Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you including Brad, Kevin, and Paul Teeson. Coming up on DTNS, we finally found a useful way to gauge Bitcoin's effect on the environment. Plus, what Shannon Morse, known coupon expert, thinks of Amazon's digital coupon program. And what Shannon Morse, known security expert, thinks of Europe's new cyber security directive. DTNS starts now! This is the Daily Tech News for May, Friday the 13th, 2022 in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. Ooh, and from Spooky Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. Spooky-o Redwood. Ooh, from Haunted Colorado, I'm Shannon Morse. Drawing the top text stories from Cleveland, I'm Len Perolda. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Yeah, doesn't need to add any spookies. Yes, he's spooky enough on his own. He's just who he is. Just ask my kids. All right, let's start with a few tech things you should know. Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that his deal to acquire Twitter is temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users. He followed that post with another that said, still committed to acquisition. Some people are wondering if that's true. The 5% number came in a May third story from Reuters. Musk would face a $1 billion fee if he decided not to close the deal. He waved due diligence in the April 25th agreement to buy the company. In a totally separate story, I have no idea what constitutes stock manipulation. SpaceX's internet service Starlink expanded its satellite internet service availability to 7 more countries for a total of 32. Service areas cover most of North America, outside Alaska, Northern Canada, most of Europe, outside Upper Scandinavia, New Zealand and Southern Australia, southeastern Brazil and most of Chile. SpaceX also says it's now shipping equipment to customers immediately. If you recall, customers have reported waiting months after signing up to get their equipment. No more says Starlink. Security researcher Brian Krebs received a tip that unauthorized users obtained log in information to the law enforcement inquiry and alert system on May 8th, which he passed along to the FETs. The system provides search capabilities into 16 federal law enforcement databases including law enforcement sensitive and mission sensitive data. Based on screenshots shared by the tipster, UC Berkeley researcher Nicholas Weaver said that the actors could both view records and submit false records to the system. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says that it is investigating the reports. Now we've heard a lot of tech companies slowing down, but Gogoro is powering up. Bucking the tech downturn, Taiwan's electric scooter company reported a 61% rise in revenue in Q1 driven by an increase of sales in Taiwan. 25% of two-wheel vehicles sold in Taipei in December were using Gogoro's battery-swapping tech. Gogoro also reported a reduction in production cost per scooter. Subscribers rose 25% to 467,000. Gogoro has been trying to expand outside of its home market too. Right now it accounts for 95% of its revenue, so I'd like to diversify outside Taiwan. Gogoro has a partnership with Gojek's Electrum to build infrastructure for two-wheeled EVs and batteries in Indonesia. Bloomberg sources say that Samsung began informing its chip-making clients that it will raise prices 15-20% with chips made on legacy nodes seeing the biggest price increases. The increases will be applied to the second half of 2022. Earlier this week, TSMC reportedly informed clients of a single-digit price increase effective at the start of 2023, so seems like we're seeing a trend here. Yeah, and we're probably going to have higher priced electronics as a result. Alright, we'll need to save some money then, Sarah. Any ideas? So Amazon has introduced a feature in its, we'll call her app, Amazon Assistant, called Shopping List Savings that combines in-store purchases with Amazon credits, but it's something that you can do outside of Amazon. So here's how it works. You go to the Shopping List section of the app, you click on Savings. You look at rebate offers in the app, you add them to Amazon Shopping List. Maybe some of them apply to things that you want to buy. You can buy stuff at a store. Then you take pictures of the itemized receipt, showing the store's name, location, date, time of purchase, basically proof of life. I really did this, product price, total price. You upload that to the app and then you scan the eligible product barcodes. Up to a week later, if all works correctly, as Amazon describes it, you get rebates added to your Amazon gift card balance. It sounds pretty great for anybody who's like, I use Amazon a lot, but I also go to other places and it would be nice to get a little kickback from Amazon. Shannon, I know you're no stranger to coupons, how you can save a lot of money if you're on top of things, if you're, you know, you're kind of following where the money is. Does this feature appeal to you and is it too cumbersome? That's a good question. So personally, it does not appeal to me anymore, but had you asked me this like five years ago, I would have said yes, absolutely. I will totally do this because I was using A at that time. Now I have moved on to other forms of smart home hubs and I no longer use Amazon's products as my main source of shopping lists. So now it would not appeal to me, but when I was extreme couponing, I would have absolutely been on this because there are definitely ways that you can use these applications and get free stuff, which is very cool. Yeah, I mean, you know, the idea of coupons has been around since dropping was around, right? Oh my God, so long. Pretty much, yeah. Yeah. I mean, couponing takes many forms. It seems like Amazon is trying to bring you back into the fold by saying, hey, let's work with where you're already going, even if you're not shopping from Amazon all the time. We'd like to have that data about your shopping habits too, not just your local store. Right. Well, exactly. It makes sense, right? Because even though now I no longer use these kind of applications and to be very, very factual, there are plenty of these kind of applications available. I used to use one called Ibata and another one called Checkout 51. All of them basically work the same.  In some cases that rebate would be a gift card. In other cases, it would be one or two dollars to your PayPal account, which you could then redeem for whatever you wanted. I preferred that way because I wasn't stuck in any specific merchandiser and I could use that money wherever I wanted.  