Okay, hope you're doing well. It is Sunday the 20th of February, so our usual look ahead for the week and plenty to get you up to speed on the Russian-Ukraine situation. That continues to be the most dominant theme, but some other news to look out for this week, namely the loosening, finally, of restrictions in the UK of coronavirus from the UK government. PM Johnson set to unveil those on Monday in Parliament. We've also got updates on the lights of Tesla, Fed views. Will they pull the trigger on 50 and what are some of the major US banks thinking about the number of consecutive hikes to come? JP Morgan being one at the weekend saying they're now looking for nine rate hikes consecutively of 25 basis points. And then we'll look at the week ahead. US President's Day, of course, on Monday, but we've got the flash services manufacturing PMIs to come to kick off the week. It's bookended at the end of the week with US GDP and US core PCE numbers, but let's hop straight to it and talk about Russia and what's happening in Ukraine. Russia Belarus have said that massive joint military drills will not end today, i.e. February 20th, Sunday, as planned, and that Russian forces will remain in Belarus indefinitely. And this comes, of course, after tensions have been growing, lots of reports, mixed reports about explosions, gunfire and so forth in the eastern part of Ukraine. This is the kind of map Moscow essentially has masked now about 190,000 troops on Ukraine's border, including those participating in these latest drills. And this comes, of course, despite previously pledging that they have returned to base. Other things you should be aware of, just amalgamating some of the major headlines that have come out in the last 24 hours or so. President Joe Biden convened a National Security Council meeting on Ukraine for Sunday, and that did include talks with Russia and Ukraine. They're going to hold talks on Monday towards a restoration of the ceasefire deal in Ukraine, Donbass region, according to a French official. And separately, French President Macron and Vladimir Putin agreed to talks during their call on Sunday. Now, some of the latest coming out of the US to be aware of is the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken. On Sunday, he told CNN that diplomacy remains possible in the Ukraine crisis, that Biden was still willing to engage with Putin at any time in any format. Blinken said he is still planning to meet Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the coming days. And at the moment, again, although tensions are incredibly high and the risk, of course, tail risk of a misinterpretation of a gunfire or a separatist movement that could trigger something more meaningful and a retaliation effect is still alive and present. One thing I would say is that despite the rhetoric being very aggressive coming out of the US, Russia have been in dialogue with these other European and US officials. And so I still think the risk of a full-blown invasion remains low. If you want more on that view from the lens of geopolitics, in particular, and as well as the domestic situation in the US that really drives some of the rhetoric coming out of Biden, then check out the podcast that we put out on Friday on Amplify, the Market Maker, and Spotify, and Apple. We talk about it in great detail. But the latest headline to come out just before I started this briefing, and this is on Sunday night, is this. The US have said they've told allies that Russia invasion of Ukraine would potentially see it target multiple cities beyond the capital of Kiev, according to three people familiar with the matter. So again, usual rules apply. I think when you're trying to interpret this time for information, this type of leaked messaging with a little bit of a lack of substance has been pretty consistent coming out of the US. We know they're trying to strong arm the optics just to manage some of the domestic appearance of dealing with the foreign affairs issues at the moment. So I wouldn't get too excited about that type of comment, to be quite honest. And I'd just be cautious about how to interpret information that you see and always try to fact check and verify and just be aware of the, you know, if it's the state-run news agency in Russia, they're probably going to be having an agenda with what they're reporting. So something to keep in mind. Otherwise, look, the final thing is I did a post on my LinkedIn account. I'll drop my link to my LinkedIn, the finance accelerator that we're running this week, the daily newsletter I put out, I'll drop all the links into the video. So just check out the description if you want to get access to some of that stuff. But on my LinkedIn account, just a few hours ago, I tweeted really useful notes by the analysts at city. And it's hard to see here. But if you go on to that, that post, you can click on it. And it basically gives you a rundown of 40 European stocks, which have the most Russian exposure. And it's quite a useful kind of crib sheet to have certainly if you're looking at single stock or even index trading in some of the European names. But otherwise, just pivoting to the UK. This really isn't market moving as far as from a trading perspective in the short term. Certainly, though, it will have repercussions on going forward in the weeks and months ahead because now tantamount to the fall reopening. And that's because PM Johnson is due to lift remaining COVID restrictions in England on Monday, and will announce that people testing positive for coronavirus will no longer have to self isolate. Positive tests in the UK have continued to fall from an early January Omicron driven peak that we saw, of course, the number of patients hospitalized is also down quite sharply. Daily COVID deaths are now running about to give you context 90% below the peak from early 2021 before vaccines were widely available, the rationale behind that decision from the Prime Minister. But again, also looking to appease a lot of the pressure he's been on with some of the restrictions that have been in place, albeit on a fairly light touch that have really, again, provided more internal fighting and the Conservative Party. So that's going to go ahead this week. The other thing then is where are we with the Fed? And this was quite interesting over the weekend, JP Morgan economists now said they see the Fed will likely raise interest rates by 25 basis points at each one of the next nine consecutive meetings. We've kind of seen US banks do this they've gone from basically three to five hikes this year to seven hikes this year. Now they're saying all meetings this year plus another two next year, JP's kind of like right out there on the extremity of the views at the moment. In terms of the CME Fed watch tool, which looks at short term interest rate futures, so the federal funds rate, which you can then determine the probability of a 50 basis point rate hike in the March meeting that now has dropped to 22%. You remember after that red hot inflation number we had around a week and a half ago, that number was as high as 95%. So just given the geopolitical uncertainties, which probably are not going to go away anytime quickly at this present point in time. And also just some of the nervousness that's now ensuing on the back of some of the valuation decreases that we've been seeing in equity space, the volatility pickup, the repercussion of what some of the yield curve movement is indicating as well about the Fed gets this wrong in terms of the tightening cycle. People are starting to ease off the gas about this go big first move and more about a coordinated smooth transition of rate hikes going going further forward. Tesla just a quick word. They are trading at close of last week down around 850 at the moment. Remember they were up just a few months ago up around the 1200 mark when they're really at the peak of their powers. At the moment, the latest news to look out for this week is Germany's federal motor vehicle office. They're called the KBA. They're investigating Tesla's automotive lane change function and whether it's going to be approved for use in Europe, essentially according to German press, citing sources at the weekend. Last week, the US national highway traffic safety administration opened its second probe into the autopilot defect. So something to short term to look out for for Tesla shares. But as far as the week is concerned, of course, it is US President's Day. So markets are closed in the US Monday. But nonetheless, that doesn't mean that we're not without a fairly busy, busy docket because we get the EU UK manufacturing service PMIs to really kick things off. Essentially, we've got rising geopolitical tensions, inflation fears are obviously rife at the moment. But falling COVID-19 infections has resulted in the easing of restrictions. And it is expected to have boosted European activity in February from a sentiment basis. So we are expecting these to be somewhat on the upside against prior readings. For similar reasons, then the German iPhone reading, which is the survey of German businesses, that's going to come out on Tuesday morning. That's also expected to see a very minor uptick as well from the previous reading in January. Of course, US markets closed Monday, so that corresponding data on the PMI side will come out on Tuesday for market. Just skipping forward Wednesday, not too much on the docket. But Thursday, you get the second reading of Q4 US GDP. You also get the weekly jobless claims and new home sales coming out of the States. And then on Friday, you get the core PCE numbers expected to core PC in the US to come in at 0.5%. That would bring the index to 5.2% rise over the past 12 months, up slightly from the 4.9% increase that we saw at the end of last year. And that marked at the time the largest gains since September of 1983. So shouldn't really come as too much of a surprise. Obviously, we're pretty well set now up to the direction of travel of inflation at the moment. But nonetheless, that would be keenly watched as the preferred measurement of inflation for federal reserve, kind of board thinking. Just final things to say. Yes, you guessed it. He's back. Reports over the weekend, Donald Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, they appear set to release their Apple, their app on the Apple Store on Monday. And of course, Monday is the President's Day. So yeah, you can always count on Donald to cause maximum splash at the point of way. Obviously, Biden is struggling on multiple fronts at the moment. So I guess this is kind of the gun firing really on the midterms in some respect. All right, that is it. Again, any questions at all for me? Just let me know in the comments below. Otherwise, as I said, I'll drop a couple of useful links. Do check them out. And yeah, have a good week ahead. Take care.


