The theory of multiple intelligences as an integral part of ESL teaching. Every child is born with an immense capacity for learning, with an innate sense of curiosity and creativity that are of vital importance for the learning process to become a truly exciting journey. However, as a child grows up he is immersed into the world of formal schooling that tends to be downright tedious at times. As a result, most often the child feels pressed because of the attempts to fit in the way he is being taught. Memorizing, chasing results becomes a habit, while ingrained personal strengths remain barely discovered. Hence, a huge realm of human and born potential remains unrecognized. But what if the idea of multiple intelligences would be integrated into modern education? What if the educational system would be based on the idea of making learning process accessible for every kind of mind? Early Studies The idea of multiple intelligences comes out of psychology. It is a theory that was developed in 1983 by Howard Gardner who claims that every human being has different kinds of intellectual strengths and that these strengths are of crucial importance for the learning process. Moreover, he believes that everything can be taught in more than one way, as well as anything that is understood can be shown in more than one way. If a teacher has a clear understanding of a child's style of learning, if he is aware of the way the student processes and absorbs information, it becomes much easier to set up the right learning environment to uplift the student and help him to succeed academically. So, what are the eight types of multiple intelligences? Let's have a closer look at them. Learning Styles One of the styles of learning is called interpersonal. Students who have this kind of intelligence dominating benefit from interacting with other students. It means that they thrive in small study groups or peer tutoring sessions. Since they have excellent communication skills, they tend to learn best from performing in front of other students. Those who prefer learning environment with little or no interaction are called interpersonal or solitary learners. Learning becomes personalized for them. They enjoy setting goals and tasks for themselves, choosing their own topics to research as well as internalizing ideas. A calm and quiet environment free of distractions would be most beneficial for this group of students. Another group of students is known as kinesthetic or physical learners. Such children learn at their full capacity while performing physical activities, stretching or walking around. In a word, learning through their senses is what they crave. Students who have a good sense of written and pronounced words are those who have well developed verbal or linguistic intelligence. They succeed when having an opportunity to express themselves through writing or composing, delivering speeches, participating in debates where they can exchange ideas with their peers. Visual students are likely to have a good imagination, and information is best processed through space and direction. Learning through charts, diagrams, mind mapping suit them to a T. Logical or mathematical style learners need the clearest explanation possible. The best learning environment for them is the one where they can think strategically, complete tasks step by step following clear instructions. Auditory or musical learners make the most of sounds, rhymes, and music. The emotional connection to sound and music leads them to a better comprehension of information. Finally, there are students who are recognized as a naturalist. Learners. Such children are highly sensitive to nature. They are good at discovering the wonders of it. Moreover, they have an affinity for animals and are skillful at training and understanding them. How to adjust the theory to ESL teaching. The approach of multiple intelligences can be adopted by ESL teachers and implemented in the process of learning English as a second language. Based on my personal teaching experience I would assume that most of the adult learners have their interpersonal, interpersonal, verbal and logical intelligences more developed over others, while young learners tend to absorb information better through kinesthetic, visual, auditory and naturally SD styles of learning. Types of activities. Now we are going to have a look at the activities that can be selected by a teacher to involve all learners equally while building upon their receptive and productive language skills based on the following topic flowers. I suppose that interpersonal students might feel outrageously engaged to participate in a role play at the forest or creating a collage with pictures of various kinds of flowers on it in a short description, then presenting it to their group mates, giving and receiving feedback. Traditional students should be given an opportunity to look for the names of flowers themselves. Probably, they might like to choose a kind of flower they like the most and read into it trying to collect more information about it, which they could present the way they find the best, for example creating a PPT or flower album. Those students having a talent of expressing themselves verbally may leap at an idea of composing a poem about flowers and then reciting it in front of their peers or recording it using a tape recorder, while logical learners might enjoy finding out the meanings of new words in the dictionary, writing the names of flowers in columns, making up sentences with these words or doing worksheets. Personal experience. Currently, I am working with young learners. That is why now I am going to outline the most common activities that I may use while teaching the sentence structure it's a flower trying to take into account the multiple intelligences my students have. Since most of my students boost energy and vitality, they crave movement. That is why I rely greatly on TPR. The total physical response makes them fully engaged in the lesson. We start each class by moving and shaking our bodies while dancing or performing some simple actions. When teaching a sentence structure it's a flower, they can be asked to hop or make frog jumps to the flash cart having a flower on it. Another activity involving physical movement is miming. Students can be asked to mime a flower with their bodies and say it's a flower. Besides, games with a ball can be used to practice any kind of a sentence structure. Young learners are always thrilled to bits when I draw pictures on the white board. The teacher can draw small parts of a flower on the board asking students to pronounce the following sentence structure it's a flower. The flower can be drawn extremely big or tiny, with a happy or a sad face. Students can try to help the crying flower to become happy by saying it's a flower. Then they can say goodbye to it. Each time they say goodbye flower, the teacher erases a part of it. Besides, for visual students, PPTs work really well. Students can be asked to find a flower on the slide and touch it, or play what's a missing game. Rhyming is an amazing activity for those students who have their auditory skills dominating over other skills. The rhyme 1-2-3, what do you see? I see a flower, 1-2-3 can be effectively used in an EFL classroom. The teacher can use a chair or a box as a drum. Such students enjoy performing activities where they are supposed to say the same sentence with a different pitch of voice. Songs and chants are very welcomed by these students. For naturalist learners, it would be important to touch a real flower. An activity plant and grower flower could be used to their advantage. Each kid can be asked to put a seed into the soil and pronounce it's a flower. Then each of them gets a chance to water the seed saying it's a flower. When the flower is grown, each of them can smell or touch the flower and say it's a flower. General Thoughts As a way of conclusion, I would like to express my perception that true learning should not become an uphill struggle for students. On the contrary, I believe it can become a fascinating process of self-discovery in case if students are allowed to follow their own unique ways of acquiring information. I feel that it is up to us, teachers, to create a fertile environment for learning. We are those who can spark our students' creativity and accelerate both the learning process in general as well as learning a foreign language in particular. Even though it is obvious that we cannot teach innate different ways at the same time, it is very important to keep asking the question if we reach every child in our class and if not, what can be done about it. We should bear in mind that every person has all the intelligences. However, some of them are more or less developed. Thus, we should make sure that we use different ways of delivering information within a lesson to reach every student equally and create a safe, engaging and educationally sound environment for everyone. Are you ready to teach English abroad? 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Sao José dos Campos, Brazil is experiencing rapid urbanization, leading to a significant increase in the urban heat island, UHI, effect. This effect is affecting the climate, environment and socio-economic development at a regional level. Landsat satellite imagery from 1986, 2001 and 2010 was analyzed to determine the spatial distribution of changes in temperature and land cover. Moderate correlations were found between urban and bare areas and higher temperatures, while areas covered in vegetation and water correlated negatively with higher temperatures. Additionally, a moderate correlation was found between the normalized difference built-up index, NDBI, and temperature. This article was authored by Vanessa de Silva Brumbostos and Igor Ogashuara.


