Hi guys, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music. In this lesson, which is a rather much requested for lesson on our YouTube channel, people have been regularly chatting and commenting with us saying they wanted some of the basics of chords or the basics of chord theory, not able to play chords well, not able to shift chords well, scared of going out of the white note scales like C major and G major and so on. This video is just to kind of break down some of these concepts and also remove some of the myths which you might have in your head as a musician and a piano player in general that we are trying to just put everything we have, at least in terms of scales and chords on an even playing field. So it's the same rules for everything, it's just a matter of which one you practice more or which one works harder in that sense. We will follow a stepwise flowchart where you're going to write down everything first before you play and this has been my strategy as a musician ever since I've had the opportunity of becoming a music teacher as well. As a teacher, we tend to write a lot of stuff for our students, so that writing culture has tended to get to me as a musician and has helped me in my own growth. Most of this lesson would be what you're going to write down before you tackle any musical problem be it scales or be it chords. Not rhythm, rhythm we have done a lot of other videos but this is primarily for you're given a scale, you're given a chord progression and you're confident about nailing it on whichever scale they give you, whichever chord progression they give you. And then we also have the challenge of inversions. A lot of you start playing chords with the root positions of chords, example that one. But then you don't play that because you think it's sort of like an advanced topic. But in this video, that's another thing I attempt to do to tell you that inversions are actually easy, you should learn them while you learn the basic triad. So if you've learned chord theory in the past, this will be a good refresher, may give you a different perspective. If you learn scale theory, the same thing. If you haven't had any idea of chords ever watch this video, I'm sure it'll help you. If you do like the video, don't forget to give the video a like, you can leave us a comment and all of this stuff which I'm going to teach you now will have a Patreon page link where you can head over and download my handwritten notes where I've charted everything out, I've given you the shapes of everything. So you can follow that for the key I'm teaching you in this video and then you can try and write it on all the other remaining 11 keys after we do one in this particular class. Right guys, let's get cracking with the lesson. So I'm going to take a tough scale. So usually every YouTube video will take C major, which I'm honestly very annoyed with and let this video signify the death of C major. Let's kill that scale right now and it's forbidden. So we are going to take E flat major. A lot of people hate it. That's what we are going to do. We're going to take the tough one, E flat major. So first off, you need to write it down like any major scale, but I'll give you a few tips while writing it down. Write it first of all in a neat round circle. Don't write it in a line. It's useless if you write it in a line. Take it from me, write it in a circle. So E flat, F, G, A flat, B flat, C, D and E flat. This will really help you visualize things. It'll help you visualize your intervals, your chords, and anything which you play melodically even for improvisation. It's easy to look at it in a circle. It's horrible to look at it in a line, if you ask me. A simple thing would be if I tell you to form triads and if it's all in a line, you'll say, OK, E flat, G, B flat, cool, F, A flat, C, cool, G, B flat, D, cool, A flat, C, E flat, cool. Now B flat, where is the third note of the B flat triad in the line? It's a failure. So hence, the circle, always circles. Now another thing you would do before, this is just to prepare you to play the chords. I'll give you patterns and there are lots of other patterns, rhythm patterns for left hand and right hand which we've done in lots of other previous and upcoming YouTube videos. This is primarily theoretically to be strong and to know exactly what you're going to be doing in each hand on the piano. So the other thing I'd like to do is focus on what I call as piano worms or scale worms, if you will. There we try and write down the scale using black note and white note visualizations. So you have E flat as black, white, white. That's E flat, F, G, A flat. Those are your first four notes, right? E flat, F, G, A flat.  B flat, C, D, E flat, that's black, white, white, black. So E flat will go first four notes, E flat, F, G, A flat. Next four notes, B flat, C, D, E flat. The way I like to visualize this is in my mind that looks to me as two boats. E flat, F, G, A flat, boat number one, which we use on the water, those boats. So E flat, F, G, A flat, B flat, C, D, E flat. So you visualize these two boat shaped things. There's so many tricks when you use these piano worms and so many that I've put it all in our members only structured curriculum. So if you want to learn piano in a very structured way from the absolute ground zero, you don't even know where is F sharp, where is B. We have a structured curriculum waiting for you on our website. So you'll find it with all the respective links. You can head over to Nathanielschool.com and there's a great offer where you can get all of our content from foundation to intermediate theory, year training, notation, all for a combo offer price. So do head over there and hope you enjoy that content as well. So coming back to this one, once you've got your worm sorted out, don't play it. Try and play it in your mind. Do, do, do, do, do, do. And as you play it, use a finger and try and point out the scale.  It's just like playing a guitar if you ask me. Any stringed instrument, they visualize everything. Piano is one instrument where we only see the piano. We should take some experiences from other instruments. The guitar, the saxophone, horns, violins, cellos, they all visualize. For some reason we don't. So it's very simple. So E flat major, there we go. That's the boat right there. And then you get your fingering. So I would say visualize first. Then think of fingering, index finger goes there, pinky, ring, went across. Do all that later. In fact, playing a scale ascending and descending is not the end game to be a professional musician. You can also do that, but that's not mandatory to know E flat major. There are many other ways to be comfortable with a scale. So the two ways to write the scale, one in a neat round circle, then we write it in a piano worm-like assortment. So E flat F, G, E flat B flat, C, D, E flat. Two steps, two steps, one step. So the usual whole step and half step formulae can be applied to forming pretty much any major scale. So now that you've got the scale, we now get the triads. And we follow the similar principle for triads. First of all, to build triads from the scale. Now that we wrote it in a neat round circle, you go E flat, G, B flat. So you're skipping one note and then playing the next one. So skipping E flat, scale, E flat, B flat. E flat, skipping the F and playing the G. E flat G. And then skipping the A flat and then pressing the B flat and that gets you your E flat major triad. That's how you form triads and I'm hoping the circle will be easier to form it. And when you write down your triads, I would encourage you, again, do not write the triads in a line, write the triads also in a circle. So E flat, G, B flat. And then the next chord, F minor, which would be F, A flat, C. Starting from F, skip one, play one. And then you get yourself three notes. And this lesson will stop with triads, but if you want to form your seventh chords, you can do that as well. You can do E flat, G, B flat, D. And that's a major seventh chord. F, A flat, C, E flat, which is a minor seventh chord. So extensions also can be formed easily. So triads, E flat, G, B flat, F, A flat, C. All, write them in a circle. G, B flat, D, three minor, A flat, C, E flat, which is the four major, B flat major, B flat, D, F. Then C minor, six minor, C, E flat, G. Then the seven diminished. Just remember, the seventh chord of a major scale is diminished in nature. D, F, B flat, D diminished. So then after we write down all the triads in a circle, I would also like to create the triad worms as well. You can figure out which triad is black, white, black. Which triad is, for example, F minor, which is the second minor, white, black, white. G minor is the same as F minor. So you can actually play both chords with your eyes closed because you've shaped it out to be very similar. Similarly, E flat and A flat are very similar shaped chords.   Again, taking from a guitar player. A guitar player will rarely, even if you have to look at the chords on a guitar, it's very tough, right? Because you're looking at it from a very difficult view, unlike the piano where it's all in front of you.  It's very important. So shapes will really help. Scale shapes, now we've done chord shapes. Look it up in our notes. We've put the chord shapes for everything. The next thing you need to write would be three columns to signify the three chord types, namely major, minor and diminished. Very important because the major has a positive, happier mood. The minor has a more sad or serious mood while the diminished has a tense or an anxious or a scary mood. So why not classify them nicely? So the major chords are at the degrees of one, four, and five, namely E-flat, A-flat and B-flat. Your minor chords are at the degrees two, three and six. That would be F-minor, G-minor, C-minor. And your lone diminished chord will be at the degree seven. So seven would be your diminished chord. So hopefully that'll help you plan your chord options better. You'll know which ones to play, which are the major availability, which is a minor. There are 12 major chords in life. There are 12 minor chords in life, but when you're in a scale, the 12 reduces by 25% to three, and the 12 minors also reduces to 25% to another three. So why not know the available chords? It'll also help for your years. If you want to form the chords by year, you can kind of apply a two-step process. I heard a chord. It sounds happy, not sad. So it's probably gonna be major. I'm in the key of E-flat major. So it has to be one, four and five. Let me try E-flat. No, it's not E-flat. Not A-flat. Obviously it has to be B-flat. You won't be hunting for 12 options. You'll just be hunting for three. Or if you heard a chord, and you can predict the first chord of a major scale song will be the tonic major, which is your one major. That would be E-flat major. The next chord, if it is major, will be a trial and error of just two, the four chord or the five chord. And over time, we start relating this to our ears functionally, what we call as functional harmony, which helps us digest the sounds better and treat chords more as cadences or clusters with respect to each other, rather than point-by-point basis, where you hear a chord and you're forcing yourself to say, hey, what did I just hear? I'd rather hear a set of chords. So we've done quite a few ear training videos as well for chords, for scales, for intervals. Do check them out in the description. We've put together a nice playlist and our members-only videos are also ever-growing. It'll keep evolving with new exercises in a very structured manner. So now coming to the actual chord progression. So you know how to write down any scale. You know how to form the chords of pretty much any scale.  Now coming to the chord progression. Whichever chord progression anyone gives you, you should not be scared. So I'm gonna take the cheesy pop one, 6-4-1-5, but we'll do it on this same scale, E-flat major. So you write down 6-4-1-5 and it's good to write down Roman numerals. Roman numerals will help you move it to any scale in the future. So you're 6. What is E-flat 6? We discussed this before, right? E-flat 6 is C minor. 