Now, this morning I want to speak to you about friendship with the Holy Spirit. Catherine Kuhlman said the following, Christian today operates very little in the Holy Spirit because of their ignorance concerning the Holy Spirit himself. Jesus said in John chapter 14 verse 17, he says, the Holy Spirit who is about to come, the world cannot receive him because it neither knows him. Apostle Paul goes to one church and he says, have you guys got the baptism of the Holy Spirit? And they're like, we have not even heard about the Holy Spirit and they were quote-unquote Christians. I believe there's four types of ways Christians can relate to the Holy Spirit. The first one is the foggy way. The foggy way is like, Holy Spirit is something. Like Jesus, yeah, 2000 years ago, died on the cross, Messiah saved me from my sins. God the Father loves everybody, sits on the throne. Holy Spirit is just like atmosphere, power, falling on the floor, running with the flags, yelling, screaming, weird, crazy stuff. You don't want to get too close to that because you will be weird. Foggy. Some people have that view of the Holy Spirit. Let me just make something clear. The Holy Spirit is wild. He's not weird. People he uses can be weird. The Holy Spirit is not weird. I can be weird. You can be weird. The Holy Spirit is not. But the Holy Spirit is wild. He's just a powerful God. And God doesn't want us to be foggy, unclear about him. The second view that some people relate to the Holy Spirit, and that is this, is that they are familiar. Somebody say familiar. Familiar with the Holy Spirit, meaning they grew up in a church where they heard a teaching on the Holy Spirit. They maybe have read a little bit about the doctrine. They have studied the Christian foundations and they are familiar with the Holy Spirit. And maybe you are in that place. In fact, I was. I grew up in a very strict Pentecostal church. I mean Pentecostal. When I say Pentecostal, not like some of you think Pentecostal. We had women and men seated separately. And the way we knew that you were Christian is if you didn't wear makeup earrings and no like extra lashes and your nails weren't painted. Long skirt and a long covering. And my idea of the Holy Spirit really was very loud Pentecostal prayers. I'm talking about like no music, no drums, no smoke machine. You get on your knees then like very, very, very, very loud. It's like something is possessing you. But it was very powerful. Like I remember when people would, I'm like 13 year old, get on my knees and like everybody's praying very, very, very loud. And I'm like I don't understand what's happening, but it's like feels powerful. So I would close my eyes and just start repenting. And so that was, I'm like that's the Holy Spirit. He comes on people, they yell uncontrollably, and they experience this amazing connection to God. And this was amazing. Then I come to the United States. We're 13 and a half. My uncle, when we start the church, he says, you know, these guys are 13. So I was about 13 years of age. He says, we need to get them all filled with the Holy Spirit, which I knew what that mean. We all need to speak in tongues. So 13 and a half, 14, we get in a circle, kids, one assignment. We're gonna pray for you. You're gonna speak in tongues. Why? Because before you get your license, we need to speak in tongues. Now, out of all the teenagers, I was the most behaved one. Not to be proud or arrogant or self-righteous. But I really thought I was better than them. So guess who got the Holy Ghost last? Me. Everybody starts speaking in tongues instantly. All the people that I thought they don't even deserve Holy Spirit. And the one that was worthy and qualified for six months, I couldn't get tongues. Then I finally got tongues Saturday, 2 p.m. at the balcony of my parents' house. Because see, for those six months, while everybody spoke in tongues, could get going to the pool, Holy Ghost passed me by. So I had to now press in fast and pray. And what came easy, it's always been my journey. What came easy for other people took me some time. And on Saturday, 2 p.m., balcony of my parents' house, first time I uttered some syllables, came out of my mouth. It felt so good. But also so scary. Because like something just came out. I called my pastor and I said, is this what it feels like? He's like, exactly.  And that Sunday, I remember I came to Sunday, I was like, yes, I got it! Open my mouth. And there I thought, that's it. I got the certificate. I got the degree. I reached my ceiling. I got the Holy Ghost. That's it. I arrived. The fact that I was addicted to pornography and still struggled with many things and nothing else really changed in my life, because the Holy Spirit wasn't a person to me. He was more like a force, a feeling, an experience, speaking in tongues. That was what that was. I was familiar. But I didn't have fellowship and filled 13 years later. 13 years later, speaking in tongues for all those 13 years, I hit a rock bottom in the ministry. Nothing morally bad. It's just the sameness in the youth group. We would see 20, 30 kids. No breakthrough. We would go for actually a year and a half without water baptizing anybody. I remember one time we went actually for eight months without seeing one new person and one new person getting saved. Our youth service was this, and this. On the breakthrough Sunday, breakthrough Wednesday, we had this row. When it was a really big revival, it was three people right here. Everything else was empty. In fact, the pulpit was always right here for 13 years. The reason why is because there was no need to put it right here, because nobody came ever to this side. And that was like this for 10 years, until something happened personally to me. The Holy Spirit went from someone they did that was familiar with. He became a person to me. Now, how did that happen? I traveled to the Ukraine. Me and my wife decided to give our savings, our all of our savings away, so God can give breakthrough in our ministry. I wasn't trying to buy a blessing. I really felt that that's what I needed to do. And it was a painful process, but it was what needed. Came to this pastor in the Ukraine who was seeing 600 people getting saved every single Sunday. And I'm from America, young guy that's like, hey, could you pray for me while I want power, miracles, and big church? He said, uh, you don't need that. I was like, trust me, I do. He's like, you need to know the Holy Spirit. I was like, oh yeah, I speak in tongues. He's like, no, you don't get it. You need to know the Holy Spirit. I was like, I have a sermon series on the Holy Spirit. I know Holy Spirit. I read the Good Morning Holy Spirit. I read Cash Lunas in honor of the Holy Spirit. I've read the books. I know the Holy Spirit. I need the power. Miracles and big church. And he says, you don't understand. He says, you don't know the Holy Spirit. You only know about him. I was pretty offended.  And he prayed for me and he says, I'll pray that God will release miracles.  When I came home and I started to pray this prayer, I said, Lord, I want to know the Holy Spirit. Not just I want to speak in tongues more because I've been doing that, but I want to know who the Holy Spirit is. I want to know him personally, not just about him so I can preach, so I can know him so he can change me, change the ministry. So what I started to do is I would take a chair and put a chair in my prayer room. Again, this is for children. I was not necessarily super mature in that area. Put a chair and I put on the chair. Holy Spirit sits here. So I finished my prayer. I did my prayer, praise God, worship Jesus, confess my sins, speak in tongues.  Wasn't coming up with anything that the Holy Spirit sits there and I would take about three, four minutes every time and just talk to the Holy Spirit. Nothing super spiritual, also nothing super casual. Just talking to him as a person. Now a lot of that was in my head, but he was here. So I wasn't coming up with anything. It's in the Bible that he lives with us and he wants to talk with us. And I started to feel his presence, started to sense that he was talking back to me and through his scripture and all other stuff. And I started to have a fellowship with the Holy Spirit. I started to wake up in the morning and say, Good morning, Holy Spirit.   And I would start noticing that like my personally, I started to become a better husband to my wife. I started to just as a person. It didn't make me better than you. It just made me slightly better than me.  He started to make me different. And what started to happen after that? I started to pray for the sick every single service. I would travel and pray for the sick. I went to Seattle. It was this second story, small youth group gathering. And I just normal thing, six months already. I'm praying every time. I give a call for salvation, invite the kids to get rocked by Jesus. And then before I dismiss everybody, I say, if you're sick, I'm going to pray for you. Now for six months, I didn't see one healing, but I still pray. I was like, I'm just going to pray. Something's going to happen. So I prayed. Nothing happened. A month later, a lady brings her son for prayer line deliverance here. And the lady goes through screening and she says, I was scheduled for a surgery. They had to replace something with my shoulder. It was deeply wounded, deeply scarred, injured, etc. She said the next day I was scheduled for surgery, but I came to one of the meetings in upstairs room somewhere in Kent and landed this prayer for healing. I felt heat going through my shoulder and went to surgery. They said they found out that I absolutely don't need the surgery. My soldier is completely healed. So then this lady comes up and she tells me that I was like, my jaw dropped. I said, you what? What happened? You felt heat described there to me because this is first time that somebody testified that when I prayed something happened. Now I could tell you things when I prayed things got worse. So sometimes when people come up for prayers, they could you pray for me? I say, do you want things to get worse? Because my percentage of things getting worse is higher than things getting better. So I'm like, yeah, let's just keep that one headache instead of getting you three and stuff. So because I just didn't see a lot of results in prayer. I'll just be honest with you. I'm just being very honest with you just because I spoke and I didn't see the power flowing through the ministry. When this lady shared the story on Sunday, she brought her son for deliveries. But when she shared the, I was like, my God, God is alive. That night, we went to Portland, seven people testified of healing. And since that day, I haven't seen one time when I pray for healing, somebody doesn't get healed in the service. Things started to grow in the youth group. Things started to just take it another level. We started to see kids. Actually, Lewis was one of the first people that got saved. And he was working at Chico's Tacos. Two weeks later, he brought everybody from Chico's Tacos. People started getting saved. It was crazy. Every week we started seeing people saved. Lewis is still till this day serving and married my cousin, Vicky.  