I invite you to raise your hands and say to the Holy Spirit, thank you, thank you for your goodness. You never leave me and we want to praise you in this morning. And we're going to have fun with the Lord in this moment. Amen?  Hallelujah. Open your lips and with your own mouth for next 30 seconds. Begin to exalt King of kings. Begin to exalt Lord Jesus Christ in this place. Begin to lift him up right now. This is your moment to make it personal. This is your moment to make it from your heart. This is a moment to exalt him. This is a moment to thank him for what he's done in your life. How far he got you. How far he brought you through. This is your moment to give him personal praise. We were just giving him corporate praise, but this is a moment right now to say, Jesus, I love you. Holy Spirit, thank you for being in this place. Father, I exalt you for giving me a gift of eternal life. You are worthy to receive all the glory, all the honor and all the praise from the one you redeemed. From the one you picked up from the mighty clay and established his feet on a solid rock.  You paid the price on the cross, not only for my eternity, but for my body to be healed, for my soul to be delivered, God, and for my life to live in the blessings. Holy Spirit, we love your presence in this place. You are the VIP, the most important person, God. We recognize you in this place, God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. The presence of God is in this place. He's here amongst us. He sees every single one of you. He loves you. And He wants to be closer and closer to you. And today, we gather together to just draw one more inch closer to Him. Just to learn one more thing about Him so that we could adore Him, love Him, and walk with Him throughout life. Amen, church. Hallelujah. We're going to take time right now and to pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues. Once a month, we dedicate a service to pray for this because we believe, and according to the scripture, that it's a gift the Holy Spirit has given to us. And it's a very important gift. The gift that helps us to enhance our spiritual life, our faith. It helps to enhance our prayer. And the Bible says when we pray in the Holy Ghost, we build ourselves. Amen. And there are so many different benefits and blessings that come with praying in tongues. But because of time, we're just going to dedicate right now this moment for those of you that want to receive this precious gift of the Holy Spirit, gift of speaking in tongues. You can lift your hand right now in this place and we're going to pray along with you and believe that the Holy Spirit right now will touch you and that gift in you will be activated. See, when we get saved, we receive the Holy Spirit on the day of our salvation Bible says according to Romans that we're sealed by the Holy Spirit until the day of our redemption. But during the baptism, He gets activated. He gets activated. He gets released in our life. Amen. And so right now, if you want to experience that release, that activation in your life if you want to receive that gift of speaking in tongues, just lift your hands wherever you're at right now. I see you there. There's one person there. A couple more there. Okay, wonderful, wonderful.  We have four or five people in the room.   We're going to pray together right now. And it's not too late to join this prayer if you want to receive this gift. Okay, so just quick, quick instruction. This gift is a gift. The way you receive it is by surrender. It's a gift.  Bible says when we ask for this gift that He will not give us anything else. So don't worry about, oh, maybe it's me or maybe it's who knows what, demanding tongues or whatever other things are coming out. No, Bible says when we ask for the Holy Spirit, He will give it to us. And it would be Holy Spirit and His gifts that will be flowing through us. So that's just a small brief instructions. Another thing on a practical note right now is we're going to begin to pray. And those of you that are watching us online, same thing. If you want to receive this gift of speaking in tongues, you too can receive this gift. So just listen carefully to the instructions that we're going to pray in a moment. Those of you watching on YouTube, on Zoom and on Facebook, if you want to receive this gift of speaking in tongues, so we have many testimonies from online people commenting and letting us know that they threw online they received this gift praying alone with us. And so right now is going to be the moment on the practical side. On the practical side, Bible says that as they open their mouth, Holy Spirit filled them.  It's kind of like in the car, you turn the ignition but the engine kicks in and then takes you driving. So you're going to have to turn that ignition, meaning you're going to have to open your mouth and begin to release the sound trusting that the Lord adds meaning to them. And you just surrender to the flow.  Amen? Right now we're going to open this with this press. Pray with me, say, oh Holy Spirit, I surrender my life to you.  Oh Holy Spirit, I surrender myself. I surrender my mouth to you. In Jesus' name. Amen. Right now all of us around the room and those of you that I want to receive this gift right now begin to release the sound and begin to pray. And church right now let's begin to pray all throughout the sanctuary all together. Begin to release the sounds of angelic tone, of fiery tone. Begin to release that the sounds of heavenly language. Let's begin to pray. Bible says when we pray we build ourselves. Let's begin to fan that flame. Let's begin to release the heavenly sounds in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Glory to Baba Kashi. Remember the Baba Kashi. Father I pray, fall on them right now. Fall on your people right now with fire in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Fall on them right now Lord in Jesus' name. Glory to Baba Kashi. Father I pray for activation right now. For the release of your spirit through the mouth in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Remember the Baba Kashi. Remember the Baba Kashi. Well thank you Lord. We thank you for your touch. We thank you for your gifts God. We thank you for your spirit that you sent God. Thank you God that your spirit is in the midst of us right now. Thank you Lord. Glory to Baba Kashi. Come on for next 30 seconds. Let's continue to pray. Remember the Baba Kashi. Remember the Baba Kashi. Continue to release the syllables. Continue to release the sounds. Holy Spirit is praying through you right now. Remember the Baba Kashi. Remember the Baba Kashi. Thank you Lord. Thank you for your touch. Thank you for your release. Thank you for your fire. Thank you Lord. Jesus, we thank you Lord, we thank you Jesus, hallelujah. Those of you that are here and those of you online, how many of you received that gift during this prayer? Just lift your hand.  Lift your hand, let us know. If something was released, those of you that are watching online, something was released and you felt like you received it. Okay, let's just then, hallelujah, hallelujah. People are commenting online saying they received it. We're just gonna do one more quick prayer for those of you that are maybe still struggling with just the one last kind of practical advice. One of the biggest hindrances of receiving this gift is overthinking. It's overthinking, overanalyzing what might, that sounds strange, that sounds weird because our logical mind is fighting us because it can't make sense of it. But the beauty of it is it doesn't have to make sense to us to make sense to God. And God understands every sound that is made on earth and he knows what it means plus all the angelic languages and any sound that you make that is inspired by the Holy Spirit, he knows it and it makes sense to him. So right now, we're just gonna pray one more time and it's gonna be a quick prayer, 30 to 40 seconds.  Doesn't matter how ridiculous it might sound to you, just begin to release it, okay? Church, can we pray one more time with those people? Okay, come on. Right now, just open up your lips and begin to release the sounds, begin to release syllables, whatever it sounds, however it sounds, just for the next 30 seconds to 40 seconds. Glembrabababakoshilarabaseya Lereregandrabagashintrumbababaseya Holy Spirit, we thank you, we thank you.  Glembrababakoshilarabaseya Lereregandrabagashintrumbabakashintrumbabaseya Lereregandrabakoshilarabaseya Lereregandrabakoshilarabaseya Father, we thank you God, right now for your gift. Lord, we thank you Lord, for in gift in your people right now, we thank you for the release of your spirit in this place. Glembrababakashilarabaseya Just for next 10 seconds, don't speak in your language that you know what is Russian, English, Spanish or any other, begin to release syllables and sound by faith. Glembrababakashitarabakaya Glembrababakoshilarabaseya Glembrababashilarabaseya Thank you Lord Jesus, thank you Lord Jesus. Thank you for your gift, thank you for your spirit in this place, hallelujah. People are receiving it, Beth on YouTube is saying I definitely received it. Thank you so much for helping us. Come on, people are receiving it. Come on, let's put our hands together for Jesus. Hallelujah. Those of you that received it and started praying for the first time online and here, make sure to practice it when you go home. When we continue to pray, just begin to practice this language, begin to release it.  So, hallelujah, amen. Come on, just let's put our hands together for Jesus one more time.  Make them feel welcome and at home and we'll focus our eyes on the screen. Plan to be there, it's gonna be here in Tri-Cities, Washington. So, we're super excited for it. I wanted to welcome every single first time guest here today. I know we have a lot of interns here that came for the summer and we're so happy to have you. Yes, let's give a round of applause for every single person who is new here today. We welcome you today and we're so happy you're with us. Right now it has come the time for giving and I wanted to share some things that we have been able to do as a church by the giving that you have been giving all your generosity. So, as you all know, the situation in Ukraine that's been going on, Pastor Vaz gonna share a little bit more about that today, but as a church, we have been able to give around $8,000 to the needs happening in Ukraine and to help all the people that are over there. So, thank you so much for that. I wanted to mention to you guys a couple ministries that we support and a little bit of the updates of what's going on over there. Pastor Big, who was a previous intern who I've shared about before, we've given some updates before, they've done an internship program for 12 students in the last three months and they were able to raise them up and empower them in the tribes and the rural tribes to be able to minister to people across Vietnam. So, thank you guys for your generosity and for being a part of this because even though maybe you can't be going to Vietnam, maybe you can't be going across the world, but your giving is contributing to getting people saved and getting people delivered and healed. So, it's so wonderful. And another ministry that we are partnering with is in Brazil in Casanal and it is so beautiful what God is doing there and one of the things that our ministry is able to partner with is to