There is a craziness in our world right now. We live in a time period where evil is called good, good is called evil, light is called dark, dark is called light, everything is flipped on its side. And I am concerned that you and I have been asleep when we need to be wildly awake. Awake to what God is doing. And so I'm going to share a couple things with you because I believe that if I can get male and female together on the same page, then God can do something that will astound us. How many of you know from the beginning of time male and female was never created to be a power struggle? It was created to be a power union. I don't know if you've read in the book of Genesis, but it was God who said, it is not good for man to be alone. He didn't say that men aren't good. He said it's not good for man to be alone.  And that answer to the not good of man alone was the woman. And the woman coming alongside the man took what was not good and made it so very, very good. But what has happened in our culture is we have allowed the lies of our culture to infect the church. We believe that if we want to be powerful as women, we need to act like men. Oh yeah, that's what the feminist taught us. If you want to be powerful as a woman, you need to act like a man. Well, I don't want to act like a man.  I want to know what it means to be a powerful woman. Our culture has said if you want to heal the pain, then you need the women to act like men and the men to act like women and somehow will be mixed in the middle. No, we have to understand that gender captures the image of God. He created them male and female. And so when you mess with male and female, you mess with the image of God. And everything that's going on in our culture right now is attacking the image of a bride, an image of purity, an image of femininity, and women. You need to be upset about this.  Let's say I'm a woman. The truth is, it's woven in your DNA. And God created men X and Y and He created women XX. And women are to be multipliers of everything that comes in contact with them, but instead we have allowed it to be an instrument of division. And so I'm going to put a little bit of pressure on the women, but I wanna put some imagery on the men. One of my favorite all-time quotes is by a British poet and philosopher. His name is Matthew Arnold. And this is what he said, if ever there comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, they will be a force such as the world has never seen. If ever there comes a time when the women of the world come together for what benefits all. See, the women came together as feminists for what benefited only women, but God does not bless what does not benefit all. It is time for the women to come together for what benefits all. It is time for us to remember that God said that we were good. It's time for us to remember that women are answers to be embraced rather than problems to be controlled. And so we wanna shake ourselves and lean in to what God is doing in this time period. Because I believe that God's dream for you is the enemy's nightmare.  Back you talk about John Bavir and I, preaching storm, you know, it's hilarious. We are very different people. There's things that we disagree on, but there's things that we love to talk and agree on, but there was a season where John was the only one preaching. I remember I was pregnant with my fourth son. I had three boys and a husband that traveled full time. This is what my days look like. I got my children up and I immediately began planning how soon can I put them back down for a nap? When you have three kids, five and under, I'm like, okay, it's too early, it's too early now. Then I got them up from the app and I thought, how soon can I put them back down to bed? I had created some elaborate scheme with my children. I read to them, I sang with them, we danced, we put on our armor every single night. It was like a two hour ordeal by the time we did drinks and potty breaks and all the other kind of stuff that had to happen. And I remember one night I was walking down the stairs after putting my boys to bed, large pregnant woman, I should say, waddling down the stairs, because I was never cute when I was pregnant. I believed in a minimum of a 50 pound weight gain for a good baby and so I was always a little bit large and I remember I was halfway down the stairs and my second son said, you forgot to pray for me and I stopped my foot and I said, I'm not coming up there again. I pray for all of you.  Your children are asking you to pray for them and you are yelling at them. You have completely flipped out. Yes, I just needed my children to go to bed because every night from 10 p.m. till 2 a.m. in the morning, I was editing my husband's book, The Bait of Satan and I needed my children just to go to sleep. That's all I needed. That is what my life looked like when God had the audacity to interrupt it with a night vision.  On the front of the platform was the word numbers and then the Roman numerals X, X, three. The longer I looked at this lioness, I realized that she was more alive than me, even though she didn't move. See, I believe the lioness I saw was a revelation of what God wants his bride to look like. People are at ease with their strength and at rest with their power. People who will not strive with one another, but people who know who they are. I remember looking at her and it looked like her fur was combed gold. I don't know if you've ever had a glimpse where God has pulled back the veil and you've just seen a little bit of heaven, but I will tell you when I saw that I realized that we live in a shadow realm and everything there is the prototype. The longer I looked at this vision, the more I felt like something inside of me was expanding. And when I felt like I couldn't take anything else in, I heard with the birth of this son, you will awaken a lioness. I began to shake and I came fully awake, immersed in the presence of God. Now let me just be really clear with you. I don't normally wake fully or immersed in the presence of God. I normally wake wondering, where am I? That's normally, that was my default this morning. I'm like, oh yeah, that's where I'm in Michigan. Okay, that's where I normally default to.  I remember I had done this journey where I was in Sydney, South Africa, Ukraine, and then last stop London. And every single morning I would get up to go across the street to the Starbucks that I think Jesus put there just for me. He was like, she's gonna need to survive. And most mornings I was there at six, 30 in the morning, first person when they opened the door. But one morning someone was in line in front of me and she was one of the mothers of one of the other speakers and she turns around and she looks at me and then she really looks at me. And that's when I remembered I had toothpaste on my face. See, I had read that if you had blemishes on your face that you could put toothpaste on your face and it would dry them out overnight. It works. I had chosen triple fresh aqua fresh. It is a blue, red, and white, swirled toothpaste. I had it in multiple places on my face. I remember the people looking at me weird in the elevator but I thought, well they're just British people and they don't like Yankees. So they of course are looking at me weird. I remember the concierge kind of trying to stop me as I walked through the lobby of an elegant hotel but I would not be detoured because I was headed for caffeine. And now I can tell I've made this woman uncomfortable. And so I look at her and I say, I have toothpaste on my face, don't I? And she said, yes you do. I don't wake fully. That morning though, high alert. I reached out, pulled my Bible into bed with me, opened it up to Numbers 23, Verse 24 reads, the people rise like a lioness. They rouse themselves like a lion that does not rest till it devours its prey and drinks the blood of its victims. Can I be honest with you? I was beyond challenged by these fierce words on fragile Bible pages. When my husband and I watched National Geographic, I'm praying for the zebra. I'm like run zebra run, those lines are horrible. And now all of a sudden I am seeing this. But I did give birth to a son. And I named him Arden Christopher. Arden means fiery and determined. Christopher means anointed one. And with his birth, my world began to change. I actually wrote my very first book while I was breastfeeding him. Because he refused to detach, I had to prop him up with pillows and type over the top of him. Now I'm just gonna tell you, I know that's not an attractive picture for anybody, but I do want you to know that we all have the same 24 hours in a day. It's up to us to choose how we will spend them. When my book came out, I started getting invitations to speak. And I just said, no. My husband said, perhaps you should pray about that. I said, no, if I pray, God might tell me to go. But if I just say no, then I don't know. And I'm okay with ignorance. And John was like, your theology is off. But you know what the Bible says? The Bible says your gift will make room for you. And so it doesn't say I'm the gifted make room for me. It says your gift will make room for you, which means you sow and you give and you serve in secret first. Not post on Instagram. Okay, sorry. But we need to be people who sow. So I was traveling and speaking. And in 2007, I started to think, you know what? I think I might be a Linus. And I think God will let you feel about yourself that way for about 15 minutes. He tapped me on the shoulder. He said, I said with the birth of your son, you would awaken a Linus. He said, I did not say you were a Linus. He said, Jesus is the lion of the tribe of Judah. And it is time that you awaken a Linus. So for the next two years, I did a deep dive on everything about lions. And let me just tell you this, just as there is no creature that makes a man prouder to be male than the lion, there is no creature that makes me prouder to be a female than the lioness. They hunt together. They're strategic. They greet and groom one another. You know, when dogs meet each other, that's an uncomfortable moment for the owners. But when lions meet each other, they do a face to face greeting. And actually when they do a face to face greeting, they have scent glands above their eyebrows and it releases the fragrance of the pride. And they know that we are one another's mirrors. And so if you look bad, is it because I have not taken the time to groom you? See, we live in a culture that says, you looking bad makes me look good. But the truth is, you looking bad makes me negligent. When you look good, I look good. And when I look good, you look good. They understand their strength is for service. They conceive and give birth at the same time because they know that cubs of an equal age have an equal chance of surviving. But they don't stop with just survival. They actually nurse and train one another's young. They live in the light, but they hunt in the dark. Now, this is fascinating to me. How many of you have ever seen a cat at night? The headlights hit their eyes and their eyes glow. The way that eyes of cats are shaped is they actually can actually take the light in from their environment and they are lit from within. And that is how they can see at night. So lions can see as long as there is some source of light. And we need to be a people who live in the light and hunt in the dark.  