I want to share a quick word with you here today before we go into the prayers of deliverance and something that I want to talk with you about is actually from the book of Acts chapter 16. If you're watching right now, I would encourage you to turn with me or if you're on Zoom, turn with me as well. We're going to talk about Acts chapter 16. So in Acts chapter 16 it says that there was a slave girl from verse 16. Now it happened as we went to prayer that a certain slave girl possessed with the spirit of divination met us who brought her masters much profit by fortune telling. This girl followed Paul and us and cried out saying these men are the servants of the Most High God who proclaimed to us the way of salvation. And this she did for many days. But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out that very hour. Now listen what happened after that. Now Paul had an encounter with an evil spirit. Listen what happened. But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the authorities. And if you read on, you'll understand that they were actually put in prison for what they had done. Now many of you might be in a similar situation as Paul and Silas was in. They had an encounter with the demonic spirit and that encounter changed the trajectory of their life. They were walking free, but after the encounter with the demon, they were put in prison. Many times in this case, Paul cast the demon out and it happened as a result of that encounter. But many of us, we encounter these evil spirits, maybe in your dreams.  And that's an encounter with an evil spirit there. Maybe you were involved in witchcraft or the occult. Maybe you have done the widget board. Maybe you have had some kind of experience of these evil spirits. And as a result, you have seen the trajectory of your life change. You were once walking in freedom. Life seemed beautiful. Life was bright. Life was light and life was good. But you realize and you notice that once you had that encounter with these demonic spirits, that everything changed. Maybe you are just like Paul and Silas today where you are sitting in jail. Read this from verse 23 in Acts 16. And when they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely. Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks. Now they were in prison because of an encounter with evil spirits. They experienced bondage. They could no longer express themselves. They could no longer walk in freedom due to this demonic encounter. Maybe you can relate with Paul and Silas today. Maybe you find yourself in a similar prison. They were in a physical prison. You might find yourself in an emotional prison. You might find yourself in a prison that affects your mind. You might find yourself in a prison that affects your emotions, your soul. You might find yourself in a prison that affects your body. You might find yourself in one kind of a prison or another. It might be a financial prison.  Look at what happened in the book of Acts 16. They had the encounter with demonic spirits and that prison sentence came as a result. Are you watching today and maybe you find yourself in that prison sentence? I want to tell you that Jesus Christ has come to set the captives free. Nobody here is going to judge you for, oh well, I come from a Christian family. I truly shouldn't have problems with these demons. I really messed up and I can't tell anyone because I know as a Christian I shouldn't have a demon forget about those things. We believe that if you are oppressed or afflicted by demons, if you are demonized, we are not here to judge you. We are here because Jesus Christ came to set the captives free. Let's read what happened in verse 25 of Acts 16. But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them. I want to let you know here today maybe you find yourself in that prison. What have you done in your prison condition? How did you handle that sentence? Are you giving thanks to God even before your freedom is a fact? Are you able to worship God even though everything suggests that you shouldn't? Your attitude matters when the time of your deliverance is at hand. Let Jesus Christ find you worshiping him in the prison cell because that will show Jesus that all my children are in bondage. I will not leave you here in this prison cell. I want to tell you verse 26 is the result of Paul and Silas never giving up in the prison cell. Never surrendering their faith even though they were in prison. Never saying oh God why did you allow this to happen to us? No, they were worshiping God just like Job did and said you give and you take away. Blessed be your name Lord. Blessed be your name and I want to tell you today verse 26 is what is about to happen in your life today. Suddenly there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of their prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed. Deliverance is just like an earthquake that shakes the prison foundation of demonic activity in your life and I want to tell you the word that is used in verse 26 when it says suddenly my God the God that I serve the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob he is the God of suddenly he doesn't need any warm-up to set you free.  He is the God of suddenly and I'm telling you in just a minute from now suddenly your situation will turn around. My God is the God of suddenly suddenly like a mighty rushing wind he will sweep in. Suddenly the Holy Spirit came like tongues of fire on the disciples suddenly he parted the Red Sea suddenly he broke the chains Jesus Christ suddenly will set you free today. You don't need anything special for him to set you free. He is ready right now. I know that many of you as you are watching right now you can already feel that the presence of God is here I'm telling you Jesus Christ is at work. Holy Spirit is ready to begin to move and break the chains in your life and I want to encourage you. Today is the day that the Lord has made 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 2 you will rejoice and be glad in it. Today is your day of salvation. Today is your day of deliverance. Today is the day where God will suddenly turn your situation around. If that is you today if you believe that God is the God of suddenly that you serve the God that suddenly changes your situation drop a number one in the chat right now I want to see that you guys are with us that you are watching and that you're part of this drop a number one in the chat if you believe that God is your God of suddenly today praise God we see you guys we see you all right we see people they are part of all right there we go guys there we see God is the God of suddenly and he will set you free today now I want to take some time with you guys here today and minister prayer of deliverance with you in just a few moments we're gonna move you into breakout rooms and when we do so the ministers will pray for you whatever happens to you from that point forward you have to trust that the God of suddenly will break the chains in your life today the God of suddenly will drive those evil spirits out of your life today the God of suddenly will shake the prison foundations of those problems break strongholds and set the captives free your prison doors are about to open my sister and brother your prison doors are about to break open and you will walk in complete freedom hallelujah hallelujah I want to lead you guys through some prayers here today I want you to pray with me it's important to position ourselves maybe you haven't played that role yet remember Paul and Silas they were worshiping in prison they were aware and they were calling on their savior I want you to join me in these prayers right now of calling on the savior are you ready for that right now if you are on zoom or if you are on youtube and we're gonna take a moment right now and pray together I want you to join me in this prayer right now say this pray with me right now and I can the Holy Spirit is about to touch you right now don't miss out on this opportunity the Holy Spirit is about to set you free are you ready for it pray this pray with me right now say Lord Jesus let your mercy and your favor speak for me today in Jesus mighty name it's the simplest prayers of them all just like what blind barter mayors did he called out for the mercy and favor of God right now begin to pray begin to ask God if you're on zoom if you're on youtube pray with me right now Lord Jesus let your mercy and your favor speak for me today let your mercy and favor speak for my situation I pray Lord that by your mercy and favor today that you will set me free I pray that the prisoners today by your mercy and favor will be broken open thank you Lord for your mercy and favor right now take another minute right now and begin to acknowledge God and his mercy and favor in your life his mercy and favor is all that you need right now Lord we thank you for your mercy and favor we thank you that this precious moment right now where the Holy Spirit is about to set the captive free Lord that you have your way and that you will break those chains today I have about two more prayer points that I want to pray with you right now I want you to agree with me in prayers first of all we want to pray a prayer of repentance right now if you are watching right now we know that many times sin is what gives demons legal right in our life sin is many times what opens the gates for demons in our life I want you to pray this prayer with me right now it's a prayer of repentance say this pray with me right now say in Jesus mighty name Lord I repent from all willful sin everything I've done and everything I failed to do forgive me right now Lord and wash me with your blood for just another minute right now pray for the blood of Jesus begin to confess those sins before God what is that sin that you know is bringing you down maybe you're struggling with an addiction right now an addictive lifestyle maybe there's something else going on in your life right now I want you to seek the face of God Lord wash me clean wash me white as snow position yourself right now to prepare yourself for that deliverance Lord forgive me and wash me with your blood in Jesus mighty name we pray secondly I want you to begin to renounce right now we're gonna go through prayers of renouncing we're gonna cancel the subscription of demonic activity in our lives Jesus Christ wants to set you free but if demons are still if you are still subscribed to demonic activities in your life how is Jesus gonna move in you have to surrender Jesus doesn't force his way into our lives we have to surrender to him and say Lord Jesus come and take this away come and break the chains right now I want you to say this prayer of renouncing say in Jesus mighty name I renounce every demonic activity every demonic subscription I renounce you today in Jesus name maybe you have soul ties in your life maybe you have trauma in your life maybe there is a spiritual husband tormenting you maybe there is witchcraft tormenting you call them out and begin to renounce them right now you have been given authority as a believer right now begin to renounce that spirit in your life I renounce the spirit of witchcraft in Jesus mighty name I renounce the spirit of lust in Jesus mighty name I renounce every generation occurs in my life in Jesus mighty name begin to renounce it right now I'm giving you a few more seconds to renounce everything that the Holy Spirit is bringing to light right now as you are participating in these prayers you will see the Holy Spirit is actually showing you things allow him and obey him as he's showing you what to renounce all right Lord Jesus we just renounce every demonic activity right now in our life every demonic subscription in our life we renounce it today in Jesus mighty name we pray in Jesus mighty name okay right now we have come to the final prayer point you and I together we're going to start resisting those evil spirits I want you right now to join me in praying against the evil spirits in your life just like the angel of God came and visited Paul and Silas in the prison and broke open the prison doors