They tried to stop me from entering the smallest country in mainland Africa But like I said, I've got my mind made up And I won't turn back Because it's time for Africans to tell their own story Like from Gambia Don't say Gambia, say the Gambia You see the beautiful monument behind me Oh my goodness Look how beautiful it is This is the gateway to Banjul If you ever enter Banjul through the port You will definitely see this beautiful monument But like I always say It's time for us to tell our own story And also change the narratives of mother Africa Which means that we need to know When did this beautiful monument come into existence And all we need to know about this monument Stay tuned, come with me I've got to find someone to educate me and you I am Maya I've got my mind made up And I won't turn back Because I won't see my Jesus Hello Maya Good to see you You're welcome Thank you so much Nice to meet you too Welcome to Act 22 Wow This is a beautiful monument This monument is called Act 22 Act 22 Yes, built by the AFPRC That is the Armed Forces Provincial Ruling Council Who took over the country July 22, 1994 From the Republic of Sadauda Kairabajawara That is PPP So that is the military junta Who took over through the country July 22, 1994 So 1995 to 1996 Act 22 was constructed during that period And it was officially opened July 22, 1996 This Act 22 before was British Colonial Cemetery And then it is divided into two parts By the independence dry route Act 22 is a gateway to the city of Banjul That is the main entrance of the city of Banjul On the left hand side of the Act 22 Was a British Colonial Cemetery Where we have the gardens So the British Colonialists were living Around Marina Parade And then that is why if you observe You see it is full of bush trees Because they admire that And they want to live near the sandy beaches And then we have the beach there At the Atlantic Ocean And the left hand side was a praying ground For the inhabitants of Banjul That is for the Muslim eat That is the eat, that is the ideal fit That is the quality And then we have Edel at heart That is the Tobasky that has just passed Last Sunday That this was their praying ground But now replaced with a mini pavilion And then we have the flower gardens And here we have the Act 22 at the middle And then here at the Act 22 We have two floors That is, this is the first floor That is the restaurant I don't see the restaurant here This is the restaurant It can accommodate about 150 people And then we have the bar behind you The second floor is divided into two equal halves That is the souvenir shop And then we have the gallery Act 22 is under the National Center for Arts and Culture And then they try to replace the museum They try to change the museums from time to time Because they have lots in store Different artifacts Different things to show Different things to do So that's why they have to change the exhibitions As time With times and recent happenings The museum So that's why the museums look different from time to time But it's very interesting really But the museum is still open It's still open But we just wanted to know Like I've been in Banjul for a day And I can see that this is the tallest monument I've ever seen in here So I wanted to know What is the height of this monument? It's about 42 meters And then 30 meters And then it's 156 steps From the first one up to the last one It's a good exercise anyway It's a good exercise Wow So maybe we can go out there to go check out the gallery This is the museum for the exhibition That is the first president Who took us From independent From independent 1965 And the second president That is the former chairman of the AFP That is the military junta And then became the president And then now we have a new president Yeah, we have the third republic That is just showing How our leaders are encouraging Gambians to eat What we grow and grow What we eat That is what we show in the beans We have different types here We show different types of maize We are in the season Maize season Rice Yeah, gross rice Groundnut And then you know Millet, goose Especially this tobask A lot of people use goose To maize, make chakre With cream, yoghurt Coose We call it chere With lamb's meat It's very nice It's very nice Really don't disturb us If people have to enjoy goose That is the museum Exhibitions These paintings are the tax republic Showing the beginning of the tax republic We have That is the First beginning when people were running When the second president That is Ajay Jajame Said he is not going to step down After losing the election People were overloading the fairies And then leaving the country Fearing for their life Thinking that there will be war And things like that That is this first exhibition That is what is showing And then you have all the pictures That are showing The welcoming of people coming back So this is the empty When the country was empty People were running Thinking Fearing So this is the coming of the echoers Echoers into the country So people were welcoming them And then hoping for a better Gambia This Gambia has decided When people were jubilating Dancing Happy That is right The military junta That overthrew the Jawara regime 1994 The chairman With the red bearer in front At the middle That is the Ajay Jajame And then you have first Edward Singate And then he is The chairman of the council Military council Sana Sabali And then you have the late Sadibu Haider He is the only one who is there That is Sadibu Haider All of them are alive All of them are alive Sana Sabali is in America now And then He is in the Kutura Gini The two of them are here Edward and Yankuba are here In the country That is the EU summit When you have 52 presidents Guarded here in 2006 That was The Sheraton's Hotel That is the third president Adam Abarrow During the swearing in At the independent stadium Bakau So we have his greeting with elders And people are jubilating Hoping for a better Gambia People are just forcing to give him hands To shake hands To celebrate dance That is the stadium Those overloaded people They have to force the people to stay outside It's a good relationship We have a very good relationship You have to count more steps That is where you have the right view The correct view From here You will land at Banjul It's an island It is all surrounded When you are coming from Kombo You will see the dentin bridge And here we have the ferry terminal That is Barra I think the ferry is coming You see this road You see how it is divine This whole area Was full of tobacco trees When the Banjulians started chopping them down And constructing So all this area Is called Tobacco Road Tobacco Road You have Gambia senior secondary Where the second president Yahya Jame went to Optic order is called Tobacco Road And when you have the biggest mocks That is King Fahad mocks Built by the Arabs And opposite the Anglican church The blue white Is the Anglican church I just wanted to thank you so much I welcome you Thank you


Working words together to create beautiful poetry or prose is something that comes naturally to you. Social media can now help you make it a well-paying gig. Hello everyone and welcome back to Start It Up. In today's video, we tell you how you can go from being a writer on Instagram to becoming a published author. From Rupi Kaur to Bo Tappling, the rise of Instagram writers has been a big talking point in literary circles all across. What started with a simple experimentation of putting small snippets in the form of aesthetically pleasing square pictures is now a full-blown industry. If you do believe your writing has what it takes to go out there and make people spend, here's a little guide that would help you along. One of the most important reasons why things work or do not work on Instagram is how you present yourself and build an image in front of your followers. The very first step to doing this is creating a username that resonates and is easy to recall. It must reflect the kind of work people could expect from you or should depict your personality. So your bio is another place where you would like to be careful. Don't put too many details but just enough along with the contact details that would help you connect to relevant people when you grow. And while it is true that there can be artistic blocks, make sure that your posts are regular if you're to build a brand that continues to grow. Your writing may be exceedingly great but unless you're posting something regularly, some of the fickle followers might decide to unfollow and of course there's the case of Instagram's algorithms reducing your read. With the option for Instagram stories, even if you don't post every day, we would recommend you that you regularly interact with your followers. Do live videos, polls, giveaways and Q&A sessions which would help drive engagement metrics. Last, ensure that your feed looks aesthetically pleasing. Yes, we've been asked not to judge a book by its cover but on social media that's what most people end up doing. Publishing over the years has become not only easier but cheaper as well. So to get your books to the maximum possible audience, it no longer requires you to go to a big publishing house, hoping that they decide to take you in the traditional way. While it is still a good option, it takes a lot longer considering the volumes of manuscripts that they get and the minuscule amount that they end up choosing. There are plenty of new age publishers that have come up and are helping authors self-publish with little to no investment. So this brings us to how much you will have to spend to publish a book. Publishers like Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing allows you to have your own book for free if you have everything from the book design to the cover ready. On the other hand, there are paid options from companies such as NotionPress which guides you through the process with packages as it is about 17,000 rupees.  All you need to do is go to any of their online portals, put your details and there would be tools for help. So other than spending on any of the paid packages, you may need to also spend a bit on marketing your Instagram presence in the initial days. It may vary depending on your budget and how many people you want to reach. But it is recommended that you start with about 3 to 5,000 rupees per month. Videos are also a quick way to get recognition. A lot of Instagram poets put out videos of them reading their written pieces, sometimes performing them at open mics and those who may not be reading may be hooked to audio visuals. Making such videos with the help of a freelancer can cost you about 4 to 5,000 rupees. In terms of earnings, self-publishing tools give you better margins, but it really depends on the publisher that you decide to go with. For example, a 200-page black and white paperback priced at about 200 rupees can earn you 30 to 40 rupees per book if you're selling on e-commerce sites. On Amazon KDP, you can earn up to 60% of your list price. Average royalty for traditional publishing is 10 to 15% of selling price. So that's about today's start of video. Stay tuned and log on to www.entrepreneur.com for more business ideas. And if you want to boost your existing business, then look up at entrepreneurplus.in.