So it doesn't matter what the light level is in the culture. It is about the light level that we actually put into ourselves. How many of you know, this is not the time to not read the word of God? How many of you know there's a lot of things that sound right but feel wrong? It is the word of God that will help you rightly divide. Rightly divide. We have to have the word put in to our hearts and mind. We have to read it till it reads us. And lions each hone their skill in the company of one another. And they locate what they are and who they are within the group. And then they hone that skill to perfection. It is something called prowess. When I wrote the book, I actually was on kind of a fast track crazy world for kids, you know, all my stuff going on. And I remember the book was already out in five languages. When one day I was driving my car and I said, Father, I wrote a book called Linus Rising. I possibly forgot to ask you whether I should do that or not. But I just wanted a confirmation from you. I know you're independent of time. So it's okay for me to ask you now because it will all work. Okay, again, this is Lisa theology. And so that night I was in the throes of a school project with my youngest son. Eight o'clock at night, my son turns to me. I just remembered I have a school project due tomorrow. Oh yeah, he had six weeks he knew about it. But no, he just now remembered I went into the basement. I tore apart the older boys school projects. I brought him the poster board. He said, no, this isn't the right format. So I paid my other son's money to cut out magazine pictures. Another one to take dictation. And I braved a blizzard in Colorado to get the right poster board. I'm home. I've got it all spread out on the table when John Bavir does something that he loves to do to me. He calls me and puts me on the phone with complete strangers. I don't know if it's a exit strategy of an uncomfortable conversation. If John just like, hey, you need to talk to my wife. I don't know what he's done, but he has done it to me so many times. And the phone rings, I answer. And I'm like, John Bavir, I am not okay with talking to some random stranger tonight for you. I am not okay with that. He said, listen, I knew you were busy. So I gave him your cell phone. Who does that to their wife? Jane, I don't feel like Lee would do that. I don't, I don't, no, yeah. So anyway, I'm like, really? So about an hour later, this guy calls and I answered the phone. I'm like, hello? And he's like, is this Lisa Bavir? I said, yeah, it is. And he said, well, your husband held up your book tonight, Lion is Rising. And he said that lions are the best killers, but lionesses are the best hunters. And I said, well, of course he would say that. That's all he knows, he's never read the book. And he said, well, I'm calling to tell you that your book is important. I said, okay. He said, do you know we're not winning the war in Afghanistan? I said, I do know that. He said, do you want to know why we're not winning the war? I thought, yes, in the middle of my son's school project, I must know why the United States of America is not winning the war in Afghanistan. He said, well, one of the reasons is we can't speak to the women. And he said, when you can't speak to the women, you can't flip a culture. And when you can't flip a culture, you can't win the war. He said, let me tell you what I do here at Fort Bragg. He said, I am in charge of special ops teams. He said, up until this point, we've only sent in special ops men because of the danger. He said, but now we are sending in special ops women. And they are going to tell the Afghan women they have voice and value. They are going to tell them that democracy will serve their sons and daughters well. They're going to deliver their babies and take care of their minor medical needs. I said, that's amazing. He said, do you want to know the name of this group? I said, sure. He said, it's called team lioness. They're about ready to be deployed. May I have a copy of your book for all of them? So I outfitted all of team lioness that went out of Fort Bragg. Then I outfitted all of team lioness that went out of Camp Lejeune. Why am I telling you this? Because if the US military understands that without the involvement of women, we will fight, but we will not win. That it is time that the church understands that we need men and women if we are going to fight and win. I have a photo that I believe is the enemy's nightmare. If they can put it up, it is two lions face to face strength to strength. The enemy does not want men and women to remember who they are. We are intimate allies. We are the best of one another. My husband and I are better together than either of us are apart. My husband is so good with structure, but I am good with nurture. And if you have nurture without structure or structure without nurture, you're going to have a problem. Proverbs 14, one says a wise woman builds her house. So what do wise men do? They build their women. Because when you build the women, the women will build the house. So I'm going to share some stories with you and I'm going to weave them into some scriptures and I'm hoping this will change the way you look at some stuff. Ralph Waldo Emerson said nature is made to conspire with spirit to emancipate us. Everything that we see in creation declares the existence of the Creator. So I was watching all these stories and not surprisingly, a lot of them came out of South Africa and there was a challenge because the lions were eating all the cattle and the sheep and so they didn't want to kill off all the lions so they created a reserve for the lions and that took a lot of time. So a generation of lions were born in captivity and when it came time to reintroduce them to the wild I watched as there was a little enclosure and they rolled back a fence but the one lion and his two lionesses refused to go out. They were afraid and I watched as the warden said what can we do to get them to go out into what we have prepared for them? They said we're going to stop feeding them but they still didn't move. So then they put a buck downwind and I watched as the alpha lioness began to pace back and forth, back and forth on what had been that former lion of limitation when suddenly her hunger exceeded her hesitation and she jumps over the line, looks back at her sister, her sister jumps over the line. The two lionesses look back at the lion and he's like, I feel like you girls have this. He is not going to move.  They grab a hold of it and they drag it all the way back to the hesitant lion. What were they doing? They were honoring the lion he one day would be instead of accusing the one he was in that moment and we have to decide, are we going to honor what could be, what should be, what will be? Are we going to prophesy, thy kingdom come, thy will be done? Are we going to speak to the prince and are we going to speak to the king or are we going to speak to the fool? Are we going to nag? Cause I'm going to tell you after 40 years of marriage, I have learned, nagging does not work, but when I speak to the nobility in my husband that awakened something in him and these lioness seem to know something that we have forgotten in our culture and that is that no act of honor is ever lost in translation. Second Corinthians 611 says I can't tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide open spacious life. We didn't fence you in, the smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren't small, but you're living them in a small way. I'm speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection open up your lives, live openly and expansively. See God did not save you to tame you nor does he reveal himself as limitless in the stars and the mountains and the oceans to put a limit on you. The story of these three lions in South Africa continued and because he had such excellent lionesses, he was holding the best land and because he was holding the best land, the other lions were attacking him because it's the lionesses that hold the land and the lions come and go and so they were trying to take him out and lions will attack one another based on the width of their mains. I noticed you guys are working on the widths of beards here, but on the width of their mains and this lion had a collar on so he was getting attacked all the time, but the wardens were like, we like him so we're gonna go in there and we're gonna take off his collar so that they stop attacking him. So all these guys put on their tranquilizer guns, get on one of those vehicles with no roofs, no doors, no windows, why do they have those in Africa? It doesn't make any sense to me and I swear you could smell the testosterone through the television. They were going on a lion hunt.  He just kind of looks at it and just keeps walking and it's like swinging on his hip. They're like, wow, he's like super lion. So they shoot him again. He goes down incapacitated, but not unconscious. They were all getting ready to hop off the vehicle when who should appear, but the lioness and she begins to pace back and forth in front of the fallen lion. And I heard the narrator say to get to him, we will have to tranquilize her. And I thought that is what the enemy has been doing since the beginning of time to get to the men. He tranquilizes the women. I know there's some young mamas here that said, I welcome a tranquilizer dart. I would love to take a nap. I'm not talking about resting. I'm talking about being so absorbed and exhausted that you've lost track of what is really going on. She goes down with one dart. They get off the vehicle. They notice she's pregnant. They're doing kind of an exam with her teeth, which just didn't feel smart to me because she was still awake. And the whole time they're checking in on her, the lion is trying to find his feet. And one of the wardens like, I think we need to get out of here. So they all hop on the vehicle. They're going down the road. And I hear one of the wardens say, I'm so glad we're safe because there is nothing more dangerous than being in the presence of lions when they are fully awake. And I thought, are we dangerous and fully awake? Or is the church tranquilized and talking in her sleep? Oh, we're aware of what's going on. But for some reason, we just can't find our feet. You know, this is not the first time that God has invited us to look at nature and learn. Proverbs six, six, this is God, not me talking. You lazy fool, look at an ant, watch it closely, let it teach you a thing or two. Nobody has to tell it what to do. All summer it stores up food at harvest at stockpiles provisions. So how long are you going to laze around doing nothing? How long before you get out of bed? Could it be that God is inviting us? Look at the lions, timid, frightened sons and daughters. Watch them closely and learn. They know who they are.  They know what is their realm of dominion and they honor their creator by honing their skills. I got to go on a safari when I was writing this book and I'm a little random. Every single day, this one mama lioness and her three cubs were coming up on our vehicle and on the last day, they came up on my side. And because I knew so much about lions at this point in time, I felt like since I knew them, they knew me. And she's on my side of the vehicle and I just felt like she had come to say goodbye to me and so I just very slowly reached out of the vehicle with no door, no window, no roof. And I was just getting ready to pet her when I heard my husband say, absolutely not. And ever since then, I've been wondering about the conversation the lioness and I would have had if John would have not interrupted it. She would have turned around and she would have said, Lisa, and I would have said lioness. And then I'd be so excited that I was talking face to face with a lion that I would say to her, you are stunning. And she would sit down and she would say, I know. She would say, do you wanna see what I can do? I'd say show me. She'd release her claws and she'd say with these claws I can take down an impala and feed the entire pride. Then she'd retract those claws and she'd show me paws of velvet. And she'd say with these same paws, I nurture and train up the young male and females to be mighty. In the African culture, if a man is a mighty warrior or hunter, he is called the son of the lioness because the lion's basically just sleep. Then she'd say, do you wanna see what else I can do? And John would interrupt and say, show me sister. She'd bear her teeth.  But with these same teeth, I move the young from one place to another without ever harming them. And then she'd stretch out to take a 20 hour nap. But before she closed her eyes, she would say to me, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. And we have no problem seeing lions as the sum of fear and wonder. But that is not who that scripture is talking about. That scripture is talking about us. Our genesis is fearful, wonder, and yet we are more likely wondering and fearful.  And so I want to pray for you. And I want to put this out here that you need to shake yourself, that you need to wake up. And I'm gonna ask you, who is at risk if you are tranquilized? Is it your husband? Is it your wife? Is it your children? Is it your community? I need you to be dangerous and fully awake. Can you stand to your feet? Alexander the Great said, I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep. I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. I don't know if you understand that's actually who we are. We follow like sheep, but we don't war like sheep. It is time that the church becomes a collection of contradictions, powerful, focused, nurturing, highly skilled, playful, and when necessary, deadly, but not to one another, but to the principalities and powers and rulers of wickedness and high places that would exalt themselves against the knowing of God. We don't wrestle with who we see. We wrestle with an unseen realm. And perilous times give birth to courageous people.  And we will say that we are who you say we are. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I am not afraid of the dark. You put me here to light it. I am ready to be dangerous to the enemy, responsive to people and fully awake to what God is doing in Jesus' name. Now turn to your neighbor real quick and say to them, you are stunning. Okay, there's only one answer to that. And that's, I know, that's I know. Okay, what does it mean to be stunning? What do you think? What does it mean to be stunning? You're doing a blank look on me. I have 57 seconds. What do you think? What does it mean to be stunning? To shine your light. What do you think it means to be stunning? To be brave. Okay, I'm obviously a boy mom. When you set the phasers to stun, you don't make somebody beautiful. When you set the phasers to stun, you arrest their movements. I believe that when the church becomes all that she was created to be, she will arrest the enemy. She will stop him in his tracks. You are stunning has absolutely nothing to do with what you look like. It is about what you are created to do in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Thank you.