today Jesus Christ will do it say with me right now in the name of Jesus every foundation of the problems in my life be crumbled today in Jesus name you demonic foundation be crumbled in Jesus mighty name every demonic pillar every demonic gate every demonic chain be broken today in Jesus mighty name begin to break it in your life right now begin to break it right now I break it in the name of Jesus I break it today in the name of Jesus Lord Jesus break it in my life every demonic chain be broken right now continue to pray right now Holy Spirit is already touching people right now Holy Spirit is already setting the captives free right now I can see God is moving right now get ready right now as you are on zoom right now I want you to place your hand on your head right now as a point of contact if you're on YouTube you can place your hand too I'm watching the people on zoom here right now place your hand place your hand place and don't miss this this is it this is it right now it's about to go down the devil is about to go down are you ready right now I want you to just receive this prayer right now right now every satanic covenant in your life by the authority in the name of Jesus I break it today in Jesus mighty name right now Holy goes firing the mighty name of Jesus every part of their body right now from the top of their heads to the soles of their feet right now Holy goes firing the name of Jesus Holy goes fire right now every demonic covenant be broken right now in the mighty name of Jesus I want you to continue praying right now say it with me say it every demonic covenant in my life be broken in the name of Jesus we're going to continue praying for you right now be ready and be receptive all right guys we're going to move you into breakout rooms right now and I want to pray for someone here where is she where is she I want to pray for Bongani a Joe Wacheku right now spirit of God is touching her right now can you hear me can you hear me yes I can hear you place your hand right now place your hand Jesus Christ wants to set you free right now right now from the top of her head to the soles of her feet Holy goes fire Holy goes fire right now every spirit is not from God fire of God light of God expose you right now light of God expose you right now you cannot resist the light of God you have been exposed you demon fire of God right now Holy goes fire of God right now from the top of her head to the soles of her feet fire of God right now light of God be exposed in the name of Jesus fire right now now speak out who is in this body who are you what have you done to her fire more fire more fire in your eyes more fire in your mouth more fire in your heart fire of God all over her body right now all over her body right now fire of God right now from the top of her head to the soles of her feet Holy goes fire right now light of God exposes you right now light of God exposes you right now you darkness who are you who are you in this body how many what have you done to her you must speak fire in your tongue fire in your lips Holy goes fire in your mouth fire of God you demon you cannot resist you have been exposed fire more fire more fire you cannot resist i know who you are now speak out how many are you how many four uh-huh who is number one you have a name spiritual what speak out spirit of what spiritual what spirit of death who else who else you must mention every single one who is number two after which after which number three who is number three cancer cancer cancer okay last one who is last one fire of God fire of God last one you must speak uh-huh you have a name who are you i know your name you cannot hide in this body any longer you have been exposed and you will come out uh-huh or the stronghold in her family stronghold in her family okay you are coming out right now how did you enter her you demon how did you enter through what through what you entered through what what was the open door expose it expose it you demon expose it you entered through what speak out speak out right now you entered through what more fire more fire more fire fire of God consume you fire of God consume you demon fire of God consume you demon more fire right now more fire right now more fire right now you're coming out right now your timing this body is up Right now I command you by the authority in the name of Jesus.    Come out of her right now! Move out of her body! Come out of her! Out of her, last one!  Come out of her body! Out! Out! Come out! Out of her! Out of her! Out right now! Out right now! Out! Out! Out! Out! Right there! It's coming out! Right there! Come out! Out! Out in the name of Jesus! Out in the name of Jesus! Come out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out! Out of her! Right now, last one! Coming out! Last one! Out! Thank you, Lord! Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Jesus! Last one! Out! Come out right now! Move out of her right now! There it is. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Sister, I declare you free right now in Jesus' mighty name. Jesus Christ just set you free. Walk in the light of your testimony. You are free in Jesus' name. Thank you for my deliverance. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Holy Spirit. I am free indeed. Amen. People of God, if you are on Zoom right now, don't miss your opportunity. Jesus Christ is moving right now. I want you to say this prayer with me right now. If you are watching right now, don't stop praying because someone else is receiving their deliverance. That is your moment to press in faith right now. Are you ready right now? I want you to say it out right now. Say, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, every spirit that is against my future, you contrary spirit, out of my body, out of my body, out of my body right now, in the mighty name of Jesus. Command it out right now in the name of Jesus. If you are in the meeting and your camera is switched off, we won't be able to pray for you. Switch your camera on so we can see what God is doing in your life right now. Lord Jesus, we thank you right now. Thank you, Lord, for your power right now. Thank you, Lord, that you are setting the captives free right now. Thank you, Lord, that you are breaking the chains in the mighty name of Jesus. I want to pray for Danny John. Danny John. Danny John, how are you, brother? Hello. Okay. Can you place your hand right now? Jesus Christ wants to set you free. Right now, every spirit, every demonic covenant, every spirit of perversion, every darkness right now. Your demonic spirit has been afflicting him.  Right now, from the top of his head to the soles of his feet. Right now, Holy Ghost, fire in the name of Jesus. Every spirit, not from God. Fire of God right now. Holy Ghost, fire of God right now. From the top of his head to the soles of his feet. Fire right now. Fire of God right now. In the mighty name of Jesus. We call every spirit that is not from God. You spirit of divination. Every spirit from the family, generation of spirits. I break you off today. I break you off today in the name of Jesus. Be broken in the mighty name of Jesus.  Right now, speak healing power over his body. In the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus. Healing power in his body right now. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Thank you, Lord, for total freedom. Thank you, Lord, that you have cut off every generational curse, every ancestral spirit today. In Jesus' mighty name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. I declare you free today, brother. In Jesus' mighty name. Thank you, Jesus. And with that, I'm going to hand over to Pastor Casey. Hallelujah. Freedom is raining already.  Joseph Gay, will you please unmute yourself, brother? Let us all continue to partner together as the body of Christ that we are. Joseph Gay, how are you doing, brother? I'm doing good, sir. I'm good. Hallelujah.   I command every single demonic bondage over my brother to be broken right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Fire right now in Jesus' name. Fire! Fire in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Every demonic bondage, every unclean spirit, every ancestral spirit, I command you to be exposed right now in Jesus' mighty name. Every ancestral spirit that came in from his dad's side. Be exposed by the fire of God right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Every single ancestral spirit, every single spirit of perversion, spirit of lust, spirit of witchcraft, I bind you right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ.  Fire! Fire in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. I bind you in Jesus' mighty name. I command you out in Jesus' name. Leave him right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Out of his body in the mighty name of Jesus. Out in Jesus' name. Out in the mighty name of Jesus. Out of his body. Out in Jesus' name. All that rejection. All that heaviness. I bind you right now in Jesus' mighty name. And I command you out in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Out of him. You will not take away his joy any longer. I bind you right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. And I command you out in the mighty name of Jesus. Out of him. Out of him. Your joy will be replaced in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Lord, have your way right now in Jesus' name. God, we thank you Jesus for my brother. Lord, we thank you Jesus for his freedom. We thank you Jesus for the freedom of the cross. In Jesus' name. Brother, we declare you free and free indeed. God bless you. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Michael LeBlu. Michael LeBlu. Please unmute yourself. How are you doing brother? Good. I see you already have your hand on your head. Continue to have it there. Jesus Christ is going to set you free right now. Do you believe it? Yes. Amen. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. I command fire. Fire. Fire. In Jesus' mighty name. Every root of blood rituals. Covenants that has been performed by his ancestors.  Every root of rage. Bitterness. Every root of Freemasonry. I command it to be exposed right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Fire in Jesus' mighty name. Fire. Fire. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Every root of bitterness of that rage. I command you to be exposed right now in Jesus' mighty name. You will not hide in the shadows any longer because the light of Jesus shines upon you right now in Jesus' name. I command you to be bound in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. I command you out in Jesus' name. Out in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Out of him. Every last root of you come out right now in Jesus' name. Come out in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Out of his mouth right now in Jesus' name. Out in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Out of him. Every last root. Out right now in Jesus' name. Out in the mighty name of Jesus. Out of him.  For he will receive his complete freedom. Every single demonic lie that is telling him that he will not receive his freedom, that he is unworthy to receive his freedom, we break that lie off right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ and we lose the spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit to set my brother free right now in Jesus' name. Freedom in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. All of that heaviness is broken right now in Jesus' mighty name. Yes, Lord, we thank you, Jesus, that every single curse and spell that has been placed over my brother is broken right now by the blood of Jesus. And brother, we declare you free and free indeed. Walk in your freedom, brother. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I'll pray for one more person before I had given it back to Pastor Rick Hard. Let's pull up. Paul Lexicki. I apologize if I butchered your last name, brother. Forgive me. Paul, P-A-W-E-L. Paul, how are you doing, brother? Hello there. I'm fine. Thank you. Where are you watching this from? I'm watching from Poland. Poland? Wow, what time is it there? Now it's 3.30. 