Yes, so let's begin. We left a question unanswered, which is, can we know God's will all the time? And I think know was what most of you said. We cannot know God's will all the time. Let's look at a prayer in collosions. The collosions is a letter or an epistle written by Apostle Paul to the collusion church. So collosions chapter 1 verses 9 and 10, if someone could read it. For this reason we also, since the day we hear it, do not cease to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his build in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. That you may walk worthy of the Lord, full pleasing him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Okay, great. So keep the mic with you, Diksha. So here Paul is telling the collosions to pray that the collosions will know the will of God in all things. Okay, so that they can walk worthy or they can have a life which is worthy of God. So if it is not possible for the believers to know the will of God, then why is Paul asking them to pray that they should know the will of God? So it is possible for us to know the will of God in all matters. But in reality may be certain areas we struggle, but is it possible to know God's will? It is very much possible. Now you may ask the question, how can we find out or from whom can we find out what God has in his mind? So let's read one more passage. This is 1 Corinthians 2 verse 9, 10, 16. But as it is written, I have not seen nor hear nor have entered into the heart of men 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, hears the deep things of God. Okay, 16. For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ. So we said that it is possible for us to know the will of God. And now what Paul wrote to the Corinthian churches, he said, no I have seen, no you have heard, meaning it's mysterious. The good plans that God has for us. It's mysterious because nobody has seen, nobody has heard. But you know what he says that if you go on verse 10, he says, but by the spirit. Verse 10, can you read again, Diksha? But God has revealed them to us through his spirit. For the spirit searches all things, hears the deep things of God. Okay, so these are mysterious things, the will of God. But God has revealed them to us through the spirit. Because the spirit knows verse 16, what does it say? 16. For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him, but we have the mind of Christ. Okay, so as you come to verse 16, Paul is saying, how can we know what God is thinking? We only know what we are thinking, isn't it? Whether we are thinking about tea or we are thinking about lunch. Only God knows and we know what we are thinking about right now. But who is the other person who can know that? Nobody. In the same way, for us to know what God is thinking, spirit searches all things.   He can. That's the point. We don't know God has all these wonderful plans for us. However, he has revealed them by the Holy Spirit because who knows the mind of God? The spirit of God knows the mind of God. So what is God thinking about my career? What is God thinking about my home? What is God thinking about the ministry? What is God thinking about what I need to do my assignment? God already knows. Holy Spirit knows and Holy Spirit can tell us or he can reveal to us what God's plan is regarding any matter. And that is why in verse 16 what does Paul say? He even says we have the mind of Christ. Meaning God's thinking, God's understanding. Meaning about not everything, obviously we won't know everything. We'll only know as much as is revealed to us by the word of God as much as is revealed by the spirit of God. So that much we can know and in that context he is saying we have the mind of God. Or in other words we can understand God's plans for our lives. So all of you were wrong because you all said no. But the answer is actually yes we can know the will of God for all matters. Everything that concerns us. Obviously it doesn't start with us because our understanding is limited. But Holy Spirit can reveal the mind of God who knows all things. So that is how it is and that is why we must understand what is the will of God. So based on the will of God then we pray. When we pray like that we are very confident because we already know that that's what God wants. So why will God say no? Obviously he'll say yes. So pray according to the revealed will of God. Where is God's will revealed? Where is it revealed? Yes, his word. So the word of God or the Bible is where God reveals his will. He reveals his purpose. So as I study and as I understand God's word what's happening? I am able to understand what is God thinking? What does God want? What is in God's heart? Okay, about various matters. And so praying becomes a little bit more easier because I know he wants that. Okay, I'll pray like that. I'll pray for that and it begins to happen. So the word of God is the revealed will of God. But in addition to that the Holy Spirit can also reveal to us. Now when the Holy Spirit reveals something to us it will not be opposite to what the word says. It will be in line with what the word already reveals to us. So then we get an understanding about God's will and we pray according to God's will. And then what happens? We have the confidence that he hears us. If God has heard our prayer it's like saying our prayer is actually answered because God even heard it. He has accepted it. So the answer will come. Pray according to the will of God. The next important thing here is pray with strong desire. I think I shared with all of us about the story of that pastor. What pastor? Yungi Cho and how he built or how he established his church. But in his testimony he shares about the strong desire that he carried for church planting. And he says something like how is a strong desire? Let's say we want to buy a mobile phone. We are thinking mobile. We are dreaming mobile. We are speaking about mobile. Because we have a strong desire. I need to get that phone that will help me or whatever. I am just giving you an example. Or what if you are going somewhere to visit on a vacation? You are always thinking hey I am going there. It will be a nice time with my family. It's in your mind. It's a strong desire for a time of rest. So we understand what a strong desire is. It's not like this pastor when he shares his testimony. He says when he wanted to plant the church he was eating, drinking, sleeping. Just that. That's what I want to see. That is the purpose of my life. The church. And I have to establish a strong church in this nation, in this city. So he was thinking about nothing else. Just that one thing. That is strong desire. But what if our desire is something like okay God if you want to give, you give. You don't want to give, don't give. We never do that. Then we have to buy something that we like. Isn't it? We do