Right, so yeah, let's just a good morning to all those who joined in just now So let's let's just spend some time just thanking the Lord, you know and thank the Lord for all the things that have happened for his faithfulness for his hand of protection for the way he has led us and guided us and And yeah, and one thing that we see, you know, we were just looking at it in the last class that you know in second Corinthians chapter one and Paul testifies You know chapter one and verse three says blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ The father of mercies and God of all comfort who comforts us in all our tribulation That we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble with the comfort with which we ourselves Are comforted by God For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolation also abounds through Christ and then on you know, he goes on to encourage the believers But so this is a beautiful thing that That God comforts us in all our tribulation in all our tribulation and tribulation meaning, you know It's like fresher hard pressure The Greek word slips us gives a picture of something some weights being play placed and pressed down Pressing down heavily. So God who comforts us and in fact, it says in verse three that the father of mercies and God of all comfort right the father the source the originator of Mercy compassion and comfort coming alongside so he not only does he Not only is the source of mercy, but also he draws alongside Yeah, one second current in chapter one chapter one three to five. Yes. Thanks. I mean, so So who draws alongside and comforts us as well, right? so we have him as as the source as the originator and And you know today being the first day of the month Of this month, this is thank God for being that source of comfort for the one who drew us to himself and comforted us and the one who's the source of All compassion and so on that that we may also You know in our ministering in our speaking in our proclaiming that we may also comfort those Who also goes through go through the same kind of Tribulation right and that's the objective that we pass on that comfort that we receive as As vessels we receive and then we also pour out that comfort on others as well Right, so so let's just pray and then we'll start father. We we thank you for this day We thank you for this new month that you've given us God.  We thank you for your love God we thank you Lord and Lord as as a Gathering of believers God. We praise you. We bless your name and and Lord We thank you that we are recipients Lord of your mercy and recipients of your comfort Lord and this morning Also, we pray for those who are going through such kind of pressure Pressing down burdening and I just pray God that That even as as we go through as some of us are facing that We are also candidates of That comfort we are also candidates for that mercy and so God we thank you that you are so faithful to Bring in that bring a draw alongside us with your compassion and with your comfort Lord And I just pray that that will be so tangible for some of us For those of us who are going through that and even as we receive Lord So also pray that we will give we will pass on that same comfort and mercy God We thank you and we give you all the praise. We give you all the glory in Jesus match this name. We pray Amen, amen awesome, okay, so Praise God that's glad to hear that Awesome, yeah, so Yeah, so let's You know October normal is amalizes redeem the time walk walk circumspectly as Scripture also exalts us and continue to be who he has called us to be right Okay, so let's let's continue it with our Sermon presentations, okay, so Let's Yeah, we Looked at the ministering God's word and also expecting God's word in ministry and and the fact that when we in in our expectation of fruit in Response to the ministry of God's word. We also facilitate People to respond. Okay, so we looked at that, right? so So in response to the message we facilitate people to encounter God to to receive from God And and there are many ways by which we can do this. So I'll just share You know a few and and then we'll get on with the presentations, right? So The first one is of course, um, you know, uh, what we What we know and what uh, we call as the uh, we term it as the altar as an altar called, you know as an invitation to to come forward and to be prayed for Right now it an invitation to come and to be prayed for It could be for an altar call for salvation To receive Christ. It can be an altar call for a recommitment To renew our commitment to Christ. It can be for believers. It can be an altar call for receiving prayer for specific needs and maybe it could be to receive prayer for You know for restoration of things happening in the family maybe for harmony in the family Or it could be a restoration of things lost like whatever the enemy has come to steal kill destroy Um, you know the maybe that's just on those lines. So it it could be an altar call for various You know various topics So it could be a call to respond in faith Right to make a commitment now, um You know, most often it is, uh, you know, it's it's either an altar call could be to to To raise one's hand to raise one's hand To indicate that yes, um, you know, I I make this decision Or I I am going through this therefore, you know, I I need prayer So, um, it can be, you know, you know on those lines It can be to raise one's hands. It can be to say kneel where you are stand where you are And and of course we need to be sensitive not to embarrass people not to you know, do that But under the leading of the Holy Spirit, uh, we we you know, we For us sometimes, you know, we also need to be bold Right to to take that, you know, we sometimes we It is possible that we hold back saying what if nobody responds, you know, maybe it's um It's something like, you know, you want people to stand up or you want people to put your put their hands up or um, you want people to come forward and yeah, the thing is what if What if nobody does that, you know, um, but the question to ask is, you know, what if There are people, you know, what if there is this one person, um, and what if You know, it's that person needs to make That commitment or that person needs to be facilitated to encounter God to make that decision Now I I don't know how much of this is true, but apparently when Billy Graham gave his life to Christ He was probably the one person only one person who responded that day to the altar call, you know And it was I think it was about to search or I forget the details, but he was the one only one person, you know, who responded to the The to the message to the altar call and he gave his life to Christ, you know You can you can check out the facts and maybe he was one of the few or I but I I remember reading that he was, you know, there's this one person who responded and that was you know, Billy Graham, so You could correct me, you know, if check the facts and correct, but but the thing is this, you know, there maybe there is one person and and as you've shared the word and And the spirit of God is prompting you to go in that direction And do that and that one person, you know, could be An influencer Could be a chosen vessel who will You know move nations move continents With the message of the gospel, right? So So just go with it and what if no one responds?   