6 is always minor, 2, 3, 6 minor. So 6 is C minor. 4 will be A-flat major. 1 will be E-flat major. 5 will be B-flat major. So that's the next thing you would need to write down. Write down the Roman numerals, 6-4-1-5, small Roman for minor, big Roman for major. Then under that, you write down the specifics. What is 6 for E-flat major? C minor, write that. What is 4? A-flat major. 1, E-flat major. 5, B-flat major. And then I know it'll be a bit annoying, but write down the chord circles yet again, trust me. So that'll be C minor is C, E-flat, G. A-flat major is A-flat, C, E-flat. Then E-flat major is E-flat, G, B-flat. B-flat major is B-flat, D, F. And make sure to write it in a circle. Now I'm going to tell you why that circle was so useful. The scale circle I've told you, now what about the chord circle? Each chord, if you take C minor, C, E-flat, G, it looks like it's C, E-flat, G, but if you visualize it in the circular way, you'll realize that if you start from C, you can move in this circular Q and form either C, E-flat, G. Start with E-flat, and then you get E-flat, G, C. E-flat, G, C. Start with G. And you get G, C, E-flat. And this is all moving in a clockwise circle. These are what we call as piano inversions. So C minor in its root, C, E-flat, G. C minor in first inversion is where the root goes up the octave. That's E-flat, G, C. And then C minor in the second inversion, that's G, C, E-flat. Second inversion has the root in the center. So each triad or each chord or each three-note chord will always have three inversions, piano inversions. However, if you count that counterclockwise, you're gonna get into the spread voicing territory, which is... Which is even more voicings for the chords. More on spread chords. Later, we'll do a lot more. We have done a few. In fact, we've made a video series called spread chords. Again, that'll be in the description. A lot of things will be waiting for you in the description if you want to learn further. So what you now need to do is there are four chords in this standard four-card pop progression. You write down all the inversions one below the other. So root positions of C minor, C, E-flat, G. First inversion of C minor, E-flat, G, C. Second inversion of C minor, G, C, E-flat. Same thing you do for all the other chords. So A-flat major, first inversion, A-flat major. Second inversion, A-flat major. E-flat major, root position. First inversion, G, B-flat, E-flat. Second inversion, B-flat, E-flat, G. Finally, B-flat major, B-flat, D, F. First inversion, second inversion, second inversion. Write all that down one below the other. You can also see the notes, write it exactly like that. And then we use the power of colors to match the best possible chord movement or chord transition from one to the other. So let's say I start with C, E-flat, G. The sixth chord played in its root position. Names are not so important. I'm just saying it because it's part of theory. So just know that there are three shapes. So you start with whichever shape, C, E-flat, G. And now you want to go to A-flat major. So the strategy generally while playing chords is never about playing the chord and thinking of the present. It's about playing the chord and thinking ahead in terms of the future.  Exactly like a sport, a game like tennis for example. So you're hitting this, where do I go next? What's my next move? My next move is A-flat major. There are three ways to play A-flat major. And you learn that if you move in the same line, it's gonna be very, very inefficient. In other words, the standard ways of playing chords in its root position are horrible. If you only were to play chords in that basic textbook way, you'll never get anywhere, which is why the basic textbooks have to start with C major, which is why the basic textbooks absolutely fail with the education of chords in my opinion. They're not giving you that flexibility. They are branding C major as the king of the earth, which it should not be. C major is just one of the many scales. If you ask a trumpet player, trumpet players would love the B-flat and E-flat. If you ask a guitar player, guitar player would enjoy E major, A major, G major. Guitar player may not enjoy F major so much in, I guess. You ask a saxophone player, they would love E-flat and A-flat major a lot, if you ask me. So that's the idea of scales. So every instrument has its own preference. As a professional piano player, you need to be happy playing on any of the 12. And each of the 12 are almost like different cricket pitches which you play the game on. In one ground, it'll bounce more. In one ground, it'll swing more. And in one ground, it'll spin more, like playing in India. So if you take all of your three chords, your root, first inversion and second inversions, you now have to map them. So C, E-flat, G. Would I ever want to go to A-flat, C, E-flat? Absolutely not. Why? Because A, it's a huge jump in either direction. And B, what did I say earlier? We need our eyes. Oops, I can't do it without my eyes. I need the eyes too. So what does that mean? It is inefficient. You need to be able to find a blind way of getting to A-flat major. So what's my next option? Shall I try C, E-flat, G, going to C, E-flat, A-flat? C, E-flat, A-flat. How's that? That kind of works because my middle finger can then just jump up, or my ring finger can take over. And most popular chord progressions and most good chord progressions will have at least one note in common. In this case, this is having two notes in common. So that's how you go from the root position of C minor, which is C, E-flat, G, to the inversion of A-flat major, which is C, E-flat, A-flat. You don't want to go to that or that. It also sounds bad, if you ask me. So the easier to shift inversion on the piano is also what's going to be broadcasted as the best possible sound. Unlike playing the guitar, for instance, the easiest shape is always not going to sound best. So on the piano, you have a nice advantage. The stuff which is easy to play is also the stuff which sounds the best. So it's a nice environment to be in, if you ask me. So let's journey forward. C, E-flat, G. Going to C, E-flat, A-flat. Then if you see the red arrow which I've given for you, you can then go to B-flat, E-flat, G. So you're keeping that E-flat in common.   And then last chord, B-flat, D, F, because B-flat is in common. And now we need to loop it. So there's nothing in common between B-flat, D, F, and C-minor. That is very likely when there are consecutive chords in the scale. So B-flat is the fifth chord, and C-minor is the sixth chord. That proves that they are consecutive. Five to six, or two to three, or four to five, or five down to four, or two down to one, and so on. So for the consecutive chords, could use the same line. And if there is anything in common between the chords, do not ever stick to the same line. You have to either go down or up in the rows. So this is how I would play it, starting with C-minor in the root position. And in the left hand, we tend to get a bit confused, especially when we are accompanying what to play in the left hand. I would suggest this may be a handful already. So let the left hand just play the roots of the chords. The roots of the chords will be the names of the chords. So C-minor is C. A-flat major is A-flat. E-flat major is E-flat. B-flat major is B-flat. So irrespective of the inversion, even if you are doing E-flat major like this, it looks like B-flat is the start. No, that's not how you think. It is an E-flat major chord in some inversion. So play E-flat down below. Then it will sound like E-flat, otherwise it will sound like a different chord. Sound like a slash chord or something. So get your bass going. Right now I am playing each chord four times. Simple pattern. Things are working out but why stop there as a student of this subject? It would be nice to explore all the possible permutations. So what if I started C-minor in the first inversion? Let's see what happens. That's E-flat, G, C. Same story. You can follow the purple arrow I guess. Hopefully I am not too colour blind. That is probably purple. So E-flat, G, C. Going to E-flat, A-flat, C. Then E-flat, G, B-flat. D, F, B-flat. So this is probably the most efficient way. Also sounds nice if you ask me. C-minor, A-flat major, E-flat major, B-flat major with the roads. A-flat, E-flat, B-flat. What if we start with the second inversion which happens to be G, C, E-flat. So you started here, started here and now here. If you go there you can follow the yellow arrow G, C, E-flat, A-flat, C, E-flat, G, B-flat, E-flat, F, B-flat, D. And strangely enough starting with the second inversion of the C-minor chord is the easiest if you ask me. Tell me if you agree in the comments which one you found easy whether you started with the root or the first inversion of C-minor. I think the second inversion works. And fingering would be a quick tip for fingering. I told you earlier with the thumb on the black curve it out a bit. If the last note of a triad is a black color note E-flat in this case use your ring finger. So that's a quick tip for playing for chord fingering in the right hand. With the right inversions you get that confidence to play it without looking and you can focus on the bigger picture of what you are now doing is this the only pattern you need to play for these chords or maybe you can appagiate it. Depending on the song for instance if you are playing with Adel Adel is definitely not going to be happy if you play in this pattern she is probably going to kick you out of the band but if you do this she may even fire her existing piano player and hire you instead or maybe even Cole play Cole play seem to like this sort of style Cole play may go this way or if you go John Legend maybe he'll go I don't like this pattern but it's there they all use it in the more annoying route and if you like to play a modern pop hit like I'm not even going to talk about these songs you know what I'm talking about you try to kind of rhythmically play so it's nice for the hands to follow the drummer to syncopate and I feel once you've got the right shapes for your chords without reading an annoying chord book or notation why do you need notations for chords is a simple question I have for you a chord is theory write the scale, write the chord and it's your job to find the inversion why do you need a book for that you need the book probably for reading classical sheet music melody, counterpoint, harmony movement in both hands you don't need sheet music for chords to prove that look at all the jazz real books which give you the jazz standards like autumn leaves or misty or fly me to the moon they never write down how you should play the chord they just give you the name of the chord and the melody yes they write so you can then play the melody improvise a little but the way you voice the chord is how you want to play the chord you have to listen to many arrangements of the song which is why I said this will suit maybe cold play that will suit Ed Sheeran that will suit some other artist and so on and so forth so that's about how you can plan, prepare and play your chord progression using the correct inversions after obviously needing to write down the scale in neat round circles using the piano worms and so on so let's now revise the lesson guys I'm pretty much going to just cover what we just talked about in the lesson so far first of all write down the scale in a neat circle and your worms, piano worms then you need to write down your diatonic triads diatonic means from the scale chords in another neat round circle and write down all your shapes of those chords then plot out all your available chords of the scale in three columns namely major minor diminished and write down the roman symbols as well and the chord symbols capital roman for major small roman for minor the degree sign like we use for in a geometry class or for temperature to for a diminished chord after that write down your chord progression which you are faced with in this example we did 6 4 1 5 write down all the inversions and then you figure out the efficient chord movement with those inversions by you know using the colors and the arrows I've written in my sheet you could do it on your own really do it for a few other scales as well why not play 6 4 1 5 as a nice assignment on all the scales or at least maybe three scales over a weeks practice or effort and last but not least I have not told you this in this lesson but there are so many lessons on our channel which will cover rhythm patterns so you can choose block chords you can choose arpeggios you can choose broken chords or syncopated patterns and if you'd like more rhythm patterns it's all waiting for you in the description you can check those out at your leisure and let us know what you think so also let us know what you thought about this lesson if you liked it do consider hitting that like button it will help the video go forward leave us a comment what you'd like to learn in the future that would also be nice for us to plan your suggestions mean a lot because it helps a person like me understand what will work best for you you are the ones who are part of our learning group so to speak and all the notes for the lesson are waiting for you on Patreon handwritten by me and you'll have notes and midi backing tracks staff notation of all of our other videos which we've done earlier and we are going to we'll continue to use Patreon as our main portal for our lessons if you'd like something more structured if you find yourself more a beginner if you want to learn these concepts in a proper environment starting from ground zero you can consider heading over to nathanielschool.com we have a members only video section where you can download a watch stream and also get your hands on books which I've written to help explain this even better in more visual ways which are possible thanks a ton for watching the video catch you in the next one cheers