Well, yeah. So my next question is, sure, everybody likes, you know, some free money, right? Or something that feels that way. But on the privacy side of things, here's what Amazon says about this new feature. We will get any information you provide, including receipt images and information we may extract from those receipts and the offers that you activate. You understand and acknowledge that your personal information may be shared with Amazon's service providers. The information you give to us will be used and shared as described in the Amazon.com privacy notice. Does this give you pause? Yes, it does. This is, again, very similar to the other couponing applications. All of them in some way, shape or form are paying you for your data. So even though you might end up getting something for free, like some kind of physical merchandise, you're still giving away some kind of data, whether that might be your shopping trends, your location, both your receipt information so they can see all the other stuff that you would normally buy in a shopping trip. There's a lot of data that they can collate about you to create kind of a personality about who you are, and then they can target you with ads. So in that way, that's one of the reasons why I stopped using these kind of applications and also because I didn't find it to be worthwhile, given it does take some time because you have to scan all these barcodes and you got to scan the receipts. And all of that requires some manual labor. Yeah, that's the downside, right? Is that Amazon, as it emerges as an advertising player, isn't going to get as much data from people because they won't go to the trouble to scan all of the private data in for that. But otherwise, it's pretty genius for Amazon quickly becoming an advertising company just like Google. Yeah, and I realize not everybody is going to care about the security aspect or the privacy aspect of these kind of applications. They'll be like, Hey, I'm saving money, so I don't care, they can have whatever they want about my shopping habits. And you'll see the same thing with like loyalty cards from from your grocery store, like you get coupons for those two. One of the nice things about these is that you can stack coupons whenever you're using these apps. So if you get like a physical coupon in the mail from the manufacturer, you can take that like tied detergent coupon to target, use it on top of targets discount, and then you can also use it on top of this application. So you can definitely like a bulk discounts and end up getting getting something for free. But is that discount worth your privacy that you're basically giving away? That's the big question that I want people to ask. Well, you mentioned Ibarra, you mentioned Checkout 51, Fetch Rewards is another company that's doing sort of a loyalty program like this.  I don't know. Is this so bad? I mean, does it get worse? It can. Absolutely it can. I mean, think about it. It might not just be targeted ads. It could just be like information that they're selling to third parties. They could sell information to maybe insurance agencies like you never know. Like what if they're selling that kind of information about what you're eating to a health insurer? Like we don't really necessarily know who's giving away this third party data. So you really want to take that into perspective and think outside the box of just like, Yeah, they're selling my data so they know what to target with me with on Instagram while I'm browsing the web. Yeah, you may not mind, but you should know and you should know you should think about it carefully. Indeed. Speaking of security early Friday morning representatives of the European Commission Parliament and the EU Council agreed on the details of the network and information security directive to NIS to this will be an update to NIS one, which was just called NIS. That was passed back in 2016. As with most of these recent EU directives we've been talking about the final text is not yet available. It has to pass through a process of approval by the European Commission, which involves the nation states, the Parliament, which involves the representatives, and then it has to be passed into law by each of the member states. But Shannon, tell us what they're saying will be in this law once that's all done. Okay, so the directive itself covers medium and large companies so not necessarily all companies and organizations, including government organizations. In addition to it, financial businesses are included. It also covers wastewater and waste management, manufacturing, food supply, all of these kind of supply chain type businesses space. There's postal and courier services, public administration, both at central and regional level and healthcare, including medical device manufacturers. So more than 100,000 different organizations will qualify under this new directive. All right, so it's an expansion of who has to do all this. What are they going to have to do now? Well, it seems pretty logical in my perspective as somebody who's really into like security and privacy. They'll have to set up and audit some kind of security response plan, and that includes risk management features too. So kind of working before you actually get hacked to make sure that your plan is in place. They have to meet a minimum requirement of security technologies to combat combat any kind of attacks or they could potentially face fines. And that includes patching software in a very timely manner. So anytime you hear about these kind of vulnerabilities that come out from time to time, they will be expected to patch those. And they also have to notify authorities about incidents. This is pretty interesting within 24 hours, and they have to provide a full report within three days. That's really quick. Yeah, so they're basically making best practices the law. Yeah. And then there's also the idea of sharing information across the EU and there's a new agency for that. Right. Yeah, it's called the European Cyber Crisis Liaison Organization Network, aka EU Cyclone, which I love. They will coordinate responses to large scale incidents at the EU level. And then this will be able to encourage increased information sharing between member nations and coordinate vulnerability disclosure as well. Now you mentioned the fines and I found this part interesting. The fines are set at 2% of turnover for operators of essential services, 1.4% for what they call important service providers. I guess water would be essential. Maybe some of the others are just important. These were set to be close to what ransomware groups generally demand. The idea is to make not preparing as costly as actually getting breached so that you really don't have an upside to being like, well, maybe we won't get attacked and then we'll save some money. No, you're going to get fined if you don't do that. So what do you think of these rules overall, Shannon? So personally, and I know that a lot of people in the hacker industry will be like, no, no government regulations. But in some cases I feel like regulatory powers need to be in place in order to kind of force companies to actually take action and be proactive about that action. And in this case, I would rather see a company be safe and secure and keep my