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BONUS #2 Fellowship: Be with Him
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Being with Jesus and Being Sent out by Him
This is Session 2 of 5 entitled: Fellowship - Be with Him (1 John 1:3)
Intimacy with God and spiritual friendships.
These sessions are taken from YCCA's 2025 Church Camp held in Bali.
Revd Kenny Chee is the guest speaker.
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Let us take some time to look at this slide. This is a sixth century Coptic icon. Just have a long meditative look at this icon and notice the different details. This icon is the earliest existing icon. You can find it in the Louvre in Paris. What do you notice about this icon? Any interesting things? Tell someone on your right on your left what you will notice. Yeah. Good. Tell someone on your right and left. Now Jennifer has noticed something very interesting. Jesus' hands is over the shoulder of the other person. Do you notice that? Signifying friendship. Signifying authority. Look at the feet. Can you see the feet? San Minus has feet. But Jesus seems to be floating. The earthliness of the saint and the heavenly origin of Jesus. And look at what they are carrying. Compare what they are both carrying. Jesus is the full revelation of God. In him is the fullness of the Godhead. He's God's final word. But what is Minas, M-E-N-A-S, holding in his hand? Just a scroll. Can you see? He's holding a scroll with his left hand. He's blessing with his right hand, and he's holding a tiny scroll. We as humans, we don't have the full revelation. We have in our hands only what we receive from the Spirit revealed to us. But it's sufficient. The gospel. Sufficient to bless others. Now, look at our eyes with me. Very strange eyes. What do you notice about the eyes? It's like they are both cock-eyed, huh? Huh? Do you notice that? It's deliberate, huh? It's not an artist. It's a bad artist or something. One eye is looking at you, right? You feel like one eye is looking at you. And then Jesus' right eye is looking at Minus. The saint. When the eyes of God look at someone, he's fully known. He knows him inside out. The good, the bad, the ugly. But he's still accepted. He's still a friend. He's still loved. He's still accepted. And he looked at me, as his left eye is looking at Jesus. He's beholding the glory of Jesus. And as a result of beholding that glory of Jesus in this safe friendship, that radiance as in Jesus is passed on to him. Remember the verse in 2 Corinthians 3 18, and we all with unveiled faces, as it were, behold Jesus in his glory and are being transformed from one degree of glory to another. Just a single picture. And it conveys so much. As you look at this picture, what what comes out to you? What what is the spirit saying to you through this? Share with someone on your right or left what this picture speaks to you. What does it stir in you? What emotion arise in you as you look at this? Share with someone on your right or on your left. Today's song's choice are so beautiful, right? Holy, holy, holy. Lord God Almighty. Who was, who is, who is to come. Holiness means separate. God is so totally separate from us in nature. So totally different from us. He's the creator. We are just a creature. He is holy. He's set apart from us. He's God Almighty. Like the psalmist says, when I look at the heavens, when I look at the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, and how you set them in place. What is man? What is man? That you're so mindful of him. What is man that you think about him? That's how holy God is. He's so far above us. God is God and we are not perfect. Without sin. Totally different from us. And yet he invites you and me to this. Should be the right hand. Friendship. You get a call. There's quite a lot of talk about our new prime minister. Oh, this is bad. I forgot his name. What's his name? Where are the young children? Lawrence Wong. Sorry, I'm reaching 70. Sometimes I meet people. I know their names. But the retrieval from my bank is very slow. Hello, brother. Brother. While he's talking to me, I'm trying to retrieve. Retrieve from my memory bank the name, you know. Lawrence Wong, what if Lawrence Wong gives you a call? I'd like to chat with you. Come over to the what is that place called? Istana. And let's get to know each other. I want you, I want to be your friend. What's your reaction? You freak out, huh? You're worried, huh? You're worried, huh? You're wondering what is he calling me for? Say, I want to be your friend. You start asking, is there any quality in me that is looking for me to be an MP or something? Did I do something wrong? He wants to be a friend. How awesome is this? This is much more awesome. God Almighty wants to put his hand around you. I know exactly where you are, who you are, your weaknesses, your strengths. And despite all your sins, despite that you're running away from me, I want to be your friend. Why am I talking about this? Remember the goals last night I shared with you. What are they like? Be with Jesus. Become like Jesus. Continue his mission, his work. They're talking today about being with Jesus. He invited the disciples to live with him, be with him, observe him in his travels, in his eating, in his talking, in his teaching, in his ministry. When he sleeps in the open air, when he invites sinners to eat with him. Being with him is a relationship of prayer. And prayer to me is friendship with God. And if you look at friendship and the characteristics of friendship, we can learn a lot about prayer. Don't think of prayer as an activity. Think of prayer as a relationship. A friendship. If you think of prayer as an activity, it's something you do maybe early in the morning for five minutes, ten minutes, and then you forget about God the rest of the day. But if you think of