to work on joint training of convolutional network and a graphical model for human pose estimation. So we train a convolutional network for the part detectors and then add some structure on top of it. Let's get into details. So what do I mean by human pose estimation? Well, given an image such as this one, what we want to be able to do is we want to be able to detect joint locations such as the point between the eyes, the shoulder, elbow, wrist, et cetera. And why would anybody want to do this? Well, it turns out it is a basic problem in computer vision. And if we can solve this well, there are a lot of things that we can do with it. For example, we can do action recognition, which can then be used for security and intelligence. We can do clinical analysis of gate pathologies and maybe help patients suffering with diseases such as Parkinson's. We can do human-computer interaction, so controls, softwares on devices with cameras. For example, a swipe gesture can take you to the next track in a car. We can do markerless motion capture, which can then be used for visual effects. And it can also be used for gaming, et cetera. But it turns out it is also a very hard problem. For example, in an image such as this one, even me as a human cannot tell you with confidence where his right knee is. Now, why is this problem hard? Well, due to the high degree of freedom, configuration of the human body. So if we have 14 joints in 2D, we have 28 parameters that we need to optimize over. Also, due to complex self-occlusion patterns that arise due to the highly articulate nature of the human body. So different body parts get covered by others. Also due to self-similarity of body parts. For example, hands can look very similar in an image. The detector needs to be invariant, yet discriminative to large variations due to body type, clothing, lighting, viewpoint. Also, we do not assume any priors about the scale or the position of the human in the image. And finally, due to limited training data. So of all publicly available data sets, the largest one being the human pose data set from Max Planck Institute has only 40,000 labeled images. Now, we started to apply deep learning to this problem in 2013. Until now, histogram of gradient hog-based part detectors or shape context-based part detectors followed by higher level spatial model was what people usually did. But as you might know, hog, which stands for histogram of gradients, only considers the gradient information. And thus, we lose out on information such as color, texture, et cetera. Also, these models usually were ad hoc and not jointly trained. So you would have a part detector. You would have a spatial model. You would have a weight, which you would have to tweak, and so on. And finally, due to the recent successes of deep learning for classification and other tasks, we decided to try using deep learning for human pose estimation. So we started with a very simple convolutional neural network based architecture. The input to the network is a patch. And the output are four confidence values corresponding to the four parts that we want to detect. For example, in this case, the shoulder, wrist, elbow, and the point between the eyes. So at training time, we show the network different patches. So if the patch is centered at the face, we expect the red value to be high. If the patch is centered, say, at the elbow, we expect the green value to be high. And if the patch is centered at the wrist, we expect the blue value to be high. If the patch is centered at the background, we expect all these value to be low. So this is how it is trained. And then at test time, we run this detector in a sliding window fashion over the entire image. So at each position of the patch, we run the detector. And we get four confidence values corresponding to the probability of each joint being present or not. And when we slide this detector throughout the image, in the end, we would end up with four response images. Now, the next thing that we did was to fold this sliding window architecture inside the convolutional model, so the confinette itself. This is done by replicating the fully connected throughout the image by using these one cross one convolutions. And this is a very common technique, which has been done since the 70s. But why we do this? Because now the input is an image, and the output in one shot are the four heat maps. Finally, also when learning, we get to see all the negatives, so gradients from all the negatives, and thus it helps training. Then the next thing that we did was we used these multi-resolution patches. So instead of taking the 64 by 64, we also take a larger 128 by 128 patch around it, and then we decimated. So it's a Gaussian followed by a decimation, which is also in some sense the approximation of the Laplacian pyramid. So the smaller patch has the high frequency information, and the larger corresponds to the low frequency information. Now the next thing that we did was to, again, do the one shot for this multi-resolution architecture. But it turns out that it is quite involved, because you need to interleave the responses before putting into these one cross ones. So instead, we came up with an approximation. Instead of interleaving, we simply used one of them and replicated four times. This architecture actually led to the state of the art in 2014, beating depots by Bitmargin. We'll come to this in the results. Now, due to the fact that we are detecting a human body, there is a very strong correlation between the location of the different body parts. Thus, we also have a spatial model which sits on top of the confine, which is the part detector. And then we train this jointly, because this also happens to be convolutional. So let us see how the spatial model works, and let us do this using this example. So for example, we want to detect where the face is. And we also have the tentative locations of the shoulder. But as you can see, the face has a false positive, and so does the shoulder. And we want to be able to use the information of the shoulder to detect the right face. And this can be done by training a, so suppose now we have a filter, such as this one, where if the shoulder was at the center of this, the face would be somewhere on the top left. And if you convolve the unaries of the shoulder with this filter, you would get a response map, such as this one. So this, in some sense, is the message from the shoulder to the face. And then you can do a point-wise multiplication between the face unary and the message from the shoulder to the face to get the correct face location. This can be expressed in terms of energy. So the final probability of the face is the face unary plus the face-given shoulder into the shoulder unary in the log domain. This can be realized in terms of convolutions. We have to do the soft plus, because log can only have positive values, so sorry, non-negative values. Now here we see some qualitative results. So the top one is the flick data set, which comprises of, actually my icons are turned over. It should be the other way around. So the top one is the Hollywood data set. So it comes from movies. And it is less challenging than the LSP data set, which is a sports data set. So people are doing, maybe, acrobatics, which are more difficult to detect. But obviously these are the cherry-peck good results. Now we use this to also do, say, 3D reconstruction from very few cameras. So this was done using two cameras. And it can do simple tasks, such as walking and also jogging. In the next one, we would do a slightly more difficult example where he's juggling, he's also doing cartwheel. If you notice closely, it fails where the person is completely upside down. And this is only because we do not have such examples in our database, I mean enough examples in our data set. Now let us look at some qualitative results. So in this graph, so this is for the wrist on the flick data set. Wrist happens to be the most difficult joint to detect. On the y-axis is, say, the percentage of the test set. And on the x-axis is the normalized distance error, which means if the torso was scaled to 100 pixels, much error there was. So for example, in this one, by the way, these are all shallow approaches, so until 2013. And say the black one, so for MODEC, we say that at 14 pixels, about 50% of the data set was correctly detected within 10 pixel error. Now this was the result of the first, the simple convolution network. This was deposed by Google at all, I mean Toshev et al. And this was ours using the flick data set, and this is ours using the flick plus data set. So we do not change the model, we simply increase the data set size. Now these are similar results on the LSB data sets. For wrist and elbow, the wrist is the solid line and the elbow is the dotted line. Again, ours is much better than the previous approaches. And currently, we are working on embedded applications, so the same model, but so that it can work on embedded devices, such as mobile phones or cars. So we're working on model compression. We're working on lower latency, better hyperparameters. I mean, this is always a constant search, right? And we're also working towards stronger and more sophisticated spatial models. And finally, we are also doing online learning with Amazon Mechanical Turk in the loop. So you install a camera, and we install our best model. But as and when the model makes a mistake, there is another, I mean, and we somehow detect that it is an error case, we get it automatically labeled by Mechanical Turk. And once we have done enough annotations, we push a new model onto the device. With this, I would like to thank you, and we'll open to questions. And by the way, we are hiring, so if anybody's interested, please email me at arjunjan.gmail.com. Thank you so much.