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Though a seemingly simple task, eating requires a coordinated effort between multiple oral muscles, such as those found in the tongue and lips. A new study conducted by researchers in Japan has found a link between the strength of these muscles and a condition called nutrition-related sarcopenia. From childhood through young adulthood, your muscles continually grow larger and stronger. At some point in midlife, however, this trajectory switches course and many muscles begin to deteriorate, a progression termed sarcopenia. While this muscle loss is a natural part of the aging process, malnutrition has been suggested to amplify the problem. And because nutritional intake involves oral function, degeneration of these muscles may play a role. In hopes of clarifying this relationship, the team evaluated more than 200 patients over the age of 65 for malnutrition and assessed factors such as tongue strength, lip strength, and the amount of food they ate. The researchers found that regardless of food intake level, tongue and lip strength were negatively associated with a presence of nutrition-related sarcopenia. That is, patients with this condition showed significantly reduced strength of both muscle groups. What's more, the muscles seem to get weaker with lower food intake over the previous three months, suggesting malnutrition may lead to reduced oral strength. Of course, the author's caution, the converse of this may also be true. Lower oral muscles could result in eating less. While a direct causal relationship could not be demonstrated in this study, these results suggest that tongue strength and lip strength may be useful indicators for detecting the presence of nutrition-related sarcopenia. In addition, increasing the strength of these muscles by directed exercise may be an important factor in improving and preventing this condition in older patients.


All right we're back we're live I'm Jay Fidel it's the three o'clock block here on a given Wednesday and we're talking energy in America and we're defining our terms a little bit broadly today energy includes everything that affects energy as well as energy and America affects the entire hemisphere that's why we're talking to Emily Medina in Mexico City is that where you are Emily? Yes I'm in Mexico City right now. Okay she's with the energy policy research organization the Lu Pugliarisi shop in Washington but she is there may I say men on the men on the job in Mexico Mexico City and she reports to us how things are doing there we want to hear everything about what's going on so Emily first let's let's get a report from you on COVID in Mexico I know you have some charts why don't you describe the trend lines there first of all thanks for the invitation I'm glad to be here today yeah I prepared some slides to show you know how the COVID-19 is is going on in Mexico you know and recently you know the number of the debt toll has really increased you know dramatically over the last couple of months and right now we are the third country with the most you know because of COVID-19 so it's getting very serious in the country and I'm gonna provide a little bit of overview of what actions the government has been taking to deal with this issue and what the response has been and the government side yeah to put it in perspective the first the number one country in the world is the United States we have achieved a certain kind of excellence in the number of people who have caught the disease and died thanks to our president and for us it's a hundred and seventy thousand already something like that I have people died and we have five point five and a half million people who have caught the disease is just stunning numbers the second one is Brazil Brazil they're not too concerned about COVID and COVID is coming for them and that's really tragic and the third is Mexico we have you have something in the order of fifty five thousand deaths already that's one third of the US but that that is a very large number for you and so I want to examine well one examine all the demographics yes and then the death toll right now is close to sixty thousand you know the number is very high and you know if we take into account the number of tests that we are having in the country do not match you know with the increasing death toll that we're seeing in the country and in the next chart yeah here we can see in more detail you know how Mexico compares to other countries worldwide in terms of the you know the tests that are being performed and as we can see you know Mexico is you know and the country with the least number of tests and compared to you know all of this and on the right that we're seeing you know Emily doesn't it if you have fewer tests then you're less accurate in other words if you have more tests you find more cases right that's correct so you know in terms of the number of cases that have been reported by the government we have the the number of fifty seven thousand you know people but if we you know take into account that the the government's really not carrying out as many tests as it should to match you know with the number of population in different aspects of you know the Mexican demographics it's you know that's one of the key issues that we're having in Mexico right now in terms of the dealing and the response of the COVID-19 so here on the next slide we can see that the number of tests that have been you know applied since March 6th so as we can see you know the tests you know increased them throughout time and and they reached their peak on July 23rd and it's the odd thing here and what tells you a lot in terms of the data and the COVID situation is that as the number of cases rose and the test started to decline so you know it shouldn't be the case you know what we should be seeing is that as the number of cases is increasing we should see more tests being performed throughout the country not the opposite how do you explain the decline the decline in tests well basically I mean I guess and once the numbers and start to be unfavorable for you know the government then you see the reduction of tests because it's not convenient to show the reality that sounds like Trump doesn't it this is a big issue because for I mean for starters the government is not being transparent with the situation you know if we have such a severe situation in the country where we are you know close to reaching 60,000 deaths we should be using our resources to increase the number of tests and to prevent more deaths not to hide the deaths that are occurring and what really is going to tell us in and this and this fact that you know that the number of deaths do not match the reported and that's by the government is that mortality rates are increasing in the country so they're not matching with the the number of deaths reported from COVID-19 and tragic unfortunately didn't put up the that graph here but if we go to the next graph are we there now yeah yes well this is called the share of COVID-19 tests that are possible positive yeah here so basically this was going you know from my last point that you know we see from July 23rd that the number of positive cases has been increasing so you know these two graphs do not make sense together and this is being manipulated you know the information that's been shared by the government and the response unfortunately hasn't match what we the response that we need in terms of you know the number of cases these these numbers are from the government then on these charts this actually is data from our world our world in data so this in chart is not from the government this is from an independent organization but if we see the first slide is from the government so if you want to go back to let's go back to the first slide that was yeah okay that's official government data yeah well great concern Emily it's it's a great concern everywhere certainly a great concern in this country but it's it's somehow discouraging to find that Mexico is tracking the same path or a similar path that the US is tracking so what does this mean to you I mean to us here in Hawaii we've had you know we we were able to suppress the curve for a while I think people were serious about following the rules they stopped for they got you know they got complacent and it went up and then Trump started talking about reopening and everybody got more complacent and businesses started opening groups and restaurants and what have you and then it got really wild and it's been wild we have had a serious increase in the number of cases daily in the past few weeks it's not not happy time so people like me we can work at home we do work at home and we don't go out much do you go out much it's actually very similar than and approach that Mexico is taking you know there's a lot of similarities in terms of the handling of the opening of the