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Father we come to the throne of grace we thank you for all the time you have given us we thank you for the prayer and intercession Lord we are going to study about Lord we thank you for all the time you have given us the blessing you are giving us a lot the day you have given us we thank you for whatever the way you bless us Lord we and whatever the way we are studying Lord whatever we are going to study Lord let it should be used in our daily life Lord it should be used for the expansion of your kingdom Lord whatever we will study Lord whatever ma'am is going to teach us Lord we pray for all the students Lord what all the for the teacher all over faculty Lord whatever Lord pastor this Lord we pray whatever this APC biologist is doing us Lord in our whatever the seed of your what they are putting in our they are sewing in our heart Lord let it should be used for the expansion of your kingdom Lord we thank you for this time we thank you for this day Lord we thank you for this hour we are going to spend in your presence Lord whatever we will be learning Lord let it should be avoided in our heart Lord in Jesus name we pray amen amen amen thank you thank you Siddh Keno thank you for that prayer so we will get into today's session we are talking about ministering okay ministering through prayer so so far our focus was ourselves and our personal prayer life and how we are going to see that strengthened in God and we talked about you know some of the things that we can do to develop our own personal life with the Lord and then we saw some some aspects which are kind of deeper so we we said traveling in prayer you know intercession we we touched on those things how do we begin to minister to others okay so now what we're going to do is yes we are continuing to talk about intercession which has to do with blessing others but we will look at a better understanding of what intercession is as a ministry and what is the right way of us doing this intercessory prayer okay so in the last class I introduced to you a man called Epaphras Epaphras was a minister whom Paul trained in Ephesus and in Ephesus there were people from many places who had come to get trained okay through the teachings of Paul so Epaphras was one of those people he was from Colosse he went back to Colosse he planted the church there and we also see Paul addressing you know when he writes to the Colossian church Paul ever went there but he talks about Epaphras who has been a faithful minister of God and to the extent that he stayed with Paul when he was under Homerist in the in Rome so he mentions this man Epaphras and you know he he makes these or uses these descriptions he says born servant of Christ Epaphras okay just a moment yeah Colossians 4 verses 12 and 13 Epaphras who is one of you a born servant of Christ greets you always laboring fervently for you in prayers that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God so that is the explanation or the description that he gives of Epaphras and his ministry and he says Paul says about Epaphras that he has great zeal for the Colossians and also for those who live in Laudecia and Herapolis so these are all you know places which are closed by this shows us that an individual who is not physically present in a given location you know that person can continue to minister to the people through prayer okay so apparently Laudecia was from Colossia it was about 12 miles away and Herapolis was about 14 miles away okay yet from a distance you know ministry can still be done and that is the beauty of prayer ministry we can be so far away and today we are all connecting globally isn't it so is it possible to pray for people who are in another country other you know a part of the globe most certainly we can do that and Epaphras specifically you know he used to engage in prayer and that's what we understand here now there is no limit of time or distance or location in uh intercessory ministry and usually what happens you know when we engage in uh intercession how many of us love it how many of you totally love intercession let me hear from you and if you do love it why do you like it or you know let's say okay like okay i'm using the term like how many of you like intercessory ministry and why do you like it okay Subash is saying yes so why do you like it Subash it's an opportunity to pray for others taking their burden and pleading for their then before the Lord and when actually we see the results then we are thankful to Lord that because of my prayers now they are blessed okay okay thank you so much thank you for sharing so you can we share in the burden but we also share in the joy when the answer to prayer comes and you know that's what intercession is supposed to be right like you're serving them you're standing in the gap on behalf of the person who needs the prayers that we are making so yeah so Subash says that you know you can share in the joy and that's why he likes it how about the others okay Lubega it gives me a hard time for sure but praying for God's grace okay Lubega that makes two of us it's not easy for most of us i'm sure but thank you for being honest many of us struggle right it's a lot easier to pray for ourselves and it's quite difficult to earnestly pray for others but that's what the spirit of God produces in us right when we see the fruit of the spirit it's not for selfishness but we're led by the spirit to do what you know God wants us to do through our lives so as part of the the fruit of the spirit is love we extend that love we extend that faithfulness towards others towards God and in our flesh we will not be able to do it okay so thanks Lubega very very honest answer there so yeah for for many of us it's not easy to pray for others okay so those of us who like to pray for others you're engaging in the necessary ministry why do you like it okay yes Rosalind i can see your hand raised please go ahead ma'am i just want to share like what i do i just want to know it's the right way to do because normally whenever any request if it has to be to like pray for somebody like i'll just go on i'll just place the request before God and then i will ask go ask the Holy Spirit to pray with me and i'll be like interceding in tongues so for like you know maybe 20 minutes of 15 minutes like till that burden is off from my spirit so this is how i do it ma'am so is this like right way yeah sure Rosalind i think it's fine it's fine it's like mostly in words i don't i avoid but then i go on in the spirit okay and then i see the result also okay okay yeah it's fine rosalind yes yes it's okay so we could pray in the spirit till we excuse me till we come to a place of experiencing peace in our hearts so at least then we know that you know whatever we have prayed for god has excuse me everyone a little bit of sneezing going on over here so anyway so we pray till we receive God's peace and you know that way we know that we have prayed through to the extent that god wanted us to and as paul wrote right i pray with my i pray in the spirit i pray with my understanding i sing with my spirit i sing with my understanding so yes rosalind there's nothing wrong with praying in tongues but we can also pray with words okay as led by god the god might put certain words in our hearts and we can pray with the words also yeah okay thank you okay sure sure thank you and here in the comments brother abdish says scripture says that if you are blessing anybody you will also be blessed okay great great so that's another motivation so when i'm praying for someone god will bless me so ultimately it comes back to me isn't it so yeah that's true that's true but indeed to have that heart for intercession we really have to put god first and put others before us then the via intercession helps in building faith too for myself and the person we are praying for okay great yeah sure so it helps build our faith so these are all some positive reasons why we would like to engage in intercession for others okay and as i told you it may come easy when we are praying for family members or people who are close to us but when we pray for things which do not directly affect us okay holy spirit is telling us to pray but those things are not directly connected to us it may be somewhat challenging at least in the beginning because we are not able to see the direct impact of it but the key is to be led by the spirit to be aligned to what the holy spirit is telling us to do when we are in our prayer time now having said all this you know intercession uh the motivation to intercede it's not always uh how do i put it you know most people are not motivated because if you ask about uh preaching okay and let's say there is an opportunity to preach and there are 10 believers uh or 10 10 leaders with us and tell them who wants to preach everybody's hands will go up maybe because i don't know it could also be that you know it's it's more like a ministry where where you you do it and there is some validation there is some appreciation right that one might receive after they have preached or let's say you sing you lead worship uh some validation uh you sang well you you ministered well we could experience the presence of god it's uh you know in one sense it feels rewarding but what about intercession you know quietly one goes and they pray it might feel like not that it's going unrecognized uh because it's being recognized by god but before people right it might feel like nobody knows you know uh i can keep praying like this what is the use you know who knows i'm an intercessor so you know these kind of thoughts can also get us but the key thing is that we must do what god is calling us to do and when god is calling us to intercede for others and i told you in the last class we're talking about epiphras not just because he was a believer who was interceding but he was carrying that call of an intercessory ministry you know so there there is a greater grace to minister that is his area where where uh you know god wants him to serve in intercessory prayer so it's a ministry that god is calling him to do so we are we are not just talking about little bit of intercession that we may do in our personal lives this is more this is intercession as a ministry now epiphras is a person who was interceding for people in colose