our best to actually get it. Because we like it so much. In the same way, when we come to believing prayer, our desire is important. We saw yesterday in the teaching about faith where Jesus says you will have what you desire. Or according to your desire. So our desire matters. And when we have a very strong desire, first of all it should be God's will. And then we must have a strong desire. Then what's happening? We are setting ourselves up for a successful or effective prayer. Which will receive an answer. But if our desire is not strong, and we have a very casual attitude. When we say revival for our nation. If it happens in my lifetime, it happens. If it doesn't happen, it doesn't. That's not a believing prayer. We need that passion. That passion, that strong desire. Which says God I know your word says this. I want to see it. Or make it happen. Let it happen. So that passion and that strong desire is a part of a prayer which is effective and successful. But we can have that. Confidently only when we know that something is God's will. So carry a strong desire. The next one is faith. And we've talked a lot about faith. How we must have an inner certainty. That it isn't God's will. God wants to do this for me. I have a strong desire for this. I have faith. God will do it. Okay, come on. Let's get into action, action mode. And let's start believing God. These things will take place. So praying with faith. And we have also seen how Jesus taught us to believe when we pray regarding something. So let us read one passage. Matthew 21 and verse 22. Can we pass the mic to someone different, please? Matthew 21 and verse 22. And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing you will receive. Jesus adore take questions. Okay. Whatever things you ask in prayer, you will receive. Is that correct? Okay, again I'll ask you. Whatever things you ask in prayer, you will receive. Should I mark you for your answers? Wrong. So whatever things you ask in prayer, you will receive. Is that correct sentence? Matthew 21 and verse 22. No. Why no? Something is missing. No. What is that? What is missing? Okay, we have it here. Again says believing, right? Believing. So that is the key. Whatever things you ask in prayer. What is the fill in the blanks? Believing you will receive. So it's when we believe that God is going to do this that it actually happens. We receive the answers. Faith must be a part of our prayer. And if we follow this process where we understand the will of God and then we ask our requests. Then of course, you know, we are in a place where we are able to believe God. We are able to trust him. And when we have faith, what will happen? We will receive. Okay. So believing is an other essential part of faith. We, there's so much more about faith that if we have faith, then we must not be passive or just say that I have faith and God will do it. God will do it, but we are active. Whatever God wants us to do, we are engaging in those matters. So when we say faith, faith is not passive. The faith is active. We must take action as well as declare and confess. We've talked about that. How to express the faith in our heart. If you have faith in your heart and you say to this mountain. So when we have faith, we must also declare or confess. So this is all regarding faith to have faith in our prayers. So whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive. So have faith when we pray. Then of course, continue with Thanksgiving. So I just want to remind us of this incident in Elijah's life. Prophet Elijah, you find in first Kings chapter 18 that God gives him a word. The prophets were the only people who used to hear from God back in the Old Testament. But today, all of us as believers, if we, you know, abaptize in the Holy Spirit, then we can flow in the gift of prophecy. However, going back to the Old Testament, it was only the prophets. And Prophet Elijah, he is one of those, you know, major prophets. When you read his life, you read all the miracles, the signs, the wonders. It amazes us that God can speak through a prophet in this way and work through a prophet in this mighty way. So God gave him a word. First Kings chapter 18. And in that passage, you find that he tells the king, it's going to rain. But when he gives the message and goes back, he notices there are no clouds. What would you do if you were the prophet? Everyone is looking up to you. You already announced, you know, it's on news channels, Instagram, Facebook, prophet so and so. They have already said it's going to rain. It's so hot. No clouds, no nothing. What would you do? Resign. Is that what a prophet should do? Thank God he knew something better. He knew that he could pray. So what Elijah did is, okay, fine. It doesn't look anywhere close to it's going to rain. So he starts to pray. And then we read about his prayer. He has a servant or, you know, those days the assistants who's to assist the prophets were also known as sons or servants. So he had another prophet with him. He said, okay, go look, go look, I'm praying. So when he is praying, he's asking to check. Why? Because he believes that God's word will happen. So he tells the servant, go look, go look. He goes and sees nothing. He comes back and says, sorry, nothing. Did he stop? No. He prays some more. Then he tells the servant, go look. So he does this seven times. After seven times when the servant comes back and he says, I can see something like a cloud coming up in like the fist of a man's hand. A cloud as big as that appearing in the sky. He says, okay, now time to leave this place because it's starting. And in the spirit, he says, I can hear the sound of abundance of rain. Not in the natural, but in the spiritual. He knew the rain is coming. So what would you do if you know that it's going to, you know, pour and you're outside somewhere, run home. That's what Elijah did. The rain had not yet started, but in the spirit, he knew his prayer was answered. So it's an example of a believing prayer. First is know the will of God. God already told him it's going to rain. In this case, it's a prophetic word. What does he do? He starts to pray. How does he pray with faith and with persistence? Another point here is persistence, persevere in prayer. Persevere simply means don't give up. So when he is convinced, he has a strong desire. Yeah, it's going to rain. I'm going to see the fulfillment of God's word. He doesn't stop just because there is no result.  