That's not how the virus Well, that's not all the vaccination works.  I know that and I'm high Okay, there's just one problem Jimmy You're wrong predictably so and probably purposefully so now knowing what we know. Thanks to Sean I'll link you to that video down below by the way if you haven't seen it yet So let me explain to you why Jimmy door is wrong and why the vaccines actually do reduce transmission So a University of Oxford study looked at a sample of 150,000 contacts that were traced from 100,000 COVID-19 cases and here's what they found people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 Are less likely to spread the virus even if they become infected a new study finds Adding to a growing body of evidence that vaccines can reduce transmission of the Delta variant The article then goes on to explain when infected with the Delta variant a given contact was 65% less likely to test positive if the person from whom the exposure occurred was fully vaccinated with two doses of the Pfizer vaccine With AstraZeneca a given contact was 36% less likely to test positive if the person from whom the exposure occurred was fully vaccinated and those are the facts the vaccines do in fact reduce transmission and it's not like they're 100% effective at reducing transmission But if you are infected with the COVID-19 after you've been vaccinated, you are substantially less likely to transmit it if you've been Vaccinated with the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines as those were the ones that were looked at in this particular study But that's if you get infected all together because again the vaccines reduce the likelihood that you will be infected with COVID-19 Therefore if you don't get infected you don't spread the virus So contrary to what Jimmy Dore is saying the vaccines are really important in stopping the spread of COVID-19 those are the facts something that Jimmy Dore doesn't actually care about But I just want to point out something notice how I jumped around in that article that I read myself And didn't have my producer read for me because I don't have a producer But I read the article and yes I did jump around like Jimmy Dore did in the video where he was called out by Sean But notice how I didn't intentionally misrepresent the overall claim that the article was making and notice how I was both precise While I was still being concise. It's possible to do two things at once You see it's because I'm trying to present you with an accurate image of what the data says Whereas Jimmy Dore is cherry-picking data in order to construct a particular narrative that is a leading credibility to his Anti-vaccine narrative, but I just love all of the hubris here.  These aren't newscasters. They're not truth-tellers.  Well, first of all, it sounds like Jimmy Dore is calling for Ryan Grimm to be censored Which I thought he was against censorship second of all Jimmy Dore is being promoted by the algorithm out of all of the left wing youtubers when he still identified as a leftist He was the only one that I saw trending on the YouTube page and the reason why He's doing all of these anti-vax videos is because he knows the YouTube algorithm is rewarding him for that Handsomely so that's why he does it even if he knows that the misinformation he's spreading violates YouTube's terms of service He's willing to take that risk because the payoff is that good because he knows the algorithm will in fact push his channel Now I have no idea if he believes his own lies or if he's just creating propaganda because it's profitable But before he realized how lucrative anti-vaccine videos were he was saying something very different about the COVID-19 vaccines So this is what he tweeted out in March 28th of 2020. This is why I'm staying quarantined until there's a vaccine see you in summer of 2021 well fast forward to 2021 and we now have a vaccine that is indeed effective and Life-saving in fact the COVID-19 vaccines have saved hundreds of thousands of lives specifically They saved 40,000 lives of seniors between January and May and nearly 280,000 lives in general just in the United States And this is a bit outdated so by now who knows how many lives the vaccines have saved But if your jimmy door sharing facts about the vaccines isn't actually good for your bottom line because you have a right-wing conspiratorial audience that goes through your channel and they expect you to confirm their pre-existing biases about the vaccines and Because they expect you to Tell them that the vaccines are bad You're gonna do just that because you know they turn on you an unsubscribe and mass if you did anything other than just that Now Ryan Grimm responded to Jimmy door and he said basically what I said he was very reasonable He says Jesus fucking Christ It is a well-established fact that if you are vaccinated you are less likely to get infected if you are less likely to get Infected you're less likely to spread it not hard to understand this guy needs to move on from me It's so weird.


So, let's get right into it. All of the stuff that I'm showing today is all the commands are available here at this URL. I'll go ahead and just paste this into the chat as well here. And that way you can follow along and please do ask questions as we go. That way we can try to get them answered and you can probably do this along with me. Our agenda today, we are going to set up an on-premise galaxy. We're going to do this with a user interface and without a user interface. We're going to sync some collections and roles from galaxy.ansible.com. We're going to install those collections and roles using the command line interface. That's the Ansible Galaxy command line interface. And we're going to upload collections using that same CLI and we're going to organize some content and repositories. So, before we get into it, the software that we're going to use today, there's two of them. One of them is Galaxy NG. Galaxy, this stands for Next Generation. It's the next version of Galaxy. Galaxy runs right now at galaxy.ansible.com. This version does not run at that website today. And Galaxy NG is a fork and rewrite of the original code that does run at that website. It has a user interface. It is developed by the same team that runs galaxy.ansible.com. It only has collection support and it is GPLv2. As Sear has, there are interesting questions in the chat because I won't be looking at it. Please just interrupt me and call them out if you wouldn't mind. The second piece of software is Pulp Ansible. You can see it's available here. And this is the back end of Galaxy NG. It has an API and its own command line interface only. It does not have a UI. It has collection and role support and it is GPLv2. So, why don't we go ahead and deploy Galaxy NG? So, to do that, you're going to want to pull down the container. I'm using Podman. You can use Podman or Docker. And I'm actually going to actually copy the commands out of here because if I copy them out of the other place, it doesn't work so good. So, here we go. Yeah, this is right. So, I'm going to Podman pull the container down. I've already fetched it, so I already had all the layers here. And next, we're actually, I think I'm just going to present from here. So, just be easier for everyone. So, next we're going to create some settings files. So, to run these containers, you need some settings. You need a couple of directories. And so someplace on your file system, I'm doing my demo out of here. I'm going to run these three commands and it just makes a folder, it makes a folder and then some subfolders. And then we're going to put in a settings file. It doesn't need very many settings in the settings file, but it does need a few. And so, you can read more about the settings in the documentation. So, now we have a settings file. You can see that here. And now that we have a settings file, we're ready to start the container. I have two examples here. One's with SC Linux and the other is without SC Linux. And I'm running SC Linux. So, I'm going to use this one. And this is a Podman run. This just runs the container that we downloaded. And at this point, the next thing you want to do is load some initial data. So, Galaxy and G expects some things in the database. And right now the way that's loaded is by loading it as a fixture. And so what these three commands do is they just populate the database with some data. This data is required. So, you can do this. You can see while we're loading at these URLs if that's interesting. So, it's loading it right now. Okay, it installed those 21 things into the database. And the last thing we're going to do before we start really looking into it is set the admin password. So, the default username is admin and I'm going to set the password password. Okay, so at this point we are good to actually take a look at what we have started here. And this is the, this is at the URL localhost 8080, which is the port that I started this container on. And I'm going to put in admin and password because I just said that. And here you can see this is what the user interface looks like. So, a couple of things I want to just show you around just a little bit here. Galaxy and G has a notion of repositories and it has three of them. There's the published repository. This is for collections because it only supports collections. This is for collections that are uploaded. So, we'll see uploaded stuff right here. Red Hat certified. This is for content that was pulled in from cloud or redhat.com. We're not going to be demoing that today, but if you bring in certified content, it will land here and community. And this is where content that comes down from ansible.galaxy.com lands. So, if you look through these you'll see that there's there's no content in this installation right now in any of these areas. So, the other area is in repo management. This is a pretty important area. You can see there's the community and published and have certified area along with some other staging and rejected stuff that we'll talk about in a little bit. And I want to draw your attention to this remote section up here. So, remotes is how you sync in content from cloud from galaxy dot ansible.com. I'm going to do that here with the community remote. And so, yeah, so I'm going through this use galaxy and G section here. I want to also show the logs you can use