Beginning March 12th, Elkhorn City's Girl Scouts from Troop 411 will be hosting its third Say Yes to the Dress Free Formal Wear giveaway. Thursday we spoke with scout leader Diana Sykes and Girl Scout Sophia Spartman about the event. We are having our third annual Say Yes to the Dress Formal Wear event. This is an event where we give away prom dresses, any type of formal wear. This year we have included men's wear into our giveaway so we will have men's suits available and shoes as well. We currently have over 350 dresses available and approximately 300 men's suits. While Girl Scouts from Troop 411 prepare for the event, Sykes says it started when her troop was looking for a community service event three years ago and has grown beyond the store. Girl Scouts from Troop 411 shares the inspiration behind the giveaway. We had the inspiration because dresses and suits cost so much. We are giving them out for free because some people can't buy a lot of dresses formally because they are financial stuff. Because we give them out for free, we get donations, some slightly used, some brand new tags on them. We get high heels, we get men's shoes, dress shirts, we get jewelry donated and we just start collecting them at any point of the year. At Pikeville Medical Center, we believe that together we can make a difference in the fight against cancer. We are proud to have patients who have experienced successful outcomes over many years. As always, we believe in the power of faith. Pikeville Medical Center, where cancer can be defeated. As Spartan says, dresses and suits go towards individuals who need assistance, adding the reaction of one individual who wore the dress home. Last year when someone came in, when they found their dress, their face, they just loved it. They said how much would it cost? We said nothing and then they were so happy and then they just wore the dress until the time they left from the time they tried that one on. Although the event takes place next weekend, Sykes says they are still taking formal wear item donations. We will be accepting donations up to and even throughout next weekend through our dress event. You're welcome to give me a call. You can reach me at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Or if you know any of our local Girl Scouts, you can contact any of them. Or you can drop those donations off in Elkhorn City at the So Cute Shop. Again, the Say Yes to the Dress event will begin Saturday, March 12th from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The event will be held at Elkhorn City Elementary School, 180 Cougar Drive, and Elkhorn City, Kentucky. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Chorjol.


Alright folks, a juicy rumor for you that's not related to Super Mario 3D All-Stars or even something happening this month. So, Kelios FR is the rumor monger this time around, he's actually been fairly accurate on several Pokemon related things over the years, he's got a long track record of mostly being correct. He's right, it's around 85% of the time or so when I go back and look at all of the stuff he's predicted and or said was going to happen. So that's cool, that's great, he's got some new stuff, before I get into that, we're giving away a PlayStation 5, an Xbox Series X or a Nintendo Switch Charizard edition, I just wanted to show off my shirt, I love this thing. So yeah, if you guys want to enter, head down to the description or into the comments, we're giving it away this month, so good luck and let's get into what's happening by checking out what Kelios FR had to say over on Twitter. Now he is French, so I'm using Google Translate here, so the first thing he says is actually up here where he goes Pokemon Direct next month, oops, like kind of like a, there's a Pokemon Direct, he was replying to this Poco Labs thing where it says finally the Pokemon Company promises full of announcements concerning video games, mobile games, et cetera. So the Pokemon Company is like, hey, for the 25th anniversary of Pokemon, we're going to have some announcements and all that, which is true, that is something the Pokemon Company said. And then Kelios says, yeah, by the way, oops, just throwing out there is a Pokemon Direct next month, so February, Pokemon Direct, all right, then what did he say after that? Well, he had a reply to himself, where he said the following, the remake could be a sun and moon scenario with a celebration of 20 years, a little before, and the Pokemon Direct for Pokemon Day, he's kind of referencing things from the past. So what he's basically saying is on Pokemon Day, which is like the 27th, 28th, something like that, I think it's the 27th of February, there's going to be a Pokemon Direct. Now the Pokemon Company does go to the beat of their own drum, so that is something to consider, but in reality, it's likely we're going to get some team Pokemon next month, and a Pokemon Direct makes sense. There are speculations around what's going to be there. I think we're going to get a reveal of whatever games they're doing this year.  They're going to be doing something, is it a new let's go game? We don't really know at this point, but as we get closer and closer to that Pokemon Direct date, there's probably going to be more leaks, more rumors, all that jazz. That really, really has me excited, what actually has me most excited for Pokemon this year is Pokemon Snap. And I would presume in a Pokemon Direct, they would talk about the new Pokemon Snap, which is supposedly coming later this year. It would be great to see more footage of it, to see if there's any new gameplay features, which I mean it's a game about taking pictures of Pokemon. I'm not sure how many gameplay features you can make out of that, but then again I'm also not a video game creator, so who knows they might have a lot of original ideas. But I want to know when it's coming. I have a feeling it's going to be a summer game. It makes a lot of sense to me as a summer game when people are maybe looking to take vacations, maybe I don't know what the pandemic. I'm actually going on a cruise at the end of July unless it gets canceled, so I'm going on a vacation. So hey I wouldn't mind maybe playing Pokemon Snap on vacation. I know you can't actually take pictures in real-world locations. That's what I mean. I guess Pokemon Go you would do, but still it is what it is. I'm really excited about whatever this might be. And beyond the new gen or remakes or let's go game whatever gets announced and beyond Pokemon Snap, what else could they be talking about? The Pokemon Company, as I noted, they really do go to the beat of their own drum, so it could be anybody's guess at this point what the hell is going to happen. I'm not going to bother to try to say any more than that because it's a very minuscule amount of information we have here. But Kelios, FR, he's been highly reliable in the past. He's not always correct, but a lot of the times he is, this is a rumor. Take it with a massive truckload of salt and that's what I got for you. Man, I'm really killing it with the videos today despite the fact that I'm homeschooling my kids today. I don't know how I'm pulling this off. I'm working miracles. It's like I'm awesome or something. I know. A little egotistical there. I understand. I'll turn it down a couple notches. No, I'm pretty great. All right, folks. I'm Nintendo RoboJance from the Center Prime. Thanks for tuning in and I'll catch you guys in the next video.