in hierapolis in laudacia as a ministry he said that was his core ministry and though such a ministry you know we might think that uh there's no recognition from men it's very important when we are called to intercessory ministry to recognize that our appreciation our validation right uh our answers to prayer it comes from god so god is watching us god is listening to us god will take notice god will reward that faith one must carry especially the person who's engaging in intercessory ministry now we also touched on uh you know few other things in the last class we said based on the introduction of paul of epiphras we realized that he was not just an ordinary man you know how we might say ah he's an intercessor you know in a in a very uh normal way as if to say that it's nothing uh there's nothing special about someone who is engaging in intercessory ministry paul didn't speak about epiphras like that instead he said he's a bond servant and i told you in the last class bond servant has to do he generally used that term as a term which was also used for apostles or ministers of god so that same seriousness that same honor that same uh you know affirmation is given to somebody in the intercessory ministry okay so is an intercessor somewhat low whom uh you know we don't equate with others who may be preaching or planting churches and doing other wonderful things not at all in fact it's very similar no wonder paul is calling that person also a bond servant who is serving through prayer ministry then he says laboring fervently now laboring fervently again is applicable to every other ministry if you take a teacher of the word you know there's diligent study of the word rightly dividing the word of god then imparting the word of god with the anointing so laboring fervently comes into the picture paul uses the same uh you know way of describing an intercessor somebody who is laboring fervently so a true intercessor somebody who's carrying that call and that anointing they don't pray you know like quick fix prayers and call it intercession yeah over finished no but they are engaging it's like warfare right they continue to pray they don't stop maybe god has put somebody on their hearts and you know god wants this person to pray and i know of people who pray for others you know for months for years uh or several times till they see something happen in that individual's life so laboring fervently which is talked about by other for other ministries it's also talked about for intercessory prayer so a true intercessor will put in the effort put in the work you know have that heart to see the results when they engage in prayer so laboring fervently to see the results in other words it's not a casual ministry okay i'll pray if god works let him work if he doesn't work it's okay you know not that kind of an attitude that we find paul also use terms like perfect and complete okay so epiphrasis laboring fervently so that the believers can become perfect and complete now perfect perfection and completion is maturity if you take for example uh teaching ministry you know that the teachers teach or if you take all the five-fold ministry offices why are they laboring in evisions 413 we see that so that people come to perfection or they grow up in god they come to maturity in god become a perfect man it says so similar to the five-fold ministry and what each one is engaging in the goal is the same even for intercessory prayer one when we pray you know we can truly see such a result in the lives of the believers that they grow into maturity right so through intercession one can invest in praying for people's maturity and then you know there is great zeal that paul talks about in the life of epiphrase in the ministry of epiphrase intercessory prayer we just discussed that we said it doesn't come easy to most of us and think about epiphrase you know a lot of praying going on in his life was he excited about it from what paul is writing yes great zeal or passionate he was very very passionate about prayer and intercession for the people so you know it gives us a a new way of looking at somebody who's graced with intercessory ministry they are not just ordinary or they are not you know second-class ministers or they are not you know unrecognized ministers they are very much like all the other ministers who are serving you know as pastors as teachers who's as prophets as you know in their different capacities so we should not look down on the ministry of intercession okay that's the whole point that we were trying to make and one must be excited about the opportunity to minister through intercession okay so are we are we good so far any thoughts any questions at this point yeah yeah Rosalind please go ahead you're fine you're fine okay good good good i was just looking at the comments here and the way i was saying sometimes intercession it can become a kind of a routine and it can be very challenging and Rosalind says intercession is mostly behind the scenes okay all right yeah it's true it's true we have to press through right and you know uh what we said laboring fervently i think even laboring through the monotony sometimes is necessary uh okay yeah divya please go ahead you have a something to share sorry past man said and mean to interrupt uh yeah yeah so i uh had this question regarding here since we are talking about epifras uh intercession is it in the context of you know praying for a congregation or is it like those individual you know prayers that we make for individuals also taken into account yes yes divya thank you for that so uh see what we are trying to say is now for example if you take prophecy okay uh believers prophesying uh i mean i'm giving you a completely different parallel okay just for for understanding sake believers prophesying uh is like using the gift of prophecy okay through the holy spirit but when we talk about somebody who has a prophetic ministry it's more than an ordinary believer who is the person with the prophetic ministry has the grace so we generally say like grace gift of ministry grace gift of prophecy so the person has you know the prophetic going on in whatever they do okay so it's it's like a prophesying believer i'm just giving you for your understanding prophesying believer grace gift of prophecy and then we talk about office prophetic office you know somebody who's functioning at a very uh higher authority in that same anointing okay so there's a difference there's a difference so far we have understood what intercession is intercession is just going to God on behalf of somebody else so normal intercession we pray for others that's okay but ministering through prayer the context in which i'm teaching you is more like somebody who has that grace to be uh an intercessor you know what i mean all of us are intercessors but there are some who are called for that who have the grace to do that okay so uh yeah so that's how we are looking at uh you know what i'm teaching today the way does it does it make sense yeah sure sure pastor uh yeah it makes sense yeah so i was trying to understand like how would anyone know that they are called to a ministry of intercession or not yeah yeah yeah i think the way one could know divya is uh uh you know generally it's like you get you just get started on it and then you will see you know god affirming it as you go along you'll have more opportunities you'll just find that you have more grace to do that okay uh so basically you step into it and then it becomes better and stronger and then you realize oh wow i'm called for this sure sure thank you thank you that's yeah sure sure divya so that's the way in which we can also discover it but talking about intercessory prayer and ministry of intercession uh you know we said it's definitely an important ministry we should not think that you know this is a second class ministry just because you don't have intercessors out there right in the open praying before us yeah right so rosalind says burden for others will draw us to intercede that's right yeah so just because the intercessory minister or the intercessor is not out there in the open how can we keep ourselves motivated you know jesus taught us this he said that when we go and we go behind closed doors right and we pray we shut the door and pray matthew six versus five and six but when you pray go into your room and when you have shut your door pray to your father who is in the secret place and your father who sees in secret will reward you openly okay so here is our motivation when we are behind closed doors or in other words nobody notices what we are doing our heart has to be uh confident in the fact that god who sees us will reward us openly so in secret we are investing in intercessory prayer intercessory ministry but how does the reward for that come openly so that is why we always say you know time prayer whether it is intercession or whether it is personal prayer or whatever time spent in prayer is never wasted why because it's like an investment we pray god sees us in secret and then he rewards us openly so that should be a great motivation for those of us who are called to the ministry of intercession or if not ministry of intercession even ministry even intercession in general we should be happy that god hears us and god will reward us now the other thing that will encourage us when we think about intercession is that you know our prayers they go like sacrifice incense before the lord you know if you look back at the temple worship they had incense incense would go up and it would fill the place and that is something god had asked for fragrance right but we are told like Psalm 141 verse 2 here it says let my prayer be said before you as an incense so our prayer in other words it is pleasing to god to me might think how much will god hear my prayer won't he get bored okay or won't he be tired of hearing these prayers instead what the bible teaches us is that god is pleased whenever sincere prayer comes before him it is like incense it is like fragrance it makes god happy it's like the evening sacrifice Revelation 5 and verse 8 you know that again tells us the same thing there are in god's presence there are bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the saints so our prayers are directly reaching the presence of god okay think about that what a great