I remind members that social distancing measures are in place in the chamber and across the Holyrood campus, and I ask that members take care to observe those measures, including when entering and exiting the chamber, and please only use the aisles and walkways to access your seat and when moving around the chamber. The first item of business is First Minister's questions, and any supplementaries will be taken after question 7, but I would ask that any members press their buttons, request-to-speak buttons as soon as you can. Question 1, I called Douglas Ross. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. Does the First Minister agree that the Scottish Government needs to reset its relationship with business? The Scottish Government has a duty to have a good constructive working relationship with all sectors of Scottish society that very much includes the business community. This has been a difficult period for the business community. I personally and to an even greater extent, my ministers have engaged with business organisations and with different sectors of our economy over the course of the pandemic, but yes, I took part in business discussions over the course of the election campaign and absolutely gave the commitment that if there is a need to whatever language you want to use, reset, restart, make sure that we are focusing on all the key issues then. As First Minister, of course, I am not just willing to do that, I am very keen to do that. Douglas Ross. Thank you, Presiding Officer, because it is not just myself or the Scottish Conservatives or others that are calling for this reset. It is the Scottish Chamber of Commerce. They said last month that a reset was necessary, but it has not happened. Six weeks after it was promised, taxi drivers are still waiting on the second £1,500 payment. Businesses in Glasgow have had their plans upturned at 40 hours' notice. The Federation of Small Businesses called that the latest in the line of miscommunications around unlocking that have had serious consequences. The Scottish hospitality group are now warning that more businesses will go bust unless they are given more help and that they cannot continue with this loss and uncertainty. Yesterday, the First Minister said in this chamber that she would work with the business sector to provide as much clarity and support as possible. In that spirit, will she set out what specific progress is necessary to ease restrictions in Glasgow and, crucially, what further support will be provided to protect businesses right now? In relation to the Scottish Chamber of Commerce, as I understand it, it was engaged in a call with the Deputy First Minister and his new capacity is overseeing Covid recovery. Earlier this week, I have had a number of calls over the course of the pandemic with them myself, and that engagement will continue. I understand the frustration of the business community just as I understand the frustration of every single citizen across the country as we continue to grapple with a global pandemic of an infectious virus. In the past few weeks, as we were making very good progress, of course, being confronted with another new variant of the virus. Unfortunately, with the best will in the world, I cannot take away all of the impacts of a virus of this nature, but we work as hard as we can and we work as closely as we can to give as much notice and detail of our response as possible. Sometimes, I am afraid, in the interests of health and human life, it is necessary for people in leadership positions like me to take very quick decisions, because, as we know from bitter experience over the pandemic, it is often the failure to take quick and firm decisions that lead to loss of life. Anybody who has any doubt about that only had to listen to a fraction of what Dominic Cummings outlined about what he described as the chaotic response of the UK Government at key moments of the pandemic. I will continue to try to take difficult decisions as well as I possibly can. On the specific issues of business support, there is a range of different support streams in place for business. They will remain in place for as long as is necessary. Of course, we will continue to discuss with different sectors of the economy what more support we can give. On getting Glasgow back on track, we want to do that as quickly as possible, but that has got to be done responsibly and safely. On today's numbers, I can tell the chamber that there were 464 positive cases identified yesterday, 1.8 per cent of all tests being positive. We see a reduction in hospital cases today and a small reduction in ICU cases. There are reasons to be optimistic there, but we have to continue in the interests of business and in the interests of everybody to take careful and cautious decisions to get the whole country back to normality. The First Minister answered a question about restrictions in Glasgow and more support for businesses affected there by referencing Dominic Cummings. I am sure that there will be plenty of time from your backbench or scripted questions to answer about Dominic Cummings. I want to focus what is happening in Scotland's largest city and the impact that is having on businesses in our communities, because Glasgow has been under Covid restrictions now for 269 days. 269 days were businesses have been struggling to survive. The chief executive of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, Stuart Patrick, said yesterday that funding grants fall far short. He said that 90 per cent of businesses will get less than they were promised, and that is a direct quote from him. The financial support offered bears no relationship to the economic damage now being done by restrictions. Does the First Minister agree with the chief executive of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce and what will she do to now deliver on the promises she and her Government made to those businesses? The point that I was making in my earlier answer was about the importance of careful, cautious and responsible decision making in the face of a deadly virus. I was also pointing out, with reference to some of what we heard yesterday, what the impact and implications can be if a leader does not take careful, cautious and responsible decisions. I think that most people across the country understand the seriousness of the point that I am making. Why is that relevant and not deflective? We are still in the face of this pandemic and it remains important that we take those careful decisions. To Douglas Ross, I know how long the city of Glasgow has been under restrictions because, unlike him, I am a resident of the city of Glasgow. Those restrictions apply to me just as they apply to others. I know how difficult it is for residents and businesses across Glasgow, but I also know how dangerous it would be if we eased restrictions too quickly and allowed a new variant of the virus that we know is spreading perhaps even more quickly than the variant at the start of the year to take a grip again. That is why there are the public health interventions that are under way across Glasgow right now—surge testing, accelerated vaccination. I said earlier in the week that we see cautious signs for optimism that that is working. We will continue to monitor that very carefully. We will continue to discuss with businesses how, in the face of this difficult situation, we support them to the best of our ability and to the best of the resources that we have at our disposal. However frustrating, I know that it is for business. The worst thing somebody in my position could do for businesses and individuals is to act in a way that allowed the virus to take over again, because that would lead to more businesses being closed and it would lead to more lives being lost. We need to continue to steer a careful course through that. It is difficult, although I know that it is for everyone. That is what I will seek to do. The minister knows Glasgow. She answered her question about knowing the numbers of Glasgow, but she completely ignored the point from the Glasgow chambers of commerce. Her chief executive, who is saying that 90 per cent of businesses will get less than was promised by the First Minister and the Scottish Government. That Government's approach to business needs a reset, but more than that, it needs a complete overhaul. Businesses do not see anyone around the Scottish Government table who is fighting their corner. Even one of the First Minister's own economic advisers has said that her Government is anti-business. One of the First Minister's own advisers. However, instead of business people who understand how to create jobs, it is the Greens who might get seat around the First Minister's table. A green party that does not even believe in economic growth, a green party that ignores business unless they want to celebrate at a high-end bar in George Street and a green party that wants to risk the entire oil and gas industry and the tens of thousands of jobs that it supports. This SNP Government needs to reset its relationship with business. Does the First Minister honestly believe that a coalition with the Greens is the way to do that? I think that most people across the country and actually most responsible businesses that I speak to and have interaction with know that, yes, it is important to support a strong, vibrant, sustainable economy, but it is also vital—in fact, it is a moral imperative—to do that in a way that meets our obligations to the planet and delivers our climate change targets. From that last question, I am not sure that the climate is particularly high up the agenda of Douglas Ross, so we will continue to make sure that we support industry, that we support the economy, but that we also support the country to move to net zero, which is a key priority and should be a key priority for all of us. On the questions about the Glasgow business community, the Glasgow chambers of commerce, I believe that Stuart Patrick himself was on a call with the Deputy First Minister and the Finance and Economy Secretary on Tuesday of this week. I am sure that the issues that have been raised—I would expect and assume the issues that have been raised here today—were raised on that call, and the Scottish Government will be taking them seriously and working with the business community to address them. That is how we operate as a Government. We are always looking for ways in which we can improve engagement and responsiveness, and we will continue to do that. I come back to the central point here. This country, like much of the world right now, is in the grip of a global pandemic. It has taken too many lives already, and it has the capacity and potential if we don't get the decisions right to take more lives in future. It is very difficult for everybody, businesses and individuals. My responsibility—and I am not complaining about this—is what I am elected to do. My responsibility is to try to take those difficult decisions in the best way possible to get the country through this as safely as possible. That is a responsibility that I will continue to treat with the utmost seriousness. In November 2019, I shared damning evidence from senior clinicians that contaminated water at the Queen Elizabeth University hospital had led to the death of at least one child cancer patient and that their family had not been informed. Millie Main's mum Kimberley had to learn the true cause of her daughter's death in the newspaper and join the dots. That is unforgivable. The evidence that I shared back then warned that there may have been a second child and that their parents too may not know the truth. A case note review in March confirmed over 30 infections in children and two children's deaths due to waterborne infections. The First Minister promised then that all the families affected would be told within weeks, but this morning it has been confirmed that one family has not been informed and it is feared that this is the family of the second child who