God's word is not fulfilled. He knew the principle of praying persistently or again and again, go back to God. Don't give up. Pray to God. Ask him and seven times he prayed and then it actually happened. But also notice in his spirit or in his heart, he already knew that it's going to rain. So even that can happen to us when we are praying for something for, you know, in the right way. We know it's God's will. We have strong desire. We have faith. And we are regularly praying for those matters. Maybe at some point we sense it within us that God will do it. I don't have to worry. I've prayed so much. I know that God will do it. It's hard to explain how we know it, but we can be very, very confident. So same thing happens to Elijah. He already knows it's going to rain. So leave the place. Okay. And a similar experience can happen to us. Even Abraham, remember when we talked about the prayer of Thanksgiving, we said Abraham gave thanks to God or gave glory to God before he had the son. Why? Same experience like Elijah. He is praying. Abraham is praying. Abraham is waiting in faith somewhere inside him. He knows it's done. It's a done deal. So give thanks to God. Yes, God, I know my miracle is coming. You know, I know my answer is coming. I know my healing is coming. I know my deliverance is coming. Thank you because you've done it. Thank you that, you know, it is happening. So in a believing prayer, when we move on like this at some point, we have the assurance that God is going to do it. And we begin to give him thanks even before the answer actually comes. Okay. So this is about a believing prayer. Any questions regarding believing prayer? How to pray such a prayer and how to receive answers from God? Sister, I have a question. Yes. Yes, sister. Yeah, sometimes we pray and we ask things, but believing like we know that we are right with God according to us. And still the prayers are not answered and we're waiting for a long time. Then how do we know where we are wrong? Okay. So sister, it really depends on how we have prayed. Okay. And more than how long we have prayed, how have we prayed? And I've shared clear conscience, knowing the will of God, praying with faith. So all these things matter. So if there's anything that may have gone missing in our prayer, it could affect the outcome of the prayer. Okay. However, if all these things are fine and still you are not seeing the result, I would just suggest persistence. If you're sure that that is God's will and God has spoken. For how long I mean, could it be years? See, it really depends on each prayer, isn't it? It really depends on each prayer and God's promise regarding that prayer. So for some, yes, it could be years. For some, it could be a shorter time, months or weeks. But sister, I just want to know, maybe it is a no answer from God and we don't know. Could it be that? No answer from God. I mean, it is not according to God, but we still think it may happen and we keep praying. I'm not very clear, sister, could you kindly come again? I mean, we pray, but it has to be according to the will of God. But we may not, maybe it is not His will and we do not know that it is not His will. Yes. So what I'm sharing is, if we are following this process that I talked about in class, hopefully we knew that it was God's will and that's why we started praying in the first place, isn't it? Yeah, but sometimes you may not know, sister. So it's when we are convinced that something is in the will of God that we can continue to pray for it. And if such a thing doesn't come through, I think the best answer is to just wait and to ask for God's wisdom on whether there is any approach that may need to be changed. Okay, sister. Thank you. Yeah, sure. Thank you. Thank you so much. So in case, let's say we are not clear about the will of God and then we are not seeing the results. Okay, so in that situation, yes, maybe at some point we can understand that it's not God's will and pray for God's will. That's what Jesus did in the Garden of Gethsemane. We call it the prayer of consecration or the prayer of surrender when he was not sure. In his situation, he just prayed that prayer and said, okay, God, let this cup be taken away. But then he came back and surrendered his will to God's will and said that, okay, God, whatever you want, let that be done. So that is when we are unclear of God's will. But whenever we are clear of God's will, the right thing to do is to just wait and keep checking. Like what is missing in my prayer? Maybe I must build my faith to a stronger level and keep waiting on God because you're sure that it's God's will. Okay, I hope that is okay with you, sister Gethude. If you have follow-up questions, we could even maybe take it up outside of this class. Well, sister, the thing is, I am waiting on a prayer request for my daughter. Something which was wrong, that happened. And it was three and a half years, nothing is happening. We are waiting on it. So this is what my question was. Is it no from God or is it we have to still wait? Yeah, so the part where we need to clarify is if something is in the will of God or not. And for that, you can just pray and say, God, give me the wisdom, give me the clarity, help me understand. Is this the right thing that we are asking for or should we change something in the prayer? So when God gives us the clarity, we can pray accordingly. Okay, sister. Thank you. Okay, sure. Thank you. All right, there are some questions on the chat. I'll go to that. Okay, at times God's delays might not be God's denials. Okay, great. That's true. And Sanjay says, Proverbs 11, 14, where there is no council, the people fall, but in the multitude of counselors, there is safety. So Sanjay, are you saying at times like this, when we are confused, we can also depend on Godly council? Yes. Okay. So when we are confused, we can always ask someone who's in the Lord, who's strong in the Lord, and they can also guide us about what may be off in that prayer. Now, going to Daniel's question, why does, why God doesn't say no when we are not asking according to His will? Why God doesn't say no? Oh, okay. So why God doesn't say no when we are, when we are not asking according to His will? You mean Daniel that, why doesn't God stop us from continuing in that prayer? Is that your point? Because obviously, if you don't get the answer to that prayer, it's like God is saying no. So God does say no by not giving that to us, because it's not in His will. But Daniel's question is, why doesn't God stop us when we are asking the wrong thing? I think it's our responsibility, no? He's already taught us, He's instructed us by His word, and if we are still, you know, asking Him things which are not in His will, He'll be like, okay, do whatever you want to do. Yeah, I think God gives us that responsibility, Daniel. And if we are not sensitive or obedient, then unfortunately we waste time praying for the things that God doesn't want in our lives. Okay. The next question, if two farmers are there, one comes and asks me to pray for rain so that crops grow and the other person asks me to pray for the sun. So rain comes, crops get destroyed. So what should we pray, how to pray? Okay. So there are two