opportunity what a great privilege so anytime as an intercessor we feel that what is this nobody knows it's so tedious to concentrate and pray for others okay or I don't know if this is of any use we can remind ourselves of all these things when we pray in secret god will reward us openly my prayer is like incense in the presence of the lord it is like evening sacrifice right and my prayers go directly into the presence of god so he can be assured that our time our energy our effort of praying for others will never be wasted and that should be motivation enough for us to engage in intercessory prayer and this is a ministry okay intercession is a ministry what is a ministry when we say something is a ministry what do we mean by that anyone intercession is a ministry so what is the meaning of that a service i don't cannot say service okay yes yes elasha please go ahead yeah um it is meeting the serving to meet the needs of people thank you so you're saying ministry means to meet the needs of people is it yes yes okay great great wonderful so service and meeting the needs of people that's true intercession is a service okay and we are here every ministry that we do it's not you know yes we are blessed personally we are blessed when we when we serve others but the main focus is others the main focus is we are building up people in the body of christ and thus you know we are serving the lord himself so this is a intercession is a ministry where we have the opportunity to serve others now we may not meet them we may not even know them but we can still bless them we can serve them through the prayers that we pray for them and the privilege of intercessory prayer is this that we can engage in this anywhere anytime okay anywhere anytime so we can talk about some instructions that will be helpful for engaging in intercessory prayer now god calls us to pray you know one challenge i told you is feeling unrecognized okay now to compensate for that it can so happen that we want to go and tell everybody right that i'm an intercessor and you know god put this on my heart and i prayed and it happened like this or i prayed and it did not happen like this so what we see in scriptures we don't see people doing that in fact we just saw how jesus said go and pray in secret and i will reward you and open so though it is hard an intercessor it is good if they don't try to you know go around sharing all these details with others and if it is with the intention of promoting oneself okay and this can happen in every ministry not just an intercession it's not required no we just trust that if god has called us to do this ministry and he is equipping us surely there will be a result and if god wants others to know that hey this person is called to intercessory prayer and others will know you will come to that place of being recognized but we don't try to promote ourselves by letting everybody know that hey you know i'm an intercessor i'm an intercessor not required okay then uh when it comes to uh you know intercession we trust that no we are doing it to serve the people okay so it should again not be used as something like uh how do i say this you know depending on the issues for example let's say uh a pastor okay and a pastor he decides he or she decides that i don't want to construct a building for my church and there are some intercessors in the church who are praying and they get a revelation that okay you know there's going to be a church building constructed by the congregation so they start praying for that now it would be totally wrong if the intercessors try to pressure or they try to i mean they may or may not know that it's manipulation but you know they try to push the pastor and say you have to decide to start construction right away because that's what god told us that's what we are praying for and you have to do it right but ultimately it's the pastor's decision if the pastor says no i don't want to get into construction right now because we don't have the money or okay you heard from god but i have not yet heard from god you know things like that it's okay it's okay so the duty of the intercessor is to if god has revealed something to us uh we have to pray that through right faithfully we're not here to push people around based on what has been revealed to us and what we are praying for others okay so uh it shouldn't be used as something to pressure people that's the point i'm making okay and it is very much possible through intercessory ministry it's very much possible to do this uh to others but we must be careful let's say god reveals something very important to us okay and we are praying about it but the good thing to do would be to keep it to yourself and continue praying for it right most of the time i told you this and we did prophetic prayer most of the time god reveals something for us to pray through not necessarily go and tell everybody about it but we start praying about it you know if god gives a specific instruction and says i want you to go and share this with so and so or i want you to stand up and share this you know with your life group or with your congregation and of course with the pastor's permission you are free to do that but most revelation that we receive it is good to simply pray through okay so these are some instructions that will help us pray uh in such a way that we're not promoting ourselves we're not using this this ministry to uh pressure others you know uh and try to direct others the way we want them to go but instead we are using this ministry to serve others so the good part is that when we pray for others you know we uh we can uh be we can receive the peace of god in our hearts that we have done our part to bless them right so uh in some cases you and i might see the results for example if let's say a parent they have prayed for their child for many years and they want to uh god has told them that they will be that he will be working through that child in a certain way in the ministry and this parent has prayed all along for many years and for whatever reason you know the parent is not alive when this child actually steps into the ministry the parent is not there to see that the child is actually now you know moving in the things that he or she prayed for so in some instances the intercessor may not get to see what they prayed for but it is reward enough to be in the presence of god it's reward enough to pray through those prayers it's reward enough to receive the joy and the assurance you know of uh god when we pray for that individual it's uh it's it's you know joyful to see that person making the journey and god uh working in that person's life so what i'm saying is we may not see the end result now if even if you take something like praying for a nation or something like praying for a region or a city there are people who have prayed for years they've prayed for decades they've prayed for revival for i don't know centuries right but they may not have seen the results however one thing we know every precession we receive the peace of god we receive the joy of god you know we are touched by the presence of god and we stand in assurance okay we have prayed we believe that in the spiritual realm god is doing something so by his spirit he's able to give us that assurance now in some instances yes as some of you pointed out we hear the testimony uh you prayed for that sick person that person is now out of the hospital or you prayed that person did not have money to pay their fees they now they paid their fees a miracle happened so we are able to rejoice with the results that we see but in many instances we may not see immediate results okay and yet we can still walk in joy and peace and uh the presence of god as intercessors trusting that god is working right and uh god has his own timing of doing things in the lives of people now as some of you pointed out i had a good motivation for us is that when we pray for others god is so faithful that he will release blessings on our lives okay so there is a passage here from job 42 and verse 10 uh would somebody like to read this please it's on page 52 end of the page job 42 and verse 10 job 42 verse 10 and the lord restored jobs losses when he prayed for his friends indeed the lord gave job twice as much as he had before wow thank you divya so comforting and so encouraging couple of things we notice here is job is interceding he's praying for his friends okay uh that itself brings him of what he had lost but in this particular incident job is also praying for those who betrayed him in a sense isn't it he expected a lot more support from his friends when he was going through a difficult time and these people were not supportive at all on the other hand their words were breaking his spirit so job is praying that is one thing but second thing here is he's also walking in forgiveness very hard very very hard uh and uh uh based on what he has been through he's blessing those who did not bless him in his difficult time but this is what god is showing us he's saying look the reward comes from me i am your rewarder if you walk in the right path and in this case forgiveness and blessing you know those who uh uh like you bless those who persecute you right you pray for those uh who who speak evil things against you god will bless us back and god tells us that you know uh when we pray for others surely our lives will also be blessed okay uh god doesn't forget us as individuals and say okay you forget about yourself you only pray for others no but he's so sensitive so thoughtful our god that he says okay you are praying for others you are ministering to others i'm also a god i know how to bless you and in this case when joe prayed for his friends they received he received twice of what he had lost so uh at this point uh i'm just gonna pause and uh maybe we can discuss any any other thoughts about intercession any questions that you might have we can try to answer them uh first nancy i just had uh something it's not related to this topic okay it's related to prayer uh so i was having a conversation with one of my friends and she was talking about the prayer language uh and praying in tongues so i just wanted to i i got a little confused with these two terms so are they the same and uh and can you also uh help me with Romans 8 26 to 27 where it says uh yeah the