data safe than them fall negatively to popular opinion because of a hack, because they do fall victim to an attack. And I realize a lot of companies may look at this and think, okay, the fines may be equal to what a ransomware payment might be. But you also have to consider, they might have to pay a third party cybersecurity company to come in and do risk management to do a penetration test. And that can cost tens of thousands of dollars. So there's a very, very expensive upfront cost that businesses have to consider in order to fall in line with this directive. But I do think it's important because it's worthwhile. Yeah, it's interesting. You can make the argument that the government is putting a cost on companies, but usually that argument is around a cost that is optional. These should not be optional. At least I don't think so. These are things that companies risk themselves and others, others personal information or other services in the case of water, if they don't do them. So it's sort of like a public safety measure in addition to a regulatory measure. I mean medical device manufacturers, it's so important to make sure that those don't vulnerable to some kind of heart implant being able to be vulnerable to a Bluetooth hack. Those things do happen. We've seen those in the news. So protecting against this is so important. If you have a different thought about this, if you're like, well, you could still protect public safety without the regulation. If you do X, Y or Z, or maybe you have other thoughts on this or anything else we talk about our email address is feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. Well, a lot of our DTNS audience has been asking us to address the environmental aspects of cryptocurrency, you know, carbon footprint, etc. Generally, you see critiques of cryptocurrency compared to its big energy usage to that of a nation like New Zealand or the Netherlands. So Tom, I know you've been reluctant to discuss this before now. Why is that? Yeah, because those comparisons are an emotional appeal to make a number sound big. And maybe the number is big, or maybe it really isn't that big, it just sounds big. And so I find the comparisons uninstructive. It's literally apples and oranges. I can compare the power usage of data centers or your favorite political party to New Zealand or the Netherlands, etc. And it also doesn't factor in whether or not renewable energy is used in any of these things, including New Zealand. So I just haven't found it very useful.  I'm just like, I want to I want to see some actual data to help me make up my mind. So I finally gave up trying to find a comparison of the banking industry. That's what I kept looking for is like, okay, can we find out the actual like electrical usage of the banking industry? That's hard to pin down. And it's not exactly apples and oranges to compare the banking industry with cryptocurrency. But I wanted to find a useful one that could account for all the subtleties and actually be at least close to comparing like with like. It sounds like you found a comparison. Then tell us more. Yeah, so I got to this point. The reason we're concerned with power usage isn't the power. If all the Bitcoin were suddenly solar based all the overnight, it would change the entire conversation, right? Because what we're concerned about is whether Bitcoin's power usage is irresponsibly or out of proportion contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. It's not the actual power usage. It's the power that has to be generated and whether that's emitting carbon dioxide. So today I decided this morning to just look for comparisons of greenhouse gas emissions. And while I could not find a reliable estimate, a.k.a. one that wasn't put together by a private company promoting cryptocurrency, there's one out there from a company called Galaxy, but they're a crypto company. So I'm like, it makes me a little queasy. I did find an estimate of the emissions of the total gold market from the gold industry. Okay. All right, let's talk about gold. Who are our sources here? Yeah, for gold emissions, I'm using a number from the World Gold Council. That's not made up. It's 31 gold mining companies. These are the companies that actually mine for gold in 45 countries. And they are advocating for sustainability in gold mining. So if these numbers are tilted, they might be tilted to make gold look a little less emitting because they're trying to do better. But they are generally accepted as a pretty accurate estimate. For the Bitcoin estimate, I used an outfit called Digiconomist, which describes itself as dedicated to exposing the unintended consequences of digital trends. Now, they talk a lot about cryptocurrency, but that's not the only thing they talk about. It's an economist named Alex DeVries. And typically sites all the work. You can go and double check it yourself. It's very rigorously done from an economic perspective. If there is a slant, it might be a slant towards trying to prove that Bitcoin admits a little more carbon dioxide. But again, it's fairly well respected. All right, so drum roll, everyone. What did we find? Right now, comparing gold emissions and Bitcoin emissions from those sources. It's about a tie. In 2019, the World Gold Council estimated greenhouse gas emissions of the total gold market to be 126.4 megatons per year. Digiconomist estimates the carbon footprint of Bitcoin at 114.06 megatons per year. Now, notably, Bitcoin energy consumption has been rising. It used to be a lot lower. It continuously goes up until around December when the market flattened out. And of course, we're also seeing the market dive now. So those megatons per year might actually go down, but they've been flat since December. Okay, so if I understand my math correctly, the use of Bitcoin is right around as bad for the environment as the use of gold. And Bitcoin has crashed recently. We've talked about that in some respects and some of you are following that closely. But if it were to skyrocket again to get really popular, this would get worse, right? Yeah, my personal blockchain validates that conclusion. Great. So Shannon, you've listened to all this. Basically, Bitcoin right now emits a little less than gold. They are not exact comparisons, but I find that the usage of gold is probably around the usage of Bitcoin. We're not all paying for things with Bitcoin like we are with cash. So how does this affect your opinion of this? Yeah, I was quiet for a reason, Tom, but now I feel like I'm going to have to call myself out. I do own Bitcoin. Oh, no. And I'm also one of those people that is very pro like recycling and being environmentally friendly and everything. So I do try to keep all that stuff in mind. This actually makes me feel not as bad about me being a villain about holding the Bitcoin. Yes, it's true. I thought it was a lot worse to participate. Well, thank you, Sarah. I obviously thought it was a lot