give financially to raise up leaders similarly to Vietnam because a lot of ministries and people that give, they wanna give for humanitarian aid. They wanna see the physical things that are being done. They wanna see the medical supplies and the churches being built and there's so much people that are generous with that but people don't understand the need for spiritual growth and raising up leaders. So, as Hungry Jen, we partner monthly to be able to give and raise up leaders across the Amazon River region and raise up leaders in different communities to be able to grow churches and to get people saved in Brazil. So, again, thank you so much for your generosity and for your giving. I love that we can share what we're able to do as a church across the globe and none of it would be possible without your generosity. So, now I wanted to share a few ways that you can give. You can text 84321. You can give on the church center app. You can give through cash when the buckets are gonna be passed around online at hungryjen.com slash give or by the QR code behind me. So, right now, let's go ahead and pray for our offerings. Father, thank you so much for the generous heart that you give us, Lord and for your generous heart, Lord. I pray that you bless every single person that gives today and that wants to give today but maybe is not able to, Lord. I pray that you bless their finances, bless their homes, Lord, bless their jobs and everything that they touch that they will prosper. I pray that you bless every individual here in Jesus' name, amen. And I'll please fix your eyes on the screens as the baskets will come around. Hey guys, happy Sunday and welcome to Hungry Generation Church. We are so excited to have you here today and we believe that God is gonna touch your life today. A special welcome to you who are here for the very first time today. We love you and we honor you as you enjoy the service today. We wanna let you know that we have prayer every morning at our church Monday through Friday opening the doors of the church at 5 a.m. And we have corporate prayer in the church every Wednesday at 6 a.m. Make sure that you come out and join the army of God and the movement of prayer that is happening right now. And that is actually all the announcements for this week. God bless you and help me welcome the next speaker. Amen. Good morning, everyone, once again. Right now we have come to the time of sharing a testimony. How many of you are excited to hear a testimony of something that God has done for somebody? And we believe that testimonies, they're like seeds for someone else's breakthrough, maybe for yours today. And today we're gonna hear a healing testimony. Would you please help me welcome Sabrina up to the stage? Let's give a round of applause right here. Yep, good morning, Sabrina. She is our previous intern. And we are excited to have her back visiting us. Would you please start sharing with, where are you from? I'm from Arizona. All right, could you share with all of us, what is the sickness that you were struggling with and what were the effects on your life because of that sickness? So in 2019, I started to have a lot of symptoms. Like my hair was like falling off, I gained a lot of weight. Just my sleeping pattern was off and I really, really struggled. And then COVID happened in 2020. I have to start working from home. Eight to nine hours and I go like, well, probably that's what I'm getting more weight. But then I got to the point that I couldn't even sleep because I was so nervous so much. And then I go like, okay, now this is a concern. I make a doctor's appointment and because of the COVID-19, it took me literally six months to get in. And when I got there, the doctor was really concerned that I was like literally borderline, she said. Then they ordered a blood test. They diagnosed me with hepatiroidiness, which is like low active thyroid. And that causes all the symptom that I had. The doctor did prescribe a medication. I took that medication for three months because she couldn't give me like a high dosage of the medication. They have to start with low just because I was so low. Then I went back in three months. They increased a little bit more. And then I applied for hand-grain-gen. Obviously I got accepted and then I have to come. I call the doctor and say like, I have to leave for a few months. So can you prescribe a medication? What's gonna happen? And then she ordered me extra medication. I came to hand-grain-gen. And during one of morning prayers that we were doing, I feel heavily in my heart that I should stop taking the medication because God wanted to heal me. And I just got nervous and I go like, is that just me? Or I don't really want it to leave my medication because I knew the symptom that I had that I really struggle. So kind of got nervous. And then on a Sunday, they were praying for healing. And I can't really remember who was it, but I just closed my eyes and I just aligned with the prayer because they mentioned thyroid. And when they say that someone here have thyroid and God wants to heal them, I just received it and I feel so warm in my body and I go like, that's it. Come on, that's it. I love that. I love that. So now you strongly believe that the Lord led you to stop your medication. And by the way, we don't really suggest people to do that and we don't encourage people to stop taking their medication unless they're like Sabrina inside, they know that they know that the Lord is leading them in this path. And so she stopped taking meds right after that prayer and she received that word of a healing. Would you share, how did you started to see and notice difference in your body and how did the healing take place? So it was through process. Like the Sunday they pray, I just accepted and believed that God healed me. The next day on Monday, I stopped taking the medication and I would just really pay attention on my symptoms and be careful with it. And then as soon as I went back to Arizona, I did schedule a doctor's appointment, just kind of to follow up because like you say, you don't just want to leave the medication, especially when it's a new health concern. And then they confirmed that I'm healed and I stopped completely taking the medication. I feel more confident. Come on, let's put our hands together for Jesus.  What was that like? So when I got to the doctor's office, I just kind of like shared that I told them right away that I stopped taking the medication and the doctor was like, what? Like you shouldn't have done that. And she started to mention all the symptom, like is your hair is falling? Your skin is drawn. Like she even say like, you should get in a lot more way and then it seemed like you're losing weight. And I just go like, oh. And then I go like, yeah, I stopped seeing it. And then I share my testimony with her. I told her that I came to the internship. I feel like during the prayer year, healing prayer year, I feel that God saved them and healed me. And I stopped taking the medication and that I didn't have any of the symptom that she mentioned. And she was just really concerned. You can just so that she was really concerned and go like, I haven't seen anyone who has been healed from thyroid. And then I go like, well, I can take the medication back if you ordered a test and I'm okay taking it back. And then she go like, oh yeah, for sure. Then she ordered that blood test that same day because I kind of went prepared because I knew that they were going to require for me to blood test. So I went fast that day, they got the test done. The same day they got the result. That's how concerned she was. So in about three or four days, they called me and it was the MA, not the doctor, but the MA called me and say like, you're negative. You don't have to take the medication anymore. Come on, let's put our hands together for Jesus. One more time, our God is so amazing and we love that he still heals today. Sabrina, we are so happy. And I know that you are actually holding in your hand. What is this? So this is a result, I know it's our number, but this is the result that it's negative. And just by the way, when the MA called me, she did say like, you're negative, you don't have to take the medication and then the doctor left you a note. I guess strong faith can make a miracle happen. And I just go like, yeah, I just at that moment started to turn around because I go like, she didn't believe it, but now the test show that God can heal. So the doctor left a note that faith can have miracles happen, right? Come on, that is so awesome. What a testimony, not only here for us, but for the people, for doctors.  And Sabrina, what would be your word of encouragement for somebody who is struggling with some kind of a sickness? What would you tell them? I would just say, I just really put your faith in God and pray and believe because when it's your time, he will heal you. And one of the things that I do want to say, I know we have YouTube and Facebook and everyone on Zoom probably, but God is not God of distance or barrier. So just place your faith on him and believe and pray that he will heal you. Come on, amen. Thank you so much. Thank you. Let's give a round of applause. Love you. That's a beautiful testimony. I love that. God can heal you through the live stream, through the Zoom. Place your faith in Jesus and he can touch you right where you are in Jesus' name. And so right now we have come to the time to hear the word of God. Let's prepare our hearts and believe, amen. Let's give a round of applause for Pastor Vlad. Amen.  Amen. Amen. I know the last Sunday was our healing service, but today here in this testimony I am moved in my heart to share a few thoughts concerning healing. Before we talk about healing, I wanna mention I just came from the Ukraine. Thank you everybody who prayed for me. Prayed for me and the pastor. We flew to Ukraine a week and a half ago and I came on Friday. Our pastor is going to, by the grace of God, come here on Tuesday. Just a little recap for those of you who may not know, on February 24th, Russia invaded Ukraine. Right behind me is a video that is playing in a minute and 30 seconds, pretty much of what's been happening for the last 100 days. Rockets that were being shot and the invasion that started to take place and each day over there you see 28th of February. Now it's going to March. Each day it shows what was happening and is happening to the country of Ukraine every single day. And so I had the experience of being in Kiev and while I was there during one night, I mean, we had six rockets, they just flew by and landed in their designated places, exploded, thankfully nobody died. When I was leaving, rockets came in. When I drove through Lviv three, four hours before that one of the bridges was blown off so that the military convoy will not make it to Ukraine. So it was pretty dangerous, but at the same time God protected us. During this 100 days, now it's more than 100 days of war. According to the president of Ukraine, over 32,000 Russian soldiers have died already. Let's think about it. That's more than what Russia lost in Afghanistan war of 10 years. That's just in 100 days. And over 40,000 soldiers are wounded.  So I love Russian people, okay? So I'm just presenting it from the standpoint of I was there, we help people.  