The life of the believer is to be distinctly marked with the miraculous and that includes you I believe that God wants to use your life to bring about miraculous results in the lives of others and today I'm gonna be going over five very practical keys for being used in the miraculous So the title of this message today is how to minister miracles. Hello. I'm David D. Hernandez and you are watching Spirit Church We're gonna go right now with Steven Mock to zoom and he's gonna lead you in some worship and they're gonna come Right back and get into this lesson where we're going to give you some applicable truths for your everyday life that will result in you Seeing miracles all around I believe that God wants to use your life to bring about miraculous results in the lives of others Now I know I said that at the top of the program But I really want to emphasize that to you today and we're gonna go through the scripture And we're gonna look at five practical keys that you can enact in your everyday life that will bring about miraculous results I believe God wants to use you in healing God wants to use you in the prophetic God wants to use you to cast out devils God wants to use you to bring financial breakthrough I mean there are so many miracles that God wants to do through your life And I believe that if you'll just position yourself as the word of God would teach us to do To be in a place of obedience toward God that miracles will follow you every single place that you go and I truly believe that the life of the believer at least of the average believer if I could use that word is To be filled with the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit and God wants to bless you with that type of anointing And he's in fact he's already given you that type of anointing and maybe in your heart you're saying Lord I want to be used in that way I want to be used to see other people get breakthrough and you don't want it so that you can glorify yourself You don't want it so that men can praise you but you want the power of God on your life So that as you preach the gospel as you minister to people that you can see the chains being broken off of their lives I really do believe that this season We're now entering is going to be the greatest season the church world has ever known and God wants you to be a part of it I truly believe that there's this shift that's taking place spiritually and we're about to enter a New season of the church. I believe that an outpouring of the Holy Spirit is coming to America such as we've never seen before now Say what you will about the political climate say what you will about the economic status of this world Say what you will about all of our standings in every other place of life But I believe with all of my heart that Jesus Christ will re reap he'll reap the reward of his suffering He's going to receive all for which he died and because he died for those who are in America It tells me that God is not done with America yet And you are that righteous in the land that preserves this nation and I truly believe with all my heart In fact, I believe that the scripture even tells us that God's will shall be done in this nation in our time So I want to talk to you about how to minister miracles. So number one the first key to Seeing miracles all around you the first key to stepping out on the power of God and seeing these things take place is number one Preach the gospel now, I remember I was in I believe it was in Sonata or TJ Mexico for a Three-night miracle service and it was a powerful service. We we actually before we arrived at the event We had done some advertising on television in Spanish, which was pretty cool that was the first time I think we'd done that and We had let people know from all over the region all over the churches had come and the power of God was moving in these meetings And there was one lady who came to the service and she had been praying for her husband to give his heart to the Lord And I don't know about you But I've have my prayer list of people that I've been praying for but this woman had been praying for her husband for years And if you've ever been in that situation where you're praying for a loved one to come to Christ And you know that at times it can become discouraging Especially when you see them hardening their hearts are becoming more and more stubborn or even becoming Irritated with you preaching the gospel to them And so I can only imagine what this woman felt in that her spouse was rejecting the very Lord whom she loved and served And she prayed for him. She preached to him. She served him. She loved him She did all that she could to make sure that this man came to Christ and she had told me that her heart was hard In fact, I believe it was alcoholism that had bound his life It was a it was a spirit of alcoholism and when I say that I mean it's a demonic spirit That influences alcohol in somebody's life even though man makes his own decision. That's a whole different topic, but She had been praying for him and so he came to this meeting and at first from what I understood This man was very skeptical of everything that was going on. He was very skeptical of the pastor He was very skeptical of me. He was very skeptical of the people I mean this was this man was as skeptical as a man can get and so he's sitting in the service I guess at the persuasion of his wife He had been convinced to come to the service and so he's there her prayers now I believe had at that point Cultivated his heart to receive the gospel I believe that this was the climax that God everything that she had prayed had led up to this moment And I was happy to just be a part of it So anyway, the service happened the the the worship team played and as usual many of you have been to our services The presence of the Holy Spirit just showed up in a tangible and a beautiful and a glorious way It was one of those services where you felt like just a cloud of glory was resting on that building and it really did fill that way I mean the atmosphere so filled that building that people began to tremble people begin to shake some people said they felt What seemed to be? Jolts of electricity surging up and down there being people were being healed to my left to my right people were being Being healed outside of the building who were not even inside of the service And we were just experiencing a wonderful move of the Holy Spirit. So this man He's watching all of that is happening and the way I had organized the service is I first I prayed for the sick and then after I prayed for the sick I presented the gospel so we started with the miraculous we showed people this is what Jesus does Then I pulled out the word and began to declare the gospel truth the gospel message as it had been presented by the early church fathers the apostles And God anointed that word and this little boy had come up to receive prayer And this little boy everyone kind of gasped when they heard his story because it really was heartbreaking that I believe it was either his right eye or his left eye It was one of his eyes that was blind and he couldn't see out of that eye and everybody was when they heard this their hearts broke You could hear a gasp and a hush come over the room when he began to share his testimony of what he was believing forgot to do in his body And so I told the people I said God wants to heal this boy and I believe God can heal this boy I believe it's the will of God I began to minister faith to the people through the word of God And so I really did I sense the anointing come on me and I just knew that I knew I don't know if you've ever been there But I just knew that I knew that I knew this boy was going to be healed And so some people as normally will be in a miracle service some people were watching with skepticism Some people were watching with interest so there were some observers but then there were those who were prayerfully participating in what God was doing on that platform And we joined our faith together all the believers and we began to pray in the Holy Ghost We spoke different languages but when we began to pray in the Holy Ghost we were praying one heavenly language We began to pray in the Holy Ghost we began to believe for God to do something for this kid And I'm telling you that little boy saw out of that eye we covered the other eye and he was able to tell us how many fingers people were holding up What was able to happen little boys crying little boys mothers crying now What I didn't realize was that little boy was the son of that man who had come And that man that night didn't just give his heart to the Lord But when he came forward to give his heart to the Lord he was sobbing he was broken he was ready to receive When he saw what Jesus had done for his son he surrendered his life to Christ And so this is what the scripture says in Mark chapter 16 verse 20 And the disciples went everywhere and preached and the Lord worked through them confirming what they said by miraculous signs I must say to qualify this lesson that not every message accompanied by miracles is the gospel But the gospel is always accompanied by miracles I'll say that again Not every message accompanied by miracles is the gospel But the gospel is always accompanied by miracles I mean you read about those in Matthew chapter 7 I think it's verse 21 where they come up to the Lord and they said Lord Lord did we not prophesy on your name Did we not do many good works and he says depart from me workers of lawlessness I never even knew you he didn't deny that they prophesied he didn't deny that they cast out devils He didn't deny that they did many wonderful works in his name he just denied that he knew them So there are those who work in miracles that don't necessarily make it into heaven Now this actually tells us of just how powerful the gospel message really is In that anybody even if whether or not their final destination is heaven or reward or punishment Whether or not Christ truly knows them the gospel message is so powerful it's so potent it's so alive And so filled with God's purpose and power that when it is preached by even someone who doesn't know Christ The gospel message results in miracles and signs and wonders God endorses the gospel message with the miraculous You'll notice that I've often said that God endorses his people with his presence He endorses his faithful with his favor but he endorses his message with his miracles The people of God carry the presence of God and there's no substitute for the presence of God upon a life So only God's people carry his presence in such a way that it's distinctive And God's faithful these are those who consistently obey God and walk in his favor because of their obedience to him They're distinctly marked with the endorsement of heaven in the manifestation of favor So faithfulness, the faithful are marked by favor The people of God are marked by the presence of God and the message of God is marked by the miracles of God So here's the true statement that I often utter that sometimes offends people But this is the truth, if you're not seeing miracles accompany the message that you preach It's time to start preaching the gospel If when you declare the message that you believe to be the gospel and there's no backing for it There's no transformation happening in the hearts and the souls of men Which by the way is the greatest miracle of salvation So that's the number one way we know we're preaching the gospel If someone comes from repentance, they repent from their sins Turn to Christ, believe on the name of the Lord