All right, never mind. And a few years later, the youth group started to grow. Now I am not in any way going to attribute it. This is just because of what I did. I think collectively there's a lot of other components. I'm sharing my journey about the relationship with the Holy Spirit. The third thing that I mention is the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. But the friendship with the Holy Spirit is slightly different. And something that I want to share with you today about the friendship of the Holy Spirit, and that is this. Friendship with the Holy Spirit is different than fellowship. Fellowship is this. You talk into the Holy Spirit.  Friendship is when you obey the Holy Spirit. Do you remember how Jesus says in John chapter, one of the, in John, Jesus says to his disciples, he says, you are my friends and you will think because we hang out together. Jesus says this thing that you should never say to your friends. You are my friends because you do what I say. Now, Ivan is my friend. Imagine me coming to Ivan and saying, Ivan, you are my friend. Why? You always do what I say. Well, okay. Well, that's an interesting definition of friendship. Jesus' definition of friendship is not you are my friend because we hang out. Jesus' definition of friendship is this. You're my friend because you do what I say. Fellowship is when you have a communion with the Holy Spirit. But it will never grow into friendship until there is obedience. It's possible to have a communion with the Holy Spirit and live in sin. It's possible to have a communion of the Holy Spirit and never pray. Read the Bible, evangelize, forgive, even practice homosexual tendencies like our sister shared today. And walk around and say, me and the Holy Spirit are cool. Yeah, but just be disobedient. It's kind of like having a marriage. If you're married and my wife, she gives me these instructions. Hey, take the garbage out. And then you know, she needs to remind me every two days, every two hours. Hey, can you, I'm not like, babe, I got it. I put it in my reminder list.  Well, no, but I will.  I learned it how to say that in Greek and Hebrew. And I have a Bible study that talks about we map direction from the garbage can to the other garbage can. And we discuss how we would feel taking the garbage out. I get it. Good. You have a support group for the taking the garbage out.  Well, I'm going to get to it. See, your intimacy with the Holy Spirit is contingent, not on just learning more about the Holy Spirit, but obeying what he asks. And sometimes it could be simple things. Forgive the person. Sometimes it could be simple things. Throw away things that don't belong to you. It could be simple things to pull away more to prayer. What I found out personally, sometimes what the Lord asks us to do in our hearts, it's consistent with the scripture. It's so hard that we play trade with him. We're like, Lord, you know I don't want to do that, but I'm going to double my prayer time. I remember one time when the Holy Spirit would put on my heart to empty my savings account and I said, Lord, no, but I will double my prayer.  He said, I didn't ask you to pray four hours a day. I asked you to empty my account. I said, okay, I'll pray five. I'll have fasting. Every other day I'll fast until I die. He says, I'm not asking you to fast every other day. I empty your account. It's like Saul, you know, God says go and take the Amalekites out. He's like, no, God, I'll bring you a lot of sheep, a lot of sheep, a lot of sheep. And God's like, I don't want the sheep. I want the Amalekites head. And we love to, we love to overcompensate with sacrifice where we lack in obedience. Intimacy with the Holy Spirit is contingent on this one thing, obedience. That's why when you see people who are friends with the Holy Spirit, you would think, oh yeah, they probably talk to the Lord five hours a day, not always. It's about obedience. They are obedient. Oh, they probably fast a lot. There are people who are very close to the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit uses him. It's not about how much you fast, how much you pray, and how much you read the Bible. Yes, all of us have to pray. All of us have to fast. All of us have to read the scriptures. But ultimately, we have to obey what he tells us and what he asks us to do. There are people here today, when the Lord begins to speak to you, say, hey, cut away that drink, cut away those friends, or maybe walk away from that, begin to serve, begin to do that. For me, I remember there was a time when we were like, hey, write a book about deliverance. I was like, no, I'm not writing a book about deliverance. I'm a high school diploma. I'm an immigrant. But some people think I'm a Russian spy. I am writing no books. Who is going to publish it? And I was like, Lord, you see, you see that I'm not called to write a book. I called two publishing people. They didn't even pick up my call. I was like, uh-huh, see, I'm not called. He says, I didn't ask them to publish it. I asked you to write it. I said, but who's going to publish it? He says, use Google. Figure it out yourself. I credit you as an intelligent human being. Use that brain. And today, when I published it, and this week is, I think it's a fifth book, now I have publishing companies. Some of them are the same ones who didn't pick up my call. When I would message like, hey, we want to publish your next book. I was like, where were you five years ago when I really needed you? Obedience unlocks friendship. Fellowship is when I hear him, when I talk to him, but the friendship is when he speaks to me and I listen to him. I remember when we came from the Ukraine and I let my cousin borrow my car. We had two cars, two Toyota Camrys. And we needed two cars because we lived in Richland. I worked at the church. Lana worked at the local BMW over there in Richland. So we drop off. I give my car to my cousin for a week while I was in Ukraine. And we come back. We just gave that big sacrifice that I was just telling you about. And I come back and I said, Lord, just speak to me. God, I just want to hear your voice. Holy Spirit. Anything. And I don't pray those prayers anymore. But when I was younger, I prayed those prayers. Lord, anything you ask me, I'll die for you. I'll go anywhere. You know, emotions are high. Devotions are low. And I remember at two in the morning, I can't sleep. I have a jet lag. So I decided to go to the local bank to withdraw money for a tide. And as I'm driving, so happens, I'm driving by the house of my end where my cousin lives. And my car is parked in the driveway. And I get this weird thought, give your cousin your car. I was like, two o'clock in the morning hearing voices. This is not good. And I sped up. I was like, no, that's my car. What about my wife? Who's going to take us? No. So on the way back, I was like, I'm not driving back that road. I don't want to see my car.  I don't want to see my car in her driveway and start thinking weird thoughts. We drew my tithing. I'm going out the other way. And then I'm remembering the prayer. I prayed on the way there. God, anything. I said, God, anything except the Yorah Camry. And man, I wrestled from two o'clock to six. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep. Part of me is like, but what if that's not God? What if, so what is this going to stop? So giving to Yorah Camry. What about, what if God's going to come for the second one? God sees that you're like yielding to start taking everything. My wife woke up and I said to the Lord, I said, Lord, if this is you, my wife has to agree with it instantly. And she will have to know we're going to have one in one car. So we're eating breakfast.  I don't want to do it. And I'm hoping my wife will not agree. So I will have a good excuse.  We're not seeing any changes. But what do you think if the cousin, my cousin, you know, who keeps the car, what if we just, just keep the car a little, just, just, just, just. I'm using a lot of just, just, and my wife even finishes my sentence. She's like, let's do it. Let's, you know, we're young. We don't have children. And I almost fell in love. God, you got her. This is not fair. I'm over there wrestling all night. And she just works up and she hears the reclin. She's completely fine. And I'm over there like, oh no, God, this is so hard. And she's just like, yeah, let's, let's just do it. Well, because it was my car. It was not her car. So it was way easier. And then a lot of transit and a lot of borrowing and everything. But honestly, looking back at it, a year later, I was in the meeting and a good friend of mine, Andres Bessoni, who I was watching reading books. And when I started to do these acts, I didn't do them. So I can be generous. I did it so I can be obedient. I understand some women think, Holy Spirit will never ask you of that. See, when you have these guardrails in your life, where you only think Holy Spirit tells you only what you like to hear, you might not hear those things.  And so a year later, after about a few of these things, we end up giving Lana's car. So we end up without both cars. So like, we end up with nothing, pretty much almost. But it was our journey. This is not everybody's journey. This was our journey. I was willing and I'll be honest with you. At first, I only said it, didn't mean it. With time I meant it. I was willing to give my whole life so that I can know this person, the Holy Spirit. I wanted to know him, not just about him. I lived my life, Christian life, for 15 years. I call it a pigeon religion. It was more like a pigeon religion. It wasn't a dove. I didn't sense that presence, that anointing, that grace. And I wanted that. And I set my heart for 12 months. What if I'm just going to give all of it when he asks and just leave my life with him? If I don't do it, the devil can take it anyway and stuff. So I'm just going to do that. I remember a year later, we're at the meeting. Andres Bessoni is praying for everybody.  