You know, I think $10,000 is something for Russians. It's a lot of money. And so for anybody, it's a lot of money. And so one of the things that they started to do is actually burn the remains of Russian soldiers. So that they get reported as lost in this way, the government doesn't have to pay compensation. And so, and they've seen that, the people that I've talked to who lead the army, they've seen that. So it's really, really bad, bad thing. That's what's happening there. Just in the city of Mariupol, 21,000 civilians are dead. Ukrainian soldiers, they die from about 60 to 100 per day. There's 38,000 residential buildings are destroyed and 220,000 people are homeless. 1,900 educational facilities are damaged and 180 are completely ruined. 300 cars, 50 rail bridges, 500 factories, 500 damaged hospitals. There was direct 296 attacks on hospitals, ambulances and medical workers. UN Refuge Agency says that there's 6.8 million people that have fled Ukraine. But when I was there, about 2.2 million actually have come back. Russia controlled about 7% of Ukraine's land when the war started in February. As of right now, they control about 20%. And the sanctions, about 5,000 sanctions have been released on the country of Russia, which is affecting Russia and it's going to be affecting each one of us very soon. We're seeing that at our guest prices. We're seeing that with inflation, with the next three to four months, there's gonna be a huge hunger and a famine that's gonna be hitting a lot of poor countries. And some of us will also experience that a little bit here. So it's one of those things that at the end of the day, war doesn't help anybody. Winning war for Ukrainians is not gonna... This is not going to be a victory because we're all gonna suffer. Everyone's gonna suffer there. And we have family, friends there. And so even though our desire is for this to war for Ukraine to win the war and preserve its territory, but our desire is for the war to come to an end because it does nothing but damage. For those of you who've served in the military, you know the problems with the PTSD that people suffer with. It's the same thing that's going to be happening in the Ukrainian population. So what we started to do when the war broke out is we raised funds and as of today, we raised over $800,000 through Vladimir Savchik Ministries to send to help with refugees and help with crisis there. Me and Pastor Vasily arrived in Poland when we flew in there. We met with the churches there and if we can start showing some of the pictures. And so right on the guy, the handsome, by the way, ladies he's single. He has three churches in Ukraine, but he is Russian. So he actually had to leave Ukraine because he's Russian, lost his business, all of his money got frozen. So that's another thing. If you are Russian living in Ukraine, it is extremely dangerous for you. You can get physically beaten for just being Russian. Your property can be confiscated, all of it can be lost. It's legal now that they can confiscate your property, your belongings, just for having Russian passport. And so it's a really, really tense moment. So he fled for his life. He ended up in Poland. He came to see us. He's also a friend of our ministry. Then there's also a pastor there, Pastor Andre. Hold on just one sec, Pastor Andre. And he is the pastor in Poland that we actually have been helping and spreading our ministry and helping refugees there through. Our team was there. And then there's Pastor Vasily and I. We met with their team next to me was sitting a Julie's sister, Natalia. So she's actually a missionary. We're sponsoring her. She's missionary there. She's helping to coordinate the relief efforts. We're renting a large house. We're also paid for the down payment for two apartments there when we were there this time. So we can host refugees and we can kind of help them there. We bought them a van and we also sent quite some money so we can load that van with goods like salt, for example, like Ukraine is running short on salt. And so salt, sugar, flour, and then they drive about 10 hours into the Ukraine and deliver those goods from Poland. So that's what we did in Poland. Then the next day we drove. The guy who was driving us, me and Pastor, was a Poland guy. He doesn't speak Russian, Ukrainian or English. And so we learned Polish language on the way. And Polish language is very similar to Ukrainian. So I was using Google translate and then just signs and wonders, you know, like signs and wonders. And so, and the pastor was like, had a great time with him. He just like literally kept talking to him and the guy just doesn't understand. But they understood each other. And so gift of interpretation of tongues comes in handy in those situations. We arrived in Ukraine. We came to Lusk, Lusk is the city that I came from. And then my pastor, he coordinated a meeting with all the ministries we've been helping. Now, put this in perspective, Pentecostal bishop, Baptist bishop, Orthodox bishop, Catholic bishop, and charismatic bishop. I was blown away. It was so awkward. Most of these people don't like each other. Most of these people preach against each other. Okay, and they know that. And I could see how awkward they were. I was so awkward there.  And pastor just loved it. It's almost like, he's like, this is amazing. So, now you may say, how was he able to bring all of them to the table? Because all of these ministries we helped financially, including the Orthodox and the Catholics, you may say, why would you guys help Orthodox? You have to understand is that Russian military respects Orthodox priests. So a lot of times they would be able to go to places and rescue people that Pentecostals and Baptists would not be able to. So, we supported them and so we helped them financially. And then we met, we talked. They all shared different things that was happening, what they did with the finances we gave them. And then the next morning we met with the mayor of Lutsk. Now, he is a believer in God from what it seems like. And then we actually helped to buy a vehicle for the government to be able to deliver goods. And so we had a chance to meet with him, pray with him. And then we met with the lady who is the director of the Red Cross. Now, she's not a believer. She's a Catholic, God bless her heart. And so, and my pastor put her on the spot. He made her pray. So because every place we went to, even if people were not believers, pastor made him pray. He says, you pray for us so we can get more money to give to you. And so of course people would be like, yeah, let me pray for you. And so they would pray and pastor is very tricky. And then this Catholic lady bless her heart. And so she's praying to Virgin Mary and she forgets her prayer. And then she's trying the Lord's prayer and everything. But she's so sweet. She broke down, starts really experiencing the presence of God that we minister to her. And she also really helps a lot with the crisis over there in Ukraine. And then the next day we drove to Rivne. In Rivne, our pastor did exactly the same thing. He brought the Orthodox, the Catholics, the Pentecostals, the Charismatics, and the Baptists. He brought them together. We also had a dinner. And then we also met with the mayor of Rivne whom we helped with bulletproof vests. We helped them with a lot of the medical equipment from the United States. He came, he also thanked us.  In Kiev, the church that we ministered to, they were meeting outside on Friday and actually did a huge service and prayer for Ukraine. They threw me right on the spot. I guess it was illegal to do that thing, but they did that anyway. And I shared for a little bit. Then we did the service on Saturday. We did the service on Sunday, two services. And then they took us out to see the places where the damage has happened close to Kiev. Where the Russian military went through the Belarusian border and they just pretty much occupied small towns. Some of them, they devastated them completely. Buildings brought down. People affected. Some of you saw the massacre really that happened at Bucha, the small little town. It's kind of like Benton City. That's what Bucha is, it's like a Benton City. It's just, it's where the wealthy people from Kiev wanted to live to get away from the big city. So they kind of established their life there. And when the Russian military went through it, they occupied the place. When they occupied the place, that simply meant that if you were in the house and you had a gun, you're dead. If your wife is young and beautiful, most likely she will be violated. And so it was very, the stuff that I heard, the stuff that was done to people, from people on the ground, I will not be able to say this in the service without you puking, throwing up or going dizzy. It's honestly almost like watching a horror film. And seeing those places, going to those places, talking to these people who survived sometimes 30 days under the occupation where the military will come every single day knocking your house and do things that are really, really, really bad. God supernaturally protected many Christians, but there were still many Christians that lost their life, that they died during that occupation because of a lot of shootings that were taking place. So we saw those places. We also went to the place where right now the military is getting ready in case another invasion happens from Belorussia. So we saw where they are hiding in the forest. We brought them food, we prayed for them, delivered them goods and all the good stuff. On the way back, we went back to Poland and I've also stayed one more day in Poland. I wanted to see the Auschwitz, see the concentration camps that Hitler put Jewish people through and all of the crazy stuff that was taking place over there. So I had a chance to kind of visit that and be there. One thing that I can tell you is this, is that the church is strong in Ukraine. One thing I can tell you is that a lot of pastors are very brave and they are not fleeing, running away. A lot of them are staying back, they're ministering to their people. Though churches have shrunk in size, but after about five, six days going through kind of craziness, a lot of them found their purpose and that is not to try to build the church but to build the people. And some of them are going straight into the war zones to minister to people. Pastor that I talked to, he's actually Russian. He got caught by the Russian guy, he's a pastor in Ukraine. First, the Ukrainian military caught him, beat the living lights out of him just because he was Russian. And then even though he was a chaplain in the Ukrainian military, and so, but then they released him and the stories that he told me, I mean, where he would load up a van full of children, drive through the field where the Ukrainian army and the Russian army were fighting and he would drive a van because that was the only way he had a chance of getting these kids to safety. And literally, rockets, guns, everything, shooting them through and he's just driving through the field. And so he's like, I just let it close my eyes sometimes I cried out to God, God, please, not for my sake, for the sake of the kids. And so, and then he went through one time, second time is easier. And then, you know, like these people are so bold, these people are so courageous. And so, and God really preserved a lot of their lives. And so, I want to say a huge thank you guys for praying. We had a nonstop prayer for five days for us, for the situation in Ukraine. If you are Russian in our church, I want to tell you that we love you, okay? We don't want this situation to churn the worst out of us. We as Christians, this is not a political war for us.  