Jesus, are baptized in the Holy Spirit Receive the spirit of God and become his child That's the result of the true gospel message But if you're not seeing that, it's time to start preaching the gospel If you're not seeing miracles back the message, then it's time to start preaching the gospel Now there are those who preach prosperity There's no miracles that come when you preach prosperity I've seen the difference In fact, I remember I was in a church service And this is nobody that I've ever had on the program This is nobody that you know And I'm not going to tell you who this minister was because I don't slander people But there was a minister that I had gone to see And this person was ministering in the prophetic They're ministering words of knowledge They're ministering God's Holy Spirit to the people And as they're giving out words I thought this is wonderful People are being touched But not once in that entire service Did I hear the name of Jesus? Not once in that entire service did I hear the gospel message being preached Now I know that not every service is an evangelistic service I have some people get mad, they'll watch one or two YouTube videos and go Why are you not talking about this? I'm like, well, because right now I'm talking about this You know, you can't always talk about everything that is truthful Sometimes you have to focus And this is what it's called, it's called being specific It's called focusing, it's called teaching And you hone in on one topic Right now I'm talking about miracles So I'm not really going to tell one how to be saved in this video That's not what it's about But that's not what I was requiring of the person in my own mind When I went to see them My issue was that I didn't see one mention of Christ I didn't hear any mention of God I didn't hear any mention of how we need to serve Nothing, the reason the people had gathered Was to receive the miracles and the prophetic words And they left And the message, if it's lacking from the miraculous That takes all the power out of it So when you go to service And all you see are miracles with no message That's borderline witchcraft That's incantation That's new ageism That's psychic power I mean, I've seen some wicked things From people who claim to be prophets of God And they're not And so I want to caution you That if you want to see miracles And caution and encourage you If you want to see miracles You need to preach the gospel That's the whole purpose of miracles I mean, miracles fix a temporary situation In a supernatural way But if that doesn't result in an eternal transformation The miracle was of no use in the first place Now I understand not everybody responds to the gospel Appropriately But at least preach the gospel So that the message that's being preached That's accompanied by the miracles Ultimately results in what we're ultimately after Which is the salvation of men So number one, you need to preach the gospel Number two, you need to spend time with Jesus Now there's no substitute for a prayer life When I first started preaching I studied the word, yes I studied the scripture I was reading books I was giving myself to understanding And I was asking the Lord for wisdom In fact, when I was 11 years old I said, Lord, I see this promise here in James You said that if I ask you for wisdom That you'll give me wisdom Because I ask in faith And so as an 11 year old boy I asked the Lord for wisdom And I began to understand the scripture In ways I never could understand it before So I was studying I was reading But let me tell you something I wasn't that I still today I see areas I really need to work on In my presentation I'm always working to improve My presentation as a preacher And teacher of the gospel Especially as an evangelist I want to look for ways that I can evangelize in more effective manners And so I would pray I would ask the Lord to anoint it I would study and give my best I could to God And he would show up in those services In those first years of my ministry When I began to preach the gospel At the age of 13 But when I was 13 I wasn't this great preacher I wasn't someone I mean, I'll tell you I'll just be honest with you I would get bored listening To my own sermons Halfway even though Because I would listen to them I still do listen to them So I can listen for ways That I can improve How I would word something And so on Or maybe even how I come across A certain way I try to become effective Even then when I attempted to do that I was so bored with my own message I would turn it off in the first 10 minutes And I just really wasn't this great communicator I wasn't some strong speaker I didn't have this eloquent presentation All I did was show up Preach a quick word I still remember My first message was a three-point message It was on King David And his relationship with God And I remember I preached that message And I remember thinking This is not as good as I imagined it in my head You know, when I imagined Preaching my first sermon I imagined that it was going to be So people were going to move to tears They'd run to the altar, you know But that's not what happened Because of the message People did come to the altar People were moved to tears But it had nothing to do with my presentation skills It had everything to do with the presence of God And the reason that the presence of God Had anointed what I was doing Was because I had consecrated myself I had saturated myself I buried myself in his presence And I still to this day seek his face And if you're not spending time with Jesus You're not going to see miracles I don't care what anybody says If you're not praying If you're not seeking the face of God If you're not giving yourself To consecrated, devoted moments of prayer You're not going to see miracles Manifest in your life Now Acts chapter 4 verse 13 says this 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 So a result of having been with Jesus Was a tangible and a very real effect That took place in the lives of the apostles Acts chapter 5 verse 15 says this As a result of the apostles' work Sick people were brought out into the streets on beds And mats so that Peter's shadow Might fall across some of them As he went by This is the healing presence of Jesus Upon a life You see, the Bible doesn't say that Peter's shadow healed the sick A lot of people think it says that And they'll go out and they'll kind of Which is fine, I'm not against it They'll go out and they'll kind of walk across They'll go, look, my shadow heals I've seen videos on YouTube And if you want to do that, that's fine That's how God wants to work with your faith But it wasn't Peter's shadow that was healing anybody In fact, the Bible doesn't even say that It was that So it was the people who thought That Peter's shadow healed Now, what would cause people to think That a man's shadow Could bring about a miraculous healing? It's not because his shadow healed people It's because people who got around him Were healed That's amazing He didn't have to lay hands He didn't have to pray Purposefully, like you know And I use the word pray as in ministering to people As we're used to thinking in the traditional sense You know, you lay hands, you say a little prayer As you're believing God for the healing He didn't have to do that He would just show up and miracles would happen All around him I'll never forget when this first started happening And what it did is it took the pressure off me And it'll take the pressure off you I felt so relieved because I would become so discouraged When I would see people come forward to receive healing And some of the people who come to my meeting Still to this day, I'm just being honest with you I mean, it's not like nobody knows it It's a fact, I mean this is just the truth It's healed Now I can do a whole different lesson on that And there's a lot of theological thoughts that go into that And a lot of doctrines to go over But for now, I'm just saying this Because it applies to what we're talking about But when I realized that it had nothing to do With my efforts necessarily That I was just a vessel through whom God used But we have to make ourselves available still Once I realized that It took the pressure off and I realized Jesus, you're the healer I'm not the healer, you're the healer I have compassion for them I pray that God would use me to greater levels So that I can see them healed In fact, anytime I see someone not healed I go home and that whole week is just More and more intense Pray, Lord, I want to whatever it is, Lord, in me That's causing you not to be able to move through me In the way that this power should be flowing I want you to help me I want you to touch my life, I want you to show me I want you to reveal yourself And it causes me to seek God And then the miraculous begins to increase Now, I will say this, there are levels to the miraculous I know some people don't like that Especially Some of this newer doctrine that's coming out And the idea is that Well, you don't really have to do any growth You have everything that you are right now And I understand that We've talked about that, we've addressed that But the truth is that there are levels To the miraculous power of God in your life Because there are levels of spirituality And the higher up you go in the levels of spirituality The more the miraculous will increase Because I want to see you increase in it So the more time you spend with Jesus The greater the healing power will be on your life The greater the power for the miraculous Will be on your life So there's no replacement for this And when it comes to believing God For those who, you realize, oh God They're not going to be healed Or maybe you've experienced that moment And made you feel uncomfortable, made them feel discouraged Be encouraged to know that it's the healing presence Of Jesus on your life Your job is to pray for the sick And if something doesn't happen It's not the problem, it's not the word of God I like to put the blame on myself Because I don't put it on the people That's an act of faith So what I do is I take the responsibility As God's minister and I say, okay Lord Whatever it is in me that needs to change Whatever it is in me that needs to transform Help me get there And then also we can't forget about the sovereignty of God Which again, that's getting into a whole different lesson But let's go to number three now So number one, preach the gospel Number three, you gotta live clean James chapter five verse fifteen says this Confess your sins to each other And pray for each other So that you may be healed The earnest prayer of a righteous person Has great power And produces wonderful results I'm not talking about perfection But the truth is That just as there are Degrees of the miraculous Just as there are degrees of spirituality So there are levels of holiness Here's the truth And just remember this principle as it applies All across the board to any of these concepts If you can Grow in something It means there are levels to it If there were no levels To holiness, then there would be no room For growth. Now I understand That Christ is our righteousness I understand that before God we're cleansed But then there is still the process of Sanctification that is happening in our lives And the scripture is very clear Especially in Ephesians More specifically Ephesians chapter three That we are to live a life That is worthy The scripture says walk worthy Of the grace that you have received And I'm paraphrasing But the truth is that we need to grow in our holiness And we need to grow in our righteousness And we