Oh man, I just like... I fell like a... To me, that was more important than anything else. And after that, I held on to those words from this man of God and I said, Lord, that's my desire. Some people want to be friends with this president, that president, that famous person or that. I want to be friends with the most famous person in the world, the Holy Spirit. And you can be friends with him too. It starts with being more familiar, which is exactly what this message is, bringing your familiarity a little bit more. Then you start with fellowship. But I do have to warn you, to go deeper and to go further. There is a cost. And it might not be anything with cars. For me, the reason why it was cars and money is because my heart was so attached to that. For you, it could be fasting. It could be prayer. It could be, honestly, serving. For you, maybe it could be commitment, committing to church, prioritizing your family, whatever that is, but it's going to be in line with God's word. It will not be in line with your flesh. I can guarantee you that right away. And it will be something that more of you will die. More of him will live. And then the very area where you are tested the most will be the areas. You will get the most breakthrough. Amen. I want you to open your Bible with me. So this was my introduction. Let me just give you the conclusion and then we're going to pray. Genesis chapter 24. Genesis 24 and verse one. Now, Abraham was old, well advanced in age, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. And Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, please put your hand under my thigh. And I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife from my son from the daughters of the canonites, among whom I dwell. I want to share with you just five things about going deeper in the Holy Spirit, especially cultivating friendship. Number one, the Holy Spirit is like a ruler of all heavens wealth. Look at this story. Abraham had a son, but Abraham had an unnamed servant. We don't know his name for sure. Now, some people say what's Ilias are, but we don't know for sure. What I find interesting is this servant didn't have a name, because it's kind of like Holy Spirit. He wants to remain anonymous. You don't see Holy Spirit always blessing himself, promoting himself. He always promotes Jesus. But I want you to see here, Jesus also says that the Holy Spirit will take off what is mine in Gospel of John, and he will declare it to you. The Holy Spirit manages all of heaven's wealth. Holy Spirit is like this servant who managed all of Abraham's wealth. The Holy Spirit manages all of the resources of heaven, all of the power. In fact, God didn't even create the earth without the Spirit first being there. Miracles and signs are his activity on this earth. He is the one that does those things. He manages all of the wealth. So instead of seeking power, develop a relationship with him who has the power. Instead of chasing after miracles, why don't you develop a relationship with the manager that has all the miracles? Instead of just saying, hey, but I just want to be used by God, there is one person who does that, the Holy Spirit. Jesus says you will receive power when the Spirit of God comes upon you. So it wasn't the power that was the focus, it was the Spirit that was coming upon. The Jesus says that, behold, the Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for he has anointed me to heal the sick, to cast out demons. God's power is in the Holy Spirit. So instead of chasing the power, develop intimacy with the Holy Spirit. He is the ruler of heaven's wealth, can somebody say amen? The second thing I want you to notice is he is sent to find Isaac a bride. The Holy Spirit is sent to bring Jesus a bride. Catherine Coleman said, and I'm going to paraphrase it, is the Holy Spirit's job is to promote, and he's the greatest promoter, but the person that he promotes is Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is sent to glorify Jesus. In fact, Jesus says that, unless I am exalted, the Spirit will not be given. He says, but when I am exalted, the Spirit will be poured out. Something we have to be very careful is when many of us think that special chismatics or Pentecostals or tongue speaking, you know, people who love the power, love the miracles and all of this stuff, you must understand the Holy Spirit's job isn't to glorify himself, but to glorify Christ. Now is he God? Yes. Can we worship the Holy Spirit? Yes. In fact, Anasian Creed says, we worship the Spirit and Christ. He is part of the Trinity, but on the earth that he lives in us, his goal right now, his mission right now is point everything to Jesus. So we don't focus on the Spirit if we want more of the Spirit. We focus on Christ. Some people are like, well, but if I don't glorify and always kind of focus on the Holy Spirit, you know, I'm going to ignore the Spirit. No, no, no, you can have a relationship with him. But his assignment is to glorify Jesus. Amen. That's why when we win lost people, Holy Spirit likes that because it brings people close to Jesus. When we stand here and when we worship, Holy Spirit loves that because we glorify Jesus. He is God. He's not looking for attention for himself. He's giving all that attention to the Lamb that was slain.  Otherwise, I'm going to knock you out. Jesus is very protective of his Spirit. The Bible speaks of God that he said to the Israelites, he went against them because they grieved his Spirit. So both the Father and the Son, they fight for the Holy Spirit, but the Holy Spirit doesn't fight for himself. He doesn't defend himself. If you grieve him, he won't punish you. He'll just walk away. He always comes in loudly, leaves quietly. Samson didn't even know the Spirit left. Why? Because when he exits, he doesn't announce it. He's very gentle, very sensitive, not like easily sensitive, like we know some people, but sensitive in a sense that you can harm him, you can cause him pain. But one of the greatest joys of the Holy Spirit is not when you only fellowship with him. It's when you worship Jesus, when you honor Jesus, when you exalt Jesus, when you trust in Jesus. That's why many of us, we know about Jesus from reading the history, but when you come in contact with the Holy Spirit, he makes Jesus precious, he makes Jesus real. The closer I get to the Holy Spirit, more fascinated I am with Jesus, more in love I am with Jesus, more adoring I become of Jesus. Can somebody say that? Number three, so not only he's the ruler of the heavens wealth, not only Holy Spirit is sent to point people to Jesus, but number three, I want you to notice what happens. So this unnamed servant arrives at the well, camels, he has servants with him and this lady named Rebecca comes in there and the servant ran to meet her and said, please, let me drink a little water from your pitcher. Please, let me drink a little water from your pitcher. Now, I'm so glad Rebecca was not part of the feminist movement. As you be like, excuse me, someone got my nails done, little lashes over here, I am getting water. You got your arms, you get your own water, sir. I ain't gonna do that for you. Let me ask you a question. Could he get a water for himself? Of course. The guy was a guy. He had servants with him. He could have asked any of the servants, hey, could you give me water? They could have gotten the water. He runs to a woman. He doesn't need her help, but he starts something. I really believe his first was her test. Do you remember Jesus did the same thing with a Samaritan woman? He comes up, he could, Jesus didn't even need to get water. He was water. He comes to her and he says, woman, can you give me water? And she's like, and you know, a Samaritan woman, she watched a lot of soap.  It just brings all this kind of nonsense stuff.  I can give you the living water. What's your problem? I can give you the living water, bring your husband. And so Jesus kind of puts her in her place. She repents and he has a really, really amazing, amazing awakening. This Rebecca represents all of us. And the Holy Spirit represents this servant. And he comes to her, and I believe the Holy Spirit comes to us. And he says this question, will you give me a drink? I want you to notice the words, please indicates I'm not going to force it. It's a petition, not a command. Let me indicates I can force it. But I will let you decide to do that. A little bit of drink, meaning I'm not asking you for a well. Out of your picture, I think it symbolizes out of your schedule, out of your time. Holy Spirit wants fellowship with you. He's asking you for a little bit of water. Is there, if somebody has a, I'm pretty sure we don't have a pitcher, but I don't think I'll be drinking water from, from the, I'm just going to use this for just a second. And let's just pour some water right here into this pitcher. Sermon illustrates right in the spot. Every single day that you're, that's it, that's good. Every single day that you wake up, you have a cup. It's filled with 24 hours. You spent six or eight hours with sleep. Very important. Getting ready, going to work, going to school. And every day you have some water in your jar. You have some water in your cup. The Holy Spirit is asking you, because he is a person, he wants to be a friend.  Would you give me a little bit of your attention? Would you give me a little bit of your affection?  You're overwhelmed. Your husband or wife is getting in your last nerve and you're about to let them have it. What if you would pause for five seconds and in your heart you say, Holy Spirit, help, please, 9-1-1. Holy Spirit, help. And just wait for him to give you help to respond differently. Maybe you're facing exam tests, financial problems, and you can't do it. What if he says, would you invite me? Would you help? Would you give me that water? Give me that invitation? Invite me into your circumstances. Involve me in your situation. I'm God. I created this world. I can help you. Would you give me a little bit of attention? It doesn't have to be prayer. It could be a conversation throughout your day.  Now I understand some of us may think that I just took this verse and stretched it a little bit too far. In Corinthians chapter 13, verse 14, it says, The love of God, the grace of Jesus, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Have you noticed it doesn't say, the love of God, the grace of Jesus, and the communion with the Holy Spirit? Meaning it's not just something you have with Him, it's something He has with you. Now when it comes to the love of God, many of us do not disqualify ourselves and say, oh yeah, I'm not deserving of God's love. We know it's love you don't deserve. When it comes to Jesus' grace, you don't say, no, I messed up too much. I don't deserve that grace. No, it's not something you deserve. But when it comes to the fellowship, when it comes to having this relationship, giving Him over water, developing this intimacy, many of us are afraid. I was. In fact, in my mind, this verse read like this, and the conviction of the Holy Spirit be with you.  