in our daily life Lord it should be used for the expansion of your kingdom Lord whatever we will study Lord whatever ma'am is going to teach us Lord we pray for all the students Lord what all the for the teacher all over faculty Lord whatever Lord pastor this Lord we pray whatever this APC biologist is doing us Lord in our whatever the seed of your what they are putting in our they are sewing in our heart Lord let it should be used for the expansion of your kingdom Lord we thank you for this time we thank you for this day Lord we thank you for this hour we are going to spend in your presence Lord whatever we will be learning Lord let it should be avoided in our heart Lord in Jesus name we pray amen amen amen thank you thank you Siddh Keno thank you for that prayer so we will get into today's session we are talking about ministering okay ministering through prayer so so far our focus was ourselves and our personal prayer life and how we are going to see that strengthened in God and we talked about you know some of the things that we can do to develop our own personal life with the Lord and then we saw some some aspects which are kind of deeper so we we said traveling in prayer you know intercession we we touched on those things how do we begin to minister to others okay so now what we're going to do is yes we are continuing to talk about intercession which has to do with blessing others but we will look at a better understanding of what intercession is as a ministry and what is the right way of us doing this intercessory prayer okay so in the last class I introduced to you a man called Epaphras Epaphras was a minister whom Paul trained in Ephesus and in Ephesus there were people from many places who had come to get trained okay through the teachings of Paul so Epaphras was one of those people he was from Colosse he went back to Colosse he planted the church there and we also see Paul addressing you know when he writes to the Colossian church Paul ever went there but he talks about Epaphras who has been a faithful minister of God and to the extent that he stayed with Paul when he was under Homerist in the in Rome so he mentions this man Epaphras and you know he he makes these or uses these descriptions he says born servant of Christ Epaphras okay just a moment yeah Colossians 4 verses 12 and 13 Epaphras who is one of you a born servant of Christ greets you always laboring fervently for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God so that is the explanation or the description that he gives of Epaphras and his ministry and he says Paul says about Epaphras that he has great zeal for the Colossians and also for those who live in Laudecia and Herapolis so these are all you know places which are closed by this shows us that an individual who is not physically present in a given location you know that person can continue to minister to the people through prayer okay so apparently Laudecia was from Colossia it was about 12 miles away and Herapolis was about 14 miles away okay yet from a distance you know ministry can still be done and that is the beauty of prayer ministry we can be so far away and today we are all connecting globally isn't it so is it possible to pray for people who are in another country other you know a part of the globe most certainly we can do that and Epaphras specifically you know he used to engage in prayer and that's what we understand here now there is no limit of time or distance or location in uh intercessory ministry and usually what happens you know when we engage in uh intercession how many of us love it how many of you totally love intercession let me hear from you and if you do love it why do you like it or you know let's say okay like okay i'm using the term like how many of you like intercessory ministry and why do you like it okay Subash is saying yes so why do you like it Subash it's an opportunity to pray for others taking their burden and pleading for their then before the Lord and when actually we see the results then we are thankful to Lord that because of my prayers now they are blessed okay okay thank you so much thank you for sharing so you can we share in the burden but we also share in the joy when the answer to prayer comes and you know that's what intercession is supposed to be right like you're serving them you're standing in the gap on behalf of the person who needs the prayers that we are making so yeah so Subash says that you know you can share in the joy and that's why he likes it how about the others okay Lubega it gives me a hard time for sure but praying for God's grace okay Lubega that makes two of us it's not easy for most of us i'm sure but thank you for being honest many of us struggle right it's a lot easier to pray for ourselves and it's quite difficult to earnestly pray for others but that's what the spirit of God produces in us right when we see the fruit of the spirit it's not for selfishness but we're led by the spirit to do what you know God wants us to do through our lives so as part of the the fruit of the spirit is love we extend that love we extend that faithfulness towards others towards God and in our flesh we will not be able to do it okay so thanks Lubega very very honest answer there so yeah for for many of us it's not easy to pray for others okay so those of us who like to pray for others you're engaging in the necessary ministry why do you like it okay yes Rosalind i can see your hand raised please go ahead ma'am i just want to share like what i do i just want to know it's the right way to do because normally whenever any request if it has to be to like pray for somebody like i'll just go on i'll just place the request before God and then i will ask go ask the Holy Spirit to pray with me and i'll be like interceding in tongues so for like you know maybe 20 minutes of 15 minutes like till that burden is off from my spirit so this is how i do it ma'am so is this like right way yeah sure Rosalind i think it's fine it's fine it's like mostly in words i don't i avoid but then i go on in the spirit okay and then i see the result also okay okay yeah it's fine rosalind yes yes it's