Every September, select sailors are ceremoniously awarded their anchors. For some stationed overseas, loved ones miss this moment, but others fly across the world for this special occasion. It's an honor. It feels amazing, and just having my daughter here, she flew in from California last night to be a part of the ceremony, I can't put words to it. This is the proudest moment of my life. I get to have my daughter right along with me. Howdy officer Christina Coffey, Fleet Activities, Salislebo, Japan.


From the discussions of the previous module, we know what a Bayesian game is. This is essentially given by this tuple where you have the players, you have the type sets for each of these players. There is a common prior with which the whole type profile is chosen and for each type profile, lowercase theta, there is a normal form game given by gamma of theta. Now with all this, now we are going to look at what are the different strategies in this game. And we will also see some examples to understand how these strategies are being used. Remember that Bayesian game is a somewhat extension of the normal form game with the thing that it chooses different kinds of normal form games given the type profile. So, the strategy both pure and mixed has the very similar structure, similar definition, just the difference being that now it is a mapping from this type set to the set of actions for pure strategies. So, if you are having a specific type, player i has a specific type, then the strategy corresponding to that type is a specific action in that set. So, this is what we are going to call as the strategy in the Bayesian game setting and it will be written as si of theta i. Similarly, the mixed strategy will be a probability distribution over the same action set ai for that particular theta i. So, sigma i theta i is the mixed strategy when the type of player i is theta i and that is living in the simplex. So, the simplex is nothing but the collection of all probability distributions over the elements of capital ai. Now, we will use the following two terms. Actually, we will be using three terms and that term is essentially is showing that how a player experiences its utility in multiple stages. So, in game theory, typically all these terms of when a player experiences its utility is denoted by this Latin names. So, x ante is somewhat, so, let us say the nature is actually choosing theta of i for player i. That is according to the definition of Bayesian game, this common prior realizes this theta i. Now, before this theta i has realized, player i can take a decision and that decision is called the x ante decision. So, if you are trying to calculate what is the utility, if you are taking an action, all these things are called the x ante utility or x ante action. I am just defining the terminology in this case. So, now that you have realized, so theta i and player i knows what this theta i is, but it does not know what theta minus i is. So, theta minus i not known in that situation, what we call that as x interie. So, interie because you can see your own type, but you do not know other types. There is a third stage after you have realized your theta i, you know your theta i and theta minus i is also known. So, maybe it is at the end of the game when everyone has their types realized and you have also seen everyone's type, then what is, then those situations are those utilities and the actions are called exposed. So, exposed utilities are exposed actions. So, far that we have discussed the kind of situations are actually exposed situations because we are assuming that there is no uncertainty with these types. So, you already know what types of the players other players are. So, in this Bayesian game setting, if you want to look at the classical game setting that we have discussed so far, the classical normal form games, it is an exposed situation where types have been realized and everybody knows it, the type becomes a common knowledge for all these players. Then whatever you can guarantee Nash equilibrium and all those concepts, that those are exposed. So, we have already discussed this. So, here we will be interested only in this x-interim and the x-ante situations. So, what is an x-ante utility? So, this is remember that it is the expected utility for a specific player even before observing its own type, it does not know what its own theta i is. Therefore, it will have to take an expectation with respect to this common prior. So, it does not know what realization theta i has happened of theta i has happened, but it certainly knows what is the probability with which it can be picked. So, it actually knows the common prior that is a common knowledge. So, therefore, it can look at the utility the mixed strategy for all the players. So, theta sigma of theta is nothing but a shorthand notation of sigma i theta i. So, sigma 1 theta 1 let us say sigma 2 theta 2 and so on sigma m theta n. This whole vector we have used this shorthand to denote that. And of course, this is at a specific theta. So, the type profile is given by the theta. Now, the player does not know it. In fact, player 1 does not know any component of it deterministically. It can only take an expectation with respect to that. So, the utility of player i when it is expected over that p theta and that is given by this ui of sigma. So, this is the anti-utility of that player. And if you want to expand that out, this is just doing the same thing. So, this is the product because all these decisions, all these actions were taken independently by each of these players. This will come out as a product. You take the corresponding utility for those actions and that type profile. You first take the summation over all the actions and then you also take the expectation with respect to the thetas because the thetas has not realized yet. So, this is the x anti-utility for player i. Now, the once you are in the x-interim state that is you have observed your own type, but you have not observed other types, what you can do because you have a common prior, you can somewhat guess what the other player's types could be. In some sense, we can compute this posterior distribution according to the Bayes rule which says that what is the probability that the other players are going to choose theta minus i given my own type is theta i which is deterministically known to me. Now, here you can see that in order to define this posterior, we need that the denominator is positive and that is the reason why we needed the positive marginal assumption to be very crucial. Now, the x-interim utility is very simple to define. Now, the difference is that player i knows its own type. Therefore, it can take the posterior distribution, it can take the expectation with respect to that posterior distribution of all the other player's types. So, here at least one component is now known, the other components unknown and therefore it is taking the expectation with respect to that. So, the left hand side is essentially the x-interim utility just to make sure that this utility, the left hand side is nothing but ui of sigma i theta i because this is deterministically known. For all the other players, so it is sigma minus i theta minus i, it is actually not a it is not a function of theta minus i because it has been already expected over. So, it is definitely a function of theta i because that is that is perfectly known to player i. So, at some point later we will use this fact that it is it is a it is a function of theta i and that theta i is deterministically known to player i. So, this is the left hand side here. So, now let us look at the relationship between these two utilities. So, of course, the x-interim state is giving more information to this player. So, if you take the expectation with respect to p of theta i for player i over the, so this term inside is nothing but the x-interim utility. Take the expectation with respect to p theta i what you will get is the x-ante utility. Let us look at a few examples to understand what this means. So, suppose we have the first example is that you have two players who are bargaining over a cell of a single indivisible item. Let us see what trying to buy an item and there is one player who is a seller. Its type is given by the price at which this player is willing to sell. So, let us say that price is the minimum price below which it would not be able to sell is something like the cost price or the purchase price. The other one is the other player is the buyer. Its type is the maximum price at which it is willing to buy. If the seller asks for a larger price, then the buyer would not be able to buy it. So, for simplicity, let us assume that the type of all these players, so type set for both these players is a set of integers from 1 to 100. And similarly, their action sets are also the same set which we are going to call their bids. So, they can have a specific type. So, their type, so as we said the type is the price. So, for seller it is the maximum minimum price at which it can sell, for buyer it is the maximum price at which it can buy and they can actually report this, but reported bids could be something different. And we know that this is from experience that if the bid of the seller is smaller than or equal to that of the buyer, then the trade will happen at a price and let us assume that the trade happens at the price average of these two bids. Let us say the seller is saying, I am happy to get the, happy to sell this object at any price greater than equal to 10. And the buyer says that I am willing to buy it at any price less than or equal to 20, 20 rupees, then the trade will happen at 15 rupees, that is the assumption here. If the other thing happens if the seller says I would not sell it below 25 rupees and the buyer says what it was saying 20 rupees and less, then the trade will not happen that we know. So, suppose the type generation in this case is independent and uniform over theta 1 and theta 2. So, it means that if you are looking at the probability distribution of theta 2 given theta i, it is just the unconditional probability theta 2 which is 1 over 100 because there are 100 such entries here and it is picked uniformly at random. Similarly, for P of theta 1, it is 1 over 100. Now the utility, you can see it very clearly. If player 1 is choosing the action A1 and player 2 is choosing this action A2, then the trade will happen only if assuming that the second player is the buyer and the first player is the seller, the trade will only happen if A2 is greater than or equal to A1. Otherwise, the trade will not happen and both these agents will get zero utility. So, for player 1 who is the seller, theta 1 is its cost price and the item is getting sold at this price which is the average of these two numbers. The difference is essentially its utility. Similarly, for the buyer, theta 2 is the value that it gets whenever it purchases that item and it purchases it at this price so that this difference is the native utility for that player. And in this case, the common prior is given by, so this theta 1, theta 2 is nothing but the marginal. So, it is a product of the marginals P theta 1, theta 2 because we have assumed this to be independent and that is 1 by 10000. So, let us look at the second example here. The second example is that of a sealed grid auction. So, the setting is almost similar. There are two players and they are both willing to buy an object. Now, this is not a seller and both of these players are essentially buyers and there is some auction going on. There is an auctioneer who is selling this object. It is not a player. This auctioneer is not part of the game. So, these two players can report, I mean they have their values and their bids which is living in this interval 0 to 1. So, you can normalize the whole space and say that they can pick any real number between 0 and 1 as their values and their bids are also the same. Now, the allocation function is such that, so here is the deal. So, this is saying that the first player is going to be the winner if its bid is at least as much as the second player's bid. So, this is the case where the tie is broken in favor of player 1. So, this O of 1 is nothing but the winner function. So, the indicator function that player 1 is going to be the winner. It becomes a winner if b1 is greater than equal to b2 otherwise it loses. If it loses then player 2 becomes the winner. Now, you can think of the beliefs, the patient belief in this case is coming from the common prior distribution where it is uniform over all theta 1, theta 2. So, theta 1, theta 2 is living in this two-dimensional square 0, 1 square and that is giving rise to this posterior distribution of theta 2 given theta 1 and similarly for theta 1 given theta 2. The utility is essentially given by this expression. So, player 1 is choosing the bid of b1, player 2 is choosing b2 and if their types are such then if a player wins. So, here is the assumption that if a player wins then it gets that item but it pays its own bid. So, let us say winner pays its bid in that case whatever it has bid bi is going to be the exactly the payment and it values that item as theta i. So, this difference is the net utility when it wins and this is just the indicator function that it wins or not. If it wins then it gets this otherwise it gets 0. So, in some in the literature we will see that this kind of an auction where you are paying your own bid is known as the first price auction, first price still bid auction. We will analyze this game much in further detail later, later in the next module and also later in the course but this is what the game is and here is the Bayesian game representation of that first price auction.


