Right. Good morning everyone. Welcome back to another week. Let's begin this time, the word of prayer. So, can any one of us, maybe Dinesh, can you lead us in prayer please? Sure. Thank you for talking. Thank you for the new week. I would like to thank you for the new week. Father, I would like to thank you for the new week. He is the entire month, month-end, in a week, in a week. Give us wisdom, knowledge like before. More, more knowledge. Bless all the students, mighty beings. Right. Your will happen each one of the students. So, pray for the pastor. We seek your advice. We know, Father, your will, your expansion, your will may fulfill, Father. I also, there are many, many detractions, Father. May all the detractions overcome, Father.  I pray for the entire course, may finish many mighty hand, Father. I pray once again to protect each one of you, which were including lecturers, including students, give us good health, Father. Give us good happiness, Father. I pray in mighty hand, mighty hand, mighty name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Dinesh, for leading us in prayer. Okay. Before we go ahead, let's just quickly do a quick review of what we did last week. Last week, we continued to look at a few aspects on revivals. We looked at the Toronto revival that happened briefly. We looked at that. We looked at the revival that happened in Shillong in India and how, you know, through the Presbyterian Church revival moved across Shillong. And then we also looked at a few key observations of the timeline in church. So how from the 1st century church reformation, revival, there was restoration, there was missions, there was church growth, and then there were, we also saw that there were seasons of revival. So revival at times did not persist for, you know, maybe 10 years or 12 years. It was always usually a period of two to three years.  So especially we see that in the Korean revival where there was always two years, three years of revivals that was happening. Then we looked at, you know, those ignited by this revival became carriers of revival. So many of them read about the previous revivals that happened, read about their lives of, you know, reformers and missionaries and how they were able to impact society and how God used them so influential. And that ignited a fire into people's hearts and they themselves became carriers of revival. One of the key observation that we also saw was there was focused intentional pursuit of God during times of revival. It was not just so we have to do it, right? Or there was prayer movements or church services and meetings and all this. Not just because, okay, let's do this because we have to do it as Christians. No, it was focused. It was intentional and God paved a way for revival to happen. And another important thing that we learned was sharing these revival stories often ignites our heart. You know, I'm sure all of us, even as we were going through this, especially from the first century to the second century church, the people who had lost their lives for the sake of the gospel, people who God used so powerfully to stand against the systems that were happening during that time. And, you know, even through the whole season of translating the Bible and different translations going out, the Roman Catholic Church being against it. And all of that, we see that when we read all of this, you know, even now, you know, we have different versions of different Bibles we can just take, read. But the challenges that people went through and when we read it, we really tend to realize that, hey, there were people who lost their lives just for the sake of the gospel in the sense that maybe a lot of them may not have preached but there were people who just wanted to translate the Bible. That's it. But they lost their lives for that. So even as we study all this, God will stir our hearts. You know, that as we retell these stories, they got so wonderful that you use these people to bring revivals and reformations. So let's move on to chapter 4. I'm on page 63 on your notes, chapter 4, reformers and reformations. Now, all through this time, we were looking at reformers and reformations and revivals and restorations and missions and missionaries going out. Now, we see an interplay of words there. Some places it's revival, some places it's an outpouring, some places it's a reformation, a restoration. So don't worry about the interplay of words. Let's just look at what reformation is. Now, something that is formed but it has somewhere along the line, it has gone astray. Now, reformation is simply the act or the process of improving something or someone by removing their faults or correcting their faults or problems. Now, when we see in the second century church, there were new ideologies. When the Roman Catholic system came into place, there were reformers. They wanted to reform what was going wrong in the church. They wanted to make things right in the church. They knew that, hey, this is not right or this teaching, this dogma is not right. And so God raised up people who are willing to make a change for what was already happening and these people were called reformers. Now, they were also called missionaries. They were also called preachers or pastors or revivalists. But most importantly, when there was something that was happening and it had a lot of problems, a lot of correction that needed, these people were called reformers. So they basically reformed things that were already formed. Now, in many instances, these reformers later on became revivalist, meaning they prayed for reformation and they themselves became carriers of revival. Reformation usually paves the way for revivals, which leads to restoration. Some of the reformers that we've already studied was John Wycliffe. Remember John Haas, he was put on the stake and he said, I will make sure that even the farmers will have a Bible of their own. So what did he do? He wanted to reform things. He said, no, the Bible should be available for everyone. Then we look at Martin Luther. Remember Martin Luther, in the early 1500s, he posted the 95 theses in Germany and then that whole reformation movement started. We are saved by faith through Jesus Christ. So Martin Luther did that. Then there was John Calvin, John Knox. Again, John Knox was a Protestant reformation. He started the Protestant reformation where during that time the Protestant movement again went astray. The whole thing of spiritual hunger was gone down. So God used John Knox to bring reformation to reform the Protestant movement. Then there was George Fox, there were plenty of others. George Fox did the Quakers group. Remember we did that where they were the charismatic movement. They believed that there was more freedom in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. They paved a way for their own revival in their countries. Then the same way William Carey came to India, Hudson Taylor went to China. David Livingston went to Africa. Now all these people were reformers and they were revivalists. God used them to reform the church and eventually used them also as revivalists. Let's look at a few characteristics of reformers. We can also say missionaries or revivalists. Let's look at a few of their characteristics, reformers. First one, they had revelation and depth in their relationship with God. So it was not as if these people were like, okay, I don't know what to do. Or maybe they were just praying this one time and they felt, oh, I have to do this. I have to go and make things right. No, they had a deep relationship with God. Now nobody will be willing to put their life on the line just for the sake of translating a Bible or maybe going against the