A DC shunt motor is a DC motor that has the field coil connected in shunt or parallel with the armature. A surprising operation of a DC shunt motor occurs when you decrease the current in the field coil and thus reduce the strength of the magnetic field. The motor armature will actually turn faster. This motor action is counter-intuitive. You would expect that decreasing the current and thus producing less power would slow the motor down. To explain this phenomenon, let's take a closer look at what happens in a shunt motor circuit when the current is adjusted lower. In this diagram we have an armature which as you know is the part that rotates in the presence of a magnetic flux, a field coil that generates a magnetic field and a controller to vary the field resistance, thus altering current flow and the strength of the magnetic field. Here we have a series of line diagrams to illustrate the relationships of the motor properties as a result of reducing current to the armature. When the field current is decreased, the counter-electromotive force or CEMF drops off dramatically. This sudden change results from a reduction in the EMF generated in the armature coils which are turning within a less dense magnetic field. The less dense magnetic field is a result of the lowered field current flow. This also causes a spike in the voltage drop across the resistance of the armature. Because the total applied voltage is across the armature, any change in the drop across one part of the armature, either the CEMF or the voltage drop across the resistance of the armature coils, VRA, will be made up by an increase in the drop across the other component. Thus, if there is 100 volts applied and the CEMF is 80 volts, the drop across the resistance of the armature coils will be 20 volts. When the field current is reduced, the CEMF drops to 50 volts, and the drop across the resistance of the armature coils, VRA, increases to 50 volts. Therefore, the total voltage is always maintained. Because the armature resistance, RA, is constant, as VRA changes the armature current, IA changes to compensate for the increase or decrease in the voltage drop. Thus the current increase in the armature strengthens the magnetic field in the armature. A subsequent torque spike leads to a gradual increase in the speed. A new armature speed is attained after a reduced field current is established. The CEMF returns back to near the original levels as the armature spins faster in a reduced magnetic field. The voltage drop across the armature returns to near its previous level, with the current following a similar decrease. This happens when any of the parameters are changed, such as load and applied voltage, not just limited to field current changes.


That person is the Holy Spirit. The fire of God is that grace to resist sin. The fire of God is passion and zeal for his name and truth.  The fire of God is that hunger to see the supernatural.   The fire of God is what takes place when I don't feel like serving him. The fire of God is what keeps me going when I feel like I've given all that I have. The fire of God is yours. When I talk about the fire, when I talk about revival, I'm not just using Pentecostal lingo. I'm not using charismatic terms. When I talk about the fire of God, I'm talking about zeal for his name that comes by the person of the Holy Spirit who is that fire. He's that fire that burns in you. Did not Jeremiah write, I want to keep silent, but it's like fire in my bones. Who do you think that fire was? It was the Holy Spirit who stirred him so that he couldn't contain what God was doing in him. That's the thing about the spirit field. You can't contain us. Fire spreads. Fire burns. Fire consumes. Fire cleanses. So when I talk about living in that fire, I'm talking about living in the Holy Spirit. I'm talking about living in that personal revival. Every single one of us will face trials and temptations. Every single one of us will face things in life that cause us to become discouraged. But though we will have tribulation, though we will have trials, though you will be tempted, you must remember to keep the fire burning. When you experience the heartache of loss and you don't understand what's happening, when your emotions are overwhelming you and confusion is clouding your judgment. When the stirrings of the mind make it difficult to hear the voice of God, when your theology is being turned upside down through study, on the days that you don't feel like worshiping, in the times that you feel like you have no purpose, in those moments where you don't even know if you're accepted, feel what you're going to feel, go through what you're going to go through, but keep the fire burning. My friend, the fire of God is that light that guides. I'm talking about the influence of the person of the Holy Spirit. I'm talking about surrender to who he is. I'm talking about yielding to the patterns that he's called you to walk. Holy Spirit is that fire burning in us. And if we are not careful, we can neglect that influence. The scripture says quench not the spirit. But to David, are you saying we can lose the Holy Spirit? Another sermon, another time? No. I'm not saying that. What I am saying is that same verse that tells us to quench not the Holy Spirit uses a word that is also used in Ephesians chapter six where the Bible talks about quenching the fiery darts of the enemy. Fire is what is quenched. Are you saying that you can cause the Holy Spirit to stop burning? No. What the scripture is explaining to us there is the simple fact that we can stifle his influence by the way we live, by the way we think. People, God has given you the victory. It may not always feel that way. God has given you the power to overcome. It may not always look that way.   Number one, commit your mind to Philippians three, 13 and 14. No, dear brothers and sisters, I have not achieved, but I focus on this one thing for getting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead. I press on to reach the end of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which God through Christ Jesus is calling us. I'm looking forward to what's ahead, not what's behind me. You've heard it said, if the enemy reminds you of your past, you simply remind him of his future. I would like to add, I would like to add, if the enemy reminds you of your past, sure, look back, but look far back enough to see the cross because what the cross did is more powerful than what you did. Forgetting those things which are behind casting off those restraints, letting go of past hurts, letting go of those things that keep us in bondage and instead focusing ahead on the victory that we have in Christ, committing our minds to being in this. When you follow Jesus, it's not a half-hearted commitment. Jesus is not something that you just try like a flavor of ice cream. Jesus is not just something that you try like a little hobby to see if you're into it or not. When you follow Jesus, it's all or nothing. And those who do not count the costs, such as one who builds a tower without knowing how much it's going to cost to finish it, those who do not count the costs often become discouraged when they think it's going to be easy.  When I was first born again, 11 years old, and I began to follow Jesus, I remember praying prayers like, Lord, I'm in this, no matter what. And even as an 11-year-old boy, knowing what God would eventually call me to, or at least having some idea of it, I began to pray prayers for my future self. Lord, keep future me from quitting. Don't let him quit.  I want every drop. I said, remind me, and this is what I pray, believe it or not, as I got from 11, 12, 13, 14, those years were the years I would pray this prayer consistently. Lord, no matter what, I want you to keep a fresh anointing on my life. And I said, put me through what you have to put me through. Disconnect me from who you have to disconnect me from. Connect me to who you have to connect me to. Whatever trial, whatever tragedy, I know people will one day speak against me. I know one day people will attack the ministry. I know one day I'll be misunderstood. I know one day I'll have the pressures of all things coming against me that come against every man, every woman. But I said, Lord, even in that moment, remind me of the prayers that little boy prayed.  Ministry, you know, when I would look at ministry, I would just see like the outside of it. Oh, there they are on broadcasting, reaching so many souls. That's amazing. And they're preaching such awesome sermon. I didn't realize that eventually the cameras turn off and the lights shut down.  I'm going to go home tonight. Well, to my hotel. My Aria and Jess are here with us on this trip.  I'm not complaining. I'm no martyr. It's a blessing to be doing what God has called me to do. But there are some days where the Lord has to remind me. You asked for the anointing every last drop. You said, you said, put me whatever you have to put me through. Disconnect me, disconnect you from whoever I have to disconnect you and connect you to whoever I have to connect you to, whatever it takes. And then to remind you of this. And I can't help but smile that the Lord would honor a prayer. And I say, thank you, 13 year old me. I appreciate that. But it speaks to the point I'm making and that simply you want to keep that fire burning. You got to know you're in it. This is the problem. People don't realize that persistence doesn't even begin until you feel like quitting. Persistence is not consistency. That's just consistency. Start off good, consistent, excited, trials come. Well, I didn't realize the hard times would come. I didn't realize it would get this difficult. So having said that, I'm out. Not realizing persistence begins when you feel like you've given all you have. Persistence begins when you feel like you've tried everything, but it's not working. Persistence begins when you've exhausted all emotion, all intellect, everything you have to offer. And you finally say, Lord, I don't know if I can do this anymore. He says, great. Now persistence starts. First Kings chapter 19 verses 19 to 21 says, so Elijah went out and found Elisha, son of Shaphat, plowing a field. There were 12 teams of oxen in the field and Elisha was plowing with the 12th team. Elijah went over to him and threw his cloak across his shoulders and then walked away. Notice here that the one who was passing the mantle came to him. Now this does not mean that you aren't to serve or aren't to put in work in the kingdom. This doesn't mean that you don't pursue mentors. That's not what I'm saying at all. What I am saying is notice here that it was God who chose him. It was God who took notice. It was God who sent Elijah.  Elijah replied, go on back, but think about what I have done to you. In other words, really weigh the cost. Really think about what you're committing to here. Look, salvation is free, but the anointing will cost you everything. Salvation, you believe and you receive. You trust in his name, you put your faith in the finished work of the cross, you will be born again. Believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead. If you want to keep this fire burning, you want to keep the influence of the person of the Holy Spirit. Who is that fire burning in your life? You have to make this commitment. So Elisha returned to his oxen and slaughtered them. He used the wood from the plow to build a fire to roast their flesh. He passed around the meat to the townspeople and they all ate. Then he went with Elijah as his assistant. So here he's leaving his sustenance. He's leaving his support. He's leaving familiarity. He's leaving what he knows. He's leaving what he thought gave him identity. I'm sure of it. And he slaughters the oxen and he burns and breaks the plow. The problem with many believers who follow Jesus is they have a plan B. We need to be as the prophet was who took those things which were familiar, who took those bridges back into the world and burned them. When you follow Jesus, my friend, it's a total commitment of self. Make up your mind. Stop talking about how one day God's going to use you and step out in faith already. Make up your mind. I can't tell you how many people have delayed their destiny because they debated with destiny instead of just obeying what God said. Number 2, depend on God, Zachariah 4.6. Then he said to me, this is what the Lord says is erubible. It is not by force nor by strength, but by my spirit says the Lord of heaven's armies. Now of course, this is a direct message to this man's erubible in regards to the task that God had given to him. But here we see a spiritual principle which can apply to all of our lives and that is simply this, when we set out to do something for God, when we set out to burn for him. We have to recognize that it's not something that we can accomplish in human effort alone. It's not by power nor by might, but by my spirit says the Lord. It's amazing to me how many Christians can be birthed in revival. They're saved in revival. They know revival and then eventually they begin to know so much that they no longer have to depend on the Holy Spirit. It begins in the Spirit and over time we begin to lean on the flesh, leaning on gifts, leaning on connections, leaning on talents. There's nothing wrong with using those. But my friend, you cannot do this on your own. How many of the things that we do in God's name could we continue to do if God removed the power of the Holy Spirit from our lives? And the scary thing is that if God were to do that, if that were something that he did, if he were to remove that power from your life, many of you wouldn't even know it. You would just continue on with business as usual and Samson knew not that the Lord had left him. I will go out in my own strength, not realizing I'm not in that. So many times the fire stops burning because we're giving from the wrong source. Ministry is tiring. Commitment is tiring. Church is tiring. Evangelism is tiring. Holiness is tiring. Worship is tiring. If you're tired, you're not giving from the Spirit. You're giving from self because if you give from the Spirit, it doesn't stop. People asking for the David after service, are you just so exhausted? And you know, we preachers can be so dramatic sometimes. I heard it said, you know, after I pray for the sick, I just feel so drained. I'm thinking, why? Did the power come from you? Or, you know, after casting out a demon, I'm sweating, my throat hurts. Why, was the demon obeying your yelling? I'm just saying it.  