podman logs command here to show the logs. I'm going to do that over here. So, maybe this is a little smaller. So, these are the logs so we can see stuff happening as we use it. So, what we have here is we have, let's say that we this ansible galaxy. The command line interface uses requirements files in order to fetch and specify what should be fetched from other places like galaxy dot ansible.com. And so the tooling here uses that same data. So for example, this is a requirements file that will install the pulp installer, which is happens to be a question, and also the ansible POSIX collection. So these are any collections that you can find out on galaxy dot ansible.com. So like anything that's out, anything that's out here, for example, you can put them in a requirements file, and then you can go into galaxy and G and you can go to edit in the community area, and you can give it a requirements file. And I already have that same example I just showed you here stored as basic.yaml. So, why don't we give it that file, and then we're going to tell it to sync. And you can see on the logs that it's doing some things. There it goes. So it's fetching. It's actually pulling down a lot of content from galaxy dot ansible.com. And you can see here that it is completed. And so since we've synced in this content, what we can do is we can go to the community area here. And oh look, here's the content that we brought in. So we've just successfully synced some content from a public source. There's a few gotchas that I just want to call out. It does not currently provide dependency resolution so you need to make sure that like so for instance, the pulp installer actually depends on this other collection. But because there's no automatic dependency resolution, I need to also include that second collection here in the actual requirements file. So just make sure that your requirements file includes what you want but also the dependencies of what you want. Also, every time you sync it overwrites the previous content in there. So if I replaced it with a requirements file like this that syncs something totally different. If you want to sync and reload this page, these would be gone and it would be replaced by whatever's there. So if you want more, you should add it to what's already there in your requirements file and if you want less, you should remove it because it overwrites previous content. So you should not have a, when you use the Ansible to Galaxy CLI it's made to look for a net RC file so don't have a net RC file. When you're trying to use a CLI with galaxy and G in terms of fetching and pushing content to it so I'm going to take my own advice here and actually remove my net RC. So I'm going to go back up to restore this later so don't have a net RC file that's that's my tip for you. Okay, so let's configure the galaxy CLI because bringing content into galaxy and G is only helpful if we can then distribute that through our organization. So to do this, you connect a CLI to a particular repository so if you want to publish content you can add to that if you want certified content you can add to that. In this case, there are 74 items in the community repository. And so under CLI configuration here there's a this is a copy. Actually, I think it's because I'm zoomed in it's not going to like that. Yeah, so I copy this to the clipboard. And what I do you can configure this system wide or a lot of different ways. So what I'm going to do is edit this ansible CFG file here. This is just a normal CLI config file, and I'm just pasting in what I just copied and you can see it's pointing the CLI at my container. And notice it needs a token, you have to have a token order to receive content, because that content is protected.  So, and you can just load more, and it removes the other ones and gives you the new ones so I just copied this token. And I'm going to go ahead and put it in this computer here. Okay, so our CLI is now connected effectively to this repository. And we're going to go back to our notes. And we're going to install content from that we just sink down so we'll install this pulp underscore installer collection. And we'll do that with a command like this.  So that's pretty typical dash P slash this says just do it in the local current directory just to keep it simple. And I'm telling it what to install. So let me go run this command. Okay, it installed that it also installed the dependency. And if you look here in Ansible collections. You can see that the collection was indeed installed here along with the Ansible POSIX one. So that's how you install content so you can have this connected to a lot of machines and you can control what's in the repository and available and then you can distribute that content to a lot of places in this way. You can also upload content directly from the user interface. So for this, you want to have a any kind of collection, a pre built collection, and you can go on galaxy.antsible.com and download them. You can also make your own with the Ansible Galaxy build command. So in either case you want to have a built collection. And so I'm going to use this collection demo one as my demo collection. And I already have it saved here. So I already have this built collection locally. Now what you need to do is you need to create a namespace for it. I think this part's a little confusing, but it is the current state of things. So this is the namespace and this is the name of the collection. So what I need is to make a namespace called new swine or D so that I can then upload this collection into it. Over in Galaxy NG, go into my namespaces, creating a namespace. And from here, I can then upload a collection using this button right up here. And indeed, if I give it the new swine or D collection, the business namespace new swine or D collection demos the name of the collection upload. So this goes through an import process which runs a bunch of linking checks and a variety of other checks that it does on content. It's showing us a bunch of scary red stuff here, but that's because there are just some quality problems with this particular item that I've uploaded. The thing that I want to really call out is that it does reach a green done here. Some exceptions are fatal and it just will not import that content. But in this case, even with all the red, it did import this content. So you might expect because it's uploaded that it'll be here in the published area. Oh wait, it's not here. And that's because by default, Galaxy NG has an approval process for all things that are uploaded. And so it goes down to this approval area. And it says, oh, we have something for review. It's version 1.0.10. It needs review. I can look at the import logs. I could reject the collection. I could approve the collection. So this is a way for some group of people in your organization to review what's being uploaded and make sure that it's safe to be distributed through this, through Galaxy NG. In this case, I will approve it. And there are now no more approvals. And if you look here at the published area, you'll see the collection demo is now available. If I hook the CLI up to this repository, because this is in the published area. So over here you can see there's one item available. Then I could install this one just the same. So that is how you upload and promote and approve content. The approval workflow is optional. And you can go back to that settings file we made in the beginning and just turn it off if you want. And there are docs about doing that. The last thing I want to show for Galaxy NG is it has to do with users and groups and permissions. And so one of the things that it has, it's pretty great, is this notion of users and groups. Right now, these are only built-in users. There's been discussion and definitely requests to have this connected to something like LDAP. That's on the roadmap, but it is currently not available. You can create more users here. But the really important thing, I think, is that say that we made a new group. So for this group, which we can put multiple users into, we can edit the permissions.  Or I can modify the content that's contained in these repositories. Or I can change users and groups, or I can change what's on the remote. These are the settings that we configured early on. I can change what's on the remote or I can not change what's on the remote. And this is great because you probably want to have a lot of users who are able to consume content.  For example, you know, they can actually upload into a namespace. And you probably want to have some users who are just able to approve and make those changes. So this permissions model is pretty strong. It also has a little bit more work to do, I think, but this is how you use permissions in Galaxy NG. So you can also use, you can also upload content to Galaxy NG directly from the command line interface. And you do that with the AnsibleGalaxyCollectionPublish command. You have to have that CLI configured, just like we did earlier, and have another collection to upload a built collection. I'm not going to demo that just for the sake of time, but I will stop to look to see if there are any questions. Okay, I don't see any. And so that is the Galaxy NG portion of the talk. Feel free to ask any questions at any point. But at this point, what we want to do is we want to go and deploy Pulp Ansible. So this is the second piece of software. Pulp Ansible is the back end for Galaxy NG, like we said. And you can do that with by pulling down the Pulp Pulp container. So let's go ahead and do that. Meanwhile, I'm going to go ahead and just remove, stop my other container because I want to reuse that port. Okay, yeah, so I just stopped the Galaxy NG just because I wanted to use the same port again. But you can run them together at the same time if you want. Okay, so this was the Podman Pulp Pulp. This is a Sentos 8 based container, and it's got Pulp Ansible contained inside of it. So why don't we go ahead and we're going to do a very similar thing. We're going to make some directories and then we're going to make a settings file. It's almost the same as the other one. So let's do that.  