Catholic system or going against the systems that were happening during that time. Only when you and I have a deep revelation and in-depth relationship with God is when we will be willing to ask God to, so it doesn't matter. All the other things don't matter. Why? Because the focus is God and God needs to be exalted in every place. And so very important feature is a characteristic. They had a deep revelation and they have an in-depth relationship with God. And so this is a learning for all of us. Even we as believers, as pastors, evangelists, whatever God has called us for, we need to have an in-depth relationship, a deep relationship with God. Now that relationship can be built only by ourselves. We go to church on Sundays, we can go to meetings, all of it. It's very good. We can spend time in God's presence, all of that is good. But the personal relationship with God is built only during your personal time with God. At ABC we believe in one thing, our personal life, our personal prayer, our personal relationship with God will reflect in our public ministry. So what we do in our personal life will reflect in the public ministry. So we need to develop this characteristic. Secondly, they had the strength to stand alone when it was required, which was almost always because they were the only people trying to bring reformation. They had the strength to stand alone. They were not deterred, they were not worried, they were not saying, okay, how can I go against this whole organization, this one person, how can I go against this whole organization? They didn't think about all that. Remember Martin Luther, he was just that one person. He said, okay, I'm going to write the 95 thesis, I'm going to go post it in the church in Germany and let that spread. And so he was one person. William Carey, again, he read stories of revivals that happened. He chose India, he came alone. He didn't bring a whole team of people saying, okay, let's make a team of 100 people, come to India, we'll have teams of two people each, go to different parts. No, that was not the plan. Alone, he just came and he did what he had to do in India. What about Hudson Taylor? He went to China. He again heard missionaries what they did earlier on. But he heard that a lot of challenges were happening in China now. Remember that China was not a developed country, maybe just like India. It was not developed. And so when Hudson Taylor went, he went alone. Of course, there were other leaders and other movements, missionaries who were there. But he started on his own. So they had the strength to start alone. They had the ability, they had the courage to stand alone for the cause that they had taken up. Very rarely, from all the stories we've learned, very rarely has somebody got chosen like a revivalist or a reformer or missionary who went, started a work and then they felt, okay, I can't do this and came back. Very rarely. Maybe some of them took a sabbatical for their physical conditions or for family. But very rarely we see these reformers, revivalists who went, started a work and they said, okay, we better not do it here. Let's just go back. And they didn't give up. God gave them the strength. And so the same way, God may put in our hearts to do something. For example, it could be something small. It may not be going to another nation and started church. Maybe it could be just like, you know, God is telling us, I want you to do 40 days of prayer or just fast and pray and seek me. Many a times I have done that earlier on where, you know, we start a fasting and prayer and by the time it's the third day say, okay, maybe I should just give up on the 10 days and make it five days. It may sound silly, but it's like we are losing strength. It's like we're saying, we're not able to do it. But one of the characteristics of these reformers was they were willing to go all out for Jesus. They were willing to go all out for the gospel for the church. That was priority. And we see that they were always willing to stand out. Thirdly, they had the courage to speak the truth even when religious, social and political systems seemed large and daunting. They had the courage to speak the truth. Now remember, even during the early 1900s, the new charismatic movements started, people were not so keen on all the things that were happening in the charismatic movement. And they were saying, okay, why are they, what is all this? This is a different style of worshipping or maybe different. The church was not like just how it was before, but they were willing to stand and speak the truth. The early 1900s saw the charismatic movement in a sense that they began to speak in tongues, began to flow in the gifts of the Spirit. Now that was not there in the early church. When we say 1500s, the focus was something else. The focus was get the word out, the word should be preached, all of that. The early 1900s saw the charismatic movement. They saw the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And so people maybe mocked them, but they were willing to stand. They were willing to take up their cause. They were willing to speak the truth. They had the courage. And so again, this is directly connected to the first point where we have a deep relationship with God. Now if we want to have courage and be bold and strong, remember the book of Acts. The disciples are praying and they say, Lord, consider their threats and grant us boldness that we may proclaim the truth of the gospel. That was what their prayer was. Their prayer was not, you know, God destroyed the work of the devil. Now they said, consider their threats, grant us boldness that even through these religious, political, social systems, these large organizations, these people that are coming against us, give us boldness to stand and speak the truth in love. That is why the disciples turned the world upside down. They were just a few of them. You know, yesterday I was just reading the word. I was just reading how Jesus called his disciples. You know, I'm sure we all think of this, but I just thought about it. The Lord Jesus just called people. One was a tax collector. People hated them. The Jews hated tax collectors because of what they were doing. They were saying, okay, you're taking our money and you're taking it and you're giving it to the Roman government. And so for some reason they hated the tax collector. Then you got fishermen, people who don't know anything. They just know how to go fishing. Yet God gave such a boldness to them that they were willing to stand and encouraged to speak the truth. The whole of the Jewish system, Judaism, everything was at stake. Even as they're preaching this gospel of Jesus, everything was at stake. People were wondering what is this new thing, but they had the boldness. They had the courage to stand against the system. And that, again, replicated through the 2nd century church, the 3rd century church as well. So there will be times that we may have to stand encouraged. Maybe now that things are almost getting back to normalcy, we're going back to our offices or continuing our ministry. If somebody asks us, hey, are you Christian? Don't be ashamed of it. Say, yes, people, be courageous, speak the truth. And then, even as we know that, we may not know all the answers in the Bible. We may not know from Genesis to Revelation on the top of our head. That does not matter. We know that this is the truth and we stand for that truth.  The next point is, they were willing to lay down their lives for the truth that they believed in. They were willing to lay down their life. Because now, even now during these times, we don't see much of that happening where people are asking, martyred for the sake of the gospel.  