This morning. I want to talk to you about the secret place. I Want to speak with you. I started on Friday to speak about build fire From the story of Apostle Paul on Saturday night I've talked about how to set your world on fire and today I'm going to talk about pretty much how to build that fire in your personal walk with the Lord in your personal Relationship with Jesus. I learned about prayer Pretty much from my pastor when our church started our church started in a year about 2000 We immigrated from the Ukraine. We spoke zero English. We had no building We were just cousins and relatives and my pastor had a vision that we will see all Nations represented in our church our services are going to be filled with salvation and miracles and God will use our young people Not to fill jails, but to empty hell and populate heaven It was audacious radical crazy most people thought my pastor lost his mind He's fresh in America has no idea about American cultures Nobody trusts Russians to do anything but steal and lie and so them winning souls ain't not gonna work in America But you know when you don't have language when you don't have people when you don't have resources when you don't have connections When you don't have the proper documents as Christians We always have something that is advantage to everything that we don't have is called prayer And so my pastor started to spend I would see him praying at night's morning Sometimes three four hours is and it's not the amount of prayer It's the passion that that that prayer came out of because you can pray long long prayers You can spray short prayers But it's the passion that came out of and I remember us being teenagers me and pastor Ilya Together on Friday I fried the nights consisted of you know going to 7-eleven getting a slurpee and then at 11 o'clock Driving to this church that we rented and because we were not trusted with the keys What we would do when we would rent that church is we would leave one of the windows open So that we could sneak that sneak in and pray during the night And so we would come in at one time, but the pastor lived very close It's kind of like across the street you guys have a facility here That's how close the pastor lives so we had to turn off the lights turn off the engine and go on neutral Scroll into the church so that we wouldn't wake up the pastor and then we would sneak into the church and go pray And you know how we pray with Pentecostals if it's not loud It's not prayer and so we would pray very loud and we woke up the pastor one time So he came with a flashlight looking for a thief and when we found out you know that he was looking and searching We actually crawled underneath of the pew and hid there He went everywhere looking and didn't find us and so he left and you know They didn't have the alarm system to us. It was a great benefit And so we would finish praying and leave and that church Was a prayerless church. It doesn't exist today. It's shut down Our church got its own building things were going great, but our church with time Became also a little bit prayer less prayer became a burden Another prayer meeting another Friday night prayer meeting there were times we were pray all nights and then all this And it's not about all night prayers. It's not about morning prayers It's about the passion that that comes from and I'm gonna share a few things that I believe could change your prayer life forever today things that I've learned personally and with time There was no activity in the church and activity is not the solution But when there is no fruit and there is nothing happening God is not moving and the church is pretty much dead People are not getting saved people are not getting baptized and there is no prayer usually sin and other stuff begins to creep in and with us We had four churches renting our facility and a government school renting our facility We stayed in our own building for free and things were going really well except each evening was free each morning was free There was no cell groups. There was no salvation things were pretty much dead But we were covered financially so we were doing fine and one time I couldn't sleep in the morning And I came to church to pray it was one of those, you know days that I didn't pray for for a lot for a long time now Didn't live that consistent prayer life and I come in and I see cars in our church parked And a five in the morning I walk into the sanctuary and I see a Hispanic church that's renting our facility with this You know old tape player Putting CDs and a tape over there and these women with headcovers crying at the altar And I find out that they come there to our church without our permission at four o'clock in the morning and for three four hours They're praying every day in the church. They're renting and The Holy Spirit convicted me and he said very soon your guys who church will shut down too He says now you have everything you have English you have a building you have everything these guys have nothing But they got something you used to have and God convicted me Graciously and I said Lord I can't promise that I'll be praying at four tomorrow, but I'll be thinking about it You won't see me here next week at five, but I'm gonna tell you one thing God Please give me some time. Don't don't chop this tree yet. Give me a year Lord I promise at least two maybe and I'll get back there and I started to slowly make my way back To living a life of prayer Living a life of dependence upon God little do I knew is that that will create a climate in our church where prayer now is like Breathing it's part of life of our church. It's not the amount of prayer that's being prayed It's the fact that the church is soaked now where you know doors open at five for the last three years from five to seven Every single work day and people come in Normal it's like normal for people to come and spend at least an hour 30 minutes 15 minutes in prayer Where service is going on somebody is always praying for the service where it's normal to hear people in their church Who are new believers too fast for 21 days on water? It's normal. There's a teenager she's 17 And she just finished a 40-day fast on liquid what it's normal for businessmen and other people you hear You know, they're not eating cuz they're doing they're not trying to lose weight But they're trying to see God's face and today that's normal and today That's normal to see revival seeing people safe not just the church being full because stadiums are full of people coming to see Basketball when big crowds don't impress me It's what happens after people leave that service our people healed our people delivered our people set on fire our young people Being equipped to see God is God restoring families our new people coming to Jesus our Buddhist converting to Jesus Our Muslims converting to Jesus our drug addicts being converted to Jesus is our baptism Just people that we're baptizing from our own families or we baptizing people because they're coming new into Christ I genuinely believe is that before we can see revival of salvation of souls We have to see a revival of prayer in the church today This message it's gonna be my let's do this if we clap we all clap otherwise we don't Because sometimes for preachers like when somebody starts it like a golf club Everybody's so we just just we support everybody to to not you don't clap for me I can live without that, but we did you receive the word you say a man you clap you get up You run around you can bring money to the offering baskets if you want to whatever you whatever you need to do Come on. I Just ask you for one thing do not throw anything at me except a hundred dollar bills. I Had one church where one pastor told people to do whatever they want people start throwing stuff at him And they didn't throw money they threw shoes and so I Rejected in Jesus name and so in our church. I thought our church to respond We're half of our church a little bit less this is Slavic The other half is Hispanic and white folk and then people grew up in church where they you know church supposed to be quiet He's supposed to behave yourself and everything and and they behave themselves in church and these people You know are so quiet so modest and so So this and that but they're not like that on the traffic They're not like that when their team is losing Like they're so emotional. They're so exuberant and so I teach our church that when the preaching is going good You get up and you clap people get up on the when the president does that boring speech And you see these guys in suits For a minute Like there's nothing to clap about what are you guys clapping about but when we talk about was erected Christ You know people sit and act all modest and stuff and for those of you whom this offends your consciousness That I just said that it's okay to clap in the church when the preaching is going good I'm pretty sure you clap when your kids perform really good on the stage when the Lord performs when the Lord does things You should be engaged. Amen. Come on somebody. Let's put our hands together for the Lord. Thank you Jesus Bro when people start clapping I want to hear a little bit more. That's good. Okay now. It's good. All right. Amen So prayer is very important to see To see the movement of the Holy Spirit to see the movement of God in our churches and in our lives Before I mentioned the three things that I learned about a secret place When I mentioned how important it is To have a secret place I believe each one of us either lives in a secret place or in a secret sin Something that you're hiding Something you're deleting after you browsing the internet Something that after you go you make sure you delete the history the moment you have to delete Conversations the moment you have to delete certain things The moment you find yourself living in secret sin It's one of the first signs that sometimes you might not be living in a secret place There was two stories in the Old Testament one of them was Rahab Rahab the scripture says that she hid spies in Joshua chapter 6 verse 25 and says that Joshua spared Rahab the harlot her father's household and all that she had for she dwells in Israel this day because She hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho So what Rahab does is that she lives in a very bad place?  