economy and then shutting it down again and opening again because of the you know increasing numbers of cases so for example you know and and here in Mexico I mean I'm sure it also happens in the US where it varies from state to state and because you know here every from the local level governments are taking the measures that they consider appropriate appropriate and for example in the state of Yucatan they even have a ban in alcohol right now so actually they started with abandon alcohol then they you know took the ban away and the number of cases increased so now they have banned alcohol again and they're saving a curfew people are are there's a mandate to wear masks in public so it's it's been you know very different in each state and they that example in Yucatan is one of the states with the you know strongest measures and so basically I mean what we're seeing is that people are being responsible I guess I mean staying home most of most people I would say I mean at least in my circle of friends I know people are you know and being careful and quarantining and everything and personally I am you know not leaving the house much although you know I mean things also have to kind of you know you know we we have to be moving in a new direction in terms of a new normality you know a new norm yes definitely I make sure to wear my mask when I am in public spaces and public areas because you know I think it's being a responsible citizen and it's not precisely that I fear that I'm gonna get it but you know who I can transmit it to if you know if I have it and I don't know it and you know anybody do you know anybody who has become infected I do I knew I know a couple of people who have gotten it and they you know isolated and then you know self-quarantining in their homes for a couple of months until they got rid of it and now they're just like that's normal you know okay to hear that nobody died then no I mean the cases that I am aware of people close to me have been of younger age so you know and they've been able to recover from it more easily what about distancing is there are there rules about distancing and are people following them well yes I mean there is you know everywhere you go you go people in I mean I've been to one restaurant since this you know started in March so and that restaurant was pretty much empty so I mean that's why I felt safe to go and everything and people were you know are I believe like businesses are being very careful in you know and having all the necessary protections and so that's a positive sign but in terms of I mean distancing I think I mean in Mexico Mexico is very family oriented and people you know love to are very effective and love to be hugging even the precedent you know he goes on a rally or whatever he's hugging people in the streets and everything so it's part of our culture you know the close contact and stuff and that's definitely not good for a COVID but but I think people you know are starting I mean they they they get it but it's also hard because it's you know we're so affectionate too bad you know because at the end of the day I mean hugging is good for you it's good for everybody who hugs wherever they are it's a sign of affection and trust and so forth and when we come out of this I think there'll be a lot less hugging going on in the world that's really too bad how people are interacting nowadays you don't even shake hands it's just a it's gonna change the world I think how about Amlo is he is he strong about this is he as he set down rules as he enforced rules about masks and social distancing and and reopening where is his head at is he is he effective in dealing with the COVID well since the start of this pandemic he's you know he he holds a daily conference it's called the mañana where he basically what does that stand for and there's not like a direct translation but it's basically like a morning press okay all right so in his daily morning press which lasts an hour he you know touches on different topics and it's interesting to he listened to it because it's where he said he's he sets his agenda and in all areas you know just a very not so formal setting where he's just like saying his policy approaches and everything you know so in his money and he basically has said that he does not believe in the effectiveness of wearing a mask and you know he basically I mean goes in public without wearing the wearing the face mask so it's unfortunate because you know there's a lot of people watching the mañana and you know learning from the example of the precedent so it's it's not ideal for the country's precedent to say that wearing a mask is stupid and also and the the health and Caesar which is Lopez Gatell he which is you know has been the head of the of the epidemiology team in Mexico and since the beginning and and he also carries a daily you know press conference and he's even you know sent very confusing messages to the people on whether then we should be wearing masks or not you know he said you know wearing mask is a complimentary action by you know washing your hands is what's more effective I mean just like saying a lot of confusing messages where you know it's pretty obvious that you know the evidence is there already that should suggest that wearing a mask is what can help you know prevent the spread of the virus so it wouldn't hurt if you know the health Caesar would just you know be more clear and then saying to the public that they should wear a mask you know let me ask you a hypothetical question you know though if I were a Mexican person living in Mexico I would be mighty offended with the way the Trump administration is treated my country on the other hand it would appear that what Trump does cast a long shadow it cast a shadow on Canada cast a shadow on everything south of the border too because people listen to him including some dictators south of you and for example Brazil and I wonder if Trump's mixed messages his dog whistle confusion messages and the confusion of his administration has an effect on Amlo and the way the Mexican government works in other words my question to you is had Trump been sending clear messages on these things don't you think that Amlo would have followed suit on that and we wouldn't have this confusion in Mexico what do you think that's a very good question and I mean I don't know the exact answer but I think my reasoning is that actually Trump and Amlo share a lot of characteristics in terms of their governing style where you know they're pretty much nationalistic in their approach and in interviews and I think it can and I mean the populist approach in Latin America also I think it's been undermining the response for COVID-19 what an appropriate response should be and this you know they feel like they are the best country in the world if it's Mexico or if it's the US and that they can you know do whatever they want and that they're gonna be well off but I think you know it's important that they recognize the responsibility that they have or in their countries you know I mean it might be popular to to say that wearing a mask is stupid among the public you know because it's it's not boring it's you know it's entertainment it's you know I mean there's a lot of people who are unfortunately not well informed as to make you know wise decisions so this brings me to a question about about the skinheads and those people who follow Trump on the level of bigotry racism and so forth them and and he has with them a weaponized all idea of a mask he's made it a political issue and if you don't wear a mask you're for him if you do wear a mask you're against him and that's really completely irrational but I am wondering whether you have the same phenomenon in Mexico do you have people who refuse to wear masks because because of Trump or because they feel it's their right not to wear a mask it's a political issue for them do you have that actually no I mean I think people are much more willing to wear a mask here in Mexico and I haven't really heard from Mexican people in terms of you know being threatened that there someone is taking away their rights you know because of the wearing of the mask so I don't see that and that reaction from the Mexican public as much as you know we see it in the US I think people here you know because it's I guess it's it's a more family-oriented society than what you have in the US that's a more individualistic society I think that difference it explains why we have you know different reactions among the public I think here people are more worried about you know passing it on to their relatives than what they might be in the US you know let's so let's shift gears for a few minutes Emily let's talk about the reopening in the economy as you know the US is in the economy is in the tank and it looks like it's going to stay there for a while or get way worse not clear Congress has been