We don't see much of that happening. Of course, we see it in maybe different countries. Afghanistan saw a bit of that after the Taliban came in. They were willing to give their life, to lay their life for the truth they believed in. Now, here's an important thing. It's not that they were not married. It's not that they didn't have children. It's not that they were uneducated. They didn't have any work. Many of them were God-used, really educated people who were passed out of Oxford University, Yale University. The Wesley brothers were from Yale, Jonathan Edwards. Most of them were highly educated people. Now, these people, so educated, so high in their worldly standards, were willing to give their life, to lay their life for the truth that they believed in. And we thank God that even during these times, we enjoy the freedom of going to church and the freedom of just proclaiming the truth of the word of God. But in case, going further, if there comes a time when we will have to stand for the truth, we need to stand for the truth. We cannot shy away from it. We should not go away and say, okay, maybe the next time I need to spend time more with the word and only then I'll be able to know. We are to stand and we are to be willing, right, even to the point of giving our life for the gospel. And it's very important that we remember this fifth point. Whenever possible, they use tools and platforms to proclaim their message. And so we see that even in the old second century church, they used tools, they used platforms, they used a lot of their writings. Remember that many of the sermons were translated, were written, and then they were translated and those sermons were sent to different churches. And they used open-air meetings. They used places where there were commerce and business happening. They went to those places and began to preach through and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. So these are just a few characteristics. There are many more people of prayer, people of power. They were anointed. They didn't do anything without the anointing of the Holy Spirit, right? Another important thing is they did not do this out of the work of the flesh, right? Paul writes to the Corinthian church, he says, the flesh profits nothing, right? So even we in the ministry, we are to always do out of everything that we plan to do, do it out of the Holy Spirit, do it through the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Now, there will be times we have to plan.  We need to prayerfully plan. God has given us a mind and so we need to put that mind into work. And then it shouldn't be like, okay, God, only if you tell me I will do this and then we don't do anything for a whole year now. We pray and we prayerfully plan. I remember telling the church this here in our city here, keep telling them, failing to plan is planning to fail. Failing to plan is planning to fail. We need to plan. We need to do things. But we do it through the anointing, through the leading of the Holy Spirit. And so today the church needs reformers. Even as we look at the church now, many, many ministries, many, many pastors. It's wonderful. God is building his church. The scriptures teach us that the gates of hell shall not prevail against him. So the church will grow. No matter who comes into power, let any religious leader, let any organization come into power, the church will not stop growing. That is an assurance we have, right? That the church will grow. Yet we also need to check what is the church doing? What are we teaching? What are we, you know, I'm talking about globally, right? So what are we seeing in the church? I gave you that example last week of the things that are happening within the church. I think it was about three years back. And you may have heard of this, where there are certain churches in the West and also, I would say, South America where, you know, you got these fanatics where they had snakes in the church. And then they use the scripture, okay, God has given you authority to trample over snakes and scorpions. And so they would bring snakes in the church.  And recently, I won't say recently, but a couple of years back, a pastor was bit by one of those snakes. He was rushed to the hospital. And when they rushed him there, you know, a few hours later, he died, right? Now, whose problem is that? It is our mistake. Because as a body of Christ, we did not understand the word of God, right? So we took these things and even now it's happening in the church. It's happening in the church, right? So where there is snakes and all these things and weird manifestations. Now, what do we need? We need people to reform these things. We need people who can go and change these. The teaching of the word of God can change them, right? So we always need reformers in the church. Now we may feel, okay, anyway, the Bible is released, right? We have enough versions of the Bible. The church is doing well. Why do we need reformers? No, we need reformers. Remember, we spoke about the whole thing of the gold dust. It's a work of the enemy in the sense that, you know, if it's something that is fake, if it's something that is not of God, we need God to raise up reformers who can stand and speak against that, right? And bring reformation to the church, right? Reformers rise up and they proclaim truth and challenge the status quo. And they help us recognize the blinders we have upon our eyes. So there are times when, you know, especially in Christendom, they're so used to doing things, right?  Now, for example, let me give you this example. If we've been leading worship for maybe 10 years, right? And then suddenly someone tells you, hey, can you lead worship for the next tomorrow? Can you lead worship for half an hour? Now, leading worship for half an hour is not a problem because for 10 years you've been leading worship, right? But here's the important thing. The moment we say, okay, I've done it before. I've done it for 10 years, half an hour, no problem. I can do it. Just show some few songs, just sing about it. At the moment we think that way, we have, you know, we have not done our part as leaders because we are trying to do that, you know, that 30 minutes of worship will be out of the flesh and it will profit nothing. But we have to come to a place and say, oh, even whether it's preaching, can you preach for 30 minutes? Oh, I have plenty of sermons in my Bible. Okay, I'll just pick up one now. Because I think we as a church need to prayerfully prepare, prayerfully, you know, through the anointing of the Holy Spirit, through the power of the Holy Spirit, prepare and build the people in the Word of God, right? Many places where I'm reminded of this, what was, you know, many years ago, I used to watch God TV. Now I'm not saying, you know, all the ministries are wrong and everyone is wrong. I'm not saying that. What I'm trying to bring about is even during this time, the 21st century, we need reformation in the church. I remember watching this on God TV. I don't know which one of these, I think it was God TV. And the preacher was, it was, I think at 20 minutes, you know, we get those 20-minute sessions. And the preacher said something, said good morning and all of that five minutes went there. And then he preached something for five minutes on the blessing of Abraham. Now I was a new believer, right? And in five minutes he began to preach something about Abraham and if you be a blessing, Abraham, you'll have Abrahamic blessing and all of that. And after five minutes, he suddenly stopped and he said, okay, now I can see angels around everyone's home. I can see that there are the mighty move of God in your homes.  