And this is our settings file. And here, now we have settings file. Let's go ahead and start that container. So we'll do that here with the ESC Linux version. You can use either one that you want. That's great. We do not need to populate this with initial data because Pulp Ansible doesn't need that. It's just an empty thing when you start it. But we do need to set the password. So let's go ahead and set the password again. I'm setting this to password. The admin user name is admin. And the next thing that we're going to do in order to interact well with because Pulp Ansible is an API and if you wanted to use the API request by request, it could be a little cumbersome. So there's a really great tool called Pulp CLI. And so let's go ahead and get Pulp CLI working. You can just pip install Pulp CLI. It's really simple. And I have already done that here. So you can see I'm running Pulp CLI version 040. And it's contained inside this virtual app here. You can also install a system like that's up to you. So you need a config file. So you can use the Pulp config create command, which I'm going to see if I can attempt to copy here. I already have one just for the purposes of this demo, I will overwrite that. So then we're going to edit that config, because what we need to do is make sure that this is pointing to our container. It's HTTP is the way you talk to this container for now. That's something that we definitely want to improve. Normal non containerized installations of Pulp run on HTTPS. So that's something that's important for us to fix. But it's important if you want to get it working right now to make it HTTP local host port 8080. That's my container port and username admin password admin. So those are the values that I just set. So at this point Pulp CLI is installed and configured. Let's just pull up the the Pulp logs here just so we can see what's going on. We'll do that here. Great. So these are the running logs tailing from the container running Pulp Ansible. And next we're going to run a Pulp status. This Pulp command is the CLI command itself. So I'm telling the CLI inspect the status of this container that we just connected it to. So this long kind of Jsonny output, basically saying that everything's fine. And that's just a normal reasonable way to check if everything is good between the CLI and the container you're talking to. I have, I think maybe five, maybe 10 minutes. I'm not entirely clear. So I will try to get through this part of the content and then we'll have some questions. So Pulp Ansible organizes content in repositories. So the first thing that we want to do is create a repository and I'm going to name this repository my repo. So that is done you can see my repo has been made. And you can use the list command for a lot of these options to list out what was just made. So that's something you can do. Then I'm going to create a remote. So this is just like the remote that we saw configured to the user interface of Galaxy NG. So this is a requirements file only this is a path to the requirements file. And it takes a collection type remote because Pulp Ansible can sync and support collections animals. We're going to be creating that remote. We're going to name it basic because that's just the name that I'm choosing. We're going to be syncing it from galaxy.ansible.com. And we're going to be giving it this requirements file the same one that we had before. So it creates the remote. You can see the requirements file contents are here again it's Pulp installer and Ansible POSIX these are the collections that we wanted to sync. But we haven't actually synced anything yet. So we'll come back to that in a second. What we need to do next is create what's called a distribution and a distribution is what makes a repository available at a particular URL. And the URL is called the base path. And it's foo and you'll see this a little bit later when we actually look at the contents after we sync them in this repository. So just to go through this command, it says Pulp that's the CLI Ansible distribution that's the thing that we're going to create. We're going to call it my distro it's just the name. And we're going to associate that distro with the repository my repo and this is what we made a few steps earlier up here. So let's go ahead and do that. And it created the distribution so that's great. And at this point, we can you can actually see the distribution. And if you look at this URL, the thing I need to tell you is that there is a bug in this particular version, which if there is no content it gives you this error. And so when we fix that by you will be able to see the content. But there's nothing in it so it's not really that interesting to see what we are going to do is put some content into it now. And we will do this by telling the repository to sync. And we will say, sync the repository my repo with the remote basic. Let's do that. Asir what's my cutoff time. Perfect. Okay, perfect. That's great. Perfect. So we have performed that sync. If you can just let me know maybe three to five minutes before we're out of time that would be great. So we have just performed this sync again using we're thinking into the repository my repo we're thinking using the remote basic and this is what defines earlier what we want to sync. And now if we go back to this URL that wasn't working. We can see that it did indeed bring down those two collections and you can see their details here this is the Ansible POSIX collections is the pulp installer collection. And that's, that's a great thing. So, now kind of similar to what we did on with the user interface now that we've synced down some content into the container we want to be able to use the the Ansible Galaxy CLI to install that content. So the way to do this is to use the, what I like to do is use the list of distributions so remember a distribution is what it's poses content at a particular URL. And if you do this, you will see that there's this attribute on a called client URL. And this is the attribute that you want to give to your CLI that tells it how to talk to this particular repository so you have multiple repositories made available by one or more distributions and you hook your CLI is up to them. So this foo portion of the URL here this corresponds with the base path that we used earlier when we made the distribution right here. So if you have more distributions this is basically how you namespace them. So after determining where you want to what you want to connect your CLI to, for example with this client URL shown by distribution list, you probably want you can run this install command here directly. We're going to say Ansible Galaxy collection install. Use this dash s is a convenient way on the command line just to point it at this without having to deal with any config files dash p slash this is dot slash this is saying install it right here in this folder just makes it convenient for me. And we're going to we're going to actually install this the PULP installer. The same thing we did on the galaxy and G side this is just confusing Ansible Galaxy CLI with PULP Ansible directly. So one thing I do want to do here is remove my Ansible collections, because I want it gone because I'm going to attempt to reinstall it now so you can see it's gone. And perform the install. And it installed both PULP installer and the dependency Ansible positives, you can see them once again here. So this is how you can use a CLI to install content from your PULP Ansible container. You can also upload content so this is kind of similar to what we did with the galaxy and G side only now with PULP Ansible. Once again, you want to make sure that you know where you're uploading to the distribution list is a great way to see that and you want to have a tarball. So we're going to again use the new swine or D collection which I already have saved here. And again, this could be a collection that you've built yourself from your own code that you didn't feel comfortable publishing to galaxy dot Ansible.com. And you upload it with a command like this. So this says Ansible Galaxy collection publish and then where to publish it. Okay, here, you can see this has the dash, the food on the end of it. And then just the path to the collection that we're publishing. Now, perfect, perfect. Well, so with that, then I'm going to kind of breeze through the rest of this content without actually fully demoing it. All the commands are here, you can run through them as you wish but I think it's important that we kind of cover all the area. So you can upload content using the CLI. So it's great. Directly into pulp Ansible. But I think we should talk about role content role content is really important because it's the most part of the majority of content that's out there so all the same things that we just saw with roles you can do with collections you can do with roles to and I want to point out that if you look on it doesn't have a requirements file. And so when you make a remote you actually give it you actually give it a URL. See this command pulp Ansible remote dash t roll that says I'm going to make a remote to sync roles and dash dash URL and this single thing has a lot of information in it is the thing I really need to tell you. So if you go to galaxy danceable.com. You can give you could literally give it this URL, and it would literally mirror all 2666 pages worth of roles, or you can give it these argument parameters and restrict more closely what you would like to sync. So play around with the API that's available here to determine what you would like to sync and then give that command to give that command to the remote in pulp Ansible and it will sync it and you can use this actually mirror all a galaxy if you want to. Similarly, you can upload. No, you can actually the CLI itself doesn't support upload so that's why we don't support that but you can install content from pulp Ansible role content that is, you can also hook a sale have to a permanently. The last thing to last two things I want to say, there's all these docs on copying collections and roles in between repositories and this is a great way to create automated workflows to organize your content. You can use this, but these are the calls that you would make. And the last thing I want to say is, if you'd like any help with this, please reach out to these mailing lists, where you can come visit pulp on a free node, and come file bugs and ask questions or goals to make this as easy as possible. So, also if you have any feedback for me, you can email me here.