I was prophesying all night and I was just, oh, I was just, I'm done. Prophet Rob, when you prophesy all night, are you tired? More energized. You ask my team, as soon as we go to the green, I'm going to be talking a million miles a second, energizing what the Holy Spirit has done. Now, I'm not saying you'll never get physically tired. I'm simply illustrating a point. And that is that many times we think it's us, don't we? Power has left my friend. Stop it. Just stop it. It's not us. It's the power of the Holy Ghost moving through us. What Bible they're reading, but the scripture I read says they'll run and not be weary. They'll walk and not faint. Their strength will be renewed. This ministry that God has given to you, this task that he has assigned must be done in dependency upon the Holy Spirit. If your fire is dwindling, ask yourself, from where am I getting my strength? From where am I getting my motivation? Is it man's opinion that motivates me? Is it impressing my church leaders that motivates me? Is it appeasing my family members so that they stop bugging me about it that motivates me? Or am I truly burning for God?  Number two, depend on the Holy Ghost. It's all him. Number three, radical obedience, sacrifice. Now I hesitate to use that word sacrifice because technically anything that we give to God isn't a sacrifice because he always gives us something better. But in a temporary sense, we can experience sacrifice. In a temporary sense. It's not always, it's not going to be a sacrifice forever. It's a short-term sacrifice because this life is finite and anything that we can receive in eternity will outweigh whatever we've sacrificed on this earth. Many people talk about the fact that they're just tired, I'm not burning, I lost motivation. I can't seem to get myself out of this spiritual rut. And if I'm just being honest with you, I'll tell you, I've never met a Christian who prays consistently and for long periods of time who's struggling spiritually. I've never met a believer who's consistently in the word, hearing from God on a daily basis who is working to overcome some spiritual bondage. I've never met someone who's walking in the power of the Holy Spirit daily, who's also under the power or the influence of the kingdom of darkness. This is not to say that we aren't attacked. This is not to say we don't experience trials and tragedies. That's a part of it. You will experience that. But often they begin to find that their faith is weakening, their fire is dying, they're coming to this place now where they're wondering if they were ever being saved in the first place and they're starting to question their connection with God, question if God loves them, question if they belong in ministry, question if they belong in the church. They can't quite seem to overcome this hurdle in their mind, their emotions, their working for something that they don't even know if they want anymore.  My fire is dying. My fire is dying. My question to you is simple. If you feel your fire is dying, what are you giving him to burn? You feel your fire is dying, what are you giving him to burn? A fire is only alive as long as it has something to consume. When the Lord sent fire from heaven on the altar, the Levites were instructed to keep the fire burning. He didn't say to start it. He said, you keep it burning. You keep it burning. How? Keep putting something on the altar. And as long as they were putting something on the altar that fire continued to burn, the problem came when it stopped burning, they needed God to send fire again. Nadab and Abahu burned strange fire. They burned man-made fire, fire that they had produced. That's why they were consumed. Books like Hebrews 11 where we see radical obedience, sacrifice, displayed for us in a very beautiful way. Hebrews chapter 11 verses one through 12, faith shows the reality of what we hope for. It is the evidence of things we cannot see. Through their faith, the people in days of old earned a good reputation. By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God's command. That what we know now, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen. It was by faith that Abel brought a more acceptable offering to God than Cain did. Abel's offering gave evidence that he was a righteous man and God showed his approval of his gifts. Verse five, it was by faith that Enoch was taken up to heaven without dying. He disappeared for God took him for before he was taken up he was known as a person who pleased God. And it is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to him must first believe that God exists and that he rewards those who diligently seek him or sincerely seek him. It was by faith that Noah built a large boat to save his family from the flood. He obeyed God who warned about things that had never happened before. By his faith Noah condemned the rest of the world and he received the righteousness that comes by faith. It was by faith that Abraham obeyed when God called him to leave home and to go to another land and God would give him his inheritance. Think about that for a second. Abraham confident looking for another city not of this world. The sacrifices we make aren't even sacrifices at all. He wants your time. Okay, you give him your time. But what are you really giving up? I used to have people tease me when I was growing up.  Oh goody two shoes and everything. They made fun of me because I felt like tremendous guilt if I used a water cup to get soda or something like that. And people would say things like, you know, you're missing out. You're missing out. You're missing out. My friend, what does the world have to offer? And then the Holy Spirit spoke. He said, you are missing out. You're missing out on heartache. You're missing out on delayed destiny. You're missing out on STDs and addiction. You're missing out on destruction and death. We talk about sacrifice. The time we give them for prayer, what is that? And this is not being preached to make you feel condemned. I want to challenge you to begin to put something on the altar. Put Netflix on the altar. Put Instagram on the altar. Put that relationship that you know you're not supposed to be in on the altar.  Put it on the altar. Turn to somebody next to you and say, put it on the altar. In the comment section, I want you to write it. Put it on the altar. Put it on the altar. Well, they need to apologize to me and they have offended me. And while Jesus forgave faster than they were able to apologize, go and do likewise. Take that unforgiveness. Put it on the altar. Take that pride. Put it on the altar. Take that addiction. Put it on the altar. Selfish ways. Put it on the altar. The need to be right. Put it on the altar. The need to be celebrated by the world. Put it on the altar. Fire's not burning. Give it something to consume. Do something radical. I dare you. Do something wild. Step out of the boat, Peter. Get on that water. Start walking by faith. Begin to do things that make people raise their eyebrows. Begin to do things that make people mock you. Begin to do things that make people wonder if you're a little bit crazy. Say it when no one will believe it. Speak it when no one else will repeat it. Declare what God tells you to say and don't apologize for it. Give them something to burn. Put it on the altar. You put it on the altar.  You begin to sacrifice. You begin to give up. You begin to say no to the flesh and yes to the Holy Spirit. You begin to say no to the sinful habits and yes to the word of God. You begin to say no to the secret sin and yes to secret prayer. And you watch how God turns it around. Put it on the altar. Now you may be wondering at this point we've talked about committing your mind depending on God. Radical obedience. Number four, humble yourself before God. You know that's the first key to coming out of bondage because in order to approach God you have to humble yourself. Draw near to God, he'll draw near to you. Resist the devil he will flee. Matthew 12 verses 15 through 21 tells us something incredible. I'm going to show this to you and it's in regards to the nature of Jesus. Verse 15 of Matthew 12. But when Jesus knew it he withdrew himself from thence and great multitudes followed him and he healed them all and charged them that they should not make him known. Verse 17. That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying behold, my servant whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased, I will put my spirit upon him and he shall show judgment to the Gentiles. Now watch this, watch this. He shall not strive nor cry. Neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed shall he not break. A smoking flask shall he not quench till he send forth judgment unto victory and in his name shall the Gentiles trust. Read shall he not break. A smoldering flask shall he not quench. It's a smoldering flask. In short to simplify I'll simply say it's like a smoldering wick. You ever lit a candle?  The fire goes but there's just a little ember burning. And most of us what we do is we just take our fingers and quench that smoldering wick. The Bible describes the gentle kind compassionate nature of the Lord. It says he healed all the sick, meaning they came to him in droves and he laid his hands on them and he ministered healing and deliverance to them. The Bible refers to that act as him not quenching a smoldering wick.  Burn for you but I don't have a fire in me anymore. Roaring inferno of personal revival that once burned bright for the world to see. Father I feel like that candle. I feel like that smoldering wick I'm barely hanging on. Lord I've neglected this and I've neglected that and I've forgotten that truth. And I've embraced that lie and I've gone to this place when I shouldn't have. And I've listened to these people when I shouldn't have. And Lord I don't know when it got away from me but somehow some way it came to the point where now I'm just a smoldering wick. When I wouldn't joke certain ways because I felt to defend you. Days when I would turn off that TV show. Days when I pledged to not listen to this or watch that. I could remember those sweet times and prayer and the word and Lord it seems. Those days are gone. And the Bible says that a smoldering wick he will not quench, it's describing his compassion. It means that even if there's just a little ember in you, he's not going to look down with harshness and say, well your light went out. And then snuff you out. He won't do it. I will says a smoldering wick he will not quench. In other words when he gets that that smoldering wick, he gets that that that ember just barely burning, barely burning. The Lord picks it up. He protects it. And he begins to breathe the the breath of life, the wind of the spirit begins to bring life and oxygen. And he begins to cause that ember to become a fire again. Some of us don't realize how compassionate he is. Some of you sitting in this room think it's over because you can remember days that were better for you spiritually. He's not going to snuff it out. He's not going to reject you. He's not going to finish with you. He's not he is not done with you. But by his spirit, he's going to cause that ember to become a fire again. He's going to cause that ember to burn as a fire in your heart again. The influence of the Holy Spirit is not dead. Remember who you are in Christ. Man of God, remember who you are. Woman of God, remember who you are. Child of God. You're not a fake.  