The Hurr-X exercise is conducted by CNIC, which is Commander in Navy Installations Command, in partnership with Commander in Navy Region Southeast, which is our region. It's an opportunity to prepare for hurricanes in the Atlantic and in the Gulf, and walk through the different tropical cyclones of readiness in the event that a hurricane is going to come and have an impact on any of our installations. The exercise is activated at the CNIC level. Region will direct the different cores, depending on where the hurricane is simulated to be impacting. Each installation will have a directive of what core to set based on that, and at that time the installation will work through their emergency management plan of how to prepare for a disaster related to weather. Tropical cyclone of readiness. We have five core levels. We are here in Panama City, always in core level five at hurricane season, which starts June 1st and ends November 30th. We officially announce that we are active core five, which means that we are on the alert and ready to make transitions to higher cores when directed. So core four is a readiness posture that at 96 hours prior to landfall, we will take certain actions to prepare for a hurricane that might be coming into our vicinity. And that doesn't have to be a directive. That can be having destructive winds that would impact the installation within 96 hours. Core three, we're looking at 72 hours. Core two, we're looking at 48 hours. And core one, 12, where it's currently happening. So those are all time based, and that's based on the speed of advance of the tropical cyclone. And it's time to landfall. Here at NSA Panama City, we work with our 13 tenant commands, covering areas of ships movements, getting ships underway, specifically our large vessels, mooring for hurricane and hurricane war here in the bayou. Looking at a central personnel, if we have to evacuate personnel, we will dignify people that need to stay here until we completely evacuate if that were to be in need. And then also looking at recovery and the event that we do have a hurricane and we need to look at what actions and what resources we need to identify to restore the installation after a hurricane. It's a two week evolution. It starts May 3rd and ends May 14th. The first week is an administrative review of the exercise that will play out in week two. In the event of a hurricane, somebody might be evacuated, and when they come back their homes completely gone, providing that kind of counseling in the recovery process is what our EFAC really looks at. We are currently in the process of working on establishing our virtual EOC, allowing people to work remotely, whether that be at their house, their apartment, in a workspace somewhere else here on the installation, and having that function more in a way that with the environment of COVID that we don't have to bring everybody to one location and possibly create some type of exposure event and contaminate our whole EOC team. Our relationships with both fire, security, the Bay County EOC, Bay County Department of Health are all essential because those are resources that not just NSA as an operational function, but as a family support function, we need to have those communications and relations built. A family that might be in a floodplain might need to evacuate knowing where our shelters are and knowing that we don't have the permission to evacuate and fund them to leave the area, but we can move them to a shelter, help them get a location at a local shelter until an order to evacuate by the name is issued. Our relationship as the EOC, the EM has to have built a relationship with other EOCs because we might need to evacuate if Bay County were to get hit really bad. We got lucky last time and we were able to stay at Bay County, but if another hurricane hit and it was worse or the path was different, we might need to go to Gulfport, we might need to go to Meridian or go to another EOC as a support center until we can come back and having a good relationship with some of these nearby installations is a key tool because not only as a relocation, but as a need for other support. One of the resources that we definitely knew during Michael was CVs. Gulfport sent all their CVs over here to help us with clearing the base and getting the base safe to reenter for employees to start going back and helping get programs back up and running. So those kind of things, those relationships we build with other installations are important and the same is for them to have a relationship with us. The CVs are construction battalion. They are most often noted for their work in restoring places where tsunamis hit or where hurricanes or establishing camps in other countries where we need to get resources to. They're really important after a hurricane because they can bring water, they can bring power, they tree branch or other type of removals that need to be done. They have heavy lifting equipment that can help with that. CVs are an asset that we would reach out for and request their support to help us clear our base in any large trees. The space back before 2018 was covered in trees and we had a beautiful greenery here and then Michael hit and a lot of those trees have been taken down and it's even here in the last year we've had a lot of tree removal but the initial tree removal that makes access through the different roads that get you to different parts of the base are essential and getting those cleared as soon as possible are what allows us to restore our operations.