And I'm typically talking about maybe an altar call for salvation or You know, a call of that nature, right? Um another way is also to pray, uh, you know I'm just putting it here. What is called, you know, you pray a general prayer, right? So, uh, an altar call would necessitate somebody to Take that step and make a decision put their hands up stand up come forward Here it could be a general prayer, you know, we prayed and and Sorry, you've completed sharing the message saying the sermon and we pray a general prayer of thanksgiving and pray as led by the spirit of God for Spirit of God to touch, you know, people in the congregation. Maybe it was for the entire entire You know audience entire gathering that the Lord would touch them the Lord would visit them the Lord would manifest His power, you know in their lives and so on. So it could be a very general prayer. Okay And you know currently it could be be a prophetic prayer and also, uh, you know, inviting people in in response to the, you know, the The way the Lord is leading the he maybe he gives a word of knowledge Okay So it's a Rather than call it prophetic prayer. I probably should call it prophetic ministry, right? So maybe there is a word of knowledge. Okay, so word of knowledge the Lord reveals Probably some it's a information. It's a word And maybe it is for an individual Maybe it is for a group Maybe it is for sometimes it's for the entire gathering, right? Okay, maybe the entire collectively the church is going through the season and it's a word of knowledge now Um, like based on what or how the Lord is leading, right? There are several ways to do this. You could of course If you know for sure that there is a person in the congregation to whom this applies right, so we could either call that person out and say the Lord This is you know, this is something and you could of course test it, you know And ask, okay, is this something that's happening or you know, as long as it's not very sensitive information, right? So of course, we've studied in the prophetic about this so We could respond in that or we could facilitate in that manner minister in this manner call out and say, you know You know for that person point out and say I believe that this is what the Lord is Doing or or you can ask a question, you know, is this so? I believe the Lord wants to do this, you know, and it can word of knowledge can also be a You know something some kind of a physical condition maybe illness maybe A difficult time that they're going difficult situation that they are facing etc So we just make sure that it's not, you know, very sensitive something that'll you know, break the person Which we can do privately, right? Otherwise, we can just pray And call out the word of knowledge and pray so it could be for a person. We we identify They know for sure and then you you know, you pray The otherwise it can be the word of knowledge can also be, you know, we don't know the identity of the person Right or people it could be for one. It could be for many but we we Speak it out. Anyway, say I believe or we believe that They could be, you know, this kind of a scenario that Some of you are going through this or maybe there's one person who's going through this kind of This challenge or this is what has happened or on the way to church. This is what happened to you You know, could you please is there anyone who's, you know, who's Who can testify to that who is yes to that and we would like to pray and minister, right now You know, the question is, you know, why should we why should we ask? You know, why should we ask in public? Can't we just pray? Yes, we can right? Yes, we can and sometimes, you know, it's it's like let's say, you know doing an outreach and it's like a very you know You know people from different worldviews are there and you have an opportunity to present and minister and Well, there you could just simply say, you know, I believe that God, you know This is what it is and God wants to bless and you can go that And and do that as well, right? So So what what why do we, you know, want to specifically call out and say, you know Identify and ask people to respond. Well What happens is that when we respond and when we let's say there's a word of knowledge and then when When I respond there is also faith being built up and I'm responding to the word I'm being obedient to or I'm taking that step I'm making that I'm placing myself in a Right. I'm I'm putting myself in a place of receiving Further from God, right and faith rises up in me as well when I respond. So so that happens So we we do that, right? So we ask people to respond and then we pray on those lines We could also, you know, in line with that similar to an altar call. Maybe if there is something like You know something to do with healing physical healing or healing of any nature we could even If it is okay, right? If you could even call the person forward and pray Okay, we know specifically when it comes to, you know, prophetic ministry and the word of knowledge the the fact that the Lord Shares that is that he he doesn't he wants to make a change Right about That situation or that condition now the change could be immediate Or it could be a part of recovery But the Lord wants to intervene in that right in that situation. So um, we We call out and we can call the person forward and pray as well, right? So we could do it can be a prophetic ministry time right Okay, so, um, these are just some general Categories it can be an altar call. It could be a gentle prayer or it could be a Time of prophetic ministry Okay, um, will we know that certain, uh, you know, when it comes to certain certain messages Maybe it's just good to just close with prayer, you know, there's nothing specific but you know, but as a As a ministry and as a church what we decided is that we will always, you know, give that time And it could be we just flow with the Way the Spirit of God is leading and we will all we will just kind of dig in dig deep and And minister in the prophetic. Okay, so So that's, you know, very surprised how the Lord leads and what the world reveals and what it shows so So it's it's good for us as ministers to be open I say and and not really have the mindset, right? Okay. I finished the message now. Let me just pray and You know and close So we are we for us. Also, it's a step of faith, right as we are ministering and we're saying, okay God now what what more lot what is it that you want to do and and we see um, the Lord opening up You know and ministering in ways that We would have missed out if we had just, you know ended it there. Okay, so Of course, it depends on the kind of Kind of fellowship the kind of gathering that we are in like for example, I was sharing with the youth group and and But I was having a conversation with the leader before the meeting itself So I was just sharing and on certain things and I then I asked, you know, um, you know, can we have communion? Can we have communion and I'll just talk about. I think this was Yeah, this was around Easter time You know, there's a section Sunday. So it was I think around that time. So So I was asking, you know, can we Oh, it was actually during the lockdown. So it was online so Asking, can we have communion? Is it okay? Can we do that now? We come from a background where You know, communion is taken only in church, you know in in the church building And so on so and by the pastor right so So they were kind of hesitant and he's and the youth leader said I think it's better that we, you know, we don't get into that And and that's fine. Right. So I Really wanted to pray for breakthroughs, healings, whatever and, you know, with the proclamation of the cross And then, you know, with powerful proclamation, right? So but then they were not okay with it. So we we kind of skipped that So so, you know, all this all the methods by which we closed now some we we just are mindful And and what the leadership is okay with And then go with it, right and There's so much more freedom right when we do that And and we do it in a manner that is god-honoring. We do it in a manner. Um, that's You know, that's uh, um, but people are being edified rather than being broken, right? Okay, any any questions anything Further that you'd like to share on this um No questions.  So So just want to encourage you to take that. I mean, if you are already doing this, that's great. Uh, but uh, also to You know, to take that step of faith and You know, push into this When you when you close I post the sermon, um, when you're ministering um To do that and allow the spirit of god to to minister to move among the people Yeah, to to just open up that time And invite god to touch people's lives. I just want to encourage us to do that. Okay right, um Okay, so Wednesday we had Rose share with us on humility um And just a couple of things rose from what we were sharing Obviously, you know, you you read it out.  So that would be something to do it. Um So I'm sorry. I'm just clarifying. Did you uh, you said you would read it out So that's why, you know, I I thought I should share this. I'll give this feedback. Um, but did you also Like, you know speak it preach it um The outline pastor when I was okay. Yeah, I was uh, I included the The lines from the outlines into the sermon So that was what guided the next thought and then the next thought and then the next thought Yeah, yeah, but uh, did you um Like did you read it out or because you didn't have the camera on just ask Yeah, everything was written down pastor. Okay. Okay. Okay. So that's uh, maybe that's another level for you.  