I know I'm not good enough. Imagine having a pastor chain to you everywhere you walk, everything you look, everything you think is just like monitoring everything. I'm like, I wouldn't have peace. You wouldn't have peace. You wouldn't have peace. And many of us think of the Holy Spirit the same way. We're like, man, I don't want to be too close. Like he's holy. I'm human. If he gets too close, like it's just, the last thing I need is somebody else telling me, what's wrong with me? Holy Spirit does convict us 100%. But his conviction is different than condemnation. Condemnation is you wrong. Conviction is your attitude to us wrong. But let me help you with that. Condemnation brings hopelessness. Conviction brings hope. Condemnation is from the devil. Conviction is from the Holy Spirit. Say, come here, let me help you in this way. But in here, it doesn't say in the conviction of the Spirit be with you. It says in the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you. Meaning Holy Spirit says, I'm offering friendship. I know I'm holy. You're human. I'm extending relationship where I will guide you and help you to walk. I will feel you and I will lead you. And I want to be with you. I know your dirtiest thoughts, craziest moments, and I still chose to be with you. Nothing that is happening in you catches me by surprise.  Holy Spirit doesn't have those moments. He's God.  He knows I'm capable of my weaknesses. And he still chose to dwell in me because the only hope I have of ever being holy is not me. It's the Holy Spirit. So I lean on that help. I need that help. And I need to stop being afraid that I'm too dirty, not good enough, not big enough, not holy enough, because the Bible says that the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you. Oh, A-L-L, meaning you too. But I'm just a stay-home mom. All means you. But I'm just a construction guy. You too. But I'm just a college student. You too. But I'm just a busy businessman. I'm running so many employees. All means you too. But I don't have a YouTube channel. I don't write books. I don't preach. I'm just a regular. Yeah, yeah, that's for YouTube. Did you ever say grace is not for me? Why? Because I've worked from nine to five. Did we ever say love is not for me? Why? Because I just, you know, I'm not doing anything worldwide. No, no. Grace and love is for everybody. So is Holy Spirit. It's for every one of us. It's not for the elite. It's not for the special. It's not for the apostles and the singers and the men and the women of God. It's for every Christian. All means, all. Somebody shout, me too. Man, that, all, that changed me. Man, I was like, even me included in secure introvert. One eye smaller than the other one. Not being comfortable around people, struggling with the English, all of that stuff. Even somebody like me and man, I know my weaknesses. I know the days that I don't read the Bible that I should have. I know when I fall short. I know me. And sometimes the parts of me I know I don't like. And I was like, if Holy Spirit has access to all of that private information, He probably don't like me either. But He wants to fellowship even somebody like me. Somebody like you. He knows you inconsistent. He knows you break your own promises. He knows emotionally. You say, yes, Lord, I'll give it all. And then you change your mind. He knows all of that. And you know what the interesting part? He's the only one that will help you to be different. He's the only one that will help me.  He doesn't even make me better than my wife. I really tried to ask Him to do that, but He didn't do that. You know what He does? He makes me better than me. He makes me better than me. I become different. I become better as a person. Now, because I tried harder, that's why it's called the fruit of the Spirit. It's not called the fruit of therapy. It's not called the fruit of fasting. The fruit of Lord really trying harder. No, the Lord is saying, Holy Spirit, help me. I know I am A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Could you help me? And then He gives me that help. When I am impatient, and I am very impatient of slow traffic, my wife taking extra says five minutes, but it becomes 25. You know, Jackal wakes up in the morning at five in the morning, and I'm not ready to do my devotions and He stands there, touches me, putting my says, Hey, I need to go. And I was like, Dude, I'm sleeping. No, wake up. Be nice to the animal, because the Bible says that a righteous man is not cruel to his animal. Okay, dog. I'm going to be a fruit of the Spirit. Well, a fruit of the Spirit. Be kind to my dog. I'm not going to hit him on the way down. I'm going to pet him. And then bring him to my devotions. And I said, Get on your knees. Repent waking up your master. Grieving your master's heart. Amen. Fellowship with the Holy Spirit. He's your friend. He wants to be your friend. I want you to notice the fourth thing after this, the Bible says in Genesis, she gives him a pitcher. So she gives him water. And this girl, she, she, she crazy. Because look at this. She finishes giving him water. And then she says, and when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, I will draw water for your camels also. Until they had finished drinking. It's one thing to give water from your pitcher. Camels, she didn't have a hose where she brought to each camel, put it into his mouth and say, close it. Let me turn on the hose, water, and you drink it. Camels drink a lot of water. Camels drink 8 to 12 gallons of water daily. And thirsty camel can drink up to 30 gallons of water in one sitting. So let's just imagine 30 gallons of water. Those buckets have five gallons, 30 gallons of water. And this, there was no hose. So you have to go to the well, draw the water from the well. Fill it, 10 gallons. Let's just say she had those buckets from Lowe's or Home Depot. Brings it down. And remember, the guy is standing there. She volunteers. She, he doesn't ask us, hey, I thank you for giving me some water. What about the camels? Camels, he's not doing the, the servants are standing there. Now, some of us may seem like, man, that's just not fair. You know, she's being abused. No, she's not, she's volunteering. She's volunteering to water the camels. What she did not know is the camel she's watering have gifts and jewelry that belong to her. She didn't know that at first. She waters all the camels. I just wanted to take a moment and to mention, if you want to get closer to the Holy Spirit, learn to water camels. What I mean by that? Volunteer at the local church. Volunteer. Don't wait until you get asked. Yeah, nobody's asking me. She wasn't asked to water camels. She signed up on planning center. She wasn't, hey, we really need help with kids ministry. No, she said, hey, kids ministry, every church needs help with kids ministry. I would love to water them camels. An amazing part about the church camels is they are very thirsty. That's why some of you, you've been in church. You've been heard serving in church. You're like, man, I don't want to serve in church. Why? Because you volunteer for one thing. They see you faithful. They sign you up for five other teams. And then you need to be there a Saturday or Sunday. And every day and it's just like a lot of water. These camels are thirsty, 30 gallons. She volunteered 30 gallons for a camel. She served in that. We're not talking about being burned out or being abused. But I do believe that God wants to build a culture where we don't look constantly for a place where we get to be shown in, but we're looking for a place where we can serve. So many people look at God, give me more power so I can heal the sick. What about using the power to help other people with the power that you have? You can help the kids ministry today without the power to drive out demons. You can help insecurity by learning how to use your gun. You can help with the camera team by simple learning how to use your hands. So many people would come up, young people would come up. Like, man, can you pray for me? I want to receive double portion. I said, what are you doing with the first portion that you have? What are you serving with that portion? Pray for the activation of the gifts. I said, the ones that got activated the last three years, what are you using them for? You can't expect God to give you the jewelry, the gifts until you're doing also buckets with water, watering the camels. I know you won't get the Instagram recognition. Yeah, you're probably not going to get a brand deal. But listen, you will water some camels and you never know what that will lead. It develops a heart of humility in you. It develops your character and your maturity when you begin to water the camels. I just want to take a moment and acknowledge every Rebecca at Hungry Jan who has been faithfully watering the camels. People from the parking lot, people in the sound booth, right my man right there with lights, people that have been doing the prop presenter, people that have been doing the worship team, people that have been doing the camera work, people that have been guiding and make sure that we get ourselves seated, people that are working in the kids ministry, people that are helping with food, everyone that is serving in every capacity, can we give a round of applause for watering our camels, taking care of our children, serving with our youth, building our small groups, opening the church at 5 a.m. so that the people can come and pray. We don't get paid to do that, we get to do that. Some of us pay to do that, why? Because we love the church, the Holy Spirit loves the church because it's the pride of Jesus and we get a chance to water the camels. I know we live in a culture today where you pick up a piece of paper and you want to send somebody an invoice. But I think God wants us to have a volunteer revolution at Hungry Jan. We will always have people that are on this paid staff. It's very important and very necessary. Worker is worthy of his wages, nothing is wrong with that. But if we live in a culture where we don't lift a finger and we don't water the camels, unless we send somebody an invoice, we might not have the heart of Rebecca and have access to those gifts. Because gifts are not there to make us powerful or famous. They are there to make us effective and to make us useful. Amen.  You're serving with your resources. You're serving with your connections. Because you can write one check and that could really change the trajectory of a lot of stuff that happens in the church. And I want to let you know we appreciate, Jesus appreciates when you have a heart that doesn't just say Holy Spirit, because this is what a lot of people have.  He didn't just, she didn't just water him, meaning give him water and said, Camels, oh, that's nasty.   