The abducted student of King's School, otherwise known as Capro Second Demetian School, located at Ganarrop in Barkinladi, local government area of Plato State, has regained freedom. Ganmenhardt, in the early hours of April the 29th, kidnapped the students in Capro, which is few kilometers away from the Jakubu Goan Airport, and about 60 kilometers from Jost, the state capital. However, three of the students escaped while one remained in captivity. But in a statement issued on Sunday, the spokesman of the Operation Save Haven, Major Ibrahim Sheeto, said troops rescued the Romanian students in captivity on Saturday.


The Vice President of Finance and Investments, Nigeria Baptist Convention, Dikin Byodun Oluyede, members of the Baptist family present, and dear brothers and sisters in Christ, honored guests, ladies and gentlemen, I am deeply honored to be here to join you in the joy of this historical event, the 108th Convention of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, appropriately themed, moving forward, moving forward, and finish the race with joy, and also the celebration of the end of the tenure of our beloved Reverend Dr. Shupo Aiyakume as the national president of the Nigerian Baptist Convention.  The end of his tenure is a celebration because as scripture says, the end of a thing is better than the beginning, and that is so for two reasons, first because of the joy of victory and finishing strong, and second, God always leaves the best wine until the last. Reverend Shupo Aiyakume has experienced both, he is living at the end of an incredibly successful and fruitful tenure, he is living with his reputation omblemished, he is living at a point where he is also one of the most respected leaders of the Christian faith in Nigeria, and they are more victories ahead. So I join the members of the Baptist family in Nigeria and worldwide, and all the children of God to congratulate this man of exceptional character, a man of great wisdom, great achievement, a man of great achievement, or even greater humility. We are all exceedingly proud of you sir, and we thank God for giving you the opportunity for this exceptional service. But as we celebrate today, we are also reminded that the glory does not come without the groaning, and he has said so in so many words here today, that this Reverend Shupo Aiyakume that we know now is not the same man whom God opened, to whom God opened an effective door to ministry 29 years ago as pastor of the estate Baptist church in Ibadon. Indeed as Paul said in the scripture which I just paraphrased, 1 Corinthians 16,9, for a great and effective door has been opened to me and there are many adversaries. The opening of the door of greatness is also an invitation to adversaries in the life of an individual, a community for that matter nation. So it is that the fulfillment of the promises of God must come with battles and with travail. Indeed, as another scripture says, we must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God. So from the very humble days leading the small flock in Ibadon, to the headship of the Baptist Convention, superintending over the affairs of over 13,000 churches and we are told almost 18 million members, and then suddenly being propelled to the rocky and difficult intersection between politics and religion as the sixth president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, the umbrella body. The umbrella body for millions of Nigerian Christians. The man that we celebrate today has seen it all, adversity, tribulation, enemies from within and without, the days of criticism, fair and unfair, of battles, spiritual and physical, long nights of prevailing in the place of prayer. And the many times when he could have said, I've had enough.  It is, it is leaders. It must be a parable not just to our nation, but to our nation's leaders. And leaders, I mean leaders not just political, but religious and social and the people of our country, that there is a promise of God that this nation, this nation Nigeria will prosper, that this nation will be the epicenter of the outstanding economic and scientific developments of the 21st century that we will create here in this country an oasis of peace, prosperity and security, such as has never been seen before on this continent and beyond. This is the promise of God. But today the clouds are overcast. The promise seems impossible. As it was with the children of Israel after leaving Egypt on the way to the promised land, suddenly in front of them was a red sea. In hot pursuit behind them was Pharaoh and his warriors. The bulgo recounts and our paraphrase Exodus 14, 10 to 14. When Pharaoh Junior, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes and they beheld the Egyptians who marched after them. So they were very afraid. And the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. Then they said to Moses, is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why did you bring us out of Egypt? Did we not tell you to leave us in Egypt so that we may sell the Egyptians? For it would have been better for us to sell the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness. Again, we see in scripture how in the battle with the Philistines, a giant rose up and challenged the children of Israel, a giant called Goliath. Everyone, even the leaders, the religious leaders, panicked. The political leaders panicked. The scripture says at first time on 1724, it says, and all the men of Israel, all, when they saw Goliath, they fled from him. And they were dreadfully afraid. Even the king was afraid. But God was not. God gave Saul, King Saul, a young shepherd boy. David with godly courage, who killed Goliath. So for God, he can deliver by many or by few or with nothing at all. Nothing surprises him. Nothing can cause him to be afraid. The journey to the promise of God for Nigeria is going through storms and adversity. But the end will be better than the beginning. Whipping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning. And I am completely convinced that nobody, no group, no ideology, can defeat the promise of God for the greatness of Nigeria. I see it clearly, I know it, even as I know my own face. I see it clearly, and I know it. So I urge you, men and women of God, not to allow the adversities of the moment to shape either your utterances or your perception. We must not sound like the children of Israel, fearful before Goliath, petrified and complaining at the Red Sea as Pharaoh and his hostile hosts approached. We are the light of the world. We are the voice of God in a confused and discouraged world. We must speak the things that God has promised, as though they are, because they will come to pass. The clouds cannot deny the existence of the sun. They may cover it for a while, but they must give way to the glory of brightness of the sunshine. As Moses said to the frightened children of Israel, and Father and the Lord had mentioned this too, in Exodus 14, 13, we must say to the Nigerian people, do not be afraid, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever. The Lord will fight for us, and we will hold our peace. Amen. Sir, my dear Igmo, I thank the Lord for your life and your contributions to the Baptist movement and the cause of Christ in our nation. I also commend the remarkable hard work, patience, and resourcefulness of the person who God has given you to make His plans come true in your life.  Son of God, you know that God does not really believe in retirement. God doesn't really believe in retirement. He gave Abraham a fresh mandate at 99. And because you are still so far away from 99, it seems to me that you have only just started your journey. Because in any event, it is God who gives strength and enablement as He pleases. So I pray for you that the next phase of your service will be even more impactful than the previous, and that you will finish your race with joy in Jesus' name. Happy and blessed convention to you all. God bless you.