dysfunctional or non non-functional in dealing with a social safety net and I wonder how things are doing in Mexico have you got a parallel process going on in the economy so contrary to the US approach where you have seen certain as you know a stimulus package being provided to to the people here in Mexico is pretty much been all messed to themselves I mean in terms of you know everybody's on their own in here and there's really happened has not there hasn't been any support from the government and providing you know aid and relief to to the people who are you know and if we're going through a rough economic time and it's also I mean it's it's only gonna get worse from here and the World Bank has a projection for Mexico's economy contracting by 7.5% this year so the economic impact is already being felt throughout the country and the government's response has been you know you know unfortunate because we haven't seen any contra-cyclical measures or any you know type of economic support and this is going to hurt you know small businesses and Mexican society in general we are going to people can they eat you know do you have social unrest as a consequence well so Mexican the government has very strong support from the Mexican public as you may already know and the government won by a majority so his popularity is still very high he holds about a 50% popularity I haven't checked the numbers recently but since the pandemic they have gone down because his hand of the pandemic has been so bad that his popularity has declined but it's still very high it's still about a 50% from a 67% I believe that when he started it was in 2019 so so I take it the you know this they declined in the economy and a gross domestic product and so forth has an effect on energy we need to spend a little time you know evaluating that energy projects energy developments energy investment what effect on those things in Mexico so in terms of the Mexican energy policy right now is going through a change we the government is has a very different idea in terms of what Mexico's energy sector direction should be and it looks a lot more nationalist than what the previous administration and had laid out so we were seeing that Mexico is government is really pushing to strengthen Mexico state oil company Pemex and this is undermining private sector participation which is you know it's also bad for the economy because it is it's causing you know private sector investments to look elsewhere so at the end of the day when we all come out of this and I hope it's soon Mexico will have lost possible investment in the private sector energy economy no yes and this is because the government like I said is favoring Pemex and CFE which are both state-owned energy companies and so this favoring undermines private sector participation too bad I only have one more question for you Emily and that is something I read in the in the paper was in all the Mexican papers this morning I don't know if you saw it but Amlo has decided that he wants to submit to phase three testing of the Russian vaccine which is by the way interestingly enough called Sputnik 5 you know referring to way back in the I guess it was in the 50s when when Russia saw you know was the first one to send a satellite into orbit and they still you know celebrating that event and that success so the you know I guess they're referring back to the that to demonstrate that they're their their COVID vaccine is early you know it's a great success for them but what's interesting is that he has submitted himself he said you show me efficacy and I will personally participate in the phase three trial and I will get a lot of Mexican people to participate in the phase three trial even though there really hasn't been a lot of trials up to this point then there's a certain a risk and the American medical community research community saying what are you kidding this is untried so what do you think about that what do people think about that in Mexico well it's I mean it's very interesting to see that he wants to be the first one to have that vaccine in Mexico so let's see how that goes at the same time and they're also developing a new vaccine so Mexico and Argentina stroke a deal to come up with a vaccine here in Latin America so hopefully that goes so well it's being funded by the Slim Foundation so it's gonna be Carlos Slim yeah so it's gonna be free to the public and I mean hopefully we can have it ready soon that would be interesting Emily if if Mexico and Argentina that collaboration actually resulted in a working vaccine and then the US would be asking if Mexico could do it a favor and provide some of the you'll think you'll have to think long and hard about that but what would you like to tell you know people in the US about the Mexican experience and what what Mexico has learned from it to the extent Mexico has learned and then how the US can think about it in context of the Mexican experience so in dealing with COVID-19 so basically I mean I guess I mean what I would like to tell the US is to be responsible and I mean to I don't know I mean provide the the resources and capabilities that the world needs right now it definitely I mean all countries in the world are watching the US and are following their example and I think it's gonna be interesting to see how they continue to respond to this issue and whether they continue to lead the world in the direction that needs to be led. Oh that's so well put that's really a wonderful answer to my question Emily. Emily Medina of E-princk in Mexico City thank you so much for joining us today. Thank you Jay, it's a pleasure. Aloha and vaya candios. Aloha.


So how's everybody doing? All right, recording is on. So Harrison, how are you doing? Very well, sir, I'm very well. Thank you. Good, good. All right, so let's pray together and we'll get started. Can I request somebody to pray with a class? Who would like to do that? Sir, can I pray? Go ahead, Abhishek, please pray. Okay. Heavenly Father, we come before your holy throne of grace in the name of Lord Jesus. Lord, you give us new blessing and grace every morning, Lord. Thank you for that, Lord, and give us new opportunities. So, Father, bless the teacher, pastor with your spiritual revelation, wisdom and knowledge understanding and remove every form of distraction from this class that this class will go smoothly without any distraction and bless each of the students with a listening ear and understanding heart that we may understand what will be taught in the class. And thank you for hearing this prayer in the Lord Jesus when we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Once again, good morning and welcome everybody. We're talking about keys to Supernatural Ministry and this was an outline that I did put in one of the earlier PDFs. So, we're working our way through these eight keys. We've talked about understanding the realm of the Spirit, what faith, the power of the word, to the new mind, and we were talking about the anointing of the Spirit. I will put out the PDF on that shortly, maybe by next class next week. And so you'll have everything that I've stated, the outline of what I've stated. We'll just quickly review what we have discussed so far or shared with you so far on the anointing of the Spirit. I want to talk about that. And then we will move forward in talking about the next key, which is God's presence and glory. And I just want us to understand a little bit about the anointing, the presence and the glory and how we learn to move in these as we are instruments to minister to people. So, the anointing, just to quickly recap, review some of the things we said. And you'll find these are the notes that I put out. So, it's the presence and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit working through a human vessel. So, it's the Holy Spirit working through a human vessel. We refer to that as the anointing. The anointing refers to the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. And the anointing causes the mighty works of God to take place through the human vessel. It destroys yolks, heals the broken hearted and opens blind eyes. So, the anointing is flowing through the vessel. So, the key for us is to learn about the anointing, learn how to flow with the anointing because he works through us. We are human vessels. So, we have to learn how to cooperate with the anointing, flow with the anointing to minister to people. Some of the things we said is number one. We said the anointing flows through us in line with God's grace and gifting on our lives. So, you flow with the grace and gifting that God has given you. The anointing flows through it, through the grace and gifting that's on your life. Use whatever it is. If you're an artist, you paint. And you expect that through your painting and expression of that gift, lives will be touched. If you're a musician, use that.  