okay so we could pray in the spirit till we excuse me till we come to a place of experiencing peace in our hearts so at least then we know that you know whatever we have prayed for god has excuse me everyone a little bit of sneezing going on over here so anyway so we pray till we receive God's peace and you know that way we know that we have prayed through to the extent that god wanted us to and as paul wrote right i pray with my i pray in the spirit i pray with my understanding i sing with my spirit i sing with my understanding so yes rosalind there's nothing wrong with praying in tongues but we can also pray with words okay as led by god the god might put certain words in our hearts and we can pray with the words also yeah okay thank you okay sure sure thank you and here in the comments brother abdish says scripture says that if you are blessing anybody you will also be blessed okay great great so that's another motivation so when i'm praying for someone god will bless me so ultimately it comes back to me isn't it so yeah that's true that's true but indeed to have that heart for intercession we really have to put god first and put others before us then the via intercession helps in building faith too for myself and the person we are praying for okay great yeah sure so it helps build our faith so these are all some positive reasons why we would like to engage in intercession for others okay and as i told you it may come easy when we are praying for family members or people who are close to us but when we pray for things which do not directly affect us okay holy spirit is telling us to pray but those things are not directly connected to us it may be somewhat challenging at least in the beginning because we are not able to see the direct impact of it but the key is to be led by the spirit to be aligned to what the holy spirit is telling us to do when we are in our prayer time now having said all this you know intercession uh the motivation to intercede it's not always uh how do i put it you know most people are not motivated because if you ask about uh preaching okay and let's say there is an opportunity to preach and there are 10 believers uh or 10 10 leaders with us and tell them who wants to preach everybody's hands will go up maybe because i don't know it could also be that you know it's it's more like a ministry where where you you do it and there is some validation there is some appreciation right that one might receive after they have preached or let's say you sing you lead worship uh some validation uh you sang well you you ministered well we could experience the presence of god it's uh you know in one sense it feels rewarding but what about intercession you know quietly one goes and they pray it might feel like not that it's going unrecognized uh because it's being recognized by god but before people right it might feel like nobody knows you know uh i can keep praying like this what is the use you know who knows i'm an intercessor so you know these kind of thoughts can also get us but the key thing is that we must do what god is calling us to do and when god is calling us to intercede for others and i told you in the last class we're talking about epiphras not just because he was a believer who was interceding but he was carrying that call of an intercessory ministry you know so there there is a greater grace to minister that is his area where where uh you know god wants him to serve in intercessory prayer so it's a ministry that god is calling him to do so we are we are not just talking about little bit of intercession that we may do in our personal lives this is more this is intercession as a ministry now epiphras is a person who was interceding for people in colose in hierapolis in laudacia as a ministry he said that was his core ministry and though such a ministry you know we might think that uh there's no recognition from men it's very important when we are called to intercessory ministry to recognize that our appreciation our validation right uh our answers to prayer it comes from god so god is watching us god is listening to us god will take notice god will reward that faith one must carry especially the person who's engaging in intercessory ministry now we also touched on uh you know few other things in the last class we said based on the introduction of paul of epiphras we realized that he was not just an ordinary man you know how we might say ah he's an intercessor you know in a in a very uh normal way as if to say that it's nothing uh there's nothing special about someone who is engaging in intercessory ministry paul didn't speak about epiphras like that instead he said he's a bond servant and i told you in the last class bond servant has to do he generally used that term as a term which was also used for apostles or ministers of god so that same seriousness that same honor that same uh you know affirmation is given to somebody in the intercessory ministry okay so is an intercessor somewhat low whom uh you know we don't equate with others who may be preaching or planting churches and doing other wonderful things not at all in fact it's very similar no wonder paul is calling that person also a bond servant who is serving through prayer ministry then he says laboring fervently now laboring fervently again is applicable to every other ministry if you take a teacher of the word you know there's diligent study of the word rightly dividing the word of god then imparting the word of god with the anointing so laboring fervently comes into the picture paul uses the same uh you know way of describing an intercessor somebody who is laboring fervently so a true intercessor somebody who's carrying that call and that anointing they don't pray you know like quick fix prayers and call it intercession yeah over finished no but they are engaging it's like warfare right they continue to pray they don't stop maybe god has put somebody on their hearts and you know god wants this person to pray and i know of people who pray for others you know for months for years uh or several times till they see something happen in that individual's life so laboring