prayer as a relationship, as a friendship with Jesus, you will be with Him throughout the day. The disciples were with Jesus 24, 7. So if we look at friendship, and the first thing, next verse, let me show you why we are justified in thinking of God in terms of friendship. The Lord would speak to Moses face to face as one speaks to a friend. Joshua, son of Nan, did not leave the tent because Joshua wanted to continue on in the presence of the Lord to build an intimacy that he saw in his master, Moses. But the key thing I want you to note is God spoke to Moses face to face as one speaks to a friend. And look at the second verse in John 15, verse 15. No longer do I call you servants. For the servant does not know what his master is doing. But I've called you friends. For all that I have heard from the Father, I have made known to you. You don't share deep things to a stranger. You share deep things with someone you trust, an intimate friend. And Jesus said, I've shared my heart with you. Because you are a friend. I trust you. So that's why I say being with Jesus has to do with that whole friendship we have with God. Let's look at friendship. There are at least four things I can see that we can learn from friendship in terms of prayer. Firstly, you need to intentionally make time and space to pray. Friendship cannot develop without frequency. You have to intentionally, if there's someone you like, you have to intentionally take time, make appointments to be with that person, whether to play a sport or whether to have a drink, but to chat and talk. It has to be intentionally planned. You cannot have a friendship with Jesus without intentionally making time to spend with him. Look at Luke chapter 5, verse 15-16. Yet news about him spread all the more. So that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. People were searching for him. They came to hear his messages about the kingdom of God. They came to be healed of their sickness. They came to see the holiness of Jesus, the beauty of his holiness. But yet, but be you tea, Jesus deliberately carved out time from the needs, the pressing needs of the people, from the urgency of their cries. As much as he felt compassion for them, he made time to spend with the Father in heaven. He look at the word orphan, O-F-T-E-N. That tells you something, right? Often withdrew to lonely places, places where there's no distraction, where there's no mobile phone. Quiet places where he can openly pour out his heart without embarrassment. The people who I call friends are people I meet with frequently. When I was in Bible school, my good friend was a Lutheran and an Anglican. One is Raphael Samuel and the other one is Benedict. Why? We often pong tang chapel. Not a good thing to do, but we pong tank chapel. Chapel was every day in those days. Every day. We pong tang the chapel and we go down to Saligi and go to one of those Indian shops and eat chapati and discuss theology, politics, and what else. Because of that frequency, a friendship developed. But then Raphael Samuel became a missionary in Bolivia. Bishop Moses sent him out to Bolivia. He wanted to go there. Distance. For many years. We hardly contact. Those were the years. No WhatsApp. Mobile phone is not so powerful. It's either email or nothing else. The friendship weakened. But now we WhatsApp. We renew contact. All three friends. One in KL, one in Bolivia, Singapore. The frequency sustains a friendship. Amen. Amen. So what does that tell us? You want to be, Jesus wants you to be his friend. You can reciprocate by making, intentionally making time with him. Susannah Wesley, the mother of John Wesley, had ten children. How many of you have ten children? We have three already, we can't cope, right? Even with a maid. She had ten children. But she taught her children well. When she took her apron and put it over her head, the children knew, don't disturb mommy. She's praying. She made time with God. When I was a cadet teacher, that was ages ago, right? 40 years ago. You know, as a cadet teacher, the scheme no longer exists. They pay for your tuition. In the morning, you go to the National Institute of Education and study about pedagogy, how to teach, etc., etc. In the afternoon, you go to the schools that you are assigned to and you teach. Practice. Like an apprenticeship. Practice. By the time you go home, you're a bit tired. But I was younger then. Every night I will go and walk out to the park in the cool of the evening around eight o'clock, and I'll sit in a chair in the park and I'll pray. Sometimes I'll just pray in tongues because I'm just too tired. Sometimes I'll just sit in silence. Sometimes I'll just intercede. And this went on day after day after year after year. No matter how busy you are, you can carve out time for prayer. Amen. Look at the next slide. Look at this slide. The prayers of the generations. I don't know whether you can see it from up there, out there, right at the back. Take a picture and maybe you can just expand it. This is a survey done on 14,000 people in the United States. The yellow one on the top left hand is Generation Z. What is generation Z? Anybody knows? Born in a certain age, I think the youngest bunch. Then the purple or bluish one is generation Y. And the egg? Which one is the baby boomers? The orange. The bottom orange is the OP. Oh sorry. Ah. Okay, sorry. Generation Z, the picture on the left, on the right hand top is generation Y, generation X is on the bottom left, and baby boomers the whole thing. Okay, some of them pray in the morning, some of them pray in the evening, is uh purple, blue, and then uh the orange is no set aside time. We are mostly baby boomers here, right? Is it true that most of us pray in the morning? Is it true? Yeah. Most of us pray in the morning, right? What about Generation X? Who is Gen X? Are there Gen X here?