Hey, it's time for VoiceOver Body Shop. Hey, we're all at home. You should all be watching, and George and I are glad to have our guest tonight, who is Christine Aller. Say hello, Christine. Hello, Christine. There she is, right there. We'll be talking to her. If you've got a question for her, throw it in the chat room in Facebook, and we will get to that question to her. We're going to talk about staying at home and how to run your voiceover business and planning for when eventually we get out of here. So, are you ready? Are you ready out there? It's time for VoiceOver Body Shop. Let's go. From the outer reaches, they came, bearing the knowledge of what it takes to properly record your voiceover audio, and together, from the center of the VO universe, they bring it to you now. George Wittem, the engineer to the VO Stars, a Virginia Tech grad with the skills to build, set up, and maintain the professional VO studios of the biggest names in VO today, and you, Dan Leonard, the VoiceOver Home Studio Master, a professional voice down with the knowledge and experience to help you create a professional sounding home VO studio. And each week, they allow you into their world, bring you talks with the biggest names in the voiceover world today, letting you ask your questions and giving you the latest information to make the most of your voiceover business. Welcome to VoiceOver Body Shop. VoiceOver Body Shop is brought to you by VoiceOverEssentials.com, home of Harlan Hogan signature products, source elements, remote studio connections for everyone, VoiceActorWebsites.com, where your VO website isn't a pain in the butt. VOHeroes.com, become a hero to your clients with award-winning voiceover training. J. Michael Collins demos, when quality matters, and VoiceOver Extra, your daily resource for VO success. And now, live to drive from their super secret clubhouse and studio in Sherman Oaks, California, here are the guys. Greetings. I am Dan Leonard. And I'm George Wittem. And this is VoiceOver Body Shop, or VO. Yes. Well, we've got a great show for you tonight. We've got a great guest. Kristi and Oliver will join us in a minute. And George, we're still at home. We're still doing this all remotely. And it's kind of lonely here. It's a combination of loneliness and technical frustrations on a whole new level that we're having to deal with to make this show happen the way we like. But you know, it's happening. And we're really glad to be here with you guys, because it's our way of staying connected to what you're all doing and what's going on out there in the real world.  Oh, man, the questions we have been getting, I'm sure we, if we start to compare stories of the questions we have gotten, it will be, it'll be, it's already been a half-hour conversation. So go on training. Anyway, because of all this stuff, we know that eventually they're going to let us out of the house. They're going to take the barbed wire down, open up the gates and let us out into the streets and stuff. And, but they'll also probably hopefully let people back into studios. But in the interim, because it looks like it's going to be at least another three weeks to a month, they'll they really let people go anywhere. We got to talk about how you're going to handle your voice business. And to help us with that is our good friend and creative business consultant, Kristine Aller. Kristine, welcome to the show. Hi, it's good to be back, you guys. Great to have you back. So how has this affected your consulting business? Well, as far as like physically, I'm doing exactly what I would be doing at this time in the same ways, because I've been working from home for many years. So nothing's really changed in that respect. The projects and things that I expected to be working on right at this time of year, I'm still working on. My husband is now working from home. So that's a different dynamic, but we're very fortunate, very fortunate to have two separate offices. So he's not intruding on my space.  So we only see each other at the end of the day, you know, but it's like, all right, back to your private space after that. Yeah, it's a huge privilege. And it makes going through this process a lot easier.  For people who don't know you, explain a little bit about what you do in your in your consulting work. Right. So I'm a coach and a strategist. I work with individuals who are looking to make shifts in their terms of their creativity or their career or their cash flow. And I was an actor for a decade. And during that time, I became a professional organizer. So I went into business for myself and learned how to do that. And then during that time, a lot of my friends were like, Oh, hey, you have a lucrative, successful little side business, I want one of those. So I would help them get their businesses up and running. And eventually I left organizing and went into just consulting and coaching and being a strategist. And so now I help people with their lives and careers. And then I also have this course called creating cash flow, which is all of my business advice geared especially towards people who haven't ever generated their own income before. How do you start from scratch doing that? And it's a course. And then there's monthly coaching that goes with it. And all throughout this year, that coaching is free. So if you buy the course, you get all of 2020 coaching with me several times a month for free. Wow, that's great. Yeah, yeah. It's amazing that people who are in the creative arts, in the performing arts, voice actors, actors, painters, people who do that kind of stuff, generally, they're not always regarded as the best business people, are they? No, but I think that they also are people by nature who have skills and strengths that can be applied to the self-generation of income. Because business muscles can be taught. They can be cultivated. You don't have to just be born with the knack to do it. It's just something that's learned. So it's much harder to be someone who has to have to learn how to be creative, to have to have those skillsets, which most of our audience has naturally.  Someone said, no, well, you know, we've all heard the no before. So we're sort of immune to that. So I think those are the harder things to learn or to have. I can teach business. Yeah, we find in the voice acting business, you know, most people don't get the concept that this is a business, that it's not really show business so much as it is an entrepreneurial type of thing. So not only do you have to be a good actor or a good voice actor and learn the technical skills to be able to send your voice places, but you also got to keep the books. But more importantly than all of that, it's getting people to want to use your voice or your your acting skill or whatever it is, right? Yeah. So how do you how do you get people do you find people just are like, Oh, I thought I was just going to be an actor or I thought I was, you know, and how do you and how do you deal with that? And how do you tell people that's not right? Well, it's that's not right. The tough thing about the voiceover industry in particular is that it is an industry that has evolved very much technology literally changed the experience that someone going into voiceover had and a lot more came on to the artist's shoulders being much more entrepreneurial than ever before and having to deal with the tech and deliver like finished work sometimes.  It was very much more geared toward the acting part of it. But now if you want to go into it, and certainly if you want to go into it with the ambition of earning income from it, you are literally going into an entrepreneurial tech heavy business. And sometimes you get paid to read copy. Yeah, it happens occasionally, you know, the check clears, that's great. On the good side, this is, you know, not even just for right this second, but as we see the possibilities of what the future will entail for us, this is a great business to invest in because it is something you can do remotely. So on that side, it's good. On the other side, it is something where a lot of it falls on your shoulders to generate the income. There's less of an infrastructure that you can easily plug yourself into to earn money. You have to create that infrastructure. So pros and cons, but really big pros and some really challenging cons, not even cons, but just challenges. Our guest again is Christine Oller. She is a business consultant to us creative types, voice actors, actors, you know, I take it you cover the gamut for a lot of different types of creative endeavors, don't you? Yeah, because I had a background in acting, a lot of my consulting and coaching clients at the beginning were actors. I mean, my very first client for coaching was Pat Fraley. So it sort of started there. But over time, I've worked with so many different types of creative professionals, creative types gravitate towards me because I understand the crazy life. I understand lingo, I get it. I've done it. So yeah, but all different kinds of creatives. If you've got a question for Christine, throw it in the Facebook chat room and we will get that question in just a little bit. So stand by for that. Now, of course, as you were saying, the industry has changed a lot and people have changed to that. But right now, we are in a radical shift because nobody can go into a studio. Everybody's got to do it from home. And everybody's in a panic. Even though George and I, George, haven't we been telling people for the last 10 years, you have to have a home studio