3.30 in the morning? In the morning. Wow, God bless you, brother.    And just as you walk in obedience, God is going to set you free because of your obedience. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Hallelujah. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, I command fire in Jesus' name. Fire in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Every root of addiction that has had a pull on my brother, I command it to be exposed right now in Jesus' name. He will not be bound by any type of addiction any longer. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, that addiction will break in Jesus' mighty name. Every root, every attack that the enemy has placed over his life in the area of perversion and the area of lust be exposed right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. You will not identify with him any longer. We bind you right now in Jesus' name and we command you out in the mighty name of Jesus. Out in Jesus' name every last root of addiction, every last root of lust, perversion, bitterness, rejection, I command it out right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Fire in Jesus' name. Fire in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. All of those word curses, all of those word curses, that emotional abuse that he has went through, I bind it. I break those word curses right now in that spirit of abuse. I bind you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ and I command you out in the mighty name of Jesus. Out in Jesus' mighty name. You may have entered when he was a child, but you're leaving right now because tonight or this morning is his day of freedom in Jesus' mighty name. All of those lies and all of those roots of abuse be uprooted right now in Jesus' name. He will not be tortured and terrorized by the trauma of his childhood any longer for he will walk completely free and free indeed in Jesus' mighty name. We declare him free in the mighty name of Jesus Christ a member brother. We declare you free in Jesus' name and you will walk free and free indeed. God bless you. Thank you very much. With that I'll hand it back over to Pastor Richard. Thank you very much and we want to take a moment right now and pray for you as you're watching us on YouTube right now. If you're here right now and you're watching on YouTube, I want to pray with you specifically. Post your prayer request in the YouTube chat right now and we're gonna pray for you right there. Distance isn't a barrier. Just like the daughter of the Canaanite woman received deliverance being in a different city not even having access to Jesus. Also Jesus Christ can set you free today. I'm waiting for your prayer request right now and we're gonna pray right now. Kevin O'Brien says he needs prayer for breaking a soul tie right now. Anxiety, delays in life right now get ready as you're posting your prayer request right now. Okay I see healing in the family deliverance and sickness. Right now I pray for Marceline Crocker on the YouTube chat right now. Marceline Crocker on the YouTube chat right now. I pray right now Holy Ghost fire right now on every sickness, every disease every demonic oppression be broken today in Jesus mighty name. I break every demonic bondage people who are saying that they are having demonic attacks I see a lot of people talking about witchcraft. Right now I break the chains of witchcraft. Witchcraft sounds like a strong word and a strong name. But I know a name that is stronger than the name of witchcraft. I know a name by which every need must bow and that is the name of Jesus. Right now if that is you on the YouTube chat pray with me right now every spirit of witchcraft every demonic covenant right now place your hand on your head right now I'm praying for you. Right now every spirit of witchcraft I break it in the name of Jesus you spirit of witchcraft you ancestral spirit every familiar spirit speaking to the dead every spirit of Santeria from the occult Santa Muerte every demonic spirit right now from the occult every levitation astral projection you demonic spirit of horoscopes right now I break you in the name of Jesus I break you in the name of Jesus I break you today in the name of Jesus you must be broken you must be broken you must be broken today I see a lot of people saying depression, anxiety right now place your hand on your heart if you are struggling from depression and anxiety place your hand on your heart right now in Jesus mighty name right now every spirit of depression and anxiety go in the name of Jesus go in the name of Jesus go and leave the people of God alone I speak peace right now peace that surpasses all understanding peace that surpasses all understanding right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ we pray for freedom right now in Jesus mighty name I want to pray for Sarah right now Sarah on zoom Sarah on zoom are you there can you unmute yourself yes alright can you place your hand right now on your head I want to pray with you right now are you ready to receive deliverance are you ready for those chains to be broken right now from the top of her head to the soles of her feet right now I pray Holy Ghost fire in the name of Jesus every ancestral spirit every generational curse that has been trying to pull her away from Jesus I break you today in Jesus mighty name I call Holy Ghost fire Holy Ghost fire Holy Ghost fire and every spirit causing division division in the family right now Holy Ghost fire in the name of Jesus Holy Ghost fire in the mighty name of Jesus I pray for her spirit soul and body right now every part of her body her organs her every part of her body her head her mind right now I pray restoration in Jesus mighty name restoration in Jesus mighty name every spirit of infirmity get out and leave her alone I speak freedom today in the name of Jesus freedom today in the name of Jesus you must be free today you must be free today I declare it by the authority in the name of Jesus be free be free every demonic spirit that has been lying to her leave her alone leave her alone today in the mighty name of Jesus in the mighty name of Jesus we thank you right now for freedom in her life in Jesus mighty name Amen Amen Hallelujah God bless you sister I want to pray for you Nathan Timmins Nathan Timmins can you hear me Where are you watching us from brother I can hear you yes Where are you watching us from First Australia Australia what time is it there right now Almost 10 am 10 am Good time for deliverance Yeah yeah well I mean It is what it is Can you place your hand right now Jesus Christ wants to set you free Place your hand on your head just like this Sorry man my heart is beating very fast Jesus Christ is about to set you free Right now from the top of his head to the soul of his feet right now fire in Jesus mighty name I call light of God expose all traces of darkness right now fire of God right now fire of God right now Holy God fire right now from the top of his head to the soul of his feet fire right now Holy God fire in the mighty name of Jesus Holy God fire in the mighty name of Jesus from the top of his head spirit every generation occurs every spirit of deception I break you off today in Jesus mighty name every lie of the enemy be broken in Jesus mighty name I break every lie of the enemy today every lie of the enemy be broken today in Jesus mighty name let the truth search him out and find him let the truth the word of God search him out and find him whole light of God right now all over his body and light of God over his body every darkness be exposed and expelled in Jesus mighty name be exposed and be expelled in Jesus mighty name fire of God fire of God fire of God right now in Jesus mighty name every spirit not from God leave him alone today leave him alone today out of him right now every spirit not from God out of him right now out of him right now you cannot resist out of him right now you cannot resist be exposed right now by the light of God be exposed right now by the light of God fire of God on you demon fire of God on you demon fire of God on you you cannot resist light of God right now be exposed in the name of Jesus come out of him right now every trauma of the past I break it in the name of Jesus just hold on brother hold on I'm praying for you right now just hold on for a minute I'm praying right now just just receive right now okay every spirit there is not from God every lie of the enemy every deceptive spirit leave him alone today in Jesus mighty name leave him alone today in Jesus mighty name thank you Lord for your freedom thank you Lord that every curse is broken today by the authority in the name of Jesus demons tremble and flee before the name of Jesus demons tremble and flee before the name of Jesus thank you Lord for total freedom in his life today in Jesus mighty name we pray in Jesus mighty name we pray thank you Jesus for your freedom in his life thank you Lord that you guide him that you teach him and that you lead him on his journey Lord thank you Lord that you grow him stronger in you Lord thank you Lord that he will grow stronger than ever before Lord that he will outgrow his problems that we like that he will out give his problems and that he will out outlast his problems Lord in Jesus mighty name we pray thank you Jesus brother don't worry about what the Holy Spirit is telling you the same Holy Spirit is speaking to me too okay he's I believe that yes he's speaking to both of us he's testifying to my heart the same thing that he's telling you he's explaining to me too and I believe Jesus Christ is in control of your situation I believe that many of the things that you are experiencing some of it is lies from the enemy you know that the devil can't tell you the truth as long as you listen to the voice of the enemy many times he can hold us in bondages that we create ourselves through his lies not everything is to be cast out some things you learn to outgrow it instead because it's not demons living on the inside it's demons they're afflicting from the outside okay brother yeah definitely I felt I felt that just over the last few weeks that I felt a different presence trying to get in from the outside and yeah I agree completely that they're lying they're trying to get in when they're not there's also I mean I have obviously a demon there's a problem but they're also trying to lie to me at the same time and create more problems brother if there was a demon it would tremble at the name of Jesus okay you're there's nothing that is hiding something listen to this demons cannot hide perpetually from Jesus Jesus Christ is the creator of heaven and earth and demons cannot perpetually hide under the rug somewhere in our body or our soul when the name of Jesus is called when the Holy Spirit takes control of a situation demons must be exposed okay brother so I want to let you know many of the things that you're experiencing is lies from the enemy he's trying to create mental bondage in your life don't give in fill yourself up with the Word of God John 17 says sanctify them by the truth your word is truth okay brother yeah God bless you bro I believe that God Almighty have started the work in your life we finish it in Jesus name amen amen and with that being said I'm gonna hand it over to Pastor Casey hallelujah praise God for freedom in Jesus mighty name let's touch a cob will you please unmute yourself let's touch a cob hallelujah sister where are you watching us from I'm in Tennessee Tennessee praise God sister what are you looking for God to free you from tonight just complete healing complete healing you have more soul healing or physical healing physical okay specific body part like my heart my throat okay I want you to go ahead and place your hand on your heart okay place your hand on your heart and receive the fire touch of God that healing power over your body because by his stripes we are healed amen have you been healed before yes hallelujah as the body of Christ if you're watching here on YouTube with us if you're on zoom with us