And here tonight, we have Dr. Todd West, who is the head of the nationally-acclaimed woody plant improvement program of North Dakota State University, and Todd's going to share with us his insights on the best flowering shrubs for North Dakota. So, Todd, welcome to the forums. All right. Well, thank you, Tom. Pleased to be here. Good? All right. So, first, you know, we're going to do a little bit of background information. This is going to seem redundant, kind of dumb, but what's the difference between a tree and a shrub? So, a tree is defined as a woody plant with one main stem, generally 15-foot-tall, having a distinct head, whereas a shrub, we're looking at a multi-stemmed, generally, again, under 15-foot-tall.  So, just starting out here, we mentioned springs on its way, so here's one of the first signs of spring, it's for Scythia. Beautiful shrub for about a week of the year. The other 99% of the time, maybe not so good-looking, but now, hey, look at there, now we got a shrub on a stick. So, this is what they call the standards, and a lot of the shrubs are ending up this way now. So, we'll touch on this a couple of times during the presentation. So, why do we plant shrubs? So, we can use it for screen, we can use them for direct traffic, we unify the space, basically the sprinkle effect on the cupcake. We really bring the landscape together. We can save space, we know yards are getting smaller, especially in the urban environment, and so we can fit more plant material in a smaller space. That photograph you see there, you can, in the bottom right, shows that standard, shrub on a stick, kind of an idea, allowing us to fit some really beautiful horticultural plants in a much smaller spot. And then dealing with the aesthetics, we have the foliage, we have the flowers, that's what we're going to be talking a lot about tonight, obviously with flowering shrubs, but then also some fruit as well, because with flowers, we often get some fruit, and we want to talk about that. So, here's a nice landscape bringing things together. The thing that's missing here though is some color. They do have shrubs, they have evergreens, they have deciduous, we have some trees, we have some multi-stem, we have some conifers, you know, there's a little bit of everything here, but not a lot of color, it's all shades of green. And what we want to avoid is the cookie cutter landscape, what we typically get with the builders today, where you're going to get the same three things, you're going to get your one little autumn blaze maple out front, and then nothing too exciting, so we want to avoid that. So some qualities that we want to look for in shrubs, predictable size and form, that's what makes them nice, rapid growth rate, easy transplant and establishment, minimal litter, we want to make sure they're not causing a mess in our landscape. We love gardening, but we don't want to garden too much, right? Resistant to attack by pests and disease, obviously we don't want to bring problems to our gardens. Non-allergenic, a lot of people can be allergic to the pollens, and so we have to be careful with that. Tolerant to the wide range of environmental conditions, again depending on where we have them in our landscape, and then excellent aesthetic features, and we also want to make sure we're not dealing with invasives. So some criteria, function, design elements, site conditions, plant features, tonight's main focus is plant features. So some of those features, foliage, flowers, fruit, bark, I know I'm going over this pretty quick, but we're just going to focus on the flowers tonight. We could talk about these other features, but the main thing really with shrubs is that we kind of want to have a multi-season interest. You know, it's nice to get the flowers, it's nice to have good foliage, it's nice to have good fall color, not every shrub's going to have that, but we try to maximize what we can. So tonight we're going to focus on the flowering shrubs. Now this is just a little bit of insight that I've pulled. Again, these are not going to work in every single condition. They're not going to work in every location through the state, but it's a nice overview and also introducing some, maybe some shrubs that you've overlooked or maybe not have come in contact with. And hopefully some of these will be a review. So this one should be a review. We have several different for Scythia now. We have the NDSU Meadowlark. Northern Sun has also been out for quite a while. Both are really hearty, good choices for us. We want to stay away from the hybrids, the ex-intermediate. They don't have the bud hardiness for us. But again, these are going to be larger shrubs. And with any of the for Scythias that are not on the standard, that shrub on a stick, we really want to put them in a location where they can shine early in the spring with those flowers and then fade away. Because it is what I always say, it's a shrubby shrub. It's not the most attractive shrub once the flowering is done. The nice thing is it does tolerate deer. It's very prune tolerance. You can shape it. So it does have some good qualities, but a bigger shrub and not a lot going for it once it does finish flowering. And again, here's back to that same picture of the Northern Sun on a standard. So allowing you to maybe control it a little bit better, keeping it into a better size. Unfortunately, though, it needs some good staking to develop. Because again, it wants to be a shrub. It also can sucker, too. So it's a little bit more maintenance than just planting it and forgetting. Potentillus, a lot of potentillus out there. Great thing about them. Long season of flowering, very low maintenance. Doesn't require much water, tolerant to deer, tracks butterflies. A lot of good things going for it. Here's a pretty popular one that's still available in the market. Again, an NDSG release. I don't want to focus on just that tonight. But just kind of look at some other ones. So there are a lot of different colors available. Pink beauty. I don't know if the color is showing up across the state there. But the pink, it actually is a really nice pink. From what I'm seeing, and maybe it's just the light in my eyes, but it doesn't look as pink as what I think it should. And what a better way to go is with mango tango. It's just fun to say. Hey, I got a mango tango. But a really nice orange. And then the happy face is a newer potentillus. That's a nice white. So again, we don't have to be stuck with the same old yellow potentilla. We can use a lot of different colors. They're very florific. Bloom time, again, even past frost in a nice protected spot. Rotodendron. University of Minnesota has done a lot of work with the Northern Lights series. Again, we have to be a little bit weary on the hardiness component here. Zone four wouldn't really go probably a zone three with these. Also, they need good drainage.  There's a lot of root diseases. So we want to get them up where they can get drainage out of a kind of raised bed. But again, nothing really can beat a nice rotodendron. The Canadian artist series Rose. There's several of them. This is my favorite. I really like the Campfire Rose. Their breeding rose is now to be a lot less problematic. More disease resistant, a lot less work. Don't have to worry about hardiness. This one's hardy to zone three. What I like about it is the color change. It starts out in a tighter bud, more of a yellow. And as it opens up, it turns into a yellow pink and then eventually we'll go to a pink and it's supposed to resemble a Campfire. It's a very, very attractive rose. Again, with a lot less maintenance of our traditional roses from the past. And also boasts that will attract hummingbirds. Wigila. This is again another one where you could do zone four. If you're in a zone three, I would be a little hesitant, maybe in a spot that's more protected. But there's a lot of new ones out. This is kind of one of the standards now is red prints. Really nice dark red color, medium sized shrub. We're looking at, well, medium to large, five to six foot. But really nice accent and it blooms during the summertime. So that's one thing I like to do when I landscape is, you want that spring flowering, like our Forcithia, where it'd be more of a backdrop when other things are not flowering, get