So one is hiding spies The other one is hiding clothes One was saved Aiken was destroyed Rahab's family was rescued Aiken's family was stoned Rahab lived in Jericho Aiken loved Jericho Rahab wanted to be like Israel Aiken wanted to be like Jericho There is two kinds of people in this room today There are Rahab's and there are Aiken's Rahab is not somebody that things don't look really good on the outside in her life But it's what she hides privately that will change the course of her life publicly in the future and there are Aiken's It's the guys who have the title. It's the guys who know how to speak right who know how to dress right who know how to appeal Righteous, but privately they are hiding things under their tent that are not good Not only they're not hosting God, but they are hiding something that is not good and within time your private Compromise will become a public scandal It will affect your family. It will affect your children. It will affect your business. It will affect your health It will affect every area of your life Anything that's hidden will be revealed and whatever you're hiding today.   Are you Reha?  There's nothing special. It's so average I give you a secret today The goal of Christian life is not to avoid hiding sin duh Everybody knows that The best way to not hide sin is to host the spirit. I'm not encouraging today Please get rid of the sin in your life. No, don't get rid of the sin replace the sin with something else have secrets Make sure your secrets is like Samson. He had a secret. It was his connection to God Make sure that you don't give that secret up for nobody under no circumstances because that secret is the secret of your future success It will change who you are. It will change how you dress how you live It will change everything about you because whatever is hidden will be revealed The world will know you other people will know you and there was nothing special about you except the Bible says Rehab hid spies. She didn't have a great prayer life. She didn't have a great word life She just simply had a secret and her secret became real it changed her destiny What is your secret is a secret place or a secret sin in the New Testament? Apostle Paul says in Corinthians in Corinthians chapter 3 verse 11 It says the following for no other foundation can anyone lay than that what? For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid which is Jesus Christ Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold somebody say gold Somebody say silver and somebody say precious stones all the ladies love all of these. Okay, maybe not the silver But diamonds, right? So gold silver and diamonds Wood hay and straw each one's work will become clear for the day will declare it because it will be revealed by fire a Fire will test each one's work of what sort it is if anyone's work which he had built on indoors He will receive every word if anyone's work is burned He will burn he will suffer loss for he himself will be saved yet as though through the fire So Paul tells us pretty much the same story that we just we just learned in Joshua About a secret life. So he makes it very clear. We all build on Christ Amen Christ is the foundation. Can I can I hear an amen? So Christ is the foundation for every person Christ is our identity Christ is our anchor Christ is the foundation But Paul in here says I want you to notice this about this verse. He says that but each man builds on Christ differently Each one has a Christ as a foundation But each man uses different material to build on Christ and he gives us two categories of material I'll give you a little Bible study right now if you're taking notes I want you to make the difference between these two the first category He gives us is gold silver and precious stones and the second category. He gives us wood hay and straw Gold silver and precious stones whoever's in the back there if you can hook us up with some notes Gold silver and precious stones wood hay and straw Gold silver precious stones wood hay and straw the first difference is what wood Wood is over there wood hay and straw the difference between gold silver and precious stones as you see behind me is One is found on the ground This one is underground The second difference is one comes in big quantities the other one comes usually in small quantities You see the difference is that one is cheap the other one is expensive one is common The other one is rare one gets burned by fire. The other one gets purified by fire Christ is our foundation But the material you build your career your family your ministry on You pretty much have two options One is the wood hay and straw What is that wood hay and straw? It's things that people see it's big It's cheap. It's common and it doesn't stand the test of time And on the judgment day the eyes of Jesus that have flame will burn through everything that you've done your success your Accomplishments your Roth IRA your retirement funds all of your vacations all of your good success Good things that you've done it will go through with fire and everything you've done They looked good on Instagram It looked great in front of your family members But was it built with Things that people don't see Things that cost things that maybe we're not big and Things that time trials and tribulations cannot wipe out but only purify In other words, we're building our life on Jesus But we must be building our life with Jesus Because you can build your life in America today with your degree You can build your marriage today in the United States with your intellect and with your wisdom and your discipline You can build a ministry today on a great team on a great management and a great software You can build a lot of things today without an intimate relationship with Jesus as long as you work hard and as long as you work Smart your ministry can become big your family can become successful and that is awesome I applaud big nice expensive buildings But the question is not how big it is in the eyes of men. The question is can it last when I die? Can it last through a scandal a trial a tribulation? Can it last through a human rejection? Can it last if persecution rises against the church right now and going to church would mean you're going to jail? Will the church still be there? Will the family still serve God? Can it go through the fire and get purer or smaller? I'm challenged by that personally as a pastor and as a husband and as a Christian. I Build my life on Jesus.  Was my dependence on my my my ability to communicate and my ability to relate to people and my ability to promote myself and My ability to make finances or was my dependence though build on Jesus build also with my devotional intimacy with the Holy Spirit I Want to challenge you today that in eternity a lot of rich people on earth we poor and a lot of poor people will be rich But it's not gonna be dependent on how rich you were or poor you were on earth That doesn't matter what matters is this were you building on Jesus and number two were you building with Jesus? With gold silver precious stones or with wood hay and straw wood hay and straw is easy to find It's easy to impress others with it wood hay and straw doesn't require prayer fasting giving it doesn't require consecration Requires being smart and working hard and our culture honors it our culture Applauds it Christian world today will stand and applaud that and that is awesome I'm one of those people. I want nice big fast things, but in eternity Jesus made it very clear his eyes will go through everything I've built and I will be saved But the reward is not dependent on how big things were it's how good things were built with him or just with myself Are you with me? It's my last service So I'm preaching it as though I'm not coming back and I'm just kidding. Well, whether I'm coming back or not That's not up to me, but but amen now in the conclusion Let's I want to share with you on three principles to To make your secret place Become enjoyable place For so many people The reason why they don't live a life of prayer is because it's not enjoyable everything you enjoy you keep doing everything you endure you quit and For many people they get fired up, you know at the conference or at the service like this as many people will get fired up today but the problem happens is that Discipline cannot make your prayer life last Lasting Relationship with Jesus can never be ran on discipline the same way You're not gonna keep dating a girl because you have to Marriages are not built on have to marriages are built on want to it There's love that that that oil that keeps things going and so is with a relationship with the Lord I know what it's like to do things, but I'm by nature. I am more disciplined than I guess maybe average people And so discipline comes easier for me So I praying reading fasting a lot of times I've seen it as a as a discipline and I know I'll do it no matter if I feel it or not But I do know that our church is not a praying church because everybody has discipline you have to discover the light Beyond discipline to continue to pray and I'm gonna share something with you that I believe the Lord will help you as well To discover the sweetness in the relationship with him When they use two stories from the Bible the first one is Matthew chapter 6 verse 6 It's a statement about prayers said by Jesus and the second one from second Kings chapter 4 verse 4 Matthew 6 6 is the following but you when you pray Jesus didn't say if you pray He says when he's expecting us to pray go into your room and when you have shut your door Pray to your father who is in the secret place And your father who is sees in the secret will reward you openly. So not only he is there, but he also sees second Kings chapter 4 verse 4 almost similar verse When you have come in a prophet speaks to a widow who has her kids Almost like on Greg's list for sale to pay off the debt. She's about to lose her kids He lost her husband. He was a man man of God and she's looking for a financial solution to her dilemma and the prophet And the prophet tells her the following. He says when you have come into your house You shall shut the door behind you and your sons Then pour into all these vessels and set aside the fool ones pour the oil that she had a little bit off in the house The first thing that I want to share with you About secret place is you have to close the door When you come into your secret place so that God can open the window a lot of people do not find the presence of God in Their secret place is because when they get entered their doors are open You have to learn to close the door when you go to your secret place Now a door is called distraction. What distractions do is they split your focus and they actually birth defeat Distracted Christian is a defeated Christian every wife knows that about their husbands when you go out to eat and your husband's on the phone Now you're at the right place Intimacy supposed to happen there you supposed to be close or he's picking up business calls Or maybe your wife is busy with something else and you know you want to talk about something and they're distracted now It's okay if it happens once it's okay if it happens twice But what's bad is if it happens always like that and then you hear complaining that you hear Why because the person says I feel like I don't have you like well my fingers my body my toes and my eyes are here My heart is here like yeah, but you are not here. I had two car accidents and two car accidents were due to distraction The first one was I was driving to this leader in our church over the bridge and it was in the time where we had my space My space kind of like Facebook Something like that and and I've remembered it like yesterday I had this bling that went out on my phone that somebody left a comment on my photo Which was like you know getting a comment on the photo for me on my space like once a week was a breakthrough So I'm driving over the blue bridge 395 in Pasco from basket to canvig and I get this bling so I got so excited a breakthrough and it gave me like three or four words You know give you the preview and I saw this person. I've been trying to reach out She's commenting how she wants to come to church. So I'm like this is definitely