and you should have the ability to do it remotely. So it's yeah, exactly. I don't you know, for me, the world that I work in, because I consult home studio people, it's just always assumed a home studio as part of the picture. And now that there's a bunch of people that are coming out of the woodwork, quote unquote, that don't have one and need one, it's really becoming glaringly obvious how many voice actors, especially in obviously in New York or Los Angeles, have been having a, in some cases, very successful career without one. So that's been really interesting and real eye-opener. Yeah. And we're learning all about it. And of course, they're all like, help, help. Well, we've told you, but we're happy to help. Anyway, so I mean, Christine, it's hard enough having a business, but in this climate of staying at home, what do you think are some good strategies for people who are now having to adjust to working at home, especially as voice actors? And what are you suggesting to people? Well, let's talk about the panic factor. Okay, let's talk about the stress. There was this, I can imagine there's a certain tier of voice talent who are in a panic legitimately because they can't go into booths and they don't have something at home and they are getting offers of work of like, can you do this? Or they feel like their agents are putting them at the bottom of the list because they don't have the technology in place. So for them, there are immediate opportunities that they're missing out on. But if you're not in that tier where there's like offers coming to you, there's no need to panic. Sure. Do you need to get a voiceover studio in place in some way? Yeah, but there's no, there's not this huge amount of opportunities now just because voiceover can be done from home. Doesn't mean there's just suddenly a flood of opportunity for voice work opening up. So I recommend that if you're in the spin cycle in your head to find ways first and foremost above everything else to calm yourself down and shift into or shift back into looking at this voiceover career as a long game. You want to make it through this upheaval period, but then you also want to have a career on the other side of it. And the worst thing that you can do is to exhaust yourself now trying to get all these things in place and to make money from voice making money from voiceover is just as difficult now as it was before the virus came to town. So you're still going to need to get yourself up to a competitive advantage in terms of technology and self directing yourself and being really good and creative at your craft and then doing the research of who needs my services and where do I want to like focus in on all of that still has to be done. And there's only so much hours in the day and so much energy you have to put towards this. So there's no need to panic. There's no need to get this done sooner than you were already on the road to getting it done. You're not missing. There's not opportunities to be missed out on any more so than there was in January. The worst thing is for someone a voiceover to come out of this at the end of the upheaval exhausted from draining their energy over panicking. You want to come out with sharper tools and stronger craft so that when the opportunities do kind of start to the gears of the industry start to move again, you're ready for it and you're not depleted financially, mentally, emotionally. Sorry. Okay. Just a slight delay. So I'm like trying to catch up with it with where you are here. So one of the things that I noticed from people is that the time factor seems to be an issue with them. They're like, I have to get this audition out now or this has to get done now. I've never really found that to be the case. But then again, I'm the most patient person in the world. But if I see a deadline on something, if I have the time, if I have the inclination, if I look at a spec and go, and it's not me, I'm not going to worry about it. But if it's something, an agent says, get this in as soon as possible, we hear things like, there's birds outside or there's a leaf blower. People just panic about all these crazy things and it's especially now, since people who may not be used to working at home now have to deal with these issues, they're probably freaking out. They're going through all the stuff that most of us that have been doing this for 20 years or were worried about 15 years ago when we first started going into home studios and it's like, hey, just deal with it. We're trying to calm these people down, but live and learn, I guess. Everyone is experiencing this on their own timelines. Everybody's doing, we're all going through it, but we're going through it in different ways and different things are hitting people and confronting people at different times. No one is doing this pandemic wrong. There's no right way to do this pandemic and each one of us are going to muddle our way through it and our experience isn't going to look like the person next to us. That's the difficult thing. We're all going through the same thing and yet we're going through it differently. So there are people who are experiencing and having to grapple with and learn things that they didn't even have on their agenda in January. That's okay. The only time we grow is when we're confronted with obstacles and things. I shot video on Saturday and I found out that the camera didn't work and then I was like, well, how am I going to use this other camera and upload it and burn? I was so frustrated and I just because I spent so much time, but then it comes down to, okay, you're going to have that tantrum and maybe you do have the tantrum for a little while, but then what are the stories you're going to tell yourself? I just gave myself a pep talk of like, you're smart, you can figure this out and I figured out how to do a transfer of the footage from the camera to my computer. And now I know how to do something. There you go. Liquidity split. Did I never wanted to learn? Then I never thought I needed to learn because I had this other setup that was going fine. Did I want to learn it? No. Did I want to spend three hours learning it? No, but now I know it and now I can teach it to somebody else and that's just how we learn things, especially as adults. We usually learn things when we're forced to. Yeah, that's true. And this is a period of time where we're being forced to learn things. I think that's an excellent point. I think there are people need to, this is a great time for people to be innovative and perhaps look outside the box. Well, how could I do this? How could I do that? I was like, I can't go to the gym to work out with my trainer and he's like, well, you can't come into the gym. I'm like, well, wait a second. I just set up the camera on a tripod, you know, my iPhone on a tripod, get on FaceTime. Okay. All right. Now lift it like this. We've been doing that for a month and a half and it's been working fine.  I can, you know, I can run in and take a shower at home. It makes it a lot easier. But these are the things that people need to think outside the box a little bit and perhaps, you know, throw away some, you know, some of their paradigms of this is too hard. This is too intimidating. I ought to try it and just go for it. Yeah. There's space now.  I've also been telling folks that, you know, don't be overly concerned about your home studio sounding amazing overnight or totally soundproof or completely quiet. Because keep in mind that everybody is dealing with less than optimal situations from production all the way, you know, from producer all the way to the talent and everywhere in between. So there's going to be some more tolerance among reduction to get people up to speed and running again. You know, I've been trying to tell people that because I think everybody's so nervous. And I understand that, but they're so nervous about things going wrong in a live session or a source connect session, something and, you know, the noise happening. I'm like, trust me, if there's any time in our voice over recording careers that this is going to be a little more tolerated, it's probably going to be now. So don't be overly stressed out about it. Yeah, I have been giving the exact same advice. One of the beautiful things that dropped into our lap because of these circumstances is perfection just went out the window. I mean, if Saturday Night Live can put their little home movies on national television, tell me about it, you know, with, you know, it looks literally like something any of us could film. Like we're doing right now. We've only been doing this for nine years. So this is better than what Saturday Night Live and most of the other late night talk shows, technical perspective, and I would argue content are pulling off right now. Yeah. The bar of craft didn't lower, but the bar of perfection and technology and delivery lowered, which is lovely breathing room for us all. And the worst thing would be to not take advantage of that and not give yourself a break over it. Once again, we're talking with Christine Aller, who is a consultant to people in the creative fields. And we're talking about how to survive being at home. And we're seeing lots of this, you know, people, you know, expressing themselves in ways that we've never thought of before, because they can't go into studios and we're seeing all of these star videos and stuff. Some of them really great. Some of them not so great. George, you know, you and I need to talk to some of these people about some of the technical quality they're putting out there. But yeah, it's to me, it's like, you know, because everybody's at home, it's like the little girl going into her bedroom and grabbing a hairbrush and talking into the hairbrush and doing a radio show. There's been a lot of that. I posted something recently on Facebook saying, okay, maybe it was three weeks ago now, but I was like, okay, when's the novelty going to wear off of, you know, all these celebrities doing talk shows, getting away with what I consider to be the bare minimum. Because, you know, again, we are kind of getting a pass, but we're coming up on two months into this thing. Maybe it's time to get Jimmy Fallon USB lav mic. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, there was a tribute to Stephen Sondheim last night. I was, I'm involved in a similar project and they're like, oh, you didn't watch the Sondheim thing last night. Oh, it didn't start well at all. So, but once it got going, it was great, you know. He liked tonight's show. That makes me feel so much better about the delay in getting our show near tonight, you know. Exactly. Exactly. Things happen. But once we get it, we get it right. We're talking with Kristi Nuller. Once again, if you have a question for her about, you know, dealing with the stress of the situation and how to plan for what's going to happen when this all ends, if it ever ends, throw it in the chat room. And I know Jeff Holman is in there tonight and he's taking questions and we want to hear from you so we can continue this conversation with Kristi. But I got a couple more questions for her. Now, without revealing, you know, clearly you have a confidential confidentiality thing going, Kristi, because you're talking with clients and stuff. What kind of, I won't say what specific kinds of things, but what are you hearing people say and complain about that they're experiencing and trying to cope with this situation? Well, the biggest conversation that I have been having repeatedly over the last six weeks are clients asking about how they're going to earn money during this time, because a lot of the support jobs for the creative artists just evaporated. And I did a workshop on this and it's free. You can download it right from my website. If you go to christiinauler.com slash cash flow, it's called creating cash when times are tough. And it talks about perspective shifts and action steps that you can take. And this is all the guidance that I've just been giving to my clients as we've had these discussions. But this idea of, oh, you know, no one has any money right now. There's nothing I can do that anybody would pay me for, especially because I can't leave my house. Oh, I don't want to ask for money during this time, because I don't want people to talk negatively about about me or think I'm trying to take advantage of the situation. All these stories that people are telling themselves that I think are preventing them from going, okay, it looks like there aren't going to be a lot of jobs to just easily get in the near future. Because this global crisis is different than the 2008 recession. When the 2008 recession hit, you know, businesses were still in place. They just took a lot longer to hire full-time employees back. They did a lot of temp hiring and then temp to permanent kind of thing. It was kind of a slow easing back ramping up the economy. This time it's very different because businesses are folding. So I think from my perspective, but again, this is one person's perspective and I don't know what the future holds. There's so many variables that can play out just in this year alone. But what it looks like to me is there's not going to be this economic infrastructure to plug yourself into. We're going into a two or three-year period of, oh, how do I employ myself? How do I create my own job and how do I generate my own income? And that might be something that some people listening to this will be able to do through voiceover. For other artists, though, it might be, okay, I'm going to do things from my voiceover career because I'm playing the long game and I want to be in this, you know, for the next five, 10, 20 years. But I also need to figure out how I'm going to generate money to support myself through this time so that when the gears of the industry, the entertainment industry start moving again, you'll be positioned to jump back in. That's a good place to start. And that was really one of the things that I wanted to ask you about is what should your planning priorities be during this time? During this time, you know, when we're sitting here going, what could I be doing? I mean, there's so many different possibilities. I think some people are probably getting overwhelmed with thinking about what are they going to do when this is all over? Have you been finding that? Part of the overwhelm comes from the notion that they're missing out on opportunities right now that this whole thing's going to be over in a month and that they don't have time. They're already behind. None of that is helpful.  So the very first thing is to get your hand off your throat. People are in one of three modes right now. I call them the money modes. So mode one is the spin cycle of just, oh my god, what do I have to do? It's anxiety. It's almost a paralysis, even though you have maybe lists of things you know you have to do, but it's like, where do I start? What takes a priority? Very anxious. Can't do anything. So if you're in that, the first priority is to get yourself in mode two. Mode two is the short game. How do I pay the rent? How do I buy my food? How do I keep the utility on?  If you're not in, have those bases covered yet, that's what you should be focused on. Forget about your voice of a career for right now because there's resources available now. There's people to be talked to and I think a lot of people have spent the last six weeks getting that stuff in place. So, and you might for a while be switching back and forth between mode one and mode two. Little bit of panic. Okay, focus. Do some tasks. Panic again because every week has been like a year with the amount of things that have changed. I do think what's coming up is not as much change. I think we're going to start waiting. I think there's going to be, you know, certain things that are put back in place, but I think the freneticness of the last six weeks, it's not going to be as frenetic for most people, but again, we're all on different timelines. So, something might happen in your personal life or something that just throws you for a loop. So, mode one, mode two, mode one, mode two, but when you finally kind of feel like, and some people are, everything's fine, like their life was situated or they had savings, where they're cool, they're in mode two. So, then when you're cool and in mode two and you feel a little stability, you can turn your attention to shifting into mode three, which is playing the long game of like, okay, now I'm going to look at, do I need to have an income stream? What do I want that to be or multiple income streams? And what do I need to do to get my voice over into a competitive level? And that might be technology is the most pressing thing. If you cannot record decent stuff, you need to get the tech in place. Then the next thing is, can you self-direct yourself? And if you're kind of, oh, I don't know, or I do, you know, 27 takes of an audition, which is just a lot from what I hear. You get worse each time you do it.  So, learning how to self-direct yourself might be the thing. Or okay, I am going to put my money on audiobooks. So, start really learning what the things are.  Because the other thing that can happen during times like these that is very detrimental is you can feel like you're not moving forward at all and you have no momentum. But if you have little projects that have a beginning, middle, and end that you're able to complete, completing projects gives you a feeling of fruition. Huh, I did something. I'm moving forward. And that feeling is what allows you to take the next project on.  It's important on Sunday or Monday morning to plan your week. Even if there's nothing to fill it, then all the time is yours. And this is part of being your own boss. Absolutely. And that is a role I think the majority of people for the time being need to step into. Okay, I need to learn how to be my own boss. And I have a whole video for free on my website, christinealler.com slash weekly dash planning dash chart, I believe. If you can't find it, email me weekly planning chart of how to plan a week as a creative. I made this video and chart for one of my clients a long time ago. And it's many, many people have found it very, very useful. So it's just a different approach. Yeah, keeping a schedule is very, very important. You know, and it's like, and it's like, how do you accomplish things? Once again, our guest, yeah, once again, our guest is Christine Aller. And we're going to take a quick break here. And if you have a question for her, please put it in this in the Facebook chat room right now. Jeff Holman is standing by to take your questions. And we're going to ask Christine some of those right after this important break. So don't go away. Well, hello there. I bet you weren't expecting to hear some big voiced announcer guy on your new orientation training for Snapchat, were you? 