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I want to speak with you tonight, not necessarily a sermon, but a message that I believe is the key to personal revival in our life. It's the renewing of the mind. It's when your mind shifts, when your mind changes. They did a study on five millionaires and five homeless people. And the people who had millions, one or more millions of dollars, they took the millions of dollars from them and they made them homeless. And they gave these million of dollars to five homeless men. Now, I wish I would have been part of that study, but I wasn't. They did a study for them where they watched their behavior and they found out that within a short period of time, the men who were millionaires, who were taking their money from them and were given a requirement that they cannot go back to their old business or their old contacts, they bounced back and within a few years, they got the millions of dollars again and got a business going. Different business. They did a study with the homeless men and they found out that within a short period of time, the homeless men returned back to homelessness and some were actually on the suicide watch because they were trying to kill themselves. And the study came to this conclusion. A millionaire is a state of mind, not a state of finances. And homelessness begins as a place where you don't have money, but after a while, it becomes part of a stronghold and becomes a mindset that even if you're given money, even if you're given connections, even if you're given welfare, it doesn't change your life. It's a band-aid because the real problem is in your mind. I wonder, Apostle Paul, who was alive 2,000 years ago before this study said in Romans chapter 12, verse 2, is that our life is transformed, but when our mind is renewed. Most of us will live the opposite. We believe that when our life changes, our mind will change. We actually blame our circumstances. People are upbringing and our parents, our physical appearance, our lack of gifts and abilities on this state of our emotional being and God says everything is the opposite. Everything is the other way around. The reason why I want to speak with you about this today is because this has been the miracle of my life. During the birth, there was an optical nerve that was damaged in my brain. And when I grew up eventually, I developed chronic insecurity and I shared this testimony a thousand times and if you will hear me preach, I'll share it 2,000 times more in my life. Why? Because it's my testimony. When we moved to the United States at the age of 13, December 6, 1999, I started to become aware as a teenager of my surroundings, of my appearance and of the fact that I was very limited with everything. I started to become aware of my appearance, I started to become aware of the fact that I couldn't connect with people. I was socially awkward. I couldn't communicate at the church at the time. They had three positions. Two were really good for the guys. The third one was mainly for the girls, worship, singing and doing poems. Poems was for the girls. I applied the two and both of them I wasn't good at. I was not brave enough to apply for the poems. And things were very challenging for me and 17, 18 years ago I was on the edge. I know committing suicide would be wrong but I was praying secretly and wishing that I would be dead. I was hoping for an accident in which I will be dead because I felt like the world would be a better place with me not in it. And then I realized that if God could do a miracle, all this junk I feel inside and the fact that I'm skipping school because I'm embarrassed to stand in front of a group of 15 students or 20 students, if God could only change my physical eyes, if God can only change people around me and make them be more accepting of me, then my world on the inside will change. So I started to study about demonology. I started to study about healing and receive prayer. Not because I had problems with my eyes but because I had problems with my heart. I had two eye surgeries, one in the Ukraine, one in the United States. None of them really helped and they were not supposed to help my vision. I have a clear vision out of four siblings and both parents, the only one with our glasses. So I have no problem with the vision. But I wanted to change my appearance thinking that my appearance will change my inner image, my inner feeling, my mindset and how I felt about myself. But something else happened. The miracle that really, the big miracle that happened that is actually more difficult for God to do than creating new eyes for someone. A miracle that's more challenging than casting out six demons out of a man is this miracle. It's when God can take a stronghold, build over 15, 20 years and take in two, three years and begin to brick by brick, layer by layer, thought by thought, attitude by attitude, confession by confession. A mindset by a mindset and God begins to break it down and realign it to His Word. When you look in the mirror and you don't see a skin stretched over a skeleton, you see someone who God says who you are even though you don't feel nothing like that on the inside. Even though your circumstances do not bear evidence to who you are, what God says in His Word, but you still stand on it. That, my friend, is a miracle. And when God does that miracle, that miracle changes your life. I genuinely believe deep in my heart and from my experience, and many men of God will experience that as well here, is that the renewing of your mind brings revival in your life. Can somebody say amen? Prayer, fasting, extravagant giving is not done by people who are just radical. One thing about these people is they think different. They don't see the same problem the same way you see. They don't see money the same way you see. They don't see their morning hours the same way you see. They don't see fasting the same way they see. You see, there's something about them they are thinking on a different level. That's why they live on a different level and that's why God responds to them on a different level. Can somebody say amen? You know, spiritual warfare, the beginning of the spiritual warfare is the renewing of the mind.  If you read in Exodus and if they're behind me, you guys can throw the graphic and just kind of follow with the notes. I'm not going to be pointing to it, so just kind of follow with me and stuff. If you see the spiritual, post the quote about the spiritual warfare begins with the renewing of the mind and so just let's just stay consistent with it. Gracias, Señorita. In Exodus chapter 7, when Moses comes to Egypt and he does what God calls him to do, shows up to Pharaoh, says, Pharaoh, let my people go. First of all, he tells people of Israel, he says, Hey, by the way, I'm here to help you all out. I'm going to get you out. God did some miracles. Let me show you. Brings it. It becomes white. This wasn't some magic he read on YouTube. This was like legit. He throws a snake, the snake, the rod turns into a snake. There's few little kind of miracles and people are like, Yes, this is great. God visited his people. Awesome. People start packing. We're going. Moses is like, well, hold on. Just need to talk to Pharaoh. Just need to get to him to sign off on this and we're good. He goes to Pharaoh. He's thinking, well, people of God believe in me now. I mean, I'm just going to go to Pharaoh. Pharaoh is going to sign off on this and everything's good and we're ready to go. He goes into Pharaoh and Pharaoh says, Are you high? What are you thinking? He said, Dude, we have your poster in here in the court. You're a most wanted man. He says, Oh, I'm glad you're back. We're going to punish you.  He's like, What are you thinking? What are you smoking, Moses? Get out of here. He kicked him out. The Bible says he didn't even take him serious. And not only that, he writes us, writes not a slip letting them go. He says, Well, since these guys have time to dream, let's kill that from them. Let's remove the straw and make him make bricks without straw. Let them look for straw. That means they're going to have to work twice as hard now for the same slavery they were in. So Moses comes back, Israel think he's trying to kill him.  And Moses is frustrated to God because God is not doing anything that he promised to do. And Exodus chapter seven begins like this. God in the midst of this comes to Moses. You would think God would say, Hey, Moe, hang in there tight. I'm working on it. Hey, Moses, can we, I'm so sorry, man, I kind of was busy with the other stuff going on right now in the world. I really forgot that you were going to Pharaoh to kind of prepare the way for you. I'm really sorry that the people are not wanting you to deliver them no more. Man, I didn't see that coming. That's kind of quick. You kind of kind of accelerated the whole situation. That's kind of quick, Moses. God ignores the whole thing. The Moses is throwing in the towel, doesn't want to do anything. You know what God does in Exodus chapter seven verse one? He comes to Moses. He says, Moses, almost like God doesn't even see all of that. He says, I make you God to Pharaoh, excuse me.   I'm making you a God to Pharaoh. He says, the problem is not with Pharaoh, it's you.  You think like a slave.  He says, when you walk next time to the Pharaoh's court, you're not a slave begging.   For Egyptians, since Pharaoh was considered raw, the God, it was natural for Moses to understand when he walks to the court of a Pharaoh, he's not begging, he's not pleading, he's not asking, and he's not requesting. The next time Moses walked in, same tone, same words, everything was the same, except something shifted within Moses because Pharaoh was begging. He was asking, please ask your God to stop the frogs. And every plague that came on Egypt started to directly attack God of Egypt. Why? Because God went to war. Spiritual warfare begins, not when God changes your situation, when God changes your mindset about your situation, and the new you walks into the same situation and the situation does not know what to do with itself. The foundation of spiritual warfare is the renewed mind, can somebody say amen? Many times we say, well, if God can only do more miracles, then my mind will change. I want to tell you something, God did not do more miracles until he shifted the mindset of Moses, because, yes, Moses was out of Egypt, but there were still remains of Egypt inside of Moses, and when God pulled all of that out, and he walked into Egypt, a different man next time, Pharaoh begged, Pharaoh asked, Pharaoh pleaded, and then Moses got out. He let the people out. The way you came into this world was head first.   You will still go back to the same poverty within two, three years.   