from God But you know you're driving. So what you're doing is your multi-tasking now You say I can drive and still answer so I open my phone my my space app And by the time I got to the third sentence next thing I know is The rapture came and then it dawned on me. It wasn't Jesus. It wasn't rapture I just hit an old car right in front of me. I told the other car completely when the police officer arrived He says why did you not see the car? I said I I I was looking at the sky He said you you meant to say you were Distracted and he didn't ask me about the phone. So I'm like I'm not gonna bring on the phone if he doesn't ask me I don't want to confess sins that I he didn't ask me for this is not God's heaven You know so this is just police officer You want to avoid getting a ticket the more he asked questions? He found out that I was so distracted so she just gave me five hundred fifty dollar ticket for negligent driving The second time I had an accident. It was few days before my wedding On the parking lot of TJ max smashed a brand new work vehicle of someone else because I was busy Answering pastor Martin about the use service details And that was the last time That I've hit a car because when we got married my wife said this you make me one promise if we're married You will not drive and text I said babe, I can improve on my texting skills Have you heard of Siri she can text on your behalf and She says nothing is more important than your life She says I want you in one piece Not in a casket, but in front of me each time you come home And when I made that decision I cannot say that I have been a perfect husband and never picked up the phone I'll read a text message, but I can tell you one thing by the grace of God. I've done a lot better than I've ever done before distractions breathe defeat They split your focus and for many people what happened with me driving is what happens with you praying all the time One of the ways sometimes we bring distractions to our prayer by not closing the doors for many people They pray with their phone The phone is there all the notifications on all of your apps are enabled The moment you get into a secret place somebody likes your photo somebody commented Somebody sends you a text message.  You're constantly distracted from that Why does God want us to close the door in praying because intimacy always happens behind closed doors God wants intimacy every married person knows you got to close the door Mm-hmm a man usually don't care, but the women are the ones that gotta close that door Nothing can happen until that door is locked and I know for sure that it's locked because we got kids dogs cats and neighbors I can come in gotta lock the door and God is speaking to us his bride and he says listen I want when you get into the room. I want to have stuff happen. I want to be intimate with you I want to be close. Could you close the door and for someone was that simple. It means could you leave the phone behind that door? Did you say what to leave my phone behind that door? Like how am I gonna read the Bible? Have you heard of like physical Bibles? They still make those No, I am not I Don't want to make anybody feel bad for bringing their phone into the into the prayer. Sometimes I do it, too But I understand one thing about prayer It really you really connect with God the same way as on a date with my wife If your phone is off or if your phone is in your car Like when I come on a date with my wife and I leave my phone at the house my wife resurrects She's like you did what? You what did you do? It's almost like I like won the world for her something. It's a babe I just left my phone and then of course I would spoil the surprising because the better is dead So some media text messages phone calls they distract you will say but I need to get that call You wouldn't be getting that call if you be meeting with the president of the United States There's nobody more important than the creator of the universe when you meet with him I am not saying in any ways you should make so rigid and this is be such a controlled environment But what I'm saying is that if your prayer life Consists of distractions if the wind if the doors are open and the windows are closed You are breaking the first protocol of prayer Close the doors. I started to practice something. I am not good at it And I'll be the first one to admit I broke this rule in my own life more than I have succeeded in it And one of them is that not to bring my phone into my room, but to leave it in the kitchen overnight I don't want the last person to be my phone screen But to be my wife's face and the first person that I see in the morning I don't want it to be my phone screen But I want it to be my wife's face and the second thing is not to check social media until I'm done with prayer And to leave my phone in the car instead. I do have an iPad. They're not expensive I have like a really old one and Has no text messages has nothing except the Bible and to bring that in why because when I am there I want to hear God. I'm gonna spend the rest of the day with people I'm gonna spend the rest of the day creating things and and and doing things But when I am there, I want to give God my undivided attention to the best of my ability That's the secret of a secret place is you have to close the door for some of you closing the door might not Just mean that you remove distractions But some of us would mean that a lot of us don't even pray because we are busy The distraction is that we bring all kinds of business with it and many people I find today are so busy doing things for the Lord So busy doing good things in life that they sacrifice their prayer life and saying well I'll rather be doing God's will I'll rather be doing what the word says instead of spending time with God I'm gonna tell you one thing Jesus was the ultimate doer of the will of God He was the will of God yet. He spent mornings in prayer. He spent nights in prayer He prayed at the cross he prayed in front of a Lazarus tomb if there was one person on this planet who did not need to pray Because he had the fullness of the spirit because he had all the power of God flowing through him is Jesus yet He prayed so much The disciples didn't ask him about his preaching life. I didn't even ask him how to heal and cast out demons They came and says Jesus how do that?  We're tired and exhausted.  I don't need to pray your delusional You have went so deep that you're drowning Any depth that goes surpasses my Lord Jesus Christ is borderline heresy If Jesus prayed So should I But I must discover the secret and what is the secret closed doors the scripture says Jesus prayed at night Everybody's sleeping at night. Jesus prayed early in the morning. Everybody's sleeping during the time What that what that means is that he was praying at times where nobody can disturb him. I Started to experience the I'm a more of a morning person So it works for me to pray more in the mornings But lately last few months I started to experience, you know to pray at night Sometimes the whole day just goes on and I didn't have time to spend time with the Lord and just you know Kiss my wife goodnight and just go 10 or 11 all the way till the till the sun rises and it's yes First few moments you you know you you hold yourself a little bit awake, but you're not there to prove anything You're not there to to to get spiritual you dare to be with the father the same Jesus was you walk out from there Something is different about you. Something is different about your walk with God. Something is different about your relationship with God Never allow your business and your success to hinder your intimacy with the Lord There was two people one was Esther the other one was Vashti Vashti was so busy making the feast for women that when the king called her and says come into my presence. She said I'm not coming. Why I'm busy and it's interesting that she wasn't busy Cheating on him she was busy Doing women's ministry. I called is the first women's ministry in the Bible Vashti was leading the women's ministry One served women another one prepared the meal for the king one created a fast another one Led a nation one created a feast another one led a nation into a fast one Lost her crown and the other one saved her nation people who say sometimes, you know, I can't pray today because I'm so busy Martin Luther said one time. He says because I'm so busy.  They're making sandwiches. Jesus did not ask for and Walking around so worried and anxious because anytime you're working for God at the expense of being with God and pushing that aside and saying I don't have time for that. I need to quickly run into my office. I need to quickly run into my computer I need to work on my sermon. I need to work on this. I need to work I don't have time right now for that I'll find some other time and you always find that that time never comes if you do that You're like Martha running around all the pots are burning and you're frustrated at God Why is he not helping you to serve him better and Jesus looks at her some Martha Martha You are worried about many things but one thing is needed and Mary has chosen it chosen It means it won't be given to you. You got to take it mothers Don't let raising your children Hindu you're spending time with God Fathers don't let raising your family providing for your family and building your business to push you aside You will do more with God than without him You will make more money Praying than just working hard and burning your candle on both sides Because you will have the help of the Holy Spirit to help you God is not trying to take your time He wants you to save it When you spend time with him we made a rule in our office that nobody can come to the office until they spend a full-time Staff at least one hour and the part-time staff at least 30 minutes in prayer I get mad when I see them just walking straight into the computer or straight into the office because I know We are our boss is Jesus Christ and we can't do his work without his help and Every single day we need his help and we need his grace can somebody say amen In order to have God open the windows of heaven you got to close the doors of distraction So when you go into your secret place tomorrow morning when you go to a secret place tonight Whatever day or every time that you spend time with God. Could you remove distractions? Maybe for some when you turn off your putting your phone on the airplane mode close the door Do something where your family knows that for next 30 minutes do not disturb you Let me spend time with God Let me spend time with him and because then you are undivided and then you can be focused and God loves because intimacy can Happen behind closed doors number two. I want you to see that the scripture says not only Close the door, but in Matthew chapter 6 it says when you go into your room and You shut the door pray to your father. I want you to see this Who is in the secret place?  I used to go to a secret place to find God As though he was lost And I'm all with it You know when the Bible says to seek him knock and and it has its place just to make supplication It has its place, but if your whole prayer life has this mindset, it's a mindset That's all it is.  You need to be with him He's not inviting you to seek his face first. He says come and be with me in a secret place Prophet tells the woman who had a poverty problem. He says what do you have in your house? She says I have a little bit of oil. He says go back to your house. He didn't say buy more oil He says the oil you got needs to flow When you close the door you already have oil in your secret place.  