tragically died. Can I ask the First Minister when the first attempt was made to contact this family, how many attempts have been made and why this family does not yet know the truth? Can I yet again take the opportunity to extend my deepest sympathies to the families of patients who died and indeed to everyone who was affected as a result of the issues at the Queen Elizabeth hospital? It would of course not be appropriate for me to comment on any individuals' care but I will seek to answer the question as best I can in general terms. The expert panel has provided individual reports to the families of patients included in the case note review and offered to discuss individual findings with them. I understand that the review team has managed to contact all families with the exception of one family. One family, regrettably and despite extensive efforts by the team and by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, has not been able to be contacted. Any family who wishes to get in touch with the independent case note review team is able to email at the following address, nss.casenotereview at nhs.scot. I am happy to seek to provide later on the specific answers of when the first attempt to contact was made and how many attempts have been made but I have had an assurance that there have been rigorous attempts made to contact the one remaining family that there has not been contact with and unfortunately and regrettably it has not been possible to contact them. I know that Greater Glasgow and Clyde will continue to take all reasonable and appropriate steps to locate that family. I am sorry, First Minister, but that is not good enough. The reason why it is not good enough is because the key question is when that first attempt was made. I raised this case in November 2019. The case note review should not be the ones that we are trying to inform that family because senior clinicians informed the health board about the death of two children months earlier in July 2019. Scotland's duty of candor law means that families should have been informed as soon as the health board became aware. That means that the family should have been informed at least 18 months ago, not contacted for the first time just a few weeks ago. You have broken that law. Just to be clear, two children died in Scotland's flagship hospital due to a waterborne infection. One family had to find out by fighting the health board and the other family may not even know. With all due respect, handing out an email address is not good enough. One family still does not know. This is the biggest scandal of the devolution era. Will the First Minister take personal responsibility that this family will be found and told the truth about what happened to their child? That is a matter of the utmost seriousness. It is because of that that it is really important to be clear. A case note review looked at 118 episodes of serious bacterial infection in 84 children. All the families of those children, with one exception, have been contacted. The information from the case note review shared with them, and I am sure that a number of questions have been asked. There is one family that serious attempts have been made to contact and it has not proved possible to contact them. I think that that is deeply regrettable, but in a situation in which 83 out of 84 have been contacted, I would simply say to Anna Sarwar that it is reasonable to conclude that it is not because the health board does not want to contact the family that those attempts have not so far proved possible. To characterise that as me simply handing out an email address is unfair. That is about an inability to make contact with a family. I certainly will seek to provide further information about the number of attempts that have been made when the first attempt was made, and I will be ensuring that the health board is doing everything that is reasonably possible to locate this family. However, as I understand it, this is a case of attempts having been made and they have not proven possible in terms of locating the family. I think that everybody involved in this wants that family to be located, so that information can be shared and any questions can be answered. However, I repeat again, all of the families with one exception have been contacted. It is important that any further reasonable attempts to contact the remaining family continue. The First Minister misses the fundamental point. The case note review happened as a result of families fighting with the health board to get that review, which happened in 2019. The child died in 2017. Conditions highlighted this case to health board officials in 2017 and then in 2019. Why did we wait until now this year to try and find that family? It is one thing breaking the law when it comes to a treatment waiting time. It is another thing breaking the law when it comes to telling a family the truth about how their child died. This scandal involved denials, bullying of clinicians, cover-ups and parents of six children being blamed for their illnesses. Clinicians have been raising the alarm for years. The result of inaction is tens of children getting infections and tragically two children dying. However, inexplicably, there are still families fighting for truth and justice. This case proves that the response from the First Minister has not been good enough. She was health secretary when the hospital was commissioned. She was First Minister when it opened despite an independent review finding that the water supply was not safe. However, the only people who have paid the price for this scandal have been the families and the whistleblowers. Years on, why has no one taken responsibility? Why have there been no consequences? Why are families still having to fight for the truth? Who is going to be held accountable? In all of those very serious points that Anna Sarwar raises, there is one important fact that he omits to raise. That this Government has established a full independent public inquiry. That public inquiry is under way and is still to do its work and to report. Anna Sarwar has said that we cannot wait for that. It is really important that he called for a public inquiry. We have established a public inquiry. In the lead-up to that public inquiry, there has been an independent review. There has been a report from the oversight board that was established. There has now been the case note review process, which has produced an overview report and has also produced the individual case reviews for each of the affected children and families. I am not disputing because nobody could or should. That is an incredibly serious matter. What I am disputing is that the Government is not taking this seriously and that the Government is not determined through ultimately the full independent public inquiry to get to the bottom of everything that happened from the opening of the hospital right through to now to make sure that families have the answers to the questions that they need. That is a process that will continue until we feel that we have got to the point where all questions that can be answered have been answered. It is a real omission to say all of the things that Anna Sarwar has rightly said, but to leave out the fact of the full independent public inquiry that is already under way. Finally, just to come back to the one family that has not been contacted, that is regrettable, but I want to stress that that is not because there have not been attempts to contact that family and the health board will continue to take steps to contact that family as they have already contacted the other families involved. The UK Home Secretary has declared that immigration dawn raids in Glasgow are what the British public voted for. I expect that the First Minister will agree that Scotland did not vote for that. The Conservatives were rejected at the ballot box in Glasgow and across Scotland, and this month we witnessed the people of Glasgow taking direct action to protect their neighbours from the actions of an institutionally racist home office. Immigration and asylum are reserved to the UK Government, but there is no doubt more that we can be doing here in Scotland. Is the First Minister aware of the freedom to crawl campaign being launched today by the Roof Coalition, including Shelter and other charities and grassroots organisations, drawing attention to the abysmal standard of accommodation provided by meers on behalf of the home office for asylum seekers who are pregnant or who have babies and toddlers? Does she agree that the rights set out in the UN convention on the rights of the child are being breached, and what will she do to challenge the UK Government on its failings towards some of the most vulnerable people in our communities? I have not seen the detail of the campaign that Patrick Harvie refers to, but I will, of course, look at that. I have profound and fundamental objections both to the principles underpinning the UK Government's system of immigration and asylum, but also many of the practical aspects of that, not least the provision of inadequate accommodation for asylum seekers in the city of Glasgow. The Government has, on many occasions, raised those concerns directly with the home office, has often been met with indifference to those concerns, but we will continue to raise those. The provision of accommodation for anyone is an important right, but particularly where children are concerned. Obviously, this Parliament, just before the election, took a decision, a unanimous decision to incorporate the UN convention on the rights of the child into domestic law. That is being challenged in court by the UK Government. That brings into sharp focus perhaps why the UK Government is seeking to challenge that, because it does not want the decisions that it takes over things such as immigration to be subject to that kind of legal protection and scrutiny. In my view, that is exactly why we need the UN convention to apply to everything that happens in Scotland, because the rights of a child matter, whether that child was born here in Scotland or is the child of an asylum seeker, is a child living in Scotland and they should all have the same rights. Patrick Harvie. The campaign was only launched today, but just so that the First Minister and everybody here is aware of the concerns being raised about the accommodation for mothers and babies in Glasgow, the campaign says that the rooms are cramped and inadequately furnished, that there is virtually no floor space within the rooms for children to play or move around safely, that there are multiple safety issues with the living, cooking and sleeping areas, that there is no respect for privacy and that alleged infractions against the rules are posted publicly humiliating the mothers. They say that all of that breaches the UN convention on the rights of the child, the health and care standards and the current care inspectorate space standards. The Scottish Greens have long argued that the responsibility for housing asylum seekers should lie with local authorities who are much better placed and frankly more inclined to provide appropriate accommodation than the institutionally racist home office. In the Smith commission, the UK Government and every political party committed to discussions on powers coming to Scotland on asylum housing and support services. Those discussions have still not taken place more than six years later. Will the Scottish Government put that issue on the agenda for the next joint ministerial committee and work with Glasgow city council and charities to develop a public sector bid for those services so that Scotland can provide them to a standard that we can be proud of instead of allowing this shameful situation to continue? First Minister, yes, we will seek to put it on the agenda for the next joint ministerial committee, but, since those do not exactly take place frequently, I think that it is important that we continue to take it up in other ways as well. Patrick