You're not a man of the world. You're not a woman of the world.    You may not have that fire where you want it to be, but he's not going to quench that wick. You say, I don't want to, but I want to want to. There's your ember right there. And you may say, I don't want to want to, but I want to want to want to.  He will not quench. You say, but Lord, I've been dealing with this problem for so long and I don't know if he's going to have any compassion for me because it's been over and over a smoldering wick. He will not quench. Well, Lord, I knew better and it should have been otherwise. And it seems that after the divorce and after the abortion and after the backsliding and after the drug abuse and after I completely messed it up, a smoldering wick, he will not quench. You see, religious people don't like what I just said. I don't care. A smoldering wick, he will not quench. He will meet you at your willingness, however weak your willingness is. He will meet you right there. And you want that? I can sense his power so strong right now. You're saying, Lord, don't quench the wick. Lord, I'll commit any of these things in this message, any of these truths spoke to you. Don't hesitate. Come stand at the altar now.  He will not quench. He'll take you back. He'll make it, right? You're picturing it all wrong. You think he's doing everything he can to keep you from him, but he's right there.  I'll clean you up. We'll make this right. We'll get this right. But you have to surrender. No more games, no more compromise. Enough is enough. Enough is enough. I can see the comments coming in online. Even on the replay, I want you to write it. I'm committing. Write that however you want. It doesn't matter. It's just the public declaration. Lift your hands at this all term. Church, I want you right now, even if it's been a long time since you have, to begin to talk to him. And if you pray in tongues, begin to pray out loud in the Holy Spirit right now. Take a moment. Don't wait for me to coach you. Just talk to him. You have a connection with the Father. Just speak to him like they're fires again in the name of Jesus. Here for these standing before me now, every single one that will refresh touch of the Holy Spirit's power. Lift your hands and receive it of Jesus. And I pray Lord that your people would be empowered. Let them have an encounter with you now that they cannot explain. Let them have an encounter with you now that will mark them for the rest of this. Begin to ask him to light it on fire again. Come on. Raise your voices now. Raise your voices now. You watching online ask him, say, Lord, light the fire again. Lord, light the fire again. It's touching people watching online too. His power's flowing. Holy Spirit Church. Lift your hands. Say this. Say, Lord, your vessel, use me.  Double portion. Double portion. Say it with faith. Church, double portion in Jesus' name. Spend me. Say it again. Spend me for your glory. Spend me. I'm going to minister to those who need healing and deliverance in just a few minutes. Are you watching online? Keep watching. Those of you watching live, keep watching. We're going to minister healing and deliverance to people in just a moment. Yes, help them up and the rest of you. What are you sensing on you right now? That about says it right there. Go back to your seats. We'll pray in a moment. We'll pray in a moment. We'll pray for sure. Back to your seats. We'll pray. There's something I need to do first and then we'll minister to those who need healing and deliverance. Sit them toward the front. DJ, sit these ones toward the front, the ones who were coming up for prayer. Sit them right in front of me. Power of God is all over here, this building. I think there are miracles even happening now. Someone in the back, there's a shoulder injury right here on this side to the back. A shoulder injury is being healed right now. Test it. God's healing it. Test it. God's healing it. Like by faith. Do it now. I believe the Lord's doing it. Someone else, an ear infection has just been healed. I'm telling you, the power of God is in this room. Wow, wow, wow. Jesus, we give you glory. We give you glory. Real briefly, I want to share a testimony of God's faithfulness. You know, in this last season, I think we actually announced that here in this building, maybe about a year ago, that we were constructing a brand new television studio ministry facility, basically just long story short, an expansion of the media ministry that's going to in the next six to 12 months is going to exponentially enhance our ability to reach multitudes more. So great expansion is coming six to nine months. You're going to see rapid growth with this ministry. But it was God's faithfulness that brought us there. And so we were believing for some very, very serious money, like big, big money for phase one of the project. I'm happy to announce that phase one is 100% funded. 100%. We're finishing up the building side of it. We have to build still. We're still constructing and so forth. I just got the numbers yesterday for the metrics and so forth or the measurements, I should say for the set design, many wonderful things, many wonderful things. And that's phase one fully funded. And so it's being built. There are people here who contributed greatly to that. And there are people watching who contributed greatly to that. But ultimately we were in a season of sewing. And I have to say we probably gave more money away to other churches and ministries in the last six months than we ever have in our entire time in ministry, in 20 years of ministry, about six months or so, I want to say. Probably we've given more money away in that time period than in any other time period in our ministry's history. And I say that to you not so that I can stand up here and say, look, how amazing I had faith. No, I want you to know that I practice what I preach. And I also want you to know that it works. And I'm standing here as a testimony. There was a minister who was believing God at the same time we were. He was believing God for his studio to be funded. And this was in the Midwest somewhere. Some of you know who I'm talking about. Some of you don't. It doesn't matter. It's God's faithfulness that did it. And so this fellow minister of ours would call me and we would talk every week and we would just encourage each other. And I'd say I need two million, you need 30,000, but God's going to do both. And we believed God would do both. And so I'm listening one night to him tell me just kind of, you know, what he's doing. And he said, you know, I know God's going to do it. He spoke with faith. I know God's going to do it. He said, but we're kind of getting down to the wire here. He said, I know that God's going to provide everything that we need, but we're getting down to the wire now. And he's like, I need someone to give because we have to pay for our set. And I was talking to him, I believe on Saturday. He said, we got to have the set paid for by Monday, if it's going to get here in time for the ministry's opening. And I'm listening to this and he's telling me stories of people who pledged, but didn't fulfill it and said, maybe one day I'll help you. He's like, I talked to everyone. But I talked to everyone I could talk to and people keep saying, Oh, we'll pray for you. Oh, we'll do something at some point to keep me keep in touch. He's like, but like, I need it like today, because it's got a clear today to get in my account by Monday. So I could pay the people on Monday. And so I'm sitting there and I'm thinking to myself, I'm going, why doesn't someone just give him the money he needs? I don't get it. And the Holy Spirit like, you know, red flashes alarms. Why don't you, and here's what's so amazing. The amount he needed, he told me later that we gave and he told me later, you know, what the amount was and specifically, but at the time I didn't know, I was about $1,000 off in my estimate what I gave him. But the time I sold it, I didn't realize he needed just as much money at that point that I needed. Steve, when we were first building our first TV studio, how many remember that story I told about the guy who didn't even like me, who gave $14,000?  I like this guy. I was on the phone. I'm like, this guy's a cool guy. I like this guy. And the Holy Spirit said, why don't you give that? He told me 13 later we found out it was 14, but the Lord made up the difference like the next day. He told me I need $13,000 like today. I just talked to the last donor who I thought was going to do it and they didn't do it. I'm going the nerve of these people. Why don't they just release it? Why don't they just have the faith? And the Holy Spirit said, why don't you? And I said, oh yeah. And I thought, again, all the alarms go off in your head, but I'm believing for this one. Oh, would that be wise? And I said, no, you know what? I'm going to do it. So I got on Zell. I said, hey, what's your Zell? And he's still talking. He doesn't know what I'm doing while we're on the phone. And I'm talking to him. I'm like, what's your Zell? He's all, it's just connected to my number. I go, okay. So we're talking. And I send it, the 13,000 sent over to his account. I said, check your account. He goes, bro, no, you didn't. Bro, no way. And he starts rejoicing and rejoicing and rejoicing. And, and what he didn't know is that very day, just hours before someone had called me. And we needed, guys, we needed close to half a million dollars. And someone asked me, what, what did you need? Cause we raised like two points, like one point something. And we needed another half a million, like ASAP. And the person said to me, what do you need? I said, this is what we need. I said, okay, I'm sending it. The check will be there this Friday. So he doesn't know, he didn't know that 48, 72, whatever the hours were, just, just earlier that week, someone had done the same. And I had told him prior, I said, listen, this was months ago. I said, when I go down and visit you at your new studio, we're going to have dinner the night before. And we're going to celebrate that God met the need for you and for our ministry. And I called Ruben months ahead. I said, you're going to book this place Saturday night. I'm going to be there. We booked it months before we knew we had the income in, but, but I say all that to say, people are so worried right now about this or that. I don't even, I don't even care what's going on anymore. Like, like literally when people tell me news or like post something of, oh, this is going wrong or that's good. I don't know if it's the Lord. I have to really look into what this is. But like, there's like an anger in me. I says, get that out of my face. Stop with, it's like the false prophets of Baal just spewing their nonsense. And it's like people are just spreading fear. Don't even think about it. They just share it. Look how terrible things are. I'm thinking, my goodness, if we, the church, are afraid, what does that say for the rest of the world? I said, no, I am not going to succumb to that fear. This is not the season of setback. This is the season of opportunity. This is the greatest moment in all of church history and it's ours to seize. So I tell you of the gift that we gave, you know, the scripture does say, you know, don't let what you're one hand know, don't let one hand know what the other hand is doing. But it also tells us to let our good deeds be done before men that the light may shine and that may glorify God. I'm not saying this that you might glorify me. I don't deserve glory for that.  And so you and I have a responsibility here today to do our part. And I just want to encourage you.  