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It makes it a little easier for me to concentrate on what you're saying when it's a little bit weird. Again, if you've got a question for Christine, please throw it in the chat room so Jeff Holman can get it to us and we can ask it of you, Christine, and we'll talk about a little bit more about how to really handle this radical shift that we're seeing in every business. I mean, it's not just voiceover, is it? It's everything. We got a lot of people sitting at home. Of course, we're also discovering that our neighbors actually have kids, which is kind of interesting too. Like, okay, you got kids?  It's just amazing. I've been here five years. I didn't know they had kids. But so it's a good time to go out and explore, just to get away from all this nonsense, at least you can go out and explore your neighborhood as long as you're wearing a mask. Of course. And getting out is really important. Getting outside has been for me who likes to work indoors all the time. Getting outside is always important, and it just kind of revitalizes my energy. And again, as the days go by, you can forget, oh, it's been three days since I've seen the sun. Yeah. It's getting up in the morning. All right. Now, this is my Thursday. No, wait, it's Friday. It's for Saturday. No, like Thursday, Thursday, Thursday. Yeah, it's the new name, the new, the new word for Thursday, month Thursday. This is definitely, definitely different. We've got a question from Kim Handyside. So let's, George, why don't you toss that to her? Yeah, she says, I'm constantly retooling my business. I'm wondering if there are any questions that I just might be missing that I could ask myself about my voice over business, you know, like big idea questions, maybe that I could ponder or kind of answer during this time right now. That's a very interesting question. And it's a conversation question. It's like, it's a great place to start, but without sort of knowing the questions you've already asked yourself and what you want to explore.  And so often people stay down in the details, which is a very, you know, let's execute the tasks, let's do the to do list, let's react and, and respond to what the world is throwing at us. And the more you can pull back and look at things from the big picture perspective, you have space and that's where you plan from. And that's why even weekly planning is great because it pulls you back up here instead of just spending another week down in the details. Um, I don't have any question. The one question that I have been asking people at this point in time is how are these circumstances requiring you to grow? And often the the answer to that is found within our resistance to what's going on. Oh, I don't want it to be this way. Why does that have to be this way? Oh, why do I have to learn this thing? Why do I have to? Well, but, but okay, this is happening. So how is this asking you to grow? Because just focusing on your voice over business or your business or that during this time, I think is missing an opportunity just for you as a person. And as artists just living through this time will feed our art and let us tell the stories of this time. So even if you're not doing anything, you are still absorbing stuff for the future as an artist. You're still doing your art by being attuned and living through these circumstances. So that is a question. How are these circumstances enabling me to grow? And another question that I think is really important during this time and not from necessarily just an altruistic point of view, but how can I serve? Because I think from that can come opportunities that you may not ever have envisioned for yourself. But how can I be of service? And it can be service that you're paid for. Just serving doesn't necessarily take renumeration off the table, but it's, it's a different kind of intention with your business instead of like, how can I make money or who can pay me during this time or what jobs can I get? It's okay, I have this skill set as a voice over artist who needs me. And how can I serve? That is super brilliant. I mean, whenever there's things that come out of from left field, I mean, it's easier for what I do because my job is very from a technical aspect, clearly, about problem solving. But the same thing holds true for every voice actor is your job is also problem solving. And that's serving. So when you're trying to figure out what's the new thing you can focus on, you have to look at what are the problems that need to be solved by the client and then fill those. I think that's a that's my way of thinking of what you're referring to, I think, Christine. Yeah. Yeah. And I guess another big picture question would be, where do I want to position myself in the voice over industry? Like, ultimately, what do I want to be the go to person for? And not just sort of like commercials, not that broad, but just, but I want to be the person they think of when they need this thing, because that gives you a direction for all your effort. Another question is looking out five years, if you're in the middle of a decade, or 10 years, if you're just starting a decade of who do I want to be at the end of this decade or at the end of the next five years? Just as a person, who do I want to be? And what's the texture of life I want to have? Yeah, lots of time to sit around and ponder those things for a lot of people. Liz Dineshner asks, do you have any mind tips and focus hacks, since although we're used to being at home, this seems a little different. And she's not as motivated as she feels she should be. Yeah, that's, that is something that I have found.  I don't feel really motivated to, to, you know, business, we're not in the normal swing of business. So when you try to apply your usual energy to your business, it can kind of like just fall flat.  Because it's just not the normal pace that these folks are used to working at. So I totally understand that. And there is the thing before I just talked about like mind tips for keeping your head on straight. I think it's important to acknowledge that there's an underlying hum of loss and grief that's going on in life. It might be over, you might actually be dealing with the loss and grief of a person. But it can just also be an equally significant loss of an identity. I was this person or I was the person who would be able to fly to my parents if they had a problem. And now you're no longer that person anymore. What does that mean to you? The loss of just places that we used to love that we probably won't be able to go to and visit for quite some time, even just going out to a restaurant with a friend, there's a loss there. And it's important to acknowledge that because applying like the, excuse me, but applying like meditation and affirmation and mental gymnastics to stabilize yourself every week. If we're not acknowledging that there's deeper stuff there, then those don't work. And then we think something's wrong with ourselves because those aren't working, but if you can acknowledge where the loss, what losses you're dealing with right now, then once that's acknowledged and maybe dealt with in a deeper way with practitioners, then we can address, okay, how do we reframe every week and keep ourselves in a good headspace and go forward? So the other thing for the type A go getter business, you know, is great. And I love it. And I love being a voiceover artist and I'm rocking it. That might have been January. Now it's like, Oh my God, I don't know why are we even doing this. I just have lost my steam. There's a moment here. And a lot of people who are go getters are not comfortable with relaxing. And for some of my clients, this is the time where they have to work on relaxing and maybe moving at a slower pace. I have a client who is really great actress.  She just got cast. She got offered a project right before, you know, right in March, it was greenlit to go and she was going to be in it, production shut down. And but the project will still very, very likely go whenever the gears of the industry turn up again. And she's sort of like, Okay, well, what should I do right now? And I said, Well, you need to get good at what it's like to be on hiatus. Because she's so used to going, going, going all the time, but there's nothing for her right now. She doesn't need to get good tape on her health self because she has a great reel. She doesn't need to boost her craft because she's really good at what she does. But what she's not good at is enjoying her life when she has space to do it. So that's sometimes, especially with my high go getting achieving clients, it's like, Whoa, why not get used to the what this is naturally and organically offering you right now. And that might stabilize if you move away from your work. That sometimes naturally makes you gravitate toward it again. Excellent point. That's interesting. I find that to be very true as well. Well, Christine, it has been fascinating, you know, hearing what you have to say on this subject. And I'm sure people are like, Oh, yeah, that's pretty obvious. So we really appreciate you coming on and telling us, you know, how we can plan ahead. Once again, if they there's a couple of things that you're offering, could you tell us about those again real quick? Sure. The free cash flow course is at Christine dollar.com slash cash flow. And then my weekly planning chart, Christine dollar.com slash weekly dash planning dash chart, I think. And if not, email me and I'll send you the link. You can probably find my website's pretty simple and explanatory. So yeah, so that would be Christine dollar.com. Yeah, with a K. Alrighty, Christine. Thanks so much for being with us. We really appreciate you taking the time while you're really, really busy and doing the things that we're doing. And we'll have you on again soon. Oh, my pleasure, guys. Anytime. Next time in the studio in the studio, we'll all be together. Big group hug. Anyway, Christine dollar, everybody. All right, George and I will be right back to clean things up right after this. This is Anthony Mendez. You're watching voice over body shop. Your dynamic voice over career requires extra resources to keep moving ahead. Now there's one place where you can explore everything the voice over industry has to offer that place is voice over extra.com. 