Your turn. It feels good actually. Actually, it smells good. Hi, welcome to the Produce Made Simple Kitchen. We're your go-to resource for all things fruits and veg. I'm Fallin. And I'm Nicole. And we're here today to do DIY face masks. Avocados are well-known for healthy fats, but did you know they may also benefit your skin? When you're going shopping for this recipe, you want to try to find an avocado that's ripe. Otherwise, it'll be really too hard to mush. So there are two types of avocados available in the market. The one that we're using here is a Haas avocado. And you'll know that it's ripe because it gets darker in color and also is softer. That's the sort of creamy avocado that we're quite used to these days. You're looking for one that's darker. And what you need to do is sort of put a little bit of pressure, gentle pressure with your thumb, just to see if it yields slightly. Please don't squeeze them too hard because they're pretty fragile and will bruise. And the one that isn't ripe will be green and very firm. You'll also find in this variety, when you pop up the stem, it pops up very easily. We all have different skin types. I have more oily skin. I tend to be a little bit more dry. So today we're doing two face masks that cater to both of those types. If you have dry skin like me, try this DIY face mask. Mash half of an avocado with about two tablespoons of plain yogurt. Then add in about a teaspoon of honey. Mix well. This is for an oily complexion. Mash half an avocado and half of a banana together. Add one egg yolk and mix well. Now the fun starts. When applying the face masks, make sure both your face and hands are clean.  We'll just try to go for it. Okay. So you're going to have to tell me if I missed some spots. And we leave these on for about 10 to 15 minutes. So totally could do this on a weeknight. I'm feeling fresh already. Oh yeah. The color is actually fantastic. This will bring my eye with the green in my eyes. It does. So what you need really is maybe a glass of wine with some friends. Yeah. It's a messy thing so make sure you're not wearing anything you love. Although it's all natural so I'll show you. It smells great. I know. Mine smells good too. Actually it smells like bananas. That's all I smell. To find the full recipe, check out the link below or up in the corner. Please like, comment, and subscribe for more Produce Made Simple. Thanks for watching. Welcome to the Produce Made Simple Kitchen. We are your resource for everything go-to for 10 bucks. We are your go-to resource. Go-to. Why am I? We all have different skin types. I have a bit oily of skin. Mine's totally drier. Drier? Yeah. For the full recipe, check out the link below or in the corner. Thanks for watching.


So I am issuing a challenge in my Soul Gym content creation program where I've asked them two questions and I'll ask you the same two questions and the same questions to myself, which is one, what did you learn about your own content creation process this year? Or what did you learn about your own creativity, the way that you generate ideas and put them online? What did you learn this year from all that? And I would actually enjoy seeing your insights, your lessons, your experiences below if you'd like to make a comment and I'll share mine as well. The second question is, what would you like your content creation process to be for 2024, next year, whenever you're watching this? All right, so my group members are writing this themselves right now so I'm gonna share with you what my lessons are. So I've been doing content creation since 2014, very consistently in 2000, yeah, so since then. And so I've learned so much and I've written a couple of books about content creation. Well, one book, two different editions of it. I've written so many blog posts, recorded so many videos. So I feel like I've already taught and talked about so many of my lessons in regards to this, but this year was the year of AI, of course, regards to content creation. And I, right now, AI is still early days. I'll talk about things that are not AI related as well. I've learned something about myself, but AI is still early days and, you know, but still I have been able to take some of the, you know, partner with AI to create some content. Like, for example, I make videos and then I take the transcript of the videos and I put it into an AI chat bot to write the blog posts and then I kind of clean it up. And I've done that now for several blog posts and most of my audience, none of my audience has noticed or at least told me, hey, I noticed this is AI generated mostly. And so AI is only gonna get better in the coming years. And I think more of us are gonna partner with it. So I noticed that being open to my writing, my blog posts not being perfect in writing allows me to then save a lot of time in partnering with AI to do more writing than I was able to do before, or at least in a quicker way than I could before. Right now, however, AI is still not very good at, well, generating video that is realistic. So I still obviously much prefer to be on video. And I think that human beings, this is where we still shine the most with video, with writing, AI is taking over so much of it now and going to be even more so. But with video, it's a little harder. The nuances of the face, of their expressions, of our imperfect face and our imperfect expressions and the way that our voice comes out and sort of the scratches of it. I mean, all of it is still really hard for AI to emulate in a way that looks human to us. And so I think for at least a couple of years, it's still going to be, the most human expression is still going to be video. And even audio is starting to be taken over by AI, sounds so real now. But I think video, especially live video, especially unedited video is going to be, and I've, of course, I've always done video for the last couple of years, but I'm going to lean more into that in 2024. In fact, my 2024 content goal is going to be practicing making short videos and to do it as humanly, as human as I can on those short videos.  AI is going to take that over before long also. So that's my 2024 goal, is short, very human videos. And this actually brings me back to a 2023 lesson I want to share with you, which is to not be afraid to be, well, like I said, I don't want to reiterate this point, to not be afraid to be as human as possible in my videos. And what do I mean by that? Is to not be afraid to be bold, to make mistakes, to pause, even though I know I just, my pause is just now, I just lost most of the viewers. Actually, I'm doing this live to like all of you, oh, it's boring and, but it's okay because I want to remind you again, and this year I was reminded again of the importance of energy signature, the true fans, your true fans resonate with something deeper about you than the entertainment value you can bring with not pausing, or I'm talking to myself by the way too, with not pausing, you know, and with not being funny enough or not being entertaining enough in whatever way. And it's like if we are willing to be bold on video and really display our energy signature, which just simply means being ourselves as much as humanly possible to be ourselves without fear of rejection, without fear of boring the other person, but really genuinely express our soul's voice as much as possible, well, I think that is really how we develop a true fan audience. And so, I've noticed this year, when I've been willing to be vulnerable, you know, to be truly vulnerable on video, and to, and sometimes to be really passionate and really to express that passion in a very, you know, sometimes I'm angry, sometimes I'm really, yeah, really like energized about a topic and to be really willing to share that energy on video. Not only does my audience not mind, I felt more alive and I think it makes, it helps my audience feel more alive as well. So again, back to the questions that I welcome you to, chat below, comment below if you like. What have you learned about yourself in creating content this year? What has been your content creation lessons this year? You might need to think about that, but I'd love for you to chat below whenever you would like to. And secondly, what is your goal for content creation in 2024? And so I've shared with you in this video now and I look forward to seeing your comments. Let me think about if there's anything else from 2023. Yes, okay, one more thing I'll say is this. I noticed in 2023, for whatever reason, my social media algorithm has, my visibility on social media has not gone up as fast as I'd like, which is, you know, now the question is, this typically discourages creators, like for example, my Facebook business page, actually my visibility has gone down this year, whatever the algorithm is doing, okay? It's gone down this year, my content has not changed. That might be a problem. You know, I haven't maybe kept up with the times or whatever. But like I said earlier, I think the energy signature means that my true fans stay. And but what I learned about myself and is that if I can bring curiosity to that fact, oh, that thing went down this year. Or, oh, this thing hasn't gone up as much as I like. If I simply bring curiosity to it and keep creating, rather than allowing myself to wallow in self doubt or discouragement or whatever it may be, it keeps me coming back and it keeps me experimenting, especially with my energy signature. If I can keep on boldly expressing that for the sake of my own growth and also for the sake of connecting to my truest fans, then I will keep coming back and I will keep creating and whatever the algorithm is gonna do, the algorithm will just keep going up and down over time. I'm not going to play to the algorithm. And that's the important part because the more I play to the algorithm, the more I lose the grounding within my own energy signature. And so that's one of the lessons that I learned this year that I'm going to lean into next year as well. Being more human in the age of AI, even though I'm a big fan of AI, as you might know, I'm a big fan of it. I partner with it to do certain things. But when it comes to content creation, we need to use both strengths. We need to use what AI is good for, brainstorming, editing, that kind of thing, getting us unstuck in certain areas. But what humans are good for is to lean ever more into our energy signature and to be even more bold in doing so. And that's what I'm working on in 2024 for myself. I hope you'll work on that for yourself as well. So I hope this is helpful in some way. As I said, I look forward to seeing what you wanna share with regards to your own learnings and get below if you like. And thank you so much for watching and being here.