You do what he says to do. He'll provide. All we have to do is trust and obey. This goes for you watching online as well. You may be watching online live or in the replay later and you say, that's a wonderful story that's encouraging, but it's for you too. And so I'll just say what the number is very briefly. This event costs $55,000. And I believe every cent is going to come in right now. Will you believe that with me? In fact, I know by the Holy Spirit that every single penny we need is in the house. It's just a matter of God's people saying, am I going to obey the Holy Spirit and release it? These events are pricey guys. And we want to get bigger and bigger venues because this is not going to hold for much longer. We're going to need faith if we're going to be funding arenas and stadiums and conference centers here in Southern California. We need the faith. And so I'm asking you today. I'm not putting any magic numbers out there or anything like that. Just hear the Holy Spirit. There are people who God has blessed in this room. You carry great wealth. It's your responsibility to give in proportion to that wealth. There are others you may say, Hey, I'm struggling a little bit, but I'm going to do something. You give in proportion to what you can and watch God handle the rest. Everyone needs to do their part watching online and present here in this room. So you watching online, go to David Hernandez ministries.com slash donate to give a one time gift or David Hernandez ministries.com slash partner to become a monthly support of the ministry. Now let's have the ushers begin to hand out the envelopes, but you can also do this. And this is the fastest way you can do this. You can scan that QR code with your phone's camera. And again, you watching online, just go to the click on the links they're sending you. And if you scan your phone's camera on there, you can actually see where we are with the fundraising for tonight. The QR code won't work for those of you watching online. But those of you present in the room, you can scan the QR code and you can see exactly where we are with our fundraising goal for this event. So you'll be able to see it as you give live. It's coming in. And this is something that I believe the Lord will do tonight. And so you watching online, you have a part in this, you here in this room, you have a part in this. This is not going into my pocket. This is not going to pay me any special income. This is just for the continuation of hosting these meetings in Southern California. Guys, it costs what it costs. It costs what it costs. And that's the price we pay for these venues, for everything that we do surrounding these events. That's what it costs tonight. And of course, we're doing our best to cut costs, but it costs what it costs. So those of you here present, you can scan that QR code and you'll actually see where we are. I want you to give something that can make a dent on that. And again, there are some people watching and there are some people here that you can help to take a good percentage of that out. If not, someone might be able to do the whole thing. But tonight's event costs $55,000. That's the price for everything total. And I believe God's going to bring it in. And so as you're passing out those envelopes, as you're scanning those QR codes, as you're clicking on the links, watching online, I want you to remember why we give. We're not giving to be blessed. I believe God will bless the giver. Of course, I believe God supplies all our needs. Of course, I believe in abundance, of course, but we as Christians don't serve God to get and finances are not the center of the gospel message. We give so that the gospel can go forward. We give so that we can spread this revival fire around the world. We give that others might experience the Holy Spirit's power through the preaching of the message, through the spreading of the word, through the events that we host around the world. Lives are being impacted on the live streams. Guys, YouTube alone, almost 800,000 people that follow that channel, 800, almost 800,000 people. And it's just the beginning. Facebook, another 800,000. TikTok that we just started using. I know some people are freaked out about TikTok, but we use what we can to get the gospel out. TikTok, we just barely really started putting effort into that. It's already at a quarter million and it's growing fast, but I think like one or 2000 a day. So we're reaching people. People are hearing the good news. People are receiving ministry. That's why we give. We give for souls. We give because we love Jesus. And now I'll conclude this in just a moment by allowing you just a little bit more time to fill out those giving forms and to fill out those envelopes. And again, we appreciate all your support and we love and appreciate all of you who are giving. This is the church coming together to make a impact around the world. And I want to thank you for your support. I know that's sacrificial for many of you. And so I'm thanking you for that. It's very important that we do this. It's a sacrifice, but it's a good sacrifice. So are we just about done here? If you need more time to fill out the envelope, will you wave at me? Okay. Most of them mid and then toward the back way. I can't see you way back there, but I can see. Okay. We'll give it just another 30 seconds or so. And you watching online continue to support again, David Hernandez ministries.com slash donate or David Hernandez ministries.com slash partner. The difference is donate is one time partner. You go to sign up for a monthly gift. Thank you to all of you who are supporting. I so appreciate it. I can actually see some of the names coming in now. Well, I give you time to fill that out. I'll be able to read some Jovan and Walter and Sandra. Thank you for your monthly support. And thank you also to Chen Yang and Mike. I appreciate your support. Jeremy, Catherine and Sarah and Neri, Melissa, Tiana, Eric. Hey, that's actually, that's you, Eric. I just saw it come. That's my friend Eric Espinoza right there. I was just thinking about you a couple of days ago. And I was like, I hope I see Eric there. So I'm glad to see you. Then I see Diana and I see Cynthia, Alexia. Thank you, Samuel. Thank you, Jason. We appreciate everyone's support. Now, let's pray. Let's ask the Holy Spirit to use this, not for any other purpose, but to cause the ministry to go and grow and that it might reach souls. Amen. Lift your hands. Pray with me. Come on, Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray for those who are receiving this word and those who are participating in giving. And I pray, Lord, that you would bless them for their giving tonight and those watching online as well. Lord, I come against every strategy of the enemy that would seek to devour their finances. And I pray, Lord, that there would be favor and opportunity that would follow them. Father, I thank you for their genuine, generous hearts that give not to receive, but simply that your work might go forward. And I pray, Lord, you bless that generosity, bless their hearts, bless their lives, bless their homes and use this for your glory. Lord, make this, this bit of resources that we're collecting tonight. Let it be a weapon in your hand against the enemy in the mighty name of Jesus, we pray. And the church said, Amen. Well, as those buckets are passing, I will say to you watching online, if you're watching and it's your first time and you've not yet subscribed to the channel, do make sure to subscribe right now and click that notification bell when you do subscribe. We release content on the Holy Spirit, on prayer, on spiritual warfare. How many of you think, help me out here, how many of you think they should subscribe? Thank you. Thank you for the good response. But there, they said it, so I suggest it, but no, all joking aside, many of these here would tell you that they'd encourage you to subscribe. It's, it's really, I think, important to find ministries that are Bible-based, Spirit-filled and Jesus-centered. The power of the Holy Spirit grounded on the word, that's key. So subscribe now, click the notification bell and remember that nothing is impossible with God. And that's actually where they will trim the video later. That's why I pause like that. But thank you for your giving and as we continue to pass the buckets, I want everyone all across this room to stand. This is now the time where I believe many will begin to be saved, healed, delivered. You call upon the name of the Lord. I believe he'll save you from that addiction. I believe he'll save you from that bondage. I believe he'll break the power of the enemy in your life. Hands lifted, eyes closed now. You watching online, praying with us. Jesus, we love you and we honor you. Steve, prepare the team to see, breathe upon me. I want all hands lifted across this room. Pray out loud in the Holy Spirit for just 30 seconds, please. Father, we thank you. It's your power's presence. We thank you, but you're able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all we could ask or even imagine. And so, Father, we know it deeper than our hearts. Your power is moving. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Jesus, I adore. Sing with the angels now, church. Steve, you heard that? Nick, did you hear that? Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. You guys know me. I sent such heavy glory here. The people singing, but above that, I could hear like angelic hosts singing with you. I could literally hear that. If you could hear that, wave at me. If you're watching online, I don't know if the mics could pick that up or if that's how supernatural singing works. I don't know. But here, we're hearing angelic beings singing with us. Now, listen, listen, listen. I know how that sounds, because when I hear that stuff, I understand preachers use those things as gimmicks all the time. And you know me. I reject a lot of very strange things and people get very angry with me for standing firm on the word against strange teachings. But that is a supernatural sound I just heard. I have two musicians up here and musicians up here telling me that that's not, I want you to lift your hands. I don't know if the Lord will do it again. Lord, please, please open heaven over this room. Open heaven over this room, Lord. I can, how many can like feel that? Like my hands like shaking right now. Can you feel that? Wave at me if you can. Lift your voice to sing it again. Hallelujah. And on the part of your body where you need healing right now. Jesus, the Son of God. I rebuke that sickness now. That sickness go in the name of Jesus. Every sickness, every disease, every pain, every default. And I come against every tormenting spirit in the mighty name of Jesus. Be set free. Jesus makes you whole. Place your hand on your sickness right now. He's setting you free. I'm telling you. Jesus makes you whole. Jesus makes you whole. You're watching online as well. Jesus makes you whole. I command every demonic power, every force of darkness. You leave this room right now in the name of Jesus. There's a wind blowing across this room. Every demonic power, I come against you in the name of Jesus. Receive that kiss now. I'm telling you, when you ask, you shall receive it again. It's a vivid image. Don't change the dynamics. Leave it where it was. I saw like almost like an egg yolk. And I know that had to do, it's not, it's like a yellow, not tumor, it's like a bump or something. It's on the skin. And I see this like yellow. It's a skin deformity. It could be an infection. I have no idea what I'm looking at right now, but it looks like an egg yolk. That could be someone here watching online. It's a problem with the skin. And I rebuke that sickness in the name of Jesus. I command that skin to clear up right now in the name of Jesus. Somebody tonight's being set free from tormenting dreams in the name of Jesus. I give you glory. Someone came in here heavy with the spirit of suicide, assaulting your mind. You're free tonight in the name of Jesus. You're free. You're free. Lift your hands. Receive your miracle. Father, I thank you for these, your people being healed now. Someone's knees have just been healed. I give you the glory. Spines just been healed. Someone's spine has just been healed. I give you the praise Jesus. Someone with a tumor, you're being healed. The tumor is going right now, like a circular rash on the face that's going in the name of Jesus. Someone's eyes have just been healed. Someone's ears have just, somebody's ears right over to my left. You've just been healed. I give you the praise Jesus. Lift your hands. Receive this. Just begin to thank them for your healing right now. Come on. Paralysis is being healed. I give you the glory. I give you the glory. Somebody with, with, with numbness on their hand, you're being healed right now. A dental issues just been healed. Another spinal issues just been healed. Someone with like bumps, bumps on the back of the head. You're just been healed. I thank you Lord. I give you the glory. Thank you for this anointing Lord. Thank you for this power now moving. I give you the honor. Let me ask you something. How many of you felt physically the power of God? Wait at me. You see, people don't exaggerate when they talk about these meetings and that weight that comes on this room. It's the real, even our worst critics, even our worst critics will tell you there's a weight that comes on the room. They say, well, I can't explain it, but it's got to be something. That's the power of God. Now, how many of you believe you've just healed in your body right now? Wait at me. Okay. Here's what I need you to do. Those of you who've just been healed, look around the room, all the people waving. For those of you who've just been healed and online, I'm going to ask you to do something that's going to challenge your faith a little bit. I want you to step out of your seat. If you've been healed and come stand right where Ruben over here is waving you down and come begin to make your way out of your seat right now and you're going to testify of what God's done for you and then we're going to believe God that your testimony is going to affect others. You watching online begin to write your testimony. Can we give the Lord a hand of praise for these that are coming now?  