worse. I thought and like being from a banking industry where I used to follow that stuff very closely and I was working within that industry myself. I thought that Bitcoin was much, much worse. And seeing those numbers and seeing that comparison give me a much better perspective and I feel a little bit more neutral about it. Yeah, and I don't think it's good. No, it's not. And like everything with Bitcoin, it's also more volatile than gold, right? Like gold is pretty established. We're not, you know, open. The thing you buy when everything else is volatile. So gold's probably going to stay around 126 or go down as the World Gold Alliance works to try to reduce emissions. Bitcoin has some people trying to reduce emissions. They're doing things like proof of work instead or proof of stake instead of proof of work with Ethereum. But Bitcoin itself is always going to be proof of work. So it as it gets more popular, it could get worse. To me, it's not about like Bitcoin bad Bitcoin good. It's what are the risks? What are the impacts? And these numbers give me a better sense of what those are. It does make me wonder, like other than getting solar, et cetera, et cetera. If I'm mining Bitcoin myself, what are additional steps that I can take so that I'm still investing in my future? But I'm also very much focusing on the planet that I'm living on. Yeah. Well, solar is an option. It's certainly an option. Wind power, trying to get on a renewable energy system, maybe buying carbon offsets. Although that's a whole can of worms as far as whether it's effective and all of that. But yeah, it's certainly achievable to make it sustainable is what this number tells me, even if it isn't there yet. Well, speaking of sustainable, you may have heard of a company called EcoFlow. It makes large scale batteries. You may already be a customer. Tom, I know you are one. You may not. You might also be going on a road trip this summer, somewhere where it's going to be really hot. The company has launched something that it hopes solves your problem. A portable air conditioner designed to give camping or driving in RV or anyone living on the road, even more of a reason to buy EcoFlow products. The new EcoFlow Wave is a portable air conditioner claiming to have the world's most powerful cooling and the longest runtime. The unit weighs 38.58 pounds by itself, so it's not light. 55.98 pounds with the 1,008 watt hour add-on battery attached. The Wave portable air conditioner is available at $300 off for early birds for $1,200. So you're getting a discount if you really care. A more expensive option bundles in its Delta Pro power station for $4,000. So this is not cheap stuff, but man, if you want to stay cool, might be nice. I love my EcoFlow. I use it as a safety battery. I've got a solar panel for it that I can use to recharge it. We don't have a lot of power outages where I live, but the one time we did use it, it was great to be able to just like plug all our phones into it and be able to use 5G and all of that. So I like the company that make a good product. I have no idea if I need an outdoor air conditioner, but you know what? I haven't been outdoor camping when it's super hot. Yeah, it sounds very decadent at the same time.  This would be nice. Yeah, and Nick with a C is asking whether this is a swamp cooler. Roger had the same question and we couldn't find an answer about that. It does seem to just vent out the back. So definitely meant for sticking its butt out the tent door or out of the window.  It's an interesting one, though. If anybody has used this, if you drop the $1,200, let us know. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. Speaking of which, let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. Ray in Tampa, Florida says, I just heard your discussion on the wireless charger uses at home. I don't know if this has been mentioned in follow-up episodes, but to me, a strong use case for this is fire alarms. Not having to deal with that annoying chirp and then suddenly realizing that you don't have any 9-volt batteries in the house would be heaven to me. Ray, I feel you. Definitely. I hear you. Nailed it, Ray. Yep. Yep. It's a $10 idea, Ray.  Yes. Someone invent that, please. Yeah. I think it's invented. Well, the fire alarm that could do this is already invented. We just need the good wireless charging system to finally take off, right? Right, right. Yeah. And then Reagan wanted to chime in about companies choosing a hybrid model for work.  Reagan pointed out some companies are required to maintain some level of occupancy, maybe 60% for tax incentives on new campus buildings. I don't know if this is true for Apple, but I know it's true for a few other companies that are starting their three days in office policies. And some of those policies were waived during lockdowns, but they are now back and forth. So that's a very good point, Reagan. Yeah. Definitely something I hadn't really thought about. So much just about like, oh, are we going to make our employees mad by making them commune again? It's what's best for the company and the office space that they have. The city may have given them a tax break. The idea that it'll bring business into a downtown area. Exactly. And then yeah, what do you do when no one's coming anymore? You got to, you know, figure out something. Well, so many things to draw today. Len Peralta has been drawing them. Len, what have you drawn for us today? Well, leave it to the cartoonist to take a pretty complicated subject and bring it down to its base level. You talked about gold versus crypto, the emission comparison. Well, I kind of took it a different route. You know, here is gold and Bitcoin, sort of, you know, kind of whoever smelt it, dealt with the emission comparison between the two of them there.  It's metaphorically exactly what we were talking about. Gold and Bitcoin in a ring emitting. That's right. That's exactly right.  Even younger or even older. Come on. So you're such right here. You can get it. It's right there right now for you to download if you are a member. You can also get this on my online store, LenPeraltaStore.com. It makes a great gift, you know, for Father's Day, of course. For all the crypto relatives in your... Exactly. There you go. It's great for everybody. We've got the right audience. That's for sure. Also, Shannon Morse, thank you for being with us today. Let folks know where you've been up to and where they can keep up. YouTube.com slash Shannon Morse as usual. And I am currently scripting a Radon mitigation and a Radon sensor review slash upgrade video. And it's so fascinating. I absolutely loved getting super geeky about it. So I feel like y'all might as well. So please subscribe if you're interested in learning about Radon. Because I didn't know it existed before I moved here to Colorado. And now I'm very, very aware. Yeah, it is not the Canadian actress. No. No, it's certainly not. It's very dangerous. Well, you know, maybe she is too. Radon Jones is pretty dangerous too. Well, thank you, Len. And thank you, Shannon, as always for being with us. Also, thanks to a brand new boss that we have. That boss's name is Dylan. Dylan just started backing us on Patreon. Thank you, Dylan.   