Showers of blessings, let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you so much for this time, Lord, to look how you shower our lives with blessings. And Father, I just thank you so much for each gal that's here tonight. And Lord, we just ask you that you would touch our hearts, Father, in your precious name, amen. I wanna thank Marie for inviting me out tonight. Your church is just lovely and it's such a blessing to be talking about the showers of blessing that God has in each and of our lives, but what do showers do? So here's some facts. All right, the first one is they're incredibly soothing and relaxing and the sound itself distresses you. People buy shower heads to feel like the rain's falling on them. Rainwater has the same pH as a distilled water. It helps neutralize our blood pH levels and promotes better stomach function. So any of you dealing with gluten-free indigestion, I suggest you put your bathing suit on and run out in the rain next time it rains. It says it's good for your stomach. Number three, it maintains beautiful skin naturally. It has moisture and electricity and your hair will be more moisture and cared for than any conditioner you can get. And also it cools your body down and it treats rashes. Did you know that? I'm sure they do in lots of places where it rains all the time. Also it releases happy hormones, okay? Just like whatever his name was, was up there singing. Happy hormones, it makes you feel happy inside, okay? And endorphins and serotonin and all those things that make you joyous, that's what the rain does. What does it do for the planet? Well, first of all, the rain, of course, increases growth. The rain does what irrigation cannot by reaching every little place in crevice. It has nutrients from the air and it deep waters everywhere it hits. It humidifies the air, it brings down the temperature in the heat and the showers redistribute fresh water in the clear cycle of the planet. That is showers. That's what they do. But you know what? The Lord has something else he wants to talk to us about tonight and I'm gonna be reading Ezekiel. This is your theme verse. Ezekiel 34, verse 26. It says, I will make them places all around my hill of blessing and I will cause showers to come down in their season and there will be a season showers of blessing. Blessing, that word means in itself, favor a gift bestowed by God. In James chapter 117, it says every good and perfect gift comes down from the father of lights with whom there is no veribleness nor is there ever a shadow of turning. The difference between not enough in your life and more than enough in your life is your attitude. And that's something to really think about tonight.  My life looks nothing like that.  How many show, have ever felt like that something happened to you that was not fair? Can I see you raise your hand? And if you're not raising your hand, you need to be my friend and rub off on me, okay? So we pretty much can all agree that injustice has happened because we live in a falling world. Psalms 23 verses one through four, it says, Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lay down in green pastures. He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul. Cause sometimes ladies, we need our soul restored. He leads me in the path of righteousness for his name's sake. Yay, though I walk through the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Many times when we're talking about the showers of blessing, many times you don't feel very blessed. And I would venture to say that tonight, there's several of you that don't feel so blessed. In fact, you might substitute that word blessed for cursed. You'd feel like that it's just been one thing after another in your life and you've missed the showers of blessings, but boy, if there's some disheartening things that can happen that's happened in your life. But I wanna talk to you because maybe the reason that you don't feel so blessed is maybe you have gotten the main blessing, which is Jesus. Jesus is your main blessing for all eternity and enough for this world both, no matter what happens to you at any stage of your life. The joy of salvation, it says Psalms 51, verse 12, return to me the joy of my salvation.  And everything else is fluff and we like fluff. But if you really think about it, we had lots of fluff out there tonight, didn't we? Did you see me out there shopping? It's like, oh, this is wonderful, Jesus shopping. Oh, this is just good. Okay, but we all like the more, but ladies, I wanna remind you tonight if nothing else ever happens good in your life, you have the joy of salvation no one can take from you. And that is your shower of blessing and that will lead you and guide you all through life through the good and through the bad.  If you're feeling a little sad, kind of in bad mood, kind of got bad attitude. Six ways, okay, just that simple. Six ways to restore your joy. First of all, worship. Turn on worship music. Be alone with your maker. Worship him. Forgive. Nothing will make and zap your joy more than when you don't forgive somebody because it's not that you have to forgive just for yourself and for their benefit, but if you don't forgive, that's gonna affect all of your life in bitterness and cynical. We live in a bitter and cynical world. And if you traced back a lot of that, it would go back to an incident that happened to them where they can't or won't forgive. The next one is thankfulness. You're all looking at me tonight. Thank God for your eyesight. Thank the Lord that you could walk in here, that each one of you, thank the Lord right now for all of your blessings, the joy of your salvation, that you don't have to worry about where you're gonna go, how you're gonna die, God is gonna take care of it. You will never die before your time. And walk that out daily going, I am safe in your arms. We have a world today speaking fear, fear, fear. Your days are in God's hands and no one else's. Yes, and when my husband passed away, he had cancer and when he passed away and I watched him pass away, there was not one thing I could do to give him another breath. The Lord took him. Nobody will take your life before you're meant to go. So many times I looked with the Lord and I said, you took him too young. We were married 31 years and you took him too young. He never got to really be with his grandchildren or see any of that. You took him too young and the Lord whispered in my heart, in my mind and he said, that's all he had.   Ways to restore your joy, let's start being kind again and compassionate. Another way is to relinquish your picture of your perfect life. No one leads a perfect life. We've made up those images in our mind. We are the ones that have said, this is how my life is gonna go. This is what it should look like. But you know what, ladies? We need to relinquish that and let God do what he wants to with our lives. And another way to restore your joy is to surrender to his will. Not my will, but what do you want from me, Lord? What can I do for you, Lord?  And if there's ever a time that you need security, it is now when we're watching the world blow up. How can you still walk around with a smile on your face and be at peace?  I love this. It says, grace is when God gives us good things we don't deserve. Mercy is when he spares us from bad things we deserve and blessings are when he's generous with both. Yes, please, generous with both. Thank you, Lord, for doing that for me. And so now we're gonna read just a little bit. If you wanna turn with me, I don't know if you brought your Bibles or not, but if you don't have your Bibles, that's okay. But I'm gonna be in Ezekiel, chapter 34, verse 23. And it says here in verse 23, it says, I will establish one shepherd over them and he shall feed them. My servant David, he shall feed them and he will be their shepherd. Now we know that King David, and lots of you are here at the church and you've studied about King David, that Jesus came through that line and lineage through that. And God's gonna establish also, bring him, bring Jesus through that, a king that will never fail. And it says here, verse 24, I am the Lord, I will be their God. My servant David, a prince amongst them and I have spoken this. You know, other leaders fail and we're watching the failure of many leaders and if you studied the life of King David, he failed. He had a lot of things going on in his life that were really to be concerning, but he was always sorry and came back to the Lord. You've not sinned enough girls that God does not still love you tonight. He still loves you tonight, no matter what you've done. And the Lord declares here, I will be their shepherd is what God's saying in verse 24. I will be their shepherd. David was a prince with a small P. We have the King of kings and the Lord of lords and the Lord Jesus Christ and he deliberately lays down his life for his sheep. And that says that in John chapter 10, verse 11, he deliberately laid down his life for you to have eternal life. It wasn't just the Jewish culture that came and killed him and the Romans and all that. It was because he deliberately knew that was the only way you and I could go to heaven because we can't work our way there. Now, if that doesn't put a smile on your face, I don't know what it's going to. You can't earn your way to heaven. Can I get it, amen? Some churches say so be it, try so be it. Okay, you don't have to work your way to heaven. It was a gift that the Lord has given you and that should make you joyous in your heart. I could never knock on enough doors or hand out enough pamphlets or do enough good deeds to ever suppress the joy that God has given me freely. And he said that all I had to do was believe. And then it says here, you know, Israel was going through a hard time back then because, you know, it was bleak. They are in a trial. Has anybody ever been in a trial that looks pretty bleak? It was a bleak situation, get it? Bleak, it was bleak for the sheep, bleak for the sheep. Yeah, yeah, it was bleak for the sheep. Okay, it was bad. And they were in there and they were having all these, these things, issue was happening, harvest was poor, the land was dry, gas was over $6 a gallon. How am I ever going to feed my Rolls Royce? I don't know. How is this ever gonna happen? What about my fluff? I need my fluff. I like my fluff, it likes me, okay? And so here we see that we're going to have to divide between our joy and our fluff because the fluff comes and goes and goes out of style and then we get tired of it and then we do something else. The joy, the unspeakable, unmeasurable joy that you ladies have tonight if you are a believer in Jesus Christ is for eternity.   So be it. Okay, so let's read on here and it says I verse 25, I'll make a covenant of peace with them and I will cause wild beasts to cease from the land and they will do all safely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. He is our God and he claims us for his own and he's all sufficient but now it's saying I'm gonna give her peace no matter what. When she's around ravenous animals, I'm gonna give her peace. Well, let me tell you about my trip to Africa with a ravenous animal.  I have a work over there that my friend and I do and it's in Malawi, Africa. We have an orphanage and a school. We have about 180 children. And so when we go over there, lots of times we'll go on a safari afterwards as we're getting ready to leave. Well, my friend got car sickness and she looks over at my husband and she's there all the time. I'm just the one that kind of goes with her and raises all the money but she's the one that kind of is the boots on the ground. So I go with her. She goes, I'm really sick. She goes to my husband, Gerald. Could you drive? What? I'm sick. So he gets up there, of course, the steering wheel's on the wrong side of the road, you know. Excuse me. So as we're driving, she passes out. She was the one where she was going. We have no GPS. We arrive on the, we go ahead and we arrive at the place. Excuse me, I'm gonna take a cough drop right now. As we're there, we don't know whether we turn left or right. So, my husband, we woke her up. Do we turn left or right? She goes, right. Excuse me, we've never been there. So we turn right. Okay. We got lost. Oh yeah, in Africa. And, excuse me. Pray for me. Oh no, I'm coughing. But as we're there, we are lost. Lion, tigers and giraffes. Oh my, that's what I was living. My husband doesn't know where we are. She wakes up. She said, please stop driving the car. We're lost. We're seeing animals. We're seeing zebras. Everything you can think of, like hypox, monkeys. And she looks over and she goes, I can't ride in this car any longer. Just let me out. And I wanna die.  