spirit intercedes in yeah yeah thank you so divya prayer language okay generally it is used for tongues many people use that they say tongues is a prayer language it's a god-given prayer language so it's it's just a way of identifying uh you know praying in the spirit so what confused you what exactly confused you about that um yeah so this is uh Romans 8 26 and 27 so this particular reference uh so since uh like according to what i've been taught like even in the bible college yeah so uh i i have understood it as you know the praying in tongues right it is referring yeah so there was some term uh like in in in kjv i think it's wordless wordless groans uh it says and i'm not sure if it is in kjv uh so so uh there was like is it the tongues really you know your your uttering sounds or it's wordless right so my friend is saying uh like it is you're just uh like in in your heart like in your spirit your praying it's not not related to tongues so i got a bit confused with that so even i was um yeah yeah i was just yeah sure sure i i get your point divya so yes tongues is a language and romans 8 26 and 27 uh i think we have talked in this class only about it where you have the the spirit of god coming alongside you right so he comes alongside he takes a hold of you he empowers you to pray in the will of god for his purposes now yes uh you know some translations use uh you you see that you know what what your friend mentioned groaning size and groans it's part of the language divya it's part of the language okay uh and that doesn't mean size and groans doesn't mean it's empty there is some communication of the spirit that shows up as size and groans now uh just a simple thing that i have experienced in my life this was a family uh who are from a different background okay for many many years and this one uncle he never believed he never believed even though his wife is a believer and uh you know they they came to church and uh it was one of those Sundays where we were praying for the holy spirit baptism and we prayed for uh you know this person and many other people while others were speaking in languages this individual you know what we are saying groaning sighing and then you know he at one point he was he was weeping like a baby that was the manifestation which we saw as compared to the languages which others were speaking i mean in my experience i have usually seen you know baptism of the holy spirit they start saying something like something like that but for the first time i'm looking at this person and i'm sure he can't be faking it because he's like this grown man who for a long time resisted god's word but finally he accepted and he came for holy spirit baptism and you know he would in the in the natural he would be embarrassed to to sigh and groan and weep like that but it was happening in front of our eyes so for me you know i i took a lesson from that and i thought oh yeah this this sounds like uh what romance 8 26 27 says but the release of that that language that heavenly language was in this form so it's part of the language is what i would say mm-hmm yeah yeah yeah god okay see for us it doesn't entail anything i'm just going like uh or something but how do i know what it means in spirit to god what i'm saying yeah yeah it doesn't make sense yeah so see one syllable can mean so much but we can't understand all that we just have to trust what the word says when we speak in an unknown tongue we speak mysteries unto god no we pray in the will of god we have we should have faith huh that's exactly what's happening right now i'm praying in the will of god i'm speaking mysteries unto god i'm going to receive the blessings from god yeah yeah it's clear it's clear thank you sure sure yeah sure and i think rosalind is also uh adding to that here in the chat she's saying groaning is utterance in the spirit but spoken language by a believer only the holy spirit knows yeah sure sure so uh yes class uh i think we have uh gone a little past our time uh but i would still encourage you to think about intercession and tomorrow's class let's start with some questions on intercession and then we will proceed on to the next topic okay so at the moment we are going to wrap up with the word of prayer and just want to encourage uh how about jeffina jeffina you want to pray so we can close today okay not sure if she's able to pray uh elaysha elaysha are you okay to pray okay okay anyone then can i pray yeah yeah please go thank you father thank you lord for all that uh father you're teaching us lord thank you father for um you're revealing us lord uh the uh what the holy spirit has inspired in your word father lord what we can learn father from the life of people lord in the bible yes father lord we thank you and praise you father for your reward is with us father lord and it is not for uh lord our self exaltation or anything father that any ministry is done yes lord the our reward is with you and you thank you lord that you uh speak to us that it is more blessed to give than to receive yes lord thank you and praise you that our uh standard is jesus christ thank you that you showed us uh that the son of man came not to be served but to serve we thank you and praise you lord for all the uh occupying father of the holy spirit that you have uh provided father lord so as to edify each other father lord and all that you've given us to edify ourselves as well father lord we thank you and praise you uh for every blessing lord thank you for pastor nancy father lord continue to bless the lord we pray for uh complete the recovery lord from all the cold father lord i pray your um uh complete recovery over her lord uh in the name of jesus we thank and praise you for each and every student father lord thank you father for ministering to us father thank you lord for um helping us lord we we trust father that in the coming days lord we will uh lord apply father and move uh father explore in these areas rather than these ministries father lord we thank you and praise you in jesus precious name praying amen amen and thank you thank you divya thank you for praying for me also god bless yeah thank you man thank you thank you everyone god bless you have a wonderful day and we shall meet tomorrow again okay so see you tomorrow bye amen thank you thank you thank you brother bye god bless thank you everyone


Hi, welcome to this currency snapshot. We're focusing today on the Euro sterling pair. Now there's just a confluence of potential resistance in and around the 0.7930 to 50 area. We've already seen what is close to a bearish engulfing daily candlestick from that area. What we want to just see is if there's any scope for this move lower that's already started to pick up steam and pick up to the downside. Now if we just look at this chart here we can see that we've got this rising trend line that's been broken. We've come back, we've retested it. We have these two former areas of resistance. We also have this 50% retracement of the decline which you can see here and we also have the the RSI rolling over just around the sort of 50 mark. So a few reasons to believe that actually we could see further downside from here. If we look why we've topped out around the 81 area, this is something we've highlighted previously. This is the the big drop in Euro sterling that kicked off in February 2013. We've now pulled back 61.8% of that almost precisely. I should mention that this same level you can see more closely on the on the daily chart fits in just around the 200 week moving average as well. So a host of technical indications that this is going to be a hard area for for Euro sterling to push through. Now what events do we have that could have this move lower? Today we obviously have the non-farm payrolls. Now payrolls is obviously a dollar focused event so for that we would then want to look at Euro dollar and cable just to see what the likelihood of moves are there. Now both both charts have put some fairly bearish-looking candles in this week. Now you can see this shooting star formation on the Euro sterling chart. Again if we pull out to the the weekly chart we can see that this this is basically a big false break of this sort of 15, 115 area on the Euro sterling. So that if we close the week as we are that's looking quite weak for Euro. Now weakness for the Euro dollar pair obviously adds to Euro sterling weakness but of course we have to look at cable as well to see if cable looks set to weaken against the dollar too. That has seen another big drop. We've seen a bearish engulfing candlestick on the cable chart. You can see that here where we had this big push into new highs and then a big drop down and that does correspond with the highs that we saw back in January. We've got a false breakthrough those highs failed above 147 and now we're looking lower again. So both these pairs looking bearish I think the probably the decisive factor in this NFP report if it is going to be the trigger that helps us push Euro sterling level it's just the fact that the Euro is a bigger component of the dollar index. So the default assumption would be if both charts are looking perhaps equally bearish in terms of cable and Euro dollar then you would say that actually maybe the emphasis is for Euro to fall a bit more just because it's a bigger part of the dollar index. So if we do see a positive report from the US more jobs created than expected faster wage growth than expected then the likelihood the default assumption would be that the Euro dollar pair falls more than the Euro pound more than the pound dollar and that would translate to more weakness in Euro cable in Euro pound. So again if we just flip back to where we started this is the chart we've got in mind that's the weekly chart the big level and these are the the confluence of reasons to suggest that maybe 0.790 to 0.795 though is an important area. Now obviously should we push back through that area especially today but even in the next few days they'll close above that 0.7950 ish would pretty much negate this whole situation and would actually be a positive sign for the pair because we've managed to surpass all those those bearish technical indications. So a few things to take in there I hope that was helpful but I'm going to call that the end of this chart video for today. Thanks a lot Jasper Lawler signing out.