If you have your Bible, let's open to the famous scripture about spiritual warfare. I want to title this message from professing to possessing. Many of us have a lot of things we have promised to us by God. Many things we profess that belong to us, but professing is good. Possessing is better, can somebody say amen? I profess that I am blessed, but to possess the blessing is a little bit better, can somebody say amen? You can profess that you're healed, but when you possess the healing, it's a lot better. You can profess that you're anointed, but when you begin to walk in that anointing, it's a lot better. In Ephesians chapter 6, verse 11 and verse 12, it says the following, put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Precious Holy Spirit, I thank you for this day. I thank you that we're gathered today under the umbrella of the name of Jesus. And I pray right now that you will, as we dissect, as we dive into your word, I ask you please, let your word dive into us, in Jesus' name, amen, amen. Ephesians chapter 6 is like the masterpiece of Apostle Paul about the topic of the spiritual world. And I want to just draw a few little nuggets that have become the cornerstone of my understanding, the framework of my reaction toward the spiritual world, and I pray that it will be also a blessing to you as well. The first thing that I want you to notice in Ephesians chapter 6 is in the warfare verses, Paul never once mentions warfare as a way for spiritual victory. He never once mentions from chapter 11, verse 10, I'm sorry, verse 11, all the way down, he never once mentioned to put on the armor and do all of these things so that you can get a victory. Paul lives with the idea that we do spiritual warfare not for victory, but from victory. That's why he says, put on the armor, fight and do all of this to stand, withstand, stand, stand, withstand, stand, never to win, because you already won. The foundation of a battle against the forces of darkness does not start with us winning, does not start with us, so we fight to win, but we already won in Jesus Christ and from that position we fight, can somebody say amen? Write this down, we fight from victory, not for victory. The victory has already been won on the cross and our battle against the forces of darkness, even if those devils, even if those attacks happen in your body, or it happened in your mind, or it happens in your sleep, or it happens in your family, or it happens on your purity, or it happens on the other areas of your life, you have to understand, no matter how deep Satan got you, he's already been brain damaged on the cross. My Bible makes me to understand that on the Calvary, Jesus gave Satan a brain damage, permanent one. There is no healing for it, there is no cure for it, there is no doctor that can help him to recover his brains back, he crushed his skull, that's why devil is crazy, that's why devil can't repent, that's why devil can't be fixed, why? He's been permanently damaged in his head, he can't think straight, he does everything wrong because on the Calvary and he can't win against you without your permission because on the Calvary Jesus gave him a defeat. This defeat is my victory, which means that no matter what situation I find myself in today, no matter how I feel right now, no matter what the doctor's report says, no matter how many times I fall and then I promise to myself I'll never do that sin again and I found myself entrapped, pulled back, I take two steps backwards and three steps backwards, I see myself trying, fasting and praying and everything and it seems like I can never win. You will never win until you first realize you already won, you will say, well that's great.  Now that victory on the cross doesn't automatically make you a winner, it gives you a potential for the victory, means it empowers you now to fight, some people say, well if Jesus already did everything on the cross then I don't need to fight, actually because He did it on the cross you need to fight. When Goliath fell, Israel didn't go home. When Goliath fell, Israel went to war, because Goliath when he stood, Israel was hiding, shrinking and running, but when David came and he hit his head, remember, his head and Goliath falls, Israel says, well I mean we can do this, I think we got this, I think they're running, see when Jesus came, he is our son of David, he hit the devil right in his head.  When Jesus came on this earth, until about a thousand years, Christianity, three, four hundred years predominantly, but almost to a thousand years, Christianity embraced a warfare mentality, meaning our fight against sickness, our fight is against demons, our fight is against curses and the evil in this world.  Saint Augustine came, other theologians came for which we are eternally indebted to, how God used them to impact Christian world, but they also did a damage to Christianity. Which damage? They introduced a mindset called blueprint, where there is over emphasis on God's sovereignty and it fails to empower Christians to fight, makes them confused whether this is God trying to do something, it gives them no good explanation of why the evil happens because everything is about God doing something, when in reality so much of the evil is the enemy doing stuff and we're empowered to fight versus many Christians who they have adopted the blueprint mentality, meaning you don't do anything, God is the one that's in charge, God is in control and you just kind of wait for things to fall where they do. In the beginning of Christian faith in book of Acts and Jesus, that was not the mentality Christians had. Jesus said this, since the day of John the Baptist till now, kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent don't wait for God to sort things out, they go at it, they attack and they fight. If you want to see miracles in your life, you have to put the blueprint mentality in the glove box of your theology and you have to develop the mentality of a warrior, not a wimp. You have to develop a mentality of a fighter, you have to believe in one thing, God is good, devil is bad, period. Every good gift comes from the Father, everything else, God had nothing to do with it, you and I were empowered to stand against it, Holy Spirit is on our side, we're gonna win with Him, we're gonna overcome with Him, we're gonna see the supernatural, we're gonna see the miracles and where we don't see it, we stand more in faith and say God, we want to see your glory move, we see things black and white. Amen. I know some of you maybe just got a little bit scared, you say how do you explain this and don't, I don't explain it, you do. We fight, you can do the explaining, we do the fighting, because we need to win, we need to bring an answer to a dying generation and we need to squash the devil like a bug, we need to stand against the forces of darkness and get them out of our families, get them out of our cities and get them out of people's lives. Can somebody say amen? Casey, young lady named Casey, she came in April for a conference and I did not know this young lady until during the deliverance an evil spirit came out of her, a spirit of Baal, it's a thousand-year-old demon that's been mentioned in the Bible as an idol and what we found out later, she emailed us a month or so later and told us that she was diagnosed with bipolar, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and that at the very young age her parents who were involved deeply in the occult, she's from Salem and she's an American lady, her parents who were involved deeply in the occult introduced her to the occult and because of that there was been a permanent damage because of demonic forces even on her brain, on her soul and our emotions and so after she was delivered, after the war was done, we didn't just kind of wait and see what you know God is in control, he's doing, but we knew that this was bad, God is good and we got to get the bad out and when we stood there, when the power of God manifested and all the stuff that was not from God was removed, this young lady who was dedicated to the devil at the young age whose parents are still occultic, who was schizophrenic, who was bipolar and her own doctor said she was on 15 type of medicine and she had the highest dose of anyone in America that's what her doctor said, after the deliverance she came to her doctor because we don't never advise people to stop medicine called Turkey without consulting their doctor especially when the medicine has to do with antidepressants, she goes to her doctor and she says doctor I feel like I don't have these problems no more, I don't have schizophrenia, I don't have bipolar, I don't hear voices no more, I want to stop the medicine and the doctor says it will take you two years to stop the medicine if you don't have the problem, if you have the problem you can't stop it but if you don't have the problem two years minimum and she says can we start stopping the pills because you can't just stop them called Turkey and doctor says let's do it and within two weeks she walks off of her pills till this day this lady has a clean bill of health where schizophrenia bipolar and 15 high dose medic medications were completely stopped devil hates people, he wants to ruin people, he wants to with his dirty claws it gets into people's soul, he makes them victims, God passion the loves people, people are good, you get the bed out they're beautiful, they're godly this young lady today goes to home group memorizes scripture, remember we were Galasinsky church under 20 anniversary I look back and I see she drove from Salem she sat on the second pew wearing hungry Jen logo she just visited us few months ago again and seeing her I would have never said that this is the lady that had all of these problems and all of these demons and all of this less lesbianism that she had on the top of that I would have never thought that but see when the evil is removed the good flourishes because somebody say amen but we fight from position of victory on the cross not to get it but because we have it already in Jesus and from that position we fight can somebody say amen I want you to write down point number two protect God's anointing by avoiding battles of the flesh it's interesting that the moment the moment apostle Paul begins to talk about spiritual warfare he says be strong in God in the power of God's might and verse verse 12 apostle Paul right away starts to mention the importance of he says make sure you know you don't fight against flesh and blood meaning if you want to be successful in withstanding standing in the victory in Christ it's only dependent on your ability to stay away from arguing with people when you believe this is you the anointing is already in you to fight the enemy the anointing is already in you to break the chains many of us we protect that anointing by staying away from sin and that's good but that's not where the anointing leaks the anointing for victory is not leaking through your sin there is a particular sin that that anointing leaks through it's called arguing with people it's called fighting a physical battle with people before David could fight Goliath he came and he asked the brothers around what's going on who is this Goliath guy and the brother said oh he's a bad dude he's a really bad dude and Goliath and David is like I'm gonna go fight him and then the battle shifts the brothers of David the brothers of David look at David and says that who you think you are we know your motives it's crazy when people start knowing they don't even know their own motives and they already know yours the prophetic comes on them right away they're like we know you have a stupid heart you came here to see the battle we know the reason you're just trying to grow your Instagram account your YouTube channel that's all you'd hear for and we know why you're here David get out of here and then they start picking up a fight with David I love this about David because if I would have been David I wouldn't act like that David walked away did you know that David had enough ammunition to put him in their place because if I would have been David I say yo I'm embarrassed to be your brother you call yourself soldier soldiers you bunch of weaklings why is the Goliath still standing if you're a soldier why are you picking fight with me you loser you go finish him if I would be there I will give him a little bit of