Harvie is right about the Smith commission. Discussions to devolve more powers to this Parliament in the area of immigration have not progressed, but then we have a UK Tory Government that is more interested in taking powers away from this Parliament, not bringing powers to this Parliament. That is a reality. I know that it is an uncomfortable reality for Mr Ross, but it is a reality nevertheless. I am sorry if it was not Mr Ross that shouted rubbish if it was one of his colleagues, but, anyway, it is a fact that this UK Government seems more interested in taking powers away. However, those issues are important issues because they are about fundamental human rights and fundamental human dignity, and they bring in to sharp focus why those powers should lie with this Parliament. Actually, notwithstanding the many differences that we have across this chamber, I do believe that this Parliament would take a much more humane approach to immigration and asylum. I believe that we would respond more positively to the demographic challenges that we face and, therefore, the need to attract more people to live and work in Scotland. It is a good example of why we need to see those powers lie with this Parliament and sooner, as with so many other things, we can get those powers out of the hands of a Tory Westminster Government the better for everyone. Congratulations, Presiding Officer, on your new role. I look forward to working with you and engaging with you over the coming years. I would like to ask the First Minister what dialogue the Scottish Government has had with the UK Government on the potentially damaging tariff and quota-free trade deal that is being proposed by the UK and Australian Governments. Can I first take the opportunity to welcome Jim Fairlie to Parliament? It makes that afternoon and let him in the torrential rain, all the more worth it to see him in his place in this chamber. The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Minister for Business met UK Government ministers on 25 May and 26 May to reiterate our concerns about the devastating impact that the UK Government proposed deal could have on our farming communities. That followed an earlier letter from the Rural Affairs Secretary to the UK Trade Secretary on 19 May, but the UK Government seems determined to shut the Scottish Government out of this decision-making process just as it has ignored our interests throughout the Brexit process. We are extremely concerned that yet again a crucial decision affecting Scotland's future is being taken by this Tory Government, not just against the wishes of people who live here but fundamentally against the interests of people who live here. Jim Fairlie. I would like to thank the First Minister for that answer. Yesterday, he gave multiple opportunities for the Opposition parties to work with the Scottish Government in supporting the people of Scotland. Does the First Minister share the concerns of the President of the National Farmers Union of Scotland, who is in John Swinney's constituency, who said, I quote, "...we were promised that any future deal wouldn't undermine Scottish and UK farmers with any deal. We would feel betrayed if that were to happen." Douglas Ross wrote to all the farmers in my constituency four days after my nomination, telling them that he was going to be the farmers champion here in Scotland. I'm just wondering if this is going to be one of those red lines that he's going to gaily skip over like a newborn calf. Would the First Minister agree with me if this will be a total betrayal of Scotland's farmers as it has been by the fisherman? The First Minister. Douglas Ross seems intent on telling Jim Fairlie, for some reason, best known to him that he's a lamb, not a calf. The general point stands that nobody on the Tory benches seems willing to stand up for the interests of Scottish farmers. This is a Tory party that has already betrayed Scotland's fishing communities, and it now seems to be about to betray Scotland's farming communities. What we must see is that any imports of Australian agri-food should be produced to equivalent standards of Scottish production. Imports must be controlled by tariff rate, quotas, anything short of that. Short, of course, of what the Tories promised will be a betrayal of our farmers and will be deeply damaging to the Scottish economy. We hear a lot of rhetoric from the Conservatives about standing up for Scottish business. We've heard it again today. Perhaps it's about time they actually stood up for our farming community and told their bosses in the UK Government that what is proposed is simply not acceptable. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and congratulations on your new role. To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government plans to implement a national moratorium on incinerators such as the proposal at Overwood Farms site near Stonehouse, in light of the reported detrimental impacts that incinerators could have on Scotland's bid to tackle the climate emergency. First Minister, I welcome Megan Gallacher to Parliament as well. Our commitment is to transition to net zero by 2045 and to help to do that by building a circular economy and reducing recycling and re-using resources as vital. With that and our climate change targets in mind, my party stood on a commitment in the election to review the role that incineration plays in Scotland's waste system. We will update Parliament on plans for this as soon as possible. I know that that is something that in their constituency capacities my colleagues Christina McKelvie and Mary McCallan have also been pushing for. It is worth noting, though, that in 2019 the whole-life carbon impact of Scotland's household waste reached its lowest level since official recording began, and we are fully committed to further accelerating progress by ending the practice of sending biodegradable municipal waste to landfill by 2025. I thank the First Minister for her answer and I would like to refer to my register of interests as I am a councillor in North Lanarkshire. Residents of Stonehouse and the surrounding areas feel like down as this is the second time they have had to fight against a proposed incinerator being built in their area. What will the Scottish Government do to reassure my constituents that should South Lanarkshire Council oppose this planning application, the Scottish Government will not overrule its local decision if it were to be brought before the Scottish Government reporter? I am sure that, as a councillor, a councillor knows that if I were to answer that question that in any way pre-emptied or prejudged any planning decisions that may ultimately come to the Scottish ministers, that would not be helpful for any of the interests concerned. Fundamentally and initially, of course, it is a matter for the local council but then there are robust, rightly robust statutory processes in place for any applications that come to ministers. It is really important that ministers do not prejudge any of that. I understand the concerns that are raised in general here, which is why what I said in my initial answer is important. There is time and this Government is committed to doing it, to review the role that incineration plays in our overall waste system, but it is also important to recognise the progress that we have made in reducing the whole-life carbon impact of household waste and to look at the variety of things that we need to do to continue that. However, I am sure that the application, if there is an application in this case, will be treated and dealt with in all of the appropriate processes. To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government plans to take to support teachers with the challenges that they face in light of the reported concerns from teaching unions that there is a culture of fear and anxiety across Scottish education. On the past year, teachers have done an extraordinary job in the most challenging of circumstances. They have refocused their work to support pupils in a range of different ways. We recognise the pressure on schools and want all teachers at all times to work in a safe, positive, respectful and supportive environment. We have already committed over £400 million to education recovery, introduced a support package for schools, including a very important focus on mental health support for staff, in addition to existing guidance for local authorities and schools to manage behaviour. We will continue to put the health and wellbeing of both pupils and staff at the forefront of recovery plans. We look forward to continuing to work constructively with stakeholders to ensure that everybody nurtures an environment in our schools that has, at its core, the highest quality of learning and teaching. Alex Rowley? I'm sure that she, like me, is very worried that the NASUWT has said this week that violence and abuse of teachers is becoming normalised. They also revealed that a union survey found that 53 per cent of teachers considered leaving the profession in the last year feeling demoralised, unsupported and unrecognised. Does the Government recognise those concerns? Do you accept that, amongst the actions that must be taken, there must be a year-on-year substantial increase in school budgets and that we also need to see significant increases in teacher numbers and teaching assistance across the school estate? First, on education spending has risen in every single one of the last four years. There has been significant additional resource that has been provided to local authorities in the face of Covid. That is supporting a range of activities, including additional teachers in our schools. I recognise the concerns of teachers and so many others after what has been the most difficult challenging bruising in many respects of years, as we have all in different ways had to cope with the implications of Covid. It's really important that we both understand, listen to that and respond in a variety of different ways. No teacher should have to suffer verbal or physical abuse in school and nobody should ever accept violence becoming normalised in our schools. I'm sure that the education secretary will be more than happy to discuss those concerns in more detail with the trade union concern. It is really important that we support teachers in a range of different ways, and we are doing that. We will continue to talk to teaching unions about what more can be done to support teachers as they do the very important job that they perform on behalf of all of us. To ask the First Minister what plans the Scottish Government has to reform the roles of the Lord Advocate and the Crown Office in procuring a fiscal service in light of the resignations of the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor General. I will take the opportunity to put on record my deep gratitude to the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor General for their extremely distinguished service over the past five years. I am sure that I will have more to say about that over the next days and weeks, but I want to record my appreciation and gratitude and respect for both of them. The Government will put nominations for new law officers to Parliament for approval shortly. Until then, the current law officers remain in office. As we said in our manifesto, the Government intends to publish a consultation on the dual functions of the law officers, and we will do that in due course. It is vital that both the systems of criminal prosecution and investigation of death and the role of the law officers in Government continue to enjoy the full confidence of the public, and indeed I believe that they do. I also pay tribute to James Wolff and Alison Derulo for their service, but also for their willingness to engage, particularly by those of us who have sat on the Justice Committee. Reform is needed, and the First Minister has the power to deliver change. The role of the Lord Advocate needs to be split to end the conflicts of