And so, Ukraine deserves that. And so, this war has no justification whatsoever. This war is demonic. This war is every, a lot of every war is really bad, but this war absolutely has no basis. My wife is Russian and we love Russian people. But at the same time, we stand with people who are displaced, people who are refugees, people who are homeless, people that today need help, people that need healing and they need provision. Not because it's the new cool thing that everybody's into right now, but because it's the right thing for us as Christians to help. Because we are from there, we feel a sense of obligation to help and to serve. Amen. So, I ask you, our main goal is not just to help the refugees. Our main goal is to bring the gospel. And so, we're mainly working with churches that are winning the loss, they're evangelizing, they're saving people there. And so, they're seeing a great success to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to that part of the world. Jesus Christ came to heal the brokenhearted. He came to bring reconciliation between nationalities, between countries. There is no room for racism. There is no room for hate and there is no room for unforgiveness. But I believe that through prayer of God's people, this war will come to an end. I believe that God will restore Ukraine. I believe the freedom that Ukraine is enjoying, freedom of religion is going to spark revival in Europe. As we came to United States and God used us to bring a movement into our cities and around the world, I believe same thing is gonna be happening to Ukrainians all around the world.  This bad situation, God could turn around for his good by the advancement of his kingdom. The way we came as refugees to United States 20 years ago, but we didn't just sit here, build houses and make money. God wants it to use us and God is using us and he wants to use you in Jesus' name, amen. Can we just right now express our faith? I wanna take next just few seconds.  I want us to pray right now for this situation. I want us to pray for this war to come to an end. I want us to pray right now for every plan of the enemy to come to a stop and forgot to strengthen the church right now in the Ukraine, forgot to cause the church in Russia to rise up. Let's pray right now for all the refugees. Come on, open up your mouth from the back to the front from the left to the right. Everybody on YouTube, on Zoom and on Facebook, just agree right now with me. Drop that Ukraine or Russian emoji, prayer emoji and just right now stand in prayer. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, you said, Lord God, it is your desire for everyone to come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ. You see, Lord God, this tragedy. You see, Lord God, this war-torn country. Lord God, that has enjoyed freedom, that has tried to, Lord God, spread the message of Jesus Christ, that has sent missionaries around the world. God, I ask you that you will begin to bring freedom, that you will begin to bring victory right now, God, that you will begin to, Lord God, protect this nation. And this war will come to an end, Lord God, and this bloodshed will stop. Father, we pray right now for people that are affected by the war, God, those that are struggling with homelessness, those that are struggling with fatherlessness, God, who lost their parents, God, that you will begin to come in and comfort them, God, that you will begin to come in and help them to find a church, help them to find good news of Jesus Christ, Lord. We pray for the refugees all around the Europe, all around America, God, that you will begin to settle them, God, that they will begin to be the light and the salt in their generation, God. In Jesus' mighty name, Lord, we wanna see a revival in Ukraine, we wanna see a revival in Russia, we wanna see a revival, God, in the Slavic nations, Lord, that you will begin to, God, bring an awakening in that place, in Jesus' mighty name. And everybody said, amen, amen, amen. Come on, let's put our hands together for Jesus Christ. We're standing in faith. We're believing for the impossible. I've heard a story, and this story I've heard before, but I wanted to remind you, I met the mayor of Rivne, a young guy, we can put up his photo. So it turns out his great-grandfather was a pastor of this village called Lipne. And he was a pastor there, and then due to him being persecuted so much, he was removed from a pastor, and they put another pastor instead of him. This was my grandpa, my dad's father. And so it's interesting, when I was in Rivne, so this is my grandpa, he was actually healed of a leprosy. When missionaries came to the village, and they started to tell about Jesus, and my grandpa had a leprosy as a young kid. And when they prayed for him, God healed him of leprosy. And then later on, he becomes a pastor. Now, the pastor before him was a grandfather, a great-grandfather of this guy who is the mayor. This mayor is a Christian. A Bible was passed on to him when the communists came to the village and they said that Christianity will be obsolete, we will wipe out Christianity, we will show the last Christian on the TV and the last Bible in the museum. And so his great-grandfather, who suffered for Christ, passes on the Bible to the next generation, to the next generation. Right after him, my grandfather, pastors the church, and some 30, 40 years later, we meet together in Rivne. And he's like, this is a surreal moment. He's like, my great-grandfather was a pastor and your grandfather became a pastor after him. And he's like, and Soviet kingdom collapsed. He's like, that Bible that they were planning to show in the museum lies on my desk, and I'm the mayor of one of the cities in Ukraine. I was like, high five, come on, somebody. So I just wanna let you know that God's purposes will prevail. God's kingdom will be established. The gospel of the kingdom of Jesus Christ will be preached and then the end shall come. Not the anti-Christ, not the communism, not the fascism, not the atheism, not the homosexuality, not the lesbianism, not the transgenderism, not religion, but the gospel of Jesus Christ will be preached and then the end shall come. My friend, we are on the winning side. Somebody give God some praise right now. Hallelujah. And so I wanna remind each and every one of you that Jesus Christ is a winner. Jesus Christ will establish his kingdom. All of this bad stuff that is happening, things will only get worse, but the kingdom of Jesus will advance. Amen. I wanna speak to you for a brief moment concerning healing. Seeing how it brought healing. You know, if my grandpa wouldn't be healed, I probably wouldn't be here today. The power of healing is so incredible. The Bible says in James chapter five, anybody among you is suffering, pray. Any among you is rejoicing, sing hymns. And then it says, any among you is sick. It says, call the elders and let them anoint you with oil and the prayer of faith will heal the sick. It's interesting. It doesn't say, you know, if you're suffering, it says pray to get through it. But see, if suffering was only meant that you're sick, then James wouldn't tell us now if you're sick, call the elders to pray. That means that suffering that it's referring to is the persecution, rejection. That is what we have to endure. But the suffering of sickness, we don't endure, we engage. We come against it because it is God's will to heal us. And I wanna use a verse right now in second Kings chapter two, verse five. And chapter five, verse three, I'm sorry. Second Kings chapter five, verse three. Then she said to her mistress, if only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria, for he would heal him of his leprosy. Now there's six main positions concerning miracles in the church. The first one is the anti-supernaturalists. These are the people who believe that miracles have stopped with the death of apostles and they believe, no, these people actually believe that miracles never really happened. All the miracles in the Bible are just the fairy tales that supernatural doesn't exist. That's the anti-supernaturalists. The second category, and just hang in with me for a second, is the hardcore cessationists. Now cessationists is somebody who believes that miracles ended. Hardcore cessationists believe that God stopped speaking after New Testament was written. Healings do not happen. All the gifts of the Holy Spirit have stopped. God doesn't heal anymore. God doesn't do anything supernatural anymore. He's done because he did it to prove that apostles were his men and the New Testament had to be written. Then there's softcore cessationists. These people who don't reject the supernatural completely, they believe that God allows miracles where the gospel is breaking new ground, but miracles should not be the norm and they should not be expected. Then there's the believing continuationists. These are the people who believe that miracles have continued. They just haven't seen them and they don't expect them themselves. A lot of Pentecostal people are continuing, they are believing continuationists, meaning they believe in miracles, we just don't expect them here. We believe demons can come out of people but just we don't practice that. And then there's the practicing continuationists. That's us. We believe in the supernatural. We expect the supernatural and we wanna step and act today that God will heal people. And then the last group is the abusing continuationists. These are the people that abuse the miracles. These are the people who believe that if God gave you a prophetic word, it stands above the Bible. That if an angel visited you and contradicts what he says, contradicts the Bible, then stick with what the angel said instead of the Bible. And so we reject that. We believe that miracles are for today. God is a good God. He reveals his glory by not just big feathers and clouds. He reveals his glory by exposing his character. And God's character is that he shows mercy. God's character is that he heals. He is Jehovah Shama. He is the Jehovah Nisi. He is the Jehovah Chaira. He is the Jehovah El Shaddai and all other awesome Hebrew names that most of us don't know what they mean. It just means good stuff. Come on somebody. God's goodness, God's glory is God's goodness being expressed on a practical level. The guy that I just read, his name was Naaman. Naaman was not a pastor. Naaman was not a Bible-believing, spirit-filled, church-attending, tongue-speaking believer. Naaman belonged to an enemies of Israel. Naaman was a general. Naaman was successful. The Bible says not only he was successful, he had great favor. And the scripture says he was used of God. Naaman had one issue. He was a leper. Now, it was not just a skin disease like a little rashes and axima or something. Naaman had a problem where in those days, if you had this problem, you had to be isolated and you couldn't do any work. I want you to notice that his sickness did not limit him from doing what he was supposed to do. I wanna encourage anybody watching us right now or anybody in this room, don't let your sickness control your life. I love the fact that even though Naaman was sick, he was still successful. You may have a problem with your back. It should