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and welcome back to our channel. I'm vlogging on my phone right now because I forgot my camera at home. I mean, you really can't tell the difference, but filming on my phone with Madeline as you read by today's title, we're picking up someone super exciting today. I haven't even told you guys, really given you guys any updates because I haven't been talking about it. But the last time we talked, I told you guys we were getting our Dream Cat and we are on our way to pick him up right now. I'm gonna wait to tell you guys his name somewhere in this video cause I kinda want to like make it mysterious but I am super anxious right now because I was actually supposed to pick him up tomorrow when I go to the airport but Madeline's parents really wanted to meet him because they actually have a Maine Coon kitten and it's from the same breeder. So basically their Maine Coon will be brothers of my Maine Coon. So I asked if I could pick him up early and she said yes.  And I'm kind of excited about this because I kind of get to bond with him the night before we fly. Cause I was like, dang, like we're gonna pick him up at the airport and then I'm gonna have to then not really be able to look at him and like see him as much it's gonna have to go under the airplane seat. So this will kind of be nice way for me to bond with him, see how he acts and reacts. We're gonna leave with him. It's gonna be so cute guys. I don't think you understand, this has been my Dream Cat for so long and honestly, your dad never got that cat. I honestly probably would have never like actually went through it. Yeah, because I've been looking for like good breeders but it's like so scary when you go through breeders cause like you don't know if they're trustworthy. And when Madeline's dad went through this one, I was like, oh my gosh, let me just see if she has any available. And she did and I couldn't miss out. So we're on our way. So you guys get to meet him very soon. It's been my first time seeing him. He's only seven weeks old, seven weeks. Like that's crazy. When we got Snap and Thor, they were only like, they were three months at that point. So he's gonna be baby, baby, baby. And he's high maintenance. I'll go into explaining everything of that later. But guys, if you're not subscribed, make sure you guys hit that subscribe button. It gives video a big thumbs up and let's go get him. Oh my God. I feel like he's little. Oh my God, he's so tiny. Oh my goodness. Oh, he's sweet boy. He's looking at your new mama. Oh, he's not crying. He's just staring at you. This is my absolute dream. So much more litter in person. I don't think you can't even price it in the video camera guys. He's tiny. Oh my God. Look at him. Which Bill could be here with us guys. I know. He's perfect. Like he's the most perfect thing in the world. Hello. Hi. Can you see him? No. He's not. Bill. He's like tiny, like the most tiniest. Bill, he's like, no, he, babe. I want to tell you he's, he's little. Bill, you have no idea. He has, you have no idea. Are you taking pictures? I've been filming this whole time. We're filming you right now, actually. Bill, look at him. Oh, he's looking at you.  He's scared. Look at him. He's scared of you. Um, no, he's just scared of you, Bill. Look how hair, like how much hair, look at this. He's so tiny. No, Bill. He's like little. Yeah, and he says, so the spikes are called links and he says that he has really, like his links are going to be big. He's a door life. I know, that's what you were talking about. I think they're hazel or blue, a little bit blue. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, here he is. I'm tired. Oh, Bill, you are going to literally be in love. Like he's tinier than Snap and Thor combined. Like he's little. And now that I see him, babe, I really don't want him around Snap and Thor for a couple of days. Yeah. Yeah, cause he's really little. Like this one's different. Look, he follows you. Look, he follows the phone. Oh, he's scared of the phone, I think. Oh, he's scared of the phone. Well, here he is, baby. He's here. I will.  I'll show you. Oh, he's perfect. Yeah, and because he's so little, we can bomb with him for a little bit before the flight. Yeah. Yep, here he is. Yeah. I was going to meet him tonight. Oh my goodness. You're going to see the kitten. Hi. Hi, baby. Look, look at Mariah. Oh, she sees him. Baby, you see the baby? This is the baby cat. He never met a kitten. Thanks. To meet daddy at the airport. Good morning, you guys. I didn't really update you guys last night cause it was kind of chaotic and I kind of just like let him do his thing, get comfortable, but oh my gosh, he is one of the best kiddies ever. Like he's better than Snap and Thor were. Like he's so chill. I look at him. He's just chilling in his carrier right now. He slept on my neck, like right up here by me all night and he was just so lovey. I am so excited for Bill to see him in person because he has no idea how tiny he was. Like when I picked him up, pictures made him look so much bigger. So it's just crazy. I have his litter, some litter in here just in case he does have an ax on the plane, but he did go pee and he went to the party this morning. He ain't, so he's all good to go. Right buddy? Let's go meet daddy. See yourself? I can see him, but I can't. He's not gonna run out trust me. He's really good. Open it. Oh my God. Open it. He likes it. He's a good boy. He's a good boy, Katie. I just met you and I love you. I put you on the list. Katie, you're cute. He is. Jesus. He's playing it. He's fighting that out. Yeah, he's playing it. What is good about the squad? Welcome back to our channel. I know Mariah probably filled you in. She took over the video kinda. I've been in Vegas and we just met up a couple hours ago. We were officially back in Florida and you couldn't see a good surprise because I want you to understand when I met up with Mariah at the airport, I was sick to my stomach. I was pretty sick too. From the partying the night before in Vegas. And as you can see, my voice is literally gone. And I'm just trying to feel better and recover. So I didn't get the best reaction, especially because it was super loud and he was kinda scared in the airport. He was doing good, but there's so much going on. But now we can officially see him. Oh my gosh. We're gonna officially see this. I know, but I didn't see it. Do we say right now? Wait, we have not said his name. Let's wait a minute. No, I feel like they already know it starts with an S. They can see him. All right, all right guys. So this name I came up with, all right, I'm taking all the props for this. And let me just say it has to do with the Lion King. Okay, so the Lion and the Lion King. His name starts with an S. You guys actually commented a lot and got it right. So his name, this little man right here, his name is Skull. He's the best kitten. Our two cats are awesome. He has been the best with when it comes to like, crying and crying and just being really relaxed and chill. Yes, he is the most chill kitten I think we've ever had or we've ever gotten for anybody. Like it is insane. No, I want you guys to know, I've never been more excited.  One of the cutest cats. Like these, you will not find a main coon in a shelter or anything like these. Like they're like, have to be breathed.   We've adopted so many. I know we only have two but we've adopted probably like taco- Taco, tog, or tiger, wing. We've adopted six cats though, right? Yeah, we've adopted a lot. Like that's for like our family and stuff. Yeah. But we're gonna bring this little man home. We have to get some food because we literally have not eaten a good meal in like hours. I have to explain to you guys a really traumatizing story though. I have a very traumatizing story. It is reaction to meeting our house for the first time. And should we film a second video on Wednesday? Story of me trying to ball her eyes out on the plane ride here. It was really traumatizing for me. So stay tuned. It's so scary. The hands are good. He's already been swatting at our hands. He's like, what is this? All right, who's here? It's the baby. And by the way, it smells in our house. It absolutely reeks like- Smells good. Oh, it doesn't.  No, it smells like our air-censured actually.  No, it doesn't. I think it's the letter. Hi. All right, so we do not want to show our new edition scar to them yet. So babe, can you run him in the room just a bit quick and then I'll say hi to them? What is that? Go, go. He's so confused. He definitely heard it, but he didn't hear it the same time. I'm making them on a separate basis, guys. Listen. Oh, don't, they're both- Listen up, buddy. We have a surprise, but it's not gonna come till a couple days, okay? Gotta give it a minute. All right, go put him in the room. I'm gonna keep the cats distracted. Hey, snap. We've been gone for five days. Four or five days. Oh, I know. Where's Tho? Tho, where? Tho. Thor. Thor, join the party over here. Come on. Come here. Hi, you have no idea what's to come. You have a brother and they don't even know. Look at Thor taking his sweet old time. You're so big now. When I look at him- Hi. It's so big. You guys are cute. Oh, he's so happy. He's so happy. He's so happy.  By the way, this is what our house looks like, literally every time we come home from vacation. Like, I always feel like there's something at our door. I forgot about all these- What? All these. Oh, we bought him toys. Remember on that other video? Yeah. So we're gonna go in the room right now and set everything up and see Scar and show him our house for the first time. Our master bedroom at least. But if you did not watch our video of us getting a surprise, we actually bought a bunch of cat stuff solely for Scar. Ew, okay, ignore our room. It's super messy. We packed the last minute. I promise you, Marvel Squad, I literally packed an hour before I had to leave. I packed for a four, five day vacation and one hour before we actually had to go to the airport. Do my voice is like, scratchy. Like, I literally lost my voice. Can you stuff stuff in the- Onto the bed? Right over here. Well, we're gonna have to put it all onto the bag because he can definitely get underneath. All right, let's do that really quick. Come on. Alrighty. It's so hot. Where is he? Where is he? He's ready to go. He's been ready to jump out. Let's see if he goes on his own. Wait, let's see what he does. Let's see what he does. He kind of blends in with the bag, hold on. Oh, I wanna put him in his litter box. But he knows where it's at. What? Yeah, there's more to life than just a crate.  This is your first time? Yeah. He looks so dark on camera. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Look at it. Yay, baby. Yay. Yay. You can see how light he is. I'm telling you, Marble Squad, the camera makes him look darker right here because of how the light is, but you can see how light his fur is. Hi. Let me grab him and put him in his litter box.  Look at him compared to my hand. He's literally my hand. Come here, baby. Hey. Here's pee pee poo poo. He's just sniffing around. He has to get used to the area first.  He's literally going to be like 20 pounds. He's perfect. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah. Munch at it. Do I know what's crazy? What cat goes from, so he went from Madeline's bathroom to Madeline's mom's house to an airport to Florida to another house. And he's literally eating like normal. That's like very rare for kids. He's looking around. He's wondering what's going on. What? Uh-oh. Is he under here? Yeah, this is Paw Paw. You see his paw? Oh hi. Oh no, Snaps sees him. I think he does. Hi. Hi Snaps. Oh no, babe. They're gonna be playing under the door. Mama Squad, stay tuned for them meeting for the first time. This video's gonna be crazy. Last time Snap met another cat, which was Thor. It got pretty heated, pretty wild. You have to break them apart a couple of times, but they eventually became best brothers. And I feel like that's how it's gonna be for them. We'll talk to you my everything. Oh, it's gonna be crazy. You guys are knocking around and missing it. Make sure to turn your post notifications on so you get notified when we do post that video because, oh my God, it's gonna be crazy. And he's eating dry food, babe. I know, he has been. Do you realize Thor didn't even eat his food? Right, Thor didn't eat his food. We had to stick that treat in the dry food. Okay, he's going back and forth. He's going back and forth. He's probably kinda nervous right now. No, he's actually doing really good. I kinda can read him and he's actually doing good. All right, so this is him playing with his first toy in this house. He looks interested. I don't know what he's gonna do, but he looks really interested in it. Oh, oh, he's playing. Oh, he's playing. Oh, he likes it. Oh, come on, Scar.  