need to grow in our consecration And we need to grow in our sanctification And there are levels of cleanliness There are levels of purity There are levels of righteousness and holiness And as you begin to grow In these levels of righteousness And holiness and purity and consecration And sanctification So you will also grow In levels of miraculous power The scripture says that the prayer Of a righteous person Has great power and produces wonderful results Therefore If someone is not righteous There's not power on their prayer We have to understand this And again I'm not talking about perfection But the more clean the vessel The more the power of God can flow through You know if there's something that say If I have a water hose and I want to water my yard If the water's coming through there But there's something blocking it The issue is not with the source So the water the issue is with the vessel We need to clear out those areas In our lives so that the power of God Can flow purely It can flow freely It can flow more powerfully We need to get rid of that blockage in our lives And live and walk in cleanliness In holiness and righteousness And as you do you will see That there is great power and purity Another thought on this Specific point Psalm 37 verse 23 says this The Lord directs the steps Of the godly He delights in every detail Of their lives So God directs the godly He doesn't direct the ungodly Per se except for the times That makes them to saving power And the saving knowledge of Christ Just as you know Saul of Tarsus When he was on his way to persecute the church God directed him He rerouted him But that's an occurrence of salvation God calling one to repent But beyond the call to repentance Beyond the call to fulfill the call of God Through repentance and turning to Christ Beyond that God does not direct the righteous Except for how he preaches the gospel Through those around them like you or I That categorically speaking has only to do With their redirection towards salvation But other than that God does not direct The steps of the ungodly In fact that's why the scripture says the blind fall into the pit Because God's not there to guide them They cannot see where they're going Now if you're godly and he directs Your steps and delights in every detail of your life Then you're going to see More open doors The truth is that obedience Puts you in the will of God And the will of God The only place that you'll find the opening Of divine doors People ask me how are you seeing all this favor Anyone who looks at this ministry from the outside Looking in and I'm not saying this to Braga I'm saying this because all glory belongs to God He took someone who said Lord I don't have much But whatever you want to use take it And if God can use me trust me he can use you But God took my life and people see there's favor And I acknowledge that humbly I'm not saying that again to Braga But I do acknowledge there's favor on my life But I'm telling you there's no secret It's not because I'm talented it's not because I'm gifted It's very very simple All I do Is try to hear God my absolute best And try to obey God With my absolute best It's just as simple as that and if you'll do those two things If you'll try to hear God And you'll give yourself to seek his face And you'll lend him your ear I'm not talking I mean we understand that there's power in prayer We understand we're getting lessons on How to pray I did a lesson on how to spend more time in prayer I did a lesson on keys to prayer But we often fail to understand why it is so important to pray I mean my goodness I should do one on that But the truth is that when you pray It puts you in alignment with God When you obey it puts you in alignment with God And because of that purity Because of that righteousness you're able to hear God more clearly Because of that righteousness you're positioned In the places that you should be King David when he fell into sin with Bathsheba The scripture says that this was during the time That kings go out to war David was not in the place that he was supposed to be And time and time again You'll notice that calamity comes That problems come That temptation is given into Because we put ourselves in places That we are not supposed to be And if you're not in places that you're supposed to be You won't see the favor of God How are you supposed to walk through an open door If you're not standing in front of it Obedience puts you in front of the open door Now some doors are locked But faith turns the knob And it checks to see which one's God has opened But how are you supposed to stand in front of an open door How are you supposed to walk through it If you won't even be near it So obedience brings about righteousness and holiness And because of that I should qualify that because I don't necessarily believe That we work out our righteousness by our acts But I truly do believe that because of what Christ has done in us That righteousness should result Nonetheless as we obey God As we work to live more righteously In fact, I just read it today I hope I can find it It's not in my notes I underlined it earlier Okay, yes, okay So this is from Romans chapter 2 Verse 6 He will judge everyone according to what they have done He will give eternal life To those who keep on doing good Seeking after the glory and the honor Of immortality that God offers So it's talking about a continuation A persistent and intentional pursuit Of holiness and righteousness in our lives So as believers Even though we've already been justified We still have to work very carefully with God Work out with your own salvation Work out your own salvation If you're in trembling, the Scripture says Because that is the process of sanctification And there is power in purity The greater the purity, the greater the power Number 4 Build faith When you're ministering to people You have to build their faith This is what the Scripture says In 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 9 The same spirit gives great faith to another To someone else, the one spirit Gives the gift of healing So this context is talking about The gift of healing and the gift of faith And this is 1 Corinthians chapter 12 This is the chapter on the gifts of the Holy Spirit Now some believe that the gift of faith Has to do with our own faith But that's not the truth Because the reality is that these gifts The Scripture says are for others So there's the measure of faith And then there is the gift of faith The measure of faith is personal The measure of faith is what God has given you So that you can see results in your own life Of what God wants to do But the gift of faith, I believe Is the ability to raise people's faith To a different level Jesus had this faith I mean the Scripture also said Romans chapter 10 verse 17 Now this is somewhat of a misused Scripture But I'm going to read it anyway And then I'll qualify it Romans chapter 10 verse 17 So faith comes by hearing Or faith comes from hearing That is hearing the good news about Christ Now that contextually is talking about The gospel message of Christ But it's saying that they can't believe the gospel Unless they hear it in the same sense Whatever the promises of God Have to do with the need of a person They cannot have the faith to receive Based upon those promises According to their need Unless they hear what the word has to say About their need So they won't know God offers it And they won't have the faith to receive it Until they hear the promise Where God promises what he wants to give them So faith comes by hearing And hearing by the word of God Now that was talking about the gospel Faith to believe the gospel But faith to be healed Comes by hearing about the message of healing Faith to receive a miracle Comes about from hearing Just how powerful God is So as your faith expands You're able to receive Greater and greater things This is why God processes you gradually So he'll put you in a situation And in that situation You may feel you cannot handle it But you grow your faith a little more there And then you face another situation And it seems just as difficult as the last season Here's the truth The issues that you're facing in this season You may think it's just as bad as last season But the truth is that the weight you're carrying In this season is heavier than what you carried In last season You just don't recognize it Because you're stronger And God wants to take you through this process And I'm not saying we're to have a joy list Existence in the Christian life On the contrary We have joy despite what we go through But these type of trials These type of troubles They produce faith within us And in concordance with that We also have a gift of faith developed in us That when we speak to other people We can build their faith This is part of ministering miracles to people You've got to position them to receive The scripture talks about many times That Jesus, when he healed someone Just take the healing, for example When Jesus healed someone He would say, your what has made you whole That's right, your faith has made you whole So it is by faith that we receive many things So our goal is to build the faith of people So that they can receive the miraculous That God wants to give them So this gift of faith You're basically an atmosphere of faith You're basically everywhere you go When you talk, whatever comes out of your mouth Should be faith building I know people like this There's a pastor friend of mine Who I absolutely love His name is Phil Muncie If you ever get to connect with his ministry Just an absolutely amazing man of God He is probably the most encouraging person I have ever met in my entire life This guy, when he comes in the room I've watched him I've traveled locally with him I've driven him around I like to serve men of God like that And just kind of glean from them So I would be driving him around sometimes I would go with him to TBN Be back there, watch him talk to the guest And you know, this guy I would just watch him And he's very intentional About boosting faith in other people And he does so by encouraging He does so by speaking the word He does so by declaring things Such as where people are there Maybe they're talking I've seen some pastors talking to discouragement Oh, well, we might lose the building He'll say, no, God's gonna provide And even if you lose that building God's got another building And I've seen that gift of faith in action And getting around him My faith gets stirred There are plenty of people who I get around I mean, I can name them all day I mean, you guys know Ken Brown You guys know prophet Rob Some of you know my friend Daniel Galeana Great ministry You haven't checked him out You should check him out Michael Coolianos Daniel Park I mean, all these guys are on YouTube I really recommend them all But when I get around these guys And when I hear them When I talk to them Their faith just It rubs off on me And my faith in turn rubs off on them And we stir each other to faith That is the gift of faith in operation So when you're ministering miracles You have to build faith You have to build an atmosphere That is cultivated with the word of God That's saturated with faith So that you get them ready to receive So again, number one Preach the gospel Number two, spend time with Jesus Number three, live clean Number four, build faith Number five, act Now I know I always read this scripture But let's read it again Mark chapter 16 Verse 15 through 17 And then he told them Go into all the world And preach the good news to everyone Anyone who believes in his