I guess that helped. Um, But also to move into, you know, the next thing of Preaching it and using it as a using your notes as a guideline something that you can refer to but you you know, you actually look at the audience Uh congregation and uh and preach it, right? I know we're doing this online So we have all these constraints, but then To actually address uh people, you know make eye contact look at them Watch their response and uh do so, right? Okay Okay, right Okay, uh, so rosen do do you want to share anything with us? You know as you as you went about the preparation As you went about sharing Like any thoughts anything at all any learning? Yeah pastor. I was um, the last time you already spoke about that that I I just I I have to share what I went through the experience that I had While doing that uh sermon so Before before everything else pastor when you when you asked about the sermon title Um, it has already been in my mind about um humility So that was right away when you asked for it. I was like, um ready to to bring it out because I thought like this is where The lord is leading me anyway, so I'll just better put it out there And then so in during writing pastor Um, I haven't really done any preaching or anything like that I just faced my life group and that's about As far as preaching as I have done, but I've not really done this thing like most of you have already so um Firstly, I I didn't know how to start. I didn't have a word And so I just prayed to the holy spirit to how can I start lord? Where do I start and immediately I had the impression of when and he just said just build on my word so Very clear pastored. He just said build on my word and immediately um the the topic of humility connected to the verse of God opposes the proud and Gives grace to the whole so from their pastor everything just flowed And and it was surely not me So, yeah, definitely the help of the holy spirit and as well as the outline pastor It really helped it really helped with the flow of thought and being As as the note said being organized Um and not to stray because for every thought you would get lots of ideas But then that would sometimes be out of topic already So it really helped the the outline that you've let us do and especially the The goal, uh, what was that the the very first uh column that you were asking for the expectation Yeah, the expectation that really helped Yeah, to to like have that uh beeline on what what what I need to to put out there And so um after that pastor, I just just always practiced. I recorded myself talking and uh within the 12 minutes I I've partitioned I've divided the sermon within those 12 minutes just to be sure that I've I've put out there what I need to put out to every outline topic that I had so Yeah pastor and so the goal for me was when writing that was um, not just uh to to put into words that could be understand Understood by believers new believers and even the non-believers. So I chose the words that could be understood Yeah I think that was evident in The way you presented and the language that you used The words that you used and the phrases That would be it would be um, yeah, it would strike a chord with the non-christian audience as well. Okay Thank you. Thanks rose Yeah, does anyone have a feedback like if you if you wrote down anything? um, if you have a feedback, uh, just one thing probably You could share As rose was sharing and last class if you made a note of it or um Okay, yeah, so uh, so from what you shared today, uh rose the takeaway is of course you started with prayer You waited on the lord for the direction and especially the start what you should build You know how you should start that was uh good and then also some practical things like You know, you recorded yourself and you, uh, you know, you heard and then timed yourself and and really Divided the message so that it fits into you know, 12 minutes and so, um, yeah, so all those practical things So so good learnings take away for all of us. So that's good Yeah That's true Yeah Into a short time it was easy to follow. Yeah Uh, oh one of one of the things that I wanted to share was rose, you know, um so you could um I know you packed in a lot. You had a lot of share but you can Choose maybe You know, what are those main things that you want to emphasize? And those could be repeated right, um You could take time and pause and you could Pause for emphasis and repeat that as well so that it stays with the here, you know Um, like like for a for me the that last illustration About the car and you know that that is there. Of course. I wrote down But also like that if you could Pause and and make that statement and make it stand out, you know highlighted emphasize it repeated Of course not to repeat it too many times But then because we have only 12 minutes, but that would stand out as well All right. Yeah, pastor. Um, I just want to share one more thing pastor. Um at first like, uh Maybe you guys don't get it anymore. But I just felt uh, I even wrote it in the comment that I was like shaking because Um, I was not that confident yet even though I've practiced many times But then in the middle of it pastor, you can feel Um, you know how you could feel the conviction in what you're saying So sometimes I paused and as if I was really in front of a real audience I paused and I I felt that I want to Get the message through pastor. I guess you guys always feel that when you do these things Yeah, hey, wonderful wonderful to hear that Okay, so um, so a whole chat today anyone who's ready I don't mind going. Okay. See. Yeah um, so If you're ready, um, we can start right away. So we have say say where are you from? Sorry, I forget um say which Sorry kingdom driven kingdom driven That's your topic kingdom driven. Is it? Yes, sir Okay, and uh, just a minute. Let me um Check it out here um So see have you uh updated it in the Yes, I did you have you have okay. I'm just going through that Okay Okay, you your name starts with Oh say, okay. I was searching to say okay um Seeking God's kingdom and kingdom driven. Okay, wonderful. So yeah, so we And say where are you from? Um, so originally I'm from Nigeria, but I'm currently in Canada In Canada. Okay Okay, wonderful. Okay. Say, uh, you can start now Let me know if you can see my screen Can everyone see my screen? Yeah Yeah, we can see your screen Good morning to everyone. Um for those who am like on my own side. Good evening Um So today we have topic here kingdom driven And in the few minutes or just be sharing From scriptures What we mean by kingdom driven when we talk about the topic of kingdom on god's kingdom It's a wide topic. So I'll be streaming basically on us, you know Sicken the kingdom and um being motivated which is kingdom driven in essence It's basically to be motivated to be propelled, you know By the purposes of the kingdom what god wants us to do here on earth I have to open in scriptures. Um, I will join us to open our bibles to Matthew chapter six verse 10 matthew chapter six verse 10 And um, basically, I just want to show us in relation to our topic one of the desires of the father And jesus communicated that when he was teaching the people how to pray And in chapter six verse 10 of matthew, you think Your kingdom come Your will be done on earth It tells us very well that As it is in heaven To complete it it tells us very well that For god's kingdom to find expression on earth The will of god must first take place the will of god must first be accomplished And this was the desire of the father when he created man is that he wanted The kingdom of heaven to find expression upon this earth You know that everything of Heaven everything of god, you know will Flow through man here on earth and man through his dominion Would be An outflow of everything that represents the kingdom of heaven, you know here on earth Unfortunately, same came to this world true man and that plan, you know Was distorted though god tried so many times, you know with various men through history but In christ jesus as the last adam He fulfilled it And he didn't only just do it By himself He also gave every one of us by dying on the cross By bringing us into the kingdom of life so that the kingdom of heaven will find expression Both it's essential that until we Come to the will of god until we so come and submit to the will of god Who would never see the manifestation of this kingdom? So the we so come in and submit into his will brings the kingdom here on earth And