fervently which is talked about by other for other ministries it's also talked about for intercessory prayer so a true intercessor will put in the effort put in the work you know have that heart to see the results when they engage in prayer so laboring fervently to see the results in other words it's not a casual ministry okay i'll pray if god works let him work if he doesn't work it's okay you know not that kind of an attitude that we find paul also use terms like perfect and complete okay so epiphrasis laboring fervently so that the believers can become perfect and complete now perfect perfection and completion is maturity if you take for example uh teaching ministry you know that the teachers teach or if you take all the five-fold ministry offices why are they laboring in evisions 413 we see that so that people come to perfection or they grow up in god they come to maturity in god become a perfect man it says so similar to the five-fold ministry and what each one is engaging in the goal is the same even for intercessory prayer one when we pray you know we can truly see such a result in the lives of the believers that they grow into maturity right so through intercession one can invest in praying for people's maturity and then you know there is great zeal that paul talks about in the life of epiphrase in the ministry of epiphrase intercessory prayer we just discussed that we said it doesn't come easy to most of us and think about epiphrase you know a lot of praying going on in his life was he excited about it from what paul is writing yes great zeal or passionate he was very very passionate about prayer and intercession for the people so you know it gives us a a new way of looking at somebody who's graced with intercessory ministry they are not just ordinary or they are not you know second-class ministers or they are not you know unrecognized ministers they are very much like all the other ministers who are serving you know as pastors as teachers who's as prophets as you know in their different capacities so we should not look down on the ministry of intercession okay that's the whole point that we were trying to make and one must be excited about the opportunity to minister through intercession okay so are we are we good so far any thoughts any questions at this point yeah yeah Rosalind please go ahead you're fine you're fine okay good good good i was just looking at the comments here and the way i was saying sometimes intercession it can become a kind of a routine and it can be very challenging and Rosalind says intercession is mostly behind the scenes okay all right yeah it's true it's true we have to press through right and you know uh what we said laboring fervently i think even laboring through the monotony sometimes is necessary uh okay yeah divya please go ahead you have a something to share sorry past man said and mean to interrupt uh yeah yeah so i uh had this question regarding here since we are talking about epifras uh intercession is it in the context of you know praying for a congregation or is it like those individual you know prayers that we make for individuals also taken into account yes yes divya thank you for that so uh see what we are trying to say is now for example if you take prophecy okay uh believers prophesying uh i mean i'm giving you a completely different parallel okay just for for understanding sake believers prophesying uh is like using the gift of prophecy okay through the holy spirit but when we talk about somebody who has a prophetic ministry it's more than an ordinary believer who is the person with the prophetic ministry has the grace so we generally say like grace gift of ministry grace gift of prophecy so the person has you know the prophetic going on in whatever they do okay so it's it's like a prophesying believer i'm just giving you for your understanding prophesying believer grace gift of prophecy and then we talk about office prophetic office you know somebody who's functioning at a very uh higher authority in that same anointing okay so there's a difference there's a difference so far we have understood what intercession is intercession is just going to God on behalf of somebody else so normal intercession we pray for others that's okay but ministering through prayer the context in which i'm teaching you is more like somebody who has that grace to be uh an intercessor you know what i mean all of us are intercessors but there are some who are called for that who have the grace to do that okay so uh yeah so that's how we are looking at uh you know what i'm teaching today the way does it does it make sense yeah sure sure pastor uh yeah it makes sense yeah so i was trying to understand like how would anyone know that they are called to a ministry of intercession or not yeah yeah yeah i think the way one could know divya is uh uh you know generally it's like you get you just get started on it and then you will see you know god affirming it as you go along you'll have more opportunities you'll just find that you have more grace to do that okay uh so basically you step into it and then it becomes better and stronger and then you realize oh wow i'm called for this sure sure thank you thank you that's yeah sure sure divya so that's the way in which we can also discover it but talking about intercessory prayer and ministry of intercession uh you know we said it's definitely an important ministry we should not think that you know this is a second class ministry just because you don't have intercessors out there right in the open praying before us yeah right so rosalind says burden for others will draw us to intercede that's right yeah so just because the intercessory minister or the intercessor is not out there in the open how can we keep ourselves motivated you know jesus taught us this he said that when we go and we go behind closed doors right and we pray we shut the door and pray matthew six versus five and six but 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 okay so here is our motivation when we are behind closed doors or in other words nobody notices what we are doing our heart has to be uh confident in the