let's go ahead and stretch our hands to our sister here so that we may believe in interceded faith for her full healing in Jesus mighty name in the mighty name of Jesus Christ we command the fire God the healing power of God in Jesus mighty name over my sister right now in the mighty name of Jesus fire in Jesus mighty name fire fire fire in the mighty name of Jesus Christ every single pain every single sickness every single infirmity I command you out in the mighty name of Jesus Christ out in Jesus mighty name you are not gonna cause this pain this sickness to be to reside in her body any longer all that demonic poison that you have pushed into her body I command it out in the mighty name of Jesus Christ we pray we pour the healing power of God the blood of Jesus over her to heal her to free her from all sickness all disease in the mighty name of Jesus Christ freedom and healing is what we get when we speak the name of Jesus Christ when we preach the name of Jesus Christ healing in the mighty name of Jesus healing in Jesus mighty name it doesn't say that we will lay our hands on the sick and pray and hope that they will be healed it says when we lay our hands on the sick they will be healed in the mighty name of Jesus Christ and one thing we know is that distance is not a barrier for the Holy Spirit so we command right now every single sickness to be gone in Jesus name and we speak that healing power of God over our sister in the mighty name of Jesus healing from the top of her head to the tips of her toes healing in her heart healing in her arteries right now in Jesus name we speak healing to her throat to her vocal cords to her thyroid and the mighty name of Jesus Christ healing in Jesus name God we thank you Jesus but by the power of your blood by is you being Jehovah Rafa we speak that healing power over our sister in the mighty name of Jesus Christ we pray amen hallelujah Latasha yes I see that there's deeper aspects that God wants to heal in the area of your soul and I just want to speak this and over you that there is sometimes literal physical pain in our body because of the trauma that has been inflicted in our soul and so as we have declared in a creed and believed knowing that Jesus Christ has healed you tonight I want you to go ahead and from this now on pray this prayers Lord wherever you need to search my soul and whatever may be causing this pain in my soul that may be causing pain in my body please expose it so that you may heal that wound for me and I truly believe that this is not only gonna finish the work that has already been started about healing you completely in the mighty name of Jesus but this is also gonna restore joy over your life amen amen God bless you sister thank you will you please unmute Karen Kintuma Karen Kintuma will you please unmute yourself Karen how you doing sister thank you where you watching us from Zambia Zambia amen Karen when I look down this is kind of what I saw what the Lord was revealing that there's an aspect of relationships that has caused aspect of distrust with you and your relationship with God is this true it means true it's true so not only is God gonna free you he's gonna heal you but what he wants you to know is that even though there's people on this earth who may have forsaken you who may have hurt you he still stands true as the God that will never forsake you that he is the God that will never leave you that he is the God that he wants to be your provider he's the God that he wants to be your protector amen go ahead and place your hand on your heart and just allow God as the father as that as that man as the father and Jesus as as your husband to minister to you to restore that trust in him in the area of relationships because I can see that your prayer life has been extremely difficult for you to break through because of this this divide but God's gonna restore that tonight amen Lord we come before you right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ speaking that love of the father over her that the love of the husband that Jesus provides over her in Jesus mighty name that every single root of distrust that has sown its seed in her soul in the air of relationships be exposed be uprooted be broken right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ so that she may walk in her complete healing of the soul in Jesus name I see that you deal with deep rooted depression deep deep rooted depression and this is only this is only causing you to be a little bit more and more distant with God but tonight as you are taking a step of faith of trusting God once again he's also going to break the depression off of you as well recording in progress amen so right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ God as you are restoring as we are restoring trust back into you God in the area of intimacy Lord we pray right now that every root every chain of depression be broken right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ be broken in Jesus mighty name every chain of heaviness of sorrow bitterness offense be broken right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ and God we loose that garment of praise over her we loose your love your love as the father God as that as that father figure as that role model as a man that she is yearning to see in her life God we loose that acknowledgement of your love of your protection your provision over my sister right now in Jesus name God continue to reveal continue to reveal your love to her so that she may heal God so that she may learn to trust you God sister we know it's a process but what I want you to do is I want you to fight it with God instead of instead of trying to chase after him that this is an aspect to worry you just need to acknowledge that you have the Holy Spirit within you which means you have Christ in you which means you are already walking with him and so all it is going to take is just a little bit of an acknowledgement that he is there with you that you don't have to fight this battle alone and that as there is the acknowledgement that he is with you that he is all that he won't ever leave you or forsake you that there's just going to be great restoration and redemption in the intimacy that you share with Jesus Christ amen God bless you sister have an amazing day thank you hallelujah I pray for one more person before handing it back to pastor a card uh Katka will you please unmute yourself hello how are you sister what are you watching us from can you hear me yes can you hear me yes hello where are you watching us from half from slowak yeah hi it's four o'clock in the morning four o'clock in the morning God bless you God bless your obedience I when I see I feel like that there is things that were being revealed with our with the person who is just on this was pulled up that God is kind of exposing and revealing that there are different areas in your soul that need that little bit of extra attention in the aspect of trusting God in the aspect of of seeing him not only as the father seeing him as not only as as Lord but seeing him as someone who you can partner with and grow a personal like intimate relationship with and that is something I want to pray over you tonight does that resonate with you at all if I can ask maybe also for healing there's some part of spirit of intimacy that is attacking my skin and it is tormenting me a lot because it's something that is in the affinity tree like atrocious and atrophy in the skin tissues and it makes me sad because it's there since so much time and I have been attacked many times in my skin by dogs by accidents by swelling and really as I'm a woman it makes me fearful so I would like to pray for that because I have a gut piece in this area already and also setbacks in the carrier and that's all I'm trusting God for that today okay absolutely so we're going to declare and decree that healing over your life as well as allowing God to minister in the areas of your soul to bring more and more trust with him but do you believe that Jesus Christ can heal you right here right now hello there yeah as we pray for healing right now if you're on youtube if you're on zoom with us even here in the main session and you need that touch from God that physical touch from God that healing fire over you I want you to receive these prayers as well so right now I just want you to place your hand on your heart and allow the fire god to just move through you amen right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ we speak healing to the soul but we speak healing to her body right now in Jesus name this disease that is even starting to cause and to lay roots in fear we cut it out right now with the sword of spirit in Jesus mighty name we speak complete healing to her body in the mighty name of Jesus Christ fire right now in Jesus name fire right now in the mighty name of Jesus fire fire fire in Jesus name God we know that there is power healing power in the blood of Jesus we claim the blood of Jesus over my sister in Christ right now in Jesus name that healing power over her right now in the mighty name of Jesus fire fire in Jesus mighty name every root of her body that she needs healing every aspect from the top of her head to the soles of her feet we speak healing to it right now in Jesus name we speak healing to her skin right now in Jesus name we speak healing to her digestive system right now in Jesus mighty and we speak healing right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ in Jesus name every disrupt disruption with her monthly cycle we speak healing to it right now in the mighty name of Jesus that severe pain that is being caused during her monthly cycle we break that right now in Jesus mighty name we speak complete healing over her body right now healing right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ because Lord we know that you are Jehovah Rafa you are the healer God you are the deliverer God we declare and decree right now in Jesus name complete healing and complete freedom over our sister in the mighty name of Jesus Christ we pray amen God bless you sister thank you brother hallelujah walk in your freedom and your healing i see God already starting to move throughout your body healing you but with that i hand it back over to pastor rickard okay guys and we have just a couple more people to pray for here and then we're gonna pray for you one more time here on youtube as well so if we can put up the next person on the screen here whoever is left to receive pray right now if you can put them up on the screen we want to pray for them right now right now sister are you ready to receive pray right now yes can you place your hand on your head right now Jesus Christ wants to set you free right now from the top of her head to the source of your feet right now i call holy ghost fire in the mighty name of Jesus every sickness in the body every problem in her body in her system every spiritual husband every demonic spirit is afflict affecting her right now fair god right now in the mighty name of Jesus holy ghost fire right now in the name of Jesus i speak against every spirit of depression everything that is not from god right now fire of god right now every spirit of divination every false religion every family curse that has been running through the lineage be broken today in Jesus mighty name be broken today in Jesus mighty name from the top of her head to the soles of her feet light of god right now light of god expose every darkness light of god expose every darkness right now in Jesus mighty name in Jesus mighty name fire of god from the top of her head to the soles of her feet holy spirit i pray right now that you will enter her body enter her stomach enter her body part and restore her right now in Jesus mighty name restore her right now in Jesus mighty name be restored in the name of Jesus be restored in the name of Jesus be restored in the name of Jesus in Jesus mighty name we pray in Jesus mighty name we pray thank you Lord that you break every chain over critique as life and that she is free today in the mighty name of Jesus Christ we pray amen amen