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SPEAKER_01Oh, there are two Gen X's. So still morning, huh? 60% in the morning. Gen Y, any Gen Y? Gen Y? That's an elderly Gen Y. What time of the day do you typically pray? Tell someone on your left, on your right. Which which of this is true of you? You could be a baby boomer and you don't have any set aside time. Some of you pray in the evening, which is some of you pray in the morning. Just share with someone on your right or left. Some of you, no set time. Why am I? I I just want you to be aware of where you are. Do you actually intentionally set aside time each day to pray? I want to encourage you to do this. Not in a legal way, but because of the love of God, the gospel of Jesus Christ has impacted your life, and you are grateful and you just want to spend time deepening that friendship that God Almighty offers to you. Our culture is so obsessed with productivity, so driven by efficiency, right? You go to work, you know, efficiency is a very important thing. And we are so distracted by the digital world. If you don't intentionally make time and set aside time for prayer, you will never pray and you will never deepen your friendship with Jesus. No other way. Sorry, no option. It's this or nothing. The second thing I want to share about friendship that we can learn in prayer is authentic sharing of your life with God. Prayer is asking. But it's more than asking. You don't want to spend all your time in prayer asking, asking, asking, asking. You should go. Spread your wings beyond that. To sharing what has happened in your life with God. There's no depth without authentic sharing. Look at this deepening of the sharing from cliche. How are you? I'm fine. You may not be fine. But you know, as a cliche, it's expected for you to say, I'm fine, it's just a kind of warm-up, icebreaker talk, conversation. And pastors are happy with cliche, you know. Because if he goes to church and says, How are you? And that person starts to power with trouble. Imagine how much trouble he'll be listening to. So he's happy with cliche. Oh, I'm fine, okay, thank God. And then from from there, you go to report. You you give a factual account of what you did that day, for instance. You end of the day, you go back. Can you tell about your day at work? What happened that day? And men are typically very brief. Their day is always okay, lah. Okay, but women will say, oh, so and so said this, so and so said that, I did that, and then, oh, and you go on and on, right? Report. But when you come to opinion, you take a risk, right? Recently we had elections, right? You give your opinion and you're risking something. Your boss brings you to a restaurant, huh? And he said, This is the food really good. And then you eat and you find it's not so good. And he asks, how do you find the food? If you give your true opinion. Very risky, right? It's very risky. So when you share an opinion, you're taking a risk. But even harder is sharing your feeling. Because you make yourself vulnerable. How you feel. And men, uh, we don't have feelings, huh? Oh, we have feelings, but we can't like we can't zero in what is that feeling. And we sometimes we know but we can't express. You want your husbands to be better at feeling, you know what to do? Make them watch K drama. Those old ones, the long, long ones. They make you feel slowly for the character, not the new Netflix one, that's eight episodes, ten episode, the twenty, thirty episode. You start to see your your husband tearing. Just kidding. But there's a truth there, because when I start watching Korean drama, the long one, hey, how come my tears dropping out? I hope my wife don't look at me. Feelings. It's a deeper level. When you tell a friend, I feel depressed, I feel upset, I'm deeply troubled. Which is what Jesus said to his disciples in the Garden of Kapsimine. You're being vulnerable, right? And the truth is telling those deep things inside of you. Your hopes, your dreams, your fears, those things that you don't particularly want everyone to know. The Johari window, that that part that you don't want people to know about you because you're afraid. If they know you as you really are, you they might reject you or they might think lesser of you. When you go this path, the further you go, the more careful you become, right? Unless I trust that person. I won't share so deeply. Unless I know that person will hold everything I share in confidence and not use it against me or think lesser of me or reject me. Now, this is in human friendship, but it applies also in our friendship with Jesus. We have to go this way. It's not always asking, asking, asking a list of requests. Sometimes it's just telling God about your week or your day, depending on how frequently you pray. Some significant events that affected you that made you happy or made you angry or made you sad. To talk about it, to process it with the Lord. As you do that, you find your friendship with God deepening. When you share such things, when someone listens to you attentively, without