people, two farmers, and both want the opposite. I would say what I would do is I would pray in the spirit. I would pray in tongues in that moment, because what we shared earlier, we read from 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 16, we have the mind of Christ. The spirit knows the mind of God. So the wisest person is God. He knows what will be the right answer, rain or no rain in this situation. So I'll just pray in tongues, and then I'll be sensitive to what I'm receiving in the spirit, and I'll pray quietly. Sorry, if they ask at a time. If they ask at a time, you see sometimes we have time to pray up in the spirit, but most of the time what we can do is I'll come to it later. Like when we maintain our personal devotion, like every day, you know, every day communion with God, you don't even need a minute. You can immediately sense. So even if you don't have time, like when Jesus went, Jesus didn't pray for long. He immediately said Lazarus come forth. So we can make a decision immediately too. But wisely, because otherwise you get into trouble. If you pray loudly, God let it rain. The person who doesn't want rain will have a problem with you. And the other way around. So just pray quietly and get out of there. So that might be the answer. Okay, great. Good question. Any other questions about believing prayer? There are some questions in our notes. We can look at those. The first one says, if I have prayed and asked once for something, is it correct if I keep on asking God for the same thing over and over again? What do you think? Yes also, no also. Yes. Okay. So it's okay to ask God again and again. However, the first few things about believing God's will. When we have prayed in the right way, actually you don't really have to pray again and again. Okay. However, sometimes our heart or you know, we need time to be assured like Elijah. He prayed seven times, right? Because this is like a spiritual law. That's how it works. There are things in our lives where we don't get the answer immediately. We have to keep praying because it's part of persistent prayer. It's not that your first prayer was ineffective. It was effective. In general, one prayer is enough in general. However, in some situations, we need to pray the same prayer again and again and again because it comes in the category of persistent prayer. Where you have to repeatedly go after those things. And especially when we talk about matters such as revival, such as, you know, maybe a child in the home who has gone far away from God. It may take many prayers or some time before we get the answer. So praying repeatedly in itself is not wrong. It depends on why we are praying repeatedly. If it requires persistent prayers, then praying again and again is okay. All right. I hope that is clear. Another question is, does God always give us whatever we ask? Does God always give us whatever we ask? Thank God, no, he doesn't. Because if it's not in his will, he won't give it to us. But if it is in his will and we make a believing prayer, yes, he will give it to us. Okay. We are clear on that. Wonderful. What if I do not know God's will about a matter? What to do? Okay. We'll go back to the phone example. Now we want to buy a phone. We don't know which phone, which brand to buy, which, you know, configuration to buy, which specification. What would we do? Research of a phone, we research what about for our lives, the decisions of our lives. Don't research on Google. You can research in the Bible and study the word of God. So if I don't know what is God's will for my life, what do I do? Study the word study to understand what is God's will. So once I understand, I research, I find out, okay, this is what I think God wants. We can even pray in the Holy Spirit. We can ask for counsel from other Godly people. Then we are convinced we are assured. Yes. This is the direction for my life. Then go ahead, you know, start praying along those lines. Now let's say you've done everything and you're still confused. What to do? Everything we've done research. We've done, we've spoken to people. We've waited upon the Lord, but still we're like, I don't know what to do. Hmm. Okay. So now that you know everything and you cannot make a decision, what, what are you suggesting? Ask God. Okay. Good. So that is what we should do after we've done everything and we're not able to conclude or decide. We need to just give it into God's hands and say, God, I'm not able to figure this out. You decide for me. That's what is the prayer of surrender or consecration, not my will. Yours be done. Whatever you are going to do, God, I'm okay with that. You just take me in that direction. Okay. So first of course, we have to do our part of searching. What you said research, right? We're searching out God's will. According to the word, what is it that I'm supposed to do? So it's my responsibility that I have to search for God's will. So I'll pray, I'll read the Bible, I'll do everything. Now hopefully I'll know the answer. If I don't know the answer, I'll just say, God, I tried everything. I don't know. You do what is best in my life. I will accept it. Okay. So that is the way we go about, you know, praying when we don't know what God's will is in a matter. Any other, any other points, questions about believing prayer, prayers being answered or prayers not being answered? Yes. Yes, brother. Dedication. Okay. I didn't quite get you. Was that a question or just a comment? It's a comment. Okay. Dedication. Okay. We need a dedication to see the answers to prayer. Fine. Anything, anything else along these lines? Okay. Yes. Yes. Okay. So when you seek God's will in any matter and when you feel you still haven't heard from God. So when is it that you feel it's ideal to just move on and feel you got my question. When you seek God's will in any matter. Okay. And when you haven't heard from God and you waited upon. Okay. And when is it you feel it's little ideal to just move on knowing that, you know, for whatsoever reason best? Yeah. So I think whenever you come to this point of the third part that I answered and I said that, you know, you're just in a place where you're saying, I'm just not sure. I've done everything I know to do and I give it into God's hands. And I think at that point it is okay to just move on. Okay. Okay. There's a question says now if I ask God to use me in prophetic ministry, but God wants to use me in music ministry, but I'm being fast and asking day and night. Does God change his purpose of plan for me? Understood. All right. So when it comes to ministry, right? There are many things we will discuss later, but what I would say is yes, we have a desire for a certain kind of a ministry. Okay. And maybe God has something in his heart for to give us as a ministry. Now, how do we understand what God's plan is? Same thing that I shared earlier, you just need to research a little bit. Okay. And you can learn a lot about this in fulfilling God's purpose for your life in that particular course, because there are many pointers. What are these pointers? These pointers are the grace of God in our lives. Okay. So somewhere we recognize that this is the ability which God has given me. So I'm just saying, for example, if I want to be in worship ministry, okay, but I can't sing. I don't have the grace to do it. So I need to be able to recognize the grace, look at the grace that God has given in your life. That is an indicator of which direction God will lead you in.  