If you've been healed, come out of your seat and begin to make your way right now. Now, I know it can be a little nerve wrecking sometimes and people get shyer and shyer. It seems from one generation to the next, but you know, because they're more aware of cameras and social media and so forth. But it's the power of God moving here and I want you to testify of that power that others watching might receive their faith to be healed. Do something for me, will you?  Father, let that weightiness come on them now. Let the weight of that glory begin to touch. Some of you are receiving mantles. Who felt heat right now?   You felt heat. There were several more of you who felt that too. Someone said, oh my, what? Say again? That's the power of God. Don't worry about it. She's, she's, oh, she's, we need catchers back there.  What are you feeling? Can you just yell it out? Who else is sensing that? You right here. What are you sensing? Like, like washing over you, you and the orange right over there with the right. Yeah. What? You're going to have to yell at me. I won't be offended. A heat on your ear. Was there a problem with your ear? What about, is someone next to you being healed of an ear problem? Because sometimes when you feel, that's how, that's how the Lord speaks to me. Someone next to her could be healed of an ear problem right now. What behind her? Yeah, right behind her. What's happening over there? Say again? And is there a problem with her too? Okay, so that's why you felt the heat on your ear.  What would someone over here else? What happened? What, what happened here? What? She says, I feel like a sensation, like strong. That's like the electricity that people talk about. That power of God's moving over there too. You, God's calling you to the healing ministry. You say, I guess that was a confirmation. He goes, yeah, that's, that's God's confirmation to you. He's calling you to the healing ministry. What happened here? You feel fire on your ear right now? Maybe someone around you too? Somebody else? I don't mind hearing these testimonies all day. What are you feeling over there? What? Hot hands. How, who else is getting that? Wave at me. Wave your hot hands at me here. Look at that. Don't you just love it? Manifestations of his power. What happened here, Brit? David, this is Danielle's pain because of the nerve damage. She says now, after the prayer, it doesn't hurt to move certain parts of her body that the nerve pain would have caused pain from this part. And how long were you dealing with that nerve pain? About two and a half years. Half years? This is the presence of the Holy Ghost. It's almost like, what I try to explain to you, it's almost like you feel like you're not really awake. It's almost like dreamlike. So what was, what was the problem with the nerves now? Can you explain that? I've had surgery in both of my elbows and on this right one was just past September. I had surgery and so the post therapy has been pretty difficult for me to bend it all the way. And as I was praising and worshiping, asking for healing, he's healing me. He's healed me. I'm able to bend it without pain and in my neck, in my spine, I was testing it out and just checking him. It doesn't hurt like it did before. And in my neck, I can move it without stiffness and I feel strong. What does this miracle mean to you? That he's good. He's good and he delivers, he delivers and he answers prayers. It's so beautiful. Isn't this awesome? I'm seeing, you know, it's funny. Just, just one second. I see, I see my friend the tans there and then I see Phyllis and Amor. It's funny. You guys are here. Can I ask you a question? You in the suit, this man right here. Is he volunteering with us? Can I ask you a question? Give me one second. The Lord's doing something for me personally that I cannot share just yet. It's all good. But, but there's a, just even looking out at Phyllis Amor, you who I've seen, I haven't seen in a long time and I want to make sure you were the guy and then the tans. Just excuse me while I have a moment with the Lord will you? This is almost, I don't believe in new age terms and all that but the term you would understand is deja vu but please let's not get into that. People put in their tin foil hats on and get all crazy with me. Just the Lord's confirming some things tonight.  What happened here Sergio? Diga this is Sharon. She dealt with the personality illness and she said she laid hands on her mind and she actually threw up in the back. She got deliverance and she said she found a weight just to jump off of her. Can we give the Lord a hand of praise for that? And you felt a weight come off of you? Yeah, I did. What was that like? Well, didn't it feel good?  It's okay. I started breathing a lot like it wasn't pleasant but then I just kind of threw up on your carpet. That's not my carpet. Pastor Jay, if you're watching, I am so sorry but I think they have that here too. Now people are asking about the vomit. I say it's not necessary to be delivered but sometimes it happens when they get delivered. Just don't force people to do it. You know what I mean? You're not delivered until you do it. If they do it as they're being delivered, fine. It happens all the time but what you sensed was a physical reaction to a spiritual reality. What were you saying? When I said what? You can take the mask off. You said what? When you said I feel a wind in the room, I kind of felt a breeze and then I like I started breathing heavy and I just threw up on the carpet. So do you remember when I prayed a moment ago? I said every demonic spirit has to go and like you guys felt that wind? This is please, please. The body of Christ needs to get this right. It's the power of the Holy Ghost that does it. There were several people delivered of demons like that and it's not me doing it. If it was me doing it, it would have taken much longer. It was just the wind. That's the way Jesus did it. Just the word with a command. Go and gone. Now I want you to stretch your hands toward this girl and pray that the Lord's peace would follow her all the days of her life. I want you all to stretch your hands toward her. And one more time I'll say you don't have to wear the mask. That's okay. I know it's habit. If you want to wear it you can. I'm just letting you know you don't have to. Stretch your hands toward her.  Repeat after me and this is not a prayer that saves anyone. People are asking whether David is the sinner's prayer in the Bible. My answer to that is in the scripture you will not find the sinner's prayer but you will find sinners who pray. The Bible talks about confessing with the mouth. It's not the confession that saves you. It is the believing that saves you. But when you believe you confess to coincide with that. That's a confession of what you believe in your heart. So as you begin to pray this prayer you're going to give your life to Jesus and you're going to surrender everything to him. And when you do you're going to become a new creation born again. And the same Jesus who set you free tonight is going to empower you with his Holy Spirit to walk in victory all the days of your life. So stretch your hands toward her and pray with me. Say dear Jesus. Dear Jesus I come to you. A sinner. A sinner. And I ask. And I ask. That you forgive me of my sins. Wash me in your blood. Make me new. I believe.  I put my faith in you. Thank you for saving me. Jesus. Be my Lord. My Savior. My God. My King. My King. Now boldly pray this. I declare. I declare. I belong to Jesus. I belong to Jesus. And I am now. And I am now. And forever. And forever. Born again. Born again. In Jesus name. Jesus name. Look at that smile. Look at that smile. That's joy overflowing. You go rejoicing now. God bless you. That's what Jesus came to do. He came to set the captives free. People say Brother David you shouldn't have driven it out of her if she wasn't saved. Well then who am I supposed to drive demons out of? You see I believe that deliverance is essential. I believe that deliverance is for today. We cannot just turn people away because we don't believe they should have demons cast out of them. I believe we can do like Jesus said. Come out of them and enter them no more. We exercise that authority and you just witness two miracles. Someone delivered from a demonic power and then someone born again in the name of Jesus. That's what we rejoice in. What happened here Ruben? All right Diga. This is pretty awesome. I'm excited for this guy. This is John. Okay. He's an electrician. Okay. Four years ago he was in a work accident where he got completely shocked. He lost feeling in his left hand. He said today when you caught that out earlier someone has numbness. He said he started feeling a tingling sensation in his left hand. He said today and in prayer he said he started moving his hand in faith. He now has mobility and feeling in his left hand. Has it been able to do that? You haven't been able to do that. It's been a long time. It's starting to do it. I feel a tingling. I think it needs more because these fingers are not going straight yet but they used to be straight but I got a lot more movement. Okay. Let's let's pray complete miracle tonight in Jesus' name. Pray, pray, pray. That's it. There you go. Do it again. Look at that. Did you guys see that? One more time. Lord let this miracle be done in the name of Jesus. Look at that. Do it again. That's it. Are you seeing this? Say it again. Thank you. Thank you. Oh don't thank me. I had nothing to do with it. I promise you. It's all, all him. Lord touch him with your power. Let this miracle come to pass. I command this hand. See what's funny is when I touch his hand I feel like he's able to close it. Did you see that? There it is again. That right there? Do it again. There it is. Do it again. You got it. You got, see where I, when I touch right here and I'm holding it, I'm not, I promise I'm not closing his hand for him. Go ahead. Close your hand sir. That's the, that's the touch of God's power on him. Now when, when, when you take the tangible away, it becomes more difficult but then the Lord begins to work it progressively. Do it again sir. You're going to be able to close that hand. You have movement now in the name of Jesus. Movement be restored to that pointer finger. Movement be restored to that, there it is. Movement be restored. Keep praying, keep praying. There it is in the name of Jesus. I can sense the strong, strong healing grace right now. Now watch. With healing grace, close it. Do you see the difference? And it's not me. It's who's around me. Remember when I talked about being a carrier of the glory and I told you there's a tangible element to the power of God. So when I'm touching his hand you see he can close it completely. I promise you I'm not applying any pressure. There's no pressure being applied. And it's not me. This is the same spirit in you and me and it's just a matter of surrendering. Now Lord I pray demonstrate that the people might see that this is not me, this is you. We put our faith in you. Lord give them that grace and that ability to close that hand even now. In the name of Jesus. And we give Jesus a mighty hand of praise. You guys, I don't know what more we could ask. Pick him up for a second. How long has it been since you've been able to close your hand like that? Four years. Four years. Yeah. How shaken up about this are you right now? I'm particularly like if I just got it executed again. This electricity is good. My brother, this one's good. I can't even explain and you can feel that when I was holding your hand. Look at that again. Oh my goodness. So this is Armela David for five years. She's been having kidney issues. It would cause swelling in her legs. She had difficulty standing. She came into the service and she said during the worship the swelling began to go away. No issues standing. And now she feels God's healed her kidneys giving her a brand new kidney. And I'm shaking. This is a sign that I'm healed. I don't any like this one, but now I don't feel any hurt. It's a sign to stand and give the Lord. Thank you Jesus. It's a prayer for sure. I said will you wow us again? And we've not even begun to scratch the surface. We'll be back in January. Will you join us? Will you just lift your hands and say thank you again? We can't say it enough. Just begin to thank him and worship him and praise him. Come on in your own words now. Just begin to thank him. Thank you Lord. So Lord, you are literally wonderful. We are literally odd and amazed. Thank you Jesus. Just begin to thank him right now. We give you glory. I don't even know what to say. Tonight as we leave this place, I want you to remember what God's given us. This movement has only just begun. This movement has only just begun. This is a Jesus movement. It's a Jesus movement. Jesus centered Bible based spirit filled. Can we give the Lord one more mighty hand of praise? And what great things he's done.