fact that god who sees us will reward us openly so in secret we are investing in intercessory prayer intercessory ministry but how does the reward for that come openly so that is why we always say you know time prayer whether it is intercession or whether it is personal prayer or whatever time spent in prayer is never wasted why because it's like an investment we pray god sees us in secret and then he rewards us openly so that should be a great motivation for those of us who are called to the ministry of intercession or if not ministry of intercession even ministry even intercession in general we should be happy that god hears us and god will reward us now the other thing that will encourage us when we think about intercession is that you know our prayers they go like sacrifice incense before the lord you know if you look back at the temple worship they had incense incense would go up and it would fill the place and that is something god had asked for fragrance right but we are told like Psalm 141 verse 2 here it says let my prayer be said before you as an incense so our prayer in other words it is pleasing to god to me might think how much will god hear my prayer won't he get bored okay or won't he be tired of hearing these prayers instead what the bible teaches us is that god is pleased whenever sincere prayer comes before him it is like incense it is like fragrance it makes god happy it's like the evening sacrifice Revelation 5 and verse 8 you know that again tells us the same thing there are in god's presence there are bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints so our prayers are directly reaching the presence of god okay think about that what a great opportunity what a great privilege so anytime as an intercessor we feel that what is this nobody knows it's so tedious to concentrate and pray for others okay or I don't know if this is of any use we can remind ourselves of all these things when we pray in secret god will reward us openly my prayer is like incense in the presence of the lord it is like evening sacrifice right and my prayers go directly into the presence of god so he can be assured that our time our energy our effort of praying for others will never be wasted and that should be motivation enough for us to engage in intercessory prayer and this is a ministry okay intercession is a ministry what is a ministry when we say something is a ministry what do we mean by that anyone intercession is a ministry so what is the meaning of that a service i don't cannot say service okay yes yes elasha please go ahead yeah um it is meeting the serving to meet the needs of people thank you so you're saying ministry means to meet the needs of people is it yes yes okay great great wonderful so service and meeting the needs of people that's true intercession is a service okay and we are here every ministry that we do it's not you know yes we are blessed personally we are blessed when we when we serve others but the main focus is others the main focus is we are building up people in the body of christ and thus you know we are serving the lord himself so this is a intercession is a ministry where we have the opportunity to serve others now we may not meet them we may not even know them but we can still bless them we can serve them through the prayers that we pray for them and the privilege of intercessory prayer is this that we can engage in this anywhere anytime okay anywhere anytime so we can talk about some instructions that will be helpful for engaging in intercessory prayer now god calls us to pray you know one challenge i told you is feeling unrecognized okay now to compensate for that it can so happen that we want to go and tell everybody right that i'm an intercessor and you know god put this on my heart and i prayed and it happened like this or i prayed and it did not happen like this so what we see in scriptures we don't see people doing that in fact we just saw how jesus said go and pray in secret and i will reward you and open so though it is hard an intercessor it is good if they don't try to you know go around sharing all these details with others and if it is with the intention of promoting oneself okay and this can happen in every ministry not just an intercession it's not required no we just trust that if god has called us to do this ministry and he is equipping us surely there will be a result and if god wants others to know that hey this person is called to intercessory prayer and others will know you will come to that place of being recognized but we don't try to promote ourselves by letting everybody know that hey you know i'm an intercessor i'm an intercessor not required okay then uh when it comes to uh you know intercession we trust that no we are doing it to serve the people okay so it should again not be used as something like uh how do i say this you know depending on the issues for example let's say uh a pastor okay and a pastor he decides he or she decides that i don't want to construct a building for my church and there are some intercessors in the church who are praying and they get a revelation that okay you know there's going to be a church building constructed by the congregation so they start praying for that now it would be totally wrong if the intercessors try to pressure or they try to i mean they may or may not know that it's manipulation but you know they try to push the pastor and say you have to decide to start construction right away because that's what god told us that's what we are praying for and you have to do it right but ultimately it's the pastor's decision if the pastor says no i don't want to get into construction right now because we don't have the money or okay you heard from god but i have not yet heard from god you know things like that it's okay it's okay so the duty of the intercessor is to if god has revealed something to us uh we have to pray that through right faithfully we're not here to push people around based on what has been revealed to us and what we are praying for others okay so uh it shouldn't be used as something to pressure people that's the point i'm making okay and it