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Hey, good morning. Welcome to the morning prayer meeting from the Radiant City Center. This is day two of the Isaiah 62 fast. If you haven't heard about that yet, there's a incredible about six million people globally that are joining in a 21 day prayer and fasting initiative for Israel. And culminating, we haven't even said it, but day 21, there's going to be a hundred million people praying for Israel on the same same day. And I feel like whatever reason that is just blowing by us and we don't it's like, oh, that's cool. No, that's that's pretty historic. A hundred million people at once praying for the nation of Israel. That's like signs of the time stuff. And we get to join in with our little prayer room in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and join in and pray for the apple of God's eye. And we're going to be praying out of Isaiah 62. So go ahead and pull out your Bibles. Turn to Isaiah 62. This is one that it's really helpful to to read along and pray along side. We're going to read a little bit of Isaiah 62 and then we're going to pray for a bit and go into worship and end with more intercession. By Isaiah 62 verse one says, for Zion's sake, I will not hold my peace. And for Jerusalem's sake, I will not rest until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her salvation as a lamp that burns. The Gentiles, so see your righteousness and all kings your glory. You shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord will name. You shall also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, a royal diadem in the hand of your God. You shall no longer be termed forsaken, nor shall your land any more be termed desolate. But you shall be called Hesbaba. The Lord, you shall be called Hesbaba and your land Bula, for the Lord delights in you and your land shall be married. For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you.  In verse six, I have set my watchmen, I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, they shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent and give him no rest until he establishes and he makes Jerusalem a praise in all of the earth. So God, we come before you. Lord, we enter through the gate of thanksgiving. Lord, we thank you for your plans and purposes. Lord, we thank you for the nation of Israel. Lord, we thank you that our salvation has come. Through Israel, O Jesus, you came through the line of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And Lord, because of their partial blindness, Lord, the gospel has come to us. We are like wild olive branches that have been grafted in to the salvation that came to the house of Israel. Lord, we come with gratefulness this morning. Lord, we don't want to be like the wild olive branches that boast against the vine that boast against the tree that say, God, why would we spend time praying and interceding for this nation that you care for that our salvation came through? We consider the goodness and the severity of God this morning. We say thank you for our salvation. Lord, thank you that the oracles and the promises of God came through Israel. Lord, we thank you that the covenants came through this people and we're grateful, Lord, that we have been grafted in as one new man. Gentiles who were not born of Israel, but now grafted into Israel and part of the promises of God thanks to the covenantal blood of Jesus. And so Lord, we stand as one new man, Jew and Gentile, standing together as those who have been bought and purchased with the blood of Jesus, who are robed in the righteousness of Jesus, who because of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, we are alive to the promises that you made for the people of Israel. And so Lord, just like Paul had the burden, he said, I would be accursed. I would wish myself accursed if my nation Israel could be saved. Lord, that level of intercession that Paul, the apostle had where he was willing to be accursed from you if it meant salvation for Israel. Lord, we want to step into that level of burden praying for your people. Lord, we want to have that type of intercessory heart. Lord Jesus, just like you were willing to go to the cross even though Jerusalem had rejected you. Lord, even though so many in Israel have rejected you, Lord, we don't want to respond with that same spirit and reject them also, but like you were willing to suffer and go as our great high priest and pay the price of intercession. Lord, we want to pay the price of intercession and lay down our lives for the sake of this nation that you care for. And so Lord, we approach you this morning and we ask for salvation in Israel. Lord, we ask during these 21 days, God, why not send revival to Jerusalem? Why not send it to Tel Aviv, Golan Heights and all throughout the land? Lord, this land that you once walked, Lord, we ask that you would walk through this land once again. Lord, our hearts desire for Israel to be saved. And so this morning we ask for your salvation and your hands and your purposes to be made manifest. Lord, as six million people joined together in unity, Lord, we ask that it would be like dew down Mount Hermit. Lord, it would be like oil down the beard of Aaron, the priest, Lord, that it would equal refreshments in Israel in the name of Jesus. Watchman that you set on the wall. The prize of your heart. Come on, let's all bless the name of the Lord together. Everyone's 11 around what we're singing, just as we're prophetically singing about the mercy of God toward Israel. Romans 11 28 says concerning the gospel, speaking of Israel, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers for the gifts and the callings of God are irrevocable. For as you were once disobedient to God, yet now you have obtained mercy through Israel's disobedience. Even so, these also have now been disobedient that through the mercy shown you, they also may obtain mercy for God has committed them all to disobedience that he might have mercy on all. And then in verse 11 11, I say then, have they stumbled speaking of Israel that they should fall? Certainly not. But through their fall to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Now, if their fall is riches for the world and their failure riches for the Gentiles, this is key. How much more their fullness. Lord, if we have received mercy because of Israel's disobedience, how much more will we receive by Israel's fullness when they step into the promises that are irrevocable? The callings of God that you have set irrevocably, Lord, where you have made covenant with your people. And Lord, we remember mercy this morning. Lord, we have obtained mercy, Lord, because of your great love and your great mercy for us that you've allowed a partial blindness to come upon your people. But Lord, we will not be like the servant who receives mercy and leaves the presence of the king and he chokes out the other servant and refuses to show mercy to him, even though he just received great mercy. But we refuse to be like that servant who receives mercy from the king and then turns to Israel and will not bless and will not contend for Israel. So we right now in thankfulness and gratitude for the mercy of God, Lord, if through their fall we've obtained mercy, then how much more their fullness? And so, Lord, we step in as Gentiles who've been saved and redeemed, who've been grafted into the plans, purposes, promises, covenants of God. And we say, Lord, we contend for the fullness of Israel. We contend for the fullness of the promise. Like Paul says, I pray that all of Israel would be saved. Like Zechariah 14 prophesies, they will look on the one they pierced and they will mourn and all of Israel will be saved. Lord, we step in content for those promises and that fullness. God, we ask in this time where six million people globally are praying for 21 days and 100 million people are praying for 24 hours for the people of Israel. Lord, we contend for the expression of your fullness, where we think of Ephesians 1, 17 through 19. Lord, and we ask that God of glory might give the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus Christ. Lord, Israel has wisdom and zeal, but not of knowledge. Lord, we need to see you step in and release the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus. Lord, like the two Jews that were walking on the road to Emmaus, where you opened up the scriptures and you opened their eyes and their hearts burned within them, you revealed the risen Savior. Lord, like the thousands that got saved on Pentecost, when there was a witness of the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem and tongues of fire descended on your disciples, Lord, and Peter preached the gospel and thousands were saved. The blinders of thousands were removed. Lord, you did it 2,000 years ago on Pentecost. Lord, we know that was just a down payment of a greater expression of you pouring out your spirit on all flesh. And so Lord, we ask 2,000 years later, Lord, would you send a fresh Pentecost? Would you again release your Holy Spirit on the people of Israel? Lord, we pray for every Messianic believer in the land. Lord, this minority group, Lord, that have had their eyes open.  