The grace and gift that God's put on your life will become the conduit or the channel through which the anointing is released. The second thing we said also is that the anointing accompanies the word of God. So, engage with the word, meaningfully, feed on it. The anointing flows through the release of the word of God. And we act on the word, the anointing flows when we act on the word.  The third key we mentioned is consecration as consecrating ourselves as vessels before God. So, God fills us up and then he releases the anointing through us. We'll talk more about consecration as part of our personal preparation. The fourth one we mentioned was expectation. That is, where there is heightened expectation for the supernatural, there is the flow of the anointing to cause that to happen. And so, we slowly build up the expectation without hype, without becoming sensational about it. Try to be just normal. Because if we create a lot of hype and sensationalism, then people are going to think that all the anointing happens because of the hype and the sensational behavior. And then they're going to go do the same thing. But if you and I show that, look, the anointing is happening because you're expecting God to do it. And you can have expectation, just become a normal, but still be expectant. People will imitate that. They will be expectant without the hype and the sensationalism. So, keep the focus on Jesus, encourage people through the word to expect the work of the anointing to take place. Some of the things we just mentioned in passing is that there are different measures of the anointing. He gave example of Moses, the 70 elders, Moses and Joshua and Elijah and Elijah. So, the different measures. There are different kinds of anointing. Now, when we say there are different kinds of anointing, we don't mean there are different kinds of Holy Spirit. No, one Holy Spirit who is expressing himself differently because of the channels or the conduit that is working. So, usually the anointing is labeled, that is, we give a label to the anointing based on the gift and the grace through which it flows. So, example, if somebody is teaching, we say teaching anointing. Prophecyan is a prophetic anointing, healing or healing anointing. Same Holy Spirit just flowing in different expressions. So, we just label it according to the expression. That's all, that's all it is. So, we call it different kinds of anointing, meaning the different expressions of the same Holy Spirit working, causing different things to take place. So, the teaching anointing will cause revelation to come into the hearts of people, will bring wisdom and understanding into the hearts of people, build them up and so on. The prophetic anointing brings revelation. It reveals the purposes of God, reveals the plan of God, reveals what's going on. So, the prophetic has to do with a lot of revelation. There is the healing anointing, of course, results in healing, miracles, the miracle anointing result in miracles. And as people, we can flow in different kinds of anointing. That's the Holy Spirit, you know, moves us. And so, we need to be sensitive to what kind of anointing he wants to express. So, if you are a person and that, you know, let's say you could move on the teaching, you could move on the prophetic, you could move on healing some miracles, then you need to be sensitive. What does the Holy Spirit want to do through me now? And then you yield to that kind of anointing. So, that's why it's important to recognize, okay, the Holy Spirit wants me to teach. Someone teach now. Now is not the time to prophesy. Now is the time to teach. And through that teaching, he's going to express himself and minister to people. Or sometimes, okay, the Holy Spirit wants me to prophesy. He wants me to move in this kind of, it's the same Holy Spirit, but you're aware of the kind of anointing, the kind of expression he wants to bring through you. That's all we mean by kind of anointing, right? How he wants to express through you. So, I feel the prophetic. Say, like, how do you know it's prophetic or teaching or healing? You recognize it. It's depending what he wants to do, right? If he's moving you that, okay, now you move on the prophetic, there's going to be that revelation. Then you just step into it. I need to begin to minister that way, because you're recognizing a prophetic anointing. There's revelation coming, revelation bubbling up.  He's revealing things to you. So, you begin to move in that. If there's healing miracles, you move in that, right? So, for us, we need to be aware that there are different kinds of anointing and you recognize the kind of expression the Holy Spirit wants. So, then you know that's the kind of anointing that is flowing through you, okay? We also said that we can grow in the anointing. We grow in the anointing, or as we grow in our gift, as we grow in our grace, we will grow in the anointing, the expression of the Holy Spirit through our lives. Grow in the gift, grow in the grace, you will grow in the anointing. And towards the end of last class, last week, we talked about impartation.  Everybody wants to receive impartation, but then we don't understand, you know, into receiving an impartation. It is true that sometimes impartation can happen, you know, through this, somebody just laying hands when you suddenly, it happens. That's the exception. The norm is impartation takes place through association, that you are drawing through a certain person who's carrying a certain gift and anointing.  And usually the impartation takes place aligned to God's gift and calling on your life. So if God hasn't really called you to that kind of ministry, there's no point in pursuing that because, hey, that's not the call of God on your life. You know, so pursue the anointing that's aligned to God's gift and grace and calling on your life. Impartation can take place in a measure. It doesn't mean everything that one person carries is, you know, dumped on somebody else. No, usually there's a measure, there's a measure, there's a certain aspect of the anointing. And ultimately we said, whatever you receive comes from God.  And we also said that whatever is received through impartation has to be nurtured and developed, right? So just because somebody imparted something and impartation doesn't mean overnight you become like that person. No, an impartation is a deposit made into your life but that has to be nurtured and developed in you, right? So just a few more thoughts on the anointing and then we'll have some type of question answers and then we'll move on to the next key which is presence and glory. So just some of thoughts on anointing before we move is that we must learn how to administer the anointing or some people use the term flow with the anointing, right? And now Jesus used language like this. He said, you know, he who believes in me out of his innermost being will flow rivers of living water. And this he spoke of the Holy Spirit, John chapter 7, 37 to 39. So the anointing flows like a river, right? So that means you and I need to flow with the anointing. That means move in the same direction and move with him the way he is moving, right? So that's, we call it as flowing with the anointing, right? So when you recognize the flow of the anointing, that is the presence of the part of the Holy Spirit being released through you, what must we do? We must administer the anointing.  He wants to be released through you.  But in order for that flow to take place we have to flow with him. So it's not like I am passive and he's active. No, I have to be active with him. I have to move with him in order to release his presence and power into the lives of people, right? And as I move with him, there are typical ways by which we administer, that means we release the anointing to bless other people, whether it's an other individual or whether it's a congregation or whoever you're ministering to. That means we call that as administering the anointing.  What are some of the keys? What are the simple things we must keep in mind when we're administering the anointing, right? First of all, of course, is faith, right? Faith is important. I must be in faith. So if I get into an unbelief, it's going to hinder the flow, right? So I must move in faith while I'm ministering the anointing. So I recognize the anointing, but I must move with him.  Now, how the Holy Spirit wants you to prophesy or release that prophetic anointing can vary, right? You've got to be sensitive to it. Sometimes he may say, walk up, go up to that person, prophesy. Sometimes he may say, call that person out, come up. Sometimes he may say, just go in that direction and you start walking in that direction.  