God tells Moses this he says Come up to me on the mountain and be there This is incredible Moses is busy. He got million complaining people These people if they're not complaining for the lack of meat and they're complaining about cucumbers If they're not complaining about this they're complaining about that and God says Moses Leave that alone But God they'll switch religions in 30 days if I don't watch them. God says don't worry come up to the mountain and What did God say to do? What did God say to do? Be there The scripture says when Moses came up there. He was there for seven days Doing what? Nothing Being there and after seven days the Lord spoke so for seven days. He was just chilling with God Be there. Do you mean Vlad to speak in tongues? No be there Do you mean to pray worship be there? Oh, this is scary for us Pentecostals Because if somebody's not talking in prayer, that's not prayer If there is no noise, there's no God and I remember when I had to learn to Be there. I'm gonna tell you how it came to me I developed this, you know consistency showing up a five to prayer and I hit this Wilderness season what I come and honestly nothing. I just just can't get through To feel the father to experience the father and ta-ra And so one time I was very honest with God. I said Lord, let's be real I Don't like coming here fight Plus, I'm cranky. I live mad This prayer is damaging me. I'm like I am doing better when I don't pray As I got it doesn't do you good. It doesn't do me good It does the world better if I will sleep and not come to prayer at all And I felt the Holy Spirit speak back to my heart and he said Vlad.  He says did you know that I love your presence more than you love mine? He said did you know that I actually enjoy your company? I Enjoy you being here like I I get a kick out of it I actually have scars to prove that I love your presence so much. I Enjoy your presence. He says how many times are you gonna come only so you can get my presence? What about coming sometimes so I can get yours? This was a revelation that changed prayer for me So then I came the next day I sat there in the chair and I said God here. I am enjoy me. You got me Lord. I'm here at seven o'clock I'm leaving so you got two hours to enjoy me I'm saying not a word to you today You love me here. You got me After about 15 minutes of my little Complaining that the presence of the Lord started to cover me like a cloud. I started to feel his love I started to understand that the reason why he wants to spend time with me It's not so I can get his presence is so he can get mine He brought me back to how I love my wife You know, I didn't drive all the way to Vancouver three and a half hours from what I lived so that my wife can get me I was getting there so I can have her. I just wanted to be in her presence. Sometimes it's just near her During those dating times, I mean just just this within her proximity It will ready like my heart was already feeling I was feeling way better and Lord says You know that that love is exactly what I feel every single day for you It never changed I am obsessed with you and I have the cross to prove it you walk around over there say I love I love your presence. He says shut up He says you compared with how much I love your presence the way you love your presence is embarrassing He says I did not initiate prayers so you can get my presence. I initiated for myself so I can get yours Prayer is not about you. It's about me Getting you because I love you. I really I am obsessed with you and the second revelation was this Vlad stop coming to find me Come to be with me Learn to wait learn to worship learn to just be learn to just be in him I believe in the protocol of prayer. I believe in our Father is in heaven. I believe in the tabernacle prayer I believe in confessing your sins proclaiming the promises and standing on the word of God and and praying through the prophetic words I believe in in you know worshiping God and repenting of your sins all of that has its place But God tells Moses come to the mountain and be there I want to challenge you today that God loves your presence so much more than you love his and prayer is not just about you Getting something out of God. It's God trying to get you guys getting your heart getting your presence Sometimes he just wants you What about if you fall into sin I remember when few weeks I was I was gone and and then I came back And I just kind of had a hard time to get back into the rhythm of prayer again And and because of that legalism that was still built in me about prayer I felt guilty for not praying and the Lord convicted me and he says when you don't see your wife for three days Do you feel guilty or do you miss her? He says when you didn't pray for a week or two? I don't want you to feel guilty I want you to feel thirsty. I want you to miss me. I want you to come back to me and not say God I'm sorry.  God says you didn't break any rule I want you to come back and say God. I miss you. I miss your presence.  I one time I remember I fall asleep in prayer woke up another Jesus I'm so sorry. I fell asleep like disciples in the garden. We can say many let's say it now I and I heard it Bill Johnson said one time the really minister to me He says when the when the when your daughter falls asleep in your arms as a father. Do you ever punish her? When you fall asleep in prayer God delights in that you're like that's my kid sleeping in my arms. It's so cool God loves your presence so much than you love his and prayer is not so that you can be a prayer warrior It's just your son you you're bright of Christ your identity creates your intimacy You don't pray so you get close to God you pray because God is there and he's waiting for you When Adam commits sin the scripture says that in Genesis I want you to see this verse And when they heard the sound of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his wife Hit themselves in the presence of God among the trees and then the Lord God called Adam and said where are you? It's crazy because God saw full high definition Video of what Adam was doing. He saw in slow motion how he was eating of the fruit Everything was right in front of me all the angels were like Don't do don't do it Lucifer did it something like that didn't work for him Adam It won't work for you. Trust me, bro. Ah, she did it God she did it and it's interesting because the next day As it was God's habit to come in the cool of the day and fellowship with Adam You would think that God seeing the Adam sin.  Why plus Adam's gonna be hiding anyway God still showed up to the same place where he meets with Adam and is shocked The Adam didn't show up knowing Adam committed sin. God says, why are you not here? Where are you? I know you committed sin. I know that what you ate. I know you feel ashamed. I know that but why are you not here? Why is all of the that you did is stopping you from being here? God tells in Isaiah.   You don't like the mud. You like the presence of God.   That's why the Lord says listen even if you fall into your sin Into the same stinking sin 500 time or how many time God says you make your way to the secret place. Why we're gonna talk about it And if your sins are as deep as that I'll pull you out I'll forgive you I'll help you but don't hide from me hide in me We got a relationship. I thought you can trust me with your sin. I thought you can trust me with your struggle come to me The secret of a secret place is close the door so God can open the windows The second thing is don't go to a secret place to find God go to a secret place to be with him and the last one is God will reward publicly what you do privately What that means is that after a while when you keep your secret place consistent Your life will start experiencing things That cannot be attributed accredited to your good looks To your connections to you there will be something about your life that you will say God did it People will say that about you God will reward you publicly.  That's why many people go and scandal 20 years They're hiding a secret sin in even in Hollywood even in the government even with politics and celebrities preachers and pastors That sins that are hidden 20 15 years everything gets exposed and they get embarrassed and they destroy their family God says I'm a God who rewards what's done in private with good and the bad So if you keep a private secret life with God, God says listen it might take 10 years It might take five years But listen your oil will flow into your vessels and then when the oil flows in the private you can sell it in the public You will live in your public life Experiencing breakthrough in the conclusion I'll give you two things that your prayer life will do to your life one is it will give you a personal transformation It will transform you personally scripture says he just went up to the mountain and his face was transfigured as he was praying You personally become transformed when you pray and number two is not only personal transformation But it gives us demonic elimination where God eliminates demonic from our life Scripture says when disciples were trying to cast out demons that they couldn't Jesus says you must pray He says this kind comes with prayer and fasting I believe in the power of prayer the reason why is because power is released when you pray and that power first changes me Prayer doesn't change my circumstances first It changes me and secondly is it gives me power over temptation. It gives me power over my trials It gives me power over my sin nature. It gives me power over the demonic now. I have that power legally as Mish mentioned yesterday morning It's already been deposited to me. It's already been given to me Legally, I'm already healed legally. I'm already saved legally. I'm already dead to do my past legally I'm already righteous my mind needs to now be renewed But what happens in prayer is this is that you get the key that becomes the activates what you receive positionally See God promised Israel a promised land through Abraham But they didn't get promised land because they were promised they got a promised land because they fought for it I didn't fight for it. They fought from having the promised land as a Christian You don't fight for victory you fight from victory as a Christian You're more than a conqueror why because every conqueror gets victory after the battle you got victory before you got the battle But so you can fight the battle and win the battle Apostle Paul says in Timothy he says wage war according to the prophecies that you receive see when you got a prophetic word It's not God is gonna make it happen. You're gonna fight with the prophetic word Jesus says the sins the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent man a prayerful man a Passionate man. They take it they seize that and they fight with it and they make happen There are so many people that have a potential they have a promise, but the promise gets activated when you live a life of prayer It releases that anointing it releases that power one of my favorite illustration says when an eagle and a snake Fight see a snake snakes dominion is on the ground A snake has power on the ground Eagle has the power in the air Snake has no stamina And it has no balance and therefore it has no power when you take it from the ground into the sky When an eagle takes the snake now at first the snake will try to bite the snake will try to fight But the moment the snake left the ground is that moment snake lost the battle See God wants you to take your battle into the spiritual realm where satan has no advantage Satan can't stop God from answering your prayer. So he will try everything he can to stop you from praying it When you pray you take that snake into the air Where he has no advantage where he cannot fight back and it's like that snake It's a victim of your prayer and then your family gathers around and eats the snake for lunch Why?  Thank you for watching this content. I know this was a blessing to you We would like to ask you to subscribe to our channel and click on the bell on our channel So that each time we upload something you can be notified Don't forget to share this content with your friends and family and on social media. We're so thankful to you Better is not good enough. The best is yet to come