so we're enjoying to be kingdom driven My second flight shows a treasure, you know If I told you of an island that had this treasure that would make you You know never pour again in your life, you know, you don't have to work You don't have to do anything else You'll be more than motivated To actually go there you will do everything You would maybe even sell everything you have Because you know that by the time you go there, you don't have to work again for your for anything And that takes me to this passage in matthew chapter 14 matthew chapter 14 Verse um 23 Matthew sorry matthew my apologies matthew 13 verse 44 matthew 13 verse 44 It reads the kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field When a man found it he hid everything he hid he hid it again and then he He went with joy and went to so I saw all he had and bought that field You know Jesus Christ was trying to paint a description of what the kingdom of heaven is It tells us that truly speaking the kingdom had more value than the earthly treasures we have More than our accounts more than the possessions we have our houses The things we own the things we even have The kingdom of god is more treasured the kingdom of god is more valuable And so if indeed there's so much value that jesus christ placed on the kingdom then For every believer of christ we ought To be seekers of his kingdom We ought to prioritize and put the kingdom first I will go through some scriptures again just basically to stress on this Importance of us as believers of christ seeking and pursuing after the kingdom In matthew chapter 6, which is an excerpt of jesus popularly known as His someone on the mount, you know, he said so many things and he came to this portion where he talked about We're pleasing our treasures in heaven. He says do not gather and hip hop and stop up Yourselves treasures and earth when moth and rust and warm consume and destroy and where teams Break through and steal You know, many will think oh, maybe the lord is telling me not to have any possessions here on earth You know, don't don't don't have any savings don't make any investment But that's not what jesus was driving at and we'll see as we go on Basically, what he was saying is that do not allow your whole life pursuit or life motivation Be all about acquiring things on earth that we just place our values on the things that we want to have You know, we pursue after everything that we we like we like the things that That glow, you know the treasures the gold the silver were always after those things And we for sick. What is important? So jesus saying Don't make your whole life pursuit.  He's the one we are called to serve the purposes of his His will here on earth And so how then do we lay treasures in heaven?  Is by making everything about our life be about his kingdom And then machi 26 where it says that for where your treasure is There will your heart be also So the question I want to ask every one of us as believers in crisis. What drives our life? Is it the treasures of the earth? Or is it the purposes of god's kingdom because many times we only just think that oh, we're just saved and then oh We're just supposed to leave here on earth looking forward to make heaven. But I want to tell us based on Jesus desire expressed in the way we ought to pray is that we as believers ought to live our lives Submitting to the will of god so that the kingdom of christ the kingdom of light The kingdom of god the kingdom of heaven will find expression here on earth That is the desire of our father that is the desire of our king of this kingdom And so if our heart is on the purposes of god, it will show that we're kingdom driven But if our heart our mind it's focused on what we want to eat What we want to acquire what we want to become what we want to have Then it will show that we're earthly driven It will show that we're only Sicken after the pleasures of the earth what we want and not what the father wants That guides me then to what's the balance because sometimes we might think okay, shei um, you want me to be heavenly focused I have bills to pay I have things to do I have kids to feed I have a wife to please I have so many things and the question then I ask is that is is christ against us Having an enjoyable life It's christ against us having finances having Money in our account, you know saving up for the future And I will remind you of the story about the rich fool. You see jesus was not Against or god wasn't against him actually, you know starting up I'm having so much working hard and all that what what he was not happy about was that He wanted to stop for himself alone Not thinking about what he could use his world for He was only concerned about what he was going to enjoy And what did god tell him? He said you fool Your soul shall be inquired of you this night For you have not been you are not rich to us god paraphrasing You see everything we have in this life Is supposed to be used For his kingdom for his glory And this is how we show that we're kingdom driven I'll give you three scriptures to balance this out first john 2 15 Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world If anyone loves the world the love of the father is not him Our love is supposed to be for god and for man Nothing else should take our affection Oh, I love my car. Oh, I love my house. Oh, I love my dog That's very wrong as believers. We ought not to say that we ought not to give our affections to the things of the world Our love should be given to the our father Should be given to god and should be given to men It's our love that shows us that helps us to be motivated by the purposes of the kingdom It helps us to be driven by what god wants to do in our time here on earth The next balance i'll give us is matthew 6 33 And again, this is still part of jesus salmon on the mouth You know, he was talking about people being bothered about what they will eat What the way and he came down and say to this verse But seek aim at and strive after first of all his kingdom and his righteousness In other words, prioritize his kingdom. Let everything be about our lives be first about his kingdom our marriage Our finances our career everything should be about his kingdom prioritize this first And every other thing that we seek for all the things we want they would follow afterwards So prioritize the purposes of god's kingdom Seek his kingdom in everything What is kingdom in anything we do should be the question We always ask to ourselves Another balance i'll give us is first Timothy 6 11 17 18 as for the rich jesus and paul my apologies speaking to Timothy who was his protégé then As a young bishop telling him As for the rich in the world charge them not to be proud and arrogant Or contemptuous of all this nor to set their hopes on on certain riches but on god And then as the emphasis says who richly assiduously provides us with everything for our enjoyment Charge to do good to be rich in good works and to be libre and generous of hearts ready to share with others Now you can see my emphasis there is that Reach and scissors they provide to us with everything enjoying so god is not against our enjoyment for He's charging us To do good to be rich in good works This is how we show that we are kingdom driven When we use the things that god has blessed us with for kingdom purposes And for blessing the body of christ and people around us because we communicate our love When we do good works we communicate the value system of god's kingdom When we do good works So these are those balances i've identified from scriptures and i'll end with two examples of people who put their hopes And put the things of the world first And did not consider god's kingdom agenda on earth And it's a lesson we need to learn so that we do not fall prey of this So for example, who was the rejected king first king god's first choice king You know He put his greed.  