We also got him here. Show him the pet sloth, babe. This is the best one right here, ready? Look at that. We literally got him a pet sloth, like the cutest thing ever. We got him and it says right on my hand on that. Uh-oh. He ate a lot of his food, as you can see. And now he's literally just, he's so tiny, his body literally shakes. Isn't it funny? He's so tiny. Oh, that was our dinner. Dinner's finally here. Mom's squad. All I've eaten today, all right? Cause I was not feeling good at all. I literally could not even eat.  All I ate today, though, is like half a thing of McDonald's french fries and then one of those airplane biscuit things that they give you, that's it. That's all I've had. I need food. I am starving and we have no food here, so we have to order it. Look at him. Oh, he's going at it. Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it. Come on. So he has a lot of, he has like a little brown, but he has a lot of gray.  And I hope because I would love that. His tail's moving. I don't know. We have Scott over here and you just have to snap Lurkin. Look at, he's Lurkin. We see you snap. All right, this is first time holding my baby's car. Oh my gosh, he's so light. I wanna do a size comparison so you can see how actually small because he looked big on camera. But he's tiny, guys. He looked big on camera when Mariah was sending me pictures, but look at this. He literally is like. Your hand. Yeah, he is. Like if he like curled up, he could be my hand. He's so cute. Oh. Oh. Daddy in scar, scar. This is gonna be crazy because if you think about it, like we could do another one of these videos in like one year from now. And he's gonna be like. Oh like, we should do each month. Like one month, two month, three month, four month because he's gonna be big. I'm gonna start it, the video when he's one month old. He smells good. I don't know what you're talking about. He does smell good, but I'm just saying. Oh. Daddy. All right, you guys, I think we're gonna end the video here. We're absolutely exhausted and whooped out. Like I am feeling just so tired.  Oh, look he likes his carrot. Yeah, he does play with the carrot right now over here. He is so good at adjusting. Like, he got his. I know, he's already playing. Like it's like he's been here forever. Okay, I know I said I was gonna explain what happened. I'm gonna explain it next video. It has something to do with the airplane. Yeah. Him and something bad that could have happened but it didn't happen. But we will explain that in the next video that we do with him when we meet Snap and Thor for the first time. Snap and Thor are already kinda peeking under the door but meeting face to face is gonna be a totally, totally crazy, hopefully good thing. Hi, baby. What are you doing? He's so happy he's off the plane. I hope you guys love the name Scar as much as we do. Like, I feel like Scarge is so perfect for this little man. Yeah. I know, like kinda he's great. He's a blacks.  See how he's kinda gray? Very exotic. Yeah. But guys, we're gonna end the video right here. I hope you enjoyed today's video. Stay tuned for all the new content featuring Scar, Scar, see you, bye, bye. Say bye. Say bye. All right, you guys, we'll see you in the next video. Thank you so much for watching but until then, peace, love you guys. Peace.


Good day everybody. Dr. Sanjo Sanyal, Professor Department Chair. So this is going to be a demonstration of the lower part of the back of the thigh, the propitial region, and the back of the leg. This is a prone cadaver. This is the left side. I'm narrating from the left side. The camera person is also on the left side. So we have the propitial fossa in front of us and the lower part of the thigh, which have been dissected out. The propitial fossa is a diamond-shaped depression on the back of the knee and it is bounded by these following structures. Supromedially, we have this combined muscle here. This is the semi-tendinosis and just under that, this is the semi-membrinosis. Suprolaterally, we have this combined muscle here. This is the combined muscle of the short and the long head of the bicep femoris. So therefore, this is the supromedial and the suprolateral boundary respectively. Infromedially, we have this muscle here. This is the medial head of the gastrocnemius. Infrolaterally, we have this combined muscle here. This one is the plantaris muscle and just under that, this is the lateral head of the gastrocnemius. So therefore, this is the propitial fossa. This propitial fossa was covered by a thick fascia, which is actually the continuation of the fascialata continuing into the crural fascia. And this portion of that deep fascia is referred to as the propitial fascia. The superficial to that was the superficial fascia of the leg. We have removed that to show the content. The content was completely filled with fat and lymph nodes and those have been removed to show the depth of the propitial fossa. So let's take a look at the other important contents. We can see this nerve here. This is the sciatic nerve coming from the thigh and the sciatic nerve divides in the lower part of the thigh into a tibial division which runs straight down. From one apex of the propitial fossa to the other apex of the propitial fossa. And we can see that doing. And this is the common fibular nerve which runs laterally, obliquely, under cover of the bicep femoris. And then it goes behind the head of the fibula and then it winds around the lateral to the neck of the fibula. So this is the first structure which is a content. Then we have this structure which I have lifted up here. This is the propitial vein and then we have this structure here. This is the propitial artery. So therefore the rule of thumb is from lateral to medium and from superficial to deep we have the nerve vein artery. So this is a very useful relationship to remember. Now let's show the branches of the propitial artery in the propitial fossa. The propitial artery gives five branches in the propitial fossa and for that we have separated the propitial vein completely and lifted up the propitial artery. We can see this artery here and we can see this artery here. This is the superior lateral and this is the superior medial genicular artery which are the branches of the propitial artery in the propitial fossa. Then we have this branch here. This is the middle genicular artery. Then we have this branch here. This is the inferior lateral and this is the inferior medial genicular branch of the propitial artery. So these are the five branches of the propitial artery in the propitial fossa and they are accompanied by their respective veins some of which has been removed just for better clarity. These genicular arteries, they also anastomose among themselves and they also anastomose with a descending branch of the femoral artery or the genicular branch of the femoral artery and they also anastomose with a branch from the lateral circumflex femoral and they also receive a recurrent branch from below and all these eight arteries they constitute what is known as the genicular anastomosis. This genicular anastomosis provides collateral circulation in femoral, propitial occlusion. The next important point which I want to draw your attention to is this opening where my instrument is going in and I can put my finger also. This is the adductor hiatus. The adductor hiatus is an opening between the two parts of the adductor magnus, the adductor component and the hamstring component. And this adductor hiatus gives passage to the femoral artery in the femoral vein as they pass out through the adductor hiatus they become known as the propitial vein and the propitial artery. This is the place where one of the sites where the propitial artery can potentially be entrapped producing propitial artery occlusion. The next point I want to draw your attention to is as the propitial artery descends down it is situated as you can see very close to the medial head of the gastrocnemius and it can potentially be compressed by the medial head of the gastrocnemius and that constitutes a constellation of syndromes which are collectively referred to as the propitial artery entrapment syndrome PAES. And according to the love and valent classification there are six different types of propitial artery entrapment and they are all directly or indirectly related to the medial head of the gastrocnemius. Though of course there are a few other variations also. There is yet a third site of potential entrapment of the propitial artery but that is not present in this particular dissection. In dislocation of the knee joint, posterior dislocation especially, it can potentially injure the tibial nerve or any of the other structures. When there is extravestition of synovial fluid from the knee joint or from one of the bursae around the knee joint like for example the semi-membranosis bursa or the gastrocnemius bursa or even the propitial bursa then the synovial fluid can collect in this space in the propitial fossa because there is a potential large space for collection and then it forms a fluctuate swelling and that is referred to as a propitial cyst or a morant baker cyst. Rarely we can get aneurysm of the propitial artery in which case it will produce an expansile pulsation on the back of the knee. So these are some of the important clinical correlations pertaining to the propitial fossa and its contents. Before we conclude there are a few other structures I want to mention which are indirectly related to the propitial fossa. We can see this vein and this is the tributary of that vein. This vein comes on the back of the leg. It starts on the lateral aspect of the foot and it continues on the back of the leg and it comes on the superficial fascia. This is the short syphilis vein and this short syphilis vein then pierces the propitial fascia and it opens into the propitial vein. This short syphilis vein is a very useful landmark vein because we can see that it is accompanied by this nerve here and this nerve. This is the sural nerve. The sural nerve is a cutaneous nerve on the back of the leg. Sura means calf and it is formed by a branch from the tibial nerve called the medial sural cutaneous nerve and a branch from the common fibular nerve which is known as the lateral sural cutaneous nerve. So a communication from the lateral sural cutaneous nerve and the medial sural cutaneous nerve both of them unite to form the sural nerve and this sural nerve then runs down and it supplies the skin on the back of the calf. This sural nerve can be used for nerve drafting, for example an injured facial nerve during penultimate surgery and in order to identify the location of the sural nerve we use this short syphilis vein as a landmark. There are lymph nodes here which are referred to as the propitial nodes therefore if there is any infection of the back of the leg or the lateral side of the foot they all drain via the lymphatics along the short syphilis vein to the propitial nodes. While we are on the topic of the short syphilis vein and the sural nerve I would like to draw your attention to yet another though not located in the propitial fossa and that is this vein here. We can see this vein running on the medial side of the thigh and running on the posterior medial aspect of the knee. This is the long syphilis vein in this particular cadaver it is highly thrombosed and it was very brittle part of it has been ruptured. So this is the upper part of it this is the lower part of it. This long syphilis vein it runs on the medial side of the leg from the medial side of the foot it climbs up it goes 100 behind the anterior aspect of the knee and then it runs on the medial side of the thigh and it opens into the femoral vein through the syphilis opening. So this is the long syphilis vein this is used for veneer section veneer puncture and it is also used for coronary artery bypass grafting. So these are some of the other structures that we can see in relation to the propitial fossa. Thank you very much for watching. Dr. Sanjay Sanyal signing out. Mr. Kendal Kambor batch is the governor person. If you have any questions or comments please put them in the comment section below. Have a nice day.