that wow. Then when it's done, it kind of fade away and then you get the forefront moving in throughout the season. And Wigila, long bloom time all through the summer. French lace is a little bit smaller one, four to five foot. Again, they also attract hummingbirds, really nice long bloom time. Minuet, beautiful color. It's kind of a two tone, the lighter kind of pink in the inside. So really, really nice, kind of almost reminiscence of a lilac, so you get your nice early lilacs and then you can move into the Minuet if you really like that more lilac, traditional lilac color. Chokeberry, who doesn't want a chokeberry, right? That sounds so great. That's why in the nursery trade, they're called eronia now. But again, multi-season interest. The flowers, they're very subtle. They're white, not really wow in your face. But what's great is that they do produce an edible fruit and thought I had another picture of it. Nice edible fruit that you can mix, not really eat by itself, but it is really healthy, high in antioxidants, makes a great smoothie. They're actually better tasting after frosts. They get a little bit sweeter, but amazing, really great red burgundy fall color. So again, this is a nice one for ed escaping. Buttonbush, now this may be one you're not familiar with. Again, this is Hardy Zone 4, maybe 3B in a protected spot. We have this out at our abstract research station doing very well. And really distinct flower, having that white flower where it looks like, almost like Sputnik from back in the 60s with the space program. But it has all the flower parts sticking out. It will produce a red fruit. And again, you get a really nice long season with it. It can be used as cut flowers. It's a smaller shrub, three to four foot. There's several different cultivars. One I'm showing here is Sugar Shack. And that's the one again that comes in a little bit smaller than the species. Coral Berry, this one, the trademark is Proud Berry. And again, it's Hardy to Zone 3. This is one where the flower is really not that exciting. It's fairly small, it's kind of a whitish pink. Smaller shrub, it will be wider than it is tall, about three to four foot, four to five foot spread. But what's nice about it is that it has really showy fruit. So again, later in the season, when everything else is done flowering, you still have that color in your yard and not just the green. They're also deer resistant. There's a close up of the fruit. It's really cool. It's this purpley white color and just doesn't really look natural, but it's a beautiful, beautiful, persistent fruit. Northern Pearl Bush, Cultivar's Northern Pearls. And it gets its name because of the flower is a nice solid white, just a very pure white.  Larger shrub, six to eight foot, just as wide. And extremely tolerant to variable soil types and also drought tolerant. So that's another nice aspect too. So really nice, pretty subtle white flower. And that's what I always look for too, is to have a diversity in color and in styles. So here's just a little bit of a close up. If you look on the right picture, you can see kind of central right where the buds are that tight round kind of pearl look to them. They will open up to be a little bit more flamboyant, but really nice, nice, pretty white. Any of the pionicle hydrangeas. You know, becoming very common now. A lot of work and selection has been done on them. For us here, they do very well. Hardy Zone Four, again, once you get into zone three, you know, maybe a little protected spot. But a lot of different colors now. Here's Diamond Rouge, really, really pretty, a deep kind of magenta color to it. Four to five foot tall. Not really a spreader, more than upright, which is really nice. What's neat about it, and here you can see the color, this is a lot like what we were just talking earlier, where like with the campfire rose, where it does a color transition. And so you can see where it's coming out kind of that white. And then it will fade into a deeper color, because the flowers that we're seeing are actually sterile. They're not true flowers. And that's what's great about the pionicle hydrangeas, is that they have really long flower life, because they're not true flowers. And so they don't have the process of creating seed. So they're there long term, and can be a really good asset to our gardens. Incredible is an arborescence. Slightly different species than the Panicle, but again, does very well. Hardy Zone Three has those big mop heads, which can be a little bit on the messy side, come the next year, because you're gonna wanna do some deadheading to kind of remove all that. But wow, what a show. Look at this hedge, just amazing. But again, super variable when it comes to soil types, very low maintenance. But again, the flowers that we're seeing are sterile. So they're really persistent. Here's just a photograph showing how large it is. So you can see in scale with a person's hand. And that's why they call them a credit ball, just because they're so incredibly big. A winter holly, or winter berry holly. So here we actually have a deciduous holly. There's several different cultivars. This one I think is kind of funny. It's berry poppins. Again, very adaptable, can handle wet locations, which is nice, because again, we don't always have a perfect yard. And so it's nice to have plants that will do well in the dry. Some of them will do better in the wet. This is also a native, which is also nice, because we really want to encourage natives to help out our pollinators. It does require a male to pollinate, because one thing about the name winter berry, you would expect then a berry. Because the flowers are kind of subtle, not too exciting, but it's the berry that really is. So you have to make sure you get a male to get the berry. So here's just a shot of those persistent berries. With berry poppins, they're more of a red. There are other cultivars that are yellow. So here's berry heavy gold, and then little goblin gold, which is sold more as a orange, even though it kind of looks reddish, but it's on that orange side. Ninebark, we know does really well. Hardy Zone 3 has no problems really whatsoever, no maintenance, can basically plant it just about anywhere. It is native, lots of different colors now with the purple foliage types to the green, to the gold foliage types. This is a new one that's out called Tiny Wine. It's kind of competing against Little Devil, but again, given us some smaller plants to be able to mix in as well. So this is three to five foot tall. So again, the flowers are kind of subtle, but it really is more all about the combination of the flowers and that foliage color with that purple foliage. Spirea, we know there's a million spireas, but there's a new one called Double Play, Double Play Big Bang, you know, well it's like too much of a name, but two to three foot tall. So it's a nice little compact plant. What's cool about it is that the foliage when it emerges out is more of an orange, kind of golden color, and then it will fade off into a green, and then the flowers are this really nice pinkish purple, which is kind of standard for Spirea, but it's the foliage as it emerges out in the new season that really gives it that bang. Lilac, we can't go without talking about a lilac. Here's Prairie Petite Lilac. This is awesome. Only three to four foot tall, and it's been documented three foot after 25 years. So this is a common lilac that will fit anywhere. Great fragrance, very florific, just beautiful, beautiful little lilac, track butterflies, hummingbirds, fits just about anywhere. So here's just a close-up of the flowers. Traditional lilac, it is a common lilac. And then we have a lot of the hybrids. Here's Bloomerang, which is a repeat bloomer. You know, again, we wanna get as much money, or much bang out of our money, and here we can get a nice re-bloomer. Super fragrant, another new one, scent and sensibility, really super fragrant. It's in the same line as Bloomerang, but it doesn't have as good of repeat bloom, so it's not being sold in the Bloomerang line. But you will get some repeat bloomers out of scent and sensibility, but it is a really super fragrant lilac. And then my favorite, why do you need to improve a lilac when we have dwarf Korean lilac? Beautiful lilac, prune tolerant, planted