baptized Will be saved But anyone who refuses to believe Will be condemned Verse 17 These miraculous signs Will accompany those who believe They will cast out demons in my name And they will speak in new languages And then the scripture also goes on To say they will lay hands on the sick Verse 18 And they shall recover We all know that one But the truth is A lot of people think that this is Jesus telling the apostles Are going to move out in this No, he says these Go and preach And whoever believes Will be saved Whoever doesn't believe is condemned But the ones who believe What you say Not the apostles He says the ones who believe Those ones are going to Move out in the miraculous Now I don't believe that the power Of the Holy Spirit is limited To just these things On the contrary We see all throughout the New Testament Especially in the writings of Paul We see the concept of many Acts of the miraculous That are to be functioning In our lives But the truth is That none of this is going to happen Unless you act We say, well, I'm waiting to be led No, how can you wait to be led When Jesus already commanded it We say, God, show me He did, it's in the Word He said, go, preach the gospel I don't know if I'm qualified Are you saved? Do you believe? You're the one he'll use then He said, well, I want to Become more pure Well, good While you're on the process Of sanctification Let God use you Where you're at Right here right now Well, I'm not quite there yet Yes, you are You can minister to someone You can help someone You can help someone It's funny, we're always praying Lord, bless me Lord, help me We look at our needs We lay hands on our bills We pray for our checks to come We pray for our sickness We pray for our discouragement Our trial And we're saying, God, send someone Send help And I think that if we would Just learn to be the miracle In other people's lives For which we are praying In our own lives That God himself would Move on our behalf That if we would stop Looking at our own needs And start looking at other People's needs We basically step under The fountain of God's provision And power And we experience the miraculous In our own lives And we selflessly minister it To others So you have to act Number five, you have to act Now I'm not saying go And rip people out of wheelchairs You know, you got to be very wise With how you do this And you have to carry the gospel With class And you have to have a heavenly Elegance about you You are a minister An ambassador to heaven I don't believe That the Holy Spirit Makes you silly or senseless I've seen people I've had some people in my services They get drunk in the Holy Spirit Now if God does that great I'm not going to try to incite that I don't try to incite anything But I'm always very careful With how I present the Holy Spirit Want to make sure it's done So in a very classy manner But signs of the Holy Spirit Moving is not when you get Senseless and silly Signs of the Holy Spirit Moving is when the glory Of God shows up And when people become transformed And I'm telling you God wants to use your life Just like that Now I want to pray with you Because I know you're stirred Not because I'm preaching Because the word of God Is being spoken The word of God 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The final item of business is a member's business debate on motion 6461, in the name of Gillian Mackay, on stroke associations report, keeping stroke recoveries in mind, launched on World Stroke Day. This debate will be concluded without any questions being put, and I would ask those members who would wish to speak in the debate to please press the request-to-speak buttons. I call on Gillian Mackay to open the debate around seven minutes, please, Ms Mackay. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm really pleased to bring forward this debate to Parliament's day on such an important topic to me. As many of you know, almost two years ago, my mum died a week after having a stroke. My grandpa had a stroke that left him with aphasia, and my gran had a stroke and TIAs as well. Stroke is something that I thought as a family we knew well, but I'm always in awe of how every stroke survivor I've met shares their story and their honesty and how it has affected their lives and the lives of their families. The mechanism with which they have come to their condition is the same, but the aftermath of no two strokes is the same. I want to thank the stroke association and everyone who has shared their story with me for their hard work and commitment, and some of them are joining us in the gallery this evening. Stroke is the leading cause of disability in Scotland. Around 10,000 people have a stroke every year, and there are around 128,000 people currently living with the effects of a stroke across the country. In my own region of central Scotland, there are around 15,000 stroke survivors. Everyone who survives a stroke has the risk of experiencing either a physical disability, cognitive problems or emotional and psychological effects or, more often than not, a combination of all three. Two out of every three stroke patients leave hospital with a physical disability and or problems with speech, communication, thinking and, of course, their emotions and mental health. Stroke survivors often say that people will tell them, ah, you don't look like you've had a stroke. This is a result of a lack of awareness about these hidden effects of stroke. It's not all physical and the psychological effects can often be as or more debilitating to the individual. Last month, the stroke association published a report looking specifically at the hidden effects of stroke. Keeping stroke recoveries in mind looked specifically at the psychological and emotional impact on a person after their stroke. The findings mirror those of a similar report published 10 years ago. The main message being that psychological and emotional recovery is not viewed on equal terms as physical recovery post-stroke. The stroke association spoke with more than 100 stroke survivors and 87 per cent of them want to see equal access to physical and psychological care within their rehabilitation, yet only 25 per cent report receiving enough psychological and mental health support. Ten years has passed. The research continues to tell us the same thing, but everyone's experiences are not improving. The Scottish Stroke Psychology Forum has supported the stroke association with this and provided a tiered model that allows everyone involved in stroke care to be trained and supported to deliver psychological care for stroke patients. We all know of the tight financial constraints on the health budget, and so this tiered approach to delivering psychological care will help to alleviate future pressures. By ensuring that people get the emotional and psychological help that they need at the beginning, the long-term health and social care costs will be reduced as they start to rebuild their lives earlier. There is a strong evidence base to support this. A lot of research has been carried out that looks at the economic benefits of providing early intervention, which all found a strong financial saving long-term. This is a solution to current problems that both stroke patients are facing but also the overall health and social care budget. I was also grateful to hear from Paula from Glasgow at one of our cross-party group meetings on this topic. She spoke so openly and honestly about the psychological and emotional impact that she faced after her stroke, which she had a year ago. She explained how overnight everything changed her heart when she went from being a wife, working full-time and enjoying so many outdoor activities to not being able to do everything that she used to get such enjoyment from. She started to lose control of her emotions and her stroke added a heightened sense of anxiety like nothing that she had experienced before. After some time, Paula spoke to her consultant and he informed her that this is something that often affects people after a stroke, but there are inadequate resources to cope with the number of people who need support. With support from her family and empathy from health and social care staff, Paula has made a good recovery. Unfortunately, that is not the story for everyone and we all have a role to play in changing the narrative from stroke being something that only affects you physically to a condition that affects the whole person. I would encourage everyone to speak with stroke survivors and their families and their constituencies in regions about the mental impact that stroke has had on them. It will absolutely open your eyes the way in which people's worlds have changed. Grief is a way of describing the feeling that I have heard from several stroke survivors. Grief is not just confined to those who have lost someone to stroke but to those who have lost what their previous life was, whether that be through any condition from paralysis to aphasia. The survivors and their families often have to pick up the emotional pieces, muddle through and try to make the best of it. I hope that through that debate and other work we can put a focus on the mental health support that many survivors need. I am keen to support the Scottish Government to drive forward improvements in that area and I was pleased to see the progressive stroke pathway document published earlier this year. I know that that document is vast and wide-ranging but it includes a focus on psychological care for stroke survivors, which is encouraging. However, we must act now to ensure that that translates to changes for patients. Through early intervention, we can give people the chance to rebuild their lives and save the health and social care services significant money across the long term. I hope that the cabinet secretary will be able to update us this evening on when the Revised Stroke Improvement Plan will be published and that it will give appropriate resource to the plan. I hope that the cabinet secretary will also ensure that stroke care across the 14 health boards is consistent so that everyone receives the same level of care. I repeat my thanks to the Stroke Association and all those stroke survivors who have given their time and their effort to the cross-party group and look forward to hearing everybody's contributions this evening. Thank you, Ms Mackay. I now call Paul MacLennan to be followed by Ros McAll, around four minutes please, Mr MacLennan. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I thank Gillian Mackay for bringing forward this member's debate this evening. I know that the subject is very motive for her. We were talking about that yesterday, and I pay tribute to the work that she has done in this area, so my thoughts are worth you, Gillian. I also thank Katie McGregor for her briefing from the Stroke Association for the debate tonight. It is comprehensive, extensive and informative, as have I am also a member of the cross-party group on strokes. My dad died from vascular dementia about four years ago after a series of TIAs. He lost his ability to speak about three years ago. That has impacted on his own mental health and on my own and on the rest of the family. There are 2,000 stroke survivors in East Llywodrae, and that is about one in 50 adults. 