Let's start with Tanaka. He had a great start. Well, he did and giving him three runs early was a big, big help for him. But you talk about sharp. I was really impressed with his stuff. He was all over the strike zone, did not walk a batter, used his fastball a little bit more. And I thought it was pretty ingenious the way that he and Sanchez would get ahead with the off speed stuff and then use 93 miles an hour to strike out two or three hitters along the way. That's a nice touch for Tanaka. I think that'll serve him well going forward. And Paul, it absolutely makes it easier for a pitcher when they get an early lead and Luke Voight provided that. Well, it's pretty much what's advertised. Big home runs, good pitching and a great bullpen. And that's what the Yankees showed today. They had an opportunity to really bolt race these guys today and put up big numbers. But they got enough, they got off to a good start. Enjoy Friday. Come out on Saturday and continue. Now, let's continue with the lineup, Paul, because you look at that top of the lineup after the leadoff batter and today its gardener will usually be Hicks if he's healthy. That is a tough road to hoe for a pitcher. And you can see that the patients that Stanton and Judge have, I don't know if pitchers are going to do up there. Yeah, that's the big thing. I mean, if you have a lot of power hitters that are swinging missed guys and are all over the zone, you can pitch to them. But right now, when these guys are swinging at strikes, very difficult lineup to pitch to. All right, so Tanaka pitches into the sixth inning and then turns it over to what many people believe is the strength of the Yankees. It could be the best bullpen in baseball and it doesn't even have batances right now. Audavino, what a debut. Yeah, his stuff was just flat out ridiculous. You're talking about, you know, the new phrase, we used to talk about throwing on the same plane. It's called tunneling. His pitches come in on the exact same plane and then they tunnel to the right or the left and they have ridiculous movement on them. Maybe the best slider in the game. I didn't realize his two-seam fastball moved that much. It almost moves as much as his slider. The only part with Audavino was just getting it over. When he throws strikes, he's nearly unhittable.


I want to share with you some exciting news. Here at Borisville Public Library, you can now borrow bikes for the whole family. We have two bikes for grownups, and we have two bikes for kids. They're beautiful. They were donated by the Family Bicycle Day Committee here in Borisville. And thank you to everybody who participated in their month-long activities and people who took photos of themselves. You all helped earn these bikes for us. You can borrow these bikes with your library card. If you're coming in and you're under 18, make sure you bring a parent with you so you can sign forms when you check them out. These bikes come with helmets and locks, and you'll get all three things when you check out a bike from the library.


I want to have a serious talk with you. It's time to get serious about the call of God on your life. You know that God has called you. You know that God has gifted you.  But in the meantime, what do you do while you wait for God to reveal his specific plan to you? Perhaps you feel stuck, confused, frustrated. You don't know what the next steps are, or maybe you are doing something for God right now, but you don't know how to get to the next place. Well, we're gonna talk about that. I wanna talk to you about what to do and where to begin if you're unsure of your calling. Not only are we gonna be talking about the basics of what to do and how to discover that calling and what to do while you wait, but I wanna share with you about some of the pitfalls that keep people delayed in their calling. But I want you to comment right now, and this is really a prayer that I pray often, and I want you to make it one of your life's prayers. I want you to just say this in the comment section. It's very simple, lead me, Lord. Lead me, Lord. Write that in the comment section right now. You know, we complicate things. That's what human nature does, especially when we worry and we fret and we stress over our lives and where we're going. We complicate things, and sometimes you just need to come back to simplicity. Lead me, Lord. Well, isn't that what this is about? To follow after Jesus, and after you follow after Jesus, as you walk with him along the path that is your destiny, you begin to find what God has called you to do. But you have to be following the Lord. You have to be connected to him if you are to fulfill your call. So let's begin with the first bit of wisdom I wanna give you.  Maybe you don't know what the next steps are, or maybe you are doing something for God, but you're looking to get to that next place in your calling, not for self, for the sake of the kingdom, because you know God has purposed you for more. Number one, you have to devote to the basics. Now, this right here is not as flashy as some of the keys I may be giving you here tonight. This right here, many believers will overlook because the flesh looks to be entertained. The flesh looks for activity. The flesh looks for busyness, and not all activity is necessarily wrong, but sometimes we have to come to this place of stillness. You have to come back to this place of focus where we are laying a solid foundation. This is number one, you must devote to the basics. For example, if you're not in the Word, you have no business preaching it. If you don't have a prayer life, you don't belong behind a pulpit. Now, I'm not saying that you have to walk in perfection in order to be used of God, but there must be some level of devotion in your life if you are going to begin to walk effectively in your calling. You will find your calling in him. Your calling is not something that's separate from him. It's not as though you seek God and then seek your calling. No, you find your calling in him. In him, you receive life itself. In him, you receive the strength to continue. In him, you receive revelation and power and grace, but that calling is found in him. It's not as though you say, okay, I'll follow Jesus and he will lead me to my calling. No, it's in him that you find your purpose. He is the all in all. Acts chapter four, verse 13 says, the members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John. For they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training in the scriptures. They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus. You spend time with Jesus and that time in his presence will mark your life in evident ways. You begin to spend time with the Lord and you can't help but be transformed. You realize that all ministry, all I should say this, all true ministry is simply the overflow result of your connection with Christ himself. If ministry does not begin in his presence, it's not ministry, it's not a calling, it's a career. If it doesn't begin in his presence, it's not preaching, it's just motivational speech. If it doesn't begin in his presence, it's not a church, it's a club. If it doesn't begin in his presence, it's not the miracles that begin to cause it to grow. It's the marketing that causes it to grow. We are not pursuing career. We are pursuing calling. It's much higher than a career. And so if we are to begin well, if we are to even be set on the right path to where we can fulfill the mandate that God has placed on our lives, then we must come to this place of rest in him and the flesh doesn't like that. The flesh wants to be busy. Now again, let me balance this by saying that not all activity is wrong, but you cannot produce with activity alone any true results of the spirit. Your flesh wants to rush things. Your flesh wants to hurry up and accomplish. And there's nothing wrong with accomplishment in and of itself. There's nothing wrong with growth in and of itself. In fact, the scripture is very clear that we ought to be fruitful in our ministries. But you see, the flesh will pursue those things for the sake of the results themselves and not the Lord. And this is why we have to build a solid foundation by being grounded in him. And if we don't begin with that proper foundation, then what we build is built on instability. Please hear me now. If we do not build it on the foundation of him, then what we build is built on instability. The foundation has cracks in it, pockets of air in it that make it weak, unable to hold the structure that God wants to put in place. And so we must live by the basics. Now again, as I said, this isn't necessarily as flashy as some of the other points that I'm going to make. And often people don't like to talk about these basics of spirituality because they just require seemingly mundane, everyday commitment, just living the Christian life day by day. We so often, as believers, we so often obsess over things that just don't matter. Certain doctrines, certain questions, and I'm not saying doctrine and theology is bad. Of course we need a solid biblical study. It's one of the points I'm making here that's part of the basics is knowing the word. But we obsess over things and we worry about things that just in the big picture don't matter. And this is why we must be focused on connecting with him. It begins with abiding in the vine. It begins with resting in it. If you begin from a place of busyness and stress and angst, then that's what it's going to take to sustain whatever it is that you build. But if you begin in rest in him, if you begin with confidence in his presence, if you begin with connectivity with the Lord himself, that is what produces longevity. So by laying the foundation here early on, you are setting yourself up for longevity. I don't wanna just do a quick work, a work that comes and goes rather quickly. I wanna do something that's lasting, that affects generations, that has marks in eternity, actually bears fruit that affects people's lives and their eternities. And I know that's what you want too. And maybe you're listening to me now and you're saying, oh my goodness, as you're talking, I realize there are some cracks in my foundation. There are some pockets of air if you will that got in as the cement was drying. And I just don't know what to do now. I'm telling you now, it's never too late to begin to make it right. It's never too late to begin to make it right. His mercies are new every morning. You can begin now and say, okay, maybe I have been getting off track. Maybe I have been neglecting some of the spiritual basics. And now you recognize that it's time to get back on track. Okay, so refocus. Beating yourself up over it is not gonna help you. Letting the guilt hang over your head and shaming yourself for the next few months or weeks or whatever it may be isn't going to help you. I'll tell you what's gonna help you saying, Lord, I repent and now I'm focusing. Forgetting those things which are behind, I press on. I press on, this is focus forward. And so we must be people who are recognized as having been with Jesus. That's first and foremost. People often ask me, David, what's the secret to seeing healing and deliverance and the glory of God manifesting in the meetings? What's the secret? There's no secret. When I use the word secrets, I use it to be synonymous with the word keys or points or thoughts. The Bible is quite clear on what we should be doing. I mean, first Peter 1.16, every believer ought to be living holy. Mark 16.15, every believer ought to be evangelizing. John 4.24, every believer ought to be worshiping in spirit and in truth. First Thessalonians 5.17, every believer ought to have a prayer life. Colossians 3.16, every believer, hear me now, every believer ought to know God's word. Every believer, Luke 10.27, ought to demonstrate love. Every believer ought to serve in the church. First Peter 4.10. So there are certain basic things that we should all be doing.  