You will see your own angels standing next to you and all of this. I thought to myself, you know, I didn't know much of the word, I was just a new believer but I knew something was off.  He went on and on. And then he ended that whole, you know, 30-minute session saying, okay, God bless you, we thank you and all of that. Where was the word? Where was the preaching? There was no preaching. There was no teaching. There was only, you know, do this, do that, do this, do that. And asking for money and all of these things. Now here's the thing, when we, you know, see all of this, God puts it in our heart, we can pray against. You know, it's not their fault. It's the enemy putting blinders in their eyes. So God uses reformers who will stand up against these things. Right? Yes. Sorry, I think the power went off. Yes, there will be times when we can, you know, let the people know that, hey, these are things, just teach them from the word of God. The Bible teaches us, it says that, we shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. Right? And so we can tell them, hey, this is, this is what it is. We may get opportunities, we may not get opportunities, but we can pray about it. Right? They help, you know, reformers help us break past the limitations we have put upon ourselves. They help us deal with things that we have, you know, accepted as normal, but have become the very things that hold us back from going into the next level that God wants us to go to. Right? And so, yes, even during these times, even now, we need reformation. We need reformers. Right? So we close in this chapter, it's a small chapter. If you have any thoughts, any questions, please feel free. You want to share your thoughts, any questions you have, anybody? Okay. Then let's move on to chapter five. Now what we're going to do in this chapter is, we're going to look at a few revivals. And then at the end of that revival, right, we look at, we'll reflect on what was the main characteristic or what was it that caused that revival? Right? So we look at a few of them. Maybe I think it's about three or four of them. And so we, we did look at them in the previous chapter and chapter three as well, but it was just very brief, but a few revival stories, draw some practical lessons and things that we can consider. Right? So let's, let's look at the first one. I'm on page 64. The first one is the Moravian revival by Count Zinzendorf. Right? Now, again, once again, you don't have to, you know, remember the names and the timeline and all of it, but just the practical lessons that we can draw from this, right? Now, there was the Protestant Moravian believers, the Christians were fleeing from persecution from the Catholic church. And during that time, there was a rich man named Count Nicholas Zinzendorf, and he had a huge estate. He was a rich man in Germany. And many of these Protestant Moravian families came and stayed as refugees in his estate, and there were about 300 people living there. Now, during that time, since there were different people from different communities, there was discord among the people. They began to argue among themselves. They started fighting. But Zinzendorf, even though he was a rich man, he, he was only 27 years old, but he loved the Lord. He went, he said, he held a meeting and he said, Okay, listen, everyone, you have ran away from the Catholic suppression and you've come here. But all I see here is fighting and, you know, discord among you people. And so what is the point of, you know, trying to do this? What is the point of running away from persecution and coming here and, you know, fighting and discord? So he addressed them. And then the people there were touched. And then they were, they all confessed their sins. They began to spend time in prayer.  They spent, they started a communion service and every Sunday or every, every time they would meet, they would have communion. They would partake in service. They would partake in prayer. They would spend many hours in the morning, many hours in the evening praying. And this happened for many years. And suddenly during the, one of the communion services, there was a move of God. And there was a powerful presence of God. The move of God went and there was everyone in that whole service were touched. And Count Zinzendorf said in his writing, he says that it was as if we were like in heaven. This revival started with 24 people and went on to bless thousands of people. Zinzendorf, even though he was a young man, God continued to bless him both financially and materialistically. And so he was able to, you know, sustain this revival that happened for many years. There was the nonstop hourly intercession that started. Many people from this Moravian revival went out and became missionaries all through different parts of the world to West Indies and to Africa. And here's the thing, many of them were willing to become slaves to reach out to the slaves in West Indies. And so that was really a wonderful thing. That during this time, the Christian community, they saw that there was no other community as powerful as the Christian community. They were so loving, they were so powerful. And so the entire world would say the globe was, you know, what is happening in Moravia? What is happening in Count Zinzendorf's estate? People would come from different parts of the world and people from here, from this Moravian revival were sent out as missionaries. Some of them who were touched through the Moravian revival was William Carey, George Whitfield, John Wesley. You know, they were all touched. They all read about the Moravian revival and said, hey, we want to do something like this. We want to pray. We want to seek God. We want to see God moving. And so they went in these people, William Carey, John Wesley. We saw that they went into North America and they started a revival in their nations and then into England and moved on. Now, what is a reflection important thing? Let's look at three things that we can sum up from this Moravian revival. First thing we see is unity. Now, in the early initial part, there was discord. There was disunity. There was argument, strife between people. When Count Zinzendorf brought that correction on them, they were willing to take that correction, even though he was just a young man. But they were willing to take that correction. They repented of their sins and they came together in unity. So very important, when we are able to humble ourselves, put aside our quarrels, petty arguments, our differences, and we come together as one body in unity, we will see an outpouring of God. That's what happened in the book of Acts. 120 people, what does the Bible say? It says that they were in unity praying for one thing. That was the move of the Holy Spirit. Among those 120 people, not one of them was praying for their family or another one praying for the sick people, another one praying for Samaria. They all had one heart, one mind. That is to pray for an outpouring of God in that place. So unity is very important. Now, in the church that we see all across, yes, there is unity. But there's also a lot of division. A lot of division. Division amongst denominations.  