scriptural references why he's not fighting because David had ammunition David had enough to put him in their place but the Bible says David walked away that is the secret if you ever want to want to get to your Goliath with the anointing you're gonna have to not pick a fight with your brothers when you have enough ammunition to put him in their place some people are not what responding to some comments are not worth replying to on Instagram and on Facebook some people are not worth putting in their place they're not there to learn they're there to leak your anointing that's all I know you can beat the skunk any time of the day you need to ask yourself a question is the smell worth the fight see this is you sometimes this is somebody on Instagram somebody on Facebook and then a lot of you you have some people at home or you also have you got an argument with the pastor but your pastor is really good so he doesn't let you and the interesting is that you're not smoking weed you're not committing a more immorality but you're thinking about it you're rehearsing you're fighting them back and you may say well it's not a big deal but it's not as bad as doing something about it's clean water so dry up and so yeah it's not anything bad but this is what happens and by the time you get the Goliath by the time you get the Goliath this is what happens you realize and this is what typically people say feel so drained I feel I feel so empty hmm no wonder why submit to your pastor instead of trying to change him honor the God the people God places under you instead of trying to control them I'm gonna tell you one thing if you watch your heart from getting involved in battles which God did not anoint you to win you will always keep your anointing you will always keep your anointing this is what this anointing is for is to use it to win battles but before you fight your Goliath Satan will present a brother and a sister watch this who are not fighting their own Goliath but because they were created to fight they need to fight something so they'll fight you because they lost their own anointing to fight a real enemy they need to fight something and unfortunately you still got yours so they'll fight you they'll argue with you they'll pick on you they'll belittle you they'll humiliate you they'll poke on you they'll provoke you they'll touch your nerve they'll do whatever they can but remember this this is a strategy of the devil because verse 11 says this if you want to succeed against the spiritual forces in your life you have to avoid at all costs arguing and fighting and picking fights with people because somebody say man some of you today I just gave you a secret of why you spiritually depleted it's not because you're not praying enough it's because you're fighting wrong battles it to unplug there are people who will poke on you and send you a text message I remember one time I had a young man he's no longer he and he's no longer alive and and he was he he said something very very mean and very hurtful he said something to me and he was a recovering a drug addict and it was very mean I still remember the feelings I remember what he said but I remember the feelings what he said and I typed him at the time you know we didn't have iphone so we did we had these messages where they came in like in paragraphs and I remember I typed to him three paragraphs I went back I revised it added a scripture to it I had enough ammunition there and and grenades in those three text messages I would have exploded his whole salvation and security in God it was so loaded and I looked at that and I remember the Spirit of the Lord put on my harness of lad you're about to punch a skunk he said do you want to smell and I said but I need to prove I'm right he says you don't need to prove anything to anyone he says you need to protect right now my anointing within one hour he sends me three messages apologizing and repenting and I looked back and I was like I'm so glad I didn't leak don't leak for your enemies you got that anointing don't lose it for them they're never gonna change some people will hate you no matter what you do some people are haters because the haters has nothing to do with you the their problem is they have a loss in their own life the problem is they're ignoring their own Goliath and so it has nothing to do with you it has nothing to do with your character it's nothing to do with your methods it has to do with one thing they're not waning in their own life and they're trying to it's kind of like a mosquito it lives up of your blood that's all and you gotta let him go and you gotta protect your anointing because that anointing is what God gave you some of you you can stand against your enemy you can whip by your enemy for one reason you made enemy out of your spouse you made enemy out of your children you made enemy out of your parents you made enemy out of people and you're fighting a battle God never called you to fight you're fighting a battle God never anointed you to fight and you're leaking every single time you're coming back God replenishes you but you wasting it at the battles you were never supposed to be in in the first place have the power have self-control have the grace have the boldness to say no to be like Jesus he was silent before his accusers did he have something to say he knew their dirtiest secrets he knew every skeleton in their mind he knew every thought they thought he knew what they're gonna burn he knew how they're gonna die he knew everything about him he could have write them a three-book novel about their thoughts and their motives he said nothing that's why he was raised from the dead that's why he could utter a few words and shake that man because he knew how not to say some words in front of religious men because somebody say man I want you to write down point number three mark if you can come up armor of God does not protect me from an evil day but it protects me from becoming evil person armor of God doesn't protect me from an evil day I want you to see this in Ephesians chapter six it says the following that God says put on the armor of God so you can stand in the evil day I cannot tell you how encouraging I find that the fact Paul did not say that you can stand in evil days for me it's a prophetic word this day can only last 24 hours if you had those days what it's like before you got up it started to go bad even when you got up you stepped on something sharp and then you got to your phone and you find out something bad already happened that you got to work and the rock from the truck hit your brand-new car you got from a dealer right in the middle of the windshield then you find out that you know people have followed you on Twitter or Instagram okay that's not a bad day that's maybe a good thing and it's just one thing goes after another one thing goes after another the things that were supposed to go good things that go bad and sometimes you just feel it where the bottom is falling it's just like it keeps going going going going going to me when I see that when I feel that I always tell myself this it's an evil day it's gonna end within 24 hours it has no authority to become days weeks or months and for that to happen I need to have an armor meaning I have to think different and I have to not allow my feelings and what I see to affect now how I think I need to understand this too shall pass it's not because I have a demon it's not because I have a curse it's not because there's some open door in my life it's because I'm a Christian and Bible says that evil day not day some of you have allowed that to become days weeks months decades years and now the devil has not just made an evil day he's shown you into evil person his goal is to use your struggle to make it into a stronghold take your issue and turn it into your identity all of that is just a method and the scripture tells us that we have to put on the armor of God so that when stuff like that happens you don't stop the evil day you just make it end in 24 hours that the next morning new mercies come next morning as the night before the day before things were bad and next morning you begin to see miracles you begin to see great things like man this is a great day to be alive why because good mercies are coming because the evil day didn't turn into an evil week evil life evil month and didn't make you into an evil bad person now the armor of God I had this revelation that has become a source of encouragement for me the armor of God is not something you produce it's something that you receive from God it's already yours and you're in my job is not to make it but to wear it amen amen this is the problem that we have as Christians is that many of us have the armor of God now this is definitely not a Roman armor but you definitely understand what this means because if I will put on the actual armor most of you will not connect the dots but when you see this the armor of God is for many of us it hangs in our theological closet I'm gonna show you how I am righteous in Jesus oh hallelujah praise be to God the truth the word of God oh amen I got like three Bibles and every app I got I got it yeah this is the word of God the reima word means revelations oh yeah I got so many prophetic words man it's just incredible like even this week hundred prophesied this was great I mean I got prophecies the salvation man I'm saved I'm going to have when I die I'm going to heaven the peace man I got the peace of God it everything is great the only problem is that these things are pretty much useless if they are in your closet they are useless if they are into your theological closet meaning if you know that you they exist but you're not leaving conscious of them right and so if we could put on the the righteousness go ahead just the righteousness yes put an head on okay now this is Bible says breastplate of righteousness see there's a difference between having it and wearing it many Christians they have the righteousness meaning Jesus made them righteous not just forgave them their sins he gave righteousness but this is what happens is that you don't live your life with the awareness that as though you've never seen before you're like a Russian car from auction looks good on the outside there's a one problem on a title it has this word cause savage rebuild yes it's a Mercedes yes it has a nice exhaust pipe yes it's an Audi yes it has good rims oh yes it looks great on the pictures there's only one problem you can sell it for high for one reason it's because it's been rebuilt nobody tells you nobody will figure it out but you know that in the glove box of your car there is a damage in the title and many of you that's that's how you live you have this take this off you have this on the cross Jesus made you righteous but you still carry here because you lost your virginity because you've done drugs because you've done some things anything that the enemy people say it hurts straight through you why because the righteousness you have is in theological closet of the Calvary my Bible says those who are in Christ are new creation not rebuild title you're not second best that's why God says put on the righteousness don't just have it wear it think it through like that then you will not settle for any loser why because your value goes up when you know you're righteous see many girls they settle for anything or anyone why because they feel like well I've been damaged well I've seen listen God did not put salvage title on your title you did devil did put on a righteousness as though you've never seen before when your day is the