Yes. No emissions at all. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Asterisk. We can't account for all emissions related to your plan. Yeah. Not sure. Also, there's a longer version of the show called Good Day. Internet rules on right after DTNS. If you're not familiar, do check it out. Patreon.com slash DTNS. And just a reminder, we are live Monday through Friday, every day for PM Eastern. 200 UTC. Find out more at Daily Tech News Show.com slash live. And we hope you have a great weekend. See you on Monday. This week's episodes of Daily Tech News Show were created by the following people, host producer and writer Tom Merritt, host producer and writer Sarah Lane, executive producer and booker Roger Chang, producer, writer and host Rich Trafalino, video producer and Twitch producer Joe Coontz, technical producer Anthony Lemos, Spanish language host, writer and producer Dan Campos, news host, writer and producer Jen Cutter, science correspondent Dr. Nicky Ackermans, social media producer and moderator Zoe Deterding. Our mods, Beatmaster, W. Scottis 1, BioCow, Captain Gipper, Gadget Virtuoso, Steve Guadirama, Paul Reese, Matthew J. Stevens and J.D. Galloway. Modern video hosting by Dan Christensen, video feed by Sean Wei, music and art provided by Martin Bell, Dan Looters, Mustafa A, ACAST and Len Peralta. Live art performed by Len Peralta. ACAST adds support from Tatiana Matias, Patreon support from Dylan Harari. Contributors for this week's shows include Lamar Wilson, Scott Johnson, Justin Robert Young and Shannon Morse. Guests on this week's show included Ayaz Akhtar and Nicole Lee and thanks to all our patrons who make the show possible.


Welcome to Hungry Gen. Don't forget to subscribe. The topic of my message today is going to be the heavenly currency. Somebody say heavenly currency? Yes, heaven does have a currency and it is faith. Somebody say faith is the heavenly currency. We have to understand that with our faith we are able to receive answers from God. Jesus says it is only faith that pleases him. So when we come to God we believe in what God says through his word and by his spirit. So when we come to God we must come to God in faith believing he will do what he said in his word. We have to understand that God's thoughts towards us is more than said on the seashore. Whatever he wants for our life is more than what we want for our lives. God says he knows the thoughts of heart. He knows the desires of our heart. So he knows better than what we know for ourselves. So when we come to God it's not like God give me just a little bit. God's like I know what you want and I want you to have it more than you want it yourself. Did you guys ever want to help somebody to like help them to get out of bad relationships or get out of debt? And you want to help them more than they want it themselves? Have you guys ever tried doing that to somebody? At the end of the day they're like man you're trying to steal my girl. I'm like I'm just trying to help you. That's how God is. Many times we feel like when we come to God we're like God you're trying to stake my fun. You're boring. God's like I want you to have fun. I want you to have joy. I want you to have peace. I want to take your depression. I want to take your sickness and you look at me as I'm the bad guy. With faith that's how it is. When we come to God with faith God says I know what you want. I know your destiny. I know your desires. When you come to me, come to me by my word and through his spirit. Amen church. I want to read through the scripture it says in Romans 12 2. It says this is a famous scripture that says do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Our life is a result of our mind. Our life is a result of our faith, our belief. What we believe in our lives that's what we're going to receive. Why our neighbor sometimes has more than we do is because they put a demand on God more than we did. It is the same person, the same mind. Faith is the same. Faith could be a little bit bigger or it could be smaller but it's the same request we put on God to receive the answers that we have. Amen church. I'm going to give you an example. There's a $100 bill and there's a $1 bill. So both of these are on the same paper. They have somewhat of a similar ink but with one you get much more than with the other, correct? Same thing with faith. With your faith you can either request of God for $100 or you can request from God for a dollar but the thing is up to you how much you request. For some people a dollar is a lot, which is it is a lot. You can get yourself a cheeseburger, right? You can get yourself a camo, you can get yourself a dollar drink, whatever it may be and with a $100 it's also to some people is a lot and you can just with the $100 buy so much for my wife it's just one second and it's gone. Nevertheless, it's how much of that do you put on God? Amazon is green pastures and still waters for some of the girls. Come on somebody, it's like God let give me the access and I'll prove to you I'm faithful. And that's just what faith is. How much demand do you put on God to receive what he wants for you? If his thoughts are much greater than us than our thoughts towards ourselves, towards our life, towards our marriage, towards our health, towards our future doesn't it just make sense to align our thinking and our mind to his word? Doesn't it just makes more sense for us to think like God thinks because when we think like God thinks we'll be able to receive the answers that God has for our lives? See we have to understand many times what we want is we don't know what we want. Isn't that true sometimes?  Why did I even get it? But God knows the desires of your heart so when we get what God wants us to get for the reason that God wants us to get it we will have peace, we'll have content and we'll be happy with it. So it just makes so much more sense to be able to align our thinking our mindset and our faith to what God wants through his word and by his spirit and then we'll be able to live alive that God has destined for us to have in Jesus' name. Amen church. Faith is the heavenly currency. Faith is the visions and dreams that we give God every day and we begin to inquire and we begin to walk with God and we begin to ask God I believe that you can use my life to be an influence in my generation.   