giving you advice, without giving you a solution, like your husband will give you a solution. Without scolding you, without advising you. How do you feel? How do you feel? You know, men are problem solvers, right? My wife, before she tells me a problem, one minute into a conversation, I already have the solution for her. Amen. Amen. But that's not what they want. To feel that you are listened to means you are respected, you're accepted, you are loved. And that's why, even though God knows you inside out, he would like you to talk about it. Because he wants you to feel loved, accepted. He can stop you immediately and give you a solution, but he lets you talk and talk and talk and talk about your problem. Because as you do that, something may flash across your mind. That gives you the strength to go through whatever you're going through. Deepening your friendship by being authentic in your sharing. And of course, the Psalms are full of full of the ranting of the Psalmist, full of uh sometimes bitterness, jealousy, hatred, revenge, anger, and lament and crying and sorrow and desperation. The Psalms is a picture of what your conversation with God should look like. For centuries, the Jews have been using the Psalms as a prayer book to help them express their deep experiences and emotions and suffering in their life. It's a picture of what an ideal friendship should be. Got it? Next. Oh, next. Okay, this in the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears. Look at that. Loud cries and tears. How many of you have prayed with loud cries and tears? To him who was able to save him from death and he was hurt because of his reverence. Next slide. Okay, I'm gonna give you not five minutes, maybe three minutes or so. I'll just I want you to think of something that happened this week, this past week or so. Maybe it's significant to you. Maybe it's something that's troubling you, an incident that happened. Or maybe it's a happy thing. And I want you to share this with the Lord. I want you to practice authentic sharing in prayer. No asking, don't ask, don't ask. Just share how you feel. What is deep inside you? I'll just ponder about something. What shall I talk to the Lord about? Is it one of your children? Is it something somebody said to you? Is it some blessing that you experienced this past week? Very hard to remember. What is it? Why is it? Or is it just simply that that journey from Singapore to hear what were you feeling? Or the frantic uh work before you could take leave. What was it like? Okay, take this time to just close your eyes if you must. And just talk to the Lord. Like a friend to a friend, as a friend speaker to a friend. I'd like you to practice this. Why am I doing this? It's so that you have an experience of what it's like to pray in a slightly different way from how you normally pray. It's like having a cup of coffee and talking to the Lord about your day, about how you feel, about what is deep inside your heart. And the more you do it, the more you find your friendship with Jesus deepen. Deepen. Now, how many of you have had friends? You invited them out for coffee, and he talks and she talks and talks and talks and talks, and you have no time to share what is on your heart. Have you had friends like this? No. Maybe you had a mother like this. You can't have friendship when it's one way, right? Huh? So what is your friendship with Jesus like? Is it one way or do you also allow him to share what is on his heart and what is on his mind and how he feels? Listening to God or listening to God, the word listening sometimes can make you think of voices. How about being attentive to God? Because he speaks in so many, many ways. Being attentive to God and what he's trying to communicate with you makes it a real friendship because it becomes two-way, and no longer me always having a list of things to pray about. Next slide. How does God communicate to us? There are so many ways. Let me just give you six ways, alright? One of the biggest ways through which God speaks to me is scripture. And I think it's the same for every Christian. Through the written word of God, as you ponder over it, as you meditate on it, as you pray with expectancy and say, Lord, show me wonderful things out of your word. Speak to me through the scriptures. Certain things will be highlighted, certain things will be like underlined, something resonates with you or speaks to your situation deeply. That is God speaking to you. Through our desires. God speaks to us through our desires. Do you know that? Delight yourselves in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart. God shapes your desire. The more you walk with the Lord, the more you are in friendship with Jesus, He shapes and molds your desires so that it becomes more and more the desire that God can grant to you. So that like the rich, rich farmer and Lazarus, you can tear down your old storehouse, build big storehouse full of grain, and then you can rest and relax and collect rent. No, no, no. Well, it could be God plants that desire in your