worst when you're going through an evil day put on the helmet so put on the righteousness again bro sorry I took it down and the righteousness of Jesus is bulletproofed it protects your heart amen and then most of us the problem is we wear the hat of condemnation instead of the helmet of salvation Jesus that rhymes amen so put on the helmet of salvation bro take off that condemnation I really hope is gonna fit in sometimes you just got a the head he got a squeeze that so good all right all right well what a salvation does salvation always protects your head honestly the devil the devil he's gonna break this he won't break you a lot of us have had problems and had traumas for one reason because we're wearing hats instead of helmets oh we have the helmet we even know the scripture where it's located we can quote it to you because we had to memorize it before we got baptized in the church so we got it hanging actually a few different colors and different sizes in the closet of our theological preferences God is not asking you do you have it in your closet God says do you have it on your head what really helps in a spiritual battle what really protects you and devil can go like this and he can beat it and you like devil the more you beat it the more broken you get I'm gonna still be here why because I am saved because I know who I am and I wear it can somebody say amen are you good it doesn't hurt are you sure who's who's helmet is it I'm sorry if it breaks but according to the Bible they shouldn't break so you see this is not damaging him now does he feel the hit no he hears the hit of course it just doesn't do anything the devil will come he will do this and after about 24 hours he gets tired that's why the Bible says it becomes only evil day because I mean how many bullets can you shoot and after that look we can remove this and try without it see see how he takes it I don't want to do that because we already do that regularly personal lives so we have the testimony to prove that it hurts for it not to hurt I want to tell you something is that live with the consciousness I am righteous I am saved now my mind is not doing good right now yeah the car has a flat time my wife is angry at me I know that the dog he pooped at the wrong place and ate the part of the stair that I really prepared two weeks ago yeah I understand the check bounce I understand this got removed that got removed I understand I didn't get approved for the college I understand but I am righteous I am saved I have the piece piece of God and I have the shield of faith I have these things the devil can never take them from me I can lose everything but I can never lose that it's interesting none of the armor of God is your health or your finances none of the armor of God is your spouse or your boyfriend none of the armor of god is your followers and Instagram none of the armor of God is your degree none of the armor of God is your ability to communicate none of the armor of God is your ministry everything about the armor of God is something Satan can't touch when he touches something he can't touch hang on to something he can never touch it's a devil you can take this this this you can take anything there's one thing you can't take I'm a saved person I'm going to heaven you're going to hell I'm a righteous person you're a messed up devil you suffer brain damage and I am protected in the body and you stand your ground there's somebody say man flip it over we all have the armor of God given to us by God we just have to wear it we just have to wear it and when we wear it God begins to protect us God begins to change us the existence of God's word doesn't change you it's when you apply that when you live in the consciousness of that it changes I know someone you may say well that's a cliche I heard this I even said this to other people it changes your life when my beautiful wife baby can I have you for a second yeah when my beautiful wife when I married her and within very short period of time during our marriage she started to experience very very very bad nightmares and I'm not talking about nightmares where somebody is chasing you and something bad happens once in a while I'm talking about nightmares where they repeat it almost every two three days sometimes I and I sleep so good like you can't wake me I mean I have a gift one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit of my life is sleeping I can sleep really good everywhere and anywhere and so you can't wake me up at night the dog the dog barks at night don't hear him nothing but I would wake up from my wife screaming or crying in her sleep and wake her up because I would see she's tormented I remember sometimes I saw devil hurt people I saw how he hurt my wife she started to have a problem connecting with people at church it wasn't like oh it's a new area she doesn't know the ministry it wasn't like that it was so severe that not once and not twice she was saying that I'm leaving back home I can't take this anymore she would during prayer just stand there not be able to pray like something controller everything was so she was like the the social bunny she's before we got married we get married and she just almost like can't function spiritually and it started to affect me so deeply and so powerfully and I started to realize it's a spiritual problem something that her parents her mom and her grandma and others were facing so I thought by fixing it so she has a sister who is her best friend so her sister would come and visit our town I tried to hook her up her sister with one of the boys at the church thinking if she gets married you know my sister her sister will have a companion she will have friendship and her sister little did not did not like the tri-cities didn't like none of the boys in the church and all the blind dates never worked I tried different things we even went for deliverance in Africa we went for deliverance in the Ukraine I had one of the most powerful men in the world pray for us and pray for her and they even said words like you're free everything is good we came home everything was the same you know what my wife started to do she worked the post office where she was delivering mail so it allowed her to listen to messages every single day she would listen from four to six hours a day messages on the Holy Spirit what it did is started to wash her mind to that degree see the word of God is something everybody has but it's different not when you have it when it washes you like soap it cleanses you and after a while and nightmares subsided she was still there but I would see her wake up in the morning you know and I would say you know how did she sleep and she would had a different attitude she approached it like a warrior instead of a victim it wasn't over one night I started to see my wife in front of my own eyes change on her own she started to lead a small group with teenage girls picking them up on Sunday night and she started to lead a home group which quickly multiplied into four she started to blossom in the church she started to her even finances in her life started to grow her own sister got married to my brother talk about miracles and nightmares they stopped but the crazy part is the person that God developed through the process of putting on the armor of God still remained and today the very process she uses it in other areas of her life to achieve victory amen maybe when I say something about that oh yeah it was a process for me when I was literally brainwashing myself with the sermons about Holy Spirit sometimes I would release in one sermon tens and 20 times and I would experience the presence of the Holy Spirit at that moment and it would make me so strong that I was able to fight in prayer for myself and so with time I've noticed that things started to change and and then it just like literally like I was a brand new person I was able to fight for my happiness for the relationship with the Holy Spirit and things like that and right now I can like literally say that the Holy Spirit completely delivered me and I became like myself like a new person thank you the Bible says you will know the truth and what the Bible doesn't say you will get the truth the truth is like soap you can have a truck load over in your garage and you can stink like a skunk because the presence of the truth doesn't change you it's applying of the truth that changes you for those of you who paint houses you know one thing you can have a bucket of paint but the color of your walls will never change until you remove that paint from the bucket and put it on the wall you got to take the Bible from the Bible and put it in your mind Advil doesn't work in the bottle Advil only works in your mouth same thing with this armor as long as it's in the cross it doesn't do no good to you it has to be in you the armor has to be wearing you you have to wear it not just have it not just have the existence of it but apply it meaning consciously and confessionally that means consciously I think through the process of what God has the Satan can never touch and secondly I regularly confess it when I'm doubting that I have it I regularly confess it when I doubted that I have it amen let's give my wife a round of applause thank you and lastly and lastly and we're going to come to prayer I want you to put up the last point point number four and and that is the strategy for advancement is the sword of the Holy Spirit if Marianna if you guys could come up the strategy for advancement is the sword of the Holy Spirit okay you kind of give all of my secrets out up front sounds great so if we can see your belt maybe kind of loosen it just a little bit the Bible says that the belt of truth we have to have the belt of truth just when I see okay good so still put it on and just kind of tied it tied it because you want the truth always to be tight because some people have lost convictions and it's not good but your convictions always have to be tight yeah but not too tight because then you become a little bit legalistic so the truth the truth is the general word of God the general revelation of God's word the word of God the Bible says the sword of the Spirit is the reima the reima is the specific word this one second the reima is the specific word I want you to see this that hangs on the general word meaning every revelation you get from God better hang on the belt of God's truth because otherwise you're coming up with heresy amen if the spirit tells you to sell dope to sponsor the kingdom of God in the Holy Ghost it's some other spirit because it cannot hang on the belt of truth God's revelation has to hang on God's information of God's word these two they're connected the belt is the center of our life the general word of God that's why we read the Bible that's why we don't lose our streaks in the you version Bible amen okay some we lost your streaks some we are not reading a Bible on the you version but we hold the general word of God we constantly read it we constantly memorize it and then the Holy Spirit from that word on occasion he brings a revelation he brings a specific inside that becomes so alive that the Bible calls it the sword of the Spirit the historians and the and the people who study these verses they said that this sword was actually a very small short-range sword it wasn't a long sword it wasn't something that you used in the long distance it was something that for a short combat the sword of the Spirit is a dagger it's a revelation God gives you that in the middle of an evil day spiritual warfare when hell breaks loose God wants you to have