He was rebellious He left the choices things. He left the good things. He left the the the fight the the the the ship The good things the gold he left all the things and he was spared the king He neglected what god wanted. He neglected god's kingdom agenda. I'm sorry to interrupt say, uh, that's 12 minutes done, but Yeah, um, what is the other? Okay. Yeah, that's for example The last example, sorry to take your time. The last example was gehazi Who was more or less the son of the prophet alaysha? you know He was kind of next in line to be the prophet of our israel Well, again, he was taken away by the treasures the silver and the gold of neyman he lied That he had been sent to come and collect it And he took what ended up giving him leprosy Because why he put his value first On the gold and the silver of this world above what god wanted for his life I usually say this basically that gehazi lost his opportunity of having a quadruplet anointing Because remember that alaysha had double anointing of Elijah Maybe he would have also got a double anointing of alaysha and that of the double anointing of Elijah John just saying in quotes Well, one thing is this is that he placed his heart On worldly treasures pleasures and lost his opportunity So my encouragement for us all is As believers in Christ whatever the Lord has blessed us with Let us not be overtaken by those things Again, God is not against us having all the good things in his life and enjoying. No, he's not But he wants us to use everything for his kingdom and be driven every day by the purposes of his kingdom here on earth By committing to his will and ensuring that everything Is about him and his kingdom here on earth God help us all to fulfill his will in Jesus Thank you say thank you so much Such a blessing Thank you for sharing that word Yeah, I think it went a little beyond time I think that's something that all of us should be mindful of When we present that we maybe I can just give a reminder With one minute to go. So that will help you wrap up things. I can do that in the future So what we'll do is we'll So say if you don't mind I'll I'll share the feedback in next class Wednesday since we are out of time And but thank you so much. There was a very good presentation. Very passionate Preaching. Thank you so much.  We shall catch up again on Wednesday Yeah, okay. God bless. Bye. Bye


The following is a presentation of TFNN. The morning market kickoff with your host, Tommy O'Brien. Good Friday morning, everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFNN, excuse me. Just after 9 AM Eastern time, we got markets in positive territory to kick things off. You got the S&Ps right now, up by about 15 points, trading at $43.95. We put things on a 10-minute basis. You see the acceleration yesterday, quite the acceleration. From $44.30, we drive down to $43.93. We pop up to a level of $44.17. I'm just going to show you something real quick on the Fibonacci basis, folks. Take a look at this Fibonacci. The first move down yesterday morning, we come back up and look where we stopped, man. We talk about it all the time. You've got to be quick with those fingers sometimes. But if you were looking for a projection of this second acceleration to lower prices yesterday, man, what did you get? You got a 1 to 1.618 expansion almost to the tick, man. Almost to the tick. You put it back on a five-minute chart to see the same thing. Just chopped around there for a brief moment at $43.55. We spike a bit. Now, staying on the Fibonacci trends of the Fibonacci is here for the action yesterday. And where do we get up to? So what'd you do, right? Just zooming in on yesterday's action. And I wasn't trading this, but boy, things looked a little bit attractive on that 1 to 1.618 but couldn't quite pull the trigger to get in the way of that moving train. But if you were short on this market on a shorter-term trade, it's always nice to have those Fib numbers up there. And take a look first, right? You drive down from $44.30 down to the price level of $43.93. Where do we pop to? The 618 retracement. And then we do the 1 to 1.618 expansion down to $43.55. Nonetheless, I found those interesting. As I was looking at them yesterday, I'm going to pull them off the chart for some clarity right now. We'll zoom back out on a 10-minute basis. We'll take that one off there as well. Excuse me. Come on. Go operate. OK. And we have the S&P is trading at $43.96 up by 15 points. NASDAQ 100 up by $27 right now. A lot of this having to do with yields, right? We'll jump over to yields in a moment, talk about getting a reprieve this morning on yields. We have the 10-year right now. We'll talk about it right now. Why not? You get the 10-year under 4.6%. Pretty wild, man. Under 4.6%. We jump to Bitcoin up $200 right now at about $27,000. Crew contract catches a bid. How about it, right? Boy, not good. What's going on in Israel? And oh, no chart.  Thank you for telling me, Al. That would have been a no dunk in Steve. Thank you. All right. What was I doing there? I'm not paying attention. Here we go. They're coming right now. Perfect. Thanks for telling me, Al. Thanks for telling me, Steve. OK, let's look at that chart right again real quick, because it is pretty interesting. Back to a five-minute chart. We'll do it again quickly. And yeah, we had yesterday's action, right? So first, you have the retracement. There it is, right to the 618. OK, you drive down to the lowest intraday yesterday, about 10 in the morning. You spike up to a 618 retracement of that move. But the one I found more interesting, as this thing was really accelerating at about 12.30 or 1 PM Eastern time, that's where it began. But as it was accelerating at about 2 PM Eastern time, right, driving down to lower prices there. And I'm saying to myself, where can this end? Where is a price point where we might stop the acceleration there? And it was just pretty cool. How you take a look at the Fibonacci levels. And when you look at that extension, it was almost a perfect 1 to 1.618 expansion to lower prices. From there, you got quite a little pop. Nonetheless, we're getting more of a pop than that right now. We're at 43.96 right now. And it is interesting that we're bumping up against the 618 of that dramatic move lower yesterday afternoon. Not sure that's going to hold right now. We got yields moving in dramatic fashion. That is going to drive a lot of the action, to say the least. How about gold, man? Up $42. $42. Up 2.2% at 19.25. There are some mammoth moves all over the place, man. You take a look at yields. Yields yesterday. You go from a spike of $108.16 down to a low of $107.04. We'll call that a point and a half. And since that, then we are up almost a point. So you trade down a point and a half yesterday. You trade up a full point today. I'm generalizing mammoth moves to put it lightly. To put it lightly. Yeah, and those crude prices. What's going on in Israel? Gaza talking about Palestinians evacuating the Gaza Strip. Easier said than done, right? But things seem like they're going to escalate. Shouldn't be surprising, but nonetheless, that's where we find ourselves. And yeah, how about the 30, man? You go from 114 down to a price point of about 111. You're talking about three full points down, two full points up, just wild to put it lightly. All right, let's jump right into earnings, man. We kick things off, JP Morgan, with their numbers. How about $23 billion in 90 days? That's what they're making on net interest income. I think it's $22.9. Let's take a look at it. JP Morgan, not just another net interest income record. Lifts, guidance, fixed income traders post-surprise quarter revenue game. The number that's getting a lot of attention, there it is. 22.9 billion in the three months through September 30th. That is just wild stuff. There's some lofty numbers in terms of what they're getting paid for net interest income in terms of what they're paying out. The biggest US banks that they expect to generate. $89 billion from the revenue source this year. That's just from net interest income. Just from net interest income, they are going to generate $88 billion from the revenue source this year. And I think that's income, net interest income. It's not net interest. It's not gross interest, right? It's net interest income, 22.9, 88.5. They acknowledge it's not gonna be like this forever. Okay, we acknowledge that these results benefit from our over-earning on both net interest income and below normal credit costs, both of which will normalize over time. That's Jamie Dimon, the CEO-Warner that the wars in Ukraine and Middle East could have far-reaching consequences. This may be the most dangerous time the world has seen in decades. A little geopolitical twist in there as well. You got gold spiking. You have crude spiking right now. We jump back to the charts to take a look at the dollar index right now. You get the dollar index as we have yields going lower. Excuse me. Yes, yields going lower, right? Yields go higher yesterday. You spike on the dollar from 105.70 to 106.60. The dollar's still staying. That's the most remarkable part of what's going on right now. You take a look at this thing on a daily basis, okay? And boy, we've been on quite a tear. Let's take that off just for some clarity here. Little big picture, what do we got on here? Yeah, okay, so that's the full pullback on the dollar from the highs of 2022 down to about 100. We back out. You got a little bit of a reprieve, man, but dollar strength continuing in pretty dramatic fashion this morning. We're only off by about eight pennies, but boy, we got yields ripping lower at that same time as you have the dollar index, not giving up anything right now. So what do we got? A safe haven. People flocking to gold. People flocking to the dollar, okay? Even at a time that we have yields reprieving. Giving quite a little bit of a reprieve on a 10-year and a 30-year basis to put it lightly. So you jump over to J.P. Morgan. As I mentioned, they come out with their numbers, strong numbers. You're up to 149, you're backing off a bit to 147.50. You're still gonna open by about $2. 