It's like just make it stop moving. Well, long story short, we had the best safari we've ever had because we had seen things that people had never seen for hours and hours. And then I start to panic a little bit. Like, what if we run out of gas? We're gonna be eaten, it says here in Psalms chapter 104, verse 19. He appointed the moon in the seasons. The sun going down. He makes the darkness night in which the beets and the forest creep about. Young lions roar for their prey. And in their food, their food comes from God. And then when the sun rises, they gather together. And I was thinking, am I the lion's food? Is this, I mean, come on. Is this what's happened to us? Will God ever leave you into danger? Can you raise your hand if you think he would lead you to danger? Okay, there's how many two? Yes, he will. But he will never leave you, nor forsake you. He can protect you. He keeps you from your spiritual enemies. Oh yeah, how do you think missionaries go to the forward field? My husband's looking at going right now over to the Ukraine near the border where Poland. Danger, but no matter what happens, the Lord will be with him and the Lord will be with you. He will lead you many times into danger. I have been left into danger and that's why I can say to you girls clearly that you will not be taken before your time. You will live. Though 1,000 fall on your side and 10,000 on your left hand, you will live. No one takes your life but God. Isn't that just reassuring tonight when bombs are going off and COVID's raging and all this stuff? Your life is in God's hands.  Keep your mind, your mind on the Lord Jesus Christ and he'll keep you in perfect peace in the midst of a very turbulent storm in life. He'll keep you in perfect peace when people are look at you and going, how can you be so joyful because the joy of the Lord is your salvation? The rest is just, have it all tonight. If you love the Lord Jesus, girls, you have it all tonight. And it says here, I will make them places all around in verse 26. My hill of blessing and I will cause showers to come down in their season and there will be showers of blessing. Israel depended on the early and latter rain. It was in Israel many times and every time we get a bus driver and it starts raining, it goes, the blessing's coming. The blessing's coming. They look at, at any time a drop of rain comes down, they say a blessing's coming. God will take care of you. He will take care of everything that you need as long as you don't take it into your own hands. When we go to Africa, like I said, we have a, we have about a hundred acres that we have close to 40 employees. And we like to do special things for them. So for Christmas, when here, we decided, Tracy said the best thing we can give our employees is a goat. They love goat meat, okay? And we'll allow Africa, it's like our cow to them. All right? There's no waste with it, they love it. If you ask them if they wanna go out and they have dinner, what they could have, they'll goat, we wanna goat. And so we decided that we would give all of our employees a goat. Sam was one of our employees. He was a great guy and he loved the Lord, he loved us, we thought. And so one day the goats arrive and they come into our village, and they've had that long trip coming into our village which is just like Mr. Toad's wild ride where it's like Indiana Jones, you know? They take that ride off of places like Malawi, Africa where there's no concrete, there's no road, you just go back and forth. Well, these goats had had that ride coming probably 12 miles just on Bumpy Road to get to where our village is. And so out come all the goats and out come our employees. And they're just going, oh my gosh, we got our own goat and they're so excited. Sam's over here and he's getting kinda weird. And he's gonna kinda take things into his own hands. And so we were gonna hand out the goats in the morning. Well, Sam wasn't sure that he wasn't gonna get a good goat. So Sam crept in in the middle of the night, I kid you not, and Sam painted his goat red. He did, he painted his goat red. Imagine my friend when she came out in the morning and she sees all these goats and there's bright red paint all over this one goat. Sam didn't want no skinny goat. Sam was concerned that he was gonna get jipped on his fluff. Sam was going, you know what?  I wanna make sure I get the kind of goat I want. And you know what really hurt our feelings? Was that Sam didn't trust Tracy, my friend or me to send the funds that we pick him out a good goat. See what Sam didn't know is he was one of our very best employees. And so the next day, the very next day, we had a special goat coming for Sam and it was a big goat, a mature goat, lots and lots of meat. But Sam was so worried he wouldn't get his fluff. Fair haunts us when we thank God for goddess. He thought deep down they're gonna forget me.   And so desperate in Malawi, Africa, painted his goat red.  You will have it, it will be yours. Because when fear haunts us because you forgot, you think God forgot you. So you have to make it work for yourself. And what he didn't realize is just one more day, his goat was better than all the other goats. But he took matters into his own hands. And do you know what that caused me and Tracy to feel sad? Because he didn't trust us to be a good employer. He had to work out for himself. And some of you girls tonight, you're dealing with that. You can't really trust God to let you get hurt so bad.  God is gonna work it out for you. So many times, people when they're hurting so very bad, they give up. Because they have that haunting feeling, God forgot them. And I wanna tell you tonight, I don't know who I'm speaking to, but I think there's quite a few of you. I'm here to remind you he has not forgotten you. Do not take matters into your own hands. Do not worry so much about your fluff because you have joy unspeakable and full of glory. I will bring out seasons of showers and blessings upon them. And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit and the earth shall have her increase. They shall be safe in their land and they shall know that I am the Lord their God. I have broken the bands of yoke off them and delivered them from the hands of those that have slayed them. In Matthew chapter 11, verse 28, this is what Jesus says to you.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and I am meek. I am humble is what it says in the Hebrew. I will give you rest for your souls. Have a picture here. It says here in verse 27, you got the picture up yet. It says they will be safe in their land and they will know that I am their Lord when I have broken the bands of their yoke to be delivered. Ladies over here, do you see the one right there? That yoke upon those oxen is poking them. It's uncomfortable to them. It's chafing them and they're miserable.  You, because we're worried about so many things and your God doesn't want you to be worried. Like it said here in Matthew, his burden is easy. Do you see the other one?  Tonight, don't forget how precious he is to you. And Deuteronomy it says here, I'll just read it to you real fast because it's such a beautiful verse. It says here, all these blessings will come upon you and they will overtake you because you have obeyed the voice of your God. Let his blessings overtake you. We were gonna give something to Sam so much better than what Sam had planned for himself. No skinny goat for Sam. But see ladies, when you don't trust your employer, when you don't trust your maker, it just turns out to be a big mess. Says here in Psalms 103 verse two to five, forget not all his benefits. Let your soul tonight pant after the Lord. Do not be distraught. Your private time with the Lord is the most important thing you can do in your whole entire life and bring that before the Lord. He wants to hear from you. Last two weeks ago, a guy came into our church and we didn't recognize him but a lot of people came up to greet him. And so we're kind of watching him, it was a Sunday night service and there was worship going on and afterwards he came up and talked with the pastor and he looked at pastor BJ and he said, the minute I walked into this room and the minute I heard the keyboard start, accord whatever darkness there was in me, flee. And do you know what he said then? I'm so glad I didn't heal myself today. Ladies, this is your time to shine.   But maybe right now, you're looking at me and you're just going, I don't really know for sure what you're talking about but it sure feels good to my heart. And if that's you, I'd ask us all just to bow our heads right now, no one's looking around. But tonight, if you're burdened, you're like the oxen over there where the yoke does not fit.  You're just dealing with a lot of heartache and drama. And you want to accept Jesus as your savior. I just ask you right now to very quietly just slip up your hand and nobody's watching. That you've been painting your goat red and you're tired of it. All over this room, hands are up. No one's looking around. Keep your hands up. It's not from my benefit, you're raising your hands. It's for your benefit because why you're raising your hands, you're reaching back out to your creator. Ladies, we're all gonna say our prayer and we're gonna all say it together and help our saints. There's so many of them in this room accepting Jesus tonight. Let's just go ahead and repeat this and welcome them into the family. Repeat after me. Dear Lord, everybody say it. Thank you so much for your saving grace for my life. I do believe what you did on the cross. I do believe that you rose from the dead. And I ask you to come into my heart. Take up residency in my heart. I'm tired of seeking my own. Return to me the joy of my salvation. Thank you for my home in heaven. And from this moment on, my life is yours.  Surpasses marriage, kids, careers.  You've accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior. Do you know what else? You live close to a nice church like this, Calvary Chapel. I know the pastor's wife, Marie, and she loves Jesus. And I know Connie and she loves Jesus. This is where you need to grow. Come back, get to know your maker. And girls, tomorrow when you go to work or you go about your day and with you with your children, smile. Your days are in your God's hands and nothing will take it from you. Years ago, there was a song. It was a hymn. There shall be showers of blessings. This is the promise of love. There shall be seasons of refreshing sent from the Savior above. Showers of blessing. Showers of blessing I need. Mercy drops round us or falling. And just think about that.  God's mercy and His love.  Mercy drops are falling. We're gonna have a time of prayer. There's gonna be ladies up here in the front to lead you in a prayer.  But I just wanna tell you right now, welcome to the family of God. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we do thank you for this time, Lord. Lord, so many times in our lives, we are frightened by the beasts that come against us, Lord Jesus. They might not be ravenous lions, but Lord, we feel them in our heart, that threat. And you said in the midst of it, you'll give us peace. And not only peace, we can sleep. And Lord, there's so many tonight that can't sleep. For the lack of their trust in you, Lord, and the hurt that they've been through, would you just, Father, give them your total peace tonight, whoever they are. And Father, we trust you for the very best for our lives. You have more in store for us than we ever dream possible. And we thank you so much for your word of encouragement tonight, and love tonight, and salvation tonight. And Lord, I pray that each woman here, Father, fills that embrace from you right now in your precious and holy name. Amen. God bless you, ladies. Amen.