thank you so much sister god bless you if there is anyone else left right now i want to take the last person here God Almighty takes the Jesus Christ saves the best for last sister how are you christy where are you watching us from new zealand new zealand wow what time is it there it's about 10 past three 10 past three in the afternoon all right who is next to you are you the one receiving prayer or is it two of you she's no she's just my friend she's she's just she's just coming on for the ride yes what do you need prayer for today sister what do you need what do you need prayer for today what can deliverance i hear voices and things you hear voices and things have bedrooms and things too okay can you place your hand on your head right now right now i pray from the top of her head to the soles of her feet right now holy goes fire in the name of Jesus every demonic spirit that is whispering to her in her dreams that is attacking her dreams everything not from God right now i break your grip in the mighty name of Jesus i break your grip right now in the mighty name of Jesus every lie of the enemy right now out in Jesus mighty name every voice of the enemy i command you be silenced in Jesus mighty name just like Jesus silenced the storm i command every voice of confusion every voice of deception every voice of darkness right now be silenced in Jesus mighty name right now light of God light of God search out any darkness in her any darkness right now be exposed in Jesus mighty name fire of God right now from the top of her head to the soles of her feet holy goes fire in the name of Jesus every ancestral spirit and curse right now i break your grip i pray right now for healing over her mind healing over her spirit soul and body i pray that you will restore her mind Lord every brain fog every disorder in her body right now be healed and restored in Jesus mighty name be healed and be restored in Jesus mighty name we pray thank you Lord for your freedom in her life your freedom in her spirit soul and body today in Jesus mighty name we pray thank you Lord that you will silence the that you will silence the voice of the enemy in her life today out of her right now everything not from God out of her right now i command every spirit not from God get out of her right now in the name of Jesus every demonic spirit out right now right now you're coming out of her body out of her right now in the name of Jesus out of her right now in the name of Jesus every spirit not from God out in the mighty name of Jesus your spirit of confusion out in the mighty name of Jesus fire of God fire of God right now everything not from God i break your grip i break your grip right now in the name of Jesus fire of God fire of God fire of God right now get out of her body out of her right now in the name of Jesus every spirit afflicting and tormenting her in her dreams i command you get out and leave her alone get out and leave her alone in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus total freedom right now total freedom right now from the top of her head to the soles of her feet in Jesus mighty name i break your grip over her in Jesus mighty name thank you love for total freedom right now thank you in Jesus mighty name we pray i believe that the voices you will not hear anymore jesus christ sets people free when he sets us free he sets us free completely in Jesus mighty name amen god bless you sister god bless you god is going to work on restoring your mind he's going to work on restoring every part of your body that the devil seems to have stolen he's going to restore it back to you in Jesus mighty name amen amen you are free in Jesus name god bless you sister all right and with that being said i think we are done is there any last person left all right we are done so we want to pray for you guys on youtube right here before we finish up here for today it was a shorter digital deliverance today but still jesus christ is just as effective if you're watching us right now post your prayer request one last time if i haven't prayed for you on youtube yet post it right now we're gonna pray for you if you need deliverance right now and you are watching us on youtube jesus christ wants to set you free right now he wants to set you free okay so get ready right now and place your hand right now i want you to say these words with me right now in Jesus mighty name right now you evil spirit leave me alone leave me alone in Jesus mighty name right now every spirit not from god i called on holy ghost fire in the name of Jesus every person under the influence of my voice right now watching on youtube i pray holy ghost fire over you right now every person watching me on facebook fire of god right now every demonic spirit right now get out in jesus mighty name get out in jesus mighty name spirit of witchcraft right now out in jesus mighty name spirit of witchcraft out in jesus mighty name deliverance from demons in children and father out in jesus mighty name i speak deliverance of a caitlin and robert right now in jesus mighty name in the mighty name of jesus i speak healing complete healing of elamont in the name of jesus be healed in your body right now be restored in your body right now in the mighty name of jesus christ we pray every spiritual oppression of a bucle every spiritual oppression right now be broken in jesus mighty name thank you all for total freedom total healing total restoration today in the mighty name of jesus christ we pray hallelujah thank you jesus thank you jesus if you watched us today if you join and you and you notice that those demons are gone those voices you no longer hear them those experiences you're no longer having them those prison doors have finally been open i encourage you go to hangrygen.com slash testimony to share what god almighty has done in your life i also encourage you if you are enjoying if you're blessed by what you've seen here today the online services that we have on wednesdays with pastor ilia and the different kind of things that we have here on wednesday services so where you want to grow participate maybe you cannot pray for the sick you don't have the time you don't have what you don't you don't you can't find the way to do it but you can participate financially go to hangrygen.com slash donate and become a financial partner and support these live streams support this work that is happening today in jesus mighty name remember our race to deliver is on november 4th to 6th you're not going to want to miss it god bless you guys thank you for tuning in and 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Coming to you from our GIS Studios, I am Anicia Antwan and this is your midday news brief. The Lafag Development Intrusion is the latest addition to the Government of St. Lucia's Land and Housing Stock Force citizens and boasts of stunning views of the Caribbean Sea and the peak of Gopital. The Government of St. Lucia through Invest St. Lucia on August 5, 2020 turned the sword for the new land development. The Prime Minister of St. Lucia Honourable Arlen Shastney congratulated Invest St. Lucia and the Minister for Commerce, Investment, Industry, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs and Parliamentary Representative for Schuazelle Honourable Bradley Felix for their commitment and dedication to ensuring that the land development project was launched despite the setbacks of COVID-19. The Lafag Schuazelle Development will offer 114 lots, ranging in size from 4,193 to 26,000 square feet. Anyone wishing to apply for Invest St. Lucia's Land Sales can find application forms at either its castries or viewfold office or online at www.investstlucia.com. The Ministry of Health and Wellness recently received the donation of reusable masks from the Sandals Foundation to assist community members with maintaining and adhering to the protocols for managing COVID-19. The reusable masks will be made available at the various wellness centres around the island and will be distributed to people who have limited or no access to masks. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sharon Belma George expressed heartfelt gratitude to the Sandals Foundation for the donation. She said it will play a significant part in protecting the health of citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Relations Manager of Sandals Grand, Julie Dittoville, said the Foundation is dedicated to making the health of the community a priority and responding to the situation of COVID-19 in St. Lucia. The Sandals Foundation made a donation of 1,500 masks valued at $10,000. The impact of COVID-19 has left no country and no one untouched. All age groups are affected as the life changes have been drastic in many cases. The new reality of working from home, less social contact with family and friends, homeschooling for children and being unemployed is actually a difficult time for most persons. As St. Lucia adapts to a new sense of normalcy, the public is encouraged to maintain their physical and mental health. Practice in self-care can help alleviate the psychological distress and anxiety caused by the pandemic and prevent lasting adverse psychological effects. Bureau of Health Education's family life educator Naomi Grandison highlighted the importance of developing a regular routine and or schedule. Another important tip in practice in self-care is healthy eating. The family life educator explained that the food an individual consumes can affect the body's ability to prevent, fight and recover from infections or illnesses. Individuals are encouraged to seek help at the National Mental Wellness Centre or from trusted family members and friends or call the helpline at 201 if needed. This has been the Midday News Brief. Thank you for watching.


So in previous units, we talked about first JavaScript itself as a programming language, and then we also covered HTML, the document format used for webpages. And now in this unit, we're going to bring the two things together. We're going to talk about how in the browser you can use JavaScript code to inspect and manipulate the web page. Now what's called the DOM, the document object model, that's a standard for expressing documents as a big hierarchy of objects which can be inspected and manipulated by some programming language, in this case by JavaScript. Now in the DOM of a page, as we call it, you have a bunch of objects arranged in a hierarchy and each object is a node in that hierarchy. It's basically just one big tree. And the root of that hierarchy is usually something called a document object, a document node, and that document node has children and those children themselves can have their own children and so forth in one big tree. And these children nodes, most of them are called elements. Basically, every tag in an HTML document ends up as an element in the DOM. Every p tag, every div tag, every span tag, every anchor tag, etc., those all end up as elements. And each element itself can have children and these children are going to be other elements or attribute nodes or text nodes. If a tag in your HTML has an attribute that shows up as an attribute node, which for some reason is abbreviated as ATTR, that's what they call those nodes. And if a tag has in its content other tags, those show up as child elements, and if the content of a tag has text in it, the text shows up as text nodes. So again, the DOM is just an expression of our document in this case HTML as a big tree of objects, a bunch of node objects all arranged in one big tree. And the point of all this is that the browser exposes the DOM for that page to any JavaScript code included in the page. So how do we get at the objects of the DOM so that we can inspect them and manipulate them? Well, when the browser runs JavaScript code, it defines a global variable called document, which is assigned to the document node of the page. Now the document object and in fact all of the nodes have a property called children, which is basically an array of all the children of that node. And so we could actually, from the document object, look at its children and then look