Don't tell me you want to move on to building the structure if you haven't even built a solid foundation. That is your relationship with Lord. You're not wasting time. You're not wasting time. You're not losing time. You may view it in a certain fleshly perspective and say, well everyone else seems to be passing me by and I'm over here just doing nothing and forget about what everyone else is doing. Let them run their own race at their own pace. I heard one preacher say, you have to run at the pace of grace. In other words, what has God called you to run? What's the pace he wants you to go? Just stick with that. Don't look to the left or to the right and say, what are they doing over there or over here? Just focus on Jesus. Nevermind the timing.  You have to begin here. Live holy, evangelize, worship, pray, know the word, demonstrate love and serve in a church. So that's number one, devote to the basics. The next bit of wisdom I want to give you here for your calling is number two, you have to detach from the world. And I am not talking about isolation and I'm not necessarily just talking about sin. I mean, I think it's rather basic to say that we as believers ought to avoid sin. In fact, we should take it a step further. Not only should you be avoiding sin, you should be avoiding temptation itself. But lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one. That's a prayer to be delivered from temptation. So we ought to avoid temptation. Jesus told us to pray that we ought to be delivered from temptation. He didn't say that we should pray Lord deliver me when I put myself in tempting situations. Avoid temptation, get as far away from it as possible. Yes, in fact, that's part of the first point I was making in devoting to the basics, live holy, okay? So that's number one, but looking at number two now, detach from the world, this is different. This is not just avoiding sin. Neither is this isolation to where you drive up to some mountain, live by yourself for nine months and don't talk to anyone. I mean, you do that and it's not necessarily healthy for your spiritual life. There's a difference between going into places of solitude for a season and living a lifestyle of isolation. Those are two very different things.  Seasons of solitude, like take a weekend or a week to go in fast and pray and be by yourself, that's very different. So we're not talking about isolation but sanctification. And I'm not just talking about detaching from sin. That's very basic. I'm talking about the next step now. Now you begin to detach from the cares of this world to where you're being craves prayer more than it craves watching a movie. Where you're being craves the word more than it craves playing a video game. Where now you crave time in his presence more than you crave time with friends and family. Now listen to me very carefully because this right here can become a point of legalism if you're not careful. And I've seen it happen in the lives of many believers to where now they look at everyone around them as contaminations of their spiritual life. And that's not how we're called to live. The scripture makes it very clear that as a New Testament believers we're called to live out our faith in community. Not that we rely upon other people for salvation but we rely upon other people for encouragement, for edification. This is what God designed. It's part of how he designed the church to function. We'll just read 1 Corinthians 12-7. That's why he gave us various different gifts to edify one another. And so our spiritual gifts, our corporate prayer lives, our receiving of the word in many aspects was designed to be carried out in corporate settings with other believers. So no, I'm not saying that you have to isolate. And again, this can become a point of legalism to where now you think that any enjoyment of anything is somehow considered sin. No. What I'm saying here is that you have to live in the place that you crave the things of the spirit more than you crave the things of the world. Is it wrong to share a meal with friends? I enjoy doing that. Going out to a dinner with friends and just talking and enjoying the time together and having a good time. Is it wrong to take a vacation with my wife and daughter? No, I enjoy that. So these things aren't necessarily evil unto themselves, but bringing yourself to the place now where you're craving the spiritual more than the natural, that's what I'm talking about. That's what I mean by detachment from the world. James 4-4 says, you adulterers don't realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God. I say it again. If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. Again, not isolation, but sanctification. Those who are caught up in the world never fulfill the call of God because they're too distracted. And before they know it, they've spent their whole lives on the couch scrolling through the social media feeds. Before they know it, they've spent their whole lives running in the race of financial pursuit, climbing the career ladders and trying to get those promotions and trying to get that education. Again, nothing wrong in and of themselves. There's nothing wrong with having an education. There's nothing wrong with having a successful career. There's nothing wrong with enjoying time with family and making sure that you're connecting with those around you. Nothing wrong with that. What I'm saying here is that we don't make those things the center of our existence. We don't make those things the entire purpose of what we're waking up in the morning for. I mean, think about, when you wake up in the morning, what's the first thing that comes into your mind? Is it the Lord? Is it connecting with him? Is it worship? Is it the deeper things of God? Or when you wake up, is the first thing you think about something of the world? That's a good test. Again, don't get legalistic about it. It's a good test, a good indicator to us. So we have to make sure that we are detaching from the world. Again, not isolation. Many times, people will disconnect from everyone. The body of Christ, they disconnect from all friends and family. You know, I am the church and I don't need to go to church and they say, I'm the remnant and I find often the people who claim to be the remnant are just the rebellious because they don't obey God's commands to connect with other believers. So that's number two, detach from the world. Number three, develop your character. Galatians 5.17 says, the sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the spirit wants. And the spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other so that you are not free to carry out your good intentions. You know that if you just yield to the things of the spirit, by the very nature of spiritual things, you become more like Christ. And in becoming more like Christ, you become one who will fulfill the call of God. Your gifts may be able to start a ministry, but only your character can sustain it. Now, I understand God is the one who sustains ministries and sure, he'll show mercy to people who maybe are struggling with certain issues and he'll give them time to get those things right, of course. But you know, when it comes to your character, who you are behind closed doors, who you are when no one is looking, think about what integrity actually is. It's not just being a certain way when no one else is looking, that's part of it as I just mentioned. But think more in terms of the integrity of a building, the integrity of a structure, something that's able to hold up under pressure, something that's able to be consistent despite the surroundings. That's what character is, consistency despite the circumstance. Character is consistency despite the circumstance. And so you know you ought to live holy, so what are the circumstances? Whether you're tempted or not, whether you're with others or whether you're alone, your character is consistent. When you make a commitment to something, whether you feel like it on that day, fulfilling that commitment or not, your character is consistent. You see, I think that there are many people, and I know that this may be hard to hear, but you need to hear this. There are many believers who are gifted spiritually, but emotionally and mentally they are immature. Emotionally and mentally they're insecure. Emotionally and mentally they're underdeveloped. And this manifests in many different ways. It manifests in ego, in competition, in slander of a fellow brother or sister in Christ. There's many different flaws that can begin to develop, even secret sin. The enemy is looking to destroy tomorrow's influence with today's private sin. That's for somebody watching right now. The enemy is looking to destroy tomorrow's public assignment with today's private sin. And these are the areas you have to begin to get right. Again, this is not just about sin, this is about the disposition that would cause you to choose righteousness or sin in the first place. I'm talking about your character, who you are. The true mark of a believer is not that they can cast out devils. The true mark of the believer is not that they can heal the sick. The true mark of the believer is not that they can prophesy. These things are wonderful, and we as believers ought to do these things. But it's not speaking in tongues. It's not preaching a great sermon. It's not singing with the anointing. No, the mark of the true believer is the character and the nature of Christ being developed in their lives. Kindness, gentleness, humility, self-control, love, joy, and peace. Where are these things in your life? How do these things hold up under circumstances? When you come under pressure, do you lose your joy?   When you come under pressure, do you lose that ability to say no to temptation? Are you inclined now to behave certain ways, develop character? Now again, these things may not be considered by many to be deep, but this is as deep as it gets. True depth is simplicity. Don't mistake complexity for depth. I think we do that with spiritual doctrine. We often mistake complexity for depth. Okay, I can map out the kingdom of hell, the ranks of demons, the ranks of angels. I can map out the throne of heaven. This is what it looks like. This is what the purpose of this thing is and that over there. And here's my chart about the end times. Here's when this event occurs, this event occurs, this event occurs, or here's my breakdown of how the spiritual gifts operate in the context of public church assembly versus the private lives of believers, right? You can have all that, that's not depth, that's complexity, that's detail, that's information. True depth is the simplicity of Christ's likeness in you. Cares about, I mean, those things are great, so I shouldn't say who cares about it, but I'm speaking in comparison, relatively speaking, who cares about those other things if your character's not fully developed? Your character can't sustain what God gives to you. And so we as believers, if we want to fulfill the call, we must develop the character of Christ. Good character is a magnet for godly purpose. I wanna say that again, please hear me. Good character, I should say Christ-like character is a magnet for godly purpose. Develop Christ-like character and your purpose will be impossible to miss. Some are so afraid of missing the call of God, not realizing that if they just develop the character of Christ in them, that it's almost impossible to miss the call of God. Please hear what I'm saying. Some believers are so terrified that they may make one mistake or miss one key moment or maybe miss one idea from heaven that will completely derail their calls. First of all, we're not that powerful to derail the purposes of God in that way.   