it in handy what is this it's a prophetic word God gave over your life it's a dream you had when you were 16 of who and what God is gonna use you for it's a prophecy that you got when you were 12 somebody came up to you and gave you prophetic word this is sharp it's directly given to you tailored to your situation it hangs on the general word of God meaning it lines up with the word of God and this is so important because during when hell breaks loose when things are difficult why this comes in handy I'm gonna share something that is so powerful this is the only thing that will help you to advance during the worst days of your life is God's revelation God's prophetic word God's dream somebody's prophecy toward you when you pull it out when you can't feel God it's called the sword of the Spirit meaning the Holy Spirit in my worst day hides in this he can't be hidden in my feelings because I can't find him there I find him in the prophetic word I find him in the dream that he has given to me when I was very young I find him in his sword not in my feelings when the day is evil I stop looking for God in my emotion I look for God in his promises directly tailored to my life I'm gonna show you how I do it at the very young age we were in Seattle my pastor took us here I was preaching at one Pentecostal church here and I was doing the last message at the end of the message a lady came an older lady she sneaked through us was a larger church grabbed me pulled me to the side I think it was about 14 or 15 years of age she grabbed me by a hand feisty strong lady she said we were praying and during the prayer she said I saw a vision she says I saw out of your mouth a trumpet in your side inside of your mouth and she says young man I saw fire coming out she said don't be afraid you will prophesy and she just just no buy no a man nothing she just said it and walked off and I was I think prophet spoke to you know what happened God gave me a sword a small dagger sometimes when things don't go well I pull it out and I said God I have a trumpet in my mouth fire comes out of my mouth not smoke and God when I speak dead things will come alive I stab the devil because I have a prophetic word and it's sharp the more I use it when I was 16 at the worst youth service I just became a youth pastor six months before that my family went to Wincott to do grocery shopping it was at that time when my mom was the chauffeur I decided to stay in the van it was six months of being a youth pastor and it was the one of the worst youth services because we had about seven or eight youth and these seven and eight youth were most of them my cousins and I was trying to preach in English and my English was so horrible that I didn't even understand what I was saying and they were making fun of me and they were not just making fun of me but one of my youths relative came drunk and came to pick up that his his brother and he was sitting way on the back and he didn't speak English either but because he was drunk he didn't know that he didn't speak English so he was making fun of me as I was preaching so it turned from embarrassment to an utter shame and I remember my cousin Ilya was on a piano and I said Ilya could you lead us into the heavenlies and as he led us into the heavenlies I ran to the bathroom I asked God to make a hole right in the bathroom I said Lord hide me in here until the rapture and don't ever ever bring me back because I'm not going to those crazies and I'm done with ministry I'm 16 years of age six months into youth ministry the guy before me who was six months quit after six months and the guy before him after six months he quit so I'm the third guy six months as honey honeymoon period is over and I'm about to quit my parents go to Winko I'm already preparing my speech how I will tell my pastor that I'm quitting the youth ministry just like two guys before me I wouldn't have cell phones so I had to wait to get home to do that thing you know so I'm preparing a speech I'm crying because it's been a really difficult day 16 years of age I'm looking at the Winko and God speaks to me and I'm not making this up that God speaks to me because at this time I really believe he did he said Vlad if you don't quit I will help you build a church they will be like Winko it will be huge it will be like a warehouse it will have bread on the shelves people will come in empty leave full they will come in sick they leave healed they'll come in broken they'll leave restored it will be open 24 hours there will be a 24 hour prayer and it's gonna be a hub of revival for the whole world I'm 16 years of age who can't speak English to seven cousins and at the Winko who doesn't I don't have a cell phone and I just got my license but something happened at 16 God gave me a small dagger I never called the pastor and I never once decided to quit I tried few times what I did is I went back to Winko parking lot I pulled my dagger and whatever was attacking me I was saying ministry will never grow I went like this I said God you promised every prophetic word given to me by God is my dagger and I use it some of you you're leaving your sword at home and you're fighting the devil with your fist pull out a prophetic word given to you when you were young pull out a prophetic dream that given to you because what it does is this Holy Spirit hides in it when you cannot feel the Holy Ghost what it does is it opens your potential because God through the prophecy and through the dream reveals the potential of your inheritance what it does is it terrifies the devil and it builds your faith today most of my prayer is still wording prophetic words I tried to spend a lot of time in my prayer praying through the promises of God praying through the prophetic words given to me you have them as well some of you the problem with you is this you're like well that's not a prophetic word you know it's just like three sentences it's just like two sentences I remember when we were at kingdom domain and Andres Bessoni he prayed for me he prayed kind of for everybody and so he came up to me and he he's you know he's really tall so he decided to hug me which is really nice there was only one problem he kind of was hugging me too long the point where you know his prayers like Lord letting me Jesus and I was like Lord I will meet you if he doesn't let me go he was like holding holding so tight and I was like and then when he released me he said something that it became a small prophetic word for me he says Holy Spirit told me to tell you he says you're his friend that's all he said when he said that I cannot tell you how many times I prayed including today what I said Holy Spirit you said I'm your friend I use that it's a sharp blade I don't see what it does in spiritual world but my Bible says that the word from God meaning something that's revealed from God it's a sharp blade and in spiritual world it cuts through my limitations it cuts through the stagnation it cuts through my feelings it cuts through it and I get it to the new level in life because somebody say amen see some of you you have that I'm just gonna ask you one thing most of the time don't pray out of your problems pray out of your promises don't pray out of your struggles pray out of your prophetic words what God promised you pray through that you will see how you'll quickly cut through this season you will cut through that and you will go to the next season in life because somebody say amen you know last week I was in in Tennessee and the youth pastor director of some 60 churches a youth minister right before we went to church and we he can ask me for a lot of advice as we pray he says passive lad he says I saw a dream last night and he describes to me a color of what I was wearing and he says I feel like God is saying that if God's gonna use you it to pray for the politicians in the government of your state and in the government of your city he's a youth pastor he's younger than me he just asked me for advice in many things but when he said that I fell in my heart Holy Spirit gave me something to pray for now I don't pray Lord I want a minister to the politician I said Lord you said I'm gonna minister to politicians I don't pray say Lord I I want to be your friend I said Lord you said I am your friend I don't say Lord I want healings to happen I said Lord you said it's age of 16 that's how you got me into this Lord is because you promise and therefore I use that when you use that you're doing this in spiritual world you're cutting through the limitation and you go into the new season hallelujah 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


Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of Red Hat Summit 2021 virtual, which we were in person this year, but we're still remote, we're still got the COVID coming around the corner soon to be in post COVID. Got a great guest here, Clayton Coleman, architect at Red Hat, CUBE alum, I've been on many times, expanded role again this year, more cloud, more cloud action. Clayton, great to see you. Thanks for coming on. It's a pleasure to be here. So great to see you. We were just riffing before we came on camera about distributed computing and the future of the internet, how it's all evolving, how much fun it is, how it's all changing, still the game is still the same, all that good stuff. But here at Red Hat Summit, and we're going to get into that, but I want to just get into the hard news and the real big opportunities here. You're announcing with Red Hat new managed cloud services portfolio. Take us through that. Sure, we're continuing to evolve our OpenShift managed offerings, which has grown now to include the Red Hat OpenShift service on Amazon to complement our Azure Red Hat OpenShift service. That means that we have, along with our partnership on IBM cloud and OpenShift dedicated on both AWS and GCP. We now have managed OpenShift on all of the major clouds. And along with that, we are bringing in and introducing the first, I think really the first step of what we see as growing and involving the hybrid cloud ecosystem on top of OpenShift. And there's many different ways to slice that, but it's about bringing capabilities on top of OpenShift in multiple environments and multiple clouds in ways that make developers and operation teams more productive. Because at the heart of it, that's our goal for OpenShift and the broader open source ecosystem is do what makes all of us safer, more productive and able to deliver business value. Yeah, and that's a great stake you guys put in the ground. And that's great messaging, great marketing, great value proposition. I want to dig into a little bit with you.  