Welcome back after break. Just before we went for our break, we were looking at the primary way that God speaks to us through one is His word. And we saw how God speaks to us through His word. He speaks to us through the instruction in His word, through a quickening in God's word. So the important thing is that, you know, when you are making important decisions in life, any decision, you know, even small decisions can matter, can be very, very important. It's important for us to read God's word, meditate on God's word, dwell on God's word and see what God is telling us, leading us and guiding us to do. Okay.  So, since all of you like stories and like to read, I'm sure you would read this, but please don't read it when I'm teaching now, please listen to the lecture. You can always, you know, you have the publication with you, the soft copy or the hard copy, you can always take time to read it. It's just a quick reading. It'll just also help you to know, you know, and discern how God leads us through scripture. So I'm not going to, there are many examples that Pastor Ashish has shared in this book that he's written from his own life story and a live example. I'm not going to share it all because of the lack of time. I will have to finish this book and another huge publication that we have to finish. So I'm not going to look at all the examples and since all of you like to read stories and are very interested about what how God has ministered to various people, their testimonies, I'm sure you will take the time to read. So I'm leaving that to you to read. So we move on. The third way that God speaks to us to scripture is through the word preached.  So when you are in a place where God's word is being preached, you can listen to sermon and you can feel that sermon is exactly just speaking to you to your situation and what you're going through in life. And it can also be that there are so many people there in that room, you know, or the hall and, you know, God can be speaking to just that one sermon he can speak to multiple people at the same time and only God can do something like this. So God can use his word, this written word that is preached to bring about counsel in so many different people's lives in so many different matters in areas of their life. Okay, so sometimes even when you hear multiple sermons, different preachers over, you know, a couple of weeks or months, you can say, you know, you can just feel that God is speaking to you through each of that sermon. You know, he's talking about your situation and what he wants you to do. So even as you receive it from God, you know, just believe on it, act on it, God is guiding you, he's leading you, and it's your time to listen, even as you're seeking or listening and then you need to obey what God is asking you to do. I remember that, you know, when I had to go to Bible College, God was asking me to go to Bible College and, you know, in the full time ministry and that was not something I wanted to do. That's something that I actually taught or envisioned for myself, and it was a big question mark and I had a lot of doubts and I was very burdened. And I remember going to church and I was just saying, God, please speak to me.  And I remember telling God, you know, I like to do something secular, but I can always serve you at the free time that I have. And God was telling me directly, you know, you have to choose, you can't serve two masters at the same time. And that came like a rena word from that preacher. I remember the preacher's name as well. The picture is very, very clear in my mind, you know, and I made a decision that day that God, I would choose, you know, you and I would choose to obey what you are calling me to do. So it was, that's when I made a decision when the word was being preached. So God can use the word that is preached to, you know, minister to us in our situations, but it's our decision and our choice, what we want to do and how we turn around and obey the Lord. The fourth thing is through the inner voice that is a voice of our conscience. Now we are tri-part beings, we are pre-part beings, we are made up of body, soul and spirit. And us, just like our body, you know, can see, hear, speak and feel. The same way our spirit man has these faculties. Our spirit man can also hear, see, speak and feel. So in our spirit we can see, we can feel, we can speak, we can hear from God.  And our conscience is our spirit speaking to us. Our conscience is the voice of our human spirit. Let's just look at three scripture passes. One is Job chapter 32 verse 8. Can somebody read that please? And someone else can read Psalm 51 verse 6. And someone else can read Proverbs chapter 20 verse 27. Job chapter 32 verse 8, but there is a spirit in man and breath of Almighty gives him understanding. Thank you. So when it's here, it says that, you know, God speaks to the spirit man. He breathes upon the spirit man, breathes means God inspires, he releases, he reveals things there in our spirit man. And when he releases things in our spirit man, it gives us understanding. So what we receive in our spirit man is then, you know, sent to our mind. So our mind is basically our processor with processes, everything that we receive from the spirit world in our spirit man and also from the natural world through our body. Okay. Psalm 51 verse 6, please. Can somebody read that? Behold your desired truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part, you will make me to know wisdom. Amen. Thank you, Sonia. So here the hidden part is actually a spirit man. So God desires truth in our spirit man, in our inward part, in our hidden part. And where does he make his wisdom known? He makes his wisdom known. He gives us understanding and wisdom in our inward parts or in our hidden part. And that is the spirit man. Okay. So it's in our spirit that God speaks to us, reveals things to us, gives us wisdom and understanding. Proverbs chapter 20 verse 27. The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord searching all the inner depths of his heart. So, Amen. Thank you. So it says here that the spirit of man is a lamp. Now what does a lamp do? What does a torch light do? A ray of light do? It actually helps us when we are searching for something, when we're looking for something. Light also guides us in the right step, the right path that we need to go. So it says here the spirit of a man actually searches that man and guides that man in what he needs to go or where he or she needs to go. Okay. So our conscience is our own spirit speaking to us. It's the voice of our human spirit of what God is speaking to us in our spirit man. Okay. Our conscience bears witness or speaks aligned to what has been written on our hearts. Okay.   And the word of God comes quickly into your mind and hey, the word of God tells me to do this. I have to do this. So the word of God says I need to obey him or I need to follow in the spot. I need to do. So, you know, Hebrews chapter eight was 10 and 11 says that part of the new covenant.  I will write my word upon your heart and your mind and each one will know the Lord. Okay. So our conscience bears witness or speaks aligned to what has been written on our heart and mind. Now, if in our heart and mind, the things of the world has been written, maybe the knowledge of the world, the literature of the world, the logic of the world, the philosophies of the world has been written. Or we're just, you know, living according to the standards of the world, watching a lot of movie, you know, hearing from our friends. That is what is our conscience is going to respond to. Our spirit man is going to respond to when we are making decisions in various stages of our life. But if in our conscience or in our spirit man, the word of God is written on our heart and mind, then we are quick to listen to what and know what the word of God is telling us and we will obey and we will do as is written in the word of God. I hope you're able to understand what I'm saying. Okay. And then when, when we God's word or his law is written on our heart and mind, that is why it says we need to meditate on God's word.  