It's nearly, I should say, it's nearly impossible to miss your calling if you've developed the character of Christ. That character nature of Christ in you is like a magnet for your purpose. It pulls you into the destiny of God. So instead of trying to manipulate the circumstances around you, instead of getting frustrated with trying to push open doors and create opportunities and develop certain connections and work overtime to meet with certain people and talk with certain people instead of asking 1,000 questions about some random doctrines of scripture, and that's good, you can study, that's fine. Those are all good things, but wait a minute, what about just developing the character of Christ? Why not just become like Jesus and in so doing, the purpose of God begins to become revealed in your life? But no, what would we rather do? We'd rather somebody prophesy over us. Here's what you're called to do specifically. And the danger of that is that we rely on someone else's revelation. And we just kind of go with it, okay, well, that's what they said, I'm gonna go, people will base their entire lives off of what some prophetic voice told them. Now, we understand that God gives his prophets, wonderful, great, they confirm a lot of things, they encourage, they exhort, that's wonderful. And of course we need the prophetic ministry. Anyone who despises prophecy, I think is misaligned with scripture. They're not doing God's work if they're attacking the prophetic ministry. But what I am saying here is that you can't rely just on that. What if the prophet missed it?  I've known of believers who receive a prophetic word. They hang everything on that, like everything.  They come back and they say, well, I guess it didn't work. I don't know what went wrong. God spoke, we obeyed, what could have possibly gone wrong? I have to be the one to say, well, are you sure that was God? Did God really speak that to the prophetic voice? How do you know? You look at the word. You know in your own spirit. There's often this confirmation. Now, getting into the details of how to know a prophetic word that's of God from a man made one, that's a whole different message for a whole different time. The point I'm simply making here is that you have to develop the character of Christ in you because you cannot rely on exterior circumstances to help point you to the right place. You can kick down doors of opportunity, you can make connections, you can use marketing, you can use strategy, that's all great. And even if by forcing your way in, you are able to gain some traction, if you don't develop the character that's necessary, it won't last. Can I tell you, nobody is in more danger than the one who was raised too quickly. I've seen it too many times, once would be too many and it's broken my heart every single time, where somebody will be elevated too quickly and people say, well, that's God, sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't. And they're promoted so quickly and then they just fizzle out. The character doesn't sustain what that promotion brought. So develop your character. Number four, dedicate to service. Do something in the meantime. Matthew 23, 11 to 12 says, the greatest among you must be a servant, but those who exalt themselves will be humbled and those who humble themselves will be exalted. This generation doesn't want to serve. And I say that, I speak of the generation generically. Of course there are many exceptions to that rule and I would actually say that most generations don't understand service, at least not any recent modern times. People don't understand what service actually is. I'll say this, if you cannot serve where you are and you're not willing to do something for God right here, right now, because you're waiting for a great promotion, you're waiting for some great thing to come your way, then you have to begin to look at your motives. Because it's in the season of serving that motives are revealed. I'm heartbroken and I wanna be very careful with the way I say this because my goal here is to encourage you, not to discourage. I'll give you an example. What I've noticed lately, and this is an analogy, so it's not necessarily a spiritual analogy, but it's something I've just noticed in society. I've noticed this trend of the workforce, people who work in retail, people who work at restaurants, people who work at the market, the workforce complaining about customers wanting to be served. And it's almost like this trend online, like I don't get paid enough or who are you to ask that of me? And it's this very defensive, egocentric way of looking at it. And before I was in ministry, I worked for a catering company. Some of you didn't know that. I did a lot of videography. There was a lot of odd jobs I had before I was finally able to sustain myself through the preaching of the gospel. And so in that season, I learned you do your best and the way I respond to difficult people says more about my character than it does about theirs. So you get all these complaints of these restaurants. This is something I was talking to Steve about the other day. And again, I'm going somewhere with this.  You go to a restaurant and the restaurant says it closes at nine o'clock and you get there at 8.30. Oh my goodness, that staff acts like, and they'll go post tick talks about it. These people walked in late and they had a big party and they wanted to be served and they wanted their food cooked right. I'm thinking, yeah, that's what you do. You work at a restaurant.  You're supposed to serve them. Yeah, they have expectations. That's what they should have as customers. And I'm thinking if I ran a restaurant, if I said we close at nine, we're taking customers till nine. I said, if you want to, if I would tell my staff, if you actually want to leave at nine, let's say we close at eight. So this idea of this grunt told workforce, well, I don't get paid enough or I told my boss off and everyone just applauds them. Oh, good job. I'm sure there are some situations where that's necessary. I'm sure that there are some situations where you have difficult work environments or really mean people. I'm not talking about that. But generally speaking, that's the idea in this culture where how dare you ask me to do my job? The problem is that attitude is in the church. That attitude is crept in. And that's just a sign of rebellion. That's a sign of pride. That's a sign of laziness. That's all that is. And it's crept into the church now to where people don't want to serve. You know, I have a prophetic gift. Well, you have such a strong prophetic gift, you don't have to announce it. I have the gift of discernment. If you have a gift of discernment, you don't have to announce it. And then you get these rogue prophets coming into churches. They gather a little group of people unto themselves. They say things like, well, your pastor's not as powerful as me. Your pastor doesn't preach on the prophetic like me. Your pastor doesn't talk about deliverance like me. Your pastor doesn't do this. Your pastor doesn't do merit. And people just attack, attack, attack, attack. Why? Because they're not respecting the order that God has placed in the church. And they want to bypass the process. They want to bypass the service and they want to go right to the platform. Listen, we're in ministry not for status, but for service. Which leads me to point number five. You have to deny your ego. You guard against ego. Competition, the love of fame. Goodness, people of God, preachers are servants not celebrities. Preachers are servants not celebrities. We don't go into ministry to be celebrated. We don't go into ministry to be looked at as important. We don't go into ministry so that others can say, look how spiritual they are. This is a warped view of what God intended. Ministry is service is what it means. It means to serve, to minister. You're serving others. They're important to God. They're God's sheep. And when you see, when I look out at those crowds that come to the services that we do around the world, and I see their faces, I know that I've been given a heavy responsibility from heaven and that those people were put there not so I can stand up there and go look at how wonderful I am, but so that I could minister God's power to them because they need it. Because they need breakthrough. They need healing. They need deliverance. They need the word. And we as servants of God, we minister that. And I'm not just talking about pulpit ministry. This can apply to any ministry where there can be competition, where there can be self-centeredness. And we have to move beyond that. Matthew 16, 24 says, then Jesus said to his disciples, if any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross and follow me. And there's so much ego in the ministry today. You don't know how many times I've seen it. And even in myself, look, I'm not saying I'm perfect. I have to keep that in check in myself too. And I have to watch it daily and say, Holy Spirit, help me. Jesus, I'm clinging to you. Lord, I don't want to go down that path. And I asked the Holy Spirit to remind me every day, remind me Holy Spirit that you could just as easily raise another. You could just with just on a whim, you could take some atheists from off of the street, touch his life and bring them in and do 10 times more than you're doing with my life right now. Lord, you could raise these rocks will cry out, so to speak. And we have to keep that in proper perspective. He is God with us. What a privilege it is to serve Jesus. And I see these expressions of ego.  And so often it's about self. And you can see this in exaggerations. You can see this in the way others can brag. Not only that, you'll see it sometimes where we bring people in our circles and we all brag about each other and it's all ego. And we have to, as the church, be very careful with that. You as a servant of Christ have to be very careful because the flesh is sneaky. The flesh will creep up on you if you're not watching, if you're not subjecting that flesh. It will happen. It can happen to anyone. So we must deny ego, deny self. Number six, discover your mentors. Hebrews 13, 17 says, obey your spiritual leaders and do what they say. Their work is to watch over your souls and they are accountable to God. Give them reason to do this with joy and not with sorrow. That would certainly not be for your benefit. God has given to us spiritual leaders. Now spiritual leaders are called to guide, not to govern. Every believer needs these three things. They need discipleship, they need friendship, and they need mentorship. Discipleship, that's when I'm pouring into others who are coming after me in the faith. Friendship, that's somebody by your side who you can encourage them, they can encourage you. You can rebuke them, they can rebuke you.  