just about anywhere as long as it doesn't stay wet. And super florific and really, really fragrant. And here's just a shot of it now as a standard. They're trained them up as standards, and you can't go wrong with that. So with that, those are my quick overview of some shrubs. All right, thank you, Ty's. Excellent, I tell ya, I got the spring fever looking at those pictures. Those are spectacular. I love it. Okay, we got some questions already coming in, and Keen coming, everybody. How about you mention Holly, Ilex? Yeah. Did you see that's native to North Dakota? I don't know if it's actually native to North Dakota. It's native into Minnesota. Okay. See, and that's the one thing we always have to worry about with the term native. You know, is it really, is it native to North Dakota, is it native to the regions, is it native to the US? And so we have to be careful with the term native. Okay, but at least it's, at least nearby native to say that. How about the persistence of those winter berry fruit? Anytime you have fruit that's persistent, you always have to be careful, because the catalogs will say they'll be there all winter long, but we know better that wildlife, once they find them, they'll be gone. So they'll be there a while, but again, we are also helping promote our wildlife as well with food source. So eventually they will find them. So are they gonna be there for Christmas? Ah. Holly decoration? Potentially. It depends on who finds them. It has a smooth leaf or a holly leaf. No, it's more of a smooth leaf. There is a serrated edge, but it's not like our typical holly leaf that we're used to. Because a smooth leaf holly, when you bring it indoors, the decoration, that means the man is in charge of the house. Oh, interesting. Because you have come here. I did not know that. Just wondering if that was safe to bring in my house. How about is coral very edible? Good question. I should probably know that, but I don't. Is it persistent? It is, and again, it's the same thing where eventually I see lilac, while life will find it. How about, can you recommend any shrubs that have a nearly constant bloom? If you want constant bloom for the longest, yeah, the hydrangeas, because they have the sterile flowers, potentilla, really long bloom time. How about the rose, you mentioned this? The rose has a series of flushes. It's not a one-time flush. I agree. It definitely has a series of flushes. That's such a great rose. Yeah, it looks great. Okay, how about do any of these shrubs work under a north-facing bay window, like shady? Well, I mean, there's some that will do the part shade. Nothing that's gonna handle extreme full shade, because any time you're looking at a plant that's in a really, really shady spot, you're gonna work, problems are gonna come out with it being leggy. It's gonna grow out. You won't get as many flowers. So you're gonna compromise a lot of the good qualities of that plant. So maybe an evergreen. Yeah. How about hydrangeas? Hydrangea could definitely take shade, yeah. How about will the hydrangea penicillata rendia turn color even without an acidic soil? Yeah, that's nice with penicillata. So that's a very good question, because the big leaf hydrangea is susceptible to our pH, so with high alkaline soil, it won't turn that nice blue, it'll stay pink. With the penicillata, it's not dependent upon pH. So the color that you buy is the color you get. Okay, that's good. And I've got some hungry gardeners out there. How about that Proudberry? Was that a coral berry? Coral berry, yeah. Is that edible? Yeah, I should have looked up all the edible things. I didn't realize I was gonna be so excited about edescaping. They're starving out there. We need to do a talk on edescaping. Edible, that was last year. Oh my goodness. We were eating coral berries. I don't know, I've never eaten a coral berry. How about aronia? They said that makes it good smoothie. Yeah, aronia, you've really gotta mix it with something to make it really palatable. Again, there's that edible versus palatable. It's really stringent, really bitter, but really healthy. So mix it in with some ice cream and yum yum. Okay, how about, when would you prune a Korean lilac? Well, with any of the lilacs, you wanna make sure that you can prune when you need to prune, whenever you have time to prune, but if you're gonna prune a lilac, realize that it's gonna be on the last year's wood. So if you prune it, you wanna prune it right after flowering. Because then you get that new growth that comes in, you enjoy the flowers, you get the new growth, which will then set the flower buds for next year. If you prune it before flowering, you're gonna miss out. Right, same with persitia, that's another one. Yeah, persitia, same way. Wait till after the yield of flowering. Yeah, but the best way to prune a persitia is right at the base. Yep, maybe a little rounder too. Yep, just kidding. Can you recommend a flowering shrub that would do well as a privacy hedge? Oh boy, depends on, do you want it all year round? Cause with our deciduous shrubs, obviously they're gonna lose their leaves, cause even for persitia, you can shape it into a nice privacy hedge cause of its size. But it's gonna lose its leaves, but it's fairly dense. If you're looking for a privacy screen, you might wanna look more evergreen. Or how about like, would arrow wood viburnum? Arrow wood, yeah, but again, same thing. Once it loses its leaves, it's not as dense. Yeah. Are any of the newer nine-bars less susceptible to powdery mildew? Well, that's what they're trying to really breed into. Cause I know the little devil is supposed to be more tolerant of powdery mildew, a little more resistant. So the newer varieties, that's what they're saying. Again, you wanna make sure you keep them in spots where there's gonna be good airflow. How about that button bush? Oh, wow, these people are so hungry. Button bush. Don't eat it. Don't eat a button bush. You're okay. Yeah, you know, that is a good thing to say, Todd, right, like don't, unless you're sure. Unless you're sure. No, the button bush, it's such a unique flower that it's just, it's a good conversation. And like I said, it makes a nice cut flower too. And you can really wow your friends with something that they've probably not seen. I never saw a flower. How about which of the lilacs suckers the least? Ooh. Or maybe which one to avoid. Yeah, which one to avoid. That's a good question. I mean, because that's kind of what they're there for. You know, one thing several years ago, I had a chance to go over to Poland. And the coolest thing I saw over there was a common lilac trained as tree form. Now they had to maintain the suckering but actually trained it as a tree. It was gorgeous. But yeah, you're gonna be dealing with any type of suckering on the lilacs. You know, and you just have to deal with it. That's right. Okay, can you fertilize a hydrangea to get blue color? Not necessarily fertilization, but you're gonna have to do soil modification with acidification. But that's again, that's with your big leaf, not your penicillota. Penicillota, you can't change that color. So when you buy the hydrangea, you gotta be sure of the species. You want the big leaf hydrangea and you have to have it super acidic to turn it blue. So the best thing would be, if you want that really nice blue hydrangea, you need to make a raised bed. So that way you can modify that soil and keep it modified. You sink it in the ground into a regular bed. It's gonna be really hard to modify and stay modified. I always thought peat moss is good for that role. Peat is really, really good helpful. But it's gonna be a lifelong battle. You're better off just trying to go with something else. Did you mention barberry bushes? You know, I did not talk about barberry at all. And because you're anti-barberry or I just didn't give you enough time. Not anti-barberry, but I don't think a barberry when I think of a flower in shrub. That's a good point. But it's a good one for directing traffic. If you want people not to cut through an area, plant barberry. That's right, keep the neighbors dog out. How about the Canadian Explorer series of roses? Are they still available? Yeah, they are. I know Jeffrey's Nursery is one of the releasers with the Canadian series if you go to their site. So anybody who buys through Jeffrey's should be able to get them. Doesn't Bailey Nursery still? I think Bailey's, they should. The thing with Bailey's is that they're developing more of their own lines of material and they're dropping other people's lines of materials. You know, I'm gonna throw in my own question there because there's so many cool plants that I used to like that. Someone we've never seen before, but what would be your strategy? I get really inspired to have one of these coral berries. You know, what would be your recommendation how they can make that happen? Should I go to my nursery right now and tell them I want to have this specific cultivar of coral berry and then they can order it from Jeffrey's or Bailey's? So don't wait for them because it may not be there. Exactly, don't wait for them.  