So to the best of your ability, you try to understand all these things and then as per what you're convinced in your heart, you start to pray and say, God, you know, use me in this ministry and there's nothing wrong with that. If at all, that's not what God wants for you. I'm sure he will reveal it to you in some way or the other. But coming to this point, bless me, prophetic ministry or music ministry. One aspect here is you can be in the music ministry and yet you can have a prophetic ministry. It's possible. Because the prophetic or prophecy is a spiritual gift that all of us can flow in, all of us. So it does not have to be only for one person who is, you know, okay, anyway, I won't get into it. We have an entire course on understanding the prophetic. But my point is you can be in music ministry and yet you can have a prophetic ministry. You can have both very powerfully together. Okay, fine. There's a question here. I hope it has answered your question. Lucy says what must be the reason for delay in answering our prayers when we pray for years over the purpose when there is faith and belief. So what could be the reason for delay? So if we have applied everything, Mrs. Lucy, we know it's God's will. We are praying in faith. We can check, right? We can check what is it that we are praying which is not yet aligned to what God wants to do. So keep checking. Keep asking that question. If you identify something, it can be as simple as praying the name of Jesus. Maybe that's what we missed. Something tiny here or there, okay? So we can make that adjustment. Now if there is nothing like that and you're assured that yes, my prayer is correct. It is in the will of God. I'm praying it the right way. Then just wait. Don't give up. It's just a matter of time because as I said earlier, some things take time. They may even take, you know, we think, yeah, God will do this in two years. But who knows? It may take 10 years. It may take longer than that. But the important thing is, don't give up. Wait till it is fulfilled. Okay. I hope it answers your question. Sure. So if there is no particular reason, then we just have to wait and try. Like I'll tell you maybe with regard to the church, right? Like we are working ministry and we're trying to build our church. And it's taking a long time for the church to actually develop. Persevere, don't give up because that's the vision we are convinced. God has called us. God has given the vision. It will happen. Be persistent. But at the same time, we can be very practical also. We can ask questions. What are some things that maybe I should do differently? We're not saying change the core things that you believe in. But some simple little things here and there. Isn't it? Like nowadays people, there's the option of technology, live streaming. Maybe we can just improve our methods and improve some of those minor things here and there, which may bring a better outcome or a result. So even some practical things we can do to see those improvements. Okay. And I think with that, we will just wrap up for today. Let's close with the word of prayer. Could somebody go ahead and lead us in prayer? Who would like to pray? Sister, can I pray? Yes. Sister, please go ahead. Heavenly Father, we thank you Lord. Thank you Holy Spirit for inspiring us in detail about how to pray, my master, according to your will, according to your word, and to wait on you, my master, patiently Lord. Thank you for all that we have taught us and thank you for sister who has explained it so well, my master Lord. We want to grow in your word knowledge and an understanding to love you and to serve you Lord. In the mighty name of Jesus, I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you so much. There are two more questions I suppose. If you don't mind, we can take it up in the next class. Lucy says, like we had shown doubt or unbelief in earlier days when God blessed us with it.  Even though there is no faith, remember we discussed about it. There are times that he will just go ahead and bless us. Okay. So the other questions, let's take it up in the next class. Okay. Thank you everyone. Bye for now. God bless. Amen.


Lloyd Kelly's come up from the back. Zabani's floating around on the edge of the box as well. It's going to be Tavernier over the wall, and off the angle from Marcus Tavernier. Well, you'd say the angle was against the left footer from that side, but he got it up and over the wall, and back off the angle to the left-hand side. On the halfway line, so I think he continues the run. Luton stretched here, in comes to Clybert, just outside the penalty here. Justin Clybert shoots, and they've hit the post again. This time the outside of the post, same post. Clybert, this time striking the woodwork. Here's Tavernier, edge of the penalty here with a Daisy Cutler! Marcus Tavernier! Hit the woodwork earlier on, not to be denied this time. His first Premier League goal since November, and immediately after Luton forced a save from Netto, Bournemouth sweep down the other end and break the deadlock themselves. Now Clark out to the right-hand side for Luton here, in the Bournemouth penalty here. Morris trying to get on his left foot. He does get on his left foot. Now Luton have hit the post, and the rebound is blocked by Zabani. Out to this near side, it's the same post that's now been hit three times in the game. Ball is with Clark, over on the left-hand side for Luton, continuing to press forward here, he tried to go between three blue shirts. The challenge from Kelly, it runs loose in the box, and there is the equaliser for the penalty area. And Luton have belief again. First time finish from the Luton midfielder, who ruffled into the bottom right-hand corner. Now it's with Doughty, wide left it goes to Woodrow, left side of the penalty area for the Hatters here. And it comes to the box where Morris has got in! The flag stays down! Colton Morris has maybe won it late for Luton again. As they did the last time Bournemouth came here. The Luton captain inside the six-yard box, makes it Luton two, Bournemouth one.