Yeah, I really liked it and that was a time where I was supporting movie theaters I was good with you know I like going to movie theaters and then when movie theater started Forcing you they would say the movie starts at like let's say matinee two o'clock the movie starts But the movie didn't start at two o'clock at two o'clock. They start showing you commercials Right, so I stopped going to movie theaters when they started forcing the audience to watch commercials And I stopped going I refuse to be forced into sitting there and watching commercials for a while You know, I brought my headphones and it would close my eyes because I didn't want to be exposed to commercials It was just I felt violated, right? I wasn't preach. I'm not talking about movie trailers I'm okay with trailers showing me movie trailers, but they were showing me coca-cola commercials McDonald's commercials And it was it occurred after 9 11 a lot where they started showing military commercials US military commercials I remember one time they were shown a military commercial and I started booing the screen right propaganda war Sometimes I just go off right and then after the movie I forget what movie we saw This couple was sitting behind me and the lady turned to me goes.  This is after 9 11. I go why she goes you were booing American military. We're at war and stuff like that. I go you're American. She goes. Yeah, I go It's not gonna work out well for you guys, man. All right, you guys are crazy So pretty soon after that I stopped going. It's just I couldn't be exposed to the propaganda. It made me It made me nauseous like really it made me nauseous So that's my political smart on it. I guess


Come on! What's wrong? You know you're gonna laugh. Stop. Marvel Squad might be laughing, but I'm not.  Okay, and... Whoa! He's just gonna take it off. I can't believe this. Good morning! Good morning! I have a surprise for you. We're gonna start off the video right away. Can we get on to this challenge today? We're doing it every time you laugh. You have to take a layer of clothing off. You're not pranking me today. Oh, I'm not pranking you today. I was surprised for you. Did I say prank? No. No, I just wanna make sure because whenever you hold the camera and you start talking weird, you're always pranking me. Okay, well, do you have any guesses? Um, is it... Think of what day it is today. It's definitely Wednesday. And what did I tell you on Monday that was supposed to be coming in today? Gucci is here? I don't know. Wait, I know. Actually, is it? I don't know! I have a box right here for you, baby. Here, I'll get you a knife. You can open it up. Mariah randomly answered the door and got a package. I literally did not do anything today. I was so lucky because I was watching out for this FedEx guy all day because you have to have a signature order to get this. You said it was going to be coming for a week. It's been two days. So, guys, if you guys are new, on Monday was our four-year anniversary, which is insane, and I did spoil Bill. I saw the balloons up there kind of falling, but I did surprise Bill and I got him a Gucci wallet and a Gucci hat and it wasn't supposed to come in until today, and it's finally in. I'm super excited to see it. Look at that. I've never seen... You have to take pictures of the boxes. The only Gucci we've ever got was Mariah's belt and it came with a white box. We saved my Louis bag, right? My Louis box? Oh, yeah. Okay, because this is stuff we need to save and, like, hang up on, like, shelves. Wait, did I? I don't think I did.  Okay, I'm sorry. I want to hang these up on shelves and stuff. Maybe I did. Maybe it's here somewhere. I hope so. All right. We're going to do a little ASMR. Ooh. Oh, my God. I'm assuming this one's the hack in the bigger box. Obviously. This is not the hat, babe. Oh, we got enough to wrap. I don't want to break this, but I have to. I know. It's so pretty. I have to. It's going. Going. Oh, God. Sorry, Gucci. I know you spent so long packing this.  Like, they wrap it all themselves. Yeah, I'm assuming. No machines do this. Ooh. Ooh. You got to wear it backwards. How does it look? Actually, babe, this reminds me of, like, old Mario. I used to wear hats all the time when we first started dating. Let's see, baby. Ooh. Oh, God, baby. You look hot. Stop. You actually look hot. We're lucky we're not doing that. We should have done a laughing challenge right now. You can make me laugh right now. I know. We can smile. This is the wallet, guys. Oh, wow. We feel it. This is the wallet. It feels insane. That's so nice. And this is perfect. Honestly, I don't need anything else. This wallet can hold everything that I need it to. Perfect. So good, guys.  Keep it with the hat. Ooh. People with the hat. Thank you so much. Give me a hug. I had to get the color right. Happy anniversary. Or belated anniversary now. It's late now. All right. What is good, Mama Squad? Sorry about the little delay. I did not expect that at all, but the real reason you clicked into this video is because every single time one of us laughs, we have to take a layer of clothing off. And this is going to be a challenge because me and Bill, he makes me laugh a lot. I'm already laughing. I know. I feel like I'm going to fail this. Oh my God. What's harder of not being able to laugh is when you can't laugh. It builds up. It's not funny. It's going to come up. It's not funny, but it's funny because you can't laugh. It's going to make it funny. Yeah. Guys, stay tuned for this video. It's going to be really sick. It does not matter how many times you laugh.  We might end up buttoning you by the end of this video. I know. For all the people that I'm making annoying keeping this tag on, I'm sorry. I don't have time to cut it off. It's actually really annoying. I'm going to take this off right now. But I love the hat, babe. Now is the time, though. You look so good. That's going to be one of my layers. Okay. Now is the time we ask Alexa. Like we always do, how many layers we're going to have on? Alexa, pick a number four through 10. This is for you. For me? Here's a number between four and ten. Four and ten. It's five. Five. Do you know I have one more layer? Wait, five layers. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. Oh my God. Wait, does my underwear count? No. No, your underwear doesn't count. Five layers.  All right, now it's Mariah's turn. Ready? Alexa, pick a number four through ten. Here's a number between four and ten. Oh? It's five. Wait, come on. Three, both, five. That's so fair. Wait, one, two, three, four. That is so fair. Three, four. Your shoes and socks. You have one more layer left as well. You're screwed. I am going to get you to laugh so much.  Dude, if you want to see Mariah butt naked because she might be by the end of this video. I hope you guys enjoy it. Where are you butt naked? Where you going? I'm getting my extra layer. All right, I'm going to show them my secret. Guys, so I have a secret. Right when she thinks I'm going to take off my pants and she's going to see my underwear. Look at this. I already have these on. She does not know about it at all. Look at it. I have another. I have swim trunks under this. So that's my fifth layer. I also have to put on my hat, but I'm going to get that on right now. Babe, you have one minute to get all your layers on. You know the drill. All right. So she said she got her five layers. I have all mine on. Marvel Squad knows my fifth layer. It's kind of cheating though. I'm not going to tell you my five layers. You're not going to tell me your five layers. I can literally point one, two, three, four, five. How do you know that? Because socks. You're going to be cheating. Do you not have socks on? Do you not have socks on? I don't know. Wait, do you have six layers on? I don't know. We got to check you out then because you cannot say- I can't check you out. You cannot defy Alexa, babe. It doesn't matter. Oh my God. I guess we, I don't even care. If she has six layers on, it doesn't even matter. Marvel Squad, we're still going to get her- I don't have six layers on. What? All right. Let's start off. Who's going to make each other laugh first? What? Okay. You're just starting like that? Yeah. Okay. Come here. Come here. Come on. Come on. You're laughing. You're laughing. That comment has a laugh. You can talk. You just can't laugh. I was taking my breath. Babe, come on. No. Come on. I want to show you something. I want to show you something. No. Let me show you something. Come on. What's wrong? You know you're going to laugh. Laugh. Laugh. Do it. Come on. That was a laugh. That was a laugh. You laughed. That's one layer of clothing. Wait. Okay. Hold on. New rule as Mariah is going to take off a layer of clothing. We can't do the same thing again. You cannot repeat the same thing again. We totally forgot to say that in the intro.    What?  Made a Quik Var. Mom was glad it's about to get a show pretty soon. Try to figure out what's going to happen. All right. What? All right, so... I don't know what she's doing, but it's not going to make me laugh. I'm in this light because... Am I making you laugh? You think you're funny. I literally can choose when to... When to laugh when I can't. Babe, that... Look it. My chair is purposely swiveling me out of the way. What did you have to lose? Oh, I had to. Is that part of the rules? What is this?  Stop. Mom's code might be laugh, but I'm not. It's not even funny. God, look at me. What is that? What is that move? Why? Why is that needed? I've never seen you move like this before. I'm not forgetting. It's just funny. You have to. I'm not losing this challenge. There's my second layer, guys. God, we're already... Second layer down. He's already laughing. I'm sockless, I'm hatless. Party still goes on, guys. You have no idea what you have in store. Alright guys, so we're going to change it up right now. We're going to watch some try not to laugh videos. This might make or break this whole entire video. Literally, we could end right now.  It can be more than once. We're going to take a minute of these try not to laugh challenges and see what happens. So let's go. That's cute, but it's not funny. I think it looks neat. I feel like you're going to laugh. We got to pause this video. Stand up. Do the walk of shame, baby. Not the walk of shame, the shoe of shame. Did you see that coming? No, I did not. I saw that video before. No, I saw that video. You're down to three layers. You're down to three layers. I think that should be it for the try not to laugh. We've been trying to search for good like try not to laugh videos. They're not funny at all. That was the funniest one. Mariah had no idea that that was going to happen. No, that one was funny. I could picture myself doing that or something.  