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We jump back to a few of those, starting things off with Wells Fargo. So you got J.P. Morgan taking in $22.9 billion in net interest income. Wells Fargo, $13.1 billion in net interest income in 90 days, revenue collected from loan payments minus what depositors are paid is how they put it. That topped the $12.8 billion that the market was looking for. That's $300 million in extra income over 90 days than what the market's looking for. It's just a decimal point, but nonetheless, man. Expenses also rose more than expected though at city. No, excuse me, this is Wells Fargo. We're gonna do city next. $13.1 billion in the quarter, pretty much right in line with net interest income, right, which is interesting. Getting cost under control has been a key tenant of the turnaround plan since the new CEO took over four years ago. Wells Fargo raises the forecast for full year expenses. There's your forecast, we're talking about $51.5 billion is what they're talking about there. Yeah, the company again lifted its full year guidance for non-interest expenses, including operating losses, $251.5 billion. Nonetheless, the market likes the numbers a bit. They are up this morning, we jump over to city. So city, the trading desk, they crush it higher than expected profit. Those numbers, $2.8 billion windfall. How about it, man? City group rates and currencies traders posted their best third quarter in the last eight years as the Federal Reserve kept investors on their toes about the future of heightened interest rates. We've seen some volatility, man, right? Counter to basically what everybody was talking about as well, the moving notes, bonds, the acceleration of the market over that period of time. The larger than expected $2.8 billion windfall boosted total fixed income trading 14% and added to better than expected revenue, costs, and even loan performance. Net income, which analysts estimated would fall 22% rose slightly. You're remarkable, right?  The results came at a pivotal point for their CEO who last month announced a company-wide reorganization that puts a spotlight on five key segments. Trading, banking, wealth management, services, and dealings with US consumers. Seems like that's a decent five areas that a bank would focus on. Yeah, so they set the expectations low, they beat it, they're trading up by a dollar today. 10% increase in total trading revenue, they were looking for the low single digits. What do they say? Under promise and over deliver, right? Remember that phrase, folks. If you can get it done that way, that's the way you wanna get it done in a lot of things in life. Under promise and over deliver. So let's see. They set aside 1.8 billion in provisions in the quarter, a 35% increase from a year earlier. That includes a credit reserve bill of 125 million as customers carried higher balances on cards. Now what I found interesting on JP Morgan jumping back a bit. So they take in 22.9 billion in net interest income in the quarter. They talk about for the year, they're gonna be pushing 88.5 billion from the revenue source this year, talking about net interest income. So 88.5 billion is what they're looking for. Now what's so interesting is you look at their costs, right? So they reported 1.5 billion in net charge offs, credit card loans for the increase, okay? Higher card losses are normalization from exceptionally low levels in recent years and that his firm has been over earning on credit it's gonna come back a bit. They reduced the pile of money set aside for potentially soured loans by 113 million. Now here's where I found it interesting. The firm lowered its full year adjusted expenses guidance to about 84 billion. That excludes a planned FDIC special assessment tied to regional bank failures early this year. They previously said they expected the metric which excludes legal costs to come in at about 84.5. So they lower it to 84. Net interest income alone, they're making $89 billion, right? The adjusted guidance for the entire year for their full year adjusted expense guidance, 84 billion. Not bad when you're making net interest income that covers everything you're doing as a bank and then you still get to keep $5 billion on top of it. That's not how it's gonna be in the future. As they've said, okay, things will normalize and they'll have to go back to business as usual when they're not making $90 billion a year just in net interest income. But that's not where we are today. Today they're making that cash, they're making $22.9 billion over a period of 90 days. Imagine that, man. And there you get the spike. We take a little bit of a longer term look at JPMorgan. You wanna go back, let's do a five year weekly, right? Where are we? Right where you came into COVID at. Pretty interesting when you look at it in that context, right? JPMorgan comes into COVID at about 145. We're sitting at about 147 with a little bit of volatility in between. Not quite the case for all the banks though. Wells Fargo, you come in at about 53. Yeah, they've dealt with their own woes to put it lightly. Wells Fargo right now trading at about $40. You jump over to city and not quite the case at all, man. Look at that, right? Wells Fargo gets all the heat, but check out city, man. Half the price of where you were in 2020 and it looks like a one-way trip, man, to negative prices. Nonetheless, they under promise, they over delivered. You're gonna pop a dollar today to choose me to 42.60 and we will see where we go from there, man. Yeah, Dicey Char for city, right? All right, let's check out some of the fang stocks this morning. We got the NASDAQ 100 up by about 24 points. We jump over to Apple. Apple shares right now up by about 40 pennies. You jump over to Microsoft. Now, Microsoft, the headline, let's jump over to Microsoft. They're basically flat this morning at 331.28 and they get it done. They complete the $69 billion Activision Purchase. That deal goes through. They completed that deal after nearly a two-year fight, two years. Time just flies, man, right? We all say it, we all know it, but boy, it really does. Gonna be interesting to see how this shapes things going forward. And so the biggest ever acquisition in the video game industry gives the maker of Xbox consoles a more formidable position, excuse me, against rivals vaulting it from the fifth to third place globally behind Tencent and Sony. The acquisition is a stunning turnaround after Microsoft execs underestimated the magnitude and longevity of antitrust objections, forcing the software giant to seek a three-month extension of the deal's expiration period from Activision. Nonetheless, they get it done. You had buffered in there over that period of time, going from an arbitrage opportunity. Seems like that was a smart play, man, as the deal gets done. And look at this chart, right? Is it still up there? Yeah, it's still up there. I mean, look at the capital appreciation just from where you were in May, man. Up to 94 bucks, let alone how often you chopped around between about $75 and $80. I forget where Buffett got into it. Maybe it was somewhere back there in March. Maybe that was the pop. Nonetheless, I remember when he was getting in, he was saying, man, this is a good company. This company is a good company. Even if it doesn't get done, I'm gonna be okay, but I think it's gonna get done anyway. So I'm gonna buy Activision. I'm gonna make the gamble that it gets done. There's enough of an upside potential where if it gets done, I'm getting rewarded for that risk. And what happens, it gets done, right? Buffett, gotta give it to a man. All right, we're coming back for the open folks. We got the S&Ps up by 13 points right now. We got crude up by $3 and 25 cents. 