Is that true? I mean, you guys have, it's not just, you support AWS, Azure and IBM and GCP, but native offerings? We do not have a native offering on GCP. Not yet. We offer the same service. And this is actually interesting as we've evolved our approach. Everyone, when we talk about hybrid, hybrid is dealing with the realities of the computing world we live in, working with each of the major clouds to try and deliver the best integration possible in a way that drives that consistency across those environments. And so actually our OpenShift dedicated on AWS service gave us the inspiration in a lot of the basic foundations for what became the integrated native service. And we've worked with Amazon very closely to make sure that that does the right thing for customers who've chosen Amazon. And likewise, we're trying to continue to deliver the best experience, the best operational reliability that we can so that the choice of where you run your cloud or where you run your applications matches the decisions you've already made and where your future investments are gonna be. So we want to be where customers are, but we also want to give you that consistency that has been a hallmark of OpenShift since the beginning. Yeah, and thanks for clarifying that, I appreciate that, it's because the managers on GCP rest are native. Let me ask you about the application services because Jeff Barr from AWS posted a few weeks ago, Amazon celebrated their 15th birthday, they're still teenagers, relatively speaking. But one comment he made that was interesting to me in the supplies, kind of this cloud native mega trend happening is, he says the APIs are basically the same. And this brings up the hybrid environment. You guys are always been into the API side of the management with the cloud services and supporting all that. As you guys look at this ecosystem in open source, how is the role of APIs and these integrations because without solid integration, all these services could break down and certainly with open source, more and more people are coding. So take me through how you guys look at these application services because many people are predicting more services going to be onboarding faster than ever before. It's interesting, so for us, working across multiple cloud environments, there are many similarities in those APIs, but for every similarity, there's a difference. And those differences are actually what drive cost and drive complexity when you're integrating. And I think a lot of the role of this is, it'd be irresponsible to talk about the role of an individual company in the computing ecosystem moving to cloud native because as many of these capabilities are unlocked by large cloud providers and transformations in the kinds of software that we run at scale, everybody is a participant in that. But then you look at the broad swath of the developer and the operator ecosystem and it's the communities of people who paper over those differences, who write runbooks and build the policies and who build the experience and the automation, not just in individual products or in individual clouds, but across the open source ecosystem, whether it's technologies like Ansible or Terraform, whether it's best practices websites around running Kubernetes. Every part of the community is really involved in driving consistency, driving predictability and driving reliability. And what we try to do is actually work within those constraints to take the ecosystem and to push it a little bit further. So the APIs may be similar, but over time those differences can trip you up. And a lot of what I think we talk about like where are the industries going, where we want to be is everyone ultimately is going to own some responsibility for keeping their services running and making sure that their applications and their businesses are successful. The best outcome would be that the APRs are the same and that they're open and that both the cloud providers and the open source ecosystem and vendors and partners who drive many of these open source communities are actually all working together to have the most consistent environment to make portability a true strength. But when someone does differentiate and has a true best of breed service, we don't want to build artificial walls between those. I mean, that's hybrid cloud is you're going to make choices that make sense for you. If we tell people that their choices don't work or they can't integrate or an open source project doesn't support this vendor or that vendor, we're actually leaving a lot of the complexity buried in those organizations. So I think this is a great time to, as we turn over for cloud native, looking at how we as much as possible try to drive those APIs closer together and the consistency underneath them is both a community and a vendor and for Red Hat it's part of what we do is our core mission is trying to make sure that that consistency is actually real and that you don't have to worry about those details when you're ignoring them. Yeah, that's a great point. Before I get into some architectural impacts I want to get your thoughts on this trends going on. Everyone jumps on the bandwagon. You see, oh yeah, I got it. I want a data cloud, you know, everything's like the new, you know, there's no snowflake, I got to have some, I got to have some of that data. You got streaming data services, you got data services and native into these platforms but a lot of these companies think it's just you, I'm just going to get a data cloud, just so easy. They might try something and then they get stuck with it or they have to refactor. How do you look at that as an architect when you have these new hot trends, like say a data cloud? How should customers be thinking about kicking the tires on services like that and how should they think holistically around architecting that? There's a really interesting mindset is, you know, we deal with this a lot. Everyone I talk to, you know, I've been with Red Hat for 10 years now, been on OpenShift all 10 years of that. We've gone through a bunch of transformations and every time I talk to, you know, I've talked to the same companies and organizations over the last 10 years, each point in their evolution, they're making decisions that are the right decision at the time. They're choosing a new capability. So platform as a service is a great example of a capability that allowed a lot of really large organizations to standardize. That ties into digital transformation. CICD is another big trend where it's an obvious win, but depending on where you jumped on the bandwagon, depending on when you adopted, you're gonna make a bunch of different trade-offs. And that process is, how do we improve the ability to keep all of the old stuff moving forward as well? And so open APIs, open standards are a big part of that. But equally, it's understanding the trade-offs that you're gonna make and clearly communicating those. So with data lakes, there was kind of the first and second iterations of data lakes, there was the, in the early days, these capabilities were new. They were based around open source software. A lot of the Hadoop and big data ecosystem started based on some of these key papers from Amazon and Google and others taking infrastructure ideas, bringing them to scale. We went through a whole evolution of that and the inputs and the output of that basically led us into the next phase, which I think is the second phase of data lake, which is we have this data, our tools are so much better because of that first phase that the investments we made the first time around, we're gonna have to pay another investment to make that transformation. And so I've actually, I never want to caution someone not to jump early, but it has to be the right jump and it has to be something that really gives you a competitive advantage. A lot of infrastructure technology is, you should make the choices that, you make one or two big bets and sometimes people say this, call it using their innovation tokens. You need to make the bets on big technologies that let you operate more effectively at scale. It is somewhat hard to predict that. I certainly say that I've missed quite a few of the exciting transformations in the field, just because it wasn't always obvious that it was going to pay off to the degree that customers would need. So I got to ask you on the real-time application side of it, that's been a big trend, certainly in the cloud, but as you look at hybrid, hybrid cloud environments, for instance, streaming data has been a big issue. Any updates there from you on your managed service? That's right. So one of, we have two managed services that are both closely aligned, three managed services that are closely aligned with data in three different ways. And so one of them is Red Hat OpenShift Streams for Apache Kafka, which is a managed cloud service that focuses on bringing that streaming data and letting you run it across multiple environments. And I think that we get to the heart of, what's the purpose of managed services? It's to reduce operational overhead and to take responsibilities that allow users to focus on the things that actually matter for them. So for us, managed or OpenShift Streams is really about the flow of data between applications in different environments, whether that's from the edge to an on-premise data center, whether it's an on-premise data center to the cloud and increasingly these services, which we're running in the public cloud, increasingly these services have elements that run in the public cloud, but also key elements that run close to where your applications are. And I think that bridge is actually really important for us, that's a key component of hybrid is connecting the different locations and different footprints. So for us, the focus is really, how do we get data moving to the right place? That complements our API management service, which is an add-on for OpenShift dedicated, which means once you've brought the data in, you need to expose it back out to other applications in the environment. You can build those applications on OpenShift, you can leverage the capabilities of OpenShift API management to expose them more easily, both to end customers or to other applications. And then our third service is Red Hat OpenShift Data Science. And that is an integration that makes it easy for data scientists in a Kubernetes environment on OpenShift to easily bring together the data to analyze it and to help route it as appropriate. So those three facets for us are pretty important. They can be used in many different ways, but that focus on the flow of data across these different environments is really a key part of our long-term strategy. You know, all the customer checkboxes are there, you mentioned earlier. I mean, I'll just summarize that that you said, you know, obviously value, faster application velocity, time to value. Those are like the checkboxes, you know, Gartner, all the analysts, check those. Lower complexity, oh, we do the heavy lifting, all cloud benefits. So that's all cool. Everyone kind of gets that. Everyone's been around cloud, knows DevOps, though those things come into play. Right now, the innovation focus is on operations and day two operations becoming much more specific when people say, hey, I've done some lift and shift. I've done some green field, born in the cloud. Now it's like, whoa, this stuff is kind of, I haven't seen this before as you start scaling. So this brings up that concept and then you add in multi-cloud and hybrid cloud, you've got to have a unified experience. So these are the hot areas right this year, I would say, you know that, I mean, day two operations have been around for a while, but this idea of unification around environments to be fully distributed for developers is huge. How do you architect for that? This is the number one question I get and I tease out when people are kind of talking about their environments, their challenges, their opportunities. They're really trying to architect, you know, the foundation, that building to be future proof. They don't want to get screwed over when they realize they made a decision. They weren't thinking about day two operations or they didn't think about the unified experience across clouds, across environments and services. This is huge. What's your take on this? So this is probably one of the hardest questions I think I could get asked, which is looking into the crystal ball, what are the aspects of today's environments that are accidental