12,500 people have been diagnosed with high blood pressure. That is one in eight adults in around 1800 of AF, actual fibrolation. That is a heart condition that causes an irregular heartbeat and raises the risk of a serious stroke. As Gillian mentioned, in March 2022, the Scottish Government published a progressive stroke pathway, which was produced by the National Advisory Committee on Stroke. That document sets out a vision of what stroke care in Scotland should be. Again, as Gillian said, the next year, the Scottish Government is due to publish a revised stroke improvement plan based on recommendations made in that progressive pathway project. The PSP states that psychological care should be available to all patients in line with local delivery plans, and I will touch on that a little bit later on. The Stroke Association's report, keeping stroke recoveries in mind, found that stroke survivors are still not receiving the psychological support that they need. The report calls for a model that is developed by the Scottish Stroke Psychology Forum to be included in the upcoming stroke improvement plan and given appropriate financial and workforce resource. The report found that 87 per cent of stroke survivors report that they want to see equal access to physical and psychological care within their rehabilitation, but at the moment only 25 per cent think that they are receiving enough mental health support. 94 per cent of people said that they experienced a mild impact on their psychological and emotional wellbeing after their stroke. 75 per cent of respondents report that they did not get enough support in hospital, and 68 per cent of people did not feel that they got enough support once home from hospital. Why is giving greater emphasis to emotional care so important? Stroke is the biggest single cause of adult disability in Scotland. Two out of every three stroke patients leave hospital with a physical disability. People need support to come to terms with a huge change in their life.  Even with people with mild disability or whoever make a complete physical recovery after a stroke, fatigue and psychological issues can hugely affect the quality of life. A emotional impact has been included in the two previous stroke improvement plans, but issues as they said still persist. In the 2022 Scottish Stroke Care Audit, the category relating to psychological support was the lowest-performing category of all stroke improvement priority categories. The Stroke Association's lived experience of stroke report in 2019 remains the biggest ever largest conducted UK wide survey and found that nine out of 10 stroke survivors reported experiencing at least one cognitive effect. The same number of those explains at least one physical effect. Three quarters of stroke survivors experience the change in their mental health. They may develop depression, anxiety or suicidal thoughts. By 2035 in Scotland, the incidence of stroke is expected to double compared with 2015 figures. When a physical illness, like stroke, is accompanied by mental illness, it worsens outcomes such as life expectancy. In closing, I once again thank Gillian Mackay for bringing forward this debate, the Stroke Association, for all the work that it is doing in the briefing. Finally, the one key point is to ensure that all of us work with our health boards to ensure that we keep stroke recoveries in mind. I know that the delivery of the service in different parts of the country varies from different local authorities. I have been trying to speak to my lone local authority on that, and I struggle to get issues brought up in that regard. We need to ensure that stroke survivors receive the psychological support that the need has been highlighted by Gillian Mackay. I now call Ross McCall, to be followed by Jackie Baillie, around four minutes, please. Having a stroke is a life changing event. It affects around 10,000 people every year in Scotland, and there are more than 128,000 people in the country living with the long-term consequences of their stroke. The Stroke Association says that, in its reports, you cannot always see the damage a stroke causes. It is hidden inside, but we know that it is one of the biggest issues for people and their families. Emotional and psychological wellbeing for someone after a stroke is just as important as their physical recovery. The sense of loss and grieving for the life that has been so abruptly altered is the first and most difficult challenge a stroke victim will need to overcome. In the simplest terms, a stroke victim will need to mourn the person they were before they can become the person they will be, and I speak from experience. In February 2021, in lockdown again, my husband collapsed from a hemorrhagic stroke and went through surgery to reduce the bleed on his brain. He had no idea what was happening, no concept of the situation. He was in intensive care in Edinburgh and I was 50 miles away home when depression took hold. He would not eat, he would not engage in any way, he didn't want to know. Usually I would have been able to visit, I would have been able to support him, I would have been able to simply hold his hand, but because of the extraordinary circumstances brought on by the pandemic, a psychologist's input was requested and the doctors feared he would not recover even though the operation was a success. Over the course of many difficult phone calls, I had to try and describe him, his likes, dislikes, his goals, his dreams and even though I had no idea that he would be able to experience them again, I had to make a sense of what little talks they had managed to pick up from him. His journey back to health was one in those conversations and that psychological intervention. Deputy Presiding Officer, you will be aware that not all strokes have the same outcomes and my husband's experience is an example of that. Most people think that a stroke is a condition that affects someone's physical health and of course those consequences are extremely serious. However, a result of that is that the assumption ends, that the care ends when the physical symptoms end and this assumption that contributes to people not receiving to the psychological care they desperately need. The Stroke Association consulted with over 100 stroke survivors and the results are staggering and I will repeat Paul MacLennan's comments. 94 per cent of people say that they experienced an impact on their psychological and emotional wellbeing after a stroke. 39 per cent reported severe impact on their mental and physical health. Three quarters said that they did not get enough of emotional support in hospital and 68 per cent felt that they did not get enough support when they went home. To battle, to truly surviving a stroke, is one or lost in what the victims can believe they can achieve and that is not catered for and we must do better. I have concerns that immediate stroke, immediate national stroke care is moving in the wrong direction. Members will be aware of the set of standards that national stroke care often referred to as the stroke bundle. This includes having access to a brain scan within 12 hours and access to aspirin as a blood thinner within a day of arriving at hospital. Meeting those targets for care ensures that someone has the best chance of recovery. In my region, NHS Fife and NHS Forth Valley are meeting those standards, but Scotland is not. There is also a concern being raised by clinicians regarding funding reductions for the thrombectomy surgery programme. When a thrombectomy not only saves lives but reduces the damage to the brain and increases the chances of a fuller recovery, it also saves £47,000 per person in on-going treatment, so to me that seems like a win-win and I urge the cabinet secretary to look again at this issue. In conclusion, I believe that the ability for my husband to have bedside psychological assessment and one-to-one care saved his life just as much as the surgery did two weeks before and they will have my unending support and thanks, so I highly support the motion brought forward by the member. I now call Jackie Baillie to be followed by Alexander Burnett. I would like to begin by congratulating Gillian Mackay for securing this member's debate on the Stroke Association's new report, keeping stroke recoveries in mind. We have heard from personal testimony how having a stroke is a life-changing event. Within a matter of minutes, stroke impacts upon not just a person's physical health, but their sense of self too. When a stroke often comes with a loss of independence and agency, this can be a very difficult thing to adjust to for both survivors and their families. That is why the report is just so important. Physical recovery from a stroke, which is where most of the focus is usually placed, is just one aspect of recovery. Research undertaken by Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland found that people living with stroke conditions are at a significant risk of poor mental health. The Stroke Association's report points out that 95 per cent of stroke survivors report a change in their mental health as a result of their stroke. I did not realise that, but there are apparently 1,800 stroke survivors in Dumbarton. Many of them tell me that they do not feel adequately supported when it comes to dealing with their mental health. The report helpfully outlines the important role that NHS Scotland can ensure that the emotional and psychological needs of stroke survivors will be met going forward. However, feeding good psychological care into clinical practice is not beyond us. Stroke care can take on a holistic needs-based approach that is currently missing in the service. We can do that by educating and training staff, by ensuring that they are supported in their roles to enable them to take on these additional tasks. Earlier this year, the 2022 report for the Scottish Stroke Improvement programme was published. It showed that too many stroke patients did not get the care that they needed in the last year. I appreciate that there was a pandemic, but the challenges predate Covid. What is true—I think that we can all agree—is that healthcare staff have been incredible, working round the clock to look after patients, but they are exhausted and the system is failing them too. We will all acknowledge that improvements can and should be delivered for stroke care, but they cannot be delivered without ensuring decent pay and safe staffing levels. Healthcare staff are already at breaking point. It is important that, when we ask more of them, we support them properly and it gets beyond warm words. We need to act. It is important to note that there is a significant variation in performance against stroke care standards among health boards. We should be able to have the same standards but better standards wherever you are in Scotland. When seeking to address psychological stroke care, it is vital that that trend is not replicated. Stroke care should also extend beyond a stay in hospital if it is to be effective, as 68 per cent of people say that they did not feel that they got enough support once they were at home away from hospital. I know that, at the last election, the First Minister pledged to support the roll-out of Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland's hospital-to-home service across the country, something that we would all support because it offers support already to 38,000 people living at home with chest heart and stroke conditions. I hope that the Scottish Government will do more to honour that commitment because the service is not yet provided across all 14 health boards. I hope that those issues will be addressed by the Government to allow health boards to appropriately resource and deliver the progressive stroke pathway that we all agree is desperately needed. I now call Alexander Burnett, who will be the last speaker before I ask the Minister to respond. Around four minutes, please, Mr Burnett. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I start by thanking Gillian Mackay for securing this important debate. Important because, as we heard, the stroke association estimates there are 128,000 people living with the effects of a stroke in Scotland, 1,400 in my constituency, Aberdeenshire West alone. Stroke is a leading cause of death and long-term disability in Scotland, and for many survivors there will be lifelong emotional and psychological effects. A key call of a stroke association's feeling-overwhelmed report in 2013 was for improved emotional support, but, shockingly, almost a decade later, their recent report has highlighted that nothing has changed. A constituent of mine, Eric, who lives in a boin, has been an avid campaigner since he suffered a stroke in 2004, writing a book, Man, Dog, Stroke and helping to run an exercise class for stroke survivors in D-Side. Eric knows all too well that people with the potential for more physical and psychological recovery are not receiving it and are having to go private to get a better quality of life, because psychological support has been overlooked and we are just a quarter at just receiving enough mental health support. These results are just as appalling as they were almost a decade ago. Such care should start as soon as someone is diagnosed with a stroke. A stroke association's key recommendation is to improve psychological care and implement the national model of psychological care and stroke services. Unfortunately, there just is not an appropriate workforce to ensure that this will happen, and with less than eight full-time equivalent psychologists with stroke services in Scotland, the progressive stroke pathway highlights what important work is needed. However, for each health board to introduce an effective plan, the Scottish Government needs a stroke-specific workforce. I would also like to note that there are a range of other delays to treatments for stroke survivors. Thrombolosis door-to-need all times are variable across Scotland and treatment times have not been improving, despite this being an urgent time-sensitive treatment at the onset of stroke. Progress on thrombectomy services is also proceeding too slowly, even though it has the potential to reduce the likelihood of disability for hundreds of survivors each year. There has been available for suitable stroke patients elsewhere in the UK for some time. The pandemic led to a lot of changes in the health and social care system, which would undoubtedly have had an effect on the treatment of stroke survivors. People may have delayed seeking help or had to wait increasingly longer waiting times, which would have worsened their condition. We also know that a delayed discharge from hospitals is increasing and that there is a lack of social care available to provide the necessary support to survivors. However, as we have heard today and in so many other health debates, issues with psychological care for stroke survivors were an issue long before the pandemic. No health board in Scotland has a staffing level that is meeting clinical guidelines and psychological care is a postcode lottery. That is completely unacceptable. Therefore, I urge the Scottish Government to ensure that stroke survivors are getting the cognitive, emotional and psychology help that they need. Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. I thank Gillian Mackay for securing this very important member's debate. I thank the Stroke Association for providing a briefing to elected members right across the chamber. There are a number of reasons why we have members' debates in this Parliament, as members are very acutely aware. Sometimes it is to highlight an excellent local project, sometimes it is to rightly praise an individual in our constituencies or regions, or sometimes, and I think that this is the case for this debate, it is to put a spotlight on an issue that does not get enough of a national earing. I think that Gillian Mackay has done that with this debate because, as she and others have said in an excellent contribution, she said that, often when people think about stroke, they think about the physical impact of a stroke. As she rightly said in her contribution, they are not inconsequential of those physical impacts and impairments that a stroke may cause, but less is said about the psychological impacts. I am very grateful for all members—for Gillian Mackay, first and foremost—for shining a spotlight on the issue through her motion, but I am also very thankful and grateful to members who have contributed sometimes to their own personal experiences that Gillian Mackay did in terms of her own family, something that she has spoken about on a number of occasions in this chamber and every time very powerfully. I was very grateful to Ros McAul for also sharing her experience in relation to her husband. I wish him all the very best on his own recovery journey, but my goodness, how difficult that must have been for Ros McAul and her family at any time, let alone with the legal restrictions that were in place at the time. I am very grateful to her for she owes us nothing but to come to this chamber to share that story, which has been very powerful and insightful. In terms of the issue of psychological support—that is where I will focus a large part of my remarks, so I will try to address some of the issues that have been raised by fellow elected members—the mental health and addressing the impacts of the cognitive impact of stroke is absolutely a priority for this Government. We are in the midst of developing that new mental health and wellbeing strategy, and we will not ignore the long-term mental health impacts of conditions such as stroke. We are absolutely committed to ensuring that patients who have suffered strokes receive the best possible care to enable them to live longer, healthier and more independent lives. Key to that has to be ensuring that we meet their mental health needs and cognitive needs as much as their physical needs. As best we possibly can, I certainly try to do this myself, but I will liaise with those people who have been impacted by stroke—those with lived experience—of suffering strokes or, indeed, their families. We do that through the national stroke voices group. In listening to the experiences of those who have been affected by stroke and the findings presented by the stroke association, it is clear that more clearly can be done to address the psychological consequences of stroke. The report references the progressive stroke pathway, which has been mentioned by a number of elected members who contributed this afternoon, developed by the National Advisory Committee for Stroke, and the recommendations that it makes regarding psychological care. In response to that, the annual reviews of NHS boards and stroke services will now include a requirement for boards to demonstrate their provision of psychological support for those who have been affected by stroke. In line with the national model of psychological care for stroke, that is therefore putting the psychological impacts of stroke at the forefront of the mines over NHS chairs and chief executives when those reviews take place. Boards will be asked to implement a documented programme for promoting awareness, screening and treatment of the psychological consequences of stroke. Psychological care should be available to all patients who require it, and there should be documented evidence of a clear referral pathway for accessing psychological services. I take the point that I made by a number of members here that they feel that that is not done in a consistent manner, hence why we make it a requirement in relation to the annual reviews to get that consistency right across the board. We are also asking boards to ensure that anyone who has suffered a stroke has offered a formal review six months after their stroke event, so we need to get that support immediately. We need to make sure that that is followed up. We know that psychological consequences of stroke do not always manifest themselves immediately. We have heard that from those who have suffered from stroke, or indeed their family members. We hope that that approach will ensure that individuals are able to receive the psychological care that they need, and when they need it. The provision of psychological care in six-month reviews will be reported in all future Scottish Stroke Improvement programme annual reports. I want to turn to a couple of the issues that were raised that I may not have covered already. We will be asked about the stroke improvement plan when it will be published by Gilliam McIable. I will happily update members where in the midst of that discussion at the moment, we are under considerable financial constraints, so we want to ensure that when we present that plan and publish that plan, it has with it the consequential funding that will be required in respect to that plan. I will make sure that we update Gilliam McIable and any other member that has a particular interest. Rose McAll, Alexander Burnett and other members made an important point about the funding of life-saving thrombectomy services, a point that is well-made. It is not a point that I disagree with. To both members, we are under extreme financial constraints. I am not going to stray into the reasons and the politics around that. Really difficult decisions have got to be made. That is now having an impact on service delivery, whether that is to deal with high inflation costs, whether that is to deal with really high pay deals that we have to offer given the high inflation costs that our workers are currently facing. However, it should be acknowledged that forecast thrombectomy expenditure for this current financial year represents an almost 20 per cent increase on the last financial year, so we will continue to invest in thrombectomy services because we know and I know as health secretary the value of those services. On the stroke bundle as well, absolutely recognised that delivery of stroke care bundles is of crucial importance to the provision of high-quality stroke care. That is very much emphasised in the progressive stroke pathway. Monitoring of performance against the stroke bundle standards through the Scottish stroke care audit allows us to identify whether those gaps absolutely exist. You are not going to get a denial for me that there are gaps. There are challenges in the delivery of high-quality stroke care and where we need to implement quality improvements. I am aware that I am saying slightly over time, Deputy Presiding Officer, but at the last point I may just emphasise that the Scottish stroke audit is raised by a number of colleagues, Paul McLean in his contribution, Jackie Baillian in her contribution as well. Jackie Baillian was right to point out that there are clearly areas that we need to improve on. There have been some areas where there has been some improvement, such as brain imaging and aspirin initiation, but there are many other areas where we have seen standards slip. Obviously, it is largely down to the pressure of the pandemic, but Jackie Baillian is right to also mention that those were challenges pre-pandemic to. She has my assurance, as does everybody else in this chamber, that the psychological support needed for those who suffer from a stroke is at the forefront of our minds. I thank, once again, Gillian Mackay for bringing this important issue to the parliamentary chamber. Thank you, cabinet secretary. That concludes the debate. I close this meeting.