Okay, so, I am near to Farahra and also from a non-technical background, so I'm going to share how I fell into the technical side. Well, from the non-technical side, for a very long time, under like a couple of years back, I was in, I was a hardcore researcher working in cancer research and stuff like that. As this meme shows, I was actually opening up DNAs, manipulating them and all that stuff. Until, like, I think probably my bachelors or so, I remember when I was asked for system preferences, I was so named to say that this is a color is my system preference. So I was that name. The only thing that I actually used my laptop was to, let's be real, to watch movies. But when I came to my master's, I didn't find another purpose to my laptop. I was working on my assignments and for most of it, I was actually using my laptop for a course called Buy Informatics, which has introduced me to using different kinds of softwares that can be used to easily manipulate the DNAs without actually doing the real experiment. Like, everything can be done online, like using the software, manipulating the DNA sequences, putting sequences and all that. And I was actually thrilled and enthralled by knowing that there are softwares that can actually make experiments move a lot faster, easier. I was so interested and grossed in it. And then I made sure that I ace the course and then the semester got over. And then I got really busy with my thesis during my master's and I didn't have time to explore more about it, although I really wanted to. And then I finished up my master's and then landed in job, full-time job, which was really hectic and I couldn't think much about Buy Informatics or Explore It. But there was this strong desire, this motivation in me that I really wanted to explore it and know more about the different softwares which actually make science a lot easier. So that's when I came across this magical book, which is which I was able to find it for free online. So like it says, it is actually for beginners and it really helped me a lot to write my first program, first code. I was very excited and with this completely new window open up. And then I came to know that there are so many open sources available outside and so much of information available outside. And I was so into it like that almost became my full-time job, like trying to learn new things, trying to learn programming, trying to learn Python, no more about it, no many things like that. Most of the times I remember that whenever I was working whenever I had some time, I used to open online IDEs like Ripple and start solving different problems in Buy Informatics that used Python and all that. And I also remember taking a course on Coursera, which actually helped me write a lot of complicated algorithms that can be used to manipulate DNA sequences. Then I became, yes, from someone who has been opening up DNAs to manipulate, I became this print biological. That was a huge accomplishment for me because I did all this on my own with my strong motivation, which I feel everyone needs it like has to believe in themselves. So now, from how did I come from what is Fedora to I am Fedora, like almost, because it's just been a month. After three years into my research, working as a full-time researcher, I realized that unfortunately my journey in the scientific research has gone to the space where it's not made for me anymore. It's very unfortunate that it ended that way. But yeah, I think things just didn't fly. And I turned out that it's not a couple of might be anymore. And then I had to take a break to retrospect, think what I really need, what I really want to do.  And unfortunately, I also, the job that I just quit then, it also had a toxic environment, which had a huge toll on my emotional well-being, I should say. So it was really stressful. So after I quit, it did give me a really like a new perspective about what I want to do. And also the strong desire to explore more about programming and stuff, it came back because now I had all the time in the world. I treated this now like learning new things and programming and Python and explore more new things became my full-time job. I used to wake up, prep my lunch, everything, sit in front of the computer, and then just learn, learn, practice programming stuff. And a lot of other online courses, there's so many online courses available, so many open sources available, it's so falling to think about so many things that are available online for free. And obviously, I didn't have the economical status to actually enroll into another master's course. So I was very determined to do it on my own for free. So I used to wake up, study until 12 o'clock, have a lunch break, go for a walk, and then come back and then study again. So this used to be my schedule for about six months or so. But yes, also I had a very supportive family, my husband is very supportive. So that's the one reason why I could actually do it, like learn so much when I was out of office. And then things went on and then because I was just doing everything on my own sitting at home, I actually didn't have the real time experience as such that I needed to land in a technical job. Obviously, I was like just handling the data sets that are available through course or something. So clearly that was not enough. And I didn't, I, there are so many other complications as well. So I couldn't actually land in a technical job. But then I figured that I am good at writing. So I thought I should explore the scientific writing opportunity. So then I became, I am a scientific writer now. And like this meme says, yes, that is true in the beginning.  Just keep doing that. You will be there, just persistence is the key. And then while I started, when I started writing, the desire to again explore something on the technical side was back. And then I really wanted to explore the technical writing side of the technical side of it. So I googled and then I stumbled upon a forum which mentioned a list of open sources that I can contribute to. That was the first time I actually heard about Fedora. So that forum gave a link to Fedora wiki pages. And then I had, believe it or not, I had no idea what to do on the wiki pages. Everything, all the information was so overwhelming. And I started doubting myself. I don't think I can do this because there are so many things that I am not aware of. So, but then I'm like, okay, let me just give it a try. Let me just see. So I made a resume and then sign up for almost all the mailing list that I could come across. And then, guess what? All the emails bounced back. I have no idea, but I have no idea what I did. I must have done something wrong. But, yes, so everything bounced back. But, and then I just, I was like, okay, maybe it's just a calling that technical writing is not probably for me. But one day I received an email from BNI docs mentor session saying that there is a mentor session this