They will just use you all the time and stuff. So, yeah, I just avoid from that toxicity. I'm just going to stay away in peace. It's just me and myself. I'm going to realign myself. And so I'm going to stay away. I used to do that. I graduated from that. I got my nails done. I got my stuff done. You know, like I really got healed from that. I want to stay away from ministry and all of that. I get it. I understand with respect. I want to speak with respect. I've been in the church for 20 years on the paid staff. I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly. I've seen people leave you, talk about you, all of that. The reason why I am serving at the local church is not because I never got hurt. Jesus died for the church. He's building it. He loves it. And while there were some crazy people, they did some stuff to me, there were times I was crazy and did some stuff to them. I'm not perfect. And our church will never be perfect. Our church will always be perfected. We are hurt people, lost sinners who found our way in Jesus, trying to build a community. We will never have it perfect. But if we have our heart right on Jesus and we all have a serving spirit to water the camels, God's going to do a miracle, then this hungry gen will not be because of the gifts of one, but because of the sacrifices of many. I want to invite you to deeper relationship with the Holy Spirit by watering the camels, serve the youth, serve the children, serve in your area. Yes, it takes time watering camels does. Yes, it doesn't feel like you're not getting rewarded. Yes, you're not getting, you know, there seem to be, what is, what is from that? Well, if your eyes are on the man, then yes, it's discouraging.  He is being pleased. My life is being invested into the kingdom life. Amen. Hallelujah. The last thing, and they go into the house, he gives them jewelry. Everybody gets jewelry, gifts are like jewelry, not in the sense that they are like toys, but in the sense that they beautify the church, but they're more like tools. And then this unnamed servant looks at Laban and says, Laban, I need to take Rebecca, we need to go. Laban is like, go where? He's like, well, she needs to go see her future husband. Now, please understand, put yourself on Rebecca's shoes. The girl, she didn't see the guy. There is no Myspace, Facebook, there's a Tinder, ChristianMingle.com, nothing. Literally, the oldest servant probably is just describing, yeah, he's a guy, has facial hair, about five, eight, and yeah, he's all right. That is pretty loaded though. That's about it. She hasn't seen him. There's no Google Maps, or she can, you know, kind of track, take the satellite picture, she kind of like, wear how he looks. It's totally unknown. Laban is her brother, it's what she knows. And now this servant says, I want you to leave what you know, leave what you're familiar with, and I want you to come into the unknown. And I love this, because Laban looks at her and says, so, you want to go? She says, of course. I believe the next level in the Holy Spirit comes with leaving Laban. Most of us know what it's like to leave bad things that hurt us. Maybe a bad relationship that is so toxic, you leave that. Most of us know what it's like to give up alcohol, it's destroying your health, it's destroying your driver's record. Most of us know what it's like to give weed, give up weed, pornography. Most of us know what it's like to give up gambling. We know what it's like to give up maybe cigarettes. We know what it's like to give up the sinful things.  Come on, really? That wasn't a sacrifice. That's good for you. You live longer.  No, that's not a sacrifice because if God wanted you to smoke, he'll build a chimney on the top of your head. He didn't. So he doesn't want you to smoke.  He doesn't want you to smoke. So that's not a sacrifice. Real sacrifices, now when you give up, would hurt you. Real sacrifices, when you give up, what comforts you and giving it up hurts you. That's a sacrifice. Laban is comfort. Laban is convenience. Laban is routine. Laban is I got my budget. I got my sleeping cycle. I got my rhythm here. I got my friends here and I'm walking into the unknown. See, some of you came to try cities physically into the unknown, but God's spirit led you here. You didn't know anybody here, but there was something inside of you said that you need to go there. Some of you came to Hungry Jam and you came from a church where you knew everybody. You knew everything. And you came into this unknown territory, like, man, deliverance, demons, Holy Spirit is walking around, yelling and screaming and all other stuff. Man, I don't understand. The music is loud, but something in your spirit says, that's where you need to be. That's where you're going to grow. That's where your family is going to grow. And so I want to invite you today. Do not hesitate to follow the spirit, not only out of the things that hurt you, but out of the things that comfort you and leaving them brings a little bit of hurt. Do not be afraid when the church declares a fast and you say, yeah, I am comfortable feasting and eating, but this time I'm going to push the plate aside and I'm going to leave Laban and walk into the unknown. Walk out of the familiar. Walk out of the mediocrity. Walk out of the predictable and the routine and step into the unknown. I don't know what waits for me there, but I will follow the Holy Ghost. I will follow the Holy Ghost. I remember when we gave that first car, oh man, it was scary. What's going to happen? People will make fun of us. But see, I stepped into the unknown and I can tell you back, I am so glad that I did that because I started to see that in the unknown is where the miracles are at. See, fresh fire is found out of the borders, outside of the borders are what you're familiar with. Sometimes we develop our routines and our routines become a religion. Our religion becomes a pigeon religion. There is no spiritual life there and the Holy Spirit says, come, come out of the shore, into the deep, come out of what's comfortable, into the what is unknown, come out from the complacency, come. But I don't want to go to cell group. I don't know anybody there. I don't want to go to life class. I'm afraid to commit. I don't want to join the church. I could hurt before. I don't want you because I'm scared.  Jesus is worthy.  A lot of those fears are nothing but just fears.   I stepped into the university. I'm so glad that I finished the university. I stepped into my career. I'm so glad that I left the ex because then I stepped into the next. Some of you cannot step into the next until you leave your ex. And your ex is what you're comfortable with.  I want to invite you to go after the Holy Spirit.  Some of us die at 40, and they bury us at 70. And we just exist. We just breathe in air, but we don't live. There's no more dreams. Memories are bigger than dreams. The past is bigger than the future. And the Holy Spirit wants to take you out of that and say, listen, I want you to dream. I want you to believe. I want to bring my power and my anointing into your life. Into the unknown step in. Is it scary? Of course. But sometimes staying the same is more scary. One of the reasons me and my wife decided to do some of those things is because staying at the place where I was was more scary. I wanted to go into the new. I wanted to see the Lord move. And I'm so glad. And I want our church to be the same. I want to invite you, a man, young man, listen to me. A young woman. You can be coming to Hungry Jan. And not be friends with the Holy Spirit.  The goal isn't to gather a crowd. The goal is for us to know the Lord. To live in revival.  God wants you to have revival. And no revival is not shaking, baking, throwing up, yelling and running around with the flag. Nothing against with the flags. Revival is you being alive. Revival is you loving Jesus today. As much and more as you love them yesterday. Revival is this alive inside.  The winning souls making disciples. Seeing people's lives change because you are involved in them. Not being perfect, but being perfected.  Have you spiritually feel like you lost that? If there's those of you here today, you're like, man, I'm in that complacency, mediocrity. I am in that place where it's the same. Something used to change. I want you to get out of your seat and come forward right now. Thanks for watching this sermon. If this was a blessing to you, would you let me know in the comments below what stood out to you from this message? What are you taking home with you from this message? 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More than 6,000 St. Lucians have now received the AstraZeneca vaccine and that number is increasing daily. Health officials say rolling out the vaccination campaign with frontliners and leaders helps quell public apprehension about the vaccine. Here's Daniel Dubois. The government of St. Lucia has been leading by example with St. Lucia's COVID-19 vaccine rollout. As the Ministry of Health seeks to build confidence and trust in the process, the Prime Minister and Cabinet of Ministers have helped the effort. Prime Minister Hon. Alan Sharsney received his first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine on March 17, 2021 at a live event on the national television network, along with Minister of Health and Wellness Mary Isaac, Chief Medical Officer Sharon Belmont-George, and Principal Nursing Officer Julieta Cassius. Local physicians, as well as members of the Royal St. Lucia Police Force and the Fire Service, also received the vaccine that day. Several Ministers of Cabinet have followed suit by receiving the vaccine in their communities, taking part in outreach activities and documenting the process. So it's really, really good. I'm happy that I did. I came here in this facility where dozens of my constituents have actually shown up this morning and all through the course of today to be able to take theirs. So I'm very, very pleased with what I've seen and a lot of the elderly folks and people with underlying conditions have actually had the opportunity to be able to do so. So this is really good. It's a game changer in the COVID fight and it's absolutely fantastic. The response has been overwhelming. The reports we have received from other centres today and all through the week have been extremely phenomenal and that is just something that is going to be a great inspiration to our COVID fight. So it really is a great beginning. All those who organised the event today, I think they have demonstrated a passion and a willingness to assist in us in combating this COVID virus.  Only two weeks into the rollout, over 6,000 St. Lucia's have already received the vaccine, illustrating that confidence is growing as St. Lucia continues the path to herd immunity and managing the pandemic. Look, I'm very excited. Obviously, you can see the relationship that the health centres have with the communities. We've had almost 100 people and we have not even gotten into the afternoon as yet. So the response has been very positive in taking the vaccine and the level of enthusiasm. And certainly, everybody has commented on how great the nurses have been. So the war against COVID has begun and for the first time, we really have something in which we now can be much more aggressive in dealing with COVID. And I'm really hoping that all solutions will follow suit of what we've seen today and coming out and becoming vaccinated. Reporting for the Office of the Prime Minister, I am Daniel Dubois.