And it's causing divisions in the church. Oh, they are wrong. No, they do this wrong. They do that wrong. And what's happening? There is disunity. And as long as there is disunity, the devil is happy. It could be of the smallest of things. Oh, this church doesn't do this wrong. They don't believe in the Holy Spirit or they don't do this. What's happening? There's division. A very important point is unity. We must come together. We should look at ourselves. Yes, we have differences. We have different styles of worship, different styles of preaching and teaching and different styles and essence of conducting church services and meetings and all of that. But here's the important part that we miss. We miss that all of this services, events and programs, all of it is directed to one person, the person of Jesus Christ. But these divisions have caused these styles of worship or has caused division among us. Even though it's a worship to the same God. So we learn here from the Moravian revival. They were humble. The leaders were humble enough to say, yes, we've done wrong. They confessed their sins. They came back in unity. We are leaders in Christianity. We need to humble ourselves. We say, okay, we've done wrong. It's okay to do wrong. We go back to God, ask forgiveness, come back and continue the work God has called us for. That's when we will see unity. In our city here, very sad to say this, but in our city in Mangalore, India has a lot of division. People, they don't talk to each other. Pastors don't talk to other pastors. I went to a pastor's meeting once and there was this group of people. They were talking only among themselves. Then there was the other group of people and those two groups were not talking to each other. And I saw that the first time I said, I'm not coming here again. Because all I see is division and personal agendas. If we're coming together, the agenda should be a move of the work of the Holy Spirit among our city and our nation. That should be the agenda. Two, they responded to the working of the Holy Spirit. They all gathered in unity. The Spirit of God graced them with unusual experiences. They saw an unusual move of God. People began to cry for many hours. People began to weep. People began to jump for joy. People were laughing. People were, you know, there were different kinds of emotions. During this time, what is important is they did not mock the, you know, the laughing and all these, the response of the Holy Spirit. But what they saw was the fruit. They saw that there was fruit in the work of the Holy Spirit. Three, prayer that fueled revival and world missions. Again, the Morarian revival, their focus was prayer. They spent time in prayer. Of course, later on, they all began to work to supply for their own needs. But they did not forget the main thing of prayer. So there were times of morning prayers, Saturday prayers, evening prayers. So prayer was a constant thing. They were fueled. The revival was fueled by prayer. It was like, you know, putting petrol to a vehicle. The more you put petrol, the longer it's going to go on. The same thing with revival. The more they prayed, the more they seek God, the more the revival went on. The up-poding went on. Now, this prayer did not only touch Germany as we saw in Moravia, but it also spread to different parts of the world, touching many churches. And by the end of the Moravian revival, which lasted about 100 years, almost every denominational church was packed with people. The churches began to grow. And so these three points. First one, unity. Two, they responded to the working of the Holy Spirit. They didn't stop the way the Holy Spirit was working. And three, this whole revival was fueled with prayer. And then there was world missions. So we leave these three points. We'll stop here today. I'll start time. So we'll pick up from tomorrow. We'll pick up a few more revival stories. We'll reflect on those stories and take some practical lessons from them. All right. So let's just close in prayer. Can one of us please close in prayer? Charles, can you close us in prayer, please? Anyone else, Subajit? Go ahead, Subajit. Thank you. Father God, we thank you. Thank you, Father God, for this opportunity, for this moment, Father, for teaching us so many things, Father God. And we pray, Father God, that there be no discord among us, Lord, as you let us grow and as you lead us to minister, Father, let there be no discord, Father God, but let it be unity, Father, that the revival may come, Father. The outpouring may come, Father. Father, I thank you for teaching us for the blessed pastor, bless each of us so that whatever we have learned may practice and we may be able to see the reality in our life for God. Thank you. Give you glory, honor, and praise. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much, Subajit. Thank you so much, Subajit. Thank you, everyone. God bless you. Have a wonderful day ahead. We'll catch up tomorrow. God bless. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you.


to assist in all of this. I just wasn't able to really, you know, in return, it became more difficult for me to find a job from outside of the back. So these three years, I remember I was one of them at the city, and I looked on my social media, and I said, yeah, so, in other words, I was stuck, and I was very unhappy, but I was, I needed to change it to here. So it wasn't like, gosh, this is a brief list of seven different job books. So there were these ladies, and all of us, co-authors of this, and I needed to see these last enough that I went back to the district, to the district, but for real, there's also kind of a huge gap, which is not in my straight line, but at the end of the day, I was just enough for two choices, either, or I was going to join some of the students. The students I had, I was so good, but the two of them worked with us, when I first started working with them, I felt really comfortable, because the learning course, we were beginning to see that speak. I think the list of the ladies, you know what they do, they're welcome, that's the background. And so, we left this on campus. I'll tell you the whole story, because I was just so happy, of the students from the class, the community that helped guide us to continue this week. I remember two things I was thankful about, and that's because I was just so keen right about work, just to move through that for the community, and realize, and still, I was just so happy to get this really good, but on the same, I was so patient on this, so I was looking for a job about it. I was able to get a job outside of my sector, outside of my own work, and I could see other opportunities in my work. So now, now I realize, it's a really good place to be, it makes us a little more so, taking our time. And I think one of the most important things to realize is that four bucks could be sent back, and there's not a risk here, because you're always looking to see that you've been, and there's so many other things you can do in order to do this well, because I feel that the health care, if I can start by doing it, I can always reach out to the other community. So currently, I just want to say, I just want to say, I just want to say that we can do to work with such fun new things, stay that way. And I just want to say, I just want to say,


And the only way you can ever come close to achieving real happiness, fulfillment, success or significance is by being in the present moment. In any era of your life, if you want to win the moment, you got to be in the moment. And that is much easier said than done. With the bombardment of digital distractions that we face every second of every single day, being in the present moment is for me, without question, as a 43-year-old father of three and a private business owner is without question the biggest challenge that I face. Every single day is being in the present moment. Now the short definition of being in the present moment is be where your feet are. Wherever your feet are, make sure that's where your head and your heart are as well. And this is absolutely crucial to creating the connections that we've already established that we need to be able to achieve that North Star.