We can trust our conscience because we know our conscience is speaking aligned to God's word. Because you're feeding your heart and mind with God's word and it's according to what God has written in his word. Okay. But if you're listening to conscience that is not pure, not holy to the things of the world, then your conscience does not become a reliable guide. Okay. So when you know when you're doing something wrong, when your conscience pricks you, you know, this is not what God wants me to do, say or act or this is not what is according to his word. And then you will do what is according to his word and you will do what is right. Okay. The last thing is we need to rightly divide the word of God as we read in 2 Timothy chapter 2 verse 15 where Paul is writing to young Timothy and is telling him be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. So how do we handle God's word? We rightly need to divide God's word, which means we need to understand God's word, interpret, you know, God's word in the light of the rest of scripture and what he has mentioned in that specific context. So if we misinterpret God's word, we will misapply God's word in our life and then we will see that everything seems to be going wrong in our life. So that is why it's important for us to have a correct understanding of God's word, which will not lead to misinterpretation or misapplication. But when we have a right interpretation of God's word, it will help us to understand and will also not lead us to strange or wrong doctrines, but will be able to lead us in the right way and we will make the right decisions. And hence it is important for us, like I said in the beginning, to understand the whole counsel of God, which means understand the scripture's entirety in its whole context, know the entire scripture, read the entire scripture.  Okay. Before the end of this chapter, an important note is we don't misuse scripture so you don't, you know, you want to make a decision. You just don't say, okay, God, you know, open my eyes to the right passage, right? So whichever my eyes, whenever my eyes fall in, when I open, this is my Bible, I'm just opening it and I'm just reading it. Whatever is written there, you know, is the answer for my problem. We can't do this. This is not magic. You know, this is not something that we do as, you know, magicians. God's word, we don't handle that God's word that way. But what we need to do or we don't play with God's word this way, but we need to read scripture, meditate on it the entirety and ask God to reveal and show us what he's asking us to do. The other thing also we don't do is, you know, we don't misinterpret scripture to satisfy our own selfish interests and wants and needs and twist it and turn it so that we can apply to us in our context and we feel very happy. That's when we end up in all wrong doctrines, wrong decisions and we blame God and say, God, you know, you told me from your word, this, this, this. And now, you know, I'm facing all these wrong decisions and we get angry. We go away from God. Well, God is not to be blamed. It's because we didn't look at scripture and interpret it in the right way. It had to be done. Okay. So that is chapter three for us. The primary way that God leads us is to scripture and how he leads us. Anyone has any questions? Chapter three. Okay. If there are no questions in chapter three, we'll move on to chapter four. Okay. I said two primary way God leads us. One is through his word. The second one is through the Holy Spirit. So chapter four is about the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. You know, Jesus, when he was going back to the Father, he told his disciples he will send us another helper and that helper is the Holy Spirit. John chapter 14 verse 16 and the Holy Spirit leads us and guides us. So can somebody please read John chapter 16 verses 13 and 14 please for us. John chapter 16 verses 13 and 14. However, when he, the spirit of truth has come, he will guide you into all truth or he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will tell you things to come. He will glorify me for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. Amen. Thank you, Samjay. So notice that Jesus said he will speak. The Holy Spirit will speak to you. So does the Holy Spirit speak? Yes, Jesus says here that he will speak to you. So the Holy Spirit does speak to you and I, but we need to learn to listen to the Holy Spirit. Okay. And Jesus also says in this passage that the Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth. Okay. Guide you means he will lead you. He will show you the way into all truth. Not only the truth concerning the things of God in scripture, but all that concerns God's truth for your life. So how do you live out that truth in your life? He will guide you into all of what you need to live and how you need to live your life. Okay. And this passage of scripture that was read to us, we also see that Jesus says that he will take from him. And, you know, or he'll take what I am speaking and speak it to you. So can you imagine that you and I actually have a hotline to heaven? We have a hotline to heaven, which means, you know, Jesus will take, sorry, the Holy Spirit will take what Jesus is speaking and he will speak it to us. So he will reveal it to us. He will make it known to us. So the Holy Spirit will do that for each one of us. And he will also show us things to come, which means he will show us things that are to come ahead of time.  What is going to happen five years down the line, what is happening 10 years down the line, you know, or two years or one year so that we can prepare ourselves for that. And that is so wonderful. Yes, get through.  Yes, sister. I just wanted to ask now, because in the Olden Testament, David, he inquired of the Lord. But now in New Testament, do we need to inquire because we have the Holy Spirit given to us? Yes, we still need to inquire. We still need to ask. And when that is why we said that, you know, God is the first chapter, God is willing to guide us. But we need to seek. We need to listen and we need to obey. So God is willing to reveal things, but we need to ask why does God want us to ask why does he now just reveal and just give us a download when we're going through a problem and situation because God has given us the free moral will to choose. Okay, we can choose. We can either choose to listen to man, our own voice, what we can what we think we can do, or we can listen to God.  And so when we come to him and ask, he does reveal it to us. Yes. Thank you, sister. Yeah.  And Jesus said that the Holy Spirit will show you things to come. He will do that for you. So all we need to do is to open our hearts and say God, or we need to just say Jesus, you know, I want to experience this. I want to experience, you know, how you reveal things, how I can walk in it, how you can reveal things about my future. I just want to experience this.  You know, just I'm opening my heart and mind to receive it. Look at what first Corinthians chapter two, versus nine to 16 says, can somebody read that please. First Corinthians to 960. But as it is written, I has not seen no your heart nor have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love him. But God has revealed them to us through his spirit for the spirit searches all things. Yes, the deep things of God. Yeah, you can go ahead. Till was 16. For what man knows the things of man except the spirit of man, which is in him, even so no one knows the things of God, except the spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but to wish the Holy Spirit teacher, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, nor can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. But he who spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one for who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ. Amen. Thank you sister get through it. So there are these wonderful things that God has prepared for you and me as believers and as also as individuals, and there are wonderful things that God has prepared. It's already planned. He's already planned these things ahead of time. But now, you know, how are you and I going to get to know these things that God has prepared for us. So in verse 10 he says, but God has revealed them to us through his spirit, for the spirit searches all things. He has the deep things of God.  