Yeah. Thanks. Right. So I'll start sharing my screen. If it allows me to, there you go. Yeah. So I'll make this a little bit bigger. Can everybody see it? Yes. Yes. All right, cool. So this is about to introduce, I don't have any formal presentation here that we don't, we don't, this is fairly new. So we don't have a lot of material. Maybe, and I thought that there was another presentation going to happen from Julia Muft. Nevertheless, I would like to introduce that. And once we have more material, maybe I'll do an actual, and if there's interest, an actual presentation and prepare for it. All I want to do now is just introduce this initiative. And maybe discussions can start. And this is, as I said, is a community initiative. So we rely on community feedback. And this is for the community. So the initiative is called a triple seven soft landing or triple seven and the flight soft landing. And we have, we have, I'll provide some links as I go along. Let me just find where is it the chat. Yep, there you go. I'll put it in the chat. So this is the main page of the initiative, which is basically the documentation and we have specified the initiative goals and the scope. And, and there's additional pages that will be added here in the future. If you go to the scope. Right. So this is broken down and we are hoping because it's lengthy, we are hoping to break this down further and provide additional links and the same goes for the understanding your options as a triple seven site owner. Pays. So, so they're kind of lengthy. So maybe we'll split them into sub pages, depending on use case. But as I said, this is fairly, fairly new. Who the who just let me go just back to the initial page. So the initiative I take no credit this initial work was done by Irina, Zach's which is a I'll give you credits is a person that is based in the US sees the owner founder and owner of Fibonacci Web Studio. So web developers is very active. She's been a drop of 15 plus years and if I am not mistaken see recently finished some role. I'm not entirely sure in the Drupal Association but she's very active. The other member that is currently a co maintainer is Tim. He's also based in the US. And he runs a company called triple triple sorry. He's been active for almost 13 years now, very active in local Drupal camps and and other contributions as well. And same as me. We are both working with backdrop CMS which is one of the options that will be suggested as an option here for Drupal site, Drupal seven site owners. So I'll quickly show this what this is all about. So this is the official usage stats for Drupal core in Drupal.org. It shows the various versions of Drupal core that are out there. The big red portion here is Drupal seven so we have a good 400,000 websites still running on Drupal seven and for whatever reason. This this line here where it picked was where Drupal eight around when Drupal eight was announced. And enough time was given many years for site owners to switch to Drupal eight, nine or 10, but people seem to not have been doing that. And the initiative is starting with the goal to help these people move on because by the unless something changes by the end of this year and then the 2023. The project will come will become end of life so it means no more bug fixes no more security updates, but this remains to be seen actually it will be officially decided in July this year. At the same time because this is like a huge portion of the Drupal community. So we don't want to leave these people behind for whatever reason they were left behind could be it would could have been budget usually it's most likely that or just the amount of work that needs to be done basically. So yes, people have been more slowly moving to towards the newer versions of Drupal but but not enough people. So this is what this is about only today just a few maybe an hour ago I also started a project to match this initiative. So there is, I'll provide the link for that in the chat as well. So, again I've added the same people as the commentators we are yet to establish a an official time where we meet to discuss the agenda there's no issues open. So what we are planning this there will be no code or releases here. This will just be to provide links to the documentation, the resources, and also so that people can open issues with things that they want to suggest that maybe we have missed that we haven't considered, or maybe offer advice or additional solutions. I should mention also that. So there's, there's multiple solutions that are being offered so it's of course it's the suggestion that people should move as soon as possible to Drupal nine or 10. Right. But for those that for as I said whatever reasons are not ready to move yet. And we would like to suggest that they move to backdrop CMS which is for those that not aware a Drupal seven fork a continuation of Drupal seven. And this will not a lot of information will be here because we are not trying to you know, shamelessly pitch backdrop to here there will be some links and some prawn, a point cons listed, but very high level. I would like to make this about backdrop CMS, although I say I'm a bit biased because I belong in the project management committee of that project. The goal here is to help site owners, the stand what their options are the various options, and, and, you know, help them move from their own, maybe would be tools that allow them to do a site audit on their site and understand the complexity. Maybe it will be providing links or improving the existing channels that we have so that site owners can find a right partner at their partner to help them in that process whatever they decide to go with. So yeah, this is in general the, the goal of the initiative. And yes, I would like to ask everyone to participate. And maybe in another follow up meeting, I will have more of an official presentation with more resources more actual structured information that I can provide. And with that, I would like to maybe open the floor for questions. Yes. So module development and contribute that's come from Drupal seven is that work like one for one in backdrop. Yes. So it's easier to port modules to Drupal seven. If they're just very simplistic modules, there's a Drupal seven compatibility layer. So all your Drupal underscore functions will still keep its own by the ball. They will still work. There's very few comparability backwards comparability breaking changes so chances are that if your module is very simple you just change a single line in the dot info file and it just works. Now, there's more elaborate projects like for example that group module comes to mind, or rules that needed some more, some additional work. But yes, if it's not like this. I don't know like 1000 of the most popular modules already have been ported because backdrop has been around for a long time. Maybe the questions that you're asking is like recently in the past year after multiple extensions of the end of life we had some serious organizations move huge projects and save huge amount of money for the customers. So it was an appealing solution. So we kind of have more people coming in and these organizations have the resources to port even more modules. So if there was if we had 98% of the modules that they needed ported, and they needed to get these organizations across. And so we have supported them and contributed them. And as like figures that come off the top of my head, maybe it's not accurate, I will provide links to those it's like, I think, which is again an agency in the US have moved two of the very complex websites in the family to Stanford University. And if I recall the numbers correctly that like they finished the move the upgrade to backdrop like in three months. And they, the initial sort of like estimate to move them to Drupal eight or nine was around the one million mark, and then they ended up only using like 400,000 out of that like so they they save the customer like 50 60% of the budget so we're talking about huge savings there. And at the same time they moved them to a solution which there may there is discussions in the community that that until the usage of Drupal seven drops to a very serious, like to a very small amount, it will maybe perpetuating the support likes at least security updates, again, not official. There are some people that want their site to the Drupal seven site to run forever as it is so that will be a good option for them. Right. But there's, there's people that want a security supported version of the software that they're running and at the same time they want as, as you know, things evolve they want to add new features to the site at the same time so in that case backdrop CMS is a good solution for them. And I can talk more about backdrop CMS but that was not the goal presentation but yeah sure. Ask away any questions. Don't don't let that discourage you. Yep. Any any other questions. Just like I have a follow up. So, do you do you feel that having this initiative on Drupal contributes to the fragmentation of the community overall instead of getting people to go from seven to eight and focus on Drupal it's sort of like giving them. I will give a clear path away from it. Yes, I will give a short answer the answer is no I don't believe that there's any fragmentation and then I will give a more elaborate answer so when backdrop CMS was announced. It was how it started was silly so the people that founded that started the project we were long term you know Drupal. The names that you usually see the usual suspects as I say chronic Drupal users right. So they started the forecast as a joke like you know when they saw that the eight move happening the changes and what they would mean for their business, the business that they were running. And initially was started like a joke like they said, we can always fork. Right. So, one of them actually did start and fork the project that the seven project and just to see what what amount of work would be required and what it would look like. But because he was a renowned person among the community didn't go unnoticed. And initially there was some concern like you express now. But we have been around for like 10 years now and it was a bit like when we never aimed to be hostile. We meant to be a solution for like the initiative states that maybe that's a good thing. I'm trying to find a link where it's there's a presentation that says that. Yes. So, so the initiative sprung off the presentation that team, one of the maintainers of the initiative currently has done, which has a graphic that I would like to present. And this will come as a as an additional sort of like answer to you. I'll make this a little bit larger. So, this is the graph that I showed you earlier. And this is the graph that was in an original post back like 10 years ago when when backdrop CMS was announced, and this was the goal. So we started noticing as a rough outline of this that the seven was and predicted at the same time that it would decrease and also the way that things are going because the symphony based versions of Drupal were hard, like people needed to be familiar with the composer and symphony it was a whole different thing whatever reasons, we predicted that this decline, it already had started right. And this is the solution that we recommended that we said that we are a friendly product. And I'll specify what I mean afraid of product and we would like to capture people that would otherwise flee to other platforms and other software and continue the upwards trend that Drupal had since the days of the seven, which I personally had the most successful versions was Drupal. Right. So, recently trees has publicly like a thing it was an interview that he's done during one of the Drupal points announced that they, they consider backdrop CMS now as part of the family and that we've with improved things in the community. And I'll, I'll, I'll explain what I mean when I say that we are a friendly product. So if you're from a digital agency perspective right, your developers don't have to learn anything new, if they worked with Drupal seven before, it will be like at home like they won't have maybe a few new things that they will have to learn for example in backdrop CMS we backboarded, or we implemented our own solution of content management, CMI things that we're founded in the eight. So you will get some of the benefits of Drupal eight and beyond, plus the good, you know, old fashioned whatever used to be Drupal seven. So your developers will not have to retrain from a site owner perspective. Your content editors because the UI and the concepts and the structural content entry has not changed. You will not have to retrain completely retrain your content editor team. Right. And I said that the cost is less. Now, trying to keep these people within the Drupal community is useful for the product for the project itself for the software. Right. Because people that are not ready to move to the seven now may be in a few years. Right. And, and moving from backdrop to Drupal 11. I don't know, whatever that is, would be as easy as moving from Drupal seven and in some aspects, maybe easier. Right. So, the goal in general is to a, do not make it seem that we are forgetful and leaving the Drupal seven site owners to their own luck. Right. Destiny. We want to show them that as a community we care for them that we realize and we understand that this, this transition to newer versions of Drupal has been problematic for one reason or the other. We want to respect that and help them maybe that means that Drupal solution or a backdrop solution is not best of them and then maybe they will have to move to something entirely different and that's totally fine. But rather than leave them lingering in a potentially insecure in the future, not supported software, but out of those hundreds of thousands of site owners that are considering a solution if they stay or if they move to backdrop. There's more chances that in the future will still keep them and they will move to a future version of Drupal. So we keep them within the family that's that's the whole goal. So yes, I hope I answered your question there with that. Certainly thoroughly. Yes. Anyone else. I had a question. Great. So, with this initiative, the Drupal enterprise software initiative. What is the main, I know you showed us the main, the main page on Drupal. But what is the main objective of this initiative. Is it just discussions or is it about showing the, like, what are the different options. Yes, all of that is raising awareness. One of the things that is a big, big pet peeve of mine is that Dress Drupal seven has been supported for many years now. It's sessions on trying to, I will use the word forcefully and please excuse for lack of better words to forcefully move people out of Drupal seven and into the nine, regardless of whatever problems they are facing. But we have not had any Drupal specific sessions in any of the big events in Drupal and this is this is not fair to the community that was still using a, I understand that the new thing is the more shiny thing and everybody moves to that right. But we had signs for many years that people, for whatever reason, as I said, we're lingering in Drupal seven, and we have not been doing that much. One of the goals, the main goal is to just help Drupal seven site owners find a solution moving forward, right, but sub tasks of that goal or manifestations of, you know, the efforts that we will make to provide the soft landing is provide tools, provide specific events or sessions within greater Drupal events, if there's need for it, and provide a means for these people that may be considered that that the rest of the community has moved on and left and behind that that is not the case that we are still supporting and we are here for them. Right. Did that answer your question or Yeah, I did. And I understand that this is a very recently started initiative. Yes. And so what is what are the next steps like. So we are seeking to establish maybe a weekly or fortnightly meeting maybe over zoom, or something like that where people can join us. So we need to look down