at the children of its children and the children of its children of its children. So we could walk all the way down the whole hierarchy to access any element, but this is a very cumbersome way to do it. So the document object actually provides a few very useful methods for more conveniently getting at certain elements. The two most commonly used are the methods getElementById and getElementsByTagName. GetElementById does pretty much what it sounds like. It returns the single element with the ID of the specified argument. So here document.getElementById with the argument of foo, that will return the element which has the ID foo. GetElementsByTagName is also pretty self-explanatory. Note it says elements plural because we're returning more than one. And in this case, what this will return is it will return all elements in the document which are of type div. And it will return them as an array. In what order I'm not certain, it may have a guaranteed order that it goes from top to bottom or something like that. In truth, it's really not all that important because getting all the elements of a certain type is not something we typically do very often. So this method is really not all that useful. GetElementById is pretty much the workhorse for accessing elements. Now of course in our HTML we don't necessarily give every element its own ID. That's generally not a good thing to do. But in practice, the most common way to access elements without their own ID is to access some ancestor and then from there walk down the tree to the element that we're actually trying to access. So for example, we might have a div with a bunch of p tags inside it and we want to do something to every one of those p tags. Well, the div we would give an ID and we'd access it with GetElementById and then we could just loop over all of its children, which are the p tags, and that's how we can get at the p tags there. Another essential method of the document object is createElement, which as the name implies creates a new element which you can then insert anywhere into the DOM so you can actually change the page on the fly by creating some element like say a paragraph and then inserting it somewhere. Now from here I could go into more detail about the document object and all of its other various methods and from there we could cover the other types of node objects in the DOM. But the DOM has this problem that the various different browsers don't implement it exactly the same way. There ends up being some differences between the DOM as implemented say in Firefox and the DOM as implemented in Internet Explorer and in many cases these differences are very minor, but they're all very annoying. And on top of this the DOM is not that well designed of an API from the perspective of someone wishing to inspect and manipulate the content of a web page. It's just a bit clumsy and kind of haphazard in how it came about. In practice when it comes to programming JavaScript in the browser it's a very good idea to use an abstraction layer over the native DOM and by abstraction layer we mean basically a JavaScript library which exposes to you more convenient objects and methods for doing the same business. So in fact for most of the rest of this unit we're not going to talk more about the DOM per se we're going to talk about jQuery which is the most popular such JavaScript library. Now jQuery and similar libraries aren't total abstractions over the DOM they don't cover all of the functionality of the native DOM so to do certain things you will occasionally have to deal with native DOM objects and just as a matter of competence it's easier to understand jQuery and use it effectively if you understand what exactly it's abstracting over for you. In any case I do strongly suggest you use jQuery at the very least it spares you from having to deal with a whole bunch of annoying cross browser differences and little quirks. But you'll find when you write your code to use the native DOM straight with no abstraction layer like jQuery is that you'll get mysteriously different behavior in different browsers because of some subtle difference between the browsers. When you use jQuery you don't have those problems as much because jQuery tends to compensate for the differences between the browsers. So now if you want to use jQuery or any other JavaScript library for that matter how do you do so? Well in the page you simply include a script tag with a source attribute and a URL pointing to the JavaScript code. Typically we put JavaScript in files ending in .js but that actually isn't strictly required you could actually call it whatever you want. But in any case looking at this example here we have two script tags first to jQuery.js which presumably is the jQuery library all in one file and we also after that have my code .js which is presumably the code I've written for my site. And the first thing to note here is that the order is important because the browser will execute the JavaScript basically just top to bottom in order that it appears in the document. So you want the jQuery library to run first so that its objects and methods get defined in the global namespace such that we can then use them in our own code. So you always put the libraries you want to use first and then your own code. Now in both these script tags the source attribute is a relative URL. Assuming the browser has retrieved this page from the URL http colon slash slash example dot com slash index dot html it then interprets the relative URL jQuery.js as example dot com slash jQuery.js. The browser will make a get request to example dot com slash jQuery.js and whatever gets back it interprets as JavaScript code. Likewise with my code dot js the browser would look for that as example dot com slash my code dot js. So in practice what this means when you want to use jQuery on your website you go to jQuery.com you download the latest jQuery library you take that file you put it up on your web server and make sure it's accessible at a certain URL and then in a script tag in your own pages you have the URL either relative or absolute that points to that file which is the jQuery library. Now you'll also notice that we've included a meta tag with the attribute char set of utf8-8. Char set here is actually a bit of a misnomer because it's specifying a character encoding not a character set but in any case we include it here because the jQuery library is in utf8 and while most browsers can most of the time correctly guess what the character encoding is supposed to be sometimes they guess wrong that's why it's a good idea to make this explicit. Here's a more complete template for an HTML page using jQuery notice we have the doc type declaration at the top doc type HTML is what is prescribed by the HTML5 standard so it's a good thing to use moving forward in this example though we made two differences with the script tags first the one that contains our code the code we're going to write we're just going to include that written in the page itself you know we don't have to put it in a separate file we can just put it in the page it's just that if we write a lot of javascript code it tends to make sense to put it in a separate file and in the script tag above that you'll notice we're including jQuery with an absolute URL pointing to a file hosted on jQuery.com so rather than downloading the library and throwing it up on our own web server we're just relying upon the file hosted on jQuery.com a few other sites like Google also host the jQuery library in this same fashion basically as a public service and in fact in most cases websites they want to use jQuery 99% of the time it makes the most sense just to let jQuery or Google host it for you rather than having to put it up on your own website and it ends up saving you and your users bandwidth because the jQuery library is not actually terribly big the core of it's only about 30 kilobytes but once you get many users that begins to add up and by using jQuery hosted on jQuery.com or Google.com you get the advantage that the user's browser is quite likely to have that URL already cast because the user has previously visited some other site that's also using jQuery from the same URL if the URL points to jQuery on your own site the browser doesn't know that that's actually the same thing it already has it's a different URL so as far as the browser can tell it's not the same thing so it's going to redownload something it probably already has any case moving on when a library like jQuery runs in the browser what it does is it defines a bunch of objects and methods for use in your own code and it makes those things available in your code by assigning them to names in the global namespace well in the case of jQuery it assigns to just one name in the global namespace jQuery with a lowercase j and a capital Q the object which it assigns to the name jQuery is a function object it's a function object with an object defined in its prototype property so it's effectively a constructor function it's a function we call to create objects in this case what we call jQuery objects now what a jQuery object represents is basically just a wrapper around one or more DOM elements in a sense a jQuery object is a collection of other objects of DOM element objects basically what's going on internally is the jQuery object has a property which is an array holding those other elements and as we'll see later the jQuery object has a bunch of methods which are useful for inspecting and manipulating the elements which it contains now the jQuery constructor function like a lot of other methods in jQuery is pretty heavily overloaded that is you can call it with different types of arguments and different numbers of arguments to get different behavior so here are what are probably the most commonly used overloads of the jQuery constructor function first off if we invoke jQuery and pass in a single DOM element some element object we retrieved perhaps with say document.getElementById or some similar method well that returns a new jQuery object which wraps around that single DOM element so here in the example if we invoke jQuery with an argument of Christy assuming Christy is some variable holding a DOM element well then this returns a new jQuery object wrapping around that single DOM element the second overload here is perhaps the one most commonly used where we pass into jQuery a selector that is a string which uses the same syntax as CSS selectors and jQuery will interpret that selector to identify zero or more different DOM elements to contain in the newly created jQuery object so in the example here jQuery with an argument of a string reading.orange that's a CSS selector specifying all elements with the class orange so this will return a new jQuery object with all elements that at that moment include the class orange in the third and last overload of jQuery shown here you pass in a string of html jQuery will then represent actual DOM elements representing that html so here in this example the html in the string specifies a div with an id of high underscore div and inside the div there's some text content there's hello comma space followed by an anchor tag a link with an href of wikipedia.org-slash-world and its own content of world so what that all gets interpreted as is it requires creating a number of different DOM elements first there's the element representing the div itself and inside that div is while there's an attribute node representing the id attribute and its value and then also inside the div there's a child text node representing the first content element that text and then there's a second child the anchor tag there's a DOM element representing the anchor tag with its own attribute node and its own text node content the word world so the jQuery object which is returned by this call immediately contains just one DOM element the div but then that element itself has its own children so it's the div and then inside that div element object is everything that makes up the div as written here in the string now to create these elements jQuery itself is using the