is very much possible through intercessory ministry it's very much possible to do this uh to others but we must be careful let's say god reveals something very important to us okay and we are praying about it but the good thing to do would be to keep it to yourself and continue praying for it right most of the time i told you this and we did prophetic prayer most of the time god reveals something for us to pray through not necessarily go and tell everybody about it but we start praying about it you know if god gives a specific instruction and says i want you to go and share this with so and so or i want you to stand up and share this you know with your life group or with your congregation and of course with the pastor's permission you are free to do that but most revelation that we receive it is good to simply pray through okay so these are some instructions that will help us pray uh in such a way that we're not promoting ourselves we're not using this this ministry to uh pressure others you know uh and try to direct others the way we want them to go but instead we are using this ministry to serve others so the good part is that when we pray for others you know we uh we can uh be we can receive the peace of god in our hearts that we have done our part to bless them right so uh in some cases you and i might see the results for example if let's say a parent they have prayed for their child for many years and they want to uh god has told them that they will be that he will be working through that child in a certain way in the ministry and this parent has prayed all along for many years and for whatever reason you know the parent is not alive when this child actually steps into the ministry the parent is not there to see that the child is actually now you know moving in the things that he or she prayed for so in some instances the intercessor may not get to see what they prayed for but it is reward enough to be in the presence of god it's reward enough to pray through those prayers it's reward enough to receive the joy and the assurance you know of uh god when we pray for that individual it's uh it's it's you know joyful to see that person making the journey and god uh working in that person's life so what i'm saying is we may not see the end result now if even if you take something like praying for a nation or something like praying for a region or a city there are people who have prayed for years they've prayed for decades they've prayed for revival for i don't know centuries right but they may not have seen the results however one thing we know every precession we receive the peace of god we receive the joy of god you know we are touched by the presence of god and we stand in assurance okay we have prayed we believe that in the spiritual realm god is doing something so by his spirit he's able to give us that assurance now in some instances yes as some of you pointed out we hear the testimony uh you prayed for that sick person that person is now out of the hospital or you prayed that person did not have money to pay their fees they now they paid their fees a miracle happened so we are able to rejoice with the results that we see but in many instances we may not see immediate results okay and yet we can still walk in joy and peace and uh the presence of god as intercessors trusting that god is working right and uh god has his own timing of doing things in the lives of people now as some of you pointed out i had a good motivation for us is that when we pray for others god is so faithful that he will release blessings on our lives okay so there is a passage here from job 42 and verse 10 uh would somebody like to read this please it's on page 52 end of the page job 42 and verse 10 job 42 verse 10 and the lord restored jobs losses when he prayed for his friends indeed the lord gave job twice as much as he had before wow thank you divya so comforting and so encouraging couple of things we notice here is job is interceding he's praying for his friends okay uh that itself brings him of what he had lost but in this particular incident job is also praying for those who betrayed him in a sense isn't it he expected a lot more support from his friends when he was going through a difficult time and these people were not supportive at all on the other hand their words were breaking his spirit so job is praying that is one thing but second thing here is he's also walking in forgiveness very hard very very hard uh and uh uh based on what he has been through he's blessing those who did not bless him in his difficult time but this is what god is showing us he's saying look the reward comes from me i am your rewarder if you walk in the right path and in this case forgiveness and blessing you know those who uh uh like you bless those who persecute you right you pray for those uh who who speak evil things against you god will bless us back and god tells us that you know uh when we pray for others surely our lives will also be blessed okay uh god doesn't forget us as individuals and say okay you forget about yourself you only pray for others no but he's so sensitive so thoughtful our god that he says okay you are praying for others you are ministering to others i'm also a god i know how to bless you and in this case when joe prayed for his friends they received he received twice of what he had lost so uh at this point uh i'm just gonna pause and uh maybe we can discuss any any other thoughts about intercession any questions that you might have we can try to answer them uh first nancy i just had uh something it's not related to this topic okay it's related to prayer uh so i was having a conversation with one of my friends and she was talking about the prayer language uh and praying in tongues so i just wanted to i i got a little confused with these two terms so are they the same and uh and can you also uh help me with Romans 8 26 to 27 where it says uh yeah the spirit intercedes in yeah yeah thank you so divya prayer language okay generally it is used for tongues many people use that they say tongues is a prayer language it's a god-given prayer language so it's it's just a way