Hi everybody it's Sam and I'm finally back in my craft room after 24 hours away and it was for good reason because I was at Hachanda TV so I know many of you watched me launch my latest collection which is Terrific Towers. I had an amazing time it's the first time I've been on TV and it was just so nice to see behind the scenes and get to meet the presenters because I'd obviously kind of worked with them with the last two collections but I was never actually there in person so to be up there and just experience it all was just wonderful so a huge thank you to everybody who tuned in who sent me lovely messages whether it was by email text message comments on my Facebook page it was really really lovely and to those of you that purchased as well just a huge thank you it just means so much to me it was really nice now for me to be able to do my own launch on YouTube for you all and I just want to go through it in a bit more detail I've got all the boards here that I used on the show I've got all of the samples and just for you to see it all a bit closer I'll explain it to you in a bit more detail I'll link everything below as always so I'm going to flip the camera around now so I can go through everything in more detail and yeah just show you everything that I've made okay so these are the three sizes so I've got six by six I have five by seven and then five by seven a landscape and I'm going to explain that to you with the boards in a moment if you will recognize this card shape it was one that I actually designed and shared a couple of years ago it was really well received but it was actually one that a lot of people asked me it would be really nice if there was ever a die now I'm in a position where I'm able to create my own dies this was one of the ones that was on my list so I'm super pleased with it it's already been well received on Hachanda and I can't wait for more of you to see it and and I hope you enjoy it as much as I've been you know making all of the samples with it so I'm going to bring in the board festival because then you can really see what you're going to get here so this is your landscape five by seven so it has this panel in the middle here but this is for you to have your stamps in the normal kind of landscape way I guess so if you've got a lot of your own stamps that you want to incorporate they're going to work well on this style along with the six by six the five by seven is obviously a bit more narrow and it's that portrait so it's going to fit better for those longer vertical stamps that I've got you also then get your mats and layers so you get mats and layers for the side pieces here which are these ones you get mats and layers for these squares here and then mats and layers for this one here and when you fold in the sides it will all fold flat into a five by seven size you also then get a die that will cut you all of these pieces here so you just run it through a few times you will then have little mats to cover all of these and on the sides as well so it really does if you've got a plain paper and then you've got lots of mirror card on the top as your mat layer looks really cool you've also then got this dragonfly you've got a large present a smaller present and then the flowers there as well so that's the five by seven landscape then you have the five by sevens you can see the difference now you don't have that middle panel you just have this long vertical panel and then the two sides so again you've got your mats and layers and your mat and layer for the middle one and then again that die that will cut these which will give you all of the mats there you then get the star in the large and the small large and small balloon large and small flower and you get the stamen detail there as well this one will work really well with those vertical stamps that you know you can fit the vertical stamps on all of them really but this one has just got that nice you know taller section there for you to be able to really show off those lovely stamps so that's your five by seven and then here's your six by six so with this one you can again you can see how that card looks all the mats and layers mat and layer for the large area here mat and layer for the side panels and then this one you get the beautiful bow you get the two sizes in the butterflies and the two sizes there in the hearts okay so then if you want to really start to dress the cards up I've got a range of edge dice so these are your excellent edge dice and you have the five by seven landscape it actually says five by seven landscape on both of them that's just a typo but to be honest they will fit on both so it doesn't really matter the five by sevens will fit the five by sevens and then the six by six will fit obviously the six by six you could use the six by six on the five by seven but you're going to have a gap at the top in the bottom or depending on how you're going to position that but this is what you get and there's a lot of dies in one of the packs so for example this one here you get 29 dies they create these great borders and you don't have to just use these on this kind of card if you are using a card that's seven inches tall these edges will work really nicely on it and I will be sharing them in future videos you can see all the stars there the stars and the balloons are favorites I really love those ones the flowers are beautiful as well but there's something about those two that I really like and then with the other five by seven you've got your flowers your presents and then the dragonfly and the dragonfly again is gorgeous and the presents is brilliant because that also will work well for Christmas just change your papers and your your colors there and that looks really cool you can have a Christmas tree in the center or something and then with the six by six you've got a gorgeous bow this one here which one of the presenters came up with a good idea actually it would work really nice on an easel card as the stopper part so again I know some of you have already ordered this and I think that you know I would say give it a go on an easel card because I think it looked lovely you've got your butterflies and then you've got the heart so again the heart one will work great for Valentine's as well so let me just bring in the boards so here's those stars okay so that's how it will cut then you can cut the stars in different colors and they will fit perfectly into all of these sections here with a little border and then you've got your same with your flower and then the balloons that you can see I even like the shadow detail that we've added there on those ones then you've got your six by six so again you can see that bow is gorgeous got your butterflies and you've got the hearts and we've given you all of the butterflies it's not just one that you have to die cut you know what six times you have six butterflies so you don't you just have to pass it through your die machine once and you have them all there so that's really handy and then you've got your five by seven there so you can see the presence the presence have like an embossed there we go you can just see that embossed detail on there you might need to add an extra shim when you run them through because it is quite a deep emboss the effect looks wonderful the dragonfly again love it looks really nice layered up with vellum and then like your pattern papers or your plain papers looks really nice and then you can see the flowers there again okay so that's how the edges look then if you want to add panels now the panels work really well as well on their own so again you don't have to add them to the card but you have these panels here so you can have the panel and the balloon edges and you'll see that in all the samples when I show you it looks really effective it does give you that show stop of feel so they look great then on these as well you have these partial die cut ones or just one on each one but can you see they've got a little bit flattened in my suitcase but if I just kind of lift that up you can see how that's partially cut and again with the star there as well just there we go you can just make it out but that will lift up but it's too flat there you know trying to pick it out I just you get the idea but that's how your panels look and these also work really well for shaker cards so if you die cut this put a piece of acetate behind there and you can put all your beads and your sequins in behind and it will look really really nice then the six by six again you've got a partially die cut bow here you can see and then the butterfly can just about still lift that one up there we go looks really pretty and then you've got your hearts again work really well for shakers and then all of the pieces that you have cut out you can use as well so there's again you get a lot of elements with this one and then here's your five by seven landscape so you've got your dragonfly