method document.createElement and what you need to understand about these newly created elements is that they don't exist in the document yet they're creating free-floating elements that are attached to any document we would use other methods in the DOM or methods of jQuery to actually put them somewhere in the document we have to attach them as children to some other part of the existing document until that time say the div we create here doesn't show up anywhere in the document now just as a note something you need to be really clear on is that the global variable jQuery is a reference to the constructor function for creating jQuery objects and if you write jQuery.foo what you're accessing is a property of that constructor function itself when though you invoke jQuery and then access a property from what is returned that's different you're accessing a property of that returned jQuery object so just be clear that jQuery objects have a certain set of properties and the variable jQuery that the constructor function has its own properties and one reason this is a bit confusing is because it happens that there are one or two cases where those separate namespaces happen to have the same name so it could be a bit confusing at first the primary example I'm thinking of is get there's jQuery.get and then there's the get property of jQuery objects which is different so just keep that in mind I understand that what jQuery has done is they've stuffed a whole bunch of useful things as well as other functions as properties of this one function object because it just was convenient to do so they want the jQuery to show up as just a single object added to the global namespace and so they just use that object itself as a namespace to contain other things so when you go to the jQuery site and you look at the documentation for the API you'll notice that most things listed here are just written as dot and then some method name because the vast majority of things in the API are just methods of the jQuery object those are methods of jQuery objects for all other things you see the full name written out like for example here jQuery dot ajax that is just the name of a function it's not a method of jQuery objects it's just a function that for convenience and succinctness has been placed as a property inside the jQuery constructor function object the thing referenced by the name jQuery dot add dot add class dot after those are all names of methods of jQuery objects we wouldn't write say jQuery dot after because the jQuery constructor function doesn't have a property called after only jQuery objects which we create from the jQuery constructor have such a property, such a method now I did say earlier that the only name the jQuery library adds to the global namespaces jQuery that's not entirely true by default jQuery will also assign the same object to the variable named dollar sign now you may be surprised to learn that dollar sign is actually a valid character in javascript identifiers well usually you're not supposed to use it it's considered generally bad practice but the designers of jQuery decided hey it's really convenient, it stands out a lot in code and because if you use jQuery you're going to be invoking the jQuery constructor constantly it makes sense to give it a really short distinct brief name and what's more brief than just a single character so they decided to alias the jQuery constructor function to dollar sign and the fact it's usual practice with jQuery to almost always use dollar sign rather than write out jQuery because it's just more convenient so in fact that's what I'll do from here on out, I'll just simply use dollar sign instead of writing out jQuery


Hi, everybody. I'm Mark Coleman, your co-host today of Talking Tax here on Think Tech Hawaii. My co-host is Tom Yamachika, president of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, and we have a special guest today, Russell Ryan. He's a chief financial officer and co-owner with his lovely wife of Hawaii Inn, which has two restaurants, one in Ako and the other one in Waipahu, and they serve mostly native Hawaiian foods. And the reason we're going to talk to him today is because he was hit with a big tax bill unexpectedly a year ago or so, and we're going to talk about why that happened and what we can do about it. He's one of many who were hit by this surprising request for money by the Tax Foundation of Hawaii, and it goes back to the COVID funding era when the federal government was in a state where passing out lots of money to help businesses that were affected by the lockdowns, by the COVID lockdowns. So Tom wrote an article about this very recently called Restaurants Getting Cooked, and that was about how these many restaurants were suddenly surprised by this big bill from the government, state government, and Tom, why don't you explain what was going on about that? Sure. Thanks for that great introduction. What we've got today is basically an audit program that was initiated by our state tax department. They are going after restaurants of all stripes. They go in small ones, medium-sized ones, and the key factor in that is that they took advantage of a program from the federal government called the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, or RRF. You may recall that in the earlier days of the pandemic and 2020 or so, the Feds came out with some different relief programs, including the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP for short. So most businesses were able to take advantage of some monies from that program. And in 2021, when we had a new president, it was kind of deemed necessary to help a certain segment of the business population out, namely restaurants and, I guess, entertainment venues. So they had back two new programs in 2021 called RRF, which we just talked about, and the shuttered venue operators grant. So it has VOG, and this is for businesses that had to close down because of the pandemic, because they were closure orders. Now, what brings us to the problem today is our omnipresent general excise tax, which is pretty much levied on everything. And in 2020, when the first couple of programs came out, the Department of Taxation came up with some official guidance. This is what it looks like. If you can show the first slide, please. Yes, this is what's called TIR or Tax Inforation Release 2020-06 in a nice official document. It's, you know, many, many pages long, but let's kind of cut to the chase here and go right to the the section we need on page three. And let's zoom in on that a little bit. And it talks about general excise tax treatment. And it says, the general rule is that amounts received by a business that replace income are subject to GET. Thus grants or other programs that replace or supplement income are normally subject to GET. However, in light of the severity of the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, GET will not be imposed on payments received under pandemic unemployment assistance. Luna Ma was forgiven under PPP, which we've talked about. And economic EIDL, I think, is, you were going to see disaster loans. That's right. Economic Injury Disaster Loan Programs. Right. I'm getting old here. I forgot what the I stands for. But these were all federal programs to lessen the injury from the economic impact of the pandemic. Of the lockdowns. Yeah. And the lockdowns associated with them. Okay. So this is kind of the rule book that we're playing with. So to see kind of how that unfolded. Well, let's kind of note that this particular official statement was issued in 2020. And that was before we had the RS and the SVOG pass because those were in 2021 when we had a new president. Right. So the guidance doesn't mention RRF. No, you can't. I mean, because it didn't exist yet. But some of the auditors kind of take that omission as saying, well, you know, we talked about PPP and EIDL. We didn't mention RF at all. Therefore, it must be taxable. And that's kind of how they have been hitting these different restaurants. And today we've got one example. And we have Russell here from Highway Inn to tell us about the on the ground impact of what that meant and how the industry is taking us. Really? What's been going on, Russell? Thanks, Mark and Tom for bringing this to everybody's attention. Really appreciate it. Thanks for that great explanation there. As you mentioned, you know, when they came out with that document, RRF didn't even exist. And in 2021, we applied for this additional funds and we received it. And according to the regulations, we spent the money because we were told we had to spend it all. Otherwise, we'd have to give it back. So we duly went ahead, got the money and spent the money in the economy. So all of the people on whom we spent the money, they paid their GT to the state. So they got a piece of that money that we gave to them. And our employees that benefited from the pay that we gave, they also paid state income tax. So we couldn't believe our eyes. And Mark, it was about a month ago, not a year ago that I opened this letter. Do you remember two and a half years ago when you got that money from the federal government? Now you owe us tax on that. We were astonished, of course, that we're like, what? How did that happen? And of course, with the passage of time, I found Tom obviously on this because we're pretty disgruntled about it because we were told at the time that there would be tax due on this. And of course, coming right now in this time of the year and when it came as well, we're being asked to pull this money out of just our operating income today. And of course, we're a small company, but we have budgets, we have all of that stuff. And we were never ever made aware in order to budget for this particular tax which came along. And the thing which I find interesting looking at how they've done it is the same replacing revenue. And somehow this RRF grant is being seen to be replacing revenue as opposed to paying costs like the PPP and the IDL was. So I don't know how suddenly this one grant that's essentially the same thing is suddenly deemed as being revenue replacement as opposed to costs. I mean, also that's something that Tom brought up in his article, I believe, that was the excuse that we haven't talked about until you just brought it up, that the prior programs had to do it meeting costs. And then this one, they considered it to be replacing revenue. And so therefore they are assuming it doesn't have to be exempt. Yeah, that happened when one of our local news channels broke the story on this development with the interview to another Kailua rest tract who was being zapped with the same issue. And they said, oh my god, we we got PPP funds. They said it wasn't taxable. And now we get one year later additional monies from the federal government for RF. What's the difference? The state spokesperson on that particular program came up and said, well, PPP was replacement costs. But I'm not really sure they were aware. But under the RF federal program, you have to spend the money on approved proved items, you know, that the things that the federal government approves. If you don't, you have to give the money back. So I don't see how how different that is being. So now properly, so it should be exempt under the spirit of that letter. Right. The only the only the only difference I was aware of having been the one that did all paperwork on all of these alphabet soup of grants was with the RF. It was based upon revenue decline during sort of one reference period to another. And the others were based on cost decline or costs that you experienced in that reference period. And that was only the initial amount of the grant, right?  