complexity? That's really just a result of the slow accretion of technologies and we all need to make bets when the time is right within the business and which parts of it are essential? What are the fundamental hard problems? And so on the accidental complexity side, for Red Hat, it's really about that consistent environment through OpenShift, bringing capabilities, our connection to open source and making sure that there's an open ecosystem where, you know, community members, users, vendors can all work together to find solutions that work for them because there's no way to solve for all of computing. It's just impossible. I think of that as kind of our, that's our development process and that's what helps make that accidental complexity evolve itself away over time. But in the essential complexity, data is tied to location, data has gravity, you know, data lakes are a great example of because data has gravity, the more data that you bring together, the bigger the scale of tools you can bring, you can invest in more specialized tools. I've almost viewed that as a specialization, centralization. There's a ton of centralization going on right now. At the same time that these new technologies are available to make it easier and easier, whether that's large scale automation with, you know, config management technologies, whether that's Kubernetes and deploying it in multiple sites in multiple locations and OpenShift bringing consistency so that you can run the apps the same way. But even further than that is, you know, concentrating more of what would have typically been a specialized problem, something that you build a one-off around in your organization to work through the problem. We're really getting to a point where pretty soon now there is a technology or a service for everyone. How do you get the data into that service? Out, how do you secure it? How do you glue it together? I think of, you know, some people might call this, you know, the ultimate integration problem, which is we're going to have all of this stuff in all of these places. What are the core concepts? Location, security, placement, topology, latency, where data resides, who's accessing that data? We think of these as kind of the building blocks of where we're going next. So for us, trying to make investments in, how do we make Kubernetes work better across lots of environments? I have a KubeCon talk coming up this KubeCon and it's really exciting for me to talk about where we're going with, you know, the evolution of Kubernetes, bringing the different pieces more closely together across multiple environments. But likewise, when we talk about our managed services, we've approached the strategy for managed services it's not just the service in isolation, it's how it connects to the other pieces. What can we learn in the community, in our services, working with users that benefits that connectivity? So I mentioned the OpenShift Streams connecting up environments. We'd really like to improve how applications connect across disparate environments. That's a fundamental property of, if you're going to have data in one geographic region and you need to move services closer to that, well, those services need to know and encode and have that behavior to get closer to where the data is. Whether it's one data lake or 10, we got to have that flexibility in place. And so those abstractions are really key. And to your point about the building blocks where you got to factor in those building blocks because you're going to need to understand the latency impact, that's going to impact how you're going to handle the compute piece that's going to handle all these things are coming into play. So again, if you're mindful of the building blocks, this is a cloud concept, then you're okay. We hear this a lot actually. There's real challenges in the ecosystem of, we see a lot of the problems of, I want to help someone automate and improve, but the more Balkanized, the more spread out, the more individual solutions are in play, it's harder for someone to bring their technology to bear to help solve the problem. So looking for ways that we can grease the skids to build the glue, I think open source works best when it's defining de facto solutions that everybody agrees on, that openness and the easy access is a key property that makes de facto standards emerge from open source. What can we do to grow de facto standards around multi-cloud and application movement and application interconnect? I think it's already happening. What can we do to accelerate it? That's a key area for us. Well, I think, Clayton, you bring up a really good point. This is probably a follow-up, maybe a clubhouse talk, or maybe you guys will do a separate session on this, but I've been riffing on this idea of, today's silos, tomorrow's component, right? Or module, and most people don't realize that these silos can be problematic if not thought through. So you don't have to kill the silos to bring in kind of an open place. So if you're open, not closed, you can leverage a monolith. Today's monolithic app or full stack could be tomorrow's building block unless you don't open up. So this is where an interesting design question comes in, which is, it's okay to have pre-existing stuff if you're open about it, but if you stay siloed, you're going to get really stuck. And there's going to be more and more pre-existing stuff. I think, even the data lake, for every data lake, there's a huge problem of how to get data into the data lake or taking existing applications that came from the previous data lake. And so there's a natural evolutionary process where let's focus on the mechanisms that actually move that data, get that data flowing. I think, we're still in the early phases of thinking about huge amounts of applications, microservices are 10 years old, in the sense of it being a fairly common industry talking point before that we had service-oriented architecture. But the difference now is that we're encouraging and building one developer, one team might run several services. They might use three or four different SaaS vendors. They might depend on five or 10 or 15 cloud services. Those integration points make them easier, but it's a new opportunity for us to say, well, what are the differences? To go back to the API point is you can keep your silos. We just want to have great integration in and out of those silos. Exactly, they don't have to, you don't have to break down the silos. So again, it's the tried and true formula, integration, interoperability, and abstracting away the complexity with some sort of new software abstraction layer. You bring that to play as long as you compatible with that, you apply the new building blocks, you're cloudified. Sounds so simple, doesn't it? It does, and of course it'll take us 10 years to get there. And after cloud native will be a galactic native or something like that. There's always going to be a new concept that we need to work in. I think the key concepts we're really going after are, everyone is trying to run resilient and reliable services and the clouds give us and the clouds take it away. They give us those opportunities to have some of those building blocks like location of geographic hardware resources. But there'll always be data that's spread. And again, you still have to apply those principles to the cloud to get the service guarantees that you need. I think there's a completely untapped area for helping software developers and software teams understand the actual availability and guarantees of the underlying environment. It's a property of the services you run with. If you're using a disk in a particular availability zone, that's a property of your application. I think there's a rich area that hasn't been mined yet of helping you understand what your effective service level goals, which of those can be met, which can't, it doesn't make a lot of sense in a single cluster or single machine or single location world, the moment you start to talk about, well, I have my data lake. Well, what are all the ways my data lake can fail? How do we look at your complex web or vendor dependencies and say, well, clearly if you lose this cloud provider, you're going to lose not just the things that you have running there, but these other dependencies. So there's a lot of, there's a lot of next steps that we're just learning what happens when a major cloud goes down for a day or a region of a cloud goes down for a day. You still have to design and work around those cases. It should be the computing. And again, I love the space reference.  Where's cloud X?  You know, you got all kinds of action happening in space, great space reference there Clayton. Great insight. Thanks for coming on. Clayton Coleman, architect at Red Hat. Clayton, thanks for coming on. Thank you. It's been a pleasure. Always great chat. I'm talking under the hood, what's going on. And Red Hat's new managed cloud service portfolio. Again, the world's getting complex, abstract away the complexities with software, interoperate, integrate. That's the key formula with the cloud building blocks. I'm John Furrier with theCUBE. Thanks for watching.


So Brad, y 1-1 draw against Salford. How'd you feel after that one? A bit disappointed to be honest. Said it that we don't want to just draw games at home. Or not just at home, just in the league generally. But I do feel it's two points dropped tonight rather than a point game. So that's sort of the frustrating side. You mentioned it might be two points dropped. What do you think the team can do to improve and take it into the next game? I think it's converting chances. We find ourselves in good positions, myself included. And it's something that we probably need to work on as a team. As I say, I do find myself in good positions now with the new manager the way he wants to play. Find myself further forward. But at times that final pass or the final shot, it's just not there. And as I say, it's something that I need to work on and probably as a team, as a collective that we all need to and hopefully we can start converting them chances. Start scoring some goals and ultimately start getting three points. I mean, you mentioned that you knew more advanced role. Are you relishing this new challenge, obviously getting on the score sheet today? No, yeah, definitely. As I say, the managers came in, he's been brilliant with myself and the lads. So as I said, it is something that I've had to add to my game where I have spent a lot of time being a traditional right back, but I do find myself further forward. And that's probably the frustrating part when I am in good positions. And that final passing coming off, hopefully I can change that and start creating some good goalscoring chances. Obviously, the pitch and conditions weren't the best tonight with the wind, the weather recently. How do you find playing in conditions like that? Is it tough? Yeah, we don't want to make excuses. Obviously, ultimately falls down to us, but the playing conditions, obviously the fans know them. We can see the conditions of the pitch and the weather itself. So, yeah, it was tough, but again, I felt we had enough tonight to win the game and that's where the frustration comes in and that's where I'm a bit disappointed. A good chance to put that right there on Saturday away at Swindon? No, yeah, definitely. Obviously, we take each game at a time and the next focus is Swindon away on Saturday, so hopefully we can go there and start converting some of these chances and pick up three points.


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