Can you come here? Come here, I want to show you something.  I don't say that. No, I don't. It smelled stinky. Your booty smelled stinky, remember that? That's so embarrassing. Is that funny? I was laying next to her butt or something. I leaned over to kiss it and I was like and I was like I smelled like booty juice or something. There's some cottage cheese milk in between your butt cheeks. Don't you? That's not fair. That's embarrassing, Bill. Why would you explain that story? No, I don't guys. It was literally like I farted, that's why. Oh, you did? Yes.  Show them these guns. Show them what you got packing up. That looks good. Don't count these because we're sitting down but look at this. Show your muscles. This is a weight in challenge guys. Comment down below how bad do I look from a scale of 1 to 10.  It's been three months going strong, babe. That's what I'm saying. You can't really go strong for a while though. Let's not talk about those. Either way, we're both working out now and we're looking good, we're looking fit, we're looking fire. What? What's in my butt? No. You almost got me though. This is going by the camera. I wish this goes to Laffy like that. You need to get some better content, baby.  I've not laughed it, that does not count as a laugh guys. Come on, you have to make it more challenging. I don't know if I put a hot dog in between my cheeks. Okay, that's nasty.   You are failing miserably. Ew, what? Stay away from me. I have two layers on still, babe. Two layers, yes I do. I see what you have. Oh crap, don't look at that. No. What? That was not a laugh. That was not a laugh? That was not a laugh. Babe. I got that on camera. Babe, are you going to laugh? That's a laugh. Mom is gone, hold on. It is so hard. Okay babe, I'm sorry. It is so hard not to laugh. Me and Mariah literally were just eating food and literally she went to the bathroom and I got it on camera of her farting. You have no idea how hard it was not to laugh. Alright guys, so I got Mariah's phone. Can you go away? Can you go away really quick? I'm doing something right now. What are you doing? Just go away. Hello? This is Bill. Hi, nothing. I just need to ask you something. I need to ask you something. It's not about marriage, right? That would be in person. I was just really curious. I feel like Mariah has a little problem because every time I get up off my seat and leave the room, she sniffs where I was just sitting. Not even kidding. That's like her knuckle. She sniffs her fingers. Maybe.  Tell her what's going on. So we're doing one laugh.  And he made me laugh. So we just got off the phone with her mother but that was her mother and she got me and you don't laugh. Oh, whoa. Hold on, hold on. Can you hold the camera? I need to take off mine. I forgot you have one more layer. This was supposed to be my surprise layer. So right when you think you got me, you didn't get me.  After she says, oh, you know she sniffs her fingers too, right? We are both down to one. And it's both our pants.  And I win because I'm a winner and you're not. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Why did you even ask that?  Babe, if you're not making me laugh she think I really hope you make yourself laugh right now. Sorry mom's gone for your ears. I know they're probably broken right now. But guys. I'm trying to think of an embarrassing story. I can tell the mom's gone about you. This is the moment we have been waiting for. You have been waiting for this whole video. It is time to see who is the champ. I did not think it was going to end up like this. But right now we got to do a tiebreaker. And Mariah, can you only guess? What are we doing babe? So I'm assuming that we put water in our mouth and whoever last first loses. Yes, that's great. This is going to be the tiebreaker. Because right when you put water in your mouth. I don't know if you guys have ever tried this before. But things change. I'm going to get really funny really quick for some reason. I don't know why. Are you ready for this? Bottoms up. I covered my mouth fully. I lost the challenge. Hey guys look at how much water. He just splashed. I don't know if you can even tell. But it is, you okay? You choking yourself there? I'm so sorry mom's gone. Let me just tell you. I couldn't handle it. I couldn't handle it. This is just a proven fact that team Mariah is just a better team. Alright so we're going to end the video right here then right? No, we're not going to end the video off there.  No. By the way, I have a 20. Bill take it off. They already know I lost. Can you take it off? No.  There, it's off. No, it's just boxers. No. Alright guys, I'm just going to take the walkers in. You tried pulling a good part of the video and you just lost it all. That was probably a bad thing for you. The best part of this is Mariah is going to clean up my whole mess because she's the winner. That is your win. I know it was a mixture of a lot of things. We really tried hard to laugh and create stuff to laugh about this whole video. It's harder than it looks to not repeat because my goal was to just tickle you but if I couldn't do that once, that would have been bad. Oh, you got a little juicy booty. You got a little juicy booty. Guys, I hope you enjoyed this video. Make sure to give it a thumbs up right now. I thought you were going to slap my butt. Post notifications, shout out. This shout out goes to Ashley Kerr Kever. Ashley, thank you so much for being in tune with our channel, being subscribed, having your notifications on. We love you guys. If you want to see another video like this in the future, make sure to give this video a thumbs up. We will do this again. I definitely will not be losing that one but we can make it more juicy. No, babe, you think you're so good. This was just lucky. I am so pissed that that didn't get you because that was my idea. But next time, I'm going to think of so many better things. Alright guys, we will see you in the next video. Put it to the end. Peace, love you guys.


Now ready to go? All right, we'll start over here if you guys want to follow me. Seven non-commissioned officers and six junior enlisted soldiers competed in the 2021 Arkansas State Fast Warrior Competition at Camp Robinson Maneuver Training Center in North Little Rock, Arkansas, February 22nd, 325th. These soldiers represented four of the Arkansas Army National Guard's major commands, Fort Chaffee and Camp Robinson Maneuver Training Centers, and the National Guard Marksmanship Training Center. Competitors arrived on Monday to check in and receive briefings before joining one another for a carb-loaded meal in preparation for an intense week of physically and mentally demanding challenges. The competition kicked off with a physical fitness test early Tuesday morning. After a quick warm-up, competitors performed five of the six events found in the new Army Combat Fitness Test to include the three repetition maximum deadlift, the standing power throw, the hand-release push-up, the sprint drag carry, and the leg tuck. Shortly after, the soldiers took part in an appearance board event where they presented themselves individually to a board composed of their senior leaders. They were evaluated on their personal appearance, presence, and their Army knowledge. Afterwards, it was off to the ranges for an afternoon of shooting. Competitors zeroed and qualified with their assigned M4 rifles before finishing the day by completing a stress test shooting event. Wednesday's first event starting at 4 a.m. meant a very early wake-up for the soldiers on their second day of competition. They plotted points and located objectives in the dark of the early morning during this nightland navigation challenge. Competitors then completed a multi-weapon shooting lane where they engaged a variety of targets with various weapons including an M17 pistol, M4 rifle, and an M249 squad automatic weapon. Continuing with the theme of shooting, the subsequent sprint drag carry shoot event challenged the soldiers to maintain their marksmanship after just performing several physically demanding tasks. These include a movement while reacting to fire, carrying two 40-pound ammo cans, and dragging a sled with a simulated casualty. Day two of the competition came to a close with an eight-mile rock march that left competitors exhausted after a long, grueling day of physical activity. Thursday, the final day of competition for the soldiers, began at the Arkansas State Police Training Facility where competitors ran through what the troopers call the Arkansas Physical Assessment Test. Soldiers overcame six obstacles including a five-foot simulated water jump, an incline decline ramp, hurdles, the physical control simulator, a burpee-intensified vault bar, and a 100-pound sandbag carry. Following that, competitors navigated 19 obstacles on Camp Robinson's newly bill obstacle course, quickly realizing just how physically demanding completing the entirety of the course would be. Obstacles with names as daunting as the Tough One and the Tarzan quickly drained soldiers of their stamina as they struggled to push through to the end. Their exhaustion was apparent as they crossed the finish line. Then, competitors were in for a shock when they found out the final event of the competition wouldn't involve overcoming another challenge, but overcoming one another. Non-commissioned officers and junior enlisted soldiers were divided respectively into two tournament brackets and egos were on the line in a high-intensity, combative tournament. After three long days, the 2021 Arkansas State Best Warrior Competition culminated with an awards ceremony. Family, friends, peers, and senior leaders were in attendance to commend and congratulate the competitors on a job well done. Though all 13 soldiers gave it their all, only two, one junior enlisted soldier and one non-commissioned officer could take home a trophy. Specialist, Curvis Dunhu, assigned to the installation support unit of Robinson Maneuver Training Center, and Staff Sergeant Trent Dalton, assigned to the Marksmanship Training Center, were declared the winners. All of the competitors received an abundance of accolades and praise. Dunhu and Dalton will go on to compete in a regional-level competition later this year.