And then all of us also need mentors, mentorship. People who've gone before us in the faith, we've got to get, and this comes back to the ego, by the way, because you can't find your mentors if you're filled with ego. I've been at tables with generals in the faith. When I'm with generals in the faith, I'm quiet unless I'm asking questions. Now I know some people may not like that. They may say, well, who are they and we're all equal. No, that's pride, that's pride, that's pride. And I'm not saying these generals of the faith are demanding that, but it's ego if you have an issue with that as a younger minister. Why? Because you have an opportunity there to learn. Sure, you can say things and a gracious person who is a general in the faith will probably listen to you and oh, that's wonderful, that's good. You know, they're trying to be encouraging to you. But you miss those opportunities because you think you know it all. You miss those opportunities because you think you're on a level playing field. And people of God, there are levels to the anointing, whether we like it or not. There are levels to ministry, whether we like it or not. There are levels to influence, whether we like it or not. There are levels to gifting. There are levels of spiritual authority in the kingdom of God, whether we like it or not. And this comes back to ego. And if we're not willing to acknowledge that, we'll never receive from those who've gone before us. So when I sit at a table with generals, I become a childlike. I'm listening. I'm asking questions. It's even better when I sit at the table with two generals. Then I just sit and just listen to them talk. And you know, they're gracious. They're kind of every so often. What do you think? What are your thoughts? And I just put it right back on them. You know, here's my thoughts, but what are your thoughts? I wanna hear what you have to say. And I think that that's a good posture to have. You gotta find your mentors. You gotta find people from which you'll receive this idea that, you know, well, we all have the anointing. We all have the Holy Spirit. Yes, that's true, but it's also true that we can learn from others. It's also true that there's great value in asking questions from those, of those I should say, who've gone before us. So discover your mentors. Who are they? And usually you'll be drawn to mentors who are fulfilling a similar call of God that you have. In other words, if you're called to the healing ministry, you're gonna be drawn to people who are in the healing ministry. If you sense a call of God to teach on the Holy Spirit, you're gonna be drawn to people who teach on the Holy Spirit and so forth.  So number one, devote to the basics. Number two, detach from the world. Number three, develop your character. Number four, dedicate to service. Number five, deny your ego. Number six, discover your mentors. By the way, if you were offended when I said that there are levels to the anointing, that's an ego problem. If you are offended when I say that there are levels to spiritual authority, that's an ego problem. You know why? You don't like the idea that someone else has more than you. You don't like the idea that you can learn from someone else, that you can benefit from being guided spiritually. And this is just Bible. That's what the Bible says. So number seven, determine your message. Romans 12, four through six says, just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ's body. We are many bodies, we are many parts of one body, excuse me, and we all belong to each other. In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. So here the scripture is talking about the fact that we've all been given areas of grace. We've all been given certain giftings that will help us to fulfill certain purposes within the kingdom of God. Now, let me be clear. Every single believer is called to preach the gospel, that is to declare the message of salvation through Christ by putting our faith in him. That's, of course, every believer ought to evangelize in that sense. But as you'll find with ministry, there are certain areas of grace that God will give the different individuals. For example, some have been given a grace to work with orphans. Now we should all support ministries that work with the poor and orphans in the widow and so forth. But you'll find that some just are drawn to that work. They're graced to work with the orphans. Others for the widow. Others are drawn to working with the homeless. Others are drawn to preaching a ministry or a message of healing. Others are drawn to emphasizing the ministry of deliverance. Others are drawn to encouragement. Others are drawn to teach on the end times. Others are drawn. And we have all these different areas of graces. Now we as the body have to celebrate these because there's this thing called a what aboutism. You'll see it on social media. So for example, if I write something like, there's joy and peace in the presence of the Holy Spirit. Simple phrase, it's absolutely true. You look at the comment section, someone will say, yes, brother David, but don't forget there's also conviction. It's like, well, yes, there's also conviction. There's also 10,000 other things we could mention. But this is what this post is about. Or you'll say something like, we as the body of Christ have to stop making excuses and we should attend a local church. That's a true statement in and of itself. The comment section always never fails. Yes, but brother David, sometimes there are pastors who are abusive and people have to get moving from that church. Well, of course that's called what aboutism.  There are always a thousand other things you could talk about. You mentioned one thing, people will point out a hundred things you didn't mention. And that's why sometimes I have to clarify, well, yes, that's true, but this is what the post is about. This is the specific point that was being made. And we do that not just with social media posts. I'm just using that as an example. We do that with ministries. All he ever does is encourage. All he ever does is talk about how God's gonna help you and how you can make it. The Bible says if a man's gift is to encourage, let him encourage. Well, all he ever talks about is hell, fire, and brimstone. All he ever talks about is the judgment of God. What does not the scripture also say to warn the wicked? Well, all that preacher ever talks about is healing or that preacher just talks about the Holy spirit or that preacher just talks about deliverance or that preacher just talks about miracles or that preacher just talks about prophecy. Okay, we understand that in the larger sense every single believer is called to preach the gospel message and we all should be fulfilling that responsibility. But that doesn't mean that we can't focus on our areas of grace, why? Because collectively, together the body of Christ ministers everything. Think about it. When someone stands before God and they've rejected the gospel, the Lord will be able to look at them and say, I sent the encouragers, I sent the hellfire and brimstone preachers, I sent the prophets, I sent the evangelists, I sent the deliverance ministers, I sent the teachers, I sent the pastors and God's gonna be able to say, I gave you many opportunities. All the while, we're busy. Well, you don't emphasize what I emphasize. Are you're forgetting this? Are you're forgetting that? Are you didn't talk enough about this? Like I have this grace to teach on the Holy spirit and leave people into encounters with the person of the Holy spirit. It's one of the great joys of my life in ministry. You know, I get more often than anything else. You talk too much about the Holy spirit. Why aren't you talking about Jesus? I'm saying, well, the Holy spirit points to Jesus. And so by talking, well, doesn't the Bible teach on the Holy spirit? That's the area I'm grace to teach in. Of course, we should teach the whole counsel of God, but you'll find more often than not, I'm talking about the Holy spirit. The same way God's given you an area of focus. You gotta determine that message. Where has God called you? Think of Paul. He was a messenger to the Gentiles. Nehemiah, what was his purpose? He was there to rebuild the walls. Moses, what was this about? With Moses, it was the Old Covenant. I think of Oral Roberts. What was his message? Healing, Catherine Coleman, the Holy spirit, a Smith Wigglesworth, faith, EM Bounds, prayer. So there are graces that God gives to each and every one of us. So myself, I'm an evangelist with a healing and teaching gift who teaches often on the Holy spirit. And by being laser focused on that, we've been able to see a lot of fruitfulness. Why? Because I know what I'm called to do. I stay on target. I focus on what God has given me to focus on. Of course, I win the loss by preaching salvation messages as we all should be doing. But in addition to that, what God has given me for the body are teachings on the Holy spirit, teachings on prayer, teachings on spiritual warfare. These are the areas of grace. So you gotta find yours. You have to find your area of grace. And again, this is not just for preachers and teachers because many of us will not be in pulpit ministry. The question is, what is your area of grace? What is that area of passion? And this is where you might be saying, well, that's what I'm watching this video for. I wanna find out. Well, you do everything I just told you to do and that will become clear. So you devote to the basics. You detach from the world, develop your character, dedicate to service, deny your ego, that's huge. Discover your mentors and determine your message. You shape all those things. It's gonna be impossible to miss your calling if you develop in all those areas. So instead of trying to focus on, well, God just give me a word, tell me specifically what I'm supposed to do because that's what many people want. And honestly, it's lazy. I'm just giving it to you straight. It's lazy. It's spiritual laziness. God, just have someone come and tell me.  I know that's not the easy way out. I know that's difficult. I know that's frustrating, but you do it any other way. You're taking a shortcut. Any other way you're taking a shortcut, generally speaking, and you'll find yourself in a lot of trouble. Those are dangers there. Dangers if you're not developing first what needs to be developed. Devote to the basics, detach from the world, develop your character, dedicate the service, deny your ego, discover your mentors, and determine your message. Father, I thank you that you are guiding that one receiving this now. And I pray, precious Holy Spirit, that you would give them the grace to develop an everything that was discussed right now. And I ask you to meet them right where they are. Encourage and uplift them, inspire them. Step into the fulfillment of that calling. Jesus, we honor you. May we count the cost. May we count the cost, and may we please you. Jesus, we pour out our lives before you as an offering. And our hearts cries that you would spend us for your glory. Spend us for your glory, we pray. In Jesus mighty name. Lord, deliver your people, break every bondage by praying in the name of Jesus. Every addiction, we break it now. Every bondage, be broken in Jesus name. Every demonic attack, we rebuke it now. Heal your people. Your healing virtue flow. And sense them, let them sense that healing virtue, touching them in the mighty name of Jesus. I want you to say it because you believe it. Say, amen. If you enjoyed this message, don't forget to leave a like. It helps to spread the message even further. And also make sure you subscribe to my channel. 