not stop you your calling. It may limit your calling, but it shouldn't stop your calling. You may have problem with your diabetes. You may have problem with your thyroid. You may have a problem with your vision. You may have problem with your ears. Whatever the sickness restricts, don't let the sickness dominate your life. Naaman was still successful even though he was sick. But I love the fact that he did not manage his sickness. Naaman experienced supernatural healing. Now, I wanna share with you three practical secrets to walking and healing and experiencing healing. Number one, miracles come by faith, but faith comes, faith comes from the word of God. Miracles come by faith, but faith comes from the word of God. Now, I want you to notice that what happened to Naaman? How did the healing come? He captured a girl. And the Bible says that this girl was in his house. She was a young girl. Now, this girl was not a very knowledgeable theologian. This girl was a captive. Her God seems to not work for her. And she did not go through a theological training to know that God doesn't heal everybody. She did not have cockroaches in her head that God doesn't heal bad people. Because the guy who kidnapped her is a bad person. And she has this thing where she tells her captor, her master, if you would only go to Samaria. She didn't say maybe. She says the prophet, he didn't say prophet will pray for you. He said prophet would heal you. Hey, wow. And the poor guy believed it. To the point that he goes to his boss and says, hey, the girl that I just captured, she's selling me this stuff that I could get healed on my leprosy if I only go to Samaria. You know the place we just invaded? Yeah. If I go there, the prophet can remove leprosy from me. And his boss also says, yeah, go for it. See, the Bible is like that little girl in your house. The Bible is the word of God. But some of us, we treat it as like a little girl. What can she tell me? This is an old book. Can I really believe it? That God can heal a disease that I've been living with for 20 years. Do I really give it a place of influence in my life? That God can heal a sickness that has been generational from one generation. Every woman in my family tree has battled with this thing. And honestly, we kind of managed with it. It's kind of who we are already. We have a name for it. We have a prescription for it. We have a medical insurance for it. We're okay with it. And there is a Bible that is telling you something else. The word of God is telling us the truth. And the word of God is telling us this. It is the will of God to heal you. When a leper came to Jesus and says, Jesus, if you are willing, Jesus, hold on, buddy. I am willing to heal. God wants to heal you. It is not only the will of God to heal you. It is the promise of God to heal you. Bless the Lord all my soul. And all that is within me, bless His holy name because He heals all your diseases. That is the promise. Not only it is His will to heal you, but it is His promise to heal you. Somebody say amen.  But not only is God's promise to heal you, it's also God's nature to heal you. You see, I can make promises and I can have desire, for example. I wish for Casey to have an airplane. I will for Casey to have an airplane. Come on, somebody, receive man of God. See, there's just only one problem. I don't have an airplane. Even if I want to give him an airplane, I don't have an airplane. So it's easy to wish for something I don't have. See, when God wills something, He actually has it and He promises it. And not only He promises and He has it, but if I would have an airplane, let's say I have one airplane and I will for Casey to have an airplane, okay? And then I promise for Casey to have an airplane. There's just only one problem. If I give him the airplane, I have no more airplane. See, God doesn't have a healing. He is a healer. It's not something He has for one person and if He gives it for you, He doesn't have it for the other person. It's someone He is, Jehovah Rafa. He doesn't get less of it when you get it. When everybody gets it, God doesn't lose it. His batteries do not get drained when your faith taps into it. Oh, come on, somebody. Woo! Faith comes. Somebody say, faith comes. Faith comes from hearing. You don't chase faith. You chase the word of God. As you feed yourself with God's word, faith will automatically come. Some people say, I don't have faith. You can change your faith if you change what you listen to. If you start listening to the little girl, if you start listening to the word of God, if you start listening to God's promises, faith will bubble up. It will be weird. You will just feel differently. It's this knowing, it's this trust. It's this reliance. He has it for me. He loves me. He wants to heal me. So not only it's something that God promises, not only it's something God wills, but it's someone He is. But fourthly, and this is huge, it's something He paid for on the cross. It's already been purchased. When Jesus healed people in Matthew, it says this, He did this because it says He carried our infirmities. In other words, Jesus was almost dispersing what the Father already paid for on the cross. By His stripes we were healed. I wanna encourage you today.  As a church, as hungry gen, let's become hungry for healing. Because while healing brings glory to God and advances the kingdom of God, for the person in question, healing is a change between darkness and life. Healing is a change between death and life. Healing is a change between a funeral and a feast. Healing is a change between not being able to have children to have children. Healing is a change between I'm dying at the age of 45 to, I'm dying at the age of 80, and I'm seeing my great-grandchildren. That is the difference that a healing makes in somebody's life. And Jesus Christ died on the cross that you will be healed in your body. It brings Him glory to heal you. It brings Him honor to heal you. He loves you and He wants to heal you. Healing comes from faith and faith comes from hearing. Let me say that again. Healing comes from faith, but faith comes from hearing. Watch what you hear and faith will bubble up inside. The second thing I wanna highlight is that not only He heard from the girl and He acted on it, the second thing is this, is that Naaman, he went to the king first to get healed. And when he comes to the king, he brings him a letter and Naaman, like he doesn't know the church Christianity, Christianity, so he comes with a letter, he says, hey, I'm sick, heal me, here's the money. The king reads the letter and he says, are you out of your mind? King takes his garments and I won't demonstrate this. Right now, he wraps his clothes and he says these words. He says, am I in the place of God that I can heal you? Now, when I read that, I'm like, yeah, that's right, bro. I agree with you, we're not God. We can't heal people. And then the next verse just totally surprises me. The prophet Elisha, so it was, when Elisha, the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, he sent to the king saying, why have you torn your clothes? Please let him come to me and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.  When I read that verse, I relate with the king of Israel. I'm not God, bro. I'm sorry, man. I can't heal you. I connect with that. I'm like, man, I relate to that. And that's why we don't see healings. Why? If you are aware of your weakness, you will never flow in authority. What did the king do? He became acutely aware of his weakness. Was prophet weak as well? Was prophet only a man of God, not God, of course. The only difference is the prophet wasn't aware of his weakness. He was aware of God's word. I wanna encourage you right now. Healing comes when we focus on our authority, not on our issues.  Because we live with ourselves all the time, so we know lack of our faith. We know lack of our fasting, lack of our Bible reading and everything. And sometimes we come toward the issue of healing and we say, man, God can't use me. God can't heal me. I'm not good enough. I'm not worthy enough. My faith is too weak. My prayer life is too weak. My church life is too weak. And we come in this desperation. We say, oh God, I just can't do anything. And you would think like, well, this pleases God. Now God sees weak faith. Don't get me wrong. But God honors strong one. Weak faith tells the God about the problem. But the strong faith tells the problem about God. See, weak faith is a desperation. I'm so poor, but a strong faith is a revelation. He's so rich. He's so good. When the apostles prayed for the man who was sitting at the gate called beautiful, they didn't come to him and they said, we don't have this and we don't have that. They said, whoa, we do have. We give you. What we do have is we have your healing. We have the name of Jesus Christ. We have the power of the word of God. What we do have is we have the promise of God. By his stripes, you will be healed. What we do have is the spirit of him who raised Christ from the dead lives inside of us. The living water is inside of us. And when we open up our mouth, miracles will happen. Rise up and walk. That's why the Bible doesn't tell us to pray for the sick. It tells us to heal the sick. Why? Because Bible expects you to walk in your authority. The Bible expects you not to walk in your worthiness, not to walk even in your godliness, but to walk in the name of Jesus Christ.  Yes, we have to live a humble, fasted, prayerful, in the word of God, tongue speaking life. But none of that increases our authority. Our authority comes from Jesus Christ. It comes from the blood. It comes from the name. And it comes from the goodness of God that he has toward people who are sick and in need. I wanna encourage you today. If you wanna increase in walking in healing, walk in authority. That means if you are sick, there's a time to pray, Lord, heal me. And then there's a time to go and attack that sickness. And you speak to the mountain. You speak to the valley of the dry bones.  