interest, including appointing a director of prosecutions. Fadal accident inquiries must be removed from the Crown Office as families are still waiting too long. It is a scandal that we still do not know the circumstances surrounding the death of Lamarra Bell and James Ewell on the aim at M9 six years ago. After the landmark vote in this Parliament in March, we need change to ensure that those in the grip of drugs are diverted to treatment rather than to prosecution and imprisonment. In hiring new law officers, will the First Minister commit to those much-needed reforms? Let me make a number of points. I genuinely hope that this is necessary, given a potential reform of this nature, that there is widespread consensus on the eventual path that we take. Firstly, it is really important to recognise, as I am sure everybody in this chamber does, that the dual role of the law officers is not new. It is not something that was created under an SNP administration. It has been that way since the dawn of devolution. Under previous Governments, there was that dual role. Secondly, I think that there is a case for reform, which is why my manifesto committed to a consultation on that. It is really important that we take the time to get that right. Just listening to Liam McArthur there, one thing came to mind that will be something that this Parliament in the course of a consultation will want to consider. Because of the dual role of law officers, law officers can be called to this Parliament to answer questions on all the issues that perhaps fall within the prosecutorial function of the law officers. They can be questioned in this chamber. If we separate those roles, that may not be possible in future to do that in the same way. That may be something that Parliament is comfortable with, but it is just one example of the need to take care over that and to make sure that we get it right and that we try to move forward on the basis of as much consensus and proper consideration as possible. Those are really serious issues, and I hope that all members, including Liam McArthur, will engage in them seriously over the course of any consultation that comes. We will now move on to supplementaries. I would be grateful for succinct questions and responses, and I call John Mason to be followed by Liam Kerr. I think that the First Minister will be aware of Pladdys McVity's plan to close their factory and tow cross in my constituency with a potential loss of over 450 jobs. Can the First Minister reassure the staff and myself and my constituents that the Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise will do all that they can to persuade Pladdys to remain in Glasgow? I thank John Mason for raising an extremely important issue. I, like many others in Glasgow and beyond, was deeply concerned to learn that Pladdys had entered into consultation with its tow cross workforce. That is a bitter blow to the company's staff, who have been so loyal to that company over such a long period of time, and indeed a big blow to the local area, given the importance of the McVity's factory tow-tow cross. We will do everything that we can by, I mean the Scottish Government and Scottish Enterprise, and I know that Glasgow City Council has that commitment too. We have put together an action group that is co-chaired by the Economy, Secretary and by the leader of the council, Susan Aitken. Membership of the action group includes trade unions, Scottish Enterprise, Clyde Gateway and Skills Development Scotland. The group met yesterday and it will pursue every opportunity to secure the long-term future of the tow cross site and the associated jobs, but that requires a willingness from Pladdys to engage in that process. Let me be very clear here in Parliament today that I am calling on Pladdys to do that and to engage constructively in the interests of their workforce. The Cabinet Secretary for the Economy is also writing to the UK business secretary, making him aware of the situation and of the on-going work of the action group. Recent reports and representations to me by Aberdeen Airport suggest that passengers returning to Scotland from abroad may have to pay more than twice as much for Covid tests than those returning to England. That will price many people in the north-east out of travelling, it will hinder the ability for Scottish airports to re-establish connectivity and potentially pushes passengers to travel to and from English airports. Can the First Minister offer any comfort to the industry and hard-pressed passengers by committing to review the guidelines and introduce a more equal testing system? We will, of course, and I will give an undertaking to look at it as an issue that was raised with me earlier this week. My understanding, and I will be corrected if I am getting any of the detail of this as it pertains to England wrong, but in summary the difference is that we require all tests in Scotland to be NHS tests, where in England many of the tests are outsourced to private companies. One of the reassurances that I can give is around quality, because we believe that the NHS provides that quality assurance. I am not sure to be blunt that going down the same route as England on this is the right thing to do, but we will review that and give those points consideration. More generally, I do not want, nobody wants the requirement for testing and quarantine to be in place any longer than is necessary, but those are protections that are important right now. Everybody knows the frustration that I have about what I would describe as the lack of robustness in terms of UK border control in the past, but those are important protections to try to do everything that we can to minimise the risk of importation of the virus. That is why it is important that everybody abides by the requirements for testing and quarantine if they are coming into the country. The First Minister will be aware that the world's first savings bank was established by the Reverend Henry Duncan in the village of Rutherl in Dumfrieshire in 1810. The very building that housed the bank is today home to the savings bank museum, but the owners of the TSB have just announced plans to close the museum, remove the historic artefacts from the community and place them in their head office in Edinburgh. Can I ask the First Minister to consider whether the Government would make representations to the TSB and ask them to put those closure plans on hold and work with the local community to find a way to retain this important part of our nation's history where it belongs in the village of Rutherl? I should say that Oliver Mundell raised this issue with me in advance of First Minister's questions and indicated that he, as a constituency member, was intending to raise it. Thank you to him for that and Colin Smyth for raising it today. It is not an issue that I am aware of all the detail around, but given that it has been raised with me by two members today, I will certainly look at the circumstances and, yes, absolutely consider if the Scottish Government can make representations to retain a museum that sounds to me as if it is a valued part of the local community and should be treasured in terms of the history and the ability of future generations to learn all that it has to offer. I will look at it and come back to both members in due course. The Children's Commissioner said that the UK Government's two-child limit is a clear breach of children's rights and dropping the universal credit uplift will effectively knock out the benefits that the Scottish child payment brings to families. Does the First Minister think that the UK Government should focus on strengthening children's rights rather than continually undermining those efforts? Yes, I do. I think that that is a really important point. The issue shows, quite starkly, the difference between our two Governments and our two Parliaments. This Government and this Parliament are focused on tackling poverty through significant investments, including £100 million to support families through the pandemic payments, £50 million for universal free school meals expansion and, of course, the introduction of the Scottish child payment, which we are committed to doubling. By contrast, the UK Government penalises families through the two-child limit, cutting £500 million from low-income families in Scotland alone, the benefit cap and the plan to remove the universal credit uplift. The Government, with the unanimous backing of Parliament, has strengthened children's rights by enshrining them in law, yet the UK Government wants to take us to court over that. Again, that illustrates why we need more powers out of the hands of the Tory Government at Westminster and into the hands of this Government and this Parliament. Communities in Perthshire and across the Highlands have for years campaigned for the A9 trunk road to be made up to a dual carriageway between Perth and Inverness, and it is good to see works progressing on one stretch at the moment. However, concerns have already been raised that this vital road safety project could be jeopardised by any deal struck between the Scottish National Party Government and the Green Party. So can the First Minister assure us that that will not be the case? When Murdo Fraser says that concerns have already been raised, what he really means is that he is desperately trying to stir up any concerns of that description. He should know by now that the two things are not really the same. This Government's commitment to the A9 is clear and this Government's commitment to the A9 continues. That concludes First Minister's questions, and I suspend this meeting until 2pm.


Well, there's two teams remaining in Pine and Prairie that have both 10 wins and also undefeated in conference play. Fauston and Ada Boer of Norman County West, Volleyball have yet to cross pass this season until tonight. Hoogers riding in eight game winning streak. Greyhounds have won seven of their last eight. Buckle in your seatbelts for this one. Fauston comes out swinging first set. Lily Manneke off the block from the middle for the point and early lead then later. Haley Swanson the setter. Look at this little sneak attack is down. They win set 125-18 and more in the second. Call the block party. Taylor Cronig she's hosting the big rejection and the two point lead. Then the serving Rebecca Olson, A-C-E-A useful. All Greyhounds in this one three nothing. They move into sole possession of first place. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Hello people of the internet! My name is Johnny, welcome back to a video I was not at all expecting to make, especially not today, but here we are, so let's talk about it. Because it seems that Alumix has officially left FNAF AR in the dust, and while it hasn't been confirmed, mainly because we still have yet to hear an official response and statement by Alumix. I think with the evidence we're going to look at in this video, it's pretty clear cut that it seems like they're done with the game and they're moving on to other stuff. First up, if you're brand new, make sure to subscribe, only about 80-90% of the people who watch me are not subscribed, please, we're trying to get to 50k by the end of the year, it means a lot. Also hit the like button, so let's hop into it, I'm assuming everyone knows what FNAF AR is, it's the FNAF game on your phone where you look around and you shock all the animatronics as they circle around you. However, the game has slowly slowed down over time. At the very start of the game, we were getting a whole bunch of brand new characters, mainly the toy animatronics, and then when we got into quarantine with the coronavirus, Alumix actually handled the situation pretty good where they released a whole bunch of skins for the animatronics in the game, and that lasted for about two years, it was a long time. Over the course of that time, we would still get, you know, characters every now and then, the Jacko characters, Ballora, Golden Freddy, and eventually at the end of last year, we got the long-awaited Funtime Freddy and also a brand new DLC for the game. And since that time, the end of last year, we have not had any official updates or statements from Alumix talking about what they were doing with the game, what's next, when's the next character, when's the next update even, we've had nothing. The only content we have are little blasts from the past updates that they just release whenever they feel like it over the course of this wait. Where you hop on and the only new content you get are some tokens and lures for already existing animatronics and skins. It's very disappointing. For a game that has such a strong start and honestly a fantastic idea behind it, the developers have just kind of left it in the dust. And unfortunately, it seems like today marks the end of Fnathior's adventure because I was on Twitter today and I saw this tweet. But I saw this tweet by my pal, Mysco, Misco. Sorry, I have known you for quite a while, still don't actually know how to pronounce your name. But anyways, so they made a tweet saying it is over. At Alumix of Fnathior fame has created new social media accounts. At Alumix Inc. and a brand new website at alumix.net. And neither include Fnathior as something they ever worked on. Fnathior has been abandoned and they include a screenshot of the brand new page of the brand new website saying Unlock the power of augmented reality for jewelry. Simply drag and drop tools to easily create high quality augmented reality experiences which increase customer confidence and boost sales. And as you can see, they have a picture of Kiran demonstrating the brand new augmented reality technology for a ring on her hand. This is not something new. Actually, if you go over to the old Alumix website, there it is right there. So this is their old website. As you can see, it has Fnathior all over it. There's a video right here. They talk about it a bit down here saying we power one of the most successful AR games to date. If it's so successful, imagine leaving it behind. And you go at the bottom of the page and once again, there's Fnathior. There's a link to the Fnathior dedicated website, which is crazy. This has not been updated since I believe the launch of the game. And also I'll show it off here. This is the brand new Twitter account. As you can see, it's Alumix Inc. So you can see it, they're still sticking with the augmented reality stuff. They're still, you know, that's what they're doing. But it's so weird because they still have their old Twitter account, which to be frank, they haven't posted on since November when they were on the Disney Accelerator program. But it's just so weird to make a completely brand new Twitter account. Even though you're doing the same exact stuff with augmented reality. Happy birthday, Beyonce. If you are doing the same stuff as you were before, why do you need a brand new Twitter account? Why do you need a brand new website? Which again, does not feature Fnathior anywhere. As you can see, I'm scrolling through. No mention of Fnath. There's just none. It's crazy to me that you'd make whole new social media and website. Despite Fnathior being quote, the most successful AR game to date.  Why, why start a new one? Unless you're trying to leave it behind and move on to new things, which I can understand. They obviously cannot do Fnathior forever.  They want to move on to bigger stuff. You know, they were in, again, the Disney Accelerator. Like Jesus, that's huge. It's absolutely amazing. I'm not trying to bash a Lumix if they want to move on to new stuff, but to completely abandon Fnathior, abandon the fans. And I get it. I have proven time and time again that I'm not the biggest fan of Fnathior. But just to completely leave it behind with no statement, no like goodbye, you know, we'll see you on the next adventure. Like Jesus, man, why? Like, it just feels like you're backstabbing the fans. Because let's be honest here, Fnathior was Lumix's first project. It was their first game. It was what got them onto the, you know, into the field. Make it a recognizable name. Fnathior is what boosted Lumix into stardom in the first place. And so to just leave it and it's fans behind, again, just with no statement.  I get that. I understand that. But just to leave your old fans in the dust, to leave your biggest project, your groundbreaking debut in the dust, like that's crazy to me. And I'm sorry. That's just straight up bogus. Like that's insane that they just dropped their fans and dropped Fnathior.  Like Fnathior obviously was amazing. Actually, this tweet sums up best. It could not be an overstatement how much of a waste this is. They had everything. They had a player base. They had a decent game going. They had people paying for their MTX. And literally all they had to do was pump out good models and updates once in a while. I completely agree with that. Fnathior had something going for them. They absolutely, absolutely could have made it a groundbreaking game. So to see them just, to see Lumix abandon it and move on to other things without even acknowledging the fans that got them to star them in the first place is extremely disheartening. Again, I realize I'm not the biggest Fnathior fan. There were a lot of people out there who loved the game more than me. There's a lot of people out there who hate the game more than me. But still, like it's just, I really cannot believe it. That they would go through, create brand new accounts, a brand new website, not mention the thing that got them their fame in the first place, get them on the board in the first place, and then, and then just move on. Like, I really can't express how disheartening that is to me and how just insanely, insanely ridiculous that is to Fnathior fans and the Fnath community as a whole. Fnathior was meant, was not meant to be something groundbreaking. Honestly, I think we all know that. It's just a spin-off game. But still, just to leave it in the dirt and move on to other things without even giving a thank you to your fans. I guess that's the end of Fnathior. I do wish Illumix the best in whatever they're going to do moving forward because clearly they're a talented company. You know, they got Disney backing them.  Look at this. Like it tracks the angle changes depending on where your, where your hand is. I do hope if this is truly the end, we hear something from Illumix because just again, just to leave us in the dirt. And I know I keep saying it, but just to leave us in the dirt like that. Then I'd have just a bit more respect, but this was it for me. For them just to leave us in the dirt and move on like we're nothing.  That hurts. Let's go do it. This absolutely was not the video I planned on making today, but it's definitely something I wanted to talk about because I don't know. I feel like for some reason I have a pretty big voice in the FNAF AR community, which is weird because I thought FNAF AR fans usually hated me because I didn't really like the game and all the skins that kept getting pumped out. But whatever, I just wanted to share my thoughts because this was, this was insane news to get today. So I hope you enjoyed this video. We got big, big videos coming out the rest of the month. Quick update on the FNAF movie also got some amazing news. I'll pull it up right here. Give you guys a bit of a sneak peek. Well, well, well, look who finally got revealed. Talk about him in a future video. But thank you guys so much for checking out this video. If you enjoyed it, hit the like button. Subscribe. That's going to do it for now. Thanks for watching and I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye.


Welcome back everyone. We'll continue with what we are discussing. So we're talking about prophetic prayers and I said that prophetic is to know the heart of God, to hear from God and pray according to that because God knows everything. So what are some of the attributes of God, attributes or qualities of God? You have Christology? No you don't. So he is omnipotent. Omniscient. Omniscient and omnipresent. Omnipotent. And omnipresent. And omnipresent. Okay fine. Three things. So God is omnipotent meaning he is all powerful, almighty. Omnipresent meaning he is present everywhere. Third is he is omniscient. Omniscient means he knows everything. That is why we can tap into his heart because he already knows and based on that we can pray. So in the Bible there are some examples of people who prayed after they got a revelation from God and there was a certain outcome or a result to such prayers. So what were the results? So there were times when God revealed judgment that judgment is coming. So when God revealed that judgment is coming people prayed and they asked God to stop the judgment. Okay or to delay the judgment and God did it. He answered their prayer. Secondly we see that God reveals that Satan is planning some attacks. Now Satan has not yet done anything but we see in scripture that there is a time when God shows that there is a plan of the enemy to destroy. And so we can pray against that and that can be overcome. God also reveals people's destiny. Destiny means what is it that they have been created for? What is in God's heart regarding their future, regarding their purpose? So God can reveal that to us and he can also give us a word to proclaim or declare upon the people according to his purpose. So all this is prophetic and we look at each one of them one by one. So first I said that when there is judgment God reveals that and when we pray God will, we have seen God respond to the prayers of the people. Like maybe the judgment is stopped or the judgment is delayed. These things have happened in scripture. So do you remember anyone to whom God revealed judgment? So judgment to Nathan, right? Yeah through Nathan, fine. You could say so. But more like a judgment on a community or a city. Jonah, Abraham, Sodom and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah, yeah Abraham. So Abraham is a person that God told him Abraham I am going to destroy. Then what did Abraham do? He said okay God. He interceded with God. Correct. He interceded. So when God reveals something we can either just take it as okay fine this is just going to happen or especially when it comes to judgment. The reason why God reveals is when we pray that judgment can be stopped. Okay that's what Abraham did. He started talking to God. He said okay God if there are so many righteous people will you spare the land? If there are so many righteous people will you spare the land? Can you imagine God is actually engaging in that conversation? That means that there is a place for intercession of that kind where we can talk to God and we can request. We can plead with him and say God no don't bring judgment on these people. Have mercy. Okay have mercy. What is mercy? Mercy is when something that they deserve, right? That is not given to them. The wages of sin is death or the consequences of sin are not good. But mercy says even though they deserve punishment even though they deserve judgment, fine. You know we will not punish them. That is mercy. So we can plead with God for mercy and many times God may reveal regarding judgment so that people can pray. Okay now this is something we have to remember when God reveals to us. Let's say we have a dream or we are praying and we see something. We see a vision. We receive a picture or a word comes into our spirit. Then what happens is we are in a hurry. We want to tell everything. We want to tell the whole world. You know I saw this or maybe put it on YouTube right and say this is what God showed me. This is going to happen. But is that the right way to approach prophetic revelation? Anything that I receive from God, judgment is coming. Okay let me put it on social media. Yes sister Gertrude you have something to say? No you shouldn't tell. You shouldn't tell? No. Okay fine. So that is you know sister Gertrude's opinion. Fine so this is what we are supposed to do when God reveals something. The first thing that you and I should do is pray. Got it? When God reveals something first thing that we must do with that information is pray. Pray for that person. Pray for that city. Pray for that nation. Because it's always praying. The revelation that we receive is the right step. Now sometimes God may tell us you have to share this with somebody or you have to share this with usually what we do is when we share a prophetic word we have to respect the authority of that you know let's say if we are sharing a prophetic word in a church. I'm getting a prophetic word in a church. I've gone somewhere and I feel like this message is for the church. Now I can't just go and talk to the congregation because I'm not the person who is their leader or their overseer. I have to respect their pastor. So I must submit the prophetic word to the pastor.  