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And he'll lead many of you to become monthly partners. He'll lead many of you to give single gifts. He may lead many of you to do both. But whatever he does, I'm asking you to just obey. You know, something I've learned. What you make happen for others, God will cause others to make happen for you. And I truly believe that as you begin to give selflessly for the purpose of the gospel, for the purpose of souls, that God will begin to take note of that and even raise others to help you. We say, Lord, send someone to help me. And we want people to support our vision. We want people to help what we're doing. But then when someone says, hey, help this ministry, sometimes we hesitate not realizing it's all connected. We're all the body. And this was a tough lesson for me. I had to learn that, that I need to be generous. I need to step out in faith. I need to do for others what I wish they would do for me. And as I've done that, I've seen God prosper the ministry as I've taken steps of faith. So I'm challenging you now.   Go to davidhernanisministries.com slash partner to become a monthly supporter. Think of all those things that we support on a monthly basis. Gym membership, streaming services, food packages, you name it, there's a streaming service, there's a monthly fee for everything these days. Why not also support this ministry? Simple vision. We preach the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit through events and media. And we're asking your help with funding it. The gospel is free and we give it away for free. But the means to deliver this message on a mass scale, that's what takes resources. So I'm asking you to do that now. There's no gift so small that it doesn't count and no gift so large that we wouldn't know what to do with it. So today, help this ministry which is experiencing explosive growth, great expansion, great favor, God's hand is on this ministry. 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Hi everybody, Joe for jazzpiececasebreaks.com. Happy Monday, coming at you with a quick little prism baseball cello pack break, random team number 17. The last filler, the only filler we had to do to unlock that second half of flawless baseball. I think there's still a few full spots left and that'll get us into Brakesville very shortly. That'll be in a different video. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. Appreciate it. There are the teams right here. And let's roll it, randomize it. Six out of six, 12 times for names and teams. Second dice roll, different dice roll for the giveaway part. This is just for the pack break. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, and 12th and final time. 12 times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six. Five, six, nice, Mookie Betts. Little bloop single, 10, 11, and once more, 12th and final time. Dodgers are down to the Pirate Spire 1-0 in the 7th. All right, so here's the first half of the list right over here. There's the second half of the list right over there. Let's just print and rip. No trade windows in these filler packs. Now that bloop single by Mookie Betts extends his hitting streak and exit Velo, less than 60 miles per hour, 57 and a half miles per hour. All right, so here is the official list, hot off the presses on a Monday. Thanks everybody for getting in on it. I think too crazy there. Let's see what's in the red, white, and blues. Ooh, a little stained glass action, Mike Trout. I'll take it. That's pretty nice. Red, white, and blue parallel stained glass. That's for the angels, Ed, with the angels. They got a Ryan Mount Castle rookie card. It's not a bad break here. We got Michael L. with the O's. Sometimes there could be some surprises in these filler packs. All right, nice. All right, now, another 10 hits are the people they're gonna get into Flawless. So let's gather everybody's names again. Second and final dice roll. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. One and a six, lucky seven times. Top 10 after seven, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, and seventh and final time after seven. So it's only the top 10. So sorry, Austin, from 11 on down to 30, sad times. But I appreciate everybody giving this a shot. Happy times though for the top 10. Because you're in the Flawless break. Danny is happy. So it's David, Ryan, David O, Austin, Austin, you made it, Kevin, Elliot, Ed, Danny, and Jared. So congrats to the top 10. We got a rope thumbnail here. Top 10 right here after seven. You are in that Flawless break, which will hopefully be coming up soon. Jasperyskatesprakes.com, bye-bye.


What I wanted to show you today on the CircuitPython Parsec is how you can compare two different lists to each other. So this is really slick in CircuitPython. You can take one list and another list that are filled with values and simply ask, does this list have the same contents as this other list? You don't have to iterate through them or anything. You can just simply ask the question. And if those lists are the same, you can do something such as send a message, play a sound, unlock a lock. And in fact, the example that I'm using here is kind of like a combination lock or something you might find in an escape room. I have a couple of lists here. One is called Combo, like a combination lock. And you can see its current values are 4201. And then I have a second list that is called Dial. And the Dial is currently set at 0000. But I'm going to be updating the values in Dial as I change these knobs here and Dial in new numbers on my display. What you can see here is I have a little bit of code in my main loop that says, if the first list Dial is equal to the second list here, Combo, then we're going to go ahead and pause for a moment and then display the word open or do whatever other thing you want to do. So I'll do that right now. I'll go ahead and you can see each time I am changing a value here, it's going to run that check and see does this one list equal the other list. So 4201, boom, it says open. So that is really slick, really easy to do. All you have to do is say, does this list equal this other list? And CircuitPython takes care of all the rest. And so that is how you can do list comparison inside of CircuitPython. And that is your CircuitPython parsec.


Gallatin, Tennessee, the town square, it's the home of Swainy Swifts on the square. Titan's Great Blame Bishop. But the Cookie Monster. All right, we're here. The Hitman is here for the Cookie Monster. Twelve burgers, we're not going to have them all, but we're going to try one, and the Cookie Monster is the favorite dessert. Welcome to Swainy Swifts, welcome to Gallatin, Tennessee. Swainy Swifts is a pharmacy in the 50s, restaurants have been here about seven years, and we've longed it for a really long time, and my life works out with me every day. The history of the square in Tennessee is a big beat. It really is, yeah. Actually, all the way back to the 1800s, the 1990s, and there's all the citrus openings on this strip, and the picture that's on the wall at the top is from the 50s. Yeah, I see it. We're sitting in a red part of it right now. This is the red building, and that will be the white one on the other side. That one time of the street stuff is here. When I travel in Tennessee, I always try to find the squares because I know there's always going to be a good place to eat. Or you can find something that's been created like Swainy Swifts has that's now special to the community. The food's always good. Oh yeah, get that, right there. That's a patty melt right there, ladies and gentlemen. We got the patty melt. That is a patty melt. The Hitman on the Santana. I got to smash it down to see if I can, you know, take a bite. Do this like you used to do the receivers for the Colts. Oh, I don't know. This is the Cookie Monster at Swainy Swifts in Gallatin, Tennessee, and this is the Hitman Blaine Fisham. And I'm about to hit this. And he's about to hit it hard. The Cookie Monster. The Cookie Monster. The Cookie Monster is about to go down. It's a game-worn tights helmet. We hope you'll put it somewhere cool in here.


Big pressure D for Lynn. Yeah, tell me about it. Yeah, she's been working so hard to get to the stage now where this is the big day. I can't believe it's come here already.  She started out a bit difficult. Then once she got started it was fine. She's been getting up at six in the morning, going down to the gym. She's got a new lease alive and she's just loving it. I think there's a little bit of hero worship goes on. She was so desperate to do you proud. Well, I'm so proud of her already. She's done amazing. She works really hard in everything she does and she's committed to this so well and so strongly. This is not the end of it. Yeah. She wants to do more. And I think give it another like, I don't know, four or five weeks she'll be there. So she's not reached a final goal quite yet, but she's grafted. She's got her head down and we think she's going to look incredible. Oh, she will. Absolutely, yeah. I know she will. Ten weeks ago Lydia was unrecognizable from her former skinny self. I used to be sick then. An injury left her avoiding sport and finding food. God, I died. It's terrible. After her slippery start, she found her feet. It's really, really amazing. Just getting back into my old sports that I used to always play. And galloped her way to the finish line. It's been so, so fun. But has she done enough to step out of her brother's shadow and into the sun? I wonder how she's been around then. She'll be separate into it about the whole thing, won't she? The moment's nearly here. I can't wait to see how she looks. Feels like I'm yesterday that it all started. I'm so nervous. Jack and Will love Lydia so much. However she walks out that scene, they're going to be happy. And I just hope she's done enough for herself.  No way. Wow. Look at that smile on Lydia's face. The confidence, the glow, the accessories. Strong game, girl. Lydia, I can't get over you. Look, amazing. It's all paid off. I definitely got the reactions I was hoping for, especially with my brother as well. I could tell he was really proud of me. And that was really amazing. That smile, look at that. I'm not seeing that in ages. You can see Lydia being more of herself again. She's got that smile back. She's got the spark back in her heart. It's amazing. So good to see you.  Do you feel good? Yeah. Such a bitchy boobie. I know. I'm loving the waist. I'm loving the gauze. I'm loving the gorgeous bitchy hair. You've slayed this, lids. Come on, girl. How has this changed your life? I just think my confidence improved so much. It's been amazing. And I love being just new and improved now. You all do back, right? Exactly. Through this process, it's been really, really tough for me. But then I started to love it. I'm really, really proud of myself. And I'm just going to keep on going. Are you going to stick at it? Yes. I definitely am. I want to lose a little bit more. For me, I think you're beautiful. But whatever makes you feel confident and comfortable, babe. Over the last 10 weeks, I've watched Lydia turn from a sweet, shy girl with so much to give just bubbling under the surface into this beautiful angelic boho babe that I see standing before us today. And that smile. I don't know what would wipe it off my face. Oh, guys. Come on. Give her a cuddle. Give her a cuddle.  Yeah, maybe. Be so proud of you. Be so proud of you. Be so proud of you. I think we'll leave them to it as well.