heart, but it won't be so that you can relax. It's so that you can share your resources with the kingdom of God. Next conscience. We have this, God communicates through our conscience. You just have a sense of this is right. What you're doing, what you plan to do is wrong. You just sense a disturbed feeling. Especially our conscience can be shaped by culture also, but once you become a Christian, it's being shaped by the kingdom culture. And it becomes more and more viable to listen to your conscience. So if something is troubling you about something you plan to do, sometimes it could be anxiety and fear, yeah? Supposing God calls you to go somewhere you don't like. That's not conscience, that's fear. That's fear. But God speaks through our conscience. Next. God can give you an insight out of nowhere. Many people tell me they get insights while they are bathing. Because when you're bathing, you're relaxed. You don't have preconceived idea of how you want God to speak to you. And sometimes that insight may come. That idea may come. And it's from God, God communicating with you. Sometimes I'm going through a trial, a difficulty, a challenge in the church, and suddenly the insight will come to me. This is an attack of the enemy. Not always. And then I engage against the enemy. Next. Emotions. God speaks to us through emotions. Sometimes, how does God share his emotion with you? Tell me, how does God share his emotion with you? How does he communicate how he feels about something with you? How does he do it? He lets you feel it. He lets you feel it. And then I hope you don't think, oh, I'm so compassionate. God lets you feel his compassion. He's communicating with you to do something about some some need by letting you feel his compassion. And not all anger is a bad anger. Sometimes God lets you feel his anger, indignation about some injustice and unrighteousness. So we need to be more attentive about how God is speaking to us because friendship. Has to be two ways. Amen. Lastly, let me go through this. This is the most important one, but I'm running out of time here. Abiding with God throughout the day. I'm the vine. You are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit. For apart from me, you can do nothing. The word abide. In the Greek is meno. It means to abide, to remain, to stay, to dwell, to be at home with. I like that whole idea of dwelling and be at home with. You know, I can't travel outside Singapore for more than 10 days because after 10 days, I just want to go home. Something about home that makes me feel comfortable. The bed, the surroundings, the food. I just want to go home. Can you imagine God as your home? You just want to constantly go back to God. I want to go back to God. I've been so occupied with my work. Just tired of. I want to go back to God. Oh, I'm so upset with so and so. I want to go back to God. Like your home screen. You switch on your phone, home screen is what you put. Maybe your favorite picture of your grandchild. Now it's no longer husband and wife, but the grandchild. You want to just go back home because that's a place you experience love, acceptance, familiarity, comfort. Now, abide in me. Make me your home screen. Jesus is saying, make me your home screen. Make me your home. The thing you want to go back to when you want rest, you want comfort, you want acceptance, you want restoration. It's not I pray 10 minutes in the morning, I forget about God the rest of the day. I constantly go back to Him. I make this a habit, a practice in my life to constantly go back to God. If nothing else, not to say anything, but just to be aware. I'm home. I'm with God. I'm conscious of His presence. I'm conscious that He's with me. It could be in the middle of your work after lunch. Just sit there for two minutes. Is two minutes too much for you? Just sit there in silence. Your colleagues think you're zoned out. Your eyes are open, but you're actually like wireless, you know, like a hotel. You have no wireless until you key in. So you're keying in the password Jesus. And you're the thing goes round and round, and finally you make connection. You feel his presence. That's prayer. That's prayer. Next slide. You're familiar with this? The divine hours. The Catholics. If you are a good Anglican, you should know this. I don't even know how to pronounce the Latin names. For all the different hours you're supposed to pray. Midnight, sunrise. First hour after sunrise. Third hour after sunrise. Sixth hour after sunrise. Nine hour after sunrise, sunset, right before bed. Wow. Turn to someone beside you. I don't want to be an Anglican. What is this helping you to do? It's training you to abide with him throughout the day. It's teaching you the practice of the presence of God. But you don't have to keep the timing. Throughout the day, early morning, you pray. Tea break, you can just have that two minutes. Maybe meditating on what spoke to you in the morning. Maybe just being there. After lunch, after dinner, before you sleep. Can you do that? Make it a habit. So that you train