Swami Vivekananda's birthday, observed as the National Youth Day, is being celebrated in Belur Mat. The Honourable Prime Minister will participate in the celebrations. He will address the gathering of the youth members of the audience. The Prime Minister will address the audience which comprises students of various institutions, schools, colleges who have come to participate in the day-long celebration of the 36th Youth Day on the desk to the left of the Prime Minister, we can see, Swami Suvir Anandaji Maharaj, the General Secretary of the Ramakrishna Mission and Ramakrishna Mutt, to his right is Swami Divya Anandaji Maharaj, the Secretary of Ramakrishna Mission Saradapeet and one of the members of the Board of Trustees of the Ramakrishna Mutt. The students of various institutions, schools and colleges have gathered to participate in the Youth Day, the Prime Minister is being felicitated, the General Secretary of the Ramakrishna Mutt and Ramakrishna Mission felicitates the Honourable Prime Minister. The gathering of youth, the 36th National Youth Day being celebrated at Belur Mutt starts with Vedic chanting. Namastri Yatira Jaya Vivekananda Suraya Satchi Sukha Sarupaya Swamine Tapohari Ne. Very respected and Honourable Prime Minister of India, Sri Narendra Modiji, very venerable monks sitting here among the audience, their sisters and brothers from different schools and colleges. Before I embark on the main part of my welcome address, I feel tempted to share an incident, very important, exciting incident which I am absolutely sure you will like to hear. This is this. It was, if my information goes right, we have heard from the venerable seniors of our order. It was early 60s of 1900. A young boy came to Belur Mutt with the aspiration to embrace monastic life. And later on, stalwarts like Swami Madhavadandaji and others advised him to wait for a while to become slightly adult and also maybe more mature in age. Anyway, then he came in contact with another illustrious Swami of our order, Swami Atmasthanandaji, who was the head of our centre in Rajkot Gujarat. And it was, if my information goes right, if I am wrong, I stand corrected. It was Swami Atmasthanandaji who inspired him to work for the country, to dedicate the life of the country. And that young boy who came in early 60s of 1900 to Belur Mutt to become a monk of Ramakrishna order is the very respected, one of the best Prime Ministers of our country, Eva Pradhyost. He is Srinorendra Modiji and it's a proud privilege for me in particular and all our people, monks and otherwise, who are associated with the Ramakrishna Vivekananda movement directly or indirectly, to welcome such great personality today, especially when we are observing the anniversary of great Swami Vivekananda. I offer my salutation at the feet of the general of the Malaysia, of which I am a humble soldier, Swami Vivekananda Maharaj. I consider it a proud privilege to stand before you all to today's birthday celebration of the Prophet of modern India, Swami Vivekananda, on this holy Belur Mutt crown. This day, as you all know, is celebrated as a national youth day. We are very fortunate to have our respected Prime Minister of India, a very popular and dynamic leader, Srinorendra Modiji. Amidst us for this program, we never imagined that Modiji will take part in this program, but it appears it was the wish of Swami Vivekananda himself that it should be so. So the destiny arranged the circumstances in such a way that Modiji has kindly joined us in this program this morning. I extend him a very, very warm welcome on behalf of Belur Mutt and also on behalf of the thousands of students assembled here today. We are grateful for his magnanimous, great and very tall presence. Great men like Swami Vivekananda come with a mission and a message. Swamiji had a two-fold mission, a mission in India and a mission in the West. To understand what Swamiji has done for India, we have to understand the situation that prevailed in India in the 19th century. The very idea of India as one unified nation with a distinct national profile owes much to Swamiji Maharaj. Swamiji has contributed something significant in every field of national life, in the political field, in the social field, in the economic field, in the cultural field, in the spiritual field too. It's necessary for us, especially for the youth of our country, to understand what Swamiji has done for all of us. Social conditions in India now are vastly different, different from what prevailed during Swamiji's time. Although we still have problems of poverty, lack of education and health care in some pockets of the country, India is now rising, India is now rising to affluence and is going to an economic superpower in the world. But mere economic growth without moral and spiritual growth can lead to an increase in various problems in social life and in individual lives. This is where the life and message of Swami Vivekananda assumes great importance. Swamiji's message has a very important role to play in directing the youth power in modern India along creative, progressive, universally beneficial channels. With India's rise as a global power, countless opportunities are open to present views to attain success, wealth and enjoyment. This is the time when the need for moral and spiritual orientation. Swamiji's teachings provide infallible guidance and perennial inspiration to students and youths. Education has now become the primary ascent, driving economy and social transformation. Swamiji's views on man-making education, which aims at the development of inherent potentialities of the soul, deserves special attention of all stakeholders in the educational field. Swamiji once said, I quote, My hope of the future lies in the youth sub-character intelligent renouncing all for the service of others, an obedient who can sacrifice their lives in working out my ideals and thereby do good to themselves and the country at large. I quote, We have with us today our beloved Prime Minister, Sri Narendra Modiji. He is one such person who derived inspiration from Swamiji and dedicated his life for the service of the country. He is now leading this great nation to newer vistas of progress and development. I am sure you are all eagerly waiting to hear from him the inspiring message of Swami Vivekananda Maharaj. Dear students, please listen to him carefully and try to embody the ideas of Swamiji Maharaj. Your lives will be transformed thereby. Before I wrap up, I once again extend our cordial welcome to our beloved Prime Minister and offer my prayer at the holy feet of Swami Vivekananda Maharaj to endow Sri Modiji with all that is best. With these few words, I conclude my speech. I once again welcome one and all to today's program and pray to Swamiji Maharaj. Sarve Sukhinabha Bantu, Sarve Santuniramaya, Sarve Bhadrani Parshantu, Maa Koshchit Dukha Mahapnua. Let all be happy, let all be free from ailments, let all be blessed with the vision of truth, beauty and goodness. Let misery touch none. Dhanuvaad Namaskar. You are waiting for a very long time. I am working on the interaction between the two of you. I will take one more minute of your time. As we have just heard, it is said that the Prime Minister wanted to live as a Sadhu of Ramakrishna Mission. He was not able to do so. But we can see the expression of his desire and pride in his mind right now. Yesterday, he was invited to the Calcutta. He could have lived in between the Rajbhavan or any other Rajya Kiyas. But last night, he spent the night in between our ordinary facilities. This is a great lesson for us. I would like to request the Prime Minister to share his thoughts and experiences with us. And with the help of his ideal man, Vivaikananda, I would like to convey my message to all of you. Ramakrishna Madhke Mahasachiv, Sriman Swami Sivirananda Ji Maharaj, Swami Divya Nanji Maharaj, here, Upasthit, Pujya Santagaan, Atidhigaan, my young friends, I wish you all a very, very good luck on this sacred occasion of Swami Vivaikananda Jainty. For the people of the country, coming to this sacred land of Bailur Madhke is not less than a pilgrimage. But for me, it is always like coming home. I am very grateful to the Prime Minister for all the facilities here. He gave me permission to stay here last night. And I am grateful to the government as well, because the government does not allow me to go from here to there. But, the people of the country also accepted my request. And I was fortunate enough to spend the night on this sacred land. In this land, in the air, Swami Ramakrishna Paramahams, Maasharda Devi, Swami Brahmananda, Swami Vivekananda, all the disciples of the Guru are experienced. When I come here to Bailur Madhke, it is open to the people of Atidhiga. The reason for which I am here today is that I am able to do something in the service of the 130 crore Bhartavashis. Last time, when I came here, Guruji, Swami Atmasthanandji took the blessings of Atmasthanandji. And I can say that he held my finger and showed me the path of the Lord and the service of the birth. Today, he is not among us physically, but his work, his way of showing, as a mission of Ramakrishna, will always be our way. There are many young Brahmacharis sitting here. I got the opportunity to spend some time with them. I used to do whatever I wanted to do. And you must have experienced that more than us, people come here to walk. The reason for that is the thought of Vivekananda, the speech of Vivekananda, the personality of Vivekananda brings us here. But, but, after coming to this land, the mother Sharda Devi is giving us the love of a mother. All Brahmacharis must have the same experience that I used to do. The existence of Swami Vivekananda is not just the existence of a person. Rather, he is the name of a lifesaver, a lifesaver. He has taken care of the service of Dharidra Narayana and the Bhakti of India.  