Hi guys, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music. In this lesson, which we've titled the Five Pillars of Piano Accompaniment for pretty much any genre, we are going to look at, well, five pillars, five strategies, five approaches towards accompaniment and at the top level, you can make these decisions and say, this is the way I want to tackle my song, whichever chord progression, whichever genre, whichever scale, whichever key I don't care, this is going to combat any of these scenarios. Now all of these techniques which I'm going to share with you are things which I've observed and tackled over the years of playing many situations, be it with a singer, be it in a studio with a producer or a movie director, any such scenario and I found that these five strategies tend to come out instinctively and then I shape it as per the situation, as per the song. So you have the core ready or the pillar as I like to call it and then you weave around that. Okay, so let's get cracking before we do. This lesson is supplemented with my handwritten notes with staff notation and MIDI tracks. It's waiting for you on our Patreon page for just $5 a month and that $5 doesn't just give you this video, it gives you every single lesson which we have ever done and which we probably ever will do as long as Patreon exists, I guess. And there's a subscribe button on our YouTube channel as you probably already know. It's just a click away, do consider that. So let's first look at the chord progression. There are four chords and just to make it simple, I'm also going to show you the chords with their respective inversions. This chord is C minor, played as G, C, E flat in this order. I like this way of playing C minor and in the bass you play C, its root. The second chord would be F minor over A flat, that's A flat, C, F, slightly tricky. So you may want to angle your thumb slightly in order to play that with an A flat bass. It gives it a lot of depth and a lot of emotion.  And the third chord is E flat major in its first inversion, G, B flat, E flat with a B flat in the bass. And the last chord is something I love is G seventh, it's a nice voicing as well which you should definitely do, which is F, B, D. There's no root in the right hand, the roots in the left hand. F, B, D, the whole story again, C minor, F minor over A flat, E flat over B flat, G seventh over G bass. Let's repeat that and the challenge here is, or I'm making it challenging for this lesson is let's play each of the chords not for the whole bar. Let's not do one, two, three, four like this. Let's challenge ourselves by playing it within a bar. So two chords in one bar will be C minor, F minor, E flat and G seventh. Let's do that again, C minor, F minor over A flat, E flat over B flat, G seventh. So it's shifting every two beats, of course I'm playing it on every beat, so it's two hits if you look at it. C minor, F minor over A flat, E flat over B flat, G seventh and repeat and repeat. So the first strategy I have for you is what we call ballad chords with a time feel. So ballad chords with a time feel will take the chord and in the right hand which tends to be the more busier hand, you just follow the pulse until the chord changes and with the left hand you start off by just slamming a nice huge octave. Don't do, sounds a bit smaller, so nice and big C, okay. That's G, C, E flat, okay and now I'm gonna do two hits for each chord and one hit with the root. This is the standard ballad style which we use in most of our songs. Hope you're getting the vibe. Now to add motion to this, you just tell yourself how much is the beat getting divided by. If the beat is getting divided into two units, you're gonna count quavers, right. One and two and three and four and if the beat is getting divided into three units, you're gonna count triplets, one and two and three and four and like that. If the beat is getting divided into four units, you're gonna count semi quavers, one E and two E and three E and four E and or takadimi takajunu takadimi takajunu. Dividing by three could be considered as tak it, tak it, tak it, tak it. Dividing by two, you could say tak, tak, tak, tak. So determine your time feel which is the rate or the amount of beat division and also it may be swinging. So instead of it going one E and two E and which is rather straight, it could be one E and two E and three E and four E and it could swing. So basically swing would be you're adjusting the E's and the U's if it's 16 note swing or eight note swing is where you're adjusting just the and so that'll be one and two and three and four as opposed to one and two which sounds more straight. Straight music is where you tend to move straight, you move forward and swing music is where you tend to sway you know like in a sideways motion. At least that's what tends to happen to me. You might know better I'm not the world's greatest dancer. So if you dance you will know what happens to you when you swing, when you dance to swing music versus to straight music. You have different dance routines, different dance genres I would imagine for each time feel of music. So how do we execute this on the keyboard? If you take our chord, let's take one chord C minor. Let's say I want to do simple eighth notes. A great way to do this is split up your left hand octave and very quietly at those in-between off beats repeat the octaves you're slamming it down together one and two and you're hitting all the ands rather quietly two and one and two and three and four and one and two and three basically all the ands gives the song a lot of motion, a lot of dynamics as well because the volume of these are almost ghost-like in nature. I can swing this now and where's the swing coming from? It's just my thumb of the left hand and for a ballad feel we try to use our pedal as much as possible, it gives a more ambient sound, a very epic open sound. Now what happens if you're dividing by three?  If I wanna go very busy, maybe sixteenth notes, let's try that oney and between my thumbs, they're having a kind of a tussle together, very busy sounding. You can also kind of, you don't have to do, you don't have to only do notes between the C and the G thumbs, you can do, you can even add this G if it sounds good to you. But I would recommend just start with the two thumbs, because the bass notes are differing in this exercise at least, they are not the true roots of the chords, right? So ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta, if you swing that, depending on how much ever swing you want, forceful, all down to what your thumbs are doing, so this thumb technique is really good. I've done this thumb technique in great detail, we'll leave a link in the description, in that lesson right after this one if you have the time or whenever. So moving forward, this is about the ballad ecosystem, so any song you wanna play, this technique will really work, so start with pulse hits in the right hand, the roots of the chord in the left hand, super easy, you just need to write it down, write the respective inversion as I have written in my charts for this exercise. Then to add additional dynamics, additional rhythmic flavor, you add a ghost note with your thumb, this is what works really well for me and lot of other artists who play ballads. So moving on to the next technique, who can forget those arpeggios? So three basic arpeggios, I'm gonna talk about now with speed variations. So with speed variations, you just want to kind of decide whether, again the time feel, whether you're dividing by two, one and two and a shaker is pretty helpful, one and two, three and four or a triplet shaker, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, see if the beats are dividing by three or one and two or a semi quaver, sixteenth note arpeggio. So this is a very important decision. So using the help of a shaker, you can figure out your arpeggio pattern. Now coming back to the chords, the three arpeggio patterns which are very, very important for you to learn would be, let's explain with just one chord, so C minor, G C E flat. The first arpeggio pattern is low note, middle note, high note, middle note, what we call as L M H M in music, L M H M, L M H M, okay, okay, and then the next pattern would be high, middle, low, middle, high, middle, low, middle, also called as high, middle, low, middle, H M, L M H M, you're starting from the top note and then you can even consider high, low, middle, low, which is kind of my favorite. High, low, middle, low, every piano player will kind of have a preference while accompanying. High, low, middle, low, and it's also important to note that again, if the arpeggio has a more sustained, ballad-like vibe, if it's used a rock song or a power ballad, you'd want to hold on your pedal as you play the chord and another nice strategy would be if you're not holding the pedal, at least hold down the top note or the first note as part of the arpeggio. So it's L M H M, see, I'm holding down my L, or if I do high, middle, low, middle, if I do high, low, middle, low, see, I'm holding on that high note. So it becomes a nice habit to have, also strengthens your finger independence. So now these arpeggios you can do with basic speed variations. For example, if you feel the song requires eighth notes, play all of your chords with eighth note arpeggios, keeping that L M H M or H M L M H L M L, whichever arpeggio pattern you prefer, to and decide, move your head and see if you're dividing the head by two units or by four units. One, it looks like in this case, I'm dividing by two. So we're playing quaver arpeggios or eighth note arpeggios. Let's do it over the chords. You'll find the notation where you can practice along, maybe later on as well over the week also allows your left hand to be a lot more independent. If you want to maybe follow the drummer can do a lot of this stuff or if you just want your own independent pattern in the left hand, make it very epic in the left hand and keep it very static in the right hand, very tight, build up, you can make it very heavy at the end with some triplets in there, got a bit carried away. But now you can see the usage even of 16th note variations if you feel the beat is dividing by four, white like this and I'm splitting my octave also just give a nice kick and snare kind of interaction or a low and a high highlighting some accents okay and what who we don't want to forget triplet arpeggios as well so if your songs on triplets maybe you can do LMHLMHLMHLM or start from the high note high middle low maybe change a bit later and remind it of an awesome Toto song called Child's Anthem you probably do this tutorial we have to do this tutorial definitely gonna do it if you like if you want me to do a tutorial of Toto's Child's Anthem leave it in the comments so moving forward let's look at another approach towards piano accompaniment so if you take any kind of a hand drum like a tabla or a bongo or a jembe or a darbuka you'll find that the high frequencies and the low frequencies don't