the resources like there's tools like Drupal modules that help you that maybe they need. Like they have a lot of bugs or issues in their cues and they will need to move them forward like the upgrade status module comes to mind right to help people with moving to Drupal nine and 10. So we will plan to to solicit help so that we can drive focus towards these tools that make it easier for people in Drupal seven to move to a platform, provide documentation. And, and once we've established a meeting, maybe we'll outline actionable points. Now, having said that as you said we're only three people and we can only think as much as three people. I today opened the respective Drupal dot org issue queue, so that we can have the community come there and say hey I went through your documentation guide, and I see that you are applying these three solutions, but hey this this additional solution maybe you should suggest that. Now I understand that we are not by saying listing solutions we're not going to specifically list all available CMS is out there right. We have a divorced product that will be mentioned by name with the blessings of Drupal Association and other people that we have told in talked in to in Drupal will be backdrop CMS. And again, there will be no dedicated page for that there as you know outlining all the features that backdrop has no it will be maybe just a list a short high level list of pros and cons of why you should move to that, and then links to the project events or other resources. The other CMS is in solutions will be provided as sort of like a vague. You know, third party solution that you maybe need to move to, like for example people, it may be suited for some sites that like they haven't become ambitious, what we call or the structural the structured way of the entry that happens in Drupal, maybe it's not what should have been planned for that site to begin with and maybe WordPress is a better solution for them or weeks or space still right we want to provide that as a sort of like as an optional solution and maybe, as I said, as as chronic Drupal people, we always try to tailor every project that we have around Drupal, but maybe that's not ideal right we need to have other things to consider. Yeah. I'm a bit confused now I do understand what you're saying but how will this initiative as a community initiative guide people towards something like this because this these things become very project specific so are you expecting as part of the initiative with people will come to you and say, hey, we have this current project and no. Yes. So you will see. There with me. So if you go to the main page already, you will see if I recall correctly is the understanding your options. It's this is sort of like now currently in its current form is that it's sort of like a question and answer thing so does your site work as it's supposed to then this is what you would need to do so there's a lot of to do here. So still, as I said this is this is draft initial drafts to get the initiative going, but it would be see what if you're not ready to upgrade. What are your options so it would be trying to help people understand the current status of their site, what their needs are, and what would be the appropriate solution for them moving forward. So this will be a very long term solution for them, right. So this will be that the path. This is how it will work. Right. So of course, the main drive would be go to a newer supported supported version of Drupal which would be the D9 detaining the deniation of it, or if you're not ready to upgrade for whatever reason, we accept that here the alternatives and backdrop is one of them. So, yes. All right. Thanks for that explanation. If I don't have any questions because I do have one more, not a question but a suggestion or way forward. But if any others have my questions please, or because I don't want to call it the limelight. Yeah, no worries. Anyone else. So shoot away with the next suggestion or question. I mean, basically, again as next steps. Have you gone ahead and created a, for example, a discussion channel on Slack, the Drupal Slack yet or whatever because you need to. I had my comedy hat on now. So, though, you have to make this popular. You need to make sure that people know about this in Michigan. So what are you doing? Yes. So I have to admit that sort of like my passion is backdrop CMS so I linger around that community. It's the same thing with team but Irina recently started like she's been hovering around the community and asking questions for like a year or maybe more. But recently she has been more active in our community and she's the main drive that organized she started this initiative from the Drupal perspective. So one of the tasks that we had one of the few tasks that we had this past week was add myself and team as commentators. This has been done, create a project with some people can start raising issues and also that we have a starting point that took to link people to resources. And then the next thing would be for people that already have access and can create channels in Drupal Slack to start a dedicated channel for this project as well or other resources and also as I said to establish a meeting that is fairly regular so that we can. It will be sort of, we haven't figured out what format it would have but I'm imagining that would be discussion of agenda of items that we need like documentation that we need to work on comms that need to go out or what have you, and also maybe a sprinting where we actually do those things in that half an hour one that the meeting is going to be like, but yes, if, for example, if you want to help if you go to the project here and and start an issue that says, create a Slack channel for this. Right. This will be one of the tasks that we need to do someone needs to do it it's so many things we haven't organized properly again so so yeah. All right. Thanks a lot for this and stop in the recording now.


We're here at the ITU studio in Geneva, and I'm very pleased to be joined by Mr. Majed Amaziyed, who is General Manager of International Affairs for the Communications, Information and Technology Commission for Saudi Arabia, and he's also Chairman of the Council Working Group for International Internet Public Policy for the ITU. Mr. Amaziyed, thank you very much indeed for being with us today. It's my pleasure. I wanted to start off by talking about the Council Working Group that you're Chairman International Internet-related public policy issues have been at the center of global attention. What's the Council Working Group's mandate and your role as Chairman? The Council Working Group was established based on a decision by the Plenty Potentiary 2010 in Guadalajara. The former Council Working Group used to be the dedicated group on international and international public policy issues. It was established based on the WhatsApp results in 2008 in Johannesburg. The mandate of the Council Working Group is to identify and develop matters related to international and international public policy issues. The Council in 2009 has decided, based on the Resolution 1305, to identify a list of public policy issues. We have taken some of these public policy issues into consideration in the discussion in the Council Working Group. Will you be conducting open consultations with all the stakeholders and what's the scope of these discussions? Definitely. The last session of the Council decided on the modalities of the open consultation. As I recall, it's Resolution 1344 which decided on the modalities and the last meeting, the second meeting of the Council Working Group, the group decided on three issues to be taken to open consultation. The first one is the relates to compacting spam and the second one has to deal with the internet protocols of the IPV4 and the last one relates to the development of the internet. It's a complex matter but will you collate the respective positions of stakeholders for presentation to the Plenty Potentiary Conference in 2014? Based on the modalities that have been decided by the Council in 2012, all the inputs will be posted in the website of the Council Working Group and these inputs will be considered by the Council Working Group and based on the reports that will be taken to the Plenty Potentiary, all these inputs will be reflected. And finally, what further steps do you think will be required internationally to arrive at consensus? There is a good collaboration in the participants of the group. There need to be more contribution from some of the member states who has not contributed so to address the concerns of all the member states in regards to these issues relates to the international public policy issues. Mr Thomas here, thank you very much for being with us today. Thank you very much, my pleasure.


Hey everyone, welcome to today's day trading recap. Today's Friday, January 15th. Another positive day today, plus 551. Not quite over the $1,000 mark like I was hoping to get four days in a row, over 1,000, but still green nonetheless at plus 551. So let's go over the trades for the day, and then I'll recap the week.  So one for one on the mighty 90s, no pairs trades.   Now that Roku trade, as I'll show you, we actually were down significantly more. We were down about $1,100, paired that back, so still took loss of 475, but kind of a win in my book, bringing that back to where it ended up, based on where we were. So let's go over the trades, and then I will recap the week for you, starting with, let's go with the mighty 90s, and start with Netflix and Tesla. So let's see, let's minimize win here. So Netflix, Netflix had this initial, this big push down here. We got long right here, which was a really good entry, and it looks like it had a great bounce. The options just, the calls that we had just were not paying us in relation to the size of the bounce of the stock price, in my mind, but we ended up getting out just right here and booked $70, so small, small win in Netflix. In Tesla, Tesla was a loser of 226, and the reason why is it made this great push, and we were getting a higher volume, so we got, but we started getting long right here, right at yesterday's open, and it kept pushing. Now, typically in this case, I will scale in and add some more size, and the market was just getting really weak, so I was just being a little bit patient, and then it started to bounce. We just got up here, so it was below where we got in, so we just took a loss on that trade. In Tesla, had I added, we could have turned it into a positive trade, but shoulda coulda woulda. Now, on the runners, let's go to DKNG to start. We had a nice runner in Donkey Kong for plus 244, so it had this big flush lower massive volume. When it bounced, we got short right here and caught this move down here. We got out of most of our trade right here, still had a little piece on. It bounced hard on us, and finally when it pushed above this pivot, I just bailed on that last piece, but still booked a nice winner of 244. In NEO, now NEO is one that we don't trade a lot, but we caught a $285 winner in NEO. Kind of a similar concept, had this flush down massive volume spike when it bounced up. We got short here, and I just got out after it gave us a couple red bars in our favor, so plus 285 there. Another one that we don't trade very much is PINs. This was called out by one of the members in our live stream. PINs kind of very same thing. Big volume spike here, got short on this bounce, and just took a piece out of it. Now we stayed in this for a while. We got ahead of our last piece right here. I was just done watching this consolidate, and wouldn't you know it? Right after we got out, it flushed again on our last piece, but we got out of our last piece right there. We still booked a profit in PINs of plus 168. Roku, let's go to Roku. This was our biggest loser, and I'll show you what we did here. On this initial move up, we had this pretty big volume spike here, and so instead of playing it like a Mighty 90, we played it like an upside runner. We waited for this pullback, and so it got long right here. As you can see, it just kept flushing, so we added a little bit here, and then we waited, waited, waited, and then I think it was I think it was right here. No, it was anyway, I can't remember if it was right here right here. Anyway, we know it was right here. We added our last time right here, caught this bounce, and so we got back a lot of that, but we were out of the trade right there. We were out of the long trade right there, and we were down about $1,100 total. Now we got this volume spike right at that point, and so we turned around and got short right there, and ended up being doing really well at this point when it was down here. We got out of a bunch of that, and at that point we were back to even on Roku for the day, got back all of our losses. Now we still had a piece on, it came up, and then it just chopped around, chopped, chopped, chopped, and finally rolled over. We got out of our last piece right here, and that was pretty painful to stay in all day, didn't get out until 1.30 in the afternoon, but paired it back a little bit, ended up taking the loss overall on Roku of minus 4.75, but after being down $1,100 at one point, that was a win. Uber plus $2.95 if we take a look at Uber. So right after we got off the livestream, I alerted our members, we had this big volume spike right here in Uber, so we were looking for a pullback, and getting along right here, and then added it a little bit right here, and rode this thing back up, and so we took a winner in Uber of $2.95. In win, our last one, took a winner of $1.90, and win was a, let's see, oh yeah, big volume spike right here, waited for this bounce, got short, got out of most of it right here, and then just kind of chopped around, ended up getting out of the last of it right there, I believe, so plus $1.90 in win.  Let me bring back my sheet, and I'll give you a recap for the week. So on the mighty 90s, for the week did plus $1,729 on 14 trades with a nice win rate of 71.4, no pairs trades this week, let me make this a little bit bigger, no pairs trades this week, and then on the runners, booked over $2,900 on 22 trades with a fantastic win rate of 72.7. We're usually around kind of 50, 55, 60, 65 as far as a win rate on our runners, but we added a new one this week, so we've really got three setups that we look at for runners, and using the volume in with the runner strategy that we're doing now really helped improve our performance this week, and so if you take a look here, we only had one little red day on Monday of minus 39, Tuesday plus $660, Wednesday over $1,000, over $600 yesterday, and then over $700 today, so great week overall. If we go to the summary page, so let me open this up a little bit more. So on the mighty 90s now, going all the way back to August 31st, we are, let me make this a little bigger, going back to August 31st, we're up $8,300 on the mighty 90s, pairs trades we just have not been doing them. I've been looking for opportunities, it's not comfortable with them, but not as much focus on them for sure, so just plus $323, no pairs trades for the week. On the mighty, or the runners, now we're up over almost $32,000 in runners, and you can see that win rate about 53% overall, so this win rate this week was really fantastic, and then overall pushed our overall P&L over $40,000 this week, $842 trades in, and you can see a monster week overall, plus $4,698 on the week. If we go back, I mean that's the best week that we've had going back until September 14th, where we had a $7,000 week and a $5,000 week before that just got some monster runners over that couple week period, but this week, good split, good profits in the mighty 90, good profits in the runners for a fantastic week overall, so look forward to building on that next week. Don't forget Monday is Martin Luther King Day, so there's no live stream, the market is closed, so there won't be any alerts or anything, but take a good recharge, work on your trading, work on your mindset, and we'll be back at it Tuesday in the live stream room. Cheers everybody, have a good weekend.