The third thing that I wanna mention is that Naaman did not quit until he got healed. Miracles happen when we don't give up until we get answered. Until we get answers. Miracles happen when we don't give up until we get an answer. Now, the moment he goes to the king and the king doesn't give him anything, the king plays this sorry card. And the prophet says, come to me, I got you. I can take care of this. And then he comes to the prophet, finally, yes. I'm gonna get healed right now. And the prophet pulls another card. He doesn't come out to the meeting. And this Naaman watched YouTube videos. So he's already seen that the prophet does this thing with his hand, because the Bible says that he was expecting the prophet to wave his hand over the sick part of his body. The prophet doesn't even show up. He sent one of the studious, one of the guys. And the guy just comes out and reads it from the paper. He's like, hey, he says, go to this, to the right, to the left, to the right. And then there's this river. It's kind of dirty, but you know what? If you dunk yourself seven times, then your skin will be as baby skin. And Naaman gets completely offended because it ruins his expectations. It's not how it's supposed to happen. I have this preconceived idea. This is how it's supposed to happen. And so I really wanna challenge you that when you are in the process of receiving your healing, sometimes things you expect do not work the way you expected. Maybe you don't get healed on the first time. You have to get dunked the second time. Maybe you don't get healed this way, but you get healed that way. What's important is that you don't focus on how you get healed. When you get healed, you focus on getting healed. And that's more important than, oh, if it doesn't happen today, that's it. I'm not gonna believe in God. Don't do that. You get a trip over that because your faith will be tested. Your faith will be tried. And one of the ways it will be tried when your expectations fail and you will feel like, man, I lost my faith. You didn't lose your faith. You lost your faith in faith, but now faith in God can begin. You lost your faith in your healing, but now you can get faith in your healer. He doesn't fail you. You lost your faith in your emotion, but you did not lose your faith in the stripes of Jesus Christ because he is still your healer. He still loves you and he still has a plan to heal you. Touch you and restore you. I understand. I've opened can of worms and I cannot go into that today. Why this, that and this did not happen in my life. Why I prayed for this person and they didn't get healed. That person and they didn't get healed. I don't know none of that, but I do know one thing. My Redeemer lives. And in my body, he says, I will see him. You can experience the healing touch of Jesus Christ today. There is three ways God heals. The first one is naturally. He created your body in a such a way that it repairs itself. In fact, you have a healing mechanism in your body right now. As you sleep, your immune system goes to war fighting for you. For those of you who believe that God doesn't wanna heal you, let me ask you a question. Why did he create your body by default to heal itself? Why? Because he's a healer. It's what he does. Learn from your body. If you went to a theology school and they knocked healing out of you, well, turn off that part of the theology school and take a biology school. And learn from your body. Your body heals itself. Your body wants to live. Your body wants to thrive. And that's why we need to help our body to heal by eating right, by sleeping right. And our body goes to war every single day for our health. And that's one of the ways God heals. The second way that God heals is through medicine. Now the doctors and the nurses, they're not demons, witches and warlocks. For those of us sometimes who get up and share a testimony in such a way they make it seem like the doctor is like the worst, like a Hitler on steroids. Like he was really trying to kill me. The doctors now, some doctors are bad. The same way there are bad people in every sphere. But overall the medicine world is not anti-faith. And it's not anti-healing. Almost every healing that I have heard either happen in the hospital or got verified by the hospital or crossed paths with the hospital. And we need more hospitals, not less. And the idea that if God brings a great revival all the hospitals will close down. We're against that.  You will have a problem with poverty. Amen. God can use doctors. They can remove certain things and your body kicks in and starts fighting. The doctors can be used by God. And the third way that God heals and he heals supernaturally. And that is when he supernaturally touches your body. Like it can happen right now. And that pain that you had can be removed.  Even if you have got a custom to it. Maybe the devil has lied to you and said you're not good enough for that healing.  Maybe the devil has told you you don't have enough faith.  You were given a measure of faith. Grow that faith by hearing God's word. And today I'm gonna ask you. Release that faith by taking a limb. By taking a step in faith and trusting in God for his healing. I have something in my spirit to do today.  This quiet, what is faith? Quiet confidence. God is who he said he is. And I'm gonna take a step. The way you release your faith is you come in contact with God's power. And today we wanna pray with you. I'm gonna close the service. But before I do that, I'm gonna invite you forward to come and receive prayer. The Bible says if any among you is sick, it doesn't say go up to the front so they can pray for you. It says let them anoint you with oil and pray a prayer of faith. Not a prayer of God give them strength and help them to endure. Not just a prayer of God guide the doctors' hands and make sure that the medicine kicks in and starts working. There is nothing wrong with that. But the prayer that God expects in the church is the prayer of faith. Meaning we come against that sickness. That means we cancel the assignment of the enemy. That means rise up and walk. That means that begin to see, begin to hear because that is God's will for your life. And even for those of you that are watching us live. But before we pray for healing, the greatest healing that you can experience in your life is the healing of your soul, the healing of your spirit. Every head bowed and every eye closed. If you are in this room, maybe visiting us for the first time or coming back once again and you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, would you give me the opportunity right now to pray with you, to connect you to the Lord? If you wanna give your life to Jesus, when I count to three, I'm gonna ask you to just raise your hand. And I would love to pray with you. If you wanna come back to Jesus, maybe you walked away from Him, just raise your hand high. And I'm gonna pray with you. One, two, three. Just lift that hand high. If you're saying, hey, today is my day. I wanna give my life to the Lord. I wanna give my life to Christ. Thank you, thank you. Anybody else?  Thank you. Thank you. I know a lot of students are raising their hands. Anybody else? Maybe visiting today for the first time. If you're watching us live on broadcast right now and you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, drop that in the chat. I wanna get saved. Now I wanna ask everybody to rise. If you raised your hand and you wanted to give your life to the Lord, I'm gonna ask you quickly to come forward right now. Even one of the students, if you're in the back, just come forward right now. Just step forward. I wanna pray with you that Jesus will come into your heart.  You took the first hard step and now just come forward. Anybody else on the back? If you notice the person that I missed maybe, they're just bringing him with you. Don't force him though. It's a free place. Just bring him forward with you. We're gonna pray that Jesus is going to do a miracle in your heart today in Jesus' name. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Those of you that are online, I want you to get ready to pray with us right now as well. Everybody here in the front, I want you to stretch your hands like this. This is gonna be just a sign of surrender. Say this with me. Say, Lord Jesus, I am a sinner. Please forgive me of all my sin and wash me with your blood. I surrender all my life to you. And from this day forward, I promise to follow you as you show me how in Jesus' name, amen. I want you to right now rise up and I want you to follow my wife for just a few moments. She's gonna talk to you. Church, can we give a round of applause to these precious people? Now, I'm noticing that I am without any pastors almost here. So we're gonna do something else right now. Just give me two minutes.    If you're believing for healing, okay. Okay, so there's not too many hands. I want you to come forward now. I thought it was more people. So just come forward. We're gonna pray for you then. We're gonna pray for you. We have enough leaders. Just come forward. If I can have the worship team kick them up. Just come forward, line in one line and we're gonna pray right now. We're gonna note you with oil if we can get oil ready. All right, there was a lot more less hands when I asked, but I guess people will be like, well, I'm just gonna go there with the flow. So just come forward. I'm gonna pray a prayer. Then we're gonna anoint it with oil and believe for God's restoration.  Those of you online, I want you to place your hand upon the part of the body where there is pain. And church, and those of you who are here, place your hand upon the part of the body where there is pain. We're gonna pray right now together. Church, would you agree with me? Would you say this with me? Say, my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. My body belongs to Jesus. I take authority as a child of God over every sickness, over every disease. In Jesus' name, I commend you to leave my body right now, every generational curse. And now, every demonic attack. Ends now. I speak God's healing to come right now to every organ in my body, in the name of Jesus. If I can ask our pastoral team right now to start just praying, anointing with oil and declaring God's healing. Don't pray for healing, declare God's healing. Just declare God's word. Church, would you give me just 60 seconds right now from the back to the front, to the right to the left? Would you stretch your hands right now toward these people? I want you to pray in the Holy Ghost. Don't pray in English, pray in the Holy Ghost right now. Come on, give us 60 seconds right now of your prayer. Release your faith right now, release your faith. Just pray in the Holy Ghost. As we touch these people right now, we believe the Holy Spirit is gonna touch them right now. And the power of God is gonna touch them right now. In the name of Jesus Christ. Those of you online, receive God's healing right now. Those of you online, receive God's healing in your joints, in your blood, in your bones. Receive God's touch in your body right now. Begin to do something you could not do without pain. Begin to do something you could not do without pain. God's healing flow is flowing and touching you. Those of you on Zoom, those of you on YouTube and on Facebook, God's power is touching you right now. Receive God's healing right now. Be healed in Jesus' name. Rise up and walk. Rise up and breathe. Rise up and stretch your hands. Rise up and move your knees. Rise up and have no more digestive problem. Rise up and have no more of COVID symptoms. In the name of Jesus Christ. Rise up and be healed of your skin infection. Rise up and be healed of grom or migrant headaches. Rise up and be healed of epilepsy and seizures. Rise up and be healed of PTSD. Rise up and be healed in the name of Jesus Christ. Come on church, 20 more seconds. 20 more seconds.  Pray in the Holy Ghost. Pray in the Holy Ghost. Pray in the Holy Ghost. At the power of God will touch right now. At the power of God will touch right now. Son, taba, soco, robolo, de, de, de, de, de, de. We bring our service to an end. You can be dismissed. God bless you. Enjoy your Sunday. We're going to continue to pray for people. If you want to stay longer and pray for just a few more minutes, you're free to do so. Everyone online, let us know what you're experiencing. Drop it in the chat. We want to see what God is doing in your life. But everybody else better is not good enough. The best is yet to come.


This is another poem about San Francisco, not to be monotonous or anything. This is the San Francisco that maybe the Convention Visitors Bureau might not like. It's called, San Francisco sightseeing.   Man on 19 poke bus, where's my Wall Street Journal? Damn near noon, he says, then whistles.