And he has shown the path of millions of young Brahmacharis today. I also say this with faith that, whether you know Vivekananda or not, even in the unknown, it is a part of the same thought. Time has changed, the times have changed, the times have changed. But, the responsibility of reaching the level of Swami Vivekananda is on us as well as on the future generations. And this is not the case that once it has been done, it is done. This is the work of doing the abhirat, the work of doing the nirantar, the work of doing it till the youth. Many times, we start thinking, what will happen if I do it alone? No one listens to me. What I want, what I think, no one pays attention to it. And with this state, it is very important to get the youth out of the mind. And I directly tell you the mantra, which I have also taught the Gurus, we are never alone, we are never alone. We have someone else, who we do not see, who is the form of God. We are never alone. Our Sarjanahar, every moment is with us. We must always remember what Swami Vivekananda said. When He said, if I get 100 youths, then I will change India. Swami Ji never said that if I get 100 youths, then I will be like this. He never said that. He said that India will change. That is to say, our energy for change is very important to do something. Swami Ji was looking for 100 youths in that corner of Gulami. But to make the 21st century India, to make the new India, millions of youths have been standing in every corner of India. The world's biggest youth treasure is with India. The 21st century India, not only from the youths of this country, but not only from the youths of this country, the whole world is expecting a lot. You all know that India has taken steps with great difficulty to make the 21st century India. This difficulty, not only from the government. This difficulty is of 130 crore youths. What are the youths of this country? It shows the experience of the past five years, that the youth of this country, which is connected with the importance, has to succeed. Whether India can be clean or not, it had a feeling of disappointment five years ago. But the youths of this country managed it, and the change is in front of them. Until four or five years ago, it was also impossible for many people to have so much influence on the digital payment in India. But today, India is telling the world's fastest digital system with the strength of its presence. Until a few years ago, we have seen how the youth of this country was on the streets. It seemed that it was difficult to change the state in the country. But the youths showed these changes. Friends, youth energy, youth energy is the basis of changing India in the 21st century. In a way, in 2020, this women of January starts from the beginning of the new year. But we should also remember that it is not just the new year, it is the new decade. And that is why we have to connect our dreams with this decade, in the direction of achieving justice, and with more energy, with more age, and with more prosperity. The struggle of new India is to be completed by you. This youth is thinking, which says, don't solve the problems. If you are a youth, you can never solve the problems. Youth means, fight with the problems. Solve the problems. Make a choice. While thinking about it, the central government is also trying to solve the old challenges facing the country. Friends, for some time, in the country and youth, there is a lot of discussion about the Citizenship Amendment Act. What is it? Why was it necessary to bring it? In the minds of youth, there are many questions, many people have been asked about it. Many young people are aware of it. But there are some people who are still the victims of this illusion, the victims of these illusions. It is our duty to explain to each and every youth and to make them happy. Therefore, today, on the national youth day, I want to thank the youth of the country again, the youth of Pashim Mangal, the youth of North-East, and the youth of this sacred land. Friends, it is not true that the Indian government has made a new law night after night to give the country a citizenship. We all know that any religion that is established in India believes in the constitution of India, can take the citizenship of India. There is no doubt about it. I will say again, Citizenship Act is not about taking the citizenship. It is not about taking the citizenship. It is the law to give the citizenship. And Citizenship Amendment Act is only a constitution in that law. What is this amendment? We have changed it. It has become difficult. The insult of the sisters and daughters has become insurmountable. Living life has become a question mark. It has surrounded life with many problems. Friends, after independence after taking the citizenship of Mahatma Gandhi many leaders had to say that India should give citizenship to such people who because of their religion are being insulted in Pakistan.  Should we send them back? Are we not responsible? Should we make them equal to our citizens? Should we not? If they live with the law and the unions and live happily then we will be satisfied We will not be satisfied. Is this work pure? Should we do it or not? Is it good or bad to work for others? If Mr. Modi does this then you are with us, right? You are with us, right? Yes, raise your hand and tell us, right? Yes, raise your hand and tell us, right? The government has done only the work that the country has done to make the country free and we have done it. And in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city and in the city The people of India believe that they can take the citizenship of India under the influence of the Thai people. Did you understand it or not? Yes. You understood it, didn't you? Yes. You also understood the small studies, didn't you? Yes. You also understood it, didn't you? Yes. You understood it, didn't you? Yes. You also understood it, didn't you? Yes. You also understood it, didn't you? You understood it, didn't you? Yes. You also understood it, didn't you? North is our home. North is the country's culture, where there is a democracy, where there is a democracy, where there is a revolution, where there is a revolution, where there is a revolution, where there is a democracy. On this, the reform that has been made in this legal case, it has no effect on them, and it has also been done by the Prime Minister. Friends, despite all this, some people are spreading rumours about the Citizenship Amendment Act because of their political reasons. I am happy that today's youth is spreading rumours about such people. And the way in which other religions are represented in Pakistan, the voice of our youth is echoing all over the world. And it is also clear that if the citizens and the law didn't bring us this culture, then this new marriage would have been broken. And if this new marriage was broken, then the world wouldn't even know how the minorities in Pakistan were humiliated. How the human rights were violated. How the lives of the sisters and daughters were destroyed. This is the result of our initiative.  Friends, while being alert, spreading awareness, and alerting others, we are all responsible. There are many other issues which require awareness, awareness, and awareness. For example, taking water, saving water, is becoming the norm of every citizen. Whether it is against the single-use plastic, or against the government, or against the poor, for all these issues, to increase awareness, your cooperation will help the country a lot. Friends, our culture and our community expect us to as citizens, to have our duties, our rights and we, as citizens, will do everything we can. In 70 years of freedom, we have heard a lot about our rights. We have also warned people about our rights. And that was necessary. But now, not only the rights, but every Indian's duty should be as important as it is. And while walking on this path, we will be able to see India on our own. This is what Swami Vivekananda expected from every Indian. And this is what this culture is all about. Swami Vivekananda also wanted this. He wanted to see India in this form. And we too, have changed our minds to fulfill their dreams. Once again, on the path of Swami Vivekananda, on this sacred land of Bailur, in the midst of the saints, with great compassion, I got a chance to spend a few moments. Today, very early in the morning, Swami Vivekananda, who used to stay in this room, has a spiritual bondage there.  I got a chance to spend it today. I was experiencing this. As Swami Vivekananda asked me, He was praying for us to do more work. He was giving us new energy. He was giving us new ideas, new ideas. And with this feeling, with this prayer, with this new energy, with the help of all my friends, with the blessings of this land, once again, from today, to fulfill those dreams, I will keep going. I will keep going. I will keep doing something. I will always be the blessing of saints. I wish you all the best. And as Swami Vivekananda always said, forget everything. Accept Mother India as your Goddess, and for that, take that same feeling. You will speak with me, with both your hands, speak with full strength. Bhart Mata Ki. Bhart Mata Ki. Bhart Mata Ki. Thank you very much. Chuna Utyaonko, Chuna Utyaonko, Aadarniya Pradhyan Mantra Ji ka jo Sandesh, Hameya Abhi Abhi Suna, us Prerana Dai Sandesh, tata hamaare bhi ch kuch samai bhi tana ke liye, Samastha Belur Mata, Samastha Ramakrishna Mata aur Mishan ki tarab se, haam Pradhyan Mantra Ji ka abhaar vyakti karte hain. Chhatrosa nivedan hain, Krupiya apne sthan par bethe rahe, Pradhyan Mantra Ji ki Saiyong Vash upasthiti ke karan, jo vishesh satra rakhaya tha, vah satra samapta hota hain, parantu karekram, yaha sare din ke liye ayojit kiye gaye hain. Abh sabhi se nahi.