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But yeah, we got some action and gold to put it lightly, man. Can you find a bar that large on a green basis? You got to go back to really where we were in March of last, is that no March of this year? Yeah, where you caught an acceleration to the highs, the recent highs from 1814 to 2085. That's the last time I see green bars, like the one we got going on today. And geopolitically, boy, it is a tough deal to put it lightly. Words cannot express what is going on. And let's pull the headline over at Bloomberg.  And rightfully so, all they're talking about is what's going on in Gaza, in Israel. The army ordered evacuation of 1.1 million people in Gaza. And you can only imagine what's gonna happen there if they're telling everybody to get out. And it's not gonna end anytime soon, folks. And I think you're seeing the market react to that. And it's going to continue to react to that over and over.  And what's going on in the house, man? We are living in interesting times to put it lightly. So you got Steve Scalise, he was second in line behind McCarthy. Turns out that he's probably not gonna get the votes. And so probably instead of putting himself through the ringer of 15 votes only to lose or what it is gonna be, he pulls himself out of the race. So you got Jim Jordan there, could run again for the post, but now what's getting talked about is that maybe you have some type of a dealing with Democrats. And is this how it's gonna happen? Is this how we get some type of form of compromise where you actually have a Republican speaker of the house that is forming some type of partnership with moderate Democrats? It might be happening, folks. Because Republicans just don't have the votes outside of a few hardliners that aren't gonna let it happen. And what's so interesting here is that governments, the art of compromise, folks.  Because they won't compromise, you're gonna get a speaker of the house that's gonna be with Democrats potentially, right? So talk about not getting what you want because you won't compromise, okay? Government is the art of compromise. So many differences. If you can remember one thing, remember that. And this is interesting times to put it lightly. So you got a deep division and we need a speaker of the house, man. Okay, we need a speaker of the house. We need our government to be able to do the business of the people. And boy, we got a lot going on in this world right now. So hopefully they get that done but that saga continues to play out in light of everything else going on. We jumped to a story about Mr. Huang. Haven't talked about him in a while. Good ol' Archegos. And how about Nomura? You talk about schmoozin' with business clients, man. Let me check out some of these stocks, right? That's still just a Warner Brothers discovery comes to mind most. There's Bill Huang driving this thing up to $78 before the world fell out below him and he lost his bank's $10 billion, lost himself tens of billions of dollars. That's the high, an irrational high and listen, Warner Brothers discovery, they got a lot going on besides Mr. Huang but you can't miss that part of the chart. Absolutely remarkable. It's that long ago, man. March of 2021, cannot believe it's that long ago. Two and a half years ago. Absolutely wild, can't believe it's that long ago. So they talk about in here the relationship he had with Nomura, okay? Not long before the implosion that would rock Wall Street and threaten Bill Huang with life in prison, probably rightfully so, the way he was playing fraud basically with the banks. He tapped out an email to a bank that had been vital to the success of his investments. I mean, some of the wording is just tantalizing in how this plays out, folks. So he appreciated the quote unquote corporate partnership and friendship of Nomura holding Inks execs for 25 years. This is in December of 2020. I just showed you the collapses in March of 2021, okay? December of 2020, he's writing this. So glad to see our partnership is growing even stronger. It's like out of a movie, man, okay? I know all the good Korean restaurants in New York and New Jersey. Eager to host you at my penthouse apartment is what he was trying to do, right? I mean, it's literally out of a scam movie where he's running game on everybody, talking about come visit me at my penthouse. I'll take you out for the Korean restaurants. I know all the good ones in New York and New Jersey. He was responding to an email sent by a gentleman who was the head of Nomura's America's unit who had met with Wang the night before with another Japanese bank official, okay? I recognized again how much you have supported our business globally and I appreciated this kind of strong institutional relationship between us. This is the other gentleman for Nomura, okay? The head of Nomura's America's unit. I enjoyed Italian wine and various topics to talk and I love the penthouse room with great views of the park and the city. It's just amazing stuff. Just three months later, Archegos had collapsed and Nomura had lost almost $3 billion. I hope that wine was delicious, man. I hope that view was really worth it because you were getting wine and dine to the tune of $3 billion. One of the biggest losses in the history of the prime broker industry, the caters to investment funds. Several Wall Street banks also lent to Wang. Who was the other big one? Credit Swiss. Yeah, they're the only one that lost more than Nomura and they are now non-existent. To put it, yeah. They don't even talk about the name anymore. Isn't that wild, right? Nomura, you don't even speak the name anymore. The US incident is what they call it. So just be careful when someone's winding and dine in here like that, folks. Everyone's get their motives. And they were asleep at the wheel to put it lightly. Asleep at the wheel. You had some of the other big banks out here, man. And that's where you see. You only got a brief moment to get out of dodge and don't be the last one holding the paper, man. Because you might lose billions of dollars. Yeah, and that's not going away. Lingering impacts. I thought that verbiage was pretty interesting though. Just some emails among friends, right? 90 days before, he goes BK and loses the company $3 billion. Stay tuned, folks. We'll be right back. You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market, you're going to need a crystal ball. After all, it's impossible to predict the future, right? 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And folks, that was a move of almost 60 S&P points and you just traded up from a price point. Where basically you're at the 786 of that entire move to 4408, we just got to a price point of 4407.75. We'll see if we give that up. Just wild action across the board. We gotta take a look at commodities. You got crude, up 289, we give it up a bit. We're up at almost 87 bucks. We've backed off about a dollar in crude. We're trading at 85, 83. You jump over to that gold contract, up by $37. Folks, if you haven't tried out the gold report yet, even if you had, great time to get back in the gold report, man, that market rocking. We are up $110 from where we were last Friday in the price of gold. And you check out notes and bonds, a slight reprieve from where we've been. Now, we've been talking about this channel line for some time and we are just bumping up against the upper boundary, okay? This is a daily chart of the 10-year.  You take a look at the 10-year right now. We're up by about 20 ticks. Boy, that was quite a reversal yesterday. All we're doing is coming up, testing the upper boundary line of that channel line right now. We're trading at 107.27 right now. Excuse me, I've been talking about the five-year ladder of fixed income, bank CDs, FDIC insured. Excuse me, bonds or CDs, a five-year ladder, 5.13. It's basically where we are right now, 5.13. Now, be aggressive with capital that you have doing nothing right now, folks, because it's so easy to be a little lazy for lack of a better word, okay?  It is very easy to get paid 5% on your money doing nothing right now. So make sure you're getting that 5% because it adds up. And we have the five-year ladder at about 5.13%.  