collide with each other so if you take the bongo which is a good example this is your low sound that's your high some people prefer to flip it around I like this system because it's more piano like in nature so this is your low and that's your high so you can create grooves let's say this one which is pretty much like a person marching left right left right but it creates some interesting rhythmic color because your low frequency and your high frequency in this case the kick and the snare of the bongo they're having a chat with each other whenever two people have a chat you don't want you don't want two people to talk together you want one person to speak and then the next person speaks. Zakir Hussain the great tabla player has a nicer way of looking at it where he says the male person is the lower drum and the female person is the higher drum and they chat with each other sort of like a relationship between a husband and a wife or something so everyone has their different analogies that as rhythm players but the fact remains if you want to make a rhythm which works don't collide the low frequencies and the high frequencies rather use them both to chat with each other and help each other out so using that concept I can start with a march left right left right and maybe graduate to two lefts and one right left left right left left right feels a bit like we will rock you don't you think and you can make some combinations like left right right left you should see what works with your song so you can also listen to your drummer and just you know using a drum like this a frame drum a simple affordable drum or even a table or a book or your your own body you could kind of do the blow frequency here and the high frequency on your leg or something like that you can figure out the rhythm pattern which is going to work for you and then you just decide okay this is the low one that's going to be my base and this is the high one that's going to end up being my chord so if I do a march there we go I'm literally marching on the piano to prove it and so on another nice way to march is to march it more rhythmically well and do a legato in the left hand and do a staccato in the right hand check that out it's still left right so if your song is a bit more on the jumpy side or if you have a drummer in your band or if you have a percussionist you could probably adopt this sort of technique and then like I said these are five pillars so the marching concept is a pillar you can then make it adapt to different scenarios off the top if you're doing this over a 3 by 4 or a waltz song what do you do just add one extra on the right hand becomes waltz but also say things like which helps you count it better pretty much any groove we will rock you now very rock like almost any rock song you could play like this or maybe let's see any groove even your bandmate could communicate an idea to you could just ask them to sing the groove or just tap it they could hit tap hit you if they want which I don't recommend but some of them do especially drummers I've had a drummer friend who gets angry with me and he the grooves with his sticks on my shoulder which is not recommended so what you want to do is find the groove of the song and then play the piano you don't want to play the piano and then think later so the bongo will be a great friend of yours or a frame drum or a tabla or any instrument where you can have two different pitches moving on so let's say you want to define your piano accompaniment arrangement in a more dancey way you want to say you know this is a dance song I want to make people dance it's 2023 that's all they care about these days or seem to care about these days so what do I do pull out the big guns this is called the thresio rhythm now the thing about the thresio is because one of the hits namely one and two and three and four and one and two one and two is on the offbeat it creates that rhythmic interest and just gets people to be a bit excited and thus dance one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and four and one and two and three and four so this is a nice dance rhythm which you could try out it's called the thresio and what happens is if you speed this up one in two in three if you start counting it as 16th notes and then when you feel even more and and ease and hers against the pulse people will dance more I presume so one in a two and three so let's do that over the chord progression one in a two and three and four and one in a two and three na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na also kind of sounds very Latin very salsa you could imagine it in those contexts practice this or construct in accompaniment in two ways this the first ways like what we talked about earlier in the syncopated style with one by one left, right, right. The other opportunity you have, it will be to keep the pulse running as your listeners probably gonna do this or move their body to the pulse and then in your right hand you offload the entire hits to the right hand with the chord. So let's do it slowly in eighths one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and two and three and I'm hitting for the purpose of a better groove three one and two and three and I'm playing I'm not hitting the bass at every every beat I think it's nice even this way but this makes them dance more and it'll also motivate you to count in sixteenths rather than eighths you can literally feel those off beats as they are kind of giving you a little bit of a electric electric jolt so to speak which you have to feel within your body if you want to feel if you want them to feel your music and dance and groove you need to do it yourself so whenever there's an and or offbeat try to make sure that you you are also feeling that intensity or that that that energy of the ends otherwise it's not going to convey to the audience so keep the pulse in the left hand and the groove in the right hand you can also keep the you can kind of you can kind of divide your responsibility by playing C chord A flat chord B flat so that's the most syncopated approach while the grooving approach the drum-like approach if you will would be keep the pulse in your left hand and move the entire pattern to the right hand the very good dance rhythm which you could check out and you could learn more about it in our in the description we leave a link to the thresio and a few exercises on using the thresio and salsa rhythms in general which I love to perform and compose with okay so I have one more pillar of piano accompaniment for pretty much any genre which needs the drums so you need to listen to the drums follow the drums and then see what you can do in a nutshell what's going to end up happening is the drums the most important parts of the drums are kick snare pretty much all the time so you'll have your kick snare and then to support that and to give the audience a feel of the pulse and the division system of the beat we have the hi-hats or we might have the ride which is a more ringing kind of symbol which is used at the choruses of songs pretty much or the the outros or where the songs get very heavy you might want to use the ride so you balance your intensity but keep the same hits with the hi-hat and the ride so good way to practice the drums would be let's say you take a simple groove like we will rock you we will rock you groove would be doop doop ta doop doop ta kick kick snare kick kick snare right so you could perform the kick kick snare with your left hand with the lower range instrument lower range of your piano and do kick on the lowest note on the root and then divide your root and octave and play the octave at the top and that gives you the feeling that it's the snare drum even though it's not and this is what a bass player in a band would also do in an ensemble so it's pretty much universal and the piano is also a bass instrument like any other so you go this doesn't have to be we will rock you but it could be we will rock you now in the right hand you could start with imagining what the hi-hat of the drummer would do so if it's play that and if you feel it's too forceful then arpeggiate that you don't have to go blocks you can go arpeggiate that or maybe you feel the hats are going slow it's blocks would work for this let's do that with the changes let's look at now the hats doubling probably you could look at this as eighth note hi-hats could even develop some hi-hat accents for example an open hi-hat could be I'm imagining the drummer lifting the hat with his leg and creating an open field piano is very similar to drumming if you think about it it's just that the output is remarkably different okay if you like arpeggios what I'm going to do now is to try and make it as real world as possible and we are not going to change the chords it's still going to be C minor F minor over a flat E flat over B flat in G7 and if you're following the hats and if you want to do a faster hi-hat performance even though the hi-hat is not doing it himself or herself you can consider you play the faster hats maybe you want to do this drummers not doing that but you could do that as well at least you're following the kick and snare which are very important and when you follow the kick and snare you don't have to follow every aspect of it you can just follow the ones which you think matter the most in the song it doesn't have to be the ghost notes of the snare or the extra kicks you know and so on and so forth right so let's start with this groove now the first thing you need to do is observe it from a kick and snare perspective there's all these little snare goes to touch there's also hats looks like it's an eighth note hat sequence and this is a damn good drummer so the drummer is going to do some ghost notes like you do touch you see these random snares so you could follow those your drummer will appreciate it I'm sure yeah you may not catch those but this feels a bit like we will rock you at least to start so one way to start is do the kick and snare in your left hand and right hand just to be aligned with the song and the tempo of your drummer you could add those ghost notes with your thumb by breaking up the chord let's say if you want to play the kick and snare in your left hand I miss the G let me try that again there we go I think basically trying to copy the kicks and the snares with my pinky and my thumb trying to get the hats in my right hand or maybe I can just do just exactly with the hats so even if you don't match the drums exactly it should at least give you a perspective it should give you a good and at least you won't get kicked out of the band right guys hope you're gonna find the five pillars of piano accompaniment useful for you hopefully it will help you to survive or play any musical genre a company a singer who could be another individual a friend who you're jamming with or yourself you could be the singer and the idea here is to have an instinct whenever a melody is thrown at 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