view from the north. I'm Jay Fidel. This is Stink Tech, and we have Ken Rogers here. He's from British Columbia, Canada. And he is going to help us understand what happens in Canada vis-à-vis the social safety net. Welcome to the show, Ken. Nice to have you. Hello, Jay. So let's talk about the social safety net in Canada. And my sense of it is that in Hawaii, we have a kind of small echo chamber. And we take surveys in Hawaii and tell ourselves what we're thinking. And then sometimes surveys come in from the mainland, and we get mainland news, and they tell us what the country is thinking, and that's helpful. But really, for a flattened world, a world that is interconnected, we really need to have more echo in bigger chambers all the time. So we look at, like in Mexico, we look at Latin America, we look at Africa, we look at Europe, we look at Asia, and we want to learn what's going on there. But we also need to look at Canada, because Canada's our kissing cousin, if you don't mind. And we need to know how you guys have done these things, concepts that we have, but maybe we haven't done it in the same way. Sometimes your way is better than ours, and I want to explore that with you. But today we're going to talk about the social safety net. Let's start with retirement. Let's talk about social security. Let's talk about retirement plans. How does that work in Canada? Well, very similar to the US, that the corporations used to have defined benefit plans or pension plans for their employees. That's pretty well gone now, except for the public service. The only place where in Canada the employee gets a pension that is reasonable is from their employer, as if they're a government employee that includes like a local fireman or policeman or a federal government employee or a provincial employee, all of the medical people. But in Canada, we have one very unique thing in that regard called the Canada Pension Plan. And this is a federal program where everybody that is working has a payroll deduction. And so that when they reach retirement age, they have a pension. It's about the same as a typical insurance company would have if you bought a pension plan in the US. But the advantage in Canada of having that is absolutely everybody is forced to have it. You know, the idea of a forced anything is sort of anti American to some members of the US citizenry. And accordingly, you don't have such a thing. But in that sense, you get when somebody is retired, there is at least a basic start. Well, then in Canada, you also have what's called old age security, you get an old age pension. Now, the US has some similarities, but Canada also then has an old age supplement that if your Canada pension plus your old age security and whatever other pension income or assets you have are not enough and you're still below the poverty line or you're not doing well enough, you get this extra supplement so that if you took a person that worked at $15 an hour for a lot of years, that fairly poor wage, let's call it. But their Canada pension plus old age security plus old age supplement would keep them off the street. They would not be near the poverty line, but they wouldn't be destitute. Yeah, well, we like to keep people off the street because a destitute person costs more, costs the government more than a person who's able to get along on whatever the plans are. Let me ask you some questions about what you just said. So if you work for the government of Canada, you get an automatic pension and the government pays for that, right? Yes, you have a defined benefit plan for pretty generous. Okay. And how much do you pay and how much do you get? Roughly, roughly. I don't really have good accurate numbers. I know a government, a fireman or a policeman that works for a local government and they retire, their pension income is more than half of their original income. That's what I was looking for. Also, just so that we have a framework here, what is the exchange rate between the Canadian dollar and the US dollar right now? It's a little less than 80 cents or that is an American dollar's worth about one and a quarter times or a Canadian dollar's worth 80 cents US. Okay. So when we're talking to this discussion about dollars in Canadian dollars, it's only 80 cents an American dollar. Okay. The other thing is you mentioned that there are some plans that are that you have to get that the law requires you to get them. And who does that apply to? And what does that cost you? Is that in the same vein as the government employee plan? Do you mean the Canada pension plan? Yes, like it's a payroll deduction. And I think it's about 6% of the payroll. Okay. You have to get it. It's going to be taken out of your pay. Yes. And the pension fund, the Canada pension plan runs a fund like a normal mutual fund would do. They invest the money and invest it very conservatively and they don't earn very much on it over enough years so that the the payout is not something that you jump up and down about if you were a stockbroker and trying to convince somebody how wonderful your management is. Certainly the the pay through is is not, you know, something, you know, fantastic at all. It's really it's a safety net.  I find that interesting because, you know, in the U.S. under FDR we established Social Security and, you know, we made contributions through your life and sometimes they went up and in the end theoretically you were contributing to a fund that would pay you back a certain amount based on what the Social Security Administration and maybe Congress decided and that would be reliable and stable subject to increases every now and then. And there have been discussions mostly among the Republicans in our world to change that, to outsource it, to give it to a money manager, I guess, instead of having the government hold the money and have a, you know, an obligated payout at the end of your career whenever that is. And so I'm wondering what you think about the Canadian system vis-à-vis the American, you know, we put it in it stays in a special fund and it comes out at a specified amount. When you talk about having someone manage the money, you're talking about a GOP plan, which is clearly going to, if that ever happens, it will result in lower payouts, you know, to the beneficiaries. Can you compare on that basis? I don't think the fund, whoever's managing the fund makes a heck of a lot of difference. The, you know, the professionals that the government has managing their pension funds, whether it's the Ontario Teachers Fund or, you know, the Federal Canada Pension Plan fund, their management is not much different than the average mutual fund in terms of performance. The, you know, it's really, when you get overall social security, what you need is a whole combination of things like the basic pension is just one piece. What do you do, for example, with poverty all the way along? Example, single women that have children, you know, you have in the U.S., you have a earned income tax credits or you have a child tax credit. Well, those are, you have to fill in a tax return and you have to have some work to get, to have a credit that makes any sense. You know, the difference philosophy in Canada is we have the child tax benefit, which is just paid monthly. There's just a cash payment monthly. It's not a deduction or an exemption. No, no, it's just, but it relates to last year's taxable income.  That's one of the fundamental points I wanted to raise with you. It just seems to me, and this is over conversations you and I have had many, many times, that the Canadian system, although it, you know, it comes and goes and it has a certain amount of politics, as we do, but the Canadian system cares more about people. They care more about the social safety net. They don't want to see anybody on the street or suffering. Am I right about that? Relative to the U.S., yes, but there are countries in Europe, you know, the Netherlands, Denmark, the Northern countries in particular, France also, where their level of social safety net in total, if you take everything combined, is really more generous than the Canadian. And we simply, in my mind, watch what these Europeans do and experiment with. And if something makes sense, we try to copy it.  And when we have such well educated women, it's a shame not to be able to have them be able to work if they would like to. So you've got to take the whole package. For example, the Canada Child Benefit or Family Allowance that used to be called the Monthly Check, those are fairly generous items. For every single child, $550 a month until they're six years old and $450 a month until their turn 18. Now, if your income is greater than $30,000, that starts to phase out. But really, you still get most of it when your income is still about $60,000. Well, you've got, in addition to that, you have what I call unemployment insurance. Well, the U.S. has unemployment insurance and Canada has unemployment insurance and the criterias are almost exactly the same. That is, you get some money when you're out of work and it's not your fault that you're bounced out of work. And it lasts for a certain length of time and it relates to how much money you did earn. Well, the specific numbers in Canada are better than the ones in the U.S., but they're not as generous as some of the ones in Europe. For example, in Canada, it's federally administered generally.  And so in Canada, the average payout was about $635 a week. Well, the U.S. program that's managed by the states and they're all dramatically different, averaged $380 a week. Well, the U.S. one lasts for exactly half a year, like 26 weeks, if you meet all the criteria and you work for the required length of time. In Canada, it's 45 weeks. That's just kind of the differences. There's just minor fine-tuning and every couple years, every rule in the U.S. changes and every rule in Canada changes and they keep going to be better and better and better. Like the U.S. is far better today and it was 10 or 12 years ago and so is Canada. But you know, you say better, you mean the benefits are higher numbers? Yeah, sorry, to a Canadian better is having less poor people, less poverty. You know, sometimes a lot of Americans don't think that's a good thing. They think if they're poor, they should just suffer. Yeah, no, that's coming out. That's part of the whole libertarian thing. Let me ask you some questions raised by what you were just saying. First of all, let me get this straight. In the U.S., we have unemployment insurance state by state and that's why the wide disparity. In Canada, is the unemployment insurance state as province by province or is it national? It's federal but each province can top it up if they want to. But for example, in the United States, Massachusetts is the most generous on unemployment insurance and their amount is greater than the Canadian one. The last number I saw was a little less than $800 where Mississippi was the worst and it was about $270 a month. Well, the Canadian at 635 average in the U.S. at 380 average is there but you've got more generous states and less generous states. But you still have to count a whole bunch of other factors. For example, a concept of straight welfare. You don't have any income, you don't this, you don't that. Does this state want to keep you with a roof and food or not? And Canada has a, if you can plead enough and you're poor enough, you can meet the rules. You can get straight welfare and it's not very big but it's still $600 a month for one person. This raises the question of homelessness. In the U.S., you can go on the street. You can be in a pickle where the government won't help you. You don't qualify for any significant support and you're on the street and I'm thinking of all these people, for example, that were busted by big health care without insurance or even with insurance and they went bankrupt and they have no money and the hospitals won't take them beyond a certain point.  