They see Jesus Christ for who he is. They see him as the fulfillment of the law and the prophets, the fulfillment of the covenants, the fulfillment of the purposes of God. And God, we ask, would you pour out your spirit on those believers living in the land of Israel? Lord, that there would be a mighty revival in Israel, Lord, even in the time of great turmoil and testing. Lord, let your word run swiftly and be glorified. So Lord, we ask Ephesians 1, 17, for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus, Lord, let scales fall off eyes in the name of Jesus. Jesus, Lord, I ask during this 21 days, Lord, as rabbis study your word in Israel as they read through the law and the prophets ask that you would reveal Jesus. Lord, as they read even some are tempted to skip over Isaiah 53 because of how descriptive and how revelatory Isaiah the prophet prophesied of Jesus is suffering. Lord, I ask as they read of the one who's been wounded and pierced, Lord, that they would see Jesus, that their eyes would be open, that they would no longer look for Messiah to come from within, but they would look up to see him seated on the throne. God, like you reveal Jesus to the disciples or where he walked through the walls and he showed them the scars in his hands and his disciples in a small way fulfilled that promise of Zechariah 14 where they looked on the one they pierced and they mourned and then they rejoiced. Lord, we ask again, Lord, would you exalt Jesus? Would you glorify him?  Lord, as they pour through the law, as they pour through the prophets, God, just like you did for each one of us, we were once blind, we were once far, we once did not see Jesus for who he was and we had our eyes open. So Lord, I ask for the rabbis, Orthodox Jews that are in Israel, that are studying your word. Oh, God, that you would open their eyes to see the wondrous things from your law. God, that you would unveil your son Jesus, that they would see the suffering, risen, exalted, glorified Jesus, the one who came not first to be a political leader, but to be our great high priest and our intercessor. To be our atoning sacrifice, Lord, they would remember the Passover and the blood of the Lamb that had to be spilled for the redemption and forgiveness of their sins. So Lord, we ask for those Jews that are living in the land, where particularly the rabbis and the leaders, Lord, as they read the scriptures, open their eyes and let them see Jesus. In the revelation, in the knowledge of who Jesus is, let them see the risen Savior. Rapid fire prayer, we're going to keep praying for Israel, we're going to keep asking for the Lord to save those in the land of Israel and send revival. And so anyone who would like to come and pray, just go ahead and line up right here beside me. Just pray 10 to 15 second prayers and we're going to close out this prayer in the last 10 minutes. I just want to encourage you. Stir yourself up, set yourself on the wall and let's continue to contend for Israel for this last 10 minutes. Father, it is your heart's desire that Israel would be saved.  We pray for encounters in the night of the man Christ Jesus who is their Messiah, born into flesh, dwelt among them perfect and sinless, lifted high to offer salvation for Jew and Gentile. We ask for encounter and salvation in the name of Jesus. Concurrentians chapter 3, what their minds were hardened for to this day when they read 3 the Old Covenant, that same veil remains unlifted because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this very day, whenever Moses has read, a veil lies over their hearts. When one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is a spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Lord, we pray for the tearing of the veil, that same veil that that was torn from top to bottom that kept us from looking into the Holy of Holies. Lord, we pray for the nation of Israel, that that veil that is read when Moses, when the Old Covenant is read, that that veil would be removed in Christ. Supernaturally, let the season of the Gentiles provoke to jealousy the people of your calling, the people of your destiny in Jesus name. In Joel, Lord, you say, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh.  Your old men shall dream dreams and your young men shall see visions. God, we just pray that you would reveal your son to these people. Lord, that visions would come and dreams would come tonight. That dreams would come tonight at midnight, that you would show off, that you would show up in their dreams. God, that they would wake up and have testimony. Did you see that? Did you see that? They would say, I had a dream about that too. What is this? Lord, would you show up in the nighttime with dreams and visions, spirit and wisdom and revelation? Come with discernment of the living God. And I ask God that you would awaken hunger deep within them, or that they would search for truth for Jesus. And as they hunger and thirst for righteousness, that you would fill them and meet them in that place in Jesus name. God, I just pray that you would continue to raise up Christian believers to stand with Israel. Lord, to stand with your people, that as they return, God, that we would not have the attitude of the older brother, Lord, that we would join you in celebrating and receiving them. And God, just that, you would mobilize believers to pray for them, to intercede for them. God, bring Israel back to you.  So Father, I pray that you would put an epicenter on your chosen city, Jerusalem, Lord. And I pray the world would turn and focus. God, we pray that kings would be in awe of a land that's got the shalom of God over top of it. But I pray that the rumors of wars and the spreading God, I pray you would put a supernatural dome over your nation, God, that it would be, it would be defended by the king of kings. And Lord, we thank you that you're using this time, this period, Lord, I pray for an apathetic spirit of those not supporting Israel as believers, Lord, that we would shed our Western mentality of climbing of influence and we would humble ourselves to the biblical story, your story, God, we revolve around you. We are not the center, Lord, you are the center and you chose Israel as your people, in Jesus' name. That the mountains might quake at your presence, God, we pray for a quaking over Israel today, that you would rend the heavens over your nation today. And in this time, for such a time as this, why not today? Holy Spirit, would you pour out your presence over the country of Israel in homes and gatherings of people? Would there be outpouring and moments of revival that would begin to stir up in the country of Israel? Lord, we just pray for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit in greater measure in the nation of Israel. And God, I ask that you would continue to raise up apostolic messianic Jews like Dr. Michael Brown, who would not be afraid of shame or what anybody thinks of them, God, but that they would witness to the nation of Israel. God, and I ask for just the return of apostolic leaders who would witness to the nation of Israel in Jesus' name. But Pastor Spencer was praying about delivering us from our ego-centric gospel, where we are the center of the universe, into God's story. And Paul just hits the nail on the head when he says, for I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of Gentile has come in. And so all of Israel will be saved. As it is written, the deliverer will come out of Zion. He will turn away on godliness from Jacob, for this is my covenant with them. When I take away their sins, I love those two warnings, to not be ignorant of the mystery and not to be wise in your own opinion. And that's what's happened when we elevate ourselves and just cast Israel out and say, God's done with them, why should we have to pray for them?  I love what the call that Pastor Spencer gave us. We need to humble ourselves and recognize that it was God's great mercy that he saved us because of the blindness that happened to Israel. But we're stepping in in this fast and there's a, there's just a humility that comes with saying, it's not about me. It's not even about my nation. It's about you and your plans and purposes. And I come in agreement in that. And what's beautiful is in doing that, you receive all of the blessing that God pours out on Israel. You know that, right? Like they don't get their own special blessings and covenants that you don't get to participate in. We kind of act like that. But no, you actually benefit and get those same benefits when you bless and speak blessing over Israel. So let's just remember that and just be in prayer and in intercession. We're going to keep contending every, every morning. We're taking the whole hour during this 21 days and all the other prayer meetings in person. We're beginning by, by interceding for Israel. And so let's, let's go out humble, not wise in our own opinions, but thinking God for our part to play in the story. So amen. Amen. Amen. And amen. Thank you, Lord, for getting to bless your people. So we'll be back on June 6, 30 p.m. And then tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. Bless you.


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