your mind. You heard of plasticity, right? People who are 60 and above. Your mind is not fixed and rigid. Neural paths are being formed. Your brain cells can grow. The practice of the presence of God will form habits in you so much it's like muscle memory. Someone talked about golf right earlier. Golf, you have to practice with a coach because right from the beginning, you need to get the stroke right and keep practicing so that it becomes second nature, muscle memory. The same with pickleball. Pickleball, we keep hitting against the wall, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop until it's like second nature. When a ball comes fast at you, it's just automatic. You don't take time to think. So then throughout the day, you're going back home. What is it called in the Bible? Prayer without ceasing. Next slide. Okay, not here. Go back again. Saint Paul calls it prayer without ceasing. Saint John of the Cross and Kamalite calls it silent love or loving attention to God. The Quakers call it centering down. A.W. Tozer, an evangelical pastor, calls it habitual conscious communion. And he calls it also conscious awareness of his presence. Brother Lawrence, the famous 17th century monk in Paris, how many of you have read the book, The Practice of the Presence of God? He's just a dishwasher, a monk who does dishwashing, but he makes it his goal in life to be aware of God's presence throughout the day and to converse with God. And he says that while doing chores in the noisy, busy, messy kitchen, he feels no different than in the time of prayer. That consciousness, that habit of prayer that comes throughout the day. Next slide. Now, we talk about four things, right? What are the four things? Intentionality, authentic sharing, listening, and abiding. What will prevent you from doing this? What are the barriers? Fourteen thousand people were surveyed. You know why is the biggest barrier? Distraction. 57%. Second biggest barrier. Indifference. Tida apa. Pray or not, doesn't matter. Busyness, only 15%, they should survey Singaporeans. If they survey Singaporeans, it'll be a bigger percentage. Last one, lost for words. When you have lost for words, if you are charismatic, just pray in the spirit. How many of you have the gift of tongues? Yeah, the gift of tongues is a wonderful prayer language. It's a language of intimacy and love. God willing, if you want the gift of tongues, we can have a session to pray for you. Those of you who want the gift of tongues. But look at that. Distraction is the number one barrier to prayer. I tell you, I confess to you, right? Give me your absolution after I confess. I confess to you. My biggest distraction. Tell you. It's a blessing, but also a curse. Say amen. If you're in the same. Okay, I let me give a full confession so that you can give me a full absolution. When I touch the phone, it's like muscle memory. It's like muscle memory. You know where I go to first? What's happening? See if there's anything I need to reply or answer or any importance. Secondly, I go to my Instagram. Take a look. Thirdly, it's all habitual now. I don't have a list to follow to it. Fourthly, I type in Arsenal News. I'm a fan of Arsenal Football Club. Go there. Arsenal News. Oh, the latest transfer. The latest rumor. Oh, they lost the game. Ah, oh, they won the game. Oh, I tell you, this thing really manipulates your emotions. Then after that, I go to Telegram, Singapore News. I get all the summaries. I don't buy the Straits Times anymore. I just read the summaries. See? Automatic. Habitual. Inside. And sometimes, like when I'm preparing all these messages, I need to refer to something, huh? A verse or something. After that, I automatically go to WhatsApp. Instagram. After Instagram, Arsenal News. After Arsenal News, Singapore News. It's muscle memory. It's inside. When I'm praying. When I'm praying. To the most holy God. The moment I touch the wall, what happens? That's the power of muscle memory. Our habits are embodied in us. It touch certain things. When I preach in church, I don't ask them to refer to verses. I put the verse there. Because if they touch the mobile, I lost them. They don't know what I'm preaching. Say amen if you have done that before. I confess. Do you absolve me? Do you absolve me? Absolution. This is the biggest distraction to our prayer life. I dare you, when you go into the MRT to travel to where you want to go in the morning to work, do not touch the phone. I dare you for half a day. Leave your phone in the drawer and don't touch it. If you start shaking, your fingers start shaking after two hours. Go to your pastor. You need inner healing or deliverance. Am I getting to you where you are? I'll talk about this again, about how you can be freed from this. My last session. But let me sum up. These are the four things that if you just work into your life, you will find your friendship with Jesus deepen and you will experience being with the rabbi throughout the day. Being with the rabbi. So that he can form you. I'll talk about that in the next coming session.