How much faith do you have in God to use your mouth to spread the gospel or to spread lies to spread gossip, to spread rumors you put the demand on God on what you have and sometimes we see people in the world being used by God so much and we say oh that guy is lucky, no it is not luck it is not skill, it is not talent it is just the came to God as a God you said it in your word and I'm standing on your word my circumstance changed, my thoughts changed everything around me changes but you said in your word that heaven and earth passes away but your word stays the same and your word never changes come on somebody I want you to get out of this message that your circumstances are not as important as the state of your mind the faith that you have inside of you is more important than what you are facing around you on a daily basis and God wants us before he does anything in our lives God first wants to change us and our mind before he changes our circumstances God does not want to change your circumstances before he changes your mind and your faith because if he changes your circumstances and you're not changed, you'll go back right into what you had it is proven, you give a poor person a lot of money sooner or later he'll go back to being poor you take a drug addict out of his out of his society, out of his friends and all these things but he's not delivered sooner or later he'll go back into that thing if his mind is not changed if his habits are not changed, sooner or later he'll end up exactly into that and God knows that he needs to affect our mind needs to affect our faith on a daily basis because if he changes that, it's just a matter of time your circumstances will catch up to the level of your mind to the level of your faith ask your neighbor how much demand do you put on God ask your other neighbor, what is your heavenly currency is it my dollar bill or is it a hundred God on purpose creates circumstances to shape our mind and to shape our faith on purpose we have to understand there's some of us we face unfortunate situations and you know I don't have the answer why how and why this person do it or why that or that but God on purpose shapes circumstances to build your faith and to prepare you into the blessing that God wants to give you their blessing that God has many times comes with responsibilities and it comes with weight just like any structure the higher you go the bigger the foundation has to be God has so many great futures so much great destinies inside of us that is locked within us but God says I want to prepare your mind I want to prepare your faith in order for you to go there I want your character to be built so you can handle that blessing and that blessing does not turn into a curse you know I've seen so many times where people receive a blessing in their life and they get so stressed out because they can't pay bills they get so stressed out with business because there's so much weight on them and then turns out that God had a blessing for them but for them that blessing became a curse because their mind and their faith weren't ready to receive it how many times we've seen a relationship break marriage fall apart why because marriage in itself it's a beautiful thing it's a blessing from God but if you're not prepared for it it can't break you under the pressure of temptation under the pressure of I need to say sorry under the pressure I need to leave my friends and spend time with her or him under the pressure of oh you're always asking this oh it's always about you it could break if you are not ready if your faith is not built up to a place where God says now you're ready to receive a blessing that blessing can hinder us in our walk with God many times I see people going from church to church going from a relationship to a relationship going from place to place and they begin to escape the circumstance that is preparing them for the next level we have to understand just like Joseph he could have not skipped the drive pit because drive pit was a necessary for him to encounter the throne many times we just want the throne we're like God you have a great destiny I'm gonna heal the sick I'm gonna do this and God's like chill I got a drive pit waiting for you dude the talking there God's like I got that mean boss in your life that you need to learn how to submit the pastor the parents that you think are so bad I need you to learn to submit to them why because the place you are going to is a slippery place is a high place where you cannot afford to make a mistake come on we have to understand that the trials are the soil in which man's faith flourishes it's a soil it's something that God wants for you it's not that God hates you God just wants to prepare you for it you know it's I have a son and he loves to drive a car every time I come home he wants to get in behind the wheel and just wants to where's the pedal he can't reach the pedal so he looks up over the thing and then he just slips down and just slams in the brake we're going like 5 miles an hour but I can't give him a car why I love him I love him so much I can't give him a car same thing with God we're like God I want it right now God's like I wait for the time I want to prepare you the once you get the car you'll be able to handle the car the insurance the gas you hit the curb you're going to have to buy yourself a tire because that's how it works in real life daddy can't pay all the bills and that's what it is certain blessings we're like man I just want to be there I want to preach you know I want to heal the sick I want to have a great business I want to just be married already you know why it's God taking me through all these relationships give me marriage already God's like you don't know what you're asking yet certain answers are being delayed certain answers are not you know coming for us right now because God says there's a dry pit there's a slavery there's a spotter for his house there's a jail that's still waiting that when you do get to your palace and your throne you're ready to handle it and you don't lose it amen church we have to see God as a good father you know having children right now you realize there's certain things you just can't give to your kids because you love him so much he put stuff down the fifth candy he said die of more chocolate I'm like no more chocolate your tummy is going to hurt I'm going to have to wipe your diapers two in the morning because of your diarrhea because there's certain things that you can't have because as a good father you've learned to love them you learn to understand that there's a timing for everything we do not understand certain times that the timing that we are in is just a preparation but we already wanted to be our destination don't mix those two up destination and preparation and two different things there's certain things that take time because I've seen videos where a guy's like I'm going to lift this to 45 two plates and they get on the thing and the thing crushes their chest they didn't prepare properly they don't just say it all that's how it is many times we take down that weight and we're like I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this God's like you're going to hurt yourself and it crushes us and it hurts us and God says