here with the partial die cut dragonfly then you have your presence again you can see that for Christmas and then you have your flower and there's a partially die cut one there as well which just needs to be lifted and then you can see the ones that cut out from that so these look lovely it's just slightly smaller ones that you can kind of then just you know attach to the card where you want so that's your panels okay so these are the two stamp sets and as you can see they are large sentiments which is what I wanted they stamp beautifully they're photopolymer and they're just something a bit different I don't have anything like this in my stash and I really wanted vertical stamps so whether you're on the dl slimline card phase or fashion at the moment because they're just everywhere these stamps would look brilliant on that shape but you can see why I wanted these vertical ones for this particular card shape because they just work really really well so you have woop woop let's party or let's is separate and the party's separate you've got time to so you can have time to party awesome yay and then you have it's your birthday and then you have happy birthday or happy and birthday separate congratulations and you've got yours you can have your amazing then you've got you did it and then woohoo so you can have woohoo you did it you can mix them as well you can put it's your birthday woohoo if you want to go for both of them because I think you will use these a lot I use large stamps in a lot of my other card designs so whether you've been you know seeing the back catalogs I've got you know loads and loads of tutorials I have large sentiments in the centre of a lot of those cards so if you like making those style cards you'll be able to use these a lot I think they're going to be really really popular and I think you're going to enjoy using them so they're the sentiments stamp sets and they are bold they look great heat embossed they look I want to try and do this one here I mentioned during the demo that it looked really nice to do kind of each line a different colour kind of like a rainbow it's just so many different ways you've got the butterfly here which will cut with the butterfly die it will chop off the antenna but it does cut it exactly that size then you've got the bow you've got the balloon you've got hashtags as well which are really good I know for the the younger generation I think a hashtag birthday or hashtag party they're going to find that really cool on a card so and yeah I hope you like them because I've thoroughly enjoyed these ones and then I wanted an alphabet set so I wanted again to be able to create my own sayings and words and I wanted to be able to have vertical ones as well so again you'll see that in the samples but this is the chunky alphabet die set so they're nice and big and they're easy to stick down they're not very delicate and thin and you know things like that can be a bit difficult to work with these ones are really easy they look nice layered up and they're a nice modern font as well so it was just a kind of staple that I wanted in the collection and this is something you can use across the board to get the numbers there as well I just think they're going to be a great addition to your stash so then lastly I have the embossing folders you have these two here I just thought they were a nice kind of extra just to have so if you are someone that enjoys your embossing folders you have these ones here that will match with some of the cards you can see here the dragonflies and then you also have the bows the bows is in a five by seven and the dragonfly is in a six by six and they're just really nice again just to add a bit more dimension to the card and just a bit more interest I think they're really fun to have so I just wanted to add those in just so that for those people that do really enjoy using them in bottom folders you've got that option as well so that is everything in the collection so now I'm going to show you the samples okay so these are the samples that I made using the six by six so straight away you can see that lovely sentiment there and this has got quite a masculine look to it so without adding the edge dies and there's no panel die in this at all it's literally just the the main die set and then that stamp set in the middle and you can see those mats and layers and how they look so although that's cut on a piece of white card stock by adding the mats and layers it really does define all of that shape and then you have lots of room on the back you can just cut your mat and layer again you've got plenty of space there to be able to write your message they all fold flat then that will fit in just six by six envelope then I've got this one here which uses the chunky alphabet die so I've just got it's your day and I've used the mirrored card stock there and again you can really see that wonderful shape then we've got this one which uses the bow I love it just look at that detail it's so so nice and they are the bow dies as well that I've just put on there and I've used that happy birthday then I've got this one here which uses the heart so I went quite bling with this one just to just to really show what you can do with it you can see the big hearts these are the size of the ones that actually come in the set and then these are those edge hearts and this one's actually been cut on pattern paper that's that style and then another one again on some star pattern paper glitter on the bows there and then that yay you did it I've got another happy birthday there with the butterflies beautiful butterflies there you can see I've done quite a few layers there's a few different layers of card stock and vellum in there you can see if I just pull that all out there we go just give you that dimension again heating boston silver and then this one you go girl look at that holographic card it looks fantastic they all stand up as well so they've got a great profile they look really nice and then again the butterflies with the butterfly panel that's how that panel looks put a little put a couple of embellishments there in the center really really nice you can on that one I actually put the mats and layers on every single panel so you can see even on the inside there how that looks and then there's the hearts again with the heart panel just so you can see how that looks die cut and that's got a scalloped edge this was one of the ones actually done as a demo on the tv use that gorgeous mint color against the white there looks really really nice then you have the bow again in the silver so you can just see that detail because it has an embossed detail as well which you can just make out there and that's the bow panel looks really cool and then this was another one I done live it's got a bit squashed but you can still just kind of make out how that one looks with all those butterflies and then the congratulations so that's some of the samples that I done with the six by six then these are your five by seven portraits so here's the your awesome and I've just repeated that three times so again it really stands out and that's using some glitter gold embossing powder you can see all of that lovely dimension papers are used on this one we're actually from the last collection let's hear it for the girls I thought they were really nice with this color card stock then you've got this one here hashtag let's party and I just use some of the balloon dies there and put some glossy accents on them lots of shine to this one and this is the star one it looks really cool and I've used the alphabet dies and stuck them vertically there to spell happy birthday I think it looks really cool and then you have yay it's your birthday and then in the background is the balloon panel and I just paper piece different colors there again all different rainbow colors on the actual tower sides there and I just cut the yay out there and it gives you a really cool effect this one's the flower panel it looks really nice it reminds me of candy cane I think the colors in the way that I've done it looks like little candy canes that looks really good then you've got another one here with the balloons look at those balloons on the edge I done this as one of the TV demo so one side you'll see is shiny with the glossy accents on the balloons and then this side is just mapped just so people can see the difference between the two and again I just cut the yay use the stars that come with the set and they're the larger balloons looks really really nice another one with the balloons you'll see I use the paper there from my first collection so again I just want to incorporate all those bits you can see how you can use them if you've still got those again the holographic card just looks awesome on this style really really pleased with that one and you've got the flower one here went very bold with this one again use papers from the first