That's really awful but we have that. We have that here and so the question is could that happen? Could this kind of thing without any money and the state or the province whatever comes around and says no, no, no, no. We're not going to let you go on the street. We're going to take care of you because we know that's a moral cliff we're not going over. The best way to describe that is to look at downtown Seattle and downtown Vancouver. They both have a mega-scale tent city but in both cases the root cause is almost the same. That is, there's drugs and lack of looking after mentally ill. If you're to line up, who is on the street living in a tent? They're nearly all people who especially the ones that I've seen in Seattle and Vancouver are just absolutely atrocious. How many people there are living in a tent on a street right in downtown and they tend to make little tent cities or large tent cities. They group together and if the authorities come and move them they move to some other location all as a group and the process to try to have them moving around but the price of housing is a big problem. Now Hawaii, you have such wonderful weather 12 months a year. Now Seattle and Vancouver both do get temperatures that go down to zero degrees Fahrenheit or at least below freezing Fahrenheit, 32 degrees Fahrenheit but still if you have a sleeping bag you can live on the street in Seattle or Vancouver where you sure couldn't in other cities like Edmonton or Calgary and that's much like saying in Minneapolis. You certainly couldn't live in that huge city in the middle of the winter in a tent very easily. That's why so many people are in Vancouver in Seattle as they've just they've moved there. You know it's another show Ken but I would like to talk with you about how homelessness has increased dramatically not only in Seattle and Vancouver and San Francisco and LA and New York and so forth but everywhere in the country including Hawaii and then everywhere in the world. I mean it's a show we should do you know downline but for me there's got to be an explanation of this somehow it's got to be connected to some significant vectors that we've seen over the past 20 years.  If you are if you are disabled a handicap for some reason social security will give you a special payment and so forth and I'm sure I'm missing a few things but social security has more than simply a retirement benefit all by itself. Does the Canadian system have more than a retirement payment by itself? Yeah you have the whole combination of things. One of the most important components is is healthcare. You know where American you have lots of people go bankrupt because of a health problem and inadequate insurance like uninsured people and the US is gradually getting better and better and better at that like their recent legislation to negotiate drug prices is part of it.  The you know combination of factors to me in social security net is a whole list of things whether you're talking food stamps you know which is an American thing we don't really have food stamps but you you have a system of charities that work probably picking an aside one of the neatest safety nets that I've ever seen or heard of was in Salt Lake City um and I was I lived there for a few years and I lived in a neighborhood where I'd say 95 percent of the people were Mormon religion and the church sponsored a program whereby if uh you know like under a Mormon you have a term a Mormon pantry and everybody's encouraged to have a pantry of of goods that can keep that so you could survive for half a year if uh if everything blew up well they they had a particular thing as as if somebody suddenly became unemployed members of the same local church they called it a stake but that local group uh several people were assigned to look out for that family and uh in effect somebody became unemployed and a truck would roll up to the front door and they would fill up the pantry gratis you know but it was not a government program it was a volunteer program and even uh you know members of that local church that had um positions that could get that person re-employed uh you know if he was a carpenter you know who who in the congregation was a general contractor or you know built buildings and and that person would be given the responsibility to help this guy find a job for this lady and and uh and it was a pretty nifty system uh much like you know the way the Mayans used to build roads and so on like everybody contributed you know one sixth of their year or one tenth of their year whatever it was to the state and everybody was assigned a role according to their capability um you know and in a sense that's what the Mormon church did there and I bring that up since I know there's a fairly hefty Mormon element in Hawaii and I don't know if they have a dense enough population to to do such a thing there but it was quite fantastic how well this worked and how you know people were just pulled up by their socks and and that um our business there ended up where you know my immediate subordinate came to me and said we we need somebody to fill this new job and I says well you didn't have such a thing yesterday when did this pop up you know and it really was that fellow was a member of the church given responsibility to help this fellow find a job and and when this guy came on he was not fully qualified for what was needed but not only did the guy who who hired him but the rest of this staff stood on their head and put in extra hours to make sure this guy pulled his weight like they covered him until he was able you know that was part of that system um that's a lot better that's a lot better than a government system well that's that's that's what I was going to ask you you know uh when when my wife and I were just dating um her family in kawaii they were modest means um had what I thought was a kind of groaning table and every day after the work at work time the people in the community who needed food would come around to their home and they would feed my my wife's family would feed them on a regular basis and this was the way life was in kawaii I'm not sure that happened so much anymore I I don't think it does happen much anymore and and what I wanted to ask you was you know you measure the quality um of the social security system caring for the poor you know the the the social safety net um by how much need there is in the non-governmental community how much needs being met in the non-governmental communities if I can if I tell you that in a given location or sovereignty there are fewer charities whether they be religious or not uh feeding people then what I'm telling you is the government is arguably more successful in that place because it doesn't need you know the help of the LMO's an area organization but if I tell you that there's an enormous number of charities and LMO's in the organizations feeding people because they are in crisis then what I'm telling you too I think is that the government is behind the curve and um and the government should take note that it is not meeting its social burden what do you think about that well it's your opinion of what the government's obligation is like you know if if somebody is able to work but is not working why should the other people pay for that person to have you know free room and board uh you know that's a simple concept so that in in both Canada and the U.S. uh you know if you want to give um straight welfare um what do you have to do to qualify now in Canada you can actually get straight welfare um it's not very big Ken this reminds me of Andrew Yang who ran for president on a democratic ticket I guess uh back last time and he had a guaranteed income that's right so I mean a guaranteed income is in arguably going to help people who don't work who don't want to work or don't care work or who can't work uh and and you know it's a statement of the way maybe the future should be operated maybe it's a statement of way where Europe is going you know we take care of you no matter what nobody stars nobody is in need uh whether you want to be a you know a feather better or not doesn't matter um we're going to everybody it lives the good life or at least a modest life um and maybe that's maybe that's where it's going but I wanted to ask you my final question to you today is you know there are political forces working on these programs they don't happen by themselves they're not purely historical there are political vectors and forces and and lobbyists working on these programs working on the the side of it that says we have to help everybody guaranteed income what have you guaranteed welfare and there are those on the side uh that say we don't want that we we take the libertarian part of you if you want to eat you got to work period um and we have that as you know and it's accentuated these days under the GOP um we have that in this in this country too and I wonder if you could care for me the kind of vectors that are happening the political vectors that are happening in Canada on both sides of the that issue um we don't have a very strong libertarian force in Canada uh we may have in the near future because you know our conservative party that is in minority position in the government now um they're most likely new leader is is pretty small conservative uh but I don't think that you know you have to be in the midstream or you won't get any power in Canada as a party and I think that electing as a leader you know a far right wing leader is simply going to result in the party doing worse than they did last time you know they only got about 30 percent of the vote um there's a certain rationality in that you know yes but but you really have um difficulty looking after everybody and in your example of the homelessness the the tent cities that are growing or the you know people living in tents on the street in homelessness especially in every city where the price of housing is high um you know that that's not simply a question of does somebody want to work you know you have how capable are most of those people to even work you know the mental illness question the drugs questions though those are dramatic factors that affect the very concept of you know how many people are living below the poverty line well you may have um you know some disease problem that's dominant for example in Canada we have a a very large native population and you know they genetically um have pretty adverse effects with alcohol and so you have a huge percentage are alcoholic and they make up a good portion of people living on the streets and and and and how do you deal with that it's not like it's it's a social security net question but it's not answered with unemployment insurance you know child welfare payments etc I think we're out of time Ken great discussion lots of points to drill down on and to follow up in later shows thank you so much Ken Rogers retired businessman in British Columbia Canada comparing notes with us thank you so much bye Jane thank you so much for watching think tech hawaii if you like what we do please like us and click the subscribe button on youtube and the follow button on vimeo you can also follow us on facebook instagram twitter and linked in and donate to us at thinktech hawaii.com mahalo


You have decided what this situation should look like, according to you, according to society, according to your parent or your friend or your co-worker or some random person online. That's not your higher self voice, your voice that's connected to your spirit, your soul to God. That's your human voice. Once we figure out we're living in our own means through our ego and not through our spirit in God, how do we fix it? First, you have to want to fix it. You can't do anything about it until you stop being stubborn and decide that your trust in God is where you want to be and that supersedes your trust in your own decision making and your own self.