Hello. How's life? All right. I can't. All the days to forget it. Well, I said how's life. Oh, it's, um, Oh, could I forget the chocolates? I wonder she's upset. How's life? I said, can you hear me? Forget. Are you? It's a chocolate. Good morning. Should I come back later or? Not at all. I'll be a month. You remember, don't you? I mean, you're not the forgetful sort.  Even kind of guy. We all have our off days. Another time. Not so important, but still. No, I'm all right. Let's good. Of course. Oh, it is. Wonderful. Wonderful. No problems at all then. No. Not at all. For everybody's got problems somewhere. Not me. Well, aren't you? Aren't we a mighty Ajax? Shield notwithstanding a thousand Trojan seers. Pardon me. A bit dramatic, wasn't it? No, not much. Well, then, are you here for the game? It'll start soon. Game one. But what about the transit of Mercury? To where? Where? To where else does Mercury transit? Any number of places. Strange. Lots of people here. Is there a game about to start? The number of places. Absurd. Absurd. Not really. We're talking about Mercury transiting. How's it doing that anyway? How's it doing that? Your questions keep getting more and more ridiculous. Damn, left my keys at the store. I have to go back. At least I get the chocolates there. In this hypothetical transit of Mercury. Well, are you having fun, Mr. Ajax? I beg your pardon? I said... What? What? How is it moving? I don't see how that's an illogical question. Is it... Perhaps it could be... Gonna be late, so I have my hide for sure. Off a bit of fun. Great way to meet. Floating under its own power. This is under gravity's power. Excuse me, sir. Do you have the time? My sister? She's a baker, you see. She's the most true. Certainly. It's absolutely true. What's this about, too? You know what? It's actually... What's all this, then? We're trying to have an intelligent discussion. Transit of Mercury, this one wants to talk about. To where and why? Oh, as the story goes, his wooden leg had a knot in it. Can't imagine how he tied it or why. Excuse me? Where and why and how and why first to know you as the world got mad? To where I get it now, but why the why? Well underway. So it seems. I imagine he's carrying a message. Oh, what's this? Good show. What's Jamie for you? A hound roll. I couldn't help but overhear. Fair point, but consider this. Perhaps some Mercury has transcended into the water. The message is bad. So what moves through pipes, then? What now? He had a good question after all. Of course it's all a matter of personal philosophy. We're discussing if nothing else. Nothing else. Nothing else what? Nice weather we've been having. Weather we've been having what? Well, not cloud in the sky. Nonsense. They say it's always cloudy in Seattle. Chocolate. Chocolate? Nothing else. And nothing else what? Cloudier in Buffalo is what I've been told. Chocolate? What's chocolate got to do with anything? Weather in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Whether Hershey, Pennsylvania or what? Oh, Mercury, the messenger of the gods. There must be cloudy somewhere. What's gods now? Awful day for messages. Cloudy days and no chocolates. What's the time? You talking to me? Where me? I think he's asking me. So me and them? Ajax went mad, you know. But he was great. That's awfully culturally insensitive of you, isn't it? Holy cow. That's timey or something. White roots went erupting. Me? Mercury's woman. Well, in Ajax, it's great. Why do we need culturally insensitive chocolates from Hershey, Pennsylvania? Cloudier in Seattle? Where's in Buffalo, I'm told. Holy cow. Me too. Not cloud in the sky today, though. It's 7-0-5. Why, thank you. Wonderful chocolate in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It's about the weather. Ooh, far too sunny for my taste. Ajax killed a herd of goats. Did he forget the chocolates, too? Are you mercury? I'm sure, I'm not toxic in the least. Yes, after all, humans are made of blood, flesh, and phlegm. Well, I do have to deliver these dogs. What a strange fellow. Very dramatic, too. Oh, strange. And he seemed a bit dramatic. What were we talking about? I don't recall. It was such a lovely conversation, too. Damn. Damn. I'm sorry. So sorry. I need to go. Hi, I'm Teddy Lytle. I'm Associate Artistic Director of Spectrum Theater Ensemble, and I directed a simulation of the mundane bedlam that is Sensory Overload by Charles L. Hughes. With us right now is Charles L. Hughes. Thank you so much for being with us today. Well, thanks for having me and for doing all of this. No, it was a real pleasure working on your play. And I really enjoyed it. And so I thought it'd be really exciting to try to get to know a little better. So your playwright, when did you discover theater? Oh, I was in high school. It was actually interesting because I was actually signed up for another class, but due to scheduling contacts, they just kind of threw me into a theater class. You know, without even, so I was like, oh, well, I guess I'll do this and see if I like it. And lo and behold, some years later. Yeah, what's happening in your life at this moment? Well, I'm going to Texas Tech and I'm in their MFA and Playwriting program, which is just awesome. Waiting for it to get started back up, of course, you know, with everything going on. But yeah, I'm just happy to be there and have a place to do that. That's awesome. So when were you diagnosed with autism? It was about eight or nine. So, oh man, I'm bad at math now. Everyone's going to know this. About 1918 years ago. And it was an interesting time. Yeah, it was Asperger specifically, which I'm not even sure where, how the classification system is working nowadays. But you blink and they change it. And it was an interesting time, but I'm just, you know, I'm all things considered. I caught it. They diagnosed me relatively early and I benefited a lot from that timeliness. Like what specifically kind of helped you grow in flower as much as you could. First and foremost, of course, my parents, they were just so insanely supportive. They got me helping, you know, growing up in a small town in West Texas. There was a lot of car mileage involved. Had to travel a lot. They took me 60 miles to Abilene to get to occupational therapy every week for years. Went to Fort Worth, went to support group meetings, just did all this that I'm just so insanely lucky to have gotten.  Absolutely. When they didn't need to be, you know, when they needed. So this play, I think the title in some ways says it all of what the topic is. Can you speak to why you wrote it or where it came from? It's interesting because I got the idea without realizing that I was getting the idea when I was younger and I was at some event, I believe it was an Autism Speaks kickoff luncheon or something like that. And they put the crowd through an exercise to sort of stimulate what it's like to go through sensory overload, what it's like to counter this on the spectrum where they would have a person sit down in a chair, they'd get another volunteer to come and pat them on, you know, the shoulder. Then they'd have another one circling around saying something and another one whispering right next to their ear. And thinking of that years later, I was getting my master's in English at the time and that just was like, wow, why don't I make that simulation experience, that experiment, that exercise into a simulation as a play. And I wrote it and worked on it and eventually stars just aligned for me. Absolutely. We have a couple of cast members here. Excellent. Hello, Adam. So I can't speak to what a sensory overload is. I can speak to what a panic attack is like. And this play certainly gave me a mild panic attack in reading it. Can Adam, can you speak to your experience the first time you read it and talk through it? Any thoughts that came to mind? Well, the first time I read it, I was dealing with, I was trying to read it off-hand while dealing with children and I could not follow it. I had to stop ten minutes in because I couldn't follow it. I had to go and read it on my own later on. So that was already a good sign. But yeah, like reading it through, it is such, it's that. That is a great way to show to someone who's more on the neurotypical side exactly what a sensory overload feels like. It's like the only one that I think even does even close to that is the opening shot of the made-for-TV Temple Grandin movie with Claire Danes where when she's coming off the plane and all you can hear is the rum-rum-rum of the engine. But people don't realize how much sensory is at the core of the autism spectrum in general. Like most of the symptoms and issues and challenges that come forth, like you can all, most of them, you can say just stem from just by the way our brains process sensory information and how the bombardment of that and trying to get around that may have hampered us learning other things at the correct times. Fallon, you know, any thoughts that you had when you first read it while we were rehearsing it? Well, I personally didn't really get necessarily sensory overloaded by this play because like my sensory overload is more rooted in anxiety. Like when I'm overwhelmed, like when I was in school, I would get overwhelmed with schoolwork, things like that. My main sensory per se issue is like more like to do with like food things, textures and things like that of food is my thing. So this particular play, like I just took it as it was kind of like a part, like a role, like something to do. I take art very seriously. So I always like put everything into it. And I don't, I kind of just push through it. And I don't really think too much about like what might be triggering that kind of thing. Absolutely. Did you feel like there was an intersection between the language that he used and what you feel or you identify with or was there a contrast and you could say that it's a very different, like a very, very different thing. Like depending on which sense you're talking about, it's like a very different thing. Really. I've only had an experience similar to what's in this play once. And it was actually started with a panic attack that I had received like what I thought was a bad grade when I was in high school. And as I was walking through the hall, but it wasn't real. Like I just had that in my mind. And it was like, I kind of felt like things are starting to spin out of control. Like, but that was the only time something like that happened to me. I do have to, I will say that I don't know if this is the case for Charles or for Adam. I'm not, but personally with me, I have been, I'm a lot more, I have other neuro atypical conditions and mental illness that I more often more affected by than I'm affected by ASD because I like Charles. I have Asperger's and I was actually very, it was actually usually very mild, but I have like a number of other things that have been like more prominently featured. And I was, I was, my diagnosis was Asperger's too back when that was a different thing. And I, I'm, I'm torn on the melding of it all under the ASD umbrella because on the one hand, it is all from the same place. So it should be considered that spectrum, that continuum. But a part of me does wonder if perhaps having the different names for the different levels might be a little bit more helpful for getting assistance and getting help because I mean it's not, it's not really right to say high functioning or low functioning anymore for good reason. So having something else to call the different degrees. So Charles, to speak to kind of what you were saying before, you got this idea from a simul, from an actual simulation because it does seem and has this layer of like non-sequitur that is to say randomness or things coming out of nowhere. But I feel like when you dig into it, there's something very specific going on in the trend of what people are saying and how they're saying it. I'm really glad you pointed that out because that's a, I'm not sure how conscious of it I was when I started this, but as I continued to revise it and was bringing more depth through because originally it was sort of just like, oh, the snowball effect when you have sensory overload you're hearing this, now you're hearing this and you, it's not so much that you have better hearing, it's that you're hearing everything and you're not really censoring it through sorting it out like you should be. But as I developed it, I thought of another way to sort of include that experience that I have. So if you notice each of the characters sort of has this one central thing they're sort of obsessed