Even when rates abate, you're still going to have if they do, right? There's nothing's guaranteed. You're still gonna have pressure on the banks for capital, okay? We live through amazing times where you had banks locking in, let's go back a longer term, right? You had banks buying government securities at prices that are now seen as astronomical by today's standards, okay? The 30-year, which is what banks were buying. Even if you don't cherry pick the 2020, right? Which is not when they were doing it, okay? They were doing it in the year 2021 when you had all the stimulus going on. Everybody had all the money. You had companies getting going public. You had generational deposit flow for some of these banks and they locked in US Treasuries. I mean, you can cherry pick the year, all right? Take it any part of that 12 months. There's your 12 months in the year 2021. If you were buying the 30-year, you were buying it at the best price possible of 154. Maybe you were getting it in the 160s while you're trading at 113 right now. The point being, okay, banks are gonna need capital and they're gonna need capital for some time because investors have woken up to the fact that they can move their money to where capital is getting rewarded, rightfully so, and you're gonna see pressure on these banks to push out CD rates that are above Treasury rates, et cetera, for some time. And so that's gonna be there, but we always talk about it. We'll keep our eye on it. The five-year ladder this morning, 5.13%.  We're talking carbs in the dent, folks. We're talking free money, carbs. I love the comparison, Jimmy, for sure. And yeah, there is a real focus right now on fixed income with cash yields above 5% and most portfolios fairly rigid in their asset allocation framework. It was a great commentary. Get in the Tigers, dent folks and check it out. Some great traders and their investors. I love the talk. And yeah, it is a brave new world when you're talking about getting paid 5% risk-free because you got to start running the numbers, folks, in terms of what you're talking about and where the market needs to be for some simple comparison. And this is what you want to do. And listen, my money and my 401k, okay, it's in growth stocks. The market is gonna do well longer term, but if you're in a different segment of retirement, if you're talking about, you know, retirement planning, maybe you're already retired and you want to portion your portfolio to make sure that your bills are paid, et cetera, okay. I know talk about it a lot, man, but I'm harping on it because boy, in my time as an adult, I have not seen risk-free returns to this level. Now, when you're getting 5%, okay, that means that 5% of 4,400 is perfect. We're at a nice round number, 4,400. Well, you got to be at 4,620 next year to equal that 5%. And this is risk-free, okay? So I'm guaranteeing you right now, if you buy the S&P at 4,400, I'll give you 4,620 next year. I said, well, that's great, man, I'll do that. We've just had quite a run. We started the year off at 3,800. You're telling me you'll give me 4,620 next year after the run we've had? Yes, I will. All you got to do is sell the market at 4,400 and buy a CD right now. Okay, so, okay, well, that's good. Well, what if the following year, in two years, I'll give you 4,850. In three years, I'll give you 5,100. In four years, I'll give you 5,348. So four years from right now, I'll give you 5,348 for the S&P, okay? And the five-year ladder, like we've been talking about, 5,600. So in five years, I'll give you 5,600 for the S&P if you want it right now. Risk-free. Those are the comparisons you want to be making, folks. If you're comfortable with that and you're making the assessment that you know what, if I lose 20% of my capital that I have in the market right now, my life might change, okay?  That's gonna change the way I have to live going forward, okay? But if I go up from a million to 1.25, it's really not gonna change things because I'm living off a million dollars, well, I can take 40 or 50 grand out a year without touching my capital, okay? That's the difference. Now, rates can go higher, inflation can go higher, and that's the worry there, right? Is that you have inflation raging and you're locking in 5% and that 5% is barely keeping up with the cost of living so your real rate of return is nowhere near 5%. That's the comparison. But right now, you buy a five-year ladder and you're getting an S&P return of 5,600 over five years. And for a lot of people, that's very attractive with zero risk. We haven't had a lot of big returns with zero risk lately and I think that's the thing that gets me going. Yeah, you know, John from Boston, he's saying, I remember as a kid going to Shawmut Bank, I remember Shawmut Bank. CDs were 15%, the Union Oyster House, the Union Oyster House, check it out, ladies and gentlemen, right by the Union Oyster House, gotta love it. You know, it's wild, John. So I was born in 1980. I was getting some, you old good old government bonds, savings bonds, right? As a kid, your grandparents give you government saving bonds. Man, I was cashing those in. Finally, when I was buying a house 10, 15 years ago, 10 years ago about, and they had reached their 30-year maturity. And man, I could not believe the interest rates that were tied to those savings bonds when I was cashing them in. Seems like the easiest money ever could have made back then, right? Not exactly the case, hindsight is 20-20. But nonetheless, we go forward and we got the S&Ps at 4404 right now. We got one more segment of the program, folks. Let's check back on on yields. We take a look at the 10-year, just chopping around 107.26 right now. 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Go to TFNN.com and hit Watch Tiger TV. That's TFNN.com and hit Watch Tiger TV. Back, folks, we got the S&Ps pretty much chopping around where we began the program. How about the Russell, though? Boy, something's going on in that Russell, man. On a day when we got positive prices in the S&P, up 22, you got the Russell. Basically testing the lows of yesterday, 17.45 right now in the Russell, you're negative by a point. Dow catches a bid on some strong bank numbers. 34,068, we jump over to J.P. Morgan. There you go, up 5%, 4.8, up $7, $1.5278. 22.9 billion dollars in 90 days, not bad. Wells Fargo, they catch a bid. Market lows these numbers, man, up 4.3% for Wells Fargo. What'd they take in? 13 billion dollars in 90 days, something like that. Citi, the traders over at Citi in fixed income, they crush it. They're up by 4% right now. They've been talking about Boeing in the den, man. How about Boeing, right? You pull back from almost 200 bucks from where you were on just Wednesday. And just like that, we're trading at 186. You're off another 2.3% for Boeing shares this morning. Been quite a pullback for Boeing, man. You had the run this year, up to 243. Spent a one-way trip for September into October. You were at 230, you were at 186 on Boeing. A little bit of a longer-term look for Boeing shares, man. You fall out of bed from COVID. You hit a low of 89 bucks. You catch a bid up to 276. You trade lower. You're up to the highs of 241. They're dealing with some woes, man, to put it lightly for Boeing, even as we got a market in higher prices and we check in on some of those fang stocks. Nasdaq 100 lagging a bit, only up by a quarter percent. When you get the Dow up by, excuse me, when you have the S&Ps up by six-tenths, you have the Dow up by nine-tenths. The big banks, of course, helping the Dow, JPMorgan putting quite an acceleration on. But yeah, the fang stocks. Apple shares up by a third of a percent right now. Microsoft shares up by half a percent. This is even when you have yields plummeting, right? Let's check back to yields as we wrap up the program. The 10-year, up 18 ticks right now, and that is talking about, we'll finish it up, folks, with the 10-year at 4.61%, 4.61% the yield on that 10-year markets in positive territory. And how about the VIX? As expected, paring some of the gains of yesterday back under 17. Folks, thanks so much for kicking off your Friday right here with the Morning Market Kickoff with me. Stay tuned. We got our man, Basil Chapman, coming up next with the Tiger Technicians Hour. Have a great weekend. Have a safe weekend, folks. No drunk driving out there. Be careful. We'll see you back here Monday morning at nine o'clock. Stay tuned for Basil.