There is a way in which we must also communicate the prophetic word.  But this child maybe let's say 12 years old. Now I cannot go and tell that child you're supposed to do this, leave this, go here, go there. What will happen? It will create a lot of trouble because who is the authority over his life? He's still a minor. I need to communicate it to their parents. You understood? So there is a way in which we must communicate. And that also has to be done with wisdom. So every time God reveals something, it doesn't mean we have to speak it out. Okay? First thing we have to do is pray. And if God says this is a message. If it's a message for an individual, maybe they're an adult. That's okay. We can go share with them and say, Hey, I saw this. I felt God is saying something to you like this. Does it make sense to you? And they may tell you, Yeah, actually, I was praying about this matter and you're right. Or if it's not for an adult individual, then maybe, you know, you have to consider the authority over their lives. Before you just go ahead and tell them all kinds of things and cause confusion in that person's life. So now moving on. So if God reveals judgment, what do we do? We've got to pray for God's mercy. So there is this example of Amos in the Bible. Amos was a prophet. So in the Old Testament, we see that there are men of God, women of God who were chosen to be prophets. So they were the only people who could hear clearly from God and hear often from God. So Amos is also one of those prophets. So in Amos chapter 7, we see that God shows him that upon the northern kingdoms of Israel, they were living in very prosperous times. First, initially they had difficult times, then they became very strong and comfortable. They had abundance and everything. But at that time what happened is the hearts of the people went away from God. So they started engaging in a lot of evil. They were living for their own pleasure. They were living with idolatry. They were worshipping idols. So they were doing a lot of things which was against God. So when all this continued, God was very angry with them. And he wanted to bring destruction on these kingdoms. So who would God speak to? And it's God's goodness actually, his kindness that he shares ahead of time. So he speaks to Amos. He gives Amos two visions. So in the first vision, Amos sees locusts.  They destroy the crop. And the second vision, Amos sees fire. Fire comes and destroys. But the good thing is as a prophet of God, he knows what it means. Now when we see a picture, we have to understand the meaning. What is God trying to say through both of these images or visions? Thankfully, Amos understood, very correctly he understood that God is speaking about judgment upon the people. Destruction is coming. So we also see in that passage, Amos chapter 7, you can go and read it. When he recognizes that God is saying judgment is coming, he pleads with God. He says God, relent. Meaning please let it not happen. Forgive the people. Have mercy on these people. And the Bible says that God listened to him and God did not bring the judgment. That's so amazing. That is why God even reveals it to us because he wants us to pray. Can you imagine in Genesis 18, when Abraham is talking to God, God is actually giving him an opportunity to intercede for the sinful people of Sodom and Gomorrah. In this case, Amos chapter 7, though they deserve punishment, judgment, God says, okay, Amos, if you're praying, fine. I won't bring judgment on them. So in the book of Ezekiel, when we read about intercession, we will see that God is looking even for one man, one woman, who can stand in the gap and who can pray for the people. Even then, even if one person does that, God is willing to avert that judgment that comes upon the people. So this is something for us to remember. So God shows us something, pray. Ask God for mercy. And then ask God, God, what do you want me to do? Who is this message for? Should I communicate it to anyone? And if yes, communicate it in the correct way, not just random going and telling everyone. So in this way, we can actually pray for the people, pray for the land. So even in the case of Moses, we find that there were many times when God told him, oh, look at these people, such unbelieving people, stubborn people, stiff-necked people. I'm just going to destroy them because I brought them out of Egypt. I did miracles in their lives. Now when I brought them out, now they're complaining about food is not good, water is not there. And God was so angry with those people because they were not grateful for the things that God was doing. They were not recognizing the greatness of God, the miracles of God. So God told Moses many times, I'm just going to destroy them. I'll just destroy them. And some of them got destroyed also. But what did Moses do? Every time he went back to God and he was interceding, he said, God, they are your people. If you destroy them, what will the nation say? So he's interceding, prophetic intercession. When God communicates judgment, we as God's people can rise up and say, God, have mercy. And God listened. God listened to Moses. God listened to Amos. God listened to Abraham. God will even listen to us. And that is why he's showing it to us because he wants somebody to pray. Yes, Akhil. Yeah. Sure. Okay. Fine. Yeah. So it's correct because sometimes we get dreams. And I forget the scripture. I'll just see. Okay. Yeah. At least he asked us five three. It says as dream comes through many cares. Okay. So that means that in general, like even if you take, you know, you know, like medical science and all that, they say that normally all of us get dreams every time we rest. We sleep.  But there are only some dreams which are from God, not every dream is from God. Okay. Now how to know whether a particular dream is from God generally. What happens is like I was just sharing with one of us here also. Like Romans 8 16. It says the spirit bears witness with our spirit, which means the Holy Spirit bears witness with the human spirit. Or in other words, the Holy Spirit tells us. He indicates to us and he says this dream. Take note of it. It's not ordinary. Something, some message is there in this dream. So we need to be sensitive to some particular dreams because Holy Spirit will point to us that something special about this dream. Okay. So that's how we know. Okay. And the more we practice. So when we are alert at all times, we'll pick it up quickly that, hey, this dream, this is some something God is trying to tell me. Okay. So that, that is one thing. What was your second part? Oh, if it couldn't interpret, if he couldn't interpret the dream. Okay. So what we can do is we can just write it down. Okay. So I do that if I get a dream and I feel like it's from God, usually I'll share it with my, my sister. So that morning I'll just text her because we kind of share the dreams so that there's a record of it also. So I just write it down. And if it's something shareable, then I will share it. And you may not know the meaning of it immediately, but you can start praying and saying, give me the interpretation of this. So we see one example in Acts chapter nine and acts chapter 10. Peter, right? Peter, he's living in Simon the Tanner's house and God gives him a vision.   But he remembers the, the law because according to the, the law that was given by Moses, you can't eat, you know, certain animals. So unclean animals.  You can, you can eat. So then Peter is wondering, what does it mean? What does it mean? Right? But in this situation, the funny part is he doesn't get the interpretation. He doesn't understand. He's not understanding, but even when he doesn't understand what God has done is he has given a message through an angel to another man called Cornelius and told that man, you send people to pick up Peter. So the Bible says like Peter's still thinking, what does it mean? And in the, in that time, these men come to Peter's Simon's house and say, okay, Peter, come with us. We want to take you. So it's like when he is just obeying God and he's going to Cornelius's house somewhere there, the picture becomes clear to him that what was the meaning of this dream is God saying he has changed the law is God saying we can eat everything, but he gets the interpretation, the actual interpretation of the dream is okay, animals, all that is fine. Eating every form of animal. Don't call it unclean. That's fine. But the actual interpretation of the dream is the gospel is not just for the Jews. The gospel is for the whole world. So that was the first time in the history of the church that Peter and that Peter was, you know, he was very much about his own community, the Jews.  Cornelius is a Gentile. He would have never done it. Unless God told him that and God communicated in a vision and said, the gospel has to go to the Gentiles. Stop saying that you won't go to this community and that community. Stop it. The gospel has to go to everyone. That is the actual meaning of that dream. Right. And he shares it later in accepted 10. He talks about it. He shares it with the elders in Jerusalem. So that's the way. But the point is that he didn't understand when he got it. So it's okay. Sometimes we will get a vision or a dream and we don't know what it means. It's fine. Just write it down and start praying. God may reveal it little by little here and there. Okay. Long answer to a short question, but anyway, I hope that makes some sense. Anything else or can we move on? I said that if there are judgments and God reveals, we can pray for God's mercy in that situation. Yes. God can tell us through prophecy. Yes. It can happen. So can God speak to us through the verses of the Bible? Yes. He can. He can just, you know, tell us directly that way. Also it happens. Fine. All right. Let's move on. So we saw that judgment can be averted. Now I told that sometimes God can reveal the plans of Satan. Satan, you know, he's an enemy. He wants to destroy God's people. He wants to destroy God's work and God's purposes. So it's his normal thing. You know, he will keep planning something against God's people, how to distract them, how to bring them down, how to destroy their focus. So when these things happen, God can actually show it to us beforehand, so that we can start to pray. Okay. There is a time when Peter, talking to Peter, Jesus says in Luke 22 verses 31 and 32, Jesus tells him, Simon, Simon, indeed Satan has asked for you that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you that your faith should not fail. And you have written to me, strengthen your brethren. So what is Jesus saying in this? Jesus is saying, Satan has plans, but you are protected. Peter, you are protected. Simon Peter. Why? Because I have prayed for you. I have prayed for you. So when we recognize by revelation that Satan is trying to do something, we can pray. And when we pray, what happens? Protection. That's what Jesus said, right? I have prayed for you. Though Satan is trying to do these things, it won't affect you because I have prayed for you. And that brings protection on your life. So you see when there is prayer, okay, it acts as protection. So we see in a couple of scriptures, Hosea chapter 12 and verse 13, it says, by a prophet, the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt and by a prophet, he was preserved. So God is sharing that in the prophetic anointing, okay, through a prophet, God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt and through a prophet, there was preservation or protection. This word protection, it's the word Shamar in the Hebrew language, okay? Preserve is Shamar in the Hebrew language. What does it mean? It's like if you have a house and there are no boundary walls. Imagine the campus that we live in, if it doesn't have boundary walls, we feel so unprotected, right? Even though this whole space is ours, anyone can come in anytime. And that's not safe. But Shamar means hedge or cover around, okay? So what we recognize is that through a prophet or through the revelation that we receive, there can be protection if we pray. Got it? So when God reveals any plan of the enemy, we can start praying for those people and what will happen?  