But all of that action takes place because of faith. So I can recognize the flow of the anointing. I must flow with the anointing, but that means I must move in faith. So faith is involved. And we are administering the anointing. That's letting the Holy Spirit flow through us to touch somebody else. You and I have to step out in faith. And then when we're releasing the anointing, the anointing can be released through a touch. So sometimes you lay hands on people. You may touch them. Sometimes you don't have to touch them. Sometimes just speak a word. So the anointing can also be released through your spoken word.  So you might just speak the word. You might release that prophetic word, or you may say something which the Holy Spirit wants you to say, be healed, be delivered in Jesus' name, whatever. So the anointing can be released through touch, can be released through the spoken word. It can be released through some prophetic action. So I may not be touching a person. I may not be speaking a word, but it could be some prophetic action.  And this could vary. There's no set actions. What are the Holy Spirit leads you to? Sometimes you just wave at a person. Sometimes you may move your hand a certain way or whatever. There's a prophetic action. The Holy Spirit is saying, you do this in order to release the anointing. And you see examples. But for instance, you know, there was a time, and I'm looking back into 2 Kings, I think it's in chapter 5. And there are many examples of this. I'm just mentioning this example right now for prophetic action. Elisha was with some of his people whom he was training, and they decided to build a hut next to the bank of the river. So they decided to go and chop wood, sticks, or wood to come and build. And as this man was using his axe, the axe that came off the handle fell into the river. And so the son of the prophet, meaning he's a trainee prophet, he says, Alas, my lord, it was borrowed. Meaning this is not even my own. I borrowed this axe from somebody and now the axe that is in the river. What does Elisha do? He takes a piece, he takes a stick. He asks, where did it fall over there? He throws the stick. See, none of it is logical, right? In the sense like you're throwing a stick and what's going to happen? He throws a stick and then the axe said comes up and floats. So God is at work, but he had the prophet do a certain action. In this case, it was throwing a stick. Now I'm sure Elisha would have thrown lots of sticks at different points in time for various reasons. Nothing happened, but this particular time when he threw a stick into the river, the axe head actually came against natural laws to begin to float on the river and it came through the sky and this prophet, some other prophet, and he takes the axe head to himself. So this example, like this you'll find many examples where there's some action that the Holy Spirit is prompting you to do and that releases the annoying thing. In the case of Jesus, you'll find him, you know, there are times he laid hands on people, there are times he spoke the word and there are times he did some weird things like he spit on the ground, made clay and put it on people's somebody's eyes. That's weird. I mean, he didn't do that all the time. Sometimes he touched the tip of the tongue. Now that's different, but he did it. So the annoying thing, as you're administering, moving in faith, sometimes you lay hands, sometimes you speak a word, sometimes you do an action, something the Holy Spirit tells you to do. It's very specific to that case you're doing. And the fourth thing that we must also keep in mind is that the annoying thing is also released through materials. We see this in the case of Paul, even the life of Jesus, through Paul laid his hands on a cloth, Acts 19, verse 11. It says, God worked unusual miracles with the hands of Paul because aprons and handkerchiefs were taken from him, taken to the sick and they were healed. Now, in that case, God used cloth, but there is no restriction that God can only use cloth. He can use any material that he created. So sometimes you find the Bible using anointing oil. It's just a material. God can use water, can use anything he wants to. John Gillay, in his ministry, they recorded the fact that they used to pray over newsletters. So in those days they printed newsletters. So people used to pray over the newsletters and they used to mail it out. And when people received those newsletters, they were healed. They experienced a miracle in their lives. And so John Gillay believed that God was using these newsletters as a material to transmit the anointing and touch lives. So many different ways that God can use to administer the anointing. So you and I have to be open. Faith, you can touch, you can speak, you can act, and God could use certain materials as well to minister the anointing. Okay. And lastly, the last point I want to touch here is, you know, keep in mind that there are certain hindrances to the flow of the anointing. The number one biggest hindrance is unbelief. And you read about this even in the ministry of Jesus in Matthew 13 and in Mark 6. When Jesus went to his own hometown, it says, he couldn't do many mighty works. He healed a few sick people, but he couldn't do many mighty works because of their unbelief. Mark chapter 6 verses 5 and 6, because of unbelief. Was Jesus anointed? Yes. The Holy Spirit upon him? Yes. Could the Holy Spirit flow through him? Yes. But nothing big happened. Why? It tells us because of their unbelief. So unbelief stops the flow of the anointing. It hinders the expression of the anointing. And so that's why we need to create an atmosphere of faith by the ministry of the word and worship and so on. Another hindrance to the flow of the anointing from our side would be unwilling to step out. So the Holy Spirit is prompting. The Holy Spirit is telling it to go, move in a certain direction.  It's too much of a risk. And if we don't take risks, I think it's going to happen. So from our side, our unwillingness to step out, our unwillingness to take risks can become a hindrance to the flow of the anointing. And we were quenching the spirit. The Bible says, do not quench the Holy Spirit. Don't suppress. Let him flow. You flow with him so that he's able to minister to people. And a last point would be the works of the flesh. So if I am motivated wrongly at some point, the flow of the anointing will be quenched. So let's say that the spirit of God is flowing through me. And then I suddenly begin to take credit for myself. Oh, look how wonderful I am. I'm moving in the area of flesh, of self, of pride, those kinds of things. It quenches the flow of the anointing because God said in Exodus 30, he said, do not put the anointing on man's flesh. Saying, look, don't use this to, this is not ordinary. This is precious, right? He said, my glory I will not give to another. So we have to be careful. The things of the flesh can come in and quench the flow of the anointing. Okay. So I've covered several things here on the anointing, trying to just condense things for us here.  That's the flow of the anointing. Any questions now before we move into number six, key number six, which is presence and glory. Now let me introduce key number six, which is God's presence and glory. So anointing, presence, glory. These are all terms that we hear and they are biblical. They're in the Bible. It's all referring to God, but it's expressing a different way of his operation to touch the lives of people. The anointing is God working through a particular human vessel. He's working through a human vessel. The presence of God is God dwelling among his people. It's God extending himself among his people, his presence.  We have a part to play in receiving from his presence. So we need to be sensitive to his presence and receive from his presence. So when the presence is released through an individual, the presence and past release through an individual, we say anointing. When it's released, you know, over a person, over a community, not depending on any individual, they're saying it's presence. God's presence is here. And the glory of God is a tangible expression of that presence. So all three anointing, presence and glory is God expressing himself, but it's in different ways. And we, in order to receive the supernatural work of God, must learn how to flow with the anointing, with the presence and with the glory, respond, how to respond to the presence and the glory. So we have talked about the anointing, which is the presence of Holy Spirit working through you as an individual. Now we want to talk about the presence and then you want to talk about the glory. Now we have a ABC book called The Presence of God. It's a simple, small little book talking about the presence of God. But what we do see in scripture, so you can take that off of our website and you can study more. You can study more about the presence of God. Now, let me just summarize. So God is omnipresent, right? God is omnipresent. That means he's present everywhere. So like the psalmist said in Psalm 139, where can I go