So now's a good time to do that. Now's a great time to do it. Proud berry is not edible, we hear from Oliver County. Oh good, thank you. Here you go, don't eat it. Can you make our recommendation? What type of shrubs do best when they're exposed to a lot of wind in a part sun environment? Well, I mean anytime when you're exposed to a lot of wind you just want to make sure that they're staying well watered. You know, I'd focus on ones that are more drop tolerant because you're gonna get a lot of drying out with that wind on the leaves. Avoid any evergreen, your dwarf evergreen shrubs because they'll burn up in that type of situation especially in the winter time, obviously, but just make sure you get good moisture. And to make a soil acidic. Sulphur? And there's other acidifiers. Yeah, but sulfur is the best method. So Todd, another inquiry, how come you didn't mention mock orange? You know, I was gonna include mock orange, but again that's another one we're dependent upon cultivar. A lot of the cultivars are zone five. We have zone four and again that was on that iffy and I was like, well, so yeah, I was gonna include it but that was the one that I kind of took out because of time. Okay, where's Jeffery's nursery? Jeffery's nursery is a wholesale nursery up in Manitoba. So they don't sell directly to the public, but a lot of the nurseries in our area here buy from Jeffery's. How about this gardener in Morton County has some buried lions and can you, what shrub can you plant that does not root too deep? Is that really a concern? I wouldn't really be too concerned with that because with shrubs they do have a fairly shallow root system and you shouldn't have any issues really. How about, is endless summer, is that a small leaf I drained? That's a big leaf, that's a macro phyla. It turns blue. Yep, so we have that on campus and it's a beautiful pink. Even though it's a little bit too early. God, we're just power pack full of questions here. Oh, a town or nursery does not buy from Jeffery's. I saw that pop up. You need to go to a garden center. Also, I should say, this presentation is archived. So, and we'll get it on the internet in a day or two. So I'm sure you want to see it again and share with your friends in case you missed something. Also, please download your handouts, all this good information is there. What else, my executive producer, did I miss anything here? Do you think we got it licked here? Okay, Todd, all I gotta do is say thank you, that was a great presentation. We really appreciate it. And we're gonna take a quick five minute break and move on to the next talk, everybody. All right.


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Well, hello. Good morning. Welcome to 8 a.m. Prayer. I just want to say welcome to those joining online. It's good to be with you if you're in the room. I invite you to stand and if you're able to at home, I just invite you to stand as well. We're going to be in Revelation chapter 1 this morning and then we're going to be interceding out of Psalm chapter 2. But I want to read specifically verse 12 through 20 this morning. This is the Apostle John on Island of Patmos seeing an open vision of the Lord highly and exalted. You look at the Apostle John, he saw Jesus in his human form. He saw the transfigured Jesus. He saw the crucified Jesus, the resurrected Jesus. And now he's seeing the glorified Jesus. I want to just focus in and minister to the Lord this morning. Verse 12 says, then I turn to see the voice that was speaking with me and having turned I saw seven golden lampstands and in the middle of the lampstands I saw one like the Son of Man clothed in a row reaching to the feet and girded across his chest with a golden sash.  His feet were like burnish bronze when it has been made to glow in the furnace and his voice was like the sound of many waters.  When I saw him I fell at his feet like a dead man and he placed his right hand on me saying, do not be afraid. I am the first and the last in the living one and I was dead and behold I am alive forevermore and I have the keys of death and the Hades therefore write the things which you have seen and all the things which are and all the things which will take place after these. As before the mystery of the seven stars which you saw my right hand the seven golden lampstands seven stars are the angels of the seven churches and the seven lampstands and seven churches. Well this morning Lord we come to you and we just say you are glorified. You are the one who walks among the lampstands. You are glorified in all your glory King Jesus. You are the only one found worthy. I'm just going to invite you to start ministering to the Lord. Just begin to lift your hands. Just begin to open your mouth. Just begin to declare who the Lord is. You are Alpha. You are Omega. You are the wonderful counselor.  You are the Prince of Peace. You are the everlasting Father. Yes Lord we just exalt your holy name. We just exalt your holy name. Yeah come on let's just begin to press in. We've come to his house of prayer to minister to the Lord to put on our levitical garments and begin to minister to him because he is worthy because he is holy because he stands alone because he's the only one worthy to open the scroll. Worthy is the Lamb. Worthy is the Lamb. Worthy is the Lord God Almighty. You will be praised in your house. So we just say being thrown upon the praises of your people. Come on let's just begin to stir our soul to bless the Lord. We lift you high King Jesus. We lift you high. We cry out. We say we want to draw near to you. This morning we want to exalt your holy name. The goodness of God. We have 53 verse 3. It says he was despised and forsaken of men. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and hid their face. He was despised and we did not esteem him. Surely our griefs he himself bore and our sorrows he carried. Yet we ourselves esteemed him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted. But he was pierced through for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The chastening for our well-being fell upon him and by his scorching.  Each one of us has turned to his own way. But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all. But we just take a moment to remember, remind ourselves of the sin that was put upon your very body. We remember the first time you spoke to us, the moment you revealed yourself to us. We just ask that you would return the joy of our salvation back to us, God. Lord, would you remind us of the early moments and the early days when we were fascinated, when we were captivated, when we were blown away, when it was too good to be true. God, I pray that you would just shake up our familiarity with who you are. Would you shake up our preconceived notions, our God, that we've learned enough about you to be comfortable. God, I pray that you would even create a heart that would begin to long and to hunger after you, God. Lord, I just pray for a lovesick bride. Even in this room, just begin to put your hand on your heart and just begin to ask the Lord for the gift of hunger. Proverbs, it says, it's the glory of God to conceal a matter and it's the glory of kings to search out a matter. And so Lord, we just say we're searching you out. We're not content with what we've seen. Lord, when we remember, it's just scratching of the surface of what more you're longing to do. Behold, the door is open and you're inviting us in. So Lord, we just enter in. Lord, we pray for greater revelation of the crucifixion, of that moment, of what you purchase, God. Would you begin to open our eyes? Would you begin to drop a spirit of wisdom and revelation? What are remembering, propellous forward into future obedience and future longing and future hunger? Jesus, you said, blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. And Lord, we just say we're coming after you this morning. We're searching you out. Lord, we ask for a gift of hunger. We just begin to cry out. If you have your prayer language, just begin to, just begin to pray and sing in the spirit. But just begin to stir your heart up. Begin to stir yourself up by the spirit. Allow those rivers of living water to flow out of you. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. All our iniquity was put on you. You brought us near. You brought us near. We're drawing near to you this morning, Lord.  So, Lord, we just say we're taking a step forward this morning. We're leaning in. We're leaning in. Like Mary at Bethany, we begin to just break open and lean in. We just say we're pouring our affection. We're pouring our devotion. We're re-upping. Lord, regardless of whether we feel it or not, we move past that. We choose love. We choose to lavish our love on you because you first loved us. Come on. I just even sense a wall right now. I don't know why I'm reserved or why I'm holding back, but just begin to push through. Just begin to command your soul by the Spirit of God to release a fragrance of worship. Come on. Return to your first love like the Lord told the Church of Ephesus. Restore the first love flame in us, Lord, to hunger and thirst for you. Just begin to sing in the Spirit. Begin to lift your voice. Lord, I just ask for holy desperation to fall on your church again. You're the one solution. You're the only way. You're the narrow way. We just say we don't want to miss a meal. We don't want to miss a moment. Fearing the table. Take our seat. Fill us, Lord. Fill us with your Holy Spirit. Just begin to just begin to extend your hands. Just begin to ask the Lord. We need a daily filling. You just say, Lord, fill us with your Holy Spirit. Anoint us to be witnesses. God, we just need you. We need you, but we need you to stir up the hunger, but we need you to expand the vessel in our hearts that we would receive more of you. And God, I'm asking just like the upper room when people gathered in one mind in prayer, Lord, I ask that you would fill this room. You would fill those watching online, like you filled the upper room with your Spirit. We just say we're hungry. We're desperate. We just say we lift up our Holy hands and we want to touch you. We just ask God, fill us with your power. Fill us with your presence because you paid for it. Not because we earned it. Not because we deserve it, but you paid for it. You purchased it and you went to the Father and you released the promise of the Father. Yes, Lord, fill us. Don't fill us to the brim. Fill us to overflowing. Just come against the spirit of distraction and fatigue, specifically fatigue. I just, I just pray in Jesus' name that a spirit of fatigue would be binded in Jesus' name. I just even said, if you've been dealing with heavy fatigue, like you just cannot shake a weariness or a tiredness. I just want to pray over that this morning. If that's you, whether it's online, if you're in the room, if you just raise your hand. Okay. If you just want to come around these people and just lay hands on them, we're just going to, we're just going to pray, Lord, fill them with your Holy Spirit. Fill them with your Holy Spirit right now. Fill them to overflowing. Fill them with strength. Fill them with might. Fill them with your power, God. Just break a spirit of fatigue, that weariness. We just are reminded of Jesus' promise. Come to me, all who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest. Yes, Lord, fill them. Fill them in Jesus' name. Worry has caused fatigue and weariness. Lord, I just pray that you would break a spirit of worry right now. You would impart a gift of faith in Jesus' name. I just want to leave space just for really just a prophetic utterance and just a word that we feel like is being shared. So the Lord has been working in my life this past week. It's been an interesting time. The verse that's really been prevalent in the past few days comes from Isaiah 26 verse 3. Isaiah 26 verse 3 says, The steadfast of mind you will keep in perfect peace because he trusts in you. Now here's the thing about that is like, so I've been going through this challenge. You don't need to know about all the challenge. There's individuals that are sacrificing to try to protect me. They are going through just horrible things. Pray for them in order to do that. There's an unrighteous thing that we are fighting and all of this. What I'm going through, I was supposed to be possibly getting out of it yesterday and I was going to be everything put back to right. I was praying this verse and I was thinking about the peace of God and I was claiming the peace of God.  Thank you, oh Lord. And that's true. But the way I was saying it was not true. You see, I was so excited because it was all going to come together and I was like, oh, it was supposed to be maybe by three o'clock yesterday and three o'clock came and it went and then things came up and these six individuals reached out to me and they said, we're so sorry, but we're not able to do it yet. And I thought, yet, I was like, what is that? I thought we were here. I thought we were done. And it was at that moment that what the steadfastness is and what peace truly is.  If you believe that you have God's peace, then what you say is all as well, all as well. If this happens, if this happens, if this happens, that's not what matters. What matters is that God's peace remains. And that's that common thing that we say so often that it surpasses all understanding. It does. It really does. And so my wife and I, as we sat on these things and looked at these things and we have children and we're looking at the struggles that all of this has brought to them and could bring more for them. And we said, that's okay. And suddenly this verse like actually made sense that the steadfastness of mind you will keep in perfect peace because he trusts in you. And so I woke up this morning. I didn't have a job to go to. I didn't have anything to do. I've been here a lot this week because I haven't had a job. And I was just like, it's a good day. It's a good day.  And you don't have to do anything. There's this thing that happened. I want to give you this one image. This one image is that this summer I was working through a lot of things and I'm a control freak. I was trying to control everything. And I was over at a person's house that was teaching my kids how to shoot a long bow. And he asked me if I wanted to shoot this long bow. And he hands it to me and I put it in and I take the shots and I did like three shots and then my shot started to go off. And he said, you know what's happening is you're gripping that bow and you don't need to grip the bow. You just lay your hand on it and everything's okay. You don't need to grip it. May God's peace be with you all. Yeah, let's just begin to stand and we're just going to respond. We're going to grab ahold of this chorus and we're just going to declare that the Lord's pouring an outpouring of Jesus and grace and Jesus name. We just submit our obedience to you. All right, if you have your bibles you can turn to Psalm chapter two. We're going to go into the time of intercession and intercession. It doesn't have to be heavy. It doesn't have to be this working up, but actually from a place of peace we can begin to intercede and know that we have the comfort and the strength of the Lord. So out of Psalm chapter two verse one it says, why are the nations in an uproar and the people's devising a vain thing? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed saying, let us tear their fetters apart and cast away their cords from us. Verse four, he who sits in the heavens laughs, the Lord scoffs at them, then he will speak to them in his anger and terrify them in his fury saying, but as for me, I have installed my king upon my holy mountain. I will surely tell the decree of the Lord, he said to me, you are my son, today I have begotten you. Verse eight, ask of me and I will surely give the nations as your inheritance, the very ends of the earth as your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron and you shall shatter them like earth and wear. The next 15 minutes we're just going to begin to war. We're going to begin to take down high places in our culture, spirit of accusation, spirit of intimidation. So I encourage you, this is the time to press in, to pray the scriptures.  So right now, Lord, we just go to the high places in our city, but we go to the high places of the spirit of fear, the spirit of doubt, the spirit of witchcraft, Lord, the political spirit, the religious spirit. We just say, you will be cast low by the name of Jesus. We just begin to war in the spirit as sons and daughters in heavenly places in perfect peace. We just say every high idol, every exalted thing against the name of God, be brought low in the name of Jesus. We just say be brought low in the name of Jesus. Just begin to name a principality and say be brought low in the name of Jesus. Anything that exalts its name against the name of Jesus, we declare in Jesus' name, be brought low in Jesus' name. Yes, Lord, we just ask for the spirit of Elijah to fall on the church again that would line up all the idols, all the prophets of fail and say, let's see who your God is. Let's see who the one true living God is. The one true living God. We just prophesy over our schools in the city. You're the one true living God. Verse 11 says worship the Lord with reverence and rejoice with trembling.  For his wrath may soon be kindled. How blessed are all who take refuge in him. Lord, we just call forth the fear of the Lord. Lord, at every place, every high place, every political place, every school board, Lord, every business, Lord, every place of influence, we just call forth the fear of the Lord, where there's been the fear of man. Lord, where there's been a spirit of fear from the enemy. We just call forth the fear of the Lord. We just call forth a reverence for your holy name. Lord, I pray that you would shake up unbelievers. God, I pray you would encounter them by your spirit. Lord, I thank you that you're releasing them of addiction, of principalities, of confusion. We just pray that the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of clarity, the Spirit of Christ would come and invade, would come and it would produce a reverence and a fear of the Lord in the high places. God, we pray over professors at Western Michigan right now. Lord, I pray your love would encounter them. God, I pray if they're preaching a different gospel that you would shake them up. Lord, you would shake them up. Lord, where there's been the worship of creation instead of the Creator. God, I pray you would flip the script. Lord, I pray that you would bring a spirit of sobriety right now. God over homes, over families, over businesses, over school boards right now. God, we just begin to prophesy. Just begin to even speak over your sphere of influence. Begin to prophesy. Lord, you control. You reign. You rule. We release the fear of the Lord right now. Over Portage, over Vicksburg, over Galesburg, over Augusta, over Richland, over downtown Kalamazoo, over the Vine neighborhood, the north side, Westwood, up into Plainwell and out Seagull. Wherever you're from, just begin to claim, Lord, I'm putting a stake in the ground. You rule. You reign. Lord, would you come in justice and would you restore reverence in Jesus' name? Just begin to co-sign the check here. Let's join in with this chorus. Let's agree with him and invite him into our places to where we are. Come and invade. Shake us up. Shake us up. We want you in our house of prayer, but Lord, we just say we want you in our workplace. We want you in our families. Just these last few minutes, let's just begin to sound the alarm of intercession. Let's just begin to take our rightful place. As Ephesians said, we're seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus. Lord, we just come into agreement with your prayer on earth as it is in heaven. Lord, we just release heaven's agenda right now. Lord Jesus, you said, therefore go. All authority's been given to me, therefore go. So Lord, right now, we just beseech the Lord of the harvest. And Lord, we just intercede and we say send laborers into the harvest field. And Lord, if there's a harvest you want me to individually label for, we just say yes to that this morning. We just re-up and we just say, Lord, the harvest is plentiful. The workers are few. Lord, we just intercede. We just say, send laborers into your harvest field. Lord, the war is not people against people, but the war is spiritual and principalities. So God, every binding spirit, every spirit of torment. Lord, we just say, be cast low in Jesus' name. Lord, we just speak right now that you would raise up intercessors. You would raise up prophets. You would raise up evangelists, pastors, teachers and apostles. Lord, you would just raise up the businessman. You would raise up the CEO. You would raise up the teacher. You would raise up the ministry school student. Lord, you would raise up the nine to five people. Lord, the ordinary mom and dad. God, you don't need an excellent resume. You just need a yes. So Lord, we just say yes to you this morning. God, we ask and we intercede. We just say, would the yes arise in your bride? Lord, would the yes arise in your city? We just put on the ambassador of Christ and we just say, come and invade. We just say, heaven, come. Heaven, come on earth as it is in heaven. We just ask for a portal to be open in our city. Lord, would you awaken the intercessor?  We intercede from peace, not worry. So right now, would we take our rightful place? Just begin to, just begin to open your mouth. Just begin to prophesy over your family, over your city, over your workplace. We just take our spot on the wall.  We will not be passing, but just like the live go, we will call faith. This is your city, God. Come take your inheritance. Come take your inheritance, God. Here, here on earth as it is in heaven, God. We just declare right now that Kalamazoo would be a place that would resemble and look like heaven here on the earth. God, we pray that your name would be exalted. Every other spirit, every other idol would be cast low. Lord, would you just even give us a picture of what it would look like for heaven to invade our sphere of influence, our sphere of influence where we work, where we reside? Lord, I pray right now that we would be the releases of heaven on the earth by your spirit. Let's just begin to cry out for our city. Just begin to cry out for revival. Lord, send your spirit. Lord, send your power. Lord, send your glory. Just crying out. We just say we want you here. We want you in this city. We want you in our neighborhoods. We just say, rest, God, rest in this city. Bring about sobriety. Lord, break off addiction. We just say we want you more. Pour out your spirit.  This is beginning to sound the alarm with our praise. Sound the alarm with this chorus. Come on, let's just begin to shout it out. Just begin to claim it out. Just say Hosanna. Hosanna. Come, Lord Jesus. Come, Lord Jesus. Come, Lord Jesus. Let's just begin to say that. Come, Lord Jesus. Come, Lord Jesus. Come, Lord Jesus. Have your way. Have your way, Lord. We just say we want you here. We want you here. We want you here, Lord. We thank you for coming this morning, Lord. We just say we want you here. We want you in our workplace. We want you in our families. Would you exalt yourself above every principalities? Just as we close verse 10 in Psalm chapter 2, it says, Now therefore, O kings, show discernment and take warning, O judges of the earth. Worship the Lord with reverence and rejoice with trembling. We just put the devil on notice this morning. We just say, we just say show discernment for the Lord is coming. For the Lord is coming and he will rule with his rod of iron. And we thank you for it in Jesus' name. Everybody said amen. Amen. Thank you for joining us for prayer this morning. Pray that you be blessed. Carry the fragrance. Carry the authority of Christ. Carry the peace of God without condition to know that you are fashioned to rule and reign and bring heaven to earth. Amen. Have a blessed day.