with that they're focusing on and that kind of came to the idea of a lot of people on the spectrum have these very specific interest areas. Personally, myself, you know, I was really in a great mythology when I was a kid. I was that kid who was always reading Edith Hamilton. So I had a character in there that, you know, they're the friendly mythographer. They're all about the chocolate yet or there was the, you know, and so they're all have these very specific focus. There's the, you know, the person they're talking about mercury, you know, because of course it can be, and that's again one of those easy things that are misunderstood because something I had trouble with, you know, younger on the spectrum is, wait, so this is, so mercury is the planet, but it's also this thing that's in a thermometer. So I wanted to include those sort of easy stumbling box for misunderstanding that sort of just can cascade when you're in this landscape of not navigating these sensory things. Having directed the play, I just got that the chemist was trying to talk about mercury in the thermometer and then, because I was like, they're talking about the planet. Okay. I got it. Two scientists. And then I'm like, like, now I'm like, right, mercury chemists deal with mercury. That actually makes me happy now. I also just realized that I didn't pick up on it. I think I'm also talking about the weather. Yeah. Whether it's this, whether it's that. Hershey versus W. Yeah. Pennsylvania Hershey chocolate. Well, no expert in this, but it seems like these are sort of things that would be easier to catch, you know, if we could have done this like in stage in person, you know, feeding off that sort of acting energy. What was the experience in doing this on zoom? Yeah, I just, I just really wanted to say, Charles, thank you for describing the hearing thing like that because that really describes to me like what my issue is. Like I used to say to people, I'm still saying to people, it's like the problem with me is, is that I can hear everything at once. So I effectively hear nothing because it's, it's not being able to filter. Correctly. Like if I can, if I can focus well enough, I can hear each individual thing, but trying to sift everything out. And sometimes if I'm focused here, I can, I know this sound is happening, but I don't know what it is. To answer the question at hand. To me, it was. Because I'm doing this off of my phone, because my laptop got stolen about two years ago, and I have not been able to afford a new computer of any kind. So I'm doing this all on my phone. So being able to like start and stop and, and any sort of reliable fashion was a big challenge to me. When I first like, um, did these zoom things? Like, I mean, I've been, I've been, I've become very familiar with zoom. I've been doing these meetings. It's, so it's been, I've gotten used to it, but I'd say acting on zoom is like a challenge because like in my, in rehearsal, like I really like the whole process of getting to see everyone. Because one of the things about STE for me is like, I finally met people who I can get along with because my whole life, I felt like the literal alien in every situation. It's like really refreshing. Like I finally have friends. So then the past five months or so of just being trapped with my parents. So sometimes even like zoom can still be isolating even if you're communicating. So that, so trying to overcome that isolation to actually put real feeling and thought into a character is a little more challenging than it would be in person when you're on a set. Yeah. No, for me, why I'm so committed to spectrum theater ensemble is that it is where you're allowed to come as you are. We're not expecting you to change. We're just expecting you to find some other people who are trying to exist as they are. And we speak openly about where we're out, whether you're neuro typical or neuro atypical. We, you know, we speak openly about where we are emotionally or sensitively or any of those capacities. And I think one of the most important things and ways that we can make it easier for the world to talk about that stuff is making art that expresses a point of view we might not understand. And to that end, I want to thank Charles L Hughes for writing such a wonderful look inside of what can sometimes feel like an unsafe place. It's challenging sometimes to show vulnerability and the play is certainly that and it's, it's really magical. And I think you did such an awesome job. Well, just again, I want to say thank you for not just your kind words, but just everything that everyone involved is done. I'm just, this is just a delight. And it feels like a dream to seeing this come forth just for something that I made. And what I like about playwriting is it lets me say things in ways that I still can't say any other way. And I think this play definitely reflects that. I think what really motivated this play was that some, you know, people do want to understand, but they don't have, you know, the context and I might not have the way, you know, it's like explaining driving on ice to someone who's never left South Texas. You got to find ways to do it. And I agree that's, I think what this art does, it helps people hopefully get this context, get this things that they get this understanding. They might not see if they don't come at it from any other angle. So for the record, how, how I would like to put it is we give people room to grow. Well, we don't force them to change. That's actually really, that's a really good quote. Oh, Jesus. Okay. Everything's fine. When you rewind, when you rewind that later, you're going to love what I said when you were gone. Great. That's fun. Oh dear. I'm nervous. Thank you guys for joining us. We'll see you soon. All right, take care. Nice to meet you, Charles. Nice to meet y'all. Stay safe, stay healthy and stay tuned.


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Yes, yes, yes, how many times can one person post a gold farming video? But to be honest guys, if methods get better, I'm going to keep you guys updated because I know earning that money within Hogwarts Legacy is, well, it's just one of the things people just want to learn about. And while guys, today I've been using by far the best method in doing so. Now guys, if you do enjoy this video, leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see, and want to see more Hogwarts, be sure to subscribe. Okay, so without a shadow of a doubt, the best way to earn money in this game is by capturing beasts and selling them. The only thing you can do quicker is actually farming them quicker, selling them quicker. And while today guys, I've been using the fastest method without a shadow of a doubt in capturing beasts to sell them. Okay, so firstly guys, you're going to need your nab sack. If you haven't got your nab sack, you need to progress the main story until you get a quest line for Professor Weasley called the Room of Requirement. Take that quest, you'll then start getting quests for Deke. You'll then come to the Alfie, nab sack and the Loom. Complete this quest and you'll unlock the nab sack and then you're free to capture these beasts and then sell them guys. It's as simple as that. Okay, so the point of the map we're going to go to is not the usual farm within the forbidden forest. It's this one right here. So they see this puff skin down right here guys, and this is the beauty. Now we can actually reset these guys quicker than any other way I've seen in the game. And I'll show you this right now. So I'm just going to make my way over here guys. I've been farming this for about the last 5, 10 minutes. My inventory is already almost full and I've got the max slots in my beast inventory. So yes, we're going to go to this farm right here guys. And you'll see right now that the beast is here. Now another little tip you can use, which is actually smart in doing so, put your game difficulty on easy. Putting your game difficulty on, or I'll put it on story, sorry, put your game difficulty on story. Doing so means that when it comes to capturing these beasts, you literally just aim the nab sack and press the button, then you just leave your controller, it's a guaranteed catch. They don't try and escape or nothing. It's just so, so easy. So you want to come to this little den guys and capture all of the beasts in here. I think there's between 6 and 8, just capture them all as I'm doing right now. I'm going to run you through the exact entire process. Now the best part about this farm is, there's no way for them to run really. The other farm, they just escape, they run all over the mountain, those hills.  They sometimes escape out the front of this cave, it's a little cavern place, but it's just, because it's dark in here as well, you can use that Revello and it just highlights the blue, makes it a lot easier. So therefore I think I've caught them all now. There you go, I've caught them all guys. Oh no, there's one left. No, no, no, okay, okay, I'll put that as one there. Now just jump on your broom, go here.  The other method for me always requires skipping time by twice. This time just skip time once, simply this. Then just simply go back to the den, just go back to the den, which is located just up here and you'll see all the little creatures are back. There we go, they are all back. Now I'm not sure, I mean is there, there's one, two, three, four, five, six here now. Yeah, so there's six here, or is there seven? I can't see, my eyes, I'm old people. Give me a break, I'm old. So catch away, I think my inventory is actually almost full now with beasts. But how quick is that? That literally takes a couple of minutes to farm this twice. And you can rinse and repeat this. Now you have to capture all beasts. That's the thing I figured out. If one escapes, it can mess up the rotation. So make sure you capture all the little beasts before you try and reset it. If you don't do this, then like I said, when it comes to resetting it, hey, where you going?  Yeah, but when it comes to resetting it, if you haven't caught them all, then yeah, I think it can like mess up the rotation. Where are you two going? I see when they escape from the cave, so I don't normally just come to this part here and then turn back. So it really is simple. So I'm just going to grab this last one now. I think now my inventory will be full. So now, guys, we go to Hogsmeade to sell these. Now you see my inventory, my inventory is literally. Literally, guys, I got a space for one or two. I got space for two. So now we go to Hogsmeade, which is this vendor right up here, if you don't know. So I'll pin that and go to this one. It's a Bruton Peck Vendab, by the way, Top of Hogsmeade. Well, almost, there's a vendor above this, but you know what I mean. You know what I'm saying, people? You know what I'm saying, people? Well, yeah, guys, like I said, I apologize on how I've spammed that. Probably about five gold farming videos now. Well, at the end of the day, if they do just keep getting better and easier, I'm going to showcase them to you. And I mean, yes, people probably already know about this, but I know many, many people don't. So yeah, come to Ellipeck and just sell all of these little beasts. Sell them all, people, even the shinies as well, because I mean, if you want to breed shinies, well, yeah, you don't get nothing for it. There's no actual benefit in having shinies, as far as I can tell. Yeah, guys, it really is that simple. And there we have it. By far the best money-making method in this game. I'm only actually farming money now because I want to buy all the brooms. I've got more or less everything else. I just want to buy the brooms. So yeah, and they're pretty expensive. Some of them are like five K each. Yeah, this is perfect for that. But guys, do what you got to do. Remember, farm that cave, fly away, make sure you get all the beasts, fly away, reset time, just change time, skip time, go back, and you are good to go, guys. Guys, if you enjoyed the video, leaving a like really helps out. If you like what you're seeing, want to see more Hogwarts legacy, be sure to subscribe. And hopefully, guys, I will see you on that next. One.