of identifying uh you know praying in the spirit so what confused you what exactly confused you about that um yeah so this is uh Romans 8 26 and 27 so this particular reference uh so since uh like according to what i've been taught like even in the bible college yeah so uh i i have understood it as you know the praying in tongues right it is referring yeah so there was some term uh like in in in kjv i think it's wordless wordless groans uh it says and i'm not sure if it is in kjv uh so so uh there was like is it the tongues really you know your your uttering sounds or it's wordless right so my friend is saying uh like it is you're just uh like in in your heart like in your spirit your praying it's not not related to tongues so i got a bit confused with that so even i was um yeah yeah i was just yeah sure sure i i get your point divya so yes tongues is a language and romans 8 26 and 27 uh i think we have talked in this class only about it where you have the the spirit of god coming alongside you right so he comes alongside he takes a hold of you he empowers you to pray in the will of god for his purposes now yes uh you know some translations use uh you you see that you know what what your friend mentioned groaning size and groans it's part of the language divya it's part of the language okay uh and that doesn't mean size and groans doesn't mean it's empty there is some communication of the spirit that shows up as size and groans now uh just a simple thing that i have experienced in my life this was a family uh who are from a different background okay for many many years and this one uncle he never believed he never believed even though his wife is a believer and uh you know they they came to church and uh it was one of those Sundays where we were praying for the holy spirit baptism and we prayed for uh you know this person and many other people while others were speaking in languages this individual you know what we are saying groaning sighing and then you know he at one point he was he was weeping like a baby that was the manifestation which we saw as compared to the languages which others were speaking i mean in my experience i have usually seen you know baptism of the holy spirit they start saying something like something like that but for the first time i'm looking at this person and i'm sure he can't be faking it because he's like this grown man who for a long time resisted god's word but finally he accepted and he came for holy spirit baptism and you know he would in the in the natural he would be embarrassed to to sigh and groan and weep like that but it was happening in front of our eyes so for me you know i i took a lesson from that and i thought oh yeah this this sounds like uh what romance 8 26 27 says but the release of that that language that heavenly language was in this form so it's part of the language is what i would say mm-hmm yeah yeah yeah god okay see for us it doesn't entail anything i'm just going like uh or something but how do i know what it means in spirit to god what i'm saying yeah yeah it doesn't make sense yeah so see one syllable can mean so much but we can't understand all that we just have to trust what the word says when we speak in an unknown tongue we speak mysteries unto god no we pray in the will of god we have we should have faith huh that's exactly what's happening right now i'm praying in the will of god i'm speaking mysteries unto god i'm going to receive the blessings from god yeah yeah it's clear it's clear thank you sure sure yeah sure and i think rosalind is also uh adding to that here in the chat she's saying groaning is utterance in the spirit but spoken language by a believer only the holy spirit knows yeah sure sure so uh yes class uh i think we have uh gone a little past our time uh but i would still encourage you to think about intercession and tomorrow's class let's start with some questions on intercession and then we will proceed on to the next topic okay so at the moment we are going to wrap up with the word of prayer and just want to encourage uh how about jeffina jeffina you want to pray so we can close today okay not sure if she's able to pray uh elaysha elaysha are you okay to pray okay okay anyone then can i pray yeah yeah please go thank you father thank you lord for all that uh father you're teaching us lord thank you father for um you're revealing us lord uh the uh what the holy spirit has inspired in your word father lord what we can learn father from the life of people lord in the bible yes father lord we thank you and praise you father for your reward is with us father lord and it is not for uh lord our self exaltation or anything father that any ministry is done yes lord the our reward is with you and you thank you lord that you uh speak to us that it is more blessed to give than to receive yes lord thank you and praise you that our uh standard is jesus christ thank you that you showed us uh that the son of man came not to be served but to serve we thank you and praise you lord for all the uh occupying father of the holy spirit that you have uh provided father lord so as to edify each other father lord and all that you've given us to edify ourselves as well father lord we thank you and praise you uh for every blessing lord thank you for pastor nancy father lord continue to bless the lord we pray for uh complete the recovery lord from all the cold father lord i pray your um uh complete recovery over her lord uh in the name of jesus we thank and praise you for each and every student father lord thank you father for ministering to us father thank you lord for um helping us lord we we trust father that in the coming days lord we will uh lord apply father and move uh father explore in these areas rather than these ministries father lord we thank you and praise you in jesus precious name praying amen amen and thank you thank you divya thank you for praying for me also god bless yeah thank you man thank you thank you everyone god bless you have a wonderful day and we shall meet tomorrow again okay so see you tomorrow bye amen thank you thank you thank you brother bye god bless thank you everyone