Good evening, everyone. I am making a short video on a very pathetic thing that is going on among our parents, our mothers, our fathers in Africa, in Africa especially. And this is the issue of cursing a child. This is the issue of cursing a child.  Open that one day this child will make it in life.  The same child you carried in your womb for nine months? Or if you are the father, the same child you have been taking care of right from his infant age or infant age? We are so busy cursing our children yet we go to churches, we go to the mosques, we try to pray for a very good future for them. When we have used our tongues to condemn them, when we have used our tongues to destroy them. So parents will look at their children and say because of what you have done to me it will never be well with you. Have you forgotten that there is power in the tongue, there is power of life and death in the tongue? And whatever you say today you might never be able to take it back again. This is how a lot of parents have destroyed their own children with their own hands. We go up and down seeking for ways to break curses that we made for ourselves. Today a lot of parents have gone to their graves with the destiny of their children because of their mouths, because of their own forgiving spirit, because of the ignorance. You see children going up and down looking for pastors, looking for imams, looking for abalests to break curses that has been put upon them, that has been laid upon them by their own parents, their mothers, their fathers. You can imagine some, they will go out as early as 5 o'clock in the morning some women, they will be naked holding their breasts and swearing for their children that it will never be well with you provided that was the one that gave birth to you. How would it be well with that child, the child that you poured blood on the very day you gave birth to? And you and I know that there is no bond stronger than the bond of love, of blood. God, there is an attachment that comes from there.  So this is why this video is pointing out to the fact that a lot of people are the witches and the wizards in the life of their children. Yet we go and sit every Sunday, we go and sit in the mosque, that we are praying for a good life, that we are praying for the destiny of our children. Yet we have destroyed it with our mouths, we have laid causes upon them.     If that child is praying for the witch to die, then you are the one that he or she is praying for. Most at times causes that are being laid by parents is the reason why children are being nothing in life.  They are fugitives, they are towns in the streets. Children that are with bright destiny are being reduced to nothing just because of the anger of their parents. Please stop cursing your child, show them love, speak into their lives.  And when the nemesis will begin to come, you might not know that you had a curse. You might not know that you had the origin of their problem. Bless them every morning, pray for them, speak positive things into their life. Think positive about them.  And with this, God will surely bless your children. And the sky shall be their starting point. Thank you very much. My name is Sonio Tini.


Good morning ladies and gentle truckers. My name is Pedro and you're watching Trucker Josh Thank you to Pedro for the intro. I appreciate that We're running these walked and runs back and forth together all last week and this week. So It's a good friend of mine. You can find him on Instagram. He takes amazing pictures These great pictures you've been seeing every now and then pop up in my vlogs. I don't take those I'm not good with pictures. I'm not even very good with video I'm just good with yapping and talking about nothing for a long period of time But Pedro is really good with his camera. Go check him out. I'll put his link down below in the description Talked about him before I've shown him in the past couple of weeks of logs He's got that purple Kenworth you saw in the intro there behind mine Great guy go give him a follow on Instagram So today you guessed it once again. We're on our way down to Wapden, North Dakota. It's been a good run Just got loaded. I'm ready to hit the road We're gonna go to Tim Hortons and Winkler again just because it's easier to get my truck close to the building last week I was stopping at the Timmy's and Carmen here But then it's very hard to get turned around because it's a two-lane road and it's west of here But I have to go south so I have to turn west go get my Timmy's figure out how I can turn around come back To this aisle and then go south here. It's very hard to turn around. I was getting kind of frustrated in the mornings I was like, well, there's got to be something better So I went on Google and I searched where the Tim Hortons locations are around me The much easier location to access in Winkler at the corner of Main Street and Highway 14 if you're familiar with the area Look at this lineup for the border I've seen worse, but Man, they must have like one window open or something This is probably about a half mile long I've seen it where it's been several miles long and the line keeps steadily moving forward So it's what it is. It shouldn't take us too long As fast as they come in they get shipped out. I guess that's why we're so busy I asked them and those are going straight to the fields. They're used for drainage I believe in the big fields here and they have to like I was telling you yesterday, right? They have to have them in the ground before the ground freezes and we have a few months before that but I Don't know if everybody waited till the last minute or I guess you had to wait till after harvest, right? You have to get the crop off the field first. I'm not a farmer. I'm just helping them out So tomorrow we got another one of these coming down to Wapton I was wondering where they were putting them all right because they're all along here You can see in the mirror there. They go all the way back there. I was just thinking like we've been hauling Hauling and hauling going back and forth here and I was wondering where are they putting them all? It looks like they're disappearing faster than we're bringing them It's because yeah as fast as we can bring them here. They're being shipped out and sold So I did some paperwork here took another 15 minutes to get me unloaded and really quick super quick like 15 minutes I was unloaded that guy over there was loaded with my stuff and he had it tied down It's been a really good week. I love doing this stuff but so after that I came in here did some paperwork I sent in my my proof of delivery Watched a little bit of tick-tock wasted about five minutes ten minutes Almost 15 maybe and I look down here. I'm like, oh if I stay here for another four minutes I get my half hour break And then I don't have to stop for a half hour down the road because I don't have quite enough hours To get to the border on my us hours of service I might but it'd be very close. I don't like cutting it that close I could just wait another couple of minutes here and I don't have to worry about running out of hours on the way north We're going back to karmic Maybe there's some farmers in my comment section who can explain to everybody what these are actually used for I know they're drainage For on the fields and you need lots of it How you use it or what do you like connect one end to a pump? And you pump the water There's not a lot of standing water out here right now though Is there I thought I would think you would need that more in springtime to pump all the water off the field Maybe that's what they're doing now. They're gonna get They're gonna get all these hoses in the ground before it freezes so that in springtime They don't have to that would make sense in springtime. They can't get into the ground because it's frozen So they'll put it in the ground this year the next year. They can just turn the pumps on and Pump all the water out of their field. Is that right any farmers in my comment section can verify that for me I mean, that's my best guess It's for the farmers Whatever it does it Helps them make me food and you know me. I like my food a little too much My engine fan always kicks up so much dust It's kind of annoying sometimes Because the engine's not even getting hot but when you idle and you got the air conditioning on especially when you're in reverse The engine fan will flip on right? Normally that wouldn't matter except mine seems to blow at the engine and all around Including straight down at the ground So when you're on a a lot like this with loose dust and loose gravel as soon as the engine fan comes on just whoo There's that big cloud of dust comes up and it just makes your truck filthy look at my hood I haven't gone off the pavement except for in this parking lot all week It's just when i'm here my engine pan kicks on And then all the dust sits on my truck some of it blows off once you get onto the highway But a lot of it stays on Well, what can you do? What can you do? There could be worse problems But uh, it doesn't mean that's not a problem. It's still a problem. It might be a first world problem But still a problem Let's go Sing for me all blue Sing me your song Let's get all this dust blown off of you Best we can Like I've said before for fuel economy reasons My average speed is between 62 and 65 miles an hour That's where this truck likes to sit. It gets the best fuel mileage there I've been averaging just over seven miles per gallon this week us gallons And i'm pretty happy with that Some of these other guys are like saying oh, yeah, i'm getting eight nine miles per gallon. Huh, that's nice But you don't have one of these I've got to pay the hood tax I'm fine with that The car when we go let's grab another one tomorrow is thursday, I believe right Yes thursday tomorrow and then one more on friday. Maybe we'll see we're playing it day by day here And then the weekend it's a long weekend in canada. It's thanksgiving weekend. That's canadian thanksgiving It's exactly the same as american Thanksgiving. We all get together with our families and eat turkey and way too much food We just do our thanksgiving in october because our harvest season is Earlier than most