God is protecting them through our prayers. That is Shamar and that is a responsibility that God gives us. Same thing. Let's say God gives us a revelation about someone in their life, some attack, something is going to come. What do we generally do? We'll go and tell that brother, hey, God, this showed me, Satan is going to attack you. This is going to happen to you. Whether the attack happens or not, because of fear only, that person will be like, oh gosh, what will I do now? Because Satan is going to attack me. So we cause fear and we don't cause faith in their hearts. That's not the point. So God shows us something. We have to pray for them. When we pray, what will happen? Protection. That's what Jesus said. Simon, I've prayed for you.  In our notes, it also says that especially when it comes to leadership in a church or in the kingdom of God, any kind of leadership, when God calls us to leadership, we lead people. We teach, we instruct, we guide, we nurture. We do all those things. But when you look at the leadership of Moses, one of the things that he did, because he was a prophet, and what did we see? In Hosea 1213, he prayed. He prayed through a prophet. Israel was protected. So his prayers protected the people. So a responsibility of leadership is to pray for the people. We have to pray for the people. God will give us revelation of different things. Satan is planning this. Satan is planning that. This attack, that attack. But as a leader, when we see something, we can sense something happening. We should start to pray for the people. So when we pray for the people, God will protect them from dangers, from deception, from temptation, from anything that Satan is planning against them. So this is also very important for us to ensure that Satan's attacks are destroyed. We can destroy through prayer. And that's why even for parents, they have authority over their children. So we'll read about this later. There is something called as structures. Godly structures. So God gives some people in leadership and God's authority flows through that structure. We cannot destroy that structure. And there is a lot of power if that authority functions right. So even when it comes to children, usually God communicates to the parents visions, dreams, everything and they start praying for the children. That's very powerful. They can actually destroy the works of the devil in the lives of their children just through prayer. Maybe their children are far away. They are working far away, studying far away. But the prayers of the authority figures in their life, maybe their parents will really affect them, protect them from the attacks of the enemy. So that is something for us to remember. Is that fine? Anything here or we'll continue? Okay, fine. Let's continue. So yes. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So the question is that if God gives a corrective word for someone, then how can we communicate that because the person might think that we are judging them. Right? So in such a situation, usually I think just pray. Just pray. Don't communicate because there's a right way to communicate and generally, as I told you, right, authority structures. So there's a pastor to the church, the elders. So maybe in confidence, at some point if you're meant to share that word, you may have to get the counsel of the elders and say that it's constantly coming back to me. How do I share this? If you submit that word with them and then with their guidance you can communicate. If you directly go communicate, it may not work. Hmm. Yeah. So somebody trusted like a trusted elder, you can take in confidence to do this. There are some relationships, maybe you're very close to someone and then you get a word. It's easy. In that situation, you can easily share with them, but otherwise it's difficult. Yeah.  Is there a question? Sir. I just wanted to ask, in no way there is any attack in your life. And you have to pray through spiritual warfare prayer, singly or mutually. Okay. The attack of Satan, where? Where is the attack of Satan? Attack of the enemy on your life or anything, you know. And do you have to pray in spiritual warfare alone or mutually or with agreeing with somebody? Okay. So I see if there is an opportunity to pray with people, you can. But in some situations we may not have. In that situation, if you pray alone, even then it will be effective. Okay, Sister. Okay, but they slept, right? Jesus ended up praying over there. Yeah, sure. Thank you. Yes. It's possible to use the mic because online it's it'll be an empty space. Take care. Yeah, sure. In response to Sagar's question, the context in which Jesus was referring about judgmental is about, you know, trying to first remove the speck out of your eye before you remove the dust of the other person's eye. So that's more of trying to, you know, being character-judgmental. But when assuming, now say there's a dream that Sagar gets in his heart. So with love he can always approach me and he can, you know, tell, let's see, I just want to share something with you. It's like a burden on my heart and I just had a vision and a relation from God. So can I share it with you? Would you think that would be ideal? Because I understood his question. The judgmental part was more with regard to judging a character of a person. And the burden that God has put in Sagar's heart or a dream is something that, you know, God is using him to pass a message to X, Y or Z. Yeah, so see, it depends on the relationship. Okay, it depends on the relationship and if he feels comfortable to put it across and you are you're ready to receive it, it's fine. It's fine, but usually these corrective words are very tricky.  So that's what I'm saying. If it's a corrective word, pray a lot, think a lot, you know, see how God is leading you to actually communicate it because for that person it may not be easy to digest what we are saying. Okay, fine. Alright, so I'm just coming here to a point on the chat. Okay, Brother Biju is saying if we pray for someone who has harmed us, what will happen as per scripture? So if we pray for someone who has harmed us. So, brother like Job, no, we look at the life of Job, that's the example and we know that God told Job to pray positive things or blessings for the people who offended him or harmed him and the blessings on Job's life doubled after that. So we don't see this thing of, you know, if somebody has hurt us then we go ahead and pray curses on them. You don't find that in scripture. Is that okay, Brother Biju? Do you have any follow-up question to that? No, Sister, thank you. Okay, sure. Thank you. Thanks. Alright, so then I'll move on to more parts here regarding prophetic prayer. Prophetic intercession birds prayers that release one's destiny in God. So, how does this work? When you look at Simon Peter, in the Bible, I hope Peter is not angry with me but I'll just say you generally see that he talks before he thinks. And you find that he's sort of getting into trouble and Jesus has to tell him Simon, calm down relax. But the thing is when Jesus sees him, he's so raw. He's so unprepared to become the leader of the church. But Jesus knows that Peter will be that leader of the early church. So in the book of Acts, there's a complete turnaround. If you talk about Peter, he's a different man. He takes up leadership, first he gets up and, you know, he speaks, he leads the people. Amazing transformation in the life of Peter. But initially that's not the case. He messes things up quite quickly and he even denied Jesus. So we may wonder, like Jesus, why did you pick this man? You could have picked somebody else, no. But when Jesus meets Peter, he says Peter, you are the rock. Isn't it? He talks about his destiny. When he meets Peter, so what is that? That is a prophetic word about the life of this man. Maybe right now, he's very raw. But there is a great future ahead for this man called Peter. So what happens even in our lives before the transformation? Maybe even when people are very young children, God reveals the destiny. Think about John the Baptist. Okay, the father Zacharias, you find that his speech was gone. But when he takes the baby, he starts to pray a prayer, a long prayer you'll read about his own son and he starts saying prophetic words, you child you will do this, you will do that. How does Zacharias know it's the prophetic anointing on the life of Zacharias that leads him to pray a prophetic prayer for his own son. He comes to know what God wants him to do. Okay, so the point is sometimes God reveals earlier, early on, what is the destiny of somebody? Now, just because God reveals it doesn't mean that you will see them become that mighty prophet in, you know, tomorrow or in two years or three years, it may take a decade two decades. We don't know but what is our responsibility when we know the destiny of someone? Same thing pray, intercede okay. We may find that maybe, you know, it's a brother or a sister in our lives and they are not following God, they are in all the wrong things, but we know there are prophetic words on their life that God is going to use them as a mighty minister of God. So what should I do as a sibling? Pray pray, keep praying, keep praying but we may look at their life and say what is this? Nothing is happening, there is no change but the reason why God revealed it to us is so that we can intercede. We'll talk about intercession later. Intercession is you know, going before God on behalf of someone till that promise or that word is fulfilled. So when we know someone's destiny, God actually wants us to pray for them. It may take many years also to keep praying that this is their destiny God, their life should not be destroyed.  This is their destiny God, we bind every spirit of you know, confusion all that kind of spiritual warfare we are supposed to engage in. So through revelation God can reveal the purpose of anyone's life. Anybody's life. You remember Nathaniel, there's a man called Nathaniel So when Jesus looks at him, Jesus does not even know him but he says, here's a man without any guile. How does Jesus know it's discernment in the spirit, it's the prophetic anointing by which he's talking about the character of someone without knowing that person. So this is the way in which we can receive revelation through the prophetic anointing or the prophetic revelation but whatever we receive as information pray. That's the main reason why God is showing it to us. And finally here we must declare the word of God, declare it whatever God intends for someone we are supposed to speak that out. So can somebody read Jeremiah, Jeremiah chapter 1 verses 9 and 10 Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth and the Lord said to me, behold, I have put my words in your mouth.  Okay.  