week and it will be great. So I thought like, okay, this is, this is my calling. Okay, I really need to attend this. This came out of nowhere and I should not let go of this opportunity. So I went on to the session not knowing about anything. Of course, like, there was a YouTube link on how to organize stuff on Fedora or how to organize dogs that was like hosted by Justin. So I saw that video. I kind of had an idea about what's going on. So I attended the session and guess what? In about two days or so, I did my first pull request. You see the golden border? Yes, it's that special to me, my first, first ever pull request. I was very happy about it. I am still very happy about it. It's such a huge accomplishment for me because I came from a completely different background where laptops are used for just watching movies or see probably nothing. So, so from there to here, it's a huge accomplishment for me. And then my first PR actually did everything online. I was too intimidated to even open the terminal and then do everything using command line and get, get, get was something that's like, I am still intimidated by it, but I did not even want to type the word letter G in it. So was that intimidated? So, but then I was like, okay, now if I really want to be explore this technical writing and be good at it, learn it, then I cannot do all my PRs online. I really, really need to push myself and start learning how to do things on command line. And now guess what? Okay, command line is my best friend. I, I prefer using command line to access folders. The other day I was asking my husband about, can I open the PowerPoint presentation through command line because it's such a pain to go to find a folder, search for it and all that. So, you see, maybe I can open my presentation through command lines. Like, I don't think that's possible. I was like, oh, so yes, that, that's, that's a long way that I came from. And so as a new contributor, what, what am I doing here? Like, I had no idea what Fedora was before I even stumbled upon that forum, the post in the forum about the open source contributions and all that. So, I didn't know that Fedora is actually an operating system that you can, like, I didn't know, I didn't know about anything about Fedora. So, my first, as a newbie, for any new contributors, Fedora has an excellent welcoming kit. So, they created a ticket for you where you can track your progress and they also give you awesome starting guides about what you, how to understand everything like what is open source, what is Fedora and all those things. And then I spent a couple of weeks understanding what open sources, why it is important and why it is important for everybody to contribute to open sources. It doesn't matter if you're from a technical background or a non-technical background because there is something that anyone can contribute to in open source that, that is one thing that I really learned. So, I did learn a lot in my first couple of weeks and then everybody in this community are awesome, very friendly, very understanding. They answer all my silly non-technical questions. So, it is great and now I am actively contributing to the restructuring of DNI team's page. So, by that, I got very comfortable with command line kit and then almost very comfortable with command line kit. I know there is still a lot but you see, that's a lot for me. So, and then I am also understanding a lot about Antora and then ASCII docs and then I was able, like it's a learning, it's a learning go. So, I didn't know anything about anything about Markdown, anything about, well I do know a little bit of, a little bit about Markdown because I did work with Jupyter Notebooks at one point. So, Jupyter Notebooks did have an option for Markdown. I'm sure a lot of other teams also have option for Markdown but that's the first time that I came across Markdown. So, I did have some idea but Justin mentioned that ASCII docs is very different from a lot of other documenting softwares because every line is different in ASCII docs. So, he said that a lot of people find it difficult to transition to ASCII docs. I was like, I don't think I have the problem because I have no idea about any other documentation software. So, so yeah that was a great journey. Like my first month I learned so much being just for a month I learned so much about Antora documentation skills and then PRs, creating issues, attending so many meetings and also helping organizing Fedora Women's Day 2020. That is also a great experience for me and I am so happy to be here, meet you all lovely people and then grow my network and all that. So, now coming to how Fedora is going to be my strong new foundation for my career goal. Well, the main until now, I don't know if it's because of the kind of background I was in until now, like I couldn't make, I couldn't grow my network at all while I was in the research because I think it's because everybody is busy with their own research thesis projects while they're in grad school and stuff. So, maybe that's why I was not able to grow my network. I don't know what I did wrong but here in Fedora I'm looking forward to grow my network, meet new people and then also learn all the new technical things like tree base. The other day I was trying to I created a pull request, made my comments and then my issue was not my pull request was not being able to merge because of some merge conflict. So, I was asked to do a git tree base. So, I quickly went online obviously and then said how do I rebase and then I got this one line combined, git tree base master I guess. So, I just like I typed it and like I'm done but then I quickly quickly realized that I didn't do anything. Git tree business is actually a long procedure where you merge the conflicts. So, from that I understood that git tree base as such is not complicated but merging conflicts is such a pain. I hope I don't do it again but you see that's how I learned. So, I'm sure I will do it again and get better at it every time but yeah I did I did git tree base. So, yeah that is a huge accomplishment for me and then I one day want to be called as technical and I really hope that day is very soon. So, that's what I'm looking forward to in Federa by contributing to Federa and meeting all new people and learning as much as I can to be called as technical one day. Since I am a newbie here so far I thought that technical writing is the only option that I might have but if I am wrong or if there is anything else that I can explore I am open to suggestions and guidance and advice from all you people and then also what else can I do in Federa. I have Python SIG in my mind but I am intimidated by it. I don't know like I am not a great programmer. I don't think I'm even a good programmer. So, I know basics of Python pandas for data analysis and stuff but I think that's about it and I think I'm also struggling with imposter syndrome. So, yeah I have no idea where else I can contribute. I have two things in my mind. One is Python SIG and the other is Pajas. So, if there is anything else that if you think would probably be good for me like and also if there are any other career prospects that I can look out for not just technical writing that would be really great. So, in the end I would like to say that me coming from a non-technical background knowing nothing about programming or any of these things if I can come this far if I was able to do everything on my own I'm sure you can do it too. Never let anyone tell you that you can't do it. Never let anyone doubt you. Never let anyone say that you're not cut out for this.  