And that, you know, there is no point in that. But he says that he has revealed them to us by his spirit. So the Holy Spirit wants to come and reveal these things to you and me. And, you know, verse 11 he says, you know, for who has known the things of man except the spirit of man, the spirit of God. Now we have not a spirit of the world, but the spirit was that is from God that we might know the things that has been given to us freely by God. So what Paul is saying is, is the Holy Spirit who knows all these things, and the Holy Spirit has been given to us for what purpose is the Holy Spirit has been given to us for a purpose that we can know the things that have been freely given to us by God. So does God want you to know the things he's really given to you and me? Yes, he does. And the Holy Spirit has been given to us so that you and I can know the things that has been freely given to us because God wants us to know. So you don't have to go and ask somebody else. The Holy Spirit is in you. He's going to talk to you. He's going to reveal it to you. He's going to let you know the things that you know has been freely given to you by God. Okay. So what's his 13 and 14 we see that, you know, says when these things, these things we also speak not in words with man's wisdom, teachers, but with the Holy Spirit teachers, comparing spiritual things with spiritual or the natural man does not perceive the things of the spirit of God for their foolishness unto him. Now, can he know them because they are spiritually discerned. So when we talk about these things, the natural man finds it hard to understand. Okay. So what do we learn from it? We don't look at things from the natural mind because it says these things need to be spiritually discerned, which means we require the wisdom and the spiritual understanding to discern these things to understand these things. So we need to look at them with the natural mind. Okay. And then he says in what goes on to talk about versus 15 and 16. He says, but who, but who he was, sorry, versus 15 and 16 says, but he was spiritual judges, all things yet he himself is rightly judged by no one who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ. So in this whole process, because the Holy Spirit is revealing things to you, the end result is that you and I have the mind of Christ. That means we know what God is saying. We know what he is thinking because we receive his mind and his mind has been given to us or revealed to us by the Holy Spirit. So as a believer, you can know the mind of Christ. You know, we can know God's thoughts. We can receive his ideas. We can understand his plans. We can understand his ways. Why? Because we have the mind of Christ. So we need to say this often to ourselves. We can need to reiterate this often to ourselves. We need to tell ourselves, you know, because I have the mind of Christ, I know the thoughts of God. I can receive his ideas. I can understand his plans. I can understand his ways because I have the mind of Christ. So keep saying this to yourself, you know, I know the thoughts of God. I receive his ideas. I understand his plans. I understand his ways because I have the mind of Christ. Okay. Now, when you're about to make a decision, you know, and you need to know what to do. You can go back to God's Word because God's Word is the truth and the Holy Spirit will also reveal the mind of Christ to you and to me. So in this whole process of the Holy Spirit speaking to us, there are several ways in which he would speak to us. So there's several ways in which the Holy Spirit will speak to us. He will speak to us to the inner witness or to the voice of the Holy Spirit. So let's look at the different ways that the Holy Spirit will speak to us. The first one is to the inner witness and the voice of the Holy Spirit. Let's look at Romans chapter 8 verses 14 and 16. So can somebody please read Romans chapter 8 verses 14 and 16, please. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God, for you did not receive the Spirit of bondage again to fear, but you receive the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father. The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. So it says here as many as are led by the Spirit, they are the sons of God, or you can say it like this, every child of God, every son and daughter of God has the privilege of being led by the Holy Spirit. So you can ask yourself who is leading me, or what is driving me, or what is motivating me.  And then in verse 15 he says, you know, we have received the Spirit of adoption. So the Holy Spirit is a spirit of adoption, which means how do we know that we are the children of God. It's because what is mentioned in verse 16, it says the Holy Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. So how do you know that you are a son or daughter of God?  You know, did you get a heavenly birth certificate? No, you did not get a heavenly birth certificate.  Because what the verse 16 says, the Holy Spirit bears, which means the Holy Spirit testifies, the Holy Spirit affirms. He's giving us the assurance. He's giving us a confirmation inside us. And, you know, and we read this in the scripture and says, you know, that we are the children of God. So from this passage, we understand that the inner witness of the Holy Spirit confirms and leads us. Or the Holy Spirit by his inner witness confirms and leads us in the way that we need to go. So what is this inner witness? This inner witness is actually an inner conviction. It's an inner knowing. It's an inner assurance that the Holy Spirit places inside of us. It can come through an impression. It can come through feelings. It can come through sensations that the Holy Spirit puts in us. And it's an inner witness, something in your spirit that you sense that comes from the Holy Spirit.   So it's, it just comes into a spirit man to the Holy Spirit and he's bearing witness in your spirit. He's giving you that conviction, that confirmation, the assurance by giving you an impression.  So to help us understand the inner witness of the Holy Spirit, there are eight common ways by which you can, you and I can receive the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. So just to help us understand the inner witness, the Holy Spirit, there are eight ways that are listed here. You know, the first one is to the quickening of scripture. The second one is the assurance within. The third one is the desire within. The fourth is the knowing within. The fifth is the prompting within. The sixth is the stirring within. The seventh is the foreknowledge within and the eighth one is the warning within us. So we look at each of these in detail to help us understand how the Holy Spirit bears inner witness in our spirit man. The first one is the quickening of scripture. I'm not going to explain this because I just explained this in the previous lesson just before we went for our break. So, you know, the different ways the Holy Spirit quickens us to scripture.  You know, so the Holy Spirit can, you know, quicken scripture to us. The second way is it can come through an assurance within. It can come through an assurance within, a desire within, you know, or it's a knowing within or it's a prompting or, you know, different ways that the Holy Spirit can minister to us. And we need to be aware of these things and we need to pay attention, know and also have a sensitive heart. You know, being a heart that is sensitive to the spirit being sensitive to what the Lord is speaking to us, what God is putting in our spirit man. And then when we begin to pick up this inner witness, you know, then we are led by the Holy Spirit. Okay. If we have receiving no witness in our spirit man, that means the Holy Spirit is not speaking to us. Maybe we need to continue with what he's asking us to do or he's revealed to us already till he reveals to us the next step. Okay. So the first way that we know the Holy Spirit bears inner witness is through the quickening of scripture that we already saw. The second one is with the assurance within and this assurance within comes through the peace of God. It's primarily the peace of God.  You know, so it's just a signal that gives us that we can, you know, we can go ahead. So the peace of God, you know, works in us in several multiple purposes. We see this in Philippians chapter 4 verse 6 and 7. Can somebody read that please? Philippians chapter 4 verses 6 and 7. Amen. Thank you. So here we see that, you know, God's peace protects our hearts and our minds. So once you're going through something, you've released your cares to Lord, the peace of God guards your heart and mind.  But the peace of God can also serve another very important purpose in our lives. And we read about this in Colossians chapter 3 verse 15. Can somebody read that please? And let peace of God rule in your hearts to which also you were called in one body and be thankful. It says that the peace of God rule in your hearts. The word rule here in Greek means to be an empire. Okay. Basically, it means to decide to determine to direct to control and to govern. So this peace of God in your heart serves to guide you. It serves to, you know, to direct you to control your action. It means if there is a peace of God, it's the peace of God is like an empire. It's like a deciding factor in your heart.   It's telling you, hey, go ahead, can do it, you know, engage in that, start that, okay, go to that place, speak to that person.  