Yeah, as you said, you were excited and couldn't wait to get here now that you've gotten on the field with Coach Rob Moore. What are some of your early impressions and what do you think of some of the drills he's instituted? Yeah, definitely. You know, Coach is a great coach, obviously, from the two days that I've been on the field with him so far, you know, we actually have a lot to work on.  Terry? Yes, obviously, when you look at the receiver room that, you know, and there's only a couple of veterans here that have extensive experience. How much do you look at this as an opportunity for yourself to maybe earn some playing time right away in this office if you can get things down? Yeah, you know, I just, I really don't think about stuff like that, honestly, you know, the really the only thing that I'm worried about is learning my playbook, learning the respect of, you know, trying to, of my teammates, the respect of my coaches and as long as I do those things, everything else will take care of myself. But, you know, I'm just trying to learn how to be a Titan, learn my playbook and everything else will fall into place. Teresa? Des, since the two weeks since you've been drafted, are you, what do you do to try to transition for this minicamp? Were you trying to find a place down here in Nashville? Are you trying to, you know, work on, you know, more drills to be ready to hit the field rather than just preparing for the draft? What have you done these last two weeks to get ready for, you know, for this weekend? Yes, definitely, you know, I definitely worked on, you know, the wide receiver drills, you know, they sent me the little iPad, so I've been reviewing and studying my playbook that last two weeks since the draft till now. I don't really try to worry about all the outside stuff, you know, the way I'm going to make money, the way I'm going to do, you know, my job is to be a football player.    And as you mentioned, it's a marathon out of sprint, but how important is it for you to feel like you want to make a good impression here at Rookie Camp and how do you think that's going so far?   But, you know, I'm just glad that I'm here, I'm blessed to be here, and I'm just going to continue to work and that's what I love to do. Gentry. Yeah, it does. Looking back at your time at Louisville, you had the most receptions of any season your first year, I guess, with Lamar and Coach Petrino. How much do you think it affected, you know, your stats and that sort of thing when you changed offenses midway through and, you know, maybe focus a little bit more on the run? Yeah, I mean, obviously, it's two different types of coaches, but, you know, I really don't think about stuff like that.  So, you know, that's just everything that I've just always been growing up and, you know, I'm going to continue to be like that, you know, while I'm a football player here for the Titans. Have you heard from Lamar since you got drafted?  The draft process, I'll continue, you know, continuously always just on his phone asking him questions, you know, a lot of my friends are in the NFL, I just continue asking them questions.  So, you know, I always do my friends who are in the NFL to my advantage. Yeah, as watching you do some of those receiver drills on the sideline, it looked like with every rep you were getting, you were getting more comfortable. Is that an accurate assessment and what sort of the quick learning curve with those sorts of things? Yeah, definitely, obviously, you know, first couple reps, obviously everybody's going to be excited, everybody, you know, it's worth the many games today too. But at the end of the day, you know, it's still football. Like you said, you know, I felt like I was getting more comfortable as the day went on, but, you know, it's still football at the end of the day.  And, you know, this is a new playbook, obviously. And obviously, this is not college anymore, this is NFL. So, you know, I have to get used to that. And, you know, it just is a learning experience. And, you know, I'm just going through it. David, go Claire. There's you've got a couple of wide receivers here and Mason Kinsey and collage lips come who have been through this sort of thing once before how much does it help to have a guy sitting nearby that you can ask some questions if need be. Yeah, definitely, you know, Mason always helps me out whenever I have a question and coaching them around or, you know, when we're having a drill and I just ask them why hey, what do you do on this or hey what do you do on that or hey what you're doing to remind her, you know, Mason is always there for me. You know, the same with Elijah so, you know, for those, you know, best to be there with us it's definitely going to, you know, benefit us and benefit them. Emily. Yeah, you said a couple of times that you're learning how to be a Titan. What does that look like right now. What are the things that you're doing not just learning how to be an NFL football player but a Titan in particular. You know, just the culture, obviously just every football team's culture is different. You know, they do things different they go about business different they, you know, the work on the field is different and for me to, you know, learn how to be from high school to be a Cardinal at Louisville and now from, you know, college to here learning how to be a Titan, you know, I'm just listening to coach variables and everything he's saying then coach more and everything he's saying and you know I'm just listening I'm taking everything in and you know I'm trying to apply it on the field and off the field. What does the Titans culture look like to you so far just just a couple days in. No obviously you know it's a winning culture obviously. It's just, they do everything right all the time, and that's just something that you know, I just love the bottom and you know I'm trying to be a Titan obviously forever so you know. Well, wondering what you think of the job Brady White draws coming in as a tryout player and having the quarterback this whole thing in three days. Definitely, you know, is definitely cool to him, you know having one quarterback out there and you know he's getting all the reps and I know sometimes you know stuff could be hard but I think he's doing a pretty good job you know in my eyes I'm not really sure about it, but you know, you know just continuously obviously everybody has something to work on and I'm sure if he keeps on working, you know, something will happen. With your dad being a wide receiver coach or as he calls a wide receiver breeder wide receivers. What was the first time you started playing a receiver position how far back does your history go with that.   Did you get to go over some of the drills that were sent to you on the iPad did you get to go over those with your dad. I don't know my dad really doesn't really, you know, my dad not too involved anymore he just likes to, you know he likes to watch the games he's not really into practice he'll call me after every practice and ask you know, how was it how do you think you did. My dad's really into, you know, being your biggest critic so you know he knows I'm gonna be honest with myself be honest with him about my performance or how I did and, you know, he'll kind of this big go off based on that but you know I think my dad's more, you know, focus on my little brother right now. Yeah, as you talked about this a little bit on draft day but you know and when and that when that third day started and the Titans trade up the way they did to get you when you look back how much did that mean to you personally did that they took you when they did but also they they clearly made an effort to go get you.  I'm gonna prove him prove the Titans right and everybody else wrong of why they drafted me.


Di Balikatan 2023 is the 38th and largest-ever iteration of this exercise with roughly about 17,700 troops from the AFP, U.S. Forces, and Australian Defence Forces. It builds interoperability, enhances capabilities, and demonstrate mutual defence of the Philippines' sub-rain territory, and promote peace and security in the region. The highlight of the exercise will be the combined joint literal live-fire exercise, which aims to rehearse joint and combined tactics, techniques, and procedures to execute a maritime strike. Moreover, these events are anchored to the theme maritime and coastal defence, with exercise objectives to enhance the AP capabilities for external defence operations and maritime security awareness in congruence with the Mutual Defence Board and Security Engagement Board lines of efforts. To define command and control functions and strengthen interagency collaboration to test the employment concept of newly acquired capabilities under the AP modernisation programme to project a credible defence posture and enhance AP capabilities for cyber defence operations. To include AP communications, electronics, information systems, infrastructure, and processes. The annual conduct of Balikatan is always a learning opportunity for both the Philippines and the United States military forces, emphasizing on skills, enhancement, doctrine exchange that would certainly contribute to the combat readiness and combat capability of the armed forces of the Philippines. In behalf of the Philippines' exercise directorate, I look forward on having a productive and progressive Balikatan execution for all of us. With this, I recommend for the Philippines' United States exercise Balikatan 38-2023 to be open. Magandang umaga at mabuhay, tayong lahat. Thank you, sir.