So, don't let anyone say that and always believe in yourself, persistence is key, work hard whatever you work on work on it will definitely help you at one point or the other in the future. So, yes if I can do it you can do it for sure so don't give up never give up never give up just keep going and also I would like to take this opportunity to shout out to my great mentors Justin and Nasir for answering all my silly non-technical questions anytime of the day so yeah yeah that's a great shout out to them and also I thought this is something really nice to say that I used my command line again for this so thank you so much for listening to my story and I hope it is inspiring to other other people who are from who are planning to come into tech technical from a non-technical background it's not difficult you just need to put in some time some effort work towards it and then you will be there for sure hi hello thank you so much for sharing that that was awesome thank you so much um it's really impressive to see you here as a newbie and getting on screen to tell us the story I think there's just a lot of courage just in doing that so I commend you for that and for all the help that you've already given I'm like the diversity team I wasn't even aware of all this other stuff you're learning and doing so awesome so that's really really cool that you're involved um I'll where do you where would you like like your path in fedora to beyond just technical maybe something more concrete I was so since you're right everybody is talking about and you were talking about badges a lot I thought I should explore badges a little bit uh and see if I can do anything in it so that's why I think you should and not only that you should try to earn badges that will give you a ton of experience doing different things within fedora okay I will do that for sure totally um there are there is um development going on on the back end and then we also have um like system in type tasks that are involved like learning how to push the badge artwork to the website um and then we have some other coding that does go in it get involved at yaml is the they're written in yaml to write rules around our messaging system so the the message gosh I'm gonna they change the name on it naming things is hard it's either the fed message or message blaster so anyway it's the thing that fedora messaging see it has changed so yeah the yaml file takes the reads the fedora messaging and automatically awards badges to people um okay so there's like all these different little pieces that work together and then of course you have the design team and um the people coming up with ideas so since you're like a newbie I'm like do you have questions for us you know is there things you want to ask us we're here as a resource for you um or maybe even just comments and stuff you've learned over the weekend uh sorry stuff I would oh stuff you've learned or something maybe you really liked from the weekend yes so um first of all like thank you so much for having me on fwd um and what did I learn I did learn a lot of things from all these beautiful people who who share their stories inspiring stories that number one never give up just just do what you want to do uh believe in yourself and more importantly by everyone that how important is to network maybe that's one thing that I was not able to do until now so I'm really really really looking forward to grow my network now so you know what's cool about in fedora space versus outside fedora and this I was actually thinking this and I wanted to make this point is that outside of fedora and open communities it's very much about who you know ready it's like who you know what connections do I have the neighbor my uncle's friend whatever um but with open source and a space like fedora we don't have that you know I mean yeah people might come from a different community with a good reputation or not um but nonetheless you have this chance it's a very open playing fields um to just get involved and you have access right from the start you don't need to know that person or this person just to get into that space so yeah um I think it does allow like a more even playing fields for networking yeah and I also really like the fact that everything is open like you are like I am always being appreciated for all the nice things that I do or everything that I do even a small thing there is a lot of appreciation there is a lot of encouragement and there is a lot of um it's everything is open like everyone can see what I'm doing so that is one thing that I really like being part of the open source community because it's it's open yep and you know what I think when um I'm out there working in that fashion you know it's kind of like it's a little it's like you know exposes you like a little bit right and something like new and different and I just think to myself like it doesn't really matter what that other person's opinion is like maybe they think it's not good enough or whatever because I'm the one who's doing it and they're yes yeah so you're the person who's they're actually doing the thing and other people can critique or whatever or you know you get those worries in your head that that might come because it's just all out and open but um you can have you can finally resolve and just knowing like no I'm here and I'm doing this work and that's good yeah well thank you so much for presenting thank you very much maybe of course and and all the help for with fedora women's day I think I'm going to take a lunch break and then there's one more session oh no no no oh my gosh you don't oh yes oh yes it's real quick what is your native language uh okay are you going to speak it in that language for us awesome all right I'm going to mute me okay I'll do it again the second part okay uh we are from different countries we speak different languages and we are of different cultures but fedora unites us but open source awesome thank you thank you so much of course I'll see everybody in a half an hour yes goodbye thank you everyone