from your presence? Where can I flee from your spirit? Where can I go from your presence? So God is omnipresent. He's everywhere. People generally don't experience God because of his omnipresence. So God is everywhere. The presence of God is everywhere. That means people should just be falling down everywhere and repenting. That doesn't happen. When two believers are gathered together, God's presence is there. Jesus said, if two of you gather together in my name, I am there. So Jesus is present. But two believers can gather together and they can fight with each other. They can be mean to each other. Well, they gather in the name of Jesus, but they're... So what happened? The presence of God is not making any difference in their lives. Jesus is there, but they're fighting. No effect of God's presence. But then there are times when the presence of God can come on an individual or a group of people and lives are changed. Sick are healed. People are set free. The Bible says the hills melt like wax in the presence of the Lord. Even the hills melt like wax in the presence of the Lord. But then you've got situations where two people are fighting in the presence of God. Nothing is melting. How do we understand that? Well, we must recognize that there are varying levels or degrees to the presence of God. There is the omnipresence of God, but no sinner bows down and just converts or contends to God because of the omnipresence. God is present, but they don't even bother. Believers can get together in a church setting or a fellowship and they can be fighting, arguing, being mean to each other. Jesus is there, but there's no awareness of His presence. No sense. And yet there can be a higher degree of His presence where people are overwhelmed and lives are changed. So the point is there are varying degrees, varying levels of the presence of God. And I think the best analogy for that is, and I use this often, is when we think about temperature. So temperature. There are varying degrees in temperature. So at whatever, 50 degrees centigrade, iron doesn't melt. Some few things melt, but iron doesn't. Take the temperature up to 100 degrees centigrade. Some things melt, others don't. And then you can take the temperature up to several hundred degrees and at some point metal starts melting. So what are we saying? We are saying that depending on the degree of the presence of God, we will see things happening. Or we will not see things happening. But there are varying degrees to the presence of God. The potential is always there that hills will melt like wax in the presence of God. Psalm 132 is a very powerful psalm, a beautiful psalm about the presence of God, about God's dwelling. And in that psalm, God is saying, where I am present, I will meet the needs of the people. I'll feed the poor. I will clothe my people with salvation. I will give them victory over their enemies. There will be the light and revelation coming in. That's in the presence of God. All this can happen in God's presence. Psalm 132. Psalm 132. That's in the presence of God. All this can happen in God's presence. Psalm 132. I think it's verses 12 to 14. Maybe somebody can read that just to give us a little context. Others will keep talking and not giving scripture. So let us at least read one verse passage of scripture today. Psalm 132, please. Verses 13 to 18. Psalm 132. Let's wait. Can somebody read it for us, please? Can I read our psalm? Please go ahead. For the Lord has chosen Zion. He has decided for his dwelling place. This is my resting place forever. Here I will dwell for I have decided. I will abundantly bless her provision. I will satisfy her poor with bread. I will also clothe her priests with salvation. And her saints shall shout aloud for joy. There I will make the horn of David grow. I will prepare a lamb for my anointed. His enemies I will clothe with shame. But upon himself his crown shall flourish. Thank you. So notice this talking about the place where God is present. He says, you know, Zion, Old Testament Zion, New Testament church. Zion means God's chosen people. So God saying, you know, among my people I will dwell verse 13. This is my dwelling place. This is where I am going to be present. I'm going to dwell among my people. Verse 14, this is my resting place. So God is here. God is resting. And wherever God is resting, what will happen? He says verse 15 to 18. This is what I will do. And notice what I want to highlight here is and if you can just go through this passage and just underline every time God says, I will, I will, I will, I will. In other words, I am there. I'll take care of it. My presence is there. This will happen. In the anointing, you and I, you and I are flowing together in the presence. God is doing it. But, you know, we have a part to play in, in, in hosting the presence and welcoming the presence and recognizing the presence and accommodating and welcoming and receiving the presence of God. So it's like this, you know, let's say. Somebody came to your home.  He knocks on the door. Now, if you and I, if we don't open the door, he's not going to come in. So the presence came, but we didn't accommodate. So he's still outside. Or we can recognize the presence, open the door. Yeah. The person comes in and then we are off in some other room busy doing our own thing. He still won't get the benefit of his presence. No. Oh, God's presence is here. But then we get caught up in our own thing. And so what happens? It's out on receiving from the presence. Whereas in someone 32, God says, look, I will do all this where I am, where my presence is, I will bless you. I will, you know, I will bring provision. I will provide for the poor. I will bring salvation. I'll bring joy. I will bring strength. I will bring light and revelation. I'll bring victory over enemies. I will bring honor on your life. All this is there in the presence of God. But sometimes you open the door, the person who's come to bless us has come in and sat down there. Then we leave him there and then go off into some other room busy doing something. It's what happens. We don't receive from the presence. But in the presence of God is the supernatural, which we just read here. Someone 32, meaning all the things that we need to meet our needs and, you know, everything's listed here. Salvation, joy, strength, anointing, revelation, victory over enemies, honor in our lives. Everything's there in the presence of God. The key is for us to learn to receive from the presence of God. So it can happen to you and me as individuals. It can happen as, you know, when we come together as people to worship the presence of God, God extending himself to where we are, his omnipresent. But remember, there are varying degrees to his presence. So we have something to do with that. The more we say, God, I want you more, the more we hunger and thirst for him, the more he comes in his presence, the greater the degree of his presence over there. And then when the presence of God is there, we must learn to receive, learn to receive. So that's important. Now, in the Bible, and you will find this in the book, The Presence of God, simple book. The presence of God is typified for us in different ways. The presence of God is like rain. The presence of God is like fire. God says, I am a consuming fire. The presence of God is like light. The presence of God is like honey. Or we said water, rain already. So there are different pictures of the presence of God. And each has its purpose. Rain brings refreshing. Rain causes fruitfulness, brings reviving. Fire, fire consumes, destroys. But it also rekindles, invigorates light. Light dispels darkness. Light exposes the dirt and the sin and all of that. The light gives us direction, guidance, revelation, honey. It's sweetens our lives, blesses us, heals and strengthens. Like this. So the point is that when you recognize the presence of God, you also recognize what he has come to do. What does he want to do? Because the presence of God has various expressions, various purposes there. So when over you as an individual, sometimes when you're praying, the presence of God may come on you. How you respond to that will determine whether or not you receive what God came to do for you. If I just feel so nice, thank you God. I will miss out on what he wanted me to do. I may recognize his presence, but maybe he came to give me a revelation. He came to speak something into my heart. But I got so excited about his presence, I went and did something else. And I missed out on the light that he wanted to give to me, the revelation he wanted to bring. I missed out. That visit of his presence lost its purpose. Sometimes it can happen to us as a group. You know, maybe two or three or five or ten or 100, 200, any hundreds are gathered together. We are worshiping and worship is one of the ways we invite the presence of God. The Bible says he inhabits the praises of