time ago our people believed that we didn't have uligans so our people used to make a trip up to Kitimat to make the Greece until more recently the uligans have come to Bellicula. The song was is sung in Kitimat or Kittlub. It tells or it was sung to welcome the uligans. The dancer used to where a cedar bark cape and dance along the river along the bank of the river to welcome the first run of uligans. Lots of guys to come with us in the punt some guys to go on the other boat and put rocks on the boat and start chasing fissure. The other crew would be getting ready with the same net take it off and put it back on the right way and have more or less some guys up the top end of the river scaring first down and as soon as you get them where you want them then you'll have good anchor guys like Bob here you leave them on one end and then you're you have a few guys down the other end to take the other end in and start pulling it's it's a lot quicker you get to work done faster than the trap net you can probably fill up your bin in one day and then be done with it but if you're not too successful in saining and you have to go back again or keep trying it's not as easy it sounds hey I guess you guys were aware that we caught some snakes up there and you just fish wherever you think it there isn't any and if you get a snake then you lose you first then have to try again it usually gets harder after you first try because the fish are more wary of it and don't bother coming into the smoother waters and they stay open a swift end takes a little bit more to try and get them the second time and remember where your snakes are and from there you if you can get your load then you just pull it in if you're lucky you get it in one day if you're not then you go back for the next two days took us three days to fill our bin up fish we teamed up with three different families there was myself Bob and Godfrey who came up so we divided it up between ourselves you know it's just doesn't go to one person who takes the majority whether it's in his cooking box or his prompter or anything like that it's just a shared between even the between each of us everybody does their work and takes the responsibilities as you might know the guys have to go out there's no way I think one person can probably do it in that length of time it would be too exhausted for that bin for the oolikens and that's grass from the tight flats the lawn grass and they're dead in the spring and they pick that up I've seen this done in Ketlopos a little girl but here in Balakula we use the sheet of bows so they won't get too dirty this is why and the other thing is my way of thinking if I'm right or on you know on the little bows little bigger things like our fingers sticks on it that makes a crevice for the for the blood to drain too sometimes it takes just one day to get the bins full sometimes a week two weeks depends how much the piss is takes a long time and in the meantime the boys will be getting the tape the box is made out of wood for the sides and the front and everything all that's metal is just the bottom so you have to put the clay on so that the fire doesn't escape out and burn your box and you put reinforcing bars on the bottom about three or four of them depending how big your box is so that that's what the clay is for maybe one of the mans will really clean that pop up have to use a chore girl to clean whatever rust that's in that container then they have to really wash it good to get everything out even the steel wool stuff has to be off then in the meantime too they get wood like cedar or outer anything like that they saw it up and they pile it besides that because it needs a lot of wood in the meantime the olikens will lay for about a week like if Margaret's time time for cooking well we pitch in we get the wood we get the fire going everybody do their bit and somebody pits camp get ready for the long hours and in turn we get the summer for which we call a grease we use it a lot in our food like dry fish the lawn what you call it fillets when it's fully dry you dip it in olikens grease and eat it that way and eat it with potatoes and that's your meal and if you have parents spawn you put olikens grease with the parents spawn and eat it that way with seaweed and a potato but if you have just plain seaweed you put olikens grease in with the seaweed and water that's your meal again with every fruit that they ate the Indians let's say raspberries squeezed raspberries squeezed blackberries blueberries anything even the stinkberries that they get my dad used to make that cut up those oranges and apples yes and I was big pots yes filling up with water and put grease in there and mix it with it yeah you just eat it even as everybody got up on a middle of the table to eat that if you seem to have tuberculosis or whatever you think you have been by coughing all the time they take one teaspoon every morning and one go to bed like two teaspoons a day after you put that that plier board on top of the olikens after they put it in and then they already have water on their sides in big containers or tails or whatever they have already besides the box and then they keep opening this to see if any any spot really boils if any spot really boils they pour a pail of water to that then let it simmer if you boil the olikens you don't get any olikens grease out of it it's just like any other oil that you boil it and you pour it poured it in water you just get bubbles that's how to go it gets very delicate at that stage so you have to keep watching it if you just you know you just can't go and grab a cup of coffee somebody's got to be always there and watching it keeping the fire just right you can't have too big of a flames or too low of a flame otherwise you're cooking with the school this keeps up for a good three hours to four hours like what I said look after it tell you think it's time to shake it up you put more water into it again before you shake it up the longer you cook olikens grease in a pot I mean in this big pot the better the grease it is if you if you cook it too quick like four hours the grease is not cooked right that's why it gets a different taste to it quick it seems to be a raw taste after they shake it up they cover it again let the grease form up and that's about an hour to two again isn't it to let it form up like that I don't know what's doctor came here he said don't you give him your kids olikens grease and he said yeah we have it just for every day even for breakfast they said oh if you're doing that then you don't need to give them cod liver oil that's just as good as cod liver in fact it's just like cod liver oil and so they're further than my dad says okay he says come on come here he says that and he opened a cook stove took the what what was left in the cod liver oil poured it into the fire and the fire went you know look they said oh we don't have to take that any more he says no as long as you have lots of grease we said sure but that dad was one of you know I thought that was the best thing I liked about olikens grease that he got rid of cod liver oil my granny used to use it and just about everything she put it in her cakes and her bread you know it's good for bread you could taste it and just about anything so you know after after the bread was cooked she just rub it on like some people who rub butter on local bread and that's what it's used to do and you could taste it in her cakes any homemade cakes used to make use olikens grease instead of anything else my mom used it in her when she baked bread puts it right in mixes with the dough and when cooked and when after it's cooked it stays soft the whole thing stays soft whereas some homemade breads are crumpled after sitting for about two three hours when tending this out and makes it keep longer the answer that you use olikens grease is with my great-grand-uncle Jack King George he used to make spoons wooden spoons when he's through making that wooden spoon after he used that you know to make it smooth sandpaper then he says it's good now then he'd be heating it let's say something like a cup of grease or less in a dipper he really makes it hot and goes the spoon the hole then then he rubs it rubs it rubs it that's good now he says that that's good why do you do that I said that to him there's a child long ago said so so nothing can go through it more in that he said and they make ice cream out of it too in the old days they use a canoe one of those canoes a new one and if somebody had a feast a feast a potluck feast or whatever the feast they asked and they'd get a man that knows how to pound now they put the good snow into this canoe pound it up pound it up after they pound it they pour the grease on top of it they pound it more more snow they pound it again more grease that's kept up till it's full the whole length of the canoe then they cut it up into one pounds just like a butter that and it's solid it's like as if it's solid frozen they give it to each person that's sitting down the widows you know that couldn't get any grease they know about this that they're gonna have this ice cream you know then they take a little pail or whatever container they have in the old days you know and then they put what they get with their children they put it in when it melts the grease is there