collection that's the funky flowers but I think it looks great it's got such an impact you'll certainly see that one stand out from all the other cards and again just cut the yay out there it's really easy to cut out and I use some clear embossing powder on the top of that one then I had to show you how you could incorporate your amazing animal so if you've got Jerry and Horace you can certainly use them on this style card and I just inked all the backgrounds there's no papers there's no mats and layers or nothing on that I just created a very simple background and then I added Jerry there and it just says you're not that old then I've done this black and white it's your birthday with the stars looks really nice there then you have the congratulations with the stars and I've done that with some star pattern paper the weight of the paper varied as well some of it's like 180 GSM right up to 300 GSM I think that turned out really nice this was one I'd done during the live and again live TV I was a bit nervous but I didn't it didn't end up embossing all of the bottom of the wire I must have missed it off so I covered it with a star so it doesn't quite say party but you get the idea anyway time to party and I didn't have time really to stick all of the panels on there but it still just shows you don't have to it still does look really nice but um again I just love the star one I've done this one during the live miss you really sparkly that one so again just wanted to show the alphabet and those gorgeous flowers just looks so pretty and then this one here which was a favorite of Paola when she done the first show with me and it's the woohoo you did it it's just got such a nice font I really do like that one and again you can see all those lovely flowers and all that shine so I just realized I've got a mix there because those are the panel those two so that was all of the five by seven then those two and then all of these are your panel so I've done one here for a fiftieth haven't put a sentiment on this one but just to show you that drag and fly panel in the middle there and then you've got the whoop whoop with the presents love the presents but can you imagine if they're in like Christmas colors in the Christmas tree in the middle here or Christmas tree stamped there in a nice Christmas message I think it would look brilliant and this one here as you can see the presents how they look again no sentiment on that one but just wanted to show off all the panels this one's you got 21st it's your birthday lots of glitter very pink and I've just kept the sides plain but of course you can add your edges you got party time I've done this one which again is using pattern paper yay it's your birthday and that's using the flowers this one is a favorite and lots of people liked it in the studio it's just the dragonflies they're so different and against that lovely kind of like burgundy color wine color background I guess and it's just beautiful I've used that glitter cardstock there and the rose gold then I've done the yay and I've done that it's your birthday separate and kind of just stuck it in the corner there then you've got another one so yay using the alphabet chunky alphabet and some glossy accents again with the presents and that's papers from the party paper pad really really nice and then I've done the dragonflies again with this well done card again using pattern paper got room on the back on all of them to be able to write your message and then another one there with the party time and then I've got these really cool looking cards so this is using the dyes but this is using them in a different way so this is two stuck together and I'm going to be doing tutorials on this but if you look inside how cool is this and it has such a great look and again it will fold flat so you can fold it like so and it will fit into an envelope or you can have it flat like that into a larger envelope I think I did fold it another way as well I can't remember but again sure no it was that way yeah that way and it looks brilliant and again you can see how I've used the vertical stamps there so awesome and congratulations that makes a really nice card and you've got space on the back obviously I've just popped those all links I'll play around with it but you can see how that one looks and then I've done it in the 5x7 look how cool that looks it's just got such an awesome shape everybody will love this when you if you gave it to them because the presenters were looking at it they were like how have you done that that looks so cool and it's just using two of the die cuts together so this one's got the whoop whoop so again you can use that vertically although it's you know it's stamped to be in that parallel orientation you can have it vertically and I've just used some of the stars and then you can also do this kind of style so if you like a card that opens and closes I've used the embossing folder there I haven't really decorated too much it was just because it was displayed open but you can have it like this if you just add a score line through the center you can turn them into pop-up cards again I've used the happy birthday in that vertical orientation and then I've done it here with the panel and with the panel style that 5x7 landscape one sorry it will give you all of these so you can have again in my case I've done the awesome across all of those panels I just think it looks great so there's you know I want you to be able to create lots of different cards with that one you know kind of die set and I've got some more ideas as well which I'll be sharing over the coming weeks but these I think are pretty spectacular yes look out for these ones on the channel because they will be coming very soon so that is my latest collection I have so many samples I have thoroughly enjoyed making these because I've done all of these myself they've all been photographed they will all be on the cross-stache website under all of the products you'll be able to see them there as well and like I said I will be doing tutorials on lots of these over the coming weeks thank you again for watching and I'll be back with lots of tutorials very soon bye


My role as the artistic director of Welsh National Opera is to determine the artistic program and to give the company the course of its artistic ambition. It's difficult to answer which production has given me the most pleasure. Usually it's the one you've just finished. And it's true that La Forza del Destino has been a very, very exciting project for the company and it's the launch of a series of three productions of Verdi operas. But before all that is even an even greater project in some ways, which is this coming September to realize Prokofiev's opera War and Peace, something for the whole company to get behind. I'm very proud indeed to be nominated. I'm very proud of what our company is able to bring to Wales. So we see ourselves very much as a platform to present Welsh talent and achievement and also a platform to bring international talent to Wales. So to be associated with that and to be honored for the achievements of our company, that's something very touching for me.


With this bill, anyone suspected of terrorism is guilty until proven innocent. Indeed, there are safeguards, but it appears those who are meant to safeguard the government and not its citizens. All of this goes back to Section 4's vague and amenable definition of what constitutes a terrorist. This affords them the freedom to target, designate, arrest without any warrant, and detain any prospective individual for up to 24 days for something meant to fight terror. It should be awfully alarming how keeping quiet and afraid is what they would prefer all of us to be.


My name is Els Kushner, and I've brought two rhymes in languages that I don't know. I've heard them both from other people at the Vancouver Public Library. The first one is called Becuerfo, and it is in Spanish. And I learned it from Kelly Clark, who learned it from Lucia, who works here. And I just ran into her on the way in here, and she said I was doing it okay. So, I'll just tell you what it means. It means my body makes music. My hands go clack, clack, clack. My feet go stomp, stomp, stomp. My mouth goes la, la, la. And my whole body goes cha, cha, cha. Who knows this already? That's great. Oh good, so please sing along. My body, my body makes music. My body, my body makes music. My hands go clack, clack, clack. My feet go stomp, stomp, stomp. My mouth goes la, la, la. You can wait for the question. La, la, la. Mi cuerpo hace cha, cha, cha. Should I do it again? Yes, absolutely. I'll do it again. And sometimes when I'm doing it with kids, I'll have them repeat the last two lines like this. Mi cuerpo, mi cuerpo hace música. Mi cuerpo, mi cuerpo hace música. Mis manos hacen, mis pies hacen. Mi boca hace la, la, la. Mi cuerpo hace cha, cha, cha. Mi cuerpo hace cha, cha, cha. Thank you.