And we all know in the restaurant business revenue pretty much equals costs because of our profit margins. So skinny, you know, between zero to 5%, you know, 5% being a once in a blue moon profit margin that you get in this business. So revenue is equal to cost. So there is pretty much is pretty much the same thing. And there's no logic in my mind as to why using, you know, a quick revenue calculation that is is is very, very easy to observe. I mean, revenues much more easy to observe than cost, because, you know, we all know from accounting that, you know, costs, the costs can be, you know, paid in one period, but accrued in another, or you have depreciation or amortization, you have, you have payment plans, it's really hard to determine what cost is it exactly in what period. But revenue is unambiguous. It was like, Yeah, did you make, you know, $20,000 in this month in revenue?  So I don't, you know, because the speed with which this came out, we literally had to think about five or six days to come up with our revenue numbers. And it was impossible to do that with costs. So in so in my mind, the revenue number was just a very quick and dirty way of getting getting the size of getting that number, which was, you know, essentially, as I mentioned, proxy for costs, because of the low profit margins. And I don't think there was any intention on the people who came up with this RF grant that it was, it should be treated anything differently than any of the other grounds. How did they react when you brought this up? So, you know, did they should go, Oh, yeah, well, what was their excuse to you? Oh, well, we were still in process. The only information that I've gotten back from our accountant is, is, you know, they respectfully disagree with opposition, essentially, though. And well, just for the record, Jonathan Helton with the ground street Institute, which I work for as well, I'm the managing editor over there. He checked with the small business administration, and apparently more than 1,100 Hawaii based businesses received RF grants for a total of $416.2 million. And at the excess rate, the excise tax rate of 4.4%, not counting county surcharges, the state realized about $16.6 million by taxing the locally distributed RF grants. And so that was an average of about, well, that's what they want. $14,500 in that per restaurant on average. I don't know where you fit in on that one, Tom, but, but that's a lot of money. And considering how, how everybody was so, you know, knocked over by the COVID lockdowns, you would have thought that they might have let that one go. But I guess not. So, yeah, and it's all, it's all back assessments. It's all back assessments. The assessment is going to be made for, for the year 2021. Yeah. And the money's already in the economy. We, we spent it as we were advised to do. Yeah. And on, and we, we spent that money and that GT is in the economy. So they've already received the tax from, yeah. So you heard operating under the idea that, I mean, if you had known you would have to pay 4% on the money we're bringing in from, from the grants, you would have put that aside probably. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And he's put it aside and then been like, okay, well, I got to deal with this. That's all on top of the income tax we already spent on it. Well, apparently Gary, who's the, the tax director's name, Gary, Gary Suganuma. Yeah, apparently he, he, you probably know this. I mean, I'm sure you know this, but he apparently has the power to unilaterally say, okay, we won't, you know, we'll, we'll give you a refund. That's what you're seeking right now. Well, it was actually Gary's predecessor, Isaac Choi, in that position who came out with that tax information release that we were talking about earlier. It's an official document, people can rely on it. Right. So, but Gary could extend the spirit of that unilaterally to these RRF grants. And I think, I think he already did. If he wanted to revoke it, he could have done so by now. But doesn't, but what I'm saying is, can he authorize reimbursements or refunds on those tax payments that? Yeah, he can, he can just tell his, tell his auditors, you know, let's end this. Let's, let's apply the same principle to RF and SVOG, which I think is what they should do. Yeah. He said, yeah, he could do that. He could, he could just issue new tax information release stating that what he's to see from the SVOG and RF programs are exempt from the exercise tax, boom, just like that. But barring him doing that, then what? Legislature? Well, yeah, I mean, one of the issues that I guess they may be dealing with is that there is no statutory exemption for this. Okay. So, so he may feel himself compelled to tax it in the absence of authorization from the legislature. Well, that didn't stop his predecessor. Oh, yeah. And it may have been, it may have been kind of a factor of or influenced by the fact that in 2020, our legislature wasn't in session. They only, you know, met for maybe a few weeks and then said, well, we're locking down the Capitol too. That's a good point. Well, does that rise to the level of an executive, like an emergency executive ordered was, did you really have the power to do that even for those other programs? I think he did. You know, if the if it's an executive decision, they have the power to figure out what laws they're going to enforce and what laws are not going to enforce.  Well, yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's a good point. What would you like to see, Russell?  So I can say we just got the bill a month ago. I know several people have been getting these letters previously to me, and there's going to be obviously other restaurants getting it. Oh, right. So it's not a refund yet. It's just like, I'll read with me, but for others, they have paid. I know a couple other people have taken the position, my, the amount's small enough that I'll pay it and then, and then deal with it another day. But you're given our location in an Ococo location because, you know, by public location didn't, didn't receive a significant amount. But our Ococo location did because obviously, we're right here in town. And that one had a major drop off in revenue in the 80% region during, during this time. And of course, you know, we still had to pay our, we started to pay our landlord and our banks and our employees and all that sort of stuff. So, so we started to pay all that. We started paying our cash. So, so the money I'd, I'd literally like not to have paid at me. And even more so, because just this past week, minimum wage just went up too. Yeah. And without going off a tangent on minimum wage. They, the restaurant business, you know, it's unfortunate, the gross misunderstanding of how minimum wage works in the actual business because of our servers are paid minimum wage, but they pull in about between 50 and 90,000 a year, but they make minimum wage.  So we have to go pay the people who are already making the most money, more money for the minimum wage. So it's gross. So not only is, not only I don't want to pay that I'm also suffering about an increase of 45% cost on labor. As a result of this most recent, this missing minimum wage. So even more so now, do I not want to have to come out of pocket for this money? Because we're still adjusting to the new realities of, you know, 5% higher costs. And as I mentioned earlier, our profit margin is, you know, 0 to 5% in any particular period. So the minimum wage increase has just evaporated our profit margin for the whole of 2024. So we have to raise prices and so on and so forth. So And then you got inflation, which nobody has any control of around here. Exactly.  But you've challenged that or you've asked them to reconsider or what have you done about that? Yes. Well, actually, that's how I know Tom, because I reached out to Tom about it. And Tom, what's your, what's your position now on what where do you think it should go from here? Um, I mean, what have been, you know, I do, you know, in my day job, but represent some clients, including, including highway and and including highway including highway and Russell's company. And our our position for the record is this is unfair. You can't do this tax department. And if you don't do it, we'll take you to court. Is there any precedent for something like this? Is this happening around the country anywhere else in other states? We, we are not aware of any state that's taxing RF except us. Wow. That's, that's amazing. I mean, most, most states have sales tax. And, and RF has a grant is not something you sell. How would that work if you had a sales tax? How would have that have worked for a company like highway and what would that process have been in terms of putting aside money for it to cover the sales tax or whatever? They wouldn't even have to worry about that, right? No. Um, sales tax normally doesn't apply to stuff like that. It applies to like, of course, the meals that they sell. And, and the, and the, you know, would put a charge on the, on the register to, to cover the sales tax collected and remitted to the state collect the state wants it. Um, that's, that's what they do in the sales tax states. They do that here to collect the GT. Um, like pretty much any other business does. So there's, there's not, not a whole lot of, a lot of difference in terms of the tax on the revenue from, you know, customer meals, but there's some about, about the, the other program that's getting taxed. Um, the SBOG one, um, I'm told that, um, from the figures I have here, they, they, they, that, that amounted to, uh, $144 million in Hawaii that they, that they hand it out. Uh, on 78 companies, like, uh, Polynesian Cultural Center, that kind of, like those kind of companies such as Robert's Holding, Robert Hawaii, PC Services, and that amounted to, uh, meaning the average company was about 101 million point eight, 1.8 million. And so their average bill was 73,800. Have you heard anything from these people, um, complaining about their latest surprise in the mail? Um, so far no, but have you heard anything Russell about SBOG? No, no, I haven't. I went, they're just like eating it. Perhaps we ought to look into that for a future episode. Yes. Maybe they haven't been able to, haven't had a letter yet. Yeah. Maybe they're just don't, maybe they haven't been audited yet. Right. Maybe they're going after the restaurants first. But Russell, how would this, how is this going to affect you? I mean, is this going to run you out of business or will it? I mean, I'm just going to have to borrow money to pay it, um, or go on a payment plan and, and pay it if, if we lose and we were forced to pay it. Um, but again, I could say it just means that we just basically operate in the back or, you know, break even for the next, you know, six, six months. Well, I want to say we have to obviously adjust our, adjust our back accounts, but from a cash flow perspective, we're just going to have to borrow to, um, you know, which is going to cost money as well in today's high interest rate environment in order to get enough working capital to be able to, you know, carry on.  And this is just another, another unnecessary, um, hurdle we have to, we have to, um, cross. That's done right. It's only good to put us out of business, but it's definitely going to hurt. Well, that's good news. As we know Hawaii's not known for being a business friendly state and, and a failure to back down on this issue would kind of cement that reputation.  Uh, Mike, I don't know if you want to show that, that, that slide, uh, about their business, but, uh, let's give a plug for you to see, you know, how to make people help here. Yeah, that's some of our vacuum sealed, uh, callua pig and la laos there. Yeah. Yeah. Stuff that people are not, the Hawaiian community on the mainland, anyone who has, uh, sweet feelings for home sweet home, um, uh, as we come to a close, is there anything else you'd like to say? No, we just, uh, hope that, uh, our lawmakers and our people in, you know, the powers that we do is the right thing. Yeah, absolutely. Well, thank you everybody. Uh, I'm Mark Coleman with the co-host and with the grassroots as to Tom Yamachika, Tox Foundation Hawaii, and Russell Ryan, CFO for, uh, Highway Inn, wonderful restaurant there in Waibara and Kakaako. And, uh, if you like this program, please hit like and subscribe to think taika why stay tuned for following programs and we'll see you next time, hopefully two weeks from now. Aloha.