This is not the right thing. This is not the right door. This is not what I have planned for you. Okay. So the Bible says that peace, joy are the fruits of the spirit. So if there is peace, the Holy Spirit is releasing that peace in your heart, you know, that the presence of peace is like the green signal. You can go ahead, you know, you can do what God is asking you to do. The presence of peace and joy is like the green signal is asking you to go ahead. But if you feel restless, disturbed, uneasy, and there's absence of peace about the thing that you're going to do, then it's like the red signal that's telling you don't do it. Okay. Now the third way that God leads us is through the desire within. Okay. Let's read Psalm chapter 37 verse four, please. Can somebody read Psalm 37 verse four. Delight yourself also in the Lord and He shall give you the desires of your art. Amen. Thank you, Lucy. It says the word give here in the Hebrew is very interesting because it's a very broad word and one part of that word, you know, the meaning of that word means, you know, He will put. Okay. Or He will form or He will create in you. So He will put it in you. So when you delight yourself in the Lord, He will put those desires in your heart. And it also means that He will bring it to you. So not only does He put those desires in you, but He will also bring those desires to you. That means He will give you the desires. So the point here, and I want you to understand is that as God's people, when we live in this posture on the way of delighting ourselves in God, then the desires that are created in your heart are actually put there by God.  You know, you don't have to wonder, hey, am I doing the right thing? Is this what God wants me to do? Is it right?  Son, but if you're somebody also who's in that right posture where saying, God, I wanted to delight myself in you, then, you know, the desires that are created in your heart automatically, you know, is being put there by God. Because we looked at this Hebrew word, which, give, which means part of it means that God will put it in you. He'll form it new. He will create in you. It also means that He will bring it to you. Okay. So when you delight yourself in the Lord in the right posture, then, you know, the desires are put there by God. You don't have to be afraid of those desires or what comes up in your spirit. You know, and when I'm talking about desires, I'm not talking about emotions. You know, your emotions could desire some things.  You know, your emotions can desire for good food, for rich food and all of that. But I'm not talking about that kind of desire, but I'm talking about what is in your spirit, that when you delight yourself in God, the desires that are birthed in your spirit are actually put there by God. Okay. So look at how the scripture in Proverbs chapter 10 verse 24 says, can somebody read that, please? Proverbs chapter 10 verse 24. Word of the vacant will come upon him. Yes, it says that the fear of the wicked will come upon him and the desires of the righteous will be granted. Okay. Why does God tell us so surely that the desires of the righteous will be granted because he knows that you delight yourself in the Lord and those desires in your heart have been put there by God and it will be granted because it has been put there by God himself. Can somebody please read John chapter 15 verse 7, please? If you abide in me and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire and it shall be done for you. Amen. Thank you. So it says, you know, you ask what you desire and be given to you. So here there's a precondition. What is the precondition that your desires would be given to you? Abide in God's word. Yes. You need to abide in him and his words abide in you.  He will, he will grant it to you. So here's the thing. As you and I abide in God, the Holy Spirit birds those desires inside you and you just go with it. Okay. So that is about desires. I'll just give you an example. You know, for my own life, you know, when I was very young, I didn't know I'll be in full time ministry, but you know, I love teaching. So even when I was in school during summer holidays, you know, I like to conduct VBS at home for my other two siblings, you know, my older sister and my younger sister. So I would invite them for VBS that I would conduct for them at home. We had one at church, but this is what I would like to do at home. So I would, you know, get a room cleaned up and I would arrange everything. I would tell them I would give them good snacks to eat. And I also go to the pastor and I would, you know, get the scripture references on on those topics and I would prepare those topics and I would ask them to come and teach. And I would do all of these things with great enthusiasm, just as a child. And I never realized that, you know, for the rest of my life, this is what I will be doing in children's ministry, you know, conducting VBS and programs and, you know, writing curriculums for children. And so you see, this is a desire that was there within. It was birthed by God and I can just, you know, see God doing that, you know, so many years later of my life and pastor has also given a couple of examples. So, you know, you can read that and you can understand how to know the desires within. So I want to encourage, you know, us as believers that desires that are birthed in you, you know, that are birthed by the Holy Spirit, by God to do things for the kingdom of God and for the purpose of God and for the glory of God. And they are put there by the Holy Spirit to stir up those desires in your heart that are there, you know, that are in you to do things for the kingdom of God for his purpose and for his glory. That has been put there by the Holy Spirit. So it's the inner witness of the Holy Spirit that is leading you by creating those desires in your heart. Okay. So the next way that we can receive the inner witness, the Holy Spirit, the fourth way is a knowing within. Okay. You just know within your heart. Can somebody read Acts chapter seven versus 23 and 24, please. Now, when he was 40 years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren, the children of Israel, and seeing one of them suffer wrong. He defended and avenged him who was oppressed and stuck down the Egyptian for he supports that his brethren would have understood that God would deliver them by his hand, but they did not understand. Amen. Thank you. So here is something that, you know, we can recognize 40 years before Moses saw the burning bush, he had already understood the call of God on his life. So many of many people think that Moses received the call when he was, you know, standing there the burning bush. That's not true. But it says in scripture that 40 years before the burning bush, Moses understood the call of God. How did he understand the call of God? It says very plainly here that was read to us. It came into his heart. It just came into his heart and he understood that God was going to raise him up to deliver the people. So he understood his calling. How did he understood his calling? It just came into his heart. It was a knowing inside him. So the burning bush was just a wake up for him. It was that God telling him, Hey, Moses, I told you 40 years ago, you've forgotten. So, you know, the Holy Spirit to the inner witness creates a knowing inside you. You just know and it comes into your heart by the inner witness, the Holy Spirit of the plans, the purposes, the directions that God wants you to take. Okay. So I see something as significant as Moses, you know, how his life assignment first came through him, not through angels, not through prophetic word, not through dreams, not even to the burning bush. It just simply came by a knowing inside. And that is how the Holy Spirit creates that in you and me. Okay. So if you want to know more about a knowing within, you know, you can just read a couple of two of pastors examples that he's given. Even for me, how did I know that God wanted me to go to Bible college is, you know, when I was praying, God called me and I just knew that this is God's voice. This is, I just knew clearly, I had no doubts, no questions, whether it's God speaking to me. And I just knew in my heart that God, yes, God wants me to go to Bible college. He is leading me to Bible college. And that is what, you know, a stand that I took for myself in life also knowing within, you know, I wanted to work with drug addicts and alcoholics, you know, counseling them. But God led me in various stages of my life to do children's ministry. And I just suddenly knew inside me that it is not working with drug addicts and alcoholics. It's not counseling them, but it is working with children. So through different, of course, different events that God orchestrated, I just, you know, had this knowing inside. And I just followed what God was asking me to do. Okay, we'll stop here. We'll continue with the rest of them in the next class. Anyone has any questions? If you read pastors examples, life examples, they're more elaborate will help you to it. Understand. We look at 5678 next class and you'll be able to understand how the Holy Spirit best witness in our spirit man. Any questions? Anyone please? No questions. Okay, if there are no questions, we'll end class. Thank you everyone for joining class today. I hope you learned something. Please put into practice what we've been learning. Even as we study this publications have a wonderful restful refreshing weekend and I will see you next week. Thank you everyone.