How does God work? He gives us a word. We go to God and say, God this is my problem help me, help me, help me and then God gives us a word or he starts speaking to us and we say, God, I don't need a word. I don't need you to say anything. Just do something. Get me out of this trouble. But you know what God works through his word. God wants to do something about your situation. That is why he's giving you a word because there is power in that word. Okay. Even in the passage that Akhil just read God is revealing like a powerful thing.  So when you speak the word amazing things are going to take place root out, pull down, build up. How is it possible just by speaking God's word can can you uproot can you build you know we all know we are seeing construction happening around us if you want to pull down something we want to break one building. We look at a bulldozer. We need a big powerful instrument to do it. But what is God saying? No, no, no. I'm giving you my word because in the spiritual realm the word has power. It's like that bulldozer. You speak my word upon the situation. You speak my word upon the circumstance in this case to Jeremiah he's giving a word for the people okay. So when Jeremiah as a prophet he declares the word when you declare the prophetic word don't underestimate its power. Something amazing can take place. God can build through the declaration of that word. You know sometimes when we have worship we say that right we are declaring the victory of God and don't underestimate it. That's what God did with Jeremiah. He just put a prophetic word in his mouth.  Speak it and you speak it. There'll be destruction of the enemy when you speak it. There'll be building up of the kingdom. So we call this proclamation we proclaim the prophetic word. So there are times when we receive a revelation from God to speak it and declare it. It's you know part of spiritual warfare. It's part of what we do in the kingdom of God. We are supposed to speak it. We talked a lot about interceding intercede and God reveals something to you. But there's also a time when we are supposed to declare and decree. Put that word in your mouth and keep speaking it. And that is what will do the work in the kingdom of God. So this is the way the prophetic word works. So I think I'll wrap up with that but if there are any questions we can take it up. So please feel free. Anything about prophetic prayer? Yes, sure. Small note. So suppose if we're talking about prophetic prayer and then God reveals to you so sometimes do we actually have to see I understand the sensitivity of you know how will the receiver hear what God has revealed but if God has put something on my heart to reveal should I actually do what God has told me to do or rather than being sensitive of how he or she would accept it. I will just be gentle and in a softer Yeah, so see the Bible teaches us speak the truth in love. Okay, sometimes the truth can be very very difficult to receive. But we can communicate it in a nice way in a loving way. But we are supposed to speak the truth. So it's okay to share. Each one of us like to hear something really nice from a prophet. So something God has revealed something very nice to me about XYZ. It's easy to tell. Yeah, but as a prophet it is you have to reveal whatever God has to provided you not a false prophet. Yeah, no, that's okay. I'm saying if you're supposed to communicate it you communicate it but it's all about the presentation. So in that book know understanding the prophetic we will read about that also for example now David David sinned. He engaged in adultery. Now Nathan the prophet has to go and correct him. Now Nathan can go and tell him you adulterer David you've sinned against God. What would have happened? I don't know maybe Nathan would have been thrown out and David would have said I don't want to listen another sentence from you leave right now because it's the presentation. How did Nathan do it? He was very wise. He told him a story. He said look it's like this there's a story in this story this there are this Eve and this man takes it away who should be punished and David says this man right and then Nathan says that man is you so nicely he put it he got the message through it's a very difficult word of judgment but we need the wisdom of God that's my point okay so the presentation if God is telling you you have to communicate it yeah do it but how are you going to communicate that's another very very important thing to think about okay fine right anything else prophetic intercession prophetic revelation okay okay but the sun is asking will the online students have supernatural hour again or is it only for the in-person students so we tried making the online on-campus supernatural hour available to the online students but then we felt that maybe a lot of people are not yet able to connect to it so which is why we stopped it but let's see how it goes maybe that timing is not getting a lot of people yes some folks were able to connect but then we are still thinking about this what may be a suitable time for both the online and the e-learning students so that we can have a larger number of people connect to the online session so as of now it's on a pause but every last Friday of the month we will have extended periods of intercession and worship 12 noon to 5pm here on our bible college campus so if there's anyone who's interested you can come and join us here so that's an option for the online students right now and I hope that's okay brother Sanjay okay fine so moving on to Lucy if it's only a word God put in your heart believe how do we go about it putting into action so that's what no sister Lucy it's not about how big the word is or how long the sentence is the point is God is speaking even if God says only one word believe that means there's something in that for you to do so once you get the word you start praying about it and start asking God what you need to do okay so I think I'll just stop with that let us pray and we will close can somebody from the online batch lead us in prayer it's only father we thank and please God for this wonderful opportunity that you have given us to come and learn the word of God our master how will be today we learned about the intercessory prayers and the importance of prayer in our lives of master thank you lot for speaking to us we could learn that we should pray for our adversaries for our enemies and we should place ourselves in the gap and pray for others so master thank you for speaking through hallelujah madam hallelujah Nancy and we pray that hallelujah in the coming days we should practice what we have learned today master hallelujah we pray for all the participants and faculty members so Lord hallelujah please bless us throughout the day and the days to come be everything we ask in Jesus mighty name amen amen amen thank you thank you brother Biju thank you everyone god bless you have a blessed day we are just wrapping up for now


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Good morning guys. Happy Wednesday. Today is Wednesday Princess Day. This morning I've got it's about 8 o'clock and I'm getting ready to do a workout. I just heated myself up some oatmeal, so I'm gonna eat that really quick and then start drinking my pre-workout. I need to put my contacts in so that I can to today's cardio day, so I need to be able to jump around and move. Hi sweetie. I see somebody, the breakfast fairy found you. Sure did. This is my protein for the morning. I need some, I need some carbs. This one is trying to get out of his things.   So daddy's in charge this morning because mom is gonna have a workout and then I have to get princessified. So I have my pre-workout already mixed up and it's settling in. Babe, did you like the pre-workout? It tastes really good. It's like a sweet. He did try the pre-workout though yesterday and in addition to the coffee he had, and did you like that? Yeah, it was good. Good. Like I said, it's almost eight o'clock, so I'm gonna get my workout in real quick. Hopefully I can be done working out by like 8.45. Take a quick shower and then start. This is the best coffee ever. Well, tell us what it is. It's black rifle coffee. Where do you get it? It's a veteran owned company and every every sale they add to a veteran fund and it helps out families if they get wounded or whatever and also police officers and first responders so. That's cool and it's good. It's tasty. I drink my black coffee. Yeah, he doesn't really take cream. I have to have a little bit. I've been getting better at like not needing as much cream but I still feel like I need it. So yeah, so I'm going to take you guys with me today. I'm going to do my very best to vlog the princess process. We'll see if I can do it and then this afternoon I'm going to go visit Scott's friend who works with him. His little girl was in the hospital yesterday so I think I'm going to go visit her after my party just while I'm in costume. I might as well. So all right, well I'll see you guys on the other side. So I just finished my workout. I'm going to jump in the shower super fast and then I have like literally an hour to do everything get ready for this party. So I will see you guys soon. Okay guys. So I had kind of like a huge like mishap happen while I was trying to get ready.  So my body like I've gained like 20 pounds then like like I'm 20 pounds heavier than I usually am and so when I tried to put this costume on the sleeves like we're cutting off my circulation and so I had to like cut luckily my mom's the seamstress and I'm the owner of the company and I'm allowed to do this but I had to like cut the sleeves and then tuck them under so that the sleeves wouldn't cut off my circulation because I was like literally gonna die. My hands were going numb and it was crazy. So anyway this is part of the costume the other part of the wig is in there and I won't put it on until I get there. I'm still in my neighborhood but I'm gonna put the camera down and practice my songs and then when I get there hopefully I'll get there like 10 minutes before it starts so that I can vlog a little bit more. So I just pulled up to the place and I'm gonna take a bold move and ask the girls to film a little bit for me. Before I go in I'm just gonna ask them if they wouldn't mind like making like taking my camera and just filming a little bit of each thing that I do because I really want you guys to see everything but I got here 10 minutes early yes goal and I've been warming up a little bit but I'm not gonna share with it share it with you here because of copyright issues so if you guys want to see a singing hopefully you watched my Instagram story today and if you're not following me on Instagram make sure that you go do that because I do post different things on Instagram than I do on YouTube.  I'm just using this Revlon black cherry but I'm doing it really light I'm not like stroking it on like I would her Elsa I just kind of like dotting it on and then I'm using this little satin gloss from Victoria's Secret and then I didn't actually put my eyeliner on I just don't know if I even need it I might just put a little bit just a smidge this is the best eyeliner I think uh it's just the little cheapy one from Elf did I show you guys already that I broke a nail I'm so mad I'm gonna have to go get that fixed but oh I gotta keep my eyes kind of closed so that's drive I gotta get my uh braid on this is what it looks like when it's all together so I'm gonna ask them if they'll film a little bit I don't know if they will but we'll see and then if not I'll see you guys after a little clips there we hand oh my flower is sweaty it is at least that's what my car says it is it's probably hotter and I'm dripping with sweat now I was gonna go visit a friend of ours little girl who's been sick but unfortunately she's going to the doctor right about the time that I would be getting there so I'm not gonna be able to go visit her but I am going to send her like a sweet little video so um yeah so I think I might end the vlog here and thank you guys for watching and I will see you in the next one bye guys