I'm still here I'll still accept you I'm still going to help you don't misinterpret whatever is your preparation with your destination amen church number two is that renewing your mind is a process it takes time it's never a quick a mindset is not built in a day, it's not built in two it takes time to be able to build a faith mindset to receive from God many people feel like man all these years I'm running around with doubts, with fear, with anxiety and all of a sudden I come to church I have faith and bam God God give it to me and God's going to give it to you no it's a mindset it's a faith it's a daily walk with God that it takes time for you to get to that place and we have to understand that there's also positive faith negative faith and there's a difference between those two because positive faith stands in the word of God negative faith is the doubts negative faith is the fear, that anxiety that gossip, that lying that cheating, that cutting corners that's the negative faith we can do all we want and build a positive faith but if we don't get rid of the negative faith we'll begin to drain our life of the things that God has for us where's Edwin or Vladik my bad I just want to demonstrate demonstrate a few things that demonstrate a few things when it comes to positive faith and to negative faith when we have positive faith it's like this water smart water come on holy water so you can put that down hold this when we build our life we're building with positive faith and we fill it up and God wants to take us to a place where our faith is overflowing and we begin to get answers but the negative faith is like somebody sets something against you and you go around and you start gossiping and negative faith is like this drill it makes holes this is a stubborn and it begins to drain your life of your positive faith negative faith is like fear God said in your word that everything your hand touches will be blessed but negative faith is that another drill is it will start draining your life of the faith that God has for you it's that lying somebody said something and you go oh no how could he say that it's that gossip it's those rumors it's the fear and that anxiety well what if God's not gonna do you begin to drain your faith from God with that negative faith sometimes we're like why can't I receive an answer from God because you filled your mind with so much negative faith that you don't have any faith left with all the doubt you come to church you pray oh God is good he is risen you go home and everything's dead and you're like well that's for just church no God is with you all the time he goes with you wherever you go are you standing with God and you proclaiming or are you just saying that God I have all these things and there's these holes in your life that you can't get rid of the bad friends, the bad music, the bad movies the bad influence on your life those chismosas you know they drain you come on how do you even know how I know that word okay we'll have an altar call for them it's those things that drain your faith and we each one of us we have that it'll be social media where you get filled in charge with the word of God you come home and you start watching all these things and then all of a sudden your faith that you had believing in God it begins to be drained and you're like you begin to question God for everything oh if God would have said or he would have done in my life why is it not taking place begin to drain your faith we had a powerful message people get healed you come home you have a headache just you know it's not for me you drain your faith you come home you see your kids misbehaving you see your kids not coming home you're like well you know me and my house serve the Lord that's for that family that's not my family you begin to drain your faith God says there's gotta be a place where you get rid of those holes you close those holes but you only have the positive faith though when you come home you see a dead situation you begin to speak to the dry bones to come to live you speak to the marriage you see that sickness you begin to speak to the sifting there's nothing left but positive faith come on somebody those holes may be experiences those holes may be time what if God doesn't do it it's already been a year but it's not happening you know last time I prayed for a sickness even got worse those are the holes a man of faith has nothing else but God's word what God's word said is true some people are like why are you so positive all the time why do you so believe negative faith doesn't do me any good negative faith only robs me that only steals my joy it steals my comfort it steals my peace it takes a cup half full it makes sense it's half empty I don't want that kind of faith I want the faith that says with God all things are possible that if you believe it in Jesus name it will take place in your life don't base your faith on the result of your prayer your faith cannot be based that if I pray today and it doesn't happen tomorrow that means my faith is useless you have to base your faith in he is my healer whether he heals me or not he is my deliverer whether he delivers me or not he is my blessing provider whether I see the blessing now or later this is what God says and it's true as we talked about that it takes time consistency and perseverance you can take a seat consistency and perseverance is the key when it comes to building a mindset and building your faith it's not just there's sometimes where we come to God and we ask for something and we get it right away and it's awesome I love those stores they ask for healing and it takes place right away for some other people it takes days other people it takes weeks some people who've been praying for their marriage for years but it's that faith that says it's consistent and that's perseverant all the time God is consistency himself God says I was faithful to Abraham I was faithful to Joseph I was faithful to Abraham to Isaac I'll be the faithful for you I was always the same if I said it I will do it I'm not going to change with you if you pray it today I'm not going to go back on my word I will do it and it says consistency that coming every time to home group coming to life group coming to Sunday service to Wednesday service and just being consistent with God said God you're setting your word I believe it you're setting your word and I'm putting the demand on your anointing for my life don't give up on God when things don't seem right don't begin to lose your faith when you prayed for a job but you lost that promotion you were supposed to promote you once you lost a job don't give up on God keep your faith that he is my provider you know when you feel like you know that you're sick in your body and there's evidence of pain begin to look at God as God you're my healer because sooner or later your circumstances will line up to the level of your faith and your thoughts amen church you can't