his people. So God is moving in and he's extending more of himself. The degree of God's presence is going up. Then what happens? People get all excited, but that's the time to pause. That's the time to be very sensitive. What has he come to do? Has he come to heal? Has he come to speak a word? Has he come to melt evil like wax? Has he come to burn the chaff? Has he come to expose the dirt? What has the presence? Why has he come? And we have to be sensitive and receive from the presence of God. Otherwise, the purpose of that visit is wasted. And so we yield to the presence. We yield to the presence. And the point is this, that when we yield to the presence, things happen in the lives of people. And this is different from the anointing, because the anointing is flowing through an individual. This is not coming through any individual. This is God moving as he desires through his presence. But we must respond. And the presence is what I say. It's not something visible, right? There is no visible expression of his presence, but you can recognize. So the presence is recognizable, but not visible. So what do you mean? I'm not seeing it with my naked eye, but I can recognize. Whereas the glory is a visible expression of his presence. So that's the difference between presence and glory. The glory is a visible, tangible expression of his presence. And the glory, we will talk about it next week, is God just putting himself on display, moving sovereignly. Whether you like it or not, it's going to happen. In the presence, you and I have a responsibility here to receive from his presence. It's not visible, but you recognize it in the spirit. So when somebody says, I feel the presence, it's not necessarily feeling in your body, sometimes it does, you can feel it in your body and all, but it's in a spiritual recognizing. You're aware. So your spiritually recognizing his presence. Glory is different, it's tangible. So there's anointing, there is presence, there is glory. I've just tried to share some things about the presence of God, but here's the wonderful thing. In the presence of God, when God is releasing his presence amongst us and we become sensitive, you and I don't have to do very much. Just tell the people to receive. And in the presence, people will be healed. People will be delivered. Needs will be met. Emotional physical healings will take place. There's no human person doing anything. The anointing, yeah, it's following through a human person. The human person has said in response, but he has to administer, lay hands, speak the word, do this, do that. Okay. In the presence, God is doing the work. We are learning to receive. We must recognize his presence. Then respond to that presence. Then we will receive. So this is where, you know, if you're an individual, if it's happening to you individually, it's where you and I must be learned to be sensitive and just receive. If it's happening to us collectively, like in a setting, in a group setting, the leader, usually, usually it's the leader who's responsible. He should say, hey, the presence of God is here. God has come to do this and this. Please be reverent, receive. That's all. The leader doesn't have to lay hands on anybody. He doesn't have to do nothing. This is the presence of God at work. So example, there have been times, and I know we have just a minute or so. There have been times that, you know, when we have sensed the presence of God during worship, then we just left everything. That means no preaching today, no video announcements, nothing. We are just going to stay with the presence of God. And I remember some occasions, I'm not saying this happens all the time, but I remember some occasions where, you know, we have an order of service, right? We have a plan. The plan is 40 minutes of worship, then transition into, yeah, say some announcements, and then get into the ministry of the Word. That's the usual plan if you have two hours, or one and a half hours, whatever your service time is. There have been times when we started worship, it began to sense an increased, heightened presence of God. And we said, just keep going. Just keep going. And we end up with three hours of continuous worship. Nobody complained, nobody left. Everybody was just caught up. And in that time, later on, you get the testimonies. People are healed. People are delivered. Just God is doing it by His presence. I mean, nobody's doing anything. Sometimes you may call out and say, there's a healing presence of God, receive a healing. There is God is delivering His people. You may recognize it and you say it, just to encourage people to become aware of that. But most of them, you're not doing anything. You're just pursuing the presence, responding to the presence. And God is doing it. Like we read in Psalm 132, He said, I will, I will, I will, I will do it. So God is doing it. We are just responding and receiving from His presence. Okay. I have to stop. Time is over. I see Rose's question. Let me read it. Would having of a vision when committing with God in prayer or worship be classified under the expression of God's glory as we can undeniably see what is shown and God showing us something. Yeah. So you're saying a vision, prayer, God is. Yes. So a vision, you know, a vision. Yes. So I would answer to the answer to your question is yes. Okay. It's an expression of God's glory. That means God is, unlike the presence where it's recognizable in the spirit. You're aware, but, you know, it's not the natural. It's not like you can't see it. The glory of God is what you can see. I just, I know our time is over, but I'll just give you a script to Isaiah 40 and verse five. Isaiah 40 verse five says the glory of God will be revealed and all flesh will see it. So the glory of God is God making himself known in our natural world. The presence of God is God moving in our natural world in our world, but you have to recognize him in the spirit, but the glory is different. The glory of God is all when you study the glory of God, it is God making himself visible in some way in the natural world. So that, you know, we see, we see it. It's revealed. Okay. But that's also an important key to the supernatural. So we must learn the anointing, learn the presence, how to move with the presence of God, how to receive the presence of God, and then the glory. Okay. We talk about that next week. The mistake, let me close with this. The mistake people make when they begin to recognize the presence of God is they disturb that.  And they leave. Or, you know, or whatever, you know, you get distracted and failed to receive what the person came to do for you. Any questions before we close in prayer? Everybody's very quiet, so I don't know whether this is making sense. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Harris. Samuel is contemplating. Okay. Okay. Yeah, let these things settle in your hearts, and then God will help you experience it both personally and corporately. Okay. Sounds good. Let's close in prayer. Just want somebody to lead us in prayer and then we will dismiss. Well, let me pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you. Father, we bless your name. We thank you for the opportunity you've given us. We got to hear your word this morning, this afternoon, this evening.  Now that no sorrow. Thank you, Father, because you've revealed to God more of yourself to us today. And we pray, Father, that you will help us with God not to miss it in the one you speak to us. We pray, Father, that you will give us a God, a dissonant spirit to go to walk accordingly as the Holy Spirit leads. Father, we pray that you will give us a God, a Christ to go to operating that supernatural dimension that you have proposed and destined us to operate on. I pray, Father, that the words that we've heard of God this morning, this afternoon, this evening, should not just drop void, but, Father, let it be an impactation to every life that is present here this day. And I pray, Father, even as we go out to God into the streets and to every nations, to every city, to every tribes, Father, manifest the fullness of your power. We glorify your name because we know that we are moving forward and not backwards. I think you want to use this opportunity to thank you for our pastor and his ministry. Father, it will grow from grace to grace. We pray that you will strengthen him from time to time. And for all the heroes of God, Father, they shall be your God, a product to God of this ministry. We bless your name, O God, and we give you all the glory. Thank you, Father, for in Jesus' name I pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, everyone. Thanks for being on the call today, on the class today. God bless you. And yep, thank you. See you again soon.  God bless. Thank you, Pastor. God bless you. Thank you. Thank you, Viola. Thank you. Thank you.


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