of the harvest season in the u.s. It's our fall comes sooner november. It could be snow on the ground already So we have october canadian thanksgiving Same as yours And then in november we have memorial day, which is the same as your veterans day in the u.s and then after Remembrance day. Sorry. I called it memorial day. It's uh, that's an american holiday too. I believe it's called remembrance day Everybody wears a red poppy, which is like a red flower to remember our our soldiers Anyways after a remembrance day on the 15th. I believe of november It is straight down hill to christmas. Whoo Gal chit Gal chit Gal chit gal chit That way Oh, we got a fire something's on fire trip behind my mirror right now What is that? That looks like a pretty big fire. If I wasn't in the big commercial truck. I'd go and uh Check it out. Oh my god. It's gotta be something big There's only farms in this area Barns aren't burning down or I should word that better. I hope it's not someone's barn burning down I gotta english correctly It doesn't look as big in the fisheye lens, but that is a big big column of smoke I don't know what was burning. It couldn't figure it looked pretty big though, right? It looked like that was a fire that was probably not on purpose Or maybe it was on purpose, but it turned into a whole lot of not on purpose real quick This will find out, uh, we'll probably forget about it tomorrow about time we go past there. Maybe they'll People see what it was then no idea but But it looks a bit for the rest of this week We're going to be doing these uh walk and run still and then it's long weekend I think I was telling you it's Canadian Thanksgiving. It's coming weekend. I'm looking forward to eating way too much And then let's remember and stay I told you this right When I say it's all it's downhill to Christmas from remembrance day That's a good kind of downhill It's meaning you just like put it into mexican overdrive and you just fly down the hill Your hands in the air. Whoo I love christmas I love because brit loves christmas our whole family both sides love christmas It's our favorite season favorite time of year. We have to hold ourselves back Okay, and we hold ourselves back until after remembrance day That's as much as I can do and then we go kind of crazy And I know I always get the comments from our wonderful american neighbors like what about Thanksgiving That's why we have our Thanksgiving in october So that we get that out of the way so that we can focus on the important stuff Christmas But you shouldn't put up christmas decorations before remembrance day I I would love to and I used to and I used to do that in honor of remembrance day because we're remembering that we can Celebrate this season because of those who came before us who went to war and died for my right to celebrate Christmas So I used to put up my christmas decorations as like a thank you as a tribute to our past soldiers but people people Well people on my vlog here. They didn't like that too much still and uh, I know they got a point Uh, they talked me into it, you know hold off hold off You know, we'll keep the leash on me until after remembrance day and then and then You can let me free and wild But thanks for tuning in this is a little bit of a short short update video for you guys today And uh, we'll get these uh pipes all I don't know if you call pipes or hose Is it a hose or is it a pipe? Because I think it's a hose because you roll it up in a big ball right and you put it on my trailer A pipe to me is straight and you stack them up But a hose you can roll up but they call this pipe It's a pipe hose or a hose pipe Anyways, all of this stuff has to get onto the fields actually on the way home today I didn't put it on the camera, but the fields alongside the i29 I could already see where this stuff was being delivered to You could see it out on the fields. I guess the farmers I don't know like how I already tried to explain it before I don't know exactly what they do with it But I'm seeing it out on the fields already and maybe uh, hopefully somebody in the comment section Can't educate me a little bit on what's going on with this this hose pipe. It's pipe hose It doesn't really matter to me what they use it for but I'm I appreciate it that they're buying so much of it It's keeping me very busy I hope it's helping you in whatever, uh, you're using it for Hope it's useful to you I'll see you tomorrow. I got a bit more footage for tomorrow already. I edited this video a day late So for me now filming this clip, it's already thursday night I'm gonna put together thursday's video right away too. We've got a lot more footage today Uh, there's four of us down there unloading at the same time Uh, I gotta show you all their trucks.  It's nice, right? Uh, Ernie's also got a really nice peter bill with a us air ride front suspension and fresh paint job You're gonna love that and then mic also has a very nice Kenworth also it's got an anteater nose, but he keeps it clean and mint. It looks awesome I'm gonna show it in tomorrow's video So you get to, uh, see a couple of the guys that i've been working with here for the past couple of weeks That's in tomorrow's video. Today's video is finished I'll see you later. Don't forget to hit that like button and subscribe


Really important question. Do you watch my YouTube channel? I haven't. What's going on, everybody? Welcome back to another video. Today I have some very special guests on. I have my family, so my mom, my dad, my brother and my sister. I asked them some questions relating to what I do in data analytics, as well as some questions about my YouTube channel.  And I had a ton of fun making it. You may also hear my wife, she was sitting right over here while I was filming. I didn't include her in this episode because several months back, we had an episode and she answered almost all of these questions in that one. Without further ado, let's call my family and we'll see what happens. Dad. Hey, mom. Jody. Probably. How's it going? It's going really well. How's it going? I have some questions for you. So I have a list of questions that I'm going to ask you. And I just want your honest. Completely impromptu answers and we'll just go from there. All right, let's see. All right, you ready? My first question for you is what do I do for a living? That is a fantastic answer. You're one for one so far. Nice. Yes, you're there. You go in the right realm. OK, all right, fair enough. My job title is a data analyst. What do I do for a living? That is spot on. You know, Jody thought I was a consultant. Mom thought I were the first when I first moved to Texas. I was working at that nonprofit and she still thought it works there. I was like, that's like four years ago. What does a data analyst do? That is a fantastic answer. What is it? Can you elaborate on that just a little bit? My mind was just blown. That was probably a better description than I could have given myself. And you also threw in the word synthesize, which is pretty impressive, to be honest. Oh, OK. No, that's good. That's good. I don't know what it means. I was wondering if you knew what a data analyst does or if you know what I do in my actual job. I will say you are really close, except the job that you're referring to was a job I had like three years ago. It did sound good.  Yeah, that's pretty close. Definitely in the ballpark. Yeah, that's spot on. Again, much better answer than Jody. He's doing well. He's doing well. You're on top of you're on top of the game. All right. Next question. Do you watch my YouTube channel? Yeah, I get what you're saying. So you've seen a one episode. I have seen the most important. All right, fair enough. I can respect that. Why? Why? Why are you guys only watching that one video? The junk, what junk? There's no junk on my channel. It's all gold. I understand. Is there a reason? Should I send you a link? Should I send you a link? What are you? How much money do you think I make? That's not that's not too far off. I make I make close to 100. Oh, thank you. I appreciate it. Christine's happy about it. Well, I don't know about that one. No, you're closer. I think you're closer than dad was. I called him earlier. I think he said 70. Then mom, mom was the closest. She said 90. I think though we've talked about that before, so I'm pretty sure she cheated. Yeah. Do you think my YouTube channel will be successful? If you keep putting up content and being consistent with it. Absolutely. Yeah, that was for data science. I don't know how I got on that that poll or whatever it was. Yeah, no, I'll take it. All right. Do you need me to elaborate? No, that's all I need. That's all I needed to know. I just wanted to know if you believe in me. That's the first time I've ever heard that. I just that's all I've ever wanted was for you to believe in me. All right, that's all I needed to hear. I just needed someone to believe in me. I just need to one person. Mom, dad, Robbie, they all said it was going to fail. I needed one person to say that was going to be no, she did. She said yes.  Anything else or just that one? OK, I agree. I've been there. I think we've all been there. Would you say that I am your favorite child? Would you say that I am your favorite brother? Well, that was devastating. Last question.  But what do you think my next video should be about? I'll take that into consideration. It could. Why not? A video on how to parent, how to be a good parent, like how to be a good parent. I really think you'd enjoy seeing your favorite son making videos and being happy. I think everybody needs to know how to analyze data and figure out results based off of this. So yes, I do think you should watch my channel. I'll put yours and dad's and Robbie's and Jody's all into a poll and whoever gets the highest one. Yeah, yeah, no, I'm going to call them next. Oh, that's actually a really good one. You know, pie charts are a highly debated topic in my field. They've made away. That may be the nerdiest thing I've ever said. I know that's a much safer bet for sure. It's all going to start somewhere. Yeah, because I don't claim to be a fantastic parent. I'm just I can claim to not be a terrible one, though. But you have somewhere to start.