go with your feet where your mind and your faith hasn't been or else that place will crush you you have to have your faith go to that place and it has to be there many times people are like oh how did you get to that place I was in this place already a year ago with my faith and with my mind I was already you know as a church we were in this place years and years and years back we were proclaiming that this place was going to be filled so you are a result today of the faith and the mindset that we had years in the past you have to have a mind that is not in your current it's not where you're at it has to be years ahead and saying God I know the place that you're taking me I know the destiny that you have for me and it's not here and it's not now but there's a place where Jesus will shine through me there's a place where his power will work through my hands where his anointing will come out of my mouth and heal the sick my marriage is going to be restored my kids will serve God there's going to be a place there don't settle your faith in your circumstances your surroundings let your faith let your feats and your mind your faith go to a place where God has promised for you that is a place that God has for each one of us for each one of us is different maybe a career maybe a business maybe it will be a relationship that you know that you never seen take place in your family maybe to have a healthy body because everybody in your family dies prematurely out of a sickness maybe it will be just to graduate college whatever it may be God has a destiny he says you need me in order for you to get to that destiny you can't do it by yourself and God cannot do it by himself he needs you and we need him as much as we work with God we also need to pray with God we have to say God I believe that you're going to take me there without you I am nothing you hold the breath in your hands God you are my everything I cannot do it without you and God says I'll take you there you might be in your dry pit but remember there's a palace coming you might be in that jail where you're falsely accused and you feel like everything is just wrong if God would with me where are you now God says you're just one step closer to your palace and to your throne am I in someone and the last one is the Holy Spirit will build with what you give him he will only build with what you give him he cannot build with nothing he has to build with your faith and Pablo can you come you can either give God a teaspoon this looks like more of a teaspoon or you can give him a shovel can you pick that up this looks like a serious spoon the choice is yours is what you give the Holy Spirit he will still build with something you can either build with doubt and you will get doubt in your life you can either build with faith saying God I believe that you can do it and God says alright let's build that building is not a quick process building takes time and you can either come to God which is fine if you start off with the spoon it's just no problem each one of us we start with that but don't end it there my point to you is how much demand do you want to put on God because God says all of heaven to you how much can you believe that I will do for you and some of us we're not satisfied with the shovel we want a truckload and God said it's fine because I already died for that I already pay the price for that what I'm trying to say is your God is a good God he's a good father there's never a time that you can come to a good father and God compares our earthly father best earthly father you can possibly think of as a good old father in comparison to your heavenly father he's an evil person and when you come to him you can't just ask God just give me a little I just want to survive God's like I don't want you to survive I want you to thrive I want you to reach your destiny I want you to reach your full potential in your life it can put that down thank you God will not give you what your neighbor has the spirit to build with you can't compare yourself with your neighbor just just because your neighbor has a Toyota and you got a Prius it's fine your faith might be different just because your neighbor has a green grass and yours is just rocky don't compare your chapter 1 with somebody's chapter 20 don't compare chapter 10 with somebody's chapter 5 God has different destinies for every single person you run your own race and you have to say God this is between you and I you know the God is using somebody else to preach and you're like oh I was here for 5 years and I didn't get it don't run your own race ask God what is it that you want me to do because what you want me to do that's what exactly I want to do I just don't know it yet might not be the thing right now but that thing right now will lead you to the place where God wants you to be Joseph was in his dry pen maybe he was at a pot of first house and he's like man I already reached it God's like not yet so don't compare what you have right now to God is this all because God says until I see you face to face I'm not done with you yet I'm not done with you yet I have so much more for you in store that you can ever imagine what we give Holy Spirit He uses that to build and bring forth in our lives there are answers that God gives for a teaspoon which is fine sometimes we come to God and we ask Him for small things and there's nothing wrong with that there's answers also for a shovel God when we come to God with a shovel and we put a God says God I believe I believe I believe and God says I will do for you it just depends on how much of that you give to God what I want to challenge every single person this morning is that this is a good God you can't see God in the bad light that man He always wants to take my Sunday 2 hours and you know if the time goes over a little bit man they rob me God's like I want to prepare you I want to set you up I want to put you in a place where your faith is at a place where you receive blessings from God and Jesus shines forth through you what do you pen to put demand on God this morning what are you believing God He can do for you to be your 9 to 11 on Sunday morning or you believe actually that God will give you power to do what you do because it's only through Holy Spirit that He'll make you do better than your best you think you're good but with Holy Spirit you're super good you think that you'll arrive but until you experience the power that will flow through you through the Holy Spirit you haven't reached anything yet with Holy Spirit you will live the best life with God you'll have the best marriage the best family the best business whatever it may be only with God you're able to do that amen church thank you for watching this content I hope this was a blessing to you if you're like me and you like to click on things click on this subscribe to our channel and the content will come to you every time we post it and remember the best is yet to come