For more than 100 years, this ferry landing on Long Island Sound near New York City has served an Army post on nearby David's Island. Today, those using the ferry include not only officers and enlisted men of the Army and its sister services, but also of the armed forces of allied nations. For years spanning a century, David's Island successively has been the site of a general hospital for civil war wounded, a part of New York's Harbor defenses, a recruit reception depot, and an overseas staging area. But none of these invaluable services was more important than today's activity at Fort Slocum. Highly specialized training for a modern, highly specialized Army. An official report produced for the armed forces. Training centers at Fort Slocum are the Army Information School and the Chaplains School. These two service schools, located side by side in a campus-like setting, are examples in contrast of the range and scope of the Army's educational systems. Officers reporting to the Chaplains School have already received theological training as ordained ministers, priests, and rabbis. They will not be taught theology, but will be given an orientation course covering basic military science. This will help them to understand how their new role fits into the Army's framework of command. Some of the Chaplains have been through the orientation course previously and have completed tours of duty in the field. Now they are returning for advanced training in the career course to qualify as staff chaplains. Students reporting to the Information School have of course completed their basic training. They have been selected for further training as Army Information Specialists on the basis of aptitude and prior education or experience. No time is lost in getting the materials for study into the hands of the Information School student. The courses which lie ahead are rigorous and challenging, and time is of the essence in assimilating their contents. A separate handbook is issued for each of the five departments of the Information School. Policy and plans. Military, U.S. and World Affairs. Oral communications. Applied journalism. Radio television. The student soon finds that the time allotted to absorb this instruction is short. All five courses are compressed into a period of only eight weeks. Classes are conducted in high gear to take advantage of every moment of time. Among the students are members of other services and representatives of the armed forces of allied nations. Testimonial to the quality of Army instruction in the information field. Regardless of his background, each student will learn the basic facts of the Army's information function in a democratic nation. Evening study is mandatory for all students during the first three weeks. The information specialist will require a basic background in history, citizenship, government. He will have needful knowledge of the aims of the United Nations and its member nations, of our foreign and domestic policy, the code of conduct, the origin and menace of international communism. After the third week, students with passing grades in all classes are permitted more latitude in the use of their free time. A day room provides a place to relax. Enlisted men are granted membership in the Post Non-Commissioned Officers Club, providing school grades are maintained at a satisfactory level. Officer students have similar privileges at the Post Officers Club. In contrast to the academic life on the other side of the campus, the chaplain candidates assemble for their initial instruction in military drill. Maneuvers familiar to the old soldier do not come easy at first, but the situation is not a new one to the drill instructor. A chaplain himself, he has ready-made remedies for such problems. An honest effort, competent instruction, a bit of patience and plenty of practice are part of the learning process. Practice may not make perfect, it helps. There is time for recreation and fellowship at the Chaplain School too, with a special emphasis on fellowship. On this busy little island, clergymen of all faiths meet. Often the meeting is the first intimate association with a representative of another faith. But here at Fort Slocum, they learn to understand each other better, and in the process, learn something more about this army to which they are joined in a common effort. In addition to the intellectual fair offered on this GI campus, the inner man is served with generous portions of hearty army chow. Chaplains and offices students of the Information School share this section of the mess. Enlisted men are served from the same kitchen in a larger dining hall. In class again, Information School students are exposed to the fundamentals of successful public speaking. The oral communications textbook embraces much more than good speaking techniques. It outlines precise methods of gaining attention, organizing ideas and illustrating them with catchy visual devices. A civilian instructor, expert in the technique, demonstrates the effective use of visual aids. The students find that visual aids can be entertaining as well as instructive. The demonstration includes a variety of graphic devices requiring different kinds of props and backgrounds, some are self-explanatory. While the students make mental notes, the instructor unpacks a bag of tricks, all designed to focus attention on his message. These items seemingly defying the law of gravity are held in place by a small hook and loop device. Showmanship plays a large part in public speaking, as demonstrated by this planned accident. But doing it yourself is at least half of the learning process as the students discover. The first step is research in a subject selected from a list of 500 suggested topics. The post library is an excellent source of material. Then comes composition of the talk and the development of ideas for visual aids to accompany the speech. These ideas are translated into physical form in the school's visual aid shop. Technicians explain the use of equipment and make it available to the students. But production of the visual aids is strictly up to the individual student himself. And only the student gives his speech, complete with the visual material he has devised and created to illustrate it. Classmates critique the speech and point out possible ways to improve it. Each student in oral communications is expected to give from four to six such talks during the course. But all is not academic grind at Fort Slocum. Sports facilities are enjoyed by the chaplains as well as the information school students. The post tennis courts offer an opportunity for friendly competition among the students of both schools. The post exchange also offers inducements to the personnel on both sides of the island. Chaplains may be called on to administer physical as well as spiritual healing arts. This class in first aid is one of several conducted in the field. Because of limited facilities at the school, the chaplains journey to Fort Dix, New Jersey for this phase of their training. The first aid course, like others given here, is designed to acquaint the chaplains with military operations. Again, to help them understand their role in the team effort. Other field instruction includes the use of gas masks, signal communications and standard field equipment. This outdoor activity complements the classroom work at Fort Slocum in such subjects as military tactics and logistics. Here is a typical class in which the chaplains students act out roles as staff officers.  We have our staff here, G-staff and chief of staff. I'm going to pose a few problems to them and let them take over to see what they do about them. Chief of staff, we got a possibility we are on defense. We have a problem of a counter-attack. What are some of the things you might look into in reference to your counter-attack plan? As you can see from the map, the division area is defined by these black lines. We may expect a attack from our front. I'm going to ask the G-1 or the G-2, the G-3, G-1 and G-4 respectively to give their part of the order. Gentlemen, we have not received an order yet. You are planning. So I want to know what you are going to recommend to the general, and that's myself when I get arrived. Sir, we are making plans with the idea that the enemy will use this area as their avenue of approach. Although the chaplain's normal duties do not call for him to fight physically, he must be with the fighting troops on the battlefield. Therefore, he needs a thorough knowledge and understanding of military tactics. The division chaplain has told me that he will send out the chaplains on more periodic visits to the troops. We have recommended to the division chaplain that the amount of services, both formal and informal, services be stepped up in isolated areas of course, dispersed areas. Also, in regard to morale, we have a request to fill 325 spaces at the Paris R&R Center. And, sir, I recommend that we send 325 men from the division to fill these spaces at the R&R Center. Another classroom exercise is one which gives the chaplain's students valuable practice in counseling troops. Here, one student improvises as the counselor, while another acts the part of a soldier with a problem. Well, as I could call her, but like I say, if I don't get this passed today, I'm going tonight. This is a Friday and I'm taking off. I'm not going to stay around the chaplain. So, I don't know if you can help me out. Appreciate it. If you could do something for me, maybe you could call up the first sergeant and explain the situation. Tell him I'm going. And I know the company doesn't want any more AWOLs than they can help, but I'm going. Well, I'd like to make a recommendation to you. Before you go, suppose you and I get together and we call your girlfriend. If you'll come down here to the office, I'll let you use my phone. You say it's 186 miles away. That isn't too much expense. And let us talk. We have two phones here and I can be in on the conversation if you wish. Talk with her as well as listen on your conversation. And then let us go from there after having talked with both of you. If it still is absolutely necessary in your mind that you go, then I'll get in touch with your company commander. You will try to give me a pass, right? Thanks a lot, gentlemen. That's fine. One other thing I want you to do, though, is to trade places. And you'll be Private Roy Johnson now, and you're the chaplain. You've had enough cases like this. You can do it. Go ahead and change. Well, about this conversation on the telephone, time is the essence. And if we don't get... While practicing counseling and learning military science, however, the chaplains are ever mindful of their mission to bring God to men and men to God. Spiritual needs of the post personnel and their families are served by the chaplain students, although this is not a part of the school instruction. Students, as well as staff members of the school, conduct regular services in the chapel center. Attendance by the faculty and students of both schools is welcomed at Catholic Mass, at the Jewish services, and the various Protestant services. The Master Schedule Board in the Information School shows that one section is just getting underway in the applied journalism course. Here again, the students learn by doing. Using data sheets supplied by the instructor, they organize the information and practice writing news stories. The instructor and experienced newsman is available for advice on style and content. Newswriting skill, like any other, is sharpened by practice. Information specialists in this field must also be prepared to edit still photos for both news and feature story value. This class is another where instruction comes by the ounce and practice by the pound. The emphasis is on writing captions for the pictures after they are put into the proper sequence to tell a story. The student photojournalists also work in the field with students from the Army Photographic School at Fort Monmouth. Originating photo feature stories on the Fort's locom grounds is valuable practical experience for both the journalists and the photographers. Guest speakers, all outstanding experts in their fields, are an important part of the curriculum. These lectures give the Information School students the benefit of a wide range of experience in the mass communications media. The chaplains, meanwhile, are approaching the end of their basic training. In the field at Fort Dix again, they participate in an infiltration course exercise as part of their instruction in standard military operations. This strenuous phase of their education is the same as that given in regular infantry training. From such experience comes knowledge and finally the