So this is part of a longer thing, and thank you for listening to it. I grew up near the river. In June 2005, a little boy went to the edge and stuck his legs in. The next morning, his body was found, pounced the ankles, a piece of spit bamboo, pushed up to his rectum to his lips. I don't know his name, I don't remember the date, and I can't find the article. I only remember the police and the ambulance blocking the view from my house.  Sometimes I would watch him do this, and I knew from watching him that the water would build to a pressure and then burst slowly, a trickle of white froth against brown skin. The woman who raised me was named Gloria. She was my second babysitter. My first babysitter died from a thunderstorm and said my mother pneumonia when I was two. Gloria came into my life after her retirement, sweeping one square foot of floor in front of the television for eight hours, watching the bold and beautiful while I waited for my mother to come home from work and later my father. Gloria had no eyebrows. A remainder, she said, from when she was in high school and shaved them off on a bed. Gloria and I read the same books. Sweet Valley High, Nancy Drew, Enid Blyton. Gloria was in and out of court when I was growing up.  We would read next to each other in my father's study, a room which was supposed to be an office but eventually became the room where he slept without my mother for most of my life. He, Gloria's son and I read to each other. He was maybe 16. I was maybe six. I was very bright. I don't remember much of him either except that he had sad eyes and he was very good at mind sweeper. I grew up near the madhouse. In Trinidad there was a single mental hospital and people once dropped there would roam the streets and cloud the front gates. The church was up the street from my house, past the madhouse and next to the river.  They would never go uphill, only downhill, in circles and I was safe as long as I didn't go towards them. Didn't go past the turn in the road, never went onto the main road. When I was 12, a woman was crushed by a passing truck in front of the madhouse. I creamed my neck and I saw her skull.  I think I must have thought that if I stayed away from life everything would be fine. I used to go to the river sometimes to walk when I was younger and tired of church. I got kicked out of first communion class for singing rudely. I wish I remember what I had sung. I would go for a walk up the hill and down near the river. The last time I went to the river, the very last time, I was sitting on the rocks writing and a man came over and sat next to me. He followed me home, but I ran. Later there was a security guard paid for by the neighborhood association and I walked next to the river talking to a friend, a male friend with skinny twisted hips that I didn't know I was in love with at the time. I screamed loudly on the phone at this place where this boy had just died when I saw men going into the river through bamboo with bags and bags. I screamed, I was joking, I was telling him that I was brave over the phone. Minutes later a truck came down the hill, a young man with a pointed beard and worried eyes. Are you okay? he said and I kept walking, nodded, said I was fine and giggled. Two weeks later that guard was robbed. I think now I couldn't possibly have been that lucky. I keep missing disaster. My best friend in the blue house across the street from mine lives with her family in the middle of the night. Her father is alone in the house in the morning. Hi uncle, I say as he passes down the road. There are whispers that he beat them. I'm not supposed to know. When I am 16, my friend Stampton, my only gay friend, one of my only friend who remains still my friend, asked me if I had ever been robbed, hurt, beaten, held at gunpoint.  My mother planted bay leaves at the entrance of our house, black sage, a tree for each child, a cycling wall of compost and prayers, a menstrual blood thrown into the leaves. Our house had flimsy locks. My father kept a machete next to his bed, showed us where the hammer was. The world was held at a fine balance. Every time I would misbehave, I would get a small warning but otherwise fine.  Miss a class, you might get pregnant. Get a bee, you'll have to stay here. A few weeks ago, a young woman named Shannon Banfield was murdered in Trindad.  She is light brown skinned, she has very well formed curls. She works at a jewelry store and she lived with her parents. She was in her late 20s. Her parents dropped her to work in the morning and picked her up in the evening. One day, I imagine, she said don't worry, I'll just take a taxi home. She didn't come home. The next day, her body was found in the jewelry warehouse in pieces. It is partly that her death was so improbable that it is being remarked on. She did everything correct. She's a light skinned, middle class woman with no boyfriend, kidnapped and killed in broad daylight, wearing her work uniform to go and buy soap. I read this, scrolling through my Facebook feed in San Francisco, feeling resignation, horror, sadness, gratitude and guilt. Guilt. I was 16. Stanton never went outside.  We used to lie in his bed and talk about Ut. He would download whole books on BitTorrent. Ut. his criticism and history and index on post-colonial writing. He said that our friend D was a coolly who would never leave Trinidad. Ten years later, Stanton and I are away and Jamir comes to visit me at my grandmother's house over Christmas. She has lights around a poinsettia bush and he comes over and she looks through the window.  And she says, who is this? You have a boyfriend and I say no and love. And she loves. And she says, there's rum and ice in the cupboard. D is now a teacher at Digomont in junior secondary school. We went to schools across from each other and childhood. The convent and the college separated by one street. There was a rumor that everyone believed that the two schools, the boys' school and the girls' school were connected by a tunnel underneath the chapels and that tunnel was closed when some girl got pregnant but you could still go find it by rummaging around the altar underneath the crypt. In 1836, St. Joseph's convent was founded as a school for white girls for an emerging merchant class post-emancipation. White girls, as they're called today, include Chinese immigrants, Syrians, maybe light-skinned blacks, half-scots, anyone who was trying to escape one thing for a small island but wasn't quite black. There are few truly white people, as they are known here. It wasn't to me any of those until I got to the U.S. In junior secondary school were places where we, the boys and girls of the convent and the monastery, never went near and never knew anyone from.  They existed on a shift system. A group and B group. A group came for four hours in the morning, B group for four hours in the afternoon. The other four hours were for vocational development or work study, but that was purely up to the students and their families to coordinate. D was working at a school like this, a shift school, and he told me that it was the first time in his life that he was only himself. He wasn't the darkest one in the white boy's school or Muslim one. Yes, he was the son of a father with many other children growing up in a compound. He was a sibling of many people who hadn't seen a map of the Caribbean, not even the U.S. or England. Yes, all of these things, but not special or an anomaly because of it, just himself. Twelve years later, that is, this year, he has been denied a visa to Canada. He had been saving up to study music since we all first went away. And even with all of the money requirements met, the degree program, a Canadian sister, a steady job, he has denied three times. No link to the country, the immigration office says. I am still scared of immigration. I'm frightened all the time. I have to go to Trinidad in a week to get my passport renewed and I'm terrified. I have never crossed the border to Mexico, even though most of the year I live in San Diego. But the first time I went to get a student visa, I have to remember that the U.S. ambassador came out of the office himself to congratulate me because I was going to his alma mater. And he expedited my visas and he invited my family to apply for ten-year tourist visas, even my baby siblings, so they could visit me at graduation. My family didn't actually visit me, but I'll explain that too. I want to tell Dee that I'm sorry, but we both know it's passed that. It's passed me feeling any sort of guilt, it just is. When we were younger, he would say, all you girls only like white boys, no one likes me. And I was disgusted by his self-pity, but I would always say, I don't like them, and he would say, of course not you. And then I'd get huffy about that too. I felt guilty for most of my life about having things. Demir tells me his girlfriend has just broken up with him. Like me, like others, is a light-skinned mixed girl from a family of educators. And she broke up with him in order to attend a PhD program. I'm not a person who is breaking any odds. I'm not writing this because I'm special. I'm just representative. My mother is the lightest of her siblings. My father is the lightest of his. My father one day showed me proudly the drawn-out family tree and pencil. My grandfather bearing the title of Free Mulatto, a little boy with no name found on the steps of a church in Bridgetown, Barbados. The name, a God, the name of his master's family. After emancipation, he took his apprenticeship under a shoemaker, came to Trinidad from Barbados, had a son who was a civil servant, a postman, who had a son who was a professor, my father, who had me. And you, my father says, you're not a son at all. I know I cannot possibly live up to what is being asked of me. And still, most of the time, I'm glad I am even being asked. Thank you.