wise counsel of the man of peace to the man of war. And the exercise involved does no harm at all to the clergyman's appetites. In this case, the field kitchen is serving the same good G.I. Chow that the chaplains were beginning back at school, making the lunch break doubly welcome. The chaplains also learn to set up field altars in preparation for the time when they will accompany their units to places where the only cathedral is a lofty forest, the only temple, the arch of the sky above. Among the tasks the chaplain is called upon to perform is one which closely follows an important part of his duties as a civilian. Mock funeral ceremonies give a thorough indoctrination in the military form. The Information School students also are nearing the climax of their training. Perhaps the most interesting and possibly the most challenging courses given at Fort Slocum are to be found in the Information Schools Radio Television Department. Students learn the technical operation of equipment as well as the art of preparing material and presenting it in a broadcast. Recorded interview techniques practiced in the classroom will be put to use in one of the many armed forces radio networks abroad. Announcing requires special talents, most of which can be developed. Except for the very gifted ones, good announcers are made, not born. Radio instruction provides a basic working knowledge of the subject necessary to evaluate and prepare material for both troop and public broadcast. The student with exceptional aptitude is trained to operate studio equipment which is the same as that used by the armed forces networks overseas. This is also true of the more complex equipment in the television studios at Fort Slocum. The multiplex arrangement of motion picture projectors, slide projectors and television cameras used by the students is the same kind that brings the Saturday night movies to our troops around the world. The students become familiar with these facilities before making use of them. The Information School television training facilities compare favorably with those of any efficient commercial station. Students who learn to operate this equipment will be familiar with facilities of any modern civilian telecast studio. Students selected for this advanced training are given a thorough background in every phase of television production. Techniques of camera work and the use of flip-flop still photos are only two of the many areas of instruction. The students are trained to fill any position in the studio. Once assigned to an armed forces network station, they may be called on to direct, operate cameras, light sets, conduct interviews, handle the microphone boom or write scripts for studio productions. The preparation and writing of scripts receives particular attention. These exercises in using motion picture news clips emphasize the difference in requirements as well as the similarities in news writing for printed media. The final test of the television course is a four hour exercise in programming. Students are in charge of the entire program. They play all the parts, operate all the equipment, supply their own direction and take turns at each specialty. This class program is transmitted only to the monitor screens on the post. The results are watched carefully by the school faculty. Since this test is the measure of the student's ability to take their places among those striving to keep our troops informed. As the training at Fort Slocum may be, it is but a small sample of the wide range of instruction offered by the many Army service schools. This vast school system provides Army personnel with a vocational education second to none. For the graduating students, the training is only the beginning of their education. When they leave for new assignments, their horizons will continue to widen with practical experience in the jobs for which they have been trained. The complex equipment of a modern Army needs personnel with advanced and specialized training to understand and operate it. Today, as never before in history, our Army and the free world are faced with the need for soldiers of greater skill and intelligence. Less apparent, but equally important, it is essential that the American soldier gain an understanding of his country's purpose, its aims in the prolonged struggle ahead, and its great need for his allegiance of mine. For these and many other reasons, the Army provides its men and women with the opportunity to gather the power of knowledge in the service of their country. However they may be called to serve, they will find this unparalleled and golden opportunity to learn.


One of the other great passages I ran has a passage where essentially this idea of the self-made man, part of moral ambitiousness and part of the whole idea, which I know you're going to be talking about next, part of the whole idea of pursuing one's self-interest means never failing to pronounce moral judgment. To say, look, you may have an opinion about what I'm doing, how I'm pursuing my self-development. I have a brain. I have a rational capacity. I can evaluate that given the facts. Now, the people who will contribute and who will actually on this other side have something to say, can help you out, et cetera, will see that and will want to help promote your self-development. And you'll be able to see, I think, probably in your own experience, the difference between people who want to make a claim on you and say, don't go there, you're surpassing me, you're no longer listening to me, et cetera, et cetera, and people who want to promote your self-development because they see that it's in their rational self-interest.  Now I can take account of that variable.  Well, because they see you're a potential trading partner in the future. If you're successful, if your business takes off, you're a better friend, a better business partner, or whatever to have.  They're trying to stop your self-development. You have to evaluate those. You have to morally judge which of those is actually contributing to your self-development and based upon a real standard. You say, look, are your concerns, are you yelling that there's a cliff? Is there a basis for that in reality? Or are you just trying to scare me? And that, I think, is the way to differentiate those types of when should you just plow forward and ignore people because inevitably as you go through this process in business, in life, in social life, et cetera, there are always going to be people pulling like that. But there's also going to be people who have advice and experience will teach a lot. Yeah, there was another question. I don't know how to feel. The microphone's in the back, so I guess we go to the mic. Hello, good morning. First of all, thank you for the talk. I really enjoyed it. Thank you. And if the measure of success is not being a billionaire or not inventing the iPhone, not having a super hot wife, why do we keep referring to that as the measure of success? Aren't we fostering new generations of just frustrated youth that they will never be good enough? Well, so this is an interesting question. If the standard of success is not necessarily being a billionaire inventing a new iPhone, having a hot wife, I forget the last thing you said. But if those aren't the standard of success, is there a danger in promoting those as the measure of success? Well, I think there is something to that. Now, I want to clarify, making a billion dollars or becoming whatever wealth is, in a generation it will be a trillion just to be wealthy with the way the money system is going. Not to depress all of you, but that can be your goal. That can be your measure of success. If you set that, if your chosen goal is, I want to have a level of success that puts me at a financial position as such. That can be your goal, but it doesn't have to be. The problem, though, as you point out, there is a cultural standard. And that cultural standard of what is defined as success can have an effect on what people pursue. Now, if you ask me, just off the cuff, what is our cultural definition of success? It's probably getting 15 minutes of internet fame and having a sex tape and being famous, and then being able to launch a career as, I don't know, what does it Kim Kardashian does? A career as famous for being famous or being related to someone famous? Culturally, there is a very, very important barometer, as it were, of what people see as successful. Right now, yes, money, having a hot wife, having a certain kind of fame is what's seen as successful. Why aren't we championing, for example, the geeks of Silicon Valley, the guys and the men and women who actually put together the technologies that make the iPhone possible? Why aren't we, as a culture, championing the people who do reach success, but not necessarily in all of these levels? What a culture measures as its success, what it sees as successful, does tell us a lot about the values that that culture holds. And right now, I'd say ours is pretty mixed. Our culture does sometimes value genuine success. We see this periodically in certain moments of cultural episodes. In the Olympics, people genuinely value the hard work and determination that it takes to attain that level of performance. Sometimes people do celebrate the individuals who attain business success, but there's also a lot of image success, false success, that doesn't really have a grounding in anything. I mean, I don't want to completely despair because not all of it is worthless, but it tells you that if fame is being pursued for its own purposes, as opposed to for the achievements that you have, that might be a barometer of a bad sign in the culture. And the culture championing the success of people who have all sorts of problems, they're fascinated by the people, the more defective the person is, the more famous they become, it's weird. Defective as in socially defective, not physical deformities, but like, oh, I've had six wives and I have 27 children and oh, I now have my own reality TV show. And suddenly that turns into success. That might be a bad thing as a culture. What we need to do is we need to value true achievement, life-promoting achievements, which the last I checked having a reality show doesn't do a whole lot to promote one's true achievement, building companies, having successful relationships. I mean, even something so simple as having a successful family. This is the point that success can be defined on all levels, that it doesn't only appertain to those on the upper echelons of wealth and notoriety, success can be choosing consciously to have a family and choosing consciously how you're going to rear your children to make them the best, happiest, most successful children you possibly can, and then engaging in that process and then seeing those children grow up, develop, become educated and become successful adults. That can be a measure of success. It's one that's not going to get reported in the papers. It's one that's not going to become known. No one's going to know about this besides you and your immediate family and your friends. But that can be a tremendous gauge of success.  I'm not a parent, so successful or otherwise. But I'm sure that that can be an incredibly rewarding experience. And to the extent that people choose to do that rather than the kind of accidental parenthood that we seem so common today, that, oh, it just sort of happens and I sort of raise the kid or whatever. But to choose to do that as a value can be incredibly rewarding, possibly more so than making those millions of dollars if that's what you value. So the cultural side, there is a kind of cultural barometer there that I think you've identified. But at the same time, we as a culture, we have to celebrate the success and promote the idea of success on a rational model. Instead of saying, oh, yeah, what did Kim Kardashian do? Say, oh, hey, did you hear about this great businessman? Or, oh, hey, did you hear about this, you know, my friend who's really doing a great job parenting?  I mean, to actually promote that culturally would do a lot. Would do a lot to bring back that idea of self-making as a true rational pursuit. And so that's all we have time for? Okay, so thank you very much. Gentlemen, I appreciate it. I have a few more questions.


On the 16th of August the food box scheme will come to an end and you will need to make other plans to get food and supplies. It is safe for you to leave your home and to go to the shop, but you may wish to do this at quieter times. Help is also available from priority supermarket deliveries, friends, neighbours and local voluntary groups and some supermarkets offering food boxes. Your local council can provide you with support and advice.